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Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever (Hardcover)
By Geoff Edgers
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Washington Post national arts reporter Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind “Walk This Way,” Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music.
The early 1980s were an exciting time for music. Hair metal bands were selling out stadiums, while clubs and house parties in New York City had spawned a new genre of music. At the time, though, hip hop's reach was limited, an art form largely ignored by mainstream radio deejays and the rock-obsessed MTV network.
But in 1986, the music world was irrevocably changed when Run-DMC covered Aerosmith's hit “Walk This Way” in the first rock-hip hop collaboration. Others had tried melding styles. This was different, as a pair of iconic arena rockers and the young kings of hip hop shared a studio and started a revolution. The result: Something totally new and instantly popular. Most importantly, "Walk This Way" would be the first rap song to be played on mainstream rock radio.
In Walk This Way, Geoff Edgers sets the scene for this unlikely union of rockers and MCs, a mashup that both revived Aerosmith and catapulted hip hop into the mainstream. He tracks the paths of the main artists—Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Joseph “Run” Simmons, and Darryl “DMC” McDaniels—along with other major players on the scene across their lives and careers, illustrating the long road to the revolutionary marriage of rock and hip hop. Deeply researched and written in cinematic style, this music history is a must-read for fans of hip hop, rock, and everything in between.
Geoff Edgers is a journalist and author. He is the national arts reporter for The Washington Post, hosts the Edge of Fame podcast, and his work has appeared in GQ, Spin, and The Boston Globe, among others. He also produced and starred in the 2010 documentary Do It Again, and he is the author of multiple children's books about The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Stan Lee, and Julia Child. He lives in Concord, MA. with his family.
“The question with a book like this—a book that zeroes in on a particular happening or art moment and then extrapolates boomingly outward—is always: Is there enough there? Enough action at the core, that is, and enough concentrically moving energy to prevent the narrative from collapsing in on itself as it stretches to book length? The answer in this case, I am happy to report, is yes.”
"[A] fascinating chronicle… Edgers proves a master storyteller, rushing through the parallel narratives like a hip-hop DJ crossfading between turntables.”
"An exhaustively sourced, briskly entertaining read."
"Edgers, a veteran Washington Post reporter, notes how a mix of creative, cultural and industry forces allowed the Hollis, Queens hip-hop crew and the bottomed-out Boston band to team up, altering their respective fortunes (both positively and negatively) and the course of pop music in the process."
"A vivid snapshot of a unique moment in cultural history.”
“American music—and America itself—has always been a hybrid creation, different cultures and traditions colliding and cross-pollinating, becoming something new in the process. Walk This Way captures one such moment, a happy accident that marked the end of one era and the beginning of another. Geoff Edgers has written an engaging and unusually revealing account of an unlikely song (and an even unlikelier collaboration) that became a chapter in American musical history.”
—Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Mrs. Fletcher
“Walk This Way spans from hip hop's blazing birth to classic rock's last gasps, from dorks in New York dorm room to the Sunset Strip at the height of hair metal. Geoff Edgers takes a pop phenomenon and cracks it open to reveal a rollicking, curious and unlikely musical history.”
—Jessica Hopper, author of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
“Hip hop is a descendant of the declarative storytelling that has sustained black people from the shores of their homelands to the strange new countries of their captors. Hip hop music is both battle cry and survival song wrapped up in the swagger and majesty of a mighty people. But when Run DMC instructed that we should ‘Walk This Way,’ their words elevated beyond the confines of song and story to an actual manifesto that revolutionized an industry and a culture. Journalist Geoff Edgers chronicles the fascinating life of a song that changed the story forever.”
—Ava DuVernay, director of 13th and A Wrinkle in Time
“The story behind the revolution.”
“You know when you love a song but have no idea what it means until your buddy explains it to you? Well, in this case the song is ‘Walk This Way,’ and your buddy is Geoff Edgers, who tells a story of how a single track became a single moment that changed music forever. Rick Rubin will be proud.”
—Norm Macdonald, comedian and New York Times bestselling author of Based on a True Story
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Athenahealth’s Jonathan Bush favors marijuana legalization
By Adam Vaccaro Globe Staff,September 15, 2016, 1:06 p.m.
Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush. (athenahealth)
Marijuana legalization proponents in Massachusetts can count Jonathan Bush, the CEO of Watertown-based health care company Athenahealth and a cousin of former President George W. Bush, in their corner.
According to state political finance records, Bush donated $10,000 to the Yes on 4 campaign, which seeks to legalize the use and sale of recreational marijuana in the state through a ballot initiative this November.
Bush was not available for an interview this week. But Athenahealth spokeswoman Holly Spring confirmed he had made a personal donation to the campaign.
“He believes this is one of many freedoms Americans should have the right to,” Spring said in an e-mail.
At the federal level, Bush has donated to the Libertarian presidential ticket, which supports marijuana legalization. He gave $2,700 to Gary Johnson’s campaign, which features former Massachusetts governor William F. Weld in the vice presidential slot.
Bush had previously donated to the campaign of his cousin, Jeb Bush, during his failed bid for the Republican presidential. That Bush has said he believes marijuana legalization should be a state issue.
Bush’s contribution to the legalization campaign is a relatively small blip in the nearly $2.5 million raised by Yes on 4 in 2016. The campaign’s principle backer is New Approach Political Action Committee, based in Washington, D.C., which has donated $2.1 million.
The opposition group, the Campaign for a Safe and Healthy Massachusetts, has raised about $363,000 in 2016, according to filings released last week. It came from a variety of sources, including Boston-based companies Markley Group and the Cronin Group.
Adam can be reached at adam.vaccaro@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter at @adamtvaccaro.
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Britain’s U.S. Ambassador Resigns Over Trump Spat
Britain’s ambassador to Washington, Kim Darroch has resigned on Wednesday after president Donald Trump labelled him “stupid” and “wacky” following the release of confidential memos from the envoy in which he branded the U.S. president’s administration inept.
Memos from Kim Darroch were leaked to a British Sunday newspaper, infuriating Trump who launched a stinging Twitter attack on both the envoy and British Prime Minister Theresa May who had given him her full support.
Mr Darroch wrote in his resignation letter: “Since the leak of official documents from this Embassy there has been a great deal of speculation surrounding my position and the duration of my remaining term as ambassador.”
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“I want to put an end to that speculation,” he added. “The current situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as I would like.”
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Ms May told parliament after the resignation was announced that she had spoken to Mr Darroch, who was due to leave his post anyway at the end of the year.
“I have told him it is a matter of great regret that he has felt it necessary to leave his position as ambassador to Washington,” she said.
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A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3
The parish of Warrington: Introduction, church and charities
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1907.
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WARRINGTON POULTON-WITH-FEARNHEAD
BURTONWOOD WOOLSTON-WITH-MARTINSCROFT
RIXTON-WITH-GLAZEBROOK
The ancient parish of Warrington lies along the northern bank of the Mersey between Sankey Brook and Glazebrook; the township of Burtonwood, however, lies to the north-west of this area, on the western side of the Sankey. The total area is 12,954 acres, and the population numbered 69,339 in 1901. (fn. 1) The surface is level and lies low. From Penketh on the west to Glazebrook on the east, the geological formation consists wholly of the new red sandstone or trias, and mainly of the upper mottled sandstone of the bunter series of that formation. In Great Sankey and Burtonwood the pebble beds of the same series occur, and in Rixton-withGlazebrook the keuper series, owing to the effect of a fault running from south-east to north-west through the township. The soil is loamy and fertile, and the neighbourhood has long been famous for potatoes and other vegetables. (fn. 2)
For the county lay, fixed in 1624, each of the four townships paid equally, this parish contributing £6 5s. when the hundred gave £100. (fn. 3) To the ancient fifteenth Warrington itself paid £2 12s. 8d., Burtonwood 18s. 4d., Woolston-with-Poulton £1 2s. 8d., Rixton £1 2s. 4d., and Glazebrook 8s., making £6 3s. 8d. (fn. 4)
The history of the parish is largely that of the town of Warrington. This place is supposed to have been of British origin. Two Roman roads, from the south and from Chester, (fn. 5) met at Latchford on the south bank of the Mersey, near which point considerable discoveries have been made; crossing probably at this ford, the north road was continued through Warrington to Winwick and Wigan. (fn. 6) Sometime before the Norman Conquest Warrington became the head of a hundred.
Afterwards the lordship was divided. Warrington and Rixton seem to have been original parts of the Warrington barony, created early in the twelfth century, and long held by Pain de Vilers and his descendants the Boteler family. Woolston, Poulton, and Burtonwood were retained by the lords of the district 'between Ribble and Mersey,' the two former in time becoming part of the fee of Makerfield, and Burtonwood being added to the fee of Warrington. The lords of Warrington established their residence or castle at the mote hill, (fn. 7) from which the town spread westward along the road to Prescot. (fn. 8) A bridge was built, (fn. 9) perhaps early in the thirteenth century, and this soon became one of the principal means of communication between the north and south of England. The street leading north from it was called the Newgate as late as 1465. Near the bridge, on the west side of Newgate, was a house of Austin Friars, and at the point where this new street crossed the old road to Prescot a market was established about 1260. (fn. 10) The town gradually increased round this point, and in time the parish church, at the extreme east end, became somewhat isolated; the change was no doubt assisted by the removal of the lord's residence from the mote hill to Bewsey in Burtonwood. (fn. 11)
A borough was created about 1230, but its growing strength appears to have alarmed the lord, who contrived to repress it before 1300, granting certain privileges to the free tenants as compensation; and the town remained under the authority of the lords of the manor until the beginning of last century. A survey of the portion belonging to Sir Peter Legh in 1465 has been printed; (fn. 12) this shows that the houses had extended from the church westward as far as the market, and a little way along Sankey Street; also south from the crossing down Newgate to 'the place where the bridge formerly stood.' Other streets, north and south of Church Street, are mentioned; on the north side of the market-place was a row of houses called Pratt Row; their long back gardens touched the great heath, (fn. 13) on which stood a windmill. Across the heath the main road led north by Longford to Winwick, but there was a branch to Bewsey. To the south of the town were the great meadows of Howley and Arpley. The water-mills were on Sankey Brook. The visit of Henry VII to Lathom in 1495 induced the earl of Derby to rebuild the bridge and provide for its maintenance. (fn. 14)
Leland about 1535 thus records his impressions: 'Warrington, a paved town; one church (and) a Freres Augustine at the bridge end. The town is of a pretty bigness. The parish church is at the tail of all the town. It is a better market than Manchester.' (fn. 15)
The Reformation was here received as elsewhere in the district. The chantries were suppressed and the services of the parish church altered; but the grammar school, founded in 1526, was preserved. A lease of the rectory made in 1544 reduced the rector's stipend to £20, at which sum it remained for 200 years. The Butlers conformed to the Elizabethan order in religion, (fn. 16) but this did not stave off their ruin; their successors, the Irelands, were also Protestants. Most of the gentry remained attached to the Roman Catholic religion; and Woolston and Rixton provided refuges for the missionary priests in the times of persecution. How the townsmen of Warrington were affected is not so clear. After the Restoration congregations of Presbyterians and Quakers were formed, and have continued to the present. James I visited Sir Thomas Ireland at Bewsey in 1617 (fn. 17) in his progress from Scotland southwards.
The Civil War necessarily affected Warrington through the town's situation on the road to the north, which made it 'the principal key of Lancashire.' Hitherto the people of the district had known of war only at a distance, (fn. 18) now they had personal experience of it. The earl of Derby in September, 1642, marched through the town with 4,000 men for his futile attack on Manchester; (fn. 19) and at the end of November he was stationed at Warrington, which he made a garrison, in order to secure the passage of the Mersey. (fn. 20)
Sir William Brereton was defeated on 3 April, 1643, at Stockton Heath when advancing to attack Warrington. (fn. 21) Sir William afterwards crossed the Mersey and attacked the town from the west; but Lord Derby began to set the town on fire, on which the parliamentary forces desisted. (fn. 22) Colonel Edward Norris, eldest son of the lord of Speke, was left in command of the king's garrison. He was attacked on 22 May by Sir William Brereton, and after six days' siege gave up the town, leaving arms, ammunition, and provisions behind. On Trinity Sunday, 28 May, Sir George Booth, a parliamentary commander, and lord of the manor, made a formal entry into the town, and was received by the people with the usual tokens of joy. (fn. 23) The townspeople were treated with great leniency by the victors. (fn. 24)
The next five years were uneventful, but the duke of Hamilton's Scottish force on being defeated at Winwick 19 August, 1648, retreated to Warrington, where 4,000 surrendered upon quarter for life—arms, ammunition, and horses being relinquished. (fn. 25) There were skirmishes near the town in 1651 when Charles II with the Scottish army forced the bridge on their march to Worcester, (fn. 26) and in August, 1659, part of Sir George Booth's troops, after their defeat at Winnington, surrendered at Warrington to the parliamentary garrison. (fn. 27)
The rising of 1745 occasioned the partial destruction of the bridge in order to prevent the Young Pretender from crossing the Mersey there. Some Highlanders are said to have been captured near Rixton, at which point the duke of Cumberland crossed the Mersey in his pursuit. (fn. 28) In 1798 a body of volunteers was raised, on threats of a French invasion, but their only active service was in suppressing a riot in Bridge Street in 1799. (fn. 29) In 1859 a corps of volunteers was formed; it is now known as the 1st V.B. Prince of Wales Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment).
In 1693 an inquiry was held at Warrington as to certain lands and moneys devoted to 'superstitious uses,' Lord Molyneux, Sir William Gerard of Ashton, William Standish of Woolston, and other gentlemen of the neighbourhood having been reported to the government as holders of money or lands for the use of the Jesuits, Franciscans, or secular clergy. (fn. 30)
The prosperity of the town does not seem to have been affected by the Civil War or later troubles. (fn. 31) In 1673 it was thus described: 'Warrington is seated on the River Mersey, over which there is a curious stone bridge, which leadeth to Cheshire. It is a very fine and large town, which hath a considerable market on Wednesdays for linen cloth, corn, cattle, provisions, and fish, being much resorted to by the Welshmen, and is of note for its lampreys.' (fn. 32)
Dr. Kuerden, who passed through the town about 1695, recorded his passing the Mersey 'over a fair stone bridge of four arches,' and 'through the Market Gate to the height of the market'; then 'keeping the road northward over the common at a distance of about half a mile stands a spacious hall or mansion called Bradshaw. . . . You meet with two roads, one leading to Bewsey Hall on the left, and that on the right towards a fair hall with a spacious garden and orchard belonging to Mr. Jonathan Blackburne, justice of the peace.' Then he crossed the Orford Brook by 'an arched bridge of stone,' and through 'a plashy way' to Hulme. (fn. 33)
About 1730 Warrington looked 'a large, populous, old built town, but rich, and full of good country tradesmen. Here is particularly a weekly market for linen . . . a sort of table linen called Huk-a-back or Huk-a-buk.' The writer adds: 'I was told there are generally as many pieces of this linen sold here every market-day as amount to £500 value, sometimes much more, and all made in the neighbourhood of the place.' (fn. 34)
Judge Curwen in 1777 was less complimentary: 'Streets narrow, dirty, and ill-paved; like many other towns, with a gutter running through the middle, rendering it inconvenient passing the streets. This town abounds in dissenters, and has an academy for young preachers of that persuasion.' (fn. 35)
The most notable institution in the modern history of the town was the Academy just referred to, founded in 1757 for the education of candidates for the ministry among the Protestant Nonconformists. It endured for nearly thirty years, when, owing chiefly to internal dissensions, it was dissolved, a similar institution at Manchester (the 'ancestor' of Manchester College, Oxford) replacing it in 1786. John Seddon, minister of the Presbyterian congregation, was its projector; among the tutors were John Taylor, Joseph Priestley, F.R.S.; John Aikin, sen.; Reinhold Forster, William Enfield, George Walker, F.R.S.; Gilbert Wakefield, Nicholas Clayton, Pendlebury Houghton, and John Holt. Most of these have a place in the Dictionary of National Biography. (fn. 36) Thomas Barnes, president of the Academy after its transference to Manchester, was a native of Warrington. (fn. 37)
Among other natives or residents calling for some notice were the Ven. James Bell, a Marian priest executed at Lancaster in 1584; (fn. 38) Charles Owen, a resident Presbyterian minister; (fn. 39) Edward Evanson, an Anglican divine who became heterodox; (fn. 40) John Macgowan, a baker and satirist. Thomas Percival, a physician, founder of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, was born at Warrington in 1740. (fn. 41) Peter Litherland, the inventor of the lever watch, was a Warrington man; and John Harrison, of chronometer fame, resided in this town. Samuel Fothergill (1715–72), a Quaker minister, brother of Dr. John Fothergill, resided here. (fn. 42) John Blackburne of Orford and Anna his daughter were famous for their studies of plants and birds. Michael Adrian Hankinson, O.S.B., became bishop of Port Louis, Mauritius. (fn. 43) Among artists Hamlet Winstanley, a painter of note, who died in 1756; (fn. 44) and John Warrington Wood, a sculptor, who died in 1886, were natives.
In addition, many others might be named, as William Beamont of Orford, the indefatigable local historian, who died in 1889. His son, the Rev. William John Beamont, the two Kendricks, John Fitchett, Thomas Kirkland Glazebrook, George Crosfield, William Wilson, John Fitchett Marsh, and Peter Rylands have found places in the Dictionary of National Biography. (fn. 45)
The printing press was not regularly established until the eighteenth century. The first newspaper, the Warrington Advertiser, was published here in 1756, but soon ceased. It was issued from the Eyres Press, which had been at work since 1731. (fn. 46) A recent paper called the Advertiser was issued from 1862 to 1889. The Warrington Guardian (now issued twice a week) was established in 1853; the Examiner, founded in 1875, and the Observer in 1888, (fn. 47) are weekly papers. The Review is also published weekly.
The river was formerly the great means of communication with Liverpool, (fn. 48) and was improved by the Mersey and Irwell Navigation; (fn. 49) 'the communication between Manchester and Liverpool' by its means was, in 1825, described as 'incessant; the brickdustcoloured sails of the barges are seen every hour of the day on their passage, flickering in the wind.' The first stage-coach (fn. 50) in the county issued from this town, according to the same authority, and 'between sixty and seventy coaches on an average passed through Warrington every day, and the principal streets were kept by them in a state of perpetual animation.' (fn. 51)
The fishery was formerly a valuable one. In 1825 it belonged to John Arthur Borron and Edward Pemberton, but by that time it had ceased to be of much importance. (fn. 52)
The agricultural land in the parish is now occupied as follows: Arable land, 7,635 acres; permanent grass, 1,546; woods and plantations, 164. (fn. 53)
The church of St. Elphin stood till after the middle of the last century at the extreme east end of the town of Warrington, but has since become surrounded by houses. The churchyard is of irregular shape, the longest dimension being from north to south. The fabric of the church has in the last two centuries undergone many changes and reconstructions, and retains nothing of mediaeval date except the chancel. The site is undoubtedly one of great antiquity, but the oldest work that has been found belongs to the latter part of the twelfth century; a series of small capitals of this date, found during the rebuilding of the nave, being preserved in Warrington Museum.
The present building consists of chancel with south vestry, central tower and transepts, and nave with north and south aisles.
The chancel of three bays is recorded to have been built in 1354, and its details agree well with the date. In common with the rest of the church it is entirely faced with red sandstone ashlar. It has an east window of five trefoiled lights with flowing tracery, and on each of the north and south sides three three-light tracery windows of similar style, those in the western bay being modern. The original windows in this bay were destroyed by a fall of part of the tower some fifty years since. Beneath the eastern bay is a contemporary crypt, vaulted in two bays with a modern ribbed vault springing from old corbels, and lighted by two two-light windows on the east, and one each on the north and south. It is approached by stairs on north and south, but only the stair on the north is ancient. This is contained in a broad buttress, and leads down from the chancel to the crypt, and formerly led upwards from the chancel to the roof, though this part of it is now broken away. The buttress in which it is contained dies into the wall before reaching the top, the upper part being modern. The door from the chancel to the stair is modern, but replaces an original doorway which stood a little farther to the west, and after having been hidden by panelling for a long time was rediscovered in 1824. Before this date the crypt had been inaccessible, probably for some centuries, as it had never had an entrance from the churchyard, and had also at some time been filled in with earth, and the crown of its vault destroyed, in order to lower the level of the floor at the east end of the chancel. The window in the buttress which lights the stair is modern, and the west jamb of an older window is to be seen close to it. The doorway at the foot of the stair, opening to the crypt, is also modern, but occupies the site of the original entrance. It seems unlikely that the crypt has ever contained an altar, and as the sills of its two east windows were originally carried down to the floor level, it may have been a charnel, and it is to be noted that many bones were found in it when it was cleared out. But against this must be set the fact that it is unusually well lighted for such a purpose, and it is possible that it was intended for a vestry. Under the second window on the south side of the chancel is an original doorway, once external, but now opening into a vestry built about 1740; it is designed for a door opening inwards, but the present door opens towards the vestry, to the detriment of the mouldings of the outer arch.
The central tower dates from 1860, and is carried on four moulded arches of fourteenth-century style. There are two two-light belfry windows in each face, with crocketed gabled hood-moulds, and above them a pierced and panelled parapet with angle pinnacles, and a tall stone spire with three tiers of spire-lights, the total height being 281 ft. The former central tower is recorded to have been built in 1698 in place of an older one damaged in the Civil Wars, but it is not clear whether the older tower was taken down to the ground or not. Sir Stephen Glynne, (fn. 54) describing the church in 1843, says that the tower arches are part of the original structure, and have continuous mouldings of great depth, and that there is stone groining under the tower with strong ribs. This points to the fact that the upper part only of the tower was rebuilt in 1698, and extant views seem to confirm this. It had an embattled parapet with pinnacles, and large belfry windows, in poor Gothic style, with labels and large dripstones, four of which, representing a lion, a griffin, a dog, and a swan, are preserved in the Warrington Museum.
The north transept, or Boteler chapel, in which was the Lady altar, was rebuilt in 1860. It contained work of the fourteenth century, as the two arched tombrecesses in its north walls appear to be copied from former recesses of this date, and retain carved corbels of c. 1320. The windows were of fifteenth-century style, that in the east wall having five lights.
The south transept, or Mascy chapel, was perhaps originally of the same date as the north transept, but underwent several alterations before the final rebuilding in 1860. It seems to have had an altar of St. Anne, and a chantry was founded in it by Richard Delves, rector, in 1486. In 1723 the Patten chapel was built, adjoining it on the west, and this, after being rebuilt in 1773, was pulled down together with the transept in 1860, and rebuilt in its present form.
The nave and north aisle date from 1860, and replace a nave built in 1770, which had no arcades, and being designed for galleries, had two tiers of windows on north and south. A south aisle was added in 1835, of the width of the south transept, apparently by the process of removing the south wall of the nave of 1770 to its present position, and refacing the south end of the Patten chapel to correspond with it. The upper tier of windows is in a pseudo-Gothic style, evidently intended to harmonize with the fourteenth-century windows of the chancel, and the south doorway has a clumsy ogee head, on which is cut 'Rebuilt 1770.'
The present west front of the church has three gables flanked by pinnacles, with a large tracery window of seven lights in the central gable.
The earlier history of the development of the church is difficult to read on account of the rebuildings of the last few centuries, but something may be deduced from old illustrations and the copy of a small plan of 1628, unfortunately not drawn to scale, which was formerly among the church papers. From these it may be seen that the old tower was narrower than the transepts, the line of its west wall being eastward of that of the transepts. The mediaeval nave certainly had arcades, and consequently aisles, as foundations of the former were discovered in 1860, not being in line with the north and south arches of the tower, but further to the north and south, like the present arcades. The tower arches appear to have been of the fourteenth century, and perhaps coeval with the chancel, which is of the same width north to south as the tower.
These irregularities, and the evidence of the existence of work in the north transept of earlier date than the rebuilding of the chancel, 1354, go to show that the church was not completely rebuilt at the latter date, but followed a gradual process of development, after the usual fashion, having originally consisted of an aisleless nave and chancel, which was afterwards made into a cross church, the tower being built on the west part of the chancel.
The traces of ritual arrangements in the church are naturally scanty. In the south wall of the chancel are three sedilia and a piscina, with ogee arched heads and trefoiled spandrels under a horizontal string, poor modern work of wood and plaster, but in the old position. Parts of the old masonry remain at the backs of the recesses, which have been altered since Sir Stephen Glynne's visit in 1843, and do not at all correspond to his description. There is no ancient woodwork in the church, but the altar table in the Boteler chapel was given to the church in 1720. In this chapel is a fine alabaster altar tomb, on which are the effigies of Sir John Boteler, ob. 1463, and his wife Margaret. The tomb was taken to pieces in 1847, and when it was reset the east end was made up in plaster. On the other three sides are a row of canopies alternating with shields now blank, and under the canopies are alabaster figures or groups: on the north side, St. James, St. Michael, St. Christopher, St. George, St. John Baptist, and the Holy Trinity; on the west a Crucifixion with our Lady and St. John, an angel holding a shield, and an Assumption; and on the south St. Faith, our Lord's Pity, St. Barbara, St. Catherine, St. Margaret, and our Lady and Child. The figure of Sir John Boteler is armed in plate, but the arm defences, except the elbow-cops and gauntlets, appear to be of leather. He wears a collar of St. George, and holds his right gauntlet in the left hand, while his bare right hand clasps that of his wife. She wears a collar of St. Agnes, and has a lamb at her feet. (fn. 55)
In one of the arched recesses in the north wall of this chapel is the sandstone effigy of a lady of late fourteenth-century date. In the floor of the Patten chapel is a cross slab formerly covering the grave of Thomas Mascy, rector, who died in 1464, and close to it is a modern altar tomb with the white marble effigy of the late Lord Winmarleigh.
On the north side of the chancel, opposite the south doorway, formerly stood the tomb of Richard Delves, rector, 1527.
The font is modern.
There are eight bells, all cast by Henry Bagley of Ecton in 1698. (fn. 56)
The church possesses a fine secular standing cup and cover, silver-gilt, with the London date letter for 1615.
The registers begin in 1591.
Before the Conquest the church of St. Elphin had a plough-land in Warrington free from all imposts except the geld. (fn. 57) The patronage, except for a grant to Thurgarton Priory about 1160, which was a century later granted back, (fn. 58) remained with the lords of Warrington to the latter half of the sixteenth century, when it passed by sale to the Irelands of Bewsey, and has descended like Bewsey and Great Sankey to Lord Lilford, the present patron. (fn. 59)
In 1291 the value of the benefice was found to be £13 6s. 8d; (fn. 60) and fifty years later the ninth of the sheaves, wool, and lambs was estimated at twenty marks, i.e. the same sum. (fn. 61) The gross value in 1535 was £41 15s. 4d., of which the glebe brought in 16s. 8d.; the payments included one of 20s. to the abbot of Shrewsbury, and the net value was £40. (fn. 62) The Commonwealth surveyors in 1650 found that the tithes, valued at £150, were farmed by Gilbert Ireland, who allowed the rector £20 a year; (fn. 63) this was increased by an allowance of £50 a year out of the sequestered tithes of Childwall, (fn. 64) reduced later. (fn. 65) Bishop Gastrell in 1717 found the income to be £61 18s. 3d. (fn. 66) At present the gross value is stated to be £965. (fn. 67)
Warrington was from early times the head of a deanery comprising the parishes in West Derby hundred. (fn. 68) In 1535 the revenue of the dean was estimated at £15 11s. 11d. (fn. 69)
The following is a list of the rectors:—
Date Name Patron Cause of Vacancy
c. 1180 Richard (fn. 70) — —
c. 1220 James (fn. 71) — —
c. 1250 Jordan de Hulton (fn. 72) — —
c. 1265 William de Eybury (fn. 73) — —
oc. 1289 William le Boteler (fn. 74) — —
(?) Feb. 1298–9 William de Sankey (fn. 75) — —
24 Nov. 1325 Stephen le Blund (fn. 76) Sir W. le Boteler res. W. de Sankey
3 April, 1330 Robert de Houton (fn. 77) — exch. S. le Blund
10 June, 1343 John de Luyton (fn. 78) Sir W. le Boteler d. R. de Houton
1 June, 1346 John de Stamfordham (fn. 79) — exch. J. de Luyton
10 May, 1351 Nicholas de Waddington (fn. 80) Sir W. le Boteler d. J. de Stamfordham
22 June, 1357 John de Swinlegh (fn. 81) — exc. N. de Waddington
13 Jan. 1361–2 John de Donne (fn. 82) John earl of Lancaster res. J. de Swinlegh
(?) Dec. 1367 John Parr, senior (fn. 83) Urban V —
5 June, 1368 Ellis de Birtwisle (fn. 84) John duke of Lancaster res. John Parr
17 May, 1374 Robert de Sibthorpe (fn. 85) Sir William le Boteler and Sir John his son d. Ellis de Birtwisle
(?) 1374 William (de Burgh) (fn. 86) John duke of Lancaster "
20 Mar. 1390–1 Richard de Carleton (fn. 87) Sir John le Boteler —
21 Aug. 1396 Richard le Walker (fn. 88) " d. R. de Carleton
27 April, 1435 Thomas Mascy (fn. 89) Hamlet Mascy, &c. d. R. le Walker
4 July, 1464 Thomas Neilson (fn. 90) Richard Browne, &c. —
18 May, 1466 Thomas Byrom (fn. 91) " res. T. Neilson
7 Sept. 1476 Mr. James Stanley (fn. 92) John Holcroft d. T. Byrom
— Hugh Reddish — —
16 June, 1486 Richard Delves (fn. 93) T. Boteler res. Hugh Reddish
6 Dec. 1527 Thomas Maria Wingfield (fn. 94) H. Wingfield, &c. d. R. Delves
8 Nov. 1537 Edward Keble, M.A. (fn. 95) Sir T. Boteler res. T. M. Wingfield
20 Nov. 1554 Nicholas Taylor (fn. 96) John Grimsditch and Richard Penketh depr. E. Keble
31 Dec. 1556 Thomas Amery (fn. 97) — d. N. Taylor
24 April, 1574 John Butler (fn. 98) Thos. Butler —
26 Nov. 1579 Simon Harward, M.A. (fn. 99) Edward Butler d. J. Butler
4 July, 1581 Michael Johnson, B.A. (fn. 100) Sir Hen. Scurwen —
3 June, 1589 John Ashworth (fn. 101) Thos. Ireland —
1 Mar. 1607–8 William Gillibrand (fn. 102) " d. J. Ashworth
29 May, 1621 William Ward (fn. 103) Sir T. Ireland d. W. Gillibrand
oc. 1646 James Smith (fn. 104) " res. W. Ward
— Dec. 1646 Robert Yates (fn. 105) Gilbert Ireland "
17 Jan. 1662–3 Samuel Ellison (fn. 106) Sir G. Ireland exp. R. Yates
4 Oct. 1664 Joseph Ward, B.A. (fn. 107) " —
10 Jan. 1690–1 Samuel Shawe, M.A. (fn. 108) James Holt d. J. Ward
22 Jan. 1718–9 Thomas Egerton, M.A. (fn. 109) Ric. Atherton d. S. Shawe
21 June, 1723 John Haddon, M.A. (fn. 110) " res. T. Egerton
27 Dec. 1766 William Farington, B.D. (fn. 111) R. V. A. Gwillym. d. J. Haddon
14 Sept. 1767 Edward Owen, M.A. (fn. 112) " d. W. Farington
3 June, 1807 Robert Atherton Rawstorne, M.A. (fn. 113) Lord Lilford d. E. Owen
3 Jan. 1832 Hon. Horatio Powys, M.A. (fn. 114) " res. R. A. Rawstorne
2 Sept. 1854 William Quekett, M.A. (fn. 115) The Queen prom. Bp. Powys
20 May, 1888 Frederic William Willis, M.A. (fn. 116) Lord Lilford d. W. Quekett
The most noticeable feature of the above list is the rapidity of the succession in many periods. About 1360 the title appears to have been uncertain. The lease of 1534 having reduced the income from tithes to £20 a year for two centuries, Warrington was not as a benefice very attractive.
The commissioners of 1535 found a rector and four endowed chantry priests serving the church; one of these also taught the school, and another served the chantry at Hollinfare. (fn. 117) The clergy list of 1541–2 shows that besides the rector, probably non-resident, and the four cantarists, there were in the parish eight priests, one of them being the curate, and the others paid by private persons or living on casual fees and offerings; two of them seem to have removed soon afterwards. (fn. 118) The visitation list of 1548 records the names of the rector and eight other clergy, four being chantry priests; two died about the same time. Six years later the rector, just deprived, is not named; six names are recorded, two of the bearers, however, appear to have been absent; the four chantry priests were still living, though unemployed. The diminution in the number of clergy went steadily on at Warrington; in 1562 the rector Thomas Amery, his curate, and two others were named in the list; but one of the latter did not appear. The rector, appointed in Bishop Cotes's time, had thus conformed to the Elizabethan statutes, and continued to hold his benefice. In the following year five names appear, two of them being new. In the margin is the record—'They took oath according to the statute,' i.e. acknowledging the queen's supremacy, the formal act of separation from the ancient system. (fn. 119) One of the five, John Barber, curate of Rixton, appears to have repented quickly, a note stating that he had 'fled.' In 1565 the rector and two others appeared; these two were survivors of the 1548 clergy, one being the schoolmaster. (fn. 120)
Block Plan of Site of Augustinian Friary, Warrington
Warrington thus fared better than other parishes in the neighbourhood in maintaining a staff of three clergy, there being only one chapel to serve in addition to the parish church. The school stipend was, of course, a means of supporting one beside the rector. At Hollinfare chapel the new services were probably not kept up regularly. As to the parish church the visitation of 1592 showed that the chancel was 'in great decay'; there were wanting Bible, Communion Book, Jewell's Reply and Apology, a 'comely table covering and table cloth,' and surplice. (fn. 121) An improvement no doubt took place as time went on, the Stuart bishops and the puritan ministers of the seventeenth century bringing it about. The later rectors, with one or two exceptions, do not call for remark. (fn. 122)
There were three chantries established in the parish church, and another at Hollinfare. St. Mary's Chantry was endowed or re-endowed by Sir Thomas Boteler, apparently the Sir Thomas who died in 1522. (fn. 123) By his will, carried out by his son Sir Thomas, he founded also the grammar school, the master of which was the priest at a second chantry. (fn. 124) Richard Delves, rector from 1486 to 1527, founded the chantry at the altar of St. Anne. (fn. 125) The chantries were suppressed in 1548, but the school was preserved. (fn. 126)
A house of Austin Friars, the only one in the county, was established near the bridge. (fn. 127) Its church, the Jesus Church, was probably the popular one, being situated near the centre of the town. The friars had an oratory on the bridge. The property was confiscated by Henry VIII and granted to Sir Thomas Holcroft. (fn. 128) Nothing now remains of the buildings. (fn. 129) It is supposed that the church was used for worship, at least occasionally, down to the Civil Wars. (fn. 130)
The site of the house was partly explored in 1886, and from the remains then found a plan of the church was drawn up by Mr. William Owen. (fn. 131) It shows a quire 58 ft. long by 24 ft. wide, an oblong crossing typical of a friars' church, with screens to east and west, a nave 86 ft. by 27 ft., and a very large north transept 62 ft. by 44 ft. The evidence for some part of the plan is slight, but there seems no doubt that Mr. Owen is correct in his reading of it, which has been confirmed, as to the size of the transept, by recent excavations. The details point to c. 1280 for the earliest work, and the large north transept seems to be little, if at all, later than the rest of the building. The crossing was doubtless surmounted by an octagonal tower as in other friars' houses. Part of the tile pavement of the quire was uncovered, and is illustrated in Mr. Owen's paper, being a very good specimen of its kind, dating probably from the early years of the fourteenth century. The shaped tiles of the central panel are specially interesting, though not so elaborate as those in the well-known Crauden chapel at Ely. Part of this pavement was taken up and is preserved in the Warrington Museum. Of other parts of the friary nothing has been found except the north end of a buttressed building south-east of the church and about 120 yards distant from it. It is 15 ft. wide, but its length and purpose cannot at present be determined.
CHARITIES (fn. 132)
The principal charity of Warrington, apart from the grammar school (fn. 133) and the bluecoat school, (fn. 134) is the infirmary, with an income of nearly £740 a year from investments. (fn. 135) Of the minor charities some are for Warrington proper (fn. 136) and others for different townships of the parish—Burtonwood, (fn. 137) Rixton, (fn. 138) and Woolston; (fn. 139) that for Poulton has been lost. (fn. 140)
Plan of Church of Augustinian Friary, Warrington
The Warrington Clergy Institution for the relief of widows and orphans of clergymen in the old archdeaconry of Chester, which included Cheshire and South Lancashire, was founded in 1697, and still continues its benevolent work. In conjunction with it is a school for the orphan daughters of clergymen, founded in 1842; the buildings were erected on the site of the old mote hill, but the school was removed to Darley Dale, Derbyshire, in 1905. There is a training college for schoolmistresses in connexion with the Established Church.
1. This number includes Latchford, but not Orford.
2. Baines, Lancs. Direct. ii, 587.
3. Gregson, Fragments (ed. Harland), 16, 22. In Rixton-with-Glazebrook the former part of the township paid twice as much as the latter. Poulton and Woolston were treated as one township.
4. Ibid. 18; that was when the hundred paid £106.
5. For the Roman remains at Wilderspool and Stockton Heath see Thompson Watkin, Roman Ches. 260–73; and T. May, Warrington's Roman Remains (1904). In Warrington proper only slight evidence has come to light of the Roman occupation; Watkin, Roman Lancs. 224–5.
6. The road across Howley meadow, which the ford at Latchford would require, has disappeared.
7. The mote hill was in recent times counted as part of Burtonwood for rating purposes; probably when Bewsey became the residence of the lord of Warrington his old residence, or its site, was supposed to be attached to it. The 'castle' of William le Boteler is mentioned in the Perambulation of the Forest in 1228; Whalley Coucher (Chet. Soc.), ii, 372; Farrer, Lancs. Pipe R. 422.
8. The 'burgages' named in Warr. in 1465 (Chet. Soc.) are chiefly in Church Street, Bridge Street, and the east side of the town, but one or two seem to have been in Sankey Street.
9. The history of this bridge is given in the work just cited, 86–91. The Boydells of Dodleston had the grant of the tolls for the passage of the Mersey at Latchford; foot passengers were free, but horsemen and carts had to pay toll; Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby), i, 603–4. The privilege was asserted as late as the sixteenth century; Duchy Pleadings (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 39–41. The 'bridge of the Mersey at Warrington' is named in a charter of 1305; Beamont, Lords of Warr. (Chet. Soc.), i, 133; at p. 136 are given the tolls chargeable in 1310. In 1364 it was at least intended to reconstruct it; but possibly the work was not carried out, for although John Boteler in 1420 left 20 marks for the repair of the bridge, in 1465 it is spoken of as a thing of the past—'ubi pons quondam stetit'; Warr. in 1465, pp. 88, 91 (quoting Rymer, Foed. iii, 740–1); Lords of Warr. ii, 277 (quoting Sir John Boteler's will). A passage was then maintained by boats; Duchy Plead. loc. cit.
10. The charters for the markets are dated 1255, 1277, and 1285. From the position of the Austin Friars' house and of the market (at least in the fifteenth century), it seems clear that the road northward across the bridge had already become a popular highway.
11. Before 1280 the manor of Burtonwood had been purchased by William le Boteler.
12. Chet. Soc. vol. xvii (ed. W. Beamont), quoted above.
13. Ibid. 41–59; one of the seven holdings in this position is described as follows: 'A fair messuage newly built, with two fair high chambers, with a kitchen, large garden containing a new oven at the north end; . . . worth to Sir Peter Legh 11s. a year in addition to the service of two days in autumn, worth 4d.' Among the local words are Wroe and Warth (in Arpley), Crimble, and Pighull. It is noteworthy that the Mersey is called the 'sea.' Burgages in Church Street had an oxgang of land in Arpley appurtenant in two cases; pp. 67, 71. A large number of place and field names have been collected in the Introduction, pp. lxviii-lxx.
14. In 1453 the archbishops of Canterbury and York granted indulgences to all who should contribute to the building and re-erection of the bridge over 'the great and rapid water commonly called the Mersey'; Lords of Warr. ii, 278. Again, in 1479, a forty-days' indulgence was granted by the archbishop of York for the same object; ibid. ii, 336. The contributions elicited, with £20 granted about the same time from the duchy revenues (Lancs. and Ches. Rec. ii, 300), were probably too small for the purpose, so that the first earl of Derby is justly credited with the work; his interest in it is shown by the 300 marks he bequeathed for the redemption of the rents and tolls of the bridge; Lords of Warr. 353, 363. The bridge was shortly afterwards declared free; ibid. 365–70. Later earls of Derby charged themselves with its maintenance, but the Civil War so impoverished them that they refused to do it any longer, and the expense was then charged on the counties of Chester and Lancaster; Ormerod, i, 604 (quoting Seacome, House of Stanley). Henry VII arrived at Warrington 28 July, 1495.
15. Itin. vii, 47.
16. Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 195, quoting S. P. Dom. Eliz. xlviii, n. 35. This is a report dated 1568 from W. Glaseor to the queen's commissioners; it states that 'from Warrington all along the sea-coast of Lancashire, except Mr. Butler, beginning with Mr. Ireland, then Sir William Norris, and so forward, other gentlemen here be of the faction and withdraw themselves from religion.'
17. Metcalfe, Book of Knights, 171.
18. The Botelers had been a military race, and their tenants and dependants would accompany them to the wars. They had sided with Simon de Montfort in the Barons' War, and among the miraculous cures attributed to that popular hero several were reported by Warrington people; Beamont, Warr. Ch. Notes (quoting app. to Rishanger, Chron. Camd. Soc.). The market charter of 1277 was granted to William le Boteler at Rhuddlan; Sir William Boteler accompanied Hen. V to France and died at Harfleur in Sept. 1415; Sir Thomas Boteler fought at Flodden in 1513, and John Mascy of Rixton was killed at the same battle.
19. Civil War Tracts (Chet. Soc.), 64, 66; War in Lancs. (Chet. Soc.), 7.
20. Burghall, Civil War in Ches. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), 239; War in Lancs. 15. In the following year many Royalists, driven from other parts of the county, took refuge in Warrington; ibid. 39. This accounts for its description as 'the last hold the Papists had' in the county; Civil War Tracts, 101.
21. This was one of the few successes gained by Lord Derby; it is alleged that it was partly due to the ruse of dressing some of his men in the same style as those of Brereton's force; see Civil War Tracts, 95, 135; also Burghall, Civil War in Ches. 44.
22. It was only two days after his repulse at Stockton Heath that Sir William Brereton, having received help from Sir John Seaton, who had just captured Wigan, 'beset Warrington and fiercely assaulted it, having gotten Sankey bridge, a fair house of one Mr. Bridgeman's, and some of the outer walls, and within a short space of time [they] were likely to have the whole; which the earl perceiving set the middle of the town on fire, protesting he would burn it all ere they should have it; which the Parliament forces perceiving, seeing the fire still increasing, to save it from utter desolation, withdrew their forces after they had been there three days and more, and so departed for that time'; Burghall, 45. To this assault probably belongs the story of the attack by the Manchester force, which, marching through Cheshire, crossed at Hollinfare and made a strong assault on Warrington church and the works about it; 'but the soldiers within, defending it with manhood and great valour,' the attacking forces withdrew, having lost some men; War in Lancs. 31.
23. Burghall, 56–7; Civil War Tracts, 101. The terms of surrender were that 'the captain and commanders should depart every man with his horse and pistols, and all the soldiers to pack away unarmed and leave all their arms, ammunition, and provisions behind them.' Shortness of supplies and a defeat of the Cavaliers in Yorkshire, which destroyed the hope of relief, were the reasons for the surrender. Some documents relating to this siege and the later fortunes of the town were discovered in 1851 or 1852 in a house at Houghton Green near Winwick; two of them are requisitions of provisions and men by Colonel Norris, in view of the expected attack; Trans. Hist. Soc. iv, 18–32.
24. But few Warrington cases appear in the Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.). John Bate, who had gone to reside in the enemy's quarters, but had since taken the National Covenant, was allowed to compound in 1646; i, 152; as also was Anne Fearnley, a widow, whose delinquency was similar; ii, 314.
25. Cromwell reported: 'We prosecuted them home to Warrington town; where they possessed the bridge, which had a strong barricado and work upon it, formerly made very defensive. As soon as we came thither, I received a message from General Baillie desiring some capitulation. To which I yielded. Considering the strength of the pass, and that I could not go over the River Mersey within ten miles of Warrington with the army, I gave him these terms: That he should surrender himself and all his officers and soldiers prisoners of war, with all his arms and ammunition and horses, to me; I giving quarter for life and promising civil usage. Which accordingly is done; and the commissioners deputed by me have received and are receiving all the arms and ammunition; which will be, as they tell me, about 4,000 complete arms; and as many prisoners: and thus you have their infantry totally ruined.' Baillie was acting under the express orders of the duke of Hamilton; Civil War Tracts, 287–8.
26. War in Lancs. 71; General Lambert was hanging on the flank of the king's army, but unable to check its progress. A few Scots were captured and sent to Chester, and sentenced to be shot; Civil War Tracts, 309. After the defeat at Worcester many of the scattered Royalists found their way north by Hollinfare, Warrington Bridge being well guarded; ibid.
27. Ormerod, Ches. i, p. lxv; the battle was fought 19 Aug.
28. W. Beamont, Trans. Hist. Soc. ii, 184.
29. Trans. Hist. Soc. vi, 22; with a plate showing the uniform and equipment. For the volunteers of 1803 see Local Gleanings Lancs. and Ches. ii, 217.
30. Jacobite Trials (Chet. Soc.), 2–3; it was stated that William Standish had conveyed lands at Woolston worth £100 a year for the benefit of the Franciscans. He explained that it was partly a debt and partly a legacy of his father. There is an account of the inquiry among the Norris Deeds (B. M.); some of the witnesses were religious and others who had embraced Protestantism. For an example see Payne, Engl. Cath. Rec. 126.
31. A number of tokens issued by Edward Borron and other local men between 1666 and 1672 are described in Lancs. and Ches. Antiq. Soc. v, 91.
32. Blome, Britannia (quoted by Baines).
33. Local Gleanings Lancs. and Ches. i, 208.
34. Defoe, A Gentleman's Tour through Great Britain (ed. 1738), iii. 170.
35. Loc. Gleanings Lancs. and Ches. i, 262.
36. An account of the Academy, with views of the buildings of 1757 and 1762, &c. is printed in Trans. Hist. Soc. xi, 1; see also Nightingale, Lancs. Nonconf. iv, 271–87. In 1858 the Guardian was printed in part of the later building, another part being used as a Church Institute. This building has been demolished, but that of 1757, at Bridge-foot, is standing, and is the property of the Corporation. It is occupied by the Warrington Soc. founded in 1898 for the preservation of ancient buildings and other local monuments, the collection of books, &c. of local interest, and kindred aims. Of Warrington in the latter part of the eighteenth century there is an account by Dr. Kendrick in Trans. Hist. Soc. vii, 82; and in Aikin, Country Round Manch. 300–8.
37. Thomas Barnes was born in 1747, and educated at the grammar school. He became minister of Cross Street Chapel, Manchester, in 1780, and died there in 1810. For life see Baines, Lancs. (ed. 1870), ii, 240; Sir T. Baker, Dissenting Chapel, 47 (with portrait); Dict. Nat. Biog.
38. He was a native of the town. He had conformed to the Elizabethan establishment of religion, and ministered according to the new services; but became reconciled with Rome in 1581. He afterwards resumed his priestly office, but was hunted down by the authorities and executed 20 April, 1584, for having said mass at Golborne the previous Christmastide; Challoner, Missionary Priests, n. 27 (from Bridgewater's Concertatio); Gillow, Bibl. Dict. of Engl. Catholics, i, 173; Foley, Rec. S. J. ii, 136 (from S. P. Dom. Eliz. clxvii, n. 40). The first stage in the procedure of his beatification was reached in 1886.
39. See Dict. Nat. Biog.; he was a strong supporter of the Hanoverian dynasty, and published controversial works. A list of these is given in N. and Q. (5 ser.), i, 90.
40. He was born at Warrington in 1731 and educated at Emmanuel Coll. Camb. He became vicar of Tewkesbury and Longdon, but resigned in 1788, and died at Colford in 1805. He published several theological essays; see Dict. Nat. Biog.
41. See Dict. Nat. Biog.; Baines, Lancs. (ed. 1870), ii, 238. He died in 1804, and was buried at Warrington; he wrote Medical Ethics, and other works.
42. Dict. Nat. Biog. and life by George Crosfield (1843).
43. He was born at Warrington in 1817, being of a Woolston family, and died at Douai in 1870; Gillow, Bibl. Dict. iii, III.
44. Dict. Nat. Biog.; see Local Gleanings Lancs. and Ches. ii, 137–40.
45. There is a notice, with portrait and list of works, of the younger Dr. Kendrick in Pal. Note Book, ii, 113. Miss Richmal Mangnall, author of the Questions, kept a school in Warrington from 1805 to 1811.
46. A full account of this Press was contributed by Dr. James Kendrick to the Warr. Guardian in 1880–1. The first known product was a broadside issued by John Eyres, who was living in the town as a printer in 1731, and whose son William made the Press famous from 1760 onwards. One of William Eyres's books was Watson's Memoirs of the Earls of Warren, 1782. An account of some booksellers of Warrington in the middle of the seventeenth century may be read in Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), i, 67; a list of books in stock in 1647 is given, pp. 77–111.
47. A number of other newspapers and magazines have been issued from time to time, but have not continued. The Standard and Times, both begun in 1859, were united and continued until 1862. The Evening Post lasted from 1877 to 1880. The Catalogue of the Warrington Library gives particulars of these and others.
48. 'In 1753 the ship Sacharissa, which … had a cargo of sugar on board, having left Liverpool for Bank Quay eight days before, was wrecked on the Long Duck Stakes near Sankey …; and the ordinary protest, such as is now made on the loss of a sea-going vessel, had to be made on the Sacharissa'; Beamont, Hale and Orford, 229.
49. The Irwell and Mersey 'were made navigable under powers of the Act of Parliament obtained in 1720, when it was undertaken successfully by several adventurers'; Pennant, Downing to Alston Moor, 16.
50. The 'Warrington coach' is spoken of by Matthew Henry in 1704; quoted by Beamont, Annals of Warr. from 1587, p. xi. On 9 June, 1757, 'it was announced that the Warrington flying stage-coach would set out every Monday and Thursday morning from the Bull Inn in Wood Street, London, and the 'Red Lion' in Warrington, during the summer season, and arrive at the above inns every Wednesday and Saturday evening. Each passenger was to pay two guineas and to be allowed fourteen pounds of baggage'; Hale and Orford, 231. On the same page will be found the advertisement of 1760 of the Manchester and Liverpool coach, which passed through Warrington and Prescot.
51. Baines, Lancs. Direc. ii, 587, 590.
52. Ibid. ii, 587. The same work is the authority for the statement that as late as 1760 'it was usual to insert a clause in indentures of apprenticeship at Warrington by which the masters stipulated not to oblige their apprentices to eat salmon more than twice a week'; this appears to be imaginary.
53. The details are: Warrington—Arable, 4,568; grass, 1,121; wood, &c., 25; and Burtonwood, 2,977, 425, 139, respectively.
54. Churches of Lancs. (Chet. Soc.). 70.
55. For a full description of the Boteler monument with drawings, see Lords of Warr. 298. Armorial notes taken in 1582 and later are printed in Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), vi, 269; others made in 1572 and 1640 are given in Beamont and Rylands' Attempt to identify the Arms in Warr. Ch. (1878).
56. For inscriptions see Warr. Ch. p. ix.
57. V.C.H. Lancs. i, 286b. Elphin was in course of time modified to Ellen, but the old name was restored at the rebuilding of the church in 1859– 60.
58. Chart. in Beamont, Lords of Warr. (Chet. Soc.), i, 19, 83.
59. See the account of Bewsey. A fine regarding the manor in 1332 included the advowson of the church; Final Conc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), ii, 83. In 1361 Henry duke of Lancaster 'died seised in his demesne as of fee of the advowson of the church [of Warrington] for the term of the life of William le Boteler, knt., by the demise of Richard de Winwick, brother and heir of John de Winwick, who demised the said church to William le Boteler for the said term'; Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. III, pt. 1, n. 122. There were suits between the duke of Lancaster and Sir William le Boteler in 1374 and 1375 respecting the patronage; De Banco R. 456, m. 197; R. 457, m. 116. The duke recovered.
60. Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 249.
61. Inq. Non. (Rec. Com.), 40. The sum was thus made up: Warrington and Burtonwood each £4 6s. 8d.; Glazebrook 9s. 4d.; the third part of Great Sankey 26s. 8d.; Woolston 33s. 4d.; Rixton 24s.
62. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 219. An Easter roll of the year 1580 is preserved among the Norris D. (B. M.); the amount received at the 'houseling board' was 48s. 9d.; 12s. 6d. was laid out on bread and wine. This has been printed in full by Mr. J. Paul Rylands in Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), xix, with a number of illustrative particulars.
63. Commonwealth Cb. Surv. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), 51. Gilbert Ireland was a Parliamentarian, so that his estates were untouched. The value of the mansion-house, with its barn and garden, was £3.
64. Plund. Mins. Accts. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 34; this order was made in 1646. James Anderton, the farmer of the Childwall tithes, was a 'papist and delinquent,' whose estates were sequestered.
65. Ibid. 288. £30 only was payable in 1655, but was increased to £40; ibid. ii, 132, 289.
66. Notitia Cestr. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 230; apart from the £20 received from the lessee, the income was derived mainly from fees. There were then five churchwardens—two for Warrington appointed by the lord and Mr. Legh of Lyme, and one each for the other three 'quarters' of the parish, elected by house row.
67. Liverpool Dioc. Cal. Some benefactions are noticed in the War. End. Char. Rep. 1890, pp. 63, 65.
68. Some names of the deans have been preserved, e.g. Elias, xiii cent. (Whalley Coucher [Chet. Soc.], i, 126); Richard de Standish, c. 1240 (Kuerden, ii, fol. 219, n. 330); Roger was dean in 1277 (De Banco R. 21, m. 18); Henry de Wavertree, vicar of Childwall, 1319; Richard de Sutton, vicar of Walton, 1354.
69. Valor Eccl. loc. cit. The deanery was in the hands of William Knight, archdeacon of Chester, and he farmed it out to Richard Clerk, chaplain. The sources of income were the probate dues on wills, estimated at £7 a year, and certain fees payable by the beneficed clergy.
70. Richard, priest of Warrington was witness to a charter between 1175 and 1182; Lancs. Pipe R. 287. There is an account of the rectors in W. Beamont's Warr. Ch. Notes; see also Baines' Lancs. (ed. Croston), iv, 417–26.
71. James rector of Warrington attested a grant to Stanlaw made before 1233; Whalley Coucher, ii, 416.
72. Whalley Coucher, iii, 742, 919. Jordan had a son Robert, who occurs in the Lever Deeds; Add. MS. 32103, As. 66, 69, dated 1297 and 1298. William son of Jordan de Hulton complained in 1292 of an assault by Peter de Warburton and others; Assize R. 408, m. 50d. 61d. 96d.
73. Beamont, op. cit. 28.
74. Witness to a Warrington charter in 1289; Dods. MSS. liii, fol. 15b, n. 3.
75. 'William rector of Warrington' had on 22 Feb. 1298–9, licence to attend the schools for three years, during which time he was not to be compelled to enter the higher orders; Lich. Epis. Reg. i, fol. 2b. He had probably just been appointed to the rectory. Richard de Astley sued William de Sankey in 1320 for six years' arrears of a rent of 2 marks, and at the same time Henry del Bruche sued for five years' arrears of a rent of one robe a year; De Banco R. 236, m. 286. In July, 1325, Sankey had the king's protection for twelve months, perhaps on going abroad in the king's service, and shortly afterwards he resigned the rectory; Cal. of Pat. 1324–7, p. 148.
76. Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. 101b.
77. Ibid. ii, fol. 105b; the new rector had held Leatherhead ('Ledred') in the diocese of Winchester, exchanging it for Warrington. He is mentioned in 1334 in Coram Rege R. 297, m. 94. Sons of Robert de Houton were concerned in a plea by his executors in 1344; ibid. R. 337, m. 19.
78. Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. 116b. He had been rector of Whittington.
79. Ibid. ii, fol. 119; the new rector had held Luyton, in the diocese of Lincoln.
80. Ibid. ii, fol. 128b; the new rector was a priest.
81. Ibid. ii, fol. 134; the new rector had been rector of Winwick, Huntingdonshire. He is probably the John de Swinlegh, priest of the diocese of Lichfield, who was made a notary by Clement VI in 1351, and had an indult to choose a confessor, &c.; Cal. of Papal Letters, iii, 447, 449. He became archdeacon of Huntingdon in 1362 on the king's presentation; see Le Neve, Fasti, ii, 50.
82. Lich. Epis. Reg. iv, fol. 80. The rector was only a clerk; the name is written Donne, but possibly it should be Doune. On 10 Nov. 1362, he, being then a subdeacon, obtained the bishop's leave to be absent from his church for three years; ibid. v, fol. 7b. On 9 May, 1366, this was renewed for two years; ibid. v, fol. 13b. Thus he was absent almost all the time he held the rectory.
83. He was ordained subdeacon 18 Dec. 1367, probably soon after his appointment; Lich. Epis. Reg. v, fol. 93. He was ordained deacon and priest in the following March; ibid. v, fol. 94, 94b. In 1372 a dispute about the presentation was heard before Arnold Garnerii, the papal nuncio and collector, who had sequestered the church. It appeared that Urban V in April, 1364, had provided John Parr, senior, to Warrington. Ellis de Birtwisle alleged that there had been no vacancy since Nicholas de Waddington, who had been called an apostate, had been delivered by sentence of the court. The nuncio was satisfied; Duchy of Lanc. Misc. Bks., xiii, fol. 14.
84. Lich. Epis. Reg. iv, fol. 83b; he was a priest. The second institution (ibid. fol. 85) was made after Ellis de Birtwisle's free resignation into the lord's hands. It is clear from the preceding note that litigation had been proceeding as to Nicholas de Waddington, and that John Parr's resignation had been called in question. For Ellis de Birtwisle Innocent VI had in 1355 reserved a benefice with cure of souls, of the value of 25 marks, in the gift of the abbot and convent of Hyde, Winchester; Cal. of Papal Letters, iii, 570. Ellis died 6 March, 1373–4.
85. Lich. Epis. Reg. iv, fol. 87b; he was a priest.
86. On the 12 June William de Burgh, clerk, was presented by the duke of Lancaster; Duchy of Lanc. Misc. Bks. xiii, fol. 46b. He appears to have obtained possession after a suit between the duke and the Botelers, for in Nov. 1389, the bishop allowed 'William rector of the church of Warrington,' a year's leave of absence, and released the sequestration of the fruits of the church; Lich. Epis. Reg. vi, fol. 125b. A William de Burgh was rector of Babworth, Notts. in 1384; Cal. Pat. 1381–5, pp. 465, 576.
87. Lich. Epis. Reg. vi, fol. 55b; a priest. He died in August, 1396.
88. Ibid. vi, fol. 61b; a priest.
89. Ibid. ix, fol. 122b; a clerk. The patrons, Hamlet Mascy of Rixton and Wm. Arrowsmith of Warrington presented in right of a grant by Sir John Boteler. Thomas Mascy was still rector in 1458; Lancs. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 73.
90. Lich. Epis. Reg. xii, fol. 101b; a priest. The patrons, Richard Browne, vicar of Poulton, John Holcroft, and Richard Mascy, acted in virtue of a feoffment by Sir John Boteler, deceased.
91. Ibid. xii, fol. 102b. Thomas Byrom was a canon of Lichfield from 1450 and rector of Grappenhall; the latter benefice he resigned on being presented to Warrington; Le Neve, Fasti, i, 627, &c. He was archdeacon of Nottingham from 1461 till his death; ibid. iii, 151. He was a witness to the will of his patron, Archbishop Booth, dated at Southwell in 1464; Raines, Abps. of York (Rolls Ser.), iii, 333. See Beamont, op. cit. 47.
92. Lich. Epis. Reg. xii, fol. 110b; also rector of Winwick (q.v.), warden of Manchester and archdeacon of Chester. John Holcroft presented in virtue of a feoffment by Sir John Boteler. Archdeacon Stanley died in 1485.
93. Ibid. xii, fol. 120b; a priest. He was son of Sir John Delves of Doddington and brother-in law of Sir Thomas Boteler; Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby), iii, 522. He became canon of Lichfield in 1485 (Le Neve, Fasti, i, 620, 587, 627); and he founded a chantry at Warrington. His will, dated 13 August, 1527, directed his burial either at Warrington or Wybunbury, and bequeathed to the schoolmaster at the former place a diaper cloth and a missal. He died 22 October following, and was buried in the choir; the epitaph has been preserved by Randle Holme; Beamont, Warr. Ch. Notes, 53.
94. Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv, fol. 63; he was a clerk. The patrons, Humphrey Wingfield and Robert Brown, clerk, acted by grant of Sir Richard Wingfield, deceased. Sir Richard, who was chancellor of the duchy from 1522 to 1525, probably obtained a grant of the presentation from Thomas Boteler. Thomas Maria Wingfield, who must have been a mere child, graduated at Oxf. in 1534; he afterwards renounced an ecclesiastical career and became member of parliament for Huntingdon borough in 1553; Foster, Alumni Oxon.
95. Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv, fol. 36b. On 27 October, 1537, i.e. after granting a presentation to Edward Keble, Sir Thomas Boteler leased the advowson for sixty years to William Bruche, merchant tailor of London, and Hamnet Shaw; and on 15 July, 1540, William Bruche, the surviving grantee, gave his right to Richard Penketh and John West; ibid. fol. 5b. About 1540 Edward Keble complained that he had before institution granted a lease of the parsonage for sixty years to Sir Thomas Boteler, the rector to receive £40 a year; that Sir Thomas, before the new rector had come into possession, sold the lease to the above-named Bruche and Shaw for £186 13s. 4d.; plaintiff, 'seeing that the lease was not binding because he had nothing in the said parsonage at the time of the making thereof,' expelled the new lessees, who claimed their money back. Sir Thomas induced the rector to borrow it for him, and then planned a scheme with the lender to obtain the sum from the rector, who was therefore unable to pay his firstfruits to the king; Duchy Pleadings (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), ii, 120. He had previously been ordered to pay 50 marks to William Bruche, 'a very unruly person and a great unquietor of his poor neighbours,' and had leased the parsonage to him for ten years; ibid. ii, 121. Early in 1543 Rector Keble leased the rectory for 200 years to nominees of the patron, at a rent of only £20 a year; Beamont, op. cit. 57; and Lords of Warr. ii, 453 (quoting Lord Lilford's deeds). Abstracts of the deeds relating to 'this discreditable matter' are given in Ch. Gds. 1552 (Chet. Soc.), 59; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxx, App. 177. Keble was probably inclined to Protestantism, for in 1547 he was made a prebendary of Westminster; Le Neve, Fasti, iii, 351. This as well as the rectory of Warrington he lost in 1554; the reason is not stated, but perhaps he had married. He does not appear to have claimed either preferment later, but is said to have been beneficed in Warwickshire from 1558 till his death. He must therefore have renounced Protestantism, if he had professed it, and returned to it again in 1559. For the vestments, bells, &c. in 1552, see Ch. Gds. 57. Richard Johns, parson of Warrington, is mentioned in 1547; Piccope, Wills (Chet. Soc.), i, 104. Possibly he was Richard Taylor the schoolmaster.
96. He paid firstfruits 22 June, 1555; Lancs. and Ches. Rec. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), ii, 409. Later references to these payments are from the same source.
97. His name appears in the Visit. lists in 1563 and 1565. In 1562 he obtained leave of absence for study for five years in all; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. iii, 292.
98. Paid firstfruits 8 May, 1574.
99. The name is also given as Harwood; he paid firstfruits 25 June, 1580. He was of Christ's Coll. Camb.; B.A. 1575; incorporated at Oxf. 1577; a man of some note as preacher and physician; see Dict. Nat. Biog. and Cooper, Athenae Cantab. ii, 478, where the titles of his works are given, with many references.
100. He was of Cumberland; entered Queen's Coll. Oxf. in 1572; B.A. 1577; also rector of Heveringham, Yorks.; Foster, Alumni.
101. He paid firstfruits 9 July, 1590. He had been vicar of Bolton le Sands. The registers begin in his time. In 1590 he was described as 'a preacher'; Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 248.
102. A William Gillibrand, of Brasenose Coll. Oxf. took the B.A. degree in 1569; Foster, Alumni. For his family see Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc.), 121. He was a 'preacher'; Kenyon MSS. (Hist. MSS. Com.), 12.
103. The institutions from this time have been taken from the entries in the Inst. Bks. P.R.O. as printed in Lancs. and Ches. Antiq. Notes, i, ii. William Ward paid firstfruits on 18 February, 1621–2. He was promoted to the rectory of Walton in 1645 on the expulsion of the royalist Dr. Clare.
104. James Smith seems to have been in charge in October, 1646, when an additional stipend was ordered; Plund. Mins. Accts. i, 38. No minister's name is given in the earlier order on p. 34. 'Erastus, son to Mr. James Smith, minister,' was baptized 9 August, 1646. Other ministers are named in the Warrington registers.
105. 'Mr. Yates came in by the quest and presentation of Gilbert Ireland, esq., who claims to be patron and donor thereof, and also by the free election of the congregation there; and that the said Mr. Yates is a man of good life, and howbeit he doth disassent from and not submit to the present government, and did neglect to observe and keep the days of humiliation and thanksgiving enjoined by the present parliament'; Commonwealth Ch. Survey (1650), 51. In the church registers is the entry: '1646, Dec. Robert Yates, minister.' As 'pastor of the church at Warrington' he signed the Harmonious Consent at the beginning of 1648. His opposition to the Engagement led to his trial for treason; he was sentenced to death, but pardoned and restored to his benefice. At the Restoration, while loyal to the king, he could not agree to everything in the Prayer Book, and so was expelled from the rectory in 1662, and in the following year sent to prison. He died in 1678, being buried at Warrington 28 October. See Beamont, op. cit. 74–80.
106. Samuel Ellison is no doubt the same who was appointed to Hale Chapel in 1659 on the nomination of Gilbert Ireland; Plund. Mins. Accts. ii, 300. He was a son of Henry Ellison of Wavertree; educated at Woolton School and St. John's Coll. Camb. which he entered in 1652; Admissions, i, 106.
107. Joseph Ward of Emmanuel Coll. Camb. took the B.A. degree in 1661. He was 'conformable' in 1689; Kenyon MSS. 230.
108. Of Queens' Coll. Camb.; M.A. 1677; incorporated at Oxf. 1677; master of the Boteler School, 1689; one of the four royal preachers, 1682; Stratford's Visit. List. James Holt presented as guardian of John Atherton, a minor.
109. See the account of rectors of Sefton.
110. Educated at Brasenose Coll. Oxf.; M.A. 1723; Foster, Alumni Oxon. In his time Keble's lease expired. He was a friend of John Byrom.
111. See the account of vicars of Leigh.
112. Educated at Jesus Coll. Oxf.; M.A. 1752; also master of Warrington school; Foster, Alumni. He had been a master at Great Crosby School and curate of the chapel there. See Beamont, op. cit. 104–14. He translated Juvenal and Persius, and was author of some educational works; and he also published sermons, one volume going under the name of his predecessor—Farington's Sermons; Trans. Hist. Soc. xxii, 120. He has a place in the Dict. Nat. Biog.
113. Educated at Brasenose Coll. Oxf.; M.A. 1803; rector of South Thoresby, Lincs. 1807 to 1852; perpetual curate of Penwortham and Longton, 1831 to 1852, when he died; Foster, Alumni. He was a relative of Lady Lilford. His attempt to make the head-mastership of the school a sinecure for the rector was defeated after an appeal to the court of Chancery; Beamont, 116.
114. Son of the patron. Educated at St. John's Coll. Camb.; M.A. 1826; ministered to the sick during the cholera epidemic of 1833; bishop of Sodor and Man, 1854. See Beamont, 122–6.
115. Educated at St. John's Coll. Camb.; M.A. 1831; incumbent of Christ church, Poplar, 1841. He rebuilt the church.
116. Son of Daniel Willis of Halsnead; educated at Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf.; M.A. 1873; vicar of All Saints', Wellingborough, 1872; hon. canon of Liverpool, 1895.
117. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 219.
118. Clergy List (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), 14.
119. It is the only note of this kind in the deanery.
120. These details are from the visitation lists preserved in the Chest. Dioc. Reg.
121. Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), x, 191. There had been no perambulations and no monitions for collectors. A register chest and book were wanting also. The mention of the 'houseling board' in 1580 (see above) shows that the altars had been taken away.
122. See notes above on Yates and Owen.
123. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 219. Robert Hall was chaplain; the income was £4 10s. 6d. The same chaplain remained to the end; in 1548 he was described as 'of the age of seventy years, a man decrepit and lame of his limbs.' The revenue was derived from various small tenements in Warrington and the neighbourhood; Raines, Chant. (Chet. Soc.), i, 59–61. He had a bequest of books from Randle Pole in 1545, including the Pica, which was 'to remain in Master Boteler's chapel at Warrington'; ibid. p. 60 note. That the chantry was of ancient date is at least suggested by the record of 'land called "St. Mary's Land" belonging to the church of Warrington,' situate on the Heath in 1465; Warr. in 1465, p. 58. A messuage in Church Street was bequeathed by Katherine Fisher to the maintenance of a chaplain celebrating before the cross in the parish church; ibid. 96, 102. Thus there seems to have been a Rood altar.
124. Valor Eccl. loc. cit. The founders were Sir Thomas Boteler and Dame Margaret, widow of the late Sir Thomas, and his executors; also Sir Richard Bold and other feoffees. The schoolmaster-chaplain was Richard Taylor; of the gross income of £12 2s. 9½d. a distribution to the poor of 42s. 9d. was made on Sir Thomas's anniversary. This chantry is not mentioned in the text of Canon Raines' book, loc. cit., but in the notes he gives extracts from the will and the foundation deed. The latter provided elaborately for the anniversary to be kept on 27 April, 'for the souls of the said Sir Thomas and his ancestors and his heirs, and for the soul of Dame Margaret Boteler after her decease.' Eight priests and ten singing clerks or scholars were to say the office and mass for the dead; the bellman was to announce the celebration through the streets, and the clerk was 'to cause three long peals to be rungen with all the bells in the steeple except the sanctus bell.' Robert Wright in 1548 had an endowment of 21s. 8d. a year as 'stipendiary' priest of Sir Thomas Boteler's foundation; Raines, ii, 251.
125. Valor Eccl. loc. cit. The gross rental was £7, out of which 20s. was distributed in alms at the anniversary of the founder, and 12s. 4d. paid in rents. William Caterbank was the chaplain in 1535, and Robert Halghton or Aughton paid first fruits on appointment in 1536; Lancs. and Ches. Recs. ii, 407. In 1547 the royal commissioners found him celebrating and distributing according to his foundation. This chantry had a chalice and eight vestments. Its lands were at Norton in Staffs. and Great and Little Worley; Raines, op. cit. 63–5. In 1553 Robert Aughton had a pension of £5; he died about that time; Ch. Gds. 59. For a grant of St. Anne's Chantry see Pat. 31 Eliz. pt. vii. The Mascy chapel, of unknown foundation, has been treated of by Mrs. A. C. Tempest in Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), v, 97–104.
126. For an account of the school see article on 'Schools.'
127. The prior in 1400 complained that one Thomas Graner of Manchester had not properly constructed a horologium for him at Warrington; Pal. of Lanc. Plea R. 1, m. 25b.
128. Pat. 32 Hen. VIII, pt. iv (18 June, 1540).
129. For the history see 'Religious Houses'; also W. Beamont, Warr. Friary (Chet. Soc.). Accounts of the glass, tombs, &c., have been published by Messrs. Beamont and Rylands (1878).
130. Beamont, Warr. Ch. Notes, 131.
131. Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), v, 175.
132. The following details are from the End. Char. Rep. for Warrington 1899, in which is reprinted the report of 1828.
133. The income of the grammar school is about £2,000.
134. This charity has an income of £1,500 from real estate and £536 from investments; the income exceeds the expenditure by over £300 a year, so that the fund is not so beneficial to the town as it might be. The first acquisition of land was the Gallows Acre in Warrington in 1674; on this the school was built.
135. See 63–4 of the Report.
136. Brownfield's Almshouses were established by the will of John Brownfield, 1697, augmented by his wife and John Goulborne. Four houses were in 1828 supposed to belong to this charity. Part of the endowment was afterwards lost, the overseers being unable to identify the property on which the rent was charged; and in 1874 the houses, having become ruinous, were pulled down, and the site was afterwards sold. The proceeds were invested, and an annual income of 20s. 4d. is distributed by the rector among poor widows. Anne Royle, by will in 1731, left her cottage in Church Street to the rector that he might distribute the rent to poor housekeepers. In 1828 the house was found to be dilapidated. The last rent known to have been paid was in 1831; after which the rector is said to have sold the premises, and nothing further is known. Joseph Daintith in 1787 bequeathed £80 a year for the Sunday school which he had established, and a building was erected on the north side of Church Street. After several changes owing to the erection of other schools and altered circumstances the buildings were sold and the charity is represented by a capital of £388 consols, the income being applied by the rector in the purchase of Bibles, &c., for the use of the Sunday school. Shaw Thewlis by will in 1884 left £500 for the benefit of the aged poor; the income, £14 2s. 4d., is employed in the purchase of blankets for distribution to poor persons, chiefly widows. James Morris left in 1885 a net sum of £800 for the benefit of the poor attending the parish church, and Thomas Morris in 1897 left £500 for blankets for women over sixty years of age. The Ladies' School of Industry, the gymnasium and reading-room, and the Charles Middleton Scholarships and the School of Art are also noticed in the Report.
137. Besides the school there was formerly an accumulated poor's stock of £63 10s., but this was lost by the failure of Thomas Claughton in 1823. Gaskell's charity, of unknown origin, has a stock of £20, the interest of which is expended in clothing, &c., for the poor; it is now under the control of the parish council.
138. Thomas Clare in 1730 left an acre called the Town-field in Glazebrook for the benefit of the poor. In 1828 it was let at a rent of £9, and this sum was distributed by the agent of Charles Tempest, trustee. This arrangement continued until 1869, when trustees were appointed by the Char. Com. The present income, £6 10s., is spent on cotton cloth, which is given to about seventy poor persons. The Hon. Elizabeth Wilson-Patten, daughter of Lord Winmarleigh, in 1896 gave a room, with an endowment of £15 10s. for maintenance, to be used as club-room, reading-room, or the like, for the education or recreation of the people of the township.
139. By an enclosure award in 1849 an allotment of 4 acres of mossland was assigned to the labouring poor. A rentcharge of £3 10s. was payable, but does not seem to have become operative. The land is divided into forty-eight allotments, let to poor persons at a rent of 6d. each. By the same award Martinscroft Green was reserved as a recreation ground.
140. There was in 1786 a poor's stock of £220, the accumulation of gifts made by Peter Legh and others at various times. This seems for a long time to have been lent to the owner of Houghton, and in 1823 was in the hands of Thomas Claughton. He failed, and only £10 was recovered; this amount was spent on clothing for the poor, and the charity became extinct.
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Home Resources Ask a CPA Small Business Entity Structure Entity Choice What Are the Benefits of Converting To An S Corporation
What Are the Benefits of Converting To An S Corporation
by Jeff Heimler, CPA
What are the benefits of converting a sole proprietorship into an S corporation?
There are many benefits of converting a sole proprietorship into an S corporation. Generally the most common benefits are limited liability, reduction of self-employment tax, and no double tax on profits.
An S corporation provides some limited liability to its shareholders so that although creditors may come after the corporation, they cannot come after the shareholders individually. This means that the shareholders¹ personal assets such as their cars and houses are generally not at risk. Another benefit is the reduction of self-employment tax. This benefit is available only to an S corporation since distributions are free of self- employment tax. Only wages are subject to self-employment tax.
Finally, the S corporation only has a single level of taxation. This is in contrast to a C corporation that has two levels of taxation. The first level is a tax on the corporate level profits. The second tax occurs when the corporation then pays a salary to the owners, and they have to pay tax on that money. In an S corporation, there is generally no corporate level tax and, therefore, only a single level of taxation.
To become an S corporation, you can have no more than 75 shareholders, and you must file Form 2553 with the Internal Revenue Service.
Jeff Heimler is principal of Heimler & Associates, CPA. He can be reached at (949) 252-8192(949) 252-8192.
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If you ever speak to any adult who has ever made the decision to go back to school to pursue or complete a college degree, no doubt the word "fear" will be mentioned. The fear of paying tuition; the fear of having enough time; the fear of math, science or writing; even the fear of finding a parking spot and finding the correct classroom can cause uneasiness for those who are returning to school after a long hiatus.
When Karla Bennetts enrolled at Central Community College to pursue a degree, it had been 37 years since she had been in school. Plus, she worked full-time and had four children still living at home. Nevertheless, the degree was necessary for her employment with Families CARE, a nonprofit organization that provides services to parents who have children with emotional, behavioral or mental health challenges.
One of Bennetts' fears was realized early on when she took her pre-enrollment assessment. While she scored high on reading and writing, her math scores were low enough that she required some foundational work. However, the help she needed was right there.
"I literally had not had math since 1974," said Bennetts. "The professor that helped me, I sure wish I could recall his name, was great and he broke it down to where I could understand algebra. I was able to pass the two math classes at the college level that I needed."
In addition to the math professor, Bennetts fondly remembers Joyce Meinecke and Janice Hill as her favorite professors.
"They took the time to get to know us as students, made sure the materials were presented in a way that was understandable yet exciting," said Bennetts. "I was never bored in a lecture."
Bennetts said Hill even stepped up when it came to graduation time this past May. Bennetts was unable to attend CCC's commencement because her daughter was graduating from high school on the same day. However, Bennetts has a tangible reminder of her graduation thanks to Hill.
"Janice Hill let me go in her office and try on a cap and gown that she had and took a picture of me, so my kids and grandkids have a picture of me in the cap and gown," said Bennetts.
Even in non-academic matters, Bennetts' fears were eased. Such was the case when she changed her major. Bennetts was walked through the process of making the necessary changes and it turned out to be a fairly simple process. She admits that changing majors left her with a few courses that she probably would not have needed, but she enjoyed them anyway.
Perhaps, the thing that was most helpful to Bennetts in earning her degree was the ability to take online courses and work at her own pace.
"Because I had kids at home, I was able to get them to bed and then have quiet time at home to focus on my studies," said Bennetts. "A lot of my friends thought I was nuts for adding one more thing to my plate, but the online classes gave me something that I was doing for myself. So, it was actually a self-care for me in the midst of a crazy, busy life. I looked forward to that time."
Today, as the executive director of Families CARE, Bennetts implements the concepts she learned in improving the work environment for her staff and others people she works with.
"The business classes I took were all about supervisory and management skills. Because I got that certification, they have really added a lot into how I communicate with my staff and keep them encouraged, as well as my communication with other professionals around the state that I have to collaborate with," said Bennetts.
Bennetts' experience at CCC has set a great example for her children and grandchildren because they can see what an education can do for them and that they too can earn a degree. Additionally, Bennetts is now in a better position to help them with their school work.
"Prior to going to college, I couldn't help any of my kids over sixth grade with their math, and now I can sit down and help them with their algebra problems," said Bennetts.
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CEN AND CENELEC SIGNED UNECE’S DECLARATION ON GENDER RESPONSIVE STANDARDS AND STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT
Brussels - 14 May 2019 - Today Ms Elena Santiago Cid, Director General of CEN and CENELEC, officially signed UNECE’s Declaration on Gender Responsive Standards and Standards Development together with 19 of CEN and CENELECs’ national members. With this signature, CEN and CENELEC pledge to support the creation of gender responsive standards.
The Declaration is the result of the work on the Gender Responsive Standards Initiative that was launched in 2016 by UNECE, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, through its Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP6). It aims to assist national standards bodies and standards developing organizations in identifying actions to support the creation of gender responsive standards. These include improving the gender balance of participants in standards development; ensuring that the content of standards takes into account gender specific sensitivities; and monitoring standards implementation to achieve gender balance.
By signing the Declaration, the CEN and CENELEC community is proud to join other national and international standardization bodies in making the standard development process more gender-responsive, and help achieve Goal 5 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, ‘Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls’. CEN and CENELECs’ commitments include affirming the Declaration, creating and proactively implementing a gender action plan and tracking progress by collecting and sharing data, success stories and best practices.
“CEN and CENELEC recognise the influential role of standards in our society and believe that it is essential to adopt a gender lens in the standards development process on equal competences and profiles”, Elena Santiago Cid, CEN and CENELEC’s Director General, commented. “To enable better market acceptance, we should work together for gender responsive standards”.
A collective commitment for gender equality
Together with CEN and CENELEC, further 19 National Standardization Organizations, members of CEN and CENELEC, individually signed the Declaration, pledging their own commitments. The list of co-signers includes: ASI (Austria), CYS (Cyprus), DIN (Germany), IST (Iceland), NSAI (Ireland), CEI and UNI (Italy), LST (Lithuania), ILNAS (Luxembourg), MCCAA (Malta), NEC and NEN (The Netherlands), SN (Norway), IPQ (Portugal), ISRSM (North Macedonia), ISS (Serbia), UNE (Spain), SIS (Sweden), and BSI (United Kingdom). Signatures to the Declaration will remain open, in order to allow all willing national, regional and international standard development bodies to join. Additional national standardization organizations are invited to join by making their commitments, thus increasing the UNECE Declaration impact and the reach of gender responsive standards.
The Declaration was launched at the Opening Ceremony which took place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva today, 14th May, in the presence of Olga Alvayerova, the United Nations’ Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UNECE. Elena Santiago Cid represented CEN and CENELEC during a high-level panel discussion dedicated to the role of women in standards development. The full programme of the Opening Ceremony can be found here.
Read the full text of the Declaration
Watch Elena Santiago Cid announce CEN and CENELEC’s signature
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Budget Impact on Defence Procurement
by David Perry
Frontline Defence
The Trudeau government’s second federal budget surprised those watching the defence file. Not only was there no news for the Defence Policy Review (months overdue at this point), but there was a huge (and poorly explained) shift in the funds available to budgetarily account for Capital equipment and infrastructure purchases. In all, the defence section of the March 2017 budget sent a negative signal. Defence officials have subsequently explained though that the shifts in funding announced in the budget have laid the groundwork for the Defence Policy Review by resetting the department’s funding arrangements.
Ahead of budget day, the government had signalled that decisions related to the Defence Policy Review might not be revealed until the fall fiscal update. The actual budget document stated that the government was “considering the funding that will be required to implement the Defence Policy Review,” and that “A key objective will be to provide the military with stable and predictable budget.” While not mentioning anything specific with respect to funding, the budget concluded its defence section by indicating that “A comprehensive overview of long-term funding for the Department of National Defence will be provided when the policy is released in the coming months.” If this comes to pass, it will be an unusual arrangement. Over the last 20 years, the general thrust of the last three defence policies, in 1994, 2005 and 2008 were provided by the budgets that preceded them. If the government meant its statement that this new policy will have stable and predictable funding, and real dollars will be assigned after the fact, this will be a first for Canadian defence policy.
The bigger news in the last budget was an announcement that $8.48 billion in funding set aside for Capital procurement is being shifted out from DND’s allocations out to 2035, and moved out to a time period beyond 2035. The funds that are being shifted are part of DND’s ‘accrual space’ – the fiscal construct established by the Department of Finance for DND as part of the Canada First Defence Strategy – an allocation of Canada’s fiscal framework to account for depreciation of DND’s capital assets. Under accrual accounting practices, instead of the full amount of any annual spending counting in full against the defence budget, capital assets are amortized over their expected lifespan, and only an annual depreciation charge is counted against DND’s budget. Key to this funding arrangement is that unless DND actually spends money on something, it doesn’t need this budget room. But unlike most other departmental budgets, if the department can’t spend the money by the end of the year, it can move it to another. Unlike other parts of the defence budget, there isn’t a limit to how much unused funding can be moved to another year.
This isn’t the first time this has happened, as the budgets in 2012, 2014 and 2016 all re-profiled some of the same funding, albeit much less of it – $3.5, $3.1 and $3.7 billion respectively. In the past, the movement of funds occurred over a much shorter time period, however, the funds moved in the 2017 budget have been moved out as far as the 2070s (and no, that isn’t a typo!). Cumulatively, a very large sum of budget funds for Capital has now been moved multiple years into the future – but it’s difficult to tell how much is gone, and how far, because public documents don’t itemize money moved more than once, nor specify to which years the money was moved.
According to DND’s own analysis, between 2005 and 2035, a total of $9.3 billion dollars has been removed from the accrual space, and shifted out to future years. Of that total, it says $5 billion of this was funding never actually allocated to any specific project, and had been allocated to the department to account for unforecasted requirements or changing Capital plans; the other $4 billion worth of shifts is the result of unanticipated delays to DND’s projects. The list of project delays that contributed to this is fairly long, and the reason for this is that DND doesn’t start to depreciate an asset until it actually enters service. And almost all of DND’s major purchases in the last decade have not reached their Initial Operating Capability on schedule. So the C17, C130J, and Chinook projects contributed to this reprofiling, as did several infrastructure projects, while the largest source of unused funds was for the Canadian Surface Combatant.
It is also important to understand that, in conjunction with this shift, a significant set of changes will be made to DND’s funding arrangements and the rules that govern them. Historically, DND has actually had two separate Capital budgets, the aforementioned accrual space, and its ‘A-base’ Vote 5. Ahead of the DPR this divide will disappear, leaving DND with only the accrual space, with its existing rules. As well, unlike at present, the accrual space will only be used to deprecate Capital equipment and infrastructure. The In-Service Support costs for equipment will henceforth be funded by the additional 1 percent escalator that DND began receiving this fiscal year.
So, what to make of all of this? The lack of funding for the defence review is hard to interpret as anything but a bad signal, because the budget before a defence policy has historically set the policy’s fiscal direction. Similarly, the shifting of all of this accrual space is difficult to interpret as a good news story. Yes, DND will theoretically retain the money, and it is being moved to periods in time when DND did not have enough of it. But this is set to happening decades beyond this government’s mandate. To think back to the last defence policy, the 2008 Canada First Defence Strategy, the fiscal underpinning of that document was eroded within 20 months of its publication by an operating budget freeze in the 2010 budget. If a promise of long term, stable funding can’t last two years, it’s impossible to think it can last a half century. The money that’s being moved could have been used in the near term, but DND wasn’t able to, which is truly regrettable.
On the other hand, by making the changes to its funding arrangements, the department will gain some extra flexibility to fund its currently unfunded projects, and better assurance of funding for In-Service Support. Is it also possible that moving to a clearer and simpler funding structure, will make it easier (and hopefully faster) to make decisions about future projects?
David Perry is a defence analyst with CGAI.
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7 Sure Marks of a False Teacher
Search through the long history of the Christian church and you’ll see that false teachers have been present at every time and in every era. They were in the early church, the medieval church, the Reformation church, the Puritan church, and of course they are in today’s church. They’ve been a plague since the beginning and they are a plague today. But what’s interesting is that while the times and circumstances may have changed, their methods really haven’t. Whether you’re …
How Jesus Called Out False Teachers and Deadly Doctrine
It’s a good time to be a false teacher and to espouse deadly doctrine. It seems that today’s most brazen heretic will be granted a hearing and, in all likelihood, a book deal. Novelty is appealing, orthodoxy boring. It’s the ones who sound the warning and issue the challenge that bear the risk—the risk of being labelled “haters.” There’s more patience for those who smilingly subvert the truth than for those who boldly defend it. Conviction is a sign of arrogance, …
Deadly Doctrines: Facing Evil Like Snakes and Doves
Since its earliest days, the church has been plagued by false teachers and deadly doctrine. Never has there been a period of rest, a time when Christians could relax their guard. Satan has opposed the church since the day of its founding, and he will continue to oppose her until the day of his destruction. Naturally, then, Paul was seriously concerned about false teachers and deadly doctrine, warning of them in almost every one of his letters. As he comes …
Deadly Doctrines: The Pattern and Protection
We have learned that the church of every age is plagued by false teachers and their deadly doctrine. We have met seven of those false teachers and seen the devastation they bring. We have identified five tests we can apply to any doctrine to determine whether it is false or true. But this leaves us with some important questions: How does a church come to reject sound doctrine? How do we guard ourselves against false teachers and their deadly doctrines? …
The Five Tests of False Doctrine
T.D. Jakes says that God eternally exists in three manifestations, not three persons. Greg Boyd says God knows some aspects of the future, but that other future events are outside of his knowledge. Creflo Dollar says because we are created in the image of God, we are little gods. Mormonism says God revealed new scripture to Joseph Smith that supersedes the Bible. Roman Catholicism says we are justified by faith, but not by faith alone. This world is a murky …
7 False Teachers in the Church Today
The history of Christ’s church is inseparable from the history of Satan’s attempts to destroy her. While difficult challenges have arisen from outside the church, the most dangerous have always been from within. For from within arise the false teachers, the peddlers of error who masquerade as teachers of truth. False teachers take on many forms, custom-crafted to times, cultures, and contexts. Here are seven of them you will find carrying out their deceptive, destructive work in the church today. …
False Teachers and Deadly Doctrines
For the past few years, lists of Christian bestsellers have been topped by a book claiming fresh revelation from Jesus Christ. Before that, they were overrun by books describing people’s purported visits to heaven. And before the heaven tourism fad, there was the best-selling novel that reframed the doctrine of the Trinity. Meanwhile, the largest church in America is led by a man whose platitudes are indistinguishable from fortune cookies. But it’s not just authors and church leaders who are …
Lessons I’ve Learned From False Teachers
A few months ago I began a short series called “The False Teachers.” I wanted to look back through church history to meet some of the people who have undermined the church at various points. We looked at historical figures like Joseph Smith who founded Mormonism and Ellen G. White who led the Seventh Day Adventists into prominence, and we looked at contemporary figures like Benny Hinn, the prominent faith healer, and T.D. Jakes, who has tampered with the doctrine of the …
The False Teachers: Creflo Dollar
A few months ago I set out on a series of articles through which I am scanning the history of the church—from its earliest days all the way to the present time—to examine some of Christianity’s most notable false teachers and to examine the false doctrine each of them represents. Along the way we have visited such figures as Joseph Smith (Mormonism), Ellen G. White (Adventism), Norman Vincent Peale (Positive Thinking), and Benny Hinn (Faith Healing). Today we turn to one of the chief …
The False Teachers: T.D. Jakes
A few months ago I set out on a series of articles through which I am scanning the history of the church—from its earliest days all the way to the present time—to examine some of Christianity’s most notable false teachers and to examine the false doctrine each of them represents. Along the way we have visited such figures as Joseph Smith (Mormonism), Ellen G. White (Adventism), Norman Vincent Peale (Positive Thinking), and Benny Hinn (Faith Healing). Today we turn to a man who pastors …
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Polystyrene/Expandable Polystyrene (PS/EPS) (Tradename: Styrofoam) a petroleum-based plastic, gained popularity because it is lightweight and offers good insulation and is now so commonly used in India, especially in the takeaway food industry, that people assume it is 100% safe.
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Besides health issues, polystyrene is also a direct threat whose detrimental impact on the environment is huge. The manufacturing process releases harmful compounds such as Benzene, polluting our air, water and land. The unused polystyrene ends up as debris in our waterways, choking marine life in all its forms. It can take 1000’s of years for this harmful product to decompose and there is currently no viable method of recycling. Way back in 1986, EPA reported the polystyrene manufacturing process as the fifth largest creator of hazardous waste.
As a result of these adverse effect on human health and environment, several cities across the United States, have taken the bold step of eliminating the use of polystyrene completely in food packaging. Of course, the move will impact businesses, but the people and administration of these communities have decided to give precedence to people’s health over certain business.
India should join these progressive communities. I urge the Indian government, in particular Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ban the use of polystyrene food and drink containers across the country. The Prime Minister has again and again stated that “Caring for the environment is a part of our culture. Let us leave a better planet for the future”. Now it’s time for our bold and decisive PM to prove his intent with actions.
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Two Great Nations Convene to Discuss the Future of the World’s Children: U.S.-China Collaboration on Early Childhood Development
Education Plus Development
Tamar Manuelyan Atinc and Emily Gustafsson-Wright Monday, November 25, 2013
The world has made great strides in expanding access to basic education. But as more information becomes available about the poor quality of the education that many children receive while in school, attention has shifted to improving learning outcomes. With an enhanced focus on learning outcomes comes an increasing recognition of the importance of a good start in life. For many poor children around the world, the die is cast in terms of their future potential by the time they enter school. Poor children come to school without the requisite tools to learn and are at a significant disadvantage compared to their wealthier peers—a disadvantage that affects their ability to learn while in school and persists into adulthood through their lower capacity to find and retain gainful employment. An increasing body of evidence demonstrates the benefits of a hospitable early childhood environment and the near irreversible losses that result from its absence. Yet investments in early childhood development (ECD) remain limited, piecemeal and often of a boutique nature, supported primarily by donor agencies or nongovernmental organizations. For policymakers, it should be a source of dismay that so much productive potential is lost, especially when there are known interventions that would expand capacities of children—especially of poor children—by improving their school readiness, their performance while in school, and their earnings in the labor market. For these reasons, the Center for Universal Education at Brookings is ramping up its engagement on early childhood development.
Last week on November 20, Brookings hosted an event together with the China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) to start a series of conversations about the importance of ECD and explore the possibilities for collaboration between the US and China on a topic that is high on the policy agenda for both countries. Madame Liu Yandong, vice premier of the People’s Republic of China, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, former U.S. secretary of state, gave compelling speeches on the importance of ECD programs and their potential for achieving long-term global impact. Secretary Clinton made a call for including early childhood development in the post-2015 development framework. It was evident from the event that while U.S. and Chinese policymakers may find themselves holding different positions on many important topics, ECD is a topic that brings the two countries together. There is much to share between the two nations but also much to learn for the global community from the experiences of both countries as they navigate through the challenging tasks of forging and maintaining political support for the agenda and addressing the multiple implementation bottlenecks to extend quality services to all children who need them.
The event featured two panel discussions with leading Chinese, American and international experts on ECD who addressed ECD interventions as an investment and discussed ways to further U.S.-China collaboration on ECD. Several common themes emerged from the discussions from the Chinese and American sides alike. To scale up ECD such that all children are able to develop to their full potential, there are four main areas that the global community should consider. First, there is a need to conduct more operational research to guide program content, mix and delivery models. This point was raised by Professor Larry Aber of New York University, Dr. Santiago Levy of the Inter-American Development Bank as well as Dr. Lu Mai of CDRF. The experts noted that not only must the research be done, but it needs to be made widely available and easily interpretable so that policymakers and advocates of ECD are able to access it. This will require the establishment and strengthening of learning networks and opportunities for exchange from both North to South and South to South. Second, the experts argued that political support must be garnered through strengthened advocacy for ECD. Former World Bank President James Wolfensohn stressed the critical need to place ECD on the global agenda as an imperative issue—one of economic stability and one that should be front and center on the Post-2015 agenda. Dr. Levy brought important insights from the Latin America region, highlighting the relatively high levels of government spending on the aging population as opposed to the future generation (a perverse outcome given the high payoff for equity and the productivity of investing early). Third, panelists highlighted the need for more innovative thinking when it comes to both the finance and delivery of quality ECD services. Robert Dugger of Ready Nation, an organization that supports research and mobilizes business leaders to support early childhood in the United States, described the important role of the private sector in supporting ECD. He brought insights from U.S. experiences of social impact investing for ECD that could be replicated in China and other countries. Finally, there was some discussion about the importance of gathering data related to ECD outcomes and quality. Chen Chunming from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Education in China, Jiang Jin, respectively described important nutrition and education interventions in China and the useful lessons learned from collecting data on the outcomes resulting from these interventions. To be able to track progress on child development and monitor the quality of services, collecting data is crucial.
From the moving speeches of the stateswomen, to the striking numbers quoted by the researchers and the success stories shared by hard-working government officials, there was little doubt as the event came to a close that what happens in early childhood greatly shapes a child’s life chances as well as the productivity potential of communities, countries and the world as a whole. It is time for global and national leaders to put ECD in the place it deserves to be—high on the list of priority investments. The Center for Universal Education will be focusing on some of the important issues raised at this event, hoping to make strides to improve the situation of young children and future generations around the world. Stay tuned for upcoming blog posts in which we will continue to discuss the future of ECD and delve deeper into some of these issues as we explore the potential for moving this agenda forward.
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Brainstorm : detective stories from the world of neurology
By: O'Sullivan, Dr. Suzanne
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2018.
'I loved it. She is in my view the best science writer around - a true descendant of Oliver Sacks' Sathnam Sanghera, author of The Boy with the TopknotThe brain is the most complex structure in the universe. In Brainstorm the Wellcome Prize-winning author of It's All in Your Head uncovers the most eye-opening symptoms medicine has to offer. `Powerfully life-affirming... Brainstorm is testament to O'Sullivan's unshowy clarity of thought and her continued marvelling at the mysteries of the brain' Guardian Brainstorm examines the stories of people whose symptoms are so strange even their doctor struggles to know how to solve them.
A man who sees cartoon characters running across the room; a teenager who one day arrives home with inexplicably torn clothes; a girl whose world turns all Alice in Wonderland; another who transforms into a ragdoll whenever she even thinks about moving.
The brain is the most complex structure in the universe, and neurologists must puzzle out life-changing diagnoses from the tiniest of clues - it's the ultimate in medical detective work.
In this riveting book, one of the UK's leading neurologists takes you with her as she follows the trail of her patients' symptoms: feelings of deja vu lead us to a damaged hippocampus; spitting and fidgeting to the right temporal lobe; fear of movement to a brain tumour; a missed heart beat to the limbic system. It's a journey that will open your eyes to the unfathomable intricacies of the brain, and the infinite variety of human capacity and experience.
MJC Diseases & disorders, MJN Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, PDZ Popular science, VFD Popular medicine & health, VSP Popular psychology
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Vets remove 5kg in coins from sea turtle
The green sea turtle had been finding it hard to swim normally because of the weight
07 March 2017 - 06:02 Juarawee Kittisilpa
Thai veterinarians on Monday removed 915 coins from a 25-year-old sea turtle which had been swallowing items thrown into her pool for good luck, eventually limiting her ability to swim. The coins and other objects removed from the turtle named Omsin - piggy bank in Thai - weighed 5 kg (11 lb). The turtle itself weighed 59 kg (130 lb). The green sea turtle, living at a conservation center in Sriracha, Chonburi, east of the Thai capital of Bangkok, had been finding it hard to swim normally because of the weight. The vets said they believed the seven-hour-long operation was the world's first such surgery. "We think it will take about a month to ensure she will fully recover," said Nantarika Chansue, of Chulalongkorn University's veterinary science faculty, adding that the turtle would need six more months of physical therapy. There was no immediate estimate of the value of the coins, some of them foreign and many corroded. - Reuters
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What Does Levi Sanders Think About His Dad's Campaign? Here's What We Know About The Silent Son
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It's not unusual for presidential candidates to trot out their children — whether young or grown — on the campaign trail in a bid to seem more "approachable," "likable," and "relatable" to the greater American public. But the relationship between Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and his 46-year-old son Levi Sanders has been intriguing reporters since the elder Sanders announced his candidacy in 2015. Just who is Bernie Sanders' only biological child, and what does he think about his father's campaign?
Sanders hasn't talked much about son Levi while on the campaign trail, nor does the Vermont senator use his wife as a political trophy or a mouthpiece to tell strange newlywed stories about purchasing 100 cans of soup. Sanders is strictly politics and tends to stay mum about his personal life.
Yet in recent months, Levi Sanders has been increasingly appearing alongside his self-identified Democratic socialist father, notably at the Sanders' victory speech following the New Hampshire primary. His son's growing presence is spurring articles exploring Levi Sanders' role as an integral player who never called his father "dad." (Thanks to People magazine, we also know that Bernie Sanders is a "fun grandpa.")
Earlier this year, Levi Sanders spoke positively of his father's campaign platform to The New York Times. "He [Bernie Sanders] is someone who gives hope that things can change," Levi Sanders said. "I could go on and on."
Other than that, it's hard to find direct quotes about how Levi Sanders feels about his father's campaign. Instead, the younger Sanders shows who his father really is through anecdotes from his childhood. As the child of Bernie Sanders and Susan Campbell Mott, who were never married, Levi Sanders had an atypical relationship with his father — or, at least, a relationship that was forward-thinking at the time.
Levi Sanders told People in an interview in January:
When I was a little kid, I started with B. Then it was Ber and then Bern and now it's Bernard. Or the Bernster. I've never called him Bernie. And I never have called him Dad. Even when I was six years old, I thought it was childish. He was a friend, not an authoritarian.
Although Sanders and Mott broke up not long after their son's birth, the two remained amicable. According to The New York Times, Sanders remained close to Levi Sanders, and his son became a "constant witness" to his political activity, beginning with his first run for political office in the early 1970s. We can only guess that Levi Sanders endorsed his dad's campaign — and political life — from the start.
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Can You Stream The Billboard Music Awards? Here Are Ways To Watch The Night’s Big Moments
By Allison Piwowarski
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Let's paint a picture. It's Monday morning, you're getting coffee at work, and your hip coworker says, "Hey did you catch The Billboard Music Awards last night?" You're going to want to say "Yes, and I live tweeted the entire thing, you should follow me," right? In case you can't watch the show live on Sunday, there's still hope, because you'll be able to stream the huge Billboard Music Awards moments online and follow what is happening on the red carpet through a live stream on multiple platforms. Because let's be honest, if you don't see the "Bad Blood" video live, did you even see it at all?
Unfortunately, there isn't a set live stream for the entire show provided by The Billboard Music Awards. But maybe that is for the best, because you'll be able to skip the down moments and all of the boring speeches that are inevitable in a three hour show. But just because there isn't a live stream of the show, there are definitely other ways to keep updated on what happens at The Billboard Music Awards as they happen. Here are other ways to stay in the know with the show (Twitter will have no idea you're not watching it live).
Red Carpet Live Stream
The two-hour live red carpet pre-show will be available for streaming on multiple platforms. In addition to watching live on TV, you can follow the red carpet pre-show on Yahoo Live, Billboard's website, and ABC.com. During the pre-show there will be three live performances by Natalie La Rose, Andy Grammer, and MKTO.
Watch Videos On Billboard
Your best bet for highly talked about moments will be Billboard.com and BillboardMusicAwards.com. By highly talked about moments, I'm referring to Taylor Swift's world premiere of "Bad Blood," although a simple Google search will probably do the job, too.
Follow Along On Twitter
Whenever a huge award show like this happens, everyone from your old babysitter to high school soccer teammates become comedians on Twitter. If you want to keep up-to-date, Billboard Music Awards and other news outlets will be tweeting winners and big moments that occur throughout the night.
Follow Chrissy Teigen & Ludacris While You're At It
The Billboard Music Awards are hosted by Chrissy Teigen and Ludacris this year, which is a major plus for those that can't watch but want to follow along. Why? Because these two are very active on social media and are sure to keep fans tuned in to behind-the-scenes moments.
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14 cars damaged by BB or pellet shots in Aurora
By Megan Jones
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Sep 27, 2018 | 12:15 PM
Fourteen vehicles were damaged by BB or pellet shots Wednesday night or early Thursday morning on the near east, near southeast and west sides of Aurora.
All of the vehicles had at least one of its windows shot out while they were parked on the street between approximately 7 p.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday, Aurora police said in a statement.
Police said they believe some, if not all, the incidents are related, but they have no suspect information.
On the near east and near southeast sides damage occurred between 9 and 9:40 p.m. Wednesday when five vehicles were hit in the 800 and 900 blocks of Pearl Street, causing $600 worth of damage.
Also that evening, three vehicles in the 900 block of Front Street and one vehicle in the 900 block of Liberty Street were hit, causing $2,000 worth of damage.
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Between 9 p.m. Wednesday and 5 a.m. Thursday, a vehicle parked in the 1000 block of Liberty Street was hit, causing $200 in damage.
Between 8:30 p.m. Wednesday and 5:35 a.m. Thursday, a vehicle in the 500 block of Kenmore Avenue was hit, causing $500 worth of damage.
On the West Side, between 7 and 11 p.m. Wednesday, single vehicles parked in the 1000 and 1700 blocks of Plum Street were hit, causing $1,200 in damage. Between 11 p.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday, a vehicle in the 500 block of Howard Street was hit and sustained $400 in damage.
Anyone with information is asked to call Aurora Police Investigations at 630-256-5500 or Crime Stoppers at 630-892-1000.
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Child Creativity Lab Gala to Recognize the Best Among Corporate Innovators on January 20
EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES AND WAHOO'S ARE RECIPIENTS OF ORGANIZATION'S CORPORATE CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION LEADERSHIP AWARD
SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA (January 3, 2018) – The Child Creativity Lab, a non-profit organization that fosters the next generation of critical thinkers, problem solvers, innovators, and leaders through hands-on, creativity-enhancing exploration, will honor Edwards Lifesciences and Wahoo’s as its first-ever recipients of the Distinguished Corporate Creativity and Innovation Leadership Award at the organization’s gala on January 20, 2018. The event will take place at the Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center in Anaheim.
The Child Creativity Lab’s programs are all geared towards equipping tomorrow’s leaders with skills that will allow them to successfully navigate the fast-paced and constantly evolving world. In its quest - in 2017 alone - the organization served more than 20,000 children including 70 percent of those considered at-risk or underserved with hands-on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) workshops and activities. They launched this awards program to generate awareness of the need for more STEAM education and to recognize Orange County leaders that demonstrate innovative and industry-disruptive approaches that result in high performance and impact in the marketplace.
“We felt these honorees were deserving of being recognized because they are creative, nimble, and bold and have implemented successful strategies to ensure their organization’s long-term sustainability,” said Peter Chang, executive director of Child Creativity Lab. “These leaders are taking risks that allow them to succeed in their industries and they see change and uncertainty as opportunities. We value these characteristics as examples of what we should be teaching our children in order for them to grow up to be creative and innovative in their respective fields.”
Edwards Lifesciences, a global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring, has been a key contributor to the Orange County community with roots dating back to 1958. Starting out when Miles “Lowell” Edwards began his journey to innovate the first artificial heart valve and then setting up a laboratory in Santa Ana, the company has grown into a global organization, with a presence in over 100 countries and more than 12,000 employees around the world.
“We are honored to receive this award from an inspirational organization that is stimulating innovation in the minds of Orange County’s youth,” said David K. Erickson, vice president, investor relations, at Edwards Lifesciences and Advisory Board Member of Child Creativity Lab. “It is our hope that this work will inspire a new generation of scientists and big thinkers to help address the future needs of our community.”
An equally integral member of the local scene, Wahoo’s has been a dining staple with its fast-casual taco chain for business executives, families and surfers alike launching in Costa Mesa in 1988. With a unique menu that reflected the owners’ – Wing Lam, Eduardo Lee and Mingo Lee - Chinese heritage and experiences living in Brazil and surfing in Baja, today they operate restaurants throughout California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Japan.
Sponsors of the gala include: Allyance, Kapstone, Hyundai Capital, Abbott Vascular, Vans, Fluidmaster, Shaar Legal Group, UPS Asian American Business Resource Group, Professional Plastics, Comprehensive Insurance Services, Selman Chevrolet, Century21/Heidi Twitchell, Radcliffe & Associates, In Memory of Joseph Estrada, Penelope Agosta, White House Catering, Bytelaunch, and The Complete Package.
For more information and to purchase tickets; visit https://tickets.childcreativitylab.org.
ABOUT THE CHILD CREATIVITY LAB
The Child Creativity Lab's mission is to foster the next generation of critical thinkers, problem solvers, innovators, and leaders through hands-on creativity-enhancing exploration. The organization's vision is to inspire children to challenge their comfort levels and thereby raising their potential for personal development and contributions to society. The Child Creativity Lab opened its Depot for Creative Reuse in September of 2015. This facility features a community makerspace that offers an eclectic variety of STEAM-based workshops for children, teens, and educators that are hands-on, purposeful, and yet fun, engaging, and similar in excitement level and entertainment value of jump houses and other “pure-play” amusement centers. The organization also offers STEAM-based educational outreach programs, via the Child Creativity Lab Museum-on-Wheels, to schools, libraries, community events, afterschool programs, churches, and more. For more information, visit www.childcreativitylab.org.
The Child Creativity Lab is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. For general information, visit www.childcreativitylab.org.
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Home People Miklau, Gerome
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Database research with an emphasis on privacy and security; database theory; semi-structured data.
Professor Miklau's research interests are in the area of Database research with an emphasis on security; database theory; semi-structured data. The objective of his research is to enable secure and trustworthy data management in both conventional database systems and distributed environments like the World Wide Web. His work focuses on classical security concerns such as confidentiality, privacy, and integrity of data.
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Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Washington, 2005. Professor Miklau joined the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts as an Assistant Professor in 2005.
Professor Miklau received the 2005 University of Washington William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award, 2006 ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award, and a 2007 NSF CAREER Award.
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Himachal CM announces 5 percent increase in Nazrana of deities
Chief Minister also announced 3 percent Dearness Allowance to the state government employees and pensioners which will be payable from 1 January, 2018
Durgesh October 26, 2018
The week-long International Kullu Dussehra concluded today with great fanfare and enthusiasm. Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, who presided over the concluding ceremony announced to increase the nazrana (honorarium) paid to local deities participating in Kullu Dussehra festival by five percent and distance allowance by 20 percent.
He also announced ten percent increase in remuneration of Bajantaris, who accompany the local deities to the festival besides making provision of Rs. 75,000 for Haripur and Manikaran Dussehra and Rs. 50,000 for Vashisht Dussehra festival.
The Chief Minister also announced 3 percent Dearness Allowance to the state government employees and pensioners which will be payable from 1 January, 2018. It will put additional financial burden of Rs. 200 crores on the state exchequer.
Jai Ram Thakur said that additional funds amounting to Rs. 4.50 crores would be provided for the completion of work on Atal Dussehra Sadan in Kullu and Rs. 4 crores for construction of modern building in the premises of the
office of Deputy Commissioner, Kullu.
He said that Kullu Dussehra festival had been playing a major role in preservation and promotion of the rich culture of the state. This festival had historic, cultural and religious background and it was also famous as tourism, commercial festival in which people from the different corners of the country and abroad participates with great zeal and enthusiasm.
Jai Ram Thakur said that efforts were afoot to develop various places of the Kullu district for tourism activities. The government had taken a decision to connect Bijli Mahadev tourist destination with the rope-way. Under Udan-II project, the major tourist places of the state would be linked with heli-taxi service.
Stressing the need to preserve environment along-with the culture, he appealed to the people of the state to help in maintaining pollution free atmosphere.
The Chief Minister said that keeping in view the loss to the apple crop due to heavy snowfall in Lahaul-Spiti district during last month, the state government would procure apples at a rate of Rs. 20 per kilogram to give respite to the apple growers besides providing subsidy on apple plantation.
He also distributed prizes to the winners of the state and district level folk dance competitions organised by the Language and Culture department during the festival.
Jai Ram Thakur said the state government had been able to raise various issues of the state effectively with the Union government and in a short period of nine months, the state had succeeded in getting financial assistance of around Rs. 9000 crores from the government of India.
Forest Minister Govind Singh Thakur, who is also the Chairman of International Dussehra Committee, MP Ram Swaroop Sharma, MLA Sunder Singh Thakur and former MP Maheshwar Singh also spoke on the occasion.
Deputy Commissioner and Vice Chairman of the festival committee Yunus honoured the Chief Minister and other dignitaries on this occasion.
MLAs Kishori Lal Sagar, Surender Shourie and Jawahar Thakur, Chairman, Milkfed Nihal Chand Sharma, Vice Chairman, HPMC Ram Singh and other prominent persons of the area were also present.
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Lobbyists hit campaign trail
With the midterm elections one week away, K Street lobbyists are taking their powers of persuasion to the campaign trail. Their target audience: voters.
Though they may be more accustomed to trolling the halls of the Capitol or getting stuck on client conference calls discussing legislative strategy, over the next few days, lobbyists plan to employ a different set of skills that include walking door to door, holding campaign signs or driving voters to the polls in major contests around the country.
"I’m ready not to sleep and to wear very comfortable shoes and go wherever they need me," said Dawn Levy O’Donnell, who runs the firm D Squared Tax Strategies.
O’Donnell is heading to Colorado to help the campaign of Sen. Mark Udall, a Democrat who is in a tough race against GOP Rep. Cory Gardner. She went to college at the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus and considers the state a home.
Lobbyists from both parties hit the campaign trail to help their former bosses or other people in their personal and professional networks. Others are returning to their roots or are trying to make a difference for their political party. Plus, it’s a good place to connect with lawmakers and their aides, who have decamped for the campaign trail. Like those congressional staffers, lobbyists, too, must use personal time, vacation or unpaid leave when helping a campaign.
On the other side of the aisle, Josh Holly, a former senior aide on the House Armed Services Committee, is taking time off from his job at the Podesta Group to return to the state where he was born — Kentucky. Sen. Mitch McConnell, a Republican from the state, could well become majority leader if his party wins control of the chamber and if he defeats Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes.
"I’ll be doing get-out-the-vote activities: knocking on doors, holding signs," said Holly, who plans to spend most of his campaigning in the Lexington area. "When I was on the House Armed Services Committee, I would take personal time to volunteer on campaigns. It’s important to the process. I encourage younger staff — Capitol Hill or private sector — to volunteer on campaigns."
Holly said being on the campaign trail can offer a Washington insider a deeper sense of connection to outside-the-Beltway voters and to what’s important to them. That can translate into a better perspective back on Capitol Hill and K Street.
"It’s a good way to get the pulse of the electorate and the community that helps drive policies on Capitol Hill," he said.
Some of Holly’s Podesta Group co-workers are also on the trail, including Jaime Harrison, who serves as chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, and Rachelle Johnson, who is helping her former boss Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss.
Though Cochran’s path back to the Senate seems smooth after a grueling primary fight, Johnson said the senator’s team won’t take anyone’s vote for granted.
"In politics, you don’t ever want to say that things are locked up," said Johnson, who plans to spend the next few days on vacation around Jackson, Miss., where her family lives. "I think there’s a lot you can do in the final days."
Kristen Hawn, who is now with the communications and advocacy firm Granite Integrated Strategy, is heading down to Arkansas to help the gubernatorial campaign of her former Hill boss, ex-Rep. Mike Ross, a Democrat, who is in a contest with another former congressman, Republican Asa Hutchinson.
"Once a staffer, always a staffer," Hawn said.
Unlike most federal lobbyists who have to travel to help on campaigns, Lynn Cutler, who is based in Holland &Knight’s Chicago office, has been helping the campaign of Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., on her home turf.
"We’ve been friends since 1982 when we were both running for the House; he was here, and I was in Iowa," said Cutler, a former senior aide on then-President Bill Clinton’s intergovernmental affairs team. Durbin’s seat is rated safe by Roll Call. Additionally, she said, she has been helping Democratic candidates from around the country, especially women, raise money in Chicago.
Of course, traveling for a campaign can have its perks, too.
In addition to helping McConnell, Holly has a more personal order of business in the state.
"As long as I can get a piece of cheesecake from Ramsey’s Diner, then it’ll all be worth it," he said.
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London, 1818. Former soldier Ruan, duke of Cynssyr, survived Napoleon's war and is home with his physical wounds long healed. But he's changed, and most would say not for the better. This cynical rake believes love is merely the delusion that a man's not lost his freedom and a woman's that she's gained hers. A night of unforgettable passion is about to teach him that the love of the right woman will heal the wounds he can't see.
Anne Sinclair is a pretty woman born to a family of beauties. The eldest of four girls, she believes duty to her father and sisters means denying herself what she wants most in the world: love, marriage and children of her own. That conviction is put to the test during a visit to the country estate of Devon Carlisle where everyone expects Ruan will propose to Anne's youngest sister. But Devon, who fell in love with Anne four years ago and still wants to marry her, has other ideas about Anne's future.
Injury and mistaken identity lead Ruan to Anne's bed and the most intense sexual experience of his life. The next morning, Anne's safe, predictable life is upended along with her hopes for a future with Devon. Ruan, too, faces a life he never expected, with a woman who does not meet his standard of beauty, though he allows she is reassuringly practical and sensible.
Ruan leaps at Devon's suggestion that he send Anne to an estate near Town. That way, that he can create the appearance of a blissful marriage while he deals with matters in London, including the case of a man falsely accused of a series of kidnappings plaguing London.
After a hasty marriage, Ruan and Anne discover they agree on at least one thing- the inconvenience of emotion. Their decision to make the best of things ends on an unexpected note; Ruan makes love to Anne. Despite knowing he has not satisfied his shy and still reluctant wife, the depth of his pleasure surprises him. He's used to women whose beauty and accomplishments cannot be questioned, and Anne, for heaven's sake, hardly falls into that category.
he grandeur of Ruan's London home does little to allay Anne's doubts about her suitability to be his duchess. She knows full well his reputation for breaking hearts and that no woman is ever adjudged a beauty until he pronounces her so. One private, intimate supper with her husband demonstrates why so many woman have loved him. Never mind that he's handsome as the devil, he's nothing like the dilettante of gossip and reputation. His political ambitions are well grounded in experience, dedication and intelligence. In spite of her belief their marriage cannot succeed, she is not immune to his charm.
Nor is Ruan immune to Anne. True, she has yet to let go of her reserve, particularly in bed, but she's easy to talk to and without realizing it, he opens to her as he has not to anyone since the war. They even discuss his progress, or lack of it, in finding the man responsible for the kidnappings.
At a ball in her honor, Anne acquits herself well. She impresses nearly everyone, including the Marquess of Thrale and most, if not all, of the men whose political support Ruan needs. On this night Ruan has his first intimation that his reaction to Anne is more than sensual. Up until now, he has had her to himself. He does not like that other men admire her, and that's something that never mattered with other women.
A young viscount has a bit too much to drink. When Anne leaves the ballroom, he follows. Too late, she realizes his intentions go further than telling her tales about her husband's mastery of women. Though drunk, he's bigger and stronger, and she only just manages to escape him. In her moment of fright and turmoil, it's Ruan she wants. Whatever he feels for her and whatever the state of her heart, the truth is, she needs his comfort.
When at last she finds him, he is not alone. He's with one of the most beautiful women she's ever seen. Anne is no fool, she understands this is his mistress, but she can scarcely credit as true his claim he's dismissed her unless he means to replace her with another. Ruan makes some deductions of his own, and it doesn't take him long to have her confession about the viscount's attempts on her.
For Ruan the night steadily departs from the triumph he envisioned. He failed Anne when she needed his protection and, having been interrupted with his mistress, he can hardly blame her for withdrawing even further. He doesn't see how things can get worse, but they do. In come Devon and Anne's brother-in-law Ben. Both think he is mistreating Anne, and to top it all off, it's quite clear Devon still loves Anne. There's only one remedy Ruan can see, and that's to make his wife fall in love with him. If she were to love him, why, he'd never feel jealous of her friendships with anyone, Devon included.
A signet ring implicates the Marquess of Thrale in the kidnappings, and Ruan involves Anne in his investigation. She elicits valuable information from previous victims that points toward Thrale as the culprit though there are other suspects, at least one of whom has a reputation for violence.
Another kidnapping ends in the tragic death of a young woman. Ominously, the house in which the victim is found belongs to Thrale. His guilt seems incontrovertible when another victim provides physical evidence in the form of a button engraved with Thrale's crest. Though the Marquess has an alibi, Anne's belief in Thrale's innocence convinces Ruan to look further.
Ruan has long been aware that his feelings for Anne are far more than the effect of passion. Since the war, he's deadened himself to emotion to the point where he sometimes wonders if he might really be dead. With Anne, not only is he safe to feel, his memories of the war cease to haunt him. He's in love with his wife, and he cannot stop himself from telling her. His confession comes too soon, he knows it, but he tells her anyway. She's not ready to believe that Lord Ruin, infamous for breaking hearts without a shred of conscience, could possibly be sincere in saying he loves her.
One of the suspects warns Ruan that Anne will be the next victim. Her safety comes before everything, even his heart, perhaps even especially his heart. Ruan immediately sends her out of London. When Thrale brings the unexpected news that he found her abandoned carriage, Ruan knows the worst has happened. Anne has been kidnapped.
Ruan and his friends arrive barely in time to prevent what appears to be an assault by the kidnapper. But another man is there too, and he begs Ruan to shoot the kidnapper before it's too late. Anne's life depends on which man Ruan believes. Either choice will likely end in his own death. It's no choice at all. He'd die for Anne. Anne's quick thinking gives Ruan time to save them both and see the kidnapper and his accomplices brought to justice.
Hardly recovered from her ordeal but even more aware that her heart is at grave risk, Anne discovers Ruan in a horribly familiar scene. "Will you have me back?" her husband pleads with his mistress. "A divorced man in love with another woman?" The truth comes home with a vengeance, if she does not say what's been in her heart all along, she will lose him. For once, the choice between safety and love seems like no choice at all. She tells him she loves him; a lifetime with Lord Ruin won't be nearly long enough.
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B.C. Votes 2017: Coquitlam-Maillardville riding profile
A look at Coquitlam-Maillardville, one of the 87 electoral districts in British Columbia.
It's a rematch from the 2013 election, when the NDP won by the closest margin in the province
Justin McElroy · CBC News · Posted: Feb 22, 2017 9:36 AM PT | Last Updated: April 11, 2017
The riding broadly encapsulates the southern and eastern ends of Coquitlam. (Elections BC)
In advance of the 2017 B.C. election, we'll be profiling all 87 electoral districts in the province. Here is Coquitlam-Maillardville, one of four ridings in the Tri-Cities — and where the result won't likely be known until late on election night.
1. In 2013, no riding in British Columbia was tighter than Coquitlam-Maillardville.
On election night, Coquitlam Councillor Selina Robinson was down by 105 votes to small business owner Steve Kim.
But two weeks later, after absentee ballots came in, the count showed Robinson up by 35 votes — and after a further recount requested by Kim, she eventually finished 41 votes up.
"I had three election nights in about two weeks. Best weight lost program ever," Robinson quips, as she prepares for the 2017 campaign.
2. The 2017 race will be a rematch from 2013.
Kim, the owner of marketing company Boilingpoint group, is running again against Robinson.
He is one of five Liberal candidates in the province, along with Doug Clovechok in Columbia River-Revelstoke, Joan Isaacs in Coquitlam-Burke Mountain, Steve Housser in Cowichan Valley, Stephen Roberts in Saanich North and the Islands, running again after losing in 2013.
For the Liberals, the upside is simple: senior staffers believe people who are well established in the community, and who have gone through the vetting process, are in good position to take advantage of being nominated months in advance.
For the NDP? They won in 2013, and believe they can build on that.
"I'm confident that people have seen how Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals have made life harder for them, not easier," said Robinson. "And how a John Horgan government will provide opportunities for them, and their families, so they don't have to worry as much."
The Green Party candidate is Nicola Spurling, chair of the Vancouver Pride Society's outreach committee.
3. Robinson believes transportation will be a wedge issue in the riding.
"You know where the IKEA is on the highway? I sit just above there. It's framed by Riverview on the far east side, North Road on the west, and the northern edge is Como Lake Road," she said.
There are major transportation routes on all sides of the riding, but no rapid transit options inside of it — and Robinson believes voters in her riding expect more in 2017.
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"We don't have a great transit plan ... not one piece of the Evergreen Line touches Coquitlam-Maillardville," she said.
"Time is not a renewable resource. You can't get more time. And when you live in suburbia and work in Vancouver, and you're sitting for an hour in traffic each way, you can't get that time back, and that's time with your family, to volunteer in your community. It's all that time that makes us feel good and adds to our health and well-being."
4. There have been changes to the boundaries.
The riding used to stretch to the Port Moody-Coquitlam border to the east of Gatensbury Street, but has shrunk so the northern boundary between Gatensbury and Mariner Way is now Como Lake.
That, combined with the addition of land around Vancouver Golf Club, means the riding is slightly more hospitable to the B.C. Liberals — their candidates picked up 45.9 per cent of the vote in polling stations within the current boundaries last election, compared to 44.8 per cent for the NDP.
5. Where does the NDP do well?
The neighbourhoods right at the Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam border, around Westwood Street and the CP rail line, tend to support the NDP, along with polling stations to the immediate north of Lougheed Highway.
6. What about the Liberals?
They've done best in the suburban neighbourhoods to the east of Mundy Park — but in general, this is a region of Metro Vancouver without large political differences from one end of the riding to the other.
MAP: Every polling station in the riding last election
7. Add it all up, and it may be the most prototypical NDP-leaning swing seat in Metro Vancouver.
The large, working-class riding in the heart of Coquitlam has always been a suburban commuter riding, but with just enough working-class, city centre elements to favour the NDP. They've won it in seven of the last 10 elections, but in those seven wins, they've never won it by more than 1,500 votes.
It means Robinson is ready for a hard campaign — and thankful she has such a strong support system at home.
"We have a routine where I will text [my husband] saying I'll be home in 20 minutes, which he knows is code for 45 minutes, and he has a fabulous dinner waiting for me. It's a wonderful salad, a piece of fish or steak or prawns, with something like risotto, that he has made himself," she said of her election campaigns.
"I don't shop, I don't do laundry, I don't do anything for those four to five weeks, except think about knocking on doors."
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2017 Construction Week Power 100: Top five Saudi entries
The following article contains details of the five highest-ranking individuals on Construction Week’s 2017 Power 100 whose companies are headquartered in Saudi Arabia
by James Morgan
The following article contains details of the five highest-ranking individuals on Construction Week’s 2017 Power 100 whose companies are headquartered in Saudi Arabia...
1. Khaled Musaed El Seif, Chairman, El Seif Engineering Contracting Co (Power 100 ranking: 8)
As chairman of Saudi Arabia-based El Seif Engineering Contracting Company, Khaled Musaed El Seif presides over one of the largest contracting companies in the kingdom.
The company, which employs more than 40,000 construction professionals in total, completed an impressive number of projects between June 2016 and May 2017.
In Saudi Arabia, the firm acted as the main contractor for the Haramain High Speed Rail Project’s passenger stations in King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC); the Millennium Hotel in Ha’il; a sports hall and athletic stadium in Jeddah; and junctions, underpasses, travelators, tunnels, and land bridges for Thumamah Road in Riyadh’s King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD).
El Seif’s current project portfolio, meanwhile, includes a series of large-scale developments in both its domestic market and the neighbouring UAE.
At present, the company is supporting the construction of 10 residential cities in the kingdom’s Southern Region, and a five-star hotel in the city of Tabouk. In the Emirates, El Seif is working on Dubai’s Entisar Tower, and a 2,200-villa Meydan residential development.
The Saudi Arabian contractor is also facilitating the development of a security-related special forces project, and a building that will be used in the pursuit of international cooperation, both within the Middle East region.
2. Bakr Bin Laden, Chairman, Saudi Binladin Group (Power 100 ranking: 10)
It’s been another difficult year for Bakr Bin Laden, chairman of Saudi Arabia’s ailing contracting giant, Saudi Binladin Group (SBG). Shortly after publication of Construction Week’s 2016 Power 100, reports emerged that SBG planned to sell property and other assets to pay its mounting debts.
In October 2016, UAE daily The National reported that payments to SBG from Saudi Arabia’s finance ministry had started to filter through, and were helping to alleviate the contractor’s financial pressures.
In February 2017, Reuters reported that Bin Laden and his colleagues had secured fresh payments from Saudi Arabia’s government as part of further efforts to pay monies owed. The move, according to the news wire’s anonymous sources, was intended to provide a boost to both SBG and the kingdom’s economy.
Nevertheless, SBG’s financial woes have resulted in public criticism from numerous segments of the market, including expatriate employees who claim to have been left unpaid and stranded in Saudi Arabia, and construction companies from elsewhere in the supply chain. The former board of kingdom-based contractor Mohammad Al-Mojil Group (MMG), for example, accused SBG of non-payment in July of last year.
Nevertheless, Bin Laden remains an influential figure within the Middle East’s constructions sector, with historic projects spanning the aviation, healthcare, and education segments, not to mention a series of high-profile developments in the holy cities of Makkah and Medina.
3. HRH Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal, founder and chairman, KBW Investments (Power 100 ranking: 21)
Despite having only established his portfolio group, KBW Investments, four years ago, HRH Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal has already started to set out long-term growth strategies for the conglomerate. Investment in human capital forms a major part of his vision.
“As a fairly young company, we’ve now taken measures to institute a better human capital schema,” said Prince Khaled. “The larger the company gets, the more we feel that building our human capital segment is integral to a smooth, productive, and pleasant workplace. We invest in sending our people with potential to relevant training, and we encourage participation in relevant industry events.”
Prince Khaled, who is also the chairman of the Saudi Green Building Forum’s (SGBF) trustee board, told Construction Week that he intends to cultivate “impact-driven businesses”, which will benefit communities on a grand scale.
“I have gradually moved towards impact-driven businesses, meaning start-ups with social good as a core element,” he explained.
“With our Jordan portfolio, for example, we have committed – as part of the overall solar photovoltaic (PV) and light-emitting diode (LED) implementation initiatives – to provide power to 12,000 homes of Amman’s lower-income residents. This impact investment represents a win-win scenario for the constituents, the respective governmental bodies, and for KBW, as the project driver.”
Prince Khaled is also making his presence felt in the UAE’s property sector with Nasma Residences. The Sharjah project is being developed by Arada, an enterprise formed jointly by KBW and Basma Group.
“Nasma Residences is a [development] valued at $408m (AED1.5bn), with several large-scale projects to follow in the UAE and further afield,” said Prince Khaled.
KBW’s other business units are reportedly exhibiting solid performances as well. “KBEC, our mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) endeavour, recently landed a large-scale contract for one of the [UAE’s] premier developers,” Prince Khaled noted, adding: “Our real shining star this year, in the specialty sub-contractor [segment], is TTM’s Australian arm, [which has secured] a substantial portfolio of 30 concurrent projects in the past 12 months.”
4. Imad Gholmieh, president and CEO, Nesma & Partners (Power 100 ranking: 27)
Climbing nine spots on the list, from 36 in 2016 to 27 this year, is the president and chief executive officer of Nesma & Partners, Imad Gholmieh.
Under Gholmieh’s leadership, the Saudi Arabian firm recorded $1.1bn (SAR4bn) in revenues in 2016, and – as of 31 December, 2016 – had a remaining contract backlog of approximately $4.4bn (SAR16.5bn).
The company, which expects its revenues for 2017 to hit $1.47bn (SAR5.5bn), has three major projects lined up for the next 12 months, one involving the King Abdul Aziz Road (KAAR) development. For that project, the company’s scope of work includes design, construction, testing, and commissioning of infrastructure works.
Nesma has also been brought on board by Saudi Arabia National Guard Health Affairs (SANGHA) for its hospital projects in Riyadh, Jeddah, Al Taif, and Al Qassim. Its scope of work covers the construction of five specialised hospitals, including a 300-bed maternity hospital, a 176-bed neuroscience and trauma care centre, and a 350-bed children’s hospital.
Moreover, the firm will be handling the design and implementation of Riyadh Metro’s Package 2, which comprises Line 3, or the Red Line. According to Nesma, the contract covers civil works on a 40.7km alignment, including 22 stations, electrical and mechanical equipment, and rolling stock. Nesma is responsible for the construction of all of Package 2’s underground stations, as well as all mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP), and finishing works for above-ground stations.
Despite recognising that challenges like delayed payments are present in the market, Gholmieh and his team are cognisant of existing opportunities, especially in its four biggest markets: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, and Oman. One such opportunity is the King Salman International Complex for Maritime Industries and Services project in Ras Al-Khair.
5. Fakher Al Shawaf, CEO, Al Bawani (Power 100 ranking: 28)
Low liquidity, delayed payments, and an overall challenging market may be a reality for a number of construction firms operating in Saudi Arabia, but Fakher Al Shawaf remains positive about Al Bawani’s foothold in the country.
The chief executive officer of the Riyadh-headquartered, 100% Saudi-owned and managed construction company, noted that Al Bawani continues to recruit workers every month, having secured contracts worth $933.3m (SAR3.5bn) in 2016.
Moreover, last year saw the company complete the enabling and structural packages for Cayan Group’s 14-storey CMC Tower. The group’s portfolio also includes King Abdullah Financial District Museum, a project being developed by Al Raidah Investment Company; and the King Abdulla Center for Cancer and Liver Disease, by King Faisal Hospital and Research Center.
For the latter, Al Bawani’s scope of work covers the preparation of the shop drawing, the procurement and delivery of construction materials, and the testing and commissioning of the project.
Al Bawani is also carrying out works for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadh, a project that is nearing the 90% completion mark. According to the company, its scope of work includes quality finishing, facade works, and extensive landscaping.
The new ministry building will reportedly comprise an auditorium, lecture halls, a library, classrooms, and a hall for visa applicants, among other features. The building is also expected to be able to accommodate a number of shared facilities, such as a cafeteria and prayer rooms.
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Accenture's push into the creative sector is an identity crisis
18 April 2019 Consultancy.uk
In its latest push into the creative sector, Accenture Interactive acquired New York and London-based ad agency Droga5 earlier this month, adding illustrious clients such as HBO, Amazon and The New York Times to its roster of clients. With the latest in a long line of similar purchases, Accenture Interactive further demonstrated its ambition of becoming the globe’s leading trusted advisor to chief marketing officers. Yet according to Ben Langdon, Chairman of Class35, Accenture’s strategy may be heading in the wrong direction.
A press release on Accenture’s website announcing the acquisition sits next to a quote stating that “brands aren’t built through advertising” – a huge contradiction from a consultancy firm hell-bent on becoming the ‘CMO agency of choice’. It’s not alone of course. The entire consulting industry wants a piece of the creative pie right now. In addition to Accenture Interactive, recent acquisitions by PwC Digital, IBM iX, and Deloitte Digital meant that in 2017, for the first time ever, four of the world’s ten largest creative agencies were consultancies.
So just what it is that Accenture wants to achieve from this? For one thing, it’s clearly trying to be a digital transformation business. A one-stop creative shop rivalling more traditional models, it wants to lure CMOs in with the promise of lower ad spend and a “more impactful customer experience”. At the same time, though, it’s still in thrall to those same slinky, shiny branding and advertising agencies it’s attempting to disrupt. The Droga5 acquisition and that of Karmarama a few years before are both testament to this.
There’s a fundamental problem with this, though. Digital transformation businesses don’t sell to CMOs. These people have enough on their plates trying to transform their own marketing skills in order to keep up with an ever-changing market – they just don’t have the time or the energy to concern themselves with digitally transforming a whole business. If Accenture’s purpose is digital transformation, then going after creative agencies is barking up the wrong tree.
Perhaps more importantly, these two industries are worlds apart in terms of the way they think. Creative agencies are all about ideas, campaigns and consumers. Digital businesses, on the other hand, are customer-driven – they think in terms such as lifetime value, measurement, and efficiency. Customer-led thinking is an entirely different beast to consumer-led thinking.
The reality is that the arrival of digital and an all-encompassing obsession with technology, measurement and social has led to the death of agencies in a reductive, zero-sum, efficiency-focused battle with brands. Indeed, agencies have become so obsessed with the latest tech fads, they’re beginning to forget how brands work. Worse still, they’re beginning to forget how brands are built. And, by forgetting, they’re destroying their own values.
Killing creativity
All things considered, it really feels to me as though Accenture is a chip leader in a game it doesn’t understand. Expensive acquisitions like these show that they’ve got the big money, but they don’t appear to have any idea what they’re doing with it. Take talent, for example. The best talent in the creative industry right now is out in the market; it’s not tied to any one agency. Both agencies might well be at the top of their game, but why would a consulting firm waste so much money on buying them when they could hire high-quality creative talent on a contingent basis instead?
As their presence in the top 10 creative agencies shows, there is a growing trend in which Accenture, like many of the other big players, are buying up agencies as if they were nothing more than keywords. What they’re really buying, though, is a collection of credentials, clients and IP. Unfortunately, the talent that created those credentials aren’t going to stay at the business, the clients that hired the agency in the first place won’t be interested in buying what is basically just another part of Accenture, and the IP never really existed to begin with.
Droga5, for example, was one of the few agencies that did great brand work the old-fashioned way – undoubtedly something that made it attractive to Accenture in the first place. The irony, though, is that by leading it further away from the way of working that made it so special, the consulting giant will kill its creativity.
“Accenture Interactive has been dazzled by its ambitions to become the CMO agency of record…. But, in flashing its cash, it is spending millions on acquiring nothing of any value.”
If pressed, the recently acquired agency staff at Accenture will tell you just how dysfunctional the new arrangement is. They’re largely unfulfilled. Rarely do they feel their work has any sort of meaning or purpose. What’s more, the different disciplines have found little or no common ground, and find it hard to work together as a cohesive whole. It’s not surprising, then, to see talented people leaving in droves.
Beyond the window dressing
It’s clear, then, that consulting firms and creative agencies are no easy bedfellows. But in his company’s defence, Accenture Interactive’s Senior Managing Director for North America, Glen Hartman, described its culture as being “far, far away from what a stereotypical consulting firm would look like. Our office and studios look a lot like Droga5’s.”
In demonstrating a belief that office design equates to workplace culture, this statement serves as an illustration of how confused Accenture is right now. It wants to justify its new strategy so badly, it’s started dressing like a creative agency. But if you look beyond the window dressing and see that you and your partners are speaking a different language with a different purpose, selling to different people in a different market, there’s no getting away from the fact that you’re different.
Accenture Interactive has been dazzled by its ambitions to become the CMO agency of record, and it wants to dazzle others with its new direction. But, in flashing its cash, it is spending millions on acquiring nothing of any value.
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You’ll Never Wish You Did Less
Andrew Knight serves Campus Outreach with his family as part of Table Rock Church in Boise, Idaho. He has led teams of staff and students over the last 15 years in evangelism, discipleship, and missions mobilization. He is the author of Window to the World, which highlights the top ten topics for world missions.
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Four Reasons Why We Leave
Andrew Knight May 26, 2016
The world had never laid eyes on them before. Yet, there they were, in plain sight, for all to see.
As photographers in helicopters took pictures of the previously uncontacted or lost tribes of the Amazon rainforest, the fear, amazement, and uncertainty in their faces was unforgettable. Spears were in hand and fingers were pointed upwards. I stared at the picture and contemplated a people and tribe that had lived in isolation from globalization and technological advancement for much of the last two hundred years.
For the first time in my life, I looked into the eyes of a people that had most likely never heard (or had a chance to hear) of a Savior named Jesus. They were not unbelieving because they had said no to Jesus, but because they had never had an opportunity to do so. I came to understand these peoples were referred to as “unreached.” They were in existence despite my ignorance.
I came to find out this ignorance was shared by the majority of Christians worldwide. Surprisingly, almost seven out of every ten Christians are unaware of God’s vision for the evangelization of the world, especially among the world’s unreached peoples.
For almost half of my Christian life, I was one of these seven who was unaware of the approximately 8,000 peoples in existence who have never been evangelized. It was not until a cold day in Minneapolis, during a Perspectives on the World Christian Movement class, that I viewed a picture of one of these 8,000 that spoke a thousand words and confronted me with real faces of faithless peoples in need of forgiveness and freedom.
Unengaged, Unsent, Unreached
That picture showed me a lot about a world I did not know. I had never heard the title “Bibleless peoples” either. I knew people who choose not to read a Bible, but I had never heard of the 210 million who might have a desire to read God’s word, but could not, because one did not exist in their language.
And the “unengaged”? I knew of unbelievers, but I had no awareness of the groups in the world who are silently wasting away, waiting to hear about their sin and Savior. Presently, they have no church, agency, or Christian with a plan to get the gospel of Jesus Christ to them.
“210 million people cannot read the Bible because one does not exist in their language.”
I had never thought about the “unsent” either. I knew Christ commissioned his people as “sent ones” (John 17:18), but surely he meant something or someone else. I did not know how starved the world is for missionaries and yet how large, and largely unsent, the evangelical church remains. I did not know my future involved only two choices — send or be sent.
But for those believers who do know of these peoples, we must ask a penetrating question, “Is it that you can’t do something, or that you won’t?” Most are unaware, but heaven forbid that the others are unmoved.
Follow the Sent Savior
Jesus was not unaware. He was not unmoved. And he was certainly not unsent. He died to open eyes, jumpstart hearts, and make ready feet for the world.
Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” (Matthew 9:35–38)
Jesus knew there were many unknown peoples who were unknowledgeable of a God worth knowing. He knew two things: humanity was harassed spiritually, emotionally, and physically and helpless to do anything about it. But he knew something they did not. He was a saving shepherd who would lay down his life for them (John 10:10–11). He was unknown to them, but they were known by him.
Scour sites like Joshua Project, tear into books like Operation World, and watch Prayercast videos. You don’t have to stay uninformed. If you knew that 141,000 new unbelievers enter the world’s global cities every day but that 80% of them will never meet a Christian, or that for every unreached people group there are 78,000 evangelical believers that will hardly ever reach or even notice them, how would it affect you? As David Bryant said, “God cannot lead you on the basis of facts you do not know.”
Harassed, Helpless, Forgotten
“141,000 new unbelievers enter the world’s global cities every day. 80% will never meet a Christian.”
Jesus knew his world and “he had compassion for them” (Matthew 9:36). Jesus’s heart broke for the shepherdless sheep, and all too often ours does not. Instead of focusing on whether the proverbial man on the desert island will go to hell if he has never heard the gospel, Christ’s commissioned church is more concerned with who will go to him. We grieve that many who hear do not go to him, and that many do not go to him because they never had the chance to hear.
Jesus’s compassion came as a result of the people’s lostness coupled with the lack of laborers to find them. When only 1 out of every 5,000 professing Christians goes overseas (a mere 0.02%), when there are over three billion harassed and helpless unreached souls at large, we must constantly “pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest” (Matthew 9:38). Buy a map. Open it. Pore in prayer over its people and places. Many have done so only to find their hearts opened in the process. Let us pray too, with Bob Pierce, founder of World Vision, “Let me be broken with the things that break God’s heart.”
Our self-sent God in Christ is the foremost of all missionaries and mobilizers. He was sent to save, and he sends all he saves. Someway, somehow, and somewhere he commissions you and all the Christians around you. When only $1.66 of every $100,000 of Christian income is given to the unreached and only 0.05% of Christian income goes to international missions at all, it’s not too hard to see why more can’t be sent. In fact, it becomes unclear if we are sending at all given such low numbers.
Jesus Was Not Joyless
Despite all sin, suffering, and the sorrowful state of the world, Jesus was driven by the joy of completed mission (Hebrews 12:2). Despite harassed and helpless sheep, and a desperate shortage of laborers, Jesus promised a plentiful harvest full of the redeemed from every tribe, tongue, and nation (Revelation 5:9). This is the joy Jesus saw. He is not just God, but a God over his people — many of whom are largely unknown and do not know him yet.
“We can rest assured that no one will ever enter heaven saying, ‘I wish I had done less.’”
If Jesus was joyous against all odds, so shall we his people. Let us fix our eyes on him and pray, give, go, and send in joyful anticipation that there is no greater joy than to have throngs of largely unknown peoples known by our heavenly Father. As John states, there is “no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth” (3 John 4). Let us walk in such a way that our heavenly joyfulness will one day include today’s unknown and unreached peoples.
Robert Savage said, “The command has been to ʻgo,ʼ but we have stayed — in body, gifts, prayer, and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth. But 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.” May we not be added to them, but may we boldly risk for the sake of the nations. We can rest assured that no one will ever enter heaven saying, “I wish I had done less for the nations.”
Memorize the Promises of Sin
Satan lives to kill you. Meditate on his false promises long enough to defeat them wherever you find them.
Marshall Segal
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Home » Actors on Acting » Jonah Hill Insists He’s a Serious Actor, So Stop Asking Him About Bodily Functions
Jonah Hill Insists He’s a Serious Actor, So Stop Asking Him About Bodily Functions
By Chris McKittrick June 10, 2013 3 Comments
It’s official: Jonah Hill is a serious actor. Sure, he might be co-starring in This Is The End and is likely returning for a sequel for 21 Jump Street, but in an interview with Rolling Stone Hill refuses to speak about his more famous filthy comedies and only wants to speak about his transition from comedian to serious actor in films like Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street.
When asked about how he managed to shed so many pounds from his once-chubby frame? He answers, “My workout routine is of little relevance.”
When asked about passing gas? He answers, “I’m not answering that dumb question! I’m not that kind of person! Being in a funny movie doesn’t make me have to answer dumb questions. It has nothing to do with who I am.”
When asked about masturbating, something his friend (and This Is The End co-star) Seth Rogen has openly discussed in many interviews, he answers, “No! We’re completely different people. You know that, right? It seems to be a big part of Seth’s life. I imagine maybe it’s because he’s married.”
On what he thinks of being called “angry and nerdy” by Judd Apatow? He answers, “Yeah, there was probably an angry time for me. But I couldn’t be a less angry person. Judd maybe thinks of himself that way. But I haven’t worked for him in five years. I adore him. But I’m fucking 29 years old and not some angry kid.”
What will he talk about? His transition from comedian to serious actor, of course. On that he says, “I’ve done one of the biggest challenges you can do in Hollywood, which is transition from being a comedic actor to being a serious actor, and I’m really prideful of that,” he says. “I could have made a billion dollars doing every big comedy of the last 10 years and didn’t, in order to form a whole other life for myself. Now I have fulfillment doing both.”
So, good for Hill, I guess. But why so serious?
via E!
Ryan Salzwedel via Facebook on June 10, 2013 12:32 pm
My Grandfather was a “serious” carpenter, yet he still took time out to let me “pull his finger.” You can be both, Jonah. You can.
Chris McKittrick on June 10, 2013 1:29 pm
Ha! It’s also funny because Seth Rogen was on Howard Stern this morning and he ripped on Hill about this interview and his recent demands to be taken seriously. He seemed to think it was a pretty goofy decision.
Lance Carter on June 10, 2013 6:59 pm
I’ve interviewed him twice and he definitely takes himself waaaay too seriously.
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Pope lauds Jesus’ ‘humble’…
Pope lauds Jesus’ ‘humble’ start during Christmas Eve Mass
Pope Francis kisses a statue of baby Jesus as he celebrates the Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013.
Pope Francis, left, celebrates the Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013. Pope Francis has begun celebrating his first Christmas Eve Mass as pontiff by placing a baby Jesus statue in a replica of a manger in St. Peter’s Basilica. Francis, who turned 77 a week ago, walked briskly up the main aisle of the basilica, which was packed with faithful and tourists at the start of Mass.
By The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | dailybulletin@dfmdev.com |
VATICAN CITY >> Pope Francis lauded Jesus’ humble beginning as a poor and vulnerable baby as he celebrated his first Christmas Eve Mass as pontiff Tuesday in St. Peter’s Basilica.
“You are immense, and you made yourself small; you are rich, and you made yourself poor; you are all-powerful and you made yourself vulnerable,” Francis said of Jesus as he delivered his homily in the basilica, packed with faithful.
Francis has dedicated much of his nine-month-old papacy to drawing attention to the plight of the poor, of children, and other vulnerable members of society.
He noted that the first to receive news of Jesus’ birth were shepherds, who in society were considered “among the last, the outcast.”
The bells of St. Peter’s rang as Francis, who turned 77 a week ago, walked briskly up the main aisle of the basilica for the ceremony, which began Tuesday 2 ½ hours before midnight. Keeping with the theme of humility he has set for his new papacy, Francis carried the statue instead of an aide, and kissed a knee of the figure of the newly born Jesus.
The occasional wail of babies in the basilica contrasted at times with the sweet voices of the choir.
The Argentine-born pope has also encouraged his flock to be a joyful church, and he called Jesus’ “the light who brightens the darkness.”
In the world’s history and our own personal history, Francis said, “there are both bright and dark moments, lights and shadows. “ He added “if our heart is closed, if we are dominated by pride, deceit, self-seeking, then darkness falls within us and around us.”
Francis has applied this same vision to the heart of the Vatican’s own working, saying in past remarks there is no place for person ambition in the clerical hierarchy. Rather, he has insisted, the Catholic church must be one of service to those in need.
Earlier, in the Holy Land, thousands of Christian pilgrims from around the world packed the West Bank town of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations, bringing warm holiday cheer to the biblical birthplace of Jesus on a cool, clear night.
The heavy turnout, its highest in years, helped lift spirits in Bethlehem as leaders expressed hope that the coming year would finally bring the Palestinians an independent state of their own.
“The message of Christmas is a message of peace, love and brotherhood. We have to be brothers with each other,” said Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal, the top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land, as he arrived in town.
At the Vatican during the homily, Francis quoted the Apostle John, saying “‘whoever hates his brother is in the darkness’” and “‘does not know the way to go, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.’”
The basilica ceremony was the pope’s only public Mass for Christmas. On Wednesday, Christmas Day, Francis will deliver his Christmas message, meant for the world, from the basilica’s central balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square.
As he left the basilica in a procession, Francis was preceded by 10 children carrying flowers, a pair of children each from Italy, the Philippines, Lebanon, his native Argentina and Congo.
AP reporter Mohammed Daraghmeh contributed to this report from Bethlehem.
The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
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Sharknado: Australia warns of snakes, crocs and sharks in floods
A bull shark washed up on a road near the town of Ayr after Cylone Debbie tore through northeast Australia, where authorities also warned of crocodiles and snakes in the flood waters
Wading through flooded areas can be dangerous anywhere in the world, but in Australia the waters may contain snakes, crocodiles and sharks as well as rubbish and sewage.
One of the striking images showing the impact of category four Cyclone Debbie which smashed through northeast Australia this week was a paramedic's photo of a large bull shark that washed up on a road near the town of Ayr.
And sharks are not the only unusual sightings in floodwaters in Australia's tropical north. Queensland state authorities warned that crocodiles and snakes could also be lurking around after Debbie hit.
"Flooded waterways increase the possibilities of crocodiles and other animals, such as snakes turning up in unexpected places," the state's environment and heritage protection department said.
"In most circumstances, crocodiles will be moving through, trying to get out of fast-flowing creeks and waterways to the quieter areas they prefer.
"Snakes are good swimmers and they too may turn up in unexpected places and may even find their way into people's properties."
Paramedic Lisa Smith, who photographed the bull shark, said she was stunned to find it lying near the Burdekin River.
"At first I thought it was a dolphin, but then I thought 'nah, there wouldn't be any dolphins around here,'" Smith told Brisbane's Courier Mail.
"I thought there were just crocs in that river. This should definitely teach people to never walk in floodwaters as you never know what's in them."
Snake catcher Anthony Bailey, from Yeppoon in central Queensland, offered on Facebook to remove the reptiles for free after the storm, and received a flood of responses.
"Already had a brown (snake) at our back door. Good on you guys for offering free assistance during this time," one person replied.
Bailey said snakes were fond of slithering indoors in wet conditions.
"They don't like sitting out in the rain, they come into houses or trees to escape the water and possibly looking for some warmth," he told the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin.
Australia is home to 20 of the world's 25 most venomous snakes, including the entire top 10.
Brown snakes, among the most venomous, are common in eastern Australia and can be as much as two metres (six feet) long when fully grown. Their bite can be fatal to humans.
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Significant Drop In Profits In 2019 Anticipated By BMW
German luxury car maker BMW predicted on Wednesday that the current year would not be a good one for it. The car maker said that it anticipates that the pre tax profits for the entire group would drop by more than 10 per cent for the current year.
In order to create some safeguard against that expected headwinds in 2019, BMW also announced a far-reaching safety net of 12 billion euro or $13.6 billion in cost savings and efficiency plans so that it is able to counter the need for higher investments in technology and costs related to fluctuations in currency values – important for its overseas revenues.
The company reported a significant drop of 7.9 per cent in operating profit for the entire of 2018 last week and at the same time announced that a cost cutting program would be set up by it to counter an expected difficult year in 2019.
The Munich-based carmaker said that the total earnings for the entire group is expected to be significantly lower than the 2018 numbers.
"The high level of volatility makes it difficult to provide a clear forecast," BMW said.
"Depending on how conditions develop, our guidance may be subject to additional risks; in particular, the risk of a no-deal Brexit and ongoing developments in international trade policy," said the company’s Chief Financial Officer, Nicolas Peter.
BMW has drawn up a strategy to enhance operational efficiency in its plants and distribution and supply chains and reduce costs of operations at the same time and that would be further expanded across the entire group, the company said.
"By the end of 2022, it expects to leverage potential efficiencies totalling more than 12 billion euros," BMW said in a statement.
A part of that cost savings would come from bolstering up its digital simulations so that there is a reduction in the time period for development of new models for its cars by as much as one third of the typical time required for the processes.
"Among other savings, digital simulations and virtual validation could eliminate the need for some 2,500 expensive prototype vehicles by the year 2024," BMW said.
The company also believes that the additional investments towards the development of technologies for electric and self-driving vehicles would remain a financial burden on the company as well as on its earnings.
For the current year, the anticipated drop in the operating margin in its automotive division would be between 6 per cent and 8 per cent, BMW said in a forward looking statement which would be significantly lower than the targets set by the company itself of being between 8 per cent and 10 per cent for 2019. The automotive operating margin last year of the company was at was 6.3 per cent.
(Source:www.indiatimes.com)
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Dada Masilo’s Giselle
Soweto-born dancer and choreographer Dada Masilo brings her latest production Giselle to the UK this autumn with London premiere performances at Sadler’s Wells on October 4 and 5, and a subsequent UK tour. Dancing in the title role, Masilo leads her company of 12 dancers to a score from South African composer, Philip Miller, which fuses electronic sampling from the orchestrations by Adolf Adams, layered with African voice and percussion.
Marking the fourth classic Masilo has reinterpreted in a decade, her Giselle opens in a South African village and tells the story of a trusting peasant girl betrayed by her lover. Spurned by her family and killed by heartbreak, Giselle returns from the grave as a supernatural being bent on revenge.
Mixing contemporary dance, traditional Tswana movement and the vocabulary of classical ballet, Masilo explore the themes of grief and revenge inherent in the original as well as adding a #MeToo twist to the traditional Giselle narrative.
Masilo says: “I wanted to make a ballet that was not pretty… I wanted to get away from that and bring it back home to South Africa and give it that edge, put it into that context. The world that we’re living in right now, there’s so much disruption, so much chaos happening, I think the Giselle that I made fits very well into what is happening round the world.”
The UK tour, presented by Dance Consortium, travels to Nottingham, Bradford, Birmingham, Salford, Milton Keynes, Brighton and concludes in Canterbury on November 2. For dates and further information, go to danceconsortium.com/DadaGiselle.
Main image: Dada Masilo’s Giselle. Photograph by Stella Olivier
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Finance Minister Carole James is beginning to phase out Medical Services Plan premiums, which accounted for 17 per cent of B.C. health care spending in the past year. (Tom Fletcher/Black Press)
End is near for B.C. medical premiums
Break of $900 a year for average working couple, other taxes going up
Dec. 28, 2017 10:00 a.m.
The B.C. government takes its first step toward eliminating Medical Services Plan premiums on Jan. 1, slashing single adult rates by half and eliminating the need for new residents to register.
The NDP government is implementing an election campaign promise first made by the B.C. Liberals, who tinkered with Canada’s only user fee for medical services for years before announcing plans to phase it out last spring.
The Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation calculates that the reduction will save an average household with two adults $900 per year, and applauds the NDP government’s promise to eliminate MSP entirely within four years.
Kris Sims, B.C. director for the CTF, notes that the MSP break will soon be offset by tax increases, including the first increase in five years to B.C.’s carbon tax. That tax rises to $35 per tonne of carbon dioxide emissions as of April 1, translating to an increase from seven to 8.5 cents on a litre of gasoline and more than 10 cents per litre on diesel fuel.
Finance Minister Carole James announced in September that the NDP government is going beyond the 50-per-cent cut to MSP promised by both parties in the May 2017 election. She said the B.C. Liberal pledge to apply the rate cut only to those with household incomes below $120,000 is “unworkable,” and announced plans to scrap the income-tested application form.
Single adults with income above $26,000 and couples with two children earning more than $35,000 will still have to pay the reduced rate in 2018, on a sliding scale based on household income.
Phasing out MSP leaves a large hole in the province’s health care budget. The finance ministry estimated last year that income from medical premiums covers 17 per cent of health costs, by far the largest operating expenditure in the B.C. government, and James has yet to say how the revenue will be made up.
Eliminating MSP also means the phase-out of its administration and bill collection, which was contracted out to U.S.-based back-office specialist Maximus Corp. in 2005. Maximus took over existing administration staff represented by the B.C. Government Employees’ Union, and had to add more staff after B.C. assessed penalties on the contractor for slow service to the public.
The NDP has long opposed MSP as an unfair tax that has the same rate for people earning $45,000 and $450,000 a year. For government and large corporation employees, it is generally a payroll tax paid by their employers, while self-employed and small business workers have to pay it out of pocket.
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Headphone Wearing Pedestrians Struck by Cars and Trains More Than Triple
Accidents and Disability
UM School of Medicine*
Synopsis : Serious injuries to pedestrians listening to headphones have more than tripled and in many cases cars or trains are sounding horns that pedestrians cannot hear leading to fatalities in nearly three-quarters of cases.
Injuries to Headphone-Wearing Pedestrians Struck by Cars and Trains More Than Triple Since 2004, According to UM Researchers - Teens, Young Adult Males Predominantly Affected; Nearly Three Quarters of Injuries Are Fatal.
Listen up, pedestrians wearing headphones. Can you hear the trains or cars around you? Many probably can't, especially young adult males.
Serious injuries to pedestrians listening to headphones have more than tripled in six years, according to new research. In many cases, the cars or trains are sounding horns that the pedestrians cannot hear, leading to fatalities in nearly three-quarters of cases.
"Everybody is aware of the risk of cell phones and texting in automobiles, but I see more and more teens distracted with the latest devices and headphones in their ears," says lead author Richard Lichenstein, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of pediatric emergency medicine research at the University of Maryland Medical Center. "Unfortunately as we make more and more enticing devices, the risk of injury from distraction and blocking out other sounds increases."
Dr. Lichenstein and his colleagues studied retrospective case reports from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Google News Archives, and Westlaw Campus Research databases for reports published between 2004 and 2011 of pedestrian injuries or fatalities from crashes involving trains or motor vehicles. Cases involving headphone use were extracted and summarized. The research is published online today in the journal Injury Prevention.
Researchers reviewed 116 accident cases from 2004 to 2011 in which injured pedestrians were documented to be using headphones.
Seventy percent of the 116 accidents resulted in death to the pedestrian.
More than two-thirds of victims were male (68 percent) and under the age of 30 (67 percent).
More than half of the moving vehicles involved in the accidents were trains (55 percent),
Nearly a third (29 percent) of the vehicles reported sounding some type of warning horn prior to the crash.
The increased incidence of accidents over the years closely corresponds to documented rising popularity of auditory technologies with headphones.
"This research is a wonderful example of taking what our physicians see every day in the hospital and applying a broader scientific view to uncover a troubling societal problem that needs greater awareness," says E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., vice president for medical affairs at the University of Maryland and John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "I hope that these results will help to significantly reduce incidence of injuries and lead us to a better understanding of how such injuries occur and how we can prevent them."
Dr. Lichenstein and his colleagues noted two likely phenomena associated with these injuries and deaths: distraction and sensory deprivation.
The distraction caused by the use of electronic devices has been coined "in-attentional blindness," in which multiple stimuli divide the brain's mental resource allocation. In cases of headphone-wearing pedestrian collisions with vehicles, the distraction is intensified by sensory deprivation, in which the pedestrian's ability to hear a train or car warning signal is masked by the sounds produced by the portable electronic device and headphones.
Dr. Lichenstein says the study was initiated after reviewing a tragic pediatric death where a local teen died crossing railroad tracks. The teen was noted to be wearing headphones and did not avoid the oncoming train despite auditory alarms. Further review revealed other cases not only in Maryland but in other states too. "As a pediatric emergency physician and someone interested in safety and prevention I saw this as an opportunity to - at minimum - alert parents of teens and young adults of the potential risk of wearing headphones where moving vehicles are present," he says.
Lichenstein R, Smith D, Ambrose J, Moody L. "Headphone use and pedestrian injury and death in the United States: 2004-2011." Injury Prevention. Published online January 17, 2012. doi:10.1136/injuryprev-2011-040161.
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Headphone Wearing Pedestrians Struck by Cars and Trains More Than Triple - Serious injuries to pedestrians listening to headphones have more than tripled and in many cases cars or trains are sounding horns that pedestrians cannot hear leading to fatalities in nearly three-quarters of cases.
Injuries from Childrens Toys - Researchers find an estimated 3,278,073 children were treated in United States emergency departments from 1990 through 2011 for a toy-related injury.
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Journal: Disabled World. Language: English. Author: UM School of Medicine. Electronic Publication Date: 2012/01/17. Last Revised Date: 2018/01/26. Reference Title: "Headphone Wearing Pedestrians Struck by Cars and Trains More Than Triple", Source: Headphone Wearing Pedestrians Struck by Cars and Trains More Than Triple. Abstract: Serious injuries to pedestrians listening to headphones have more than tripled and in many cases cars or trains are sounding horns that pedestrians cannot hear leading to fatalities in nearly three-quarters of cases. Retrieved 2019-07-18, from https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/accidents/headphone-safety.php - Reference Category Number: DW#454-8813.
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Making a better leg
Misti Crane, The Columbus Dispatch
Kevin Johnson navigated high school on crutches instead of bothering with the soreness and bleeding that came with wearing his first prosthetic leg. But that's changed. The right leg he gets around on today just two-stepped through Daytona Beach's Bike Week.
Kevin Johnson navigated high school on crutches instead of bothering with the soreness and bleeding that came with wearing his first prosthetic leg.
But that's changed. The right leg he gets around on today just two-stepped through Daytona Beach's Bike Week.
When he waits on a red light, it stays on the brake of his custom Harley-Davidson without slipping to the ground. And the leg safely allows him to jump to the ground when he lands the helicopter he pilots.
It's also proven handy for roping cattle, racing cars and operating bulldozers. (That last part is what he does for a paycheck.)
Johnson, who lives southeast of Chillicothe, lost much of his leg at 14 when a combine in a field of soybeans on the family farm snagged his shoestring. That was in 1979.
More than three decades makes a big difference, as has a recent study to improve prosthetic limbs for returning troops and other amputees.
WillowWood, a prosthetic-maker in Mount Sterling, is collaborating with wound experts at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center to improve prosthetics for those who've lost a leg above the knee.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs gave $3.7 million for the work. The team is about 18 months into a 26-month project, said Jim Colvin, director of research and development at WillowWood.
So far, there have been 20 participants.
WillowWood, which was founded in 1907, has long worked to improve prosthetics but has largely relied on intuition, experience and feedback from test patients.
This study offers the staff an opportunity to work with medical experts to better understand the science behind what makes an artificial leg more responsive, more reliable and less likely to cause trouble for the remainder of the natural limb, Colvin said.
At Ohio State, study participants go through a series of exams to see how the amputee's leg responds to the pressure and fit of the prosthetic's socket.
"The prosthesis has a potential of hurting your limb," said Ohio State researcher Dr. Chandan Sen.
When the amputees visit Ohio State, researchers perform exams and record information generated by sensors fitted into the prosthesis. This helps Sen and his team better understand how the prosthesis interacts with flesh and bone.
"Veterans are in their 20s, early 30s. They will live their whole lives (on a prosthesis)," Sen said. "They have to be able to enjoy life - they want to run, they want to play tennis."
An ideal prosthesis is custom-fit to be snug enough to respond but doesn't create undue pressure when it's not in use, such as when a person is seated, said Sen, who directs the university's wound center.
Finding that balance has been a challenge with above-the-knee amputees, Colvin said.
For below-the-knee amputees, the company sells a system that uses a vacuum - something that didn't work well above the knee until this study, he said.
Without a good fit, "it's like a pair of shoes that is too loose."
Jeff Denune, clinical director of prosthetics at WillowWood, said this study is putting science behind the belief that vacuum systems make for a better fit.
That includes information about oxygen levels in the limb, circulation and skin mechanics, Denune said.
It's also allowed the team at WillowWood to come up with a better prosthesis for above-knee amputees, including a new liner that limits perspiration and a responsive vacuum that increases suction when a person is active and decreases it when they are seated.
The sensors send data to a computer, providing feedback for Denune so he can make adjustments.
A typical below-the-knee model costs about $12,000 to $15,000. The company has yet to price an above-the-knee system, Colvin said.
Johnson said he has less perspiration, no skin irritation and no rash with the experimental model.
"There's nothing I can't do," he said.
mcrane@dispatch.com
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Quogue Library
Quogue Library, 90 Quogue Street, Quogue, NY
Quogue Library Authors Series: A.J. Finn
July 8th A.J. Finn
A. J. Finn has written for numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the Times Literary Supplement (UK). A native of New York, Finn lived in England for ten years before returning to New York City. His first novel, The Woman in the Window, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and is the year’s biggest-selling adult novel, selling more than one million copies in English alone in fewer than three months. The book has been translated into 38 languages worldwide, and the film adaptation will shoot in New York City this summer.
A.J. Finn, author of the New York Times bestselling novel, The Woman in the Window kicks off Quogue Library’s 2018 Conversations with the Authors series on July 8th from 5-7 p.m. Tickets for the event which feature a reading from his bestselling novel, a question and answer period with the audience, a wine and cheese reception and author meet and greet are $20.00 and available at the library. Call 631-653-4224 for more information. Meet the author whose book Stephen King called: “Unputdownable.”
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Huber Heights changes meeting format, goal to be more ‘professional’
Steven Matthews, Staff Writer
HUBER HEIGHTS —
Huber Heights staff members are no longer required to attend City Council meetings after what has recently evolved into unprofessional settings at those meetings, City Manager Rob Schommer said.
Schommer sent out an email Oct. 13 to city staff informing them that he will be the only staff member to attend council meetings, due to staff being “consistently put under pressure and scrutiny at the regular sessions,” he wrote.
The shift in format will allow council members to deliberate on agenda items, while the committee meetings will be designed for presentations by staff and for council members to give direction, ask questions and seek information.
“It’s a brilliant move,” said Councilman Mark Campbell, chair of the administration committee. “It’s a better use of staff’s time to invest more of their effort at the committee level, so when we get to the formal business meetings, their input and work is done. It will help the city conduct the business meetings more professionally.”
In the email, Mayor Tom McMasters is identified as the primary individual responsible for the “prolonged debates and criticisms directed at staff.”
City Council meets at 7 p.m. the second and fourth Mondays of each month, and there have been times this year when meetings have lasted deep into the night.
“Under the Mayor’s interrogations, staff looks unprepared,” Schommer’s email said. “We all know that is not the case. Staff is diligently prepared based on the input and discussions provided at the committee/work sessions. It is not professional to sit quietly at committee/work sessions, then without notice berate staff at the regular business meeting.”
McMasters said having staff at the regular business meetings is “not useful and a waste of money.” He’d much rather see written reports from staff, he said.
But “discussion needs to happen before the vote,” McMasters said. “We can have that in the committee meetings, but if things come up between committee meetings and council meetings, then that’s when the discussions need to happen. … There has never been any deliberation in council meetings, except when I try to facilitate.”
The Administration, Public Works, and Public Services and Safety committees meet the week prior to City Council meetings. After presentations from staff and any discussions, the respective committees then make a recommendation on the appropriate agenda items.
The new format is expected to be indefinite. Staff members will be asked to attend council meetings if a public presentation or specific information is required, beyond what Schommer can provide.
“We need that discussion and input as early as possible,” Schommer said. “It seemed as if the system was allowing it to be brought about the last minute. We want it as early as possible, not as late as possible.”
McMasters has been at the center of controversy since he took office in January 2014.
McMasters refused to sign travel requests submitted by three city councilwomen, even though the money was approved in the 2015 budget; has been censured by City Council twice; city staff filed a complaint against McMasters; he attached, without authorization, a memo to Schommer’s contract stating his disapproval; and has refused to sign legislation that was passed by council.
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Puffin project given lottery cash boost
An RSPB Scotland project to aid conservation efforts for puffins has been awarded �49,800 by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Pic: Andy Hay (rspb-images.com)
Debbie Clarke
An RSPB Scotland project to aid conservation efforts for puffins has been awarded £49,800 by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Puffins are one our most recognisable and much loved seabirds with their colourful bills and eye markings. However, in recent years their numbers across the UK and Europe have plummeted leading to the species being declared vulnerable to global extinction, with further declines of between 50-79 percent estimated by 2065.
Warming seas, caused by climate change, affecting puffins’ food sources are thought to be one of the main threats to their numbers.
Now thanks to this HLF grant an innovative project to help these threatened seabirds will take place this year. Project Puffin (UK) combines the latest technology with citizen science to tackle three of the biggest challenges hampering conservation efforts for these charismatic birds; discovering more about what puffins feed their chicks, where they go to find food and how their numbers are changing.
As over 80 percent of the British and Irish population of puffins is found in Scotland much of the project’s work will focus here.
Counts will take place at a number of puffin colonies, many of which have seen an alarming reduction in size. The counts are urgently required to accurately measure the extent of this decline and assess how puffins are currently faring.
GPS trackers will be carefully fitted to puffins at two sites in Scotland. During the summer these 31 tags will provide information on where parent puffins go to fish to feed their chick. This will then be combined to generate maps of their offshore feeding areas during the tracking, and also detail what conditions they need to feed.
Further information on the diet of puffins will be gathered through the citizen science aspect of the project taking place while puffins are feeding their chicks during June and July. Visitors to puffin colonies across the UK and Ireland are asked to take photographs of the birds with fish in their bills. The project will provide clear guidelines for this to ensure puffins, which are very sensitive to human presence around their burrows, and other wildlife are not disturbed, and so that the photographs provide the most useful data possible. An online portal will be set up to submit the photographs to; these will build a picture of what the chicks are being fed.
Ellie Owen, who leads on the RSPB’s seabird tracking work in the UK, said: “Puffins are wonderful birds that are in desperate need of help to ensure the long term survival of the species here. We’re immensely grateful to HLF for funding this vital work.
“Across the country there is great affection for these birds and this project will give people the chance to get involved with the work being done to save them. The project’s webpage will feature regular video blog updates from the team, people will be able to see where puffins have been tracked to, what information has been gathered on what they are eating, follow the stories of individual birds, and hear first hand experiences from our puffin counters.
“In the future we expect the project data will advise government on the best ways to protect puffins at sea. It’s devastating to think that our coastlines may no longer be brightened up by these birds coming into land furiously flapping their wings with their orange legs outstretched. RSPB Scotland is doing all it can to conserve this species and this project is crucial to our ongoing effort to turn puffin fortunes around.”
Lucy Casot, Head of HLF Scotland, added: “Our natural heritage is a most precious resource and, thanks to National Lottery players, HLF grants have helped to protect an amazing range of landscapes, habitats, and species of plants and animals. HLF is delighted to support Project Puffin that will stimulate people’s interest in the natural world and so help them conserve it for future generations.”
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To Mumbai with love
In 2006, Martin Roos, Managing Director of DSV Air & Sea India & Bangladesh, moved to Mumbai as part of a team to establish DSV in India.
Until 2006, DSV (then DFDS) had operated through agents in India. However, at the time, it became increasingly clear that DSV should establish a presence to further grow the business. And so a team of four Danes was put together and sent on a mission to establish DFDS India.
With the support of DK-based Peter Larsen (now Regional Director, Middle East, Sub Continent and Africa), the team consisted of Lars Nielsen, who had worked with one of DSV’s former Indian agents; Michael Carstensen, who came from an MD role in DSV Indonesia; Christian Hoegh Andersen from DSV DK; and Martin Roos from DSV DK:
We spread out to the four main metropolises: Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore to establish what we now know as DSV India. I believe we were one of the first Air and Sea entities to use the new consolidated name DSV.
Today, DSV India has nine offices and employs more than 230 staff who produce an annual turnover in excess of USD 50 million.
This is Martin's story…
A great first expat experience
India is Martin’s first experience as an expatriate – and what an experience: “India is unlike anything I could have anticipated and certainly unlike anything I have ever experienced before”.
The decision to move abroad was easy for Martin, as Denmark is a relatively small country and he has always been eager to experience new cultures and places. “With my personality and mind-set, it was only a matter of time before I would seek challenges outside of Denmark”.
Another aspect of the decision was the career and business prospects.
The business environment and general pace in India is faster than in most other countries, which obviously generates opportunities that more stable economies simply cannot. So this was a big step up for me,
he explains.
Change is the norm
An easy decision turned out to be hard work. It took Martin a year to settle in, not least physically. The food, the climate, the culture and a busy job all proved to be quite the challenge, albeit a welcome one. “I left Denmark to test my own capabilities and limits,” he states. And that has certainly been the case. In India, no two days are the same; the unexpected constantly happens, which requires you to continuously motivate and remind yourself to keep on track.
As it turns out, the thing Martin now appreciates most about India is the climate and the exotic feel – and the many different faces of India. Goa, for example, is only an hour’s flight from Mumbai and a nice retreat from the hustle and buzzle of Indian city life with people literally everywhere.
Paving the way for achievements
In other parts of the world change is not necessarily a good thing or at the very least, it’s a difficult process. But in India, Martin has found that people are ready to change, allowing him and others to quickly see and measure the impact of “what we are trying to build… India is such a vibrant place with a host of opportunities – and populated with very talented people”.
He is slightly annoyed that Indians are sometimes seen as uneducated and unambitious compared to other populations. India is just fundamentally different in so many ways as a result of how the culture and society has been built and established, he emphasises: “And it’s a nation of 1.2 billion inhabitants, which does not compare to, say, a nation of 5 million,” he adds.
Martin is proud of his team. “It’s not a one-man show,” he says; “we have a whole organisation in place with trainees, forwarders, team leaders, heads of department, branch managers etc., the same as everywhere else in DSV. And we’re doing very well.”
Not a nation of elephants and snake charmers
Another misconception about India is that elephants and snake charmers dominate the streets.
There are a lot of stereotypical ideas out there, but they usually boil down to fear of the unknown or little knowledge of today’s India. I always suggest that people visit and see for themselves. I have the greatest respect for people who do that, even if they end up concluding that India is not their cup of tea. At least they gave it a shot.
Having said that, he does admit there are negatives to life in India – like all other places on the planet. He still finds it difficult to live with issues such as poverty and social hierarchy. “It’s hard to witness and accept that for some people choice and education do not exist.”
He also has a hard time with the general lack of structure and ownership, but knows that continuous follow-up is the key and must be both expected and accepted as the order of the day, even if it can be hard sometimes.
Make sure you have someone to talk to
During his nine years in India, Martin has benefitted from a great network. And he stresses the importance of being active in an expat network:
Make sure you have someone you can talk to and share local difficulties and challenges with. It’s therapeutical, you get things off your chest, and, if you listen in return, you’ll benefit from another person’s experience with a similar situation.
He continues:
“My former manager (Michael Carstensen) was a central character in the expat society, always helping other expats personally and professionally. It is not always appreciated or acknowledged, but it has taught me to always extend a helping hand; you might need it one day yourself. I try to pass on all the advice and learning I have received to the new generation of expats”.
Being a part of a great network is one thing, you also need to be mentally prepared for what you are getting yourself into. It helps to keep an open mind and take the time to learn about local etiquette and culture, so you can apply it to your new role and responsibilities.
I absolutely love it and wouldn’t be without it
Martin currently has no plans to return to Denmark or seek new challenges in another country. He feels he has developed as a person to become more understanding as a result of his encounter with and continued life in India:
Being an expat has broadened my perspectives on many fronts; I certainly have an improved cultural understanding compared to ten years ago. Now, I try to understand the cultural and social heritage and why people might act the way they do rather than just entering into an argument or a discussion. For me it is important to understand where people are coming from and what could have possibly shaped their opinions.
CV and bio
Professionally:
Trainee 2004-2006 (DSV DK)
Business Dev. Manager 2006-2012 (DSV India)
Head of Sales 2012-2014 (DSV India)
MD DSV India & Bangladesh 2014-
Privately:
37 years old, lives in Mumbai with wife Priya.
Find out more about global career opportunities in DSV
Visit the DSV India website for more information about our business in India
Rene Falch Olesen
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Asia Markets Higher Monday
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Asian stock markets were higher on Monday as investors cheered the outcome of negotiations between the United States and China that put a trade war on hold, clearing uncertainty.
KEEPING SCORE: Japan's Nikkei 225 rose 0.3 percent to 23,002.37. Hong Kong's Hang Seng jumped 0.7 percent to 31,265.70, while the Shanghai Composite Index advanced 0.6 percent to 3,213.84. South Korea's Kospi added 0.2 percent to 2,465.57. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 inched down 0.1 percent to 6,084.50. Stocks in Southeast Asia were mixed.
TRADE TALKS: The U.S. and China concluded two days of trade negotiations with an agreement not to impose tariffs on each other, pulling back from the brink of a trade war. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the two countries have made "meaningful progress" and that the U.S. has agreed to put on hold proposed tariffs on up to $150 billion in Chinese products. China said it will "significantly increase" its purchases of American goods and services.
ANALYST'S TAKE: "This is likely to send Asian markets higher as risk sentiment was somewhat subdued on Friday when markets stayed cautious amid China and the U.S. trade talks," Mizuho Bank said in a daily commentary.
WALL STREET: U.S. stocks finished mixed on Friday. The S&P 500 index fell 0.3 percent to 2,712.97. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 1.11 points to 24,715.09. The Nasdaq composite lost 0.4 percent to 7,354.34. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks rose 0.1 percent to 1,626.63.
OIL: Benchmark U.S. crude oil rose 43 cents to $71.71 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In the previous session, the contract finished at $71.28 a barrel, down 21 cents. Brent crude, used to price international oil, gained 43 cents to $78.94 per barrel in London. It finished at $78.51 per barrel in the previous session, down 79 cents.
CURRENCIES: The dollar rose to 111.32 yen from 110.78 yen while the euro weakened to $1.172 from $1.177.
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By Nicol Fraser, June 26, 2019
Even the most successful businesses risk failure if they stand still. While they carry on doing all the things that brought them success, the world changes around them: new technologies supersede their business models, customer tastes evolve and competitors with different skills bring disruption. Eventually, what was once a high-performing enterprise starts to decline. This is more pertinent now than ever, with the rapid evolution of technology and computing power.
History is littered with examples of businesses that have suffered this fate, from Kodak to Blockbuster. But failure isn’t inevitable: the key is to map a path for your business so that it can reinvent itself for the future and define its position in a brave new world.
In other words, disrupt your own business before someone does it for you.
Sprinting in a new direction
When Dunedin invested in CitySprint, it was a prosperous same-day courier business well-placed to benefit from the rapid growth of ecommerce. It also saw opportunities to expand into the healthcare market, where many hospitals were paying taxi firms to deliver pathology samples and medical supplies.
But while CitySprint was excelling as a B2B delivery services provider, its business model required reinvention. It operated in the business-to-business courier market, a model which itself had been disrupted by the advent of sending documents by email. To take advantage of the rapid growth in ecommerce, CitySprint had to develop the model to make deliveries direct to the consumer for its new retail clients. It had also only just begun to make inroads into healthcare.
The answer was to build a business with the scale and technology required to pivot into these new markets. That resulted in a buy and build strategy, making more than 20 acquisitions of smaller courier businesses to build density and bring additional service lines but also, crucially, the development of proprietary technologies to power the new business model.
In the direct-to-consumer marketplace, CitySprint developed a logistics technology called “On The Dot”, which enables it’s retail customers to offer consumers a one-hour delivery slot of their choosing. This was market leading and gave the consumer what they wanted most, convenience. It also allowed retailer customers to compete against Amazon in delivery. The technology also meant healthcare providers could establish and monitor a chain of custody for their goods, which is a crucial in this heavily regulated sector.
The results were transformative. By the time Dunedin exited CitySprint five years later, it had evolved from a straightforward courier and logistics company servicing the B2B market into a high-tech provider of logistics solutions for retail and healthcare customers. The business has exciting prospects and the potential for international expansion through licensing its technologies for use in new markets.
Lessons from the frontline
The lessons of the CitySprint story can be applied to any successful business now contemplating its future in a fast-changing world. Above all, transforming a business from a position of strength is a more attractive proposition than responding to a weakness. This is partly because the business has more time to make smart strategic decisions – and to test out what works in practice. In practical terms, it also helps to use cash flow generated from the core business to invest in its future without needing to seek additional shareholder funding.
This is not to suggest that changing direction is straightforward. It’s crucial to have a chief executive and board who can look beyond the day-to-day business, to scan the environment for emerging threats and the right opportunities to embrace. The job of any chief executive today, when the pace of change is accelerating, is to be one step ahead of the market.
There will be practical difficulties too. People are often resistant to change and can represent the biggest issue: as the company pivots direction, it may need new talent with different skills, but recruiting such staff for a business that has yet to make the leap can be challenging. Some businesses go as far as setting up a new venture with autonomous leadership within the company to drive transformation, not least to develop the sort of entrepreneurial culture necessary to attract the right talent.
It is also important to work in partnership with shareholders and keep an open dialogue with them about strategic options for operating in a future world, so that they are on board and alongside for any transition that requires further investment.
Meanwhile, management cannot afford to neglect the core business. Transformation can be a significant distraction, but the core provides the foundation for change. It may be necessary to appoint an interim head of the existing business with a sole focus to keep it performing strongly.
Then there are fundamental questions to ask about the change process, particularly where this involves substantial technology investment. An important early decision is whether to develop in-house or work with a “best-of-breed” partner. The latter may be preferable for companies worried that they do not have the internal expertise necessary to develop their own work flows and products;
Judgement by results
Smart businesses set themselves up for change and success through thorough preparation and focused execution. They talk to customers about their evolving needs and their readiness to integrate with new solutions. They understand exactly what their competitors are up to – both existing rivals and new entrants.
Nevertheless, it’s crucial to set key milestones for the change process – and to be prepared to tweak the strategy if and when they aren’t achieved.
In the end, disrupting your business involves brave decision making and something of a leap of faith. That’s bound to feel unsettling and there will be ups and downs along the way. Still, one truth should give companies the nerve to break out of their comfort zone: doing nothing is likely to be the only option that’s certain to lead to decline sooner or later. It’s not an option at all.
Contact Nicol Fraser to see if your business is ready for disruption on 020 7292 2110 or nicol.fraser@dunedin.com.
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Bush blasts Iran, implores allies to act
By Michael Abramowitz and Washington Post |
PUBLISHED: January 14, 2008 at 3:59 am | UPDATED: August 15, 2016 at 7:07 pm
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — President Bush on Sunday accused Iran of undermining peace in Lebanon, funding terrorist groups, trying to intimidate its neighbors and refusing to be open about its nuclear program and ambitions.
In a speech described by the White House as the centerpiece of his eight-day trip to the Middle East, Bush urged other countries to help the United States “confront this danger before it is too late.”
Bush sought to address the Iranian people directly, saying: “You have a right to live under a government that listens to your wishes, respects your talents and allows you to build better lives for your families. Unfortunately, your government denies you these opportunities and threatens the peace and stability of your neighbors. So we call on the regime in Tehran to heed your will and to make itself accountable to you.”
Iranian officials, meanwhile, pledged to answer all remaining questions about their country’s past nuclear activities within four weeks, the Associated Press reported.
The timetable was announced by a spokeswoman for Mohamed ElBaradei, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who wrapped up a two-day visit to Tehran that included meetings with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said the Iranian move was not enough.
Bush’s comments on Iran were part of a speech devoted to advancing the cause of freedom and democracy in the Middle East.
It was the latest in a steady volley of attacks on the country in the past week that began even before he left for Jerusalem last Tuesday.
Bush is trying to persuade Arab countries to join U.S. efforts to pressure Iran, though many appear ambivalent about the administration’s campaign after a new U.S. intelligence report that concluded that Iran stopped a nuclear weapons program in 2003.
Usually averse to sightseeing, Bush rode out into the sand dunes to the desert encampment of Abu Dhabi’s crown prince, Sheik Mohammed Bin Zayed Nahyan. He let Bush hold one of his prize falcons.
Today, Bush will travel to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, viewed by many inside and outside the administration as the linchpin of efforts to develop an anti-Iran coalition.
As part of an attempt to show its commitment to Saudi Arabia, a senior administration official said the White House plans to notify Congress about a substantial arms sale package for the Saudis. The package is expected to be worth $20 billion.
Bush has warned Iran that it faced “serious consequences” for a recent incident in which the Pentagon accused Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboats of harassing U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital passage for oil. Iran has challenged the U.S. account of the incident.
New details have emerged in past days that raised questions about parts of the initial account, including a Pentagon acknowledgment that a threatening radio message heard by the U.S. ships may not have come from the Iranians.
The commander of one of the U.S. ships said Sunday that the message was taken seriously because it came as Iranian vessels swarmed the American fleet, the Associated Press reported.
Cmdr. Jeffery James of the destroyer USS Hopper and Capt. David Adler of the cruiser USS Port Royal spoke to reporters Sunday at the Bahrain headquarters of the Navy’s Fifth Fleet, which patrols the Persian Gulf.
Neither would say how close the Navy was to firing at the Iranian boats.
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Second EU environmental satellite launched
A second satellite aimed at tackling environmental disasters and responding to emergency situations has been launched. It is part of the European Commission’s Earth observation programme “Copernicus”. Called the ‘Sentinel-2a’, […]
By Priyanka Shrestha
Sentinel-2A lifted off on a Vega launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Image: ESA-M/Pedoussaut
A second satellite aimed at tackling environmental disasters and responding to emergency situations has been launched.
It is part of the European Commission’s Earth observation programme “Copernicus”.
Called the ‘Sentinel-2a’, the satellite was sent into orbit on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana a year after the first one.
The addition of the second satellite will allow Copernicus to deliver images of Earth’s changing land “with a high level of detail and accuracy”, the Commission said.
EU citizens and businesses have free, full and open access to the data which can be used to manage and protect the environment and natural resources and tackle climate change.
It can also help in responding to emergency situations – both man-made accidents and natural disasters such as flooding and landslides.
In the recent earthquake in Nepal, the combination of the pictures acquired before and after the quake by the Copernicus satellite helped local relief efforts target their resources.
Elżbieta Bieńkowska, Commissioner for Internal market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs said: “Copernicus provides more precise and reliable information about our environment and European citizens’ security and the availability of full, free and open satellite observation data is already today allowing innovative entrepreneurs to create new applications and services in Europe.”
Studies suggest Copernicus – which by 2021 will include six satellites – could generate a financial benefit of around €30 billion (£21.4bn) and create 50,000 jobs in Europe by 2030.
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Jean Simmons 1929-2010
PUBLISHED: 14:11 24 January 2010 | UPDATED: 07:40 02 July 2010
Jean Simmons with Marlon Brando in Guys and Dolls.
Jean Simmons, who has died aged 80, was plucked from a dance troupe at the age of 14 for her first film role and went on to become an Oscar nominated Hollywood star. In one of her last ever interviews she talks about her life and her final film, set in Norfolk.
Actress Jean Simmons, who has died aged 80, was plucked from a dance troupe at the age of 14 for her first film role and went on to become an Oscar nominated Hollywood star. In one of the last ever interviews, she talks about her life, movies and her final film, set in Norfolk.
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Hollywood starlets didn't come more enduring than Jean Simmons, a leading lady who enjoyed more than 60 years in the celluloid spotlight.
And her legend was even more remarkable when you consider her humble beginnings sleeping under a table in her London home to escape falling bombs during the Second World War.
The actress, who has died aged 80, seemed destined for stardom from the moment she was plucked at 14 from a dance troupe to make her first film.
She quickly rose to become one of the biggest stars of British and American cinema, playing Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and the memorable role of Kanchi in the Archers' Black Narcissus. She starred opposite Marlon Brando in Guys And Dolls, Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry and Kirk Douglas in Spartacus. Nominated for two Oscars, she was one of the most memorable names and faces on the planet.
Though hugely talented - she won an Emmy Award for her role in the 1980s mini series The Thorn Birds - by the late-1980s her star had waned and she was battling problems with alcohol.
She returned briefly to the screen in How To Make An American Quilt in the mid-1990s, but since then had filled in her time doing voiceovers for computer games until she emerged from semi-retirement in 2008 to star in the Norfolk-set drama Shadows In The Sun.
In what would be her final film role, the archetypal English Rose played Hannah, a widow living in a large house on the isolated North Norfolk coast in the 1960s.
A young bearded loner called Joe (played by Jamie Dornan) brings her marijuana which she smokes to ease the pain of an unspecified illness and also - as one suspects from the twinkle in Simmons' eye - for the fun of it. She and the much younger Joe seem to live in quiet contentment until Hannah's son Robert (played by James Wilby) arrives with his own children Kate (Ophelia Lovibond) and Sam (Toby Marlow).
The family drama, directed by David Rocksavage, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, owner of Houghton Hall, near Fakenham, marked her return to home soil for the first time in years.
“I used to visit England a lot more,” said the actress who described herself as “semi-retired” spending her days playing internet scrabble from her home in Santa Monica.
“I'm not good on flying. I've flown so much in my life so maybe I better call it quits. I did go to visit where I was born in Crouch Hill a few years ago with my daughter. It was kind of fun just wandering around but a strange feeling thinking 'My God, I don't know this place at all'.”
Spending most of her formative years in Cricklewood, north London, it was a stint at stage school which propelled her into a career spanning six decades and cemented her in the cinema hall of fame.
She moved to America in the 1950s but it still took a nudge for her to be truly tempted into the glitz and glamour of Hollywood - and resiliently holding on to her English accent.
“I just treated acting like a little bit of fun and didn't take it that seriously, thinking I would just get married and have children,” she said.
“But it was when I was working with David Lean [in Great Expectations] that I finally caught the bug and thought actually this would be nice.”
“Travelling is one of the fortunate things of my career and I have met some truly wonderful people along the way.”
These wonderful people include Laurence Olivier - or “Larry” as she affectionately recalled him, who in turn once described her as a “ravishing 18-year-old” when they starred together in Hamlet.
Her roll call of leading men goes on to include silver screen icons Kirk Douglas, Marlon Brando and Spencer Tracy - “he was such a good friend and just a delight”.
One of her two daughters, Tracy, who now works as a movie editor, was even named after the film star.
It is recalling her time on set with Kirk Douglas in the recently re-released Spartacus, which she described as a “great story that always holds up against the test of time”, that a cheeky side to her emerges.
“I remember a long, long day of filming and it took forever to get Kirk Douglas up on his cross,” she said. “We played a terrible joke on him when as he was safely installed the assistant director called lunch and left him up there. He could have had the lot of us fired but he was very good about it. You have to have a sense of humour in this industry.”
Almost 50 years later she retained her leading lady status with Shadows In The Sun, which features Norfolk's marshes, sand dunes, and wide empty beaches with filming taking place at Walsingham, Holkham and Brancaster.
“She's an elderly lady who's not terribly well but gutsy with a great sense of humour - very fun to play,” she said of her role. “It was wonderful being up in Norfolk and probably one of the healthiest shoots I've been on.”
The way she described shooting the film in Norfolk sounded akin to visiting a rural spa. "Oh, it's the most beautiful place and so healthy, with the country air and the sea air," she enthused.
She enjoyed it so much that she even stopped smoking. "We were all health nuts, drinking green tea all the time. I haven't worked for such a long time. It brought a joy back to my life that I thought I had lost. It did me personally the world of good."
So how did she feel about the supposed lack of good parts for older women that had so limited her roles in the past two decades?
“I think there are good parts for women but it's whether you want to do them or not.”
She added: “In many ways, the industry has changed a lot over the years. It's not so much acting it's more like being somebody that you're playing.
“It was much broader in the old days and slowly, gradually you could see the difference in style. It's quite interesting, especially when you see the old pictures, the old black and white films, which I watch with great nostalgia.”
Shadows In The Sun saw the actress invited to attend a screening of the film by the Wymondham-based Regal Experience group, at the personal invitation of its chairman Michael Armstrong, who travelled to Hollywood to meet her.
“She was charming and so kind to us and even got her daughter [Tracy Granger, from her first marriage to film idol, Stewart Granger] to take photographs of us with film posters we had taken along, which she also signed. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and one we will never forget,” he recalls.
The group, which arranges screenings of classic films at the old Regal Cinema in Wymondham, had already written to Miss Simmons when they heard she would be filming in Norfolk.
She was unable to meet them in Norfolk but sent an invitation for the group to visit her at her Santa Monica home.
Mr Armstrong today said the group had been very upset by the news of her death. “It is like losing a member of the family and she took such a keen interest in our aim of keeping alive screenings of the classic films,” he said.
Regal Experience are now organising a special one-off screening of Shadows in the Sun at the Regal cinema on March 28. The film's director , has agreed to attend and talk about the making of the film.
t For more information about the special Wymondham screening or the group's programme can contact Mr Armstrong on 01953 603246.
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The White House Is Having Some HR Issues
They have learned nothing from the Flynn debacle.
There are so many nooks and crannies in the White House to which he can spirit away his phone that his keepers can't possibly find them all. Let it fly, Mr. President*!
This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2017
This guy was mentored by Roy Freaking Cohn. What an ingrate.
Let us talk this morning about personnel decisions. There never has been a White House that's been so bad at hiring people, and I include those presided over by Ulysses S. Grant and Warren Gamaliel Harding. We have to begin with Michael Flynn, who must know absolutely everything. He was made the National Security Adviser despite the fact that everybody in Washington except Alexander Ovechkin was firing off flares to warn the administration off. (This, by the way, is how the whole thing may also sink Mike Pence, since the vice president was head of the transition team in question. That may be a big part of The Story that his lawyer says Flynn has to tell.) Now, we learn that, not only was Flynn uncomfortably cozy with the Russians, he also was peddling foreign policy advice on behalf of Turkey, for whom he was an unregistered lobbyist.
It\'s Kushner\'s Turn
There is no sign that they've learned anything from this debacle. Their most recent hires—and rumored hires—are the scrapings of a deep and foul barrel. Let's look at Curtis Ellis, who is rumored to be the top candidate for a diplomatic post within the Department of Labor. From The New York Daily News:
Curtis Ellis, a Trump adviser who has written for conservative website Breitbart and once accused Democrats of plotting the "liquidation of white, blue-collar working families," is on the Labor Department short list, according to Bloomberg News…Ellis, who claims to have filled a role as a campaign adviser to President Trump — although he was never listed officially as such — is already working with the Labor Department. He's on the "beachhead team" brought in by Trump, according Pro Publica…Ellis is best-known in right-wing circles as a World Net Daily contributor, a website that's written numerous "birther" stories questioning the validity of former President Barack Obama's U.S. birth certificate. He's argued in his writing that Obama and Hillary Clinton wanted to kill working-class Americans…"Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want us to believe that the disappearance of American jobs in 'the new global economy' is as inevitable as the sun rising in the east. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the radical left planned the liquidation of white, blue-collar working families in order to 'fundamentally transform' America," he wrote in 2016.
And, most spectacular of all, we have the news that the administration is considering giving a top job in the Department of Homeland Security to David Clarke, the high sheriff and keeper of the dungeons in Milwaukee. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Clarke is a complete nut. In his jail, a woman delivered a baby unattended and both of them died on a cell floor. Another inmate died of thirst. On the national scene, Clarke is renowned for saying really vicious and stupid stuff all the while dressing up like Jeff Goldblum's character from Buckaroo Banzai. Giving this guy a post anywhere within the national law-enforcement apparatus is tantamount to hiring a cannibal murderer as your sous-chef.
And, it appears, we yet might have Weepin' Joe Lieberman running the FBI. Good god, it's like a casting call at Castle Dracula.
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S.A.L.T. - Parashot Acharei-Mot - Kedoshim
Motzaei Shabbat
Parashat Acharei-Mot concludes with the section of arayot, which lists the various kinds of sexual relationships which the Torah forbids. In the introduction to this section the Torah admonishes, “You shall observe My commands and My statutes which a person shall perform and live by them” (18:5). The Gemara (Sanhedrin 74a) famously understands the phrase “va-chai bahem” (“and live by them”) in this verse as indicating that God does not wish us to die as a result of observing His commands. This verse thus establishes the famous rule of piku’ach nefesh, whereby the concern to rescue human life overrides the Torah’s laws.
A number of Acharonim have noted the irony in the fact that this rule is alluded to by the Torah specifically here, in the introduction to the section of arayot. Sexual offenses are among the group of three exceptions to the rule of piku’ach nefesh, as one is required to surrender his life when this is necessary to avoid a forbidden sexual relationship (such as if an enemy threatens to kill somebody if he refuses to engage in relations with a family member or another man’s wife). This prohibition, like idol-worship and murder, is not waived for the sake of protecting human life, in contradistinction to the vast majority of Torah laws. It might therefore strike us as surprising, and odd, that the Torah would establish the principle of piku’ach nefesh specifically in the context of arayot – one of the three sins regarding which this principle does not apply.
Several answers have been offered to this question, one of which emerges from the comments of Tosefot (Sanhedrin 74b) regarding the verse “va-chai bahem.” Tosefot assert that fundamentally, there should be no reason for the Torah to inform us the rule of piku’ach nefesh. The premise that God does not want us to surrender our lives for the sake of observing His laws is, essentially, intuitive and self-understood. The only reason why it was necessary for the Torah to specify “va-chaim bahem,” that we suspend its laws for the sake of human life, is because of the extraordinary requirement of martyrdom to avoid transgressing one of the three aforementioned sins (murder, idolatry and sexual immorality). Since there are three Torah laws for which one must be prepared to surrender his life, one might have assumed that this standard applies to all the Torah’s laws. It is for this reason, Tosfot explain, that the Torah informs us “va-chaim bahem,” that protecting human life overrides all but three of the Torah’s commands.
This perspective might help explain why the provision of “va-chai bahem” appears in the introduction to the section dealing with the arayot. The unique stringency of arayot, which must be observed even at the risk of death, is what gives rise to the possibility that all Torah laws override the concern for human life. And thus specifically in this context, the Torah specified “va-chai bahem,” that with but three exceptions, its laws are waived when human life is at risk.
(See Or Ha-chayim to Vayikra 18:5, and Rav Chaim Leib Eisenstein’s Peninim Mi-bei Midresha, Parashat Acharei-Mot.)
The Torah in Parashat Acharei-Mot introduces the mitzva of kisui ha-dam, which requires covering the blood of non-domesticated animals and birds that are slaughtered (17:13). This obligation does not apply to domesticated animals; after slaughtering a sheep or a cow, the animal’s blood does not have to be covered.
On the level of peshuto shel mikra (the plain meaning of the text), this command should be viewed in the context of the previous section, where God forbids Benei Yisrael from slaughtering domesticated animals in the wilderness except as sacrifices. While the precise meaning of this prohibition is subject to debate among the Tanna’im (Chulin 16b-17a), the straightforward reading of the text – as noted by the Ramban (17:2-3) – follows the view that during the years of travel in the wilderness, Benei Yisrael were permitted to slaughter domesticated animals only if they were offering a sacrifice. This means that if somebody wished to eat the meat of a domesticated animal, he would need to consecrate an animal as a shelamim offering, and bring it to the Mishkan where certain portions of the animal would be placed on the altar and others given to the kohen. The owner would then be allowed to eat the rest of the animal’s meat. Once Benei Yisrael entered the Land of Israel, where it was unfeasible to bring a sacrifice every time one wished to eat the meat of a domesticated animal, it became permissible to do so without offering a sacrifice. This rule applied only to domesticated animals for the simple reason that only domesticated animals could be brought as sacrifices. God wanted Benei Yisrael during this period to eat animals that are suitable for sacrifices only as sacrifices. Non-domesticated animals and birds, which are not offered as sacrifices, were allowed to be eaten in an ordinary fashion. (Some birds are eligible as an ola and chatat, but none are eligible as a shelamim, and thus nobody who would bring a bird offering would be able to partake of the bird’s meat.)
Accordingly, God here presents the instructions concerning all forms of meat consumption in the wilderness, establishing two basic guidelines: 1) slaughtering domesticated animals is forbidden outside the framework of sacrifices; 2) slaughtering non-domesticated animals and birds is allowed outside the Mishkan, provided that the blood is then covered by earth.
The explanation of this requirement to cover the blood likely relates to the reason given for why slaughtering domesticated animals was forbidden. God tells Moshe that this command is issued so that Benei Yisrael would sacrifice only in the Mishkan, “and they would no longer offer their sacrifices to the demons after which they stray…” (17:7). As Ibn Ezra explains, it seems that Benei Yisrael had grown accustomed in Egypt to offering sacrifices to the spirits in the desert. Forbidding the slaughtering of sacrifice-eligible animals outside the area of the Mishkan was a safeguard against pagan worship, to which Benei Yisrael were, apparently, drawn. This same concern likely underlies the requirement of kisui ha-dam. As birds and non-domesticated animals were not commonly offered as sacrifices, there was not the same level of concern regarding the slaughtering of these animals as there was regarding the slaughtering of domesticated animals. Nevertheless, God commanded Benei Yisrael to cover the blood to ensure that the blood could not be used in any sort of religious rite. Although slaughtering these animals and birds was allowed, it was still necessary to protect against pagan worship by requiring that the blood would be covered by earth so it could not be used for any sacrificial purpose. God thus sought to lead Benei Yisrael away from idolatry by forbidding the slaughtering of domesticated animals unless they are brought as sacrifices to Him, and by requiring that the blood of other creatures must be covered after slaughtering.
One of the commands issued in Parashat Acharei-Mot is the obligation of kisui ha-dam, which requires covering the blood of a slaughtered animal or bird. As we discussed yesterday, this mitzva applies specifically to birds and to non-domesticated animals. After one slaughters a domesticated animal, such as a cow or lamb, the blood does not have to be covered.
Among the approaches taken to explain this obligation appears in Rav Aharon Elazar Fashkas’ Ma’aseh Avot commentary to Pirkei Avot (p. 3a). Rav Fashkas takes note of the fact that the Torah introduces this command by addressing the case of a person who “hunts” a non-domesticated animal or bird (“asher yatzud tzeid chaya” – 17:13). This focus on the act of hunting, Rav Fashkas suggests, perhaps gives us a clue as to the nature of this command. The Torah allows sacrificing only domesticated animals, and thus whenever a sacrifice is required, one merely has to take an animal from his herd, or purchase an animal from the cattle market, to offer a sacrifice. Never does the Torah require a person to go out to hunt for a deer or other animals in the wild. Rav Fashkas thus suggests that the obligation of kisui ha-dam serves to draw one’s attention to the somewhat problematic nature of hunting birds or non-domesticated animals for food. A person goes out to hunt an animal because, apparently, he is not satisfied with the animals in his herd, and desires something different. The Torah seeks to admonish this individual for exerting this kind of effort for his physical gratification, a level of exertion that God does not require for sacrifices. While we are certainly not to ignore our physical and material needs, and we are entitled to enjoy food and other physical delights, we must live with a proper sense of balance and prioritization, devoting as much time and effort as we can to the service of our Creator. Covering the blood of a slaughtered bird or non-domesticated animal signals that while the Torah looks unfavorably upon – while stopping short of prohibiting – going to hunt for animals when ordinary meat is available with less effort and exertion.
One could easily question whether this approach is technically correct, as there are occasions when the Torah requires bringing doves or pigeons as sacrifices, and the obligation of kisui ha-dam applies even when slaughtering domesticated birds that do not require hunting, such as chickens. Nevertheless, the insight reminds us of the need for moderation in our material pursuits, that we must try to devote as much time and energy as possible to spirituality, to studying Torah and performing mitzvot, recognizing that this is ultimately the purpose for which we have come into the world.
The Torah in Parashat Kedoshim introduces the mitzva of neta revai, which applies to fruits produced by a tree on the fourth year since its planting. After the three-year period during which the fruit is forbidden for consumption (orla), the fruit during the tree’s fourth year is declared “kodesh hilulim le-Hashem” (“sacred for praise to the Lord” – 19:24). The commentaries (see Rashi, Rashbam) explain that the produce during the fourth year is considered sacred the same way the annual ma’aser sheni tithe is considered sacred – in that it must be brought to Jerusalem and eaten there. The produce is called “kodesh hilulim le-Hashem” because its consumption in Jerusalem is to be accompanied by joyous songs of praise to God.
The Gemara in Masekhet Berakhot (35a) cites this verse and considers interpreting it as a Biblical source for the requirement of berakha rishona – the recitation of a blessing before eating. The expression “kodesh hilulim,” according to this proposed reading, refers to the words of praise that must be expressed before partaking of the neta revai, thus establishing the general obligation to recite a blessing before partaking of food. The Gemara ultimately rejects this theory, concluding that the requirement of berakha rishona was enacted by Chazal, and in truth is not derived from this verse.
The question arises, according to the Gemara’s proposition that the phrase “kodesh hilulim” constitutes the source of the berakha rishona obligation, why would the Torah introduce this obligation specifically in the context of neta revai? At the stage when the Gemara viewed this obligation as a Torah requirement, why did it think that the Torah would introduce this mitzva in reference to neta revai, rather than present it as a generic command, applicable to all foods?
Rav Yosef Salant, in his Be’er Yosef, suggests an explanation based on the halakhic status of neta revai. As mentioned, neta revai has the same status as ma’aser sheni, the classification of which is subject to a debate among the Tanna’im. Rabbi Meir (Kiddushin 52b-53a) maintains that ma’aser sheni is considered sacred property, and not the legal property of the owner. Although he may eat the produce, he is not, from a technical, legal standpoint, the owner, as it has been consecrated and thus belongs to the Almighty. This has several legal implications, such as the inability to use the produce to betroth a woman, or to use an etrog of ma’aser sheni for the mitzva of the four species on Sukkot, as one may use only species which he legally owns. Although other Tanna’im disagree, the Rambam codifies this view of Rabbi Meir (Hilkhot Ma’aser Sheni 3:17), and he writes later (9:1) that neta revai has the same status as ma’aser sheni. It emerges, then, that when one eats his neta revai, he is, in essence, partaking of God’s food, so-to-speak. God allows – and even commands – him to partake of this food, but it does not belong to him.
On this basis, Rav Salant suggests, we can perhaps understand more clearly the Gemara’s proposed theory that the phrase “kodesh hilulim le-Hashem” forms the Biblical source of the requirement to recite a berakha before eating. The purpose of this berakha, as the Gemara there in Berakhot explains, is for a person to “take possession” of his food. The Gemara demonstrates based on sources in Tanakh that all food on earth belongs to the Almighty, and it is only by reciting a berakha that one earns rights over the food he wishes to eat. Accordingly, when the Gemara considered the possibility that berakha rishona constitutes a Biblical requirement, it cited a source specifically from the context of neta revai, food which does not become one’s possession even after reciting a berakha. This produce remains God’s property, as it were, even after one recites a blessing, yet God wants the individual to partake of it. As such, we might have assumed that one does not recite a berakha rishona over this produce, since the entire purpose of a berakha is to bring the food one wishes to eat under his possession – something that cannot happen when eating neta revai. And so the Torah – according to the Gemara’s hypothesis, which was ultimately dismissed – chose to introduce the berakha rishona requirement in this context, to clarify that one must recite a berakha even over hallowed produce which remains in God’s possession after the berakha is recited.
Parashat Acharei-Mot begins by outlining the avodat Yom Ha-kippurim, the service that is to be performed in the Beit Ha-mikdash each year on Yom Kippur. After detailing the special sacrifices and rituals, the Torah proceeds to introduce the two commands that apply on Yom Kippur even outside the Beit Ha-mikdash: the requirement of “affliction” (fasting and refraining from other physical pleasures), and the prohibition against work (16:29). Two verses later, the Torah repeats these two commands: “It is a Sabbath of rest for you; you shall afflict your souls.”
Abarbanel offers an insightful interpretation of this second verse, explaining that the phrase “afflict your souls” in this context refers not to fasting, but rather to the emotional angst of introspection and repentance, which he describes as, “inui la-nefashot ha-mitchartot mi-ma she-chat’u kol ha-shana” – “the torment of souls that regret all that they sinned throughout the year.” In this verse, Abarbanel writes, the Torah commands us to reverse our normal mode of conduct on Yom Kippur. On ordinary weekdays, we exert a great deal of physical energy in the pursuit of a livelihood and in caring for our bodily and material needs, but we generally spend little time “afflicting” our souls by reflecting upon our failings and shortcomings and upon how we can improve. Yom Kippur is the time to do just the opposite – to abstain from all physical work, and to spend the day involved in the “torment” of teshuva, in the difficult and painful process of introspection, remorse, guilt and resolutions for the future.
Abarbanel’s interpretation of this verse, according to which the term “affliction” refers to the emotional torment of teshuva, reminds us that repentance and spiritual growth is not easy. While the end result is gratifying, as one recognizes his achievement and appreciates how far he has come, the process itself is excruciating. If we want to elevate ourselves and improve, we need to endure the shame of guilt, the anguish of remorse, and the frustration of failure and missed opportunities. If we simply tell ourselves that we should improve, without experiencing any degree of what Abarbanel calls “torment,” then we are not likely to advance or grow. Self-improvement demands an element of “inui,” of emotional “affliction” borne out of a recognition of our guilt and failure, which in turn leads to a recognition of the desperate need for change.
(See also Rav Mayer Twersky’s “Penitential Pains”)
The Torah in Parashat Kedoshim (19:23-25) issues the commands relevant to the fruits of a newly-planted tree, and declares that the fruits are forbidden for the first three years after a tree’s planting (“orla”). The fruits of the fourth year are to be brought in Jerusalem and eaten amid giving praises to the Almighty (“kodesh hilulim le-Hashem”), and it is only on the fifth year when the fruit becomes entirely permissible without any restrictions.
The Ramban, commenting on these verses, explains that the fundamental objective of these laws is that one does not partake of his trees’ fruits until he first uses them in the context of giving praise to God. Just as the first fruits that ripen each year are brought to the Beit Ha-mikdash and given to a kohen (“bikkurim”), similarly, the first fruits produced by a new tree must be brought to Jerusalem and eaten there. The Torah forbids partaking of the fruits produced during the first three years, the Ramban explains, because these fruits are not suitable as an offering to God. It is only in a tree’s fourth year that it produces quality fruit, and therefore, in order for one to bring his tree’s first fruits to Jerusalem as an “offering” of sorts, he must refrain from the tree’s produce during its first three years.
Rav Chayim Elazary, in his Netivei Chayim, finds it significant that the Ramban speaks of the fruits of the fourth year as a “sacrifice.” (The Ramban’s formulation is “le-hakrivo lifnei Hashem ha-nikhbad.”) The fruits are eaten in their entirety; nothing at all is offered on the altar or given to a kohen. (Ibn Ezra actually writes that the fruits are given to a kohen, but this is in opposition to Halakha.) Seemingly, this produce hardly qualifies as a “sacrifice” in any sense of the term. If the Ramban uses this terminology in reference to this produce, Rav Elazary suggests, then we should perhaps expand our definition of the concept of “sacrifice.” Even if a person does not actually give anything of himself to the Almighty, and engages in a simple act such as eating, he is nevertheless considered as offering a “sacrifice” if he conducts his affairs in the manner prescribed by Halakha. Conducting one’s ordinary affairs, such as tending to his personal needs, is viewed as a “sacrifice,” as an offering to God, if this is done in accordance with the divine will as understood by our halakhic tradition. Hence, neta revai – the produce of the fourth year – is considered a “sacrifice,” as it is eaten under very specific conditions and subject to a strict code of laws. It thus establishes an important precedent for all our ordinary, mundane affairs, that can be transformed into sacred, hallowed endeavors when we meticulously ensure that they are conducted in precise compliance with the will of the Almighty.
Yesterday, we parenthetically noted Ibn Ezra’s comments in Parashat Kedoshim (19:24) in explaining the law of neta revai – the status of fruits produced during a tree’s fourth year. The Torah commands that after the first three years, during which the tree’s produce is forbidden for consumption (and for any other kind of benefit), in the fourth year, its fruit has a status of sanctity referred to by the Torah as “kodoesh hilulim.” According to the halakhic tradition, this means that the fruit must be brought to Jerusalem and eaten there in a state of ritual purity (like ma’aser sheni). Ibn Ezra, however, explained that the produce must be given to a kohen. In his view, it appears, neta revai resembles bikkurim, the first fruits that ripen each year that must be brought to the Beit Ha-mikdash and given to a kohen.
On the level of peshuto she mikra (the plain reading of the text), Ibn Ezra’s interpretation in fact seems quite compelling. The next verse (19:25) states, “And on the fifth year, you shall eat its fruit,” seemingly implying that the tree’s owner may not eat the fruit prior to the fifth year. This implication seems to be what led the Behag, as cited by numerous Rishonim (Tosefot, Rosh Hashanah 10a; Rash Mi-Shantz, Ma’aser Sheni 5:1), to controversially maintain that neta revai is forbidden for consumption during the fourth year, and it is eaten only during the fifth year. The Rambam, in Hilkhot Ma’akhalot Asurot (10:18), writes that this view is based upon a misreading of the aforementioned verse, which seems to imply that no produce of a tree – including the produce of the fourth year – may be eaten until the tree’s fifth year. In truth, the Rambam writes, this verse means something else entirely – that it is only from the fifth year that a tree’s produce may be eaten without special restrictions and guidelines. (See Dr. Bernard Revel’s treatment of this topic in his work on Targum Yonatan Ben Uziel.) Ibn Ezra’s reading, too, likely stems from this implication, only in his view, neta revai is never eaten by the tree’s owner, not even in the fifth year, and is instead given to the kohen. Accordingly, it emerges that the Torah forbids eating the produce during the first three years, designates the fourth year’s fruit as “kodesh hilulim,” and permits eating it only on the fifth year. Meaning, the fruits of the fourth year are neither forbidden for consumption, like the fruits of the first three years, nor permissible for consumption, like the fruits after the fourth year. The most likely explanation is that, as Ibn Ezra claims, the hallowed fruits of the fourth year are forbidden for the owner and instead given to a kohen, similar to bikkurim.
Nevertheless, as mentioned, Chazal understood that the fruit’s owner eats the netza revai, but under specific conditions, in Jerusalem. (See Sifrei to Bamidbar 5:10, which cites several opinions as to how this conclusion was reached.) The connection between this reading and the plain understanding of the text perhaps reinforces the idea we noted yesterday regarding the Ramban’s reference to neta revai as a “sacrifice.” Although the owner partakes of the neta revai, and does not give it as an offering or to a kohen, he is nevertheless considered as having offered a “sacrifice,” presumably because he eats the fruit under specific conditions, in compliance with God’s commands. This premise perhaps also underlies the relationship between the simple reading of the text – which implies that neta revai is given to a kohen – and the halakhic interpretation, which explains that the owner eats the produce in Jerusalem. By eating the neta revai in Jerusalem and in accordance with the Torah’s guidelines, one becomes like a kohen, who eats sacrificial food in the Beit Ha-mikdash in a state of sanctity and purity. When we conduct our mundane affairs in compliance with God’s will, strictly adhering to all relevant halakhic requirements and restrictions, then we elevate ourselves to a status resembling that of kohanim, living our lives devoted entirely to the service of our Creator like the kohanim in the Temple.
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Five Year Title Sponsor Extension
Dec. 13, 2017 / For Immediate Release
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl and Idaho Potato Commission agree on a new Title Sponsor Extension
BOISE, Idaho – The Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) agreed to a five-year extension for the naming rights to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, through 2021. The IPC has been the title sponsor of the nation’s northernmost Bowl since 2011.
The game, played annually since 1997, takes place at Albertsons Stadium on the campus of Boise State University. The 2017 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, featuring Central Michigan and Wyoming, is set for Dec. 22, at 2 p.m. MST, and will be televised on ESPN.
“Idaho produces the best potatoes in the world and makes the Idaho Potato Commission a perfect title sponsor for our Bowl,” said Kevin McDonald, Executive Director of the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. “We have enjoyed a strong partnership the past six games and look forward to many more.”
“The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl has proven to be an extremely effective sponsorship allowing the entire Idaho potato industry to get involved and support Idaho’s most important agricultural crop, which generates more than $4.5 billion in annual revenue and employs more than 30,000 people,” commented Frank Muir, President & CEO, IPC. “We are looking forward to being a part of the country’s premier cold weather college bowl game for another five years.”
The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl ranks alongside some of the most recognizable bowls in the country as a game that pays tribute to its state’s top agricultural export. The Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl and Cotton Bowl all took their namesakes from products critical to their respective state’s economic health. Idaho has been the nation’s largest producer of potatoes every year since 1957. The “Famous Potato” slogan was initiated by the IPC and added to the state’s license plates in 1948.
Through the extended partnership, the Bowl will be featured prominently in national and regional marketing campaigns conducted by the IPC. The popular Big Idaho Potato Truck will once again be front and center at this year’s game. Through its charitable program, “A Big Helping,” the Truck will be making a donation to RODS, a non-profit that finds home in the U.S. for children in other countries who have Down syndrome. The Truck has served as the main attraction at several high-profile events in 2017, including the Pro Football Hall of Fame Parade and the NASCAR race at Pocono Raceway.
About the Idaho Potato Commission
Established in 1937, the IPC is a state agency responsible for promoting and protecting the famous “Grown in Idaho®” seal, a federally registered certification mark that assures consumers are purchasing genuine, top-quality Idaho® potatoes. Idaho’s growing season of warm days and cool nights, ample mountain-fed irrigation and rich volcanic soil gives Idaho® potatoes their unique texture, taste and dependable performance, which differentiates them from potatoes grown in other states.
Tickets for the 2017 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl are available for purchase at FamousIdahoPotatoBowl.com. Prices start at $20 for reserved seating in the South End Zone. Tickets for reserved seating in the upper curves are on sale for $30, while main stadium seating is priced at $50 and Stadium Club seats are priced at $75. A limited number of suites, club seats and loge boxes are available by contacting the Boise State Athletic Ticket Office at (208) 426-4737. Tickets for those areas start at $100.
The 21st annual game is becoming synonymous with the holiday season, being played on Dec. 22 for the third consecutive year. Last year Idaho held off a tenacious Colorado State team, 61-50, in a record-setting affair. For just the third time in college football bowl history, both teams eclipsed the 600-yard mark, combining for 1,206 yards of high-flying offense — and that was after a scoreless first quarter.
ESPN Events, a division of ESPN, owns and operates a large portfolio of 31 collegiate sporting events worldwide. The roster includes three Labor Day weekend college football games; FCS opening-weekend game; 14 college bowl games, 11 college basketball events and two college award shows, which accounts for approximately 300-plus hours of programming, reaches almost 64 million viewers and attracts over 700,000 attendees each year. With satellite offices in Albuquerque, Birmingham, Boca Raton, Boise, Dallas-Fort Worth, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Montgomery and St. Petersburg, ESPN Events builds relationships with conferences, schools and local communities, as well as providing unique experiences for teams and fans.
Academy Sports + Outdoors Texas Bowl (Houston); AdvoCare Texas Kickoff (Houston); Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl (Florida); Bahamas Bowl (Nassau); Birmingham Bowl (Alabama); Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl (Florida); Camping World Kickoff (Orlando, Fla.); Celebration Bowl (Atlanta); Famous Idaho Potato Bowl (Boise); DXL Frisco Bowl (Frisco, Texas); Gildan New Mexico Bowl (Albuquerque); Guardian Credit Union FCS Kickoff (Montgomery, Ala.); Hawai’i Bowl (Honolulu); Las Vegas Bowl (Nevada); Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl (Dallas-Fort Worth);MEAC/SWAC Challenge (Baton Rouge, La.); Raycom Media Camellia Bowl (Montgomery, Ala.); The Home Depot College Football Awards Presented by Gildan (Atlanta) and Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl (Dallas-Fort Worth)
AdvoCare Invitational (Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Fla.); Armed Forces Classic (Ramstein Air Base, Germany); College Basketball Awards Presented by Wendy’s (Los Angeles); Gildan Charleston Classic (South Carolina); Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic (Honolulu); Jimmy V Men’s Classic presented by Corona (New York City); Jimmy V Women’s Classic presented by Corona (Hartford, Conn.); NIT Season Tip-Off (Brooklyn, N.Y.); PK80 presented by State Farm (Portland, Ore.); Puerto Rico Tip-Off; State Farm Champions Classic (Chicago) and Wooden Legacy(Fullerton, Calif.)
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Media Contact: Danielle Walsh at 970-980-7353 or idahopotatomedia@gmail.com
ESPN Media Contact: Anna Negron at 860-766-2233 or anna.m.negron@espn.com; @Anna_ESPN
2017 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl – Dec 22
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Phnom Kulen National Park
Phnom Kulen National Park is situated at north east of Angkor Complex about 50 km, it takes approximately 2-hour drive up to the hill top with 487 meters height and plateau stretches 30 km long, it is opened for tourists in 1999 by private owned and charged for $20 toll per foreign visitors. The company […]
Phnom Kulen National Park is situated at north east of Angkor Complex about 50 km, it takes approximately 2-hour drive up to the hill top with 487 meters height and plateau stretches 30 km long, it is opened for tourists in 1999 by private owned and charged for $20 toll per foreign visitors. The company developed road up to the peak. It is only possible to go up before 11 Am and only possible to come down after midday, to avoid vehicles meeting on the narrow road. Phnom Kulen National Park is considered by Khmers to be the most sacred mountain in Cambodia and it is a popular place for domestic visitors during weekends and festivals. The hill is used as the ancient capital city II in AD 802 to declare himself as god king and announced independence from Java, then giving birth to present day Cambodia. On the hilltop there are 56 Angkorian temples made of bricks and volcanic stones, but most of them are badly in poor condition, today name Hahendrapura, founded in the reign of King Jayavarman temple base only is remain intact. The visible sites in modern day are Prasat krau Romeas, Rong Chen ( the first mountain temple), Sra Damrei (Elephant pond), Thousands of phallic symbols carved a long liver bed and divided in three ports for the Hindu trinity gods. These three ports used for baptistery. At the summit of the hill you can see Buddhist pagoda and a large reclining Buddha statue 8 meters length carved into a sandstone bock in 16th century. The last attractive spot is a waterfall, it splits in two spots the first waterfall is four or five meters heights and 20 to 25 diameters in dry and raining seasons. The second waterfall is 15 to 20 meters heights and 10 to 15 diameters in dry and raining seasons. The water is considered holy and Khmers like to bottle it to take home with them. The source of water eventually flows in to Tonle Sap Lake and is thought to bless the water ways of Cambodia.
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Making a Difference on Our 10th Anniversary
Posted on May 04, 2017 | David Hildahl
Since Far Reach opened its doors a decade ago, the community has given us so much. So to celebrate our 10th anniversary, we turned to our first core value—“Make a Difference.”
When it came time to decide how to make a difference, the team didn’t have to reach far. We couldn’t imagine a group that embodies the spirit of giving back more than House of Hope.
House of Hope is a Waterloo nonprofit organization that helps homeless single moms achieve self-sufficiency by providing transitional housing and support. On top of offering vital services, its staff has a reputation as people who just get stuff done. Every day, they make a difference.
On April 25, the Far Reach team descended on House of Hope with armloads of supplies and a can-do spirit.
Volunteering felt great. We helped with a variety of tasks, including sorting and moving furniture, cleaning the basement, and reorganizing the garage to make it easier for staff to access.
Far Reach team members said they benefited from the experience as much, if not more, than House of Hope’s staff and clients.
It gave brand-new employee Natalie Thompson a memorable first day. “It was awesome getting to know my other coworkers on a deeper, less technical level,” said Natalie. “It was fun to get down and dirty with our hands to help a great cause.”
For Scrum Master Angie Steffen, the experience was a good reminder of how fortunate she is. “It gave me a deeper appreciation for everything I have in life and how blessed I’ve been to be where I am,” said Angie.
Marco Carrera, a developer who works remotely from Fairfield, liked how it brought the team closer—literally and figuratively. “Between varying schedules and working remotely, it’s rare we’re all in the same room together,” said Marco. “Experiences like this help you develop bonds with team members you can’t always make in the boardroom or chat room.”
Developer Tyler Kane said it felt great to give back. “We receive a lot of support from the community, so giving back shows our appreciation for what they do,” said Tyler.
And Kelly Kimmich, business strategist, liked that it was a true company effort. “Volunteering is fun, especially when you're with such a great group that works well together,” said Kelly. “The best part is seeing the impact we've made at the end.”
Do you want to make an impact, too? Contact House of Hope. There are a lot of needs and many ways to help.
PS – Sure, we’d rather get our hands dirty than throw a fine champagne gala. (We’ll save that for our 50th.) But we’re not averse to a little fun, too. That’s why we’re inviting you to our 10th anniversary open house on May 17 from 4:30 to 7 p.m., right here at our office. No champagne, but there will be plenty of Tony’s pizza, Scratch cupcakes, wine and beer, and lively conversation.
The open house is our way of thanking you for making a difference—and making the last 10 years possible. We couldn’t have done it without you.
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The Top 10 Things We Learned Over the Past 10 Years
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North East Voyeur
Time Out for Fashion Voyeur
by pixie.tenenbaum | September 12, 2018 October 1, 2018
So I had a bit of a hiatus. I must tell you Voyeurs it was not intended nor wanted and it has consumed every aspect of my life. When you don’t know someone in real life and you get to know them online, there can be disparity between those two realities, not that one is any less real than the other (in my case anyway), but I can hide things that are painful to show, or that I already know you won’t be interested in.
The past few months, maybe even the whole of 2018 has been hard. My son has a super rare chromosomal abnormality, he’s one of five people globally to have it and the last to be diagnosed, meaning that since he was born, not a single person in the world has been diagnosed with it. Because it’s so rare, there’s very little known about it on a professional level, meaning that the parents of these five children are relied upon as global experts, but are also demeaned, harassed and criticised endlessly by health professionals in LDCAMHS who believe that whilst they’re unable to pronounce it, they might know more.
You may have seen from my Twitter feed that Bo and I made the decision around a year ago to remove Plankton from his special school in the North East after an assault charge, it’s a really tough thing to do, withdraw your child from education with absolutely no intention of home schooling, effectively losing a year of education. I don’t regret losing that year of education, the school were barely a babysitting service, the spelling, grammar, and all round attitude of the teaching staff there was questionable at best, being out of school and coming on assignments with me provided him with a far richer experience, and he definitely increased his reasoning time instead of simply punching me in the face when I spoke to him. But I would like for him to have positive social experiences with other children, sadly this just doesn’t seem possible.
Anyway, back to the hiatus. As a family we’ve been in and out of court to ratify our decision and I guess rubber stamp it, the intention was to move him from one school to another but apparently it’s not as simple as that when you have a child with multiple complex special needs and disabilities. First you have to jump through a hoop, while it’s on fire, then they set you on fire, and make you juggle 26 knives, which are also, you guessed it, on fire. It’s a flawed, tiresome and frustrating process designed to benefit only the Local Authority. We fought, we became tough on the outside, fireproof almost, but weak on the inside. We cried, we slept (sometimes), and we were fucking hated for it. We were lambasted, dragged through shit and made to relive the worst things that had happened to us as a family, in a courtroom, right in front of the people who wanted to weaken us. It’s a shitty hand you’re dealt as a parent to a vulnerable child, made shittier by Bo’s family completely abandoning us and the total lack of interest or concern shown by anyone in my paternal family.
See Plankton makes a rod for his own back, he seems naughty, even hostile and to some extent I guess by definition his behaviour is in those categories. However the difference between naughty children and children with autism or any other learning disability is choice. Like you or I can choose between right and wrong, and even to some degree, where the line between both might sit in any given situation. Plankton doesn’t have any understanding of any of that, he’s verbal and polite and that leads to an assumption of intelligence and / or comprehension. In reality it’s nothing but a bunch of learned phrases through experiences shared with us, it’s both a good thing and a bad thing.
We spent endless sleepless nights, way too many to count, preparing, collating and numbering reams of evidence from us, genetics, health professionals and LD cases in the States ready to take to court only to be adjourned because the Local Authority had failed to submit their evidence within the specified timescales. We both lost a day’s work and income for that and as we left court the Local Authority representative advised us in the car park that we had no chance of winning. I’ll be honest, I was more bothered that I’d wasted a Valentino dress for 20 minutes in front of a judge than some smug faced woman in trousers two inches too short trying to serve me my come-uppance in a parking lot.
Our new date was set for two whole months later with caveats, a meeting must take place between relevant parties, more evidence should be submitted to fill the two month timeline in between adjournment and the Local Authority should stop acting like dicks. I mean that wasn’t one of the actual caveats, that one was mine.
When we finally got our day in court, and it was a day, I won’t bore you with the details but we were awarded a place in the senior school we’d requested. Now this isn’t by any means a huge win. When you have a child with a learning disability schools which are geared up to meet the needs of every child on roll are non-existent. You basically take your star shaped child, and force it into a triangular school and hope that he or she doesn’t fall through. It basically meant we had five more months at home with Plankton because the Local Authority had “forgotten” to file a case with the Home & Hospital School Service leaving it too short notice for the court to intervene and arrange statutory primary education.
In the midst of all this, the stress was swirling like a cloud of dust and both my Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and Fibromyalgia (Fibro / CFS) flared hugely resulting in me being admitted to hospital. As the primary carer for a child not currently in school, this causes huge problems for everyone and I was advised by the NHS, yeah, those people responsible for helping us to manage our health, advised me to visualise my pain, put it in a box and forget about it. If I could do this, I would be pain free. No. Fuck right off. That’s not even a thing?! I’m still in that flare up, it’s been with me so long it’s now categorised as a “phase”. The imaginary pain I was having has resulted in me having to have two minor surgical procedures, two cortisone injections, and one planned major hip surgery. Pretty fucking big box to fit all that shit in.
If I sound bitter, it’s because I am. There’s only so much shit one person and their family can take from external sources before they break, physically in my case. So yeah, that hiatus, it wasn’t self care, or self love, it was a shit storm piled on to a very vulnerable family in a pretty unique position, by County Durham Local Authority and the South Durham arm of LDCAMHS that forced us to retreat and re-evaluate.
More over, we spent a whole week prepping a reluctant Plankton for his much anticipated first day at school, we battled and won our case to have transport provided just like every other disable child in the country, and even invited the taxi driver and chaperone over to meet in advance. We had a super positive meeting where they told us they’d have music ready (Foo Fighters and Nirvana at Plankton’s request) and he definitely seemed more relaxed about it. When the first day of school rolled around they didn’t show, we called the Local Authority to find out what the hold up was only to be told that the driver and chaperone had given immediate notice straight after meeting him, saying it was going to be too difficult to manage. Nobody informed us, we sat waiting with him in his school uniform for that taxi then had to break it to him that they weren’t coming. Long story short, a week and two days later than planned, he finally made it to school and I’m pretty sure he’s given them hell.
Overall, 1 out of 5 experience, would not recommend. Although if you are going through something similar, please feel free to get in touch if you need someone to vent to, otherwise you might just implode.
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Newt and the Press
https://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2011/12/newt-and-the-press
Hendrik Hertzberg, writing in the New Yorker:
In this campaign, Gingrich's performances in televised debates have been widely deemed effective. But what has won him his most visceral cheers from the audiences in the halls—audiences shaped and coarsened by years of listening to talk radio and watching Fox News—is his sneering attacks on moderators, especially those representing the hated "liberal" media.
The only one allowed to sneer, apparently, is Mr. Hertzberg.
Actually, I shouldn't sneer at Mr. Hertzberg, because though we come from different ideological angles, we actually have a similar analysis. From my column this week, The Case for Newt, up here at the New York Sun and here at Reason.com:
He's been much tougher on the press than the other candidates. In the June 13, 2011, CNN New Hampshire debate, for example, Mr. Gingrich pushed back against CNN's John King: "John, you mischaracterized me." Later, he answered a question on immigration by calling the premise of a question "nonsense," saying, "there are humane, practical steps to solve this problem, if we can get the politicians and the news media to just deal with it honestly." At the November 9, 2011, CNBC debate, he said, "it's sad that the news media doesn't report accurately how the economy works."...A campaign that understands and conveys that the left-wing press and President Obama, not the other Republicans, are the enemies attracts a certain amount of appreciation from the Republican primary electorate.
My goodness, with the leading Republican presidential candidate surging to the top of the field in part on the strength of his complaints about press bias, you'd think it might be a good time to launch a Web site focused on that issue.
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Google-AdMob: A Bad Precedent
By Thomas M. Lenard
It's a safe bet that the Federal Trade Commission will try to block Google 's acquisition of AdMob, a significant player in the small but growing world of mobile advertising. But that would be a mistake. The outcome of this case will affect mobile advertising but, more importantly, could set a harmful precedent for how antitrust laws are applied to the fast-moving information technology sector, which has been the engine of growth and productivity for the U.S. economy for the past 15 years.
While the FTC may try to block Google's purchase in the name of consumer protection, its primary effect could be to harm innovation by eliminating the principal way that entrepreneurs make money on their new business ideas. In particular, entrepreneurs realize a return on their investment (especially given the lackluster market for IPOs) by being acquired by a larger company, such as Google.
The $750 million price for AdMob resulted from a bidding war between Google and Apple . An antitrust policy that takes the biggest players out of the market for these small companies can reduce the potential returns to innovation and therefore the amount of innovation. Competition to acquire innovative new companies like AdMob is a major aspect of competition that the FTC must take into account when deciding whether to challenge the acquisition.
Google has been in the antitrust cross hairs since before the Obama administration took office. The Bush administration scuttled Google's deal with Yahoo! . Even before taking office, Christine Varney, the Department of Justice's new Antitrust Division chief, said, referring to Google, "I think you are going to see a repeat of Microsoft." That was strong statement considering that Microsoft ranks with AT&T , IBM , and Standard Oil, as one of the major antitrust cases of the 20th century. In her first speech after taking office, Varney followed up by signaling a more aggressive approach to antitrust enforcement generally, but particularly with respect to high-tech and Internet-based markets.
The major action, however, has been at the FTC, which last year launched a major case against Intel and now seems on the verge of challenging this Google acquisition. So, how should the FTC evaluate this case?
Mobile advertising currently generates about $400 million in revenues--only 0.4% of total U.S. advertising--but is expected to grow rapidly as the mobile Internet grows. In such nascent areas, the authorities should proceed cautiously. In the short run, the effects on the economy are small simply because the amount of money involved is relatively small. The most important question, therefore, is not what share of mobile advertising revenue Google would have after its acquisition, but how the acquisition will affect innovation and entry in mobile advertising.
For traditional merger analysis, defining the product market is a critical step. The FTC is apparently defining the market as the mobile non-search advertising market and is concerned that Google and AdMob together have a significant share of that market.
But how confident can they be that this definition is correct and that, if it is correct today, will still be correct next year? Is it really the case that mobile search and non-search advertising aren't sufficiently substitutable to be in the same market? What about text messaging advertising? What about the substitutability between mobile and non-mobile Internet advertising? These questions are difficult, and perhaps impossible, to answer for a new, rapidly changing area like mobile advertising.
More importantly, what about entry? Apple lost the bidding war for AdMob, subsequently acquired another mobile advertising firm, Quattro, and just recently announced that it will also sell mobile advertising. Given that the iPhone represents about 25% of all smartphones sold in the U.S. and half of all advertising traffic, Apple is almost certain to be a strong competitor. And many other potential entrants are waiting in the wings, including large companies like Microsoft, Yahoo! and the wireless providers themselves.
While the agencies should evaluate the effects of the merger on innovation, the current merger guidelines focus on antitrust analysis for mature, stable industries and provide virtually no guidance as to how to analyze effects on innovation in such a new and dynamic area. There is a good reason for this omission: It is nearly impossible to predict the path of a new and dynamic industry.
The lesson is that antitrust enforcers need to be extremely cautious in interfering in such circumstances. Enforcement mistakes are easy to make at this early stage. The cost of erroneously reducing innovation is much greater than the cost of any slight increase in the price of advertising that might occur.
Thomas M. Lenard is President of the Technology Policy Institute.
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The Real Cost Of U.S. In Libya? Two Billion Dollars Per Day.
Loren Thompson Senior Contributor
Business in the Beltway Contributor Group
I write about national security, especially its business dimensions.
The one thing most experts seem to agree on about the current coalition air campaign in Libya is that it won't cost much. A leading think tank estimated the price-tag for patrolling Libyan air space at $30-100 million per week, while the Navy's top budget official described Libyan air operations as falling within the "normal operating cycle" of his department. Rear Admiral Joseph Mulloy told trade publication Inside the Navy on March 21, "The incremental cost of use of the Navy and Marine Corps is low, because we're already funded and we are trained and worked up." He went on, "We don't have to pay extra to be there." As a result of such fiscal reassurances, Congress has focused mainly on the goals of the operation and what precedents military action might create, rather than the cost.
However, at a time when the federal government is borrowing about $4 billion per day from lenders like China, it might be worthwhile to focus some thought on what Admiral Mulloy was really saying. He didn't say Libya was cheap, he said most of the bill had already been paid. And therein lies the crux of a fiscal dilemma that politicians and policymakers will face as they struggle to reduce the biggest budget deficit in the history of the world. Can America continue to sustain the kind of global military posture that enables it to simultaneously execute a no-fly zone in Libya, a counter-insurgency campaign in Afghanistan, disaster relief in Japan, and a host of other operations from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf to the Horn of Africa? While its European allies seem hard-pressed to cope with a modest military challenge on their own doorstep, America has embraced a global role that requires its forces to be pretty much everywhere there is a threat of instability. So what looks like an inexpensive military operation in Libya is actually costing taxpayers about $2 billion per day, because that's what the Pentagon and other security agencies of the federal government spend to maintain a posture that allows the military to go anywhere and do anything on short notice.
There is good reason to believe that posture is no longer affordable -- or more precisely, that the public is no longer willing to afford it. When the new millennium began barely ten years ago, the United States was generating roughly a third of global economic output and also sustaining about a third of worldwide military spending. Since that time, though, the two measures of power have diverged dramatically, and so today America only produces about a quarter of output while trying to sustain nearly half of military spending (over $700 billion in a global total of $1.6 trillion). In other words, five percent of the world's population is trying to cover fifty percent of the world's military bills with only a quarter of the world's wealth. That's the sort of equation that might make sense in a national emergency, but it looks untenable as a long-term proposition. Yet Pentagon policymakers say they can't make ends meet for much less money, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates asserted last year that when it comes to deficit reduction, "we are not the problem" -- even though his department consumes a fifth of the federal budget and has seen its buying power grow by three-quarters over the past ten years.
A look at the weapons used in the Libyan operation reflects just how unique America's military is. No other country in the world has anything remotely like the stealthy B-2 bombers that flew precision bombing runs over Libya from a base in Missouri. Nor does anyone else have a fleet of 500 aerial refueling tankers that can keep the B-2 and other warplanes airborne for many hours. Nor does anyone have the amphibious ready groups, the overhead reconnaissance assets, or the inventory of smart munitions employed in the operation. Even the V-22 Osprey "tilt-rotor" aircraft used to rescue a downed American pilot is unique -- no other country has tried to build one, much less field a sizable force of them. The world has never seen a military force like the one America operates today, and that's before you even get to the extraordinary skills and professionalism of the best-trained warfighters anywhere. But is it all affordable for a country that is seeing its share of global wealth steadily decline, a country that doesn't want to raise taxes despite a $1.5 trillion deficit? To answer that question let's start at the beginning -- not 9-11 or 1945, but all the way back in 1776.
When Edward Gibbon published the first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in 1776, it was an instant hit among the men who would come to be known as America's "founding fathers." George Washington found one of Gibbon's insights about the Romans especially striking: "They preserved peace by a constant preparation for war." He liked that sentiment so much that he paraphrased it in the first State of the Union speech in 1790, asserting that "to be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." But neither Congress nor his fellow countrymen seemed to be listening. They had sold off the Continental Navy after the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War in 1783, and thus as President, Washington had no way of protecting U.S. shipping against pirates or the navies of other powers. Congress had to appropriate money to build new ships before the Navy could deal with Barbary pirates who had seized U.S. merchant ships and sailors. The Marine invasion of the "shores of Tripoli" (modern-day Libya) in 1805 thus had to be improvised.
It would be over 150 years before Washington's successors were able to convince voters that maintaining a large peacetime military posture made sense. The Union Army enrolled over a million men in the final year of the Civil War, but by the time the nation's Centennial year arrived 11 years later, the force had shrunk to a mere 29,000 soldiers -- in a country of 40 million people spanning a continent. The hastily assembled force of 2.9 million soldiers and sailors that America sent to battle the Germans in World War One was allowed to dwindle to a mere 244,000 personnel by 1933, the year Hitler came to power. America's political culture simply wasn't willing to support a large peacetime military force, which is why it was necessary to mobilize the commercial economy for war production every time a threat arose -- peacetime military contracting was a very modest affair until the Cold War came along.
The Cold War, though, changed everything, because for 40 years America lived under the constant threat of Soviet nuclear attack. Once policymakers settled on a strategy of deterrence and containment, the United States had to field credible military forces around the Sino-Soviet periphery, a posture that would have been unaffordable in earlier days. Fortunately for military planners, World War Two had stimulated America's economy to unprecedented levels of industrial production, and that dynamism persisted into the postwar period as the government spent heavily to develop a new generation of military systems, from long-range bombers to nuclear-powered submarines to reconnaissance satellites. With the military claiming over a tenth of the world's biggest economy, it was possible for the first time to have a substantial peacetime defense establishment, and three straight decades of postwar prosperity made it possible to believe there were no opportunity costs involved.
By the time the Cold War ended in the early 1990s, few Americans could remember a time when their nation had not maintained a sprawling global military presence. Defense spending fell from five percent of the economy to three as the Clinton Administration moved to claim a peace dividend, but with the economy growing fast and the Red Army a fading memory, America remained the dominant global military player. Cutting the Pentagon's buying power by a third from the peak level of the Reagan years reduced its share of the federal budget from 25 percent to 15 percent and helped President Clinton to eliminate the deficit, and yet it didn't seem to harm national security because threats had receded and much of the military's equipment had only recently been purchased. Thus, as the American Century ended, many experts believed the U.S. could continue to be the world's policeman without unduly stressing its economy.
Historians will be writing for centuries to come about how quickly this all went sour. Within a year after Clinton left office the economy was headed into recession and defense priorities were reordered by the 9-11 attacks. Against that backdrop, few policymakers paid attention to the fact that China joined the World Trade Organization during President Bush's first year in office, but a decade later the impact of that development on America's ability to afford its defense bills was becoming increasingly apparent. Had 9-11 not occurred, U.S. policymakers might have continued to gradually reduce the overseas network of military bases and commitments the nation had built up during Cold War years while paying more attention to domestic economic trends. Instead, they took on a host of new foreign commitments as they prosecuted a multi-front "global war on terror," and defense was one of the few sectors that fared well in a faltering economy. The first decade of the new millennium thus proved to be a period of decline for America, one that ended with President-elect Obama being warned by the intelligence community's most senior panel of seers that the on-going transfer of wealth from the West to the East was "without precedent in modern history."
Which brings us back to the real price of the current military operation in Libya. The military posture that President Obama inherited from his predecessor is expected to cost taxpayers about $726 billion this year -- $549 billion for the defense department's so-called base budget, $159 billion in supplemental funding for Iraq and Afghanistan, and about $18 billion in Department of Energy spending on nuclear-weapons activities. That's assuming Congress gets around to approving a real defense budget for fiscal 2011 rather than just passing more continuing resolutions. If the cost of veterans' benefits and various homeland security programs (such as the Coast Guard) were included in this total, U.S. security expenditures would come very close to half of the global total. On any given day, the United States has over 350,000 of its 1.5 million military personnel deployed abroad, and that does not include hundreds of thousands of civilians, both members of the civil service and contractors. Most of the military infrastructure and personnel located within the United States exist to provide a rotational base, training complex and supply network for the forces deployed abroad. It is this vastly complex and costly system -- which stations U.S. troops in over a hundred countries and deploys U.S. sailors to all the world's oceans -- that made it possible to participate quickly and effectively in the Libyan no-fly zone, bringing capabilities to bear that no other country could match.
According to the Pentagon comptroller's National Defense Budget Estimates For FY 2012, the defense establishment currently claims 20 percent of the federal budget and five percent of the U.S. economy -- meaning that after eight years of steady increases under President Bush, military outlays have reverted to the proportion of fiscal and economic resources seen when Bill Clinton inherited the defense establishment from Bush's father. Past experience suggests that the nation is quite capable of sustaining the current level of effort if it chooses to do so. In fact, it devoted a bigger share of national wealth to defense for most of the postwar period. So the question for the future isn't whether current defense outlays are affordable in an absolute sense, but rather whether the political system is willing to afford them. And there, the outlook isn't so promising. The accumulation of budget deficits in excess of a trillion dollars per year reflects the unwillingness of politicians and the voters who elected them to forego entitlement programs and various forms of domestic discretionary spending such as law enforcement and education grants. If the cost of financing the federal debt rises to a point where taking on additional debt is too painful, it is not clear voters will continue backing the current level of military outlays in the absence of urgent new threats.
One reason to doubt the level of popular support has to do with the way in which the price-tag for the All Volunteer Force has ballooned since George W. Bush took office. For three decades prior to his election, the compensation costs of soldiers and sailors fairly closely tracked the employment cost index for private labor markets. However, as Stephen Daggett of the Congressional Research Service has demonstrated, the rate of increase in the cost of military pay and benefits drifted far above what was typical for private-sector workers after fiscal year 2000. It now costs well over $100,000 per year to cover the pay and benefits of a typical warfighter, and the government's financial obligations for career military personnel typically extend decades into the future. Rapid growth is especially noticeable in the case of military healthcare benefits, which Congress has generously extended to reservists, retirees and dependents at rates that no private enterprise could afford. Healthcare now costs the Pentagon over a billion dollars per week, and the trend-line in spending strongly resembles the explosive growth in outlays for civilian entitlements such as disability payments. It is hard to believe voters will keep supporting military benefit programs substantially more generous than they can obtain for themselves at a time when threats to national security seem to be in abeyance.
Pay and benefits are just part of the problem, though. Despite decades of effort to reform weapons purchases, the defense department wastes many billions of dollars every year developing and sustaining weapons. A recent study found the Army alone squanders over $3 billion each year on weapons it ends up canceling, and the other services aren't much better. The weapons that make it into the field are the best ever made, but they typically are procured in uneconomical lots and using excessively burdensome procedures that drive up costs. And then there is the broader question of why U.S. forces need to go to places like Kosovo and Somalia and Libya at all -- a perennial debate in American politics that is more likely to be won by those who oppose intervention when the tradeoff is fewer resources available for domestic programs. The current administration, like the one before it, has sought to avoid making hard choices by simply borrowing more money at a time when interest rates are low. But that approach won't work forever, and so Washington is about to have a new debate concerning what Vietnam-era defense official Townsend Hoopes called "the limits of intervention." When the smoke clears, America's military budget is likely to be a lot smaller, and the prospects for future adventures in places like Libya much diminished.
I focus on the strategic, economic and business implications of defense spending as the Chief Operating Officer of the non-profit Lexington Institute and Chief Executive...
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Segregation in housing and education, and moving forward in Flint: Recapping “America Divided,” episode 2
Andrew Catauro, Former Manager, JustFilms, Creativity and Free Expression
Each week, the Ford Foundation offers a social justice recap of the latest episode of America Divided—a docu-series about rising inequality in the United States. You can watch America Divided on Friday nights at 9 pm EST on EPIX.
In tonight’s episode, we revisit two stories from last week’s premiere: Norman Lear’s investigation of New York City’s affordable housing problem and Rosario Dawson’s uncovering of the democratic failures that caused the Flint water crisis. This week, viewers are introduced to another serious manifestation of America’s inequality problem: the growing opportunity gap between black and white students.
Racial segregation and discrimination in housing
Racial segregation is a major theme in tonight’s episode. Norman Lear observes that people of color seem to be hurt most by a lack of quality affordable housing, and are pushed into unlivable homes in struggling neighborhoods.
Lear speaks with New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, an expert on racial segregation, who explains that America’s long history of housing discrimination still perpetuates the income and opportunity gaps between black and white neighborhoods today. She explains that in the 1930s, in response to the Great Depression, the federal government initiated a housing program to insure federal loans to homebuyers—with the goal of building the middle class.
But by giving white neighborhoods the best ratings for mortgages, racially integrated neighborhoods a lower rating, and black neighborhoods the worst rating, the program explicitly institutionalized racial segregation in housing. In fact, the government implemented a policy of “redlining” that used a red line on a map to mark up black neighborhoods where it refused financial investment. As a result, 98 percent of the federally backed loans went to white Americans.
The legacy of this racial discrimination continues today, and the episode provides a powerful illustration of it. To see if a landlord will discriminate against potential tenants based on race—a practice that is illegal—Norman Lear and African American actor L. B. Williams each go undercover with hidden cameras. The outcome is unsettling: The landlord tells Williams there are no available apartments, but 12 hours later tells Lear that several units are available (see video).
Rampant housing discrimination continues to exacerbate racial inequality and segregation today. In Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond (a Ford grantee) finds that African American families generally look for housing in neighborhoods on the edges of a city, which are usually predominantly white or Hispanic. It’s only after being rejected for housing in those places that they end up in inner-city neighborhoods.
The resegregation of the US education system
Deeply connected to housing discrimination, the problem of racial segregation affects many school systems across the United States.
In tonight’s episode, we are introduced to actor Jesse Williams as he explores America’s history of school segregation, and the consequences still playing out in the lives of African American students today. Williams visits the wealthy city of St. Petersburg, Florida, which has become the unlikely epicenter of a growing educational divide between white and black kids.
Talking to civil rights and education experts, Williams discovers how the legacy of housing discrimination packed much of the city’s black minority into poorer neighborhoods in the south. In the 1970s, school busing programs were instrumental in desegregating and integrating schools in St. Petersburg and across the country; from 1970 to the late 1980s, the achievement gap between white and black students was cut in half.
But starting in the early 1990s, many school desegregation efforts declined despite their proven effectiveness. In St. Petersburg in 2007, the county school board ended the school busing program in an effort to cut costs. After almost a decade, schools in the city have become increasingly segregated. As a result, the majority-white schools in the city’s affluent neighborhoods rank among the top schools in the state, while five schools in St. Petersburg’s predominantly black neighborhood are the most underperforming. In these five schools, 95 percent of black students are failing reading, writing, or math.
Discrimination in housing and education are not only intricately linked to each other but also linked to voter discrimination. We’ve written about how efforts to advance education and voting rights are fundamental to creating opportunity. Yet recently there have been systematic attempts to undermine both.
Trying to move forward in Flint
Finally in tonight’s episode, we return to Flint, Michigan, with Rosario Dawson. The poisoning of the city’s water system has gotten national attention, including a visit from the president. Unfortunately, as Dawson points out, not even the president’s visit can make the water in Flint safe. And even though Flint switched its water source back to a safer supply—the Detroit River—months ago, the water is still flowing through corroded lead pipes.
To truly fix the problem, much of Flint’s water infrastructure needs to be overhauled, which will require a lot of money and possibly many years of investment. While much of this money will need to come from the local, state, and federal government, philanthropy also has an important role to play in investing in the future of Flint and its citizens. Ten foundations, including Ford, have partnered to commit $125 million to help Flint and its residents recover from the water crisis. The money will go to providing safe drinking water, meeting local health needs, promoting community engagement, supporting early education, and revitalizing the economy.
But even after the water is safe to drink, Flint will be left with the same political system that helped create the crisis in the first place. The system of unelected and unaccountable emergency managers running the city will continue to reinforce inequalities that shape the lives of Flint’s residents. So beyond addressing immediate problems with the water, the city needs investment in efforts to redesign governance institutions to make them more responsive and accountable, and to empower the voices and rights of the city’s citizens.
Cities,
Racial Justice,
Education and Youth,
Evocative image of fractured United States
Equals Change Blog 30 September 2016
Criminal justice reform, the Flint water crisis, and NYC housing: A recap of “America Divided,” episode 1
Past and present--Photo montage of Americans waiting on line to vote. Photo Credit & ©: Flip Schulke/CORBIS and Hill Street Studios/Blend Images/Corbis
Equals Change Blog 7 August 2015
Connecting the dots on voting rights and education
The top of a water tower is seen at the Flint Water Plant. Flint, Michigan. 2016. Photo Credit: Rebecca Cook © REUTERS/Newscom
Equals Change Blog 2 February 2016
Residents marched to the Flint water treatment plant to demand the rebuilding of the city's water infrastructure. Flint, Michigan. 2016. Photo credit: ZUMAPRESS.com/Newscom
Equals Change Blog 1 June 2016
What caused the Flint water crisis and what cities everywhere can learn from it
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Charles Matthews leads Michigan after attending grandmother's funeral
Charles Matthews arrived 40 minutes before tip-off, then led Michigan Wolverines with 20 points in a win over Detroit Mercy at Little Caesars Arena.
Charles Matthews leads Michigan after attending grandmother's funeral Charles Matthews arrived 40 minutes before tip-off, then led Michigan Wolverines with 20 points in a win over Detroit Mercy at Little Caesars Arena. Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2AEHVyD
George Sipple, Detroit Free Press Published 5:55 p.m. ET Dec. 16, 2017 | Updated 6:19 p.m. ET Dec. 16, 2017
Michigan's Duncan Robinson, John Teske and coach John Beilein discuss the Wolverines' 90-58 win over Detroit Mercy at Little Caesars Arena, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. George Sipple, Detroit Free Press
Michigan guard Charles Matthews makes a layup against Detroit Mercy during the second half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017.(Photo: Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press)
Michigan basketball coach John Beilein had a lot of questions about his team on Saturday morning.
Beilein came to Little Caesars Arena wondering if Charles Matthews would make it to the game, after attending a funeral for his paternal grandmother on Friday in Chicago.
Beilein also didn’t know if Duncan Robinson would be able to speak after dealing with laryngitis or if Moritz Wagner would play after suffering an ankle sprain in the win at Texas on Tuesday.
But it was Detroit Mercy who didn’t have any answers for the Wolverines in the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase. The Wolverines ended the first half with a 54-19 lead and went on to win, 90-58.
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Matthews and assistant coach DeAndre Haynes arrived at Little Caesars Arena about 40 minutes before tip-off. Matthews scored 17 of his game-high 20 points in the second half on 7 of 10 shooting.
“It’s tough, but she’s in a better place now,” Matthews said of his grandmother, Mary Thomas. “I’m pretty sure she’s watching down over me for the rest of my life. Just happy we could come out here and get a win."
Robinson scored all 11 of his points in the first half for the Wolverines (10-3).
Wagner, U-M’s leading scorer and rebounder, didn’t play.
Jon Teske made his first career start in place of Wagner and finished with a career-high 15 points. Teske also grabbed 10 rebounds in a career-high 28 minutes.
What Matthews did in the second half shouldn’t be overlooked, though. After scoring three points on 1 of 6 shooting in the first half, Matthews was the best player on the court in the second half.
"He's a heck of a talent that's learning every day," Beilein said. "I see big steps. Decision-making is still something that he's working on.
"When people load up against him, he's going to have to hit the open man. I think his assists will continue to grow."
Photos: Michigan 90, Detroit Mercy 58 at LCA
Detroit Mercy forward Roschon Prince tries to block a layup from Michigan forward Isaiah Livers in the second half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan guard Jaaron Simmons dribbles against Detroit Mercy guard Josh McFolley in the second half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan coach John Beilein watches a play during the second half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase against Detroit Mercy at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan guard Charles Matthews makes a layup against Detroit Mercy during the second half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan's Charles Matthews dunks against Detroit Mercy in the second half of the Wolverines' 90-58 win Hitachi College Basketball Showcase at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan guard Charles Matthews dribbles against Detroit Mercy forward Roschon Prince during the second half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Detroit Mercy cheerleaders cheer for the Titans during the second half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase against Michigan at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond watches the second half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase between Michigan and Detroit Mercy at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan guard Eli Brooks passes to teammate center Jon Teske in the first half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase against Detroit Mercy at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Detroit Mercy guard Jacob Joubert during the second half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase against Michigan at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan center Jon Teske tries to dunk during the second half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase against Detroit Mercy at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Detroit Mercy guard Kameron Chatman is defend by Michigan guard Charles Matthews during the second half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Detroit Mercy guard Jermaine Jackson Jr. tries to protect the ball as he falls in front of Michigan guard Zavier Simpson in the second half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan guard Isaiah Livers makes a shot against Detroit Mercy in the first half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan guard Jordan Poole (2) and forward Austin Davis (51) defend Detroit Mercy guard Josh McFolley in the first half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Detroit Mercy forwards Gerald Blackshear Jr. (25) and Cole Long defend Michigan center Jon Teske in the first half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan guard Charles Matthews makes a layup against Detroit Mercy in the first half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan guard Zavier Simpson makes a layup against Detroit Mercy in the first half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Detroit Mercy guard Josh McFolley jumps for a rebound during the first half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase against Michigan at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan forward Austin Davis makes a layup against Detroit Mercy forward Gerald Blackshear Jr. in the first half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Detroit Mercy head coach Bacari Alexander cheers for the players during the first half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase against Michigan at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michigan guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman dunks against Detroit Mercy in the first half of the Hitachi College Basketball Showcase at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Beilein said it was important for Matthews to be at the viewing.
“It’s not some distant relative,” Beilein said. “It’s his grandmother. She’s in her 60s. She died young. He had a special relationship with her.”
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Beilein said Michigan went through 45 minutes of film and a walk-through on Saturday morning that Matthews missed.
“I was a little bit worried on some things, but we got out to such a great start it didn’t matter,” Beilein said.
The Wolverines jumped out to a 16-4 lead and went on a 19-0 run in a span of 3:36 to build a 42-13 advantage. Matthews took over in the second half.
“When you get on the court, I feel like everything goes away,” Matthews said. “All your problems just erase.”
Matthews said Beilein gave him the option of remaining with his family, but he didn’t want to miss the game.
“I said I want to be here and play,” Matthews said. “That’s what I love to do. This is what she loved me doing as well. I wanted to come out here and play the game.”
Matthews said as soon as he arrived Beilein stopped his pre-game speech and gave him a hug. “When you see people caring about you outside of basketball," Matthews said, "that makes you run through brick walls for them.”
Zavier Simpson added 12 points and a team-high seven assists with no turnovers for the Wolverines.
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Abstract Gems & Gemology, Winter 2013, Vol. 49, No. 4
Titanium-Bearing Synthetic Alexandrite and Chrysoberyl
Jennifer Stone-Sundberg
This Inamori synthetic cat's-eye alexandrite appears dark purple-red in incandescent light. Photo by Tino Hammid.
Chrysoberyl, whether natural or synthetic, displays distinct pleochroism. The alexandrite variety is strongly trichroic and exhibits red/green color change. Phenomena such as chatoyancy and asterism can occur when oriented needle-like inclusions—mainly of rutile—are present. Chrysoberyl has the chemical formula BeAl2O4 and is orthorhombic. Its various colors are generally due to substitution of octahedrally coordinated Al3+ cations with chromophores such as the transition metal cations Cr3+ and Fe3+. Synthetic green chrysoberyl is known to sometimes have V3+ as a chromophore substituting for Al3+ in the crystal structure.
This work investigated Czochralski-grown synthetic reddish violet chrysoberyl, transparent alexandrite, and phenomenal alexandrite (both cat’s-eye and star) manufactured by Kyocera. This material entered the marketplace in the late 1980s with the Inamori brand name. The authors noticed unique pleochroism and spectroscopic features in the visible range in all of the samples except the transparent alexandrites—an indication of an unusual chromophore. Specifically, orange coloration influenced the hues observed in incandescent lighting in all three crystallographic directions, and absorption bands at around 500 nm were observed in these samples. It was noted that titanium, an element found in chrysoberyl generally in the form of rutile precipitates, was detectable in elevated concentrations in all of the samples with unusual pleochroism.
As mentioned above, rutile, or TiO2, is the common mineral inclusion that gives rise to asterism and chatoyency in chrysoberyl and other gem minerals, especially in the corundum varieties ruby and sapphire. In natural crystals of virtually all minerals, titanium is found as Ti4+, as Ti3+ is less stable (especially in the presence of iron) and readily oxidizes to Ti4+ (see R.G. Burns, “Intervalence transitions in mixed-valence minerals of iron and titanium,” Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Vol. 9, 1981, pp. 345–383). However, titanium-doped synthetic laser crystals of both sapphire and chrysoberyl have been developed with titanium in the trivalent state, as this is the desired oxidation state to produce tunable lasing. In the case of Czochralski-grown titanium sapphire laser crystals, it is well documented that much of the material is grown in a virtually inert atmosphere, and post-growth annealing is conducted in a reducing atmosphere to convert the Ti4+ to Ti3+ (M. Kokta, “Process for enhancing Ti:Al2O3 tunable laser crystal fluorescence by annealing,” US Patent 4,587,035 A, May 6, 1986). Note: This contributor has observed that as-grown titanium sapphire crystals are generally milky and slightly purple in color before annealing. After annealing in a strongly reducing atmosphere such as hydrogen, the corundum crystals become clear and orangy red in color.
An investigation of the literature and comparison to spectroscopic data of the authors’ samples showed that the synthetic reddish violet chrysoberyl crystals and faceted gems and the phenomenal alexandrite samples do appear to have Ti3+ as a chromophore, which leads to the unusual pleochroism observed. In the case of the reddish violet samples, Ti3+ seems to be the predominant chromophore, as only traces of chromium, iron, vanadium, and manganese were detected. The cat’s-eye and star alexandrite samples appear to have a combination of Ti3+ and Cr3+ chromophores (with additional rutile precipitates being responsible for chatoyancy and asterism). The transparent alexandrites, meanwhile, appear to have a combination of Cr3+ and V3+ as chromophores. The detection of trace levels of Ti3+ in chrysoberyl strongly suggests a synthetic origin and possibly further heat treatment in a reducing atmosphere (to form reddish violet samples with predominant Ti3+ contents), and in an oxidizing atmosphere (to form rutile precipitates).
Jennifer Stone-Sundberg is managing director at Crystal Solutions, which specializes in crystal growth and characterization technology. A technical editor of Gems & Gemology, she holds a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Oregon State University.
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Does TV Still Need to be the Center of Video Campaigns?
Shana Ireland
Like many execs in digital media, I had one of those “wait what?” moments recently when I saw that marketing intelligence company WARC found that the percentage of marketing campaigns leading with TV on its list of most effective advertisers has “steadily increased.” The report also noted a “sharp fall” over the past year or so in social-led campaigns.
WARC didn’t disclose the data it used in its calculations, but I find the notion that advertisers are returning to TV to be far-fetched. To the contrary, the continuing narrative in 2017 is that advertisers are fleeing TV at an accelerated rate. eMarketer expects TV’s share of the advertising pie to shrink from 35.2% today to 30.8% by 2021. If anything, the phenomenon that WARC has noticed is a blip, for the following reasons:
TV has its own viewability problem. Bots are such a part of digital media that it’s common to see viewability rates in the 40–60% range. Meanwhile, how do you know that someone is viewing your TV ad? The answer is, you don’t. Personal experience shows that often people check their phones, leave the room and change the channel when a commercial comes on. A 2010 Nielsen study found 14% of viewers change channels during a commercial break and 20% of consumers change rooms during commercials. Considering the average primetime CPM for adults 18–49 was $47 in the 2016–17 season, that’s a lot of waste.
TV is no longer the dominant device in the living room. A 2016 eMarketer study found nearly 85% of viewers surf the web while watching TV. Biometric data found that 60% of the time a person is most highly engaged during a TV session is actually while he is doing a non-TV related activity, such as using a digital device or talking to someone else in the room.
Younger viewers are tuning out traditional TV in droves. If you’re trying to reach younger viewers, TV isn’t effective and is getting less effective by the day. A 2016 study by digital media firm Defy Media found that consumers 13–24 watch 12.1 hours a week of Internet-based video compared to 8.8 hours on Netflix and other subscription video services. That dwarfs the 8.2 hours a week they spend watching traditional TV. Some 30% of Millennials have also cut the cord, rejecting traditional phones and cable services, according to a 2016 survey from GfK MRI.
TV advertising is still far too wasteful. While the majority of digital advertising is bought and sold programmatically and uses reams of data to determine whether the target consumer is likely to be interested in the product, most TV inventory is still based on demographics. This is outdated thinking; it’s much more effective to target consumers who are interested in your product category and have bought that product in the past than viewers who just happen to be between the ages of 18–49. A decade ago, media sellers might have argued that video on TV was more effective than banner ads, but that video was now ubiquitous and a much better buy.
The caveat with this argument is that TV is changing. In a few years, most inventory will likely be bought and sold programmatically, the way that digital media is. That’s not the case in 2017 though. Some top advertiser may have had success with TV-led campaigns recently, but there are smarter ways to go about it.
Shana Ireland is Account Director, Digital Media for GlassView. A digital media and business development professional, Ireland is driven by the intersection of technology, creativity and video marketing. She describes herself as a connector, a collaborator with a passion for bringing people together — and also a bit of a West Coast tech geek!
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Visitors to the No.1 Pump station may well wonder what is the purpose of the large concrete underground tank west of the pump station. The answer is that it was built as a consequence of the severe aeration problems which occurred in the early days of the pipeline operations.
In 1906 a significant increase in the pumping head, or resistance to flow, was noted at one pumping station. When the whole pipeline was tested it was found that every section of the pipeline had suffered a reduction in carrying capacity of between 12 percent and 53 per cent.
When a number of pipes were removed for examination, the reduction in carrying capacity was found to be due to extensive tuberculation in the form of round, spongy, black tubercules of up to 30 mm in diameter, predominantly consisting of iron oxides which formed pittings in the steel pipe of not more than 3 mm in depth. On the recommendation of the Engineer-in-Charge, William Reynoldson, the Government engaged a group of specialist consultants, Sir Alexander Binnie, Son and Deacon, Sir William Ramsay and Mr Otto Hehner, to advise on remedial measures.
The consultants’ 1909 report (known as the ‘Binnie Report’), concluded that internal corrosion was principally due to dissolved oxygen contained in the scheme water which could be removed by spraying the water into a vacuum. From their own experiments the consultants found dosage of the reservoir water with lime, thus lowering the acidity of the water, appeared to largely prevent corrosion. They recommended that the reservoir water should be treated by both vacuum deaeration and dosage with lime.
An inter-departmental government board of engineers and scientists, chaired by Engineer-in-Chief, James Thompson, decided to adopt the lime dosage treatment, and to supplement it later, if necessary, with vacuum deaeration. Other structures along the pipeline, such as summit tanks, were to be provided to minimise aeration of the water in transit.
The board proposed that a lime dosage pit be built next to No 1 Pump Station on its western side and that all water coming from the reservoir should be dosed with lime before being pumped to Station No.2. While the tank was being built and, in order not to delay water treatment, it was decided to commence the treatment as soon as possible using the receival tank at No 2 Pump Station as the mixing tank.
The dosing commenced in October 1910 using quick lime slaked with water so as to give about 4 grains of free lime per gallon of water. However within two years the reduction in carrying capacity of the main between pumping station No.2 and Baker’s Hill tank due to deposition of calcium carbonate in the pipeline caused by the lime treatment at Pump Station No. 2 had become so bad that over 3 kilometres of pipeline had to be removed and replaced with clean pipes.
When the large lime settlement tank on the western side of No 1 Pump Station had been completed in June 1913 the lime treatment process was recommenced at that station. Not surprisingly the carrying capacities of the pipes between pumping stations Nos 1 and 2 and also of the clean pipes downstream of No. 2 station decreased steadily over the next eighteen months due to carbonate deposition.
Nor did the test pieces, inserted in pipeline bypasses in 1910, indicate that the lime treatment had been any more successful in arresting pipe corrosion after 1913 than it had between 1910 and 1912, and in 1915 lime treatment was abandoned.
Deaeration of Mundaring water
The Binnie report of 1909 indicated the principles along which an apparatus could be designed to remove dissolved oxygen from scheme water before it left Mundaring. When it became increasingly clear that lime treatment was ineffective, the GWS engineers designed a full scale deaeration plant capable of treating 27,000 kilolitres of water per day, according to the principles suggested by the consultants. The plant was built by the State Implement and Engineering Works at Rocky Bay, North Fremantle. It was installed just east of pumping station No.1 and commenced operation in December 1917.
Battye Library. The deaerator eventually installed No 1 Pump Station.
Valves on the 762mm pipe from the Weir to the pumping station diverted the full flow to the deaerator structure which was built 60 metres east of the pumping station. It consisted of an elevated tank, 6.7 m in diameter and 2.1 m deep containing two deaerator units, each capable of treating 13,500 kilolitres per day. Each unit consisted of two vertical steel cylinders interconnected one above the other, the upper 1.7 m in diameter and the lower 1.1m. Both cylinders were evacuated by vacuum pump through a 127mm diameter pipe in the top of the upper cylinder. This pipe also removed the extracted gases.
Water was forced into the bottom of the upper cylinder by atmospheric pressure through in excess of a thousand 3 mm diameter holes, shooting as a fine spray to the top of the cylinder, impinging on a plate and falling back to enter the lower cylinder through a second plate containing similar 3 mm diameter holes. The spray fell through the lower vacuum cylinder and exited into a pipe returning to the 762mm diameter main which ran under the pumping station to the stand pipe surge tower on the west side of the station from which it was distributed to the pumps.
Untreated water from Mundaring reservoir contained an average of 8 parts per million (by weight) of dissolved oxygen in summer, and 10 parts per million in winter. After the water had passed through the deaerator its oxygen content was found to be between 0.7 and 1.0 parts per million, indicating that about 90 percent of the dissolved oxygen had been extracted.
The deaerator was an essential element in the prevention of further internal corrosion, although it did little to prevent corrosion at the lead joints between pipes where a more radical solution was required. The success of deaeration, however, depended on how effectively air could be prevented from entering the pipeline along its full length. This was not an easy task because of the wide variety of potential entry points and the work took over ten years to be fully completed.
To reduce air entry at the pumping station receival tanks and at the regulating tanks on the pipeline the inlets to the tanks were repositioned to discharge under water near the bottoms of the tanks. Under the original pumping system the high points of the pipeline between pumping stations were only full when the pumps were operating. To reduce daeration the Binnie report recommended that the main be also kept full of water during periods when the pumps were not working. To achieve this six summit tanks were
installed in 1910 and 1911 at the high points between stations. These were at Sawyers Valley between pumping station No. 2 and Baker’s Hill tank; at Kellerberrin West between stations 3 and 4; at Booraan between stations 4 and 5; at Nulla Nulla between stations 5 and 6; at Bronti between stations 6 and 7; and at Koorarawalyee (pronounced Coo-rarra-wally) between stations 7 and 8. The installation of these tanks made a significant change to the way the whole scheme was operated.
Under the original scheme the length of pumped main was 406 km and the length of gravity main was 155 km. The gravity main was in two sections, from Baker’s Hill to Cunderdin and from Bullabulling to Kalgoorlie. With the summit tanks in place the pipeline became predominantly a gravity main with the pumped length reduced to 123 km and the gravity length increased to 438 km. This was because for each section between pumping stations the first station only had to pump to the next summit tank. The water then gravitated to the second pumping station.
A lot of the credit for the successful re-vamping of the scheme should be given to the then Principal Assistant Engineer Walter (Kirk) Weller, the last of C Y O’Connor’s cadets still in the Department. He was responsible for converting the laboratory scale deaeration plant proposed in the Binnie report into an innovative fullscale plant capable of deaeration of 27,000 kilolitres of water per day which, in association with the alterations made at tanks and reservoirs, largely solved the problem of pipeline internal corrosion except that occurring at the lead joints between pipes. The deaeration plant remained in operation until the Second World War.
Prepared by Don Young based on research by Dr Richard Hartley
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George Ewing, born January 9, 1864, in Brenham, Texas, was the son of George and Kate Ewing. Young George's father was a plantation owner from Alabama, who came to Texas in 1854 and settled in Washington County. During the Civil War he fought with Hood's Brigade. George's mother, Kate, was from Aberdeen, Mississippi, and came to Texas in 1857. Young George came to Gonzales in 1901 to manage the Alamo Lumber Company, later renamed the Ewing Lumber Company. On November 18, 1903, he married Sallie Sample and they had two daughters and two sons. Sallie was born in Pilgrim, Texas, May 13, 1879, the daughter of James Madison Sample of Alabama and Henrietta White Sample of Mississippi. According to a family member, James Sample served under Robert E. Lee during the Civil War and was with Lee when the General surrendered at Appomattox. George served as mayor of Gonzales from 1923 to 1934 and initiated the first program to pave the city's streets. Sallie was choir director of the First Baptist Church for many years. The Ewings completed their Queen Anne style home in 1910.
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Staff Editorial: Look toward the future
Sep 11, 2006 12:00 AM
Today, the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, was marked by a copious amount of media attention. This comes months after the release of two 9/11-inspired feature films. The amount of hype during this solemn anniversary hides the fact that America has barely changed since that day. It also prevents us from learning the true lessons of Sept. 11.
In some respects, the media chose a path of exploitation when it comes to coverage and portrayals of 9/11. This year, attention on the anniversary began more than a week ago, presumably to attract an audience still disturbed by the relatively recent destruction of the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon.
As part of this media buildup, ABC decided to air a docudrama about pre-Sept. 11 terrorism investigations that has been questioned for its accuracy. Docudramas similar to the ABC special, along with “United 93” and “World Trade Center,” the two movies based on the attacks, present a dramatized view of that day. These productions, released so soon after the event itself, may hijack history through fictional portrayals of an event that to this day is still not fully understood.
Moviegoers may have walked out of theaters after seeing “United 93” feeling as if they completed some patriotic duty or paid appropriate respects to those killed in the attacks. In reality, their patriotism is hollow. These portrayals, as well as obsessive media coverage, do little to inspire Americans to proactively better their country. Instead, they instill and promulgate a culture of fear.
This media inundation highlights our nation’s inability to evolve beyond the knee-jerk reactions that followed the attacks. The amorphous war on terror has shifted its focus away from the most serious outside threats facing America. Citizens continue to live in fear of terrorism, while they face threats such as automobile accidents and obesity that are, statistically, more dangerous. Political infighting between Democrats and Republicans has hurt Americans and prevented much real legislative action, a far cry from the image of members of Congress united in singing “God Bless America” on the steps of the Capitol five years ago.
There is perhaps no better example of the misguided focus on this anniversary than the passing of another disaster’s anniversary only weeks ago. The damage caused by Hurricane Katrina still affects GW students, not to mention the thousands of people who have still been unable to rebuild. With the national focus on terrorism in August 2005, federal, state and local authorities were unable to protect their own citizens from a predicted disaster.
The media and public obsession with Sept. 11, especially manifested this year, merely continues to perpetuate a society that is reactive to certain threats but ignores other pressing issues. While it is necessary to memorialize those lost five years ago, a new focus is necessary to shift from a politics of fear to a politics of hope that can use the positive lessons from Sept. 11 to create a stronger America.
This message resonates especially strongly with many GW students, who are preparing to assume their role as productive working members of society. Rather than dwelling on the attacks, our generation should seek to remember the sense of unity, charity and resolve that existed on that tragic day. Students our age should seek to assume jobs and responsibilities that will allow America to fix nagging domestic problems and adopt a smarter foreign policy that will keep America safe.
The alternative to this positive outlook is a return to politics as usual for the past five years. Political bickering, public fear and an empty rhetoric of patriotism must be replaced by proactive service and an open debate on how we can use the lessons of Sept. 11 to improve our nation.
While many will indeed spend their Sept. 11 glued to their televisions, watching CNN’s original coverage from this day five years ago, our nation and especially its young people must realize that this particular brand of memorializing sets a dangerous trend. The attacks of five years ago were a tremendous loss, but dwelling only on the past will be the biggest tragedy caused by that day. Our nation must instead move forward and strive to build a brighter future.
This article appeared in the September 11, 2006 issue of the Hatchet.
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Jewish Insider's Daily Insider: July 28, 2017
Somehow the Middle East seems more sane | Bibi’s settlement exchange proposal | Larry David & Bernie Sanders are actually cousins
JI Staff Jul 28, 2017 10:56 PM
Cast member Larry David attends a panel for the television series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" during the TCA HBO Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., July 26, 2017. MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS
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MEDIA WATCH: "Emerson Collective Acquires Majority Stake in The Atlantic" by Gillian White: "David G. Bradley, the chairman and owner of Atlantic Media, is announcing this morning that he is selling a majority stake in The Atlantic to Emerson Collective, an organization led by philanthropist and investor Laurene Powell Jobs. Bradley will retain a minority stake in The Atlantic and will continue as chairman and operating partner for at least three to five years. In a letter to his staff, Bradley wrote that Emerson Collective will most likely assume full ownership of The Atlantic within five years. Bradley, who bought The Atlantic in 1999 for $10 million from Mortimer Zuckerman, is credited with transforming the Boston-based monthly magazine of politics, arts, and letters into a profitable digital-journalism and live-events company of global reach."
"Bradley also announced that the current leadership team of The Atlantic—Bob Cohn, its president; Hayley Romer, its publisher; and Jeffrey Goldberg, its editor in chief—would remain in place. Peter Lattman, who leads Emerson’s media efforts, and was a financial reporter at The New York Times and then the paper’s media editor, will retain his position there and become vice chairman of The Atlantic." [TheAtlantic]
Leon, the media 'shadchan' -- from David Bradley's memo to staff: "It was a friend of many of us here, Leon Wieseltier, who first put me onto the possibility that Laurene might come to love The Atlantic as I have. For its part, Emerson Collective had begun to invest in serious journalism for its own sake. And, as to Laurene personally, Leon said, "If she were to take an interest in The Atlantic, it would be for all the right reasons." In a January meeting in Washington, Laurene first took an interest." [Axios]
TOP TALKER: "McMaster Fires Iran Hawk From NSC" by Kate Brannen: "National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster has removed Derek Harvey, the top Middle East advisor on the National Security Council (NSC), from his post Thursday... Harvey had been picked for his role on the NSC by McMaster’s predecessor, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. After Trump reluctantly removed Flynn in February, a handful of Flynn’s people left, but Harvey and others remained in their jobs... Harvey was also known for being a hawk on Iran and had been pushing proposals to expand the U.S. military mission in Syria to go after Iranian proxy forces more aggressively. Defense Secretary James Mattis had pushed back on these proposals." [FP; TWS]
“More Turmoil at the National Security Council” by Rosie Gray: "In a emailed statement on Thursday afternoon, Harvey [wrote]... “I treasure having had the opportunity to support committed and visionary leaders such as Mrs. K.T. McFarland, Mr. Jared Kushner, and Mr. Steve Bannon, and consummate professionals like Mr. Jason Greenblatt and Ms. Dina Powell.”” [TheAtlantic]
"Trump Seeks Way to Declare Iran in Violation of Nuclear Deal" by David Sanger: "American officials have already told allies they should be prepared to join in reopening negotiations with Iran or expect that the United States may abandon the agreement, as it did the Paris climate accord... Mr. Trump had expected to be presented with options for how to get out of the deal, according to two officials, and in the words of one of them, “he had a bit of a meltdown when that wasn’t one of the choices."" [NYTimes]
"The Desperation of Our Diplomats" by Roger Cohen: "As William Burns, a former deputy secretary of state and the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, put it to me, “Beneath the surface, there’s nothing at all that’s normal.” Hard power and soft power are complementary. Cut out one and American leverage is lost. Wendy Sherman, an under secretary of state in the Obama administration, said, “Whether witting or not, this is not just the disruption of the State Department, it’s the destruction, and the minimization of the role of diplomacy in our national security.” ... An American jewel is at stake... But now, at a time of growing great-power rivalry, a diminished State Department leaves a vacuum Russia and China will fill." [NYTimes]
DRIVING THE DAY: "The Palestinian plot to end-run Trump at the UN" by Benny Avni: "On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly will vote on a resolution to change the way a Palestinian-centered agency is financed. For years, only a fraction of the funds for the UN Relief and Work Agency, which is dedicated exclusively to benefit Palestinians, came from UN budgets... The resolution, sponsored by a large group of countries sympathetic to the Palestinians, will recommend “a gradual increase in the support provided to [UNRWA] from the regular budget of the UN” by next year. Plus, mandatory fees in the past could only fund the salaries of non-Palestinian workers; the new resolution removes that restriction as well." [NYPost]
Happening Today: President Trump is meeting with U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley in the Oval Office at 11am.
JI INTERVIEW -- Representative John Faso (R-NY) discussed his experience as a New York lawmaker and his upcoming first trip to Israel in an interview with JI’s Aaron Magid. Faso will be visiting Israel for the first time in August on a trip for freshman members sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation, a charitable organization affiliated with AIPAC. Given the increasing momentum in Congress for the Taylor Force Act, legislation that would sever US economic aid to the Palestinian Authority if they continue payments to families of terrorists, Faso signaled his support for the effort. “The PA, by subsidizing the people who commit horrific crimes and by subsidizing the families of deceased terrorists, sends a terrible signal. I do think that we need to take action against support to the PA that is directly in contrast to interests of peace. Certainly, those PA subsidies meet that criteria."
Faso on the two state solution: “In theory, it sounds good. But, in order for there to be a two state solution, there needs to be a state on the other side of Israel that is capable of actually functioning and negotiating. It was Abba Eban who famously said: ‘The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.’ The Palestinians have had multiple opportunities for peace and stability and they have failed to ever take up the cause seriously." [JewishInsider]
PALACE INTRIGUE: “Anthony Scaramucci’s Uncensored Rant: Foul Words and Threats to Have Priebus Fired” by Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman: “In a vulgarity-laced telephone call with a New Yorker writer reported on the magazine’s website on Thursday evening, Mr. Scaramucci railed against Mr. Priebus and Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s chief strategist, both of whom opposed his hiring last week Whether Mr. Scaramucci will turn out to be Cain or Abel, it was clear that his appointment has added another layer of drama and dissent to a White House suffused in it — and revived the perpetual questions about Mr. Priebus’s fate Mr. Priebus finds himself isolated inside the White House. He has lost the support of Mr. Trump’s family, and other senior aides have long bristled at his demeanor or suspected he was trying to undermine them.” [NYTimes; NewYorker]
"Scaramucci declares war on Priebus, Bannon" by Josh Dawsey: “If this is less of a s---show because Anthony Scaramucci is imposing some discipline and getting things done, that’s good for the country. It’s good for the country to have a functioning government even if you disagree vehemently,” said Stu Loeser, a friend and former press secretary to Michael Bloomberg. “Anthony is helping the president and will continue to help the president.” Loeser's comments came before Scaramucci's New Yorker interview published." [Politico] Mooch to lower profile after New Yorker fracas [Axios]
Dan Shapiro: “Insane. Out of control. Madness. Can't wait to get back to the calm and sanity of the Middle East.” [Twitter]
-- Aaron David Miller replies: “That's most depressing comment I've heard in days. To even imagine that broken, angry, dysfunctional place compares favorably with us.....” [Twitter]
“What Cain and Abel Tell Us About the War Between Priebus and Scaramucci” by Joel Baden: “The Scaramucci/Priebus drama is really about something bigger: The conflict between traditional Republican politics and the new Trumpian attitude. It could also represent the clash of styles between Priebus’ aw-shucks Midwesternism and Scaramucci’s New York brashness. Either way, one potential lesson of the biblical story is the same: When the two sides come to blows, no one really ends up winning.” [Politico]
“Rahm Emanuel says White House drama is ‘undermining Trump’” by Lynn Sweet: “All this drama is undermining Trump... I don’t think the drama, somewhat initiated by the president, is helping,” Emanuel told me When Emanuel was chief of staff, “I couldn’t do my job and help the president move his agenda if people thought there was a gulf between him and me. And he and I would never do that.” [ChicagoSunTimes]
Bret Stephens: President Trump’s Lies Leading Us to a ‘World of Anthony Weiners’ -- “The tragedy of Trump’s victory and everything he’s done as president is he demonstrates that shamelessness works. He sold his shamelessness to the american people as fearlessness, and they believed it. if you don’t say ‘I made a mistake,’ if you don’t acknowledge error, if you kind of move forward, you’re going to get away with it. That’s what the presidency is showing us with Trump. We’re on our way to the world of Anthony Weiners.” [Mediaite]
BIBI’S BIG DEAL -- “Benjamin Netanyahu discussed settlement exchange plan with US” by Herb Keinon: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed with Washington in recent weeks the idea of redrawing the borders in any future agreement with the Palestinians, incorporating the major settlement blocs into Israel, while drawing out the heavily populated Israeli-Arab area of Wadi Ara and making it part of a future Palestinian state The discussions, first reported by Channel 2, mean that Netanyahu – in conversations with US President Donald Trump’s advisers Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt – has adopted a proposal put forward years ago by Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman.” [JPost]
WH official emails us: "This may have been one of many ideas discussed several weeks ago in the context of a peace agreement and not in the context of a separate annexation."
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who proposed this at the UN in 2010, tweets: “Welcome to the club.” [Twitter]
“Palestinians declare victory over Israel in crisis over holy site” by Ruth Eglash and William Booth: “The decision by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government to back down over the increased security measures was seen by both Israelis and Palestinians as a capitulation. Some said Netanyahu did the right and smart thing by de-escalating the tension, but members of his own government criticized him for what they saw as weakness in the face of Palestinian opposition and violence.” [WashPost] Netanyahu Says Palestinian Killer of Three Israelis Should Be Executed [Haaretz]
Jason Greenblatt in a statement: “The United States welcomes the efforts undertaken to de-escalate tensions in Jerusalem today. We believe that calm and security will create the best opportunity to return to dialogue and the pursuit of peace. President Trump, Jared Kushner and I, in full coordination with Secretary Rex Tillerson, Ambassador David Friedman, Consul General Don Blome and the State Department, as well as General HR McMaster and the National Security Council, have been and will remain engaged as we continue to monitor the situation closely.”
HEARD YESTERDAY -- State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert insisted the administration did not pressure Israel to remove the metal detectors from the Temple Mount: "Israel’s security is among our top priorities. We would never pressure Israel into making a security decision for political purposes... We would not get involved in a decision like that. It’s their decision. We recognize that the sides have to be willing to work together on this."
ON THE HILL -- The Senate overwhelmingly passed sanctions legislation against Russia, Iran and North Korea yesterday. The veto-proof bipartisan vote (98-2) is similar to Tuesday’s 419-3 vote in the House of Representatives. Senators Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Rand Paul (R-KY) voted against the bill. Sanders said on Twitter that while he supported sanctions on Russia and North Korea, he opposed the bill because he worries "very much about President Trump’s approach to Iran."
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he cannot imagine Trump vetoing the legislation. “It’s just not a good way to start a presidency to veto something and then be soundly overridden,” he said. “The bill does not violate the 2015 nuclear deal in any way,” AIPAC said in a statement, urging Trump to sign it into law.
On a conference call hosted by J Street yesterday, Israeli Major General (ret.) Amram Mitzna tells JI's Jacob Kornbluh... "The Prime Minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) has been very silent compared to his speeches before the nuclear agreement was signed. I assume that Israel is in a silent way supporting the idea that the current deal is better than abandoning the deal. It seems to me that Mr. Netanyahu is a little bit worried - he doesn’t know what kind of action the U.S. administration will take, and he understands that he is not able to deal with the current administration the same way he dealt with the Obama administration. Therefore he prefers to sit on the sidelines and see where the wind blows."
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BUSINESS BRIEFS: Apollo raises $24.6 billion for largest private equity fund ever [BI; Bloomberg] Patrick Drahi's Altice sees sales, profit growth with a boost from US business [FinancialTimes] Alex Sapir fails to take control of ASRR Capital in stock buyout [TRD] Car-collecting mogul Dezer, a Trump pal, caught up in penny-ante lawsuit over condo mortgage [MiamiHerald] Soros-Backed U.K. Fiber Broadband Challenger Raises $130 Million [Bloomberg] Startup uses Israeli tech to launch security app for the ultra-wealthy [BizJournals]
TALK OF THE TOWN: "Not your grandfather’s schvitz: Gary Barnett bringing infrared saunas to OMS" by E.B. Solomont: "In the arms race for the hottest new condominium amenity, Extell Development is bringing infrared saunas to its forthcoming One Manhattan Square project. The Gary Barnett-led firm said it is the first New York developer to offer residents the chic therapy — which uses radiant heat to warm the body’s core, stimulating the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems to help eliminate toxins. It’s a health benefit, but also a way for Extell to elevate the overall experience at the Lower East Side condo, said senior vice president of development Raizy Haas." [RealDeal]
"This Hamptons trailer park is a billionaire hotspot" by Jennifer Gould Keil: "On the surface, it could be your typical trailer park, with its boring rows of modular mobile homes squeezed onto tiny plots of land. But Montauk Shores features something other trailer parks don’t: million-dollar views — and billionaire residents. Owning a trailer at the park has become the ultimate status symbol for the tony Long Island town’s summering rich and famous, many of whom use their relatively modest mobile digs as a second pad to escape with the family or even as a glorified changing room after a long day of romping in Montauk’s waves. So many wealthy people have infiltrated the trailer park that it now has its own “Billionaires’ Corner,’’ a local Realtor said. There’s Vitaminwater co-founder Darius Bikoff, hedge-fund manager Dan Loeb, film producer Karen Lauder..." [NYPost]
“Inside Trump International Hotel, the Mecca of Trump-ism” by Irina Aleksander': “Two Hasidic guys waited to check in. One was talking on a flip phone. The other slapped the counter and said, “Okay, where's Trump?”” [GQ]
“Why Does the Kremlin Care So Much About the Magnitsky Act?” by Julia Ioffe: “In all of the drama over the Russian interference in America’s 2016 election, it’s easy to forget just how corrupt Russia is, and how much corruption and money flows still determine the official course of action. The Magnitsky Act so angered the Russians because it targeted what really mattered to them; it went after Russian elites’ raison d’tre The law hit the mark so precisely and painfully that the elite lashed out fiercely enough to do what neither the Magnitsky Act nor the 2014 sanctions did: They targeted their own, most vulnerable citizens—as if they haven’t stolen from them enough.” [TheAtlantic]
PROFILE: “The Settler Leader Who’s Even Charming Liberals as Israel’s Top Man in New York” by Amir TIbon: “When [URJ’s Rick] Jacobs first heard that Netanyahu was planning to send [Dani] Dayan to New York, he told the prime minister over the phone that it would be a major mistake Jacobs complained that instead of sending to New York “someone who will help lower the flames” and repair the damage that the Netanyahu-Obama era had done to Israel’s relationship with liberal American Jews, Netanyahu was “doing the exact opposite.” Netanyahu listened carefully and asked Jacobs to give the new consul general a chance. “He’ll surprise you,” the prime minister said. Jacobs doubted it, but when Dayan arrived in New York, Jacobs agreed to meet with him at the consulate and discuss possible cooperation. “I remember arriving to the meeting, sitting there with my hands crossed, and thinking to myself — this isn’t going to work,” Jacobs recalled this week. But after spending more than an hour with Dayan, he began to realize that maybe this time the prime minister was right.” [Haaretz]
"Ahead of nationwide release, Al Gore presents an ‘Inconvenient’ sequel at SF Jewish Film Festival" by Lisa Klug: "The new 88-minute documentary is the project of local Jewish filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk. For two years, this married couple followed Gore around the globe, from Greenland to Miami to Paris and parts in between... Having a documentary team shadow Gore for two years did not prepare him for witnessing this passionate portrait of an environmental crusader and policy wonk. “An awful lot surprised me because Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk traveled with me for two years,” Gore told The Times of Israel. “And as you see in the movie, some of the experiences were so emotional and I actually forgot that they were there filming."" [ToI]
HOLLYWOOD: “Larry David Reveals How Lorne Michaels and Ari Emanuel Recruited Him to Play Bernie Sanders on ‘SNL’” by Daniel Holloway: “This Bernie Sanders thing,” David said. “During the first debate between Bernie and Hillary, [‘SNL’ creator] Lorne Michaels got emails and calls during the debate, saying that I should be doing Bernie Sanders.” After the debate, “[WME-IMG co-CEO] Ari Emanuel called me up and said, ‘What did you think?’ And every time I watched Bernie Sanders, I would repeat everything that he said, because I know that I can talk like that. So I started talking to Ari, the agent, I started talking to him like Bernie Then I said, ‘You know, it would be a good thing for “Saturday Night Live”,’ not thinking in a million years.” It was also revealed during the panel that David and Sanders are related. Sanders learned of the connection when filming an upcoming episode of PBS’ “Finding Your Roots.” ... David did not say exactly how the two are related, specifying only that Sanders is “a third cousin or something.” [Variety]
“These Two Muslim and Jewish U.S. Comedians Are Standing Up for Peace” by Debra Nussbaum Cohen: “Dean Obeidallah is an American Muslim known for his Sirius FM radio talk show... He was appearing with his friend and former neighbor Scott Blakeman, a longtime comic who’s an American Jew with a Reform background. The pair performed at the Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, Long Island, trying to tailor what they said to their audience. Blakeman worked hard to avoid mentioning President Donald Trump to the largely wealthy and politically conservative congregation – which wasn’t easy for the political comedian.. “Fifteen years ago, the main focus of our act was to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace,” said Blakeman. “Now, since Trump, both Islamophobia and anti-Semitism have been emboldened. I’ve been doing political comedy a long time and I’ve never seen politics seep into things like this.”” [Haaretz]
ACROSS THE POND: "British anti-Semitic incidents at record high, charity says" by Cassandra Garrison: "There were 767 anti-Semitic incidents, mainly abusive behavior or assault, in the first six months of 2017, the Community Security Trust (CST) reported, a 30 percent increase from the same period in 2016. "Some of this may be down to improved reporting, but it is sadly clear that the overall situation has deteriorated," said CST Chief Executive David Delew. "Anti-Semitism is having an increasing impact on the lives of British Jews and the hatred and anger that lies behind it is spreading."" [Reuters]
SPORTS BLINK: “‘He’s a real pioneer’: Israeli college football player adjusts to life in the U.S.” by Samantha Pell: "Born and raised in Jerusalem, [Yaniv] Kovalski is viewed by many as the first of his kind. He earned a partial football scholarship from Stonehill, the first player from the Kraft Family Israel Football League — the country’s first full-contact tackle football league, sponsored by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft — to do so at a U.S. college football program. Kovalski is seen as a pioneer to his peers as they try to build a pipeline from Israeli football to the United States. “In 10 years, I would love to have plenty of Yaniv Kovalskis,” said Ehud Sharon, chief information officer of American Football in Israel. “That’s definitely the goal that we are setting up. He’s a real pioneer.”” [WashPost]
"Giants’ Jewish rookie lineman gets late-night kosher snacks" by Paul Schwartz: "Adam Bisnowaty will have some kosher late-night snacks to munch on during training camp and share with his fellow offensive linemen, courtesy of Manischewitz. That famous purveyor of kosher products is sending the Giants rookie all sorts of goodies after learning of Bisnowaty’s Jewish heritage in Monday’s Post. The Manischewitz Company’s Twitter account Thursday night posted a picture of assorted Jewish delicacies, such as potato pancakes, matzo ball soup mix, an assortment of matzo varieties and its famous Tam Tams crackers, promising Bisnowaty “all of this is on its way to you.’’ ... The Giants rookie chronicled for The Post his Jewish roots and showed off the tattoo inside his left arm, inscribed in Hebrew, that translates as “I am that I am,’’ a verse from Exodus 3:14." [NYPost]
SCENE IN ISRAEL: Haim Saban and his wife Cheryl attended a groundbreaking ceremony in the northern Galilee earlier this week for a new memorial center for fallen Israeli Druze soldiers. The Sabans are funding construction of the FIDF Druze Soldiers Heritage Center. [Pic]
DESSERT: "A Jerusalem Restaurant With Italian and Israeli Influences" by Gabriella Gershenson: "One of the first things you see when you arrive at Anna, an Italian restaurant in the heart of Jerusalem, is a still life of ingredients: a basket of kohlrabi, a bowl of olives and confited garlic cloves, pots of fresh herbs arranged artfully on the pass. The tableau is a fitting tribute to the place. The restaurant is on the top floor of the 19th-century villa where the artist Anna Ticho lived and worked. When she died in 1980, she left her home to the Israel Museum. After a renovation, the chef Moshiko Gamlieli opened Anna in May 2016. The restaurant is kosher, and the Italian menu, which focuses on fish and dairy (omitting meat to comply with kosher law), aims to be accessible." [NYTimes]
WINE OF THE WEEK -- Recanati Marawi 2015 -- by Yitz Applbaum: It is not often that someone comes into your office in the middle of the workday and offers you a glass of wine. It is even less common for that wine to be made from an Israeli grape varietal that has a 2,000 year old history. This surprise gift was compliments of my new friend, Peter, who not only has a great passion for Israeli wines, but the palate, intellect and soul to go with it.
The Recanati Malawi 2015 is produced from 100 percent Marawi grape which is indigenous to the Bethlehem/Hebron area. The Marawi grape has been growing in that area for thousands of years. Ariel University has recently begun a project to resurrect usage of this varietal for wine making. The outcome is quite remarkable. The wine provides a Chenin Blanc like experience. In this case, the grapes are aged for six months in French oak. This gives the soft fruity grape a bit of a tangy taste in the mid-palate without taking away from the peach and floral finish. This wine is drinkable right now. Serve slightly chilled and eat with goat cheese, figs and olives. If you have the image in your mind’s eye, try and imagine the Hebron Hills. It is a great experience. [RecanatiWinery]
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Toothpaste: It's something most people use every day, but rarely give much thought to — except, perhaps, when choosing from among the dozens of brands that line the drugstore shelf. Is there any difference between them? What's toothpaste made of… and does it really do what it promises on the box? To answer those questions, let's take a closer look inside the tube.
The soft, slightly grainy paste that you squeeze on your brush is the latest in a long line of tooth-cleaning substances whose first recorded use was around the time of the ancient Egyptians. Those early mixtures had ingredients like crushed bones, pumice and ashes — but you won't find that any more. Modern toothpastes have evolved into an effective means of cleaning teeth and preventing decay. Today, most have a similar set of active ingredients, including:
Abrasives, which help remove surface deposits and stains from teeth, and make the mechanical action of brushing more effective. They typically include gentle cleaning and polishing agents like hydrated silica or alumina, calcium carbonate or dicalcium phosphate.
Detergents, such as sodium lauryl sulfate, which produce the bubbly foam you may notice when brushing vigorously. They help to break up and dissolve substances that would normally be hard to wash away, just like they do in the laundry — but with far milder ingredients.
Fluoride, the vital tooth-protective ingredient in toothpaste. Whether it shows up as sodium fluoride, stannous fluoride or sodium monofluorophosphate (MFP), fluoride has been conclusively proven to help strengthen tooth enamel and prevent decay.
Besides their active ingredients, most toothpastes also contain preservatives, binders, and flavorings — without which they would tend to dry out, separate… or taste awful. In addition, some specialty toothpastes have additional ingredients for therapeutic purposes.
Whitening toothpastes generally contain special abrasives or enzymes designed to help remove stains on the tooth's surfaces. Whether or not they will work for you depends on why your teeth aren't white in the first place: If it's an extrinsic (surface) stain, they can be effective; however, they probably won't help with intrinsic (internal) discoloration, which may require a professional whitening treatment.
Toothpastes for sensitive teeth often include ingredients like potassium nitrate or strontium chloride, which can block sensations of pain. Teeth may become sensitive when dentin (the material within the tooth, which is normally covered by enamel, or by the gums) becomes exposed in the mouth. These ingredients can make brushing less painful, but it may take a few weeks until you really notice their effects.
What's the best way to choose a toothpaste? The main thing you should look for is the American Dental Association (ADA) Seal of Acceptance on the label. It means that the toothpaste contains fluoride — and that the manufacturer's other claims have been independently tested and verified.
But once you've chosen your favorite, keep this bit of dental wisdom in mind: It's not the brush (or the paste) that keeps your mouth healthy — it's the hand that holds it. Don't forget that regular brushing is one of the best ways to prevent tooth decay and maintain good oral hygiene.
Toothpaste It's something we put in our mouths every day. Yet for those who actually take the time to read that list of ingredients, it can be hard to figure out what it all means. Dear Doctor magazine breaks it all down and reveals a great way to be sure the claims written on the label can be trusted... Read Article
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Critique: 8 Quick Tips for Show, Don’t Tell
The key to immersive story experiences is convincing readers they’re right there with characters. They’re smelling the ash in the air, tasting the rain, feeling the churning gut, seeing all the same colors, hearing all the same notes. When narrative writing accomplishes that level of verisimilitude, it has the ability to move readers beyond their comfy reading chairs, beyond even the movie projectors in their heads, and right into a deeply visceral experience.
When done well, we call this technique “show, don’t tell.” This is actually an umbrella term for hundreds of little tricks that all combine to create strong narrative writing. If you master show, don’t tell, you will have largely mastered narrative writing itself.
This is why show, don’t tell is such a popular, pervasive, and challenging topic for all writers. It’s usually one of the first techniques we stumble over when we get serious about our writing, and it’s one we continue to tweak with every book we write.
I’ve written about the topic before—both about the basics and about more advanced approaches. Today, however, I want to use our ongoing series of “excerpt analyses” to explore several specific ways you can knit showing into the fabric of your story.
Learning From Each Other: New WIP Excerpt Analysis
Today’s post is the third in an ongoing series in which I am analyzing the excerpts you all have shared with me. My approach to these critiques is a little different from those you normally see on writing blogs. Instead of editing each piece, I’m focusing on one particular lesson that can be drawn from each excerpt, so we can deep-dive into the logic and process of various useful techniques.
Today, my thanks to Gary Myers for sharing the following excerpt from his historical novel Vaderland. Let’s take a look (the bolded entries and superscript numbers will correspond with the tips I’ll talk about in subsequent sections):
The young woman deftly unclipped the limit chain and moved it aside, immediately regretting not being more careful1 as the metal sign suspended below it clanged loudly against the rail.2 Swiftly,3 she lifted the hems of her skirts, took the first step up the steep stairs, and spun around to reattach the chain. One hand on the rail, the other pulling her skirts aside so she could see the narrow steps, she rose4 quickly to the deck above.
Hurried along by a stiff and steady wind angling down from the North Sea, the frigid December air immediately buffeted her as she emerged onto the port side of the open Boat Deck.5 How foolish, she thought, not to have thought of that. To not have realized how sheltered the Promenade Deck below had been.6 Outside, of course, but, at least on the starboard side where she had started, protected by the main deck house from the full force of the icy wind that blew from the northwest. Barely checked by the low marshlands in the estuary of the River Scheldt in northern Belgium, and totally unimpeded for the last thousand feet as it swept across the river itself, it slammed into her slight figure just as forcefully as it did into the new and untested steel-plated hull of the twin screw steamer Vaderland.
She resisted the urge to wrap her arms about her and rub her shoulders to warm herself. It was painfully obvious that a crisply starched shirtwaist was unsuitable for these conditions; returning to her cabin to don the grey wool jacket and cape that matched her skirt would be the prudent course of action. But Liza Dodson could withstand the memory of cold and discomfort more readily than that of not having been up to the task. That was unacceptable, and as unthinkable to her as smiling sweetly and acting helpless of body and thoughtless of mind.
It wasn’t that she was unable or hadn’t learned her lessons. As a child she’d discovered that even a face described as “pleasant enough” and dull blond hair that hung limply around it would usually be sufficient to get her way if she smiled and cocked her head just so. By the time she’d escaped awkward teenage years, she’d discovered the same of a figure judged only “more than passable,” even with her midriff stayed, her back forced into a graceful arch and her posture thus corrected. Had she chosen to behave as expected, she was fully capable of employing both face and figure to the desired effect, as most would willingly do. But she was not most and would not—could not—tolerate behavior that indicated she was less than she was. And what she could not tolerate in herself she suffered poorly in others, men and women alike.7
Ignoring the wind and the cold, she set about her task8 and found it no challenge at all, or at least not what she’d expected. She’d thought it would be difficult to find the object of her quest amidst the clutter of the Boat Deck.
Not intended for access by the passengers, as the metal sign on the limit chain had politely but sternly informed and instructed, it was clearly designed with little thought toward easy navigation, rendering it unsuitable for casual foot traffic as well. The port row of lifeboats hung from their davits, looming over her and crowding her from the right, while to her left towered the bridge and the two tall black funnels with the broad white stripes indicating the ship belonged to the Red Star Line. On center-line with the funnels, she could make out the low skylights for the dining rooms and saloons, surrounded by an assortment of fan housings, pumps, winches and water tanks. Ducts, pipes and steel cables of all sizes crisscrossed the deck at her feet; more cables, stays for the funnels and masts, zigged and zagged through the air at a variety of angles in front of her. Trumpet-shaped vents of all sizes littered the landscape, their flared openings bent at right angles to cylindrical bases that disappeared into the deck.
The description in the final paragraph is an excellent example of showing. Through well-chosen details, we are allowed to see what the protagonist sees. The ship comes to life before our eyes.
The earlier paragraphs, on the other hand, provide us an opportunity to look at ways we can all strengthen the force of our narrative writing (especially in the beginning of a story) by avoiding several sneaky instances of telling.
8 Tips to Spot Telling and Strengthen Showing
One of the reasons show, don’t tell is so difficult to master is that it is first of all difficult to understand. What exactly is showing? Most of the time, authors in search of this elusive skill will rightfully start out striving to use strong action verbs and write vibrant descriptions (as Gary did in his final paragraph). But there’s more to show, don’t tell than just that. Today, I want to point out several examples that aren’t always at the top of show, don’t tell guideline lists, but which are vital to strong narrative writing.
1. Never Name an Emotion
In the first sentence, the unnamed POV character “immediately regret[s] not being more careful.” This is perhaps the sneakiest of all bits of telling—and also one of the most potentially damaging. If we do our jobs right as writers, we should never need to directly tell readers what our characters are feeling. Rather, their emotion—joy, sorrow, confusion, regret—should emanate from the powerful context we have created.
Initially, this one can be a head-scratcher. How else would you let readers know a character is experiencing regret? Sometimes, admittedly, there is no other way. But usually, if you take a moment to consider how someone would act—facial expressions, body language, physiological reactions, thoughts, language, etc.—in a specific situation, you can show readers the appropriate emotion. Perhaps the character immediately flinches, bites her lip, and looks around to see if anyone noticed.
2. Let Cause and Effect Work for You
One of the easiest ways to let showing emerge from your writing is to adhere to causal order. By letting events unfold chronologically, you are giving readers their best chance to experience the story with your characters.
Let’s take a look at the entirety of the excerpt’s opening sentence:
The young woman deftly unclipped the limit chain and moved it aside, immediately regretting not being more careful as the metal sign suspended below it clanged loudly against the rail.
Did you catch that the event described in the third part of the sentence (“the metal sign … clanged”) actually happens before the second part (her immediate regret)? This means readers experience the character’s regret before they have any idea what she’s regretting. Even when the disorientation lasts no more than a split second, it still jars readers.
Fortunately, the fix is as easy as organizing sentences to reflect proper cause and effect.
3. Avoid Adverbs
Stephen King famously told us:
Many writers buck this. Adverbs, after all, are perfectly good parts of speech! But there are good reasons for King’s hyperbolic frustration, one of the biggest being the reality that an over-reliance on adverbs often contributes to telling instead of showing.
In today’s excerpt, we can count twenty-two adverbs ending in “-ly.” All but two or three could be deleted to the narrative’s benefit. Although nothing beats a well-placed adverb, adverbs are too often a demand for readers to see the story in a certain way. Instead of telling readers the character “swiftly lifted” her skirt, it’s usually better to show her “snatching up” her skirts, or some more evocative (but less bossy) equivalent.
And that brings me to…
4. Choose Verbs for Maximum Impact
There is no single show, don’t tell rule more important than that of choosing strong verbs. As Kingsley Amis points out:
If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
Multitudinous adverbs usually signify one of two problems:
The verbs are weak.
The verbs are strong, but you don’t trust them.
If we cut all the “-ly” adverbs from our excerpt, we’d see most of the verbs are strong enough to carry the narrative by themselves.
That said, we might also want to examine whether all the verb choices are strong enough to really show readers what they’re supposed to be seeing. For example, at the end of the first paragraph, we’re told the character “rose quickly” to the upper deck. This might be an appropriate verb if the character were floating upwards or riding an elevator or even just getting her to feet from a sitting position. Under the circumstances, however, the verb is not evocative enough to show readers what is actually happening. Just saying she “hurried up the stairs” or, even better (if appropriate), she “ran up the stairs two at a time,” presents a more accurate, and therefore more visual, picture.
5. Use Paragraph Breaks to Organize Information
In our last excerpt analysis, I talked about how writers can use paragraph breaks to organize information and to subtly indicate to readers what’s about to happen. This isn’t so much a specific rule of show, don’t tell, as it is a helpful aid for making sure readers are given the clearest path to experiencing every aspect of the story. When different types of information are grouped within the same paragraph, the reader’s experience can grow muddy.
For example, the excerpt’s second paragraph opens with a visceral bit of setting information (“a stiff and steady wind”), followed by the character’s internal reaction, followed by further setting details. This information would become more accessible if it were split into three separate paragraphs:
Paragraph #1: [Setting as an “actor” within the scene.]
Paragraph #2: [Character thoughts.]
Paragraph #3: [Setting description.]
6. Avoid Thought Tags (and Reconsider Direct Thoughts)
One of the best ways to unite your readers’ experience with your character’s is via your POV character’s inner thoughts. “Direct thoughts” are shared in present-tense, phrased similarly to out-loud dialogue. That’s what we see toward the beginning of the excerpt’s second paragraph:
How foolish, she thought.
Surprisingly, character thoughts are one of the trickier aspects of narrative. Framed inappropriately, they often feel intrusive (direct thoughts, in general, are much more intrusive than “indirect thoughts,” which require no special punctuation or attribution).
One of the easiest ways to trim “telling” from your character’s thoughts is to cut as many thought tags as possible. As long as it’s clear the sentences in question are the character’s thoughts, there’s no need to tell readers “she thought.”
7. Watch for Info Dumps
One of the most obvious “tells” is the info dump. Any time you find yourself sharing a paragraph’s worth of information, consider whether you might, in fact, be dumping it on your readers. This approach is especially tempting in your story’s opener, since it often feels like readers need certain chunks of information right away. Usually, though, they don’t.
The excerpt’s fourth paragraph tells us some important things about the protagonist. But note the key word: it tells us. This is the kind of paragraph I inevitably write in my own openers. It’s the kind of thing I need to get out of my system in the first draft. But with any luck, I find and delete it before the book gets out to readers. Why? Because there is no aspect of showing more important than characterization. Readers don’t want to be told who your characters are; they want to get to know them on their own terms.
Writers rarely need these info dumps as much as they think they do. Do we really need anything in the paragraph in question? Basically, it’s telling us the protagonist conforms to societal expectations but doesn’t really like them—and that’s exactly what we’ve already been shown via her tentative rule-breaking.
8. Keep the Scene Focused on Action via Character Goals
Here’s a rule of thumb: it’s much easier to show when a scene features moving parts. This is true not just of physical movement, such as the character sneaking above deck, but even more so of plot movement.
Can you pinpoint the moment in the excerpt when the story’s interest level picks up?
It’s the moment, in the fifth paragraph, when the narrative indicates the protagonist has a goal:
She set about her task.
It’s no coincidence that this is also the point where the excerpt’s descriptive showing becomes more evocative. Why? Because at this point the scene has finished its set-up and is ready to get down to business.
Not only is this a good example of why it’s best to start your scenes with the hook of your character’s goal, it’s also a great example of how show, don’t tell is integral to so many other “rules” of good writing.
If ever you find yourself struggling with too much telling in a scene, first make sure your character has a goal, then make sure the character is actively pursuing that goal. And vice versa—if ever you find you’re writing a flaccid scene that just won’t take off, consider whether maybe you’ve packed a lot of unnecessary telling in there somewhere, especially at the beginning.
Show, don’t tell is one of the most foundational aspects of good writing. It is the vehicle that allows readers to cruise through your story, enjoying all the sights along the way. Without this important skill, you will have difficulty convincing readers to engage with what might otherwise be excellent characters and strong story structure. With it, though, many other important writing skills—everything from voice, pacing, description, characterization, and even scene structure—fall into place!
My thanks to Gary for sharing his excerpt, and my best wishes for his story’s success. Stay tuned for more analysis posts in the future!
You can find further excerpt analyses linked below:
5 Ways to Successfully Start a Book With a Dream
How to Use Paragraph Breaks to Guide the Reader’s Experience
Wordplayers, tell me your opinions! What has been your biggest breakthrough with show, don’t tell? Tell me in the comments!
[Sorry, no podcast this week. I’ve got a bad cold and was too hoarse to record.]
Critique: 4 Ways to Write Gripping Internal Narrative
10 Advantages of Writing a Single-POV Story (What I Learned Writing Wayfarer)
How to Spot and Avoid Self-Indulgent Writing
Rhonda K. Gatlin says
I have been struggling with the show don’t tell in a different way. As a children’s author I have to use kid language and I am finding this harder to show. Ex: Aggie and Roger were sleeping soundly in their beds when a soft melody woke Aggie. She listened for a few minutes, and crawled out of bed. She tiptoed to the door and looked out into the hall. The music was coming from the piano! Aggie saw a faint green glow sitting on the piano bench. She rubbed her eyes and looked again, but the music had stopped and the green glow had disappeared. She rushed back to her bed and crawled under the covers, “I must be dreaming,” she said as she fell back to sleep.
Would you please give me some pointers. I’d appreciate any help to show more than tell.
Rhonda K. Gatlin
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There’s a lot of telling in the paragraph you’ve shared. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, especially when writing for a very young audience. However, there’s no real difference in “showing” for kids and “showing” for adults (save perhaps complexity of language). All the same principles I outline in this post would also apply to kidlit.
Please show me which of my sentences are showing and which are telling. I am still having trouble which is which. I’d appreciate it
In this instance, the verbs “were sleeping,” “woke,” “listened,” “looked out, “was coming,” and “saw” are all telling.
“Woke,” for example, could be replaced by “Aggie blinked her eyes.”
“Listened,” “looked,” and “saw” could all be deleted in favor of simply sharing with readers, through Aggie’s ears and eyes, what she’s experiencing. See this post.
However, again, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The rhythm is nice and it reads well. You see this style especially in stories for younger children–picture books and early readers–primarily because it shortens the story compared to lengthier dramatizations.
Deborah Lincoln says
SO helpful; thanks! My question: is an opening that sets the scene (I’m thinking particularly of East of Eden) an info dump? I’ve used that kind of set-up in my writing, but (since I’m not Steinbeck) I wonder if it turns readers away.
Basically, the answer is what you’ve already said: it depends how well it’s done. Usually, it’s not the safest route to hooking a reader. But when done brilliantly, it’s, well, brilliant. 🙂
Benjamin Tyler Smith (@BenTylerSmith) says
Excellent post! Showing vs. telling was one of the areas I struggled with early on, for a multitude of reasons. and I’m sure it had to do with loving older epic fantasies and the early info dumps common in those. I’m not sure if it’s just something you grow out of or if it’s just the nature of the times, but these days I get bored with that level of detail all at once.
#2 was a problem of mine until I picked up Dwight Swain’s “Techniques of the Selling Writer” and read his chapter devoted to properly framing actions and reactions. That’s an eye-opening book, for that and for his breakdown of scenes and sequels.
For #3 and #4, I do my best to limit use of adverbs and pick and choose my verbs, but I often end up saving this for my second or third round of edits. That’s when I try to trim down my adverbs, overuse of certain phrases or words or sentence structures, and so forth.
#7 used to be a big problem, probably because of my love for older epic fantasies and the info dumps common in those, especially early on in a manuscript. I’m not sure if it’s just something you grow out of or if it’s the nature of the times, but these days I get bored with that level of detail all at once. I find it’s better to sprinkle bits of worldbuilding into a story for a sentence or two, and then move on to the action. If it’s vitally important and can’t be brought up in dialogue, it better not go on for more than a paragraph or it’s getting pared down in an edit.
Dwight V. Swain is great! I highly recommend his book.
betterwithscraps says
My biggest help for show, don’t tell, came from isolating character perspective. When one character is doing the action and observation, other elements can be expressed through them alone.
Yes, POV is a great influence on what is shown and what is told.
JOHN G CRYAR says
As usual Katie, you are spot on. For the past two years I have learned volumes of knowledge and how-to info from your post. Please keep it up, and thank you for sharing.
Happy trails, John
Thanks for sticking around for the long haul! 🙂
Rosabelle says
Hey, K.M.! I’m new to commenting on here (I’ve been reading it for a while), and I just wanted to say that your blog is SO HELPFUL. It’s been really useful for me while I’m in the process of planning/outlining my first book. I have a few problems though . . .
So, first off, my book isn’t like an “action” story or an “adventure” story. It’s about a fourteen-year-old girl and her friends, and it’s more about friendships and stuff. The storyline is very important to me, and it’s based off of my own life experiences. I really like what I have so far, but I feel like it’s too boring. Like no one will want to read a book that isn’t about dragons, or fighting, or being lost somewhere, or something interesting like that. I mean, it’s not a boring story at all, but, I’m having trouble finding the theme and main goal for my protagonist. It’s not like she’s actually trying to accomplish something, like winning a race or something like that, but, she does have goals.
Let me explain . . .
It’s about fourteen-year-old Erin Blaire, my protagonist. Erin’s best friend, Adriana, starts spending a lot of time with the new girl, Sienna, and they become really close. Erin and Adriana are practically opposites. Erin is quiet, kind of shy, introverted, and enjoys reading. While Adriana is funny, loud, outgoing, extroverted, and enjoys playing musical instruments and acting. Sienna is a lot like Adriana, and they become very close friends and enjoy doing everything together. Erin is very hurt and jealous, although she doesn’t tell anyone. When she tries to spend time with Adriana again, Adriana insists on Sienna coming along, and Erin doesn’t want her to. When Miranda moves in next door, she’s really quiet. She doesn’t talk very much, she’s really shy, and she’s hurting inside. When Miranda was about six or seven, her parents were in a very bad car accident (she was in the car with them, and she remembers the whole thing). Both her parents died, and she was adopted (she’s an orphan now) by a nice couple with no other children. Miranda remembers the accident, and she can’t get it out of her head. She thinks about it every day, and she can’t stop. After the accident, Miranda closed up, stopped being herself, and stopped doing what she loves. She doesn’t want it to be this way, but she’s not sure what to do. She feels like she’ll never be happy again . . . until she meets Erin. Erin is sweet and kind, and makes Miranda feel like she’s worth something. But when Adriana sees how Erin and Miranda became such fast friends, she becomes jealous too (Adriana also doesn’t really like Miranda, because she feels like she’s stealing her best friend). Adriana never realized that what’s happening with Erin and Miranda is what happened with her and Sienna.
Miranda feels like she has to change herself for other people to like her, like they won’t want to be her friend if they find out what happened. So she hides it all from them. She eventually learns that you need to be yourself, and you shouldn’t change who you are ‘s just so people will like you.
Erin feels like she can’t make mistakes because she’ll let people down (especially her parents), so she’s very self conscious. Her father is the pastor of a church, and she feels like she has to be the “perfect pastor’s daughter” that everyone expects her to be. She eventually learns that it’s okay to make mistakes, because you learn from them.
There are a lot of friendship problems and stuff like that. I’m not sure if you would say my protagonist’s main goals would be getting her best friend back and helping Miranda (she also wants to make her parents proud, and she’s afraid to disappoint to people). Eventually, at the end of the story, Miranda tells Erin about the accident, how she feels, and stuff like that, and they all become friends.
But I’m not sure if I need to add something more. Is it bad if the protagonist doesn’t exactly have a specific goal until the Inciting Event that happens a little bit into the story? I mean, she’s a fourteen-year-old girl, it’s not like she’s trying to do something big like saving the world or something crazy. I’m just worried that I need to add some sort of big ACTUAL goal that she has at the beginning of the story, but I don’t even know what that would be! So I’m sort of stuck.
I’m not 100% sure what my theme would be, and I’m kind of worried about that. I think that I really need to figure out what my theme is and what my protagonist’s goal is before I can outline any further. I guess you might be able to say that the theme is about: “being yourself, it’s okay to make mistakes, and you don’t have to change yourself for others to like you”, but I’m not sure. I really need help. I don’t know what to do, and I thought maybe you could help me. Any advice will be VERY much appreciated!
Thanks, and God Bless!
~♡Rosabelle♡~
Goals don’t always have to be big and world-changing. Sometimes they’re just as simple as “become friends” or “stay friends.” Characters usually won’t start out the book with their plot goals already in their heads. But they always start out with at least an embryonic desire for something. If you haven’t yet read my series on character arcs, I recommend starting there.
Ivy Sendler says
This post is very useful, because I aim for an immersive writing style.
I love that style.
Hey, It's Hazel! says
Great post! I love your site and it’s been helping my writing in school (the class I told you about)! Have a great weekend!
Glad you all are finding it helpful! 🙂
Kirsten says
Figuring out how best to “show, don’t tell” has been a problem for me. Thank you so much for your great explanations. I’m a huge fan of yours!
“Show, don’t tell” is an evolving challenge for all writers. 🙂
Sophia Ellen says
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this post! I struggle with this and this has helped ALOT!
Yay! 😀
Joe Cillo says
The tendency to tell comes from, I believe, watching our characters and reporting what we see. If we are speaking from a character’s point of view, we need to get ourselves into the character much as an actor gets into character. A trick I discovered to make this easier is to jump into first person when describing the action. Then, you can rewrite it into third person.
I made my final draft of When the Wood Is Dry a much closer third POV by adding a lot of italicized first person inner thoughts and feelings then converting much of them to third person. I left some as italicized first person for emphasis. If you switch too much, it jars the reader out of the narrative, but there are times when jarring is appropriate.
It’s a bit of a crutch, but actors always have the advantage of speaking of themselves as “I” and “me” when in character. Writer’s can do the same and really internalize the character’s perspective. The character’s goal will also be harder to miss if you imagine it as your goal. And it should help with character voice, as well.
Also, remember that you likely have five senses and so do most readers. So, if you are really in the scene, you see, hear, feel, smell, and taste to various degrees. Some characters even have an additional spider-sense. Especially in revising, look for each sense being described whenever possible. Again, it is easiest to imagine these in the first person. And, you can be as ungrammatical as all get-out in an early draft that no one need see. The final product is what matters.
Byron Smith says
One of your best posts ever. Thanks for the great example and the good tips. Thank you, as well, to brave Gary for sharing!
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3 Distinctions In Running Blades In The Dark
It’s not often that I come across a game that breaks the mold. Sure, some systems will improve or change up the formula significantly enough to make a splash. Blades in the Dark, a game of heists in a broken world, delivers a wholly different tabletop experience. This alone makes it worthy of note, but the smooth execution of this new system makes it worthy of praise. As I am a grognard whose style doesn’t shift much from game to game, system to system, I struggled somewhat with adapting to Blades’ unique style. I hope to elucidate these key differences for those who may be in a similar situation, as the game is too good to pass up.
1) Setting Expectations
In Blades, players roll a number of d6s equal to their skill, plus some additional dice depending on circumstance. Like most games, the GM describes the difficulty of the task. Unlike most games, this difficulty does not dictate a number of successes or target number to achieve. Instead, the GM sets the consequences and the effect of the action should it succeed, and players roll and take the highest die result. For instance, a player may describe how they want their character to bull rush a thug who has a gun trained on them. In most situations, the GM would judge this action Desperate (the most dangerous rating) since it is unlikely they will emerge unscathed. Additionally, the GM would rule this as a low level of effect. The player character isn’t likely to incapacitate the thug with a single charge. However, should the thug be standing on a ledge or near a wrought iron grate, their capacity for injury increases, and so does the effect level. The narrative circumstances directly affect the mechanics of the game in this way. The player then rolls, and should the highest die result be a 1-3, they fail with consequences (they are shot and unable to connect with the thug). If it’s 4 or 5, they succeed with consequences (they slam into the thug, but also take a bullet for their trouble), and if it’s a 6, they succeed without negative consequences (the PC hits the thug before they can get a shot off).
It’s up to the GM to keep their players informed about the aspects of a scene so that everyone’s expectations are the same. What if the PC had a gun too? What if that PC decided to talk down the thug instead? The GM applies a rating entirely dependant on these shifting circumstances, which makes the next point all the more important.
2) Gathering Input
This game, more so than most others, relies on a give and take by the GM and players. For instance, the players choose which skill they want to use to complete any given task. The GM is encouraged not to deny the player’s selection, rather to ask the player to describe how they want to use that skill to accomplish that objective. In the previous example, the PC could use their Skirmish skill (most often used for scuffles), and the GM would most likely rule as described. Should they instead ask to use Prowl, they would have to describe how that skill applies to the situation. Do they try to duck behind cover, skulk through the shadows, then clobber the thug once their unaware? It’s up to the player, but the goal remains always to serve the narrative.
The GM is also intended to take input from players on how they want the consequences to apply to them. Physical harm and negative outcomes can be resisted by the player, but doing so causes Stress to accumulate and puts the player closer to a permanent Trauma. Sure, you didn’t get shot, but it means you had to throw yourself behind cover at the last second, and the near miss left you rattled. The GM is the final arbiter on how the consequence is avoided, or if it’s merely reduced in strength, so the power does lie ultimately with the GM. This keeps the gaming table in check while also making players feel more involved in the storytelling process.
3) Narrating Time
Time is a funny construct in Blades. Things are not always done entirely chronologically, and there can be significant gaps without any actual gameplay problems. Showcased here is the flashbacks system. Before a job, your gang of (mostly) competent criminals meets under the lantern’s glow to plan out the fine details. The players, however, do not. Instead, they take preparatory actions, such as scouting the base or researching the target, decide on a style of heist, then determine the point of entry. The game then cuts immediately to the action. Any and all remaining details are filled in by the gang declaring flashbacks in the middle of the heist. “I planted a gun under the seat during prep,” is a tried and true one. “I brought flowers for the girl we have on the inside to convince her to help us.” These are all actions that players can take during a heist that affect the past yet aid the PCs in the moment. Depending on how wild and unlikely a flashback is, it might require some Stress on the part of the character. Still, this mechanic provides a dynamic way to skip the endless debate about each minute detail of a job beforehand and get right to the fun. It’s also the hardest thing for GMs and players to get used to. Once you get the hang of it, though, you may want to import the system into every other similar game you play.
Blades in the Dark is a fantastic game with a really detailed setting, but it’s so much more than that. It truly innovates in a major way and provides a new, and in some ways better, way to run TTRPGs. It’s just we grogs who need the occasional kick in the pants to keep our minds open so we don’t miss these gems when they come around.
David Horwitz is a gamer and freelance writer/editor with an obsession for exploring new forms of leisure. If you’re looking for an inquisitive mind and a deft hand, or just want to chat about gaming, contact him at www.davidhorwitzwrites.com/contact.
Picture Reference: https://www.evilhat.com/home/blades-in-the-dark/
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Canadian Respiratory Journal
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Volume 2017, Article ID 7381424, 7 pages
Hypercapnic Ventilatory Response in the Weaning of Patients with Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation
Chung-Shu Lee,1 Ning-Hung Chen,1,2 Li-Pang Chuang,1,2 Chih-Hao Chang,1 Li-Fu Li,1,2 Shih-Wei Lin,1 and Hsiung-Ying Huang3
1Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, No. 5, Fu-Hsing St., Kueishan Dist., Taoyuan City, Taiwan
2Department of Respiratory Therapy, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
3Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Xiamen Chang Gung Hospital, Xiamen City, China
Correspondence should be addressed to Shih-Wei Lin; wt.gro.hmgc@641801ce
Received 13 April 2017; Revised 8 August 2017; Accepted 17 September 2017; Published 30 October 2017
Academic Editor: Alice M. Turner
Copyright © 2017 Chung-Shu Lee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Emoji gods approve skin-tone options for couples of colour
In 2019, interracial couples have a small victory to celebrate: The approval of 71 new variations of emoji for couples of colour.
sex and relationships Updated: Mar 09, 2019 14:27 IST
In 2019, interracial couples have a small victory to celebrate: The approval of 71 new variations of emoji for couples of colour.(Unsplash)
In 1664, Maryland passed the first British colonial law banning marriage between whites and slaves. An 1883 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that state prohibitions on interracial marriage don’t violate the Fourteenth Amendment held for more than 80 years.
While such impediments to marriage were dismantled over time, there are still hurdles, however small, to overcome. Here, in 2019, interracial couples have a small victory to celebrate: The approval of 71 new variations of emoji for couples of colour.
Capping a yearlong project by, of all people, the folks at the swipe-right dating app Tinder and tech activist group Emojination, the emoji gods (known as the Unicode Consortium) recently approved the additions in characters technically referred to as people “holding hands.” A new “gender-inclusive” couple emoji was also approved among 230 new characters.
Until now, emoji of two or more people on various platforms and devices have been available only in the default yellow. While the Unicode Consortium, where Google, Microsoft and Apple have voting seats and Lee is vice-chair of the emoji subcommittee, signed off on the skin-tone additions, user companies will decide for themselves starting later this year whether to add them and how they will look.
Jenny Campbell, the chief marketing officer for Tinder, isn’t worried about distribution after the company mounted a campaign and petition drive in support of the technical proposal it submitted to Unicode.
“Ultimately, we wanted to get the interracial emoji couple on people’s keyboards not only for equality, but also to spread acceptance for all couples no matter what their race,” she told The Associated Press on Thursday. “Our users are craving a way to express themselves visually and see themselves reflected in our everyday tech language.”
So are lots of other emoji enthusiasts of colour left in the wings for years. More than 50,000 people signed Tinder’s online petition at Change.org.
“Unicode is taking user demand for more skin tones across emoji very seriously,” said Lee, the co-founder of the grassroots Emojination. “The additional of skin tones, gender variations, hijab and hair styles are part of users around the world demanding to see themselves represented on the emoji keyboard. Diverse couples and families are part of that.”
While facial features and hair textures are yet to be determined by some vendors, Tinder said the use of six existing skin tones already available for one-person emoji and various others is a step in the right direction at a time when the text- and chat-friendly characters remain a readily accessible way for the world to express itself. The lack of colour options in couples, the company said, felt like a slight.
“Even as our social behaviours have evolved and interracial dating and marriage has become more prevalent, visual representation of these relationships in technology has lagged far behind,” Campbell said.
Emoji of single people of colour and same-sex couples were added in the last several years, but not in mixed-tone combinations. In real life, the rate of interracial marriage has increased over the years, especially since the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia that struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in 16 states. But such marriages remain a small portion of marriages overall.
Tinder is taking credit for its industry in pushing interracial dating along, citing data that indicates couples who meet online are more likely to be interracial than those who don’t.
“We know that equal forms of representation are important to our users,” Campbell said, “and important to us.”
Skin tones for limited use were added to the Unicode Standard for emoji in 2015. More representation of women in 2016, some “gender-inclusive” people in 2017 and hair colour options last year.
Also approved this year: A waffle, a much-requested white heart, a guide dog and people in wheelchairs. Oh, and a sloth.
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News + Events | May 19, 2017
HOK’s Hugh Campbell on the Evolution of Hospital Design and Maternal-Fetal Care Centers
Hugh Campbell has spent more than 35 years as an architect focusing on hospitals and how they relate to communities.
Hugh Campbell grew up in New York City, where one of his first jobs was working as a courier in Manhattan. Decades later, he still finds himself reminiscing about those days in which he “visited nearly every building in the borough” and fell in love with architecture. Several years after earning a bachelor of architecture degree from Notre Dame, Campbell’s interest in the built environment and its evolution led him to pursue a master’s degree in urban history from NYU.
Campbell began his career in his hometown (one of his early jobs was with HOK’s New York office) but eventually found his way to the Pacific Northwest. After a 20-year hiatus from HOK, he recently returned as senior medical planner in the firm’s Seattle office. Here he discusses his fascination with the ever-evolving field of healthcare design.
The histories of hospitals and cities are intertwined. Hospitals traditionally made huge civic statements. Every city would start out with a city hall before building a courthouse and then a hospital. In the 1800s, the first urban hospitals looked like churches, and there was a religious aspect to them. Then they started resembling public buildings. As medicine became more scientific, hospitals began looking like labs and then factories. In the 1960s and ‘70s, they started mimicking hotels. Then we went through a period where they felt like residences. Today we’re once again deciding what hospitals are and how they should function. Hospitals are constantly evolving, which is what makes them so fascinating.
Designing hospitals is like working a gigantic puzzle where you have to fit together all the pieces in a three-dimensional space. When you chart a hospital’s flow diagram, you realize how amazing they are. All these people and things are moving through the space. We call it the “Seven Flows of Healthcare:” medical staff, patients, families, medication, equipment, supplies and information. They all have to work together.
What I like about children’s hospitals is that they still exhibit the civic pride that you don’t always find with adult hospitals. They’re quite a bit different, too. Children aren’t just little adults. Caring for them requires an entirely different kind of hospital.
Vibrant colors and materials alleviate the anxieties of pediatric patients at Stanford Children’s Health Specialty Services Center.
Maternal-fetal care centers represent one of the greatest recent advancements—and challenges—for children’s hospitals. Over the past 15 years, pediatric surgery has made incredible leaps. Physicians can operate on a baby in utero or while still attached to the mother’s placenta. As pediatric and fetal surgery has advanced, it makes more sense to perform these operations in children’s hospitals equipped with the staff and equipment to handle potential complications. Yet moving mothers with high-risk pregnancies from adult hospitals to a children’s hospital creates its own complications. The mother will have different medical, lab and pharmacy needs than the baby.
Solving the maternal-fetal care puzzle requires understanding four key components: the patient room for the mother, the birthing room, the procedure room for the child (if not done immediately in the birthing room) and the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). These four components have to respond to one another quickly and efficiently. Sometimes, though, the design team often doesn’t have the luxury of arranging the puzzle pieces so closely together. In those cases, it’s our job as architects and designers to help build consensus among all four parties.
For the design of Humber River Hospital in Toronto, HOK’s Healthcare team sought input from staff, physicians and volunteers about their unique functional needs.
In tomorrow’s hospitals I expect to see more community connections. At some point many urban hospitals began shutting themselves off from their surroundings. They erected fences and set up security stations. There was a sense that community members were not welcome. But I’ve been involved in several recent projects where the design team has worked to open up these hospitals. That’s a positive trend.
HOK’s design of the Eskenazi Health Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital in Indianapolis includes a rooftop fruit and vegetable garden to encourage healthy eating and wellness habits while giving patients and employees opportunities to enjoy nature.
The notion of wellness is beginning to dramatically impact hospital design. No longer are hospitals there solely to take care of you when you’re sick. Now they’re trying to prevent you from being sick in the first place. So hospitals begin to shift from treatment centers to treatment and education centers. Once again, the evolution of the hospital continues.
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How Law Enforcement Deals with Open Carriers Amidst Rising Tensions
Three law enforcement officers were fatally shot – and three more wounded – Sunday morning in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. State police officials today say the shooter “was targeting officers.” The attack on police, of course, follows the one in Dallas just eleven days ago at an otherwise peaceful protest organized in response to two high-profile […]
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Three law enforcement officers were fatally shot – and three more wounded – Sunday morning in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. State police officials today say the shooter “was targeting officers.” The attack on police, of course, follows the one in Dallas just eleven days ago at an otherwise peaceful protest organized in response to two high-profile shooting deaths this month by officers of black men, which initial accounts seem to suggest motivated the shooter in Baton Rouge.
Sunday’s events add to growing anxiety among law enforcement nationwide. In response, some are turning their attention to open carry laws, and how they may create an undue risk for police seeking to separate friend from foe.
On Sunday (July 17, 2016), Stephen Loomis, the president of the Cleveland, Ohio Police Patrolmen’s Association said his union was asking Ohio Gov. John Kasich to “outlaw open-carry in Cuyahoga County” until this week’s Republican National Convention is over. Gov. Kasich responded saying he did not have the authority to do that.
Open carry complications were also raised in Dallas. In the immediate hours after the attack there, a man was sought and detained because he had been spotted and photographed at the rally carrying a gun. Police considered him a “person of interest,” but in the end, he wasn’t at all involved in the shooting. In fact, he had turned his weapon over to police. And of course, one of the shootings by police being protested in Dallas involved the contention that the shooting occurred in part because the victim was legally carrying a gun, and the policeman who shot him thought he was a threat.
While some — like the union president in Cleveland — may continue to question the benefits of open carry, the reality is Texas is now an “open carry” state. As such, some Texans are uncertain about just what should happen when police come face to face with someone carrying a gun, legally. How should police approach the open carrier? How should that open carrier approach police?
Houston Matters producer Michael Hagerty visited late last week with Houston Police Department Executive Assistant Chief Michael Dirden, and asked him. We hear what Dirden had to say.
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Relevant Federal and State Legislation
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Illinois Tuition Equity Law
Although some states have begun to bar students from enrolling in public universities and community colleges, no federal law prohibits colleges and universities from offering admission to undocumented students. However, undocumented students are not eligible to receive federal or state aid (Texas and New Mexico are exceptions).
Undocumented students may be eligible to receive privately funded merit scholarships or grant aid. Illinois is one of a number of states with a tuition equity bill, Public Act 093-0007, also referred to as House Bill 60, which was signed into law in 2003. This legislation permits undocumented students to pay in-state tuition rates at all public colleges and universities provided they meet the following requirements:
The individual resided with his or her parent or guardian while attending a public or private high school in Illinois.
The individual graduated from a public or private high school or received the equivalent of a high school diploma in Illinois.
The individual attended school in Illinois for at least 3 years as of the date the individual graduated from high school or received the equivalent of a high school diploma.
In the case of an individual who is not a citizen or a permanent resident of the United States, the individual provides the University with an affidavit stating that the individual will file an application to become a permanent resident of the United States at earliest opportunity the individual is eligible to do so.
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Press Release : 11 March 2018
New ICC Presidency elected for 2018-2021
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Pictured here from left to right: ICC First Vice-President Judge Robert Fremr, ICC President Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, ICC Second Vice-President Judge Marc Perrin de Brichambaut © ICC-CPI
Today, 11 March 2018, the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), sitting in a plenary session, elected Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji (Nigeria) as President of the Court for a three-year term with immediate effect. Judge Robert Fremr (Czech Republic) was elected First Vice-President and Judge Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (France) Second Vice-President.
"I am deeply honoured to have been elected by my peers as President of the International Criminal Court. As I take up my duties, I feel encouraged that I am able to rely on the wide experience of the two Vice-Presidents, Judge Robert Fremr and Judge Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, both of whom I have closely worked with previously. I look forward to working together with them as well as with all the judges, all the Officials and the staff of the Court in a spirit of collegiality. I also look forward to collaborating with the Assembly of States Parties, civil society and the international community at large, acting together to strengthen and reinforce the Rome Statute system, the 20th anniversary of the adoption of which we celebrate this year", President Chile Eboe-Osuji stated following the election. "I am also grateful to the previous President, Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, and Vice-Presidents, Judges Joyce Aluoch and Kuniko Ozaki, for their work and leadership," he added.
The Presidency – consisting of the President and the two Vice-Presidents – plays a key role in providing strategic leadership to the ICC as a whole. The Presidency coordinates with the other organs and seeks the concurrence of the Prosecutor on matters of mutual concern. In accordance with the Rome Statute, the ICC's governing treaty, the Presidency is responsible for the proper administration of the Court, with the exception of the Office of the Prosecutor. The Presidency oversees the activities of the Registry and provides input into a broad range of administrative policies affecting the Court's overall functioning. Furthermore it conducts judicial review of certain decisions of the Registrar and concludes Court-wide cooperation agreements with States and international organizations.
For further information, please contact Fadi El Abdallah, Spokesperson/Head, Public Affairs Unit, International Criminal Court, by telephone at: +31 (0)70 515-9152 or 31 (0)6 46448938 or by e-mail at: [email protected]
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Caldwell School District recruits over a hundred new students for the Migrant Education Program
Sami Edge 05/02/2019
Last spring, somewhere between 320 and 350 students participated in the Migrant Education Program in the Caldwell School District.
This year, that number has jumped to 513.
Migrant education program recruiters, courtesy of the Caldwell School District.
Tamara Lawson, coordinator for migrant education in Caldwell, says the increase doesn’t necessarily mean that there are more migrant students in the area. Rather, the district is doing a better job of reaching them.
“We’re really going the extra mile to identify students who are migrant, who perhaps may have fallen under the rug,” Lawson said. “…If we don’t know who they are then we can’t help address their needs.”
The Migrant Education Program serves youth who have moved within the past three years because their families work temporary or seasonal agriculture jobs. The goal of the federally funded initiative is to help those students succeed in school. The programs offer things like tutoring and homework help, summer school, GED and English language help for students who need it.
Statewide, the number of migrant students served by public schools seems to be increasing in recent years, following a period of decline earlier this decade.
In the 2016-2017 school year, State Department of Education spokeswoman Kris Rodine said the state served 2,801 migrant students. By the 2017-2018 year, that number was up to 3,448. The number of migrant students served in 2018-2019 isn’t official yet, Rodine said, but as of March the state counted 3,282.
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Lawson, who started as Caldwell’s migrant-ed coordinator in August, started to wonder about gaps in that district’s recruitment of migrant students only months into the job.
Officials at nearby school districts would tell Lawson about migrant students that they’d heard about, who qualified for extra help through the Caldwell migrant program. But Lawson didn’t always have them on her list.
“It got me thinking: Why haven’t we made contact with these families?” Lawson said.
Around October, Lawson launched an intensive recruiting program, aimed at reaching those eligible kids. Recruiters went to school and community events and followed up on tips about students who qualify for the program.
If the first, second and third tries to reach a family failed, recruiters try again — as was the case with one family who recently joined the program after a recruiter spent more than a month trying to reach them.
Some families don’t want to be identified as migrant, Lawson said, because they’re afraid of the stigma it carries, or they’re worried that joining the program could mean undue attention for their family.
To overcome that barrier, Lawson said recruiters try to address those fears and help families understand that the program is there to help.
“They build that trust with the individual, so they know we’re doing this for them, not to them,” Lawson said.
The result of that push: More than 150 new students enrolled in the span of a year.
More students joining the Caldwell program means more money for the program and more resources and programs for the students.
According to state data, Caldwell’s migrant education program is slated to receive $404,551 from the federal government next school year, a 57 percent increase from what it got for the 2017-18 school year.
The recruitment also means bigger group sizes, Lawson said. Where liaisons working with students used to help a handful of students, some now have groups of 15 or 20 kids to visit.
Students are bonding in some of these groups, Lawson said, and building up support systems.
“They’re able to support each other in the classrooms and communities because they know who each other are,” she said. “I really think that’s helping with their sense of belonging, and they don’t feel alone in the school.”
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A Mother’s Desperate Plea Mobilizes Police to Free 13-year old Daughter and Three Other Minors
On February 2nd, after filing a complaint and persistently reaching out to local authorities, a mother’s desperate plea for help was heard. A Dominican prosecutor and the national anti-trafficking unit (ATD), with International Justice Mission’s assistance, led a rescue operation to bring her 13-year-old daughter to safety.
Local anti-trafficking police rescued Valeria* and three other minors, ages 13-17, at night before they could be transported elsewhere and sold for sex again.
A local prosecutor reached out to IJM for support during an IJM-led community workshop. The workshop was developed to increase the capacity of community actors to identify suspicious situations and to teach them best practices on reporting sex trafficking crimes to local authorities. After receiving the information, IJM supported the anti-trafficking department to confirm key details of their investigation, including the presence of minors and the identity of their aggressor.
The investigation revealed that a 41-year-old Dominican man is the primary suspect of holding the survivors captive—including his 17-year-old daughter. The girls were held captive in his home, located in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the area. Based on the survivor’s testimony, the alleged perpetrator will face charges for drugging, transporting and profiting from them by selling the minors to men who paid to rape them.
The night of the rescue operation, Dominican public justice system officials collaborated to ensure the man was arrested, taken to court and not released on bail.
“At the moment, the girls are being assisted by CONANI (Dominican Child Welfare Agency), where they are helping them to understand their rights and why they were removed from that home,” says an IJM Aftercare Social Worker.
Since the rescue, Valeria and two of the other survivors were placed in government-run shelters, where they received crisis care and medical attention. One survivor was able to return home to care for her baby.
In the next month, the case will move to court and IJM will continue to support local authorities by representing the survivors and helping prepare them to share their testimony in court.
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IJM Lawyers Secure a 70-year Sentence for a Serial Rapist in Guatemala
On August 30th, a Guatemalan judge declared a 23-year-old serial rapist guilty and gave him a sentence of 70 years in prison for raping a minor and five other adult women. This strong sentence is a result of six courageous survivors who independently reported the crime to local authorities and over five years of collaborative work between IJM, the National Civil Police (PNC), and the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP).
Luna* was 16 years old when a stranger attacked her on her way to work. At gunpoint, he took her phone. She didn’t resist, hoping that was all the man wanted. Sadly, that was not all. He grabbed her by the arm, pulled her into an empty lot and proceeded to rape her. The attacker saved Luna’s phone number and gave her back her phone to later harass her and send threatening messages, promising to attack again if she came forward with the story. He used this same technique with some of the other victims.
Still in shock, Luna went to her boss and asked for help. He knew how to respond and immediately took her to the hospital where they reported the crime.
After IJM took on Luna's case, our team worked alongside the police to identify the suspect. The investigation uncovered that five other women had reported being raped in successive weeks in the same location by the same serial offender.
With IJM’s support, the police and the Public Ministry built a solid case. Investigators discovered his identity using data tracking technology from the messages he had sent to one of his previous victims, evidence collected on the empty lot and by identifying a mark reported on the offender’s upper thigh.
IJM and the Public Ministry promptly obtained an arrest warrant. To the surprise of both IJM and the governing authorities, the man had recently been arrested for a separate crime: the kidnapping of a two-year-old boy and attempt to extort the boy’s family. IJM helped ensure that charges for raping 16-year old Luna and the other adult women would be brought before the court so this man would also be held accountable for these crimes.
On Thursday, IJM lawyers assisted the local prosecutors in securing a 70-year sentence against Luna’s aggressor. “This is an exemplary sentence. I almost cried when the verdict was released. Tonight the survivors are going to sleep well knowing that this man won’t hurt them again,” IJM lawyer Wendy Avila said.
After the hearing, IJM social worker Blanca Calel shared the news with Luna’s father, who was amazed by the court’s ruling against the man who had raped his daughter. “I called Luna’s dad and the moment I told him, he was speechless. Once he was able to speak you could hear he was crying. The Guatemalan Justice System has shown this family and the other five survivors justice.”
After a long process toward healing, Luna’s restoration is undeniable. After the assault, young Luna was afraid to leave her house and was haunted by nightmares. Now, she is 21 years old and has completed a year of trauma-focused therapy through IJM Guatemala's aftercare program. She has returned to work and can walk the streets unafraid of her attacker, knowing that he will not be able to hurt her again.
Since 2005, IJM Guatemala has worked with the police and Public Ministry to secure over 270 convictions and will continue pressing to ensure that perpetrators of sexual violence against children are held accountable, so other young girls like Luna are safe and protected to live a healthy and full life.
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Wollongong Wolves coach Luke Wilkshire is confident his side will bounce back from last week's loss to Rockdale when they take on Marconi on Saturday night. The loss was the side's first of the season and Wilkshire said it's important the team ensures one loss doesn't turn into two, which could then turn into three. Based on what he's seen on the training paddock this week, however, he's not concerned that will become an issue. "It's been a great week of training," Wilkshire said. "From our first session, we put last week behind us and looked forward. The guys are in good spirits, the tempo's been great, I've been happy with the response. "Everyone is very keen to get back to our winning ways and back to our habits. We talk about habits and routines, winning's a habit, but losing can also become a habit. We want the right habits, we've had them all season and want to go back to our ways." The Wolves will make the trip north to face Marconi in Bossley Park, with the Stallions also looking to bounce back from a 1-nil loss to Blacktown City last weekend. Marconi have struggled for consistency throughout the season and currently sit eighth on the ladder. Wilkshire, however, said his team has focused on ensuring they deliver a much improved performance compared to last week. "We have had a little look at our opposition, but our biggest focus is for us to perform to the level I know we can. We should be able to do that and if we do, we don't fear anyone. "We need everyone to be at their best. It's a team sport for a reason, it's not down to one individual, we need everyone to perform. Last week the team wasn't on on the day, hence the result, this week we need everyone to turn up and be in tune ready for the game." Read more: Brendon Santalab ready to make final A-League puzzle piece fit In positive news for the Wolves, Wilkshire confirmed Darcy Madden is a chance of returning while Takeru Okada is back to full health. Okada played through 52 minutes in last week's defeat, with Wilkshire likely to play him in an expanded role on Saturday night. That would prove a timely boost, with the Wolves struggling to create opportunities up front last weekend. "Takeru Okada and Darcy Madden are both fully fit, which gives me a couple more selection decisions to make. Takeru is more of a chance to have a bigger role, we'll see come Saturday though. "He adds a lot to the side. His creativity, he's intelligent, he's great at creating space and opportunities for other players and himself. That's what he's here for, he adds that creative element to the side." While you're with us the Illawarra Mercury is offering sport readers 20% off an annual digital subscription. Sign up to stay up to date with all the local sports you love for only $3.00 a week. Terms and conditions apply.
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Wolves determined to bounce back in clash with Marconi
Shooting for success: Jordan Nikolovski will hope to find the back of the net on Saturday night. Picture: Adam McLean.
Wollongong Wolves coach Luke Wilkshire is confident his side will bounce back from last week's loss to Rockdale when they take on Marconi on Saturday night.
The loss was the side's first of the season and Wilkshire said it's important the team ensures one loss doesn't turn into two, which could then turn into three.
Based on what he's seen on the training paddock this week, however, he's not concerned that will become an issue.
"It's been a great week of training," Wilkshire said. "From our first session, we put last week behind us and looked forward. The guys are in good spirits, the tempo's been great, I've been happy with the response.
"Everyone is very keen to get back to our winning ways and back to our habits. We talk about habits and routines, winning's a habit, but losing can also become a habit. We want the right habits, we've had them all season and want to go back to our ways."
The Wolves will make the trip north to face Marconi in Bossley Park, with the Stallions also looking to bounce back from a 1-nil loss to Blacktown City last weekend.
Marconi have struggled for consistency throughout the season and currently sit eighth on the ladder. Wilkshire, however, said his team has focused on ensuring they deliver a much improved performance compared to last week.
"We have had a little look at our opposition, but our biggest focus is for us to perform to the level I know we can. We should be able to do that and if we do, we don't fear anyone.
"We need everyone to be at their best. It's a team sport for a reason, it's not down to one individual, we need everyone to perform. Last week the team wasn't on on the day, hence the result, this week we need everyone to turn up and be in tune ready for the game."
Read more: Brendon Santalab ready to make final A-League puzzle piece fit
In positive news for the Wolves, Wilkshire confirmed Darcy Madden is a chance of returning while Takeru Okada is back to full health.
Okada played through 52 minutes in last week's defeat, with Wilkshire likely to play him in an expanded role on Saturday night.
That would prove a timely boost, with the Wolves struggling to create opportunities up front last weekend.
"Takeru Okada and Darcy Madden are both fully fit, which gives me a couple more selection decisions to make. Takeru is more of a chance to have a bigger role, we'll see come Saturday though.
"He adds a lot to the side. His creativity, he's intelligent, he's great at creating space and opportunities for other players and himself. That's what he's here for, he adds that creative element to the side."
While you're with us the Illawarra Mercury is offering sport readers 20% off an annual digital subscription. Sign up to stay up to date with all the local sports you love for only $3.00 a week. Terms and conditions apply.
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PRESS RELEASE: Sigma Corporation adds unique, anti-shake technology to award-winning 17-70mm lens
‘Ultimate standard lens’ now available in Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sony and Sigma mounts
RONKONKOMA, N.Y., Dec. 4, 2009 – Sigma Corporation (www.sigmaphoto.com), a leading researcher, developer, manufacturer and service provider of some of the world's most impressive lines of lenses, cameras and flashes, is pleased to announce its newly upgraded 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC Macro OS HSM lens.
This large aperture, standard zoom lens contains state-of-the-art enhancements, including the company’s own Optical Stabilization (OS), anti-shake technology that offers the use of shutter speeds approximately four stops slower than would otherwise be possible. Once again, only Sigma has made it possible for Pentax and Sony shooters to utilize an anti-shake system in either the lens or the camera body.
This lens’ predecessor, the 17-70mm F2.8-4.5 DC Macro HSM, was deemed a “Best Buy” recommendation for photographers wishing to purchase a standard zoom lens as part of the Canadian Association for Photographic Art’s (CAPA) “Best Lens of the Year” awards.
“Aside from the OS technology, which is key when shooting with mid-range and high-end class DSLRs, this lens stands apart from the crowd because of its impressive zoom range,” said Mark Amir-Hamzeh, general manager of Sigma Corporation of America. “It has a 4x zoom range that is equivalent to 24-105mm lenses in full-frame formats. That, coupled with the OS technology and a macro function, makes it the ultimate standard lens for serious photographers who want top-notch image quality and functionality at an affordable price.”
With a large aperture of F2.8 on the wide end and F4 at the tele end, as well as a macro function with a minimum focusing distance of 8.7 inches and a maximum magnification ratio of 1:2.7, this lens is ideal for a wide range of photography. The lens’ Hyper Sonic Motor (HSM) also ensures a quiet and high speed auto focus, while its rounded, seven-blade diaphragm creates an attractive blur to the out-of-focus areas to provide the optimal Bokeh effect. The inner focusing system eliminates front lens rotation, making the lens particularly suitable for using the supplied petal-type lens hood and circular polarizing filters.
Three aspherical lenses and one Extraordinary Low Dispersion (ELD) glass element provide excellent correction for all types of aberrations when shooting with this lens. Additionally, the Super Multi-Layer Coating reduces flare and ghosting to produce high-contrast images.
The 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC Macro OS HSM lens is currently available in Sigma, Canon, Nikon (D), Sony (D) and Pentax mounts for $680 MSRP in stores nationwide.
To locate an authorized Sigma dealer near you, visit www.sigmaphoto.com/where/where.asp. For information about Sigma Corporation of America, visit www.sigmaphoto.com.
About Sigma Corporation
For nearly 50 years, Sigma Corporation’s expertise and innovation has driven the company’s core philosophy of “knowledge, plus experience, plus imagination,” with an emphasis on producing high-quality, high-performance photographic technology at moderate prices. This family-owned organization is the largest, independent SLR lens manufacturer in the world, producing more than 40 lenses that are compatible with most manufacturers, including Sigma, Canon, Sony, Nikon, Olympus and Pentax. Sigma Corporation also produces digital SLR cameras and high-definition digital compact cameras. The company is headquartered in Japan, with offices strategically located throughout Europe, Asia and North America. For information, please visit www.sigmaphoto.com.
Specifications for the 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC Macro OS HSM
17 elements, 13 groups
72.4 – 20.2 degrees
Number of diaphragm blades
(rounded diaphragm)
Minimum aperture
Minimum focusing distance
8.7 inches/22cm
Maximum magnification
Diameter 3.1 inches x 3.5 inches / 79mm x 88.9mm
18.9 ounces/535g
Corresponding AF mounts
Sigma, Canon, Nikon (D), Sony (D), Pentax
For Pentax and Sony mounts, it is not possible to use AF and the stabilizer function (OS) when attaching it to film SLR, Pentax ist* series and K100D DSLR cameras. When the OS function of the lens body is used, please turn the stabilizer function of the camera body off.
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One Direction, Bono and Ed Sheeran Among Lineup for Ebola-Fighting "Do They Know It's Christmas"
6:03 AM PST 11/10/2014 by Alex Ritman
Al Powers/Powers Imagery/Invision/AP
Meanwhile, Quincy Jones will work on a U.S. edition of the song
Bob Geldof has revealed plans for a fourth version of the U.K. charity single Do They Know It's Christmas, designed to fight the Ebola epidemic, featuring several big stars in the latest version of Band Aid.
Bono, Ellie Goulding, One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Underworld, Sinead O'Connor, Bastille and Elbow will all lend their voices to the charity single, with more acts to be announced before the recording session in London on Saturday. Paul Epworth, who has worked with Adele and One Direction, will produce.
"We called up some of the giants of the past and our own contemporaries, equally giant, and they said they'd come again to the party," Geldof said in a press conference Monday.
Read more One Direction to Perform at Top Australian Music Awards
Whereas the original 1984 single, still the second biggest single of all time in the U.K., was aimed at tackling hunger in Africa, the latest edition will focus on fighting the Ebola epidemic and helping medical workers in Africa dealing with this "particularly pernicious illness that renders humans untouchable." Geldof confirmed that several of the lyrics have been changed to reflect the new angle, although the main "feed the world" chorus line will remain.
"For 30 years, we've been boring people to death about the great inequalities of the world, whereby 50 percent still live on two dollars a day. That's disgraceful. It's ridiculous, and it's unnecessary," he said. "And what they were dying of in 1984 was of course hunger, but they died essentially because they were poor. We know we can contain Ebola; we have the doctors, the nurses, medicines and state systems. We have money. They're dying again because they are extremely poor. That is radically unacceptable."
Geldof confirmed that Quincy Jones would be working on a similar project, just as he did with USA for Africa in 1985 with We Are the World, which sold more than 20 million copies. He also revealed that French and German singles would be created.
Alex Ritman
alex.ritman@thr.com @alexritman
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How To Make Money Off Facebook By Turning It Into A Content Farm
By John Chow July 28th, 2011 95 responses Blogging Online, The Net
The other day, I was looking for information on a Dynaudio MW 182 subwoofer. I’m doing some research for a new car audio system, and Dynaudio makes some extremely nice (and very expensive) speakers. Like most people doing research on the Net, I fired up Google and typed “mw 182 subwoofer” into the search field to see what information I can dig up.
While I was expecting to see Amazon.com on the list, I was a bit shock to find that Dynaudio.com wasn’t the top result. In fact, Dynaudio.com wasn’t in the first five pages. I guess they need to work on their SEO more. What really caught my eye was the fourth result from Facebook.
My first thought was, “What the hell? Facebook doesn’t sell speakers!” Clicking the link lead me to a Facebook note created by “Subwoofers3.”
It turns out that Mr. Subwoofers3 has written nearly 100 notes, with each note featuring a different subwoofer. Most of the information is copied and pasted from the manufacturer’s website. Mr. Sub added a call to action with an On Sale, Buy Now, or Special Price icon. He then linked the product to Amazon.com using his affiliate link.
Taking Advantage of that PageRank 10
Because Facebook has a PageRank 10, the highest ranking available, the site ranks extremely well on Google. Mr. Sub is taking advantage of this by creating a bunch of pages/notes that is really nothing more than Amazon affiliate links. I have a feeling subwoofers is only one of the categories. I’m sure there is a Midranges3, Tweeters3 and who knows what else.
The last Google update was designed to filter out content farms that add no value for the users. The update didn’t affect Facebook. It looks like affiliate marketers are taking advantage of this by setting up a bunch of affiliate pages on Facebook, waiting for them to rank on Google and then raking in the money! If you want to get in on it, better do it quick. I have a feeling neither Facebook nor Google will let this go on for long.
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Johnny Weissmuller
Acting Career
Athletic Career
Historical Galleries
On June 2, 1904 Janos (Johann) Peter Weissmuller was born to German parents in Freidorf, Romania, at the time part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. He was baptized as a Catholic three days later on June 5.
On January 26, 1905 a seven month old Janos arrived at Ellis Island on the S.S. Rotterdam, after a trip of twelve days from Holland. Peter Weissmuller, a miner, and his wife Elizabeth nee Kersch were 27 and 24 years old respectively, and had only ten dollars along with their first-born child. They traveled by train to Windber, Pennsylvania to stay with family members. His brother Peter was born there in September.
Johnny with brother Peter, ages 3 and 2
Mr and Mrs Weissmuller with Johnny and Peter
In 1908 the family moved west to Chicago, where they reunited with Elizabeth’s parents, who lived on a farm nearby in a humble community of Freidorf colony immigrants.
The family rented a single floor in a shared house for the entirety of his youth, 4 blocks from Lincoln Park; his frequent trips to the nearby zoo helped to instill his early love of animals. As part of a city program with horses, he even learned how to ride bareback – a skill which would later serve him well in the role of Tarzan.
Johnny attended St. Michael’s school and served as an altar boy there, up until age twelve when he switched to public school. Once his father abandoned the family, Johnny had to leave school after the eighth grade and went to work at an early age to help support his little brother and mom, who worked as a cook. He delivered packages for a church supply company and hawked produce from a cart...later in life he said:
“You know, your guts get so mad when you try to fight poverty... I told myself, “I’m going to get out of this neighborhood, if only because he’s got a quarter and I haven’t.”
His mother Elizabeth worked hard to give the boys the best life possible within their modest means, and he remained very close to her throughout their lives.
Johnny and mother Elizabeth
At the age of 8, his love affair with the water began with his first swimming lessons at Fullerton Beach on Lake Michigan. In the next few years he entered and won all of the races he could that were sponsored by the city. He joined the Northside YMCA at the age of 11, lying about his age to gain entry as 12 years old was the minimum. He swam there until he was 14 and won all of the swimming races as well as being a champion at running and high jumping. As these early years passed his swimming skills started to draw attention, and the assistant coach from the Hamilton Club recruited him for a few months. He told Johnny that he should be training at the Illinois Athletic Club (IAC), one of the best swim teams in the country.
In 1920 Johnny was working as a bellhop and elevator operator at the Plaza Hotel and longed to join the IAC. Through a friend on the swim team, in October he finally got a tryout with famous coach Bill Bachrach - who had already heard plenty about him. Impressed with Weissmuller’s raw talent, he enlisted him as his protege. Bachrach recounted:
“He had the gawkiness of an adolescent puppy. Also, the stroke he used was the oddest thing I ever saw... but the stopwatch told it all; nearly record time. By he time he got out and dried off, he was an official member of the Illinois Athletic Club.”
Bachrach would also serve as a father figure and mentor throughout Johnny’s life.
They worked tirelessly on his technique for nearly a year, integrating some of the best stroke and kick methods from the top swimmers at the time and improving upon them with Johnny’s own style and natural talent. And thus he developed his innovative version of the American crawl stroke, a sort of "hydroplaning" that allowed him to travel much higher in the water than his competitors.
Johnny working on his kick. Watch Johnny in action here
August 6, 1921 marked his official debut in competitive swimming; he won all 4 of the Amateur Athletic Union races he entered. A few weeks later, on September 27, 1921 he set his first 2 world records at the A.A.U. Nationals meet in Brighton Beach, NY – in the 100m and 150yd events.
On July 9, 1922, Weissmuller became the first person ever to break the minute barrier in the 100m freestyle, clocking in at 58.6 seconds and breaking the old record of 1:00.4 by nearly 2 seconds - a huge milestone in sports achievement. He broke the mark again in 1924, clocking in at 57.4; a record which stood for nearly 12 years, to this day an unparalleled feat. And, on June 23, 1922 Johnny set a 100 yd open water time of 52.8 sec that stood for many decades thereafter.
In 1922 alone, he won 9 National Championships, in events ranging from 50 yards to the pentathlon (5 swimming/diving events) and set 24 official world records. Throughout his career, Johnny would often set several records in one day, sometimes competing in multiple events - as many as 5 - and winning them all that day.
Starting then and for the rest of his amateur swimming career, coach Bachrach and the IAC team traveled with their star Weissmuller to many US cities for exhibition meets and swimming competitions; he was usually gone from home for about half of the year.
By 1923 he already held most of the world’s swimming records in distances from 50 meters to 500 yards; that year he added 9 world records, and 15 new American records, and continued his total domination of the sport.
En route to Paris aboard the S.S. America
At the 1924 Paris Olympics he won 3 Gold medals for freestyle: in the 400m and 100m individuals and the 800m relay, and a Bronze medal for water polo. He’s still number one on the list of Olympic gold medalists to have medaled in two sports. He was also given a special commendation and medal for athletic excellence by French President Doumergue.
The hotly contested 100m race with rival Duke Kahanamoku (previous Gold medal winner and father of surfing) and the 400m contest (with international greats Arne Borg and Andrew Charleton) are still considered two of the greatest races in swimming history.
To see a great short documentary on Johnny and Duke and the 1924 race, go to: https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/original-series/detail/on-the-line/on-the-line-season-season-3/episodes/swimming-with-tarzan-paris-1924/
In Paris his feats and charisma, combined with the comedic diving routines with pal Stubby Kruger he performed for the crowds of 10,000 plus between events, helped make him the breakout star of those Olympics. And thus he became one of the world’s first superstar athletes, as these were the first Games to be widely covered by an international press corps of more than 1000 journalists.
“Clearly, everyone agreed, Johnny Weissmuller was the star of the 1924 Olympic Games. For the first time a swimmer had stolen the show from all other great athletes. He had his place in history; everyone knew that.” (from the book “Young Olympic Champions”).
Right after the 1924 Olympics, Weissmuller and Bachrach traveled Europe staging exhibitions, securing Johnny’s status as an international phenomenon. Another honorary medal was bestowed by the King of Belgium. Because of the tour he did not get to share in the hero’s welcome the returning US Olympic team enjoyed. He did, however, get a citation from and private audience with President Coolidge upon his return.
He continued his unprecedented dominance of the sport for the next two years. And in 1925, while on tour in Los Angeles, he got his first taste of Hollywood when he was invited to spend the day at Pickfair, the legendary home of film idol Douglas Fairbanks. Johnny and diver Stubby Kruger were photographed by Fairbanks and friends, who sent him copies that he kept in his personal scrapbook.
In 1926 Weissmuller entered and won the 3.2 km Chicago River Marathon, establishing his dominance as an ultra long distance swimmer as well. He also won it in 1927, breaking the record for the event.
He continued to set world and national records for and win all events he entered over the next two years – including a much publicized 51 seconds flat for the 100 yard freestyle that stood for 17 years until 1944. This is even more remarkable considering that this freestyle distance is the event swum more often than any other in the sport.
At the 1927 National Championships in San Francisco, CA
He was also a member of the 1927 National Championship Water Polo team.
On July 28, 1927 Johnny became an actual real-life hero. While training for the Chicago River marathon on Lake Michigan he and his brother saw that the passenger steamboat Favorite had capsized and started sinking. They pulled over two dozen people from the wreckage, and of those 11 survived. He was given the key to the city of Chicago for his bravery. Still shaken up from the experience, he nonetheless won the Marathon race only two days later.
In 1928, Weissmuller was a bona fide celebrity athlete as he returned to the Olympic Games that were held in Amsterdam. He led the U.S. delegation as standard bearer in the Opening Ceremony of over 4000 athletes, alongside General Douglas MacArthur. Johnny considered this to be one of the proudest moments of his life. He won 2 Gold medals in swimming, the 100m individual and 4x200m relay; he would surely have won the gold for the 400m event but was forced by his coach to sit it out in order to play on the ill-fated water polo team.
A happy Johnny at the 28 Olympics.
Watch Johnny at the 28 Olympics here.
At the Games, he got a special award for athletic excellence from Queen Wilhelmina of Holland; upon his return to the U.S. he received his second presidential citation, a special commendation from New York governor Smith, and the keys to New York City given to him by the mayor.
In October he was invited to Japan by Crown Prince Chichibu as part of a special swim meet in honor of his wedding. While he was there they offered him the position of head coach for the Japanese national swim team, which he graciously declined. (Read More about this story here)
Johnny swam in his final meet on January 3, 1929, after which he formally retired from competitive swimming. He cited the need to earn a better living, something that at the time was impossible for amateur athletes still competing.
From the official press release: “After dominating the amateur aquatic world for eight years or more, Weissmuller retires undefeated. With few exceptions, he holds all freestyle records in pools of all sizes in distances from 50 yds to 500 yds. Coach Bachrach says he could probably go on indefinitely breaking records and winning titles, but “you can’t earn a living and stay an amateur athlete”.
Weissmuller’s accomplishments as a swimmer stand unmatched and his margin of superiority over his rivals has been rarely seen in any sport. He retired with 67 world records (51 for individual events), 52 national championship gold medals, and his record of 38 individual US National titles stood until the 1980’s. As impressive as those numbers are, he broke world records many more times and never even turned in the record applications; this because it was often done outside of formal competitions.
He was very celebrated throughout his swimming career; his achievements were regularly reported on the front pages of newspapers in America and then worldwide after 1924. The public was fascinated by Johnny’s unbeaten streak, and every time he swam people would grab the sports section to see if he had won again. Staying at the top for nearly a decade, he had built a huge international fanbase. The combination of being such a winner and a charming, humble guy made him immensely popular.
He was also an impressive diver, and though he did not compete in diving events except in the AAU pentathlons, he performed in innumerable diving exhibitions and big water shows throughout the years.
Johnny Weissmuller & Stubby Kruger
Right after retiring from amateur competition, he spent some time at the famed Piscine Molitor in Paris. After inaugurating it he worked as a lifeguard, teaching and giving swimming and diving exhibits. (The character in the “Life of Pi” was actually named after the Molitor Pool, and the book even mentions Weissmuller).
With coach Bachrach’s help, Johnny then signed an endorsement deal with BVD to model and promote their swimwear. For that he received $500 per week – a princely sum at the time. During his stint with them he also helped to design and launch a streamlined one piece tank suit and then the first male swim trunk. This made him one of the first sportsmen ever to endorse and design athletic wear. He appeared in many ads and toured the country as their spokesperson. He always said his favorite part of the job was running the BVD Swim Club for youth.
He also was featured on other products and in ads, even before he would soon shoot to fame on the silver screen.
While in New York city for BVD in 1929, he was spotted by a producer of the film Glorifying the American Girl, featuring the Ziegfeld Follies, and offered the small part of Adonis. However, in the end BVD didn’t agree with the use of their star so he was mostly cut from the movie. Later that year he starred in Crystal Champions, a film short that was part of the famed Sportlight series that showed in 8000 theaters in the US and more than a thousand in Britain.
“Johnny Weissmuller gave our cameras excitement during the boomtime 1920’s – in Miami and then at Silver Springs. FL, where we made Crystal Champions, a great grosser.” producer Grantland Rice
Still from movie Crystal Champions with Johnny and Martha Norelius
Hollywood also came calling that year, and it appeared his first major movie role would be in a new “talkie” starring Jeanne Eagels; however, shortly after production began tragedy struck when Ms. Eagels died of an overdose so the film was never made.
In the early part of 1930, Houghton Mifflin released Weissmuller’s autobiography “Swimming the American Crawl” (written with Clarence A. Bush). In the 190 page hardcover book with photos, Johnny detailed his techniques and recounted parts of his childhood and memories of his most outstanding swimming and Olympic triumphs. Excerpts were published in the prestigious Saturday Evening Post.
In 1931 he met and then married actress/singer Bobbe Arnst, after only two weeks of courtship. Shortly thereafter he was offered a transfer to the B.V.D. office in Los Angeles.
Later that summer, Johnny was diving and swimming his daily laps at the Hollywood Athletic Club, where a bevy of onlookers always gathered to admire him. That day, MGM screenwriter Cyril Hume was working out at the club and saw the man in the pool. Hume was at that time working on a new project, Tarzan the Ape Man, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ famous character. He knew that the studio had been conducting a major search for the lead, and had even spoken of 1928 Olympians like Herman Brix and Weissmuller. Upon being told he was watching Weissmuller in person, he asked him to come to MGM for a screen test.
After the initial meeting with Johnny, even before the test, the producers and director knew they had at last found their ideal Tarzan. Producer Bernard Hyman famously asked for Johnny’s name, and then said ”too long, we’ll have to shorten it”. When the others exclaimed that Weissmuller was the world’s best swimmer and an internationally famous Olympic champion, he capitulated: “All right then, we’ll just lengthen the marquee. And, put lots of swimming in the film!” Filming began on October 31,1931, and ended 8 weeks later.
Johnny and Edgar Rice Burroughs right after he was hired for the role of Tarzan
Released in late March of 1932, Tarzan the Ape Man was quite unexpectedly a huge critical and public success in the US and then worldwide; it was one of the top-grossing films that year. Johnny instantly became part of the inner circle of Hollywood film stars. (Watch the Tarzan the Ape Man trailer here)
Almost overnight, he not only became “Hollywood’s latest heartthrob” but his position as the first true international male sex symbol was cemented. His flawless physique and athleticism were the subject of many articles - from film reviewers and female reporters to fitness and athletic experts.
Typical headlines were: “Is this the world’s Perfect Male?” and “Johnny Weissmuller has the World’s Finest Physique”.
Much has been written and said about Weissmuller being from that point on and forevermore the definitive screen Tarzan. There were many factors that contributed to Johnny’s success in the role for this and the eleven more films to come...
Though not formally trained as an actor, he was perfect for the role: tall, lithe and not overly muscle-bound he moved with the grace and presence of a big cat. He was totally at ease wearing minimal clothing in public from all the years of swimming stardom. And when he turned serious on camera, his brooding expression and ability to conjure an animal-like sensitivity in his eyes made him totally believable. He also possessed an amazing natural talent for comedic timing.
“The Weissmuller jungle man was simple, straightforward, lovable, strong and sensitive... (And) there were other subtle touches of an animal nature – the wariness, the quick turning of the head, and the catching of a scent.” Rudy Behlmer, Film historian and Tarzan expert
“Everything about Weissmuller was flowing, harmonious and natural. Weissmuller’s Tarzan was pure existence, a sort of degree zero transmuted onto the figure and motions of an Adonis-like man. He was the natural hero in an age of heroes with supernatural or extra-human powers. Weissmuller embodied the man whose entirely human powers allowed him to exist in the jungle with dignity and prestige. Surrounded by danger and challenge, Weissmuller was (rarely) armed with anything more than a hunting knife...” Renowned author/philosopher Edward Said for Interview magazine
Johnny did many of his own stunts - actually riding wild rhinos and elephants, interacting with the chimpanzees and other animals, climbing trees and swimming and diving. Though stunt doubles were used for some scenes, the many dangerous stunts he did perform himself gave the pictures a realism that showed. He would always build a great rapport with the animals, including the chimpanzees that were notoriously difficult to work with. In fact, notwithstanding some uncomfortable chafing he sustained from riding Mary the rhinoceros, Weissmuller was never seriously injured by any of the animals during his seventeen-year reign as Tarzan.
A good example of the real danger he faced during the filming of certain scenes was the thrilling and famous elephant stampede at the end of Tarzan the Ape Man. It was done live and took five days to plan; very different from today’s computer generated imagery!
Though his voice may have been sweetened up sonically for film by MGM’s sound department, it is certain that Johnny himself originated his iconic Tarzan yell. He based it on the yodeling he learned as a boy in the German community of Chicago, and the influence of occasional childhood outings to the opera with his mother. It would be used for nearly every live action film or tv series to come, dubbed in when he was no longer the star. And to the universal delight of fans, he would easily reproduce it throughout his life and in sometimes unlikely settings - reveling in the happiness that his gesture always produced.
The Weissmuller Tarzan yell passed to legendary status and is one of the most recognizable cinema soundbites in history. (Listen to the Tarzan yell here.)
And finally, for the first six Tarzan films that were part of the MGM franchise he had Maureen O’Sullivan as his Jane. Their screen chemistry and perfect rapport were very compelling and totally believable, and they are widely considered to be one of the all-time great screen couples. They remained close friends throughout their lives...
In the summer of 1933 he was appointed to the Santa Monica lifeguard squad on a volunteer basis; not a publicity stunt, he took it very seriously as he wanted to put his spare time to good use and loved being in the water. In August he made his first of many rescues, saving the life of a 12 year old boy.
He also got more into the nascent sport of surfing and was a pioneer for the early sport of paddleboarding. As a big celebrity, he did much to support and publicize these sports.
Page 9 of the 2015 Tommy Bahama Paddleboard Race and Ocean Festival at the Santa Monica Pier event guide
Also in 1933, Weissmuller became the main celebrity endorser for Wheaties breakfast cereal that year. He was on the box, and appeared in many full-page ads and special promotions. Another popular product he endorsed in the 1930’s was “Tarzan” bread, which one year sold 75 million loaves!
1930s USA Wheaties Magazine Advert
After having divorced his first wife, partially at the behest of MGM, he dated Lupe Velez, the notorious “Mexican Spitfire” and one of the first Latina film stars in Hollywood. The petite and gorgeous Lupe was well known for her sex appeal and great comedic talent, and also for her emotional instability and wild parties. Johnny later said he was a “ready-made fool” who fell madly in love with her. They married in October of 1933, and the attractive couple’s stormy marriage of five years would become part of Hollywood folklore. But their sense of style and adventurous outings also made them trendsetters in their day.
Tarzan and His Mate was released in the Spring of 1934. It is arguably the greatest Tarzan film ever made, of more than 40 throughout the years. In 2003, the U.S. Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The American Film Institute counts the movie on a list of the greatest film love stories ever told.
It was an even bigger critical and international box office success than the first film, and firmly established Weissmuller and O’Sullivan as one of cinema’s favorite couples. (Watch the Tarzan and His Mate trailer here.)
The original underwater swimming scene (later restored for the DVD version) had a nude body double for Maureen O’Sullivan and became one of the catalysts for the strict enforcement of the film industry “decency statutes” and censor codes. It was redone with the swimmer in costume and there were actually three versions eventually released. Either way, the gorgeous underwater ballet - choreographed in part by Weissmuller - is a classic and groundbreaking scene.
In the famous underwater river battle with a giant crocodile, Johnny himself was grappling with the huge mechanical reptile; however, in other films he would go on to wrestle live alligators, working in a tank of frigid water to make the beasts lethargic. And one of the most exciting scenes ever made for any Tarzan film was Johnny riding on the back of an African rhinoceros. Another of the most iconic screen Tarzan images is taken from a scene in this movie, where Weissmuller is standing atop the lead elephant of the herd called by Tarzan to surround the elephant graveyard.
Finally released at the end of 1936, the third film Tarzan Escapes was roiled by production changes and repeatedly delayed by the studio. MGM wanted to be sure that it would far outshine the two low-budget, unsuccessful Tarzan films made without Weissmuller that were released in the intervening time. Though perhaps not a true classic in the way the first two films were, the worldwide public loved it and it was a hit. And it made certain that by that time anyone other than Weissmuller was considered to be an imposter in the role.
The famous cage rescue from "Tarzan Escapes" (1936)
While he was under contract at MGM, they never allowed Weissmuller to be lent out to other studios or to play any other role. But they did consent to him starring in occasional swimming exhibitions and the water shows he loved to do, as long as they were big ticket events. The first major one was Billy Rose’s Aquacade at the 1937 Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland, in which he starred with fellow Olympic champion and dear friend, the lovely Eleanor Holm.
Johnny with Holm and Rose in 1937
The pair went on to headline an even larger Aquacade extravaganza at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Several million people attended the Aquacade that summer, and Billy Rose became a rich man because of the huge success of the show. Johnny wore gold swim trunks to highlight his gorgeous physique, and performed magnificent dives and swimming. Weissmuller was still in such superb condition at the age of 35 that he was able to easily beat the current national champion of the 100yd freestyle in a practice race in NYC that summer!
Slated to star again in the new Rose Aquacade at the San Francisco World’s Fair in 1940, Johnny helped to choose from the five finalists of the more than 75 young women who had auditioned to be featured as his partner (Holm was to remain with a revival of the NY show). He picked 17-yr old swimming champ Esther Williams. Her performances with superstar Weissmuller, and his introducing her to the MGM studio heads, helped to launch her own path to film stardom.
In the summer of 1938 formal divorce proceedings from Lupe had begun, and were finalized in August of 1939. However, they remained good friends and when she passed away from an overdose five years later Johnny was a pallbearer at her funeral. He had been her only legal husband, and was deeply saddened by her premature death.
Weissmuller was an avid golfer for much of his life, having started back in the 1920’s at the IAC. He was one of the top celebrity golfers in the country for many years, and helped to establish major tournaments like the Bing Crosby Pro-Am Classic (Crosby was an old pal by then). He was very proud of the 5 holes-in- one he hit over the course of his golfing career, and the sport played a big role in his social and athletic life from the 1930’s until his later years. (Read more about this story here.)
In the Spring of 1938, he had met Beryl Scott, a 21 year old San Francisco socialite, during a golf tournament at Pebble Beach, CA. Johnny and Beryl were married on August 20, 1939, only days after his divorce was finalized. Although they turned out to be incompatible from early on - with the pressures of being wed to a big movie star certainly contributing to the discord – having kids was a priority for both of them. And so Beryl would go on to bless Johnny with his only three biological children: John Scott, Wendy Ann and Heidi.
Johnny and Beryl on the day of their wedding announcement
Meanwhile, in 1938 MGM had been conducting a widespread search to find the boy who would play Tarzan’s son in the next film. Hundreds of young boys were screened for the role. Finally, Weissmuller gave his personal okay on the selection of Johnny Sheffield. He had taken a liking to him at the interview, and ended up teaching him how to swim once he saw that Sheffield was not afraid of the water. “Big John” (Weissmuller’s nickname) developed a strong bond with “Little John” (as he came to be called), and they were very close during the decade they made their eight Tarzan films together.
Tarzan Finds A Son! began filming in January of 1939, and was released in June of that year. It was another great success in the U.S. and abroad. Choosing it as “movie of the week” Life magazine expressed the majority opinion: “By the addition of a young boy to the Tarzan family, the future of the series seems assured.” Apparently MGM also felt that way, as they extended and upgraded Weissmuller’s contract.
The last two MGM films were Tarzan’s Secret Treasure (1941) and Tarzan’s New York Adventure (1942). The first was especially noteworthy for the fact that it featured a young black actor in the role of a native lad suddenly orphaned, who becomes a part of the Tarzan clan for this story. It was revolutionary at the time to portray a mixed race family and friendship in this way. And, Johnny personally always championed the cause of all minority actors and rights when he could.
Tarzan’s New York Adventure was the only Weissmuller Tarzan film in which he appeared fully clothed. Though decidedly different than the previous films, most critics saw it as a refreshing change of pace; it was a fan favorite and has become a cult classic. It provides many humorous and touching scenes as Tarzan interacts with “modern society” and really highlights Johnny’s comedic talents. He also did many new and dangerous stunts in the picture, including climbing high up on the actual Brooklyn Bridge.
As World War II loomed and then overtook America and much of the world, Johnny wanted to do more than just be a cinema hero and source of enjoyable escape to a beleaguered nation. During those years he did as much as he could to help the war effort by participating in innumerable celebrity fund-raisers and shows for the troops, including being part of the famed Hollywood Canteen (about which the film Stage Door Canteen was made in 1943). He also spent a lot of time visiting with wounded and disabled veterans at VA hospitals nationwide.
Still from movie
Twice a month for 2 years he intensively trained troops in dangerous operations like swimming out from under and diving into water covered with flaming oil, at the Long Beach Naval Academy in California. And - indicative of his already great influence on popular culture - at times during the War homesick soldiers asked for the Weissmuller Tarzan yell to be broadcast to them at the battlefront for inspiration.
The war not only had major repercussions for the country and the world, it also severely compromised the motion picture industry. And for the Tarzan films, three quarters of their revenue came from markets outside the U.S.; so, MGM made the decision to not make any more Tarzan pictures. But producer Sol Lesser of RKO had been waiting for the chance to work with Weissmuller as the star of his favorite franchise, and so immediately bought out the rights to the character and offered Johnny a contract. He also retained Johnny Sheffield as Boy; Maureen O’Sullivan took the opportunity to retire from acting for a number of years.
Johnny went on to make six Tarzan films for RKO Pictures in rapid succession, starting with the 1943 release Tarzan Triumphs. Although they were lower-budget than the MGM movies, there were several noteworthy and acclaimed adventure films in the bunch and they became a solid part of the Weissmuller Tarzan legacy – especially the final three films. They had a totally different aesthetic and pacing than the earlier films. Some were set in contemporary times (e.g., battling the Nazis) and some practically in fantasylands, and they were filled with lots of strong, exotic women. Loved by the public, they endured the test of time and some iconic images of Weissmuller as Tarzan come from those years.
After the first two pictures, in 1945 RKO brought Jane back in the form of Brenda Joyce, a tall beauty with strawberry blonde hair. Johnny jokingly said about the change: “I don’t know what the kids are going to think when they see me with a blonde Jane; kind of looks like Tarzan’s been playing the jungle a bit.” She proved to be a popular choice as the new Jane.
And Johnny was as popular as ever as Tarzan, receiving thousands of letters each week from fans around the globe.
Tarzan and the Mermaids, which turned out to be Johnny’s last appearance as the Jungle Lord, was shot entirely on location in Mexico. It was an action-packed adventure that featured spectacular scenery and stunts – including the famous cliff dives at La Quebrada in Acapulco. And the extensive use of music and singing, composed by Dimitri Tiomkin (future Oscar winner), was a first for any Tarzan film.
The nine months spent filming in Acapulco cemented Weissmuller’s special relationship to the place. He had first visited there in 1929, and had returned many times. Johnny and other members of the famed “Hollywood Gang” - including John Wayne, Red Skelton and Fred MacMurray – helped to put it on the map as a “jet set” vacation destination. They were even co-owners of the Los Flamingos Hotel there for many years. He would end up spending the last years of his life in Acapulco not far from that hotel, in a beautiful cliffside home overlooking the Pacific, and was laid to rest in a cemetery nearby...
Johnny had kept himself in good shape and was still very believable and universally beloved in the role of Tarzan. At age 43 he was powerfully built even though he might not have had the lean physique of his younger years. As biographer David Fury said, “This veteran Tarzan still fought his enemies with the heart of a lion and the strength of three men.”
Nonetheless, in 1948 Weissmuller decided that he would finally retire his loincloth. Part of the impetus was that Lesser would not give him a share of the revenue for the films, something which was just starting to become a more standard practice in Hollywood for the stars whose names were a big draw. Even right as he was retiring, Johnny’s Tarzan pictures were playing first run in foreign theaters and would do so for years to come, earning untold millions for MGM and RKO.
Shortly before Weissmuller’s retirement, A New York Times writer had this to say:
“Tarzan’s appeal to audiences is fundamental...you begin to see why nearly 140,000,000 people see every (Weissmuller) Tarzan picture, from New York to Bombay. In 1932 Johnny Weissmuller, an Olympic swimmer, was introduced as the Jungle king and ever since has dominated the field despite the appearance from time to time of minor incarnations. Weissmuller lives modestly in Beverly Hills...the only concession he has made to Hollywood is to marry three times; he still retains his simple and athletic tastes (and) spends a great deal of free time playing golf.”
After a legal separation of four years, Johnny’s divorce from third wife Beryl was finalized in January of 1948. They had tried their best to keep the family together for the sake of the children, but found no way to do so. Johnny stayed committed to fully supporting his kids in every way he could, and was always present in their lives when their mother allowed the visits.
A few years earlier, Johnny was playing his usual rounds at the California Country Club when he met Allene Gates, daughter of a pro golf celebrity and an accomplished amateur golfer in her own right. The friendship turned romantic after a couple of years, and they were wed shortly after the divorce. Johnny and Allene often traveled the country and the world to golf tournaments and exhibitions together, and their love of the sport provided a strong bond. The much younger Allene and Johnny would pass a number of happy years together, until the age difference and a serious financial downturn caused by his unscrupulous business manager took their toll.
On their wedding day
As soon as Weissmuller retired from playing Tarzan, a producer at Columbia Studios offered him a percentage of the gross to do the lead in Jungle Jim, a film based on Alex Raymond’s comic strip. “If it sells, we’ll do a series”, he told Johnny. It was a big hit, and the series proved to be very financially lucrative for Weissmuller as well.
The “pulp-fiction” Jungle Jim adventure films were targeted to a young Saturday matinee audience and adults who were hard-core Weissmuller fans. Beginning in 1948 Johnny starred in sixteen Jungle Jim movies over eight years, all of which were financially successful and immensely popular - if not critically acclaimed. Both the films and the TV series were syndicated domestically and abroad for years thereafter.
Weissmuller continued to perform many dangerous stunts and all of the underwater fight scenes himself for both the movies and the 26 episodes of the Jungle Jim TV series that followed, well into his early fifties. Remarkably, the highest dive he ever did was for the opening of a Jungle Jim film – 76 feet off a cliff into a river.
In February of 1950, Weissmuller was by an overwhelming margin named the “Greatest Swimmer of the First Half-Century” by an Associated Press Poll of hundreds of the top sports writers and broadcasters from around the nation.
“There was no doubt that the tall, panther-like Weissmuller, a product of the public pools of Chicago, was to speed swimming what Jack Dempsey was to boxing, Babe Ruth to baseball and Bob Jones to golf. He shone in his field with brilliance and power...in sports’ dizzy, giddy and golden era of the tremendous Twenties.”
From the AP awards press release
Johnny receiving the award in 1950 (Duke Kahanamoku is crouched next to Johnny)
This prestigious sports honor renewed Johnny’s popularity as a champion athlete and further awards and accolades came pouring in. All these awards also meant Johnny was featured in a whole new series of ads and products. Of note is that this beer ad campaign was the only exception to Johnny’s policy of never promoting alcohol or cigarettes, as it was most important to him to exert a positive influence on the youth.
In 1954, MGM re-released his first two films to great success; a whole new generation now saw him in his prime on the big screen. In fact, most of the 12 Weissmuller Tarzan movies were re-released in theaters worldwide over the years.
And then the television era ushered in five more decades of widespread international viewing of those Weissmuller films, which are among the most broadcasted movies of all time.
By 1957, Weissmuller had retired from acting and went on to partner in various business ventures. In great shape in midlife, Johnny also continued to bring his popularity directly to his fans via water shows throughout the 1950’s.
He also traveled the world doing charity work throughout his life, always willing to lend his fame for a good cause when asked. He helped to open and fundraise for children’s hospitals in places like Istanbul and Madrid. One of his pet charities was the Special Olympics, and to that end in 1976 he donated all of his Olympic medals and many trophies to the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation for disabled children, to be used in fundraising exhibitions. (They are now housed at the International Swimming Hall of Fame museum.)
In March of 1963, he married for the fifth and final time. He had met Maria Bauman Mandell a couple of years earlier at a charity luncheon in L.A. when Bing Crosby’s brother, Bob, introduced them. At that time they were both in marriages that were ending and so struck up a platonic friendship. Maria was born in Germany and had moved to the US in 1949 with her young daughter. Her first husband had been killed on the Russian front while she was pregnant, and she later became part of the underground resistance movement. Johnny and Maria were together for 21 years until his death, and he legally adopted her daughter Gunda Elisabeth (“Lisa”).
from Johnny’s scrapbook
1964 saw the release of "Water, World and Weissmuller", a biography by Narda Onyx that Johnny participated in so much it was pretty much an autobiography. It featured many stories from him and gave a lot of insight into his life’s journey. Unfortunately, he quickly had it pulled out of circulation when a misguided judge ordered all proceeds from the book sales be given to an erroneous claimant on his old movie royalty payments. It’s now a valued and rare collector’s item.
In 1965, Weissmuller was chosen to be the first honoree at the newly created Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He was also a guest commentator for their first two nationally televised meets, on CBS’ Sports Spectacular. Johnny was given the title of Founding Chairman of the Board, and moved to Florida to be a more permanent part of it. He poured his heart into the endeavor, and the struggling organization would have floundered without his presence and reputation drawing donations from individuals and organizations. During the eight years he spent there he raised over a million dollars for construction and swimming programs.
Johnny and Jackie Gleason at a Hall of Fame event
Johnny and Buster Crabbe flank swimmer at the Hall of Fame
He would take almost daily swims in the Hall of Fame pool, and spent many afternoons there interacting with all of the young swimmers and divers. He appeared in magazines and on television and radio to promote the SHOF and swimming for all ages, but especially for children.
As Hall of Fame director Buck Dawson recalled in a 1984 tribute: “Johnny was still a spectacular swimmer in his late sixties... and he really helped us launch the Hall of Fame just by being around, even though we could not afford to pay him. He got other stars to appear (for us). Probably my biggest thrill in life was a trip to Jamaica with Johnny to promote the upcoming British Commonwealth Games...”
Johnny meeting his fan Queen Elizabeth at the Commonwealth Games in 1966
Something often overlooked about Weissmuller was his lifelong commitment to fitness and healthy food for all. In fact, in 1969 he helped establish a franchise – “Johnny Weissmuller’s American Natural Foods”. The stores were ahead of their time and played a key part in the health food movement.
“Maurice (White) turned us on to eating healthy as a group. We started going to health food stores together, places like Johnny Weissmuller’s American Natural Foods on Hollywood Blvd...” from Philip Bailey’s 2014 memoir, “Braving the Elements of Earth, Wind and Fire”
Label from books published by the store
Every store opening he appeared at was mobbed, like the St. Louis one where over 1800 fans showed up. Due to the poor business practices of his partners the stores ended up being bought out or closed shortly thereafter, but they were precursors to today’s Vitamin Shoppe and Whole Foods stores.
Johnny said about them: “My food stores serve all kinds of vitamin pills, organic foods and protein bars. All good things which Mother Nature intended us to have but which modern living makes it hard to get. In years to come, the environment will be so tough on our systems that only the very healthy will survive well...”
In 1972, Weissmuller and four other great Olympians were honored to be part of a sterling silver commemorative set of medals depicting great moments in Olympics history. He was also featured that year in the Associated Press book The Sports Immortals, on the careers of the 50 athletes they deemed to be the greatest of all time.
Arriving in Munich for the Olympic Games
In the latter part of 1973 Johnny and Maria moved to Las Vegas in order to be closer to his children and grandchildren, who lived there and in California. As a man who loved to keep busy, Johnny never even considered full retirement - so to pass the time and pull in some extra money he worked in public relations at the Caesar’s Palace Hotel for a couple of years, along with his old friend Joe Louis. He played golf with high rollers and hung out with fans at the hotel. Many of his old celebrity pals performed or vacationed in Vegas, so he was able to reconnect with a lot of them at that time.
In August of 1977, he suffered a major stroke while in Los Angeles for a fundraiser. He needed fulltime care and thus lived for the next two years at the Country Home and Hospital, a convalescent home for veteran actors in California. When fans learned of his condition, he received nearly a hundred thousand letters and gifts from the world over.
After a legal dispute with the executive director of the place, Johnny and Maria moved to his beloved Acapulco for a while. He was still very well loved and known there, and was able to live in beauty and comfort with 24-hr attendants on their modest income. Both remained legal residents of California and hoped to move back there to live at some point, but for Johnny it was not to be.
In 1983, he was one of the twenty founding inductees to the US Olympic Hall of Fame. Though he was too ill to attend the ceremony he sent an acceptance statement with his daughter.
On January 20 1984, Johnny passed away at his seaside home in Acapulco after six years of courageously fighting for his health. He was survived by his wife Maria, children John, Wendy and Lisa, and six grandchildren.
World leaders and old friends, celebrities and common people, sent telegrams and cards of condolence. The extent to which his appeal crossed all political and ideological boundaries was proven by the fact that Weissmuller was one of the only figures to receive extensive obituaries on television in nearly every country worldwide, including the Soviet Union and communist China – something almost unheard of at the time.
Weissmuller was one of the very few non-heads of state ever to be afforded a 21-gun salute, at his memorial service at Good Shepherd church in Beverly Hills. Arranged by Senator Kennedy and President Reagan, it was a singular honor for a man who was a true American icon. Concurrent memorial masses were also held at St Michael’s in Chicago (where he had been an altar boy), St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC, and the Vatican in Rome.
Though he had endured many trials and tribulations in his life – growing up in a poor immigrant family with an abusive father, the untimely death of his teenage daughter Heidi and suicide of his beloved Lupe, financial ruin caused by his unscrupulous business manager of 25 years and his own debilitating series of strokes that rendered him so physically disabled the last few years of his life – Johnny was always happy-go- lucky, down to earth and considerate with everyone who crossed his path. And his legendary sense of humor, generosity and accessibility to his fans made him all the more beloved.
As good friend and former TV Tarzan Ron Ely said recently in a filmed interview:
“If you talk about Johnny Weissmuller, you can only say positive things. He was a positive person, and didn’t show his troubles on the outside. He had a lot of friends; everyone loved him. I didn’t know anyone to ever make the tiniest negative comment about Johnny...
And...he was just everybody’s favorite Tarzan, and he still is. People come up to my table when I’m signing pictures and they say, “well, Johnny Weissmuller was my favorite”. And I have to agree...he was mine, too; how can you argue that?”
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State of Indian Agriculture
19th Indian Livestock Census
India has long been known as a country where milk and curd flow unbridled. Though it continues to hold a numero uno position in milk production, changing economic and social paradigms are forcing people to shift towards meat. No wonder then that India, where eating beef is a sensitive issue, has become the biggest beef exporter in the world. The country has traditionally been a mixed farming economy with agriculture and livestock playing complementary roles. It has been acknowledged that livestock sector makes important contribution to food security and poverty reduction.
Animals are not only used for ploughing and draught, but their dung goes back to fields as manure or is used for cooking. Similarly, agricultural waste is the biggest food source for animals. Livestock are also the essential safety net during times of crisis, acting as asset or collateral for credit. A major social role of livestock is as gender equaliser since the sector generates maximum earning opportunities for women.
However, challenges to sector increasingly been seen with changing socio-economic conditions. While Operation Flood and cooperative dairy movement focussed on small producers and took livestock sector to dizzying heights, rise in meat consumption and development of export markets are now shifting focus to larger set ups. This not only widens the social divide and leads to scarcity of natural resources but also lead to increase in outbreak of animal-related human diseases like swine flu.
Shortage of feed and fodder, loss of traditional cattle breeds, inadequate infrastructure and contribution to global warming are some of the concerns facing livestock sector.
Livestock of India
At the global level, livestock contributes 15 per cent of total food energy and 25 per cent dietary protein (2009 FAO report). With only 2.29 per cent of the land area of the world, India is maintaining about 10.71 per cent of the world’s livestock.
The livestock sector contributed 4.11 per cent to the national GDP during 2012-13. According to latest livestock census, the total animal population was 512.05 million numbers
in 2012 which means, there is a cattle and a donkey for every second human being in India. However, this is a drop of around 3.33 per cent over the previous census done in 2007. Fortunately, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Punjab, Bihar, Sikkim, Meghalaya, and Chhattisgarh have shown an increase in their total livestock population.
The number of milch animals, cows and buffaloes, increased from 111.09 million to 118.59 million, an increase of 6.75 per cent. On the other hand, population of sheep, goat and pigs registered a decline. The total poultry population saw an increase of 12.39 per cent.
Livestock production models
Data released by FAO shows that in a sample of 14 countries, 60 per cent of the rural households keep livestock. There are three kinds of livestock production systems in the world. Grazing system occupies 26 per cent of the earth's ice-free land surface and involves grazing on communal or open access areas in a mobile fashion. Mixed farming system has cropping and livestock rearing complimenting each other. In this over 10 per cent of the dry matter fed to animals comes from crop byproducts and residue.
Industrial system, generally described as modern, is characterised by large scale operations with intensive use of inputs, technology, capital and increased specialisation of production units. These systems are also described as "landless" because the animals are physically separated from the land that supports them. In India, the modern industrial system is gradually replacing the mixed farming system. So the livestock sector is changing from being multi-functional to commodity specific. There is a decline in the importance of traditionally important livestock functions such as provision of draught power and manure.
How big is big
In India, milk and dairy products are predominant culturally acceptable animal protein source. Although meat consumption is increasing, especially among younger, more cosmopolitan Indians, millions still remain vegetarian. According to National Sample Survey Organisation data, milk and its products rank second to cereals in the consumption of food items in both rural and urban areas.
India became the world's largest milk producer by increasing production from cattle and buffalo by four times between 1963 and 2003. Production was 132.4 million tonnes during 2012-13 as compared to 55.7 million tonnes in 1991-92.
Buffalo, the heftier, darker counter to a cow, has largely been responsible for the phenomenal growth of country’s dairy sector. They are well-adapted to tropical climes unlike high-yielding cows. Across the country, more than half of all milk produced is through buffaloes. Cross bred cattle numbers are increasing but still account for just 22 per cent of the total cattle population.
The sector has received significant financial and political support for over 50 years. Though it was a priority sector in the very first five year plan, Operation Flood launched in 1970 made the real big contribution to India’s dairy sector. What spurred Operation Flood was a cooperative movement that went on to become world's largest milk producer.
Amul and Operation Flood
The Anand Milk Federation Union Limited, popularly known as AMUL, was formed in 1946, and is jointly owned by 3 million milk producers of Gujarat. It was response of marginal milk producers against exploitative trade practices of a big dairy firm and its agents who paid them low prices. Several cooperatives were set up at village levels which helped decentralise milk collection. The structure of Amul is such that village-level cooperatives are affiliated to a milk union at the district level which in turn is part of a state-level milk federation. Milk collection done at the village level is procurement and processed by district union and marketed by the state federation. Operation Flood of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) replicated this structure all over the country.
The programme was designed to make use of the dairy aid offered by the European Economic Community and thus invited strident criticism initially from several quarters. The main contention was that the liberal foreign monetary assistance would cause milk prices to crash, dis-incentivise production and ultimately make India permanently dependent on other countries for its needs of dairy products.
However, the programme turned out to be a tremendous success. The market supplies were unaffected, farmers got the right prices, and necessary infrastructure was established and streamlined to match the growing urban demand. It was proved that an investment of Rs 20 billion over 20 years can increase milk production by 40 million metric tonnes. The success of this model also made dairy sector largest self-sustainable rural employment generator.
With better economic conditions, the demand for milk has also risen which is why the entire production is consumed within the country. The amount of milk produced in the country easily met the demand till 2006-07. A 4 per cent growth rate in milk production, double the growth rate of the world was good enough because the demand was almost as much as the supply.
However, now shortage of milk is increasingly being felt as even a meagre shift of milk to butter and cheese is creating difficulty. One of the reasons for shortage is large scale export of caesin or milk protein to US. Used for confectionary products, casein production leads to wastage of a vast quantity of milk. According to estimates of NDDB, the demand of milk may go upto 210 million tonne in 2021-22. To meet this requirement, production needs to increase by 6 million tonne every year.
Livestock cross breeding
Improvement of cattle breed was one of the focus areas of Operation Flood. While benefits of this initiative were for everyone to see, the consequences remained underreported. As per FAO, 56 per cent of the dairy production growth in India can be accounted for by the increased number of milking animals and 37 per cent by the higher productivity of the crossbred animals. In 1982, fewer than 5 per cent animals in the Indian dairy were crossbred. By 2012, the share rose to 21 per cent.
Foreign breeds like Jersey and Fresian Holstein were introduced in India in 1970s. There was a blanket recommendation to cross-breed cows with foreign species which led to the Indian hardy species disappearing. However, there was no extension programme to advice which area they would do well in. Milk producers bought crossbred cows even in areas where resources were scarce and extreme climatic changes were observed. For instance, in Orissa, people took up cross-bred cows but the fodder of paddy straw was so less that it could not meet dietary requirements of cross-bred animals.
Indigenous breeds, known for withstanding harsh climates, smaller diet and lower incidence of diseases, were systematically destroyed. Hybridisation led to their characteristics disappearing. Fortunately, hybrid animals could not penetrate the whole of countryside. The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is now working on a breeding policy to explore cross-breeding within traditional breeds. A breed improvement programme on Rathi and Kankrej cows in Rajasthan and Gujarat is going on.
How’s the leg piece rising
When it comes to global meat supplies, China holds the dominating position. Around half of pork, which accounts for over 40 per cent of global meat supplies, comes from China. The country also dominates the poultry market, which makes up 26 per cent of the global meat supplies. Though India has doubled its meat production between 1980 and 2007, its overall output remains low in the global context.
Total meat production from cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig and poultry at the all India level increased from 1.5 million tonnes in 2000-01 to an estimated 4.83 million tonnes in 2010-11. With growing urbanisation and increasing quality consciousness, the market for scientifically produced meat is expected to grow rapidly. The market is growing for ready-to-eat and semi-processed products because of a changing socio-economic scenario and an upsurge in exports, especially to the Middle East.
In 2012-13, India earned Rs 21,000 crore from meat exports to the US, Europe, Middle East and south-east Asian countries. It also became the biggest beef exporter in the world, beating Brazil. It exported 1.89 million tonnes of beef, a 50 per cent increase over five years ago. Indian poultry sector has been growing at around 8-10 per cent annually over the last decade with broiler meat volumes growing at more than 10 per cent, while table egg is growing at 5-6 per cent thanks to higher domestic consumption. Farmers in the country have moved from rearing country birds to hybrids thus increasing poultry meat production from less than one million tonne in 2000 to 3.4 million tonnes in 2012, says rating agency ICRA.
Poultry sector also provides an affordable alternative for meeting protein requirements as the prices of poultry meat has grown by 12 per cent over 2008-2013 as against 21 per cent for overall meat products basket. Growth in fishery sub-sector is next only to poultry. The policy for fishery development emphasises inland fisheries, particularly aquaculture in recent years, which has been instrumental in increasing production and enhancing exports. The total fish production during 2010-11 was at 8.29 million tonnes with a contribution of 5.07 million tonnes from the inland sector and 3.22 million tonnes from the marine sector. This was 5.54 per cent of the global fish production.
The major challenges before us in livestock sector are genetic improvement in bovines, effective control of animal diseases, shortage of feed and fodder, inadequate infrastructure and inadequate dissemination of technology, skills and quality services to farmers.
Feed constitutes concentrates (wheat bran, oil-cakes etc), dry fodder and green fodder. Though we have a big dairy sector, the area dedicated to fodder cultivation has remained constant at 4.7 per cent of the total cultivable land since independence. Of this area, 10 per cent is in Punjab, which is also the major producer of dry fodder. However, now Punjab’s farmers are resorting to post harvest straw burning to save on labour cost. Farmers are also increasingly moving from cereals to cash crops which give less fodder resulting in higher fodder prices.
The present shortage of feed and fodder in the country is as much as 40 per cent. According to IGFRI’s estimates, by 2020, India will require 850 million tonne of green fodder, 520 million tonne of dry fodder (edible crop residue) and 90 million tonne concentrates. Weakening traditional institutions and increasing land pressure have also threatened the natural grazing lands. Traditional coping mechanisms tend to fail in these situations and pastoralists are abandoning livestock production, voluntarily or involuntarily, in increasing numbers.
Climate variations like increasing temperature and decreasing rainfall are reducing the yield of pastures leading to overgrazing and degradation. In addition, climate change appears to be making arid and semi-arid areas even drier and extreme weather events like drought and flood more common. Changing land use patterns, especially that of common and traditionally pasture lands, is diverting a significant amount of the grazing pressure to forests.
The National Forestry Action Programme (NFAP) estimates that around 60 per cent of the livestock (about 270 million) graze in forests while the carrying capacity is only 30 million. Not only the allocation for development of feed and fodder is low, fodder seeds are also given low priority as compared to food crops. In the 11th five year plan, Rs 4903 crores were allocated for Animal Husbandry Department. Out of this, only 2.88 per cent was allocated for feed and fodder. Most direct impact of fodder shortage has been on milk production. With increasing fodder prices, combined with 4-6 per cent incentive on the export of buffalo meat, there are speculations of livestock keepers moving from milk to meat.
High prevalence of various animal diseases like Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD), Pestedes Petits Ruminants (PPR), Brucellosis, Classical Swine Fever and Avian Influenza is a serious impediment to growth in the livestock sector. Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) alone leads to economic losses of more than Rs. 20,000 crore per annum (NCAP, Preliminary Report 2010). Growing international trade in livestock and livestock products and this increased concentration in close proximity to large human populations have increased the risk of animal disease outbreaks and the emergence of new animal related human-health threats like swine flu and bird flu. Most of these losses can be prevented through timely immunization. India has a total of 8,732 veterinary hospitals and polyclinics and 18,830 veterinary dispensaries against the requirement of about 67,000 institutions. Most of these have poor infrastructure and equipment.
Livestock production also comes at an environmental cost. Though the sector contributes less than 2 per cent of global GDP, it produces 18 per cent of the global greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the increasing geographic concentration of livestock production means that the manure produced by animals often exceeds the absorption capacity of the local area resulting in pollution.
The Planning Commission also cites lack of credit for livestock farmers as a limiting factor for its growth. The main challenges facing the fisheries sector include shortage of quality fish seeds, lack of resource-specific fishing vessels, reliable data, inadequate awareness about nutritional and economic benefits of fish and absence of standardisation and branding of fish products.
To address these challenges, the National Livestock Mission was launched during the 12th Plan with the main objective of achieving sustainable development and growth of livestock sector by providing greater flexibility to the states. The Centre has released Rs 45 crore to five states under the Accelerated Fodder Development Programme which aims at enhancing availability of green and dry fodder and also mitigating fodder shortage caused by natural calamities such as drought and floods.
The forest department can also play a major role in augmenting fodder production in the country. The degraded forest areas can be used for assisting growth of indigenous fodder varieties of grasses, legumes, and trees under the village-level joint forest management committees.
Vast tract of unused lands along roadsides and railway track may be given on lease for a specified period for fodder production. Forest fringes are another important source to augment feed basket. Small-scale farmers typically face higher transaction cost than large-scale enterprises. It is more difficult and costly for them to access higher quality inputs (especially feed), credit and technology. This high transaction cost can be reduced through collective action group lik e a cooperative. This way, smallholders can be incorporated into high value supply chains from which they would otherwise be excluded. The Central government has now started giving subsidy to entrepreneurs for fodder block making units to address the problem of transportation from surplus to deficit areas.
The Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries has initiated National Programmes for prevention and control of FMD, PPR and Brucellosis. The FMD control programme has been expanded to 221 districts and will be expanded to cover the entire country in a phased manner. Similar programmes have been initiated to control PPR and Brucellosis.
For fisheries, schemes of integrated approach for enhancing production with forward and backward linkages right from production chain and input requirements like quality fish seeds and feeds besides value addition and marketing of fish are required. Cooperative sectors, village self-help groups and youths can be actively involved in intensive aquaculture activities.
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The unique Himalayan wetlands
The Himalayan wetlands are under threat due to unregulated urbanisation and unsustainable tourism. Urgent attention at the policy level is the need of the hour.
Antibiotic use in livestock and superbug risk
A study shows lack of awareness and poor regulatory mechanisms among various reasons behind irrational use of antibiotics in livestock by farmers.
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Increasing epidemic scare, loss of livelihood and no place to defecate. There seems no end to the miseries of the flood affected in Assam and Bihar even when the water recedes.
Rapar ends its long wait for water
How an arid, saline land where migration in search of water and jobs was a way of life, boasts of plenty of water now.
Simhastha leaves farmers fuming
The festival has hordes of Ujjain farmers broke and the mighty Kshipra river troubled. Swift government action is needed to set things right.
Sustainable development, still an unfinished agenda In the fourth year into their implementation, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that aim at reducing developmental disparities in different parts of the world continue to be a cause for concern, with many international bodies urging for fas...
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Towards sustainable food production
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is on the rise globally with the threat more severe in developing countries such as India. Antimicrobial resistance occurs when bacteria develop the ability to withstand the drugs (antibiotics) designed to kill them. This happens due to overuse and misuse of antibiotic...
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Breeding climate resilience
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India faces superbugs
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Toilet use in Uttarakhand: A mountainous issue
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India Industry Water Conclave on Nov 28, 2017 at FICCI, New Delhi
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In August this year, the states of Bihar and Assam witnessed the worst flooding in a long time. The water level is slowly receding now but it is not giving much respite to people as the aftermath of the devastating floods has brought upon miseries of its own. Crores of people have been a...
Bad times at Baddi
When Satya Devi was a child, the open well near her house in the village of Malku Majra was the water source for the household. She reminisces, “The water was clean and soft. The well would never go dry. Once when there was a drought, we went to the bed of the Sirsa river, dug a few holes in the b...
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While WOTR’s work has contributed to improving SDG outcomes, what are the learnings from the efforts made by the organisation to map and identify the pathways that have brought about this change?
Sustainable development, still an unfinished agenda
The entire food chain is increasingly becoming the primary source of pesticide and antibiotic contamination putting the health and safety of people at risk.
The national conclave on food held on March 15, 2019 at New Delhi saw experts urge policy changes to promote sustainable food production especially organic farming as well as regulations to reduce misuse of antibiotics and pesticides. The discussions organised by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a New Delhi-based research and advocacy non-profit underlined the need to regulate bad food and bring in a policy-level change in terms of advertisements on junk foods.
Droughts are one of the most feared natural calamities in India impacting food production, the economy as well as the morale of millions of farmers in a country where
Wetlands are very important and productive ecosystems that support a wide range of plants and animals and provide livelihood opportunities to local communities in India. However, they are increasingly being threatened by rapid urbanisation, pollution, developmental interventions, unsustainable management practices and encroachment.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is on the rise globally with the threat more severe in developing countries such as India. Antimicrobial resistance occurs when bacteria develop the ability to withstand the drugs (antibiotics) designed to kill them. This happens due to overuse and misuse of antibiotics. Every time a person takes antibiotics, sensitive bacteria get killed but resistant ones survive and multiply.
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Scientists come up with two variables to assess resilience of indigenous breeds of goats against climate change.
Climate change is posing a challenge not only to agricultural crops but also to livestock. In order to sustain rural livelihoods, it is critical to identify livestock breeds that are climate resilient. In this direction, Indian scientists have identified two variables which could be used to assess resilience capacity of indigenous breeds of goats.
With the threat of urbanisation looming large, the sacred grove of Mangar Bani begs for attention.
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Superbugs can not only render antibiotics useless but lead to prolonged suffering and death in humans. Focus on better sanitation and public awareness is the need of the hour.
There is a huge dearth of cleanliness in India--open defecation is rampant; garbage management in most cities is in shambles; toxic hospital and industrial wastes and sewage are allowed to drain into water sources and food products are laced with chemicals.
However, we still seem to be oblivious to the much more dangerous consequence of this incessant poisoning of our water, soil and environment and its impact on health and survival. For lurking behind the filth are superbugs or antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Superbugs, killers in disguise!
A study from remote villages in rural Uttarakhand finds that toilet use is influenced by geography, accessibility, availability of infrastructure and occupation of villagers.
“Sometimes I go for open defecation, sometimes I use the toilet. It’s not like I always have to use the toilet. When I go for work here and there, I defecate in the jungle,” says Renu from one of the remote villages in Tehri Garwal district of Uttarakhand when asked why she does not use latrines every day.
Although there is a government-constructed latrine with a water tap that she and her family use when they are at home, she sees no point in coming back home to use the toilet when she goes out to graze animals or to collect firewood a long way into the jungle.
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The theme for the Conclave this year is “Water Use Efficiency: An Imperative for India” to highlight the imperative of water use efficiency in the industry, agriculture and urban contexts.
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Shadow (Hardcover)
By Suzy Lee
Chronicle Books, 9780811872805, 44pp.
Publication Date: September 1, 2010
A dark attic. A light bulb. An imaginative little girl.
Internationally acclaimed artist Suzy Lee uses these simple elements to create a visual tour de force that perfectly captures the joy of creative play and celebrates the power of imagination. Stunning in their simplicity, Lee's illustrations, in just two shades of color, present an adventure that begins and ends with the click of a light bulb.
Suzy Lee's books have been published and exhibited worldwide. She is the author and illustrator of many books including the critically acclaimed Wave as well as The Black Bird, The Zoo, and Mirror. Born in Seoul, Korea, she currently lives and works in Singapore.
Praise For Shadow…
"Lee is a natural at drawing children. Her pictures evoke a timeless charm reminiscent of Crockett Johnson and Sheldon Mayer."--The New York Times Book Review
"[A] thoroughly interactive and engaging read."-School Library Journal, Starred Review
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‘The Seven Deadly Sins’ Season 2 Release Date Spoilers: Nakaba Suzuki Interview Talks Netflix’s Anime, Manga
Patrick Frye
Regarding the Netflix anime, The Seven Deadly Sins Season 2 release date has already been confirmed for the spring of 2017, but it is possible the English dub release date will not be until 2018. Known as Nanatsu no Taizai in Japan, the anime producers have already produced The Seven Deadly Sins OVA video in 2015, but unfortunately, it is only available as unofficial English subs at this time. The manga publisher Kodansha Comics has released multiple English issues, but it’s actually the release schedule of the Japanese manga which makes some wonder if the plot of the The Seven Deadly Sins manga and the anime will diverge, like many other anime series in the past.
[UPDATE] The opening paragraph has been edited based upon the official announcement from Netflix that The Seven Deadly Sins Season 2 release date will be in 2017. However, there is some controversy, since some fans claim it’s not a true second season. Click on this link to the new article for the full details. The remainder of this article continues as originally published.
So far, all we officially know about the The Seven Deadly Sins Season 2 release date is based upon a short commercial video which aired during the final episode of Arslan Senki, or The Heroic Legend of Arslan. The Japanese text only tells fans that the “production is green-lit” for 2016, but since the Japanese first season finished airing in March of 2015, and the Netflix Original did not release until November of 2015, it is probably safe to presume that North American audiences will need to wait until 2017 (or English speakers can watch the Japanese version with English subs as it releases on Crunchyroll).
The announcement also does not specify whether The Seven Deadly Sins Season 2 is a sequel. This is important because series writer and illustrator Nakaba Suzuki said that he plans to release three main story arcs for the manga, with each being 100 chapters for a total of 300 chapters. Suzuki has been serializing the chapters in Weekly Shounen Magazine since 2012, but chapter 154 was released just days before Christmas, 2015. Based upon the manga release schedule, it seems unlikely that Suzuki will finish the manga’s second story arc before production needs to begin on The Seven Deadly Sins season 2 in 2016.
Season 1 of the anime and the first 100 chapters of the manga both focused on the Holy Knights, while the second part of the story arc will focus on new antagonists like the Demon Clan, a group of powerful demons called the Ten Commandments, and the introduction of Escanor, the Lion’s sin of pride. Since only about half of the manga’s story arc is completed at this time, it is possible the anime The Seven Deadly Sins Season 2 will only cover what has been written so far, with The Seven Deadly Sins Season 3 finishing the Demon Clan story arc.
The other possibility is that the anime and manga begin to diverge. Fortunately, Suzuki has already mapped out his plans for the third story arc, and he has even begun discussing plans for a sequel to the main three part story. Assuming Suzuki shares his notes for the story of the upcoming manga releases, it’s possible the The Seven Deadly Sins anime will not diverge too greatly from the manga’s plot.
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The Seven Deadly Sins Season 2 Spoilers
The Seven Deadly Sins OVA video also covers more side stories for all the characters, but the longest story gave an extended version of the love story between Ban, the Fox sin of Greed, and Elaine, the fairy guardian of the fountain of youth. It is possible English viewers may eventually receive a dubbed version that’s packaged alongside The Seven Deadly Sins Season 2.
[Image by Nakaba Suzuki/The Seven Deadly Sins/Kodansha]
A prior article goes into much more detail about the known details for the second story arc, but a large part of the story will focus on Escanor, whose wanted poster is located within Meliodas’ pub. The Escanor character only recently debuted in the manga in chapter 147, but we do know he possesses a dual personality based upon the solar cycle. When the sun is at its zenith, Escanor’s powers reach their peak, while at midnight he’s weak, scrawny, and his personality becomes very humble. The image shown above shows Escanor when his powers, and physique, are beginning to max out.
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The Demon Clan story arc will focus on the Ten Commandments, their histories, and the fight against the resurrected Demon Clan.
“Along with the rest of the Demon Clan, the Ten Commandments were sealed away by the Coffin of Eternal Darkness, the relic that the Holy Knight Hendrickson was attempting to open with Elizabeth’s blood during the events in season 1. A Commandment named Fraudrin, along with the Red Demon and the Gray Demon, managed to avoid being sealed away, and eventually Fraudrin frees the other nine members. Their powers have been drained by the Coffin, so they travel the realms, including King Arthur’s Albion, in order to devour the souls of humans.”
Otherwise, the Ten Commandments are like the opposite of the Seven Deadly Sins. Like the Sins, their name reflects the number of villains, but their symbols mark them with ironic traits such as truth or faith. While the Sins wield Sacred Treasures, the Commandments each have a power called a commandment.
Nakaba Suzuki Interview
Kodansha Comics released an English interview with the series creator, which explains his inspiration for Nanatsu no Taizai’s story. The manga publisher asked if Suzuki based the plot around western stories of King Arthur, and what he thought his own characters.
“It’s true, I borrowed the names of characters that appeared in the King Arthur tales, but each of their personalities and the story itself is my original work,” Suzuki replied. “They’re an awesome group of people determined to carry out their own sense of justice, even if others call them villains.”
The creator also discussed how he likes drawing “characters who are fun to draw. Otherwise, it’d be totally dreadful for me.” Many of his character designs feature bulky muscles, which he says is based upon reading the manga versions of Ultimate Muscle, Fist of the North Star, and Dragon Ball while in school.
“I love drawing muscles now because of those three manga,” he explained.
Suzuki did not give too many The Seven Deadly Sins spoilers, but he did admit that he hasn’t revealed all the history of the Sins “because they’re too strong… maybe you’ll find out soon enough.” Otherwise, he had a message for his North American audience watching the The Seven Deadly Sins English anime.
“When I first saw the anime of The Seven Deadly Sins, I really felt I’d been able to make a series people could enjoy regardless of age. It’s so fun to watch the colorful, vibrant characters in the show,” he said. “My motto is, ‘no chapter that sucks.’ I’ll make sure The Seven Deadly Sins continues be exciting as long as it goes. I hope you enjoy it!”
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Formula 1: Silver Stone inks deal to retain British Grand Prix for five years
Sparsh Sharma
It is the circuit that played host to the very first World Championship Grand Prix in 1950 and now Formula 1 has announced that Silverstone will continue as the British Grand Prix venue until at least the end of 2024.
A five-year agreement between Formula 1, the British Racing Drivers’ Club and Silverstone Circuit was signed yesterday in London, ahead of this weekend’s Formula 1 Rolex British Grand Prix 2019.
“We are really pleased to confirm that the British Grand Prix will stay on the FIA Formula 1 World Championship calendar for at least the next five years, with the event remaining at its longstanding home, Silverstone circuit,” said Chase Carey, Chairman and CEO, Formula 1.
“We have always said that, if it is to have a long-term future, our sport must preserve its historic venues and Silverstone and Great Britain represent the cradle of this sport, its starting point back in 1950. Today, Formula 1 is a global sport, held on five continents, watched by an audience of over 500 million fans around the world and our aim is to grow this number by bringing the sport we love to new countries, while also maintaining its roots: Silverstone and the British Grand Prix are an integral part of that vision.
“We have always said that, if it is to have a long-term future, our sport must preserve its historic venues and Silverstone and Great Britain represent the cradle of this sport.”
Great Britain has played a vital role in the sport’s history and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Seven of the ten teams competing in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship are based in the UK, with motorsport being an important economic and technological contributor to the country.
British drivers have claimed more wins and world championships than any other nation, and this year Great Britain also has the largest number of drivers on the grid, with five-time world champion Lewis Hamilton joined by talented rookies Lando Norris and George Russell.
“Silverstone is one of the most iconic Grands Prix on the F1 calendar and with such a rich heritage it would have been disastrous for the sport and fans had we not managed to find a way forward,” said John Grant, Chairman of the BRDC. “2020 will be the 70th anniversary of the first round of the World Championship which took place at Silverstone on 13th May 1950 and will make next year’s event all the more special. This is great news for the BRDC, Silverstone and Formula 1 – and for millions of British motor racing fans.”
Silverstone is often amongst the most exciting events of the year and draws a massive crowd, with over 680,000 attending over the past two years alone. Once again this year, the British Grand Prix is shaping up to be one of the key sports events in the UK, with the F1 action supported by the FIA Formula 2 and FIA Formula 3 Championships, and a whole host of other attractions for race goers, such as the ‘Bond in Motion’ exhibition.
“The British Grand Prix at Silverstone is rightly recognised as one of the highlights of both the F1 championship and the annual British sporting calendar,” said Stuart Pringle, Managing Director of Silverstone Circuits Limited.
“This is thanks to our track being one of the greatest drivers’ circuits in the world but also the enormous passion for motor racing that exists in the loyal and knowledgeable fans that we have in this country. The prospect of not hosting a Grand Prix at Silverstone would have been devastating for everyone in the sport and I am delighted that we are here today, on the eve of what is sure to be a fantastic event, making this positive announcement about the future.”
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Wearable technology could become prerequisite for insurance policies
It could be impossible to get life cover without a wearable device in the next five to 10 years, according to Swiss Re.
The reinsurance giant claims that the data provided by wearables could transform the industry -despite the privacy issues that still surround this technology.
“This has the potential to be a mini revolution when it comes to the way we underwrite for life insurance risk,” said Swiss Re managing director Neil Sprackling.
“If you’ve got a groundswell of people who are actively engaging with these wearable devices, through which health information is being provided willingly, there is a much more efficient, more customer-friendly way of allowing people to assess risk.”
A number of popular wearable products, such as Fitbit and Jawbone, have seen mass adoption in consumer markets in recent years. These devices can monitor heart rate, blood pressure, sleep patterns and take various other health measurements.
Swiss Re’s innovation manager Oliver Werneyer claimed failure to wear such a device could invalidate insurance policies in the not too distant future.
“No wearable device equals no health insurance,” he said. “This could be our reality in the next five to ten years. If you do not have a wearable device that tracks your health then you will find it nearly impossible to buy life insurance.”
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Duo has MSU women’s cross country nearing perfection
Leah O’Connor and Rachele Schulist have been top two runners for top-ranked Spartans.
Duo has MSU women’s cross country nearing perfection Leah O’Connor and Rachele Schulist have been top two runners for top-ranked Spartans. Check out this story on lansingstatejournal.com: http://on.lsj.com/1t9c51P
Brian Calloway, Lansing State Journal Published 10:34 p.m. ET Nov. 20, 2014 | Updated 10:35 p.m. ET Nov. 20, 2014
Sophomore Rachele Schulist has helped the MSU women’s cross country team win each of its five team-scored events this season.(Photo: MSU Athletic Communications)
EAST LANSING – Rachele Schulist was there to witness Leah O’Connor’s crowning moment, shedding a few tears of joy as she watched her teammate wrap up a steeplechase national title at the NCAA track championships in June.
The Michigan State sophomore has also been by O’Connor’s side every step this fall as the pair has combined forces to make this a special season for the top-ranked Spartan women’s cross country team.
The duo hopes to have an opportunity to share in another crowning moment Saturday when MSU competes in the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind. The Spartans will be trying for the first national title in program history. The best finish in program history was fourth in 1981.
“That would be amazing for our team,” said Schulist, who got goosebumps while watching from the stands with her father as O’Connor won her national title in Oregon. “We’ve put in so much work and it would be awesome. Regardless of the outcome, as long as we put everything out there and do our best, we’ll be happy. But if that means a win, then it’s even sweeter.”
Winning has all the Spartans have done this season, and Schulist and O’Connor, who are roommates, have led the way. MSU has won each of the five team-scored events it has competed in, which included finishing with 29 points fewer than Wisconsin while winning the Big Ten title and with 54 points fewer than the Badgers while capturing the Great Lakes regional crown earlier this month.
O’Connor, a senior, and Schulist have finished in the top 10 in six events and have taken the top two spots on three occasions. The pair crossed the finish line together to take the top two spots at last week’s regional in Wisconsin and have given the Spartans a dominant tandem.
“It kind of just ended up like that,” said O’Connor, who recently was named the Great Lakes Region and Big Ten women’s athlete of the year. “We didn’t plan it, but it’s just funny because people in outdoor track would mistake us because we’re both tall and blonde and look kind of similar. We just joke about it. We’ve become a tandem. Instead of fighting that idea we just embrace it and work hard together.”
And the pair is hoping to make a difference as MSU aims to put the finishing touches on what’s been a perfect season so far.
“I think it would be really nice (to win), but the meets that we won throughout the season, we didn’t go in thinking we have to win,” O’Connor said. “We went in thinking we have to do our best, we’re going to do all of the little things that it takes to be good and we’re going to stick together and whatever happens, happens. By doing that, amazing things have happened. We’re just going to have the same mentality that we’ve had at the other meets.”
The MSU women will be joined by the men’s team at the NCAA Championships. Caleb Rhynard finished fourth overall to help the No. 17-ranked Spartan men place second at last week’s Great Lakes regional.
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Meet Sebastian Baker ‘13, FNP ‘17: Emergency Medicine Fellow at the Mayo Clinic
Like his father, uncle, and grandfather before him, nursing graduate Sebastian Baker ‘13, FNP ‘17, always knew he wanted to be a part of the healthcare community. Still, Baker has returned to Le Moyne with the goal to take his dreams—and his nursing degree—to the next level. Last May, Baker’s dreams came to fruition when he graduated as a part of the inaugural class in the Family Nurse Practitioner Program (FNP).
Life of Reilley
Life of Reilley (LOR) is a family business, started in Ben and Shioban Reilley's home. The first distillery to open in Madison County, LOR was founded on "equal parts nerves and excitement." Ben Reilley studied English on the Heights, but he has always been "an entrepreneur at heart." He has returned to the Heights to tell today's students what he has learned about running a successful business.
PROSPECT Experiment Will Search for Missing Neutrinos, Thanks to $3 Million Grant
Buoyed by a $3 million federal grant, an experiment led by Yale University with partners from four U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories and 10 universities including Le Moyne College will explore key questions about elusive particles called neutrinos — and potentially improve the way we monitor and safeguard nuclear reactors in the process Watch this story about the research that ran on WSYR-TV. The grant from the DOE Office of High Energy Physics will be used ...
Ella DiGiovanni ‘18 Gains A Global Perspective In El Salvador
“Le Moyne has challenged me to think about the idea of men and women for others and to figure out what that means for me.” For Ella DiGiovanni ‘18, serving others is grounded in building community—at home and abroad.
Responding to a Humanitarian Crisis
War, religious persecution, ethnic cleansing and other dire situations have forced approximately 65.6 million people worldwide to flee their homes. An estimated 10,000 refugees have moved to Syracuse since 2000, several of whom are students or alumni of the College. Delia Popescu, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Political Science, has followed closely the “patterns of global, structural injustice” that follow the forced movement of people. Now she is hoping to join others at Le Mo...
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Derek Matina '18 knew he wanted a way to honor veterans like his grandfather and great-grandfather, and he could think of no better way than by helping veterans and their dependents earn college degrees. Matina created Sustainability for Scholarships, redeeming cans and bottles and using the funds to create financial awards to help them afford College.
Launching 'Phin Labs
’Phin Labs is gearing up to become an on-campus hub for hands-on, cross-disciplinary experiential learning in which students of all majors are encouraged to explore their entrepreneurial sides. Housed in the Division of Academic Affairs and created in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences and the Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship in the Madden School of Business, ’Phin Labs will connect students with the resources they need to take on enterprising projects.
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New Zealand the focus for local agri-food industry
The biggest ever agri-food sector mission from Northern Ireland will visit New Zealand, from 23 January to 3 February, as part of Invest NI’s drive to fast track the development of world beating food innovation and global brands by local companies.
Over an eight day period the 25-strong innovation and best practice mission to New Zealand will split into three separate delegations to conduct more than 70 meetings in all parts of New Zealand with the country’s major red meat, lamb, venison and dairy food processors, farmers, industry associations, research institutes and universities.
Included in the Northern Ireland delegation will be leading industry figures including chief executives of Northern Ireland’s biggest dairy and red meat companies, and leading industry representatives from the Ulster Farmers Union, Livestock and Meat Commission, Northern Ireland Meat Exporters Association, Northern Ireland Agricultural Producers Association, National Sheep Association, National Beef Association, as well as officials from the Department for Agriculture and Rural Development and Invest NI. Almost three quarters of the red meat and lamb sector by turnover in Northern Ireland is represented and half the dairy processing industry.
Announcing details of the mission, Maynard Mawhinney, Invest NI’s Food Director, said: “New Zealand, like Northern Ireland, is, of course, an island economy in which food processing is among the most important industries and the biggest export earner.
“New Zealand also faces similar problems as Northern Ireland does arising from a peripheral position and a small domestic marketplace.
“The three strand mission, (covering red meat, dairy and primary producers), will be tasked with bringing home some of the best practice, knowledge, and innovation that has made New Zealand a world class exemplar in terms of a small nation ‘punching above its weight’ in the global food industry – an achievement Invest NI wishes to help our companies emulate.
“The group will have an opportunity to see how New Zealand food processors are addressing global challenges and ensuring sustainable long-term growth through techniques including export-focused branding, which has seen their red meat and dairy brands such as New Zealand Lamb and Beef, Anchor and Golden Churn dairy products, and Manuka Honey, become global household names.
“Northern Ireland has a number of very successful international food and drink brands. We want to encourage and assist many more companies to recognise how they can increase margins and future-proof themselves against volatile markets by investing in new and innovative branded products,” he added.
Almost 70 per cent of food and drink products are now sold to markets beyond Northern Ireland. The region is now a major supplier of dairy, beef and lamb, poultry and bakery products to Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland.
Many leading European retailers, including Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury, Waitrose, Tesco and Carrefour, now source a range of products from Northern Ireland suppliers. These retailers are also engaged with Northern Ireland food companies on the development of innovative products for specific market requirements and trends, including healthier meal options.
Among the region’s most successful markets are Europe, the US and the Middle East. Companies involved with dairy products, the second biggest sector after beef and sheep meat, also supply milk powder to customers in Africa and Asia Pacific.
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Affirmation that ALLAH has power over all things! (Global Warming-Part1)
Thread: Affirmation that ALLAH has power over all things! (Global Warming-Part1)
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Bismillah Ir-Rahman, Ir-Raheem. I begin with ALLAH's auspiciousness,whose Name is the Best among all the names. All Revences, All Sanctities and All Worships are due to ALLAH alone. Ashahadu An Laa illaaha illal llahu
Wa Ash Hadu Anna Muhammadan Abdu Hu Wa Rasooluhu
''I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah
who is without partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) is the Rasool.''
"O Allah, Shower Your Peace come upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, as you have brought peace to Ibrahim and his family.
Truly, You are Praiseworthy and Glorious. O Allah, Shower your blessing upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, as you have blessed Ibrahim and his family. Truly, You are Praiseworthy and Glorious". Iam Satisfied with Allâh as My Rabb and Cherisher,Iam Satisfied With Islam as My Din(religion) and I am satisfied with Muhammad as a Rasulallah (Messenge r)sallallahu alaihi was salam) I seek Protection with ALLAH! With the Glorious and Noble Face of ALLAH! With the Complete and Perfect words of ALLAH! With the Exalted Attributes of ALLAH! From the Punishment of Hell; From chastisement in the Grave; From the Trial of Life and Death; From the Mischief of the dajjal. There is no power nor strength with (anyone) save Allah. ALLAH is Good and Only accept that which is Good. ALLAH is the Truth and only accept that which True. ALLAH is Pure and only accept that which is Pure. Ya ALLAH! ALL the praises are for You,You are the Holder of the Heavens and the Earth, And whatever is in them. Ya ALLAH! All praises are for You; You are are the Substaner of the Heavens and the Earth And whatever is in them. Ya ALLAH! All the praises are for you;You have the Possession of the Heavens and the Earth and whatever is in them. Ya ALLAH! All the praises are for You; You are Light(Nur) of the Heavens and Earth And whatever is in them. Ya ALLAH! All praises are for You; You are the King of the Heavens and the Earth And whatever is in them. Ya ALLAH! All praises are for You; You are the Truth and Your Promise is the Truth, And Your word is the Truth and the Meeting with You is true, And Parardise is True And Hell is true and All the Prophets(peace be upon them) are true; And Muhammad Rasulallah(sallallahu alayhi wa salam) is true,And the Day of Resurrection is True. Ya ALLAH! You have promise and Your promise is the truth,Ya ALLAH! You have promise and Your words is the truth, Ya ALLAH! You have promise and You are the Truth!. Ya ALLAH! You have created Rasulallah(sallallahu alayhi wa salam) to be the most truthful of men and what He(sallallahu alayhi wa salam) has said is the absolute truth! Ya ALLAH! You have promise that You would send one who would revive,restore,rejuvevate Your Din(religion).Ya ALLAH it is geting late and time is not with us,Ya ALLAH You have Promise! Ya ALLAH You have Promise! and Your Promise is the Truth! O Most Merciful of those who show mercy!,O Most Merciful of those who show mercy!, O Most Merciful of those who show mercy!-----a believer always seek knowledge and wisdom; and he must claim it where ever he finds it." -------The Affirmation that ALLAH has power over all things!------------------------------------(Excessive pollution from fossil fuels threatens to destroy the precious gifts that ALLAH has bestowed on us! Gifts such as a functioning climate, healthy air to breathe, the nature cyclical of the Seasons and living oceans.
But our attitude to these gifts has been short-sighted and we have abused them. Will there be future generations after 50 years and if so what will they say about us, who leave them a degraded planet Earth in such a sad sick, state of condition as a legacy? How will we face our Rabb and creator? But in disgrace And failure in our duties as caretaker,When we have fail in our duties and responsibility to this Earth that we are living on?--- “Human activity is putting such a strain on the natural functions of the earth that the ability of the planet’s ecosystems to sustain future generations are in jeopardy can no longer be taken for granted.”---- Ecosystems and human cultures are already at risk from climate change;
Risks resulting from climate change caused by extreme events such as heat waves, extreme precipitation and coastal flooding are on the rise;
These risks are unevenly distributed, and are generally greater for the poor and disadvantaged communities of every country on the coastal line, at all levels of development;
Foreseeable impacts will affect adversely Earth’s biodiversity, the goods and services provided by our ecosystems, and our overall global economy;
The Earth’s core physical systems themselves are at risk of abrupt and irreversible changes.
We are driven to conclude from these warnings that there are serious flaws in the way we have used natural resources – the sources of life on Earth. - In the brief period since the Industrial Revolution, The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in history---but it did not change the human condition around the world! many countries are still in impoverished and destitute even to this day! -Humans have consumed much of the non-renewable resources which have taken the earth 250 million years to produce – all in the name of Greed and so call economic development and so call human progress! We note with alarm the combined impacts of rising per capita consumption combined with the rising human population. We also note with alarm the multi-national scramble now taking place for more fossil fuel deposits under the dissolving ice caps in the arctic regions. We are accelerating our own destruction through these processes. Leading climate scientists now believe that a rise of two degrees centigrade in global temperature, which is considered to be the “tipping point”, is now very unlikely to be avoided if we continue with business-as-usual; other leading climate scientists consider 1.5 degrees centigrade to be a more likely “tipping point”. This is the point considered to be the threshold for catastrophic climate change, which will expose yet more millions of people and countless other creatures to drought, hunger and flooding and death!. The brunt of this will continue to be borne by the poor, as the Earth experiences a drastic increase in levels of carbon in the atmosphere brought on in the period since the onset of the industrial revolution.
)---- We affirm that ALLAH is the Rabb, Cherisher and Sustainer of All that exist seen/unseen known/unknown! And has power over all things! Praise be to ALLAH, The Rabb and Sustainer of all being(1:1) His the One Creator- He is Al-Khaliq. He is ALLAH -The Creator, The Maker, The Giver of form(59:24). He who has perfected everything that He has created(32:7).- And the holy Quran(44:38-39) said And We did not create the heavens and the Earth and all that between them merely in (idle) sport: We did not create them except in truth! But most of them do not understand.-----------------------------------We affirm That- He(ALLAH)encompasses all of His creation-He is Al-Muhit. All that is in the Heavens and Earth belongs to ALLAH. ALLAH encompasses all things(4:125). ------------------------------------We affirm that- ALLAH created this Earth and this solar system, This galaxy and this Universe in perfect equilibrium(mizan); by His immense mercy and we on this Earth have been given fertile land, fresh air, clean water and all the good things on this Earth that makes our lives here viable and delightful; The Earth functions in natural seasonal rhythms and cycles; a climate in which living beings—including humans-thrive;---------The present climate change catastrophe is a result of the human disruption of this balance And may be irreversible! — -----He(ALLAH) raised the Heavens and established the balance so that we would not transgress the balance. Give just weight-do not skimp in the balance. He laid out the Earth for all living creatures.(Quran 55:7-10).------------------------------------------------We affirm the Natural state(Fitrah)of ALLAH's creation- So set your face firmly towards the (Natural)-‘Set your face to the dîn with sincerity (hanîfan) which is Allah's fitrah (the nature made by Allah) upon which He created mankind (fatâra’n-nâs). There is no changing the creation of Allah. That is the right dîn but most people know not.’(Quran:30:30)------------------------------ We Recognize the corruption(fasad) that human have caused on this Earth due to our relentless pursuit of economic growth and consumption. And its consequences have been-----Global climate change, Global Warming , which is our present concern, In addition: Contamination and the befoulment of the atmosphere, Land, inland waters systems and seas; Soil erosion, Deforestation---Deforestation is considered to be one of the major contributing factors to global climate change.----Deforestation has many negative effects on the environment. The most dramatic impact is a loss of habitat for millions of species. Seventy percent of Earth's land animals and plants live in forests, and many cannot survive the deforestation that destroys their homes. Deforestation also drives climate change.
Forest soils are moist, but without protection from sun-blocking tree cover they quickly dry out. Trees also help perpetuate the water cycle by returning water vapor back into the atmosphere. Without trees to fill these roles, many former forest lands can quickly become barren deserts.
Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and holds in heat at night. This disruption leads to more extreme temperatures swings that can be harmful to plants and animals.
Trees also play a critical role in absorbing the greenhouse gases that fuel global warming. Fewer forests means larger amounts of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere—and increased speed and severity of global warming.
The quickest solution to deforestation would be to simply stop cutting down trees. Though deforestation rates have slowed a bit in recent years, financial realities make this unlikely to occur.-Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses. An estimated 18 million acres (7.3 million hectares) of forest, which is roughly the size of the country of Panama, are lost each year, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).-
the No. 1 problem caused by deforestation is the impact on the global carbon cycle. Gas molecules that absorb thermal infrared radiation are called greenhouse gases. If greenhouse gases are in large quantity, they are forceing climate change, according to Daley. While oxygen (O2) is the second most abundant gas in our atmosphere, it does not absorb thermal infrared radiation, as greenhouse gases do. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most prevalent greenhouse gas. In 2012, CO2 accounted for about 82 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).--- Trees can help, though. 300 billion tons of carbon, 40 times the annual greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels, is stored in trees, according to Greenpeace and without these trees the greenhouse gases has gone in to the atmosphere and has cause major damage.that is irreversible in our life time, it may take about a 1,000,000 years and another ice age for the ozone to heal itself.
The deforestation of trees not only lessens the amount of carbon stored, it also releases carbon dioxide into the air. This is because when trees die, they release the stored carbon. According to the 2010 Global Forest Resources Assessment, deforestation releases nearly a billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere per year, though the numbers are not as high as the ones recorded in the previous decade. Deforestation is the second largest anthropogenic (human-caused) source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, ranging between 6 percent and 17 percent. (Van Der Werf, G. R. et al., 2009)
Carbon isn't the only greenhouse gas that is affected by deforestation. Water vapor is also considered a greenhouse gas. "The impact of deforestation on the exchange of water vapor and carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and the terrestrial land surface is the biggest concern with regard to the climate system, Changes in their atmospheric concentration will have a direct effect on climate.
Other effects of deforestation-(Loss of species -(Water cycle)-(Soil erosion)-(Life quality)
and desertification; Damage to human health, including a host of modern day diseases.! So-called 'sustainable development! -----It is a great possibility that this Global climate change, Global Warming would have taken place anyway, But It would have taken at least 5000 years to happen, because this is the system of ALLAH on this Earth!---
Global climate change is the cycles and system that ALLAH created for this Earth! The Earth will go through a cooling period and The Earth will go through a Warming period,Under natural and normal circumstances it would have taken 5000 years for the Earth to warm and Glaciers to melt. - But these greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide has speeded up the processes! The burning of fossil fuels pumps more and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and has damage the ozone layer, these greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide allow sunlight to penetrate the atmosphere but make it harder for outgoing infrared radiation to escape. --------- This having Devastating effects for us on this Earth, it is causing a set of changes to the Earth's climate, or long-term dramatic weather patterns, that varies from place to place. Some scientists suspect the melting Himalayan ice from climate change is changing rain patterns enough to help reduce oxygen in the Arabian Sea, leading to massive green blooms of Noctiluca scintillans, a harmful algae that is threatening to transform the region's marine food web. -------------And with this devastating effects such as the oceans are warming and rising to levels at an alarming rates!
Concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have increased since the beginning of the industrial era. Almost all of this increase is attributable to human activities.2 Historical measurements show that the current global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide are unprecedented compared with the past 800,000 years, even after accounting for natural fluctuations.
------------------- All the scientists and all the science in the world cannot change what has already taken place, that may be and is irreversible!-Glaciers melting around the world-------Peru's Quelccaya ice cap is the largest in the tropics. If it continues to melt at its current rate—contracting more than 600 feet (182.8 meters) a year in some places—it will be gone by 2100, leaving thousands who rely on its water for drinking and electricity high, dry, and in the dark.-------------------So far the study and research of Glaciers melting around the world, the results have been positively chilling. When President Taft Named this place in Columbia Falls, Montana Glacier National Park in 1910, it was home to an estimated 150 glaciers. Since then the number has decreased to fewer than 30, and most of those remaining have shrunk in area by two-thirds. One of the research scientists predicts that within 30 years most if not all of the park's namesake glaciers will disappear.-- In the past decade scientists have documented record-high average annual surface temperatures and have been observing other signs of change all over the planet: in the distribution of ice, and in the salinity, levels, and temperatures of the oceans.---
The Glaciers Sperry, used to be enormous and closer up!
--- A trailside sign notes that since 1901, Sperry Glacier has shrunk from more than 800 acres (320 hectares) to 300 acres (120 hectares). "Now That's out of date," "It's was said now less than 250 acres (100 hectares)." Everywhere on Earth ice is changing. The famed snows of Kilimanjaro have melted more than 80 percent since 1912. Glaciers in the Garhwal Himalaya in India are retreating so fast that researchers believe that most central and eastern Himalayan glaciers could virtually disappear by 2035. Arctic sea ice has thinned significantly over the past half century, and its extent has declined by about 10 percent in the past 30 years. NASA's repeated laser altimeter readings show the edges of Greenland's ice sheet shrinking. Spring freshwater ice breakup in the Northern Hemisphere now occurs nine days earlier than it did 150 years ago, and autumn freeze-up ten days later. Thawing permafrost has caused the ground to subside more than 15 feet (4.6 meters) in parts of Alaska. From the Arctic to Peru, from Switzerland to the equatorial glaciers of Man Jaya in Indonesia, massive ice fields, monstrous glaciers, and sea ice are all disappearing, fast.
When temperatures rise and ice melts, more water flows to the seas from glaciers and ice caps, and ocean water warms and expands in volume. This combination of effects has played the major role in raising average global sea level between four and eight inches (10 and 20 centimeters) in the past hundred years, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
-The oceans are rising every day, as more and more glaciers are melting away just in a short time the coastlines of the world will be underwater and Millions and Millions of people will be lost to the oceans.
Since the early twentieth century, with few exceptions, glaciers around the world have been retreating at unprecedented rates, Glaciers that would have taken more than 5,000 years to melt! Now within the last past 80 to 100 years have melted at a rapid pace! And the oceans are rising at alarming rate!
ALLAH may allow many things to occur in this last period of time!
-------------------------------------Mischief, Corruption has appeared on land and sea because of (the meed) that the hands of men have earned, that (Allah) may give them a taste of some of their deeds: in order that they may turn back (from Evil).(Quran 30:41)--------
There were many wicked people throughout the world! They were and is human devils, and many of their descendant are still here today! These people do not believe in anything only the here and now! their philosophy is well we all are going to die anyway!-They seen the industrial revolution as a means to destroy this Earth and to make it unlivable, So there would be no return of the Golden age of Islam! They knew that in time! In this last period of time that The Imam Mahdi would appear and Isa(Alayhi salam) would return in this time! So those tyrannical forces have destroyed almost every town in Syrian and Syrian is where Isa(Alayhi salam) will descend! ---So they Have studied the nature of the human being,They studied the human psyche in order to control the behavior of the human being,they have to keep men in great fear!Fear of this! Fear of that! and in order for them to control the world they have to keep the world in Great fear! -And yet they play down the fear and importance of global warming and its consequences -Every decade there is a new fear and a Great shock!---The threat of nuclear war! The threat of nuclear destruction. It is only satan who wants to see the extinction of the human being or 75% of mankind destroy and 24% enslaved and 1% ruling or running everything! --------------------And all the while they have a plan to destroy the Earth by natural circumstances, By speeding up the natural cycles and system of cooling and warming. -They have also studied the Nature of this Earth and it atmosphere, and they have found that the Earth have layers and layers of protection, ALLAH created this Nurture shields of protection around the Earth, and the ozone is and was apart of that shield of protection. ---These layers protected the Earth from almost everything that entered the earth atmosphere, It would (burn up!) But now those layers of protection have been damage And the Sun's rays are too strong for the surface of the Earth!
This Global warming can also be seen as the judgment of ALLAH and that the Earth Need to be wash clear of the filth, wickedness and Corruption that these men have done on it and The Earth will be as unforgiving to Man as it was to the Dinosaurs! Then after a time when millions of people are loss to the oceans or to nuclear war, then the processes of healing will take place-- it may take about a 1,000,000 years and another ice age for the ozone to heal itself.-
---------------The believing Muslim also realises at this point that if Allah were to punish all the dwellers of the Earth,or the entire mankind! He would not be in the wrong. If, on the other hand, He were to exonerate and reward them all, his reward and mercy would far exceed their deeds. The believer, therefore, realises that we must be ever mindful of Allah's bounties and our own shortcomings. ------------
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The Transmission of Gun and Other Weapon-Involved Violence Within Social Networks
by Melissa Tracy
Fatal and nonfatal injuries resulting from gun violence remain a persistent problem in the United States. The available research suggests that gun violence diffuses among people and across places through social relationships. Understanding the relationship between gun violence within social networks and individual gun violence risk is critical in preventing the spread of gun violence within populations. This systematic review examines the existing scientific evidence on the transmission of gun and other weapon-related violence in household, intimate partner, peer, and co-offending networks. Our review identified 16 studies published between 1996 and 2015 that suggest that exposure to a victim or perpetrator of violence in one's interpersonal relationships and social networks increases the risk of individual victimization and perpetration. Formal network analyses find high concentrations of gun violence in small networks and that exposure to gun violence in one's networks is highly correlated with one's own probability of being a gunshot victim. Physical violence by parents and weapon use by intimate partners also increase risk for victimization and perpetration. Additional work is needed to better characterize the mechanisms through which network exposures increase individual risk for violence and to evaluate interventions aimed at disrupting the spread of gun and other weapon violence in high-risk social networks.
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Title: The Transmission of Gun and Other Weapon-Involved Violence Within Social Networks
Authors Melissa Tracy
Copyright holder(s) Oxford University Press , Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Rockefeller Institute of Government
Document type Dataset , Report/Whitepaper
URL: https://www.issuelab.org/resource/the-transmission-of-gun-and-other-weapon-involved-violence-within-social-networks.html
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Differences between Koreans and foreigners
By Choi Shi-yong
We can see numerous foreigners from English speaking countries around the country that have come to Korea to teach English. Living in a foreign country is so challenging and they may confront unexpected difficulties caused by cultural differences. However, I have met so many devoted foreigners who are willing to teach Korean students English with enthusiasm and kindness. They also hope to learn Korean culture and the Korean language, which is laudable and respectful.
As I have made a remarkable friendship with many foreigners through a variety of activities over the past three years, I noticed some differences between Koreans and foreigners that have resulted in a "culture shock."
I have attended the book club at the Gwangju International Center with Doug Stuber who was assistant professor of English language at Chonnam National University. I already knew that he was a friendly guy and that he was willing to socialize with his young students. However, I often felt weird when I heard him telling a visitor to the group his seemingly private stories especially in a first meeting.
Further, I watched so many times that foreigners at the bar were never reluctant to share their personal issues, even when they meet first. On the other hand, I need a lot of time to advance a conversation with a friend. Worse, I feel a little bit uncomfortable when a stranger whom I have never met at a social event would ask me personal information.
Foreign women have more confidence. When I tried to shake hands with women, I feel the clear distinction on this matter. For example, Western women usually shook hands with me firmly as an expression of friendship. However, Korean women might feel odd and think that I want to touch their skin and feel it. Therefore, they hold my hand passively and reluctantly. I assume that the different reaction comes from a notion about men.
Western women think that they are equal to men. On the other hand, Korean women want to be protected from men, even though women's rights have tremendously been raised.
My church friend, Rachel, who has lived in Korea for almost six years told me that Koreans don't express their thoughts clearly sometimes. Consequently, she doesn't know evidently what they want. For instance, her husband, Jonathan, asked me to go out for dinner with church members several days ago.
Although I had my own schedule that day, I had to accept his proposal because I didn't want to disappoint and hurt him. Hence, I can say that Koreans are emotional and considerate. We tend to sacrifice our time to help our friends. However, my observations tell me that westerners are individualistic. They prefer keeping their own space and never do what they don't want to do.
I vividly remember "Proof" performed by the Gwangju Performance Project players last summer. The GPP consists of foreign amateur actors. However, their talent and passion at "Proof" was more than professional. I felt that westerners express their feelings freely and positively by singing, dancing and acting.
However, Koreans feel awkward when they show their emotions in a public place. I believe that education in Korea has stressed memorization of knowledge too much. Consequently, its educational system has deprived them of creative and flexible thinking which are among the basic elements of what makes us human.
Jenny Jung, an inventive and persistent lady, organized "Language lounge in Gwangju. Koreans and foreigners gather at Joe's Sandwich between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. every Saturday for a "Language exchange" and "Promotion of friendship." She also makes "Panoramic Night", "Trivia night," and "Frugal night" after dinner for making Saturday nights fun and memorable for its members.
I want to join this group every Saturday as best as I can. The biggest advantage of "Language lounge" is broadening my friendships with international people and making contact with exotic cultures I have not experienced so far.
My exploration of Western culture goes on through this group. Later, I may write about the common traits between Koreans and westerners. Sounds interesting! Doesn't it?
The writer goes to the Language Lounge in Gwangju organized by Jenny Jung every Saturday. His email address is freddd@hanmail.net.
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Bernie Sanders on Drug Policy (FeelTheBern.org)
March 13, 2016 in Legal
Bernie Sanders believes the United States’ current “war on drugs” is a failed policy.
He recognizes that the war on drugs has not quelled the drug-use epidemics facing the nation. Instead, he advocates treatment for drug addiction, not punishment – and he’s repeatedly introduced legislation to extensively reform the criminal justice system along these lines. He supports medical marijuana and the decriminalization of recreational marijuana, and has said that he supports the right of states to opt for full legalization.
Current State of the War on Drugs: A failed policy that has served to increase unemployment, imprison nonviolent offenders, and unfairly target blacks.
Treatment for Drug Offenders: Nonviolent offenders should not be incarcerated. Instead, they should be allowed to access affordable treatment to address their drug dependencies.
Medical Use of Marijuana: Marijuana has medicinal properties and ought to be legalized for medicinal use.
Recreational Use of Marijuana: Bernie has said he would vote yes as a resident of a state considering legalization. For federal legalization, he has said that he supports ending the federal prohibition on marijuana, allowing states to opt for legalization if they so choose.
Addressing the Heroin Epidemic: Heroin abuse is at epidemic levels, and the United States doesn’t have the infrastructure nor the resources for proper treatment.
Current State of the War on Drugs
Bernie believes that the war on drugs is ineffective and harmful, and has claimed from the country more than just money and manpower: it has destroyed people’s lives through mass incarceration of nonviolent offenders. As of June 2015, 48 percent of all federal inmates are in jail for drug-related offenses. Compare this figure to the fact that homicide, aggravated assault, and kidnapping offenders comprise only 2.9 percent of the federal prison population.
Bernie says, “What I can tell you is this: We have far, far, far too many people in jail for nonviolent crimes, and I think in many ways, the war against drugs has not been successful.”
How much has the war on drugs cost us?
The U.S. spends $51 billion annually and over $1 trillion dollars since 1980, according to a report by the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA).
Of this amount, over half is allocated to reducing the supply of drugs. Less than 45 percent of the budget is devoted demand reduction, such as treatment and education. According to the same DPA report, “Much [of the] federal funding for treatment is, in fact, funneled into the criminal justice system which is far less effective than health-based approaches.” Instead of receiving treatment, people are being funneled into a drug court.
But this amount doesn’t include the loss of productivity of millions of people?
Bernie links the war on drugs to a high rate of imprisonment as well as a high rate of unemployment:
“If you do not believe that there is a correlation between high youth unemployment and the fact that this country has more people in jail than any other country on Earth, you would be wrong. Now, how does it happen that in this great nation, we have more people in jail than the communist authoritarian country of China, which has over three times our population? And in my view — and I feel this very, very strongly — instead of locking up our young people, maybe it’s time we found jobs for them and education for them.”
Incarcerated nonviolent offenders can’t contribute to the economy. They also have trouble finding work once they are released from prison, adding to their chances of recidivism.
How has the war on drugs increased the prison population?
According to Pew research, since 1970, there’s been a 700 percent increase in the U.S. prison population. In 1980, there were 50,000 people in prison for drug-related charges.
Compare that to today — 1.5 million people are arrested each year for drug-related offenses and over 500,000 are behind bars. According to The Economist, “Tougher drug laws are the main reason why one in five black American men spend some time behind bars.”
Minorities are disproportionately represented in the prison system, and this is a direct result of the War on Drugs.
Approximately 13 percent of the U.S. population is black, while 40 percent of the male prisonpopulation is black. Bernie often cites the fact that a black male baby born today has a one-in-three chance of being incarcerated during his lifetime.
According to the Sentencing Project, Blacks make up 12 percent of the nation’s drug users, yet represent 34 percent of those arrested for drug offenses, and 45 percent of those in state prison for such offense as of 2005.
How has Bernie tried to address this issue?
In 2007, Bernie co-sponsored a bill to reduce recidivism, allowing incarcerated offenders access to pharmacological drug treatment. Bernie later supported The Smarter Sentencing Act of 2014, which unfortunately died in the Senate. Had it passed, it would have adjusted federal mandatory sentencing guidelines for a variety of crimes, reduced the mandatory sentences of drug offenses, expanded the ability of nonviolent drug offenders to reduce sentences, and enabled federal prisoners to seek retroactive sentence adjustment under theFair Sentencing Act of 2010.
What else is Bernie doing to reform our criminal justice system?
A lot. He believes the criminal justice system serves to perpetuate systemic inequities in American society. You can watch him talk about some of those issues here:
Bernie’s been consistent with his views about drug policy. You can watch him talk about this in 1991 and 1994 as well. Learn more about his record and proposed policies with regards tocriminal justice.
Treatment for Drug Offenders
Bernie believes we should offer treatment to nonviolent drug offenders instead of continuing our current practice of over-incarceration under the war on drugs. Treatment has been shown to save the cost of imprisonment and rehabilitate users back into the workforce. Bernie supports offering this treatment as part of his general move to increase access to health care.
What’s the alternative to imprisoning drug offenders?
According to the Justice Policy Institute, treatment is better than imprisonment at reducing recidivism — plus, it’s cheaper. Treatment costs approximately $20,000 less than what we pay to incarcerate one person for a year.
Bernie believes we do not have the infrastructure in place to provide treatment to the people who need it, when they need it. He’s stated:
“We are unprepared for the epidemic in terms of our mental health capacity to treat people who need treatment. And one of the problems in Vermont is you have waiting lists of people who want to break the habit, want to break their addiction, and we can’t treat them when they want to do it.”
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), only 11 percent of the 22.7 million Americans who needed drug or alcohol treatment in 2013 had access to it.
Why don’t people who need drug treatment have access to it?
Sadly, a lot of it is due to costs. Bernie called on the U.S. government to lower prices on a life-saving drug used for treating heroin overdoses — the drug’s price has risen over 50 percent— and he’s pushed for the reduction of the cost of medication, including what is covered through Medicaid, as a general need for universal health care.
Learn more about Bernie’s work around Healthcare.
Medical Use of Marijuana
Bernie supports the medical use of marijuana and the rights of states to determine its legality.
How has he supported medical marijuana?
Bernie openly supports the use of medical marijuana. He co-sponsored the States’ Rights to Medical Marijuana Act in 2001, which, if enacted, would have turned marijuana into a Schedule II substance. This means that it’s recognized as having an accepted medical use in treatment. On a federal level, marijuana is currently classified as a Schedule I substance, defined as, “a drug with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” According to the DEA website, Schedule I drugs are “the most dangerous drugs of all.” Bernie disagrees with this assessment, instead saying that he believes that tobacco is more harmful to human health.
Recreational Use of Marijuana
Bernie has gone on the record saying that if he were a resident of a state voting on legalization of marijuana, he would vote yes. With respect to national legalization, he supports ending the federal prohibition on marijuana. This would allow banks in states that opt to legalize to work with businesses without risk of federal prosecution.
What’s his view on legalizing recreational marijuana use?
In early 2015, Bernie said the following:
“Let me just say this — the state of Vermont voted to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana and I support that. I have supported the use of medical marijuana. And when I was mayor of Burlington, in a city with a large population, I can tell you very few people were arrested for smoking marijuana. Our police had more important things to do… Colorado has led the effort toward legalizing marijuana and I’m going to watch very closely to see the pluses and minuses of what they have done. I will have more to say about this issue within the coming months.”
Here’s a video of Bernie discussing his views on marijuana use and laws back in June, 2015:
What has Bernie said more recently about legalization?
In the first Democratic debate, when asked whether he would vote for legalization if he were a resident of Nevada where it will be up for vote, Bernie responded, “I suspect I would vote yes. And I would vote yes because I am seeing in this country too many lives being destroyed for non-violent offenses.”
Watch Bernie’s full response:
So he supports a state’s right to legalize, but what about federal laws?
Bernie has come out in favor of ending the federal prohibition on marijuana. On October 28, 2015, Bernie said:
“In my view, states should have the right to regulate marijuana the same way that state and local laws now govern the sale of alcohol and tobacco. And among other things, that means that recognized businesses in states that have legalized marijuana should be fully able to use the banking system without fear of federal prosecution.”
Here is the full excerpt:
Why can’t businesses use banks in states that have legalized?
As Bernie alludes to in the above clip, banks have been hesitant to work with marijuana-related businesses for fear of being implicated as money-launderers. Since marijuana is still illegal on the federal level, banks put themselves and their customers at risk by associating with marijuana-related businesses – even if those businesses are legal under state law. Thisremains the case today despite modest efforts by the Obama administration to give banks the green light to work with these businesses.
Has Bernie tried to do anything about this?
Besides supporting the end of the federal prohibition on marijuana as part of his campaign platform, Bernie is co-sponsoring the Marijuana Businesses Access to Banking Act of 2015 to immediately remedy this situation by ensuring access to banking services for these legitimate businesses.
Has Bernie ever inhaled?
Bernie has inhaled! But, he wasn’t a fan, personally:
“Because I coughed a lot, I don’t know. I smoked marijuana twice, didn’t quite work for me… It’s not my thing, but it is the thing of a whole lot of people.”
Addressing the Heroin Epidemic
Bernie recognizes that heroin use is startlingly high and supports preventative measures to increase education and rehabilitation in order to combat this epidemic.
What is the heroin epidemic?
Time magazine reports that between 2002 and 2013, heroin use increased by 63 percent and overdoses increased dramatically. Heroin-related deaths quadrupled during that period, and in 2013, about 517,000 people reported a heroin dependency.
Where does Bernie stand on the state of heroin use in the country right now?
Bernie believes heroin use is at epidemic levels, and that our country lacks the infrastructureto combat this issue. He thinks treatment is necessary, because, as he as put it, “Once you’re into heroin, it’s either jail or death.”
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