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Student satisfaction on the rise at London Met
National Student Survey results see London Met receive its joint highest ever score for Student Satisfaction
London Metropolitan University has achieved its joint-highest ever score in the National Student Survey 2014 (NSS).
The University’s overall Student Satisfaction score jumped four percent from last year to match the University’s all-time best of 76%.
High scores were received across the University, with the Marketing course, based in the Faculty of Business and Law, scoring a perfect 100%. Courses such as Pharmacology, Digital Media and Politics all scored well above 90%.
The NSS is completed annually by final year students across the country, and gives universities a chance to receive accurate feedback on their student experience.
Dr Graham Taylor-Russell, Dean of Students at London Met, said: “I am delighted that overall satisfaction rates have increased by 4 percentage points and am particularly pleased to see the investment London Met has put into the areas of academic support and student personal development reflected in the steady improvement in these areas.
“These are good indicators of the preparedness of our students for entering employment and we thank our largest ever group of undergraduate award-holders for taking part in the survey. I wish them well in their choices of career and further study.”
It's not too late for students to join London Met in September. See if we have the course for you here.
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Prince Harry To Travel To Africa
By Tim Saunders on June 2, 2008
Prince Harry is to join the servicemen from his army regiment working in Africa for a charity he set up to help vulnerable children.
The 23-year-old will travel to Lesotho later this year to help build care facilities and repair infrastructure for projects supported by Sentebale, the organization he founded in 2006 to help young people in the struggling nation.
The three week expedition has secured sponsorship from Land Rover to provide transport, and the trip will take the young prince to meet AIDS orphans and TB sufferers. It will be Harry’s first overseas posting since he served on the front line in Afghanistan this year.
The young royal suggested the idea of the trip to his superiors, and he is excited about the prospect. He first visited Lesotho in 2004 and was moved by the plight of the young AIDS victims he met. Joining forces with the kingdom’s Prince Seeiso, he set up the charity Sentebale – which means ‘forget me not’ in the local language – in memory of his mother Princess Diana, who was dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS problem in the country.
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Lost Landmarks & Vanished Sites
Guffey, Colorado – Quirky Mining Town
Guffey, Colorado in the late 1800s.
In southern Park County Colorado, about 33 miles north of Canon City, just off Highway 9, Guffey is a ghost town with a twist of quirkiness, making for a fun visit.
The old Garage in Guffey no longer does repairs, but has become a collection of oddities. Photo by Dave Alexander.
At an elevation of 8,700, this area was explored by John C. Fremont on his return from California in 1844, and some settlers are said to have arrived here in the 1870s, though the primary population of this region was the Ute Indian Tribe.
The town started in 1890 with a whole lot of promise. Prospectors, looking for the next big gold strike, like the one in Cripple Creek, established the mining camp as Idaville, but soon changed its name to Freshwater.
When the town was incorporated in 1895, it was already booming as a mining, lumbering and ranching community. It was the center of activity for the Freshwater Mining District, which in addition to gold, produced copper, lead and other minerals.
Gold was the primary allure though, and the focus that brought in prospectors. On August 31, 1896, the Colorado Daily Chieftain reported:
An old homestead in Guffey, Colorado. Photo by Kathy Weiser-Alexander.
“All of the arrangements have been completed, and negotiations closed for the construction of a cyanide mill on Currant creek of a capacity of 60 -tons per day. The mill is now assured beyond any doubt, and ground will be broken for its construction within a fortnight. The capitalists behind the enterprise are Roadhaven and Vanderpool, of St. Louis, who have visited the camp several times, investigating our mines and ores, with William Goodman of Cripple Creek, who has been largely instrumental in consummating this enterprise. They claim to be able to treat $7 ore at a profit, which it is claimed will make of Freshwater the biggest camp in the world. The townspeople have guaranteed the company 50 tons of ore per day. This step locates Freshwater beyond the boundary of a prospecting camp, and places it in the list of producers.”
In the late 1890s, the name of the town was changed again due to another Freshwater in California. This time they named it after James McClurg Guffey, an oilman and capitalist. Guffey was known throughout the region for its dances, which included lots of fiddlers and other musicians. It reached its peak during this period, with over 500 residents and 40 businesses. Most brought here with the promise of Gold.
There were many mines and prospects around Guffey, but in the end, the total production recorded was minor. Nearby cattle ranches and lumber operations supported Guffey while mining wasn’t profitable. In the Park County Bulletin, dated January 17, 1902, we find:
“With this issue, the GUFFEY PROSPECTOR will cease publication. This is due in part to tho fact that the camp has another paper, and to the additional fact that the Freshwater districts have failed, so far, to develop sufficiently to support a newspaper. The PROSPECTOR has for some time been published from the BULLETIN office, and while working faithfully for the camp, it has never been a paying investment. Those in the Freshwater districts who wish to settle their accounts with the paper, can do so with Captain Sylvis, at the Guffey post office. To those who wish it, the BULLETIN will be continued to their address, and we will try to make it meet their requirements as always up with the news of Park county. We still have faith in the Freshwater districts, and believe that, when sufficient depth has been obtained, there will be pay mines made and profitable mining done.”
It wouldn’t be long until Guffey began losing its population. Today the community has only around 49 residents, and relies heavily on Tourism. Several original structures remain, and are even occupied. Others have been kept up, though empty. The town has a charter school, restaurant, small museum and more. Guffey continues to be the center of activity for nearby ranches, some of which are Park County Historic Landmarks, including the Aspen Creek/Bener/Moore Ranch, Campbell Ranch, and Thirty-One-Mile Ranch.
The Freshwater Saloon in Guffey still servin’ up the suds. Photo by Kathy Weiser-Alexander.
The Bullmoose may not be open all the time but still serves up some fine eats. Photo by Kathy Weiser-Alexander.
Guffey sits in a very scenic area, created by three ancient volcanoes. The Guffey volcanic center is part of the Thirty-nine Mile Volcanic area, the largest remnant of the Central Colorado volcanic field. Two mineral springs a mile south of Guffey featured spring waters bubbling up from large mounds over 20 feet high and 50 feet across.
The Skeleton Crew at the Guffey Jail. Photo by Kathy Weiser-Alexander, 2018.
After visiting this quirky, somewhat ghost town in Park County Colorado, it was no surprise to find out that they have a habit of electing animals as Mayor. In fact, the two main political parties are the Democats and the Repuplicans. The latest information I could find while writing about Guffey was that the Mayor was “Monster” the cat, elected in 1998. We’re pretty sure Monster has since passed, so if you happen to know leave a comment below.
©Dave Alexander, Legends of America, updated July 2019.
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2 thoughts on “Guffey, Colorado – Quirky Mining Town”
Roxann Nys says:
Guffey is a great little town. My info is that Guffey is now up to a whopping 49 inhabitants, my sweetie, Brian, being #49. Don’t miss cruising through and stopping for a bite to eat at Rolling Thunder Cloud Cafe, The Bull Moose, or Freshwater. Stop at the Guffey Garage and talk to Bill, the curator of most of the quirky creations there. Definitely worth it!
Thanks Roxann! I updated the population. Any word on your current honorary mayor? I understand the school children used to vote the cat or dog into office 🙂
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Santa Ana’s pot shop raids, marijuana policy targeted in lawsuit
By Matt HamiltonStaff Writer
An Orange County marijuana dispensary and its members have filed a federal lawsuit accusing Santa Ana police officers of excessive force during a raid last month.
The suit, filed Monday by the nonprofit marijuana collective Sky High Holistic, further alleges that city officials, including Mayor Miguel Pulido, have solicited bribes in exchange for favorable treatment of dispensaries.
According to the complaint, police officers in the May 26 raid on Sky High Holistic -- captured on surveillance video that went viral after its release last week -- trampled over the constitutional rights of dispensary volunteers and members by arresting members for an “excessive” period of time, causing significant property damage, and making derogatory comments about a disabled woman.
The edited video, which was released by Matthew Pappas, the same attorney who filed the lawsuit on behalf of the dispensary, shows Santa Ana police entering the dispensary and later, playing darts. At one point, an officer surveys what appears to be an edible, then tosses it into his mouth.
The Santa Ana Police Department is investigating the conduct of the officers in the video.
The lawsuit situates last month’s raid in the context of the city’s passage and implementation of a ballot initiative that imposed strict regulations on medical marijuana dispensaries.
Measure BB was one of two initiatives concerning medical marijuana on the November ballot, and the City Council-backed initiative imposed tougher regulations than the citizen-proposed measure, including limited business hours and a lottery system for dispensaries to get one of 20 permits to operate in the city.
Sky High Holistic did not receive a permit in the lottery.
According to the suit, Pulido and other city officials received lavish dinners, money and limousine rides around the time that Measure BB was presented to the council. An unnamed person also solicited $25,000 payments from existing collectives in exchange for a guarantee to be included in the lottery, according to the complaint.
The suit also claims Pulido has a financial stake in an unnamed medical marijuana collective that won a permit in the lottery.
In an interview with The Times, Pulido flatly denied the allegations in the lawsuit and said the lottery system was conducted entirely independently of the city through the accounting and consulting firm White, Nelson, Diehl & Evans LLP.
“Let me just state on the record, the allegations are unequivocally and categorically false,” Pulido said. “To allege there was some influence of the lottery and therefore it’s unfair is absolutely false.”
Pulido said the goal of the measure was to protect neighborhoods and commercial businesses by confining dispensaries to industrial areas. He denied having a financial stake in a marijuana business and said he did not receive lavish dinners or other perks for supporting Measure BB.
“The only limo I’ve been in is at my daughter’s 13th birthday party,” Pulido said.
He alleged that Sky High Holistic filed the suit in a bid to keep an illegally operating collective open.
The city’s police department sent a cease-and-desist order Feb. 26 to the dispensary, but it remained open, prompting the May raid, Santa Ana Police Chief Carlos Rojas said.
No medical marijuana dispensaries are allowed to legally operate in Santa Ana after a ruling earlier this month in a separate lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court. In that suit, filed by three prospective dispensary operators, Judge David Chaffee issued a temporary retraining order that bars the city from granting permits.
Chaffee is scheduled to hold a hearing Friday over whether to issue a preliminary injunction prohibiting the city from moving ahead with the permitting process.
For breaking news in California, follow @MattHjourno.
Matt Hamilton
Matt Hamilton is a reporter in the Metro section for the Los Angeles Times.
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Remembering Charles Manson’s victims: Rich, famous, fringe and random
Slain the night of Aug. 9, 1969, at Roman Polanski’s Benedict Canyon house were, from left, Voytek Frykowski; Sharon Tate; Stephen Parent, 18, who had been visiting a friend in the guest house and was found slain in his car; famed hairstylist Jay Sebring, 35; and Abigail Folger.
(Associated Press)
By Times Staff Reports
In the dearly five decades since the notorious murders stunned Los Angeles, there has been endless fascination and revulsion surrounding Charles Manson and his cult “family.”
And Manson did not fade quietly during his decades behind bars, but continued to make headlines with interviews, bad conduct in prison and, more recently, health issues.
Manson’s victims have sometimes gotten lost in the shadows of the mass killer’s attention.
Here’s who they were:
Sharon Tate in the 1967 film "Valley of the Dolls." Twentieth Century Fox
Benedict Canyon murders
Aug. 9, 1969: The nighttime quiet of Benedict Canyon is broken by screams and gunshots. Police find a chilling scene: On the lawn lies a man's body, stabbed, bludgeoned and shot. Nearby is the body of a woman. "PIG" is written in blood on the front door. Inside are the bodies of Sharon Tate, the pregnant actress who rents the house with husband Roman Polanski, and hairstylist Jay Sebring. A fifth body is found outside.
The victims:
Sharon Tate, 26: An actress best known for her role in "Valley of the Dolls," she was married to film director Polanski. She pleaded with the killers to spare the life of her unborn child, due in two weeks.
Jay Sebring, 35: A Hollywood hairdresser and former boyfriend of Tate’s. Among his clients was David Geffen, head of Geffen Records, which recently released a Guns N' Roses album with a song written by Manson.
Voytek Frykowski, 32: A friend of Polanski’s, he came from a wealthy Polish family and was staying with Polanski and Tate.
Abigail Folger, 25: The heir to the Folger coffee fortune, she was romantically involved with Frykowski.
Steven Parent, 18: Visiting the resident of a guest house on the estate, he was just leaving as the murderers arrived and became their first victim.
Rosemary La Bianca Associated Press
Los Feliz murders
Aug. 10, 1969: At a Los Feliz house the next night, another nauseating murder scene. Leno and Rosemary LaBianca have been stabbed. "DEATH TO PIGS" is scrawled in blood; on the refrigerator is the misspelled title of a Beatles song: "HEALTER SKELTER." The writings eventually help police link the murders.
Leno LaBianca, 44, and Rosemary LaBianca, 38: Owners of a chain of Los Angeles grocery stores. Their house was chosen by Manson, who tied them up, then left the killing to others.
Te body of actress Sharon Tate is taken from her Benedict Canyon estate FILE / AP
Other murders
July 31, 1969: Musician Gary Hinman is found stabbed to death in his Old Topanga Road home. The phrase "POLITICAL PIGGY" is scrawled in blood on his wall. Manson follower Bobby Beausoleil is arrested driving Hinman's Volkswagen bus.
Gary Hinman, 34: A musician who befriended the Manson group. Family members tortured him for two days at his Topanga home before killing him in a dispute over money.
Aug. 25, 1969: Donald “Shorty” Shea, a horse wrangler at the Spahn Movie Ranch near Chatsworth, is killed. It’s believed Manson’s followers killed him for fear he was a police informant.
Donald “Shorty” Shea, 35: An aspiring actor and a ranch hand. His dismembered body was found eight years later.
October 1969: Raids on the remote Barker Ranch near Death Valley link some of the killings to a band of young, hippie-looking petty criminals. Manson, a fledgling songwriter who knew Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, had been to the Benedict Canyon house when the group's producer lived there.
June 15, 1970 — Jan. 25, 1971: Following their arrests in 1969, Manson, Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel are tried for murder. All are found guilty and sentenced to death.
October 1971: Charles “Tex” Watson, tried separately, is found guilty and sentenced to death.
Feb. 18, 1972: The death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment when the state Supreme Court abolished the death penalty. Now the convicts eligible for parole hearings.
The killers: Where are they now?
Patricia Krenwinkel was a secretary when she met Manson at a party. She quit her job the next day and joined Manson’s “family.”
She was found guilty of seven counts of murder in the killings, including stabbing the LaBiancas to death and writing “DEATH TO PIGS” on the wall in the victims’ blood.
Krenwinkel, along with Susan Atkins and Leslie Van Houten, later condemned Manson and urged young people not to think of him as a hero.
After Atkins’ death, Krenwinkel, now 69, became California’s longest-serving female inmate. According to state prison officials, Krenwinkel is a model inmate involved in rehabilitative programs at the prison.
She is being housed at the California Institution for Women in Corona. Late last year, state parole officials postponed a decision on setting Krenwinkel free after her attorney made new claims that she had been abused by Manson or another person. The inquiry into the allegations took nearly six months. On June 22, parole commissioners again denied parole for Krenwinkel.
Leslie Van Houten: A jury found that the former homecoming princess was guilty of holding down Rosemary LaBianca in her Los Feliz home while an accomplice stabbed her. She was convicted of murder and conspiracy in 1978 at her third trial for the crimes, just months after she’d been released on bail following a hung jury verdict.
Van Houten said she was introduced to Manson by a boyfriend and came to view him as Jesus Christ, believing in his bizarre plan to commit murders and spark a race war.
She is serving her life sentence at the California Institution for Women in Corona, Calif., prison officials say, and has been disciplinary-free her entire sentence.
Van Houten, 68, told a parole board in 2002 that she was “deeply ashamed” of her role in the killings. "I take very seriously not just the murders but what made me make myself available to someone like Manson."
A state review board recommended parole for her in April, but Gov. Jerry Brown reversed that decision. She had previously been denied parole 19 times.
In September, the board again recommended parole.
Charles "Tex" Watson, Manson’s self-described right-hand man, was sentenced to death for his part in the killings but was later given life in prison after the death penalty was overturned. In prison, Watson married, divorced, fathered four children and became an ordained minister.
Watson, 71, is housed at the Mule Creek Prison in Ione, Calif., about 40 miles outside Sacramento, where he works as a janitor and attends Bible studies and services in the prison chapel, according to the ministry’s website. He has been denied parole 17 times. His most recent parole hearing was held Oct. 27, when a panel once again found him unsuitable for release from prison for at least five more years.
Susan Atkins, a former topless dancer who became one of Manson’s closest disciples, died in prison in 2009 at age 61.
Atkins, called the “scariest of the Manson girls” by a former prosecutor, confessed to killing actress Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski, who was stabbed 16 times as she pleaded with the killers to spare her unborn son and then hanged. At sentencing, where Atkins was condemned to death, she taunted the court, saying, “You’d best lock your doors,” and “watch your own kids.”
Her sentence was later converted to life in prison.
In prison, Atkins embraced Christianity and apologized for her role in the crimes, and the prison staff advocated unsuccessfully for her release in 2005. She was denied parole 13 times.
Bruce Davis, 75, was convicted in 1972 for taking part in the killings of Gary Hinman, an aspiring musician, and Donald "Shorty" Shea, a stuntman and a ranch hand at the Chatsworth ranch where Manson and his followers lived. Both murders occurred before the Tate-LaBianca killings, in which Davis did not participate.
Hinman’s body was found in his home, with the words “political piggy” drawn on the wall with his blood.
In January 2016, Gov. Jerry Brown rejected his parole, the third time a governor has done so, saying that Davis remains a danger to public safety. In his decision, Brown said that the “horror of the murders committed by the Manson Family in 1969 and the fear they instilled in the public will never be forgotten.”
Davis has been denied parole 30 times.
“People are saying that this should be some kind of relief, but oddly enough it really isn’t. While Charlie may be gone, it’s the ones that are still alive that perpetrate everything, and it was up to their imaginations for what brutal things were going to be done. In an odd way, I see them as much more dangerous individuals.”
--Debra Tate, the sister of Sharon Tate, in an interview with ABC News.
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Dove kills ad calling New Jersey ‘the Armpit of America’
By Rene Lynch
Dove, which specializes in skin-care products, may not have realized New Jersey had such thin skin when it came to its reputation as the stinkiest state in the union.
Dove is killing an advertising campaign for antiperspirant deodorant that refers to New Jersey as “the Armpit of America.”
The ad aimed at New Jersey audiences intended to undermine the insult that is often lobbed in the state’s direction. It features a pretty blond woman in a white tank top showing off her armpit, with the message: “Dear New Jersey, when people call you ‘the Armpit of America,’ take it as a compliment. Sincerely, Dove.”
PHOTOS: 13 celebrity endorsements that backfiredBut many New Jersey residents took offense. Add in media coverage, and Dove was soon apologizing.
Matthew McCarthy, senior marketing director of antiperspirants and deodorants at Unilever, the New Jersey-based parent company of Dove, also said in a statement that the company had since “decided that we will not be running this billboard advertisement.”
The statement added: “We did not wish to cause any misunderstanding and apologize for any offense. Our intent with the ‘Dear New Jersey’ billboard, which was one of many ads for our campaign, was to call attention to the fact that armpits can and should be considered beautiful and ask women everywhere to accept this as something that is OK.”
It needs to be pointed out that Dove’s response is not just PR speak. Dove is the brand behind a years-long series of groundbreaking advertising campaigns encouraging women of all sizes, shapes and ethnicities to see the beauty within, instead of comparing themselves to overly air-brushed models. (Yes, we know the advertising campaign is also about selling skin-care products. But still. Try to watch this without tearing up. Oprah counts herself among the campaign’s legion of fans.)
The company said it would donate the billboard space to a charitable organization.
I’m from New Jersey and I thought the ad was funny. What did you think? Tweet me @renelynch
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To find breast cancer, more mammograms aren’t better, expert panel says
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force still recommends that most women can wait to start getting mammograms until they are 50, and that they can get the test only once every two years.
(Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
By Karen KaplanScience and Medicine Editor
Despite years of controversy over the best way to screen women for breast cancer, an expert panel convened by the federal government is standing by its controversial recommendation that most women should get mammograms only once every two years, and that the tests need not begin until the age of 50.
The draft report from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force reiterates that mammograms performed on asymptomatic women do indeed save lives. But it also emphasizes the test’s downsides, many of which are underappreciated by doctors and the general public.
Chief among the problems associated with screening mammography is the risk that it will result in unnecessary procedures and treatment by finding abnormal cells that would have been harmless if left alone, according to the panel, which first raised questions about the test in 2009.
“About one out of every five women diagnosed by screening mammography and treated for breast cancer is being treated for cancer that would never have been discovered or caused her health problems in the absence of screening,” according to the report released Monday.
Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death among women in the U.S., after lung cancer. Among every 10,000 women in the U.S., about 125 are diagnosed with breast cancer each year and 22 die of the disease. That translated to about 233,000 new diagnoses and 40,000 deaths in 2014.
No wonder, then, that women eager to stay healthy have embraced mammograms. Two-thirds of American women ages 40 and above said they’ve had the test within the last two years, including 51% who had it within the last 12 months, according to the American Cancer Society.
Several groups – including the American Cancer Society, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and the American College of Radiology – continue to recommend annual mammograms for women at average risk of breast cancer beginning at age 40.
But the task force reiterated its advice that most women get tested only once every two years, and that the test is most effective for women between the ages of 50 and 74.
“Age is the most important risk factor for breast cancer,” the panel wrote.
For instance, if 10,000 women in their 60s were screened for a decade, the result would be 21 fewer deaths due to breast cancer, according to data from clinical trials. Among women in their 50s, the same amount of screening would avert eight breast cancer deaths.
Against those benefits, the experts considered the costs of treating breast tumors that are revealed by mammograms but aren’t dangerous. They also factored in the unnecessary procedures brought on by false-positive test results as well as the small but real number of breast cancers that are caused by the radiation in mammograms.
Overall, the panel determined “the net benefit of screening mammography in women ages 50 to 74 is moderate.”
But for most women in their 40s, the net benefit of screening is too small to warrant a blanket recommendation in its favor, the panel determined.
“Women ages 40 to 49 must weigh a very important but infrequent benefit (small reduction in breast cancer deaths) against a group of meaningful and much more common harms,” according to the report. These harms include “overdiagnosis and overtreatment; unnecessary and sometimes invasive followup testing and psychological harms associated with false-positive tests; and false reassurance from false-negative tests.”
However, if women in this age group have a first-degree relative – a mother or sister – who has been diagnosed with breast cancer, their own risk of the disease is comparable to that of a typical woman in her 50s. As a result, biannual screening for these women makes sense, the panel wrote.
Researchers have not conducted clinical trials to test the value of screening mammograms among women over the age of 70. Mathematical models indicate the tests can be useful for women between the ages of 70 and 74. Beyond that, the data needed to endorse the test for older women is “insufficient,” the panel wrote.
All of these recommendations are in line with those made in 2009.
The task force also considered whether 3-D digital mammograms could do a better job of finding breast cancers than the standard exams. Studies suggest that the more sophisticated scans result in fewer false-positive test results, and they do help doctors find more abnormal cells.
However, there is no evidence that finding these cells extends lives or reduces the morbidity associated with breast cancer treatment, the panel wrote. It’s not even clear that the type of cells discovered are dangerous and require treatment.
One thing that is clear is that the 3-D scans expose women to twice as much radiation as the regular exams, according to the report. Altogether, the experts decided there wasn’t enough evidence to offer advice about the scans one way or the other.
The task force also decided there was too little evidence to make a recommendation for or against specialized screening regimens for women with dense breasts. These women are up to 30% more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, although they are no more likely than other women to die of the disease. A 3-D X-ray imaging technique called tomosynthesis can help doctors find more tumors that are invasive and potentially most dangerous. But it is not yet clear that early detection of these tumors improves cancer outcomes for women, the panel said.
In 2009, the panel advised doctors not to teach their patients to perform breast self-exams. That advice was not updated in the new report.
As radiologists like to say, “The more you look, the more you find.” That has certainly been the case with mammograms.
Before they became a widespread tool to screen for breast cancer, doctors were finding about six cases of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) for every 100,000 women per year. After mammograms were established as the standard of care, the discovery rate ballooned to 37 per 100,000 women per year. Today, about one-quarter of all breast cancer diagnoses involve DCIS, according to the task force.
The problem is, some cases of DCIS will become invasive breast cancers and others will not. But doctors can’t tell which is which. So nearly all women get treated as if their tumors are dangerous. That involves surgery, and often radiation and treatment with tamoxifen.
At least 98% of women who get treated for DCIS are still alive after 10 years. But it’s not clear that all that therapy deserves the credit.
“Whether this is due to the effectiveness of the interventions or the fact that the majority of DCIS cases being treated are essentially benign is unclear,” the task force wrote.
This is not a problem that can be solved with better mammography technology alone, the report said. Scientists also need to conduct studies to figure out how to tell which tumors are truly dangerous and which tumors can be safely left alone.
In the meantime, the task force members lamented, there’s no good way to paint a clearer picture of “what the best screening strategy is for women, or how clinicians can best tailor that strategy to the individual woman.”
The task force’s draft recommendations are available for public comment through May 18.
For more medical news, follow me on Twitter @LATkarenkaplan and “like” Los Angeles Times Science & Health on Facebook.
Karen Kaplan
Karen Kaplan is science and medicine editor at the Los Angeles Times.
It’s official: Majority of Americans think women are just as competent as men, if not more so
Women have come a long way in the United States over the last 70 years, to the point where they are now seen as being as competent as men, if not more so.
Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. Who will be the first woman?
Nearly 50 years ago, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. A woman could follow in his footsteps in 2024. Here’s what we know about her.
Ebola outbreak in Congo is now a public health emergency, WHO declares
The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in Congo is now a public health emergency. The U.N. agency was criticized for failing to say this before.
Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. appear to be falling, CDC data show
Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. appear to be falling, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Alzheimer’s affects women more than men. Now scientists have some clues as to why
New research offers some of the first biological clues to why women may be more likely than men to develop Alzheimer’s disease.
‘There’s a girl in here’: How NASA women made their mark on the space program
As the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing approaches, the women who helped America’s early space efforts reflect on their often unheralded roles — and the indignities they endured.
Could the Apollo 11 moon landing be duplicated today? ‘Lots of luck with that’
Video: Meet the ‘human computers’ who made the moon landing a reality
Postcard From L.A.: In the moon glow of Mt. Wilson, go find your place in the cosmos
Talk about star power. Mt. Wilson has an amazing history. Up here, astronomers first measured the Milky Way and discovered the universe was expanding. Go see the distant stars for yourself and expand your universe as well.
Blood test for Alzheimer’s disease moves closer to becoming a reality
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Healthy living can counteract a high genetic risk of Alzheimer’s, study suggests
A healthy lifestyle can cut your risk of developing Alzheimer’s, even if you’ve inherited genes that raise your risk for the dementia-causing disease.
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EnviroThursdays
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“Gray Whales” 2/3/00 Video This PBS documentary, narrated by Christopher Reeve, follows the gray whale’s migration from the Arctic’s Bering Strait, off the coast of Siberia, to the shores of the Baja California peninsula.
“Green Plans” 2/10/00 Video A documentary that examines the Netherlands’ and New Zealand’s widely supported plans for environmentally sound development.
“The Private Lives of Dolphins” 2/17/00 Video This NOVA documentary examines dolphin behavior never documented on film before and shows these animals as they live in the wild.
“Saving Minnesota Tallgrass Prairies” 2/24/00 Speaker: Peter Buesseler A presentation on innovative strategies to help public and private landowners, organizations, and agencies learn about and protect Minnesota’s remaining native prairie lands.
“Empolyees or Visionaries: which should a liberal arts education create?” 3/2/00 Speaker: Al Romero and Claudia Curran The presentation will focus on Harvard biologist and national acclaimed author E.O. Wilson. The leading question is, should we continue to produce highly skilled, but rather narrowly focused individuals prepared to compete in the job market, or should liberal arts colleges seriously attempt to create opportunities for students to become the visionary leaders and the polymaths of the new millennium?
“Paradise for Sale” 3/9/00 Speaker: Alberto Rivera Gutiérrez The penetration of the market and the degradation of the environment in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala is the topic of this presentation, by the Program Director for HECUA’s South American Urban Semester and Environment, Economy and Community in Latin America programs
“The Heating of the Earth: Global Warming Today” 3/13/00 Speaker:
Dr. Richard Feely Dr. Feely of the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration is an expert on global warming and will stop by Macalester on his way back from a national conference on his issue that is taking place in Washington DC. He will report to us the latest on the trends of this worldwide phenomenon.
“On Caves, Whales, and Snakes: A Trip to Trinidad, W.I.” 3/16/00 Speaker:
Joel Creswell This presentation is a summary of Mr. Creswell’s field research in Trinidad, West Indies, on the history of marine mammal exploitation, and a separate project on cave fish. The presentation includes video footage of a cave fish never videotaped before.
“Campus-Wide Forum on the Talloires Declaration: Figuring out Macalester’s Environmental Impact” 3/30/00 Speakers:
Sarah Ullmer and Kira Pascoe As part of the process leading to the signing of the Talloires Declaration during Earth Week 2000, we are inviting all members of the Macalester Community (students, faculty, and staff) to attend a special session of EnviroThursday dedicated to explain what the Talloires Declaration is all about, what the Campus Environmental Issues Committee (CEIC) has proposed in order to implement that declaration, and how its implementation may affect our lives as members of the College community.
“The Fate of Nature and the Siren of Sustainability” 4/6/00 Speaker:
Michael Soulé Earth is in the grips of the fourth phase of the sixth major extinction crisis. The megafauana is largely exterminated; oceanic islands have been stripped of their endemic plants and animals, and tropical rain forests will be gone in 40 years. International lending institutions and much of the conservation establishment, encouraged by traditional economists and the development community, have embraced fully the view that we can “develop out” of environmental problems (sustainable development). Thus, the policy pendulum has swung away from national parks to building Third World infrastructure. But recent analyses have shown that sustainable development is doing more harm than good for nature. We need to return to strict nature protection–on a geographically extensive scale–to preserve the last remnants of nature.
“Great White” 4/13/00 Video The Great White Shark is, by reputation, the most fierce and formidable predator on earth. A veritable “killing machine,” driven by an insatiable lust for flesh and blood. No creature arouses more fear and fascination, but none is so misunderstood. Filmed on location around the globe, you will enter the private domain of the Great White, with footage never released before. Learn the reason Great White attacks on humans are increasing and possible safeguards for the future. Meet a superlative predator trying to survive overexploitation by humans and marine pollution.
“A New Form of Public Transportation” 4/20/00 Speaker:
Dr. J. Edward Anderson The need for markedly improved public transportation is more and more pressing as a result of increasing congestion, increasing costs, and declining ridership experienced by conventional transit systems. Research and development work at the University of Minnesota during the 1970s and 1980s led to the design of a system classed as Personal Rapid Transit or PRT, and called Taxi 2000. Investigators in a number of countries have recognized Taxi 2000 as the most rigorously designed new transit system in the world, and it has been called “an essential technology in a sustainable world.” Personal rapid transit in various forms has been under consideration for several decades; however, the technology required to design it effectively only became widely available during the 1980s. In 1991 Taxi 2000 won an alternatives study at SeaTac International Airport in competition with bus, light rail and large-vehicle people movers. In 1993, it was selected for full-scale development in an international competition sponsored by the Northeastern Illinois Regional Transportation Authority. In late 1998, a committee of Forward Quest, a large organization concerned with the future of Northern Kentucky, selected Taxi 2000 for deployment in Downtown Cincinnati-Covington-Newport after examining over 50 elevated rail systems.
“Environmental Costs of the Nuclear Arms Race” 4/27/00 Speaker: The U.S. and other countries are deciding right now whether to restart the nuclear arms race or not. This has major environmental consequences which are worth reviewing. In the worst case, if a general nuclear war were to happen, an environmental disaster on a scale not seen since the end of the dinosaur age would result. Consequences range from massive contamination of the living system inn every way we know to vastly increased rates of extinction as marginal species are further stressed. The prospect of “nuclear winter” presents the most severe scenario now contemplated. In the best case, no nuclear war or detonations and minimal new production of nuclear weapons, there would still be serious environmental consequences.
“Giant Panda” 5/4/00 Video Actress Debra Winger presents this PBS Documentary on one of the most beloved and vulnerable species of animals: the Giant Panda. It was 70 years ago that a Westerner first saw a wild panda in China. Back then, little was known even by the Chinese about this reclusive and solitary animal. Today, thought scientists have learned much, pandas are still a disappearing species. Winger begins her expedition in Shanghai on the banks of the Huang Po River. From there, she takes a boat up the river, finally arriving at Szechuan where the actress journeys to the mountain where pandas are found.
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Black Sea Project
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Finding Common Ground on the Black Sea
At an ancient city that both Christians and Jews have called home, Ukrainians and Americans are partners, geologists work closely with Russian scholars and different languages unite people.
Sevastopol, Ukraine — Macalester Professor Gitta Hammarberg walks into the middle of an anti-NATO demonstration by 100 pensioners and war veterans outside the Crimean government headquarters and engages them in a long conversation about the problems of everyday life in post-Soviet society. The unexpected discussion, in Russian, starts out tense. It ends with invitations for the empathetic Hammarberg to visit the demonstrators’ homes for tea.
On top of a mountain called “Ancient Bliss” overlooking the Black Sea, Zeb Page ’99 is having the time of his life studying rocks with geology Professor Karl Wirth. “It fit my two old loves of traveling and speaking Russian with my new love of geology,” Page says. “It’s bliss.”
At a cafe near the ancient Greek city of Chersonesus, Macalester classics Professor Andy Overman and political science Professor Mark Beissinger of the University of Wisconsin are comparing notes on the meaning of empire: the ancient Greek and Roman empires with which Overman is intimately familiar, and the 20th century Soviet empire which Beissinger has spent his career studying.
Inside the cramped archives at the Chersonesus Museum Preserve, a stone’s throw from the Black Sea, Rachel Green ’98 and Macalester Professor Jim von Geldern consult on their efforts to translate Russian documents. The documents tell of a basilica built over what Overman and his archeological colleagues believe was a Jewish synagogue. “She’s found quite a few significant new details,” von Geldern says. “This is a case [for proof of the synagogue] that will be built on details.”
These are but a few telling scenes from two weeks of the Macalester Black Sea Project. They took place last August near the old city of Chersonesus and the modern city of Sevastopol. The Black Sea Project, now in its fourth year of digging in search of a 2nd–4th century (Common Era) synagogue and Jewish community, added a new twist this year. Using the dig and its location in the historic Crimea region of Ukraine as a focus, the project brought together faculty members and students from several disciplines to study and learn and collaborate. Von Geldern and Overman initiated the idea for the collaboration, and the project obtained a $25,000 grant from the Fund for Mutual Understanding (part of the Rockefeller Foundation) to support the faculty. In all, five Macalester faculty members and Beissinger from Wisconsin, three Macalester students, two other American students, and six other members of the archeological team traveled to Chersonesus, where they worked with their Ukrainian counterpart, Misha Zolotarev, and eight students from Zaporozhye State University.
“This was a great opportunity to do something new,” von Geldern says of his work in Ukraine. “It’s really a chance to live the liberal arts,” Overman adds.
Here is an inside look at two weeks of the Black Sea Project, circa 1997:
Judaism and Angry Communists
Four years ago, the first Black Sea Project group traveled 27 hours from Kiev to Sevastopol in a bus that broke down frequently. This summer, the trip from Odessa to Sevastopol took only nine hours, the air conditioning usually worked and there was only one breakdown. Overman considers that progress.
“Sevastopol itself was closed to Westerners and outsiders until 1-1/2 years ago because it was the headquarters for the Russian Black Sea fleet,” he recalled. “We had to give up our passports to police and the KGB followed us. We were the first Americans to visit Balaklava, site of the famous Crimean War battle in 1854. There was a sign that said ‘No Trespassing’ in Russian. Misha [Zolotarev, chief archeologist at the Chersonesus museum] took the sign and threw it off the cliff into the sea. ‘The Soviet Union is dead,’ he said.”
One of the biggest changes since Overman and the project archeologists began visiting Chersonesus in 1993 is the degree to which Jews and Judaism can be discussed openly. The archeological research focuses on the existence of a Jewish community — not a popular subject during Soviet rule. At a conference this August celebrating 170 years of archeology at Chersonesus, Overman and his colleagues presented papers on their findings. The historic Jewish community was discussed for several hours and the Russian and Ukrainian archeologists asked questions. Overman said the difference in atmosphere was a sea change.
His belief about the interesting mix of politics and history proved correct on the second day of the visit when Hammarberg, who teaches Russian studies at Macalester, found herself in the middle of that demonstration in Simferopol, the capital of the Crimea. The senior citizen protesters were angry that the president of Ukraine was vacationing while, they declared, others were starving. As police officers and other security people watched, the demonstrators described themselves as “honest Communists” who longed for what they considered “the good old days” in the old Soviet Union, Hammarberg said afterward. They blamed the United States and the West for their problems. “They thought I was a journalist and that I could take their message to the West,” Hammarberg said. “I told them I was a literature teacher and then they identified with me as a teacher. They liked it that I had learned their language and that I had made their literature my life’s work.
“They were so angry and desperate. It was a little intimidating. I couldn’t get out of this circle. I was moved by their complaints.”
While the demonstration was not part of Hammarberg’s itinerary, it gave her insights she may not have found in the library. “The Crimea is a central part of Russian literature and history, so it was important to experience it,” she said. “It is crucial for Jim [von Geldern] and me to be in this environment.”
And crucial for students, as well. Back at the dormitory-like building that was home to Macalester students and professors, Mac students gathered most nights with their Ukrainian counterparts from Zaporozhye University to relive the day and to talk about their lives. The conversation was conducted in a combination of Russian, English, French, Spanish and laughter. Over food, refreshments, cards and chess, it was also where much of the cultural exchange took place each day.
Rocky Relationships
“You should have seen their eyes when we invited them to go,” von Geldern says of Zeb Page and Rachel Green, two of the Macalester students. For Page, Green and Courtney Kost ’98, the journey to the Black Sea was a chance to return to Russia, practice their language skills, meet Ukrainian students and work closely with a faculty member on the dig or other project.
Each day, Page and his faculty mentor, Karl Wirth, set out to explore the geology of a different area. With Hammarberg’s translating help, they were able to make arrangements with Ukrainian geologists in Simferopol who guided them throughout the countryside. They took samples, photographed rock formations, pinpointed their exact location with a device that bounces a signal off a satellite and listened intently as their Ukrainian colleagues explained the nature of the geology in the Crimea.
On the trip up the mountain, Page and Wirth stopped so often to examine rocks that their guide was concerned they wouldn’t make it down before dark. “I was blown away by how quickly our relationship developed with the Ukrainians,” Page said. That relationship with the Ukrainian geologists began quickly en route to the mountain. As Page joked in the van, “There are three languages being spoken here: Englishsky, Russiansky and geologsky.”
Page and Wirth worked closely in the field, sometimes up to 12 hours a day. Page hopes to write an honors paper on what he and Wirth discover about the chemical content of Crimean volcanic rock.
“The Crimean mountains are situated at the junction between several plates [of the Earth] and have had a very long and complex history,” Wirth said. “By studying the composition of the volcanic rocks, we hope to be able to unravel part of this history. This is a team effort. Zeb knows the language and culture. I can help him understand the geology.”
On the eve of his departure, Page was enthusiastic about his experiences. “It was great being in the field,” he said. “Getting to know the Ukrainian geologists was terrific. My Russian has improved the last couple weeks. I really enjoyed getting to know the Zap students. I made new friends. I even think the food was OK.” (Some of his student and faculty colleagues might disagree about the bland combination of bread, boiled meat, bulgar wheat and tea that was the centerpiece of most dining hall meals.)
Using what you’ve learned
While Page trekked up mountains and explored seaside caves, Rachel Green spent her second year at Chersonesus in a pottery shed and in the museum archives. A Russian and history
major from Seattle, Green lived in Russia in the fall of 1996 and has had an interest in the area since she was 9 and accompanied her parents on educational trips. In the pottery shed, she and a Zaporozhye student are comparing pictures of handles found in 1995 with the actual pieces. In the archives, she is checking earlier translations of Russian archeological reports for accuracy. It is painstaking work. With the help of another Zaporozhye student, she was able to match photographs taken years ago with a location on a map of the site.
“The reason I wanted Rachel to come to Russia is because she wants to go to grad school,” von Geldern explained. “To do that you have to work in archives, and she’s doing great work here.”
For her part, Green found her experiences fascinating and varied. “This definitely puts a big capstone on my Macalester experience. To put in use what you’ve learned in class. To see how professors do research, to collaborate. The close relationships with professors and international students are quite something.” As if to illustrate her point, Green smoothly shifts gears to translate an interview with a Zaporozhye student who doesn’t speak English.
At the dig site, Courtney Kost ’98 of Fargo, N.D., spent her two weeks matching soil colors for comparison with other sites, sketching the rocks, recording and storing pottery samples. She worked closely with the project’s site director and with the Ukrainian students who are doing much of the digging. A Russian and history major, Kost has lived in St. Petersburg, and decided late last spring to make the trip to Chersonesus.
“My language skills come back at the strangest times,” Kost said. “At the market, I wanted the woman to break [Ukrainian money]. She understood me. It’s the same with the Zaporozhye students. I speak enough Russian. They speak enough English. We manage. This [experience] confirms that I definitely want to continue studying Russian language and culture.”
Translation’s Trials and Rewards
For nearly three hours one warm Friday afternoon in the un-airconditioned second floor of the archeological museum, Professors Hammarberg and von Geldern, with only 45 minutes to prepare, translated from English to Russian for Overman and three colleagues as they presented their findings on the Black Sea Project. Some 75 archeologists from Ukraine and Russia listened intently. When it was over, Hammarberg and von Geldern were exhausted.
“I’ve never done formal translation before,” Hammarberg said. “And when it’s from Russian to English, it’s 10 times harder.” Von Geldern explained that they had to be careful because they didn’t want to translate ungrammatically, making the archeologists appear unprofessional. “This is exactly what we’re here for,” von Geldern added. “We’re glad to help our colleagues communicate….The translations we did [were] geological, historical, archeological, cultural, business.”
“Chit-chat and car negotiations,” Hammarberg added with a smile. Her unofficial duties each day included helping Wirth and Page arrange for drivers for their geology excursions.
“The interdisciplinary collaboration was the best thing about the trip,” she said. “To be able to set up the geologists. Hanging out with [political scientist] Mark Beissinger — I learned a lot from him. I also saw Russia through different people’s eyes.”
When they weren’t on a Crimean mountain, Wirth and Page were examining the geology of the site at Chersonesus. Wirth wants to study the extent of the partially submerged ancient city and the bedrock foundation beneath the dig site for clues to the source of building materials used at the site and the evolution of the coastline. He plans to write a geological section for the archeologists’ report.
Wirth, who normally does field trips with other geologists, said, “Now I’m learning about culture and history. It’s a more complete experience rather than just ‘Come and study the rocks.’ It’s interesting to see that others are having cultural experiences, from the meals to riding the buses…Having common experiences will bind us together. You can’t really put a value on that.”
He plans to collaborate on a paper on Crimean geology with the Ukrainian geologist who was his guide and teacher for more than a week.
Overman and von Geldern hope the two weeks on the Black Sea can serve as a model for future area studies education. “Even in the classics, we have to get out of the classroom and to the site. And you have to be OK with not figuring everything out right away,” Overman said.
“Field work,” von Geldern added, “is: look at what you have, conjecture what it might be and then go look for confirmation. You fire 10 blanks and on the 11th one you’ve got it. The Russians are looking for a viable past for themselves: Scythians [an ancient people who lived in what is now Russia and later the Crimea] as proto-Slavs. They are finding a monocultural past. Andy is finding a multicultural past.”
Future of the Black Sea Project
That year’s research found no new startling evidence, but confirmed many of the earlier findings of the archeologists, Overman said. He and his colleagues are convinced, through their digging and an extensive review of the archival evidence, that a Jewish synagogue existed at Chersonesus between the 2nd and 4th centuries Common Era. Among the evidence is a Hebrew inscription, two menorahs and an oil lamp fragment that appears to have a Torah shrine on it. The efforts this summer were intended to pinpoint more precisely dates and locations of activities during the time Jews lived among Greeks and Romans and Christians at Chersonesus and to check and re-check archival records for further clues about life there. When it was suggested that the research is like detective work, like Lt. Colombo solving a crime, Professor Doug Edwards, an archeologist from University of Puget Sound, replied, “But he solves the crimes. We create more mysteries.”
Overman and the other archeologists from the project will spend the next year writing a popular book on their findings. They also hope to produce a CD-ROM to accompany the book that would contain technical and archeological information, drawings and background. They may dig next summer at Chersonesus, but certainly a small group will return for additional archival research, Overman said. He hopes to expand the project’s research to include Jewish history in other parts of Ukraine and Russia. He would also like to continue aspects of the program, including student and faculty exchanges (two Zaporozhye students, Julia Berest and Evgenji Los, are studying at Macalester this fall and Misha Zolotorev will probably come here in the spring) and further collaboration with other programs and departments such as Russian and East European Studies, Classics, Geology and Geography.
Overman sought to capture the spirit of the project in a toast at one of the celebration dinners: “To Chersonesus, this amazing place, for bringing people together as in the past. It is still uniting people from many different nations.”
After another farewell dinner, the Macalester students and faculty and the Ukrainian students and archeologists walked outside to watch fireworks from the harbor in downtown Sevastopol. The once-closed city was celebrating. It was Ukrainian independence day.
Macalester Black Sea Project
Where: at the tip of the Crimean peninsula on the north shore of the Black Sea
1997 Participants: 26 total; five Macalester faculty; three Mac students; a professor from University of Wisconsin; two other U.S. students; two faculty from University of Puget Sound; four other project members; director of archeology at Chersonesus Museum Preserve; eight students from Zaporozhye State University
Purpose: to find evidence of a 2nd–4th century Common Era Jewish synagogue and community
Other key goals: to break down cultural barriers; stimulate faculty and faculty-student collaboration
Sponsors: Macalester College; University of Puget Sound; Fund for Mutual Understanding; private donors
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Politico: Trump Downplays N. Korea Missile Launches
WASHINGTON —U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he did not not consider North Korea's recent launch of short-range ballistic missiles "a breach of trust."
In an interview with Politico, Trump downplayed the missile tests by North Korea, calling them "very standard stuff."
"They're short-range and I don't consider that a breach of trust at all. And, you know, at some point I may. But at this point, no," Trump said.
North Korea fired two short-range missiles on Thursday, its second such test in less than a week.
The Pentagon said the launches consisted of ballistic missiles that flew in excess of 300 km (185 miles) and landed in the ocean.
Trump said he might eventually lose faith in his friendly relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which he has previously described as "very strong."
"I mean, it's possible that at some point I will, but right now, not at all," Trump said.
On Thursday, Trump appeared to hold the door open for more talks with North Korea.
"The relationship continues ... I know they want to negotiate, they're talking about negotiating. But I don't think they're ready to negotiate," he told reporters.
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Book Review: The Winter Warrior, by James Wilde
The Winter Warrior
By James Wilde
Pegasus Books, 2013
Full disclosure: I only discovered this was a sequel after I started reading it. I haven’t read the first novel in the series, so please take any critiques I make here with a grain of salt.
Let’s start at the beginning. When Peter offered me a choice of books to review, we had slightly different things in mind. He should feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but I got the sense that he thought I’d go for an academic monograph. Probably something historical and full of long words. But years of working with academic prose can give a person a hankering for something a little less formal. I thought I’d go for the furthest thing from niche academic genius…I thought I’d go for something light, easy and, well – I’m not ashamed – a bit trashy. That’s why I picked the book with what I can only assume is an actual photograph of a man dressed in armour riding a horse through a snowy forest on the front. It has that medieval-y font and the word “warrior” in the title. And someone had the brilliant idea to slap on the subtitle “A Novel of Medieval England,” just in case all the other hints didn’t give away the book’s secret identity. Well, you’ll be pleased to know that this appears to have been a case of “don’t judge a book by its cover.” This novel has a real sense of history to it, and it covers that ground thoroughly and imaginatively.
But I’m not done with the backstory yet. Here’s what you should know: James Wilde is a pseudonym for the author, Mark Chadbourn, an acclaimed British fantasy writer with side interests in journalism and scriptwriting. This novel tells an in-depth and focused narrative about the years following the Norman Conquest of 1066. It follows the Anglo-Saxon Hereward as he plots a rebellion against William the Conqueror from the seat of his uprising’s power in Ely. It’s the sequel to The Time of the Wolf, according to the North American retitling. In the UK, the first novel is called simply Hereward and this second installment is called Hereward: The Devil’s Army. The UK titles make sense, although I can sort of see why they’ve been changed for North America, since this particular Anglo-Saxon hero has less of a reputation on this side of the pond. That being said, the renaming of this particular volume is slightly unfortunate, in that I don’t remember there being much actual “winter” in the story. I mean, there probably was, but it certainly didn’t stand out as much as the sticky fenland imagery, the descriptions of which were one of the author’s fortes. When retitling, maybe they should have called it “The Marshy Warrior.” But I guess then they’d have to re-think the cover art…
Right, enough sarcasm, let’s get to work on a proper review. Do you like Anglo-Saxons and Vikings and a lot of gore? You’ll probably like this book. Are you French? You probably won’t. I think it’s fair to say that the cultural characterization is a tad skewed toward the Anglo-Saxons and against the Normans. This will probably be shrugged off by most because the novel is mainly written from an Anglo-Saxon perspective, but I still can’t help but think that it would have been nice to see some rounder characterization of the invading forces. The English bunch and their allies are nice and varied – there are male and female characters from a range of backgrounds who perform a range of tasks with a range of different abilities. Some are moral. Some are not. Most vary according to the different pressures put on them. Sort of like in reality. But the Normans…oh, the Normans…well, they’re pretty bad to the bone.
But characterization aside, the novel handles its historical material remarkably well. The author’s use of Old English, Old Norse and Norman French are all nice touches, as is his tendency to drop in modern translations of compound words and kennings that we find in Old English poetry. Things like: “battle-sweat” (blood), “whale road” (ocean) and “world-candle” (sun). He also occasionally uses untranslated Old English words in his prose when they’re easy to understand. So we have “ceorls” (low-ranking Anglo-Saxons) and “goldhords” (add an “a” to the second element and you’ll get the gist).
References to famous saints will also be appreciated by medievalists. Etheldreda (or Æthelthryth) and Oswald both get interesting cameos – or rather the stories surrounding them and their relics do. Likewise, there’s a fair bit of folklore, including references to the alfar and vættir (Old Norse elves and nature spirits). And, of course, there is a lot of sword-on-axe-type fighting for enthusiasts of early medieval warfare. Some of it’s yucky, though…don’t say I didn’t warn you.
My biggest beef with the book, aside from the North American cover (yeah, yeah, yeah, I’ll stop harping on about that now), has to do with the female characters. It’s safe to say that if this were a film, it wouldn’t pass the Bechdel test. All the female character’s lives revolve around their relationships with men in general, and with Hereward in particular. Many of them are intriguing characters, and of course the author’s flexibility is slightly hampered by historical approaches to gender. But a lack of autonomous women and an over-reliance on tropes of violence against women is still a problem for me. I can only hope that the presence of multiple, unique female characters rather than just a token sexy warrior woman means that we’re moving in the right direction.
So, to wrap things up: if you’re looking for a narrative that focuses on historical detail with a fairly straightforward, if occasionally twisty, plot and a smattering of action, fighting and gore, then you’ve come to the right place. Keep in mind that the author has a fair amount of flexibility with regard to plot, since Hereward’s life story seems to differ in every account we have of him. I can only imagine what James Wilde/Mark Chadbourn is going to do in the next and (I assume) final volume in this series. But I guess I should go back and read book number one first…!
~ Reviewed by Megan Cavell. You can follow Megan on Twitter @TheRiddleAges
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Authorities believe missing Iowa girls are alive
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Authorities searching for two missing Iowa cousins have information that leads them to believe both girls are still alive, an FBI spokeswoman said Saturday.
FBI spokeswoman Sandy Breault said authorities “feel strongly” that 10-year-old Lyric Cook-Morrissey and 8-year-old Elizabeth Collins have not been killed. She refused to say what led authorities to that conclusion, but urged anyone with information about their disappearance to contact law enforcement.
“We believe these girls are alive, and we are not discouraged by the passage of time since their disappearance,” Breault said. “We are urging anyone with information to come forward.”
The announcement came a day after authorities finished searching Meyers Lake in the northeast Iowa town of Evansdale, near a path where the girls’ bikes were found. The girls vanished July 13.
They now say they believe the girls were abducted, but that searching and draining part of lake was part of a thorough investigation.
The lake is close to Interstate 380, just outside of Waterloo, which is about 120 miles northeast of Des Moines.
Breault said investigators are interviewing multiple “persons of interest” in the case, whom she declined to identify. She said authorities are still receiving tips on the case, mostly from within the area.
Authorities have said they are watching Lyric’s father, Daniel Morrisey, although they have not named him as a suspect.
Morrisey, 36, has a long criminal history and has stopped cooperating with police. Breault said the lack of cooperation from some family members has hindered the investigation.
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Analysis: Trade to replace Alfredo Simon as starter would give rotation, bullpen much-needed help
By Chris Iott | ciott@mlive.com
Detroit Tigers open three-game series in Seattle
The Detroit Tigers could improve the starting rotation and the bullpen by trading for a starter and making Alfredo Simon a relief pitcher.
(AP Photo)
Who is the fifth starter for the Detroit Tigers?
Whoever it is, the Tigers would be well served if he can pitch better from this point forward than Alfredo Simon.
The trade deadline is still more than three weeks away. The Tigers are just one game above .500 following their 7-6 loss in 11 innings to the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night. Their best course of action very well may be to be sellers at the deadline.
But there is time for a decision to be made. The Tigers are just two games out of a wild-card spot and certainly could lean toward buying at the deadline. If they do, they need to start by adding a starting pitcher. But they need help in both the rotation and the bullpen.
The Tigers could help their starting rotation by trading for someone to fill the spot that was held -- until the wee hours of this morning -- by left-hander Kyle Ryan. But they could kill two birds with one stone if they were to trade for someone to replace right-hander Alfredo Simon.
Simon has been an effective pitcher out of the bullpen in the past. His career numbers as a relief pitcher (3.61 ERA, 1.335 WHIP, .258 opp. BA) are not that much different from his numbers as a starter (4.08 ERA, 1.307 WHIP, .260 opp. BA). But his two most recent seasons spent as a relief pitcher were good ones.
Simon went 3-2 with a 2.66 ERA and a 1.426 WHIP in 36 relief appearances for the Reds in 2012, then went 6-4 with a 2.87 ERA and an impressive 1.072 WHIP in 63 appearances in 2013.
The Tigers do not rank near the top in the American League in any major pitching categories:
Tigers starters
* ERA: 4.45 (13th)
* WHIP: 1.30 (8th)
* Opp. BA: .262 (9th)
* Strikeouts: 380 (10th)
Tigers relievers
* WHIP: 1.39 (14th)
* Opp. BA: .268 (14th)
Of course, the Tigers need better pitching from 60 percent of their starting rotation. Right now, David Price and Anibal Sanchez are the only reliable starters they have, and even Sanchez went through some major struggles early in the season.
Justin Verlander has not found a groove yet after a lengthy stint on the disabled list. Simon and Shane Greene, the two pitchers acquired by general manager Dave Dombrowski in offseason trades to fill out the rotation, have not performed well at all after starting the season strong.
Simon has given up 23 earned runs in 20 1/3 innings over his past four starts. That trend is more troubling considering how poorly he pitched throughout the second half of the 2014 season. Greene allowed 20 earned runs in 14 2/3 innings in his four most recent starts for the Tigers before being sent to Triple-A Toledo. He has a 5.82 ERA this season.
Moving Simon to the bullpen would be an admission that the Tigers miscalculated by trading for him. They gave up two young players for Simon, a one-year rental who will be a free agent this fall. They are paying him starter's money ($5.55 million) after he got an expected bump as an arbitration-eligible player.
But if the Tigers do decide to buy in an attempt to make the playoffs for the fifth straight season, they are going to have to make bold moves going forward while not looking back.
The Tigers need better starting pitching from the pitchers they have. But they also need help from the outside. They would be better off in the long run if someone like Greene can bounce back, pitch well and solidify the bottom of the rotation. That would allow the Tigers to trade for a starting pitcher and move Simon to the bullpen.
It's clear that the Tigers need help in both areas. It doesn't take a numbers cruncher to see that. The numbers make that abundantly clear.
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NLRB Vastly Expands Its Joint-Employer Standard
The Browning-Ferris decision overturns 30 years of precedent and opens up a wide variety of business relationships to allegations of joint-employer status, including staffing agencies, on-site contractors, outside suppliers, and franchise relationships.
In a decision issued on August 27, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) overruled 30 years of joint-employer jurisprudence, announcing that it will no longer require direct and immediate control over terms and conditions of employment to establish a joint-employer relationship. Instead, a joint-employer relationship may be found based on the right to control terms and conditions of employment, even if that control is indirect and/or unexercised. This new standard can be applied to a wide variety of business relationships in which one employer contracts for the work of another business entities’ employees, including outside suppliers, on-site contractors, and franchisees.
The Board, with court approval, has historically applied the joint-employer analysis set forth in TLI and Laerco Transportation to determine whether a particular group of employees is solely or jointly employed by one or more employers.[1] In TLI and Laerco, the Board rejected the notion that indirect, minimal, or hypothetical control should establish a joint-employer relationship and concluded instead that joint-employer status would require proof of a significant degree of direct and immediate control over the employees in question.
The Browning-Ferris Decision
In Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc.[2], the Board held that a joint-employer relationship exists if two or more entities “share or codetermine those matters governing the essential terms and conditions of employment.” In applying that standard, the Board announced that it will no longer require direct and immediate control by an alleged joint employer over the terms and conditions of employment to establish a joint-employer relationship. Instead, the right to control, even if indirect and/or unexercised, may be sufficient to establish a joint-employer relationship.
In analyzing whether a joint-employer relationship exists, the Board stated that a case-by-case, fact-intensive evaluation of the allocation and exercise of control in the workplace must be undertaken. This case-by-case analysis will be informed by several key principles:
The concept of “essential terms and conditions of employment” will not be limited to the core subjects of wages, hours, hiring, firing, and discipline. It will include subjects such as the number of workers to be supplied, scheduling, overtime, work assignments, and “the manner and method of work performance.”
Although the range of subjects that may give rise to a joint-employer relationship is broad, the Board will consider whether the alleged joint employer’s control is confined to subjects that are “too limited in scope or significance to permit meaningful collective bargaining.”
Even if a joint-employer relationship is found, the Board stated that a joint employer will be required to bargain “only with respect to such terms and conditions which it possesses the authority to control.” This could create an unusual dynamic at the bargaining table and require a joint employer to be involved in bargaining on some subjects but not others.
This case-by-case approach does not yield any bright-line rules that would provide clear guidance about when a joint-employer relationship is present. However, the Board included a potentially significant qualification of the scope of its decision when it disclaimed that “a putative employer’s bare rights to dictate the results of a contracted service or to control or protect its own property constitute probative indicia of employer status.” Thus, it seems that the Board analysis in future cases will focus on whether the alleged joint employer, in protecting those basic business interests, “affects the means or manner of employees’ work and terms of employment.”
Although these general principles are subject to definition in future cases, the application of the standard to the facts of this case are illustrative of the type of control that will give rise to joint-employer status under the Browning-Ferris standard. In finding that Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) was a joint employer with its subcontractor, Leadpoint, the Board relied on the following factors:
Hiring. BFI had a contractual right to require that applicants take and pass drug tests and that its personnel “have the appropriate qualifications (including certification and training).” BFI also retained the right to reject an applicant referred by Leadpoint “for any or no reason.”
Wages. Leadpoint was prohibited from paying its employees more than BFI paid its employees for performing comparable work. The Board also found it significant that BFI reimbursed Leadpoint for its labor costs on a cost-plus basis, although the Board stated that a cost-plus arrangement “on its own, is not necessarily sufficient to create a joint-employer relationship.”
Discipline. BFI had the right to “discontinue the use of any personnel for any or no reason.” Two separate instances were cited in which BFI managers reported employees’ misconduct to Leadpoint and “request[ed] their immediate dismissal.” In those two instances, Leadpoint officials immediately removed the employees from their duties and terminated them shortly thereafter. Although Leadpoint conducted its own investigation and no BFI manager was involved in the decision, the Board concluded that “the outcome was preordained by BFI’s ultimate right under the terms of the Agreement to dictate who works at its facility.”
Supervision. BFI controlled the hours and production lines in its facility, required that Leadpoint employees obtain the signature of an authorized BFI representative attesting to their “hours of services rendered” each week, held a sole preshift meeting to advise Leadpoint supervisors of which lines would run and which tasks they should do on those lines, and monitored the productivity of Leadpoint employees.
The Browning-Ferris decision opens up a wide variety of business relationships to allegations of joint-employer status, including staffing agencies, on-site contractors, outside suppliers, and franchise relationships. Employers should review their contracts and business practices with respect to suppliers, contractors, and other business partners to evaluate the risk of a joint-employer finding. The Board made clear that a finding of joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) “does not govern joint-employer determinations under the many other statutes, federal and state, that govern the workplace.” But, as noted by the dissent in Browning-Ferris, a finding of joint-employer status under the NLRA can have many significant implications:
Union organizing. When a union seeks to organize a group of jointly employed employees, as in the Browning-Ferris case, the joint employer will be a party to the NLRB election process. The Board has not yet decided whether a “user employer’s” employees may be combined with the jointly employed employees in the same bargaining unit without both employers’ consent. That issue remains pending before the Board in Miller & Anderson (Case No. 05-RC-079249), a case in which the Board invited briefs on the issue of whether existing law should be overturned so that a bargaining unit can be created without both employers’ consent.
Collective bargaining. A joint employer will be obligated to participate in collective bargaining, at least on the subjects over which the joint employer is found to exercise control. The obligation to engage in collective bargaining on these subjects could also include an obligation to respond to union information requests
Picketing and secondary boycotts. A joint employer could be subject to picketing or other forms of union activity that would otherwise be regarded as an unlawful secondary boycott. Such activity might not be limited to the site where a labor dispute arises.
In short, the impacts of the Browning-Ferris decision are wide ranging and affect many types of business relationships in many industries. Morgan Lewis will host a webinar in the near future to discuss these issues in more detail.
If you have questions or would like more information on the issues discussed in this LawFlash, please contact any of the following Morgan Lewis lawyers:
Daniel P. Bordoni
Charles I. Cohen
Jonathan C. Fritts
Joseph E. Santucci, Jr.
Ross H. Friedman
Clifford D. “Seth” Sethness
David A. McManus
Joseph C. Ragaglia
Steven R. Wall
Lisa Stephanian Burton
[1]. TLI, Inc., 271 NLRB 798 (1984), enfʼd mem. 772 F.2d 894 (3d Cir. 1985); Laerco Transportation, 269 NLRB 324 (1984).
[2]. 362 NLRB No. 186 (Aug. 27, 2015).
Nicole A. Buffalano
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Partner, Los Angeles Office
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Business Litigation Group
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UC Hastings College of Law, J.D., 2009
Adam M. Weg is a partner in the Firm's Los Angeles office. He divides his practice between complex business, real estate, antitrust and trade secret matters, cross-border international arbitration disputes and sophisticated insurance cases. Mr. Weg’s legal knowledge and real-world business experience provide a unique combination that clients rely on with their most pressing legal matters. Mr. Weg has considerable experience handling matters through all phases of civil litigation, pending in both state and federal courts.
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Representing one of the largest private cotton farms in the United States in connection with antitrust allegations for violations under section 1 of the Sherman Act, including per se horizontal group boycott, by one of largest cotton spinners in Asia. The case is currently pending before the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR).
Settling a complex securities dispute involving the transfer of multiple restricted securities and securities options by a client in a matter involving state and federal issues. He settled the matter for a fraction of the client's potential significant civil exposure.
Representing several executive employees of a major, worldwide aircraft leasing company in resolving allegations of misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duties, and unfair competition relating to the formation of the company by the former CEO of a competing company.
Mr. Weg also regularly represents large multi-national businesses and insurers against allegations of misappropriation of trade secrets and confidential information arising from employee mobility, contractual disputes, environmental disputes, and real estate disputes.
Multi-national insurance companies across the nation and overseas turn to Mr. Weg for his background in handling insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, including errors and omissions coverage, complex excess/umbrella coverage and environmental coverage disputes.
Before becoming an attorney, Mr. Weg worked extensively in the real estate industry, and part of his legal practice now involves using that real-world business experience in guiding clients through their legal issues. Mr. Weg is still a licensed real-estate salesperson with the California Department of Real Estate.
During his free time, Mr. Weg enjoys playing golf and spending quality time with his family.
While in law school, Mr. Weg was an extern for the Los Angeles City Attorney, as well as a law clerk for a private law firm. He was a member of the Hastings Law Journal (Law Review) during 2007-2008 and a Senior Production Editor for the Journal during 2008-2009. He authored, "'Per Se’ Treatment: An Unnecessary Relic of Antitrust Litigation,” 60 Hastings L.J. 1535 (June 2009). Mr. Weg was also the recipient of the WITKIN Award for Academic Excellence: Negotiation and Mediation Process and Practice, and the CALI Excellence for the Future Award: Negotiation and Mediation Process and Practice.
Mr. Weg has been selected as a "Rising Star" for the years 2019/2020 and 2018/2019 by Super Lawyers Magazine, an honor that is limited to no more than 2.5% of the attorneys within California. He has also been selected by Martindale-Hubbell as AV Preeminent - Peer Rating for the Highest Level of Professional Excellence.
The Daily Journal featured Mr. Weg and Partner, Dan Woods, for obtaining one of the top defense verdicts in California for 2018 in the Top Verdicts of 2018 Supplement.
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Mr. Weg regularly volunteers as an attorney scorer/judge for the Southern California Mock Trial Finals presented by the Constitutional Rights Foundation. He and his wife also regularly volunteer and are involved with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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Indian WC team lacks one more quality fast bowler: Gautam Gambhir
Dubai [UAE], May 16 (ANI): Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir on Thursday said India's fifteen-member World Cup squad needs an additional quality pacer.
"I feel Indian team lacks one more quality fast bowler. Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Bhuvneshwar Kumar need more support. You may argue that India has two fast bowling all-rounders in Hardik (Pandya) and Vijay Shankar but I am not convinced," International Cricket Council (ICC) quoted Gambhir, as saying.
Bumrah has been the key weapon in the bowling scheme of things for India and Gambhir reckons the bowler will once again be the trump card for India and his form will be crucial for its chances in the World Cup.
"The wickets are going to be very flat and it's going to be hot. So how Jasprit Bumrah bowls will decide where India reaches because it's going to be a high-scoring World Cup," Gambhir said.
The selectors did not pick Ambati Rayudu in the fifteen-member team. Chief selector MSK Prasad at the time of announcing the squad had said Vijay Shankar will most likely play at number four position, with KL Rahul being the backup option for that spot.
However, Gambhir is of the view that Rahul is the best-suited batsman to play at number four position, considering his technique.
"I feel Rahul is best suited for No.4 spot because he has got the technique, he has got the ability to win you games. I know that is not the position you would have preferred, but I have always believed one thing you only put yourself in the playing XI ultimately it is the team management who decide," Gambhir said.
Gambhir played a key role in India's World Cup triumph in 2011 as he scored a knock of 97 runs in the finals against Sri Lanka. The player said that Australia has one of the best bowling attacks going into the World Cup this time around.
The left-handed batsman also praised the tournament's format this time as the World Cup will be played between the top ten teams. The tournament will be played in a round-robin format with every team taking on each other before the semi-finals stage.
"With Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, David Warner, and Steve Smith coming back, they're probably the side to beat. In any ICC tournament, if you beat Australia, you're right up there because they know how to play big matches," Gambhir said.
"This will be a well-contested tournament as all the teams play each other. This format will give us the real world champion and I think ICC should stick to this format for all future World Cups," he added.
Indian fifteen-member squad for World Cup: Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma (vc), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Vijay Shankar, MS Dhoni (wk), Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Kartik, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Bumrah , Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammad Shami.
India takes on New Zealand (May 25) and Bangladesh (May 28) in the warm-up matches before the World Cup.
The 50-over tournament will take place in England and Wales from May 30 to July 14. India will open their World Cup campaign against South Africa on June 5. (ANI)
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4 TV spots for ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’
Starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, James Cromwell, Ted Levine, Justice Smith, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniella Pineda, Toby Jones, Rafe Spall, with BD Wong and Jeff Goldblum reprising their franchise roles, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is directed by J.A. Bayona (The Impossible), and co-written by Jurassic World’s director, Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly.
It’s been four years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment. Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.
When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is released in UK cinemas on June 6th 2018.
(Source: Flickering Myth)
Tags : BD Wong, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Daniella Pineda, Geraldine Chaplin, James Cromwell, Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Justice Smith, Rafe Spall, Ted Levine, Toby Jones
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Experts: Two shootings by off-duty cops a rare happening
Officials investigate the scene where Suffolk Police and sources say a suspected robber was fatally shot by an off-duty police officer at a self-serve car wash on Bay Shore Road in Deer Park at 3:04 a.m. (Oct. 27, 2009) Photo Credit: Paul Mazza
By ZACHARY R. DOWDY zachary.dowdy@newsday.com Updated October 29, 2009 10:02 PM
The plan in both attacks was the same, police said: Two sets of would-be robbers attacked early Tuesday when their victims were in their cars.
And the outcomes of the encounters were almost identical: The intended targets - both off-duty police officers - orchestrated a reversal of fortune. They overpowered their bat- and knife-wielding assailants with firepower from service pistols.
Experts agreed that the circumstances around the two shootings by officers in Deer Park and Elmont are eerily alike and extremely rare.
"This looks like one of those idiosyncratic blips," said David Klinger, a former Los Angeles police officer and senior research scientist at the Police Foundation in Washington. Police-involved shootings are already uncommon, Klinger said, concurring with figures from Nassau and Suffolk police.
Nearly simultaneous shootings - in which off-duty police officers were the intended victims as they sat in cars between 1:30 a.m. and 3 a.m. about 25 miles apart - are still harder to wrap the mind around.
In the first attack, a New York City police officer was on Locustwood Boulevard in Elmont when two men sneaked up and one put a blade to his neck. The officer fired one shot that struck one man in the shoulder.
In the second, a Nassau detective was vacuuming his car at a self-serve car wash on Lincoln Avenue in Deer Park when he was ambushed by two men with a bat, police said. He fired and struck one man, killing him.
Erik Johnson, 24, of Bay Shore, was pronounced dead at Southside Hospital.
"There's really no way we can say from a social scientific perspective that we can predict these things or explain them," Klinger said.
He said that in New York City, which has more than 37,000 officers, police shot 29 people in 2007, 10 of them fatally. In the same year, the 9,000-officer Los Angeles Police Department shot 33 people, 20 with fatal consequences.
The U.S. Department of Justice's Uniform Crime Report in 2009 said there were 371 "justifiable homicides" by police nationwide in the line of duty in 2008, 368 of which involved firearms. There was an average of 374 fatal shootings over the five years ending in 2008.
Suffolk's 2,537 sworn officers had one case last year in June when an officer fatally fired his gun, and another last August when an officer fatally fired.
In Nassau, there are 2,585 sworn officers. This year, there have been eight cases in which police officers discharged their weapons. In 2008, there were 10.
"It's almost as bizarre as a department not having any shootings at all for 30 years," said Ronald Scott, a firearms and ballistics expert. "It's certainly an unusual set of circumstances."
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How do you feel about another general election? Join our live look at the week
How much do you have to earn to be rich? Join our live look at the week
2017-04-21 13:40:06 UTC (35 minutes later)
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Here are a couple of your thoughts so far on wealth:
are you rich if you earn at least £70,000 a year?
All relative, innit? You live alone in London and rent in the private sector you certainly won't feel it
Imagine, if you will, that we decide to tax people on a global scale - a standard rate across the world.
In the UK, you would be in the top 5% of earners, on a salary of about £14k. So you are taxed an additional rate due to being 'rich'. But this isn't fair, is it, because the cost of living in Mozambique is a lot cheaper than here - you aren't rich, but it is agreed that globally that is where 'rich' starts, and you are taxed accordingly.
That's the £70k debate within the UK - £70k in Yorkshire, you will live like a king. £70k in London, well, you probably won't be able to buy a flat.
Living costs are really important in this debate.
How much do you have to earn to be rich?
Charlotte Seager
This question was thrown into sharp focus this week when Labour MP John McDonnell told the BBC Labour would be “looking to the corporations and to the rich to pay their share”.
When pressed to define the rich, McDonnell said it would include those earning “above £70,000 to £80,000 a year”.
Many took up the question on Twitter, and unsurprisingly opinions were divided. The reality is that most people don’t earn more than £70,000 a year: according to data from HMRC earning this amount would put you in the top 5% of UK taxpayers.
On Thursday, Emily Thornberry defended John McDonnell’s definition of rich, but conceded “there are many people on £70,000 who may well feel that … they are not rich”.
We’d like to know where readers stand on this debate: are you rich if you earn at least £70,000 a year?
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Lost and found – 14 years on
Matthew Holmes
Away from politics I love this story by our colleague Tim Burrows, who lost his wallet at a festival over a decade ago and became a drinking game for the group of lads who found it.
Tim tweeted the tale, and has since been fielding calls from journalists around the world.
Feel like a harassed PA to my drunken 19-year-old self
Do you have a similar story you think could go viral?
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Right – we’re as exhausted as some of you seem to be ... Right – we’re as exhausted as some of you seem to be ...
How do I feel about another election? How do I feel about another election?
Despite being interested in politics to the point of obsession I felt like banging my head on the desk when May made her announcement. Last year we had a lot of focus in our area on the Labour leadership election, from July through to September, and prior to that our Assembly elections in May, plus the Referendum. Now in less than 2 weeks there's the council elections coupled with the GE and I think most people feel exhausted at the prospect. Despite being interested in politics to the point of obsession I felt like banging my head on the desk when May made her announcement. Last year we had a lot of focus in our area on the Labour leadership election, from July through to September, and prior to that our Assembly elections in May, plus the Referendum. Now in less than 2 weeks there's the council elections coupled with the GE and I think most people feel exhausted at the prospect.
... so will move on to introduce some other discussion points shortly. You can of course continue to discuss all things election-related below. ... so will move on to introduce some other discussion points shortly. You can of course continue to discuss all things election-related below.
Amid all this discussion, this reader’s point seems rather important: Amid all this discussion, this reader’s point seems rather important:
Just in case anyone on here isn't registered to vote, here is the link https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote Just in case anyone on here isn't registered to vote, here is the link https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
Please register and vote in June, we can all make a difference Please register and vote in June, we can all make a difference
The big news? George Osborne's exit from the Commons The big news? George Osborne's exit from the Commons
Frances Ryan Frances Ryan
This week saw a wave of Labour MPs stand down from contesting the election but the big news was George Osborne’s exit from the Commons. It’s quite a fall for an ex-chancellor who, with a turn of the fates, could now be prime minister. Osborne will just have to make the best of a £650,000 deal with BlackRock, £800,000 for speaking gigs, a £120,000 stipend, a major book deal, and editing a daily newspaper. This week saw a wave of Labour MPs stand down from contesting the election but the big news was George Osborne’s exit from the Commons. It’s quite a fall for an ex-chancellor who, with a turn of the fates, could now be prime minister. Osborne will just have to make the best of a £650,000 deal with BlackRock, £800,000 for speaking gigs, a £120,000 stipend, a major book deal, and editing a daily newspaper.
In a further loss to democracy, former Ukip leader Nigel Farage – so gloriously defeated in 2015 – announced he wouldn’t be standing this time around. Comfort yourselves with the knowledge Arron Banks – Ukip’s former main financial backer and full time charmer – has confirmed he will. In a further loss to democracy, former Ukip leader Nigel Farage – so gloriously defeated in 2015 – announced he wouldn’t be standing this time around. Comfort yourselves with the knowledge Arron Banks – Ukip’s former main financial backer and full time charmer – has confirmed he will.
A few hundred of you have already voted in our poll (see here) asking about Theresa May and televised debates. It seems more of you want her to appear than not, and there’s fairly strong appetite for electoral rules to be changed to enforce her appearance. What do you think? And was this picture really taken only two years ago? A few hundred of you have already voted in our poll (see here) asking about Theresa May and televised debates. It seems more of you want her to appear than not, and there’s fairly strong appetite for electoral rules to be changed to enforce her appearance. What do you think? And was this picture really taken only two years ago?
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Here are a some of your thoughts on the timing of the election. A quick note: when we post comments up here you can click the time stamps to expand the conversation and reply directly. Here are a some of your thoughts on the timing of the election. A quick note: when we post comments up here you can click the time stamps to expand the conversation and reply directly.
‘It should have been called before Article 50 was submitted’ ‘It should have been called before Article 50 was submitted’
The election should have been called before A50 was submitted, it should have been based on proper manifesto and the public should have had the chance to read each parties manifesto and then question candidates on it. This is not about what is good for the public but what is good for Theresa May and the conservative party. The election should have been called before A50 was submitted, it should have been based on proper manifesto and the public should have had the chance to read each parties manifesto and then question candidates on it. This is not about what is good for the public but what is good for Theresa May and the conservative party.
That being said none of us should object at a chance to get out and vote whenever there is an election, recent events in the world demonstrate just how important it is for people to use their votes and not simply shrug their shoulders and say 'nothing to do with me'. I hope that everyone, whatever their vote, remembers that. That being said none of us should object at a chance to get out and vote whenever there is an election, recent events in the world demonstrate just how important it is for people to use their votes and not simply shrug their shoulders and say 'nothing to do with me'. I hope that everyone, whatever their vote, remembers that.
‘There should be annual elections’ ‘There should be annual elections’
I am appalled that so many people do not want the opportunity to vote. I am appalled that so many people do not want the opportunity to vote.
Do they really think that it is OK to let someone like Mrs May, who seems able to do exactly the opposite of what she said a few weeks ago without the slightest embarrassment, have five years to do exactly what she wants? Do they really think that it is OK to let someone like Mrs May, who seems able to do exactly the opposite of what she said a few weeks ago without the slightest embarrassment, have five years to do exactly what she wants?
There should be annual elections. Those who find thinking about how to vote so bothersome should just not bother to vote. There should be annual elections. Those who find thinking about how to vote so bothersome should just not bother to vote.
‘It defies all logic and reason’ ‘It defies all logic and reason’
"There will be no election there will be no election there will be no election there will be no election. "There will be no election there will be no election there will be no election there will be no election.
.....Oh, hang on there will be an election. .....Oh, hang on there will be an election.
Of course, the same people who screeched at Gordon Brown for doing something similar in reverse, lap this mendacious garbage up and want to vote for this script-reliant mediocre little bureaucrat, friendless in the Europe they want trade deals with ? You just couldn`t make it up, it defies all logic and reason. Of course, the same people who screeched at Gordon Brown for doing something similar in reverse, lap this mendacious garbage up and want to vote for this script-reliant mediocre little bureaucrat, friendless in the Europe they want trade deals with ? You just couldn`t make it up, it defies all logic and reason.
Here’s a quick plug for an interesting live Q&A session readers were involved in with our political editor Heather Stewart on Tuesday, just a couple of hours after May made her announcement. Here’s a quick plug for an interesting live Q&A session readers were involved in with our political editor Heather Stewart on Tuesday, just a couple of hours after May made her announcement.
The hour long conversation included analysis as well as some discussion of the way the Guardian’s political team in Westminster plan to cover things – and is worth a read. The hour long conversation included analysis as well as some discussion of the way the Guardian’s political team in Westminster plan to cover things – and is worth a read.
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'This was an election she did not need to call' 'This was an election she did not need to call'
Anne Perkins Anne Perkins
On Tuesday morning Theresa May ambushed the country by announcing a general election. The statement she made in Downing Street laid the foundation for a campaign framed by the idea that it would be an act of self harm to vote for anyone except the Tories. Stripped down, it said “make me strong forever by destroying the opposition who are useless incompetent failures (Labour, Lib Dems) or malevolent string pullers (the SNP)”. On Tuesday morning Theresa May ambushed the country by announcing a general election. The statement she made in Downing Street laid the foundation for a campaign framed by the idea that it would be an act of self harm to vote for anyone except the Tories. Stripped down, it said “make me strong forever by destroying the opposition who are useless incompetent failures (Labour, Lib Dems) or malevolent string pullers (the SNP)”.
This was an election she did not need to call. She has called it because it is very likely to reinstall her in No 10 for long enough for the really nightmarish cuts that are already penalising larger families, anyone who finds themselves homeless in London or most other major cities, anyone looking for work, and most families with school-age children to have become normalised. So, she must hope, will the economic consequences of a decade of austerity and the shock of Brexit. That is why it struck me at the time as a kind of democratic coup. It may not be illegal but who would question that she’s seizing power? This was an election she did not need to call. She has called it because it is very likely to reinstall her in No 10 for long enough for the really nightmarish cuts that are already penalising larger families, anyone who finds themselves homeless in London or most other major cities, anyone looking for work, and most families with school-age children to have become normalised. So, she must hope, will the economic consequences of a decade of austerity and the shock of Brexit. That is why it struck me at the time as a kind of democratic coup. It may not be illegal but who would question that she’s seizing power?
Here’s a perspective from outside the UK: Here’s a perspective from outside the UK:
I feel completely indifferent because I've lived abroad for 16 years and don´t get a vote, despite being promised one in the 2015 Conservative manifesto and again by Mrs May's constitution minister last October.I don´t think citizenship is necessarily the best criteria for granting voting rights. I believe permanent foreign residents in the UK who work and pay taxes should get a vote before I do, but that's never going to be permitted to happen. But if citizenship is the criteria, it should be applied fairly. I feel completely indifferent because I've lived abroad for 16 years and don´t get a vote, despite being promised one in the 2015 Conservative manifesto and again by Mrs May's constitution minister last October.I don´t think citizenship is necessarily the best criteria for granting voting rights. I believe permanent foreign residents in the UK who work and pay taxes should get a vote before I do, but that's never going to be permitted to happen. But if citizenship is the criteria, it should be applied fairly.
Are any other readers in a similar situation? Are any other readers in a similar situation?
Poll: should Theresa May join televised debates? Poll: should Theresa May join televised debates?
Theresa May has said that she won’t appear in live televised debates in the run-up to the election on 8 June, with opposition MPs accusing her of running scared during PMQs on Wednesday. Theresa May has said that she won’t appear in live televised debates in the run-up to the election on 8 June, with opposition MPs accusing her of running scared during PMQs on Wednesday.
As well as wondering your opinion on that (you can share yours in the comments) we have a poll asking whether it should be up to her in the first place. What do you think? As well as wondering your opinion on that (you can share yours in the comments) we have a poll asking whether it should be up to her in the first place. What do you think?
We’ll share some more of the conversation you’ve been having below the line again soon. First, though, we have a poll on one of the issues of the week so far – televised debates. We’ll share some more of the conversation you’ve been having below the line again soon. First, though, we have a poll on one of the issues of the week so far – televised debates.
Here are some of your thoughts so far: Here are some of your thoughts so far:
How do you feel about another general election? How do you feel about another general election?
High risk, and a necessary distraction from real life! Hi everyone. High risk, and a necessary distraction from real life! Hi everyone.
How do I feel about another election? Depressed because it seems to be a foregone conclusion that 'they' will get in again. How do I feel about another election? Depressed because it seems to be a foregone conclusion that 'they' will get in again.
And an early election distraction ... One to watch? And an early election distraction ... One to watch?
The big election story so far, which I don't believe the Guardian have covered as of yet, is that a man naming himself Mr Fish Finger, dressed up as a giant fish finger, is standing against Tim Farron. The big election story so far, which I don't believe the Guardian have covered as of yet, is that a man naming himself Mr Fish Finger, dressed up as a giant fish finger, is standing against Tim Farron.
http://www.itv.com/news/border/2017-04-20/farron-welcomes-challenge-of-fish-finger/ http://www.itv.com/news/border/2017-04-20/farron-welcomes-challenge-of-fish-finger/
The man of God versus the man of Cod. There can be only one winner. The man of God versus the man of Cod. There can be only one winner.
How do you feel about a general election? How do you feel about a general election?
Martin Belam Martin Belam
Politicians usually like to brief favoured journalists and newspapers ahead of key announcements, so it isn’t that often that the entire political media is taken by surprise. But that happened this week, as Theresa May made the surprise announcement of a snap election. We’ve struggled in the office to talk about anything else since. Politicians usually like to brief favoured journalists and newspapers ahead of key announcements, so it isn’t that often that the entire political media is taken by surprise. But that happened this week, as Theresa May made the surprise announcement of a snap election. We’ve struggled in the office to talk about anything else since.
From the polls you might think it is going to be a foregone conclusion. But it is an important one for the country. A Conservative victory will be treated as an endorsement of whatever kind of exit from the European Union Theresa May manages to obtain. And it also means that her government will have extra breathing space after the day of Brexit before needing to go to the polls again. If the UK crashes out of the EU badly in March 2019, May will have until June 2022 to turn things back around. It’s an election that we didn’t need, and as David Robjant wrote to our letters page: From the polls you might think it is going to be a foregone conclusion. But it is an important one for the country. A Conservative victory will be treated as an endorsement of whatever kind of exit from the European Union Theresa May manages to obtain. And it also means that her government will have extra breathing space after the day of Brexit before needing to go to the polls again. If the UK crashes out of the EU badly in March 2019, May will have until June 2022 to turn things back around. It’s an election that we didn’t need, and as David Robjant wrote to our letters page:
A woman who always keeps her promises has called an election she promised not to, in order to obtain a mandate she says she already has, for a policy she said was a bad idea. A woman who always keeps her promises has called an election she promised not to, in order to obtain a mandate she says she already has, for a policy she said was a bad idea.
Jeremy Corbyn, and whether the PLP will be whole-heartedly supporting him, will be under intense scrutiny. The attacks on him from the Conservatives and right-wing elements of the press will only intensify. But he’s also repeatedly demonstrated he is much more effective on the campaign trail than many judge him to be in Westminster - witness his two victories in Labour leadership contests. He’ll be carrying a message that will definitely resonate with a section of the country. As my colleague Jessica Elgot put it: “Corbyn launches his campaign with attack on elites and establishment. May launched hers dropping into a golf club in a helicopter.” Jeremy Corbyn, and whether the PLP will be whole-heartedly supporting him, will be under intense scrutiny. The attacks on him from the Conservatives and right-wing elements of the press will only intensify. But he’s also repeatedly demonstrated he is much more effective on the campaign trail than many judge him to be in Westminster - witness his two victories in Labour leadership contests. He’ll be carrying a message that will definitely resonate with a section of the country. As my colleague Jessica Elgot put it: “Corbyn launches his campaign with attack on elites and establishment. May launched hers dropping into a golf club in a helicopter.”
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At bench for Manchester City not because of my poor form but due to Aguero’s great streak: Jesus
Gabriel Jesus reflected on not being able to start for Manchester City and said he was not in the situation due to his performance but because Sergio Aguero has been in top form.
Gabriel Jesus is competing with Sergio Aguero to feature in starting line-up at Manchester City. (Reuters Photo)
Brazil and Manchester City striker Gabriel Jesus has admitted that his career “stopped” following last summer’s World Cup, but says he is growing in confidence and ready to recapture his best form.
Jesus failed to score in Russia despite starting in each of Brazil’s five matches as the designated center forward.
The 21-year-old has since lost his regular starting place for Manchester City, managing just 12 goals this season in 33 appearances, many of which have come as a substitute, reports Xinhua news agency.
By contrast, his Argentinian teammate Sergio Aguero has thrived, with 25 goals in 35 matches for Pep Guardiola’s team in 2018-19.
“I’ve talked a lot with my family and my friends,” Jesus was quoted as saying by Brazil’s Globo Esporte news outlet.
“I had a very good time in my career and life. Things happened very quickly and then I stopped. I think it’s normal. I’m 21. I don’t have to rush things. I’m vying for a place with a guy who is the club’s top scorer [Aguero]. I was also out for 10 days with an injury. In the final stretch of the season I want to help my teammates achieve success,” he said.
Jesus added: “[The World Cup] doesn’t weigh me down anymore, but at the time it was very difficult to assimilate. My family and friends helped me a lot. I’m not in this situation [struggling for first-team opportunities] because of my poor form but because of the great form of Aguero.”
Despite his lack of minutes for Manchester City this season, Jesus is currently with Brazil’s squad for friendlies against Panama on Saturday and the Czech Republic three days later.
He said he is ready to perform should he be called upon by Brazil coach Tite and played down talk of any ill-feeling with Liverpool striker Roberto Firmino – his main rival for Brazil’s No. 9 role.
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NEC plans to ease voting for Rwandans in the Diaspora
KIGALI - The National Electoral Commission (NEC), as part of its preparations for the forthcoming elections, is laying strategies to ensure that all Rwandans vote, especially those in the Diaspora where Rwanda has no embassies. This was announced Tuesday by Charles Munyaneza, the acting Executive Secretary of Rwanda’s National Electoral Commission.
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“We are making arrangements to meet the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to help us set up a mechanism and strategic voting stations, so that the large number of Rwandans in Europe can vote,” Munyaneza told The New Times on phone.
Other plans being considered is to coordinate with the Rwandan embassies in European countries to facilitate the voting of Rwandans from neighbouring countries.
As a result of the suspension of diplomatic ties with France, the large number of Rwandans in that country might vote from Belgium.
The meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to iron out the voting procedure in the Diaspora is slated to take place in July.
Rwandan parliamentary elections will begin on September 15.
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UK Institutional Blog Posts Macron’s long road ahead
Macron’s long road ahead
Despite his clear victory in the French presidential election, the route ahead is unlikely to be plain sailing for Emmanuel Macron. A key challenge for Macron is that he does not have significant support in parliament. He founded his own party, En Marche!, and hence currently has no elected representatives to push through his plans, so all eyes will turn to the parliamentary elections next month, which will have significant implications for his future prospects.
Despite Macron’s strong showing, the parliamentary counterweight to the president is likely to moderate the extreme expectations of policy change, just as Donald Trump has been facing congressional opposition to some of his proposed reforms. (It is worth noting that Macron’s victory margin is significantly lower than the 82% share of the vote that Jacques Chirac won against Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2002, the last occasion the Front National reached the second round of the presidential election). Moreover, the structural economic challenges caused by debt, demographics and technological disruption, which have contributed to widespread discontent and the splintering of old political norms, look likely to remain in play for the foreseeable future.
Brexit impact unclear
While Le Pen has been a proponent of Brexit and supportive of the UK case, Macron is labelled as a pro-European who could seek to punish the UK for leaving the European club. However, Macron’s victory may not necessarily signify a well-signposted route for negotiations between the UK and the European Union. Notably during the presidential campaign, Theresa May was the first foreign leader to meet Macron, in a meeting that was viewed as an unusual success for Macron as a candidate not backed by one of the major parties. Hence, while there may be some concern that his victory could lead to more forceful negotiations, the desire of both sides to ensure cordial relations in the longer term could prove more soothing.
While much of the positive effect of a Macron win is already likely to have been priced in by markets following his first-round win, many will anticipate further improvement following his overall victory. The euro stands out as potentially the significant beneficiary of this as market fears that widening populist insurgency will spread across the continent subside.
In France, the next significant development will be the parliamentary elections scheduled for 11 and 18 June, which follow close on the tail of the UK’s snap general election on 8 June. The key factor will be whether Macron is able to gain a significant number of seats in order to support his agenda.
Published on May 8th, 2017
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December 10, 2018 Issue
A Homecoming Powwow for Native New Yorkers
At the Park Avenue Armory, members of the contemporary Lenape nation hold an unprecedented reunion.
By Elizabeth Barber
In 1641, a Dutchman in what was then New Netherland discovered that his hogs had been slain. A militia was roused to pursue the suspected killers: the Lenape, resident Native Americans. The story was perhaps our country’s original fake news—the pig slayers were probably colonists—but the fallout for the Lenape was real. Colonists massacred the Lenape encamped on what is now the Lower East Side and Jersey City. Over time, violence and disease forced many survivors to move west, and the Lenape lost the island of Mannahatta and its surroundings.
On a recent Sunday in November, the Lenape elder George Stonefish was at the Park Avenue Armory, to host a powwow. He’d invited all members of the contemporary Lenape nation, who are spread out on reservations from Oklahoma to Ontario. (The event was also open to anyone who bought a fifteen-dollar ticket.) “We have been chased to the four corners of Turtle Island,” he said, referring to North America. “We’re here to reclaim our territory.” Stonefish, a great-grandfather three times over, was born on the Upper East Side and now lives in Brooklyn. He has long hair, still black, and wore a bomber jacket. “I’m a native New Yorker in the truest sense,” he said.
Stonefish took a lap around the Armory’s main space, which would host a dance competition, with food and crafts sold around the periphery of the room. Were his venders powwow-ready? He passed slingshots and silver for sale, and paused to chat with a woman selling CBD oil. “You’re going to be ready, though, right?” he asked a vender who was setting up food stalls (buffalo burgers, deer meat, and smoked salmon). “Don’t do things at the last minute,” he lectured. “I’m not that kind of Indian. I don’t believe in Indian time!”
At 1 P.M., the doors opened to hundreds of ticket holders: Girl Scouts, Upper East Siders, college kids. A woman and two men in U.S. military dress stood near a booth selling dream catchers. They said they belonged to the Native American Heritage Forum at West Point. All had indigenous blood, though the amount varied: “half” Navajo, “around thirty per cent” Iroquois, “a very small percentage” Cherokee.
“So I’m one-five-hundred-and-twelfth,” Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Wallen said. He’s from Oklahoma; taking out his wallet, he produced his Cherokee citizenship card. He hadn’t followed the controversy that had erupted when Senator Elizabeth Warren, whom Donald Trump calls Pocahontas, released DNA test results in an attempt to prove her Cherokee ancestry.
“Being Native is a fad right now,” Chief Vincent Mann, the head of the Ramapough Lenape Turtle Clan in New Jersey, said. “Having Native blood is not what makes you truly Native. It’s your heart. It’s the humility that you keep from birth.”
Just after 2 P.M., more than a hundred performers in regalia—feathers, ribbons—danced into the center of the space. The crowd clapped along to a drumbeat. “I’ve been dancing since I can remember,” David Smith, a Mohawk roofer from Niagara Falls, said. He’d brought his seven-year-old son to dance, too, dressing him in hawk feathers and moccasins that he’d made by hand.
Brent Stonefish, a cousin of George’s, stepped up to a microphone and offered a prayer in Munsee, a Lenape dialect, and then in English: “Anushiik—thank you to the one who thought us into existence.” He’d travelled by train from Ontario, where he lives on a tiny reservation called Eelunaapeewi Lahkeewiit. “Forgive me for being a little overwhelmed,” he told the crowd. “But it’s good to be home.”
Tohanash Tarrant, a jewelry-maker, had driven that morning from the Shinnecock Reservation, on Long Island. Parking on the Upper East Side had been a drag, she said, but she liked the chance to educate Manhattanites: “I had arrows here earlier, so I talked about the tradition of hunting—and I was speaking with vegetarians.” She is raising two children on the reservation, and she is at once hopeful and worried for them. “The world is changing,” she said. Her eight-year-old daughter was taught in school to give thanks “for the people who were here before you.” But Trump is President, and “we’re affected by gun violence, by bigotry.”
In another room, Tanya Tagaq, an Inuit singer, spoke to an audience about loss. “We’re very lucky! We own two per cent of our land,” she said. She slapped her thigh and laughed. George Stonefish appeared on a panel with three of sixteen Lenape elders who’d come to town. He took a seat onstage, crossed his legs, and accepted a cranberry lemonade. “We have been kicked to the four winds, and we have come back together,” he said, looking wryly around the room at the more recent New Yorkers. “If you really want to be truthful,” he added, the elders “are your landlords.” ♦
This article appears in the print edition of the December 10, 2018, issue, with the headline “Mannahatta.”
Elizabeth Barber is a member of The New Yorker’s editorial staff.
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‘Mad Men’ will not end in the present day, says Jon Hamm
Daniel Martin Mar 20, 2012 11:32 am GMT
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The show's star denies online reports of a flash forward
Mad Men star Jon Hamm has refuted suggestions that the show will end by flash forwarding to the present day.
It had been reported that the show’s final scenes would feature an elderly Don Draper following apparent hints from showrunner Matthew Weiner. But ahead of the show’s season five premiere, Hamm, who plays Draper, has denied the claims.
He told DigitalSpy.co.uk: “OK, you would probably have read that rather than heard it online. If you had heard the quote you would not have misunderstood the quote. That is not what Matt said. Matt knows how this show is going to end. And I’ll just leave it at that… but no, we’re not going to go into the 90s with Don Draper.”
Weiner’s original quote had suggested that we could meet the character in 2011, aged 84.
However, Hamm did reaffirm the plan to conclude the show after seven seasons. He said: “As it stands now, yes, I’m contracted through and Matt is contracted through to the seventh season. There are always things when people say, ‘This is the last season… but’, so we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
“But I think the prevailing wisdom and the larger point is that you should end a story at the point that you want to end it, as a writer and storyteller. The ability to end when you want to end and how you want to end is a wonderful artistic opportunity. That is what Matt has gotten with these three more seasons.”
Hamm also directs an episode of the new run, and said of the challenge: “It was an incredible experience. An eye-opening experience. An invigorating experience. It was a look into a part of a show that I hadn’t really seen, which is surprising considering how much I am around the set and the show and the making of. But as an actor you don’t get to see a lot of what goes into making a television show. As a director you get that curtain pulled back significantly more.”
Mad Men returns to UK screens on March 27 on Sky Atlantic with double episode A Little Kiss, two days after its US debut.
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Revelers Around the World Ring in 2018, Say Bye to the Old
Tens of thousands of New Zealanders took to streets and beaches, becoming among the first in the world to usher in 2018
Published Dec 31, 2017 at 8:35 AM | Updated at 6:08 AM EST on Jan 1, 2018
'Happy New Year': 2018 Celebrations in Photos
From spectacular fireworks in Hong Kong and Australia to a huge LED lightshow at the world's tallest building in Dubai, a look at how revelers around the world are ringing in 2018:
The Golden State went green when the calendar turned to 2018.
Starting at midnight, California joined the growing list of states to legalize recreational marijuana. The moment is significant but will not be met with a non-stop pot party.
California has allowed medical marijuana for two decades, and the state is generally tolerant of the drug, so major changes are not expected as the laws are further eased. At least not on New Year's Day.
More than 90 outlets received licenses to sell in time for Jan. 1. None of those outlets is holding a midnight opening, but some in San Diego and the San Francisco Bay Area will be open for business starting at 6 a.m. Monday.
Some cities, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, will have to wait at least until later in the week before licensed outlets start selling there.
Still, some Californians ushered in the new year with marijuana.
Johnny Hernandez was celebrating legalization — which he described as "something we've all been waiting for" — by smoking "Happy New Year blunts" with his cousins in Modesto.
With a burst of confetti and fireworks, throngs of revelers ushered in 2018 in a frigid Times Square as the glittering crystal ball dropped.
It was the second-coldest on record, with the temperature only 10 degrees (minus 12 degrees Celsius) in New York at midnight.
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Partygoers bundled up in extra layers, wearing warm hats and face masks, dancing and jogging in place to ward off the cold.
There was also tighter security than ever after two terrorist attacks and a rampaging SUV driver who plowed into a crowd on the very spot where the party takes place. The party went off with no major problems.
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"Auld Lang Syne" and "New York, New York" played as the crowds cheered.
The coldest ball drop celebration was in 1917, when it was only 1 degree (minus 17 Celsius).
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Rio de Janeiro's main party was celebrated with fireworks erupting on Copacabana beach after the clock struck midnight to usher in the new year.
After 17 minutes of a multicolored show in the skies, singer Anitta led the party on stage with her single "Vai Malandra," a song that scored 84 million views on YouTube in two weeks. Some of the city's most traditional Carnival samba schools performed later.
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New Mayor Marcelo Crivella said he believed the celebrations would bring 3 million people to the iconic beach, which would mean nearly half of Rio's population. But locals said Brazil's economic crisis is still impacting one of the city's biggest parties. In 2017, 2 million people showed up at Copacabana beach, a number that hasn't changed much over the years.
Almost 2,000 policemen patrolled the Copacabana region after yet another violent year on the streets. Rio's hotel association said occupation is nearly total, but mostly by Brazilian tourists.
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Germans rang in 2018 under tight security from police mindful of widespread sexual abuse of women in Cologne two years ago and of a terrorist attack on a Christmas market about a year ago.
Police in Berlin added 1,600 officers on duty and said that large bags and knapsacks would not be allowed on the Party Mile leading from Brandenburg Gate, where thousands of people celebrated at midnight. Police in Frankfurt imposed similar restrictions in the celebration area along the Main River in the country's financial capital.
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Two people died from fireworks injuries, but the country avoided a repeat of the mass groping in Cologne from 2016.
Two years ago, New Year's in Cologne was marred by groping and theft committed against hundreds of women, in most cases by migrants. On Dec. 19, 2016, Tunisian asylum seeker Anis Amri drove a stolen truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people.
Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, has again served as the focal point of New Year's Eve celebrations — though this year authorities decided against fireworks and chose a massive LED lightshow on the structure.
That was in part due to safety in the city-state in the United Arab Emirates, which saw a massive skyscraper fire on New Year's Eve in 2015.
The display, running down the east side of the 828-meter (2,716-foot) tower, showed Arabic calligraphy, geometric designs and a portrait of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the UAE's first president.
But a display of neighboring nations' flags didn't show Qatar's flag. The UAE joined Bahrain, Egypt and Saudi Arabia in boycotting the tiny energy-rich nation in June over allegations Doha supports extremists and has too close ties to Iran. Qatar, which will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, denies supporting extremists and shares a massive offshore natural gas field with Tehran.
Tens of thousands of Parisians and tourists were heading to the Champs-Elysees to attend a firework show at Napoleon's Arc de Triomphe monument, at the end of the famous avenue with its lines of trees sparkling with lights.
Officials have warned the display might be cancelled at the last minute due to a storm expected to hit France overnight.
New Year's Eve celebrations were placed under high security in France, which has been hit by a series of attacks by Islamic extremists in recent years.
French Interior ministry said 100,000 police officers and soldiers and 40,000 rescuers have been deployed across the country — including 2,500 on the Champs-Elysees.
Bidding 2017 farewell, Pope Francis has decried wars, injustices and environmental decay which he says have "ruined" the year.
Francis on Sunday presided at a New Year's Eve prayer service in St. Peter's Basilica, a traditional occasion to say thanks in each year's last hours.
He says God gave to us a 2017 "whole and sound," but that "we humans in many ways ruined and hurt it with works of death, lies and injustices."
But, he added, "gratitude prevails" thanks to those "cooperating silently for the common good."
In keeping with past practice, the pope on New Year's Day will celebrate Mass dedicated to the theme of world peace.
Fireworks lit up the sky above Sydney Harbour, highlighting the city's New Year's celebrations.
The massive fireworks display included a rainbow waterfall cascade of lights and color flowing off the harbor's bridge to celebrate recently passed legislation legalizing gay marriage in Australia.
Over a million people were expected to gather to watch the festivities. Security was tight, but officials said there was no particular alert.
Sydney officials said the event would generate some $170 million for the city and "priceless publicity." Nearly half the revelers were tourists.
Tens of thousands of New Zealanders took to streets and beaches, becoming among the first in the world to usher in 2018.
As the new year dawned in this southern hemisphere nation, fireworks boomed and crackled above city centers and harbors, and party-goers sang, hugged, danced and kissed.
In Auckland, New Zealand's biggest city, tens of thousands gathered around Sky Tower as five minutes of nonstop pyrotechnics exploded from the top of the structure.
But on nearby Waiheke Island, 30 kilometers (20 miles) away, authorities canceled the planned fireworks display because of drought conditions and low water supplies for firefighters.
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Thousands of Ugandans were gathering at churches across the country to mark the end of 2017.
The raucous events, during which some preachers are known to make dubious predictions, have become such a staple of New Year's Eve festivities that the country's longtime president, Yoweri Museveni, sometimes makes time to make an appearance at a church.
Still, many in this East African country prefer to celebrate at crowded beaches on the shores of Lake Victoria or in darkened halls listening to the music of pop stars who take turns offering crowd pleasers until midnight.
Police warned revelers not to burn car tires in celebration, citing safety reasons, to discourage a favorite activity of those, especially in the countryside, who cannot afford real fireworks.
As Russians count down the last moments before 2018 ticks over into each of the country's 11 time zones, President Vladimir Putin is calling on them to be considerate and conciliatory with each other in the new year.
"Say the most cherished words to each other, forgive mistakes and resentment, admit love, warm up with care and attention," Putin says in a televised message broadcast on Sunday just before midnight. "Let the trust and mutual understanding always accompany us," he was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies after his statement aired in Kamchatka, the easternmost time zone.
Moscow is preparing for fireworks and outdoor gatherings, despite weather that's less than festive. Usually festooned with snow at New Year's Eve, the Russian capital this year is slogging through a long spell of intermittent rain and constant gray skies.
A major windstorm was causing problems in Scotland, but organizers expected Edinburgh's famed Hogmany New Year's Eve celebration to be unaffected.
Storm Dylan is battering parts of Scotland with gusts of up to 80 miles per hour, with forecasters saying injuries are possible because of flying debris.
Forecasters have not, however, put wind warnings in place for Sunday night, when the Hogmany celebrations are planned. Event organizers say the forecast for Edinburgh indicates that the celebrations will not have to be curtailed.
The Edinburgh celebration is one of the most popular in Britain and regularly draws visitors from many parts of the world.
Those willing to brave the cold in Beijing were joining a countdown at the tower at Yongdingmen Gate, a rebuilt version of the Ming dynasty-era landmark gate at the southern end of the city's north-south axis.
Bells will be rung and prayers offered at temples in Beijing, but the Gregorian calendar's New Year's celebrations are typically muted in China compared to the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, a time of fireworks, feasts and family reunions.
Authorities throughout China were also on high alert for stampedes or terror attacks at large public gatherings. Police in the central city of Zhengzhou put 3,500 officers on duty across the city while residents gathered to watch a light show and cultural performance in a public square.
The official Xinhua News Agency reported that President Xi Jinping sent a New Year's greeting to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, saying Beijing is ready to boost cooperation with Russia in 2018.
Many Japanese celebrated the arrival of the Year of the Dog in the traditional way of praying for peace and good fortune at neighborhood Shinto shrines, and eating New Year's food such as noodles, shrimp and sweet black beans.
Barbecued beef and octopus dumpling stalls were out at Tokyo's Zojoji Temple, where people take turns striking the giant bell 108 times at midnight, an annual practice repeated at other Buddhist temples throughout Japan.
North Korea's nuclear and missile programs cast a shadow over Japan's hopes for peace, said 33-year-old cab driver Masaru Eguchi, who was ready to be busy all night shuttling shrine visitors.
"The world situation has grown so complex," Eguchi said, adding that he also worried about possible terrorism targeting Japan. "I feel this very abstracted sense of uncertainty, although I really have no idea what might happen."
After spending an exhausting year that saw a presidency toppled by a corruption scandal and nuclear-armed North Korea firing missile after missile, South Koreans enter 2018 in need of a happy distraction. The upcoming winter Olympics just might do it.
Thousands of people filled the streets near Seoul's City Hall for a traditional bell-tolling ceremony to usher in the new year. The group of dignitaries picked to ring the old Bosingak bell at midnight included Soohorang and Bandabi — the tiger and bear mascots for the Pyeongchang Winter Games and Paralympics in February and March.
Tens of thousands of people were expected to flock to eastern coastal areas, including Gangneung, the seaside city that will host the Olympic skating and hockey events, to watch the sun rise on 2018.
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Security was tight in the southern Indian city of Bangalore to prevent a repeat of incidents of alleged groping and molestation of several women during last year's New Year's Eve celebrations.
Sunil Kumar, the city's police commissioner, said at least 15,000 police officers were on duty and were being aided by drones and additional closed-circuit television cameras.
Last year, police first denied that any sexual harassment had taken place during the celebrations in Bangalore, India's information technology hub. But later, police detained at least six men after several video clips of women being attacked by groups of men spread on social media.
Hours before midnight, authorities had already reported that scores of people had been injured by celebratory firecrackers in the Philippines, which has some of the most raucous New Year's celebrations in Asia.
Although the number of injuries has tapered off in recent years, largely due to hard economic times and government scare campaigns, the figures remain alarming. President Rodrigo Duterte signed an order in June confining the use of firecrackers to community-designated areas, such as near shopping malls and parks.
Many Filipinos, largely influenced by Chinese tradition, believe that noisy New Year's celebrations drive away evil and misfortune. But they have carried that superstition to extremes, exploding dangerously large firecrackers and firing guns to welcome the new year despite threats of arrest.
Security measures were ramped up across Turkey, which was hit by a New Year's attack a year ago that killed dozens.
In Istanbul alone, 37,000 officers were on duty, with multiple streets closed to traffic and large vehicles barred from entering certain districts. Several New Year's Eve street parties were canceled for security reasons.
Early on Jan. 1, 2017, an assailant shot his way into Istanbul's Reina nightclub, where hundreds were celebrating New Year's. Thirty-nine people were killed — mostly foreigners — and 79 wounded. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility.
On Sunday, some 100 people gathered outside the nightclub to remember the victims of the attack.
Romanians prepared to usher in a new year in which the focus is expected to be an anti-corruption fight as the government seeks to push through legislation that critics say will make it harder to punish high-level graft.
Television stations broadcast live from supermarkets full of last-minute shoppers, while beauty salons reported full bookings as revelers geared up for traditional celebrations of copious meals that can run to hundreds of euros (dollars).
Others meditated and prayed at Orthodox churches and monasteries. In rural eastern Romania, villagers danced traditional pantomime-like jigs to welcome the new year, wrapping themselves in bear furs or dressing as horses.
In his New Year message, President Klaus Iohannis praised Romanians who staged the largest protests since the end of communism.
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Trump Says US, Chinese Teams to Restart Trade Talks Ahead of G20 Summit
By Reuters June 18, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said on June 18 he had spoken to Chinese leader Xi Jinping and that the two leaders’ teams would restart trade talks after a long lull in order to prepare for a meeting at the G20 summit later this month.
The United States and China are in the middle of a costly trade war. Talks between the two sides to reach a broad deal broke down last month and interaction since then has been limited.
Trump has made no secret that, despite his threat to escalate the dispute with more U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods, he would like to meet with Xi at the Group of 20 meeting in Japan next week. Though he has repeatedly said the two parties would talk, the Chinese side has not confirmed a meeting would take place.
In a Twitter post, Trump said he and his Chinese counterpart had agreed to start preparations during a phone call.
“Had a very good telephone conversation with President Xi of China. We will be having an extended meeting next week at the G-20 in Japan. Our respective teams will begin talks prior to our meeting,” Trump tweeted.
Those remarks eased concerns that such a meeting would not take place.
“This is a very positive development,” said Clete Willems, a trade negotiator with Trump’s team, who cited the importance of a meeting between Xi and the U.S. president at the last G20 in Argentina.
“Leader level engagement at last year’s G20 was critical to jumpstarting the talks. It will be essential to managing the current political dynamic and getting the talks back on track once again.”
Washington has already imposed 25 percent tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods, ranging from semi-conductors to furniture, that are imported to the United States.
Trump has threatened to put tariffs on another $325 billion of goods, covering nearly all of the remaining Chinese imports into the United States, including products such as cell phones, computers and clothing.
The U.S. administration accused the Chinese regime of going back on past commitments made in earlier rounds of trade talks.
Reuters reported on May 8, citing government and private sector sources, that Beijing reversed previous promises to change its laws to address core U.S. concerns, including theft of U.S. intellectual property, forced technology transfers, and currency manipulation.
The reversal affected every chapter of the nearly 150-page draft agreement that was being negotiated over months of bilateral talks.
The Trump administration’s demand for the Chinese regime to implement structural reforms, which propelled it to launch the trade war with China last March, has been a sticking point during trade negotiations.
By Jeff Mason & Susan Heavey. The Epoch Times contributed to this report.
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Archives|Own Original Chinese Copies of Real Western Art!
Own Original Chinese Copies of Real Western Art!
By KEITH BRADSHER JULY 15, 2005
SHENZHEN, China - Zhang Libing has painted more van Goghs than van Gogh ever did.
At 26, Mr. Zhang estimates that he has painted up to 20,000 copies of van Gogh's works in a paint-spattered third-floor garret here where freshly washed socks and freshly painted canvases dry side-by-side on the balcony.
A block away, Ye Xiaodong, 25, is completing 200 paintings of a landscape of pink and white flowers in another third-floor garret. And down the street, Huang Yihong, also 25, stands in an art-packed store and paints a waterfall tumbling gracefully into a pool, mixing the paints on an oval palette.
China's low wages and hunger for exports have already changed many industries, from furniture to underwear. The art world, at least art for the masses, seems to be next, and is emerging as a miniature case study of China's successful expansion in a long list of small and obscure industries that when taken together represent a sizable chunk of economic activity.
China is rapidly expanding art colleges, turning out tens of thousands of skilled artists each year willing to work cheaply. The Internet is allowing these assembly-line paintings to be sold all over the world; the same technology allows families across America to arrange for their portraits to be painted in coastal China.
As in the United States and Europe, a handful of contemporary painters in China can command hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars for each of their highly creative works -- artists like Chen Yifei, Zhao Wuji and Wu Guanzhong. But the main push by China has been in the broad market for works that retail for $500 or less, with painters who work from postcards or images on the Internet or, in Mr. Zhang's case, a large, dog-eared copy of an art book in English on van Gogh.
China's ability to turn what has long been an individual craft into a mass production industry may affect small-scale artists from Rome's Spanish Steps to the sidewalks along Santa Monica's beach in California, as well as many galleries and art colonies in between.
Artist groups in the United States are starting to express concern, questioning the originality of some Chinese paintings and whether they comply with American copyright laws.
Wal-Mart, according to Bill Wertz, a company spokesman, has opted not to stock any Chinese paintings for this reason. But retailers from Pier 1 to Bed, Bath & Beyond say they are importing Chinese oil paintings, as are Internet sites like Oilpaintings.com.
United States customs data show that imports of Chinese paintings nearly tripled from 1996 to 2004, with bulk shipments reaching $30.5 million last year. Retail sales are several times that, as the customs data are based on the price that entrepreneurs pay for bulk purchases.
The biggest market for oil paintings from China turns out to be in Florida condominiums and other second homes being built as part of the global housing market boom. Hotels and restaurants also buy large numbers of Chinese paintings.
Many of the paintings depict scenes that Chinese artists have never seen. "European landscapes, like the Mediterranean or Venice or Paris, are the best sellers for us," Moses Ben Herut, the president of Oilpaintings.com, said in a telephone interview from Alpharetta, Ga.
Mr. Herut's Web site does not publicize the fact that it buys many of its paintings from Xiamen in southeastern coastal China, instead putting "Georgia, U.S.A." at the top of its home page in red, white and blue to emphasize that it is an extension of a local gallery.
At the Canton Trade Fair in Guangzhou this spring, exporters surrounded by paintings filled an entire row of exhibits. Adrian Goldberg, the chief executive of the Ziganof Group, a wholesaler in Manchester, England, walked into one of the booths and in less than an hour had placed an order for six 40-foot shipping containers filled with paintings to be delivered this autumn to ports in Europe and the United States.
Standing outside the booth as crowds of buyers and sellers moved past, Mr. Goldberg explained that he was paying $25 to $30 for each painting, including the frames, and that it would cost him another $1 a painting in shipping charges.
He plans to sell the paintings mainly to furniture stores for $35 to $40 apiece, and predicted that shoppers would eventually pay $100 to $125 apiece in Europe for the paintings, and up to $160 each in the United States.
The economics of the Chinese oil painting industry -- very few watercolors or pastels are traded internationally -- are striking. Mr. Zhang and Mr. Ye, who both learned to paint by serving two-year apprenticeships after high school, each earn less than $200 a month, plus modest room and board. Mr. Huang, who earned a four-year art degree from Jiangxi Normal University in east-central China, said he was paid $360 a month, but buys his own food and housing.
Paints, brushes, canvases, frames and other materials are all available at low prices here in the Dafen artist village -- more than a dozen blocks of paintings stores with studios upstairs -- just across the border from Hong Kong.
Wang Yuankang, the paintings entrepreneur at the Canton Trade Fair who received Mr. Goldberg's order, said his factory had 10 "designers" who do original paintings and 300 painters who copy these originals. Another 200 workers do the framing, he said.
Some operations are even larger. Vicky Leung, the business manager for the Chaozhou Hongjia Arts and Crafts Company, with a booth near Mr. Wang's, said that the company had two factories with a total of 10 designers, 250 painters and more than 500 framers and assistant painters.
One advantage of the larger operations is that they allow specialization, with simple assembly lines like those that Henry Ford brought to the automobile industry.
The larger factories have some painters specializing in trees, others in skies, others in flowers and so forth, an approach that not only improves "quality" but also increases output and reduces costs.
Mr. Ye, working by himself in a garret, has a similar approach: on a recent afternoon, he was painting the top half of each of dozens of white flowers on a series of canvases.
"It's quicker to do it like this, and after the paint dries, I'll do the rest," he said as he mixed a slightly darker shade of cream to paint the bottom, shadowed half of each flower.
More skilled painters in Xiamen, 400 miles northeast of here, produce portraits of American families from photographs sent to them over the Internet. About a tenth of the Chinese-painted portraits that Mr. Herut, the Georgia art entrepreneur, sells are returned by families who do not find them to be good likenesses; Mr. Herut has these portraits redone.
Northern New Jersey used to have a small but thriving cluster of businesses with artists churning out inexpensive paintings for restaurants, hotels and homes across the country. But these enterprises have been switching to imports, like the Dae Ryung Company, which had seven painters two decades ago at a studio attached to its offices in Hackensack, N.J., and let the last one leave four years ago without finding a replacement.
"In the beginning it was better here, because we were able to tell them exactly what we wanted," said Helen Cho, the company's purchasing and accounting manager. "But after a while, the Chinese caught on."
Exporters of Chinese paintings say that even though the paintings often imitate well-known works of art, the copies are inherently different because they are handmade, and so do not violate copyrights.
Robert Panzer, the executive director of the Visual Artists and Galleries Association, a trade group based in New York, disagreed. He said that the vast majority of paintings produced before the 20th century were in the public domain and could be freely copied and sold. But it is not legal to sell a painting that appears to a reasonable person like a copy of a more recent, copyrighted work, he said.
In any event, China is creating a fast-growing army of trained artists to produce both copies and original works. Art has become such a popular major in China that the number of art graduates from universities soared 59 percent last year, to 20,031, according to China's education ministry.
That growth took place even though Chinese universities, sensing a financial opportunity, now charge twice as much in annual tuition for arts majors as for engineering majors, said Jin Baoping, an art professor at Shenzhen University.
Mr. Zhang and Mr. Ye said they did not mind painting hundreds of copies.
But Mr. Huang, the university graduate in the street-front store, aspires to greater heights.
"I've never done more than four copies" of the same painting, he said proudly, adding that to do more, "would be boring and very tiring."
A version of this article appears in print on July 15, 2005, on Page A00001 of the National edition with the headline: Own Original Chinese Copies of Real Western Art!. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Middle East|In Israeli City of Haifa, a Liberal Arab Culture Blossoms
Haifa Journal
In Israeli City of Haifa, a Liberal Arab Culture Blossoms
The Kabareet bar in Haifa, Israel. “We want a gay couple to go to the dance floor and kiss each other, and nobody to even look at them,” said Ayed Fadel, who runs the bar. “This is the new Palestinian society we are aiming for.”CreditCreditUriel Sinai for The New York Times
By Diaa Hadid
HAIFA, Israel — At Elika, a bar in the Hadar neighborhood of this hilly port city, a 30-something psychodramatist rolled a cigarette and sipped coffee with her father, a well-known actor in Israel. The bartender poured tall beers for two women who wandered in for an afternoon pint. Nearby, a 22-year-old woman with a partly shaved head and colorful tattoos sat alone, working on her laptop.
They were among the many coifed, pierced and tattooed women and men who populate a slice of Haifa’s social scene that resembles that of the well-heeled hipsters of Tel Aviv. But here the cool kids are Palestinians, and they have unfurled a self-consciously Arab milieu that is secular, feminist and gay-friendly.
“Haifa is a center for Arabs, like Tel Aviv is a center for Jews,” said Asil Abu Wardeh, the Elika patron who practices a performance-based form of psychotherapy. “There is a cultural movement. There is a youth movement. There’s a kind of freedom here.”
“We have our own parties. Our own places. Our own discos. We dance. We drink. We do it all in Arabic,” she added. “This all began in Haifa.”
Arabs make up a fifth of Israel’s population of eight million, and in recent years, they have grown more assertive in expressing their Palestinian identity, allied with their brethren in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
But their public life in Haifa is a striking secular counterpoint to the conservatism of many of Israel’s Arab communities, where sex before marriage is taboo, and single men and women rarely date and tend to marry at relatively young ages, in matches often arranged by their mothers.
Haifa’s relative liberalism is a product of its unique, cosmopolitan tradition. It is easy for young, single people to get out in this city, which is built on a steep coastal hill, with Jews tending to live on its heights and Arabs by the sea. The once working-class city of 280,000 has several universities and has embraced its diversity. The 30,000 Arab residents, around 10 percent of the population, include equal numbers of Muslims and Christians, and they are generally wealthier and better educated than Arabs elsewhere in Israel.
This makes Haifa a comfortable place for liberal Palestinians who want not only to escape the constraints of conservative Arab communities but also to be among their own people.
“If you are in an Arab neighborhood, you have a community. If you live in a Jewish neighborhood, you are a stranger, and that gives you freedom as an Arab woman,” said Fidaa Hammoud, 32. “There are many de facto couples, and older women living alone without having to hear gossip.”
Ms. Hammoud moved to Haifa in 2011 after studying speech therapy for four years in Barcelona, Spain. She and her partner live together in a Jewish neighborhood where they run a Palestinian cafe called Rai. “I couldn’t do this anywhere else,” she said.
Haifa provides a comfortable refuge for liberal Palestinians who want not only to escape the constraints of conservative Arab communities but also to be among their own people.CreditUriel Sinai for The New York Times
Ayed Fadel runs Kabareet, a bar off a four-lane industrial road, through an alley and down some stairs. He envisions his out-of-the-way speakeasy with its red painted walls and old Arab movie posters as a place where people can truly be themselves.
“We want a gay couple to go to the dance floor and kiss each other, and nobody to even look at them,” he said. “This is the new Palestinian society we are aiming for.”
That society was on display late last year, when some bars and cafes held screenings for Kooz Queer, the first Palestinian gay film festival. And Dar al-Raya, a cafe that doubles as a publishing house, recently published “The Book of Desire,” believed to be among the first volumes of modern erotica by Palestinian authors.
For some, the blossoming Palestinian scene in Haifa is reminiscent of the city during British rule, when a lively Arab cultural life flourished. Much of that ended in 1948 with the war in which Israel was established, when Arabs fled, or were forced to leave, their homes in many cities, including in Haifa, said Mustafa Kabha, a lecturer in Palestinian history at the Open University of Israel.
Haifa in the 1930s and ’40s, he said, “had clubs, cafes, hotels, theaters and newspapers” for Arabs, including the Sham Cafe, where Syrian and Lebanese workers met, and the Port Cafe, for workers from the city’s busy port.
Outside the Elika cafe and bar in Haifa. "The people in Haifa, especially in these cafes, they are making revolutions," one patron said.CreditUriel Sinai for The New York Times
“You feel that the place is returning to a very natural harmony; in an old Arabic house you hear Arabic,” said Bashar Murkus, who recently opened the Khashabi Theater in an old warehouse owned by an Arab merchant in an industrial seaside neighborhood.
The liberal Arab renaissance in Haifa began with the opening of Fattoush, a Palestinian restaurant, in 1998. The restaurant, which hosted cultural discussions and art exhibitions, was once a scandal to polite Arab society because men and women openly drank alcohol and flirted. Now, it is a tourist-friendly fixture on Ben Gurion Boulevard, Haifa’s main drag.
More Arab-owned businesses opened on that street in the years since, with signs welcoming all people in Arabic, English and sometimes Hebrew. Many of these bars, cafes and restaurants were crowded on a recent weeknight with couples strolling along teeming sidewalks decked with Christmas lights.
Back up the road at the Elika bar, Samer Asakleh was hanging out with a co-worker. A folksy Arab song about smoking marijuana played from the speakers, and posters tacked to the wall advertised a concert featuring an Arab ska band, Toot Ard.
“The people in Haifa, especially in these cafes, they are making revolutions,” said Mr. Asakleh, 23, his long hair tied in a messy bun. He moved here from his home village of Mughar, in Galilee, to study management and was initially surprised by the open, seemingly libertine attitudes and social mores of people he met. He said he had not encountered any openly gay people before moving here in 2011, and he used to excuse himself from parties when gay couples would show up because he did not approve of homosexuality.
Since then, he has mellowed, he said.
“I am for people’s freedoms, social, personal and individual, and you can’t divide that up,” Mr. Asakleh explained. “You can’t just not accept queer people. I believe in freedom for the Palestinian people, so we also have to support personal freedoms.”
A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: A Liberal Palestinian Culture Blossoms in an Israeli City. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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Auto Racing|A Look Inside a Formula One Team’s Mission Control
A Look Inside a Formula One Team’s Mission Control
Racing Point team members analyze data coming from the racecar. With about four terabytes of data per car per race, and additional terabytes from practice and qualifying, teams spend significant time on data analysis.CreditCreditSportPesa Racing Point F1 Team
By Kate Walker
As the cars take to the track for this weekend’s British Grand Prix, the drivers will be supported by hundreds of people at the track and hundreds more back at the team factories.
Teams have their factory operations all over the world, usually where the team is based, like Ferrari in Maranello, Italy, and Mercedes in Stuttgart, Germany. For the Racing Point F1 Team, which is English, its home is Silverstone.
But having this week’s race adjacent to its home base makes very little difference to the track workers. They may be sleeping in their own beds, but they are still working remotely with their factory-based colleagues, who work in a room near the track that the team calls Mission Control.
[Read more on how the British Grand Prix will stay at Silverstone through 2024.]
I was invited to watch the Spanish Grand Prix in May from that room, getting a close look at the coordination between Mission Control and the track. Inside are 10 large TV screens on the wall, showing the broadcast of the race and a host of data — tire types in use, weather, track temperatures and lap times. In front of the screens are three engineers, with 13 computer monitors of data.
It is important to understand that a modern Formula One car is more computer than machine. While cornering at speeds more than 200 miles per hour, each car is also logging terabytes of data, keeping the team abreast of the degradation rates on the tires and of the health of various mechanical components, and recording the drivers’ steering, braking and throttle inputs.
With about four terabytes of data per car per race, and additional terabytes from practice and qualifying, teams spend significant time on data analysis.
The driver Lance Stroll and the Racing Point team during a practice session at the Australian Grand Prix in March.CreditJames Ross/EPA, via Shutterstock
During each of the three practice sessions during a grand prix weekend, teams and drivers work to finesse the ideal configuration of their cars for the circuit, balancing the need for speed in qualifying with performance during the race. Drivers work closely with their track team, led by a senior race engineer, to improve that performance.
Workers at the factory became more important after regulations aimed at reducing costs were introduced in 2008, which put a cap on the number of people allowed to travel to the races.
With only 60 slots available at the track, down from 100 for some operations, teams increased the number of workers at the factory, which was not limited by the new regulations.
The regulations also reduced the amount of time cars could be tested on the track and in wind tunnels. Teams were already using computers to design their cars, and some testing was taking place on simulators before components were brought to the track and tested on the real racecar.
The rule change came when simulation technology was improving and became an alternative to real-world testing. Teams became more adept at learning from their simulators and applying the lessons to their cars.
Having an operations center, or virtual garage, at the factory became a competitive advantage, and then essential. Teams were already working with technology companies in sponsorships and technological partnerships, and running a virtual garage with a tech partner was a logical step.
The Mercedes Formula One team also uses their virtual garage as a perk for sponsors, inviting them to see the action and has previously worked with its partner Bose to create a copy of its Formula One garage for fans to experience. McLaren’s virtual garage uses technology supplied by its partner Dell, and provides sponsor engagement. Racing Point’s Mission Control was developed with their partner Acronis, a technology company specializing in data storage and security.
Bernadette Collins is a strategy engineer for the Racing Point team.CreditSportPesa Racing Point F1 Team
Watch any grand prix and you will see team bosses sitting on the pit wall or in the garage, staring at banks of screens and issuing instructions over radios. Those bosses are the public faces of the data flowing in from the factory.
Race day is actually the quietest of the weekend. At Mission Control, it is busiest during practice sessions, when data is coming in from that weekend’s circuit and from a simulator in a nearby building. The engineers in the factory share screens and information with their track colleagues and advise on new configurations to try, based partly on data coming from the simulator.
“During the race, it’s mostly at the circuit,” said Mike Beeson, head of software development for the Racing Point team. “The stuff that happens here in Mission Control, in the factory, is more Friday and Saturday. On Friday, there’s a lot of engineers working on data to try and get the car set up. There’s a lot of data throughout the whole weekend, but we’re really looking into it on Fridays.
“On a Sunday, during the race, we’re basically trying to provide another pair of eyes to the guys at the track, because we can see more here than they can. We’re limited in the number of people we can send to the circuit; we have people here looking at data, watching what’s happening in the race.”
While drivers are often asked to give input on whether to pit, sometimes a team will call their car in unexpectedly, because an opportunity to jump a rival in the pit stops has been spotted. Alternatively, a driver might be asked to run longer than planned, with a view to capitalizing on the timing of another car’s stop.
To pull off what are called “undercuts” and “overcuts,” a team needs to be anticipating and reacting to the strategies of the other cars, not always those near them on the track. Having Mission Control monitoring the data allows it to pick the correct strategy for the track-side teams.
The virtual garages have become so vital that their success has threatened their future. After long spells of dominance by Mercedes and Red Bull, Formula One wants to improve the action on track by reducing potential competitive advantages, like the virtual garages.
New regulations are under discussion for 2021, and they are expected to include a budget cap to try make the sport more competitive among the teams. That could force them to reduce their use of virtual garages, the thought being that fewer eyes trying to make the race perfect should make for more exciting action on the track.
A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 13 in The International New York Times. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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Browns rail: How Cleveland beat the Texans
Nov 26, 2007 at 12:01 AM Nov 26, 2007 at 11:30 AM
Items from Sunday's game in Cleveland.
They won it here
After Derek Anderson’s worst pass of the game, maybe the season, was intercepted, the Texans had a chance to take a 13-7 lead before halftime. Instead, Kris Brown’s 46-yard field goal was wide right. Anderson had a second chance to redeem himself. He led the offense on an 11-play, 64-yard drive that had the Browns facing a third-and-15, and then a fourth-and-3. Anderson completed a 12-yard pass on third-and-15 to Kellen Winslow, and then he drilled a slant route to Braylon Edwards for 9 yards and a first down at the Houston 23. With 21 seconds left, Anderson hit Winslow in traffic near the left side of the end zone for a touchdown and a 14-10 lead.
“That’s tough. We missed the field goal and they go down and score a touchdown. It’s a tough situation. Instead of being up by three, we’re down four. It goes in their favor ... then they get the ball to start the second half.”
- Houston QB Matt Schaub on the halftime swing
“If you don’t let them throw the ball deep on you, it’s hard to be a shootout. If the team has to drive the ball, that takes some time and holds the score down as well. That helped today.”
- Romeo Crennel on the game not developing into an offensive shootout
Player of the game
TE Kellen Winslow Jr. looked like the player the Browns drafted out of Miami. He caught 10 passes for 107 yards and scored a TD. Few of Winslow’s 10 catches were easy. He often caught the ball in traffic and took big hits after securing the catch. He showed Sunday, again, it is nearly impossible to cover him with a linebacker.
- Derek Anderson’s 96.5 passer rating was his best since a 143 four weeks ago against St. Louis. Anderson was on target and his TD pass to Braylon Edwards fit into a small window and past LB Danny Clark.
- Return man Josh Cribbs was a nonfactor and had a long return of 29 yards. Cribbs did get some love, though. The Browns introduced their special teams prior to the game and Cribbs easily received the loudest ovation.
- Rookie CB Brandon McDonald broke up four passes, intercepted a pass and played his best game of the season.
The Browns have won five straight at home for the first time since 1994.
Brady watch
Quinn stayed warm sitting on the team’s heated bench. Through 11 games, Anderson has completed 212-of-365 passes for 2,758 yards, 22 TDs and 11 interceptions. His passer rating is 89.5, a half point from being considered among the elite QBs in the NFL. Quinn won’t be playing any time soon, as long as Anderson stays healthy.
Quick hitters
- Washington High School graduate and national recording artist Jeff Timmons sang the national anthem.
- When you think of Browns all-time scorers you always equate Jim Brown and Phil Dawson, right? Dawson’s 25-yard field goal in the third quarter gave him 756 career points in Cleveland, which tied him with Jim Brown for third place all time. Dawson later passed him with a 27-yard field goal in the fourth quarter.
- Jamal Lewis’ eight rushing TDs is the most by a Browns RB since Kevin Mack in 1991.
Grading the ‘O’
A-minus
It was “Throw Back Day” at Cleveland Browns Stadium and Cleveland wore its old-style helmets with the players’ numbers on the side of the helmet. It looked like Maurice Carthon day in the first quarter. Cleveland gave up its first two possessions after coordinator Rob Chudzinski, who’s been spot-on most of the season, left people scratching their heads on a third-and-1 call and a fourth-and-1 on the next series. Aside from a “Metcalf up the middle” type of play and using Josh Cribbs as a decoy, Cleveland’s offense got it going in the second quarter. Anderson threw for 253 yards and Jamal Lewis ran for 134. That’s a good day. After a first quarter that garnered one first down, the Browns finished with 21 and 397 total yards. And they scored 27 points.
Grading the ‘D’
Houston isn’t a great team, but the Texas have a productive offense and they were held in check Sunday. Cleveland got pressure on Schaub and sacked him twice and hurried him seven other times. If not for a late, no-huddle offensive score, the defense would have had its finest performance of the season, Crennel said. McDonald coming on and playing one of the better games of the season for a CB was a boost.
Grading the coaches
Chudzinski’s conservative, head-scratching calls early in the game kept this grade down. The Browns offense kept Houston in the game longer that need be. The defense has made steady improvement the last three weeks. The Browns are winning games and looking like a difficult team to beat. They stopped a Houston team that won two in a row. A year ago people were asking for Romeo Crennel’s head. Now they’re asking for his autograph. The Browns are developing into a team with confidence and swagger.
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Mary Gehman
Touring Louisiana's Great River Road - the Mississippi from Angola North to Venice South (Hardcover)
By Mary Gehman
Published: Margaret Media, Inc. - September 12th, 2003
Before touring the River Road in Louisiana, be sure to pick up this handy guide book. This book follows both banks 300 miles and lets you know what to see and do and eat, where to stay overnight, and offers plenty of multicultural history and sights. It also includes numerous localized maps.
The Free People of Color of New Orleans: An Introduction (Paperback)
Published: Margaret Media - January 1994
Finally a comprehensive, easy-to-read history of LES GENS DE COULEUR LIBRE - as the French called them in the 1700's (the free people of color) known as Creoles of color after the Civil War and today, simply as Creoles. The pocket sized book, illustrated and with notes and index, describes a missing link in most histories of the African-American experience. Freed from the 1730's on, these people emerging in French and Spanish colonial Louisiana, formed a large and powerful community. Some of them owned wealthy estates and others dominated trades such as leatherworking, cigar making and carpentry. On the eve of the Civil War, these Creoles of color numbered in the thousands, owned $15 million of property in New Orleans and were active in the slave trade; thus some of them fought with the Confederacy. The book explains contributions of free people of color in education, politics, religion, journalism, art, etc.; the laws that tried to keep them in their place; and the major role of PLACAGE, liaisons between free women of color and white men. It discusses the ongoing effect of this group on New Orleans today, as well as ongoing issues of race and the Creole controversy resulting in their unique history. Includes an extensive bibliography and index.
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If it is Valentine’s Day, then many men resort to flowers or candy to show the women in their lives just how much they really care. For the bigger holidays such as birthdays or Christmas, men typically reach a bit deeper into their pockets for the larger ticket items such as jewelry or perfume. But the reason why so much perfume is sold in any given year has far more to do with hormones and the feelings created by certain scents than by the gift-giving rationale of men.
Perfumes, colognes, and scented oils have been part of human civilization since the time of the ancient Egyptians and beyond. Jars and vases filled with exotic fragrances have also been found in ancient Chinese burial sites. In fact, the use of perfumes has no exact starting date as its exact history is unknown. All that is truly known is that women and men have been using cologne and perfume to enhance their own scent for thousands of years will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
In any given year, 66% of men and 75% of women find themselves buying cologne or perfume during the course of a year. Researchers believe that part of the reason why women love receiving perfume (and also when men love giving perfume as a gift) is due to pheromones. Pheromones are hormones thought to stimulate sexual appetite or interest and they are triggered by scent.
So do women love perfume because it makes them want to have sex? No, actually the scent has a more dramatic effect upon men. While the effect is less pronounced in women, certain colognes worn by men have been known to produce a similar desire in women. Although a link between the scent of perfume and increased sexual desire has been found, researchers do not believe that it explains the desire to wear perfume on a daily basis.
In fact, most scientists believe that human pheromones and their impact upon our behavior has decreased over the years as we have become more advanced and civilized. While most scientists conclude that scent once played a rather large part in human mating habits, they believe that it has relatively little to do with sexual attraction in this day and age.
So then…why do women love perfume so much and why is it such a popular gift during the holidays? It actually seems to be due to the simple feeling created by wearing any fragrance that one finds appealing. In fact, the feeling created by a woman wearing perfume is similar to that made by a candle used for aromatherapy. It is soothing, subtle, and slightly romantic but not really sexual in nature.
Of course, it does not really matter why precisely a woman loves wearing perfume. All that is truly important is that she does love to smell great and the attention she receives when wearing her favorite perfume. In time, the perfume and the scent of her own body will combine into a singular aroma that will literally become her own scent.
As the sense of smell can recall the most vivid of memories, it is this unique scent of a woman combined with her perfume that people tend to remember most when thinking of that person. Men will often buy the same perfume for a woman even years after she has ceased using it because it is the scent they have come to identify with that woman.
And yet, women do move on to new perfumes and always seem to be on the search for a new scent to adorn their bodies. Of course, it is not surprising for some higher end perfumes to cost $100’s of dollars per bottle which is why a large number of women and men find themselves shopping for their favorite brands online. The Internet can also be a great place to find deals on new perfumes and fragrances as most websites generally offer a much greater selection than traditional stores.
The love of perfume by both men and women may be completely instinctual and somehow related to sexuality. However, the fact is that perfume just plain smells great and therefore puts us in a good mood. Who doesn’t like something that smells good—be it a pot roast or a garden lily? Of course, pot roast has a tendency to make us hungry…so what does the smell of fine perfume make us? There has to be a really good reason why perfume is so popular, now doesn’t there??
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There are hundreds of perfumes to choose from and they
are priced anywhere from a few dollars to a hundred
dollars or more. With so many choices, how do you know
which ones are right for you?
There are a few guidelines that can help you choose
which perfume is right for you. First you will need to
find out which type of perfume will fit you the best.
Look at the ingredients on the bottle before you buy.
You need to analyze what type of scent you want to get
out of perfume; a light musk, natural scent, loud
fragrance, floral scent, warm scent, bright cheerful
scent, and more.
Your body chemistry might play a roll in your
selection as well. Sometime what smells great on one
person may not smell as good on another.
Perfumes that are natural tend smell warm and soft,
such as Rose or Lavender. Musk can produce a light
fragrance that lingers softly around you. It is not
too strong and may be pleasant to smell.
There are stronger scents that you may like and that
is fine too. If you don’t like a loud smell but you
like the perfume, try using a minimal amount or spray
your clothing instead of your body.
The material helps to absorb the fragrance leaving a
lighter version to smell. Choosing the right perfume
for you may take some time. Stop and smell different
fragrances to find the right one for you. Once you
find one you like, it will be worth all your time and
effort.
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EU global strategy and the changing nature of conflicts
Recognising that the EU neighbourhood has transformed from a ‘ring of friends’ into a ‘ring of fire’, the strategy nevertheless remains vague on key concepts such as hybrid wars, terrorism, and strategy.
Andrea Beccaro
Federica Mogherini at a press confernce in the Netherlands, September 2016. Wikicommons/ EU2016 NL. Some rights reserved. The publication of the EU Global Strategy (EUGS) on 28 June 2016 by the EU’s High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Federica Mogherini represents the final result of a two year-long work that has involved extensive consultations with EU member states, European experts and scholars, and third countries representatives.
The Global Strategy represents a much needed improvement on the European Security Strategy (2003) which stated: “The violence of the first half of the 20th Century has given way to a period of peace and stability unprecedented in European history”. Given the deteriorating geopolitical situation in the southern and eastern neighbourhoods of the EU in recent years, it was obvious that this was no longer in touch with realities on the ground.
However, despite the Global Strategy’s recognition that the EU’s neighbourhood has transformed from a ‘ring of friends’ into a ‘ring of fire’, it remains vague on key concepts such as strategy, hybrid wars, and terrorism.
Generally speaking, strategy entails the setting of clear-cut objectives, determining envisaged implementation mechanisms and actions, and mobilizing the related resources needed to achieve those goals. In short, a strategy generally describes why, how and when objectives are to be achieved by the given resources. While the desired objectives of the EU are well expressed in the EUGS, an explanation of the necessary (military, political, ideational and economic) means is lacking, as is a clear understanding of the kind of threats the EU is faced with.
For instance, the document highlights the risk of hybrid wars, referring to the kind of operations Russia has been conducting in Crimea. However, the document does not specify what a ‘hybrid threat’ is, where it originates, and what kind of means the EU would need to counter it. This is a serious shortcoming because hybrid warfare could refer to two very different kinds of military operations. First, a state could resort to hybrid warfare in order to avoid a direct military confrontation with the enemy conventional forces using Special Forces, local militias or contractors. Secondly, hybrid warfare refers to non-state groups such as ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Nusra and others that are hybrid because they mix the use of advanced weapons (mainly missiles and drones) with conventional infantry and terrorism tactics. Consequently, they blur regular and irregular tactics, creating a “new” kind of warfare in which terrorism becomes the main, but not the sole, fighting method.
Insurgent groups
As a consequence, these non-state groups could not be simply defined as terrorist: the notion of insurgent groups appears more correct. This is because, historically speaking, every insurgent group has resorted to, at least to some extent, terrorism as a tactic; militarily speaking, just because a group controls a territory, its population, and its resources does not make it automatically a terrorist group.
Instead it rather is an insurgent movement that uses terrorist tactics according to its objectives and based on the current tactical situation. The EUGS points precisely to the risk linked to terrorism but seems to be rooted in a rather narrow notion of terrorism and does not precisely indicate who is the enemy that resorts to terrorist tactics, where exactly such an enemy operates, who its allies are and how the enemy finances its operations.
To be sure, defending EU citizens and interests from terrorist attacks is a priority of EU policy but de facto this is just a tactical response, and the EU urgently needs a more comprehensive and proactive approach that would truly allow it to fight the actual insurgency and the related geopolitical issues that fuel those terrorist attacks. Moreover, this kind of approach would be consistent with the EUGS statement of investing in prevention and resolution of conflicts, avoiding “premature disengagement”.
Promoting resilience
Focusing on Africa and the Middle East, the EUGS commits to intensifying “its support for, and cooperation with, regional and sub-regional organisations”, and for this purpose it highlights the need to look beyond states and issues that are at the front line of the EU’s neighborhood. The EUGS calls upon local and regional actors and international organizations (e.g. the Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the African Union) to intensify collaboration, multilateral cooperation, and to “promote resilience”.
Yet, while such calls appear to be rather overdue and mutually beneficial, the EUGS ignores other major issues in the southern neighbourhood, notably the conflict in Iraq, the role of Kurds, of Shia militias, and of ISIS, thereby creating a dangerous shortcoming to address in a comprehensive way the new geopolitics of the area.
The EUGS urges EU member states to invest more in cyber technologies and “in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, including Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems, satellite communications, and autonomous access to space and permanent earth observation”. Consequently, the EU strategy seems to envisage a kind of conflict similar to those fought by the United States against irregular fighters since 2001 using targeted killing operations. A precise definition of targeted killing operations does not exist but they could be described as operations that a state could enforce thanks to its drones and its intelligence capabilities and that are destined to eliminate specifically targeted individuals.
Today such operations take place extensively: Israel conducts them against Hamas; Russia does the same against Chechen fighters; and the United States does it in their fight against the Taliban, ISIS, al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups in multiple theaters of war. This widespread recourse to such killing operations has several grounds: it is convenient for governments with casualty-averse domestic populations; it is considered morally preferable to conventional alternatives; it is believed to disrupt and degrade terrorist organizations by keeping terrorists on the run, reducing their ability to plot attacks, and eliminating skilled operatives.
The last justification assumes that targeted killing operations are effective; however, evidence about this presumed effectiveness is lacking. Moreover, the use of drones has caused hundreds of civilian casualties – a development that has created hatred towards this kind of weaponry and strategy. This is a key point because, given that the EU needs a comprehensive approach, creating hate amongst local populations is certainly counterproductive.
Finally, in spite of the use of high-technology devices, the reality of current wars is that they are still fought mainly by infantry, notably by foot soldiers that engage in close combat on the ground. In fact, 81% of American casualties after the Second World War are infantrymen; this is also true for EU member states involved in violent conflicts; for example, all Italian soldiers killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 were infantrymen from different army branches. To be sure, investing in modern technology and in research and development is a key asset. However, if the use of drone causes hatred and if it cannot be considered a substitute of “boots on the ground”, as every recent operation suggests, then a more enlightened policy would entail investment in ways that provide improved training and fighting capabilities of infantry troops (even using advanced technology), rather than investments in new and rather costly state-of-the-art devices.
Closer cooperation
Lastly, the EUGS highlights the need for closer cooperation between EU member states among one another as well as between the EU and NATO, the latter of which “remains the primary framework for most Member States”. Although this kind of call is not new, today cooperation, at least at the logistical and research and development level, is even more strongly recommended. EU member states collectively spent some €200 billion on defense in 2015, but much of it is wasted. For example, there are nineteen different types of armored infantry fighting vehicles across EU member states, while the United States produces just one type. Since every EU member state has its own political agenda, strategic culture and geopolitical areas of interest, it is admittedly impossible to have the same military requirements for weapons systems. Yet, projects like the European Defence Action Plan and the European Defence Research Program could help to strengthen military cooperation and thus generate cost-reducing synergies.
In conclusion, the EUGS represents a key strategic document for the EU and it outlines convincingly the priorities of the EU’s foreign and security policy. However, it suffers from serious shortcomings regarding the definition of strategy, the notion of terrorism – much more complex in reality than the document seems to presume – and the use of the right military means to deal with the current security situation in the EU’s neighbourhood and beyond.
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To find the highest point in Oregon, we looked at the distance between sea level and high points in the state of Oregon. The place with the highest distance to sea level would be the highest point in Oregon. The highest point in Oregon is at the top of Mount Hood. The elevation at the top of Mount Hood is 11,249 feet above sea level.
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Cottage Living in the CityPublished on June 26, 2019
Photo by: Ted Simpson
An existing home features Victorian architectural details reflective of the history of the area
David Wilson (left) and Rod Miller are long-standing residents and members of the Britannia Yacht Club
Water views are an integral feature of the community
Britannia Village first came to life in the mid-1800s as a summer cottage town with a mill, a few farms and a boating club. The area was part of a large estate along the Ottawa River owned by Captain John LeBreton, which he named Britannia.
LeBreton was one of the influential characters in the foundation of the city of Ottawa, alongside Lt.-Col. John By and Lord Dalhousie. LeBreton is often remembered for his constant grievances with the government and rival landowners along with his money-making schemes.
By 1900, the village was well established as a summertime paradise known as Britannia on The Bay. It was a vibrant community with the Britannia Boat House Club (later called the Britannia Boating Club, now Britannia Yacht Club) which opened in 1887. A double-decker steam boat called Queen of the River ran tours in 1896 and by 1899 the Ottawa Electric Railway Company established a streetcar line that ran from Holland Avenue straight out to Britannia.
For the first half of the 1900s, life went on in Britannia much the same way. Cottagers arrived on the first of May and stayed until the end of September. Activity revolved around the water; sailboats and canoes filled the river and swimmers piled onto the beach.
By 1950, the village was annexed into the city of Ottawa and permanent, year-round homes became as prevalent as cottages along the shore of the river. The streetcar line was decommissioned, and the urban cottage community transitioned into a secluded subdivision of the city, surrounded by water on three sides and a buffer of green space at the south end.
Today in Britannia, not too much has changed. A few of the original cottages dot the neighbourhood streets, the original clubhouse still stands at the yacht club, now in its 122nd year, and the community continues to come alive during summer days at the beach.
A connection remains strong between nature and the community of Britannia. At the East end of the neighbourhood is the Mud Lake conservation area, a 60 hectare complex of wetlands that is home to a stunningly diverse collection of plants and animals, including 269 species of birds. The rail lines have long since been removed and replaced with a multi-use path that runs parallel to the river, now filled with cyclists and joggers. And of course, the Ottawa River is there, providing beauty, recreation and transportation. But that sometimes comes at a cost.
In 2017 the river flooded to unprecedented levels that shocked the community. In the spring of 2019, the water returned even higher than before. Rod Miller is 86 years old and has been spending summers in Britannia all of his life. He remembers flooding as a regular part of life on the river, but only as an annoyance and never a crisis. “We had a cottage that was between the two mills, down by the water, and every year there would be flooding, but never like this spring,” says Rod.
Rod has been a member of the Britannia Yacht Club since he was 10 years old, and served as the club manager for a period. Both he and longtime club member and Britannia resident, David Wilson, tout the merits of enjoying all the club has to offer, with no need to show up in a yacht! They say they have moved away from the exclusivity of the old boys club, “It used to be you had to be nominated to be considered for membership here, that’s gone now,” says David. “If you are interested in coming here, please come out, it’s pretty free and easy,” he adds.
This summer the beach will be filled up again with swimmers and volleyball players and sun bathers. The park will light up with families picnicking among the trees. And the boats will be on the water, racing, cruising or heading off for adventure in an area of the city that offers that gone to the cottage feeling.
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HomeAbout UsOur History
Over the years, a number of police agencies have operated in the National Capital Region. From the Bytown Association for the Preservation of the Public Peace (formed during the unofficial incorporation of Bytown in 1847), to various municipal police forces, as well as provincial and federal police agencies, the Ottawa area has a rich policing tradition.
Policing in Ottawa has continued to evolve to meet the needs of the community. When the town of Bytown incorporated and adopted the name of Ottawa in 1855, Chief Roderick Ross became the first Chief Constable. Life as an officer was not easy with their duties consisting largely of keeping public order - much of that involved liquor. Rather than earn a salary, the officers were paid $1 for every culprit they brought in. Since those humble and difficult beginnings, the Ottawa Police Service has evolved into today's highly trained and technically equipped service.
Women in Policing
The first Police Woman ever hired by the Ottawa Police Service was Flora Ann Campbell on December 31, 1913.
Born in 1883, Flora Campbell worked as a Probation Officer and Superintendent of the Women’s Hostel before becoming a Police Woman.
Although her duties were supposed to be the same as those of her male counterparts, Flora Campbell was unarmed and did not wear a badge of authority or uniform. And, while she was given arrest powers, she seldom made arrests.
Her actual role was dealing with charged women appearing in court. In many cases where the women were first time offenders, charges were dismissed and Police Woman Campbell was tasked with helping them find employment. Her approach towards women and the law was to resolve as many conflicts as possible without stepping into a courtroom (similar to the ‘Restorative Justice’ process today). As part of her position, she was also tasked with investigating allegations of child neglect or abuse.
Flora died in 1961.
Her years of service demonstrated the value of women in policing to both the Police Commission and the community.
Today, the Ottawa Police is proud to say that almost 40% of its employees are female, working in all sections of the Ottawa Police.
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Why Some People Obsessively Hunt Elk Antlers
One crazy night in Bridger-Teton National Forest with hundreds of people who just want to find the horns that elk have left behind
Coming back with the day’s haul (taken during a 2016 rush) (Ryan Dorgan)
Photo: Ryan Dorgan
Brendan Meyer
I’m sitting in the back seat of a truck bullying its way down Broadway Avenue in Jackson, Wyoming, minutes before midnight on the eve of May 1. Ahead there are at least a hundred vehicles, with many more behind, and plenty idling on residential side streets with license plates from Utah, Colorado, Montana, and Idaho trying to cut in line. Our driver, Ryan Fetherston, won’t allow it. He accelerates, then brakes, accelerates, then brakes, pushing his truck within inches of the rear bumper ahead.
“Whoo-hoo! Want to talk about competition?” he yells in the direction of a car full of guys wearing matching camouflage gear who are desperately trying to merge.
“Be aggressive dude, don’t let them in,” Joey Paulsonmorgan barks from the back seat. “It’s every man for themselves, brah!”
We’re all headed toward the same place, a dirt road that will lead us to Bridger-Teton National Forest. The road opens about ten minutes from now, and the sooner we get to the trailhead, the sooner we can start searching for the very thing these hordes of visitors have traveled here to find.
Elk antlers.
People call them “sheds,” because every spring, a bull elk will shed its pair. On some public lands, if you find a shed, it’s yours to keep. Some folks use them for art purposes—to make furniture or knives with antler handles. Others have massive collections and keep their sheds in large piles in a garage or mount them on taxidermy. But many are looking to sell.
A brown shed is the freshest and most valuable type of antler, still streaked with a coating from when the animal rubbed its horns on bark, sap, and dirt but not yet bleached by a summer of sun and rain. Those can sell for $12 to $15 a pound. An average six-point antler weighs eight pounds, which is why browns have earned a nickname from those who seek them: brown gold.
The guys I’m with are three experienced shed hunters from Helena, Montana, who drove five hours to get here, with Paulsonmorgan arriving separately at 11 A.M. to jockey for a parking spot down Broadway all day. We’re here because of what sits to our left: the National Elk Refuge, where roughly 6,000 to 10,000 elk winter every year. And while it’s illegal to pick up a shed on refuge land, or at Grand Teton National Park, it’s fair game on the neighboring 3.4-million-acre Bridger-Teton National Forest once the winter wildlife closure is no longer in effect come May 1. By midnight, we want to be part of the earliest wave of shed hunters to venture into grizzly bear country, scanning the ground for miles on a night that’s unofficially called the Jackson Antler Opener.
“It’s like a big Easter-egg hunt,” Andy Dahl says from the front seat. “The adult version of it.”
His crew of buddies is a mishmash of collectors and sellers who travel to hunts like this around the Mountain West. Paulsonmorgan, an elementary school PE teacher, keeps most of the sheds he finds, especially the big ones. A couple years ago in Jackson, he found eight browns in one night. The next year he found nothing. Fetherston, a middle school social-studies teacher, keeps most of his, too, and he writes a journal entry about where he discovered each one. Dahl lives on a ranch and sells some of his sheds so his family can buy appliances. Currently, they’re in the market for a new meat grinder.
Me? I flew in from Dallas, and I’m just trying to find my first.
These Montana guys graciously offered to give me a ride to the trailhead. The clock strikes midnight, and the gates open. As we snake down the dirt road in what looks like postconcert traffic, Paulsonmorgan is giving me advice on how to spot a shed. “You’re not looking for the whole thing,” he says. “You’re never going to find it. You’re looking for tips or the white button on the end.”
The temperature is in the teens, it’s pitch-black, and it snowed a couple inches hours ago. Some people brought horses to cover more ground, while others brought dogs trained to sniff out sheds. Paulsonmorgan provided walkie-talkies in case we stray too far. We park and grab our backpacks from the truck bed as the competition all around us does the same. The hills are already lit with swiveling searchlights, like there’s a Hollywood movie premiere happening on the mountain. I hook a canister of bear spray to my belt and turn on my headlamp.
“People are running!” Fetherston yells.
So we run.
Shed hunters’ headlamps and flashlights dot the foothills just above the National Elk Refuge during the 2018 Jackson Antler Opener (Ryan Dorgan)
This is not a sanctioned event, even though it’s gotten bigger over the 40 or so years it’s been happening. Instead, it’s the byproduct of two Wyoming regulations made to protect wildlife.
Winter is the toughest time of year for big-game animals like elk. They’re trying to survive and expend the least amount of energy. Come December, most of the Jackson herd will migrate to the National Elk Refuge to forage for native grasses and be fed supplemental alfalfa pellets during the harshest winter months. By March and April, when the elk shed their antlers, they’ll begin seeking south-facing slopes where there’s more sun, less snow, and better vegetation to eat.
But their energy reserves are still critically low, “to the point where any extra stress during that time can really compromise their ability to survive,” says Mark Gocke, a public-information specialist at the Wyoming Game and Fish Department in Jackson. “If a shed hunter spooks them and they run off, they might look fine, but they may be dead in a week.” So for more than 20 years, areas of Bridger-Teton National Forest deemed crucial big-game winter ranges, including the chunk of land alongside the National Elk Refuge, are closed to the public from December 1 through April 30.
That regulation doesn’t include elk-populated areas outside of Bridger-Teton National Forest, though, which meant that for years people were stalking elk and grabbing antlers just as they hit the snow. Gocke has even heard stories of hunters forcing animals into forested areas, hoping a branch might knock one off. So in 2009, Wyoming Game and Fish passed a regulation: it’s illegal to pick up an antler (be it elk, moose, or deer) on public land west of the Continental Divide—where shed hunting is most common in the state—until May 1, creating a de facto opening day.
But just because there are rules doesn’t mean everyone abides. After all, there’s serious money in shed hunting, with brokers across the Mountain West buying antlers in bulk to be sawed into dog chews that then sell for $20 to $40 a pound or sold to brokers in China for medicinal purposes. A matching set of antlers, depending on the size, can net you hundreds or thousands of dollars from a collector.
So agencies like Wyoming Game and Fish deploy their own methods of policing—tactics they like to keep discreet. Some say one method is drilling tracking devices into certain antlers to see if they’re snagged before May 1. Or planting sheds in areas where it’s illegal to pick them up and using hidden motion-sensor cameras to alert the authorities. “I’m not going to confirm nor deny any of that,” says Kyle Lash, game warden for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. “But there is technology out there that we are using.”
The best policemen, Lash explains, are the public. He says he gets more calls about shed enforcement than anything else he does, especially when people suspect a poacher is sneaking into the woods and building secret piles to retrieve on opening day. “We have tactics to prevent that, too,” he says. If you’re caught poaching, it’s a low misdemeanor, which can come with a fine of up to $1,000 per antler, as well as potential jail time and the removal of hunting privileges.
Those who wait until May 1 play it fair. But the Black Friday–esque antler rush doesn’t come stress-free for wildlife officials and the town of Jackson. For one, it puts humans in bear country at an hour and time of year when they’re active. It also costs taxpayer dollars to bring in additional law enforcement to patrol. Plus there’s potential resource damage, such as reckless driving rutting the dirt road, not to mention the congestion that traffic causes on Broadway.
“Just because you’re the first person out there doesn’t mean you’re the person who’s going to find the most antlers,” says Lori Iverson, spokesperson for the National Elk Refuge. “People who wait until 5 A.M. or a day or two later are every bit as successful, if not more successful, than the people who went out at midnight and walked right by antlers they couldn’t see.”
I run into the darkness. The crew I rode here with is already 50 yards ahead and fanning out. I try to track their movements, but after three minutes, they’re gone.
I pump my legs up a steep hill, seeking a more secluded stretch of land before slowing my pace. “Tips and buttons,” I repeat to myself. “Looking for tips and buttons.” I scan the ground with urgency, wading through calf-high grass and stiff sagebrush, not sure of where I am or where I’m going next. Then, after 20 minutes, I see it. The brown object points awkwardly from the ground five yards away, its odd curvature undisturbed under a thin bed of snow. I race its way and give it a gentle kick. The snow blinks off—revealing a large, thick branch.
“Got one!” my walkie-talkie buzzes moments later, from a voice that sounds like Fetherston’s, who’s found an antler somewhere nearby. I shrug off the disappointment and keep moving, coming across someone else who seems to be taking his time.
“Any luck?” I ask.
“Not yet,” Dale Keller grumbles. “How about you?” I shake my head and tell him about the branch. Keller is a truck driver and an experienced shed hunter from Kalispell, Montana. He has a big antler collection and even bigger plans—one day he wants to retire off the ones he’s found. “My buddies laugh at me, but when I can’t walk anymore, I’d like to make stuff out of them and sell it,” he says. “That’s where the money’s at.”
Keller and I wish each other luck, then drift apart, because there’s no sense in looking for sheds together. If two people spot one at the same time, the unwritten rule is that whoever snags it first gets it. Once, Paulsonmorgan saw a guy dive toward a six-point, belly-flopping onto the spiky tines.
Up ahead, I see someone who’s hit it big. Her name is Kilmeny Hall, and she’s gripping a six-point brown, found moments ago just up the hill from me. “This is my first time antler hunting!” she says with a huge grin, and as she lets me hold it, I try to hide my jealousy.
Kilmeny Hall (Brendan Meyer)
After Hall walks away with her prize, I decide to take a break and turn off my headlamp. For the first time all night, I realize there’s a clear Wyoming sky, with the Milky Way and Big Dipper in full view, and oddly enough, as I look out toward the surrounding black foothills dotted with hundreds of lights, the two look similar.
The sky begins to brighten around 5 A.M., illuminating the snowy terrain I’ve aimlessly trekked on for ten or so miles, as well as the Tetons, which seem to appear out of nowhere. Feeling optimistic, I hike up a hill. The hordes are long gone by now—either back in their cars or somewhere deep in the forest—and I wonder if now is my chance to find a shed that all of us walked right past. I swap my headlamp for a pair of binoculars, knowing this is the dramatic moment in any adventure story that leads to a grand discovery.
But today it isn’t.
By 7 A.M., I quit. Tired, cold, and defeated, I trudge back to the parking lot, now in search of a ride back to town. On my way, I meet two well-rested women from Salt Lake City at the trailhead, first-timers who are just beginning their hunt. “It’s about the experience,” Valerie Larabee says after learning of my failure. “That’s kind of what we figured. Just come on out, hike for a couple hours, and enjoy the outdoors.”
Larabee is right. I wish them luck and am weaving between parked cars and horse trailers when I hear a loud clank on the ground, like wooden baseball bats knocking together. A guy dressed in camouflage gear has unhooked the straps to his backpack to release the four sheds he’s found.
David Wilson proudly stands over his antlers, including a six-point and a five-point, both browns. He road-tripped here from Great Falls, Montana, with one of his friends from church. I ask for a ride, and they kindly invite me in, providing chocolate Twizzlers and Rice Krispies Treats as we head down the dirt road back to Jackson. Wilson’s been shed hunting for seven years now, and his collection is locked away in a safe place. Today he covered about 20 miles on foot, hunting with an $800 headlamp and a hand light, which he credits for finding the five-point, my favorite of the bunch. “I was in some timber, and there was a guy right above me,” Wilson says. “He started coming toward me, and I turned around and saw that five-point, tines up, between three trees. It was cool.” He lets me hold it for the entire drive, and by the time we get to my hotel, I can’t let go.
“Would you sell it?” I ask.
Wilson pauses. He’s not sure if he’s ever sold an antler, especially a brown. But after learning that I came up empty-handed, and that he could use the gas money, he’s reconsidering his stance.
“Hmm,” he says with a smile. “I’d part with it for $50.”
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'13 Reasons Why' That's Not What Suicide Looks Like To Me
By Emily Chambers | Think Pieces | April 11, 2017 |
So, full disclosure: this is the second pass I’m taking at this piece. The first one I think is still a pretty decent post, but was filled with links, statistics, and facts about the populations most affected by suicide. It made the overall point that most of the deaths by suicide don’t look like the suicide of Hannah Baker in 13 Reason Why, but in a very clinical way.
What I really meant was, Hannah Baker’s death by suicide doesn’t resemble the suicide that’s most important to me: my father’s.
I’ll spare you most of the details, but suffice to say his death was brutal and messy, and at the end of an equally brutal and messy life. He was thirty-four, had a mostly-undiagnosed, completely-untreated mood disorder, and had been a full-blown alcoholic basically my entire life. Like had-seizures-when-he-tried-to-stop-drinking-alcoholic. At the time of his death, he had fucked up nearly every relationship, totaled his career, intermittently abandoned his children, lost his apartment, and was, if not, completely homeless, well on his way to it. And, yes, that is me sparing you the details.
Which is why the somewhat neat and tidy suicide in 13 Reasons Why rubbed me in all of the wrong ways. That’s not to say that the events leading to Hannah’s death weren’t horrible, or that her suicide wasn’t a tragedy. And that’s especially not to say that actual events that are similar to Hannah’s death aren’t fucking awful. It’s only to say that the sanitized, vaguely romanticized way that most books and movies portray suicide has always struck me as such bullshit. The thirteen tapes detailing the pain and trauma in Hannah’s life were necessary for the narrative of the story, but also too clearly suggested possible fixes. The drama of the story, in fact, hinged on the idea that Hannah just needed someone to reach out to her to prevent her death. To prevent my father’s death, we just needed someone to fully diagnose his bipolar disorder, find the proper treatment for that, treat his rampant alcoholism (we might have tried rehab and AA for the fourth time, but they seemed fairly ineffective), find him a job and housing, and repair his broken relationships with all of his friends and family. No problem, right?
I should also dispel any accidental indications that I might be angry with my father about his fuck-up-edness. I left that a long time ago. In fact, as I’ve reached the age he was when he died, and passed it, what I’ve felt more than anything else is overwhelming sympathy. Things must have been so goddamn bad for him. As I watched Hannah’s reasons for wanting to kill herself pile up, I recognized that the showrunners were trying to get us to identify with her hopelessness and isolation. And I get it. Hannah, and real people who are in similar situations, have my absolute empathy and support. But I can’t ignore what felt like the worlds of difference between someone contemplating suicide in Hannah’s position, and someone contemplating suicide in my dad’s. Not worse, just indeterminably different.
And therein, for me at least, lies the problem. Theoretically, if someone had reached out to Hannah, she could have begun the process of healing. The tragedy is that she ended things before they could get better. For my dad, and a large percentage of people who kill themselves, the tragedy of his life was how thoroughly fucked it was, not how it ended. I don’t think suicide is ever the answer, but honestly, looking back over his life now, I can’t say I think things would have gotten better for him. And those aren’t the suicide stories we tell. We tell stories about missed opportunities, but not about squandered ones. We talk about lives that didn’t have fair chances, but not the wasted. We play the roles where we say, “Just hold on, you can get through this.” And we don’t ever just acknowledge, “I have no idea where to begin fixing this situation.” Because we’re afraid to seem like failures when the best we can say is “I’m sorry things are so hard for you.”
So I’m sorry things were so hard for you, Dad.
Emily Chambers is a Staff Contributor for Pajiba. You can follow her retweeting other people on Twitter.
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Network security is an organization’s strategy and provisions for ensuring the security of its assets and all network traffic. Network security is manifested in an implementation of security hardware and software. For the purposes of this discussion, the following approach is adopted in an effort to view network security in its entirety.
The IT Security Policy is the principle document for network security. Its goal is to outline rules for ensuring the security of organizational assets. Employees today often utilize several tools and applications to conduct business productively. Policy driven from the organization’s culture supports these routines and focuses on safely enabling these tools for employees. Enforcement and auditing procedures for any regulatory compliance to which an organization is subject must be mapped out in the policy as well.
Most definitions of network security are narrowed to the enforcement mechanism. Enforcement concerns analyzing all network traffic flows and should aim to preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all systems and information on the network. These three principles compose the CIA triad:
Confidentiality – protecting assets from unauthorized entities
Integrity – ensuring the modification of assets is handled in a specified and authorized manner
Availability – a state of the system in which authorized users have continuous access to said assets
Strong enforcement strives to provide CIA to network traffic flows. This begins with a classification of traffic flows by application, user and content. As the vehicle for content, all applications must first be identified by the firewall regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactics or SSL. Proper application identification provides full visibility into the content it carries. Policy management can be simplified by identifying applications and mapping their use to a user identity while inspecting the content at all times for the preservation of CIA.
The concept of defense in depth is observed as a best practice in network security, prescribing for the network to be secured in layers. These layers apply an assortment of security controls to sift out threats trying to enter the network: access control, identification, authentication, malware detection, encryption, file type filtering, URL filtering, and content filtering.
These layers are built through the deployment of firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and antivirus components. Among the components for enforcement, the firewall (an access control mechanism) is the foundation of network security.
Providing CIA of network traffic flows is difficult to accomplish with legacy technology. Traditional firewalls are plagued by controls that rely on port/protocol to identify applications – which have now developed evasive characteristics to bypass the controls – and the assumption that IP address equates to user identity.
The next-generation firewall retains an access control mission, but re-engineers the technology; it observes all traffic across all ports, can classify applications and their content, and identifies employees as users. This enables access controls nuanced enough to enforce the IT security policy as it applies to each employee of the organization, with no compromise in security.
Additional services for layering network security to implement a defense-in-depth strategy have been incorporated to the traditional model as add-on components. Intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and antivirus, for example, are effective tools for scanning content and preventing malware attacks. However, organizations must be cautious of the complexity and cost that additional components may add to its network security and, more importantly, not depend on these additional components to do the core job of the firewall.
The auditing process of network security requires checking back on enforcement measures to determine how well they have aligned with the security policy. Auditing encourages continuous improvement by requiring organizations to reflect on the implementation of their policy on a consistent basis. This gives organizations the opportunity to adjust their policy and enforcement strategy in areas of evolving need.
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Stanford hopes to celebrate at season's end
Cardinal women's volleyball team looks to rebound from disappointing finish in 2009
Returning Stanford players (L-R) Gabi Ailes, Cassidy Lichtman, Alix Klineman, Stephanie Brown, Karissa Cook and Hayley Spelman want to make up for last season's loss at home in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen and have the talent and experience to do so. The Cardinal opens its season on Friday in New Mexico. Photo by David Gonzales/Stanford Photo.
By Rick Eymer
Palo Alto Online Sports
Disappointment can be a powerful motivator. Just ask members of the Stanford women's volleyball team.
Last season, and for the first time since 2005, the Cardinal suffered its earliest exit from the NCAA tournament.
Plagued by injuries all season, Stanford managed to win the Pac-10 title but finished 23-8 after being eliminated by Michigan in the Sweet Sixteen at Maples Pavilion.
For then-juniors Cassidy Lichtman, Alix Klineman and Gabi Ailes, it was an inglorious ending to what had been a promising season. Fortunately for all three, they have another shot at righting that wrong.
Lichtman, Klineman and Ailes open their senior seasons this weekend at the MCM Elegante Lobo Classic in Albuquerque. The Cardinal plays Tulane on Friday, Pepperdine on Saturday and host New Mexico on Sunday.
The seniors will carry with them last season's memories and the stark reality that for just the second time since 2003 the Cardinal did not appear in the national championship match.
"I think the seniors are motivated by a couple of things," Dunning said. "They have been to two title matches but have not walked away with what they wanted. Last year, they faced a lot of adversity but gained a lot of confidence. They know they are one of the teams who have a shot."
The team members committed themselves to an offseason of building strength and finding competitive conditioning programs.
Klineman, a 6-foot-4 All-American outside hitter, spent her time working with the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League.
"I've never seen a hockey game in my life," Klineman said. "But there were 20 hockey players and I was the only girl. I did the exact same workout."
Stanford strength coach Devan McConnell, a former hockey player, mediated Klineman's workout with the Ducks.
Ailes worked with a group of volleyball players in Missouri. She's from Nebraska but had an older sister, Tatum, who played for the Tigers.
Sophomore Hayley Spelman, a 6-6 outside hitter, worked with a national team member in Las Vegas over the summer.
"We came in stronger," Lichtman said. "We worked hard together in winter and spring as a team and we all decided to continue the workouts through the summer so we wouldn't lose any of the benefits. We're already ahead of where we were at this time last year."
Klineman's shoulder is nearly back to normal and sophomore (the other) setter Karissa Cook worked on her back problems through strength and conditioning. Even Dunning had to deal with an injury during last year's training camp.
So far this training camp, only redshirt freshman Charlotte Brown is limited in practice. Good news for Dunning, who emphasizes a team approach.
"The sum has to be greater than all of its parts," he said. "There are zillions of tiny details and they all add up. The key is every day, everybody getting it there to the end and not to have any regrets with the point of view as a team."
Klineman, Lichtman and Ailes are returning All-Americans, with sophomores Cook, Hannah Benjamin, Spelman and Jessica Walker and junior Stephanie Browne adding experience to the mix.
Dunning called the three senior All-Americans "perhaps the best player at their position in the country."
While Lichtman displays the best overall athletic ability, Ailes was by far the most improved player at her position and that's saying a lot, since she had pretty good sophomore and freshman seasons.
Ailes had to break an old habit to become one of the best liberos in the nation.
"I was always taking a little hop before the ball was hit," Ailes said. "So John had me stand there and not move my feet. He'd hit the ball and then I'd move. Suddenly balls were flying by me because I just stood there. It was frustrating."
It took some time but Ailes got it and went on to a record-setting year. She's the school's most prolific digger with 1,641 career digs, surpassing Olympian and three-time All-American Kristin Richards.
"She's driven and she's competitive," Dunning said of Ailes. "She will do what is necessary to become better. There were a few technical things but what helped most was her ability to read. There's a lot to see out there and until you can see it you can't make the right decision. She reads now. She looks at the right things and she's in the right place."
Ailes led the Pac-10 with 5.23 digs per set and enters the season as the active conference leader in career digs, nearly 700 more then the next highest player. She also ranks fourth among active players in career aces (66) and seventh in career assists (306).
Klineman has the chance to become the 10th four-time All-American in school history. She has led the Cardinal offensively in each of her first three seasons and leads all active Pac-10 players with 1395 kills, ranks third with 841 digs and 214 blocks and is tied for fifth in the conference with 64 aces.
Lichtman showed that she can play anywhere on the court. She led the team with 22 double-doubles, including 10 triple doubles. She is fifth among active Pac-10 players in assists (1503), sixth in digs (756) and seventh in aces (52).
The senior class, along with Browne, has an 86-15 record through three seasons. The group has claimed three consecutive Pac-10 titles.
Stanford's five freshmen were named the third-best recruiting class in the nation by PrepVolleyball. The group boasts of two of the top five recruits in the country: No. 3 Rachel Williams and No. 4 Carly Wopat. Sam Wopat comes in ranked No. 40 and Lydia Bai at No. 43. Mary Ellen Luck, whose brother Andrew happens to be the starting quarterback for the Cardinal football team, is also a freshman.
Dunning will be looking for his 700th career win on Friday, with 262 of those coming with Stanford. The most important number, however, may come at the end of the season.
2010 STANFORD WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
Date Opponent Time
Aug. 27 vs. Tulane at New Mexico 4 p.m.
Aug. 28 vs. Pepperdine at New Mexico 10:30 a.m.
Aug. 29 at New Mexico 1 p.m.
Sept. 2 vs. UC Irvine 7 p.m.
Sept. 4 vs. Marquette 2 p.m.
Sept. 10 vs. Texas at Florida 5:30 p.m.
Sept. 11 vs. Florida or Penn State at Florida TBA
Sept. 17 at Saint Mary's 7 p.m.
Sept. 18 at San Francisco 7 p.m.
Sept. 24 at Arizona State * 7 p.m.
Sept. 26 at Arizona * 1 p.m.
Oct. 1 vs. Oregon State* 7 p.m.
Oct. 2 vs. Oregon* 7 p.m.
Oct. 8 at USC* 7 p.m.
Oct. 10 at UCLA* 7 p.m.
Oct. 15 vs. Washington* 7 p.m.
Oct. 16 vs. Washington State* 7 p.m.
Oct. 22 vs. California* 7 p.m.
Oct. 29 at Oregon* 7 p.m.
Oct. 31 at Oregon State* 1 p.m.
Nov. 5 vs. UCLA* 7 p.m.
Nov. 7 vs. USC* 1 p.m.
Nov. 12 at Washington State* 7 p.m.
Nov. 13 at Washington* 7 p.m.
Nov. 19 at California* 7 p.m.
Nov. 24 vs. Arizona* 7 p.m.
Nov. 26 vs. Arizona State* 7 p.m.
*Pac-10 matches
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San Antonio VIA's new CNG fueling station largest in North America
VIA President/CEO Jeffrey C. Arndt leads the dedication of VIA's new 10,980 square foot CNG fueling station, the largest in North America.
San Antonio’s VIA Metropolitan Transit officially dedicated its new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station at the regional transit agency’s San Antonio campus. Guests at the Dedication Ceremony got a first look inside the 10,980-square-foot compressor compound that stands as the largest in North America.
The 10-lane station began operating in 2017 to support the first of VIA’s new CNG-powered fleet that debuted in observance of Earth Day. VIA’s full fleet conversion will be complete in 2025. More than one-half of VIA’s diesel revenue vehicles have been replaced with CNG buses to date.
Since it began operation, the station has saved over $1 million in fuel costs. The facility’s dedication is meant to commemorate VIA’s first full year of CNG bus service and raise awareness of Ozone Action Season in San Antonio. Installation of the new fueling station and continued procurement of lower-emissions vehicles will make VIA the largest customer of CPS Energy’s CNG fuel program.
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“The CNG fueling station services a new generation of VIA buses and highlights our role as an industry leader to drive innovation that improves air quality throughout the region,” VIA President/CEO Jeffrey C. Arndt said. “Through strategic and community partnerships, VIA’s efforts to ensure a more mobile future include benchmarks for efficiency, substantial fuel savings, and infrastructure improvements that come with building a modern transportation system for our region.”
VIA’s CNG program is part of a multi-year, community-driven plan to build a better bus system while significantly reducing vehicle emissions, decreasing operating costs, and planning service enhancements. Once complete, the transformed fleet will bring a 97% reduction of nitrogen oxide, or NOx, emissions and further support the agency’s commitment to environmental stewardship. The annual fuel cost savings are estimated at $8.5 million, and the maintenance savings, over a five-year period, are estimated at $2 million.
VIA's new 10-lane CNG fueling station began operating in 2017 to support the conversion to an all-CNG-powered fleet.
The Alamo Area Council of Governments recognized VIA’s efforts in April 2018 with an Air Quality Stewardship Award for taking action to improve air quality and serve as a “beacon to other businesses, agencies and organizations in the region.”
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Trillium CNG, part of the Love's Family of Companies, was contracted in 2016 to design and build the CNG facility. The new station includes the addition of 10 CNG dispensers operated by seven 700-horsepower compressors, with a total flow rate of more than 85 gallons per minute. The existing dispensers — 10 diesel fuel and six propane — will be phased out once the conversion to CNG is complete. VIA’s new CNG buses are manufactured by Nova. The 40-foot buses have a 67-passenger capacity. The contract with Nova Bus calls for the delivery of 425 vehicles over a five-year period.
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He built Jewish homes in occupied territory to secure lands. He launched retaliatory, eye-for-an-eye strikes to confront terrorism.
And, in the last years of his political life, he walled off portions of the West Bank and bulldozed Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip — with little to no consultation with Palestinian leaders — in what he cast as a strategic withdrawal.
“I am among those who believe that it is possible to reach a fair compromise and coexistence in good neighborly relations between Jews and Arabs,” he said in an address to the U.N. General Assembly in September 2005, months before he was felled by a stroke. “However, I must emphasize one fact: There will be no compromise on the right of the state of Israel to exist as a Jewish state, with defensible borders, in full security and without threats and terror.”
A burly, 5-foot-6-inch tall man with a soldier’s swagger in his youth, he turned into a jowly junk-food addict in his later years. His weight ballooned over 300 pounds, according to Israel Radio. He was a formidable force barreling between meetings amid a phalanx of bodyguards.
Ariel is Hebrew for “Lion of God” and Sharon, who was known by his nickname “Arik,” emerged in the early years of Israeli history as a heroic soldier, thanks to a military career that spanned four decades. The son of a Russian emigré, he was born in British Mandate Palestine on Feb. 27, 1928, in a farming community called Kfar Malal.
He joined the pre-independence Haganah movement at 14 in 1942, a precursor to the Israel Defense Forces, in which he would rise to the rank of major general.
He was an infantry commander in the 1948 War of Independence, founder of a crack commando unit that led retaliatory raids against Arab enemies in the early years of statehood, and a tank commander in the 1967 Six-Day War.
He retired from the army in 1972, but was mobilized for the 1973 Yom Kippur war to command an armored division that shattered Egyptian lines in the Sinai Desert and charged across the Suez Canal — a lightning move that some historians credit as setting the stage for the 1978 peace treaty between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Sharon’s political mentor, Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
So close were the two men that Begin made Sharon his agriculture minister in 1977, then elevated him to defense minister in 1981 and led to his plotting the invasion of Lebanon. That offensive war was meant to drive Palestinian guerrillas from Israel’s northern border, but the man known as The Bulldozer kept charging — straight for Beirut.
Sharon’s standing soured after the September 1982 massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children at the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps. The killings were carried out by Lebanon’s Christian Phalange militia, but Sharon, as defense minister, was found personally responsible if not knowledgeable about the atrocities.
Palestinians and other Arabs across the Middle East blamed him personally for the butchery.
Thus came the years of ignominy. A popular 1980s Israeli rock anthem — “Doesn’t Stop on Red” — never mentioned his name but ridiculed the disgraced leader as “the people’s hero” on state-run radio.
Now a bit player in Israeli politics, he was relegated to the role of a backbencher in Israel’s Knesset. To cleanse his tarnished reputation, he filed a libel lawsuit against Time magazine, which blamed him explicitly for the massacre. A jury found defamation and falsehood, but no malice — denying him the $50 million in compensatory damages he had sought.
But he never disappeared from politics. He served as minister of industry and trade and then housing and construction from the mid-1980s to the early ’90s, roles that let him find jobs and housing for waves of immigrants, notably those from the collapsed Soviet Union — and win the loyalty of a new generation of hawkish Israelis.
Once again, The Bulldozer mowed under olive tree orchards and West Bank hillsides to expand Jewish settlements, harkening back to 1970s tactics when he sent Israeli armor to Gaza City to mow under rows of cramped refugee-camp housing, and better rout anti-Israeli fighters, the “fedayeen.”
As leader of the opposition Likud Party, he was a fierce opponent of his rival Labor Party’s peace treaty with Yasser Arafat, and an outspoken opponent of the Oslo Agreement because, he said, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization had blood on his hands.
The two men had demonized each other for years. Arafat had already stumbled in his leadership of the peace process in the late ’90s when Sharon handed him a new cause: Sharon led some hawkish followers onto the Temple Mount in old Jerusalem in September 2000, a raw display intended to signal Jewish sovereignty over the place Muslims call Haram al Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary. It uncorked years of Palestinian frustration with a ferocity that was far greater than the first Palestinian Uprising, or “intifada” — bloodshed that sparked a political crisis in Israel.
As the Labor Party government collapsed, Sharon dusted off his old warrior image, and campaigned on a pledge to crush a grisly wave of suicide and bus bombings. His political rehabilitation complete, he was elected prime minister in 2001 by the largest margin in Israel’s history — and reelected in 2003.
By then he had isolated his archenemy Arafat in a Ramallah compound, this time sending bulldozers to turn portions of it to rubble, ridiculing the Palestinian leader’s self-promotion as president of an illusory state called Palestine.
It was a powerful symbol of the Palestinian leader’s impotence. Arafat was 75 when he died in November 2004, exiled once again, in a military hospital in Paris.
In the Holy Land, Sharon, then 76, grew stronger. He had stared down international criticism to champion a massive cement and barbed-wire security wall and garnered sufficient support at home for the controversial withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005 — in defiance of the religious settlement movement that had earlier celebrated him as Arik, King of Israel.
And he planned more withdrawals. At the time of his first stroke, Dec. 18, 2005, he had left his own Likud Party. Its platform and ideology were at odds with his notion of more unilateral withdrawals from the West Bank — a reversal of the facts on the ground he created decades earlier.
Sharon lived his entire life in Israel, studied history at Hebrew University, military tactics at Britain’s Staff College and got a law degree from Tel Aviv University.
He was one of the last living members of the generation of founding fathers of Israel who were there at the nation’s creation in 1948 and then rose to prominence in national and foreign policy.
Sometime rival, sometime ally Shimon Peres, the 90-year-old former Labor Party prime minister, is Israel’s ninth president. Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir left the national stage after he was ousted in the 1992 elections and died at age 96 in June 2012.
A widower, Sharon was married twice — first to Margolit, who died in a 1961 car crash, then to her sister Lili, who died in 2000 of cancer. A son by Margolit died as a boy in a shooting accident. He is survived by two sons by Lili, Omri and Gilad, who briefly moved him to the family’s Sycamore Ranch in November 2010 before returning him to the hospital where he died.
Carol Rosenberg began reporting in the Middle East in 1987. She was The Miami Herald’s Jerusalem bureau chief from 1990-94, and has returned through the years on assignment.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon inspects a newly developed type of grapes during an Aug. 12, 2003 visit to an experimental farm at the Ministry of Agriculture in the town of Beit Dagan, some 9 miles east of Tel Aviv. ASSOCIATED PRESS
Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, left, and President George W. Bush walk from his private office to attend a joint news conference following their talks about the Middle East peace process at Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, Monday, Aprill 11, 2005. Sharon is facing opposition at home over the evacuation of Jewish settlers in the occupied territories and is looking to Bush for support. The president's dog Barney sits at right. ASSOCIATED PRESS
President George W. Bush emphasizes a point as he shares a moment with Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon during a April 11, 2005 visit at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas. MCT
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, LEFT, sits with pop star Michael Jackson, Rabbi Schmuley Boteach, second right, and psychic Uri Geller at a private reception in New York on March 22, 2001. REUTERS
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gives a speech during a memorial ceremony for Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion marking the 32nd anniversary for his death, in Sde Boker in the Negev desert on Dec. 7, 2005. MENAHEM KAHANA
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, left, gestures as he talks to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem in this Oct. 11, 2001 file photo, during a special memorial session for the 78 people killed in the Oct. 4, 2001 Sibir flight disaster over the Black Sea. ASSOCIATED PRESS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, bottom right, talks with Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon, bottom left, after addressing Israel's parliament Monday, Dec. 21, 1998 during a Knesset debate on holding early elections. A storm of opposition from both foes and friends of the new Wye peace accord brought Premier Netanyahu's government to the brink of collapse, forcing Netanyahu to agree to early elections. ASSOCIATED PRESS
Then-opposition Likud party leader Ariel Sharon gestures toward a stretch of the Jordan Valley, which lies in the West Bank, during a campaign stop at the Israeli army Tuvlan outpost Wednesday Jan. 3, 2001. Sharon, a leading contender for prime minister of Israel in upcoming elections, put a kinder, gentler spin on his tough talk, saying that in the name of peace he would not speak of territorial concessions to the the Palestinians. ASSOCIATED PRESS
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Feb. 8, 2005. KRT
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Will Take Charge is the 9-5 program favorite to win the important 1 1/8-mile stakes for older horses even though he will be required to carry 123 pounds, anywhere from 4 to 11 pounds more than any of his 10 expected rivals.
With success in horse racing comes the burden of added weight.
But Lukas is not complaining, not after Will Take Charge got his act together late on last year’s racing calendar to win divisional honors.
After the horse flopped in the Triple Crown series, “they pretty much gave this horse up for dead,” Lukas said. “But we finished up strong.”
Will Take Charge finished eighth in the Kentucky Derby, seventh in the Preakness and 10th in the Belmont. But, afterward, he won a pair of graded stakes for 3-year-olds, including the Travers at Saratoga, and lost the Breeders’ Cup Classic to Mucho Macho Man by a nose.
Lukas said the colt would have turned in a better showing in both the Kentucky Derby and Breeders’ Cup Classic had he not encountered severe traffic that slowed his patented late run, perhaps costing him victories in both.
“In my eyes, we really believed we would have been first or second in the Kentucky Derby, but he got shut down twice,” Lukas said. “And when you see that aerial view, it’s pretty obvious he was really making a monster move.”
Lukas said the two weeks between the Derby and Preakness wasn’t enough time for the horse to get it out of his system.
“I think it affected him mentally,” Lukas said. “I think he was going around in the Preakness wondering ‘Who’s coming next? Who’s going to blindside me next time?’ It’s like one of those wide receivers who gets blindsided. The next time he goes over the middle, he’s not so sure he wants to be there.”
Still, when all was said and done in 2013, no other 3-year-old — or at least none of the three different winners of the Triple Crown races — could boast such a résumé. Will Take Charge won $3 million in purse earnings last year.
“The Triple Crown group had trouble putting together any consistency,” Lukas said. “We kept waking up to a different scenario every time we ran one [of the three signature races].”
Orb won the Derby but never won another race.
Oxbow, also trained by Lukas, won the Preakness. He, too, did not win again.
Palace Malice managed to follow up his Belmont victory with another in the Jim Dandy Stakes. But that was it.
Will Take Charge took off, and he’s still going.
Lukas, 78, has outlined an ambitious schedule for the star of his 38-horse stable, which he headquarters during the winter at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas. After the Donn, he hopes to head to California for the Santa Anita Handicap. Lukas said Will Take Charge might race once every month until summer, gear back for a few months, and rev up again for another attempt at the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
“All these horses dictate their own pace,” Lukas said. “They’ll tell you when they’re ready and when they’re not. People have opinions. Horses have the facts.”
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Ed Rendell, former Pennsylvania Governor, to headline MAJ Annual Banquet
MAJ's 69th Annual Banquet is May 10, 2014
MICHIGAN — Yesterday, the Michigan Association for Justice (MAJ) confirmed that the former governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell, will be the keynote speaker at the MAJ 69th Annual Banquet. The former governor is currently special counsel at the law firm of Ballard Spahr in Philadelphia. Mr. Rendell is also a frequent contributor to NBC News and MSNBC.
“We are very excited to welcome Governor Rendell to Michigan,” said MAJ President Jerry Acker. “He is an inspirational speaker and has been an impressive leader as both mayor of Philadelphia and as governor."
As governor, Rendell led the charge to reinvest in Pennsylvania's infrastructure and helped move the state toward a cleaner renewable energy future by utilizing wind and solar power. He continues fighting for similar initiatives today in his role as the co-chair of Building America's Future, an organization that "focuses on the need for more significant investment in American infrastructure projects to ensure that America maintains its place as a global economic power."
Prior to being elected governor, Rendell served as Philadelphia's mayor, where he eliminated a massive budget deficit and generated a surplus that led to what the New York Times called "the most stunning turnaround in recent urban history."
This year’s banquet will be held at the International Center in Detroit on May 10, with the theme focusing on MAJ’s history as being founded in Detroit and working to protect Michigan families and citizens for nearly 70 years.
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Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press
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Judge declines to throw out Harvey Weinstein criminal case
Nation Dec 20, 2018 10:54 AM EDT
NEW YORK — A New York judge declined to dismiss sexual assault charges against Harvey Weinstein Thursday, rejecting the latest push from the disgraced film producer’s lawyers to have his indictment thrown out.
Judge James Burke’s ruling buoyed a prosecution that has appeared on rocky ground in recent months amid a prolonged defense effort to raise doubts about the case and the police investigation.
Weinstein’s lawyers argued the case had been “irreparably tainted” by a detective’s alleged coaching of a potential witness and one of the accusers. They also said the grand jury should have been shown evidence that Weinstein had exchanged friendly emails with his two accusers after the alleged attacks.
But Burke ruled that Weinstein’s claims of prosecutorial misconduct had “no basis.” He also denied Weinstein’s request for an evidentiary hearing.
Weinstein’s next court date is scheduled for March 7.
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Weinstein’s defense attorney, Benjamin Brafman, said he was disappointed with Burke’s ruling, but said he remains confident Weinstein will be “completely exonerated” at trial.
“We intend to vigorously defend this case to the best of our ability,” Brafman told reporters after the hearing. “It does not in any way suggest that the case against Mr. Weinstein is going to end badly.”
Weinstein has denied all allegations of nonconsensual sex. He pleaded not guilty and is free on $1 million bail. He left court without commenting.
He is charged with raping an unidentified female acquaintance in his hotel room in 2013 and performing a forcible sex act on a different woman in 2006. The Associated Press does not identify alleged victims of sexual assaults unless they come forward publicly.
Images of Weinstein, the notoriously bombastic producer of Oscar winners “Shakespeare in Love” and “The English Patient,” in handcuffs last spring were seen by many women as a cathartic moment in the #MeToo reckoning. About half a dozen women supporting Time’s Up, including actresses Amber Tamblyn and Marisa Tomei, were at the hearing Thursday.
“Today, here in New York, we saw the first steps towards justice,” Time’s Up President Lisa Borders said after the judge’s ruling.
Burke could have dismissed some or all of the charges, which would have been a major setback for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who was criticized for declining to pursue criminal charges against Weinstein when he was accused of groping an Italian model in 2015. Vance cited a lack of supporting evidence at the time, despite the existence of a clandestinely made recording of Weinstein discussing the episode with the woman.
But in recent months, Weinstein worked side-by-side with Brafman to throw doubt on the case and his accusers. They plucked emails from his movie studio’s servers they say showed Weinstein had friendly, consensual relationships with the women.
Weinstein’s defense was boosted in October by back-to-back allegations of misconduct in the police investigation.
Manhattan prosecutors dropped one of the charges against him — allegations that he raped an aspiring actress who was still in college — after evidence surfaced that Det. Nicholas DiGaudio instructed a potential witness to keep some of her doubts about the veracity of the allegations to herself.
DiGaudio allegedly told the witness in February that when she spoke to prosecutors, “less is more.” That witness never testified before the grand jury that indicted Weinstein.
Burke, in his ruling, noted that count was dismissed not because prosecutors disbelieved the alleged victim but because they determined they may not have been able to prove the charge beyond a reasonable doubt.
Prosecutors also disclosed an allegation that DiGaudio urged the 2013 rape accuser to delete private material from her cellphones before handing them over to the DA’s office.
Prosecutors said the material didn’t pertain to Weinstein and the woman wound up not deleting anything. DiGaudio’s union has said he “was simply trying to get to the truth” and wasn’t trying to influence the investigation.
Late last month, Weinstein’s lawyers said they spoke to a woman who said the rape accuser asked her to corroborate her allegations, but the friend wouldn’t “make up a story.”
The friend told investigators that Weinstein and the accuser had been “hooking up” consensually for a while and that she never heard her say anything bad about him until last year, Brafman said in a court filing.
In the months after The New York Times and The New Yorker began publishing stories about Weinstein’s interactions with women, activists pressured Vance to bring charges as dozens of people came forward with claims of sexual misconduct against him.
New York Police officials poured on the pressure, too, saying publicly they believed they had gathered ample evidence to make an arrest.
Burke’s ruling revealed that Weinstein had agreed in May to testify before the grand jury considering his case. He was arrested days later and then withdrew his notice to testify before the grand jury that charged him.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda E3 2016 trailer analysis
By Chris Thursten 2016-06-12T22:57:15.163Z
A new crew for a new mission.
Those expecting extended in-game footage or an explicit reveal of plot or character details might have been disappointed by tonight's Mass Effect: Andromeda trailer. This is a cautious reveal by today's standards, suggesting that the game still has some distance to cover before its release next year. Even so, there's loads to take in if you look close enough.
Like its predecessor, this trailer opens with footage of real spacecraft. The Mass Effect series has always had a bit of a thing for the history of human space exploration: after all, Shepard takes his or her name from the first American in space. In the trailer, this repeated motif emphasises Andromeda's exploration focus, as well as the 'back to basics' approach of the game as a whole.
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The Newmandy
Oh boy. This is our first glimpse of the Normandy SR-2's replacement. Its name, Tempest, is in line with previous leaks. The vibe here is definitely of an advanced prototype—an echo of the first game, where the Normandy was a prototype vessel created as a joint project between the humans and turians.
The sleek lines of the Tempest suggest that this is also a multi-species project. There are echoes of both asari and salarian design, here: none of those harsh turian angles. We see a bit more of it, from a variety of angles, over the following seconds.
Here's our first glimpse of the the Tempest's galaxy map, which appears to be right in the middle of the bridge, and its crew. Note the krogan to the left and the salarian on the right: further confirmation, if you needed any, that this is a multispecies project. We'll see both of these companions again later in the trailer.
Staying on-brand
This is the only shot of Shepard-approved N7 armour in the trailer. Later, the protagonist will be seen wearing nondescript white gear. As such it's not clear if you play as another N7 graduate—although that seems likely—or if you've simply got the option to dress up like Shepard if you feel like it.
An uplifting story
Although this is probably a new species, the creature this artist is working on looks quite a lot like a yahg. The yahg were a pre-spaceflight species who were barred from entering galactic society because of their violent nature (although one of them would go on to become the galaxy's most notorious information broker.)
Your exploratory mission in Andromeda lends itself to exactly this kind of narrative beat, however. As you encounter new species, some of them are bound to be primitive (and inclined to smash your face in.) Deciding whether or not to attempt to 'uplift' a less advanced species by giving them access to your technology is exactly the kind of choice that the Mass Effect series likes to set in front of its players.
Aggressive diplomacy
No uplift taking place here, however. This looks like an attack on a human colony, if that prefabricated building is any indication. Most telling in this moment, however, is the familiar reload animation and back-mounted weaponry. Mass Effect's fundamental combat systems don't appear to have changed very much. It's a fair guess that killing this guy means rolling out of the way when he charges and shooting him in the back.
It's hard to tell exactly what those other guns are, however, due to the fact that they're folded up. The one on the right looks like a machine gun or possibly a heavy weapon. The one on the left could be a compact sniper or assault rifle. Based on the reload animation, thermal clips are here to stay.
Uncanny asari
"We're better at animating faces now!" BioWare proclaim, although they're skirting the edge of the uncanny valley here. Still: it's amazing what a difference five years and a change of engine makes. Also, the asari are definitely in Andromeda. If this is a surprise to you, well, that's very surprising.
This picturesque colony looks a little user-generated to me, although that might be stretching things. The most notable thing in this image is the nose of the Tempest, visible to the left. Providing that this isn't a shuttle of some kind—and it doesn't look like it is—this gives us our first proper sense of scale. It's not a small ship by any means, but it is much smaller than the comparatively massive Normandy SR-2. This might well be in order to facilitate planetary landings, which is clearly the case here—we'll return to that idea in a moment.
There goes the neighbourhood
The crew surveys a wrecked encampment with what appears to be some kind of sheer monolith in the distance. Here's a tip for prospective Mass Effect heroes: towering unknowable ancient monoliths are always a riot and you should definitely, definitely touch them.
Your krogan companion is visible again here, surveying the wreckage and being a dinosaur.
Handy biotics
And now for mo-capped biotic ground-punching. This suggests the return of kinectic biotic-powered classes like Mass Effect 3's vanguard as well as increased verticality for the game in general. We've seen jetpacks in previous trailers, too. This may well be the first Mass Effect game with prominent jumping outside of cutscenes, if that's important to you.
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Tank!
The Mako! It's back! Although this one will almost certainly be named after a different sort of shark. It's great to see Mass Effect 1's silliest, most awkward, most ambitious feature make a return: and if you need a buggy to get around, that suggests far bigger explorable areas than Dragon Age: Inquisition offered.
Also, look at what is directly above the tank in this picture: the rear engines of the Tempest. This not only confirms that the Tempest will be able to land on planet surfaces, but it implies that you might be able to choose where you land as part of your exploration.
It's getting hot in here
There's a real 'Galaxy Quest rock monster' vibe coming from this guy, which fits the Star Trek theme perfectly. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that, of all the cool new aliens you meet, you can't romance this one. And honestly, looking at him, you probably can't Paragon-interrupt-speech your way out of it either.
Thresher maw or suddenly-unearthed ancient alien obelisk? Given that this is a Mass Effect game, these are basically the only choices. You are either going to climb inside this thing or fight it with a tank and possibly both.
This brief combat scene provides a closer look at your future companions, including the krogan from earlier and possibly the salarian too. The krogan has blue and yellow armour adorned with tusks, suggesting that our dinosaur pals haven't quite left behind the old ways in their integration into galactic society. Or, he just collects tusks. Also note the old-school Avenger assault rifle in the protagonist's hands.
Vintage ride
This looks an awful lot like an advanced version of one of the Normandy's shuttles circa Mass Effect 2 and 3. Whether or not the Tempest will have one seems uncertain given that it can land on planets, but perhaps you'll use it to journey to specific mission locations. Or when it's raining.
Renegade interrupt
We've seen a lot of humans and krogans in this trailer so far, but here they're not staring appreciatively at a wonderful new sci-fi visa: they are being a dick to some guy. It's fully possible that these are villains—the krogan certainly looks different to the one we saw earlier—but a more entertaining thought is that this is the player and a companion Renegade-interrupting some dude... to death. Imagine that he's a reporter and it all makes perfect sense.
If you weren't getting a 'new Star Trek' vibe from Andromeda already, here you have it. A fleet of Alliance shuttles leave Earth's atmosphere on their way... somewhere. In the foreground you can see human warships in orbit, suggesting that we've spent some time rebuilding since the events of Mass Effect 3. The fact that the lights are on in the cities below suggests the same thing.
It's a good bet that this is a cutscene from near the start of the game, as the protagonist prepares to set off on their journey to Andromeda. But how will they get there? Faster than light travel in Mass Effect requires mass relays, and the network was badly damaged, wasn't it? Surely the Tempest can't pack enough power to...
Oh. This'll be your ride, then. This ship made an appearance at the end of last year's N7 day trailer but we didn't have a sense of scale back then. This reveal makes it clear that it's absolutely massive.
It also suggests an interesting solution to the FTL problem. This ship looks a lot like a hybrid of the Citadel and a mass relay: and guess what? The citadel and mass relays were both Reaper technology. And the reapers were capable of unassisted FTL flight. Journeying into the unknown in a massive colony ship based on Reaper tech? Literally nothing can go wrong with that plan.
Here's your new Shepard. Or at least one of them. At the end of the trailer we see the protagonist wake up after (presumably) a long period of cryo-sleep. "We made it" she whispers, before presumably turning to somebody and saying "I should go."
Of note: excellent face-tech, once again, and also excellent eyeshadow for somebody who has been asleep for at least a couple of months. Given that I'm likely to spend the equivalent of a round-trip to Mars tweaking my nu-Shepard's facial features just so, it makes sense that she'd wake up looking sharp.
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Steam Top Sellers week ending 2 July
By Paul Younger July 2, 2017 0
It’s a new month but there’s still no change at the top of the Steam Top Sellers for week ending2 2 July. Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds remains the best selling game for yet another week.
With the Steam sale now on, there’s no huge surprises this week, the usual suspects dominate the list including GTA V, Fallout 4, and The Witcher 3. H1Z1: King of the Hill takes sixth spot after another update to the game this week and Dark Souls 3 is holding it all together in tenth. It’s a bit unexciting and has been for a few weeks. It’s likely to stay that way as we move into the dry game release months of July and August.
Here’s the run-down…
#1 – PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS
#2 – Grand Theft Auto V
#3 – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Game of the Year Edition
#4 – Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
#5 – NieR:Automata™
#6 – H1Z1: King of the Kill
#7 – Dishonored 2
#8 – Fallout 4
#9 – Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition
#10 – DARK SOULS™ III
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Jim Fisher Nikon AF-S Nikkor 85mm f/1.8G The Nikon AF-S Nikkor 85mm f/1.8G is a light and compact lens that's ideal for portraiture. It's quite sharp, and equally affordable.
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 85mm f/1.8G
March 23, 2015 3:22PM EST
Excellent sharpness. Minimal distortion. Wide aperture. Inexpensive.
Lacks optical stabilization. Limited close focus capability.
The Nikon AF-S Nikkor 85mm f/1.8G is a light and compact lens that's ideal for portraiture. It's quite sharp, and equally affordable.
Nikon's series of f/1.8G prime lenses is a boon to photographers who use the company's D-SLR cameras. Each one we've tested has been a solid performer, and affordably priced. The Nikon AF-S Nikkor 85mm f/1.8G is no different. It's quite sharp, even at f/1.8, fairly light, and a great deal at $499.95. It's not quite the same pinnacle of optical perfection as the Zeiss Otus 1.4/85, but given that it won't require you to consider a second mortgage to acquire, it's equally as worthy of being called Editors' Choice.
Zeiss Otus 1.4/85
Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1,4/85
Sigma 85mm F1.4 EX DG HSM Lens
Nikon AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED
The Nikkor 85mm measures 2.9 by 3.1 inches (HD), weighs just 12.4 ounces, and supports 67mm front filters. A reversible bayonet lens hood is included, as is a soft carrying case. There's no optical stabilization system—most prime lenses in this focal range don't have one—so it's not the best choice for handheld video recording. The only control switch changes between manual and autofocus. The manual focus ring sits right behind the front element, and there is a printed scale that changes to show you at what distance the lens is focused. Nikon puts a depth of field scale, with markings for f/16, next to the distance indicator, but the focal length, short focus throw, and very narrow markings make focusing by scale impractical, even when stopped down.
The aperture is a 7-blade design, with rounded blades, so out-of-focus highlights will be fairly circular when the lens is stopped down. Close focus is limited to 2.6 feet, which you may find limiting if you're used to working with wider angle lenses that focus closer. The longer focal length does provide a maximum magnification ratio of 1:8.3, but that's by no means macro territory. If that's what you're after, consider Nikon's excellent AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED, which is capable of 1:1 reproduction.
I used Imatest to see how the Nikkor 85mm performs when paired with the 36-megapixel Nikon D810. At f/1.8 it scores 2,598 lines per picture height on our center-weighted sharpness test, with just a slight drop in performance at the edges of the frame (2,134 lines). That's much better than the 1,800 lines we look for in an image.
Stopping down to f/2 offers nominal improvement (2,680 lines), but at f/2.8 the resolution jump to 2,938 lines, and hit hits 3,254 lines at f/4. There's a modest improvement at f/5.6 (3,290 lines), but a big jump at f/8 (3,654 lines) and peak resolution at f/11 (3,779 lines). At f/16 diffraction robs the lens of some resolution, but it still shows 3,366 lines. Distortion is minimal. There's just 0.3 percent pincushion, which gives straight lines a very slight inward curve. It's hardly worth mentioning.
Getting this kind of optical performance for $500 is a treat, especially when you consider that similar f/1.4 lenses from Zeiss and Nikon can cost more than twice as much. The close focus distance is a little limiting, but if you're a macro shooter you'll be better served by the Micro-Nikkor 105mm, which adds in-lens stabilization to boot. You may be tempted to spend more on an f/1.4 lens to really blur backgrounds behind portrait subjects, but it's pretty easy create a shallow depth of field in this focal length when shooting at f/1.8. The Nikon AF-S Nikkor 85mm f/1.8G is an excellent lens and an excellent value, making it easy to call our Editors' Choice.
Bottom Line: The Nikon AF-S Nikkor 85mm f/1.8G is a light and compact lens that's ideal for portraiture. It's quite sharp, and equally affordable.
Other Nikon Lenses
Nikon Nikkor Z 50mm f/1.8 S
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 500mm f/5.6E PF ED VR
Nikon Nikkor Z 24-70mm f/4 S
Nikon AF-S DX Micro-Nikkor 85mm f/3.5G ED VR
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Meg Lanning Hungry For Success
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After missing last year's tournament, Scorchers skipper Meg Lanning is hungry for Rebel Women's BBL action!
She hasn't touched a cricket ball since steering Australia to the the T20 World Cup title on Sunday in the Caribbean but Meg Lanning says she's ready to attack Saturday's opening round of the Women's Big Bash League in Melbourne.
The national captain also leads our Perth Scorchers, who first take on the Hobart Hurricanes at Junction Oval in a carnival of cricket with all eight teams playing over two days.
Lanning has had little sleep since the Southern Stars' emphatic win in the final over England but having played so much cricket through the T20 World Cup was confident her game was in good shape.
"It's been a bit of a whirlwind but we've hit enough cricket balls over the past six weeks so no doubt we will be ready to go on Saturday," the 26-year-old told AAP.
"I think it's a good thing we're getting straight back into it."
While delighted with Australia's success in Antigua, Lanning admitted she wasn't completely happy with her run tally through the tournament.
But she felt some big scores weren't far away.
"I would have loved to have scored more runs but at the end of the day we went over there to win the World Cup and we were able to do that," Lanning said.
"I'm looking forward to getting on to some Australian wickets and playing well.
"I feel like I'm hitting the ball well in the nets so it's about going out there and spending some time in the middle."
After sitting out last season following shoulder surgery, the 26-year-old joined the Scorchers, who have finished runners-up in the past two WBBL editions behind the Sydney Sixers.
During her two seasons with the Melbourne Stars Lanning had a competition-high average of 51.16.
At Perth the 26-year-old will join forces with fellow Australian batters Elyse Villani and Nicole Bolton.
Lanning said missing last year's tournament had made her hungry to play.
"It was frustrating watching. I'm not a good cricket watcher but this year's rolled around pretty quick so I'm excited to get out there with Perth and hopefully we can get off to a good start," she said.
"We've got some good young players coming through and some good internationals as well so I feel like we've got some good variety."
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Greg is now Professor of Irish at the School of Arts, English and Languages. He once worked as a researcher for the Northern Ireland Placenames Project at Queen’s (1990-97) before taking up a post as a lecturer in Irish in the Department of Welsh in the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1997. He was appointed a lecturer in Irish in the University of Ulster in 1999 and Professor of Irish Language and Literature in 2006 there before moving to Queen’s as Professor of Irish in 2011. He has written books on the placenames of Co. Down (together with Mícheál Ó Mainnín) and Co. Derry and published a critical edition of the Middle-Irish text, Bruiden Da Choca, in the Irish Texts Society series. He edited the electronic version of the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of the Irish Language (DIL) and has produced a supplement for an extended and revised version of the dictionary (www.dil.ie). His research focusses primarily on early Irish literature and he has published in Ériu, Éigse, and Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies. He is particularly interested in Gaelic historiography and story, including narrative modes and cultural context. He is Honorary Editor of the Irish Texts Society and serves on the management committee of the Royal Irish Academy’s Foclóir na Nua-Ghaeilge. He is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College.
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All Piano Tutorials of Dream Pop
Hooverphonic - Mad About You
"Mad About You" is a song by the Belgian band Hooverphonic. It was released as a single in 2000 prior to the release of Hooverphonic's third studio album, The Magnificent Tree. "Mad About You" is often considered the band's masterpiece and its biggest worldwide success. (Wikipedia)
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Why I cycled 45 miles for The Prince's Trust
On October 2nd 2016, Young Ambassador and Prince’s Trust entrepreneur, Laura Burlison, participated in our Palace to Palace cycle ride – cycling 45 miles from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle with her partner to raise money for us. We caught up with Laura to find out why she decided to take on the challenge.
Laura’s blog
In 2013 I participated in the Enterprise programme which helped me set up my own organic fruit and vegetable delivery box business. The Paddock. The Paddock – a 6-acre family owned smallholding – provides a weekly delivery service to Newcastle, Northumberland, Gateshead and parts of Durham. The ethos of The Paddock centres around a celebration of local, seasonal food produced in an ethical, sustainable and environmentally friendly manner
Although I had the idea for my business, I did not have the funds to support my idea. I found out about The Prince’s Trust’s Enterprise course through a conversation with my mam’s hairdresser. That afternoon I searched for The Prince’s Trust online, read about the Enterprise course and the rest is history.
I had started to produce a business plan before the Enterprise course, but the template from The Trust was really helpful as it made me think about all of the aspects of my business and how it would run on a day-to-day basis. Without The Prince’s Trust’s support, I wouldn’t have been so prepared when it came to actually starting my business.
I found the four-day course to be a really positive experience. It made me feel that the idea of my business becoming a reality was possible, giving me the motivation and confidence to go away and complete my business plan and apply for funding.
Of course, the funding played an important role in helping me to start The Paddock, but The Prince’s Trust has helped me in so many other ways too. I was assigned a business mentor for two years, who is a volunteer for The Trust. Initially I was quite concerned that the mentor would interfere and try to tell me how to run my own business. Being a very independent person, this really didn’t appeal to me.
However, I needn’t have worried as my mentor and I got on really well from the beginning and he has been a constant source of support, advice and guidance.
The business mentor has really has gone the extra mile to support my business and I now believe that the mentoring part of the course is without a doubt the most valuable part of the whole experience.
It is really valuable when starting a business to have someone who has been in that situation and successfully created their own business to be on hand to have a completely neutral view of how your business is developing.
At the beginning, my mentor and I quickly realised that managing the fluctuating price of my stock, the incoming orders and expenditure and vast number of products on offer was going to be difficult so we discussed the need for a database to manage this. I researched many off-the-shelf packages but we needed something more specific so my mentor put a ‘shout out’ through The Trust – where mentors can reach out to one another, to share skills and expertise. Another mentor came forward and he has helped me to build a custom built database for my business.
Without the support of my mentor and the continued support of The Trust, I don’t think The Paddock would have progressed as quickly as it has.
During my first summer of trading, I had not anticipated that there would be a decrease in sales due to school holidays. The Trust were very good with helping me manage my loan repayments, easing the financial pressure and my mentor helped me to stay focused. Eventually the hard work started to pay off and things improved and since then I haven’t looked back.
Since starting The Paddock, I have expanded the business by:
Delivering to new areas
Including new products
Opening up The Paddock Farm Shop, which stocks we now stock and deliver a wide range of local produce including organic dairy, handmade cheeses, jams, chutneys, organic dried goods, fresh bread, free range, grass-fed meat, local honey and more
Employed two part-time members of staff, who assist with the packing and delivery of the fruit and veg boxes
Recruited two volunteers who support me with the upkeep of the smallholding and care of the animals
Own expanded the number of chickens from the original 50 to 150
We are now growing on approx 1.5 to 2 acres of our land
I am now a Young Ambassador for The Prince’s Trust, a voluntary role where I tell my story to inspire others to get involved with The Trust. This year I took on the Palace to Palace cycle ride, not only to challenge myself, but to help raise money for The Prince’s Trust because I wanted to give something back for all of the help I have received.
Until July this year, I hadn’t been on a bike for more than 15 years, but I wanted to challenge myself to give something back to what I believe is a fantastic charity and a great cause.
I trained really hard over the course of 10 weeks to get ready for the Palace to Palace bike ride, and thanks to the patience and support of my partner who completed the biked ride with me, I got to the day feeling positive and confident. I am fitter and stronger and I now have a new hobby that I love – and it has all been for a good cause.
We travelled to London from Northumberland by train with our bikes, which in all honesty was a challenge in itself, but the bike ride was amazing. The sun was shining and the atmosphere was great. It was really well organised and marshalled. It was a completely different environment to what I had been training in, the traffic for one was so much busier, but it was a great feeling completing the ride.
I enjoyed the whole experience so much; I am considering the 90 miles next year!
We have raised almost £700 for the Trust through sponsorship and a charity raffle which I have been running from my shop, with six prizes from local businesses in the village in which the shop is based, the village in which I grew up.
I hope that by completing the Palace to Palace cycle ride, and continuing to volunteer as a Young Ambassador for The Trust, I can help inspire other young people to make their business ideas a reality – to encourage them to believe in themselves, and make a positive change in their lives.
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Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2012 Results
- Company Reports Full-Year 2012 Revenues of $5.9 Billion, Down 11% from 2011 Due to Lower Seaborne Pricing
- Global Iron Ore Sales Volume Increases 5% to 42 Million Tons
- Cliffs' Board of Directors Approves a 76% Reduction to the Quarterly Cash Dividend to $0.15 Per Common Share
- Lower Expected Full-Year 2013 SG&A and Exploration Expenses
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF) (Paris: CLF) today reported fourth-quarter and full-year results for the period ended Dec. 31, 2012. Full-year revenues of $5.9 billion decreased $691 million, or 11%, from the previous year. The lower revenues were driven by a 23% decrease in year-over-year seaborne iron ore pricing. For the full year, Cliffs recorded a net loss attributable to Cliffs' common shareholders of $899 million, or $6.32 per diluted share, compared with net income of $1.6 billion, or $11.48 per diluted share, in 2011. Excluding the several previously disclosed non-cash impairment charges, which are detailed in the attached "Non-GAAP Reconciliation," full-year 2012 adjusted net income attributed to Cliffs' shareholders was $493 million, or $3.45 per diluted share, down from adjusted net income of $1.6 billion, or $11.68 per diluted share, in 2011. Also, Cliffs' Board of Directors approved a meaningful reduction to Cliffs' quarterly cash dividend rate to $0.15 from $0.625 per common share. Cliffs will host a conference call to discuss its fourth-quarter 2012 results tomorrow, Feb. 13, 2013, at 8 a.m. ET (additional conference call information below).
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101104/CLIFFSLOGO )
Joseph Carrabba, Cliffs' chairman, president and chief executive officer, said, "While 2012 had some noteworthy highlights, including the operational turnaround of North American Coal and record sales volumes in Australia, the year proved to be challenging both from a market perspective and operationally. Unfortunately, our ramp up of Bloom Lake Mine has been slower than originally anticipated, resulting in decreased volumes and increased costs. Despite these challenges, we continue to make progress on the mine's production stability, development, and tailings management. We believe this will ensure a smooth transition for Bloom Lake's Phase II production startup next year. Bloom Lake is on track to achieve an annual production run rate of 14 million tons by 2015, which accounts for more than a quarter of Cliffs' current total iron ore volume."
Fourth-Quarter Consolidated Results
Consolidated sales margin decreased 50% in the fourth quarter to $239 million, from $480 million in the same quarter last year. This was attributed to slightly lower revenues of $1.5 billion, driven by a 14% decrease in fourth-quarter year-over-year seaborne pricing, and a 15% increase in cost of goods sold to $1.3 billion, primarily driven by increased sales volumes, which contributed to higher employment-related costs, mining and maintenance expenses.
As previously disclosed, during the fourth quarter of 2012, the Company recorded non-cash impairment charges of approximately $1 billion in goodwill related to Cliffs' 2011 acquisition of Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines Limited, as well as $365 million related to Amapa. Cliffs also recorded a $50 million non-cash impairment charge related to its Wabush Mine in Eastern Canada. The Wabush Mine asset impairment was the result of a higher book value versus the asset's fair value.
In the fourth quarter of 2012 and as previously disclosed, Cliffs recorded $541 million in non-cash valuation allowances related to two of the Company's deferred tax assets: Mineral Resources Rent Tax (MRRT) and Alternative Minimum Tax carryforwards. Both valuation allowances were recorded as an expense within the income tax expense line item on the Company's Statement of Operations in the fourth quarter of 2012. The MRRT portion ($315 million) of the tax valuation allowances recorded in the fourth quarter entirely offsets a deferred tax asset the Company recorded in the first quarter of 2012.
For the fourth quarter of 2012, Cliffs recorded a net loss attributable to Cliffs' common shareholders of $1.6 billion, or $11.36 per diluted share, compared with net income of $185 million, or $1.30 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of 2011. Excluding the non-cash items detailed in the attached "Non-GAAP Reconciliation," fourth-quarter 2012 adjusted net income attributable to Cliffs' common shareholders was $89 million, or $0.62 per diluted share, down from $213 million, or $1.49 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of 2011. The decrease was primarily driven by lower sales margin as indicated above.
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Excludes revenues and expenses related to domestic freight, which are offsetting and have no impact on sales margin. Revenues also exclude venture partner cost reimbursements.
Cash cost per ton is defined as cost of goods sold and operating expenses per ton less depreciation, depletion and amortization per ton.
Fourth-quarter 2012 U.S. Iron Ore pellet sales volume was 6.2 million tons, compared with 7.8 million tons in the fourth quarter of 2011. The decrease was driven by lower volumes to a customer due to its bankruptcy earlier in the year and a lower year-over-year demand for iron ore pellets.
U.S. Iron Ore fourth-quarter 2012 revenues per ton were $112.06, down 7% from $120.37 in the year-ago quarter. The decrease was primarily attributable to lower year-over-year pricing for seaborne iron ore and customer mix.
Cash cost per ton in U.S. Iron Ore was $64.55, down 3% from $66.34 in the prior year's fourth quarter. The decrease was primarily attributed to lower employment-related costs.
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Fourth-quarter 2012 Eastern Canadian Iron Ore sales volume was 2.3 million tons, a 20% increase from the 1.9 million tons sold in the fourth quarter of 2011. The increase was primarily driven by increased customer demand and improved year-over-year production volume at Bloom Lake Mine. The fourth-quarter 2012 sales volume mix included 1.4 million tons of iron ore concentrate and 900,000 tons of iron ore pellets.
During the fourth quarter, Cliffs advanced planned maintenance activities originally scheduled for the first quarter of 2013. These maintenance activities, as well as the timing of two cargoes, unfavorably impacted fourth-quarter volumes. Despite the fourth-quarter maintenance activities, Bloom Lake Mine achieved the Company's expected annualized production run rate at year end.
Eastern Canadian Iron Ore fourth-quarter 2012 revenues per ton were $100.70, down 19% from $123.83 in the prior year's fourth quarter. The lower per-ton revenues were attributable to a year-over-year decrease in seaborne iron ore pricing, timing of certain cargoes, and product mix.
Cash cost per ton in Eastern Canadian Iron Ore was $116.56, up 14% from $102.41 in the year-ago quarter. The increase reflected higher cash costs at Bloom Lake Mine of $86 per ton, up 15% from the prior year's comparable quarter, primarily driven by higher fuel, contract labor, and maintenance and supply costs. At year end, Bloom Lake Mine's cash costs were higher than the Company's previous expectation due to higher transportation, water management, energy, and maintenance costs. Fourth-quarter 2012 cash costs at Wabush Mine were $166 per ton, up 8% from the year-ago quarter, due to higher labor costs and increased spending related to maintenance and repairs.
Asia Pacific Iron Ore
Cash cost*
Cash cost per metric ton is defined as cost of goods sold and operating expenses per metric ton less depreciation, depletion and amortization per metric ton.
Fourth-quarter 2012 Asia Pacific Iron Ore sales volume increased 56% to 2.8 million tons, from 1.8 million tons in 2011's fourth quarter. The increase was attributed to the completion of Cliffs' Koolyanobbing Complex expansion project to achieve an 11-million-ton annual run rate. The project included several logistical infrastructure investments including longer trains, new locomotives, and upgrades to the port.
Revenues per ton for fourth-quarter 2012 decreased 23% to $99.96, from $130.18 in last year's fourth quarter. The decrease was primarily driven by lower year-over-year seaborne pricing for iron ore and customer mix. The iron ore grade in the fourth quarter's product mix contained a slightly lower iron grade versus Cliffs' standard product.
Cash cost per ton in Asia Pacific Iron Ore decreased 5% to $65.86, from $69.22 in 2011's comparable quarter. The year-over-year decrease was primarily attributable to improved volumes and the related favorable impact on fixed-cost leverage, partially offset by increased mining costs.
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I Heard These Dudes Are Assholes. (2008)
Bridge Nine
Reviewer Brendan
After their first LP, Prepare to Be Let Down severed ties with Ruiner's previous releases, they decided to revel in the past for a little while. I Heard These Dudes Are Assholes. compiles all of their releases previous to PTBLD: the What Could Possibly Go Right... EP; a split 7" with Day of the Dead; the Still Smiling demo; and then a demo of the song "The Lives We Fear."
These songs have been remastered and, though I have never been an audiophile, there is definitely a noticeable difference between the original releases and those on IHTDAA.. Each instrument sounds much more intense and compelling. With a band that plays such driving hardcore songs, it is hard to go back to the muddy versions. The bass tone on these recordings might just be the ideal setting. The guitar work is not very technical, but the semi-heavy riffs and octaves are perfect for this style of hardcore. As always, the vocalist's desperate scream coupled with the extremely personal lyrics completes the band. It's hard to imagine lyrics more personal than those of the singer.
For those vinyl purists, this is the first time to hear the two songs omitted from the 7" split with Day of the Dead. Outside of that, the demos are definitely worth a listen, even though they sound pretty sketchy.
To some extent, compiling these recordings seems to be a little premature. Both 7-inches, though out of print, can still be found in distros and relatively cheap on eBay. Additionally, the demo was re-released as a cassette just a couple of months ago. To me, the let-down of IHTDAA. is that there really isn't much to offer for fans who have EP and the 7"s besides a couple of relatively rare and less polished-sounding demo recordings.
Nonetheless, this release is essential to anyone into the Bridge 9 hardcore scene -- though if you have the EP and split 7", the improved quality and the demos are probably not enough to warrant the purchase.
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Michael Bolton the Rocker
Yes, Michael Bolton was metal at one point
By: AtariMan76
This article is about Michael Bolton, now I know the first thing that comes to mind with this singer is "Tell me how am I supposed to live without you", or any A/C, soft rock song like that, but believe it or not, Michael didn't start out that way, in 1978, Michael Bolton (then performing under his real name Michael Bolotin) was the lead singer of a metal band called blackjack.
It wasn't until 1983 when he went solo, and changed his name to Michael Bolton and released his 3rd solo album
1.Fool's Game*
2.She Did The Same Thing*
3.Hometown Hero
4.Hold On Can't Let Go
5.Fighting For My Life
7.Back In My Arms Again
8.Carrie (Not to be confused with Carrie by Europe)
9.I Almost Believed in You
*Hit Singles from the album
This is a pretty good rock n roll album, if you don't believe me about Michael rocking out, just listen to "Hometown Hero", and "Fighting for my life",then come back to me and tell me what you think, anyway, you might of might not remember, but there was a music video for "Fool's game", almost every track on here is good except for the last track "I Almost Believed You", to me this is the only decent album Michael ever did.
In 1985 Michael came back with his 4th solo album (and his last metal album) "Everybody's Crazy".
The album didn't do as good as the last one did, however, it is still considered to be one of the best Heavy Metal/AOR albums of all time, the title track can be heard on "Back to School" with Rodney Dangerfield.
In 1987 Michael departed from hard rock, on his 5th solo album "The Hunger", and brought us all wussie soft rock songs from not only that album, but other aside from that one, a couple years ago, he did a sinatra album that sucked just like the rest of his other albums, truth I think Michael Bolton had a voice well suited for Hard Rock, he should once again bring us a Hard Rock album, the other night I had a dream where I was at a MB Concert, and right after Michael did "When a Man Loves a Woman", he did "Fool's Game", why he changed I'll never know why.
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KurtmanJP Posted 11 years 1 month ago
Everybody's Crazy is one great song!
AtariMan76 Posted 11 years 7 months ago
Actually he covered it.
ooliyo Posted 11 years 7 months ago
Did he do "when a man loves a woman"?
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June 12, 2017 / 1:33 AM / 2 years ago
Aldi fires $3.4 billion shot in U.S. supermarket wars
Nandita Bose
CHICAGO (Reuters) - German grocery chain Aldi Inc [ALDIEI.UL] said on Sunday it would invest $3.4 billion to expand its U.S. store base to 2,500 by 2022, raising the stakes for rivals caught in a price war.
Aldi operates 1,600 U.S. stores and earlier this year said it would add another 400 by the end of 2018 and spend $1.6 billion to remodel 1,300 of them.
The investment, which raises Aldi’s capital expenditure to at least $5 billion so far this year, comes at a time of intense competition and disruption in the industry.
German rival Lidl will open the first of its 100 U.S. stores on June 15. In May, Lidl said it would price products up to 50 percent lower than rivals.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N), the largest U.S. grocer, is testing lower prices in 11 U.S. states and pushing vendors to undercut rivals by 15 percent. Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retailer, is expected to spend about $6 billion to regain its title as the low-price leader, analysts said.
The furious pace of expansion by Aldi and Lidl is likely to further disrupt the U.S. grocery market, which has seen 18 bankruptcies since 2014. The two chains are also upending established UK grocers like Tesco Plc (TSCO.L) and Wal-Mart’s UK arm, ASDA.
In May, Aldi Chief Executive Jason Hart told Reuters the chain intended to have prices at least 21 percent lower than rivals and would focus on adding in-house brands to win over price-sensitive customers.
A sign directing shoppers to an ALDI Sued grocery store in Unterhaching, Germany May 18, 2017. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
“We’re growing at a time when other retailers are struggling,” Hart said in a statement. Hart added that Aldi’s prices were also up to 50 percent lower than traditional grocery chains, a move that appeared to follow rival Lidl’s announcement on prices.
The latest store expansion will create 25,000 U.S. jobs and make Aldi the third-largest grocery chain operator in the country behind Wal-Mart and Kroger Co (KR.N), the German chain said in a statement. Aldi’s 2,500 stores would equal about 53 percent of Wal-Mart’s U.S. outlets.
“As we continue to expand and grow, our purchasing power continues to increase and allows us to bring products at better prices for consumers,” Scott Patton, Aldi’s head of corporate buying, said in an interview.
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As you research red wolves and red wolf conservation there are some terms, acronyms, and phrases that you may come across frequently. While some may be easy to understand, others may prove more difficult. As such, Red Wolf Review has compiled a short glossary of commonly encountered terms using definitions that relate directly to red wolves and red wolf conservation. Sources of definitions are denoted at the bottom of the page.
Absentee Landowner:
A person or entity (such as a business) that owns land despite not inhabiting that land or the area surrounding it.
Allele:
"Any of several forms of a gene, usually arising through mutation, that are responsible for hereditary variation." †
ARNWR: Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge;
A large wildlife refuge on the Albemarle Peninsula in northeastern North Carolina that is a major part of the red wolf recovery area.
AZA: Association of Zoos and Aquariums;
The organization that governs how zoos and aquariums should operate in order to promote animal welfare and conservation. The AZA oversees numerous species survival plans including the RWSSP.
Albemarle Peninsula:
A peninsula in northeastern North Carolina that comprises of five counties; Dare County, Beaufort County, Hyde County, Tyrrell County, and Washington County. The peninsula is the location of the red wolf recovery area.
Baseline Monitoring:
"Also referred to as surveillance monitoring; monitoring that is not tied to specific predictions of how a natural resource will respond to management or environmental stressors, but instead is designed to document change over time of a natural resource. Examples include monitoring wildlife population trends, disease incidence, climate change, and wilderness character." ^
Biodiversity:
"The variety of life and its processes, including the variety of living organisms, the genetic differences among them, and the communities and ecosystems in which they occur." *
Canis:
The genus that the red wolf (Canis rufus) belongs to.
Captivity:
The state of being held in a confined or finite area.
Captive Breeding:
The act of selectively pairing captive red wolves for breeding in order to stabilize and maintain the population's genetic viability.
Climate Change:
"A long-term change in the earth's climate, especially a change due to an increase in the average atmospheric temperature." †
Critically Endangered:
"A taxon is Critically Endangered when the best available evidence indicates that it meets any of the criteria A to E for Critically Endangered (see Section V), and it is therefore considered to be facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild." ‡
DOI: United States Department of the Interior;
The organization that oversees the USFWS. "The U.S. Department of the Interior is a Cabinet-level agency that manages America's vast natural and cultural resources." °
Debate:
"A discussion, as of a public question in an assembly, involving opposing viewpoints." †
Delist:
"To remove an animal or plant species from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife and plants." *
The type of habitation a red wolf commonly creates while raising newborn offspring in the wild. Can take the form of a hole, depression, or otherwise concealed space.
Downlist:
"To reduce a federally protected species’ status from endangered to threatened, or from threatened to recovered. Sometimes referred to as `reclassified.'"^
"A legal right to use someone else’s land for a particular purpose. For example, the municipal water company may have an easement to run water pipes under [private] property. For the [United States Fish and Wildlife] Service, an easement usually reserves private land for conservation purposes." ^
"A dynamic and interrelating complex of plant and animal communities and their associated nonliving (such as physical and chemical) environment." *
Ectoparasites:
Parasites that live outside of the host, such as ticks.
Endangered Species:
"An animal or plant species in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range." *
Endoparasites:
Parasites that live inside of the host, such as hookworms.
ESA: Endangered Species Act (1973);
"The Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended is federal legislation that is intended to provide a means to conserve the ecosystems upon which endangered and threatened species depend and provide programs for the conservation of those species, thus preventing extinction of plants and animals."*
Essential Experimental Population:
"An experimental population whose loss would appreciably reduce the prospect of survival of the species in the wild. All other experimental populations are `non-essential.'" *
Experimental Population:
"A population (including its offspring) of a listed species designated by rule published in the Federal Register that is wholly separate geographically from other populations of the same species. An experimental population may be subject to less stringent prohibitions than are applied to the remainder of the species to which it belongs." *
Extirpated Species:
"A species that no longer survives in regions that were once part of its range, but that still exists elsewhere in the wild or in captivity." *
Flagship Species:
"An iconic species that provides a focus for raising awareness and action to fund broader conservation efforts. Examples include the whooping crane and the Florida manatee." ^
FWS:
See "USFWS."
F####:
"Naming" designation used to identify a female (F) wolf. For example, famous ambassador red wolf Betty's designation is F1276.
"The genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits." †
Gestation Period:
The amount of time required for offspring to develop in the womb. For red wolves this period lasts approximately two months.
GPS: Global Positioning System;
A satellite-based system used to find real-time location information.
"The place or environment where a plant or animal naturally lives and grows (a group of particular environmental conditions)." *
Historic Range:
"The geographic area where a species was known to or believed to occur within historic time." *
Hybridization:
The creation of offspring through crossbreeding between two different types of creatures, such as red wolves and coyotes.
Identification Chips (ID Chips):
Electronically scannable chips placed in some newborn red wolves for future identification in the wild. Used to understand the movements, behaviors, and wellbeing of each individual. Also known as PIT Tags.
Inbreeding or Inbreeding Depression:
A loss of population viability and longevity due to breeding amongst closely-related individuals in a species.
ITIS: Integrated Taxonomic Information System;
A database of taxonomic information on different species.
IUCN: International Union for the Conservation of Nature;
"The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations. It provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with the knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic development and nature conservation to take place together."
Landowner:
A person or entity (such as a business) owning rights to use and inhabit a piece of land with specified boundaries.
Litter:
A group of offspring. For red wolves, average litter size is around five pups.
Mortality:
The occurrence or frequency of death.
M####:
"Naming" designation used to identify a male (M) wolf. For example, famous ambassador red wolf Hank is designated as M1200.
NCWRC: North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission;
A North Carolinian government agency that oversees wildlife management within the state.
Nonessential Experimental Population:
See "Essential Experimental Population."
Nutria:
A type of rodent that is part of a red wolf's natural diet. Also known as a coypu in other regions.
Term used to describe a group of wolves. Red wolf pack sizes vary based on family size, access to food, and environmental limitations.
PDZA: Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium;
A zoo and aquarium located in Tacoma, Washington that is home to a group of captive red wolves. It is the original member of the RWSSP.
Phenotype:
"The appearance of an organism resulting from the interaction of the genotype and the environment." †
PIT Tags:
See "Identification Chips."
PLNWR: Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge;
A wildlife refuge in northeastern North Carolina that is part of the red wolf recovery area.
Pup:
The term used to describe juvenile red wolves. This International Wolf Center timeline, while primarily discussing gray wolves, offers a good overview of the aging process.
Radio Collar:
Collars placed on wild red wolves to aid in tracking and behavioral analysis.
"The geographic area a species is known to or believed to occupy." *
"The process by which the decline of an endangered or threatened species is stopped or reversed, or threats to its survival neutralized so that its long-term survival in the wild can be ensured, and it can be removed from the list of threatened and endangered species." *
Refuge:
An area of land dedicated to the conservation of the natural wildlife and environment.
See "Refuge."
Rufus:
The species name for the red wolf (Canis rufus).
RWC: Red Wolf Coalition;
A nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting red wolf education and recovery. Based in Columbia, North Carolina.
RWR: Red Wolf Review;
This website; an informational education source about red wolves and red wolf conservation.
RWRA: Red Wolf Recovery Area;
A five-county area in northeastern North Carolina where red wolf recovery efforts in the wild take place.
RWRP: Red Wolf Recovery Program;
A program designed to restore the viability and longevity of the wild red wolf population. Overseen by the USFWS.
RWSSP: Red Wolf Species Survival Plan;
A program overseen by the AZA to captively breed red wolves and maintain a captive population for tentative release in the wild.
Sanctuary:
In relation to red wolves: A designated area of land where animals are generally safer from harm as a result of human activity.
"A formal Latin or latinized name applied to a taxonomic group of animals or plants. A species' scientific name is a two-part combination consisting of the genus followed by the species." *
"For purposes of the Endangered Species Act, this term includes any species or subspecies of fish or wildlife or plants, and any distinct population segment of any species of vertebrate fish or wildlife which interbreeds when mature." *
Studbook:
A genetic record containing information on each individual red wolf.
Take:
"To harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct; may include significant habitat modification or degradation if it kills or injures wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns including breeding, feeding, or sheltering." *
The classification of different types of living things.
Telemetry:
Electronic methods of transmitting location data about a red wolf in the wild.
USFWS: United States Fish and Wildlife Service;
The government agency under the USDOI that oversees the RWRP.
VHF: Very High Frequency;
A form of radio transmission in which radio waves pass any given point very rapidly per unit of time. Used in telemetry to track the locations of red wolves in the wild.
Wa'ya:
The Algonquin Native American word for wolf.
Zoo:
A facility where captive animals are taken care of and displayed for education and entertainment purposes.
Sources: The symbol next to each source ( *, ^, †, ‡, °, ⹋) corresponds to each glossary entry that comes from that source. If a glossary entry has no symbol, it was written by Red Wolf Review.
United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Source 1 *, Source 2 (Glossary Icon in menu) ^
Dictionary.com †
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List ‡
International Union for the Conservation of Nature ⹋
United States Department of the Interior (USDOI) °
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Charles Dickens Movies List
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Mar 31, 2015 · A TALE OF TWO CITIES BY CHARLES DICKENS. Shahbaz Asghar. 4 years ago | 59.4K views. Eureka Study Aids for M.A. English Students – A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens (Complete Movie) Report. Browse more videos. Playing next. 35:21. VeggieTales Live & Reloaded: Two Tales of Two Cities. TASproductions.
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Dec 09, 2017 · Charles Dickens walked London streets and peered in windows at families to get ideas for "A Christmas Carol," of which only 6,000 copies were originally printed.
With countless fun options, we’ve narrowed the list down to the top 12 holiday movies to watch before Christmas: 1. “Scrooged” Bill Murray is great in this modern take on Charles Dickens’s “A.
Something that has been added to that list is the Great Lakes Theater’s annual production. “One of the things that I love about Gerry’s version is that he was so true to Charles Dickens’ language.
Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens, seated) gets a little assist from Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer) when writing A Christmas Carol. Bleecker Street The Man Who Invented Christmas is a movie that.
(The artist gets it a bit wrong with the cruel smile, more horror movie kid than darling innocent, but hey ho.) On dustjackets and on screen, David Copperfield has been pale and posh ever since.
There are multiple film versions of the famous Charles Dickens ghost story, but the 1951 remake. "It’s a Wonderful Life" No Christmas movie list is complete without this widely acclaimed 1946.
Charles Dickens didn’t exactly have a dirty pen. Two janitors are rehearsing a fight scene for their action movie when one falls to his death. The scene rattles William but teaches him a valuable.
How many children did Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine have? In exploring The Man Who Invented Christmas true story, we learned that Charles and Catherine Dickens had a total of ten children, with the first, Charley, born in January 1837. Catherine was pregnant with their fifth child while Charles was writing A Christmas Carol. Did Charles Dickens really have a number of flops before.
This is a list of the Christmas movies that came out during the 70s. We also have pages on this topic devoted to the 80s and 90s. An American Christmas Carol
And below, check out our picks for the 13 best Christmas movies (in no particular order) from their list. Merry pre-Christmas period! Bill Murray stars as Frank Cross in this modern, dark comedy take.
Dec 21, 2018 · The many adaptations of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ ranked from worst to best, from a 1901 silent film to the 2009 computer-generated feature.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is probably the greatest novelist England has ever produced, the author of such well-known classics as A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist.His innate comic genius and shrewd depictions of Victorian life — along with his indelible characters — have made his books beloved by readers the world over.
(800) 838-3006 A Christmas Carol With Charles Dickens Independent Shakespeare Co.’s David Melville. Long-running annual show features musical parodies, stop-motion animated movies and more.
Have a look at one of the most famous scenes of the movie right here: 5. Hero No. 1 (1997) Comedy and Govinda go hand-in-hand! No list of comedy films can. Loosely based on Charles Dickens’ play,
Charles Dickens used it as a literary device in “A Christmas. The most recent addition to the long list of movies that explore the exciting theme of time travel is Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time.” The.
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The influence of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol on. to demand that the structure be observed then the list could run into many dozens of mostly terrible films. Every second Christmas movie.
Charles Dickens was a famed British novelist, who began his career as a freelance reporter. One of his first works, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, sparked his fame and he soon began touring the US and England performing readings of his works.Today, Dickens is known as one of the most prolific Victorian authors and was a staunch advocate for the poor and social reform.
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Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O’Donoghue.Based on the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooged is a modern retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive, who is visited by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve intent on helping him regain.
Better known for the bizarre, tactile mutant bodies that inhabited his Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy movies, The Devil’s Backbone saw Guillermo del Toro adopting a rather less-outré approach to the paranormal than that which we have come to expect from the fuzz-faced Mexican auteur. Death looms large over the film’s scenario, with the Spanish Civil War-era action taking place in an.
Nov 02, 2017 · Famous people who’ve witnessed public executions include writers, who recorded accounts of their experiences in letters, diaries, or books. Their skill with the written word preserves the horror of these bizarre spectacles, allowing us today to gain a.
Dec 20, 2012 · – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859. Dickens loved Christmas, evidenced by his many holiday-themed stories. His daughter, Mamie, remembered their family holiday celebrations with great affection. The Dickens family “looked forward to it with eagerness and delight, and to my father it was a time dearer than any part of the year.
20 Christmas Movies. The following movies have been evaluated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops according to artistic merit and moral suitability.
Here are eight writers, who once topped the best-sellers list, but who have fallen out of favour. on the JohnCreasey.co.uk website. MONICA DICKENS Charles Dickens lives on, but the work of his.
Besides the Christmas stories that are Biblical in origin, Charles Dickens’ 1843 classic telling of A Christmas. don’t need a lesson from the spirits can check out our ranked list to see which.
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And this film buff includes several Christmas movies among his favorites. Here’s my holiday guide, with films divided into a variety of categories. Let’s start with variations of the greatest holiday.
Nov 21, 2017 · As “The Man Who Invented Christmas” tells it, Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) took inspiration for “A Christmas Carol” from a waiter named Marley and a real-life miser who said “humbug.
The Ghost of Christmas Present from the 1999 adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol: Longmont Theatre Company presents the classic tale by Charles Dickens, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 23. Santa Story Time and Brunch: Be sure to bring your holiday wish list to this.
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The Girl Who Played With Fire Book Club Luke Combs, who played both the daytime and evening events last year. That’s the thing about these rapid-fire short sets:. What Does Snipe Mean In Shakespeare You see that he’s
I’ve even completed the annual reading of one of my favorite books (novella really), Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol." Sure we’ll watch the Reginald Owen movie version on. On the carrot.
The printed catchphrase feels more practical, timeless, and stalwart than those words echoing in movie houses. to the list, below. Our inspiration for this list of literary catchphrases comes from.
I am a huge fan of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol. I was disappointed last year when I missed the opportunity to see the movie, “The Man Who Invented Christmas.” It tells the saga of Dickens.
Dec 01, 2017 · One of the best screen adaptations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The story concerns the overly prudent businessman Ebeneezer Scrooge (Sim), who becomes a saint overnight. Dickens was never afraid to tackle the big issues: the threat to children’s lives, whether they are privileged or poverty-stricken, is one of…
A vocabulary list from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a good tool to help the reader understand the story. ‘A Christmas Carol’ Vocabulary Study List From Charles Dickens’ Christmas Classic. Share Flipboard Email. Classic Christmas Movies for the Holiday Season. Social Protest For Christmas: Why Dickens Wrote "A Christmas Carol".
What are the best film versions of Charles Dickens’ classic tale A Christmas Carol? Movies have used this wonderful story of redemption countless times. But which Scrooge is the best? So, over the last two weeks I have sat on my sofa – alone as usual – with the DVDs of more than twenty-five.
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Oct 31, 2012 · Please welcome today’s guest blogger: Lindsey from Sparks’ Notes, who will be discussing the best and worst of Charles Dickens. It makes me sad that most people read – or pretend to read – Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations in high school and then never read him again. Yes, he’s preachy.
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National Poet Of England
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The 21st poet laureate of the United Kingdom — officially appointed by Queen Elizabeth. “It is up to the individual poet.
Could a poet from Georgia have influenced Shakespeare?. Like England, its national symbol is the cross of its patron saint, St. George. Tamar Beruchashvili.
Outside the British Isles, England is often erroneously considered synonymous with the island of Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) and even with the entire United Kingdom.Despite the political, economic, and cultural legacy that has secured the perpetuation of its name, England no longer officially exists as a governmental or political unit—unlike Scotland, Wales, and Northern.
Mar 30, 2017. Renaissance poets and lovers produced love poetry in a huge variety of forms. Aspiring love poets in Renaissance England had a variety of.
Edwin Drummond, a mountaineer and poet who made international headlines by scaling landmarks. pioneering routes — in.
The national symbols of England are things which are emblematic, representative or otherwise characteristic of England or English culture.Some are established, official symbols; for example, the Royal Arms of England, which has been codified in heraldry.Other symbols may not have official status, for one reason or another, but are likewise recognised at a national or international level.
2 William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon“. His plays have been translated.
Although remembered now for his elegantly argued critical essays, Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) began his career as a poet, winning early recognition as a student at the Rugby School where his father, Thomas Arnold, had earned national acclaim as a strict and innovative headmaster.
Mr. Drummond was already well known in climbing circles as a sort of alpine poet laureate before he decided, in the late.
Apr 7, 2017. Calling Thomas an English poet belies his own complex national identity. “ when Wales and Ireland were entirely independent of England”.
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HALLOWELL — The Harlow will present poets Jane Brox and. which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Apr 23, 2005. Anne Bradstreet is considered America's earliest poet, and a new biography. a Puritan who migrated from her beloved England in the 1600s.
Feb 13, 2018. Does anyone know who William Shakespeare is? Playwright, England's national poet and the world's genius, and the Bard of Avon? Yes, of.
Apr 04, 2013 · Allama Iqbal was born on 19th November at Sialkot, in 1877. His parents Noor Muhammad and Imam Bibi were pious and religious persons. He passed his matriculation and intermediate exams in 1893 and 1895 respectively.
Photograph: Lee Townsend From the Berkshire term for a woodlouse, “cheeselog”, to a Suffolk phrase for lopsided, “on the huh”, England’s poets are set. a partnership between BBC English Regions,
. event will feature New England Trail Poet-in-Residence David Leff who will "take his audience hiking by poetry" along the New England National Scenic Trail, a path that winds from Guilford through.
Mar 15, 2016. National poet says she hopes to open up 'the blethers, the arguments and celebrations that Scotland has with itself'. Libby Brooks Scotland.
Mar 30, 2011. Born and raised in England in the two decades preceding the First. of war are sidelined before an attempt to create a national poet figure for.
The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We are on the ground in six continents and over 100 countries, bringing international opportunity to life every day. Find out more about us.
Nov 26, 2008 · There are few things as American as apple pie, as the saying goes, but like much of America’s pie tradition, the original apple pie recipes came from England.
Sep 23, 2004. Herbert, George (1593–1633), Church of England clergyman and poet, was born on 3 April 1593 at Montgomery, seventh of the ten children of.
Irish Poet The Second Coming Closer to our own day, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats is not a Romantic, but definitely a visionary. In his poem "The Second Coming" (1919), he sees Christian civilization
For National Poetry Month, we sat down with Bernard O’Donoghue. in my case by the fact that my adult life has mostly been lived in the south of England, centred on London, in marked contrast with.
The UK’s National Poetry Day program is announcing today (June 18) that it’s partnering with BBC Local Radio to commission 12 new poems, “celebrating the changes that really matter.” Those BBC.
By the late 19th century, women held nearly two-thirds of all textile jobs in Lowell, according to the National Park Service.
City Lights bookshop was founded in 1953 by poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti. A view of Christ Church College from.
In 1668, England officially established the post as a royal office. In the 19th. In 1937 the U.S. created the position of National Poet Laureate.The position of.
Full Fathom Five Poem Sylvia Plath Collected Poems. Sylvia Plath’s Collected Poems was the first collection of her poetry to feature the same table of contents both in the United Kingdom and the United States. Faber
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National Poetry Day is a Forward Arts Foundation initiative. The Forward Arts Foundation is a charity that enables all to enjoy, discover and share poetry.
A national poet or national bard is a poet held by tradition and popular acclaim to represent the identity, beliefs and principles of a particular national culture. The national poet as culture hero is a long-standing symbol, to be distinguished from successive holders of a bureaucratically-appointed poet-laureate office. The idea and honoring of national poets emerged primarily during.
He was chosen the country’s poet laureate in 2010 and served a single one-year term. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he was raised in the urban East during the Great Depression, spent years as a.
It has been almost 16 years since The Irish Times published his first Crobhingne column, one of the most clear-eyed and.
. among them the well-known poets she studied, such as Alexander Pope and. key influence, and it led Protestants in America and England to enjoy her work.
A young football fan from Monmouthshire has won a national poetry competition judged by a Premier. Credit: ITV Cymru Wales More than 25,000 five to eleven-year-olds from across Wales and England.
poet. If you're a poet and you know it, you're someone who writes poems. Poets have been charming people with their words ever since Orpheus sang his way.
Armitage, from Marsden, has published 28 collections of his poetry and his work has been studied on the national curriculum.
Handsome, charming, and talented, Brooke was a national hero even before his. These poets came to be known as Georgian poets (named after England's.
Kalam E Iqbal Poetry No Fear Shakespeare Macbeth Act 2 Shakespeare himself helped speed along this transformation by writing his plays in the vernacular, and writing stories that would appeal to all men, no
Apr 29, 2019. Imtiaz Dharker could become England's next Poet Laureate. his death in 1892, caught the national mood with a poem most children in India's.
Nov 9, 2018. Representatives from the British Council, Arts Council England and. of the National Poetry Competition in schools from September next year.
Oct 8, 2015. Five contemporary poets worth reading on World Poetry Day. Save. This feature is. Read: What actually happens on National Poetry Day?
In 1668, England officially established the post as a royal office. In the 19th. In 1937 the US created the position of national poet laureate. The position of.
To celebrate National Poetry Day poet James Brookes has been commissioned to write about Brighton. Members of the public were asked to send in suggestions for a local word. In Sussex, Twitten, meaning.
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Long-term market trends are turning against the traditional office deal – Companies are looking to reduce the amount of space they lease per worker – and brokers’ strategies should take this into account.
Workers don’t like the traditional office – but they also don’t like working at home – It’s key to be able to offer them a midway house between the two, combining a short commute and easy accessibility with a professional, team-oriented environment.
The future of brokering is selling workspace, not just offices – Offering flexible, scalable solutions as well as options for traditional long-term leases allows you to meet the needs of companies and their staff alike.
Reinventing the deal can mean better cash flow and an improved bottom line – Brokers aren’t just defending their business against a threat, they’ve got a real opportunity to find a better way of working for everyone – including themselves.
How the challenges to the office emerged
Social and economic trends which have been growing for decades are now reshaping our ideas about the modern office. For commercial brokers, they represent a challenge – and an opportunity – that you can’t afford to ignore.
The origin of these trends lies in 1973, when the OPEC oil crisis and gridlock brought the USA to a standstill. It began to become clear that bringing hundreds of workers into large corporate HQs every day was not going to be sustainable in the long run.
On the east coast of the USA that year, the World Trade Center was officially opened – an office complex totalling 1.24 million m2 of floorspace and containing what was then the world’s tallest building.
Meanwhile, on the west coast, a former NASA engineer named Jack Nilles was developing ideas that could make buildings like the WTC obsolete. In the shadow of the energy crisis, he came up with the concept of ‘telecommuting’. His idea was for a network of small offices near to people’s homes that would allow them to walk or bike to work.
Today, the digital technologies which underpin telecommuting are affordable and common enough to make Jack Nilles’ dream a reality for millions. According to Regus research, 54% of employees worldwide now spend half the week working somewhere other than their company’s main office locations.
With new, flexible ways of working growing in popularity, our cities and offices are being transformed. But so too are commercial brokering strategies – in this environment, business as usual is no longer an option.
For those who seize the moment, there will be an opportunity to create a whole new kind of business. In this paper, we explore the trends that are reshaping the market, discover what your clients and their employees want – and examine the financial benefits for you.
How remote working became a reality
Telecommuting was invented in the shadow of the OPEC energy crisis, but the growth of remote working has in reality been driven by an even more precious commodity: time.
Regus research shows that the most popular reason behind the growth of flexible working, chosen by 61% of respondents, was the desire for a greater work-life balance.
Perhaps that’s why the average home-worker isn’t the stereotype of a young freelancer working from a coffee shop. Instead, the US Census Bureau found that the typical telecommuter is a 49-year-old man or woman, earning a salary equivalent to £44,000 and working for a company with more than 100 employees. They are busy people, juggling high-level jobs and the demands of home life.
Worldwide, an average of around 52% of workers telecommute regularly – in South Africa, this figure rises to 56%, to 59% in the USA, and in Argentina to more than 60%.
Technology has always been seen as the enabler of remote working. But changing cultural attitudes has been just as important. We have perhaps now reached a tipping point: 54% of employees say their company allows them to work remotely sometimes and 70% say flexible working arrangements are important. Nearly a third say they are more productive away from the office.
These cultural changes, driven by a wish for an improved work-life balance, are reshaping what companies want from their office buildings. They are given even more impact by changes in the economic landscape. Together, these trends have the power to transform the business of office space.
Understanding the needs of companies
Has the traditional office’s popularity already passed its peak? Many experts believe so: financial pressures are increasingly driving companies to seek smaller, more flexible and cheaper offices. A study by Norm Miller, Professor of Real Estate Finance at the University of San Diego, broke down the office space used by the average worker since 2000.
Examining the 54 largest markets in the US, he found that office space peaked at the end of 2009 – and has since dropped by 50%, with new leases in 2013 averaging just 17m2 per person. Professor Miller argues that the global recession in 2008 put an end to cheap rent and led companies to look for significant financial savings.
Further data from Deutsche Asset Management shows this trend has since continued, with office space density per worker in the US continuing to decrease between 2013 and 2016.
It’s not just a short-term trend: although the tendency has undergone a marked acceleration in recent years, office space has been shrinking since 1990. And it’s happening globally: Asia and Europe, where space is often at a greater premium than the USA, are seeing bigger changes.
In cities such as London, the pressures of the residential property market and the changing balance between work and home life are reshaping the city. Office space has fallen in London for six consecutive months, the largest decline since the 1990s. In Westminster alone, 409,000 square metres of space has been converted from offices to homes.
Not every company is rushing to slash the size of their office and to encourage more remote working. Ironically, perhaps, the technology sector which has done so much to enable telecommuting has been one of the biggest proponents of the traditional office.
Apple is building a new spaceship-like corporate HQ in California with 260,000 square metres of space. Google spent $1.9 billion to buy an entire New York City block. And Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer made headlines when she banned working from home in a bid to encourage greater collaboration.
But the overall trends are clear. Brokers face a future where they could be chasing fewer and fewer significant traditional office deals. Or they face investing larger amounts of time and money to secure dozens of small deals to match the value of one major deal in the past. But there’s a third option, too: to change the way they work and fit into the new realities of the business world and the property market.
Understanding the needs of employees
Businesses also face demand from their employees to allow more flexible working, to give them the chance of a better work-life balance.
It’s no wonder that workers are demanding to work nearer to home, when the daily commute is chipping away at our health and happiness. According to Regus research, more than 20% of workers were considering quitting their jobs because of excessively long commutes. Over 27% of workers label their commute as a waste of personal and professional productivity.
Our health suffers from long commutes too, with greater distances from work associated with greater obesity, less sleep, more stress, and complaints such as neck or back pain.
With employers increasingly committed to helping their staff maintain their health – not least because fewer absences and improved happiness means greater productivity – they can hardly ignore the damage done by the commute.
They’re also responding to a clearly articulated preference from their staff, when it comes to recruitment and retention. Regus research shows that 61% of workers would actively change jobs in order to secure flexible working – and 93% would choose a company which offered remote working over one that didn’t. Employees are voting with their feet, so your clients have to respond.
Simply allowing employees the opportunity to work from home rarely meets this demand, however. Companies may resist home-working because they value the collaboration which takes place between workers in the same office – but so do employees. It’s the aspect of office life which is most missed by home-workers, according to the Regus Home Working Survey: 56% of respondents said the lack of a team environment and interaction with colleagues was the hardest thing about working from home.
Workers and their employers are looking for new solutions. They know that the old model of a long commute into a central corporate HQ isn’t working. But they’ve tried getting work done from home and they miss the professionalism and collaboration of the office.
There’s an appetite for something which could offer the best of both worlds. Meet that and the threat posed by a changing property market becomes an exciting opportunity.
The right space at the right time
Our hyper-connected world is all about giving people what they want, just when they need it. The "just-in-time" approach revolutionised manufacturing in the 1970s: it eliminated waste by providing only the materials that were being used immediately. By offering flexible workspace as well as the more traditional office solutions, you can be part of a similar revolution, where companies acquire just the space that they need, when they need it.
This means your clients have the option to choose places to work at one of thousands of locations worldwide on a full-time, part-time or pay-as-you-go basis, including satellite offices in easy-to-reach locations near residential areas. Crucially, with this model, they’re only paying for what they need, when they need it.
For companies aiming to meet tighter-than-ever financial targets, this kind of workspace has major advantages over signing a long-term office lease: as well as cutting waste, there are no capital requirements – and all-inclusive prices for everything from receptionists to networking make it easier to cost out.
It also allows them to respond to employees’ needs for a professional and inspiring place to work and share ideas with colleagues that is nearer to home. Staff forced to choose between a long commute to corporate HQ and unproductive efforts to work at home do have another option. And if their business requires them to travel, they can take their office with them, checking in at a local location.
The new brokering is perhaps above all best for brokers. It doesn’t merely meet the challenges of the future, ensuring your customers will keep coming back to you for workspace. It also offers distinct advantages to making money from traditional office deals.
It’s faster: without having to negotiate lengthy contracts and seek the right location, closing deals takes much less time. Companies will be quicker to sign because there’s no commitment of capital expenditure and leases are flexible.
This speed means a better cash flow for brokers. Instead of waiting for commission to trickle in over a number of years of the lease, you can expect a 10% commission paid up-front on all completed deals. Fees are paid within 30 days, not over years.
Instead of putting more effort into chasing fewer, smaller deals in a dwindling market, there’s an opportunity to reinvent the business into something better.
Flexibility is the future of the office
The big corporate HQ is a now-outdated phenomenon facing the challenges of a modern business. Brokers need to respond to companies’ needs for more agile solutions that match the flexibility and speed they expect elsewhere in their business.
Long-term market trends are turning against the traditional office deal. Companies are looking to reduce the amount of space they lease per worker – and brokers’ strategies should take this into account.
Workers don’t like the traditional office – but they also don’t like working at home. It’s key to be able to offer them a midway house between the two, combining a short commute and easy accessibility with a professional, team-oriented environment.
The future of brokering is selling workspace, not just offices. Offering flexible, scalable solutions as well as options for traditional long-term leases allows you to meet the needs of companies and their staff alike.
Reinventing the deal can mean better cash flow and an improved bottom line. Brokers aren’t just defending their business against a threat, they’ve got a real opportunity to find a better way of working for everyone – including themselves.
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Home » OSHA moves to track MSDs, warns of 'targeted inspections'
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Keeping track of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) would be a new priority under a proposed record-keeping rule, evidence of a new direction for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
OSHA moved swiftly to reinstate a requirement to record MSDs on the OSHA 300 log in a proposal that was published in the Federal Register on Jan. 29. In an expedited timeline, the agency requested comments by March 15 and scheduled a public hearing for March 9. OSHA said it wants the revised OSHA 300 log to be in place by Jan 1, 2011.
"It's clear that they want to get this in effect as soon as possible," says Brad Hammock, Esq., workplace safety compliance practice group leader at Jackson Lewis LLP in the Washington, DC, region office.
Meanwhile, OSHA also has shifted some positions from voluntary compliance efforts to enforcement. The agency added 100 inspectors in the fiscal year 2010 budget and would have another 60 inspectors in the proposed 2011 budget.
In a live, online "chat" on the proposed budget, OSHA administrator David Michaels, PhD, MPH, said the additional inspectors would enable the agency to conduct more targeted inspections and National and Local Emphasis Programs, which involve inspections that are focused on specific standards or concerns, such as bloodborne pathogens.
U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said the budget showed "this administration's strong commitment to vigorous enforcement. . . . [W]e are sending a strong message throughout industry that we will not tolerate the endangerment of workers. We will continue those efforts with a number of new and innovative enforcement initiatives in the coming year."
OSHA defines work-related MSDs
As OSHA notes in its record-keeping proposal, the new reporting requirement doesn't call for employers to respond to the new data they will collect. In fact, it predicts that the proposed rule would create little burden on employers.
"OSHA stresses that the purpose of this rulemaking is solely to improve data gathering regarding work-related MSDs. The proposed rule does not require employers to take any action other than to check the MSD column on the OSHA 300 log if a work-related MSD case occurs that meets the general recording requirements of the record-keeping regulation," the agency said in the Federal Register notice.
Yet even the act of recording MSDs brings up past controversies. A far-reaching ergonomics rule was rescinded by Congress in 2001. "A number of people in the employer community will believe this is the very first step towards re-regulating ergonomics," says Hammock.
Under the Bush administration in 2003, OSHA eliminated the MSD record-keeping provision, asserting that it was too difficult to define work-related MSDs an argument that echoed the controversy over the ergonomics rule. "OSHA found that no single definition of 'ergonomic injury' was appropriate for all contexts," the agency said when it suspended the MSD reporting requirement.
Yet OSHA now notes that MSD definitions are now being used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the U.S. Navy, and the American National Standards Institute. The proposed OSHA definition would provide both examples and exclusions: "MSDs are disorders of the muscles, nerves, tendons, ligaments, joints, cartilage, and spinal discs. MSDs DO NOT include disorders caused by slips, trips, falls, motor vehicle accidents, or other similar accidents. Examples of MSDs include: carpal tunnel syndrome, rotator cuff syndrome, De Quervain's disease, trigger finger, tarsal tunnel syndrome, sciatica, epicondylitis, tendinitis, Raynaud's phenomenon, carpet layers knee, herniated spinal disc, and low back pain."
MSDs would be treated no differently than other occupational illnesses and injuries in terms of the criteria for reporting, OSHA says. An employer would record the MSD on the OSHA 300 log only if all of four criteria are met: "The employee experiences 'pain, tingling, burning, numbness or any other subjective symptom of an MSD; the symptoms are work-related; new; and meet the general recording criteria in the record-keeping regulation' (that is, they involve restricted work, job transfer, days away from work, or medical treatment beyond first aid)."
Underreporting remains a problem
The proposed rule was welcome news to safe patient handling experts, who said it would shed more light on the problem. Critics also have asserted that occupational injuries and illnesses are greatly undercounted.
While the proposed rule does not address the fundamental reason for undercounting that is, a system based solely on employer reports it would provide important new information, says Kenneth D. Rosenman, MD, chief of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Michigan State University in East Lansing and an expert on occupational injury and illness reporting. "I think it's important because it's the only way we can get a [handle on] the number of musculoskeletal injuries," he says.
Hospitals could use the MSD information to measure the effectiveness of injury prevention efforts, although comparisons to the national rate or to other hospitals would be problematic because of differences in reporting, he says.
For its part, OSHA says the new MSD information would help with policy setting: "Having the total number of MSDs would provide BLS with more complete data for analyzing the magnitude of the MSD problem and trends over time in the country as a whole, as well as in specific industries. Having more complete MSD data would assist OSHA and other safety and health policy-makers in understanding MSDs and making informed decisions on policies concerning workplace MSDs."
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Trump’s federal task force offers plans for growing apprenticeships
By Repairer Driven News on June 13, 2018
Announcements | Business Practices | Legal | Market Trends | Repair Operations
The federal Task Force on Apprenticeship Expansion last month delivered Republican President Donald Trump suggestions for promoting apprenticeships, something the chief executive and “Apprentice” star has made a priority.
With an May unemployment rate of 3.8 percent and more job openings than unemployed workers, competition for skilled and unskilled labor could be fierce. If the task force’s recommendations gain traction at the federal and state level and private sector, it could help address the technician shortage in collision repair and similar workforce deficiencies in other industries.
“The current half a million apprentices are simply not enough to fill the more than 6 million unfilled jobs at U.S. companies in today’s labor market,” Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said in a statement. “This thoughtful, practical strategy will make 2018 an inflection point that helps solve today’s labor market challenges and creates the workforce of the future.”
Ross also in a letter observed that the “80-year-old apprenticeship system that serves few sectors well” cried out for changes.
The federal apprenticeship program involves businesses hiring a worker and developing them into a proficient tradesman or -woman while paying them an average of $15 an hour. At the end of the apprenticeship period (one to six years, typically four years), apprentices receive a credential which signals to other companies in the industry that the employee knows his or her stuff.
More than 55,000 apprentices graduated nationwide in 2011, and the number of apprenticeships has grown 42 percent since 2013. The 2017 fiscal year saw 190,000 new apprentices and 533,000 apprentices overall.
“Apprenticeships give students proven and meaningful ways to gain skills and kickstart fulfilling careers,” Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said in a statement. “I’m excited by the proposals the Task Force on Apprenticeships is putting forward to the President. We must continue our efforts to strengthen workforce readiness and increase the number of pathways available to students after high school.”
According to the task force, apprenticeships are a good bet for a company, state, or country:
While apprenticeships represent a cost for companies, data shows the programs are worth the investment. Companies that utilize apprenticeship programs experience higher productivity and higher employee retention rates. Another benefit to apprenticeship sponsors is the increased opportunity for innovation; because apprentices understand the principles behind the work they are doing, they are often more adept at problem-solving and can adapt to new technologies. International studies suggest that for every dollar spent on apprenticeships, employers may get an average $1.47 back in increased productivity, reduced waste, and greater innovation. In addition, a review of Washington State’s workforce training outcomes found apprenticeships boosted participants’ future taxable incomes and thus yielded a $23 return to taxpayers for every public dollar spent, compared with a $3 return for community college. At the Federal level, apprenticeships are an extremely effective workforce training method, as every Federal dollar invested in apprenticeship programs brings a $27 return on investment.
The task force unfortunately lacked any representatives from the automotive aftermarket or even the direct auto industry, but the American Association of Community Colleges and National Association of Manufacturers were represented. (The body even had a celebrity in the form of actor and “workforce training advocate” John Ratzenberger; Mike Rowe must have had a prior commitment.)
The body proposed recommendations on attracting businesses, expanding access and awareness, administration and regulation, and credentials and administration:
The Subcommittee on Education and Credentialing recommended that Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship programs expand more traditional work-and-learn models to achieve higher levels of employer engagement and better outcomes; include work-based learning and performance assessment; and feature national recognition and portability of standards-based, industry-recognized credentials, the requirements for which should be articulated by the public-private sector partners implementing the programs. In addition, the Subcommittee recommended that the Federal partners of the Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship program should implement and support strategies for making technical instruction more affordable for apprentices. Lastly, the Subcommittee recommended that the Federal Government identify and make available capacity-building resources for certifying organizations, institutions of higher education, and other service providers. The Subcommittee also recommended that employers should partner in planning for and building capacity.
The Subcommittee on Attracting Business to Apprenticeship recommended that the Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship program should streamline and simplify program funding through various methods, such as updating Federal funding criteria, streamlining State grant access, and exploring sector-led financial options. In addition, the Subcommittee recommended that the U.S. Department of Labor, along with other Federal agencies and industry groups, should conduct and make available a needs analysis to identify existing skills shortages and quantify the benefits of apprenticeships in meeting labor challenges, and also compile apprenticeship information in a single, online, centralized website.
The Subcommittee on Expanding Access, Equity, and Career Awareness recommended that the Federal Government should fund a brand awareness campaign for apprenticeships and take steps to expand access to and incentivize the use of an “earn-and-learn” model for employers and apprentices. To ensure equity of access to Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship programs, the Subcommittee recommended that the U.S. Department of Labor should implement clear guidelines and fund community-based organization efforts, and certifiers and sponsors should develop comprehensive outreach strategies. Lastly, the Subcommittee recommended that the U.S. Department of Labor should vet concerns about the existing Registered Apprenticeship system and take action to make improvements.
The Subcommittee on Administrative and Regulatory Strategies to Expand Apprenticeship recommended that implementation of an Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship program should begin with a pilot project in an industry without well-established Registered Apprenticeship programs. The Subcommittee also recommended that the Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship programs should focus on mastery and competency, not just seat-time or training hours, and that program implementation guidelines should spell out the quality standards. In addition, the Subcommittee recommended that Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship program participants cannot be considered as apprentices for the purpose of meeting the Davis-Bacon Act wage requirements (for the construction industry), and that programs are not required to follow specific wage progression rules but clarify to apprentices what wages they will be paid and under what circumstances wages will increase. Lastly, this Subcommittee categorized key questions highlighted by their recommendations and recommended several administrative reforms and changes that could be made to the Registered Apprenticeship system that would also expand apprenticeship utilization in the United States. (Emphasis task force’s.)
“President Trump’s Administration is committed to bridging the skills gap by creating apprenticeships that reflect the needs of jobs creators,” Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta said in a statement. “The Task Force established through the President’s Executive Order brought together varied perspectives to create a strategy for expanding apprenticeships across all industries. I am grateful to the Task Force members for sharing expertise and insight that shaped this final report, which provides a road map to help Americans learn the skills they need for the jobs of today and tomorrow.”
Here’s a closer look at a couple of the suggestions which seemed particularly relevant to the collision repair industry.
Make it easier to understand and tap into federal funding programs:
Many employers and industry organizations today report that the uneven interpretation of guidelines and regulations by the workforce development system makes it difficult, if not impossible, for employers to access the relatively limited funding available to support apprenticeship through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Sponsors of apprenticeships must also navigate additional Federal agency structures and processes in order to access available apprenticeship supportive funding that may be available through the U.S. Departments of Education, Justice, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Transportation, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development.
As a result, the Task Force urges clarification or alignment of funding availability (or both) via WIOA, the Carl D. Perkins Career & Technical Education Act, Federal Work-Study, and/or the Federal Pell Grant Program, at a minimum.
Also, get everyone on the same page with regard to funding:
As Federal and State Governments promote apprenticeships, they need to ensure that existing financial programs are aligned with current apprenticeship policy and that businesses know how to access them.
According to recent research by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), there are more than 40 workforce development programs across nine Federal agencies. Data shows that these programs were funded with more than $42 billion, although less than half that amount ($17 billion) went to employment and training activities. Based on this data, there is a clear need to streamline and simplify programs by developing an organized approach that recognizes and preferentially funds apprenticeship.
In order to simplify and emphasize apprenticeship funding, Federal funding criteria should be updated to ensure that Registered Apprenticeship and Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship programs are treated equally, encourage the development of apprenticeship programs for both new hires and incumbent workers, and encourage the reallocation of State resources to apprenticeship.
Finding information
While the feds are streamlining their funding process, they ought to streamline the information available to employers:
Much of the hesitation on the part of the private sector to embark on apprenticeship program development is due to the lack of a single, online community for apprenticeships targeted to businesses, as well as to educational institutions and workers. As a first step to creating this community, the U.S. Department of Labor, in partnership with the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Education and with industry groups, should compile the best existing information available to companies on apprenticeship. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Apprenticeship Toolkit is an excellent starting point for basic information on apprenticeship.33 However, the launch of the Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship program has created the need and opportunity for a robust, centralized site to attract and bring together more employers to create apprenticeships.
Educating feds, businesses
Make sure officials have a clear idea of which industries have tech shortages. (Government, if you’re reading this, put collision repair on the list.)
Businesses and policymakers lack information about skills shortages in individual companies and across the economy – that is, on the gap between workforce needs, available labor supply, and education and training programs. …
The Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau should develop a joint project to measure businesses’ skills shortages and training investments through existing survey, administrative, and third-party data. The Bureau of Labor Statistics should develop a supplement to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, and the U.S. Census Bureau should develop a module to the new Annual Business Survey as potential new survey vehicles.
Conversely, make sure businesses have hard data that apprenticeships will actually help their particular sector.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Apprenticeship should establish a partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau to research and publish metrics on the long-term employment outcomes and retention of apprentices relative to other workers. This project could build upon an existing joint project between the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Association of Manufacturers, and the National Skills Clearinghouse.
Industry associations should be encouraged to play a critical role in gathering data from sector employers. As a means of evaluating effectiveness and broadening awareness, associations could produce sector-wide case studies to help companies quantify the return on investment for both apprenticeship programs and other training programs where employer dollars are being spent. As companies and trade associations gather this return on investment data, the Federal Government should enable the dissemination of this information, as well as other aspects of a well-rounded return on investment, including incentives, recognitions by the U.S. Department of Labor, and the applicability of Registered Apprenticeship and Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship program experience to college credit or articulation.
To allow widespread adoption of apprenticeship, certifiers of Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship programs should keep consistent data and metrics as established by the U.S. Department of Labor to indicate their program success, as well as showcase proof of concept to enable industry expansion.
The auto body and auto refinishing apprenticeship templates are intensive but could perhaps stand an overhaul to reflect technological advances in collision repair. However, the industry has multiple trade groups and agendas, making oversight of a recognized apprenticeship standards tricky. It’s possible dueling standards could even arise. The task force anticipates this:
The U.S. Department of Labor should solicit proposals for governing or oversight bodies that include multiple trade or business associations within an industry sector. This governing body should be required to reach agreement on certification standards as a criterion for the Department’s approval. Leadership of this governing body should rotate on an annual basis between members to ensure a balanced perspective over time.
This recommendation is intended to address the following questions: What will the U.S. Department of Labor do if there are multiple trade or business associations within an industry sector and they develop conflicting or inconsistent industry standards? What safeguards will be put in place to prevent conflicts of interest on the part of certifiers that are also membership organizations? (Emphasis removed.)
Task Force on Apprenticeship Expansion portal
“TASK FORCE ON APPRENTICESHIP EXPANSION SUBMITS STRATEGY TO CREATE MORE APPRENTICESHIPS”
Department of Labor, May 10, 2018
Task force final report
Department of Labor Apprenticeship portal
Apprenticeship FAQs
More on registered apprenticeships
The Task Force on Apprenticeship Expansion is shown. (Provided by Department of Labor)
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. (Provided by Commerce Department)
Secretary of Labor R. Alexander Acosta. (Shawn T Moore/Department of Labor)
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Chicago police frustrated by lack of cooperation in death of Rockford toddler Kyrian Knox
Nov 19, 2015 at 12:10 PM Nov 19, 2015 at 9:50 PM
CHICAGO — The family friends entrusted to care for Kyrian Knox have not cooperated with police and refuse to respond to requests to meet with investigators, frustrated Chicago police detectives said today.
Investigators saidKamel Harris, 40, and his live-in girlfriend, Danyelle Foggs, 34, were living in Rockford at the time and caring for Kyrian while the boy's mother, Lanisha Knox, was moving. They initially spoke with police but have since ceased cooperating.
Parts of 2-year-old Kyrian's dismembered body were found over Labor Day weekend in the Garfield Park Lagoon on the west side of Chicago. It took several weeks to identify the remains.
Numerous attempts to contact the witnesses have failed, detectives said during a news conference live-streamed by 13 WREX, the Register Star's broadcast partner. Talking with them is considered critical to any next step in the investigation. Harris previously told police that he had turned Kyrian over to unidentified people and didn't realize until later that he was missing.
Harris was jailed for more than a month on a burglary charge. During that time, he told the Register Star in a phone interview that people he did not know came to his home in late August and asked for Kyrian. "The little boy ran to him and was all happy," Harris said.
Harris is now believed to be living in Milwaukee but has ignored requests by Chicago detectives for an interview.
Foggs told the Register Star that Lanisha Knox and Harris's daughter, Shakela, who has a 2-year-old son, dropped their children off with Harris in early August without her permission. It was an open-ended arrangement.
Foggs has three children — ages 21, 16 and 2. Suddenly, she had three 2-year-old toddlers in the home. Shortly after Kyrian was reported missing Sept. 17, the Department of Children and Family Services took custody of her 2- and 16-year-olds and placed them in another home in Rockford.
Kyrian was last seen in mid- to late August in Rockford. Harris was arrested around the day Kyrian was reported missing and released in October.
As Rockford detectives worked the investigation, Chicago police were reviewing missing-person reports to identify the remains of the dismembered child found in the Garfield Park Lagoon. A passerby spotted a foot floating in the lagoon Sept. 5; over the next few days, authorities recovered a child's head, hands and feet. The torso is missing.
FBI tests determined that DNA from the remains matched DNA collected from Lanisha Knox. A cause of death has not been determined.
Chicago Deputy Chief Dean Andrews said police hope publicity surrounding the news conference will exert pressure on Harris and Foggs to cooperate and share everything they know about what happened to Kyrian. Police continue to regard them as uncooperative witnesses, not as suspects.
"It's unfathomable to me, when we're talking about a tender-age child and we are finding body parts, that you won't cooperate on a case like that. I can't wrap my brain around it," Andrews said. "I can't."
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Teaching the Alphabetic Code: Phonics and Decoding
By: Learning First Alliance
Early skills in alphabetics serve as strong predictors of reading success, while later deficits in alphabetics is the main source of reading difficulties. This article argues the importance of developing skills in alphabetics, including phonics and decoding.
In addition to phoneme awareness and letter knowledge, knowledge of sound-symbol associations is vital for success in first grade and beyond. Accurate and fluent word recognition depends on phonics knowledge. The ability to read words accounts for a substantial proportion of overall reading success even in older readers.
Good readers do not depend primarily on context to identify new words. When good readers encounter an unknown word, they decode the word, name it, and then attach meaning. The context of the passage helps a reader get the meaning of a word once a word has been deciphered.
The Report of the National Reading Panel states that explicit, systematic, synthetic phonics (in synthetic phonics, children are taught to blend individual speech sounds into words) is significantly more effective than other types of phonics such as incidental, embedded, or whole-to-part phonics.
The ability to spell is generally improved with systematic phonics instruction even in children who read relatively well. Instruction in word recognition, moreover, should include not only sound-letter correspondences, but also sight words, syllabication (breaking words into syllables), and morphology (breaking words into meaningful parts).
By the end of second grade, students should be able to decode almost any unfamiliar word so that they can attend to uncovering the meaning. The extent to which students will depend on explicit, systematic teaching will vary, but teachers need to be prepared to teach everyone, including those who do not learn to decode with ease.
Teachers cannot teach the relationships between speech and print systematically, explicitly, and skillfully unless they themselves understand how spelling represents sounds, syllables, and meaningful parts of words. English is a predictable, albeit complex language that children can approach with confidence if their teachers present the system itself as one with logic and structure.
Teachers need knowledge, guidance, and practice, however, if they are to teach in a way that improves on the ineffective drills and worksheets that may have been misused in the past.
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' In addition to their mention in Every Child Reading: An Action Plan, these components are commonly delineated in documents such as research reviews, state standards on instruction, the Reading Excellence Act funding criteria, curriculum guidelines, and teacher instructional manuals.
* Of course, as the National Reading Panel notes, "phonics teaching is a means to an end. . . . In implementing systematic phonics instruction, educators must keep the end in mind and ensure that children understand the purpose of learning letter sounds and that they are able to apply these skills accurately and fluently in their daily reading and writing activities" (Washington, DC: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Health, 2000, p. 10). The panel's report also states that, notwithstanding the fact that explicit, systematic, synthetic phonics is the most effective approach, there remain unanswered questions on how to make this instruction as effective as possible. For example, the panel notes that more research is needed on questions such as how long single instruction sessions should last, how many letter-sound relations should be taught, and how many months or years a phonics program should continue. Moreover, some children will learn and appropriately apply phonics skills quickly and effortlessly, while others must be taught slowly, step by step. The individual variation in any group remains a continual challenge to teacher judgment, resourcefulness, and program management skill.
* In the standardization of the Texas Primary Reading Inventory, these subtests combined predict the likelihood of success or failure with about 90 percent accuracy.
* The readability of text, as reflected in sentence complexity and frequency of vocabulary, can now be assessed with software. Readability formulas tend to have more validity for children who have attained a reading level above 2nd grade than they do for those who are just beginning to read, and readability does not reflect the extent to which a text is decodable on the basis of what a child has been taught.
Excerpted from: The Content of Professional Development. (November, 2000). Every Child Reading: A Professional Development Guide. Learning First Alliance. Reprinted with permission.
Copyright © 2000 by the Learning First Alliance. Learning First Alliance member organizations include: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, American Association of School Administrators, American Federation of Teachers, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Council of Chief State School Officers, Education Commission of the States, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Association of State Boards of Education, National Education Association, National Parent Teacher Association, National School Boards Association. For more information, see www.learningfirst.org
"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away. And in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall." — Roald Dahl
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-- Beds, -- Baths, 1,974 sqft
585 E 92nd St is a single family residence located in Brooklyn, NY 11236. Built in 1940, this property features 2,200 sq ft lot, and 1,974 sq ft of living space. The estimated market value for 585 E 92nd St is $616,000.
For the surrounding community of Brooklyn, NY 11236, the average sale price for similar homes to 585 E 92nd St is $528,997. The nearby schools are very good and include University Neighborhood High School, Bard High School Early College and New Explorations Into Sciencetech And Math High Sc. The overall crime risk for this area is moderate with 73 criminal and sex offenders residing within 1 mile. The natural disaster risk for this area includes very low earthquake risk, low tornado risk, and minimal flood risk.
Property Details: 585 E 92nd St
County: Kings
Lot: 117
Cooling Type: NP
2017 $4,056 (+17.79%) $13,860 $8,940 $22,800
2012 $2,805 $11,481 $7,595 $19,076
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Situated at 585 E 92nd St, Brooklyn, NY 11236, this is a Single Family Residence with and approximately 1,974 square feet of living space and a 2,200 square foot lot. The property was built in 1940 and is in the neighborhood of Kings County, New York.
During the month of 06/2019, a total of 34 properties had foreclosure filings in the 11236 zip code surrounding 585 E 92nd St, with one in every 1,037 housing units receiving a foreclosure filing. In Kings County, where 585 E 92nd St, Brooklyn, NY 11236 is located, there were 282 properties with foreclosure filings documented during the month of 06/2019, a foreclosure rate of one in every 3,647 housing units. In New York, one in every 2,399 housing units had a foreclosure filing in 06/2019, while one in every 2,161 housing units had a foreclosure filing nationwide.
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SanDisk® Unveils World’s First microSD Card Designed to Deliver a New Dimension of Mobile Application Performance
The 256GB SanDisk Ultra® microSD card with the Latest A1 SD Specification Offers Mobile Users Even More Storage Expansion Options
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 4, 2017 – Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), a global storage technology and solutions leader, today unveiled the world’s first microSDTM card that meets the Application Performance Class 1 (A1) requirements from the latest SD Association’s SD 5.1 specifications. By meeting the A1 performance standard, the 256GB SanDisk Ultra® microSDXCTM UHS-I card, Premium Edition, delivers capacity, speed and enhanced capability to deliver a better smartphone experience1.
Since the popular memory card format launched more than a decade ago, microSD cards have been instrumental in driving new segments in digital imaging like action cameras, drones, dashboard cameras and surveillance systems, and have significantly impacted the evolution of the smartphone. Today, approximately 75 percent of smartphone models on the market contain microSD slots, according to data from Strategy Analytics2. The 256GB* SanDisk Ultra microSD card offers the capacity and performance consumers need to capture all of life’s moments without having to worry about what to delete. The card can hold up to 24 hours of Full HD video3 and with premium transfer speeds of up to 95MB/s**. With A1 performance, the card can launch and run apps at blazing speeds.
“The microSD card has been an integral part of the digital revolution by providing more options for high performance, high capacity storage for smartphones,” said Dinesh Bahal, vice president of product management, Client Solutions Business Unit, Western Digital. “SanDisk® cards are at the center of more than two billion consumer devices, and now with this A1 card, we’re proud to play a significant role in continuing to advance the trusted format.”
Long used by billions to expand capacity for photos, videos, music and many other digital files, the, microSD card now must evolve to support application-intensive environments, paving the way for a new dimension of memory card performance. With the introduction of the Android Marshmallow 6 operating system, users can expand storage capacity on smartphones by selecting the microSD card as preferred or adoptable storage, which means apps can now be loaded and launched directly from the A1 microSD card.
The A1 spec allows the new card to manage random read input-output access per second (IOPS) of 1,500 and write IOPS of 500, so it can quickly open apps and process accompanying tasks, such as audio, graphics, saved profiles and in-app permissions. With this in mind, the new SanDisk Ultra microSD card with A1 is designed to provide consumers a faster, more powerful app experience using cards.
“SD technology is trusted by consumers around the world for its reliable, backwards compatible and
highly interoperable storage, making it the world’s leading memory format with billions of SD memory cards and devices in the market,” said Brian Kumagai, SDA president. “The A1 specification will help consumers identify the appropriate card to ensure an optimal experience when running and launching apps on their smartphone. We are pleased that SanDisk will release an A1 card, and continues to contribute to breakthrough technologies enabled by the microSD format.”
The new SanDisk Ultra microSD card with A1 is compatible with the SanDisk® Memory Zone app for Android™, giving users an easy way to manage and back up content on their device. The app is available for free through the Google Play™ Store4. The card will be available worldwide in January 2017 with a U.S. MSRP of $199.99.
The complete line of SanDisk® microSD cards can be purchased at more than 300,000 retailers worldwide.
About Western Digital
Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) is an industry-leading provider of storage technologies and solutions that enable people to create, leverage, experience and preserve data. The company addresses ever-changing market needs by providing a full portfolio of compelling, high-quality storage solutions with customer-focused innovation, high efficiency, flexibility and speed. Our products are marketed under the HGST, SanDisk and WD brands to OEMs, distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure providers and consumers. For more information, please visit www.hgst.com, www.wd.com, and www.sandisk.com.
About SanDisk
SanDisk, a Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) brand, provides trusted and innovative flash storage products that have transformed the electronics industry. SanDisk’s quality, state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of many of the world's largest data centers, and embedded in advanced smartphones, tablets and PCs. SanDisk’s consumer products are available at hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide.
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the development, compatibility, performance and capacity, capabilities, applications, pricing and availability of the SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card, Premium Edition and its A1 functionality. There are a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate including, among others: volatility in global economic conditions; business conditions and growth in the storage ecosystem; impact of competitive products and pricing; market acceptance and cost of commodity materials and specialized product components; actions by competitors; unexpected advances in competing technologies; our development and introduction of products based on new technologies and expansion into new data storage markets; risks associated with acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures; difficulties or delays in manufacturing; and other risks and uncertainties listed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including the company's Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on Nov. 8, 2016, to which your attention is directed. The company undertakes no obligation to update the information in this release in the event facts or circumstances change after the date of this release.
*1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes. Actual user storage less.
**Up to 95MB/s read speed; write speed lower. Based on internal testing; performance may be lower depending on host device, interface, usage conditions and other factors. 1MB=1,000,000 bytes.
1Results may vary based on host device, app type and other factors.
2SpecTraX service from Strategy Analytics
3Approximations; Results and Full HD (1920x1080) video support may vary based on host device, file attributes and other factors. See: www.sandisk.com/HD.
4Download and installation required; see www.sandiskmemoryzone.com.
©2017 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved. SanDisk, SanDisk Ultra, and SanDisk Memory Zone are registered trademarks or trademarks of Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates in the US and/or other countries. The SD, microSD, and microSDXC marks and logos are trademarks of SD-3C, LLC. Android and Google Play are trademarks of Google Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
Western Digital Technologies, Inc. is the seller of record and licensee in the Americas of SanDisk® products.
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Telstra calls on SAS to keep customers engaged
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What is a Data Scientist?
Who they are, what they do and why you want to be one
Data scientists are a new breed of analytical data expert who have the technical skills to solve complex problems – and the curiosity to explore what problems need to be solved.
They’re part mathematician, part computer scientist and part trend-spotter. And, because they straddle both the business and IT worlds, they’re highly sought-after and well-paid. Who wouldn’t want to be one?
They’re also a sign of the times. Data scientists weren’t on many radars a decade ago, but their sudden popularity reflects how businesses now think about big data. That unwieldy mass of unstructured information can no longer be ignored and forgotten. It’s a virtual gold mine that helps boost revenue – as long as there’s someone who digs in and unearths business insights that no one thought to look for before. Enter the data scientist.
Where did they come from?
Many data scientists began their careers as statisticians or data analysts. But as big data (and big data storage and processing technologies such as Hadoop) began to grow and evolve, those roles evolved as well. Data is no longer just an afterthought for IT to handle. It’s key information that requires analysis, creative curiosity and a knack for translating high-tech ideas into new ways to turn a profit.
The data scientist role also has academic origins. A few years ago, universities began to recognize that employers wanted people who were programmers and team players. Professors tweaked their classes to accommodate this – and some programs, such as the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University, prepared to churn out the next generation of data scientists. There are now more than 60 similar programs in universities around the country.
“My days can be very similar but week-to-week work can vary greatly. For a few weeks I might be working on a text mining project, and after that I could be creating a predictive model around the customer. Mixed in are meetings with others about analytics and how it can help different parts of the business.”
Alex Herrington
Data scientist for a major US retailer
Kirk Borne, PhD, Principal Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, addresses the misconception that data science is an IT function – and how data scientists can help in the new era of bigger, more complex data.
Resources for getting started
Become a data scientist. Learn how the SAS Academy for Data Science can help you get started.
Download SAS University Edition – free SAS software that allows students and learners to use analytics.
More on data scientists
Meet a data scientist: Interview with Kristin Carney.
Download a white paper on Getting Value From Your Data Scientists.
Typical job duties for data scientists
There's not a definitive job description when it comes to a data scientist role. But here are a few things you'll likely be doing:
Collecting large amounts of unruly data and transforming it into a more usable format.
Solving business-related problems using data-driven techniques.
Working with a variety of programming languages, including SAS, R and Python.
Having a solid grasp of statistics, including statistical tests and distributions.
Staying on top of analytical techniques such as machine learning, deep learning and text analytics.
Communicating and collaborating with both IT and business.
Looking for order and patterns in data, as well as spotting trends that can help a business’s bottom line.
What’s in a data scientist’s toolbox?
These terms and technologies are commonly used by data scientists:
Data visualization: the presentation of data in a pictorial or graphical format so it can be easily analyzed.
Machine learning: a branch of artificial intelligence based on mathematical algorithms and automation.
Deep learning: an area of machine learning research that uses data to model complex abstractions.
Pattern recognition: technology that recognizes patterns in data (often used interchangeably with machine learning).
Data preparation: the process of converting raw data into another format so it can be more easily consumed.
Text analytics: the process of examining unstructured data to glean key business insights.
“On a typical day, I brainstorm and problem solve how to answer questions that come from the business with my team, I review analysis and recommendations completed by my staff, and I attend a variety of meetings.”
Kristin Carney
Data scientist, World’s Foremost Bank
How can you become a data scientist?
Positioning yourself for a career in data science could be a smart move. You’ll have plenty of job opportunities, plus it’s a chance to work in the technology field with room for experimentation and creativity. So what’s your strategy?
If you’re a student
Choosing a university that offers a data science degree – or at least one offering classes in data science and analytics – is an important first step. Oklahoma State University, University of Alabama, Kennesaw State University, Southern Methodist University, North Carolina State University and Texas A&M are all examples of schools with data science programs.
If you’re a professional who wants to shift careers
While most data scientists have backgrounds as data analysts or statisticians, others come from non-technical fields such as business or economics. How can professionals from such diverse backgrounds end up in the same field? It’s important to look at what they have in common: a knack for solving problems, the ability to communicate well and an insatiable curiosity about how things work. Learn how the SAS Academy for Data Science gives you the tools to become a certified data scientist.
Aside from those qualities, you’ll also need a solid understanding of:
Statistics and machine learning.
Coding languages such as SAS, R or Python.
Databases such as MySQL and Postgres.
Data visualization and reporting technologies.
Hadoop and MapReduce.
If you don’t want to learn these skills on your own, take an online course or enroll in a bootcamp. And then, of course, you should network. Connect with other data scientists in your company, or find an online community. They’ll give you insider information into what data scientists do – and where you’ll find the best jobs.
When is a business ready to hire a data scientist?
Before you accept a data scientist position, there are a few things about the organization you should evaluate:
Does it deal with large amounts of data and have complex issues that need to be solved? Organizations that truly need data scientists have two things in common: They manage massive amounts of data, and they face weighty issues on a day-to-day basis. They’re typically in industries such as finance, government and pharma.
Does it value data? A company's culture has an impact on whether it should hire a data scientist. Does it have an environment that supports analytics? Does it have executive buy-in? If not, investing in a data scientist would be money down the drain.
Is it ready to change? As a data scientist, you expect to be taken seriously, and part of that entails seeing your work come to fruition. You devote your time to finding ways your business can better function. In response, a business needs to be ready – and willing – to follow through with the results of your findings.
Hiring a data scientist to guide business decisions based on data can be a leap of faith for some organizations. Make sure the business you might be working for has the right mindset – and is ready to make some changes.
“I work for an agile company, which requires me to be flexible and adapt to circumstances. Last week, for example, I was doing several tasks, including improving recommendation scores; tuning the integration with the operational content management system; creating new transformed variables based on consumer behavior to be used for affinity models; and doing some refactoring of existing performance reports/analytical dashboards."
Manuel-David Garcia
Data scientist for a midsize company in Heidelberg, Germany
Technologies for the data scientist
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Sierra history: The first commercial watercraft on Lake Tahoe
News | July 29, 2015
Three steamers can be seen off Tahoe Tavern pier, from left: the Tahoe, the Nevada, and a pleasure craft named Mi Duena.
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This is the first in a two-part series of stories.
LAKE TAHOE — The annual 2015 Concours d’Elegance will be held in early August at Obexer’s Boat Company on Lake Tahoe’s West Shore.
This internationally acclaimed wooden boat exhibit gathers together some of the world’s most beautiful watercraft in a celebration that reminds us of how maritime vessels have shaped the Tahoe Basin’s earliest history.
Many notable sailboats and steamers plied the waters of Lake Tahoe during the 19th and early 20th centuries, but it appears that the first vessel on the lake (other than dug-out canoes crafted by Washoe and Paiute Indians) was a whaleboat forced over the Sierra by a man named Walton.
He was an avid fisherman, but little else is known of him. The first commercial watercraft on Big Blue was the “Iron Duke,” a sailboat captained by Thomas Jackson.
From 1860 to 1870, Jackson delivered mail around the lake. It took him about a week to make the trip as he sailed to each isolated settlement around the perimeter of the lake.
STEAM IN THE SIERRA
In the spring of 1864 the first steam-powered vessel was launched on Lake Tahoe. The “Governor Blaisdel” was named after Nevada’s first governor H.G. Blasdel, but spelled incorrectly.
The 42-foot-long side-wheeler was hand-built by Captain Augustus W. Pray, an early pioneer in the basin who settled in Glenbrook, Nevada, in 1860.
An experienced seaman who had sailed both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, Capt. Pray constructed the boat from scratch. He laid out the keel, steam-bent the wooden ribs, and milled side boards for the hull.
The boiler hardware and steam engine were acquired in San Francisco and the parts shipped to Glenbrook via freight wagons.
After its launch, parties were held around the lake celebrating the “opening of steam navigation on Lake Tahoe.”
Finally, travelers upon Big Blue did not have to rely on the erratic and capricious winds the area is known for.
Powered by wood-fueled boilers, the Governor Blaisdel hauled visiting tourists as well as entrepreneurs and businessmen looking for opportunity in the rapidly developing Tahoe Basin.
The ship transported freight around the lake and was sometimes pressed into service towing large rafts of harvested timber from logging camps around the lake to the commercial sawmill that Capt. Pray operated at Glenbrook.
There, the logs were cut into lumber and transported over the Carson Range to be used in Comstock mining operations near Virginia City.
The Governor Blaisdel operated reliably for more than 12 years until 1877 when the hard-working little steamer broke up in a storm and its debris washed up onto the Glenbrook beach.
Between 1865 and 1900 at least a dozen steamships worked commercially on Big Blue.
In the early 1860s the first year-round residents of what was to become Tahoe City settled the area. These men were frustrated miners who decided to get into the fishing business.
Other entrepreneurs spent summers cutting hay that grew in the nearby meadows that are now occupied by the Tahoe City Golf Course. Sailboats delivered the bales of hay to the south end of the lake where horse-drawn wagons transported it to Virginia City.
There the hay helped feed the thousands of draft animals that labored on the Comstock.
THE FIRST ‘EMERALD’ AT BAY
The first steamer launched at Tahoe City was the Emerald, which fired its boilers in July 1869. At 92 feet it was more than twice as long as the Governor Blaisdel and at full steam reached 12 mph.
Unlike the Governor Blaisdel, which Capt. Pray built himself, the Emerald was fabricated at a San Francisco ship building plant.
The steamship was loaded onto Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) flatcars and delivered to Truckee on the recently completed transcontinental railroad.
From there it took 24 burly oxen six days to haul the empty hull and superstructure to Tahoe City.
The engines and other operating machinery were carried in separate freight wagons.
A stage-line operator named Ben Holladay paid for the construction of the Emerald as an investment.
Known as The Stagecoach King, Holladay owned and operated an overland mail and freight service built upon an extensive network of main and branch stagecoach lines from Kansas to California.
At the time Holladay also owned all of Emerald Bay at Lake Tahoe, where he probably got the inspiration for the name of his boat.
PASSENGER CRUISE ON TAHOE
During her work life, the Emerald primarily towed rafts of logged tree trunks to Glenbrook for processing. The steamship made steady money for Holladay until its boiler was condemned in 1881.
The extraordinary demand for lumber and cordwood for Nevada mines inspired other entrepreneurs to introduce their own steam-powered tug boats.
In 1870, Captain Howland and B.F. McCoy deployed the Truckee, a 40-foot-long wood burner capable of about nine mph.
For its first year, it was used exclusively to haul log booms, but in 1871, it was purchased by William Campbell, a Truckee businessman and owner of the new Hot Springs Resort near the north shore state line.
He promoted his vessel as the best passenger boat cruising Lake Tahoe, but tourism was still in its infancy in the region and few tickets were sold.
Historian Mark McLaughlin is a nationally published author and professional speaker. Find Mark’s books at stores or http://www.thestormking.com. You can reach him at mark@thestormking.com. Follow Mark’s blog: http://www.tahoenuggets.com.
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National Geographic - Warships (DVD)
SEARCH FOR BATTLESHIP BISMARCK: 'Sink the Bismarck!' was the cry as British forces searched the Atlantic for the German navy's most powerful vessel. The pursuit ended on May 27, 1941, in a battle that plunged the Bismarck into waters nearly three miles deep, taking with it more than 2,000 lives. Almost half a century later, explorer and scientist Dr. Robert D. Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, searches the Atlantic for the infamous Bismarck. THE SINKING OF THE BELGRANO: Act of war or war crime? This is the question that surrounded the most controversial event of the 1982 Falklands/ Malvinas War: was the Belgrano outside the Falkland Islands 'exclusion zone' and therefore immune from attack as Argentina claims? Or was it actively threatening British forces in the area? This programme journeys to find the Belgrano and tries to answer the puzzling questions about her mission, her location and her sinking on that fateful day. GALLIPOLI'S DEEP SECRETS: Dr. Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, examines one of the greatest turning points of the 20th century, the Battle of Gallipoli. In what was to become one of the bloodiest and most futile battles of the modern era, Ballard wants to examine how it went so horribly wrong. The answers lie not only on the battlefields but beneath the waves. On this extraordinary and poignant journey, Ballard unlocks Gallipoli's deep secrets. SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA: Why on 7th May 1915, 9 months into World War 1, did a German U-Boat torpedoes the Lutisania, one of the largest luxury liners in the world. Why did it take just eighteen minutes to sink trapping nearly 1,500 passengers. Take a plunge beneath the Irish Channel and relive one of the century's most mysterious maritime tragedies.
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U.S. women knock out Spain to reach World Cup…
U.S. women knock out Spain to reach World Cup quarterfinals
Megan Rapinoe scores two goals on penalty kicks to enable Americans to advance
United States’ forward Megan Rapinoe celebrates after scoring a goal during the France 2019 Women’s World Cup round of sixteen match between Spain and USA, on June 24, 2019, at the Auguste-Delaune stadium in Reims, northern France. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE /AFP/Getty Images)
PUBLISHED: June 24, 2019 at 11:01 am | UPDATED: June 24, 2019 at 5:25 pm
United States’ Megan Rapinoe, left, scores her side’s second goal from the penalty spot during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and United States at Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
United States’ Samantha Mewis, front, duels for the ball with Spain’s Virginia Torrecilla during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and United States at Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Spain’s Patri Guijarro, left, jumps for the ball with United States’ Julie Ertz during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and United States at Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
United States’Alex Morgan, right, is challenged by Spain’s Irene Paredes, left, challenges during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and US at the Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Spain goalkeeper Sandra Panos, left, makes a save in front of United States’ Alex Morgan during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and United States at Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Spain’s Alexia Putellas, left, challenges for the ball with United States’Julie Ertz during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and US at the Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Spain’s Jennifer Hermoso, left, jumps for the ball with United States’ Kelley O Hara during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and United States at Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Referee Katalin Kulcsár of Hungary, left, shows the yellow card to United States’ Megan Rapinoe during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and US at the Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Spain goalkeeper Sandra Panos, left, makes a save in front of United States’ Alex Morgan, center, during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and United States at Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
United States’ Megan Rapinoe, right, scores her side’s first goal from the penalty spot during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and United States at Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
United States’ Alex Morgan, right, duels for the ball with Spain’s Irene Paredes during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and United States at Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
United States’ Alex Morgan, front, duels for the ball with Spain’s Irene Paredes during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and United States at Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
United States’ Alex Morgan, left, duels for the ball with Spain’s Jennifer Hermoso during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and United States at Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
United States’ Megan Rapinoe, front, celebrates with teammates after scoring the opening goal from a penalty spot during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and US at the Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Spain’s Marta Corredera, right, duels for the ball with United States’ Megan Rapinoe during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and United States at Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
United States goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, left, fails to stop a goal shot by Spain’s Jennifer Hermosoduring the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and US at the Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Spain’s Jennifer Hermoso, front, duels for the ball with United States’ Samantha Mewis during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and United States at Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Spain goalkeeper Sandra Panos makes a save in front of United States’ Megan Rapinoe, front left, during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and United States at Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Spain’s Jennifer Hermoso celebrates with teammates after scoring her side’s first goal during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and United States at Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
United States’ Julie Ertz, right, jumps for the ball with Spain’s Vicky Losada during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and United States at Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
United States’ Megan Rapinoe, front, celebrates with teammates after scoring a the opening goal from a penalty spot during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and US at the Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
REIMS, France — Megan Rapinoe converted a pair of penalty kicks and the United States set up a much-anticipated quarterfinal meeting with host France at the Women’s World Cup with a 2-1 victory over Spain on Monday.
Rapinoe’s first came in the seventh minute to the cheers of the U.S. supporters melting in temperatures that reached nearly 90 degrees at the Stade Auguste-Delaune. They were quieted a short time later when Jennifer Hermoso tied it up for Spain with the first goal the Americans had allowed in France.
Video review was used to confirm a light-contact foul on Rose Lavelle that gave the pink-haired captain the game-winner in the 75th minute, spoiling Spain’s spirited effort in its first knockout-round appearance at a World Cup.
Diamond Bar’s Alex Morgan initially lined up to take the penalty, but during the delay caused by the review, the U.S. decided to let Rapinoe, who converted on a first-half penalty, take it instead. Rapinoe drilled a low kick into the corner to the goalkeeper’s right.
“Pino gave me the ball,” Morgan said, “but it was ultimately the coaches’ decision and the ball went back to Pino, and it went in the back of the net.”
The three-time World Cup winners now head to Paris to face France on Friday night. The French defeated Brazil 2-1 in extra time Sunday night, with Amandine Henry scoring the game-winner in the 107th minute.
“I think this is the game that everyone had circled,” Rapinoe said, referring to France. “I think it’s going to be a great match. I hope it’s wild and crazy, I hope the fans are crazy and there’s tons of media around it and it’s just a big spectacle. I think this is incredible for the women’s game, when you have two heavy hitters meeting in the final knockout round.”
The game at the home of Paris Saint-Germain has been anticipated since the tournament draw in December. France is vying to become the first nation to simultaneously hold both the men’s and women’s World Cup titles. The French men won in Russia last year.
The United States skated through its group with a stage record 18 goals. The team also didn’t concede a goal in the group stage for the first time at a World Cup.
Until Monday, the Americans had not allowed a goal in eight straight competitive matches dating back to the 2016 Olympics, outscoring opponents 44-0. It was the first goal the United States had allowed this year since a 5-3 win over Australia in an April friendly.
La Roja had not scored in its previous two games but still finished second in its group to Germany to get the matchup with the Americans.
The U.S. and Spain met in a friendly in Alicante in January, part of a European exhibition trip for the United States. Christen Press scored the lone goal in a 1-0 victory. That match was a confidence-booster for No. 13 Spain because it was able to hang with the world’s top-ranked team. Spain’s profile on the international stage has grown under coach Jorge Vilda, who took over following the team’s World Cup debut in 2015. Spain won the 2017 Algarve Cup and last year won the Cyprus Cup.
Spain pushed the U.S. hard Monday.
“I actually think we deserved it more, but you know sometimes football is like that. I’m so proud of the team,” Spain midfielder Vicky Losada said. “I’m so proud of the effort of the team and I think now we have to think about it, and think about the future, which I think is going to be so good.”
Rapinoe’s first penalty kick was the result of Maria Leon’s tackle on Tobin Heath after a pass from Abby Dahlkemper.
Less than three minutes later, goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher’s too-casual pass to Becky Sauerbrunn was stripped by Lucia Garcia and the ball wound up at the feet of Hermoso, who sent her shot from the penalty arc into the top right corner. It was Hermoso’s third goal of the tournament to lead Spain.
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On the go-ahead goal, Rapinoe stepped forward and slotted the ball just under the outstretched arm of Spain goalkeeper Sandra Panos.
“That’s World Cup-level grit,” Rapinoe said. “You can’t replicate it. There’s no way to express it or teach it.”
Morgan, who leads the field in France with five goals, took a beating throughout the game. She stayed down for a long while in the second half after a hard tackle by Irene Paredes.
Coach Jill Ellis did not start midfielder Lindsey Horan, replacing her with Samantha Mewis. Horan, who came in as a sub in the 89th minute, had a yellow card in the team’s second match.
Rapinoe collected a yellow card in the 37th minute against Spain. The cards could become an issue for the United States against France. Players who accumulate two through the quarterfinals must sit out the next game.
Ellis coached her 124th match with the U.S., matching April Heinrichs for most in the team’s history.
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Tobin Heath is awarded the penalty and the captain sends it home. #FIFAWWC pic.twitter.com/jOgofUTc4J
Same penalty taker, same result! 🇺🇸@mPinoe showing nerves of steel from the penalty spot! 💪 #FIFAWWC pic.twitter.com/2aLSSc0VJy
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Home / CELEBRITY / Ed Sheeran breaks record for most money made in one year by a musician
Ed Sheeran breaks record for most money made in one year by a musician
December 20, 2018 - CELEBRITY
Ed Sheeran has broken an all time record for most money made in one year by a musician, as he earned 157001.67₦ million in 2018.
The 27-year-old performer raked in an utterly eye-watering 157001.67₦ million in 2018, beating the likes of Taylor Swift, Jay-Z and even Beyonce – who, alongside the ‘Shape of You’ singer, featured in the top five.
His Divide tour has earned him more than any other performer in the last 30 years – for which he sold an amazing 4,860,482 tickets across 53 cities and 94 shows.
He wasn’t alone at the top though, his celebrity friend, Taylor Swift came in second place hauling in 111882.03₦ million.
Though the 29-year-old ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ singer released her sixth studio album Reputation in 2017, the world stadium tour was pretty much a sell-out.
In the third spot was Jay-Z and Beyonce shared the third spot taking in 92165.11₦m – but there was a degree of controversy when rumours circulated the couple failed to sell out their joint tour and gave tickets away for free.
Also on the top ten list of highest earners of 2018 was Pink!, Bruno Mars, The Eagles, Justin Timberlake, Roger Waters, and The Rolling Stones.
Ed Sheeran breaks record for most money made in one year by a musician Reviewed by Adebanjo Shegun on December 20, 2018 Rating: 5
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This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: Law Abiding Citizen, Black Dynamite, Cabin Fever 2, and More
Posted on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 by Adam Quigley
This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s.
Logic and subtlety are the last things viewers should expect from Law Abiding Citizen, an absurdly enjoyable B-movie thriller that critics made the mistake of trying to take seriously. The film is disposable low-brow entertainment, no question. The unfolding of the plot doesn’t yield a single unanticipated turn, nor does it fail to act on a convenient cliché when one is available—and there are many available. Rarely, though, does a thriller embrace its R-rating as fully as this one. It’s amusing how quickly Gerard Butler’s introduction as the sympathetic anti-hero is tossed aside in favor of full-on deranged villainy—even more so when you realize how much more fun it makes the movie. The gleeful maliciousness that the film displays as it continually cranks up the violence is a little disturbing, but it’s in that gratuitous carnage that Law Abiding Citizen earns its place amongst the rest of the compulsively watchable trash that cinema has to offer.
Available on Blu-ray? Yes.
Notable Extras: DVD – An audio commentary, and behind the scenes featurettes. Blu-ray – Includes everything on the DVD, as well as an exclusive unrated director’s cut.
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LOL: Chris Rock Speaks the Truth About Roman Polanski
Posted on Friday, October 2nd, 2009 by Russ Fischer
I’ve been surprised by the groundswell of support for the notion of freeing Roman Polanski since he was arrested on Sunday in Zurich. Ok, Debra Winger saying the arrest was part of a “philistine collusion”…whatever. But then a whole bunch of great filmmakers signed a silly petition demanding Polanski’s immediate release. Woody Allen, fine, no great surprise, but David Lynch and Martin Scorsese? Sigh. Now, thankfully, we’ve got Chris Rock weighing in on the case. Read More »
Good Hair Movie Trailer
Posted on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 by Hunter Stephenson
Back when Good Hair was first announced, I was elated to see that fellow-Aquarian Chris Rock was making a documentary that attempted to do for black women’s hair what Bill Maher did for religion. No more elusive secrets! Put it on the table in daylight and softly poke it with questions for all to see. So awesome. I mean, as the years go by and I casually encounter and work with fewer black people (that’s life!), as a white guy I am stricken with the fear that I might never know what is up. I have so many inquiries lingering unanswered and unfortunately Transformers 2 did nothing to curb my desire for first-hand knowledge. And when I type “first-hand,” I mean Salt and Pepa discussing “burn” stories. Bonus Prize: Raven from That’s So Raven offering an enligtening weave-shift.
“If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they’re not happy” – Paul Mooney
What would Beyonce say? Sell-out. Sell-in: According to a guy in this trailer, the “black hair business” is a $9 billion industry, numbers that put it on par with the porn biz. “I am addicted to the Creamy Crack!” The trailer touches on the subject. “Creamy Crack!” is Urban Dictionary-speak for “relaxer,” which, sadly, most likely also needs a UB entry. Just watch the trailer after the jump.
2009 Sundance Film Festival Competition Films Announced
Posted on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 by Peter Sciretta
The Sundance Institute has announced the first half of the line-up for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Included in the first press release are the films in competition in the Drama and Documentary segments. 3,661 feature-length films were submitted this year, which is 37 more films than last year. For the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, 118 feature-length films were selected including 87 world premieres, 19 North American premieres, and 4 U.S. premieres representing 21 countries with 42 first-time filmmakers, including 28 in competition. Before we get into the full list, I would like to point out some of the films that particularly interest me. Also, now should be the time for me to admit that I focus more on English-language films, so my foreign picks will probably be lacking.
The Wrestler screenwriter Robert Siegel makes his directorial debut with Big Fan, which stars Patton Oswalt as a parking garage attendant and hardcore New York Giants football fan who struggles to deal with the consequences when he is beaten up by his favorite player. Michael Rapaport also stars. I loved the humor that Siegel brought to The Wrestler, and with Oswalt in the lead – this one is a no brainer.
The Office star John Krasinski makes his directorial debut with a big screen adaptation of David Foster Wallace‘s book Breif Interviews with Hideous Men. The story follows Julianne Nicholson as a doctoral candidate in anthropology who “tries to remedy the heartache” of being dumped with little explanation, by interviewing men about their behavior. Krasinski, Dominic Cooper and Timothy Hutton also star.
In Cold Souls, Paul Giamatti stars as a famous American actor who in the midst of an existential crisis, “explores soul extraction as a relief from the burdens of daily life.” Okay, doesn’t have the best plot description but Giamatti is involved, as well as David Strathairn, Emily Watson, and Lauren Ambrose.
Emmy Rossum stars in Adam Salky‘s feature directorial debut Dare, about “three very different teenagers discover that, even in the safe world of a suburban prep school, no one is who she or he appears to be.” IMDB also provides a different teaser synopsis: “The good girl, the outsider and the bad boy…like you’ve never seen them before.” This is a feature length adaptation of Salky’s 2005 short film which was met with acclaim at film festivals. I’m a sucker for coming of age films.
Everyone is talking about Paper Heart, the film that Michael Cera made under the raydar with his girlfriend Charlyne Yi. The film is apparently a meta-love story with the stars playing themselves (?). The pre-festival hype aside, I would see this film based on Cera’s involvement alone.
Teeth star Jess Weixler returns to Sundance opposite Jason Ritter in a big screen adaptation of Peter and Vandy, the Drama Desk Nominated Best Play that was lauded for its “almost embarrassing intimacy and killer comic timing.” The film tells the story of a contemporary Manhattan love story, told out of order, with no beginning and no end. Festival programer Geoffrey Gilmore says that “One of the themes” of this year’s festival is “the kind of new-generation love story,” … a new “way of telling love stories right now by a new, younger generation that’s different, that’s fresh, that’s original.” This and the Cera film Paper Heart seems to fit into this statement.
Jeff Daniels stars as the title character Arlen Faber, a reclusive author of a groundbreaking spiritual book awakens to new truths when two strangers enter his life. The film also stars Kat Dennings (Nick and Norah), Olivia Thirlby (Juno, Wackness), and Lauren Gram. The film was formerly titled “The Dream of the Romans“, which is a much better title if you ask me.
In Good Hair, Comedian Chris Rock turns documentary filmmaker when he sets out to examine the culture of African-American hair and hairstyles. I’m not sure if it will be good, like many of Chris Rock’s films, but I’ll always be there for anything the guy creates.
Documentary filmmaker R.J. Cutler was given unprecedented access for a film titled “The September Issue“. Cutler and crew shot Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour and her team over the corse of nine months as they prepared the 2007 VogueSeptember issue, widely accepted as the “fashion bible” for the year’s trends. I’ve always been interested in the world of journalism, even if the Fashion world might be a very different realm. And I must admit that The Devil Wears Prada has me very interested to catch this one.
You can read the full press release (which includes a listing of all the films announced today) after the jump.
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Schindler’s List
A drama about the abuse of power, the horror of unbridled evil, and the difference one man can make.
Keith Howland
Schindler’s List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a wartime profiteer who aims to make a fortune off the plight of the oppressed Jews and the prosperity of their Nazi oppressors. He succeeds, but he eventually comes to value human life more than riches, exchanging his wealth for the safety of those he had sought to exploit.
This discussion guide looks at the movie’s themes of rampant evil, the character of heroism, the quandary of human suffering, and salvation.
• Discussing the Scenes
(Mark 7:20–23; Romans 3:9–18, 8:7–8; John 3:16–18; Matthew 5:38–48)
(1 Peter 1:14–16; Ephesians 2:1–10; John 10:14–18)
(Romans 8:31–39; John 3:16; 1 Peter 3:18)
Schindler’s List (Universal, 1993), directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel by Thomas Keneally, screenplay by Steven Zaillian, rated R for intense violence, language, and sexual content.
Photo © Copyright Universal Studios
Evil; Movies; Power; Salvation; Suffering
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Muslim kids at New Mexico compound trained for murder
An extremist Muslim man, who was arrested at a family compound in New Mexico where 11 starving children were found, was "training them to commi ...
by Martin Barillas
An extremist Muslim man, who was arrested at a family compound in New Mexico where 11 starving children were found, was “training them to commit school shootings” and had even installed a target practice range. After Siraj Wahhaj, 39, of New York City was arrested at a compound in Amalia, New Mexico, on Friday, prosecutors say he was providing firearms training to the children. Authorities raided the property after intercepting a message intended for someone else outside which said the children were starving.
The children, ages one to 15, are related. They are now in government custody. They had not eaten for several days when a message, either written by them or one of their mothers, was intercepted by police.
Wahhaj is the son of a prominent Muslim prayer leader New York City. The elder Imam Siraj Wahhaj is the leader of the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA). MANA describes itself as a “national network of masjids [mosques], Muslim organizations and individuals committed to work together to address certain urgent needs within the Muslim community.” In 1995, U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White named Imam Wahhaj as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. In addition, some of Wahhaj’s Al-Taqwa mosque congregants were charged and convicted of providing material support to Muslim terrorists leading up to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj testified in court on behalf of each of them. Wahhaj's ideology is encapsulated in his statement ““If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.” The general secretary of MANA is Ihsan Bagby, who was on the board of the Council on American Islamic Relations, which has some times been identified as a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood. Bagby has also served as an official at the Islamic Society of North America, which has also been associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The younger Wahhaj had fled in December from Clayton County, Georgia, vanishing along with his three-year-old disabled son, Abdul Ghani. The boy's mother reported it as an abduction. The boy was not among the 11 children rescued on Friday. Abdul suffers from hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy: a brain injury that requires daily medication. The corpse of a child found near the compound is believed to be the missing boy, but has not been positively identified.
In an emotional press conference on Tuesday, a tearful Taos County Sheriff Jeffrey Hogrefe described the discovery of a child's corpse. "We discovered the remains yesterday on Abdul's fourth birthday," he said. Law officers said that they found at the compound the worst evidence of abuse they had seen in 30 years. The compound, which consisted of connected trailers and jerry-built components, lacked food and running water. The children were described as exhibiting very poor personal hygiene and had not eaten in days.
In addition to Wahhaj, law officers arrested the mothers of the 11 kids and Wahhaj’s brother-in-law.
When Wahhaj was arrested, he was found in possession of an AR-15 style rifle and four pistols. On Wednesday, prosecutors filed court documents allegedly that Wahhaj was training the children to perform mass school shootings. So far, it is not clear whether the Muslim group had a plan for targeting a specific school. The FBI had been monitoring the compound near the Colorado border as part of a hunt for the missing son of Wahhaj. The FBI claimed that it had not conducted a raid on its own because it had no physical evidence that the missing boy was there.
Neighbors described hearing gunfire over the last few months. The children of the compound used to play with neighbors but stopped showing up several weeks ago. A man who lived nearby said he helped Wahhaj to set up solar panels, believing that they wanted to live off the grid. The Wahhaj clan began to encroach on the neighbor’s land, but a local court reportedly did nothing to address the invasion of private property.
Subhanah Wahhaj,35, Hujrah Wahhaj, 38, and Jany Leveille (Maryam) were arrested on Sunday and charged with child abuse. Lucas Morton, who is married to Subhanah, owns the tract of land where the family was based.
The children were aged between one and 15 and all are related. They were taken into government care on Friday after they were discovered.
Sheriff Hogrefe said that after receiving the message from inside that the children were “starving”, he had to take action despite the FBI’s reluctance to make a move. "I absolutely knew that we couldn't wait on another agency to step up and we had to go check this out as soon as possible, so I began working on a search warrant right after I got that intercepted message," Hogrefe said. The FBI did not yet have probable cause to conduct its own raid.
Because of concerns that the residents of the compound were believed to be “heavily armed and considered extremist of the Muslim belief," Hogrefe said, "We also knew from the layout of the compound they would have an advantage if we didn't deploy tactfully and quickly." The compound was ringed with tires and other debris as barriers and had 150-foot tunnel and a ladder that led out into a neighboring property.
Spero News writer Martin Barillas is a former US diplomat, who also worked as a democracy advocate and election observer in Latin America. His first novel 'Shaken Earth', is available at Amazon.
Copyright © 2019 Spero
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Compilation of the Social Security Laws
INTERAGENCY COORDINATION TO IMPROVE PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION[49]
Sec. 1127A. [42 U.S.C. 1320a–6a] (a) Coordination Agreement.— Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including section 207 of this Act, the Commissioner of Social Security (referred to in this section as ‘the Commissioner’) and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (referred to in this section as ‘the Director‘ shall enter into an agreement under which a system is established to carry out the following procedure:
(1) The Director shall notify the Commissioner when any individual is determined to be entitled to a monthly disability annuity payment pursuant to subchapter V of chapter 84 of subpart G of part III of title 5, United States Code, and shall certify that such individual has provided the authorization described in subsection (f).
(2) If the Commissioner determines that an individual described in paragraph (1) is also entitled to past-due benefits under section 223, the Commissioner shall notify the Director of such fact.
(3) Not later than 30 days after receiving a notification described in paragraph (2) with respect to an individual, the Director shall provide the Commissioner with the total amount of any disability annuity overpayments made to such individual, as well as any other information (in such form and manner as the Commissioner shall require) that the Commissioner determines is necessary to carry out this section.
(4) If the Director provides the Commissioner with the information described in paragraph (3) in a timely manner, the Commissioner may withhold past-due benefits under section 223 to which such individual is entitled and may pay the amount described in paragraph (3) to the Office of Personnel Management for any disability annuity overpayments made to such individual.
(5) The Director shall credit any amount received under paragraph (4) with respect to an individual toward any disability annuity overpayment owed by such individual.
(b)Limitations.—
(1) Priority of Other Reductions.— Benefits shall only be withheld under this section after any other reduction applicable under this Act, including sections 206(a)(4), 224, and 1127(a).
(2) Timely Notification Required.— The Commissioner may not withhold benefits under this section if the Director does not provide the notice described in subsection (a)(3) within the time period described in such subsection.
(c) Delayed Payment of Past-Due Benefits.— If the Commissioner is required to make a notification described in subsection (a)(2) with respect to an individual, the Commissioner shall not make any payment of past-due benefits under section 223 to such individual until after the period described in subsection (a)(3).
(d) Review.— Notwithstanding section 205 or any other provision of law, any determination regarding the withholding of past-due benefits under this section shall only be subject to adjudication and review by the Director under section 8461 of title 5, United States Code.
(e) Disability Annuity Overpayment Defined.— For purposes of this section, the term `disability annuity overpayment' means the amount of the reduction under section 8452(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code, applicable to a monthly annuity payment made to an individual pursuant to subchapter V of chapter 84 of subpart G of part III of such title due to the individual's concurrent entitlement to a disability insurance benefit under section 223 during such month.
(f) Authorization to Withhold Benefits.— The authorization described in this subsection, with respect to an individual, is written authorization provided by the individual to the Director which authorizes the Commissioner to withhold past-due benefits under section 223 to which such individual is entitled in order to pay the amount withheld to the Office of Personnel Management for any disability overpayments made to such individual.
(g) Expenses.— The Director shall pay to the Social Security Administration an amount equal to the amount estimated by the Commissioner as the total cost incurred by the Social Security Administration in carrying out this section for each calendar quarter.
[49] P.L. 114–74, §841(a); Inserted Section 1127A. Effective November 2, 2015
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Kenneth "Woody" Sampson Wood
October 23, 1932 ~ April 20, 2019 (age 86)
Kenneth “Woody” Sampson Wood, age 86 of Covington, passed away Saturday, April 20, 2019 at Story Point, Troy. Ken was born in Middlesboro, KY on October 23, 1932 to the (late) Raliegh Sampson & Dallie (Williford) Sampson who died when he was six weeks old and then was adopted by the Wood family; a U.S. Army Veteran who served in the Army National Guard and the Korean War in the 916th Medical Co.; retired from GM as a Gauge Repairman with 38 years of service; a member of the Bradford First Baptist Church where he was ordained as a deacon in 1979; a member and Past Master of Bradford/Gettysburg F & AM; a member of the Antioch Shrine; he could fix anything; enjoyed riding motorcycles; loved his “mini” farm and driving the tractor; enjoyed watching football and baseball and in earlier years played and had a killer knuckle ball; worked crossword puzzles every day; and studied his Bible. Preceded in death by his parents; his adoptive parents, Robert Jewel & Amanda Francis (Martin) Wood; his loving wife of 65 years who he married December 24, 1953, Shirley Irene Wood, who passed away on April 17, 2019 – three days before him; and two siblings and their spouses, Sarah Margaret & Talton Pearcy, James & Grace Wood. Ken is survived by his two sons and daughters-in-law, Larry & Carol Wood of Bradford, Michael & Nancy Wood of Bradford; daughter and son-in-law, Janeen & Ron Selanders of Covington; six grandchildren, Jennifer & Donnie Hochadel, Michael Jr. & Christina Wood, Darren & Laura Wood, Adam & Becky Wood, Devan & Jamie Selanders, Brooke & Brock Smith; nine great-grandchildren, Megan Wood, Natalie Wood, Robert Wood, Jacob Wood, Claire Wood, Clayton Wood, Kallea Shoffner, Brody Smith, Briella Smith; special nieces and nephews, other relatives and friends. Funeral service 10:00 AM Wednesday at Stocker-Fraley Funeral Home, Bradford with Pastor Dan Scalf officiating. Interment Miami Memorial Park Cemetery, Covington. Visitation 5-8 PM Tuesday at the funeral home with a Masonic Service. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Shriner’s Hospital or Hospice of Miami County. Condolences may be left for the family at www.stockerfraley.com.
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Business rate scheme which generated more than £10 million for Suffolk will not continue
Published: 10:11, 22 January 2019
Suffolk County Council's headquarters at Endeavour House, Ipswich. (6692443)
A funding pot, which generated more than £10 million for regeneration projects across Suffolk, will not continue next year, it has emerged.
Suffolk was one of 10 areas across the country to be selected for a one-year pilot scheme by central government, which allowed councils to retain 100 per cent of business rates collected.
Previously, 50 per cent had to be passed on to central government.
The pilot generated a total of £10.4 million for the county, which was divided between 29 different projects.
Among the schemes in Babergh to benefit from the cash was the regeneration of Sudbury town centre, the which was allocated £500,000.
A further £200,000 was given to the Angel Court housing development in Hadleigh, and £200,000 towards investing in the Delphi site as a business centre.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government announced it would not continue with a 100 per cent scheme, but it would open up applications for 2019/20 for 75 per cent retention.
Suffolk had entered a bid for this, but, in the latest funding settlement for councils, it emerged it was unsuccessful.
Jennie Jenkins, independent chairman of the Suffolk Public Sector Leaders group, said the news was disappointing, but did not threaten the funding already allocated for projects this year.
“We were all pleased that Suffolk’s authorities were successful in bidding to be part of the government’s 100 per cent business rate pilot in 2018/19,” she said.
“This additional income is now being used to drive a number of strategic projects through the agreement of all council leaders.
“While it was disappointing to learn we would not be part of the group of authorities to pilot 75 per cent retention in 2019/20, we can see exactly how the government is trying to give local authority areas across the country a fair opportunity to benefit from the scheme.”
Rishi Sunak, local government minister, said the bids meant some tough decisions had to be made, but it was still targeting a national roll-out of the 75 per cent retention rate scheme from 2020.
“We are taking action to build a fairer, more self-sufficient and resilient future for local government,” he said.
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Credit: Getty Images / Leon Bennett
Riverdale Season 4 will deal directly with Luke Perry's death
Christian Long
@cuneform
Tag: Riverdale
Tag: Luke Perry
The next season of Riverdale will address the death of Luke Perry. The actor died unexpectedly of a stroke this past March at the age of 52, which left fans wondering what that meant for his character, Fred Andrews. While his final episode was an emotional one, his character didn't exactly get a big, heartfelt sendoff.
**Spoiler Warning: There are spoilers for Season 3 of Riverdale below.**
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly about the Season 3 finale, showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa discussed where Riverdale will be headed for its fourth season. He also confirmed that it will open with a more appropriate sendoff to the late actor.
"When Luke passed, we’d already more or less outlined the last two or three episodes, and we didn’t want to rush that or get it wrong," Aguirre-Sacasa told EW. "So we are 100 percent going to deal with it narratively at the beginning of Season 4, and we want that episode to really honor the character of Fred and honestly, to honor the actor Luke and our friend Luke."
After Perry's death, Riverdale briefly shut down production out of respect for the actor while the show's cast and fans shared some of their favorite memories. However, what ended up being Perry's last scene on Riverdale was a brief, but tender conversation with his on-screen son, Archie (K.J. Apa).
According to Aguirre-Sacasa, Fred's absence will not only be addressed, it's "going to be a big part of Archie’s journey next season, honestly."
Speaking with The Wrap about the Season 3 finale, Aguirre-Sacasa also broke down how Season 3's ending was meant as a culmination of everything that's happened on Riverdale so far, which was why revealing Penelope Blossom as the Gargoyle King felt so symbolic. With that in mind, apart from wrapping up Alice Cooper's journey with The Farm, which he promised would be addressed in Season 4, Aguirre-Sacasa and company have other plans in store for the show's primary characters. Those plans were teased in a surprise flash-forward in the season finale, which saw Archie, Betty, and Veronica burning a pile of bloody clothes as they swore never to speak of whatever had just happened again. They also, ominously, burned Jughead's iconic beanie.
So, what can we expect to learn about this time jump next season? Just get ready for a hell of a senior year at Riverdale High.
"Every year we try a different crime genre or a new trope of pulp or noir and we wanted to do something that focused on all of the kids for Season 4, because sometimes Betty is with the Gargoyle King and Archie is with Hiram and Jughead is doing something with the Serpents, and we wanted them to all to be included in this main story," Aguirre-Sacasa said. "And we wanted to do something that was sort of a little bit more like an homage to the ’80s and ’90s teen thrillers, like Killing Mr. Griffin or I Know What You Did Last Summer or the novels like The Secret History by Donna Tartt, that were more focused on the role of students and the school. We wanted to focus it on that."
The Riverdale universe will also be expanding soon, as The CW has announced a pickup of Katy Keene, a spinoff series co-starring the character of Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray), who first popped up on Riverdale. When asked about crossovers, Aguirre-Sacasa was quick to remind everyone that Katy Keene is technically set in the future of the Riverdale timeline since it follows an adult Josie, so it might be easier to wait and let the Riverdale gang come to her.
"I think it’s more likely that we will see Riverdale characters pop up in New York five years later. We think that that might be a little more fun, and less confusing, than Josie going back in time to visit Riverdale."
Riverdale was renewed for a fourth season in January, though The CW hasn't announced an official premiere date.
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Business Impact
How Copyright Law Stifles Your Right to Tinker with Tech
The CEO of the gadget-repair site iFixit explains why tech groups are suing the government over copyright rules.
by Kyle Wiens
Last week, Andrew “Bunnie” Huang—a benevolent hacker and inventor—announced that he was teaming up with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to sue the U.S. government. Why? He believes the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is unconstitutional; that the law hinders free speech, stifles creative expression, and puts a damper on progress.
All I can say is … it’s about damn time.
The DMCA may have “digital” and “millennium” in its name, but it’s not in step with the way modern technology actually works. I found that out firsthand when a farmer friend asked me to help fix his tractor. It was a lot harder than I thought, but for legal rather than technical reasons. One obstacle led to another, and last year we ended up filing a petition asking the U.S. Copyright Office to allow farmers to repair their tractors.
I’m not an intellectual property lawyer. I’m a repairman and I run an online community called iFixit that teaches other people how fix things, too. Copyright law should have almost nothing to do with my life. But it does, thanks to the DMCA. Corporations manipulate the law to criminalize activities that have absolutely nothing to do with copyright, including repair.
Passed nearly two decades ago, the DMCA governs the space where traditional copyright and modern technology collide. Back in 1998, Congress’s goal was to prevent scary hacker-types on that new-fangled Internet thing from mainlining pirated movies directly into their eyeballs. So lawmakers wrote an anti-circumvention clause (Section 1201) into the new law, which prohibits users from breaking the digital locks—like DRM or encryption—that protect copyrighted content.
Of course, a lot has changed since 1998. And if the myriad, unauthorized ways to stream Game of Thrones are any indication, Section 1201 didn’t stop piracy at all. What it did do was give manufacturers another legally ironclad layer of control over their products.
Just like movies and music, software is copyrightable. That’s where the DMCA really hits the fan, because software is in almost every modern product we make, from Barbie dolls to calculators, motorcycles to tractors. If a company wants to stop a curious owner from meddling with the code, reverse-engineering the programming, or making any modifications to the system, then they can just slap a digital lock on the product. Break that digital lock—for any reason, even if you just want to back up or repair something you own—and you’re a cybercriminal.
So back to my story. This friend, a California-based strawberry farmer, approached me a few years ago because he was having trouble repairing some of his new farm equipment. Every time a machine broke, he had to fly out a manufacturer-authorized repair technician who could access the proprietary diagnostic software. Fixing the equipment locally would have required my friend to hack his own tractor, which is against the law.
That didn’t sit well with me. So I recruited a legal clinic from the University of Southern California to help me tell the Copyright Office that farmers should be able to repair their tractors on their own. It took nearly a year of back and forth, but eventually the Copyright Office decided that farmers and car owners could indeed break digital locks and access the code in their vehicles for the purpose of repair.
That was a victory. But it’s not enough. This stuff has implications beyond tractors and cars.
Every day, thousands of products are released onto the market. More and more of them come equipped with embedded software. Inevitably, some of them are going to break and people will need to fix them. Like this guy, who needed to fix a bad microphone on his wife’s speech therapy system. Or these people, who are trying to replace the DVD drives on their Xboxes. Or these owners of glitchy Samsung smart fridges. Under Section 1201, repairs that require access to a product’s programming could be against the law.
My company, iFixit, runs into these problems, too. We sell Xbox repair parts, but we have to unnecessarily bundle replacement drives and main boards together in pairs because they’re cryptographically linked. Using a technique developed by Bunnie, we could sell them individually and halve the repair cost, but last year the Copyright Office rejected our request to legalize the practice.
Repair is not crime. No one should have to ask the Copyright Office for permission to fix their stuff. No one should be threatened with a lawsuit for looking at code inside something that belongs to them. And no one should risk jail time because they have the audacity to fix a tractor without the manufacturer’s blessing.
If you do, then your tractor isn’t the only thing that’s broken. America’s copyright laws are broken, too. And it’s about damn time someone tried to fix them. Bunnie might not be the hero that our dysfunctional copyright system deserves, but he’s certainly the hero we need. And the fight of his life just started up.
Kyle Wiens is the CEO of iFixit, the free repair manual. He’s dedicated his life to defeating the second law of thermodynamics, a battle fought in the courtroom as often as in the workshop. The right-to-repair campaign has, so far, successfully legalized cell phone unlocking and tractor repair.
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Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.x < 2.9.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Versions of SeaMonkey 2.x earlier than 2.9.0 are potentially affected by the following security issues :
- An error exists with the handling of JavaScript errors that can lead to information disclosure. (CVE-2011-1187)
- An off-by-one error exists in the 'OpenType Sanitizer' that can lead to out-bounds-reads and possible code execution. (CVE-2011-3062)
- Memory safety issues exist which could lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2012-0467, CVE-2012-0468)
- A use-after-free error exists related to 'IDBKeyRange' of 'indexedDB'. (CVE-2012-0469)
- Heap-corruption errors exist related to 'gfxImageSurface' which can lead to possible code execution. (CVE-2012-0470)
- A multi-octet encoding issue exists which could allow cross-site scripting attacks as certain octets in multibyte character sets can destroy following octets.
- An error exists related to font rendering with 'cairo- dwrite' which can cause memory corruption leading to crashes and potentially code execution. (CVE-2012-0472)
- An error exists in 'WebGLBuffer' that can lead to the reading of illegal video memory. (CVE-2012-0473)
- An unspecified error can allow URL bar spoofing. (CVE-2012-0474)
- IPv6 addresses and cross-site 'XHR' or 'WebSocket' connections on non-standard ports can allow this application to send ambiguous origin headers. (CVE-2012-0475)
- A decoding issue exists related to 'ISO-2022-KR' and 'ISO-2022-CN' character sets which could lead to cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2012-0477)
- An error exists related to 'WebGL' and 'texImage2D' that can allow application crashes and possibly code execution when 'JSVAL_TO_OBJECT' is used on ordinary objects. (CVE-2012-0478)
- Address bar spoofing is possible when 'Atom XML' or 'RSS' data is loaded over HTTPS leading to phishing attacks. (CVE-2012-0479)
http://.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-20.html
CVE: CVE-2011-1187, CVE-2011-3062, CVE-2012-0467, CVE-2012-0468, CVE-2012-0469, CVE-2012-0470, CVE-2012-0471, CVE-2012-0472, CVE-2012-0473, CVE-2012-0474, CVE-2012-0475, CVE-2012-0477, CVE-2012-0478, CVE-2012-0479
BID: 53218, 53219, 53220, 53221, 53222, 53223, 53224, 53225, 53227, 53228, 53229, 53230, 53231
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Birch Hill Terrace Announces Affiliation with The RiverWoods Group
July 13, 2016 /in Uncategorized /by Ben French
Birch Hill to Begin $9 million Renovation and Improvement Plan
Cathleen Toomey
ctoomey@riverwoodsrc.org
July 12, 2016, Manchester– Birch Hill Terrace, a non-profit charitable Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) with roots in Manchester that goback 125 years, announced an affiliation with The RiverWoods Group, a non-profit, charitable organization that is parent
company of RiverWoods Continuing Care Retirement Community ( CCRC), based in Exeter, New Hampshire.
This announcement is the culmination of a two year process of discussion and deliberation between the two boards. The affiliation has received approval by the NH Department of Insurance, which governs CCRCs, as well as the NH Department of Charitable Trust, which must review and approve such proposals in the state.
“We are thrilled that our work together has culminated in this partnership,” said Gary Zabierek, President of Birch Hill Terrace. “This affiliation will bring fresh ideas and resources to the table. Next month we will start a major capital investment in our physical plant, which will transform the look of our apartment homes, and bring new energy to the community.”
Justine Vogel, CEO and President of The RiverWoods Group added, “Although we have not taken this step until now, Birch Hill and RiverWoods already share identical values and mission; we were both founded by grassroots community members interested in improving the lives of others. Together, we can provide peace of mind to more seniors in New Hampshire. As two charitable non-profit CCRCs we will both benefit from an affiliation.”
With approval in hand, improvements are the next step. Birch Hill is revealing their plans for a reimaged community, and will be investing $9 million in the next 24 months into the building. This will be the single largest capital investment in the company’s history.
Nationally, there are close to 2000 Continuing Care Retirement Communities, and the concept has been around for more than 100 years. With that said, the story of this “holistic approach” to senior care is only now being shared with the public. Although it’s growing, right now there only are a handful of CCRCs in northern New England. However, interest and education about this concept has been rapidly increasing among retirees. CCRCs welcome people 62 years or older, to enter as independent residents. Once there, residents can enjoy a variety of amenities (housekeeping, laundry service, dining, inside and outside maintenance, programs and exercise classes), while making friends. As they age, if a resident needs a higher level of care, it is available to them within the same campus. Depending on the CCRC contract type, this is generally at a reduced cost. Additionally, often a resident can get a refund on their initial entrance fee, when they pass away or move. To provide affordability and meet the needs of a clientele looking for comfort and quality care, the majority of CCRCs are non-profit, and many are organized within systems.
In addition to its capital improvement plans, Birch Hill has also created a new program, the Leader’s Circle, that provides significant financial incentives and special home upgrades to a limited number of people. The plans for Leader’s Circle will be reviewed at a luncheon program open to the public on September 21, at LaBelle Winery. To reserve a seat, please contact kprice@birchhillterrace.com or call 603-836-2302.
“We will transform our campus in the next 2 years,” said Gary Zabierek. “I can tell you that if you think you’ve seen Birch Hill, you owe it to yourself to take a second look.”
About Birch Hill
Birch Hill Terrace’s history dates back to 1875 with the founding of The Manchester Women’s Aid and Relief Society. Since then, the organization has continually evolved to meet the needs of the Manchester community. The Women’s Aid Home, known as Pearl Manor was established in 1891, and in 1991 a new campus, Hillcrest Terrace, was created to serve a growing number of independent seniors in the greater Manchester area. In 2009, the organization became a CCRC Continuing Care Retirement Community, and changed its name to Birch Hill Terrace, providing independent, assisted living, memory support and nursing care to its 180 residents.
About RiverWoods
RiverWoods is a nationally-accredited charitable non-profit CCRC located on 200 acres in Exeter, New Hampshire. Founded in 1994 by a small group of area residents, today RiverWoods has three distinct campuses, with close to 400 apartments and cottages, home to 620 residents, supported by more than 510 staff. The organization established a parent company, The RiverWoods Group, in 2013, with the goal of working to further the founder’s original mission, while maintaining strong core campuses. RiverWoods is the first affiliate, and Birch Hill Terrace is the second, providing a strong match in values and mission, and bringing a diversity of geography and contract type to The RiverWoods Group portfolio. For a primer on CCRCs, click here to download the Insider’s Guide to CCRCs.
The RiverWoods Group
5 White Oak Drive,
Exeter, NH 03833
The RiverWoods Group I 5 White Oak Drive Exeter, NH 03833 I 603.658.3031 I 800.688.9663
Birch Hill Terrace Affiliates With The RiverWoods Group RiverWoods Group Announces New Community In Durham
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Fun Lovin' Criminals are a band from New York City. Their musical style is eclectic, covering styles such as hip hop, rock, blues, jazz, R&B, punk, and funk.[11][9] They are best known for their hit "Scooby Snacks", which features samples from films by Quentin Tarantino, and the song "Love Unlimited", which recalls Barry White's backing vocal group. Their songs often focus on life in New York City, as well as urban life in general. Their lyrics can be gritty or existentialist in nature, touching on topics such as organized crime and urban violence, but they are just as often humorous or satirical.[12][9][13][10] The band gained a large following internationally, notably in north-west Europe, around the release of their first two albums in the late 1990s.
Formation and first albums: 1993–1999
The band was formed in 1993 by Huey Morgan, Brian "Fast" Leiser and Steve Borgovini after Leiser, who was already friends with Borgovini, met Morgan at the club where they both worked.[14] They started playing together and would provide the entertainment for the club when a booked act failed to show up. It was during one of these stand-in gigs that they came to the attention of EMI and they were offered a record deal.
Come Find Yourself, the band's first album, was released in the summer of 1996 by Chrysalis Records and followed their single "The Grave And The Constant" (UK No. 72), which was released a month earlier, into the UK charts. The album also featured the UK Top 40 hits, "Scooby Snacks" (UK No. 22), "The Fun Lovin' Criminal" (UK No. 26) and "King Of New York" (UK No. 28). The subject of latter touched on the imprisonment of Italian-American mafioso John Gotti, the wannabe gangsters emulating his style, and his fans and followers in his community that maintained his innocence. The biggest hit, "Scooby Snacks", features samples from films by Quentin Tarantino and a guitar sample from Tones On Tail song "Movement of Fear", interspersed with rap verses and a sung, anthemic, chorus. Come Find Yourself had a slow rise up the UK Albums Chart, finally peaking at No. 7 and spending well over a year in the chart, however it failed to make any impact in the US. The success of the album prompted the re-release of "Scooby Snacks" as a single, alongside a cover of the 10cc classic "I'm Not In Love", which this time reached UK No. 12.[14]
100% Colombian, released in August 1998 by Virgin Records,[14] had a far grittier sound to it tempered by three upbeat songs, and several downtempo tracks, including "Love Unlimited", a tribute to Barry White. "Korean Bodega", one of the aforementioned upbeat songs, was the biggest hit from the album, reaching No. 15, their second-highest placing single so far after the re-release of "Scooby Snacks".[14]
In June 1999 the band played at Glastonbury Festival on the Pyramid Stage. Their December 1999 album Mimosa, released by EMI was a compilation album consisting mostly of laid back lounge style covers and different versions of earlier released tracks. While making reasonable sales, the album was their weakest selling album yet and remained so for some years. It was around this time, in 1999, that Steve Borgovini left the band. He was replaced by Maxwell "Mackie" Jayson. A permanent replacement was found in 2003 in the form of Mark Reid (aka Frank Benbini) from Leicester, United Kingdom, who had previously worked with the band as Jayson's technician.
Mainstream success: 2000–2008
The band's third studio album, Loco, was released in early 2001. Back under EMI, the album had all new songs including the eponymous single which became their biggest hit yet, reaching No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart. It was the only single release from the album to reach the UK Top 40, and its success helped Loco to reach No. 5 in the UK Albums Chart.
Their final album under EMI was a "best of" compilation called Bag of Hits released in 2002. It was released in both one and two disc versions, with the second disc featuring remixes of Fun Lovin' Criminals songs by other artists. EMI released this album against the wishes of the band, who were not happy with the two disc version. However, despite their objections it reached No. 11 in the UK Albums Chart.
After parting company with EMI the band was picked up by Sanctuary Records in the UK, under which they released their fourth studio album Welcome to Poppy's (2003). While it received strong, but not fantastic, music reviews it failed to live up to the commercial success of any of the previous albums, peaking at No. 20 in the UK Albums Chart. The best-selling single from the album reached No. 61.
EMI continued to release the band's back catalog, as well as unreleased songs on two more albums. The Fun Lovin' Criminals made no further releases until 2005 album Livin' in the City, still under Sanctuary Records. This was very much a love letter to New York with many songs extolling the virtues of the city.
In June 2008 they made their second appearance at the Glastonbury Festival, this time on the Jazz World Stage.
In April 2010 Classic Fantastic was released, kicking off a European tour which began in Manchester. Legal wranglings with their previous manager meant that this album was their first official output in five years, although they had played live during this period. Leiser and Benbini had produced much of the album in London, while Morgan recorded his parts in New York.
Classic Fantastic was the first album on Kilohertz, the band's own label, and signaled a new business model for the Fun Lovin' Criminals based on touring their live shows rather than relying on record sales alone. Singles from the album were the title track "Classic Fantastic" followed by "Mr Sun". The official video for "Mr Sun" was cancelled due to volcanic ash, and a montage of old home movies was used in its place.
The third single was the double A-side "We The Three" and "Keep On Yellin" featuring South London's Roots Manuva, released August 16, 2010. During July 2010 the band recorded a special series of songs with Roots Manuva. The project, dubbed "Criminal Manuvas", was recorded at Maida Vale studios for BBC Radio 6 Music; songs included a reggae version of "Scooby Snacks" and an alternative version of "Witness".
In September 2010 the band were touring, and they announced a live album: Fun, Live and Criminal via Pledge Music.
In March 2014 they released The Bong Remains The Same, a live concert video.
In February 2016, they released a deluxe, expanded edition of debut album "Come Find Yourself" to mark its 20th anniversary, and the band toured the album by performing it in full alongside some of their other tracks, throughout the UK and Europe, and at a number of festivals that Summer and into 2017. In January 2019, The band released the follow-up to their "Mimosa" compilation, titled "Another Mimosa", which features covers of some of their favourite songs. The band have also been working on their 7th studio album of new original material, expected in 2020.
Huey Morgan is a radio personality on BBC.[11][15]Morgan has appeared on Jack Osbourne's Adrenaline Junkie, a boy racer show Slips, sat in for Jonathan Ross and Dermot O'Leary on BBC Radio 2, appeared in Soulboy (film) as a Dick Van Dyke accented London record shop owner, voiced a character in the Scarface: The World Is Yours video game, and most bizarrely appeared with Liza Tarbuck on Liza & Huey's Pet Nation on prime-time SKY TV.
All three band members have released side-projects. Benbini's band Uncle Frank has released an album, as has Leiser, albeit some of his previous 'unreleased' work. Both Leiser and Benbini have collaborated on myriad remixes as well as a full remix album in a reggae-dub style under the moniker Radio Riddler. Morgan has released an album Say it to my Face and toured with several acquaintances, including Benbini, as Huey and the New Yorkers, raising money for veterans as he did so.
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Ayeko leads Ugandan Team
Thomas Ayeko - Uganda
Uganda National Cross Country Champion, Thomas Ayeko will lead the 24 strong Uganda Team to the 2012 Africa Cross Country Championships in Cape Town on Sunday 18 March. Uganda will field a full complement of athletes (6 in each category)
The 20 year-old Ayeko entered his first year as a senior athlete after finishing 2nd at the World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria, Spain on 20 March, this after he finished 18th at the World Championships in 2010.
Despite the absence of star athletes such as Moses Kipsiro, Benjamin Kiplagat and Stephen Kiprotich from the Ugandan team, strong opposition is still expected from Uganda.
Kipsiro (the 2009 World Cross Country silver medallist and 11th in 2011) and Kiprotich (6th at the 2011 World Championships) have been omitted from the team after they failed to participate in the National Cross Country Championships in Uganda. The versatile Benjamin Kiplagat represented Uganda at the World Cross Country as junior in 2007 and 2008 but failed to finish in the top 6 at the National Championships, leaving the gap open for new youngsters to move up the ranks.
Abraham Kiplimo, Timothy Toroitich, Jacob Araptany, Phillip Kiplimo and Peter Kibet make up the rest of the Senior Men’s team. Although none have them have represented Uganda at Senior level, all have competed internationally as Juniors.
The women include Annet Negesa, who was unchallenged at the National Championships after she ran a solo race to defend the senior women’s title in 26:22. Negesa finished 8th at the Africa Cross Country Championships last year and was also included in the team for the World Cross Country Championships in Spain where she finished 66th.
Viola Chemos finished 2nd at the national Championships and also had the honour of representing her country in Spain.
The competitiveness of the Ugandan women can be noted in the finishing times. First and second place was separated by only 6 seconds while the difference in time between the third place and 6th place was a mere 8 seconds. Rebecca Cheptegei and Stella Cheruto who competed at the World Cross Country Championships in 2011, finished 3rd and 4th respectively at their Championships, both in 27:26. Other women include Phanice Chemutai and Juliet Heckwel.
Junior men: Alex Cherop Kapcheromit, Nathan Ayeko, Abdallah Mande, Moses Kurong, Michael Cherop and Wycliffe Kiplangat
Junior Women: Nancy Cheptegei, Stella Chesang, Patricia Chepkwemboi, Stella Chebet, Brenda Cherop and Doreen Sande.
The Africa Cross Country Championships will take place at the Western Province Cricket Club grounds in Keurboom Park. The opening ceremony will start at 09:00.
Other countries to compete at the Championships are: South Africa, Kenya, Eritrea, Morocco, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Congo, Egypt, Mauritius, Rwanda, Mozambique, Zambia, Angola, Botswana, Sudan, Namibia, Swaziland, Malawi, Lesotho and Zimbabwe
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Buhari extends appointment of Acting CJN by 3 months
Saturday, April 20, 2019 5:48 pm
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has approved the request of President Muhammadu Buhari to extended the appointment of Ibrhaim Muhammed, acting chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), by three months.
Soji Oye, NJC spokesman, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday.
The spokesman was reacting to a report that council will meet to deliberate on extension of the acting CJN.
Oye said the council met and approved Buhari’s request to extend the appointment of Muhammad by three months.
“The attention of the National Judicial Council has been drawn to an online newspaper and daily newspaper report stating that the council would meet next week to deliberate on the extension of the Acting Appointment of Honourable Dr. Justice I. T. Muhammad CFR, as the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria,” he said.
“Contrary to the above, the Council actually met on Thursday 18th April, 2019 and at the 88thMeeting considered and approved the request of President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, for the extension of the Appointment of Hon. Dr. Justice I. T. Muhammad, CFR, as the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria for another three (3) months and Council has since forwarded its approval to the president.”
Muhammad was appointed after Walter Onnoghen was suspended by the Buhari.
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Martin Luther King Breakfast, Jan. 15, 2007
For tickets e-mail [email protected] or come to The Skanner office, located at 415 N. Killingsworth, between 8:30am and 4:30pm, Monday-Friday.
Tickets are $75
(There is a limited number of non-profit tickets available.)
Tables are $750
The 21st annual breakfast will be from 8:30-10 a.m. Jan. 15, 2007 at the Red Lion Hotel, 909 N. Hayden Island Drive, Jantzen Beach, Portland, Oregon.
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About the Breakfast
The theme for 2006 was "Lessons from Katrina for King's Beloved Community".
The Annual Skanner Foundation Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast celebrated its 20th year in 2006. More than 1,000 people attended the breakfast, making it the largest event in the Pacific Northwest to honor Dr. King.
Governor Ted Kulongoski of Oregon attended and presented a proclamation.
Pictured right: Governor Ted Kulongoski
Every year, we award several thousand dollars in scholarships to worthy students who have demonstrated their desire for self-improvement through education. We also present two awards (The Drum Major Award and The John Jackson award) to individuals, community organizations, or businesses that continue Dr. King's work for civil rights in their community. During the past 20 years, over $220,000 has been contributed to the community for educational growth.
Our breakfast offers the opportunity for major corporate sponsors to increase their visibility in our community and beyond. Attendees include representatives from the state of Oregon; the Oregon Lottery; Oregon Economic and Community Development Department; local, regional and state elected officials; and representatives from national corporations such as State Farm, American Family Insurance, Brown & Williamson, Kaiser Permanente, McDonald's Corporation, U.S. West and Safeco. In addition, leaders in law enforcement, education, and the religious sector attend, and people in the community from all walks of life.
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In preparation for its 21st annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast, The Skanner is requesting nominations for awards. The Drum Major for Justice award and the John Jackson award will be given to individuals or organizations. The Skanner is looking for nominations for people who have worked throughout the year to fulfill the ideals the Rev. King stood for: equality, justice, racial harmony, civil rights and peace.
E-mail your name, phone number and the name and phone number of the nominee, along with a short (50 words or less) description of why your nominee should receive the award to [email protected]. Or mail to:
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Topics: Governance | Politics | Water | Women
Water Gender Policy in Practice in Uganda
Volume 7 | Issue 6 | Page 38-39 | November 2016
By Maria Mutagamba
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Women participating in a community meeting about water and health challenges in Kiyindi, Uganda.
As a country, Uganda has strived over the years to ensure that it has a gender-sensitive approach towards development. In 1997, the Ugandan government developed its first Uganda Gender Policy (UGP). Renewed in 2007, the UGP aims to establish a clear framework for identification, implementation, and coordination of interventions aimed at achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment.1 The policy requires ministries to translate the UGP into sector-specific strategies and activities, build capacity, monitor and evaluate, and commit resources for implementing these activities. So, in 1999, when the government formulated a National Water Policy to promote a sustainable approach to manage water, the UGP was applied. The water policy specifies that both women and men should have equal opportunity in community management, including water and sanitation committees.2 One of the crucial steps in this process was collecting data on how water scarcity affects men and women differently—with the burden of water collection usually falling on the latter.
Over a decade later, the results of the national study on water have been utilized impressively, with ongoing work to integrate women into local decision-making processes on resource management.
Access to safe water in rural areas has been growing steadily, from 61.3 percent in 2004/5 to 65 percent in 20014/15. Yet, problems remain. There continues to be limited gender disaggregated data in the sector, which affects gender responsive planning and budgeting. In 2008, only 16 percent of districts had additional gender disaggregated data, besides the expected reporting on the gender indicator.3 Monitoring and reporting formats still exclude a provision for capturing in depth qualitative data.
Chris Stanley
A women’s meeting in Lyantonde District, Uganda.
At the same time, there are not enough women’s voices being heard in key decision-making forums. Women fill only 16 percent of the top management positions at the Ministry of Water and Environment.4 Additional work must be done by the Ministry of Public Service and by local governments to ensure that recruitment processes are more gender sensitive.
At the local level, while women now hold more positions on water committees, they often struggle to attend meetings due to other commitments. When women are able to vote on decisions, lack of land ownership means they have less influence compared to their male colleagues.
The answer to these issues is to broaden the focus on women’s participation beyond water in order to address the deeper causes of poverty. That means applying gendered lenses to health, energy, and food, and supporting women in small-scale enterprise projects that generate economic growth, and cannot be taken over by the formal sector to the detriment of women. For example, women’s capacity should be developed in fields, such as alternative energy technology, that could create income-generating opportunities for women while also protecting local environments.
Expanding a gendered perspective to other sectors will only make sense if the government redoubles its efforts to collect data so as to monitor the impacts of these policies. Improved data can demonstrate that women’s lives really are improving, or else point us in the direction of what further work is needed.
Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development. Gender Policy. Government of Uganda (2007).
Ministry of Water, Lands and Environment. National Water Policy. Government of Uganda (1997).
Ministry of Wildlife and Environment. Water and Sanitation Sub-Sector Gender Strategy (2010-15). Government of Uganda (2010).
Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. Gender and Equity Assessment for the Water and Sanitation Sector Final Report (Phase two). Government of Uganda (2014).
This Article is Part of: Volume 7 | Issue 6 | November 2016
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“The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.” —Leviticus 25:23 Kathy Lindquist knew she was going to die. She must have. After spending most of her adult life battling …
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Dubbed a ‘global center of marine biodiversity,’1 the waters around the Philippines have some of the highest concentrations of marine species in the world.2–4 However, the country’s reefs are under increasing anthropogenic …
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Although our ignorance about climate disruption will always dwarf what we know, a staggering amount has been learned in the last three decades—not just scientific understanding of complex phenomena and the potential of various micro and macro …
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Four tall, athletic ladies are easy to spot in the crowd with their cycling gear, helmets, and bike glasses. They have sweat profusely after several hours of biking and hiking up the hills, and are now resting quietly at the side of a road. …
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Women and girls tend to experience and manage access—and the lack of access—to water and sanitation differently from men and boys. The traditional role of women in society, particularly with respect to management of the home and women’s …
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Manlius, Town Historian
Since the first meeting in 1794, the town clerk has been responsible for keeping the records of the Town of Manlius. Along with the supervisor, the clerk is part of the permanent structure that has been responsible for the continuing government of the town for 211 years.
Through those years, the town clerk has kept the minutes of the town board meetings. The town's first clerk, Levi Jerome, was elected by secret ballot at the town's first meeting held April 1, 1794 in Benjamin Morehouse's Tavern (probably the largest space in the town) attended by 42 voters. At that time the Town of Manlius included all of today's Manlius, DeWitt, Syracuse east of Salina Street and part of the town of Salina. The Morehouse tavern was east of Jamesville, just south of Route 173 in the vicinity of the Onondaga County Penitentiary.
The earliest minute books of town board meetings have been missing for more then 100 years. The town's existing minute books start in February 1890 when the town board ordered the clerk, H. N. Powers, to buy a book "suitable for keeping the proceedings of the town board."
That volume and the 44 that follow are the record of the town's growth, changes, trials and triumphs. In the days before typewriters, each town clerk carefully wrote the minutes in pen and ink, with the readability of the handwriting varying from clerk to clerk. The first typewritten minutes appear in January 1936.
Details of those earlier meetings differ greatly from 2006. Some thorny issues are found continuing from year to year, or even decade to decade. In the early 1900's, the town board was responsible for annually issuing licenses to sell liquor and the resulting "excise tax" was used to build bridges and improve roads. Starting in 1896, the town board appointed truant officers, one for south of the Erie Canal and one for north of the canal, who received 75 cents for each delinquent student found.
In an early effort at industrial development, the town issued $100,000 in bonds to help build a railroad line from East Syracuse through Fayetteville and Manlius into Madison County (the Chenango branch). When $1,000 bond was paid off, the bond itself was carefully burned in the presence of the town board members during a meeting.
The meeting minutes usually only record specific actions and resolutions. At each meeting, town board members reviewed each and every bill and each payment is carefully listed.
The clerk rarely provided any insight into the meeting itself. "Strong debate" is one rare comment in 1901. "A regular Waterloo" is scrawled at the bottom of the page recording a complete turnover of town officials in the 1892 election.
The clerk for the Town of Manlius has been the continuous representative of town government, operating from his (in the days before women voted) own home or business in the days before an official town office. Although politics played a part, the town clerk frequently remained in office through the terms of several supervisors of different political persuasion.
The longest serving clerk was Volney H. Nichols who was in office from February 1904 until his death December 19, 1922. During his final illness, board members wrote Mr. Nichols that they missed his "wise counsel" and hoped he would rejoin them soon. He was succeeded by his daughter, Ada Nichols, the first woman to serve as Manlius town clerk. To judge by the handwriting in the minutes book, Miss Nichols had already been handling town business for several years.
After Mr. Nichols' death, the town moved its safe from the Everingham store in lower Fayetteville, where he had worked, to the town office in rented space in the Fayetteville Commercial Bank building. However, Miss Nichols was given permission to conduct town business from her home, 301 Elm Street, and the Fayetteville post office installed a mail collection box in front for her convenience. Miss Nichols continued as town clerk until December 28, 1933 and her handwriting fills the entire second volume of minutes. Typed minutes begin in January 1936 when Mabel E. Lowe becomes clerk.
Duties of today's clerk have expanded far beyond solely keeping the town's governmental records. Since the 1880's, the clerk is responsible for collecting records of births, deaths and burials in the Town of Manlius and issuing marriage licenses.
Hunting and fishing licenses have been issued by the town clerk for more than 100 years. Counting dogs and issuing licenses is also a traditional responsibility. Elections and voter registration, a responsibility since 1794, will transfer in 2006 to the county Board of Elections.
As some responsibilities move to others, new duties are added. Today, issuing passports, recycling bins, snow plow and handicapped parking permits are part of the town clerk's business day. The clerk is also empowered to perform marriage ceremonies in the town. But a large part of the daily function of the office is responding to residents and providing information from the town documents which have been carefully organized to provide the continuous record of government in the Town of Manlius.
Allison A. Weber
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Fayetteville, NY 13066
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Jefferson County files bankruptcy exit plan
BIRMINGHAM | Attorneys for Jefferson County filed a 101-page plan Sunday to exit the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history.
The plan calls for cutting the county's $4.2 billion debt by more than $1.2 billion and raising sewer rates annually by 7.41 percent for four years. Rates would rise by 3.49 percent annually for an undetermined amount of years after that.
Most of the $4.2 billion debt stems from bonds that funded sewer system repairs.
Commissioners have approved agreements with 11 creditors that hold the bulk of the countys sewer debt. The agreement calls for paying the creditors about $1.835 billion instead of $3.078 billion, and county attorney Ken Klee has said JPMorgan will give up about $842 million of its overall $1.2 billion in the county's sewer debt.
Commissioner George Bowman has opposed the plan, which he has said puts too much of a burden on people in his district.
The plan must be approved by Thomas Bennett, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.
Bennett has scheduled a hearing to consider approving a proposed disclosure statement on Aug. 6. The statement essentially provides creditors with information about the county so theyll be able to make an informed vote on whether to approve the exit plan.
County officials are looking to exit the bankruptcy by Dec. 20.
The plan calls for cutting the countys $4.2 billion debt by more than $1.2 billion and raising sewer rates annually by 7.41 percent for four years. Rates would rise by 3.49 percent annually for an undetermined amount of years after that.
Commissioners have approved agreements with 11 creditors that hold the bulk of the countys sewer debt. The agreement calls for paying the creditors about $1.835 billion instead of $3.078 billion, and county attorney Ken Klee has said JPMorgan will give up about $842 million of its overall $1.2 billion in the countys sewer debt.
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December Facility Visit (1)
Six students from Tohoku University of Art and Design
On December 4, the students came to study restoration of cultural properties. They toured the Library of the Department of Research Programming on the second floor and the Training Section of the Japan Center for International Cooperation in Conservation on the fourth floor. Those in charge of each facility provided explanations and answered questions.
23 students from Shimane Prefectural Masuda High School
On December 19, the students toured the Conservation Science Section and Restoration Studio of the Center for Conservation Science and Restoration Techniques on the third floor and the Center’s Analytical Science Experimental Laboratory on the fourth floor as part of “Exploratory Practical Learning (Tokyo Training) in Cooperation with the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation”, the main event of the Super Science High School (SSH) project that Masuda High School promotes. Those in charge of each facility provided explanations and answered questions.
Bibliotheca of late Professor Suzuki Kei donated
Siku Quanshu
The bibliotheca of the late Suzuki Kei, Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University and a member of The Japan Academy, was donated to the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo (Prof. Suzuki died on October 18, 2007 at the age of 86). Among his books, all 1500 volumes of “Wenyuange Edition Siku Quanshu”, over 500 volumes of Si Bu Cong Kan Chu Bian Suo Ben and Da Qing Li Chao Shi Lu were offered by his bereaved wife Teruko, and brought to the Institute on December 11. As is widely known, Siku Quanshu was compiled by order of Qianlong, Emperor of China, and is highly valuable because it is the largest Chinese classical encyclopedia. This Institute praises the academic contributions of Professor Suzuki, who was the leading authority on Chinese picture history. We will consider the use and conservation of precise materials and proceed with formatting so that they can be used by many researchers. We also plan to issue a volume tentatively entitled Catalog of Books Donated by Professor Suzuki Kei next year.
International Symposium – Capturing the Original: Archives for Cultural Properties
Session 1 Discussions
Mr. Mark Barnard (The British Library) presenting in Session 3
All symposium presenters and chairpersons
For three days from December 6 to 8, 2008, the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo hosted the 32nd International Symposium on the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Properties entitled Capturing the Original: Archives for Cultural Properties in the Heiseikan Auditorium of the Tokyo National Museum. The purpose of this symposium was to consider how “original” cultural properties may be transmitted to posterity without affecting their essential value. Presentations were given and discussions were held by 25 persons, including 5 persons from overseas (USA, UK and Taiwan).
In Session 1 (“Confronting Objects/’Originals’”) on the first day, the fundamental stance towards cultural properties was re-examined, seriously considering those objects deemed to be “original”. In Session 2 (“’Originals’ beyond Objects”) on the second day, various matters that remind people of “originals”, either those that remain or materials related to them, were chosen as topics. In Session 3 (“Handing over ‘Originals’”) on the final day, ways of operating archives for cultural properties that support and transfer the originals were examined, based on the discussions up to that point.
A total of 281 participants attended the symposium during the three days. There was great interest in the theme of the symposium, which especially sought to capture “originals” from the standpoint of archives for cultural properties. Although focus was placed on Japanese and East Asian art, western aesthetics, contemporary art, and intangible cultural properties were also considered. The Department of Research Programming, which is in charge of the Institute’s archives, served as secretariat for this symposium. There were numerous matters to be considered regarding how cultural properties should be documented while focusing on the original. The Department will continue to deal with these big topics. A detailed report of the presentations and discussions will be published next year.
Third Public Lecture of the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Third Public Lecture by the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage
On December 16, 2008, the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage held a public lecture in the large lecture room of the National Noh Theater. Since 2006, the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage has held lectures on audio recordings made by the Cultural Properties Protection Comission (currently the Agency for Cultural Affairs) in the past. This year, a recording of noh-bayashi (musical accompaniment to noh) was introduced in a lecture that focused on the changes in noh as traced by audio materials.
It appears that the main purpose of the recordings of noh-bayashi made in 1951 was to document the performances of Kawasaki Kyuen, an o-tsuzumi player, and Ko Yoshimitsu, a ko-tsuzumi player. Both Kawasaki and Ko received the first individual recognition as holders of important intangible cultural properties (socalled “Living National Treasures”). This lecture allowed listeners to hear the consummate art of the two masters who supported noh in the Taisho and Showa periods and to learn about the significance of the recordings made by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in the past and the relationship of the recordings with the transmission of noh.
The Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage is planning to hold another lecture next year based on audio materials made by the Commission in the past.
（2008.12 / IJIMA Mitsuru)
Urushi Restoration Workshop at Cologne Museum of East Asian Art in Germany
Lecture with a restored Urushi lacquer work
Practice of adhesion with mugiurushi and attachment with kokuso
The Center for Conservation Science and Restoration Techniques held an Urushi restoration workshop at the Cologne Museum of East Asian Art in Germany as part of the Cooperative Program for the Conservation of Japanese Art Objects Overseas, in 2008. We held workshop I (elementary practice) with 10 trainees on November 5-7, workshop II (for first-time participants) with 10 trainees on November 8, workshop II (for students) with 7 trainees on November 8, and workshop III (mid-level practice) with 7 trainees on November 11-14. Two instructors who were experts performed restoration work at the local site. All participants were persons who were highly interested in the restoration of Japanese traditional Urushi lacquer works, such as curators and cultural property restorers from various parts of Europe outside of Germany as well, including the UK, Switzerland, Austria, and Poland. At these workshops we held various programs, including a report on examples of overseas Urushi lacquer works, the creation of Urushi spatulas, adhesion with mugiurushi and attachment with kokuso using hand plates for restoration practice, and core stretching practice using thin bamboo sticks. All the trainees were eager and asked many questions, resulting in a successful training session.
（2008.12 / KITANO Nobuhiko)
Mid-level training – Basics and practice for optimizing atmospheric environment
On December 15 and 16, we held trial training for 40 curators who are in charge of conservation in museums and art galleries: They studied the characteristics of atmosphere and indoor air contamination materials, damage examples, control methods, monitoring plan drafts, and examples of countermeasure implementation.
We continued difficult lectures and demonstrations, including state-of-the-art research results and technical content, in order to teach the ability to establish specifications for measuring contamination materials, read reports, evaluate the results, and determine countermeasures with architects and air-conditioning engineers. All participants worked diligently and earnestly.
The provision of a glossary, acquisition of information on necessary equipments and spaces, and other aspects of the workshop were highly regarded, and there were many requests for future disclosure on the Internet (38 of the participants expressed 100% satisfaction).
（2008.12 / SANO Chie)
Seminar: Energy Conservation at Museums in Consideration of an Appropriate Environment for Cultural Properties
On December 4, 2008, a seminar on the theme of conserving energy at museums with a view to maintaining an appropriate environment for cultural properties was held in the seminar room of the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo. This theme had been chosen at a meeting of the Center for Conservation Science and Restoration Techniques as one that the Institute would study in cooperation with museums.
Two lectures were given at this seminar: Mr. Maekawa Shin of the Getty Conservation Institute (USA) spoke on energy conservation for museums with consideration for storage and display environment and Mr. Shiraishi Yasuyuki of the University of Kitakyushu spoke on comprehensive assessment system building environmental efficiency (CASBEE) and its case studies. Reports on concrete endeavors on this matter were also given by the Kyushu National Museum and Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore.
A total of 141 people participated in the seminar and held active discussions.
（2008.12 / ISHIZAKI Takeshi)
Training of Afghan and Iraqi specialists
Practicing peeling off remains (Shizuoka Prefectural Institute for Buried Cultural Properties)
Practicing conservation of metal relics (Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties)
Funded by grants from the Institute and UNESCO/Japanese Funds-in-Trust, the Japan Center for International Cooperation in Conservation invited Afghan and Iraqi specialists engaged in the conservation of cultural heritage and archaeology, and conducted training for capacity development and transfer of techniques.
Two archaeology specialists from Afghanistan were invited from the Institute of Archaeology in Kabul: Mr. Ketab Khan Faizy and Mr. Ruhullah Ahumadozai. They received training in archaeology for 5 months, during which time they participated in on-site excavation and studied the methods for excavation and measuring of sites and objects not only at the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo, but also with the cooperation of such organizations as the Tokyo Metropolitan Buried Cultural Property Research Center, Nagareyama City Board of Education and the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties.
Two Iraqi conservator were invited from the Iraq National Museum: Ms. Buthainah M. Abdulhussein, Director of the Central Laboratory of Restoration and Conservation of Antiquities, and Mr. Thmar R. Abuduallah, a conservator. The two received 6 months of training from July to December 2008 on conservation, mainly of wooden artifacts, as well as practical training to acquire relevant conservation techniques. This project was conducted with the cooperation of various domestic institutions for conservation, such as the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, the Shizuoka Research Institute for Buried Cultural Heritage and the Kyushu National Museum. The trainees practiced conservation of wooden objects at the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo and of metal objects at the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties. They further learned basic scientific investigation methods for wooden materials at the Shizuoka Research Institute for Buried Cultural Heritage and about the latest analysis devices including 3-dimensional CT scanners at the Kyushu National Museum.
The Japan Center for International Cooperation in Conservation intends to continue to assist in the capacity development of specialists who are engaged in the conservation of cultural heritage in Afghanistan and Iraq through similar training courses.
（2008.12 / UNO Tomoko)
Conservation and Restoration of Murals unearthed in Central Asia workshop held
Surveying the status after storing mural pieces
Since 2008, the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo, has been working on the conservation and restoration of mural pieces owned by the National Museum of Antiquities, Tajikistan, together with the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, Academy of Science, Tajikistan. As part of this project, we invited a total of six specialists in conservation and restoration to Tajikistan from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan, and held a workshop at the National Museum from December 5 to10.
In the ruins of Central Asia, beautiful murals from the 5th to 12th century were discovered, but the number of specialists who can conserve and restore the murals is insufficient, so conservation and restoration activities have been delayed. Also in this area, mural conservation and restoration methods established in the former Soviet Union were widespread, so common problems have occurred, such as color change color of the mural surface due to the deterioration of reinforcement. At the workshop, we asked participants to report on the current status of conservation and restoration of murals in their home countries. We also introduced the new trials that we had performed in Tajikistan, and requested them to actually experience them in their work. We will hereafter hold similar workshops in which Japanese specialists and those at the local site will work together and exchange opinions, aiming to promote conservation and restoration activities for the murals in Central Asia, and improving the conservation and restoration methods thereof.
Training of Afghan archaeological specialists
Participation to excavation conducted by Nagareyama City Board of Education
Participation to excavation of Heijo Palace Site carried out by Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
The archaeological training of Afghan specialists started in the middle of July as part of the Safeguarding of the Bamiyan Site project, and continued until the middle of December. The two trainees, Mr. Ketabhan Faizy and Mr. Ruhullah Ahumadozai, finished their five month long training and left for Afghanistan on December 22. In these training sessions, practical training was done under the cooperation of various organizations, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Buried Cultural Property Research Center, the Nagareyama City Board of Education, and the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, as well as the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo. The trainees worked in the field sites of excavation and study implemented by these organizations and learned methods for excavation and measuring the remains and relics through hands-on practice (see photos 1 and 2). The Afghan trainees sometimes experienced difficulties during the long training sessions in a foreign country, but they not only learned the expert knowledge and skills of archaeology, but also became familiar with Japanese life and culture, and had a productive training period. On December 17, a meeting was held at the Institute to present training results, and the participants reported on what they had learned during training as well as the latest archeological information in Afghanistan.
The Japan Center for International Cooperation in Conservation plans to continue cooperating in fostering those who will be engaged in conservation of cultural properties in Afghanistan through these training sessions.
（2008.12 / ARIMURA Makoto)
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New Vice Chancellor to Nurture Inventions, Bring Products to Market at More Advanced Stage
By Laura Kurtzman
Harold E. “Barry” Selick, PhD – UCSF’s new vice chancellor for business development, innovation and partnerships – has deep biotech industry knowledge and longstanding ties to the University. Photo by Noah Berger
In a bold move to bring its life science inventions to market with higher value, so they are more likely to reach patients and better support the university’s mission, UC San Francisco has hired Harold E. “Barry” Selick, PhD, as its first vice chancellor for business development, innovation and partnerships.
Selick will oversee proof-of-concept studies of promising UCSF life science inventions – which encompass drug molecules, device prototypes, digital health applications, and more – to gather evidence on which inventions are most likely to help patients as new therapies, diagnostics or software.
One aim is to keep inventions from languishing on companies’ shelves, which often occurs when firms license early-stage inventions but do not invest the necessary resources to develop them. Another is to increase the licensing revenues earned by UCSF inventions: companies are likely to pay more for innovations with more proven value, Selick said.
“It’s high-risk, high-reward,” Selick said. “But we’re going to bias the odds of success in our favor by working with the smartest people in the world: scientists from UCSF and, on our advisory board, some of the most accomplished investors from Silicon Valley, who will be helping us cherry-pick the most promising programs. With this strategy, UCSF can begin to invest more fully in itself and develop even more technologies to benefit patients.”
For drug candidates or devices, proof-of-concept studies could take the form of small-scale clinical trials to demonstrate that they have adequate safety and efficacy in patients for a licensing company to launch larger, more definitive clinical trials. Similarly, digital health applications and diagnostic technologies could be advanced to the point where they could be evaluated in real-world scenarios prior to undergoing the more rigorous development required for commercialization.
Deep Industry Knowledge, Longstanding UCSF Ties
A former pharmaceutical company CEO with broad biotech experience, Selick has deep industry knowledge and longstanding ties to UCSF, where he was a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of one of the nation’s foremost scientists, biochemist Bruce Alberts, PhD, a member and former president of the National Academy of Sciences.
Selick has spent much of his career raising money from venture capital firms and institutional investors. At UCSF, he hopes to pursue a different strategy: attracting philanthropy to develop a fund to shepherd promising inventions further into development so that inventors and the university can retain more of the value of their technologies before seeking licensees or partnerships.
“Barry has both scientific and industry acumen, and that makes him an invaluable guide to the marketplace, which can be so unforgiving and yet is the place where all ideas must succeed if they are going to make a difference in patients’ lives,” said UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS. “We are tremendously excited to have someone of his caliber in this new role.”
As a bench scientist fresh out of his postdoc with Alberts, Selick co-invented the technology to create “fully humanized” antibody therapeutics (replacing mouse protein sequences with their human counterparts to avert an immune response against these drugs), an advance that contributed to the development of a series of groundbreaking drugs.
Turning Scientific Findings into Products
He and his colleagues at Protein Design Labs (“PDL BioPharma”) first applied this technology to create a fully humanized antibody that was licensed to and commercialized by Roche for the prevention of kidney transplant rejection. This product, Zenapax, became the first fully humanized antibody therapeutic approved by the FDA. Later, fully humanized antibodies formed the basis of the transformative breast-cancer drug Herceptin, and of Avastin, used to treat a range of cancers.
Selick, who was a finalist for the European Patent Organization’s “Inventor of the Year Award” in 2014 for this work, was also CEO of Threshold Pharmaceuticals, which specializes in cancer therapeutics. He serves on the boards of directors of companies that span early drug discovery and technology development to commercialization, including PDL BioPharma and Catalyst Biosciences, which was founded in 2002 based upon the work of UCSF scientists.
He also worked at Affymax Research Institute, a biotechnology company that became the drug discovery technology development center of Glaxo Wellcome plc. Selick served as Affymax’s vice president of research, before leaving to co-found and run Camitro Corporation, a venture capital-backed biotech company focused on developing technologies to support drug lead optimization.
“I am delighted that Barry has been recruited to be a vice chancellor for innovation,” said Regis Kelly, PhD, Byers Family Distinguished Professor at UCSF and executive director of QB3, the University of California’s hub for innovation and entrepreneurship in the life sciences, with campuses at UCSF, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz. “He is in a position to ensure that UCSF is seen as the premier life science entrepreneurship university in the country, thus complementing its prestige in research and clinical care.”
Selick will report to UCSF Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Daniel Lowenstein, MD. His role also will include leading the efforts of Industry Alliances and Program Management, the Office of Technology Management, the UCSF Catalyst Program, and the Entrepreneurship Center, among others.
Selick will earn an annual base salary of $420,000, none of which will come from state funds. Additional compensation information is available upon request.
UC San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It includes top-ranked graduate schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy; a graduate division with nationally renowned programs in basic, biomedical, translational and population sciences; and a preeminent biomedical research enterprise. It also includes UCSF Health, which comprises top-ranked hospitals, UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland – and other partner and affiliated hospitals and healthcare providers throughout the Bay Area.
Partnerships and Alliances
University of California Announces Collaboration with Janssen to Expand Data Science Research in Healthcare
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Russia's Extremism Law Violates Human Rights
By Katrina Lantos Swett, Robert P. GeorgeNov. 26 2014 20:25 Last edited 20:26
Last Friday, a video deemed offensive to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church was ruled "extremist" by a city court in Vladimir. While Alexander Soldatov — chief editor of Credo.ru, the website that posted the offending video — now could also be tried for extremism, the real defendants should be Russia's extremism law and the officials who are helping expand its reach and influence across the country.
The charge should be violating religious freedom and related rights of Russia's religious minorities or anyone who offends or competes with Russia's dominant church.
The video, which Soldatov posted last year, shows court bailiffs attempting to seize religious relics from a parish of the independent Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church and includes words that are critical of Moscow Patriarchate representatives. The Autonomous Church had been given these relics when it separated from the Moscow Patriarchate in 1988.
Russia first enacted its extremism law in 2002, partly in response to concerns about terrorism. But the law, which prescribes sanctions on those promoting the "exclusivity, superiority or inferiority of citizens" based on religion, was broadened in 2007 to include even nonviolent actors, thus reaching far beyond any fears of extremism linked to terrorism.
As of the release of this year's annual report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Russia's list of materials banned as extremist had reached 2,241 items. Merely possessing banned works can trigger fines, while the mass distribution, preparation or storage of such materials can result in a four-year prison term.
Which Russians are most affected by the extremism law? First and foremost, it is the country's Muslims, who often are wrongly labeled security threats — a serious error — which along with various forms of repression can lead to the very radicalization that officials are claiming to combat under the guise of the extremism law.
A court in 2007 banned the Russian translations of 14 Quran commentaries by Turkish theologian Said Nursi, due to his assertion of Islam's exclusivity, not because of any security threats.
Examples of other banned texts are a sermon delivered more than a century ago in 1900 by Metropolitan Sheptytsky, a candidate for Catholic sainthood; and at least 70 Jehovah's Witness texts.
In August 2013, Russia banned the entire international website of the Jehovah's Witnesses because it contained phrases from previously prohibited brochures. Examples of these phrases include "what the Bible teaches," "draw near unto Jehovah" and "come follow me."
In early 2014, a regional court overturned this ruling, ending Russia's embarrassment of being the only nation in the world to ban the pacifist group's website.
Clearly, concerns about terrorism and other security matters don't fully explain either the content of Russia's extremism law or its application. A fuller explanation must include Russia's tendency to target groups that appear to challenge what many officials, including President Vladimir Putin, proclaim is the Moscow Patriarchate's role as sole guardian of Russia's cultural identity. Other religious groups have no place in this cultural identity, and so they are not protected.
This tendency would explain why the law allows officials to target nonviolent citizens who threaten no one. It would explain the prosecution of human rights blogger Maxim Yefimov in the Karelia region after he criticized the Moscow Patriarchate in December 2011. And of course, it would explain why Alexander Soldatov risks being prosecuted today for a video that offended the Russian Orthodox Church.
Partly because of its extremism law and its application, Russia's government remains on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom's Tier-2 list of serious violators of freedom of religion or belief.
In monitoring religious freedom abuses in various countries, the U.S. commission applies international human rights standards included in such documents as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
We are not alone in our conclusion. Based on these same standards, the European Union reiterated in March of this year its strong opposition to the extremism law. Two years ago, in June 2012, the Council of Europe's Venice Commission reached the same conclusion.
The Venice Commission — composed of independent experts on constitutional law — stated that Russia's extremism law lacked clarity, invited arbitrary application and was overly broad, thus violating international law.
Coupled with the alarming erosion of other human rights in Russia, particularly since Putin's return to the presidency, the extremism law and its chilling application raise a disturbing question.
Do fundamental freedoms, including freedom of religion or belief, have a future in Russia? How Russia ultimately handles people like Soldatov and his website may help provide the answer to this question.
* Katrina Lantos Swett is chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Robert P. George is a USCIRF vice chairman.
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Ukrainians launch flashmob over PACE decision on Russia
NoRussiaInPACE, the hashtag reads.
assembly.coe.int
Ukrainians have launched an online flashmob protesting against the PACE move to return the Russian delegation to the organization without Moscow's fulfilling any of the conditions put forward.
"You very well know that in 2014, Crimea, part of the sovereign territory of Ukraine was annexed by the Russian Federation. Part of Eastern Ukraine was occupied by the Russian troops and rebellions. For already 5 years the blood has been shedding in Ukraine," reads a video message by Iryna Sanivska posted on social networks.
"Thousands of dead and wounded. Ukraine now protects not only itself but also Europe," the activist stresses, recalling that Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin implemented the project of Europe's occupation by unleashing World War II.
"Has Europe forgotten how it was split?" she asks. "Its eastern part fell into the sphere of influence of the USSR, and Western Europe, together with the backward world, tried to resist the evil empire, fearing nuclear war!"
Read alsoPACE reportedly set to lift remaining sanctions from Russia
"Since then, nothing has changed. The plans of Putin's Russia are the same as the plans of Hitler and Stalin. You can see this from the 1990s on Transnistria in Moldova, Abkhazia and Ossetia in Georgia, Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk in Ukraine! You do remember that Hitler was preparing for World War II occupying the Sudetenland and Austria. Stalin was occupying Finland, the Baltic states! At that time, Europe silently allowed Hitler and Stalin to do so and paid its dramatic price!" the emotional statement says.
Now the war is not only in Ukraine, the war has already begun in Europe, according to the activist.
"The hybrid media war for your brains and propaganda. Over the years, Russia has invested billions of dollars in media resources and is trying to influence the democratic elections in Europe and the United States, splitting the United Europe through Britain’s Brexit and supporting separatists in Catalonia," she says.
"If Ukraine fails or falls into the sphere of Russia's influence, the question of a real war in Europe will be predetermined. Just remember how the leaders of the European countries in the 1930s of the last century did not believe in the reality of the Second World War! But it became the bloody truth," the activist concludes.
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Middleport, NY (View All Cities)
ZIP (~10 mile radius)
Middleport, NY
Royalton, Shelby
ZIP code 14105 is located in western New York and covers a slightly less than average land area compared to other ZIP codes in the United States. It also has a slightly less than average population density.
The people living in ZIP code 14105 are primarily white. The number of middle aged adults is extremely large while the number of people in their late 20s to early 40s is large. There are also a slightly higher than average number of families and a slightly less than average number of single adults. The percentage of children under 18 living in the 14105 ZIP code is slightly higher than average compared to other areas of the country.
97 people per sq mi
Male 119 128 163 174 123 112 110 136 172 209 197 163 140 108 71 60 32 20
Female 114 152 192 151 123 114 117 139 170 213 219 162 127 103 81 59 43 50
Total 233 280 355 325 246 226 227 275 342 422 416 325 267 211 152 119 75 70
Under 5 119 114 233
5-9 128 152 280
Owner 11 129 244 394 309 201 111 38
Renter 34 81 75 66 32 31 31 18
Total 45 210 319 460 341 232 142 56
Male 27 24 25 22 28 25 20 25 30 30 35 37 34 27 39 53 31 33 18 19
Female 25 16 25 27 23 22 37 35 35 41 36 29 41 45 32 33 32 33 21 20
Total 52 40 50 49 51 47 57 60 65 71 71 66 75 72 71 86 63 66 39 39
The majority of household are owned or have a mortgage. Homes in ZIP code 14105 were primarily built in 1939 or earlier. Looking at 14105 real estate data, the median home value of $96,200 is slightly less than average compared to the rest of the country. It is also slightly less than average compared to nearby ZIP codes. 14105 could be an area to look for cheap housing compared to surrounding areas. Rentals in 14105 are most commonly 2 bedrooms. The rent for 2 bedrooms is normally $500-$749/month including utilities. Prices for rental property include ZIP code 14105 apartments, townhouses, and homes that are primary residences.
For more information, see Middleport, NY real estate.
4,566 100%
The median household income of $56,474 is compared to the rest of the country. It is also compared to nearby ZIP codes. So 14105 is likely to be one of the nicer parts of town with a more affluent demographic.
As with most parts of the country, vehicles are the most common form of transportation to places of employment. In most parts of the country, the majority of commuters get to work in under half an hour. Most commuters in 14105 can expect to fall in that range. Having to travel to work for over 45 minutes isn't uncommon for people who live here.
The area has some of the highest percentages of people who attended college of any ZIP.
ZIP Code 14105 is in the Royalton-Hartland Central School District. There are 2 different elementary schools and high schools with mailing addresses in ZIP code 14105.
Royalton-Hartland Middle School
78 State St
Middleport, NY 14105
District: Royalton-Hartland Central School District
Royalton-Hartland High School
Basom, NY
Lyndonville, NY
Medina, NY
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Alan Jacobi 'honoured' by Gottelier Award Win
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Unusual's Alan Jacobi 'honoured' by Gottelier Award win
Unusual Rigging's Alan Jacobi has been awarded the prestigious Gottelier Award at PLASA 2018. Alan was nominated for the award for his work to make rigging an established profession via his contributions to the NRC accreditation scheme.
The award, named after the late lighting designer and industry commentator Tony Gottelier was launched in 2007 to recognise those who have made significant and sustained contributions to the advancement of entertainment, presentation or installation technology. Alan was this year's recipient , having worked rigorously to raise the profile and professionalism of the rigging industry and has long recognised the need for training and education. He has been a driving force behind the NRC accreditation scheme since the very beginning in 2005 and Unusual Rigging is an Assessment Centre for the NRC.
Alan commented: "I am so very honoured, not just to be this year's recipient of the Gottelier Award, but to know how much support I have from industry peers, friends and colleagues. They not only voted me the winner of this year's award, but have been a source of support over the years as we strive to give riggers the credit and professional respect they deserve."
He continued: "We have just made a giant step forward, having just this month won the case for having a CSCS card for members of the rigging industry to access construction sites and carry out the work they need to do. The Gottelier Award by no means signals that my work on this issue is done – there's still lots left to do and I look forward to the challenge."
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