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Shooting a film about a coup in Turkey - then the real shooting started
Mahmut Fazil Coskun’s latest work is the rarest of beasts: an intelligent, subtle political film that does not reveal its cards too quickly
'The Announcement' had its world premiere in September at the Venice Film Festival's Horizons competition and is now starting its international theatrical run (Courtesy of Mahmut Fazil Coskun)
Joseph Fahim
Published date: 30 November 2018 12:16 UTC | Last update: 5 months 1 week ago
ISTANBUL, Turkey - It all starts in one foreboding evening in a taxi. The year is 1963. Two men sit motionless while momentary looks of apprehension flicker across their stony faces.
The taxi reaches a roadblock and an exchange occurs between the two passengers and the police guard at the checkpoint, who then lets them go. Soon, they reach their destination - a bakery. Before they leave the taxi, one of the two coldly shoots the driver in the head. The camera remains stationary, like the men who are unfazed by the violence.
We soon realise that the two passengers, Sinasi (Tarhan Karagoz) and Reha (Ali Seckiner Alıcı), along with the colleague they pick up from the bakery, Kemal (Murat Kılıc), and the fourth member of the group, Rifat (Sencan Guleryuz), are all fringe military men prepping for a military coup.
Their superiors in Ankara entrusted them with one simple mission: to occupy the main radio station in Istanbul and announce the coup. Naturally, things do not go as planned, and through a series of absurdly comic happenstances over the course of one evening, the mundanity, futility and sheer hubris of the entire enterprise begin to unfurl.
A rarity
This is the setup for Mahmut Fazil Coskun’s deliciously acerbic third feature, The Announcement. The film had its world premiere in September at the Venice Film Festival's Horizons competition and is currently starting its international theatrical run.
A dark satire that doubles as both a stern attack on Turkish macho culture and a mockery of the country’s impotent ruling class, Coskun’s film is the rarest of beasts: an intelligent, subtle political film that does not reveal its cards too quickly.
The 2016 coup occurred while Coskun was scouting for locations for The Announcement (Courtesy of Mahmut Fazil Coskun by Kerem Cobanli)
The 45-year-old Coskun emerged on the international festival scene with his feature debut, Wrong Rosary (2009), a tender, unusual romance between a muezzin and a Catholic nurse. The film showed his knack for profound, atypical characterisation and a strong command of mise-en-scène.
He returned in 2013 with his sophomore feature, Yozgat Blues, a quiet, atmospheric drama about an Istanbul-residing music teacher forced to get out of his shell when he leaves to Yozgar, the titular provincial town for a concert.
Like its predecessor, Yozgat Blues is a gentle human drama that shows Coskun’s penchant for deadpan humour and a stripped-down visual style. Both were explorations of different facets of modern Turkish life: the yearning for a profound connection in the bustling backdrop of Istanbul and the different possibilities of connections in the tranquil, still Yozgat.
'The Announcement' was conceived in 2014, two years before the failed military coup of 2016 and not as a reaction to it (Courtesy of Mahmut Fazil Coskun)
The Announcement is a departure of sorts - a cold, analytical picture devoid of the warmth and emotional generosity found in spades in Coskun’s first two films. It’s also Coskun’s first film to engage, albeit indirectly, with his country’s shambolic, brooding politics.
Coskun began his career in 2000, directing biographical documentaries for TV before making the transition to narrative filmmaking with Wrong Rosary.
Filmmakers emerge
The beginning of the century witnessed the arrival of a generation of filmmakers such as Zeki Demirkubuz, Semih Kaplanoglu and Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Their films enjoyed plenty of attention from European and Western film festivals, paving the way for a subsequent generation of independent filmmakers like Coskun to emerge.
According to Coskun, a change in the law that restricted government funding to established producers and allowed the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to offer large grants for first and second-time filmmakers was also a key factor in the flowering of this movement.
Despite its eerie timeliness, The Announcement – which was co-penned by the highly acclaimed novelist and film writer, Ercan Kesal – was conceived in 2014, two years before the failed military coup of 2016 and not as a reaction to it.
Coskun's focus in 'The Announcement' was more on its visual structure rather than the actual topic (Courtesy of Mahmut Fazil Coskun)
The story of the film is based on the 1963 failed coup of Colonel Talat Aydemir - an ill-calculated endeavour to impose a military regime.
In his research, Coskun stumbled upon a little anecdote about an attempted takeover of Ankara Radio, but no details about the incidents were available. The imaginary tale of what could’ve happened became The Announcement.
This is a story from the modern times, not the post-modern times. And modernisation is all about perfectness and minimalism
- Mahmut Fazil Coskun
“When we were pitching our project to the Ministry of Culture, we were met by plenty of scepticism. We were told that nobody knows anything about the 1963 coup, and since the last one occurred in 1980, the young generations wouldn’t find it relevant,” Coskun told Middle East Eye. “Two years later, guess what happened?”
The 2016 coup occurred while Coskun was scouting for locations. The director, as a result, halted pre-production to ponder what had happened and its possible implications for his project.
“There was no political rationale behind the film. I had a different reason for telling that story. But after the coup, we knew that it would certainly be interpreted from a political framework,” Coskun said. “We considered changing the script at some point, but at the end, we decided not to and started shooting eight months later.”
'Loser men'
Thematically, all three of Coskun’s films may have little in common, yet they’re all bound by one shared element: incompetent men at the heart of the stories. Together, they loosely form what Coskun calls his “trilogy of loser men”.
The film is a dark satire that doubles as both a stern attack on Turkish macho culture and a mockery of the country’s impotent ruling class (Courtesy of Mahmut Fazil Coskun)
The “loser men” of Wrong Rosary and Yozgat Blues may not be regarded as such, but they certainly are in The Announcement.
One member of the group, for instance, is seen reciting the North Korean anthem he memorised by mistake (initially believing it was South Korea’s). In the film’s prologue, the band’s boorish driver is shown undergoing and ultimately failing a test for immigration to West Germany. And in one of the many surreal moments of the film, one of the officers asks the manager of the radio station they just occupied about the cost and efficiency of advertisement for his friend’s fridge business.
The role of the city and the outside world has steadily diminished with every film. The extensive touristy vistas of Istanbul in Wrong Rosary stand in contrast to the limited use of Yozgat as a backdrop in the second film. In The Announcement, however, there is only a glimpse of Istanbul, with the action mainly confined to enclosed spaces.
The stationary use of the camera, the long unbroken shots - inspired by the work of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki and Swedish master Roy Andersson - and the uncluttered, minimalistic framing are other discernable aesthetic choices Coskun has adopted in the new film.
“I wanted to tell a story over a course of a restricted timeframe, in long shots, while evoking dry, dark humour,” Coskun said.
A story from modern times
Coskun’s newly adopted aesthetics were no mere stylistic flourish, but an extension of the psychology of its characters. “These are perfect compositions, which reflect the soldiers’ intent to make the country into an unrealistically perfect and boring place,” Coskun said. “This is a story from the modern times, not the post-modern times. And modernisation is all about perfectness and minimalism.”
These are perfect compositions, which reflect the soldiers’ intent to make the country into an unrealistically perfect and boring place
Coskun's focus in The Announcement was more on its visual structure rather than the actual topic, he asserts, yet the political question, in what the film tackles and what it represents, is too imposing to be eclipsed.
“There is undeniably a political dimension to the story, but I simply didn’t want [it] to be didactic,” Coskun said. “I didn’t want the politics to be obvious.”
The Announcement’s politics are certainly anything but obvious. Coskun’s criticism is not targeted towards the military per se or “the Kemalists” - followers of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey and former president - but rather the entire Turkish political establishment which has failed time and time again to come up with constructive, tangible solutions to the problems at hand.
The four men at the heart of the story are insignificant pawns who, nonetheless, think they know what’s best for the country. They’re meagre puppets, vain enough to believe that they’re working for the common good of the nation.
Telling commentary
Coskun also points to what he dubs the “enforced Westernisation of Turkey” - one of the various ideals the military forced on Turkish society in the name of reforms.
“I’m not against modernisation. I’m anything but a traditionalist. But I just find it absurd that it’s always the same group of men who decide what’s good and what’s not for the country,” Coskun said. “Same thing goes for women. It’s the same group of men, be they the military or MPs, who decide what’s good and what’s not for Turkish women without even letting them have a say in the matter.”
The film’s most telling commentary that is directly related to the present climate of fear in Erdogan’s Turkey is the use of violence. Following the failed coup in July 2016, Erdogan launched a clampdown that has resulted in the arrest of 160,000 people including academics, students and journalists.
Critics say Erdogan has used the crackdown to muzzle dissent and increase his own power.
In the film, violence is displayed sparingly, yet when it plays out, it comes off as shocking, unsettling and unpredictable. Coskun paints a picture of a country that is governed by fear and lawlessness where anything can happen.
“I live in central Istanbul where it’s usually quiet, but suddenly, and out of nowhere, violence erupts,” Coskun said. “Violence is always here, but it’s not on the surface.”
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Luciano: In East Peoria, true love is a lock
Phil Luciano of the Journal Star @lucianophil
EAST PEORIA — “Justin and Darcie.”
“Ethan + Savannah.”
“Jarrod & Tracie.”
The names go on and on and on, marking hundreds of padlocks attached to the fencing around the gazebo at Riverfront Park in East Peoria. This is the local tie to a scattered global phenomenal known as love locks, a gesture of commitment (often at a river) by couples.
Many of the names have been scratched on with a nail. Some have been scribbled in marker. A few have been professionally inscribed.
Some carry further messages, such as “TLA” and “4ever.” One says “thanks,” while another sports a heart. One even has a Batman symbol.
The locks run every color, heavy with black and silver. Some look new and pricey; others appear old and rusty. Though a few are combination locks, most have keyholes.
The keyholes (as well as the keys) are part of a tradition that quietly began far away and long ago, according to ABC News.
Near the onset of World War I in the Serbian town of Vrnjacka Banja, a schoolmistress fell for a local soldier. They pledged their love on a bridge across the Vrnjacka River just before he left to fight the Germans. While gone, he found and married a new love, never to return — and prompting the schoolmistress to die of heartache. The woeful tale inspired young couples to avoid the same fate by making an act of commitment: writing their names on padlocks and affixing them to the same bridge, flinging the keys into the water below.
The practice got a 21st century revival from Federico Moccia's 2006 Italian bestseller “Ho Voglia di Te” (“I Want You”), which features a young couple attaching a lock to Rome's Milvian Bridge as a sign of eternal love, according to The Guardian. But, according to CNN, the ritual really caught fire in Paris at the Pont des Arts, a Napoleonic pedestrian bridge across the River Seine. To the bridge, couples would attach locks as a symbol of their commitment, some scratched with messages; often, they’d consummate the gesture by flinging a lock’s key into the waterway below.
But in time there, the act turned from romantic to problematic.The bridge eventually carried more than 700,000 locks, with a combined weight equal to that of 20 elephants. So, to stop the span from collapsing, the city in 2015 snipped off every lock.
Meanwhile, the practice spread worldwide, often embraced as tourism lures and sometimes involving local twists.
In Taiwan, locks — there known as “wish locks” — are attached to an overpass above a Taipei train station. According to legend (and the Taipei Times), the magnetic field generated by passing trains accumulates in the locks and fulfills lovers’ wishes.
And in Uruguay, locks are affixed to a fence surrounding a Montevideo fountain, according to Inspiringtravelers.com. As a plaque there explains, “The legend of this young fountain tells us that if a lock with the initials of two people in love is placed in it, they will return together to the fountain and their love will be forever locked."
The gesture also has dotted the United States in recent years, according to Wikipedia. In Canfield, Ohio, visitors to the Canfield Fairgrounds are encouraged to add locks to a 12-foot steel-cage rooster. In Las Vegas, outside a half-scale replica of the Eiffel Tower, guests place lovers' locks along a fenced walkway.
Love locks started appearing about five years ago around the gazebo at Riverfront Park in East Peoria. Robert Cole, the city’s director of buildings and inspections, isn’t sure what started or drove the accumulation of locks.
“We just know they’ve shown up,” Cole says. “And now there are hundreds of them.”
Three belong to Marie and Dewey Roe. Wed in 2012, the Rome couple faced a challenge.
“I have some health issues,” says Marie Roe, 47. “We didn’t know how things would turn out.”
Dewey Roe, 48, had seen the love locks in East Peoria. He thought such a gesture would galvanize their marriage during the health scare.
A professional sign maker, he crafted nameplates for three locks. Two carry each of their names and their wedding date; the third states, “A Mighty God” and “Ephesians 5:22-33.” The Scripture cites biblical directives regarding marriage, including, “Each one of you (husbands) also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”
Marie Roe says, “We have a deep faith. ... The third lock represents God. The two locks are held together with the strength of the Lord.”
In March 2018 near the gazebo, as their pastor blessed the locks and the couple, the pair snapped the locks onto the fence, then tossed the keys into the river.
“We thought it was very romantic,” she says.
As for the continued proliferation of locks, East Peoria has no official position. None is obscene or objectionable, and City Hall has heard no complaints. Quietly, the love locks have become a landmark.
However, though love may last forever, the locks won’t.
Cole, the city's inspections director, recently began plans to find funding to repair and refurbish that area of the Riverfront Walk. As part of that effort, the fencing would be sandblasted and repainted — and in the process, the locks would have to be removed.
The project isn't imminent and might not happen for five years, Cole said. But before snipping off locks, the city would make announcements to give couples a chance to retrieve their locks.
And, perhaps, buy new ones.
PHIL LUCIANO is a Journal Star columnist. He can be reached at pluciano@pjstar.com
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Airman, two toddlers found dead in NY home
A community is in shock after a mother and two young children were found dead in their home. (Source: WABC/CNN)
June 23, 2019 at 7:18 AM CDT - Updated June 23 at 7:28 AM
STATEN ISLAND, NY (WABC/CNN) - An active duty Air Force member and her two toddlers were found dead in a Staten Island home.
It’s a crime that’s left a community horrified.
The victims were identified as a mother, a 3-year-old girl and 2-year-old boy.
The medical examiner will determine the cause of death, but a homicide investigation is ongoing.
Police got a 911 call of an assault in progress Saturday morning, and when they arrived, the second floor was on fire.
“Upon entry to the residence, the bodies of the 36-year-old, a 3-year-old child and a 2-year-old child were discovered," Assistant Chief Kenneth Corey said. "EMS responded and pronounced all three individuals deceased at the scene.”
Sources say the children had been drowned. All three were found together in one room of the house.
Hours earlier, police has picked up the children’s 36-year-old father walking on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and took him in for evaluation. He is being questioned.
Both parents are active-duty military members.
Sources said a co-worker of the victim called 911. Police said they have been called to the home before for a domestic dispute.
While it’s still not clear how or what motivated this act, it’s left the victims’ family, military friends and co-workers all in shock as they waited outside the house Saturday afternoon, leaving without comment.
Neighbors said they’ve seen the kids playing outside, and it’s hard to believe they’re gone.
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Eight UVA Children’s Hospital Specialties Nationally Ranked by U.S. News & World Report
18-Jun-2019 8:30 AM EDT
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UVA Children's Hospital has eight nationally ranked specialties in the 2019-2020 Best Children's Hospitals guide from U.S. News & World Report.
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Newswise — Eight University of Virginia Children’s Hospital specialties earned a top-50 national ranking in U.S. News & World Report’s 2019-2020 “Best Children’s Hospitals” guide.
The eight ranked specialties are:
Pediatric Diabetes & Endocrinology: 27th
Pediatric Neurology & Neurosurgery: 33rd
Pediatric Cardiology & Heart Surgery: 37th
Neonatology: 40th
Pediatric Gastroenterology & GI Surgery: 47th
Pediatric Nephrology: 47th
Pediatric Urology: 47th
Pediatric Pulmonology: 49th
“Over the past two years, we have doubled our number of nationally ranked specialties and are ranked in eight of the 10 specialties rated by U.S. News, which reflects the range of specialized care available to patients across Virginia and beyond through our team at UVA,” said James Nataro, MD, PhD, MBA, chair of the Department of Pediatrics at UVA. “I am so thankful for our team’s dedication to providing excellent care for our patients.”
The U.S. News rankings seek to identify the hospitals providing the highest-quality care for children with the most serious or complicated medical conditions. Measures include patient outcomes, the use of best practices to enhance patient safety, availability of specialized programs and a national survey of pediatric specialists.
“This is an outstanding accomplishment for our entire UVA Children’s Hospital team, who personify our commitment to caring for patients throughout the continuum of their lives,” said Pamela M. Sutton-Wallace, acting executive vice president for health affairs at UVA and chief executive officer of UVA Medical Center.
About UVA Children’s Hospital
University of Virginia Children’s Hospital provides primary and specialty care in more than 30 specialties throughout Virginia. Located within UVA Medical Center, UVA Children’s Hospital includes 111 beds, a dedicated pediatric emergency department, a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for infants and a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for children younger than 18. The Children’s Hospital Ambulatory Clinics at the Battle Building, which opened in 2014, provide integrated outpatient care in Charlottesville.
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You are here: Home / Center for Spirituality and Recovery / Spiritual Abuse: An Interview with Jeff VanVonderen
Spiritual Abuse: An Interview with Jeff VanVonderen
Jeff VanVonderen is the coauthor of The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse and When God’s People Let You Down as well as several other books. He is a longtime participant in and supporter of the NACR.
STEPS: Your book on spiritual abuse was published a long time ago. But it’s still in print. I guess the problem hasn’t gone away yet?
Jeff: The response to the book has not really diminished that much. Usually a book will be out there for a couple of years and then go out of print. But people keep finding The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse as if it’s a new book. The stories I hear from people haven’t gotten any nicer over the last decade either. The wounds caused by spiritual abuse are still very deep. And to be honest, I don’t see that much improvement in the system overall. I think it’s pretty clear that spiritual abuse is not some kind of fad.
STEPS: Nor is it something that you and [coauthor] Dave Johnson invented, is it?
Jeff: Not at all. What we did was to stumble across some language that worked for people. It’s a language that matches the feelings and wounds that many people have experienced. We give people a way to talk about this kind of thing. But spiritual abuse is certainly nothing new. Spiritual abuse has been here since biblical times. We just came across a way of talking about it in our time, and put it into a package that made sense to a lot of people.
STEPS: Talk some more about spiritual abuse in the Bible. What did it look like then?
Jeff: It looked essentially the same then as it does now. Spiritual leaders exploited people for their own gain. Authority was misused in order to get things done in the name of God that weren’t really about God at all. Jeremiah talked about those who heal other people’s wounds superficially. Their real wounds were not dealt with; they were just glossed over for the sake of external appearances. That’s part of the dynamics of spiritual abuse. I think that God’s big gripe with the leaders of Israel, if you look at Ezekiel and Isaiah and Jeremiah, was that they were not using the authority they had been given for the benefit of the weak, for those who didn’t have a voice. They were using their authority for their own purposes and for the sake of human kingdoms. The result in people’s lives then was the same as now: spiritual exhaustion rooted in misconceptions about who God is, about what God wants from us and about God’s stance toward us.
The New Testament gives essentially the same picture. There aren’t a lot of times when Jesus is harsh; Jesus is not known for harshness. But about spiritual abuse he was very harsh. For example, in Matthew 23 he not only describes the dynamics that were going on between the Pharisees and the people, but he also warns people about the Pharisees. He urges them to stay away from the Pharisees. He calls the Pharisees names. He paints pictures about them. For example, he talks about the Pharisees as “whitewashed tombs.” That might seem like merely a picture of hypocrisy—being one way on the outside and a different way on the inside. But there is more than that in this picture. People at that time believed that if you touched a tomb you would be defiled. So Jesus is not only calling the Pharisees hypocrites; he is saying that if you fall under their influence you could become defiled—spiritually affected in a negative way. “Ravenous wolves” is another picture Jesus drew of spiritually abusive leaders. He’s talking about leaders who devour instead of build up. It is very clear when the Bible talks about the purpose of authority that it is for building up, for encouraging and for setting people free. The pictures that Jesus drew paint a stark contrast between the abusive use of authority and appropriate uses of authority.
The abuse of authority was also a central concern for Paul. His main adversaries were the people who thought he was being too graceful. They felt a need to correct his teaching and to help people understand that the Good News is not just about what God has done but also about the things we need to do. They were called the circumcision party, because they added that particular religious behavior to Christ’s behavior as a means of securing God’s approval. This theme of “legalistic teachers” comes up all the time in Paul’s letters. He warns the church at Ephesus that the people who try to add to the Good News in this way will not only come from outside the Christian community but from inside the Christian community as well. So they have to be on their guard [Acts 20:29–31].
In the book of Titus, Paul provides a long list of the qualities desirable in a leader. But then he says that leaders need to take a proactive stance in terms of building people up in grace, and a defensive stance in terms of guarding the flock from people who try to destroy it—especially those who try to add some kind of religious requirements or behavioral demands on top of the grace of God. It is the people who say you need Jesus plus something else, that Paul is warning about.
The letter of Galatians is another example. It is a very angry letter. It’s all about the idea that God’s approval comes from Jesus plus something that you do. Paul attacks this view from every possible angle he can think of. Once again he calls the Jesus-Plus people bad names and wishes bad things will happen to them. Very early in the book of Galatians he asks the people to whom he is writing, “Where is the sense of blessing you once had?”
Most of the people I work with, when they first became Christians, it was very clear to them that it was not about performance. It was only about what God did. And this gracefull message gave them a sense of blessing. They felt restful. Even if that feeling didn’t last very long, their spiritual journey started in a very deeply grace-full, rest-full place. They knew they needed a gift and that God had provided just the gift they needed. But then what happens very quickly is that people get taught or led to measure themselves based on themselves instead of measuring themselves based on what Christ did. That leads rapidly to a loss of that sense of blessing, of rest, of grace. What happens is that people start trying to “measure up.” And that, of course, doesn’t work.
STEPS: It seems to me that grace-based faith has always had this kind of Achilles’ heel. Performance orientation sneaks in so easily, even in churches whose formal theology emphasizes grace. And things start to fall apart real quick when that happens.
Jeff: Before we became Christians our performance and other people’s assessments of our performance were really all we had to measure ourselves by. We live in a world that promotes that very heavily. It’s the most natural thing we do. It’s one of the first things that little kids do. They make stuff and then they show it to you and say, “Look what I did!” It’s a very natural, normal and certainly not an evil thing to do. What the gospel does is that it says, “You can’t do anything.” And, “You don’t need to do anything.” That is not common sense in our world. In my opinion this is the “foolishness of the gospel that makes foolish the wisdom of the world.” It’s the too-good-to-be-true thing.
Christians tend to think that people don’t become Christians because they aren’t willing to give up the bad things in their lives. But I think the real reason that people don’t become Christians is that it’s just too good to be true. We can’t trust things that are too good to be true. It makes us anxious. We find ourselves waiting for the other shoe to drop or for the too-good-to-be-true thing to disappear. Or it might feel like we haven’t really heard the punch line yet. People are waiting for the “but” that comes after “God loves you.” They know it is there. When I was on the staff of a local church, people would hear that it was a safe place. They would come hear David Johnson preach, and they would sit there and cry because it sounded too good to be true. Some people would look ahead in the biblical text from which Dave was preaching to find the “but.” This sounds good, but wait until he gets down here to this part. Then the other shoe will drop. People anticipate that the rest of the story will be Bad News. It couldn’t be just Good News. That would be so totally foreign to what I have experienced in life so far. But that is exactly what the Good News is.
So, to get back to your question. We resist grace because we are culturally programmed to focus on performance, on what we can do, on how responsible we need to be. But there is a second factor. When a person becomes a Christian, they have a heart that is warm toward God. They want to do the things God wants them to do. They care about that now. Even if they can’t change their life around in the way they think they should, they still care about it now. And that makes them particularly susceptible to teaching that says, “You want to do God’s agenda? Well, we know more about that than anybody, so we can help you. We’ll tell you what God wants, and then you can work real hard to make that happen.” Now, not only are new Christians susceptible because we all live in a world that is oriented toward performance. They are susceptible also because spiritually abusive people can take advantage of their new desire to do God’s will.
STEPS: I suppose that all of these factors that set people up for spiritual abuse are even more problematic for people who have already experienced other kinds of abuse.
Jeff: Sure. Any kind of abuse teaches us unhealthy relationship skills. The skills may help us to survive in the abusive situation with as little damage as possible. But they leave us unbalanced. We may only know how to navigate in unhealthy relationships. So that’s what we unconsciously look for. It’s not unlike the woman who is married to an alcoholic and he dies and she swears she will never marry another alcoholic and then a few years later she is married to another alcoholic. It’s because we tend to do the things we already know how to do. In this respect, spiritually abusive systems are no different from other kinds of abusive systems. You find the same dynamics as in domestic violence, sexual abuse and other forms of abuse. People tend to gravitate toward what they know about already, even if what they already know is very unhealthy.
STEPS: You have already talked a bit about the role of authority in spiritually abusive relationships. In your book you list “power posturing” as one of the key features of spiritual abuse. What is that about?
Jeff: Spiritual abuse is always a power issue. In order for abuse to happen, by definition, it has to come from a place of higher power to a place of lesser power. People in low-power positions can’t abuse people in highpower positions. If hurtful things come from one person to another who are in power-equal positions, I don’t call that abuse. If a father beats up his son, that’s physical abuse. If two siblings beat up each other, it’s just fighting; it’s not abuse. A sibling might get beat up just as much as he would if he were fighting with his father. It’s certainly hurtful behavior. But it is hurtful behavior between peers. When it becomes abuse is when there is a power differential. This issue is one of the reasons I wrote When God’s People Let You Down as a kind of follow-up to The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse. There are lots of hurts that people experience in power-equal relationships. The hurt can be enormous, but that doesn’t make it abuse.
STEPS: You are also pretty careful in both of your books to emphasize that it is not always easy to figure out who has the power in a dysfunctional system. It’s not always the people who have power in a formal sense.
Jeff: That’s right. An example would be when a congregation is abusive toward a pastor. It might seem like the pastor is in the power position, but really the power may be concentrated in some group of people. It might be a formal group, like a Board of Deacons, but it could also be an informal group like a family that gives the most money or that has been in the congregation for the longest period of time. We also tried to be very careful to say that not all exercise of spiritual authority is abusive. Just because someone does not like the way the authority is leading doesn’t mean that it is spiritual abuse. And just because someone in a position of authority does something to hurt someone else doesn’t mean that it is spiritual abuse either. Just because a father does something to hurt a son doesn’t mean it’s abuse. How the father handles the situation afterward is often what determines whether it is abusive or not. It could be just a mistake, or an error in judgment. Maybe the father apologizes and makes amends as soon as he recognizes the harm that he has done. Whether or not something is abusive must take many factors like this into consideration.
STEPS: We’ve already talked a bit about the second characteristic you give for spiritual abuse: performance preoccupation. It seems like in the real world this is where the “subtle” part comes in.
Jeff: That’s right. Scripture does say that some behaviors are good and some behaviors are bad. And obedience is important. And holiness is an issue. But when it becomes abusive, when it becomes dangerous, is when it’s somehow added to God’s performance in Christ. For example, Scripture is pretty clear that if you support the kingdom of God in your heart, then you should support it with your wallet as well. So giving is good. If you are part of the program, help make the program happen. The issue is not whether people should give money to help do kingdom stuff. But if giving money to do kingdom stuff becomes part of what you do to get God’s approval, that’s when it gets dangerous. This is particularly true with finances, because it is so measurable; it’s easy to tell whether you are “doing the right thing” or not. So when it seems to pastors that they are just encouraging people to do good things, the bottom line may be that they are reinforcing a performance-based religiosity that can be very toxic.
STEPS: Another thing that seems to be a source of the “subtle” part of spiritual abuse is what you call “unspoken rules.” I’ve talked to many people who have experienced spiritual abuse but who are terribly confused about what has happened to them. Often as soon as you give them some vocabulary to describe their experience—even just the expression “spiritual abuse”—they recognize it immediately. It seems like the unspoken rules somehow keep people confused about what is happening.
Jeff: That’s because with unspoken rules you can’t tell that they exist until you break them. Suppose you have a rule that says “Don’t disagree with the pastor or you are in trouble.” You won’t know that rule is operative unless you disagree sometime with the pastor and say something about it. Then you’ll probably find out about the rule right away. As long as you agree or pretend to agree, you don’t even know that rule is there. But if you break the rule, you find out that it’s been a rule the whole time.
Probably the most common unspoken rule is the “Don’t talk” rule. This rule is what gives such power to the “Don’t disagree with the pastor” rule. The “Don’t talk” rule is the worst one. If you break one of the other unspoken rules and then find out that it was a rule all along, the “Don’t talk” rule is what really puts you in a bind. If you already learned how to stuff a lot of pain as a child in order to make your way through a dysfunctional family system, then it’s sometimes not that hard to use the same skills in a religious system. But it’s not a very healthy way to live. A 14-year-old in a very painful family system might try to survive by “holding their breath”—telling their friends, “I can’t wait until I’m 18, ’cause then I’m out of here.” Somehow age 18 represents when they’ll have enough power to do what they need to do to survive. People sometimes do the same thing in church. They sit in churches like that, holding their breath, waiting for some act of God to save them. In both cases it’s using the “holding your breath” strategy to survive. It is a strategy that may have seemed to work at one time in life, but it is not a very helpful or hopeful approach to any kind of adult relationship.
STEPS: Tell me something about “lack of balance,” which you also list as a feature of spiritually abusive systems.
Jeff: Unbalanced systems are those that focus too much on certain aspects of the Christian experience. The two examples we picked are objectivity and subjectivity. Objectivity means that everything is so black-and-white that there is no room for people’s individual experiences, talents and things like that. People have to just fit into the system or they are not acknowledged, get neglected or are told that they are divisive, demonic or something like that. On the other side are systems in which people’s gifts and experiences are given the ultimate authority. Extreme examples of this would be situations where you objectively know from Scripture or your own experience that something is misguided, but when you say so, you find that the subjective experience of a person in authority takes priority. That gives the ultimate authority to man rather than to God.
STEPS: You know, talking about all this stuff does not feel good. I’m aware of feeling a little nauseated, and I’m starting to feel the beginnings of a headache as we talk. I wonder if people reading this in STEPS might start checking out because this whole topic is so painful. If you have experienced spiritual abuse, it is not stuff you can just talk about abstractly without feeling some of the pain all over again, even if the abuse is many years in the past.
Jeff: Spiritual abuse is painful. For me the pain of talking about it is not so much that it brings up old pain from the past. It’s not about old wounds so much anymore. But I experience it as painful because we’ve been chipping away at this issue now for 15 years but we really haven’t done that much to change things. Every day I am reminded of the pain people are in because of this. Every day I hear from someone who has experienced this. They are not only in pain emotionally and psychologically, but also they are full of fear about God, thinking that they are in trouble because they haven’t gotten it right, or been good enough, or been Christian enough. That is really painful territory. And it’s difficult territory to work in.
STEPS: I think one of the most painful pieces of this puzzle is when you find people in abusive situations and they are unable to leave, unable to make healthy choices. Just as spouses in violent relationships sometimes return again and again to be abused, people who are in spiritually abusive relationships often find it very difficult to leave.
Jeff: The phenomena of not being able to leave has two parts. First, if you are outside a spiritually abusive system, you are the enemy. And secondly, although it is very easy to get in, it is very difficult to get out once you are in. It is exactly the same as in any very dysfunctional family. The fear is that if a person gets out of the family, they might tell the secret. So there is a lot of incentive to keep people inside the system.
People in abusive systems think that the inside of the system is the only safe place. If you associate with or connect to people outside the system, that is not safe. You can get hurt doing that. So just stay in here where it is safe. Those people out there will lead you away from God or from the things God wants. So it’s safest to stay in here with the leaders, who are the only ones who really know what God wants. The paranoia is that any kind of break from “us” and return to “them” would be disastrous. What makes this even more hurtful is that an individual’s relationship with God is taken hostage. It’s not just that the leader is worried that you are going to fall from grace if you associate with outsiders—or that you might tell outsiders what it’s like in here. It’s more like if you do tell the truth, you will be wrong and God will get you for that. God will be the enforcer. Bottom line: Stay in here or God will punish you.
STEPS: People in spiritually abusive systems have usually invested a lot in the system.
Jeff: Sure. You invest so much—and you are required to invest so much—in abusive systems that your world becomes pretty small. Sometimes people forget relationship skills that are necessary for relating to people outside the system. After a while you don’t have anybody outside the system that you are close to. So that makes the dependence on the system even stronger. On a human level, when we invest a lot, we hate to lose our investment. So we sometimes invest more to try to get a return on the original investment. Which means we have more to lose. Which means there is an even higher incentive to invest more. Some people have invested incredible amounts of their money, their emotions, their time and their energy in abusive systems.
A family I worked with recently was part of a small network of families. They only had associations with people in this small network. Their kids took piano lessons from someone in the group. If they leave that group, their kids lose their piano teacher. They lose the contacts with their sports teams. They lose not just the investment in the system—all the energy, time, money and emotions that they invested in getting the group to function—but they also lose all their social contacts and all the extracurricular things that are dependent on the group. This is very similar to the reason why a woman who is being battered doesn’t leave. If she leaves she has nothing. Going from something, albeit abusive, to nothing can be even more terrifying than staying where you are. So you stay, hoping it will turn around. Even if it is irrational to outsiders, the desire to stay put is very powerful when you are facing the loss of everything you know.
STEPS: In The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse you talk about the roots of secrecy in spiritually abusive systems. One root is the need people feel to be public relations agents for God—to have a “good testimony” so that people will think good things about God. And that leads people to all kinds of spin-control strategies, evasions and outright deceptions.
Jeff: So, if you have a leader who has a struggle in a system that is abusive—well, let me give an example. I have worked with a church where the pastor sexually exploited several of his counselees. The church could have dealt with the problem honestly. Maybe that would have meant saying, “This is what happened” and saying either “He’s out of here” or “He’s getting help.” But what they did was to make a secret about it. The leadership didn’t answer anyone’s questions about it, because That would make God look bad, they thought, and it might also make us look bad for having hired this person. What it did was to lock up all the pain, using the “Don’t talk” rule. Strategically they were aggressively not talking about it in order to not give God a bad name.
STEPS: Like we are well enough to be in charge of God’s reputation. That’s hard-core crazy.
Jeff: Right. Ten years later there are still two “camps” in that church. One group that still thinks the leadership did the right thing. And another group that is still angry about how the situation was handled. Those two camps are divided on every issue that comes up. Even totally unrelated issues like who to buy the carpeting from are contaminated by this history of denial.
STEPS: Let’s change the focus a bit and talk about how to recover from spiritual abuse. First, what about recovery for perpetrators of spiritual abuse? People in general don’t tend to be very hopeful about perpetrators of any kind of abuse. And for some good reasons. What’s your take on that?
Jeff: I think that pessimism is justified. First of all, in order for someone to recover from something, they have to realize that there is a problem, something to recover from. And when you have so much invested in being “right,” in being the one who “knows,” and you have led so many people down the road—well, it takes us back to the equity issue. Perpetrators of abuse have a major equity investment in the system. It’s hard to lose that. Also, it would have to be a horrifying realization to recognize that many of the things you have been doing for God have really hurt people. There is an incredible amount of equity that would be lost by admitting the need for help in this area. God will always offer grace. That is not the issue. The issue here is whether or not a perpetrator has a capacity to receive grace. Most don’t even think they need it. Grace just bounces off. It’s just like with any other issue. If the person who needs help doesn’t think they need help, then no one can help them.
STEPS: What is it that breaks through these kinds of barriers to receiving grace?
Jeff: It can just be tiredness that finally gets us to the point where we are ready to receive help. Sometimes all the pretense and denial is just too exhausting to continue, and we give it up. My instinct about what Jesus would say to perpetrators is that he would say, “Try harder.” He would say, “Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Then maybe a few would say, “I can’t.” And there would be hope for those folks. But most would say, “Okay, I can do that.” They would just try hard, try harder, try their hardest to be better, to be more correct. And maybe later they would be tired enough to understand what Jesus was really saying to them.
STEPS: It’s kind of like in early AA when people who came to meetings and were asked, “Have you lost your marriage yet?” or “Have you lost your job yet?” And if the answer was no, some old-timers would say, “Well, you probably still need some more experience with alcohol. Go out and get some more experience.” If you are not yet sick and tired of being sick and tired, then the cure won’t work.
Jeff: Yes. So go do some more, and if you get tired, we’ll still be here to help out. When Jesus interacted with the rich young ruler he told him, “Do everything that the law requires.” And the guy said, “I’ve done that already.” He should have said right away, “I haven’t and there’s no way I can do that.” But he was still deep in denial. So Jesus gave him a task that he couldn’t do: “Give up everything and follow me.” That he couldn’t do. Now some people look at that text and see it as just about selfishness—that the man was too selfish to give up his wealth. But I don’t think that text is about selfishness at all. The man should have answered, “I can’t” to Jesus’ first question. If he had said “I can’t” then there would have been grace. But when he was still that deep in denial, Jesus said in effect, “Well, you must need more experience before you will be ready to receive the help you need.”
STEPS: Just to be clear, you are not pessimistic about recovery for people who have abused others but who recognize what they have done and repent and seek healing.
Jeff: That’s right. I’m not pessimistic about recovery for anybody, for anything. I’m hopeful. That’s why I do what I do. But I am aware of the track record and of how difficult it is for spiritually abusive people to see what’s real and to change that pattern.
STEPS: The effects of spiritual abuse can last for a long time. Decades later it seems like it can still be easy to get triggered back into the abuse stuff.
Jeff: That’s true and it relates to another dynamic that we haven’t talked about yet. Spiritual abuse is talked about mostly in psychological terms. But there is also a spiritual dynamic to it—a dynamic of the spirit. Spiritual abuse is not just something that comes in a spiritual way or comes from spiritual people. In that sense it’s like physical abuse, which is not something that comes only in a physical way. When physical abuse happens, something physical is hurt. And when spiritual abuse happens, your spirit gets hurt. And that has long-lasting consequences.
Recovery is never easy for any of us. But I think that recovery from spiritual abuse is in some ways the most difficult of recovery journeys. One reason is that the person who has the greatest potential for helping us recover from spiritual abuse is the person we feel most alienated from.
Let me explain that a bit. When someone gets physically abused, they don’t necessarily distrust the Department of Social Services. The abuser wasn’t acting as a representative of the Department of Social Services when they abused the person. Similarly, when a woman gets abused sexually, she doesn’t necessarily distrust the person from the women’s shelter who offers to be helpful. She may distrust men in general, but the agency that is designed specifically to help is not necessarily a problem. The abuser was not acting as a representative of the agency designed to help abused people. So the woman who has been abused is not likely to think, If I go to the people who are from the agency that is designed to help me, I’m going to get hurt even worse. In the case of spiritual abuse, however, there is always a major problem with the “agency” that is specifically “designed” to be helpful: God. The fear is that if you go to God, you will get hurt even worse than you have already been hurt. Spiritual abuse always does damage to our relationship with God. It’s the worst. It’s a wound of the spirit. It’s a wound right down at the core of who we are.
STEPS: If you experience an abuser as acting on behalf of God, or speaking for God, or acting as an agent of God, you are really stuck.
Jeff: Abuse always happens in a relationship. And in the case of spiritual abuse, the abuse happens in the context of relationships where someone is in the role of representing God. Later, when the abuse has come to an end and we are looking for healthier relationships in which to recover, we may find other people—even people who may actually be faithfully representing God—but it will be difficult for us to trust in those relationships, difficult to invest again in relationships and difficult to relax.
STEPS: It seems like the struggle to trust people again is a very normal part of the recovery process after any kind of abuse. We usually start slow, risk a little, be vulnerable a little and gradually learn to trust again. But it’s much more difficult to give ourselves permission to have just a little bit of trust when it comes to our relationship with God. We often massively shame ourselves when our faith is hesitant or partial.
Jeff: Yes. One of the messages of the abusive system is that you have to have complete, total trust. So in recovery from spiritual abuse it is really important to give ourselves room to have little bits of faith. And also to learn to pay attention to our spiritual radar and to reconnect with our sense of blessing—and with the God who gives us that sense of blessing.
Jeff VanVonderen is an author and speaker. He also provides seminars, consultations and intervention services through the ministry of JeffVanvonderen.com.
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Chapter: A Committee Biographies
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Suggested Citation:"A Committee Biographies." National Research Council. 2007. Status of Pollinators in North America. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11761.
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Committee Biographies
May Berenbaum (Chair) is Swanlund Professor and head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Berenbaum obtained her Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University in 1980 and joined the University of Illinois faculty shortly thereafter; she currently holds affiliate appointments in the Department of Plant Biology, the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, and the Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and at the Center for Ecological Entomology at the Illinois Natural History Survey. Her primary research is on chemical mediation of interactions between plants and herbivorous insects, and her work ranges from the molecular to the community level. Dr. Berenbaum is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and a fellow of several scientific societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her service to the National Academies has included two-terms as chair of the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, member of the NAS Council, and member of the National Research Council Report Review Committee. Dr. Berenbaum serves on several advisory boards and is currently president of the Board of Directors of the Xerces Society, an organization dedicated to the conservation of invertebrate animals.
Peter Bernhardt is a professor in the Department of Biology at St. Louis University and an associate of the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanic Garden of Sydney. He received his Ph.D. in botany from the School of Botany at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Since 1976, Dr. Bernhardt has done field work in the ecology of animal-pollinated angio-
sperms in relation to the compatibility (SI) systems. In North America, Dr. Bernhardt’s studies have included work on insect-pollinated Erythronium, Hepatica, Tolmeia, Penstemon, and Xerophyllum spp. His laboratory is under contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Services (Corvallis, Oregon) to study the pollination of three Potentilla species, Paeonia brownie, and Cypripedium montanum.
Stephen Buchmann is an adjunct professor of entomology and a research associate at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. He is president and cofounder of The Bee Works, LLC, an environmental consulting company in Tucson. For 21 years, Dr. Buchmann was a research entomologist with the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. His research is on conservation biology, pollination ecology, bee nesting, mating biology and chemical ecology, “buzz pollination” of crops, and the oil-harvesting centridine bees of the New World tropics. He is the author of more than 150 scientific publications and of 8 books, including The Forgotten Pollinators published in 1996 with Dr. Gary Nabhan, and Pollinators of the Sonoran Desert, Pollinator Conservation Handbook, and Letters from the Hive. His first children’s book is The Bee Tree (Cinco Puntos Press). With Gary Nabhan, he cofounded and directed the trinational Forgotten Pollinators Campaign from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Dr. Buchmann is a research associate in entomology with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He is a fellow of the Linnean Society of London. He serves on the steering committee of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign and as its research chair. Dr. Buchmann routinely works with natural history film-makers and was associate producer of the 2001 “Pollinators in Peril” television documentary, produced by Turner Original Productions and the National Wildlife Federation.
Nicholas W. Calderone is director of the Cornell University Dyce Laboratory for Honey Bee Studies. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. He currently has responsibilities in research, teaching, and extension, and he does work on methods for controlling parasites and pathogens of honey bees. His research concerns the development of Africanized-free honey bees that are resistant to parasitic mites and honey bee pathogens. He spent 7 years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service’s Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland where he focused on the biology of Varroa destructor and on the use of integrated pest management to control parasitic mites in honey bees. Dr. Calderone is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed research papers and more than 30
extension articles on honey bee management. In 2000, he was coauthor of an article on the value of honey bee pollination to agricultural production in the United States. He also has developed a master beekeeper program that serves beekeepers in the northeastern United States.
Paul Goldstein is the assistant curator of Lepidoptera at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. Before moving to Florida, Dr. Goldstein was curator in the Division of Insects at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, where he presided over the Lepidoptera collection and served as a principal investigator in the Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics. Dr. Goldstein’s research has focused on the evolution of host plant associations in herbivorous insects, particularly moths, and on conservation genetics and invertebrate conservation and monitoring programs in prairies, and in pitch pine and scrub oak barrens, among other unusual plant communities. Since 1986, Dr. Goldstein has devoted many of his conservation efforts to the Massachusetts coastline and its offshore islands, where he works on the conservation genetics of the northeastern beach tiger beetle, the reintroduction of the imperial moth, and the use of assemblages of threatened moths and butterflies for landscape-level conservation.
David W. Inouye is a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was an undergraduate at Swarthmore College, and he received his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of North Carolina. He directs the graduate program in sustainable development and conservation biology at the University of Maryland and teaches courses in ecology and conservation biology. From 1988 to 1990, he was director of the University of Colorado’s Mountain Research Station. Dr. Inouye has conducted field research at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (Colorado) since 1971, where he has studied resource partitioning in bumble bees, pollination biology, plant demography, and ant-plant mutualisms. His current work is on long-term studies of variation in the phenology and abundance of flowering by wildflowers—to identify the effects of environmental variables and climate change on flowering and to identify the consequences for consumers. He also has done research on pollination biology in the Snowy Mountains in Australia and in Panama. His field work has taken him to South Africa, Austria, and Costa Rica. Dr. Inouye is coauthor of the book Techniques for Pollination Biologists. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign, a member of the Task Force on Declining Pollination Services, of the Species Survival Commission of the IUCN (The World Conservation Union), and secretary of the Governing Board of the Ecological Society of America.
Peter Kevan is a professor of environmental biology and botany at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. His experience in pollination started with work in the Canadian High Arctic. Since receiving his doctorate in 1970, Dr. Kevan has worked on pollination ecology in Asia, the Americas, Africa, Australia, and Europe. He also has worked extensively on natural, agricultural, plantation, and forest pollination problems, with special emphasis on practical and conservation issues. His research in the 1970s on the demise of pollinators caused by insecticides in New Brunswick, Canada, stimulated serious consideration of the consequences of pesticide use in forestry. He is chair of the Task Force on Declining Pollination of the IUCN (The World Conservation Union), he is actively involved in pollination initiatives arising from the Convention on Biological Diversity, and he is a member of the Steering Committee for the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign.
Claire Kremen is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, and an associate conservationist with the Wildlife Conservation Society. She received her Ph.D. in zoology from Duke University and her B.Sc. in biology from Stanford University. Her current work is on the use of biological, social, and economic data to develop conservation plans that benefit people and the environment. She has studied an array of topics in conservation biology, including the economics and ecology of ecosystem services, sustainable forestry, the ecology and biogeography of tropical butterflies, the population biology of lemurs, and ecological monitoring. Her work reaches from theory to practice and includes hands-on conservation action. From 1993 to 1997, she designed and helped to establish Madagascar’s largest National Park on the Masoala Peninsula. Her current research examines the functional links between the spatial distribution of wildlands, the composition of wild bee communities, farm management practices, and the delivery of pollination services for agriculture in California and New Jersey. She is leading a National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis working group that uses models and meta-analysis to identify ways to restore pollination services in degraded landscapes. She also is working with organizations in Madagascar to establish a national conservation-planning tool by accumulating data on species occurrences, developing predictive models of species distributions, and conducting conservation analyses. She is a scientific advisor for several conservation organizations and she sits on the editorial board of Conservation Biology. She is a 2001 recipient of the McDonnell 21st Century Research Award.
Rodrigo A. Medellín is director of the Institute of Ecology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is also an adjunct professor at
Columbia University in New York City and an associate researcher at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Dr. Medellín has studied and worked on the ecology and conservation of mammals in Mexico for 25 years. After completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Mexico he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Dr. Medellín’s work in rainforests, deserts, and montane forests has included diverse approaches: community ecology, plant-animal interactions, population biology, and more recently, molecular ecology. He has produced more than 70 publications, including more than 40 scientific papers in international journals and 6 books and book chapters on bat ecology and conservation, mammal diversity analyses, and conservation of large mammals. Dr. Medellín was head of the Wildlife Department of the Mexican federal government from 1995 to 1996. He has been president of the Mexican Society of Mammalogists and has served as chair of the Committee for International Relations. He currently chairs the Latin American Fellowship Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists, and has been a member of the Board of Directors for that society for 6 years and was elected in June 2004 to a third 3-year term. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Bat Conservation International, and he is founder and director of the 10-year-old Program for the Conservation of Bats of Mexico.
Taylor Ricketts is the director of World Wildlife Fund conservation science program. His research is on global patterns of biodiversity and threats, ecological and economic consequences of habitat fragmentation, and interactions between people and nature in agricultural landscapes. Dr. Ricketts analyzes compiled data sets for insight about the global picture of biodiversity, how patterns in biodiversity relate to those of human threats, and how the information can be applied to support conservation efforts. Dr. Ricketts’s field studies focus on the value of tropical forest fragments as sources of wild pollinators for neighboring coffee crops. That project is part of his long-standing interests in the interactions between habitat fragments and surrounding agricultural areas and in improving the potential of those landscapes to support native biodiversity. Dr. Ricketts received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and has received numerous awards for his work from the Society for Conservation Biology, the National Science Foundation, the Summit Foundation, and others.
Gene E. Robinson joined the faculty of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1989 and is the university’s G. William Arends Professor of Integrative Biology. He is also the director of the University of Illinois Bee Research Facility, director of the Neuroscience Program, theme leader at the Institute for Genomic Biology, and a professor of entomology with affiliate appointments in the Departments of Cell & Developmental Biology and
Animal Biology and in the Beckman Institute of Science and Technology. Dr. Robinson obtained his Ph.D. in entomology from Cornell University in 1986. He is the author or coauthor of more than 150 publications, including articles published in Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He pioneered the application of genomics to the study of social behavior, led the effort to gain approval from the National Institutes of Health for sequencing the honey bee genome, and heads the Honey Bee Genome Sequencing Consortium. Dr. Robinson has been honored as a University Scholar, Fulbright Fellow, and Guggenheim Fellow. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and NAS.
Allison A. Snow is a professor of evolution, ecology, and organismal biology at the Ohio State University in Columbus. Dr. Snow received her Ph.D. in botany from the University of Massachusetts. She is noted for her expertise in the evolutionary ecology of plant populations, including breeding systems, pollination ecology, and conservation biology. Dr. Snow’s research focuses on hybridization as a stimulus for rapid evolution in weedy and invasive plants. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, and she has produced several technical reports and book chapters on transgenic plants, pollination ecology, and gene flow. Dr. Snow is an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow of the Ecological Society of America and is the current president of the Botanical Society of America. She served on the National Research Council’s Committee on Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants and on the Committee on Biological Confinement of Genetically Engineered Organisms.
Scott M. Swinton is a professor of agricultural economics at Michigan State University in East Lansing. Dr. Swinton teaches agricultural production economics, agribusiness operations management, and ecological economics. He received his M.S. from Cornell University and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. His economic research on agricultural production and environmental management focuses on technology evaluation and policy analysis. He concentrates on understanding the conditions required for business profitability to be compatible with environmental stewardship. Dr. Swinton also is engaged in research on agricultural and natural resource management in Latin America and Africa. He has published more than 45 journal articles and edited 3 books. He currently serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Leonard B. Thien is a professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received an M.S. in botany (systematics and evolution) from Washington University, St. Louis, and a Ph.D. in botany (evolution) from the University of
California, Los Angeles. Dr. Thien’s research is on the pollination biology of ancient plants in the ANITA group—the first three branches of the flowering plant phylogenetic tree. Dr. Thien has published papers on the pollination mechanisms and population structure of Amborella (sister to the angiosperms). He also elucidated the pollination mechanisms and breeding systems of Illicium and Trimenia (the third branch of the angiosperm cladogram). In North America, Dr. Thien’s work includes mosquito pollination in orchids (Habenaria in northern Wisconsin and Canada), bee pollination of orchids in the bogs of northern Wisconsin, and beetle and fly pollination of magnolia in the southern United States and Mexico. In 1991, Dr. Thien was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his work on pollination mechanisms in basal (ancient) angiosperms. Dr. Thien is working with a group of Chinese scientists on the pollination of Schisandra (ANITA group, third branch) in North America and Southeast Asia. The work involves pollination, construction of a DNA cladogram, and an analysis of all aspects of the breeding system.
F. Christian Thompson is a research entomologist at the Systematic Entomology Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a scientist in the Department of Entomology at the Smithsonian Institution. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research is in the systematics of flower flies (Syrphidae). He also has expertise on other families of agricultural concern (Anthomyiidae, Asilidae, Braulidae, Phoridae, and Pipunculidae) and other groups important for biological control (Pipunculidae, Conopidae). His current research includes projects on the flower flies of Costa Rica, nearctic flower flies, and genera of flower flies.
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‘This story is important to me’ – Distell winner Putuma
By NAF Admin|2019-05-28T10:26:08+02:00March 7th, 2019|0 Comments
Writer and performance poet Koleka Putuma is the winner of this year’s Distell National Playwright Competition, aimed at discovering emerging South African talent and fostering new South African voices.
Putuma was announced as the winner at an awards function in Cape Town on Wednesday 6 March. She wins R25 000 in prize money — as well as the opportunity to take her play into full production to be staged as part of the Main programme at the National Arts Festival in Makhanda, which runs from 27 June to 7 July.
Putuma, whose powerful debut poetry collection Collective Amnesia was named Book of the Year by City Press in 2017, took first place with her script titled, ‘No Easter Sunday for Queers’.
Nobesuthu Rayi, the Associate Producer of the National Arts Festival, says Putuma “is one of those black women who have been claiming their spaces on this earth – and her play does nothing less than that. Her work is a rare force – aggressive, true and layered. While it does not sit comfortably at times, just as homophobic attacks never sit well, her narrative’s rough texture resembles the nature of our society for the LGBTIQ+ community.”
Production is beginning on Putuma’s brand-new play, with a director and actors being appointed. The play will be staged as part of the Main programme at the Festival, which is attended by local and international producers.
“We are excited about our partnership with National Art Festival and the platform this competition creates for developing young writers, like Putuma, whose stories need to be heard. We look forward to seeing Putuma’s script coming life as part of the Main programme at the National Arts Festival,” says Simoné Benjamin, Arts and Culture Project Manager Distell.
On winning the award, Putuma says: “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to share this work on such a huge platform, and to be backed by Distell and the National Arts Festival means a great deal. I have never showcased my own work at the National Arts Festival, let alone on the Main stage. So the idea of that makes me want to scream. I am nervous and excited at the same time. This story is important to me, and I feel incredibly privileged that the adjudication panel felt that it was important to share this story with others and to give it life beyond the page.”
Putuma writes on her website that her work “insists on visibility and offering healing”. She takes on authority in various spaces — academia, religion, politics, relationships – to ask what has been learnt and what must be unlearnt.
“There is a space for a voice such as Putuma’s in this industry and in our society,” Rayi says. “I’m pleased that the Distell judges could see that too.”
The four other finalists – Erica Harris, Kelly-Eve Koopman, Morapeleng Molekoa and Bongumusa Mnisi – were highly commended by the judges with very promising scripts between them. They each receive R5000 and, as part of the prize, received mentoring from a writing professional to take their play to completion.
2019 Selection Panel
The organisers would like to thank the selection panel for their time and expertise:
Artist-activist Keituletse Gwangwa has enjoyed a very successful global career across many of the arts disciplines and is now the Head of Windybrow Arts Centre in Hillbrow.
Professor Anton Krueger, who has been nominated for awards in a wide range of genres and currently Associate Professor in the Department of Drama at Rhodes University, where he teaches Performance Studies and Writing for Performance.
Creative Writing Lecturer at Rhodes University Dr Hleze Kunju, a multi award-winning literary scholar, speaker, poet and language activist and one of Mail and Guardian’s Top 200 Young and Influential South Africans in 2018.
Malika Ndlovu, whose words and productions have appeared on pages and stages all over the world and who was hailed by the Times of London as one of 50 contemporary African artists to look out for.
Ameera Patel, a well-known playwright, actor and published novelist. She was one of the Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans in 2016.
Award-winning playwright, translator, producer and director Hennie van Greunen, who co-owns the Wordsmith’s Theatre Factory.
Upile uThixo Bongco has a BA (Drama) from Rhodes University and is currently a drama teacher at St Andrew’s College/Diocesan School for Girls in Makhanda, where she strives to facilitate spaces in which students can creatively tell stories. She has performed in numerous productions at the NAF.
Robert Lourens is a producer, director and playwright. His ‘ Return of the Moon – A glimpse of Sara Baartman’ was presented at the PE Opera House last year.
Playwright and actor Xolani Mali, known for his roles in The Hotel Rwanda and Lions of Njombe, has returned to the Eastern Cape to turn his hand to directing and to assist emerging artists. His play ‘The Last Supper – The Musical’ was presented as part of the PE Opera House’s Drama Season last year.
Read more about the competition
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Eric A. Love
Judith E. Rinearson
FinTech Law Watch
Financial Institutions & Banking
All Federal
Faster Payments Task Force Issues Part Two of Final Faster Payments Report
The Faster Payments Task Force (the Task Force) has issued part two of its Final Report that sets forth a blueprint for achieving faster and more secure payments in the U.S. by 2020.
Convened by the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) and comprised of a broad cross-section of over 300 industry, government and consumer group stakeholders, the Task Force released part one of its Final Report in January 2017 which outlined the Task Force’s goals and the many advantages of faster payments. Instead of championing a single method to achieving “ubiquitous faster payments,” the Task Force states in part two that it favors competition among a wide array of potential ways to achieve this goal and supports collaboration with industry stakeholders to ensure “broad adoption; safety, integrity and trust; and interoperability.”
In addition, the Task Force makes ten recommendations:
Create an industry-led faster payments governance framework;
Put in place requirements that are designed to foster broad adoption; safety, integrity, and trust; and interoperability;
Evaluate and propose changes to the existing payments regulatory regime;
Develop a design for directory services that facilitates interoperability;
Improve FRB settlement mechanisms to support faster payments;
Assess the need for a FRB operational role in the faster payments system;
Develop and incorporate ways by which to timely detect and report fraud;
Create programs for end-users and service providers to enhance awareness and adoption of faster payments;
Engage in research and analysis to promote greater understanding of cross-border interoperability; and
Conduct continued research about emerging technologies.
To accomplish the ambitious goal of faster payments by 2020, efforts to implement the Final Report’s recommendations must begin this year. Notably, the FRB has announced that Dave Sapenaro – First Vice President and COO of the St. Louis Fed – will be the payments strategy director in charge of implementing the initiatives detailed in the FRB’s 2015 paper “Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System.” This paper called for the creation of the Task Force, and the Final Report can be expected to inform the FRB’s thinking. We will monitor and report on new developments as they occur.
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Eric A. Love is a member of K&L Gates’ Public Policy and Law Practice and is based in the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Love focuses on federal legislative and regulatory policy issues related to financial services and capital markets, with a particular emphasis on securities and corporate governance.
Prior to joining K&L Gates, Mr. Love served as a special assistant in the Office of Legislative Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In this capacity, he worked to help advance Treasury’s legislative agenda on a broad portfolio...
Eric.Love@klgates.com
Judith Rinearson is a partner in the firm’s New York and London offices. Ms. Rinearson concentrates her practice in prepaid and emerging payment systems, electronic payments, crypto/virtual currencies, reward programs, ACH and check processing. She has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, including 18 years at American Express’s General Counsel’s Office. Her expertise focuses particularly in the areas of emerging payments and compliance with state and federal consumer protection laws, anti-money laundering laws, state money transmitter licensing laws and abandoned property laws.
Fully experienced in both the “issuing” and “acquiring” side of the payments business, Ms. Rinearson has drafted and negotiated complex agreements with strategic co-branded partners, processors and Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs), ATM networks, major retailers and service providers, prepaid card issuers and program managers, international remittance companies, virtual and mobile payment providers, as well as the Terms and Conditions and disclosures that usually accompany such products. She has hands-on experience in all legal aspects of launching and managing a range of payment products, from prepaid cards of all kinds, to Bitcoin exchanges and miners, wire transfer services, ACH, electronic banking, money orders and credit cards. Her practice includes advising on fraud avoidance and compliance with federal banking and anti-money laundering laws, as well as state money transmitter licensing laws, consumer protection laws and abandoned property laws. On the international level, Ms. Rinearson has supervised the launch of a range of payment and foreign currency products in Europe, Asia and Latin America; met with international regulators; and spoken on the issue of payment regulation.
Judith.Rinearson@klgates.com
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1 Medevaced from Scene of Crash in Fallbrook
By NBC 7 Staff
Published Mar 26, 2018 at 4:41 PM | Updated at 5:47 PM PDT on Mar 26, 2018
One person had to be airlifted to the hospital after sustaining injuries in a crash in Fallbrook.
The crash happened at around 2 p.m. at the intersection of Olive Hill Road and Burma Road, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP).
The CHP said one car ended up in a ditch about 150 feet off the roadway.
It is unknown if any other people were injured in the crash
No other information was available.
Please refresh this page for updates on this story. Details may change as more information becomes available.
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Curriculum Guides
NC A&T Meteorology Club
Most of the graduates of the Department of Physics have been accepted by graduate school before their graduation, or have been employed shortly after graduation. A&T physics majors have been employed by agencies such as Lockheed Martin, NASA, Ford Motor Co., General Electric, IBM, The Environmental Protection Agency, and at high schools and universities.
The late Dr. Ronald McNair earned his BS degree in physics at A&T in 1971. Dr. McNair will be long remembered as an outstanding graduate of the Department of Physics. After leaving A&T Dr. McNair earned a PhD. degree in laser physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and launched a career as a research scientist.
Here is an interesting and informative link about Dr. McNair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqM1m0LqOcU#t=21
Additionally, a multi-media media display of A&T in Space was unveiled recently. It is on permanent exhibit in the lobby of the Academic Classroom Building.
Here is a link about some of our Alumni. We always want to know how our Alumni are doing! Please send your information to Katherine Wilkerson @ kawelker@ncat.edu to be included on the Alumni page.
Dr. C. Marcel Buford is a Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). At IDA, he works in many areas of technical cognizance to the Department of Defense. He serves as a military operations researcher, weapon system acquisitions analyst and developer of unique knowledge management software tools.Dr. Buford deployed to the United States Forces headquarters, Baghdad Iraq where he led a team of analysts who advised the Commander of the United States Forces, General Ray Odierno, on asset acquisition strategy, mission planning and prioritization. Dr. Buford earned a M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. His graduate work focused on hydrogen generation for fuel cells. Following his graduate work, Dr. Buford was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) where he researched microultracapacitors for microelectronics. Dr. Buford is a 1996 graduate of NC A&T SU.
Dr. Jasmine Davenport Crenshaw is an engineer, speaker, and author with over ten years of experience in research and development. Nevertheless, this woman is passionate about the recruitment, retention, and graduation of students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). As a STEM advocate, she trains leaders to limitless opportunities in STEM through teaching, seminars, and mentorship.
She is a native of Durham, NC and holds a Bachelor of Science in physics from North Carolina A&T State University, Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in materials science and engineering from the University of Florida. Her past appointments include the University of Richmond Integrated Science Experience (URISE) program director; University of Richmond biology instructor; Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) postdoctoral fellow; Department of Defense (DoD) systems engineer.
Dr. Crenshaw is the Founder and President of Mind Over Matter Consulting, an education consulting firm that prepares women and people of color to enter STEM careers through academic preparation, career training, and support networks. Increasing the number of degree recipients amongst underrepresented populations fulfills a national need for a skilled, technical workforce, and accurately reflects the emerging demographics of the United States. Furthermore, she coauthored the book STEM Navigators: Pathways to Achievement in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, where she offers advice on how to successfully obtain a STEM degree.
Dr. Crenshaw bio
Mr. James Killen: MS in Environmental Engineering, 1998, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Environmental Consulting/Project Management 1997 - Present: Site Assessment and Remediation: Manufactured Gas Plant, Petrochemical, Commercial and Industrial, State and Federal Agency Funded Cleanup, Property Divestment, Regional Drinking Water Studies, Water Quality Modeling, Regulatory Compliance
Dr. Christophe L. McCray
Research Staff Member
Institute for Defense Analyses
Dr. Christophe L. McCray, Ph.D., is a physicist in the field of laser technology. He has worked as a laser physicist and program manager for NASA Langley, DRS Technologies and ITT Advanced Engineering Systems. He moved to the Office of Naval Research (ONR) as a program developer in nanotechnology. While at ONR, he helped develop their 2007 Science and Technology (S&T) portfolio strategy focusing on linking S&T resources to Naval needs. He is presently a Senior Research Staff Member at the Institute of Defense Analyses (IDA). At IDA he deployed to Iraq, managed OSD Joint Data Support (JDS) Irregular Warfare group, and has led multiple tasks concerning the management of DoD M&S resources, container management within DoD and is currently leading a DIA task focusing on Counter Threat Finance.
Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)
4850 Mark Center Drive
Alexandria, VA. 22311-1882
cmccray@ida.org
Dr. Ken Phillips received his B.S. degree in Physics from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, an M.S. in General Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. inEnvironmental Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University. He has served as Curator for Aerospace Science at the California Science Center since 1990 and is responsible for creating the vision that shapes the exhibits and programs in aeronautics and space exploration. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Physics and Astronomy in USC’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and teaches the FreshmanSeminar course on the space shuttle and the public understanding of science.
Dr. Phillips bio
Dr. Tennile Presley is an Assistant Professor of Physics in the Department of Chemistry at Winston Salem State University. Her research focus is to provide a better understanding of contributing factors to vascular dysfunction and blood disorders (such as nitric oxide and heat shock proteins) as they relate to overall functional health in diabetic individuals in the African American population. Currently, she is studying the influence of heat treatment on hyperglycemia and how this effect contributes to changes in the availability of nitric oxide and the fragility of hyperglycemic red blood cells. Furthermore, she intends to explore mechanisms to enhance the interaction of heat shock proteins and nitric oxide in diabetic individuals through diet manipulation and exercise. Dr. Presley is also interested in examining biomarkers of diabetes to augment earlier detection of the disease and investigate how various biomarkers may differ in African Americans in comparison to other populations where diabetes is not as prevalent.
Dr. Lynnae C. Quick
The Planetary Science Institute
lquick@psi.edu
2013-Ph.D., Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
2011-M.A., Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
2010-M.S., Physics, The Catholic University of America
2005-B.S., Physics, North Carolina A&T State University
Dr. Lynnae Quick is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated from James Benson Dudley High School in 2001. In 2005 she obtained a B.S. in Physics from North Carolina A&T State University. While at A&T, Dr. Quick participated in REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) programs at the North Carolina A&T Environmental Studies Site and Geophysical Lab, and at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), in Charlottesville, VA. She was also a research associate in the NASA Academy Internship Program at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, MD. Dr. Quick recently completed a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellowship at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Presently, she is a CRESST Postdoctoral Fellow in the Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory at NASA-Goddard and the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). In the coming year, she will be joining the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) as a Research Scientist.
Dr. Quick conducts research on various aspects of planetary volcanism, planetary thermal modeling, and astrobiology. Current projects include the formation of volcanic domes on Venus, and on Jupiter’s moon Europa, icy volcanic (cryovolcanic) processes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, and Neptune’s moon, Triton, the stability of a subsurface ocean within Triton, and the efficacy of using porphyrins and tetrapyrroles as biomarkers for extraterrestrial samples. She is also involved in flight mission work, serving as a Co-Investigator for the Europa Imaging System (EIS), a dual-camera imaging system that will fly on NASA’s flagship mission to Europa. Dr. Quick is a past recipient of the Johns Hopkins University Bromery Fellowship and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) Graduate Student Fellowship, and was recently awarded a NASA Early Career Fellowship, granted by NASA's Science Mission Directorate to early career researchers based upon the merit of their current research, scientific record, and promise as a member of the planetary science community. She is also a recipient of a NASA Astrobiology Early Career Collaboration Award, administered by the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI).
Dr. Vernon Simmons: MS & PhD in Physics, 2004, University of Pittsburgh
1995 - 2004 National Institute of Science & Technology Chemical Science & Technology Lab Fellow
2005 - 2014 Shield Designer, Ship Engineering ActivityBettis Laboratory
2014 - present Instructor, Bettis Reactor Engineering School Bettis Laboratory
Dr. Johnathan Wynn Smith
National Research Council Research Associate
NOAA/NOAA Center for Climate and Weather Prediction
NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division
5830 University Research Dr.
onathan.smith@noaa.gov
Dr. Jonathan Wynn Smith is a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division (SMCD) in College Park, MD. He studies the long-range transport of trace gases and their contributions to the tropospheric ozone maximum over the Tropical Atlantic Ocean. He uses the WRF-Chem model, ozonesonde measurements, and NOAA satellite sounder retrievals in his work. He has participated in the Aerosols and Ocean Science Expeditions (AEROSE) and Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) field campaigns and ozonesonde and radiosonde launches in Cape Verde and Senegal. Jonathan participated in the Big 10 Summer Research Opportunities Program, NOAA Educational Partnership Program, and the National Centers for Atmospheric Research Graduate Visitors Program. Jonathan has teaching, reviewing, and judging experience. Jonathan has authored and co-authored several peer-reviewed manuscripts and conference proceedings. His educational background is a Ph.D. – Atmospheric Sciences at Howard University, M.S. – Meteorology at Penn State, and a B.S. – Physics at North Carolina A&T State University. He is a native of Georgia but grew up in North Carolina and has always been interested in weather.
LeAndra Waters is a graduate North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University with a B.S. in Physics (Engineering). She is currently holds the position of “STEM Program Coordinator” within the education department of Envision (Experience Company), located in Vienna, VA. As the STEM Program Coordinator she is responsible for the daily duties of the following programs: Advanced Medicine, Medicine, and Engineering and Technology serving mostly high school age students. These programs service more than 5,000 students annually. The daily duties include: Support the development of curriculum, training, and student materials in accordance with program objectives, Supervise and evaluate assigned team of seasonal instructional and support staff, including conducting performance evaluations, and so much more. LeAndra is excited with her new role and hopes to have longevity in the career in Education especially in STEM.
Kevin Wedderburn is a native from the island of Jamaica and came to the United States of America in the fall of 1999 to fulfill his dream of doing academic studies in the field of physics. While doing his Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics, he developed a strong desire to do research in Theoretical Physics. When he completed his degree in 2002 he got accepted to do graduate research in Electronic Structure Theory at North Carolina A & T State University (NCA&T). In the early summer of 2003 while at NCA&T, he had the opportunity of being a visiting research student along with professor and supervisor Dr. Solomon Bililign to the University de Provence in Marseille, France. He also went on to be a visiting research student at Duke University under the supervision of Dr. Weito Yang (The Philip Handler Professor of Chemistry) in the late summer of 2003. After earning his Master’s degree in physics at NCA&T, he held an adjunct teaching position at Guilford Technical Community College for a year then was accepted into the graduate program at North Carolina State University (NCSU) to pursue his Ph.D. in physics. During his tenure at NCSU, he transitioned into a teaching career at Wake Technical Community College where he taught physics before moving with his family to Rochester Hills, Michigan. Currently he works as a CNC Machinist at Fitzpatrick Manufacturing Company in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
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Clin Sci (Lond). 2000 Mar;98(3):313-9.
Does a high concentration of calcium in the urine cause an important renal concentrating defect in human subjects?
Lam GS1, Asplin JR, Halperin ML.
Renal Division, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1A6, Canada.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the hypothesis that a high concentration of ionized calcium in the lumen of the medullary collecting duct causes an osmole-free water diuresis. The urine flow rate and osmolality were measured in normal human subjects, as well as in patients with a history of nephrolithiasis who excreted more than 5 mmol of calcium per 24 h. There was an inverse relationship between the concentration of calcium in the urine and the 24 h urine volume both in normal subjects and in patients with a history of nephrolithiasis. When the concentration of calcium in the urine was greater than 5 mmol/l, the urine volume was less than 1 litre per day in the majority of subjects. After 16 h of water deprivation, when the concentration of calcium in the urine was as high as 17 mmol/l (ionized calcium 7.4 mmol/l), urine osmolality was 1258 mOsm/kg of water and the urine flow rate was 0.30 ml/min. We conclude that, although a calcium receptor may be present in the lumen of the medullary collecting duct in human subjects, an extremely high concentration of urinary total and ionized calcium does not cause a clinically important defect in the renal concentrating process.
MeSH terms, Substance
Calcium/urine*
Case-Control Studies
Kidney/physiopathology*
Kidney Calculi/physiopathology*
Kidney Calculi/urine
Kidney Concentrating Ability*
Osmolar Concentration
Water Deprivation/physiology
CALCIUM, ELEMENTAL - Hazardous Substances Data Bank
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With church leadership lacking, peace activists seek creative outreach
by Patrick O'Neill
Peace and justice activists hold signs calling for societal repentance during a prayer service in front of the White House in Washington Feb. 22, 2012. (CNS/Peter Lockley)
Watching newsreel footage of rallies against the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s, one is struck by the large numbers of Catholic religious men and women who joined those protests. The antinuclear protests of the 1980s also drew many Catholics. Yet with the U.S. in the second decade of a war on terror, can the same be said of today's anti-war movement? Is there anything significant enough to be called a Catholic peace movement in the United States?
In June, at its 40th anniversary national conference in Atlanta, Pax Christi USA drew fewer than 200 people. The group that bills itself as the "national Catholic peace movement" is struggling to increase membership and raise funds. At present, Pax Christi USA includes just four full-time staff members and a part-time bookkeeper, down from the days when more than a dozen were on staff.
JustFaith Ministries, the Louisville, Ky.-based organization that provides peace-and-justice-themed faith formation resources for parishes, has seen interest in its programs level off in the last two years following nine years of growth, said founder and president Jack Jezreel.
Carole Poth, associate director of Marquette University's Center for Peacemaking in Milwaukee, said she gets few bites when she invites students to attend anti-war or peace events.
"It's a struggle finding students who are passionate about being involved in the peace movement," Poth said. "We have a lot of social justice, less peace activism."
There are myriad reasons Catholic peace activism seems to be in decline, but a major problem cited by those working for peace and justice is the lack of leadership coming from the church.
Jezreel said he has used his connections with diocesan peace and justice offices as a way to bring JustFaith programs into Catholic parishes. But Jezreel said he has fewer inroads as more and more bishops close those offices or combine them into multipurpose ministries.
Adam Brown, coordinator of the Washington, D.C.-based Roundtable Association of Catholic Diocesan Social Action Directors, said his organization has witnessed a steady decline in membership from 122 dues-paying diocesan members in 2007 to just 60 by 2012.
"The shrinking, combining and closing of social action offices has in many cases been due to budgetary constraints in dioceses," Brown said. "The faithful still hunger for social action, but the biggest problem is where the laity go if the social action office doesn't exist in their diocese or if their local priest or pastoral minister is not familiar with social justice."
JustFaith is looking toward more creative ways to do outreach, Jezreel said. He said permanent deacons "have been a great resource because they studied Catholic social teaching in their diaconate training."
In 1983, the U.S. bishops issued "The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response," a pastoral letter on war and peace. Jezreel said nothing comparable has come "from this current core of bishops as a body over the last 30 years."
Poth, 60, says her generation benefited from having been taught by nuns who instilled a hunger for the Catholic faith. "In the classroom, the sisters had a strong influence on our lives on a daily basis," Poth said. "We learned to know what we should and should not be doing and that we may need to step out of our comfort zone to do the right thing."
However, Poth said, "The priests are the key, and they're not doing it." She said she knows just one priest in her area who preaches "a nonviolent Gospel, a nonviolent Jesus."
Michael Baxter, visiting associate professor of Catholic studies at DePaul University in Chicago, said he does see interest among students in peace studies programs, but "in terms of direct opposition to war," there are fewer local organizations with less active local chapters.
"I think part of that is due to the fact that most people are not cognizant that there's a war going on," Baxter said. "They don't feel it personally because of the lack of a draft."
Baxter teaches a class on coming home from war. Of the 40 students enrolled in the class this past spring, seven were veterans of the war on terror, he said. He plans to teach the class again this fall. "People need to meet people who have been to war," he said.
Baxter said his class looks at war's human consequences, giving students "a stronger sense of the tragedy and the horror of war."
He calls "The Challenge of Peace" "the great missed opportunity in American Catholic history" because the bishops failed to condemn nuclear weapons as intrinsically evil, but instead justified them on just war grounds.
When it comes to conventional warfare, Baxter said, "pro-war Catholics have very shrewdly argued that this is a matter of prudential judgment." When the bishops fail to make the case for "principled opposition to war," he said, participation in war "becomes a matter of free choice" for Catholics, unlike the vividly clear teachings that condemn abortion and euthanasia.
In his keynote address at the Atlanta Pax Christi gathering, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton told listeners that the church's embrace of the just war theory was "a terrible tragedy in the history of Christianity."
Gumbleton, retired auxiliary bishop of Detroit, told NCR that Pax Christi's purpose is not to attract large numbers to its rolls, but to remain faithful to the Gospel of nonviolence. Pax Christi "should stay small and get more radical," he said.
Both Gumbleton and Jezreel spoke of their excitement about Pope Francis, who has spoken often and with passion about the plight of the poor and the immorality of war.
"It's still an early papacy, but he's thrown out lots of clues about where he's going," Jezreel said.
Francis has also inspired Catholic Worker Kathy Boylan, a mother of five adult sons, to promote the pope's words every Sunday when she attends Mass at Holy Redeemer Church in Washington, D.C.: She wears a smock made out of a pillowcase hand-lettered with Francis' quote: "War is suicide for humanity."
Deacon Thomas Cornell, who lives at the Peter Maurin Catholic Worker Farm in Marlboro, N.Y., said with such documents as Pacem in Terris and Gaudium et Spes, "we have all we need, on paper at least, and with Pope Francis yet more. What remains to make the Roman Catholic church a true peace church is to make these teachings known as well as the church's attitude toward abortion."
Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, said she prefers to spend her time focusing on "the mystical body concept," rather than lamenting what's going on with the church hierarchy.
In her travels, Kelly said, she meets young activists by seeking them out where they are. "If you go to the places where the works of mercy are being exercised, you see young people, fantastic young people who roll up their sleeves and undertake hard work and make sacrifices," she said. "I think it's important to look towards the ones who are really exercising their Christianity in important ways."
Stephen Dear, executive director of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, says the U.S. peace movement "doesn't really exist," and a new, broader peace movement must be established.
"I don't think we can separate issues into silos anymore," he said. "We have to connect the U.S. military empire and multinational corporate hegemony to climate change and local issues. We need fusion politics among Latino, black, Asian and white communities and interweaving among groups concerned about the environment, civil rights, militarism, economic justice, etc.
"Organizers should look outside America for new organizing models and for inspiration. Ordinary people have to sacrifice their careers and become grassroots organizers. Organizing seems like our only hope. Not prophetic witness, organizing. We need to go out and sit down with the pastors, rabbis, imams and all pastoral leaders in our communities and invite them to join our efforts. We need to ask our local government leaders to pass resolutions on these issues. We need to be creative in our hometowns and fellowship halls."
[Patrick O'Neill is a freelance writer living in Raleigh, N.C.]
This story appeared in the Aug 2-15, 2013 print issue under the headline: What peace movement? .
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Why not have a woman run a diocese?
by Phyllis Zagano
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There's been a lot of talk about women in church leadership. Any cynic will remind you not much has happened. Even so, the pope has made it clear he wants to have women where they can make a difference.
The members of the recent Synod of Bishops agreed: "An area of particular importance ... is the presence of women in ecclesial bodies at all levels, even in positions of responsibility, and the participation of women in ecclesial decision-making processes, respecting the role of the ordained ministry."
How about putting women in charge of a few dioceses?
There are dioceses all over the world without bishops. There are many competent churchwomen — chancellors, former general superiors, Catholic Charities heads, for example — who could easily run a diocese while the Congregation for Bishops and the pope decide what's best down the road. In the United States alone, there are seven or eight vacant sees. One already sets the example.
When Baltimore Archbishop William Lori became administrator of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, he appointed Bryan Minor as his "delegate of administrative affairs." Minor, a 49-year-old married father of four, was the diocese's human resources director and headed its West Virginia Catholic Foundation. Now he manages all of Wheeling-Charleston's day-to-day operations reporting to Lori, who is the last stop for major decisions and who oversees matters involving sacraments and clerics.
What is happening in West Virginia is not the same as what happens when a parish needs a leader and the bishop, following Canon 517.2, "has decided that participation in the exercise of the pastoral care of a parish is to be entrusted" to a non-priest (a deacon or a layperson). But it is similar.
Only a priest may be administrator of a diocese or a parish. But Canon 517.2 allows for pastoral life coordinators or parish life directors who supervise the parish's ministerial efforts and financial matters, contracting clerics for the parish's sacramental needs. Somewhere in the diocese, there is a canonical pastor, but in the best of scenarios, the deacon or layperson is in charge.
At last count, of some 17,000 U.S. parishes, 3,500 do not have resident priest-pastors. But only 347 have parish life directors, down from 553 in 2005, mainly due to the closing and clustering of parishes.
Why? There are competent, prayerful people well-trained to take over. Why not maintain the vibrant small parish with a deacon or a layperson to keep the community going?
And why not give dioceses (and the church universal) the benefit and inspiration of a woman caretaker while episcopal nominations and paperwork float around the Vatican?
There is too much going on in the church for bishops to be closing parishes solely for lack of priest leader-managers. There is too much going on to ignore the chance to place a woman in a major leadership role, if only temporarily.
Not everyone can run a parish. Not everyone can run a diocese. But something needs to be done to highlight the fact that women are leaders too. The people of God are asking: Why not? They are asking a lot of other questions. When there are no answers, when hope for responsible leadership and management disappears, women are out the door. And every woman who leaves the church brings her husband and children with her.
If there is to be a serious effort to salvage the sinking barque of Peter, more women need to be involved. It is as simple as that. Even San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone reported to the assembled U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that a common response to the sex abuse crisis is that it would not have happened if women were in charge.
The synod supported women in leadership but recognized such could only "be implemented through a work of courageous cultural conversion and change in daily pastoral practice."
Courage. Maybe that's what the church needs.
[Phyllis Zagano is senior research associate-in-residence at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. Her books include Women Deacons: Past, Present, Future (recently published in Canada as Des femmes diacres) and The Light of the World: Daily Meditations for Advent and Christmas.]
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Color and Light
Meet Santtu Mustonen, NYCB's 2017 Art Series Collaborator
By Terry Trucco
Dance has inspired visual artists for millennia, from the painted vases of the ancient Greeks to the lyrical Dance paintings of Henri Matisse to the avant-garde sets for the Ballets Russes by the likes of Natalia Goncharova, Michel Larionov, and Picasso. As an artist who favors the abstract, Finnish artist Santtu Mustonen looks to dance for a different kind of inspiration. Using a computer to animate his paintings, Mustonen makes art that moves—literally. Consider Metamorphosis, a 40-foot-long floating art installation whose dancing lights morph into vibrant shapes influenced by nature’s transformations. Or Assemblage, an animation with sound that turns a benign gathering of swirling black lines into an unsettling confrontation between order and chaos. “With all the tools we have, I can make a work move almost like a dancer,” says the Brooklyn-based artist. “I see a lot of connections to dance in my work.”
The connections are about to intensify. This winter, New York City Ballet’s annual Art Series returns to the David H. Koch Theater for its fifth year with a show of animations, paintings, and photographs created for NYCB by Mustonen. Like his Art Series predecessors, who include the Brooklyn art consortium FAILE, photographer and street artist JR, painter and collagist Dustin Yellin, and multidisciplinary surrealist Marcel Dzama, Mustonen has set his sights on the David H. Koch Theater Promenade, a space he has admired since seeing it while attending a performance of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® during his first visit to New York in 2008.
Mindful of the Promenade’s towering height, generous dimensions, and multiple vantage points from the different rings, Mustonen’s plans call for an animated installation that plays with scale and alters the viewer’s perceptions in an Alice in Wonderland fashion. As he explains, “There’s no ending, there’s no start. It’s just ongoing, although of course I will be changing the emotion and spatial feeling of the space. It’s a piece where you can choose to get just a little glimpse or jump into the rabbit hole and experience it all.”
The experience began unfolding months ago in Mustonen’s airy white studio in Bushwick. Mustonen took a break from his work to talk about his art, his affinity for the dance, and life growing up in a tiny town in central Finland. Blanketing a large worktable were small paintings on paper bristling with abstract patterns and shapes in bright, limpid hues. Taped to the wall, a large acrylic rendering of an undulating wave in yellows and Egyptian blues exudes the sense of movement and energy that fascinates Mustonen and characterizes his work, whether animated or not.
“I like the action of making a mark,” he says, doodling to illustrate the point as the delicate music of harpist Mary Lattimore plays in the background. “What’s going on is the motion, and it’s beautiful. The mark is just proof of the beautiful action.” A proponent of monotonic movement and organic patterns, he likes to home in on subjects like water rippling or walking and recast them in the realm of the surreal in his paintings. Other influences are natural science and the idea of visualizing emotions like excitement, suspense, and distortion. Though his earliest work consisted of drawings, comics, and realistic imagery, Mustonen embraced abstract art because, as he explains, “I love to give the freedom to decide for yourself what it is. You can choose whether it looks scary or fascinating or whatever. And when you don’t build a story, you think of other things. Is it blurry? Is it sharp? How does it come together?”
Mustonen was drawn to the arts from an early age. “My brother was the son who played hockey, and I was the son who did figure skating,” he says with a laugh, adding that he studied dance, and ballet briefly, to improve his skating. But his interests in building things and painting prevailed, leading him to pursue industrial design at university, first in Helsinki then in Amsterdam. He eventually decided the profession was not for him. Armed with a grant from the Finnish Cultural Institute, he flew to New York in 2011 and immersed himself in the art world. His current CV includes gallery shows, a festive light installation on the facade of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and animations for the 2015 Academy Awards and MTV Video Music Awards.
In many ways, Mustonen has never strayed from his first loves of painting and building. Whether with acrylics or an airbrush, painting is the source of everything he creates. And while he admits his favorite style of painting is when it can be made to move, he is adamant that every animation grows from a painting. As for building, he views his painting style as a type of construction, whether it’s by assembling small airbrushed particles or bringing together larger images to create something new. (He also builds things in a literal sense, as evidenced by the sleek black bicycle in his studio that he designed and assembled.)
Mustonen is no stranger to the Koch Theater. He attended Art Series for the past two years and cites Jerome Robbins’ Glass Pieces as a favorite work. Asked about the opportunity to stage a solo show of his own in NYCB’s Lincoln Center home, he just smiles. “I was dreaming of doing this someday,” he says.
The Most Incredible Thing is made possible by support from the New Combinations Fund, and other generous donors. For information about contributing to new work at NYCB contact Caroline Poe at 212-870-4024.
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Life sentence affirmed for woman who killed adult daughter with crucifix
By Theresa Braine
Juanita Gomez is seated at the defense table in Oklahoma County District Court in Oklahoma City, Okla. before being found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2016 death of her 33-year-old daughter Geneva Gomez. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has affirmed Thursday, April 18, 2019, the life sentence for Gomez, convicted of killing her daughter by forcing a crucifix and medallion down her throat because she believed the woman was possessed by the devil. (STEVE SISNEY/AP)
A woman who killed her adult daughter by shoving a crucifix and a religious medallion down her throat to rid her of the devil she thought was inside will spend the rest of her life behind bars.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday upheld the conviction for first-degree murder of Juanita Gomez, 52, in the death of her daughter, 33-year-old Geneva Gomez, in 2016. This affirmed the life sentence without possibility of parole handed down last year.
Gomez forced a crucifix and medallion down her daughter’s throat, believing she was possessed by the devil, the Associated Press reported. Originally found guilty in January 2018, she appealed. The court affirmed the verdict and sentence on Thursday.
Geneva Gomez’s boyfriend found her bloody, beaten, spread-eagled body splayed on the floor of her mother’s house after the Jan. 11, 2016, murder, The Oklahoman reported in January 2018 during the trial. A crucifix had been placed on her chest.
“She was lying on the floor with her arms open and you couldn't recognize her,” testified her boyfriend, Francisco Merlos, according to The Oklahoman. “You couldn’t recognize her face at all.”
Juanita Gomez pleaded not guilty and feigned memory problems to try and appear incompetent to stand trial. But a court-appointed forensic psychologist didn’t buy it, reported The Oklahoman, saying she “was grossly feigning memory problems to appear incompetent.”
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Jul 17th - 5:37 pm
Posted by Nick Reisman in [...]
The Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced Wednesday to life behind bars in a U.S. prison, a humbling end for a drug lord notorious for his ability to kill, bribe or tunnel his way out of trouble.
New Yorkers are being urged to take precaution as temperatures are expected to soar above 90 degrees for most of the rest of the week.
A bill expanding labor rights for farmworkers was approved by Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday, but the new law is not setting well with the state’s struggling agriculture industry.
A multi-million-dollar project in downtown Saratoga is expected to help many people in need throughout the community, including the men and women who work countless hours on the backstretch.
Congress voted largely along party lines Tuesday to condemn President Donald Trump’s inflammatory tweets.
Just before chants of “Fire Pantaleo” echoed across the plaza outside City Hall, Mayor de Blasio was headed for the exit. He did not stick around to hear this.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill that will require unregulated summer camps to tell parents they are operating without a license.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul is blocking a vote for the bill extending the Sept. 11 victims compensation fund, saying he wants to add an amendment to ensure it is fully funded.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is showing no signs of getting involved in the Mount Vernon mayoral dispute, saying he’s unaware of the situation.
State GOP Chairman Challenges Battleground Dems On Impeachment
Posted by Nick Reisman in Republicans
New York Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy in a statement on Wednesday blasted the effort by some Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives to push an impeachment resolution of President Donald Trump.
In the statement, Langworthy singled out Democrats who represent swing districts in New York City and upstate New York to vote against the resolution: Reps. Max Rose, Sean Patrick Maloney, Antonio Delgado and Anthony Brindisi.
“Democrats are drunk with their obsession of trying to take out our President and they’ll stop at nothing to win,” Langworthy said.
“Voting ‘no’ won’t cut it; it’s time for these members to stop wasting taxpayers’ time and money and get to work for the American people instead of these cheap political stunts. If they fail to do what’s right, we’re going to make sure they’re held accountable by the voters who are sick and tired of the nonsense.”
The impeachment resolution is not expected to pass, but presents a challenge to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s efforts to stave off the push as well as a challenge to Democrats who represent districts that do not back proceeding with the effort.
The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a separate resolution condemning tweets sent by the president over the weekend as racist, criticizing newly elected Democratic women and telling them to “go back” to their ancestral countries.
Binghamton Mayor Meets With Trump
Binghamton Mayor Rich David on Tuesday met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office amid talk of a potential congressional campaign.
David was in Washington with other local officials from the northeast to meet with the president about federal and local government concerns. The trio was organized by the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs as part of Northeast Regional State Leadership Day.
“It was an honor and a privilege to meet with a sitting president in the Oval Office, representing Binghamton residents,” David said.
“President Trump took a personal interest in making sure top federal officials were accessible and responsive to counties, cities and towns. I shared Binghamton’s needs in infrastructure, housing affordability and economic development with the President and White House officials — literally the top policymakers in government. Local elected officials seldom have that type of opportunity. When decisions are made in Washington, communities like Binghamton must be kept in mind.”
A Republican source said Wednesday David is one of several potential candidates for the GOP nomination in the 22nd congressional district, flipped to the Democratic column last year by Rep. Anthony Brindisi.
Former Rep. Claudia Tenney is also considering a campaign. Republican Broome County District Attorney Steve Cornwell and George Phillips have previously launched bids for the seat.
Stewart-Cousins Taking National Democratic Leadership Post
Posted by Nick Reisman in State Senate
Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is set to become the next chairwoman of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee — a party organization that works to elect Democratic lawmakers to state legislatures in the country.
The group pointed to Stewart-Cousins’s distinction as the first women conference leader in Albany and the first woman to become majority leader in the state Senate.
“Leader Stewart-Cousins has proven to be a trailblazing leader as the first woman to lead a legislative conference in New York and a fierce campaigner by flipping the New York Senate. As the new Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee Chair, Stewart-Cousins will help us blaze a new blue trail across the country as Democrats fight to flip state chambers blue,” said DLCC President Jessica Post. “With redistricting and the very future of our democracy on the line, the stakes could not be higher — and with Stewart-Cousins as chair, we’ll be ready to meet the challenge.”
Democrats gained control of the state Senate last year and over the first six months of 2019 approved a raft of long-sought legislation for progressives.
The ideological political battleground in many ways has shifted to state capitals, with single-party rule taking hold in all state legislatures with the exception of Minnesota.
“State legislatures are the last line of defense for Americans against the Trump Administration. In just the past few months, New York has seen historic progressive change, and that was only possible because we won control of the State Senate and finally turned our state ‘true blue,’” Stewart-Cousins said.
“Together, with my colleagues on the DLCC Board of Directors, I look forward to helping more states elect Democratic majorities that will stand up to Donald Trump and protect our rights and values.”
Cuomo Approves New Labor Rights For Farmworkers
Jul 17th - 12:49 pm
Posted by Nick Reisman in Andrew Cuomo
New labor rights for farmworkers in New York that will allow them to collect overtime and collectively bargain was signed into law on Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
“The farmworkers bill is not just a great achievement in terms of the effect on the human condition,” Cuomo said. “It’s also a milestone in the crusade for social justice. It truly is a moment for reflection and celebration.”
The new law also includes a day of rest requirement as well as unemployment insurance requirements.
The governor, flanked by Democratic sponsors of the bill, his daughters and ex-wife Kerry Kennedy who had been a long-time advocate for the legislation, approved the measure at The Daily News in New York City. Cuomo cited the newspaper’s advocacy for the bill, which has been staunchly opposed by agriculture industry groups.
“This is a powerful, practical achievement, even more significant in the era of President Trump who continually diminishes workers’ rights, who continually attacks labor unions, disrespects the disenfranchised and has made ‘divide and conquer’ rather than ‘unify and grow’ the credo of America,” Cuomo said. “But the farmworkers bill has additional significance.”
Cuomo also praised Kennedy’s work on the measure and inspiring their daughters to take up the cause as well.
“Kerry even enlisted our daughters, who went Albany to protest and advocate for the bill’s passage every year,” he said.
He added with a smile, “Our youngest daughter Michaela, wrote a letter to a Democratic senator who refused to support the bill even after campaigning saying she would support the bill. Not that I remember those things.”
While the legislation’s passage by the Legislature last month was hailed as a victory for farmworkers, business groups blasted the approval and the bill signing today.
Farms in upstate New York have gotten larger as their overall numbers have shrunk — a sign of consolidation in a struggling industry. Farmers, especially small operators, worry the new requirements for workers will lead to more farms going out of business or being put up for sale.
“Today’s signing of the new farm labor mandates is another blow to the upstate economy,” said Michael Kracker, the executive director of Unshackle Upstate.
“New York State has lost thousands of farms in recent years and under these new mandates, more closures and job losses are on the way. Additionally, families will pay more for farm goods at the grocery store and their local farmers market. This bill sends a message that New York is definitely not open for business.”
Challenger Calls On Erie County Executive To Reimburse Taxpayers For Security Detail
Jul 17th - 11:52 am
Posted by Ryan Whalen in 2019
Democratic Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz has had a visible security detail with him at public events since late-March.
His Republican-endorsed opponent Lynne Dixon is calling into question the use of that detail over Independence Day weekend. Dixon said on July 3 and 4, Poloncarz campaigned while walking in six parades in Western New York.
At each of those events, she said he had the taxpayer funded detail and in at least one parade, a county vehicle. Dixon said her opponent’s recent campaign finance report showed no reimbursement to the county for the resources.
“This is an abuse of taxpayer dollars and an abuse of his position as County Executive. These things aren’t his own personal perk as County Executive that he can use however he wants,” she said. “I’m calling on the County Executive to reimburse county taxpayers for the cost incurred to them on July 3rd and July 4th, when he misused county personnel and a county vehicle to benefit his campaign.”
Dixon complained there has been no details about the status of any investigation, which led to law enforcement providing the detail. She said if there is a credible threat to Poloncarz’s safety, than it could be dangerous to others as well.
The candidate called on the county executive and Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard to answer questions on the matter. A spokesperson for Howard declined to comment on whether the Poloncarz campaign should reimburse the county.
“Law enforcement agencies did deem credible threats, hence the security detail,” ECSO Public Information Officer Scott Zylka said.
County spokesperson Pete Anderson said Zylka’s recognition of the threat answered Dixon’s questions. He did not address the issue of reimbursement.
Erie County Republican Board of Elections Commissioner Ralph Mohr said under New York State Election law, any use of government resources for a campaign should be reported and reimbursed. He said it could not be reported as an in kind contribution because government entities are not allowed to contribute to campaigns.
However, he said without knowing more information, he could not say for sure whether the security detail was technically in aid of the campaign. Mohr said that ruling would be up to the state Board of Elections.
We’ve reached out to the state BOE for more details.
New York, New Jersey And Connecticut Sue To Protect SALT Workaround
Three of the states affected by the federal government’s $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions have filed a lawsuit in federal court to protect a workaround for taxpayers.
The lawsuit filed by New York, New Jersey and Connecticut comes after Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other governors from high-tax states have railed against the limit, part of a federal tax law overhaul.
The timing of the lawsuit was triggered by the Internal Revenue Service blocked the ability of states to create charitable vehicles for taxpayers to pay local taxes to and avoid the $10,000 cap.
In a statement, Cuomo called the IRS determination “entirely unacceptable.”
“Today we are filing an additional lawsuit with New Jersey and Connecticut in the Southern District of New York challenging the IRS’s final rule that undermines states’ efforts to protect our taxpayers against the unprecedented, unlawful and politically motivated capping of the SALT deduction,” Cuomo said in a statement.
“The final IRS rule flies in the face of a century of federal tax law that says state choices to provide tax incentives for charitable donations do not affect the federal deductibility of those gifts. It will—for the first time and solely in the name of retribution—require taxpayers to subtract the value of state or local tax credits from their federal charitable deduction.”
Reed Open To Considering Support For “Red Light Act”
Jul 17th - 5:35 am
From The Morning Memo:
New York lawmakers and the governor expected legal objections to the state’s new Green Light law from President Donald Trump’s administration.
There appears to be some congressional pushback to the law which grants driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, as well. Legislation introduced by Rep. Chris Collins to withhold federal highway funding from states that allow the driver’s licenses could have support from another New York Republican, although he wouldn’t make a formal commitment.
“I’ve seen what Chris Collins is discussing,” Congressman Tom Reed said. “I’ve talked to him on the floor in regards to it and we’ll see because I didn’t see the final text.”
Reed said he would be “very open to considering supporting” Collins’s Red Light Act because he is opposed to the Green Light Bill.
“I am opposed to the giving of licenses to illegal immigrants,” he said. “I think that is part of an extreme agenda that doesn’t get to the issue at hand and could lead to more danger on our roads to be perfectly honest with you.”
Reed will probably not get a chance to officially support the legislation. With a Democratic congress, it seems unlikely the bill will even reach the floor for a vote.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s spokesman Jason Conwall said it is “nothing more than political grandstanding” from Collins “who’s been indicted on felony charges” and knows the bill has no chance of passing.
Debate Over House Resolution Condemning Trump Turns Bitter
Posted by Nick Reisman in Democrats
A resolution condemning President Donald Trump’s posts on Twitter criticizing freshman members of the House of Representatives were condemned as racist by the Democratic-led chamber on Tuesday.
But the vote, largely on party lines save for four Republicans, largely devolved into a partisan squabble over rules amid a bitter political dispute over the direction of the country.
Several New York Republicans have criticized Trump’s remarks as “wrong” and inappropriate after he told the four lawmakers — all of whom are of color and American citizens — to “go back” to their countries of origin. Only one of the four is an immigrant, and she became a naturalized citizen more than a decade ago.
But on Tuesday, none of the GOP lawmakers from New York backed the resolution, which condemned Trump’s remarks as racist.
“Today’s flawed resolution is nothing more than the Democrat leadership kowtowing to their most radical members,” said Onondaga County Republican Chairman Tom Dadey.
“Congress has serious issues that must be dealt with which include securing our borders and fixing our immigration laws. I applaud Congressman John Katko for recognizing this political grandstanding by the Congressional Democrats and voting ‘no’.”
Democratic Rep. Grace Meng of Queens saw it differently.
“President Trump’s comments are racist and his vile rants on Twitter are beyond the pale, and show his callous disregard for the office he holds. He has not apologized, shown any remorse, and doubled down on his disgusting remarks,” she said.
“As an American, I am appalled by the President’s actions these past few days and the weak responses by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. We can disagree with each other, but to tell someone to ‘go back’ is morally reprehensible. Today, our message is clear: Mr. President, shame on you.”
Good morning and happy Wednesday! It’s almost the end of the week. We’re almost there.
It’s going to be hot, steamy and rainy today.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in New York City and Albany today.
Happening today:
At 8 a.m., New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams will appear on Democracy Now!
At 9:25 a.m., Mayor de Blasio will appear live on HOT 97.
At 10 a.m., Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will represent New York at the National Lieutenant Governor’s Association’s annual meeting, Hotel DuPont, 42 W. 11th St., Wilmington, DE.
At 10:30 a.m., Gov. Cuomo will make an announcement, 4 New York Plaza, New York City.
At 11 a.m., Mayor de Blasio will hold a news conference on the extreme heat, New York City Emergency Management, 165 Cadman Plaza E, Brooklyn.
Also at 11 a.m., Riders, advocates and elected officials will rally for an MTA capital plan, Pershing Square Plaza in front of Grand Central Terminal E, New York City.
At noon, Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia will deliver remarks at the NYSED Early Learning Summer Institute, 432 Western Ave., Albany.
At 4 p.m., Public Advocate Jumaane Williams will speak at the We Are Eric Garner Rally, Foley Square, New York City.
At 6 p.m., Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer will hold a public hearing on the East Coastal Resilience project, Mt. Sinai Beth Israel’s Pavilion, 10 Nathan D. Perlman Place, New York City.
At 8 p.m., Bronx Democrats will hold their county dinner, 1 Marina Drive, the Bronx.
After a day full of partisan bickering, the House of Representatives condemned the president for making racist remarks against four of its members.
A new study from a Queens College professor found housing policy has further segregated communities.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is adding additional staff to his presidential campaign. The move comes after what he called a successful fundraising effort.
Although he’s not up for re-election until 2022, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is continuing to rake in big money after spending more than $25 million last year to defeat progressive challenger Cynthia Nixon in a primary and Republican Marc Molinaro in the general election.
The fundraising comes as a commission is considering a radical alteration of how campaign money is raised and spent in New York
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Staten Island Council Member Debi Rose joined Errol Louis to weigh in on the Justice Department’s decision not to file charges in the Eric Garner case and the growing calls for Mayor de Blasio to fire Officer Daniel Pantaleo.
When it comes to the sanctuary city debate, many residents in Troy have an opinion. But soon residents could have not only a voice, but also a vote on this issue.
Legislation to temporarily halt schools from purchasing or implementing biometric security technology, like facial recognition software, overwhelmingly passed the state Assembly this legislative session, but it’s not expected to become law.
The legal age to purchase tobacco and e-cigarettes in New York will soon be raised from 18 to 21 as Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the measure on Tuesday into law.
The town of Vernon Planning Board has denied the appeal of Woodstock 50 to host the festival at Vernon Downs.
Middletown Mayor Joseph DeStefano confirms ICE agents were in Middletown Monday. He says the federal agency notified police they were looking for an individual who was not wanted on a criminal or judicial warrant.
It’s a vital highway that links the north to the south, from Canada to Tenessee. But the current plan to rebuild Interstate-81 isn’t sitting well with local leaders.
Oneida Shores Beach is now closed to swimming due to high levels of E. coli, according to the Onondaga County Department of Health.
The death of the toddler at the University Avenue Tim Hortons is raising a lot questions about the relatively unsecured nature of the grease trap.
If you’ve ever had a boot put on your car and didn’t understand why: you’re not alone. Buffalo Common Council members discussed “predatory booting” Tuesday.
The Dean of Science at RPI was 13 years old when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. The historic mission turned Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names.
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John Paul Stevens, the bow-tied, independent-thinking, Republican-nominated justice who unexpectedly emerged as the Supreme Court’s leading liberal, died Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after suffering a stroke Monday. He was 99.
Facebook’s cryptocurrency was pitched to federal government regulators, who are taking an increased interest in the social media giant’s plans, stunned they were not preparing more to combat laundering.
Newly released federal data shows the scale of the opioid addiction crisis and how U.S. drug companies flooded the market.
President Trump’s comments criticizing members of Congress and telling them to “go back” could be used against him in court challenges.
President Trump’s battles with “the squad” and efforts to link them to Democrats is being seen as setting the tone for the 2020 election.
Republican officeholders have very little wiggle room: Back Trump or face his wrath.
Planned Parenthood has ousted its president amid a disagreement over the future direction of the group as the abortion debate moves to statehouses around the country.
Iran has rejected the prospect raised by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo it is wiling to negotiate over its missile program.
Twenty Democratic candidates will appear on stage the party’s CNN debate in Detroit.
From the editorial pages:
The New York Times calls for the firing of Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who will not face federal charges in the death of Eric Garner.
The New York Post says federal prosecutors were right not to charge Pantaleo in the case, a decision the editorial board believes should have been reached years ago.
The Daily News takes issue with the NYPD’s “endless blackbox” disciplinary process that has delayed the resolution of the Garner case.
The Times Union writes Congress should “stand firm” on efforts to ban PFAS from firefighting chemicals on military bases.
From the sports pages:
The Mets edged the Twins, 3-2.
The Yanks beat the Rays, 8-3, thanks to some timely homers.
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Health|Ethicists Call for More Scrutiny of ‘Human-Challenge’ Trials
Ethicists Call for More Scrutiny of ‘Human-Challenge’ Trials
A syringe holding an experimental Zika vaccine at the University of Maryland Medical Center. A controversial study in which volunteers are to be infected with Zika has prompted calls for more stringent review of “human-challenge” trials.CreditCreditNoah Scialom for The New York Times
By Emily Baumgaertner
WASHINGTON — Members of a government ethics panel have renewed their criticisms of a controversial study in which volunteers are to be deliberately infected with the Zika virus.
In an article published this month in the journal Science, panel members called for the establishment of ethics committees to review the design of such human-challenge studies, which are sometimes used to test vaccines.
“There is no way to turn back time,” said Ms. Seema Shah, a bioethicist at the University of Washington who chaired the panel and is a co-author of the new paper.
“When you’re asking someone to take a risk that won’t benefit them but may benefit others in the future, you need to know two things — that proper protections are in place, and that it’s really going to move the needle.”
With funding from the National Institutes of Health, the investigators plan to inoculate participants with potential vaccines and then to inject them with small doses of the Zika virus to test the vaccines’ effectiveness. The N.I.H. has not yet decided whether the research will proceed.
The scientists leading the trial say it is necessary to prevent a future epidemic. But Ms. Shah and other bioethicists convened by the N.I.H. concluded in 2017 that the research had “insufficient value” to justify the risks.
People outside the study, such as sexual partners, might also be infected, the panel said. And Zika infection might have unspecified consequences for participants in the long term.
But scientists in charge of the study said the panel’s concerns were hypothetical and did not take into account the proposed protocol. They plan to use minimal doses of Zika virus and to quarantine patients in a hospital inpatient unit.
The study also would start by enrolling only women — who are less likely to transmit Zika sexually — and would require them to use long-term birth control.
“It’s really insulting,” said Dr. Stephen Whitehead, a vaccine researcher at the N.I.H., said of the panel’s decision. “We’ve been painted as mad scientists who do horrible studies on human beings. But we’re on top of all these risks.”
Human-challenge studies are only conducted at a small number of institutions in the United States. The trials have been used to test vaccines or treatments for dengue, malaria, influenza and norovirus, among other diseases.
Natural Zika outbreaks are becoming too sporadic to test vaccines, so until the next large outbreak, a human-challenge study may be the only way for vaccine developers to proceed.
“This ethics consultation was debilitating for the whole community,” said Dr. Anna Durbin, a research clinician at Johns Hopkins University who collaborated on the study’s design. “It really slammed the door on progress.”
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Home Impact Stories
Real Stories/Lives Changed
by Angela Sanders
"I will lead the blind by a way they did not know… I will turn darkness to light in front of them and rough places into level ground." Isaiah 42:16
Exceptionally self-aware and poised, sixteen-year-old Sherydan is as careful with her words as she is with the second fresh start God gave her. Grateful for the unconditional love she's been shown by the patient and attentive adults of Oklahoma Baptist Homes for Children (OBHC), Sherydan is determined to follow God's path for her life from now on, one careful step at a time.
A small-town girl, Sherydan found the initial transition to OBHC and a large school challenging. "I was kind of shy at first," Sherydan says, "but at OBHC, I learned how to open up to people. Once I was here for a while and got to know them, it was easier than I thought."
"I did really well the first year and had fun." Sherydan said. "I was actually planning to leave OBHC and go home over that summer, but then I messed up. I don't even really know why. It was stupid, and it undid a whole lot of hard work."
Following her poor choices, Sherydan was both surprised and relieved to find OBHC caseworkers were willing to walk her through a rough patch. "They let me stay," she laughs, still unbelieving. "I pretty much had to start all over again, but they helped me. They did whatever it took."
"I spent a long time dealing with the consequences of an impulsive decision, but I learned a lot from it." Sherydan continues, "The whole experience was a turning point for me. If I was able to go so long doing well, then just change course like I did, I realized there was something in me that needed to be fixed. I knew I had to get my stuff together."
Sherydan accepted Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior the following July. "I got saved at Falls Creek and was baptized the week after we got back," Sherydan says. "It's made a big difference in my life. It allows me look at the other side of things and make the best decisions. My faith helps me fight temptation and enables me to be a better influence on the other girls in my cottage. I've been in my cottage longest, so I have a lot of influence. If I do something, then that lets them think it's okay to do it, so I want to be very careful."
Sherydan plans to stay at OBHC through graduation. "It's just better for me here," Sherydan says. "I have always been one to have big goals. I always want to do well. I realize that if I am going to achieve my goals, I have to put myself in a position to achieve them. If I went home, there would be pressure and temptation to do things like I used to, but that isn't going to get me anywhere. Here, I have an opportunity to do things differently and actually achieve my goals."
Understandably, Sherydan isn't sure what she wants to be when she grows up or where she wants to go to college, but she knows herself very well and is making wise choices which will set her up for future success. "I'm thinking about working in the medical field," Sherydan confides. "I'm taking Health Sciences Tech in school, where I get a chance to discover which part of the medical field I want to be in. I get to practice different things to see what I want to do. Then, whichever one I pick, I will get to spend half the day there during your senior year. For college, I think it would be best for me to go to a smaller school first and get my Associates degree, then I think I'll be ready for a bigger school."
Sherydan is grateful for the opportunity to take life one step at a time with a safety net of OBHC nearby. To those who have provided the safety net through their financial gifts, Sherydan says, "Thank you so much! I know you don't know us or always get to see what's going on, so I want to tell you that you're doing a really good thing. I've learned so much here, like how to be forgiving and stay positive when things are bad. I'm getting along with my family great now, too. I used to say I didn't care what they thought, but I do. Now, they tell me they're proud of me all the time, and it feels so good. You've changed my life."
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Sales Launch at 77 Greenwich - First Look Inside the Downtown Tower
May 13, 2019 by Jeremy Lindy in Real Estate
77 Greenwich, the new residential tower designed by a world-class team of local design talent, including FXCollaborative (the architecture firm behind the new Statue of Liberty Museum) and Deborah Berke Partners (the lauded designer who crafted the interiors at 432 Park Avenue) has officially launched sales. In addition, a set of brand new renderings is now available, which offers a first look inside the sculptural tower, which is bringing 90 condominium residences, retail space and a new public elementary school to the heart of Lower Manhattan.
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“It’s such an exciting time to live in Downtown Manhattan,” said Matthew Messinger, CEO of Trinity Place Holdings. “Inspired by the pulse and energy of this thriving area, we assembled a talented team of local collaborators to create 77 Greenwicha building for New Yorkers by New Yorkers—which offers an outstanding collection of well-appointed homes in one of the city’s most vibrant and evolving neighborhoods.”
Topping out at 500 feet, the 42-story building features a pleated glass curtain wall façade that provides sprawling water views from each of the residences—which begin nearly 150 feet above street level—and rises from a cast stone base that nods to its historic neighbors and location. 77 Greenwich also includes the preservation and restoration of the neighboring Robert & Anne Dickey House, a historic landmark built in 1810 that is one of the last remaining Federal-style buildings in New York City, which will be seamlessly incorporated into a new elementary school.
“Our work at 77 Greenwich is exacting but warm. Its modern design elevates the rituals of daily life with rich, highly tactile materials and thoughtful layouts that reflect the best of contemporary living,” said Stephen Brockman, a partner at Deborah Berke Partners.
The Marketing Directors is the exclusive sales and marketing agent for 77 Greenwich. Pricing begins at $1,780,000 for a one-bedroom residence. For more information, please visit www.77greenwich.com or call (212) 514-7700 to arrange a viewing of the Sales Gallery located at 17 State Street, 21st Floor, New York, NY 10004.
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Hungaricana
Hungaricana is a common portal of Hungarian archives, museums and libraries operated by the Library of the Hungarian Parliament. Hungaricana aggregates and presents the results of various digitization projects financed by the NKA (National Cultural Fund for Hungary) in the past years and aims at preserving as well as publishing the cultural heritage of Hungary on a single unified site. Until today more than 100 Hungarian and foreign institutions have contributed to the project by sharing their digitized content including databases, archive records, documents, images, maps and postcards on the Hungaricana portal.
Among a wealth of Hungaricana digital holdings we find many hundred thousand digitized pages of our library’s Hungarian Parliamentary Collection. Verbatim reports of plenary debates from 1861 to 1990, parliamentary almanacs from 1884 to 1939 as well as standing orders, budgets and final accounts dating back to 1848 are all accessible on the portal.
Rare books and manuscripts
The Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection consists of approximately 8000 volumes covering various subject areas ranging from law, politics, legislation, public administration and history to geography, economics, theology, military sciences and literature. There are 25 books in the collection published in the 16th century and a significant slice of the collection dates from the 17-18th century including first editions of laws, regulations and comprehensive works on church law, private law, constitutional law or public law.
An MP and established book collector, Ignác Ghyczy’s (1799–1870) bequest also serves as a remarkable part of the collection. 14,500 volumes of his priceless private collection were donated by his heirs to the then Library of the House of Representatives in 1872. Our rare books related to Hungarian parliamentarism come from Pressburg county magistrate and parliamentary envoy, György Gyurikovits’ (1780–1848) bequest and are available for use in the Hungarian Parliamentary Collection.
Our oldest book is a 1517 edition of István Werbőczy’s Tripartitum. Further highly valuable volumes in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection are Bonfini’s Rerum Ungaricum edited by János Zsámboki (1581), Ortelius’ Theatrum orbis terrarum (1595), Ferenc Nádasdi’s Mausoleum (1664) and Articuli of the Ónod Diet (1707).
Repository of Architectural Plans
A major part of the Repository is composed of plans designed prior to and during the construction of the House of Parliament, that is between the 1880s and the turn of the 20th century. In the digital collection you may browse all the original architectural plans and detail drawings, including floor and site plans, elevation drawings as well as prints, conceived by reputable design companies working under the supervision of Steindl himself. The plans are diverse with respect to carrier material and drawing technique: in the collection you may find paper as well as canvas sheets of black ink, coloured ink and pencil drawings.
The Repository is made complete by official documents and papers in relation with the construction of the House. In the papers you may encounter the names of renowned craftsmen and artists such as Vilmos Zsolnay, Miksa Róth, Endre Thék, Gyula Jungfer or Mátyás Zellerin. In addition, the Repository includes the construction documents and architectural plans of the National Assembly’s Tenement House in Balassi Street created by the above mentioned workshops and masters.
The unique collection of architectural plans was secured against the 1944 siege in the air-raid shelter of the National Archives. As a result of our latest digitization project, the entire holdings have now become available for research to the general public, while the physical collection was moved back into the Parliament’s building until 1947, where it has been preserved and maintained ever since by the Technical Department of the Office of the National Assembly.
The Image and Audiovisual Repository of the Museum of the National Assembly has been established to facilitate the activities of the Museum, the Directorate of Cultural Affairs and the entire Office of the National Assembly in relation to research, exhibition methodology, publishing and events management respectively.
As a primary source of research, the virtual archive focusses mainly on the past and present of Hungarian parliamentarism and encompasses predominantly digital images depicting historical as well as contemporary events, venues, buildings, artefacts, documents and people. These include portraits of MPs, speakers, historical figures, pictures of events referring to the House and Kossuth tér, along with the construction and art history of the Parliament’s building.
Furthermore, the Image Repository serves as the institutional archive of the Museum of the National Assembly and, as such, one of its chief objectives is to reconstruct the collection of the bygone first Parliamentary Museum and to collect and publish all the visual materials relevant to the research activities and exhibitions of the current Museum.
Digitized Parliamentary Database (DTT)
We have digitized 2 million pages of 5272 volumes under the Digitized Parliamentary Database Project. Among digitized documents there are important documents of and literature on public administration, history, Hungary’s policies affecting Hungarian communities abroad and the National Assembly, including outstanding works of noted authors. Our focus was mostly on works of the 1867-1945 period due, among other things, to copyright constraints.
A great part of legal periodicals published before 1945 has been digitized. The digitized holdings of primary sources of law (gazettes and law reports) have considerably been increased. Full runs of major law reports have also been digitized.
From among official gazettes, we digitized the most important ministerial gazettes (home affairs, justice, foreign affairs, agriculture, education and culture).
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A former nursing instructor at Camosun College is banned from nursing for at least the next four years for a series of inappropriate photos he took while on a field study trip abroad with his students. (File Photo)
Former B.C. nursing instructor banned after photographing students in bathing suits
Stephen Bishop can’t apply for a nursing license for at least four years
Nina Grossman
Jul. 5, 2019 11:45 a.m.
A former Camosun College nursing instructor who took hundreds of photos of students in their bathing suits is no longer legally permitted to practice nursing in B.C.
Stephen Bishop was hired by Camosun College in 1999 and was an instructor and department chair at the college when he chaperoned a five-week field study trip to the Philippines with nursing students in spring 2016. According to a media release from the B.C. College of Nursing Professionals (BCCNP), Bishop took hundreds of pictures of his students “in their bathing suits while they were swimming or sunbathing, and/or when they may have been unaware that they were being photographed.”
He also made inappropriate comments to and about the students.
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Student complaints led to an internal Camosun-led investigation and Bishop’s resignation from the school in December 2016.
“The well being and safety of students at Camosun College is taken very seriously,” said Rodney Porter, executive director of communications for Camosun College.
Bishop did not renew his nursing registration that year and according to BCCNP, hasn’t practised since.
A consent agreement with BCCNP, approved June 19, includes an agreement with Bishop that he won’t apply for reinstatement of registration for at least four years – and if he does, he will have to meet requirements for character, competence and fitness to practice, following specified court work.
The BCCNP said it’s satisfied the measures will protect the public.
nina.grossman@blackpress.ca
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Hideki Matsui Biography
Professional baseball player
Hideki Matsui
Born June 12, 1974, in Neagar, Ishikawa, Japan; son of Masao Matsui (a reverend).
Addresses: Contact —New York Yankees, Yankee Stadium, 161st St., Bronx, NY, 10451.
Played in National High School Baseball Championship teams throughout high school; Yomiuri Giants, 1992–2002; New York Yankees, 2003–.
Awards: Most Valuable Player, Japanese Central League, 1996, 2000, 2002; won Japan Series (with Yomiuri Giants), 1994, 2000, 2002; Manjiro Adventurer Award, Manjiro Historic Friendship Society, 2004; Golden Players Club (for 2,000 career hits), Japan, 2007.
Hideki Matsui was a nine-time All Star player in Japan, playing for the country's most popular baseball team, the Yomiuri Giants, but in 2003, he announced his status as a free agent and ended up signing a three-year, $21 million major league contract. At the age of 28 Matsui (pronounced He-deck-ee Ma-soo-ee), one of Japan's most celebrated baseball stars, was heading to the United States to play for the New York Yankees. Matsui is noted and praised for his humility in the face of his extreme popularity. On the day he announced his departure from Japanese baseball, Robert Whiting of Time International reported that "Matsui bowed his head and apologized profusely to team management, teammates, and the fans. And then he expressed more contrition for his selfishness. At one point, on the verge of tears, he said: 'I hope people don't think I'm a traitor.'"
Matsui, nicknamed Godzilla by Japanese fans for his powerhouse hitting style, was born on June 12, 1974, in Neagar, Ishikawa, Japan. He is the younger of two sons of Masao, a reverend teacher of a Shinto-based religion. From early on it was apparent that Matsui was a talented athlete. The combination of his father's religious teaching and his mother's athletic legacy (as a teenager she was a star volleyball player) seems to have worked well to form Matsui into a committed sportsman with a sense of humility. Growing up he earned a first-degree black belt in judo—a Japanese martial art. He placed first in a local sumo tournament. But where Matsui really excelled was "yakyu" (Japanese baseball), so much so that he had to handicap himself against older players. Batting left-handed, Matsui continued to be a powerful hitter.
He attended Seiryo High School in Kanazawa. The school was famous for producing baseball players, and Matsui continued to add to the school's legend- ary status. He played in the National High School Baseball Championship four times. His abilities at the bat made him a common target of walking by pitchers and teams fearful of his homerun hits. The last time he played the High School Championship, he was walked five times. Time International 's Whiting reported, "His stoic, impassive behavior during those at bats drew great praise…. [He] … credited his restraint to a severe public slapping he had received from his junior high school coach for throwing a bat in anger…. 'It was a valuable lesson for me,' he said. 'From that day on, I resolved never to lose control of my emotions in a game again.'"
In 1992, right out of high school, Matsui was drafted by the Yomiuri Giants. He played center field and was a star batter. When he debuted in the Central League on the Giants team, he was 18 years old. He spent the next ten seasons dedicating himself to the game and his team. He was on the Central League All Star team for nine years, earning Most Valuable Player awards in three different years. He played 1,250 consecutive games while with the Yomiuri Giants. In 2002, his last season with the Giants, he hit 50 home runs and had a batting average of .334. The Giants won the Japan Series that year with his help.
In 2003, Matsui joined the New York Yankees baseball team after leaving Japan with great fanfare. For the soft-spoken athlete, there were two big challenges to this move. First was the pitching style most common in United States and second was the language barrier. A consummate player, changing his style of batting was just a matter of adjusting to a more aggressive style. Matsui explained to Ted Keith the differences in an article for Sports Illustrated for Kids , "In Japan, they throw the ball outside the strike zone and make you swing at balls. Here they are more aggressive and make you swing inside the strike zone." Matsui described the difficulty to Ken Davidoff, writing for Sporting News , "[T]he adjustment has been difficult. If I continued to play the way I played in Japan, it would be very difficult to adjust here. I feel it's important to change your approach accordingly. I definitely feel that difficulty, even on a daily basis."
As for adjusting to the new language, in 2004, Matsui told Baseball Digest , "It wasn't especially difficult to adjust here. But I think the biggest challenge has been the language: In terms of eating, or just living, in general, that's been fine." Matsui has an interpreter that works with him on and off the field. In general, Matsui tries to fend for himself whether talking to coaches, teammates, or reporters. But if he feels he cannot correctly relay his meaning, he calls on his interpreter to help.
Mastui's first season with the Yankees, in 2003, he hit a grand slam at the Yankees' home opening game. He was the first Yankee rookie to ever make such a play in his first game at the home stadium. Although he was not matching his batting average from Japan, Matsui was playing solid baseball and continually improving. He went from a .287 average with 16 home runs his first season, to a .298 average with 31 home runs the second season. He ended the 2005 season with a .305 average.
Matsui was beginning to show that he had brought the Godzilla moniker with him from Japan. His batting was improving, as was his overall game and his comfort with his new life in the United States. Then, on May 11, 2006, Matsui broke his wrist diving for a fly ball in the first inning of a game against the Boston Red Sox. The injury took him out of the game, breaking a 1,768 streak of consecutive games (including games played in Japan). Placed on the injured list and scheduled for surgery for the broken wrist, Matsui held a press conference and apologized to his manager and teammates for letting them down.
Fortunately, Matsui's recovery was quick and he was playing again by the 2007 season. The Yankees renewed his contract for four years and $52 million dollars. With that contract Matsui became the highest-paid Japanese baseball player in the United States. With scores of fans, including most of the sports fans of Japan, Matsui is constantly under pressure to sign autographs, pose for pictures, and answer questions from the press. He handles all of it with a quiet smile and kindness. He explained to Time International 's Whiting, "I asked for this life…. Nobody forced it on me, and I have a duty to the people who put me here…. I promised my father I would always be nice to people and I have done my best to keep that promise."
Baseball Digest , January 2004, p. 42.
Sporting News , August 18, 2003, p. 18
Sports Illustrated for Kids , July 1, 2003, p. 29.
Time International , April 28, 2003, p. 66.
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Your Mission: Fix This Country
When more than 10,000 ardent Second Amendment defenders gathered at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., for the Celebration of American Values Freedom Experience during the 2010 NRA Annual Meetings, they did so just five days shy of the 235th anniversary of an event with both local and national significance--a historical coincidence not lost on one of the evening`s headline speakers.
Prior to serving 20 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, culminating with his stint as Speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999, Newt Gingrich was a college history professor. It should come as no surprise, then, that when delivering his frank discussion on individual liberty, campaign finance reform and Second Amendment rights at the Annual Meetings gala event, he couched his monologue in historical terms.
"I believe it is time we had a total, clear, unequivocal argument about who we are as a people, and what our government is, and what the basis of it is," Gingrich told the audience.
"I want to preface my explanation of the Second Amendment by saying it is not in defense of hunting. It is not in defense of target shooting. It is not in defense of collecting. The Second Amendment is in defense of freedom from the state."
With that, Gingrich once again assumed the role of history professor, albeit one with a lesson not likely to be taught by the academic elites. Gingrich described to the cheering NRA members the role Charlotte and the surrounding Mecklenburg County area played in the establishment of freedoms we hold dear as Americans.
Two hundred thirty-four years and 361 days prior to the Celebration of American Values Freedom Experience, local citizens signed the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Regarded by some historians as the first declaration of its kind made in the 13 colonies, the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde-pendence was signed on May 20, 1774--more than a year prior to the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
Gingrich recounted the events leading to this historic declaration.
"The colonies had for five years been in a tremendous struggle with the imperial government from the imperial capital," Gingrich said. "The imperial government had ruthless and arrogant judges who continued to infuriate Americans. The imperial government believed it could tax people even if they didn`t want to be taxed. They believed they could pass regulations even if the people hated the regulations. They believed they could impose their will upon the people, and that the center of power was the king, not the people. And so the Americans, increasingly unhappy over this five-year period, had their tension grow."
The parallel between British Colonial rule in early America and the modern political landscape was lost on no one in attendance as Gingrich continued his lesson on the birth of American liberty.
"The imperial government, however, was used to crushing rebellions. It had crushed a rebellion in Scotland, it had crushed a rebellion in Ireland, and it had crushed a rebellion in rural England. So it decided that they would once again teach a lesson to those people who thought they could be independent of the government--people who believed they could stand in their own rights as citizens."
Gingrich recounted how the British, seeking to quell the increasingly rebellious sentiment among the colonists, dispatched soldiers to rural Massachusetts in April 1775. When the soldiers arrived, they were shocked by what awaited them.
"They didn`t encounter rabble, they didn`t encounter unarmed peasants and they didn`t encounter people who are frightened," Gingrich said. "They encountered trained militia who had organized themselves over the entire previous year, gathered up weapons and ammunition, and were prepared to fight the British army toe to toe, and in fact drove them back into Boston with substantial losses.
"That was called the shot that was heard around the world and it was heard here, in Mecklenburg County," Gingrich told the cheering crowd.
The people of Mecklenburg County, N.C., soon decided to send a message to London with the Mecklenburg County Declaration of Independence. A year and six weeks later, the rest of the colonies followed suit with the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.
"The heart of the American experience that no modern liberal academic wants to teach, and no modern, liberal news media wants to cover is a political document," Gingrich said. "This political document is our Declaration of Independence. It says we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. We are the only nation in the world that says power comes from God to each one of you, and you are personally sovereign, and you loan power to the state.
"The state is not the center of the power," Gingrich said, as the crowd sat on the verge of another thunderous round of applause. "The citizen is the center of power."
Gingrich went on to explain why "secular socialists," as he terms them, despise and seek to undermine the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution.
"The First Amendment has two provisions that drive them crazy: The first says that Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech. Of course, from McCain-Feingold to all the various campaign laws, to the most recent effort by Chuck Schumer, these are all just efforts at protecting incumbents.
"The Founding Fathers had a simple model," Gingrich said. "Citizens ought to have the freedom to say what they want to say, when they want to say it, and if it makes politicians uncomfortable, let them quit elected office.
"The second thing that the left hates about the First Amendment," Gingrich continued, "is its statement ‘Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion.` Remember, when the Founding Fathers wrote the First Amendment, they said our rights come from our Creator.
"That limitation to government inherent in the model of God-given rights makes it very hard to be a true socialist. It means that instead of the state being in charge, and instead of politicians, to take a recent case, deciding how much you should be able to earn based on whether or not the politician likes your particular company or your industry or your personality, in fact, it is none of the politician`s business because you have the God-given right to pursue happiness with no exception for when Obama is unhappy."
From there, Gingrich explained the wisdom of the Founding Fathers in making a provision for the citizenry to protect not only its First Amendment freedoms, but all other freedoms enumerated within the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
"The Founding Fathers were very wise and experienced people," he said. "They understood the danger of tyranny. So they said to themselves, ‘Well, if we are going to tell you in writing that you have the right to free speech, and we are going to tell you in writing that you have the right to religion, how are we going to give you, the people, power to enforce that?` They said you, as a citizen, have the Right to Bear Arms. And the government has no business trying to stop you, as a legal and law-abiding citizen, from being able to protect yourself."
Calling not only on his knowledge of history but also the rhetorical skill he honed during two decades of service as a representative of the people, Gingrich laid waste to the modern notion that the Second Amendment is not an individual right--that it is an anachronism, relevant only to an age of musket-carrying Colonial
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PREVIEW | Ron Massey Cup Grand Final
Thu 22 Sep 2016, 04:30 PM
Mounties (1st) v St Marys Saints (4th)
Pirtek Stadium, Sunday 25 September
Streamed LIVE on NSWRL.com.au, broadcast LIVE on SteeleSports.com.au, Hawkesbury 89.9 FM and Triple H 100.1 FM
Click here to view the full Mounties v St Marys team lists and match officials
Previous meetings: Mounties 44 def St Marys 16 (Round 15); St Marys 26 def Mounties 22 (Qualifying Final)
In a replay of a major upset three weekends ago, the St Marys Saints will be out to spoil Mounties’ party in the 2016 Ron Massey Cup decider.
Mounties, who have enjoyed a well-publicised run of club success to get teams into all three Grand Finals, have arguably appeared the most vulnerable in this competition; they were the only team to play in Week 2 of the finals after being defeated by the Saints in Week 1. They responded with a 48-0 thrashing of the Hills District Bulls, however, and followed it up with a smaller victory over the Wentworthville Magpies last week.
The Minor Premiers’ run of seven wins from their last eight starts is nothing to be sneezed at – but with the Saints winning their past nine matches, coach Brad Drew knows they will be a real chance come Sunday.
“We’ve got a bit of momentum, we’ve won nine in a row so we’ve got a bit of confidence going into the game,” Drew told NSWRL.com.au. “We know what wins, what works for us and what doesn’t so we’ll just try and focus on that.
“We won’t change anything, it’s just another game for us and that’s how we’ll be approaching it.”
Even making the Grand Final is a significant achievement for St Marys, as 2016 saw them compete in the competition for the first time as a solo entity. Having defeated all three sides above them in their last five games – including second-placed Western Suburbs on two occasions – the Saints have truly earned their place in their maiden season.
The history couldn’t be more different for their Sunday opposition, however, became the first Mounties side to win a senior competition with their Ron Massey victory last year. Coach Mark Speechley knows the hunger is there to go back-to-back and will rely on his players’ recent experience to get the job done.
“I’ve got probably six or seven in there that were here last year and a few have played other Grand Finals as well,” Speechley explained. “We’re well balanced and we’ve got a couple of good leaders in (captain) John Kennedy and ‘Walshy’ (halfback Jake Walsh), so they’ll do their job.
“It’ll be a real real tough encounter – they’ve got some real quality players in there.”
Where it will be won:
The vast contrast in big-game experience – at least as a single playing group – means each coach will have a slightly different focus throughout their preparation. Mounties will have the 2015 victory fresh in their memories and they will know what worked in that instance, so Speechley explains they will do little more than practicing the basics in the lead-up to the big game.
“In finals footy it’s about completing your sets – getting to your kick and going from there. It’s really really simple footy in finals,” Speechley said. “A good kicking game, good kick-chase and then work off the back of that. Just completing your sets.”
Mounties, the best defenders in the competition, have conceded 96 fewer points than the Saints this year and Speechley also identified this as key to taking out the title.
“I think our defence really, that’s the big thing,” Speechley added. “We’re really getting in there and having a dig.”
In St Marys’ position, the key battle will be a mental one. The Grand Final preparation will be foreign to several players, but they will also take confidence from their last outing against Mounties. Having come back from an 18-6 half-time deficit, Drew says there are valuable lessons to be learned from that game.
“By just hanging in there long enough and giving yourself a chance, you can win the game,” Drew said. “The game got away on us early, we regrouped, just scored on half-time, found a bit of momentum going into the second half and hit the lead.
“You’ve just got to give yourself a bit of a chance to win… play the footy we want to play and don’t be intimidated.”
Key match-up:
An intriguing battle will take place between the two halfbacks: Mounties’ Jake Walsh and St Marys’ Adrian Davis. Both playmakers have had solid seasons in 2016 and both are experienced heads in their respective sides; Walsh was a key part of Mounties’ 30-14 Grand Final win over Asquith in 2015, while Davis has played sufficient Intrust Super Premiership NSW and Intrust Super Cup since graduating from the Holden Cup in 2010.
Davis, who has amassed 142 points this year to sit second on the point scorers list, is an astute goal kicker – and proved the difference in this regard the last time they met, kicking three conversions to Walsh’s one as the Saints won 26-22.
Ins:
Mounties: (none)
St Marys: Henry Seumanu, Lakehm Aiono, Mose Feilo, Jamie Hill
Outs:
St Marys: Veta Lilomaiava
Witness history this September at the 2016 NSWRL Grand Final Day. On Sunday, 25 September the Intrust Super Premiership NSW decider, along with the Ron Massey Cup and Sydney Shield Grand Finals, take place at Pirtek Stadium, with tickets just $10 for adults and kids under 12 free. Click here to secure your seat.
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Police Rescue Boy Abducted By His Mother’s Driver (PHOTO)
Men of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit (AKU) of the Rivers State Police Command has rescued a four-year-old boy, Goodnews Tenalo, allegedly abducted by his mother’s driver, Jeremiah Igiri, in Port Harcourt, the state capital, last April.
The little boy was reportedly abducted by Igiri and two others including a young woman from his Worji residence, shortly after he returned from School on April 19.
He was subsequently taken to Eliozu axis, in Obio/Akpor local council of the state where he was left in the care of the female accomplice, who little Goodnews later identified as Aunty Blessing.
The victim was reportedly detained by his abductors for 17 days, while demanding N20 million ransom from the mother of the child, Mrs. Georgina Tenalo.
Igiri admitted committing the crime and said he initiated and organized the child’s kidnap, and then brought Blessing and another male into the plot. He expressed regrets at his actions, claiming that he does not know why he did the act, especially when his Madam (employer), was good to him.
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Make Mediation a Life Skill and a Core Value
by Jan Sunoo
Introduction: “Make Mediation a Life Skill and Core Value”
. Mediation is not neutral. The process itself is full of implicit principles and valuable life lessons. Without even realizing it, we mediators are promoting the following principles:
That everyone’s views should be heard and respected
That listening respectively to someone else makes them more likely to listen to you.
That civilized discourse leads to peaceful problem solving.
That understanding other perspectives expands your ability and range for finding richer solutions.
That a win-win solution is often possible through sharing of ideas.
We possess powerful tools that can change the world. Mediators need to challenge ourselves to find ways to advance the strategic mediator goal to make mediation a universal life skill and core value for future generations!
This is a Keynote Address from the 8th Asia Pacific Mediation Forum, November 11, 2017, Danang, Vietnam.
Make Mediation a Universal Life Skill and Core Value!
For those of you coming to Vietnam for the first time, you are in for a wonderful and exciting visit with engaging, confident and warm people who are always genuinely enthusiastic to meet foreigners and proudly introduce them to their homeland.
For those of you, like me, who have lived here or visited before, it’s like a homecoming to a place that always has a special place in our hearts. 15 years ago, when I was offered work here by the U.N., my wife and I began reading everything we could get our hands on about Vietnam. We also met with an expat who had lived and worked here for some time. Stanley Karnow, the preeminent authority and author of “Vietnam”, confidently told us: “Now you will become members of the Vietnam Club”. “What do you mean?” we asked, confused. “Once any foreigner spends time living in Vietnam, they cannot help falling in love with this country and you become kin to all others who have lived there”.
Well, we did fall in love with Vietnam and my 3 year contract got extended year by year to 7 years from 2002-2009. We have made many dear Vietnamese as well as expat friends here. And I hope that you too, in your short time will also discover some of the magic that make Vietnam such a special place to visit.
What a rich diversity of presenters and attendees we have here! Over 12 countries and scores of diverse fields- so many pioneers and distinguished and accomplished individuals in one room.
The field of mediation has grown enormously over the past decades in the US, Europe, South America, Africa and now, Asia, is ready to take some big steps forward as well. We have seen mediation used to lower the incidents of school violence and bullying, bring together many different sides in contentious community and tribal disputes, resolve difficult international commercial conflicts, allow labor unions and enterprises to settle differences and avoid strikes and begin constructive dialogue between parties who have been enemies for generations.
New and improved methods of communication have also been adopted by mediators. Later today, you will be hearing from speakers talking about the exciting developments in online mediation truly globalizing the reach of mediation. This is all good news for those of us who believe in this movement. And make no mistake. Mediation is indeed a social movement as well as an art and a science.
In the US, I worked for several decades as a Federal Mediator for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. It was a full-time government mediation job. Year after year, the employees of the agency rated the agency top for job satisfaction. And year after year, the agency ranked among the top US Government agencies with the oldest population! Mediators just didn’t want to retire! And in the US, there is no mandatory retirement age.
All of you, of course, immediately can understand these statistics. Many of you are part time mediators. Many of you are recovering lawyers trying to shift more and more of your hours to mediation practice. Many of you are doing other jobs like HR management, training, coaching or and trying to bring mediation more and more into your work. Some of you are students trying to decide how mediation can fit into your career plan.
But, for some reason, mediation- the process, skills and values inherent in mediation and conflict resolution appeal to you. Why is that?
Why is it that mediation practice is so satisfying? Is it because it is basically peace-making? Healing? Connecting? Communicating? Positive? Uplifting? Client Empowering? Helping? All the above?
I’ve thought for a long time that there is a core belief for all mediators that brings people like us together into this field:
That core belief is that people are basically good and want to do the right thing. And that our role as mediators is to create the space/conditions for them to discover what that is.
So, when disputing parties assisted by mediators are finally able to understand each other’s needs and interests, solutions begin to flow.
How fortunate we all are to be in a profession where we are helping to connect people on issues that matter to them! The process of mediation relies on the mediator assisting people to communicate, listen to each other, empathize with each other, and ultimately help each other. And it thus draws on people’s better human instincts that often get buried under past indignities and wounds,
We are all armed with a very powerful tools or weapons…a weapon of mass connection.
One definition of a weapon includes anything used to gain a strategic, material or mental advantage over an adversary. In this case, the adversary is ignorance, fear and hate.
Yes, we want to arm the world with Weapons of mass connection and mass construction!
I don’t believe we realize how powerful this tool is. But I’ve seen it at work over decades of my own experience and heard inspiring stories about the power of reconciliation and peace building from hundreds of my students over the past years.
But mediation and conflict transformation is practiced in the real world and not everyone shares our belief in the transformational power of mediation.
Unfortunately, we have witnessed countless global examples where mediation has been ignored as an option to the detriment of the parties involved. These past years we have seen disturbing tends in global events that make even the most optimistic peacemaker question where the impact of forces for peace are being felt.
The Global Refugee Crisis:
Last year, my wife and I were on a one-week bicycle tour in Germany along the scenic Rhine River riding a rented tandem bicycle from Koblenz to Cologne. We didn’t realize that Germany had recently opened its border to over a million Syrian refugees but found out how this impacted some residents.
As we stopped at a local Wirthaus for lunch, one of the other diners there smiled and greeted us and enquired in English where we were from and where we were headed on our bicycle. The sight of two Korean-American senior citizens riding a tandem bike along the Rhine bicycle path was often enough of a sight to elicit a comment or a smile. He said the German government was planning to bring several hundred Syrian refugees to his small town and had asked locals to make housing available and that the government would guarantee the rent. He was getting an apartment ready as requested. His only concern was his not being able to interview the potential renter who would be assigned to him from Syria. He and others in the same situation didn’t like losing that control over his tenant, but was trying to be open minded about the assigned guests.
My first thought: Why hasn’t the community facilitated a dialogue to explain the full situation of these refugees, the conditions they’re fleeing, the options they have, how long they will be here? And when they begin to arrive, why not set up some mechanisms for ongoing social dialogue between the apartment owners and their new tenants?
Later, on another evening on the outskirts of Cologne, we checked into a hotel and walked to the small town’s square to find a restaurant for dinner. Imagine our surprise when we saw hundreds of men, women and children dressed in Arab garb, women with burkas, men in loose fitting robes, sitting on park benches, drinking coffee in cafes, eating ice cream, children running around playing and shouting in Arabic. Very few local Germans were to be seen anywhere on the main square. We later found them on side streets in their favorite taverns and pubs. Some of them were not so happy about being chased out of their parks and cafes on the main street. When we asked our hotel clerk why, so many foreigners were in town, he replied that they were all there for extended stays because someone in their family was at the well-known hospital in town and that these were rich medical tourist. When I asked about the local townspeople’s reaction to their large presence, he diplomatically shrugged his shoulders and said “it is what it is. We just have to get used to it”.
My first thought: Why hasn’t the mayor called a meeting to facilitate a dialogue between the edgy towns people and the hospital officials and some of the Middle Eastern medical tourism operators to get a better understanding about each other’s expectation?
These two examples wouldn’t make headlines anywhere, but they reveal the possibilities for tensions that might build in a community due to a sudden need for some cross-cultural understanding between two very different cultures. Germany has a long history of “guest” workers living in the country since the end of the WWII. A considerable number of Turkish residents have lived there for several generations now, and clashes between skinheads and immigrants have ebbed and flowed over the years. Many cultural understanding programs, political organizations and other groups as well as governmental departments have been set up to deal with social needs of the immigrant communities. Nevertheless, because of the increasing visibility of refugees, the right wing political party for the first time was able to garner some seats in the German Parliament during the last election appealing to growing anti-immigrant/refugee sentiment in the community. Germany and Sweden have taken a disproportionate share of the recent refugees since 2015 and are straining to accommodate them.
The UN reports that increasing armed conflicts in the Middle East and Africa have led to the highest level of refugees since World War II. 65 million forcibly displaced persons fleeing for their lives with just the clothes on their backs. A third of them are children under 18. 55% are from just 3 countries: Syria 5.5 million, Afghanistan 2.4 million and South Sudan 1.4 million.
And while the needs of refugees grow, so too has the backlash against these refugees in the countries they are fleeing to. Days before the UK voted to leave the EU in its close Brexit vote, Nigel Farage unveiled his inciteful poster showing refugees crossing the border from Croatia to Slovenia, with the slogan: “Breaking point: the EU has failed us all.”
A day after the fatal shooting attack on the gay Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Donald Trump shamelessly used the tragedy to declare: “We must stop the tremendous flow of Syrian refugees into the United States — we don’t know who they are, they have no documentation and we don’t know what they’re planning.”
Such self-serving political tweets only serve to polarize and pit those citizens wanting to embrace realities of an increasingly global existence against those who seek security from through isolationism and narrow nationalism.
In addition to wars causing forcing the refugee crisis, horrific random acts of terrorism against civilians in major cities throughout the world, (Berlin, London, Las Vegas, NYC, Nice, Barcelona) are also one of the key factors leading to increasing fears of “outsiders” and a desire to retreat to a safer, smaller less multicultural world. The same longing in insecure voters in England, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Norway, Denmark also shows itself with resulting far right nationalistic anti- immigration politicians gaining seats in government elections.
A Global Battle of Ideas
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder speaking at a Harvard graduation characterized the political polarization reflected in elections in the U.S., England, Germany, France, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands and many other countries as a battle of ideas, not a battle of religions or nations.
Within every country, within every religion, within every ethnic group, within every community and tribe there are those who yearn for more freedom, flow of ideas, connectiveness to others around the world, flow of trade and travel and exchange of education and knowledge.
And within the same country, religion, ethnic group, community and tribe there are people who find more security and comfort with a government that is more authoritarian, isolationist, nationalistic more homogeneous and slower to embrace change from the traditional ways.
As mediators, we know better than to force our perspectives on others, but we do know how to help these two sets of people to communicate. In fact, that is our special expertise and social responsibility.
Mediation gives us a special filter through which to interpret these different disturbing global events.
When I observe the threats and name calling thrown between the president of the United States and the president of North Korea, I find myself shouting at the TV: No, no, no, you idiots! Stop, acting like schoolyard bullies! Have a real conversation! Just ask each other what it is that’s important. Discover each other’s interests! Find mutual interest! Use Active Listening! Use open-ended questions! Try a little Track two diplomacy, find a mediator.
It’s so simple! Just get a mediator!
But this is serious. Even though a bill has been introduced to force the president to get the approval of congress before dropping a nuclear weapon on North Korea, Trump currently has the power to send a nuclear bomb to North Korea without consulting Congress if, in his mind, he feels it’s in the national interest to do so. If, in his mind, Trump considers North Korea even building an intercontinental missile a sufficient threat to US security, he could theoretically drop a bomb on Pyongyang.
Kim Jong Un and North Korea have been in a siege mentality ever since President Bush targeted North Korea as one of the 3 countries in the “Axis of Evil” along with Iraq and Iran. After that pronouncement, US military role in Iraq and their hand in attempting to destabilizing Iran convinces North Korea that without nuclear capability, they too would suffer the same fate.
People like us look at these actions and can’t understand why our leaders just can’t do the logical, rational thing.
Mediation and skilled conflict resolution is so clearly the path to take to resolve tensions in our communities, and globally. Why is it being ignored. What’s needed?
Mediation is boxed in, it’s viewed simply as a tool to pull out when all else fails. The problem with the state of mediation is that is is still considered a specialization to be used only in certain situations.
What can we do to raise mediation’s visibility, so it will be seen a universal life skill and core value?
If I were president, I would mandate compulsory courses in communication and conflict negotiations for all elementary, middle and high schools in my country. I would demand that all children pass courses in cross cultural communication and respect for other cultures before they could graduate and go to college.
Do you think that would have an impact on who the next generation elected to presidency? Or how they might vote on gun control or military spending vs education? Or global warming issues? Or mass transit? Or women’s empowerment? Or weighing priorities about whether to allocate tax dollars to job development, decent work, education, ending homelessness vs cutting taxes for the rich and buying more military hardware and sending soldiers to more countries?
If I were Warren Buffet or Bill Gates, I would spend billions of dollars to ensure that every school in the world had the resources to set up a student peer mediation program to train kids how to mediate conflict among their school mates properly. I’d make sure the clubs had enough money to spring for a pizza party once a month to keep them happy!
I would buy news media outlets and report inspiring local and international stories that would build community rather than spread fear and anger.
Because the world is much more that Donald’s tweets or another mass shooting or suicide bombing or terrorist attack against innocent people.
But I’m not Bill Gates, Donald Trump or Warren Buffet. So, we need other strategies to give the next generation a decent chance.
We must make mediation a universal life skill and core value!
When I speak of mediation in this context, I am referring to all the many conflict resolution skills we practice: like all the many mediation forms, active listening, multi-party group facilitation, interest-based negotiations, deep listening, victim-offender reconciliation, open space facilitation, appreciative inquiry techniques…the list goes on and on. The common denominator, however, is that it all leads to constructive communication and peaceful problem solving and community building.
We must stop thinking of mediation as simply a set of soft skills to use in only certain situations at the workplace or for commercial disputes!
We have to stop thinking of mediation as simply another profession to earn us money and status like being a businessman, lawyer or cpa. Being a mediator and knowing the skills we have shoulders us with a higher responsibility to share what we know to improve society.
We need to stop waiting for someone else to come up with a great idea. It all starts with us.
Here are just two examples that push forward the social agenda to make mediation evolve into a universal life skill and core value:
Example #1: Promote universal school peer mediation in all schools around the world
Daniel and Karl Gusner are our godchildren in Los Angeles. We are close to both and have known them since they were babies. Both were trained as peer mediators starting in elementary school. They called them Conflict Managers. Starting with 10 years of age they would mediate schoolyard student conflicts during recess. Today they are both young men in their 30’s and both noticeably good listeners. They always impress others as being very thoughtful, respectful and ask genuine questions that get people sharing their ideas and thoughts with each other in very natural way. It’s rare to find two brothers who both have such character.
I’m convinced that mediation training gave them those skills early and that it just became part of their natural character and value system.
Peer mediation has been widely practiced for over 25 years in U.S. schools now. Wherever the program has been implemented there has been a sharp decline in fighting, gang violence and bullying, and although I haven’t seen any studies on the subject, I’m certain the students who were trained and practiced mediation in the schoolyards such as Karl and Daniel graduated with valuable life skills and values that gave them a big boost in emotional intelligence and problem solving that is helping them in their adult lives.
Follow up: Volunteer to teach mediation at a school or community center to youth.
All of us can make time to volunteer us to teach young people the right values and methods for resolving conflict. WE can volunteer to mentor young peer mediators at local schools or youth organizations. We can chip in some money for refreshments for youth mediator clubs. And we can teach young people to mentor each other to spread the practice and values of mediation.
Example #2: Put yourself in a new situation to learn new skills and be inspired by others. Rotary Peace Center.
Every 6 months for the past 10 years, I’ve been invited to teach peace skills to a class of 25 mid-career conflict resolution practitioners from 12 to 20 countries at the Rotary Peace Center in Bangkok. My teaching week is one of 11 where experts from around the world are invited to lecture about conflict theory, women’s role in peace making, sustainable peace strategies, post-conflict reconstruction, reconciliation, etc.
Rotary Peace Fellows come from a broad background of conflict and peace workers. They have been refugee social workers from Africa, Timor Leste, police officers from Philadelphia or Thailand or Australia, a retired general from the Sri Lankan Army who is now a peace builder with former Tamil Tiger rebels. Other participants have included , a Muslim cleric and Christian minister from Nigeria, a Palestinian mediator, an Israeli youth organizer, an Afghanistan school official, a Nepalese mediator, a Vietnamese NGO official and others from UN organizations.
Every 6 months I eagerly look forward to meeting a new crop of fellows and learning about their work all over the world. Their stories and work inspire me, and they are so hungry for the skills we work with every day that connect people, lower tensions, build community, and help us understand cross cultural communication.
Don’t fool yourself. Mediation is not neutral. The process itself is full of implicit principles and valuable life lessons. Without even realizing it, we mediators are promoting the following principles:
We possess powerful tools that can change the world.
I hope these examples stimulate you to think about how to use your priceless tools and minds to commit yourselves to finding ways to making the world a better place.
And you know what? You couldn’t be in a better place than here in Danang at the 8th Asia Pacific Mediation Forum meeting where the most creative, talented and diverse mediators and practitioners from more than 12 countries in the Pacific Rim have all gathered. Your presenters have all spent hours sweating and working on their presentations to come up with and focus their best ideas to offer all of us. And they could not have found more eager participants waiting to b stimulated and inspired to learn about innovative approaches and techniques for amplifying their work.
So, enjoy the fellowship of our special community and learn from the many speakers and workshops the next three days, and take the opportunity to imagine how much more we, as a mediator community can do to make our impact felt in our communities, our countries and our world.
And challenge yourselves to find ways to advance our strategic mediator goal to make mediation a universal life skill and core value for future generations!
Jan Sunoo currently teaches peace skills (negotiations, cultural competency, mediation, multi-party facilitation) at the Rotary International Peace Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand where he has been adjunct faculty since 2007. He also conducts conflict resolution, mediation and labor relations workshops in Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia, teaches regularly with the Korean Arbitration and Mediation Association - supported by the Korea Ministry of Labor – and has introduced peer mediation/anti-bullying workshops in Korea. He is a Senior Expert in conflict resolution, communications, negotiations, facilitation, mediation, cultural competencies and labor relations skills.
From 2002 to 2009, he lived in Vietnam while employed by the International Labour Organization (the labor arm of the United Nations) as project director for the Vietnam/ILO Industrial Relations Project and established a project that continues to the present. Prior to that, Jan worked for 24 years as a federal mediator with the US Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in many capacities (Regional Director, Field Mediator, International and ADR Director).
He has worked with labor ministries and NGOs in Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Cambodia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Indonesia in the capacity of a Federal Mediator and as a labor expert of the International Labour Organization. Jan presently lives with his wife, Brenda Paik Sunoo (a photojournalist) on Jeju Island, Korea and is always looking for meaningful projects for collaboration.
Website: www.linkedin.com/in/jansunoo/
Additional articles by Jan Sunoo
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Bill O’Reilly: ‘I’m Not Comparing Myself’ But People Hated Jesus Too
Sarah Fruchtnicht
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly told the Washington Post that he’s “not comparing” himself to Jesus Christ, but many people hated him as well.
In an interview with Sally Quinn, he claimed “O’Reilly haters” would never read his latest book, “Killing Jesus.”
“The O’Reilly haters are pretty much the people that have no idea what I do,” he said. “And I like that — I mean, I don’t have any problem with people disliking me, and I’ll tell you why. I’m not comparing myself, but who was the most hated person in Judea 2,000 years ago?"
“Many, many loved him, but just as many despised him,” he continued. “They’re always going to do that. If you speak your mind, you’re going to have some who like you and some who hate you.”
“You say you’re the biggest sinner of all. What are your sins?” Quinn asked.
“Everything … I’m not going to tell you, Sally Quinn, what my sins are. But I’m certainly fallible and I don’t put myself up as any paragon of virtue,” he said.
“Why do you think that there is so much sneering and ridicule toward religion by people who don’t believe?” she asked.
“Because they don’t want to be judged,” O’Reilly said. “They believe that religious people are judging their behavior, and they don’t want to be judged. They want to do what they want."
He argued that “secular progressives” don’t like religion because they’re sinners who don't want to be judged.
“Take a guy like Bill Maher. He’s probably the most visible atheist in the American media," he added. "Well, Bill Maher does not want to be told what to do. He wants to do whatever he wants. And if it’s take drugs, he wants to be able to do that. If it’s commit adultery, he wants to be able to do that. Whatever it may be, he doesn’t want anybody telling him not to. And the people that would do that would be religious people, so he strikes out against them.”
He told Quinn he's never had a "crisis of faith" because he keeps his life simple.
“Whom do you admire?” Quinn asked.
“I admire people who are making $40,000 a year and living an honest life. Life is hard. I don’t like phonies. I don’t like liars. I don’t like narcissists. I like the regular folks,” he said.
The host of the “O’Reilly Factor” was one of the top-paid authors of 2013, taking home $28 million, according to Forbes. He upset his new neighbors on Long Island’s East End this year for buying a 1940s cottage on the ocean worth $7.6 million and immediately tearing it down.
Sources: Washington Post, Mediaite
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World Beyond Windows
By Alex Campbell, Tech Hacker, PCWorld | PT
Support open-source projects this giving season
Help keep those servers running and updates coming.
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The holiday season is a time to panic and have eggnog-fueled meltdowns relax with family, give gifts, and eat far too many carbs. It’s also traditionally been a time when charities see big bumps in donations. Giving even has its own day, “Giving Tuesday” to follow the weekend bounded by Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There are plenty of charities to give to, but if you use free and open-source software, why not give back to the projects that create those tools that you use without charge?
The phrase “freedom isn’t free” is usually applied to the military, but it also applies to free software. After all, somebody is paying for the server that a project lives on. If a project offers a bug bounty, that money comes from somewhere. As community projects, open-source software relies on the community’s contributions (labor) and donations (money).
If you poke around any free or open-source software project website, you’re sure to find a donation link. But if you don’t feel like fishing around, here are a few organizations that help the open-source and free software movements.
[ Further reading: 4 Linux projects for newbies and intermediate users ]
You can thank GNU for nearly everything in a basic Linux system. The C compiler (that’s used to compile the Linux kernel), the cron scheduler, commands like ls and mkdir, are all part of the GNU operating system. Without GNU, Linux (yes, it’s technically GNU/Linux, but the world prefers brevity) as we know it wouldn’t exist.
The Free Software Foundation in Boston is the organization that oversees the GNU operating system, as well as the GNOME desktop. The foundation is also behind the GNU licenses, and helps enforce the licenses. (A large proportion of free software licenses are released under the GNU General Public License.) The FSF also works to advocate for free software and user rights.
The FSF is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization and has a 98 percent rating at Charity Navigator. In addition to greenbacks, the FSF takes old cars, stocks, Bitcoin, and Litecoin.
I remember when Firefox was this newfangled browser back in 2004. Firefox is now on its 50th version. Though Chrome commands a big lead in browser use (partially thanks to Android), Firefox offers a good alternative from a nonprofit organization.
Mozilla doesn’t just make Firefox and the Thunderbird mail client. Mozilla does a lot of work advocating for an open and free Internet. And if you use the Tor browser for privacy, you can thank the Firefox code base.
The Mozilla Foundation is a 501(c)(3) and has a 91 percent rating at Charity Navigator. Mozilla can take donations by credit card or PayPal.
You may not think of the nonprofit behind Wikipedia as an open-source organization. But remember, the photos, articles, videos, and audio are nearly all community-supplied. While that’s not open-source software, Wikimedia is making knowledge open and more readily available.
It seems like every other month Wikipedia runs a call for donations at the top of your browser window. And let’s face it: Just about everyone uses Wikipedia to look up quick definitions and facts, or to burn an hour reading up on the history of Cleveland. If you’ve ever felt a slight tinge of guilt about not donating, now’s the perfect time to absolve yourself of that burden.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) and has a 91 percent rating on Charity Navigator. Wikimedia can take credit cards, PayPal, or Amazon Payments.
The EFF isn’t strictly an open-source organization, though it does provide open-source tools. If you’ve ever heard of Privacy Badger or HTTPS Everywhere, you know of an EFF project. It also financially supports projects like Let’s Encrypt. (Mozilla is also a Let’s Encrypt supporter.)
The EFF spends a lot of its resources in the courts and advocating for privacy and an open Internet. If you’re not happy about government electronic surveillance, the EFF is one of the groups fighting the legal fight.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charity with a 96 percent rating on Charity Navigator. You can donate to the EFF with a credit card, Bitcoin, or PayPal.
FreeBSD Foundation
The FreeBSD foundation supports and promotes the development of FreeBSD. FreeBSD is an alternative open-source OS to Linux, and has been around for a long time. If you’ve ever spun up a FreeNAS box to serve files on your LAN, you can thank FreeBSD.
The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charity and takes donations via PayPal, Click and Pledge, Bitcoin, and good old-fashioned paper checks.
Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
Software in the Public Interest serves more as a fiscal sponsor than a proper foundation like the organizations listed above. That’s not all bad, though. There are several projects that SPI supports, including Arch Linux, Libre Office, X.org, Debian, OpenWRT, and FFmpeg, just to name a few.
You can donate to SPI or one or more of its individual projects through SPI's website or through Click and Pledge, as well as through each individual project's website.
Open Source Initiative
Based in Palo Alto, California, the Open Source Initiative is an organization that works to educate and promote open-source software worldwide. While it doesn't directly have software projects under its wing, it does help the community by maintaining clear definitions of what constitutes open-source. For instance, copyleft licenses like the GNU General Purpose License, all qualify as open-source, but not all open-source licenses qualify as copyleft or meet the Free Software Foundation's definition of free software.
OSI also maintains an exhaustive list of open-source licenses, and what version (if applicable) of the license should be used.
The OSi is a 501(c)(3) and you can donate with a credit card or with Flattr.
Besides giving money directly to a project or foundation, you can always use the lazy-man’s method and donate by proxy.
For each purchase you make using Amazon Smile, Amazon will make a small donation to a charity of your choice. All of the charities I listed here (SPI, Mozilla, FSF, EFF) can be found on Amazon Smile, which means you can donate year-round.
To use Amazon Smile, just be sure to start shopping from smile.amazon.com instead of www.amazon.com.
Unixstickers is a sticker and apparel retailer that donates a portion of your purchase to various charities depending on what’s in your cart. If you get a Linux Mint t-shirt for $25, Unixstickers will donate $1.75 to Linux Mint. If a $3 Tor sticker is more up your alley, the Tor project receives 19 cents from your purchase.
If a project doesn’t accept donations, Unixstickers donates the money to a charity of the project’s choice. If the project doesn’t choose one, Unixstickers chooses a different charity each month as a catch-all for uncategorized donations.
The biggest downside is that Unixstickers is based in Italy, so shipping on some items can take a little while.
The holidays can be a bit hectic and always seems to result in money flying out of accounts at record speed. But even the most modest donation can help. Just think about it as buying some dedicated programmer a cup of coffee. After all, by helping open source, you’re really helping yourself.
This article was updated to include links to the Open Source Initiative.
Alex is a tech tinkerer who built his first computer while in middle school. Alex is also a huge Linux geek and loves all things open-source and web.
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“What Are You, Crazy?” Changing the Way We Speak
January 15, 2019, by Rabbi Jack Abramowitz
I used to work for an organization that was composed of some of the most creative individuals you could ever hope to find. The down side was that, when we had a staff conference, trying to get them all where they were supposed to be was like trying to herd cats. When I lamented the
Raising Mental Health Awareness in Baltimore
December 27, 2018, by OU Staff
Last week, the Baltimore Orthodox community was treated to an outstanding event. The theme of the night was raising mental health awareness: how to help oneself and others, the importance of getting treatment and going to therapy, and reducing shame and stigma. Watch video from the event, including words from Rabbi Ephraim Eliyahu Shapiro: Read
The Unreasonable Request
June 25, 2018, by Jacob L. Freedman, MD
The consultation with Mrs. Burger was just about as parve as it could be until I asked a question about her surgical history. “I’m sorry,” I said as I was quite confused by her answer. “Your husband wants you to do what?” There was no way I’d heard her correctly. But then Mrs. Burger repeated
Connecting to the Churban Through Personal Adversity
June 18, 2018, by Rabbi Shmuel Bloom
Rabbi Shmuel Bloom talks about his life-changing experience and dealing with personal adversity. How do we connect to the churban? We all have our own personal churban, how do we overcome those events. How can we use that to imagine what it must have been like to suffer the loss of the Beit HaMikdash? How
Trigger Warning: Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain
June 12, 2018, by Rabbi Jack Abramowitz
This article is not only about trigger warnings, it also is one: we are going to address suicide. Please stop here if you find such discussions triggering. People of my generation tend to scoff at the ubiquity of trigger warnings, content warnings and other emotional accommodations afforded in this day and age. Things like a
It’s Time to Confront Mental Health in the Orthodox Community
June 7, 2017, by Reuven Boshnack
It’s time to bring the conversation about mental health to the forefront in our community. It’s time to meet all of the wonderful resources for people in our community whose pain is from something you can’t see, but hurts no less. It’s time for people to learn that they are not the only ones in
Rabbi Akiva the Psychologist: Using Traditional Jewish Teachings to Conquer Anxiety
March 2, 2017, by Jacob L. Freedman, MD
Jacob L. Freedman, MD, is a former student of Yeshiva Aish HaTorah and a psychiatrist in Boston, Massachusetts, and Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. Freedman is also a health care and a risk-management consultant as well as a suburban mountain biking enthusiast. For more information regarding Dr. Freedman, please visit his website at drjacoblfreedman.com. The best psychiatrist
Exercise: The Secret Weapon in Fighting Anxiety
July 11, 2016, by Alan Freishtat
Today, anxiety is the most common mental illness in the United States. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, it affects 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older, or 18% of the population. Anxiety disorders are highly treatable, yet only about one-third of those suffering receive treatment. And anxiety cost the
Five Things Every Couple Needs to Know About Giving
December 2, 2015, by Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin
When done right, gifts can be an expression of love and caring and can bring a couple closer together. Yet, gifts can often be a sore point and can produce the opposite result. Before you give or receive your next gift, here are five things you need to know: Know Your Love Language- Everyone has
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Murder charges filed in teen stabbing death
by: Andy Mehalshick
Posted: May 15, 2019 / 05:25 PM EDT / Updated: May 15, 2019 / 05:25 PM EDT
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Wilkes-Barre man says he acted in self-defense when he stabbed his 17-year-old nephew, Tarese Previlon, who died several weeks later.
That man, 58-year-old Milton Clark, is now charged with homicide in the boy’s death. Clark claims he was attacked by his nephew, but investigators say that is simply not true.
“I’m innocent until proven guilty in a court of law,” Clark said as he was being led out of court.
Clark is accused of stabbing Tarese Previlon in the early morning hours of April 23rd at a house on Holland Street where he lived with Previlon and his mother. Detectives say Clark was peeping on Previlon’s mother while she was taking a bath. When she called her son for help, a fight broke out.
“I told them to stop fighting,” Lynn Williams, Tarese’s mother said. “And that’s when my son said, mom, he stabbed me. He stabbed me.”
The coroner says her son died several weeks later from medical complications resulting from the stabbing. But Clark tells a different story.
“He tried to hurt me, and my nephew he’s 18-years-old, so, therefore, I did what I had to do to protect myself,” Clark said. “So, he tried to hurt me on several occasions since my arrival.”
When asked about Clark’s assertion that he was defending himself, Assistant District Attorney Gene Molino said, “I can’t speak to that right now. The complaint and affidavit will speak for itself.”
The victim’s mother has obtained a Protection for Abuse Order against Clark. He cannot go near her family if released from prison, where he remains locked up without bail.
Clark will have a preliminary hearing next week.
Trump to nominate Eugene Scalia for labor secretary
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he will nominate lawyer Eugene Scalia to be his new labor secretary.
Scalia is the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. He is a partner in the Washington office of the Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher law firm.
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Promat SYSTEMGLAS® Ferro provides assured fire protection for Dublin Landings
Assured passive fire protection for a spectacular central atrium in Dublin city centre’s largest and most prestigious new commercial development has been provided by over 300m2 of Promat SYSTEMGLAS® Ferro.
Installed by Allied, a market leader in interior solutions, the proven butt-jointed, steel framed fire resistant glazing system has been used to create all the glass screens which encapsulate the atrium at the heart of No. 1 Dublin Landings. Part of Ballymore and Oxley’s scheme with an investment value of €700m, this is the key office building within the one million sq. ft. mixed use joint development on North Wall Quay on the banks of the River Liffey. It is home to Ireland’s National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA), which provides a range of asset and liability management services to Government, with the site also providing the new headquarters for the Central Bank of Ireland.
The central atrium rises through the Arrow/RKD Architects designed building, with each level featuring SYSTEMGLAS Ferro as a floor to ceiling glazed screen delivering the optimum balance of aesthetics, strength and fire safety. The market-leading system ensures that maximum natural daylight can be provided into the office space on each level, whilst providing assured fire protection with integrity and insulation (EI) for 30 minutes and the ability to withstand an impact load of up to a 1.5kN.
Meeting the developers’ goal of raising the bar on architecture in Dublin to a standard seen in other global financial centres, the design and specification utilises the highest quality materials and components. As part of this process, SYSTEMGLAS Ferro was selected thanks to its 360 degree ‘wheel of assurance’, which ensures all the fire resistant glazing screens are checked for compliance at every stage from design and specification, through manufacture and during installation.
Tim Evans, Managing Director at Allied said: “We are really pleased to have been part of this tremendous development, which is transforming a major site within Dublin’s Docklands and represents such an important step in supporting Ireland’s next generation of creative, technological and financial businesses.
“That’s why the specification had to be right, with no margin for error, and that applied to the fire resistant screens around the atrium as much as anything else. We very much share Promat’s ‘Specified for a Reason’ ethos, and with their support, we have been able to deliver an outstanding result which reflects the significance of Dublin Landings and provides assured fire protection for people and assets should the worst ever happen.”
The steel framed SYSTEMGLAS Ferro is one of four fire resistant glazing solutions available in the range, which can be specified to provide protection from 30 to 120 minutes (EI – integrity and insulation). The range includes a timber system, SYSTEMGLAS Ligna, as well as SYSTEMGLAS Celare and Advenerat which utilise PROMATECT® H for the outer framing to enable painting or over-cladding to match surrounding décor, or concealment to provide a virtually frameless result.
All technical data and specification guidance on the Promat SYSTEMGLAS range is available in the Promat Specifiers Guide, plus specific literature for each of the four systems. These are available to download at www.promat-glass.co.uk.
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20 years after the growth of human embryonic stem cells at UW, science faces new frontiers
Twenty years ago a little-known UW scientist, James Thomson, published proof he'd isolated and grown human embryonic stem cells. It changed the world.
Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Published 9:00 a.m. CT Oct. 31, 2018 | Updated 2:21 p.m. CT Nov. 1, 2018
For months, James Thomson rose at 5 in the morning, hours before his day job, and hustled off to a secret scientific project in a lab next to the University of Wisconsin-Madison's in vitro fertilization clinic. His chest felt tight, as if he'd been holding his breath, worrying constantly.
Worrying the unique human cells he worked with would become contaminated. Worrying they wouldn’t pass the numerous tests needed to prove they were embryonic and able to develop into the more than 220 different cells in the human body. Worrying another scientist would beat him to the discovery of a lifetime.
It was 1998 and Thomson could hardly have been more inconspicuous. His day job: performing necropsies on monkeys. But for years he’d been methodical in his research, learning to grow embryonic stem cells in mice, then in two species of monkeys, all to prepare himself for the notoriously difficult human cells.
In early 1998, Thomson peered into a microscope and saw human cells pulsing. What it meant: Cells he’d grown from a human embryo the diameter of a single hair had realized their fate. They'd grown into beating heart cells.
"That was proof,” recalls Thomson, now 59 and director of regenerative biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison.
Twenty years ago in November, Thomson achieved a watershed in biology, publishing proof that he’d grown human embryonic stem cells, sparking national debates about when life begins, and what scientists can, or should, do to turn those early cells into medicine.
The world changed because of those cells — though not as quickly as many had expected.
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All at once, patients starved of hope and suffering from spinal cord injuries, Parkinson’s and numerous other conditions had been given a breath of possibility, however far off, however untested. Parents using in vitro fertilization faced a crucial decision about their unused, frozen embryos: donate them for research to help others or preserve them.
Protesters on both sides of the abortion war saw a new front; politicians a new issue; ethicists a new debate.
“From the very beginning, everybody understood that the human embryo has a special place in the spiritual lives of many Americans,” said Alta Charo, a UW professor of law and bioethics, who served on the federal government’s 1994 Human Embryo Research Panel and helped draft the National Academies’ Guidelines for Embryonic Stem Cell Research in 2005. Because of her work on stem cell policy, strangers sent letters saying they would pray for her soul.
Shinya Yamanaka researches human stem cells at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco in 2008. He made the breakthrough discovery that a set of four factors can reprogram mature adult cells into pluripotent stem cells. He and Dr. James Thompson of the University of Wisconsin are the first two scientists to develop human stem cells without using embryos. (Photo: Gladstone Institutes)
(Photo: Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease)
In Japan, Shinya Yamanaka, a doctor-turned-scientist who would go on to win a Nobel Prize for his own breakthrough in biology, recalled that he was so excited by the medical potential of Thomson’s discovery that he nearly leaped out of his seat. In 2006, he would discover how to send ordinary skin cells from a mouse back to the embryonic state; and a year later he and Thomson would duplicate the feat with human cells.
Hundreds of researchers flocked to the cutting edge field of stem cell biology. The media followed the advances, with some reports slipping into hyperbole.
Finally, businesses — some legitimate, but many shady — saw money to be made from the promise and hype surrounding Thomson’s discovery.
Today, despite the popular narrative that progress has not lived up to the initial hype, the first wave of clinical trials are underway using cells grown from Thomson’s original embryonic stem cell lines. Dozens more trials are said to be two or three years away.
Scientists have completed separate Phase I, or safety, trials of possible treatments for spinal cord injuries and for the eye disease macular degeneration. Other trials are underway involving possible treatments for Type 1 Diabetes.
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has already funded 49 clinical trials involving potential stem cell therapies. The institute was launched in 2004 with $3 billion approved by California voters; New York and Maryland also have programs funding stem cell research.
Thomson himself is working toward the long-term goal of creating banks of human arteries made from stem cells and artificial material; these may one day be implanted into millions suffering from vascular disease.
Life begins. Day 1: first cells divide in the embryo. Embryo grows to 6-8 cells by Day 3. Day 5 -7, cavities form between cells and fill with fluid. New Hope Fertility Center
Other researchers are developing organoids, smaller versions of the organs inside our bodies built with stem cells that cling to a three-dimensional structure. These lab-created organs are a long way from becoming suitable replacements for the ones nature gave us but will allow scientists to study how cells interact in an organ, how diseases develop and how treatments might work.
The legacy of Thomson’s discovery also includes the proliferation of stem cell clinics selling unproven treatments. In 2010, the clinics were mostly overseas, a phenomenon that spawned the term “stem cell tourism.”
Today, there are 716 stem cell clinics in the U.S., according to a paper published this year in the journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.
“There is a great potential for defrauding people without any real promise of benefit,” said Leigh Turner, the paper’s author and associate professor for bioethics at the University of Minnesota.
There have also been notable scientific frauds involving researchers working with stem cells at respected institutions. Earlier this month Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston called for the retraction of 31 published papers containing phony data by their former cardiologist Piero Anversa. The scandal led NIH to pause a clinical trial because concerns had been raised about its "scientific foundation."
Human embryonic stem cells have also brought science to the threshold of discoveries that will prompt new ethical questions. In Japan, scientists recently took an important step toward in vitro gametogenesis, the creation of sperm and egg in a lab dish. Such a process would allow gay couples to conceive children with genetic contributions from both parents.
Twenty years later Thomson’s discovery continues to take science in new directions. “It immediately stimulated everyone to think what is possible with those cells,” recalled Lorenz Studer, director of the center for stem cell biology at Sloan Kettering Institute. “In about five years I think we will be able to make all of the different cell types in the human body.”
Human embryonic stem cells: a new frontier
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20 years after the growth of human embryonic stem cells at UW, science faces new frontiers Twenty years ago a little-known UW scientist, James Thomson, published proof he'd isolated and grown human embryonic stem cells. It changed the world. Check out this story on postcrescent.com: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2018/10/31/human-embryonic-stem-cells-come-age-20-years-after-discovery/1778852002/
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Probst Family Funerals & Cremations
Probst Family Funerals & Cremations is locally owned and operated by Clinton and Calli Probst. For years we dreamed of opening a funeral home in Heber Valley to provide a choice for families in Wasatch and Summit County. In the fall of 2013 we began construction on the funeral home and finished late December. The funeral home is equipped with modern furniture and decor. Our building provides a meeting room, chapel and viewing room, and a large selection room to display caskets, vaults, registration books, acknowledgment cards, headstones and memorial items. The vision of Probst Family Funerals & Cremations is to offer beautiful facilities and professional care at affordable prices and help guide you through every step of the way with your funeral or cremation needs.
Heber Valley Funeral Home
The caring and experienced professionals at Heber Valley Funeral Home are here to support you through this difficult time. We offer a range of personalized services to suit your family’s wishes and requirements. You can count on us to help you plan a personal, lasting tribute to your loved one. And we’ll carefully guide you through the many decisions that must be made during this challenging time.
Our story began years ago. Guy and Shirley Olpin served the communities of Wasatch and Summit County for many years. It was then that Clint Probst, after watching the way the Olpin Family cared for his great-grandparents, felt like it would be an honor to help in this tradition. In 2004 Clint and Calli Probst left the Heber Valley to attend Mesa Community College's Mortuary Science Program. After completing his education Clint had the opportunity to manage two funeral homes in Mesa, Arizona. In 2013 our family decided to move home and open up Probst Family Funerals & Cremations. Since opening our funeral home the communities in the surrounding area have been so kind. They have provided us with the opportunity to care for their loved ones.
Our family has been given another opportunity to provide a greater level of service with our new location in the Olpin-Hoopes Funeral Home in Heber City. We are excited to have two convenient locations to better serve Wasatch and Summit County.
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Clinton earned his associates degree in Mortuary Science from Mesa Community College, an associates degree in Health Administration from University of Phoenix and a bachelors degree in Psychology from Grand Canyon University. Clint graduated the Mortuary Science program with national honors. Clint has been managing and working for funeral homes for the last 7 years. He had the opportunity to manage both Allen Funeral Home and Bunker Family Funerals in Mesa, Arizona. Clint was raised in Heber Valley since he was 5 years old and graduated from Wasatch High School where he played on the both the Golf and Baseball teams. Clint is the son of Joe and Marsha Probst and the grandson of Wayne and Audrey Probst. Clint enjoys spending time with his girls, playing golf, fishing, and hiking.
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Calli earned her master’s degree in Social Work from Arizona State University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Grand Canyon University. Calli has worked in the behavioral health field for over ten years where she has helped children, adults and families dealing with addiction, mental health issues, family relations, trauma, bereavement and other related issues. Calli moved to Heber City when she was 15 years old and graduated from Wasatch High School where she met Clint. Clinton and Calli have been married for Nine Years. Before moving back to Utah to open the funeral home, Calli worked as a therapist at The Anasazi Foundation. Calli also had the opportunity to travel with Steve Young’s Forever Young Foundation to Ghana, Africa where she designed and ran therapy groups helping children dealing with grief and loss from the death of family members. Clint and Calli are now the happy parents of two beautiful daughters from Ghana. Calli enjoys traveling, being outdoors, staying physically active and doing crafts with her daughters.
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Translated by Anthea Bell
The Governess and Other Stories
An eclectic collection of four brilliant stories, including a Renaissance tragedy and an English whodunit
These four stories illustrate the wide range of Zweig’s subject matter dating from quite early in his career as a writer of fiction (The Governess, rooted in a world of strict Edwardian morality), to late (Did He Do It?, almost an English detective story set near Bath, where Zweig lived in exile). In addition The Miracles of Life, set in 16th-century Antwerp during the time of Protestant iconoclasm, and Downfall of a Heart both address the theme of anti-Semitism.
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear.
In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he moved to London, where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity. He later moved on to Bath, taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War. With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York, before settling in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide.
Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.
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News Radio from Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
There are many radio stations with a format that is devoted entirely to the discussion and broadcast of news. Some of these radio stations are only discussing and broadcasting local news while other radio stations are putting their focus on global news. Along with the news most of the radio stations will feature weather news, traffic news and talk programming. The talking programs are also a chance for listeners to participate because these shows have often call-in segments. Most all news stations can be found on the AM dial although some stations can be found on the FM dial as well. ABC NewsRadio is an example of a radio station with a format that is devoted to delivering live and 24-hour news updates. It is an Australian radio station and it is available on a number broadcasts right around Australia, including AM/FM radio, some pay-TV platforms and online. ‘’Jeremy Vine Covers the News’’ is another great example of a radio show that is devoted to the discussion and broadcast of news. Jeremy Vine is known for his direct interview style and this is also why the BBC2 talk show host is so popular in the UK. He won the title of Speech Broadcaster of the Year in the 2011 Sony Awards. In the United States of America the radio show ‘’NewsTalkRadio 77 WABC’’ is very popular. The radio station is based in New York City and the syndicated talk-radio hosts Mark Levin, John Batchelor and Don Imus are broadcasting from this station. The radio station is also broadcasting sports shows and they have sports contracts with Seton Hall University for the men's basketball team, and the United States Military Academy for Army football games. In the past they also had the broadcast rights to the Yankees but they lost the rights after 21 years to WCBS.
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A New Marketing Strategy for Red Boy Pizza-;Part 1
Red Boy Pizza (redboypizza.com), with eight locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, has been serving pizzas since 1969. Six of Red Boy’s locations are owned by franchisees. But the company needed a marketing boost and a strategy to ensure branding consistency from location to location, so my company, Duke Marketing, signed on to lend a hand. Our work with Red Boy makes a strong case study for any small franchise company looking to revamp its marketing and branding approach, so I’d like to share the results of our efforts with PMQ’s readers.
Red Boy Pizza hired us in June 2011, and we worked for more than a year with the company. In this month’s column, we’ll look at what we accomplished in the first six months of the relationship, including the strategies and promotions that were implemented and the results. In next month’s column, we’ll discuss the second six-month period and the fruits of our labor.
June 2011. We began by creating a survey for all Red Boy Pizza franchisees to gain their insights and determine their key needs and concerns. Their top priorities were sales promotions, business-to-business promotions, new lunch and dinner specials, and an enhanced company website. This survey provided a good starting point, making it easier to map out our strategy for the coming months.
July 2011. We made recommendations to update the overall look and feel of each restaurant. At the time, different locations sported different decor—one store had tan walls, while another had pink walls, for example. The Red Boy logo was nowhere to be seen, and key branding elements were missing. Therefore, each location got a fresh coat of yellow paint on its walls, matching the company’s logo, which is now prominently displayed with Red Boy Pizza’s taglines inside each location. The interior signage, POP and pizza pan displays (used to illustrate various pizza sizes) are now uniform, visible and consistent throughout each restaurant. The new look brought in new customers, and more people soon began to dine in at Red Boy Pizza.
August 2011. We took over the company’s social media management and built up its Facebook and Twitter activity. The company’s number of Facebook fans jumped by 100%. Meanwhile, since the eight-unit pizza chain had not solicited customer feedback for many years, we created guest comment boxes and comment cards for each location. Some franchisees were hesitant at first, unsure if they really wanted to know what their guests had to say. Fortunately, the vast majority of comments were positive, and the franchisees were pleasantly surprised. Meanwhile, we also began tracking each location’s Yelp reviews and provided franchisees with helpful instruction for handling negative posts.
September 2011. We launched Red Boy Pizza’s first companywide promotion in more than three years. The “Slice & Soda for $4.25” promotion, which took place during the back-to-school period, drew in many new customers and stimulated more frequent visits from existing customers. We designed fliers and posters for each store and created display ads that ran in local newspapers. Just one month after running the promotion, total sales increased by nearly 5%. “Slice and Soda” had already been a common Red Boy phrase, but each location had been charging a different amount and serving different sizes of slices. By standardizing the size and price, Red Boy Pizza made the promotion profitable and consistent at all eight locations.
We also developed a Monday Night Football happy hour promotion, which included a 50% discount on all beer and appetizers and a slice and soda for $4.25, between the hours of 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. This proved to be a popular and successful Monday night deal.
October 2011. Red Boy Pizza celebrated National Pizza Month and Breast Cancer Awareness Month by developing a new gourmet pizza, a Margherita, which was sold for $12.99 for a medium size. A percentage of sales went to the American Cancer Society. To ensure consistency at each location, we designed a laminated list of step-by-step instructions for making the pizza. We also designed fliers, posters, direct-mail pieces and email blasts for each location. Red Boy presented the American Cancer Society with a sizable donation, and sales increased for the month by more than 7%.
November 2011. We created Red Boy Pizza’s holiday meal promotion, called “Bundle Up for the Holidays.” This consisted of a bundled meal that included either a large two-topping pizza, large salad and beverages for two; or lasagna for two, large salad, garlic bread and beverages, with both deals priced at $27.99 through the end of December. We designed fliers and posters for each restaurant as well as an email blast that went out to Red Boy Pizza’s rewards members and Facebook and Twitter users. Sales weren’t quite as good as we’d hoped at all locations, but, overall, sales and transactions for the month were up.
December 2011. We organized a holiday food drive to benefit local food banks. Each customer who brought in a nonperishable food item received a free soft drink. The promotion garnered press in the local newspapers, and Red Boy Pizza collected 137 pounds of food.
Additionally, we developed a marketing strategy for the franchisees’ catering services. First, we designed $5 discount certificates, which Red Boy presented to nearby businesses to give away to their customers. We also developed catering packages and menus. Then, our team hit the streets, delivering free pizzas, certificates and catering kits to these businesses, including hotels, doctor’s offices, hospitals, fitness clubs, auto dealerships and other companies. The managers of these businesses were encouraged to give the $5 certificates to their favorite customers as thank-yous and, of course, were made familiar with Red Boy Pizza’s catering services, just in time for the holiday season. In the next two weeks, each restaurant began to see results—new customers showed up to redeem the $5 certificates, with one store getting more than 20 certificates brought in.
Also in December, we developed a sales tracking and reporting process to help the franchisor gather weekly sales data from every franchisee. Additionally, to ensure food consistency at each location, we arranged for a single distributor to provide product for all eight stores, resulting in a 2% savings in food costs. Finally, we conducted a strategy and planning session for the upcoming year, scheduling marketing initiatives for the first six months of 2012. We’ll tell you more about that in the next issue of PMQ!
Linda Duke is the CEO of Duke Marketing and author of Recipes for Restaurateurs (marketing-cookbook.com), a “cookbook” of marketing ideas for restaurant owners. She publishes a quarterly industry resource, Restaurant Marketing Magazine, and an educational program, LSM-U, Local Store Marketing University. Find out more at dukemarketing.com.
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MCCOY Donald George August 3, 1930 – June 6, 2008 Donald George McCoy of Red Deer passed away following a lengthy illness on Friday, June 6, 2008 at the age of 77 years. Don was born August 3, 1930 in Lake Alma, SK. He and his family moved to Calgary in the 1960's, where he continued his career as a psychiatric nurse. Don had worked at the Holy Cross Hospital and the Calgary General Hospital, from where he retired. He moved to Red Deer in September 2005 to be closer to his family. Don was a member of the Royal Canadian Legion, Bowness Branch, where he entertained other members with his music. Don is survived by his daughter, Brenda Halliday (McCoy) of Lacombe, AB; two sons, Roland McCoy of Red Deer, and Richard McCoy of Calgary; two grandsons, Ryan and Justin Halliday of Calgary. Don is also survived by his Uncle Leonard Hestad of Weyburn, SK; two sisters, Arnice and Doreen, as well as the Dickinson Family. He was predeceased by his wife Gwen (nee Dickinson) whom he married on May 9, 1981.If friends so desire, memorial tributes may be made directly to the Red Deer Regional Hospital c/o Foundation Office 3942 -50A Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 4E7 telephone: (403) 343-4422. Forward condolences through www.mcinnisandholloway.com. In living memory of Don McCoy, a tree will be planted at Fish Creek Provincial Park by McINNIS & HOLLOWAY FUNERAL HOMES, Crowfoot Chapel, 82 Crowfoot Circle N.W. Telephone: (403) 241-0044.
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HORNE John Fairfield 1920-2008 John Fairfield Horne, beloved husband of Ruth Horne, passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Friday, March 7, 2008, at the age of 87 years. John was born on October 25, 1920, in Lethbridge, Alberta, where he was raised and attended public school. In 1938, he enrolled at the University of Alberta, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture, in May, 1942. During the summer of '42, John met his sweetheart and spouse to be, Ruth Cronkhite. He also enrolled in the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, taking his officer training program at Gordonhead, B.C., followed by his basic training in Red Deer, Alberta. Lieutenant John Horne served in England, France, Belguim and Holland during W.W.11 before returning home in February, 1946. After a long wait, John and Ruth were married in June, 1946, residing in Lethbridge, Alberta. John also began his career with the federal government, serving as a Veteran's Land Act Field Officer in southern Alberta for 39 years. In 1988, John and Ruth moved to Red Deer to be closer to family. John is survived by his wife of 61+ years, Ruth Horne, his son Jim(Ethel), daughters Barb and Valerie, sister Dorothy(Glenn) McFarland of Saratoga, California, four grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. He was predeceased by his parents Fairfield and Gladys Horne and a brother, Donald Horne. John enjoyed travel, sports, gardening, eating out, and family gatherings. His presence will be greatly missed. The family would like to thank the staff of the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre for the kind, caring and competent treatment that was provided for John throughout the past years. Also, the family wishes to extend a special thank you to Dr. Bob Mulder. Memorial donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the charity of choice. A service celebrating John's life will be held at Sunnybrook United Church, 12 Stanton Street, Red Deer, Alberta, on March 13, 2008, commencing at 2:00 p.m., with the Reverend Bill Cantelon officiating.
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Kirkby man who assaulted wife has been spared jail
Latest court news
A Kirkby man who assaulted his wife while she held their young daughter in her arms has been spared an immediate prison sentence.
James Couzens followed his wife up the stairs of her Mansfield Woodhouse home, and hit her in the back, on the afternoon of February 16.
Prosecutor Daniel Church described how he followed her into a bedroom, shouting, grabbed her by the neck and rammed her head into the wall "with a lot of force."
"She was screaming for him to stop," he said. "She collapsed to the floor."
His wife managed to text her mum, who called the police, and when officers arrived Couzens was heard to say: "Here we go again. It's all a lot of rubbish."
In interview, he denied hitting her, and claimed he had pinned her to the wall in self-defence.
In a statement, his wife said she was "scared of what he is capable of", and that Couzens had "ground me down over the last six years."
"He wouldn't let me speak to anyone. I have lost all contact with people I used to see regularly."
Mark Stock, mitigating, said the incident happened at the "very acrimonious" end of an eight-year relationship.
"Magistrates at the trial felt that frustration had gottten the better of him and he had behaved in a way that was totally inappropriate," he said.
He said Couzens had no record of previous convictions for violence and had behaved out of character.
Probation officer Raqia Bano said Couzens "doesn't understand how his behaviour could have impacted on the children" and thought his was wife "was being unfaithful."
Couzens, 40, of Diamond Avenue, was convicted of the assault after a trial on May 20.
On Thursday, he was sentenced to 18 weeks, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to carry out five rehabilitation days and 31 days of the Building Better Relationships course.
He was ordered to pay £150 compensation, £620 court costs and a £115 government surcharge. A two year restraining order was imposed.
Read more of the latest court cases here.
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PROFILE-Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis
Position: Greek finance minister
Incumbent: Yanis Varoufakis
Date of Birth: 24 March, 1961
Term: Appointed January 27 by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after his leftwing Syriza party won a four-year term at the January 25, 2015 general election.
- Varoufakis is an academic economist who has worked in universities in Greece, Britain, Australia and the United States. He gained a wide following before entering politics for his trenchant criticisms of euro zone policy, based on enforcing budget rigour and encouraging market-friendly economic reform.
- He has argued that the orthodox approach to the crisis risks undermining the single currency and breaking the European Union apart, saying it amounted to “a cynical transfer of banking losses onto the shoulders of the weakest taxpayers”.
- A prolific anti-austerity blogger with a taste for colourful shirts and vivid turn of phrase - he once called the bailout terms imposed on Greece by its international creditors “fiscal waterboarding” - he says it was a mistake for Greece ever to join the euro but that it is too late to leave now.
- Varoufakis was an adviser to former centre-left Prime Minister George Papandreou until he resigned in 2006. He turned against Papandreou’s acceptance of an international bailout, arguing that Greece was effectively insolvent and could not avoid defaulting on its massive public debt.
- He only went into politics in the run-up to the 2015 election. He left his position at the University of Texas saying he could not refuse Tsipras’ invitation to join his team.
Writing by James Mackenzie
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Qatar will invest $3 billion in Pakistan, state news agency says
DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar is making $3 billion worth of new investments in Pakistan, in the form of deposits and direct investments, the Qatari state news agency QNA said on Monday.
Following this investment, the economic partnership between Qatar and Pakistan will reach $9 billion, the agency reported, quoting Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani.
Last month, Pakistan reached an accord in principle with the International Monetary Fund for a three-year, $6 billion bailout package aimed at shoring up its fragile public finances and strengthening a slowing economy.
The Qatari announcement came after a visit by Qatar’s emir to Pakistan. During the visit, Pakistan and Qatar signed several memoranda of understanding for trade and investment, tourism and business and for cooperation in financial intelligence, according to the Pakistani government’s Twitter account.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government is seeking to stabilize its economy with loans from Gulf countries and international donors.
Saudi Arabia earlier provided Pakistan with a $3 billion loan and a similar amount every year in oil supply on deferred payments. The United Arab Emirates also announced a $3 billion loan package.
Reporting by Maha El Dahan, writing by Nafisa Eltahir; editing by Saeed Azhar, Larry King
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A majority of U.S. adults now use social media: Pew study
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Social media usage among American adults has ballooned in the past decade with about two-thirds now on social networking sites, Pew Research Center said on Thursday.
People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture taken in Warsaw September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
The 65 percent of adults in the United States using social media is up from 46 percent in 2010 and just 7 percent in 2005, the year Pew began tracking usage.
Since the early 2000s, social media sites on the Internet have surged in popularity, from Friendster and Myspace to Facebook and Twitter, among others.
Social networking has evolved from people “poking” each other and connecting with one another to law enforcement agencies and national leaders using the sites to disseminate information.
For its findings on Thursday, Pew analyzed 27 national surveys of Americans, about 47,000 interviews among adult Internet users and about 62,000 interviews among all adults conducted from March 2005 to July 2015. Margins of error were up to plus or minus 3.9 percent.
Pew said the overall number of users of social networks has leveled off but there continues to be growth among some groups who were not early adopters, such as older Americans.
Social media use among those 65 and older has more than tripled to 35 percent since 2010, when just 11 percent used social media.
Those 18 to 29 years old are most likely to use social media and 90 percent of them use it today, compared to 78 percent in 2010, Pew said. In addition, Pew said usage among those aged 30 to 49 is up from 53 percent in 2010 to 77 percent this year.
Women began using social media more than men in 2009 but the difference has shrunk in recent years, Pew said, with 68 of women using social media in 2015, compared to 62 percent of men. These figures are up since 2010, when 50 percent of women and 42 percent of men used social media.
Those in higher-income households and those with at least some college experience have been more likely to use social media, according to Pew.
Historically, adults who live in rural communities have been the least likely to use social media, Pew said.
Pew said there are no notable differences in social media use among racial or ethnic groups - 65 percent of both whites and Hispanics and 56 percent of African Americans currently use social media.
Reporting by Suzannah Gonzales; Editing by Bill Trott
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Written by Seregil of Rhiminee
G. S. Denning's Warlock Holmes: The Sign of Nine was published by Titan Books in May 2019.
Information about G. S. Denning:
G.S. Denning is the author of the acclaimed Sherlock-fantasy mashup series Warlock Holmes, including Warlock Holmes: A Study in Brimstone and Warlock Holmes: The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles. He has a background in improv and has performed with Ryan Stiles and Wayne Brady. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife and two children.
Click here to visit his official website.
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Information about Warlock Holmes: The Sign of Nine:
Warlock Holmes may have demons in his head, but now Dr. John Watson has a mummy in his bloodstream. Specifically that of the sorcerer Xantharaxes, who, when shredded and dissolved in a seven-percent solution, produces some extremely odd but useful prophetic dreams. There’s also the small matter of Watson falling for yet another damsel-du-jour, and Warlock deciding that his companion needs some domestic bliss...
G. S. Denning's Warlock Holmes: The Sign of Nine is an excellent and much-awaited continuation of the Warlock Holmes series, which parodises and satirises Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in a brilliant way. This amazing novel offers readers amusing and clever mysteries, delivered with precision and impeccable style.
The Sign of Nine is a splendid novel to everybody who loves humorous fantasy fiction and mystery stories. It's a wonderful and irresistibly original blend of fantasy, mystery and horror elements with plenty of inventiveness and charming wittiness. I'm sure that readers who love humorous stories will be impressed by this novel and its contents, because it's something different and unique.
I consider The Sign of Nine to be one of the most amusing and entertaining novels of the year, because the author has fully captured the essence of the original Sherlock Holmes stories and has boldly created his own stunningly original vision of the famous detective and his sidekick Dr. John Watson. Everything about this novel exudes originality and quality, because the author's take on Sherlock Holmes is absolutely hilarious in its shamelessly quirky approach to the source material.
This novel consists of the following stories:
- The Adventure of the Noble Arse-Face
- The Toymaker
- The Adventure of Beppo vs. Napoleon (A Fight in Six Rounds)
- The Devil and the Neophyte
- The Adventure of Black Peter Blackguard McNotVeryNice
- The Gang
- The Adventure of the Ring of Red Faction
- The Detective
- The Sign of Nine
As Dr. John Watson states in the first story, the first novel told of how the strange adventure began and the second one told of how Dr. Watson came into his own as an adventurer and detective, and the third novel told of how Moriarty and Adler came back into the lives of Dr. Watson and Warlock Holmes to bring them defeat upon defeat. Now, this fourth novel tells of Dr. Watson's addiction and shame.
In these stories, Warlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson deal - amongst other things - with Moriarty, Irene Adler and the treasure hunter Mary Morstan. This time, readers have an opportunity to read about how Watson injects himself with bits of shredded Persian mummy to learn more about James Moriarty and Irene Adler. Readers will learn what happens to Watson as he becomes addicted to the use of remains of the mummy.
The characterisation is spot-on in these stories, because the author has created fully-fleshed characters who are surprisingly far more interesting as persons than the original characters on which they are based on. I have to admit that I'm surprised at how much depth the characters have and how well they are portrayed, because the author pays attention to their characteristics and behaviour, not to mention their various flaws.
Here's a bit of information about the stories without spoilers:
"The Adventure of the Noble Arse-Face": This opening story finds Dr. John Watson recovering from what happened to him at the end of the previous novel. Dr. Watson and Warlock Holmes help a lord to find out what has happened to his bride.
In "The Toymaker", Dr. Watson dreams of an elderly toymaker and James Moriarty after injecting himself with a solution made of the shredded remains of the sorcerer Xantharaxes. I found this story fascinating, because it has a strange fairy tale kind of a feel to it.
In "The Adventure of Beppo vs. Napoleon (A Fight in Six Rounds)", the protagonists find themselves solving a mystery involving busts of Napoleon. I loved this story, because it's something different due to the perpetrator's identity.
"The Devil and the Neophyte" is an interesting dream sequence about Irene Adler, James Moriarty and a demon.
"The Adventure of Black Peter Blackguard McNotVeryNice" tells of how the protagonists are investigating the death of a man called Captain Peter Carey aka Black Peter. The revelations during the investigation are fascinating and surprising.
"The Gang" is a dream sequence about Moriarty, the toymaker and Irene Adler. I found this dream sequence especially intriguing, because it's sophisticatedly dark and is filled with a foreboding atmosphere.
In "The Adventure of the Ring of Red Faction", Warlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are asked to look into the matter of a mysterious lodger who has weaseled his way into the house of Mrs. Warren and doesn't come out of his rooms. The mysterious person has instructed Mrs. Warren not to try and find out anything about him.
"The Detective" is a dream sequence in which Watson dreams of something alarming and unexpected in the basement room. I was impressed by this dream, because it's sufficiently dark and revealing.
The final story, "The Sign of Nine", is a brilliantly realised novella-length story with a fine plot. In this story, Mary Morstan needs Warlock Holmes and Dr. Watson's help in a matter concerning a mysterious meeting she is supposed to attend. I enjoyed reading about Thaddeus Sholto, because the author's way of writing about him and his unusual appearance was thrilling. I was also pleasantly surprised about how the author wrote about what happened between Dr. Watson and Mary Morstan.
The dream sequences, which are taken from the dream journal of Dr. John Watson, are a great addition to the story, because they're well written and have quite a lot of dark fantasy elements. I was fascinated by Dr. Watson's self-poisoning and his addiction to the remains of the mummy, because he consciously injected himself with the remains in order to find out more information about important things.
I enjoy the author's witty writing style and find it refreshing. G. S. Denning has been a competent and excellent writer since the first novel and with each new instalment he has become increasingly fluent at writing fiction that echoes the Victorian atmosphere and setting of the original stories. To spice things up, he throws in a few well chosen modern elements, eeriness and captivating quirkiness.
What I like most about this novel (and its predecessors) is the author's ability to combine elements of mystery fiction, fantasy fiction and weird fiction in an entertaining and thrilling way. He seamlessly blends these elements to create strange mysteries that are incredibly funny and highly enjoyable.
Because I loved this novel and found it impressive, I look forward to reading the fifth instalment, The Finality Problem. I can hardly wait to get my hands on the forthcoming novel, because this novel left me wanting more. I simply can't get enough of these novels!
If you enjoy reading humorous speculative fiction and love mystery stories, G. S. Denning's Warlock Holmes: The Sign of Nine should definitely be at the top of your reading list, because it's one of the most entertaining humorous speculative fiction novels ever published. It's addictive and compelling escapism to readers who want to treat themselves to an enjoyable reading experience filled with humour, fantasy and mystery.
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Sena J. Lee
MD, Ph.D.
Medical and Surgical Dermatologist
4002 Sun City Center Blvd, Unit 102
Sun City Center, FL 33573
Parrish, FL 34219
Dr. Sena J. Lee
Sena Lee M.D., Ph.D. brings a wealth of experience to Riverchase Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery. Her impressive curriculum vitae reflects her experience and knowledge in the field of dermatology. She received her Medical Degree at Cornell University Medical College and her Doctor of Philosophy in Immunology at Rockefeller University in New York City. Her postgraduate medical training included an internship at Boston Medical Center and a residency in dermatology at Hospital of University of Pennsylvania. She was an Assistant Professor in the Division of Dermatology at Washington University School of Medicine for several years where she was invited to lecture at Grand Rounds. Dr. Lee has published several articles and chapters in distinguished journals and manuals to advance the field of dermatology.
Dr. Lee now lives in Bradenton with her husband, two sons and a goldendoodle, enjoying all that Florida has to offer. She loves to read, run and travel in her spare time.
Medical and Surgical Dermatology
Skin Cancer and Melanoma Screening
Bachelor of Arts – Harvard College
Doctor of Philosophy in Immunology – Rockefeller University
Doctor of Medicine – Cornell University Medical College
Residency in Dermatology – Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
Internship in Internal Medicine – Boston Medical Center
The American Academy of Dermatology
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Academy welcomes Greg Clark MP as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Responding the appointment of Greg Clark MP to lead the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Professor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FREng FRS, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said:
“The Academy welcomes the appointment of Greg Clark MP as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. We appreciate his interest and involvement over many years in the development of vital infrastructure and his enthusiasm for engineering and innovation, particularly during his work as Minister for Universities, Science and Cities. We look forward to working with Mr Clark to help the UK to address national and global challenges from clean energy to disease prevention and to maximise the economic benefits of our world-class research and innovation base.
“Having consistently championed the benefits of an industrial strategy for the UK, focused on key sectors where our nation has the potential to lead the world, we are delighted that this is now a formal part of the restructured Department’s remit.”
Royal Academy of Engineering. As the UK’s national academy for engineering, we bring together the most successful and talented engineers for a shared purpose: to advance and promote excellence in engineering. We provide analysis and policy support to promote the UK’s role as a great place to do business. We take a lead on engineering education and we invest in the UK’s world-class research base to underpin innovation. We work to improve public awareness and understanding of engineering. We are a national academy with a global outlook.
We have four strategic challenges:
Make the UK the leading nation for engineering innovation
Address the engineering skills crisis
Position engineering at the heart of society
Lead the profession
Aaron Boardley at the Royal Academy of Engineering
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39 LISTS The American PresidencyLists about the history and quirks of America's highest office.
Rules All Former POTUSes Have to Follow The Mysterious Book of Secrets Presidents with Problem Children Feuds with Vice Presidents History's Most Infamous Executive Orders Cool Facts About the Secret Service Stories from the Secret Service Biggest Firsts in POTUS History POTUS Perks & Salary Facts Real Life for Former POTUSes Things the POTUS Has to Pay for Weird Features in Air Force One Recent POTUSes' First 100 Days When the POTUS Ventures Out Code Names Used by the Secret Service Strict Rules for the First Family Normal Things a POTUS Can't Do When They Were Children Ailments and Medical Problems Great Moments in Presidential Style
Photo: Abbie Rowe - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
America Every President's Most Controversial Pardon, Ranked
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List Rules Vote up the most controversial presidential pardons - those that most shocked the country and led to intense national debate.
Why do presidents pardon people? It depends on the situation and who you ask, as the topic of presidential pardons is ripe with controversy. United States history is no stranger to political scandals and presidential corruption, and pardons are often a cause of public outrage. Oftentimes, individuals granted clemency by the Commander in Chief become the subject of national debate. Even partial pardons - like commuted sentences - are often met with backlash. Here, you'll find every president's most controversial pardon, ranked by your votes.
As they're absolved of past criminal convictions, people who have been pardoned by the president get a second chance at life. However, there is a lot of disagreement in regards to who actually deserves a second chance. The nation was appalled when Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon for his part in Watergate, as Americans were desperate to see reparation for widespread political corruption. Donald Trump's pardon of Joe Arpaio sparked a debate as to whether the Arizona sheriff was a deeply prejudiced tyrant or an unsung champion of justice. What other presidential pardons have shocked Americans? Vote up the pardons you find controversial below.
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Gerald Ford Pardons Richard Nixon
Hands down Gerald Ford's most controversial pardon was that of Richard Nixon. The former president received a full, unconditional pardon for his role in the Watergate Scandal, which resulted in his resignation. Nixon is the only former president to receive a pardon.
Andrew Johnson Pardons Man Who Aided Lincoln's Assassin
Dr. Samuel Mudd helped Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, escape shortly after Booth shot Lincoln. While he was sentenced to life in prison for his actions, Andrew Johnson gave him a full and unconditional pardon.
Bill Clinton Pardons His Own Brother
Bill Clinton kept it in the family when granting controversial pardons. He pardoned his brother, Roger Clinton, Jr., for 1985 convictions of cocaine possession and drug-trafficking. Roger Clinton later received several DUIs.
George H. W. Bush Pardons Man After $100,000 Campaign Donation
George H. W. Bush pardoned Armand Hammer for his crime of making illegal contributions to the Nixon campaign. The timing of the pardon was controversial as Hammer had contributed over $100,000 to the Republican party shortly before he was absolved of wrong-doing.
Calvin Coolidge Pardons German spy
Calvin Coolidge had a few controversial pardons of his own, including that of German spy Lothar Witzke. Along with spying for Germany, Witzke was involved with a 1916 bombing attack on New York Harbor that left seven dead. After being pardoned, Witzke was deported to Germany.
Donald Trump Pardons Joe Arpaio
One of Donald Trump's most controversial pardons was that of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Arpaio was convicted of contempt of court for illegally detaining people without reasonable evidence after being ordered to cease these practices. Civil rights groups protested the pardon as they viewed Arpaio's actions as unconstitutional attacks on immigrants.
Barack Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence
In 2017, Barack Obama commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, who was court-martialed for violating the espionage act after giving classified documents to WikiLeaks. The move allowed her to leave prison after serving only seven years of a 35-year sentence.
Woodrow Wilson Pardons Known Spy
Woodrow Wilson issued the only full executive pardon to someone convicted under the Espionage Act when he pardoned Frederick Krafft in 1918. Krafft was accused - and found guilty of - attempting to cause insubordination and disloyalty towards the American government and armed forces. There were multiple accounts of the incident in question and Krafft denied all charges against him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Commutes Confessed Murderer's Sentence
Dwight D. Eisenhower's decision to commute the death sentence of Maurice Schick – who brutally murdered a young girl at a US Army camp in Japan – to life in prison without the possibility of parole went all the way to the Supreme Court. Schick alleged that "life imprisonment without parole" was unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court ultimately ruled in favor of Eisenhower's decision.
Richard Nixon Commutes The Sentence Of Jimmy Hoffa
Richard Nixon commuted the sentence of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa – who was convicted of fraud and bribery – in 1971. Hoffa disappeared four years later following a meeting with known members of the mafia. He was declared legally dead in 1982.
William McKinley Pardons A Corrupt Politician
Alexander McKenzie helped secure the appointments of many political figures in Alaska. He then used political favors as a way to get the same judges to take gold mines from their rightful owners and give them to him. After being ordered by a high court to return the mines to their owners, McKenzie did nothing and was eventually found guilty of contempt of court. President McKinley pardoned him in 1901 after only serving three months.
John Quincy Adams Trades Pardon For Land
John Quincy Adams pardoning of Ho-Chuck leaders Wekau and Chickhonsic, who were convicted of murder, was one of the first truly controversial presidential pardons. He lifted their sentences in exchange for a land cession in 1828.
George W. Bush Commutes Scooter Libby's Sentence
George W. Bush commuted the sentence of his assistant Lewis "Scooter" Libby – who was also Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff – for a perjury conviction associated with revealing the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plume.
Lyndon B. Johnson Pardons Congressmen As Favor To Bobby Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson pardoned Congressman Frank W. Boykin – who was convicted of conspiracy and conflict of interest – upon the request of Robert F. Kennedy in 1964.
John Tyler Pardons A Confessed Murderer
John Tyler pardoned Alexander William Holmes, who admitted to throwing several people off a lifeboat in 1841. The reason Holmes was granted a pardon is that the crew did what they did in order to lessen the load of the lifeboat and save some lives rather than forcing everyone to go down with the ship.
Jimmy Carter Commuted G. Gordon Liddy's Sentence
Just like his predecessor Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter went easy on Watergate offenders when he commuted the sentence of G. Gordon Liddy, who led the group that broke into the DNC at the Watergate Complex. While Liddy had been sentenced to 20 years in prison, Carter released him after only four years.
Grover Cleveland Pardons Known Outlaw
Grover Cleveland used the power of the presidency to pardon a known associate of Billy the Kid, Billy Wilson. Wilson was arrested with a gang of outlaws after being involved in a shoot-out in White Oaks that resulted in the death of a deputy sheriff.
James Buchanan Pardons Brigham Young
Utah governor Brigham Young encouraged independence among residents of his state. After federal officials received information regarding obstruction of officials, President James Buchanan appointed a new governor. Young called upon his militia and withheld federal troops for several months in what was called the Utah War. Young eventually agreed to step-down and Buchanan pardoned Young for his involvement in the uprising.
Theodore Roosevelt Pardons Repeat Land Fraud Co-Conspirator
Stephen A. Douglas Puter was involved in a number of land scandals in Oregon and California. Via fraudulent claims, Puter got thousands of acres of federal land transferred to private owners in Oregon and California. He was issued a pardon in 1907 in order to become a witness for the state. His testimony led to the indictments of three of his co-conspirators.
James Monroe Pardons Multiple Pirates
James Monroe reportedly pardoned numerous people convicted of piracy.
Andrew Jackson's Pardon Was Refused
Andrew Jackson's most controversial pardon wasn't contentious in and of itself, rather the problem came from the recipient's refusal to accept it. George Wilson was found guilty of robbery of the mail in 1829. Wilson refused the pardon without explaining his reasoning, and the Supreme Court ruled that it was his right to reject it. Wilson was ultimately executed by hanging.
Herbert Hoover Pardons Indiana Governor To Send A Message To The KKK
Herbert Hoover's pardon of Indiana Governor Warren T. McCray highlighted the influence the KKK wielded in the state. McCray got himself in trouble by taking out questionable loans, but it was his vetoing of legislation supported by the KKK that led to his arrest when Indiana's Attorney General – and KKK member– filed a series of suits against him. McCray was convicted of mail fraud in 1927 and received a pardon from Hoover in 1930 after the president was informed of the Klan's role in his initial conviction.
Ulysses S. Grant Effectively Pardoned All Members Of The Confederacy
Ulysses S. Grant effectively pardoned most members of the Confederacy when he signed the Amnesty Act in 1872. This allowed former Confederacy members to once again vote and hold office. Tensions were still high across the United States and Grant viewed the act as a way to promote unity.
Ronald Reagan Unknowingly Pardons "Deep Throat"
FBI agent Mark Felt was convicted of ordering illegal break-ins to the homes of several members of the revolutionary,militant group the Weather Underground in 1980. President Ronald Reagan issued a pardon during Felt's appeal. In 2005, Felt was revealed to be "Deep Throat," the informant who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate Scandal.
Harry S. Truman Commutes His Own Would-Be Assassin's Sentence
Harry S. Truman used his presidential pardon power to commute the sentence of Oscar Collazo – who was found guilty of attempting to assassinate Truman – from death to life imprisonment in 1952. Collazo's sentence was further commuted to time served by Jimmy Carter in 1979 and he was able to return to Puerto Rico.
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22 LISTS Sad Movies to Bum You OutLists of the best movies to watch when all you want to do is wrap yourself in a blanket burrito, flop over sideways, and feel terrible about the world and everything in it.
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Entertainment Great Movies About Sad Loner Characters
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List Rules Vote up your favorite films about a lone wolf character who hasn't quite figured out this whole life thing.
Since loner types prefer to spent most of their time in solitude, the best way to examine their lives is at the movies. The top lone wolf movies spotlight introverted characters who struggle to identify with the bulk of society. This is a list of the greatest movies about lonely characters including everything from Taxi Driver to Rebel Without a Cause to The Wrestler.
What films will you find on this list of the best movies about lonely and pathetic characters? Into the Wild was inspired by the real-life Alaskan adventures of Chris McCandless. Emile Hirsch starred in the 2007 drama, which was based on Jon Krakauer's book of the same name. Barton Fink is another fascinating film about a loner character. Ghost World follows a pair of teenage girls as they befriend a sad loner after setting him up on a fake blind date. Other good films about loner characters include About Schmidt, Safety Not Guaranteed, and The Panic in Needle Park.
Which movie about a loner is the best? Vote your favorites up to the top of the list, and please add any good features that are missing.
Taxi Driver Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Martin Scorsese
Taxi Driver is a 1976 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. Set in New York City soon after the end of the Vietnam War, the film ...more
Into The Wild Kristen Stewart, Vince Vaughn, Zach Galifianakis
Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical drama survival film written and directed by Sean Penn. It is an adaptation of the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer based on ...more
intershyte added Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Forest Whitaker, Henry Silva, Victor Argo
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 American action film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. Forest Whitaker stars as the title character, the mysterious "Ghost Dog" who ...more
Before Sunrise Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg
Before Sunrise is a 1995 American romantic drama film directed by Richard Linklater and written by Linklater and Kim Krizan. The film follows Jesse, a young American man, and Céline, a ...more
Coco2 added A Beautiful Mind Jennifer Connelly, Russell Crowe, Ron Howard
A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva ...more
Coco2 added Rambo Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Graham McTavish
Rambo is a 2008 American-German independent action film directed, co-written by and starring Sylvester Stallone reprising his famous role as veteran John Rambo. It is the fourth installment in ...more
Pi Mark Margolis, Ajay Naidu, Clint Mansell
Pi, also titled π, is a 1998 American surrealist psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky in his directorial debut. The film earned Aronofsky the Directing Award at ...more
Lars And The Real Girl Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson
Lars and the Real Girl is a 2007 American-Canadian comedy-drama film written by Nancy Oliver and directed by Craig Gillespie. It stars Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner ...more
Punch-Drunk Love Adam Sandler, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emily Watson
Punch-Drunk Love is a 2002 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Luis ...more
Ghost World Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi, Teri Garr
Ghost World is a 2001 American comedy-drama film directed by Terry Zwigoff, based on the comic book of the same name by Daniel Clowes, with a screenplay cowritten by Daniel Clowes and Terry ...more
The Wrestler Evan Rachel Wood, Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei
The Wrestler is a 2008 American sports drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky, written by Robert D. Siegel, and starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood. Production began in ...more
Barton Fink John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Frances McDormand
Barton Fink is a 1991 American period film written, produced, directed and edited by the Coen brothers. Set in 1941, it stars John Turturro in the title role as a young New York City playwright ...more
Shame Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, Nicole Beharie
Shame is a 2011 drama film written by Steve McQueen and Abi Morgan and directed by Steve McQueen. It premiered at the 2011 Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2011.
Rebel Without A Cause Natalie Wood, James Dean, Dennis Hopper
Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American drama film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers. The film stars James Dean, Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood. Directed by Nicholas Ray, ...more
Coco2 added The Punisher John Travolta, Rebecca Romijn, Kevin Nash
The Punisher is a 2004 American comic book vigilante action film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, starring Thomas Jane as the antihero Frank Castle / The Punisher and John ...more
Midnight Cowboy Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Bob Balaban
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. The script was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Jon ...more
The Station Agent Michelle Williams, Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson
The Station Agent is a 2003 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Thomas McCarthy. McCarthy's script about a man who seeks solitude in an abandoned train station in the Newfoundland ...more
The Machinist Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Ironside
The Machinist is a 2004 English-language Spanish psychological thriller film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Scott Kosar. The film stars Christian Bale with Jennifer Jason Leigh, John ...more
Wild Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Gaby Hoffmann
Wild is a 2014 American biographical drama film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, written by Nick Hornby, and based on Cheryl Strayed's 2012 memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific ...more
The Farewell Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin
The Farewell is a 2019 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Lulu Wang. Over the objections of her parents, a Chinese-American woman named Billi (Awkwafina) returns to China after ...more
The Master Amy Adams, Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Master is a 2012 American drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. It tells the story of ...more
Hard Eight Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Hard Eight is a 1996 American neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow and Samuel L. Jackson. There ...more
Richard Hawkins added He never died Henry Rollins
He Never Died is a 2015 Canadian/American comedic horror film directed by Jason Krawczyk. Jack (Henry Rollins), a social outcast, is thrust out of his comfort zone when the outside world bangs ...more
The Panic In Needle Park Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Raúl Juliá
The Panic in Needle Park is a 1971 American film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Al Pacino in his second film appearance. The screenplay was written by Joan Didion and John Gregory ...more
Buffalo '66 Christina Ricci, Mickey Rourke, Anjelica Huston
Buffalo '66 is a 1998 comedy-drama film that is writer-director Vincent Gallo's full-length motion picture debut. Gallo and Christina Ricci star in the lead roles and the supporting cast ...more
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List Rules The television series airing new episodes during the 2019 calendar year that scared you the most.
As any good thriller fan knows, sometimes the scariest shows can also be the most fun. Now, before you set out to cast your vote for the scariest TV series of 2019, keep in mind that you don't necessarily have to go for the most shamelessly gory. Some of the scariest and most exciting horror series keep your nerves on edge with just psychological terror. Don't worry, no one is going to leap forth and judge you if you decide to vote for a show that could be technically classified as "mildly creepy" by gatekeeper horror buffs but has you watching from between your fingers. Scary is scary and what is really terrifying is that this list will let the votes crown the creepiest! Here you'll find a list of candidates for the best, scariest show with episodes airing in 2019.
From all-out creep fests full of maurading monsters to the nostalgia-fueled fun of Stranger Things, you'll find something here for those of every scare level. So whether it's embarrassingly easy to unnerve you or whether you say "the bloodier the better," come on in and cast your vote for the best, scariest shows of 2019.
American Horror Story Connie Britton, Dylan McDermott, Evan Peters
American Horror Story (FX, 2011) is an American anthology horror television series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. An anthology series centering on different characters and locations, ...more
Black Mirror Daniel Kaluuya, Toby Kebbell, Rory Kinnear
Black Mirror is a British television anthology series created by Charlie Brooker that features speculative fiction with dark and sometimes satirical themes that examine modern society, ...more
Stranger Things Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard
Stranger Things (Netflix, 2016) is an American science fiction-horror web television series created by The Duffer Brothers. When a young boy (Noah Schnapp) disappears, his mother (Winona Ryder), ...more
A Haunting Anthony D. Call, Mark Joy, Lorraine Warren
A Haunting is a 2005 American paranormal anthology television series that depicts eyewitness accounts of possession, exorcism, and ghostly encounters. The show originally aired from October 28, ...more
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Kiernan Shipka, Jaz Sinclair, Michelle Gomez
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix, 2018) is an American supernatural television series created by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, based on the comic book series. Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka) ...more
The Walking Dead Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies
The Walking Dead (A&E, 2010) is an American post-apocalyptic horror television series developed by Frank Darabont, based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie ...more
Supernatural Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Katie Cassidy
Supernatural (The CW, 2005) is an American fantasy horror television series created by Eric Kripke. Two brothers, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles), follow their father's ...more
The Purge Gabriel Chavarria, Lili Simmons, Lee Tergesen
The Purge (Syfy, 2018) is an American horror television series based on the film franchise. Set in an altered United States, several unrelated people discover how far they will go to survive a ...more
Criminal Minds Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, Thomas Gibson
Criminal Minds is an American police-procedural television program that premiered September 22, 2005, on CBS. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit based ...more
The Terror Derek Mio, George Takei, Jared Harris
The Terror (AMC, 2018) is an anthology television series created by David Kajganich and Soo Hugh, based on the novel by Dan Simmons. The first season follows a crew of a Royal Naval expedition ...more
Slasher Katie McGrath, Brandon Jay McLaren, Steve Byers
Slasher (Chiller, 2016) is a Canadian television horror anthology series created by Aaron Martin. A young woman (Katie McGrath) returns to the small town where her parents were murdered, only to ...more
Lore Robert Patrick, Holland Roden, Colm Feore
Lore (Amazon Video, 2017) is an American horror anthology television series developed by Aaron Mahnke, who created the Lore podcast. The show combines documentary footage and cinematic scenes to ...more
The Order Jake Manley, Sarah Grey, Matt Frewer
The Order (Netflix, 2019) is an American drama web television series created by Dennis Heaton and Shelley Eriksen. College freshman Jack Morton (Jake Manley) joins a fabled secret society and is ...more
Game of Thrones Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke
Game of Thrones (HBO, 2011) is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, based on the series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin. Nine noble ...more
True Detective Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan
True Detective (HBO, 2014) is an American anthology drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto. Each season focuses on detectives investigating violent offences.
Tell Me a Story Billy Magnussen, Kim Cattrall, Danielle Campbell
Tell Me a Story (CBS All Access, 2018) is an American psychological thriller web television series created by Kevin Williamson, based on the Mexican television series Érase una vez. The ...more
Into the Dark Tom Bateman, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Aurora Perrineau
Into the Dark (Hulu, 2018) is an American horror anthology web television series. Each episode of the series is inspired by a holiday from the month in which it is released.
Legacies Danielle Rose Russell, Matt Davis, Kaylee Bryant
Legacies (The CW, 2018) is an American television drama series created by Julie Plec, and a spinoff of The Originals. Hope Mikaelson (Danielle Rose Russell), a tribrid daughter of a ...more
Castlevania Richard Armitage, James Callis, Graham McTavish
Castlevania (Netflix, 2017) is an American adult animated web television series based on the 1989 video game Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse by Konami. The series follows Trevor Belmont ...more
Riverdale KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes
Riverdale (The CW, 2017) is an American teen drama television series developed by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, based on the characters of Archie Comics. The series follows Archie Andrews' (KJ Apa) ...more
Gotham Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, David Mazouz
Gotham (Fox, 2014) is an American drama television series developed by Bruno Heller, based on the DC Comics characters from the Batman franchise. The story behind Detective James Gordon's (Ben ...more
iZombie Rose McIver, Malcolm Goodwin, Rahul Kohli
iZombie (The CW, 2015) is an American television series developed by Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright, loosely based on the comic books by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred. A medical ...more
How to Get Away with Murder Viola Davis, Billy Brown, Alfred Enoch
This television show is an American drama television series created by Peter Nowalk. A law professor (Viola Davis) at a prestigious Philadelphia university and five of her students become ...more
The ABC Murders John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot, with Rupert Grint, Andrew Buchan
The ABC Murders (BBC One, 2018) is a British television serial based on Agatha Christie's novel of the same name. Hercule Poirot (John Malkovich), receives a mysterious letter, signed ...more
Charmed Madeleine Mantock, Melonie Diaz, Sarah Jeffery
Charmed (The CW, 2018) is an American fantasy drama television series developed by Jennie Snyder Urman, and a reboot of the 1998 series. After the death of their mother, sisters Macy (Madeleine ...more
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Entertainment The Best Movies With Good in the Title
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List Rules Vote up your favorite movie with "good" in the name
Since it's such a common word, it's not surprising there are many movies with good in the name. This list ranks the best movies with good in the title, regardless of what genre it is. Do you have a favorite movie with good in the name? This isn't a common way to categorize films, but that's part of the fun. There are probably one or two movies with good in the title that you instantly think of, but you might be surprised how many others there are as you scroll through this list.
This ranked poll of films with good in the title includes movies like Good, Good Will Hunting, and As Good as It Gets. Don't forget that this list is interactive, meaning you can vote the film names up or down depending on much you liked each movie that has the word good in it.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Clint Eastwood, Viggo Mortensen, Mark Strong
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 Italian epic Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach. The screenplay was written by Age ...more
Good Will Hunting Ben Affleck, Robin Williams, Matt Damon
Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant, and starring Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver and Stellan Skarsgård. Written by Affleck and ...more
Good Morning, Vietnam Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, J. T. Walsh
Good Morning, Vietnam is a 1987 American comedy film written by Mitch Markowitz and directed by Barry Levinson. Set in Saigon in 1965, during Vietnam, the film stars Robin Williams as a radio DJ ...more
As Good as It Gets Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Julie Benz
As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by James L. Brooks and produced by Laura Ziskin. It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic, homophobic, racist, ...more
A Few Good Men Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Jack Nicholson
A Few Good Men is a 1992 American legal drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore, with Kevin Bacon, Kevin Pollak, James Marshall, J. T. Walsh, ...more
Good Night, and Good Luck George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Daniels
Good Night, and Good Luck. is a 2005 American drama film directed by George Clooney and starring David Strathairn, Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson and Jeff Daniels. The movie was ...more
The Good Girl Jennifer Aniston, Zooey Deschanel, Jake Gyllenhaal
The Good Girl is a 2002 comedy-drama film directed by Miguel Arteta from a script by Mike White, and stars Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal and John C. Reilly.
The Good German George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire
The Good German is a 2006 film adaptation of the novel by Joseph Kanon. It was directed by Steven Soderbergh, and stars George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, and Tobey Maguire. Set in Berlin following ...more
The Good Shepherd Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin
The Good Shepherd is a 2006 spy film produced and directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie and De Niro, with an extensive supporting cast. De Niro also produced it with ...more
The Good Dinosaur Raymond Ochoa, Jack Bright, Sam Elliott
The Good Dinosaur is a 2015 American 3D computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film directed by Peter Sohn. In a fictional Earth in which dinosaurs never became extinct, a young Apatosaurus ...more
In the Good Old Summertime Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, Buster Keaton
In the Good Old Summertime is a 1949 Technicolor musical film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. It starred Judy Garland, Van Johnson and S.Z. Sakall. The film is a musical adaptation of the 1940 ...more
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Kevin Spacey, Jude Law, John Cusack
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Johnny Be Good Robert Downey Jr., Uma Thurman, Jennifer Tilly
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One Good Cop Michael Keaton, Rene Russo, Benjamin Bratt
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Good Neighbor Sam Jack Lemmon, Barbara Bouchet, Edward G. Robinson
Good Neighbor Sam is a 1964 American comedy film co-written and directed by David Swift and starring Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Dorothy Provine and Michael Connors. It was based on the novel ...more
The Long Good Friday Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Bob Hoskins
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Lady Be Good Doris Day, Red Skelton, Robert Young
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Good Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Mark Strong
Good is a film based on the stage play of the same name by C. P. Taylor and starring Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs and Jodie Whittaker. It was directed by Vicente Amorim and was first shown at ...more
Good Advice Charlie Sheen, Angie Harmon, Denise Richards
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Good News June Allyson, Mel Tormé, Peter Lawford
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Good Luck Charlie: It's Christmas! Bridgit Mendler, Abbie Cobb, Leigh-Allyn Baker
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A Good Lawyer's Wife Lee Chun-hee, Hwang Jung-min, Moon So-ri
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The Good Companions John Gielgud, Jessie Matthews
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Good Sam Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan
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Good Night, Elmer Mel Blanc
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Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown
Peanuts' Charlie Brown
Skip the chocolates this holiday — instead, grab a handful of Peanuts! Re-mastered with an updated look that still maintains the integrity and feel of a true Peanuts classic, "Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown" is packaged with two additional episodes and a bonus featurette, making it a truly special offering. The Peanuts gang brings sweetness to matters of the heart. Will Schroeder ever notice Lucy? Will Linus find a Valentine gift for his favorite teacher? What about Charlie Brown? Aside from his continual fear of approaching the Little Red-Haired Girl, will he ever be confident enough to connect with that football? "Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown" originally aired on January 28th, 1975 and was nominated for an Emmy Award. It was later re-mastered in 2008.
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Dubai Sees 17% Increase in Delegate Impact from Business Event Bid Wins in H1 2019
Dubai Business Events (DBE), the city’s official convention bureau, has recorded exceptional results during the first half of 2019, securing 118 successful bid wins for events to be hosted in Dubai over the coming years. These events won in H1 2019, including conferences, meetings and incentives, are set to attract 75,288 delegates from around the globe to Dubai over the coming years, representing growth of 17% on the delegate impact of bid wins from the same period in 2018.
Issam Kazim, Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Corporation for Tourism and Commerce Marketing, said: ‘’Dubai continues to consolidate its position as a leading destination for global travel and business events, and the recent bid wins are a testimony to the strides we have made as a city to attract and host large scale business events. With the DBE team working closely with stakeholders to ensure that the city has the robust capabilities to cater to a wide range of business events, we are seeing meetings planners and decision makers are finding the city to be an increasingly compelling option. We would like to thank our partners and stakeholders for their ongoing support in driving the contribution of business events to achieving our overall tourism strategy.’’
During H1, Dubai won a variety of key business events across multiple sectors and industries, including: the Amway China Leadership Seminar 2020, which is expected to attract 8,000 delegates, Sun Hope International Incentive 2020, with 1,500 delegates, World Hospital Congress 2021, with 1,100 delegates, Geospatial Week 2021, with 750 delegates, and AIPPI World Intellectual Property Congress 2025, with 3,000 delegates.
Dubai Business Events also built on its efforts to engage with meetings industry professionals, both in the city and around the world, through a busy calendar of trade shows, roadshows, study missions and other engagements. At IMEX, a major annual trade show in Frankfurt for the meetings industry, Dubai Business Events was joined by 30 co-exhibitors including Coca-Cola Arena, Dubai World Trade Centre, Emirates, and Expo 2020 Dubai, demonstrating a strong focus on news and upcoming offerings and business events infrastructure in the city.
The city’s official bureau also hosted five study missions, including groups from India and Europe, which attracted 205 planners and buyers during the first half of 2019. In addition to these inbound missions, DBE also organised roadshows across key markets, visiting cities including London, Toronto, Moscow and Chennai. These roadshows and study missions acted as a platform to meet and engage with key decision makers around the world, and to educate them about the city’s offerings as well as services offered by Dubai Business Events.
Steen Jakobsen, Assistant Vice President of Dubai Business Events, said: “Dubai continues to see a healthy pipeline of meetings, conferences, congresses and incentives which will take place over the coming years, and this is a testament to the combined efforts of stakeholders and partners across the city and the DBE team in Dubai and in our international offices. The past six months have been a busy and productive period in terms of DBE’s ongoing activities and projects, and Dubai’s elevation on a global scale has been supported by new hotel and venue openings, as well as activities and attractions in the city. These developments directly contribute to providing planners with a wide array of options and possibilities when it comes to their events. We look forward to building on this in the second half of 2019, engaging with our stakeholders to promote the city, convert bids into more wins and identify new events to bring to Dubai.’’
Among the upcoming developments set to enhance the city’s status as a business events hub is the Dubai Exhibition Centre, which will be co-located at the Expo 2020 Dubai site and become a major new events venue. The 45,000 square metre facility will be a unique platform for planners, allowing them to host events during the Expo, giving delegates access to a global stage for the six-month duration of the world’s largest meeting of minds, while also being a venue option beyond Expo as part of its legacy.
Dubai is gearing up to host an array of business events through the second the half of the year, including the second edition of the Dubai Associations Conference (DAC). DAC will take place in December 2019 at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), and over the course of two days the conference will bring together industry experts from around the world in order to create a positive social impact by building the association community in the region. Dubai is additionally prepping to host world class business events such as Amway APAC Expo 2019, which will attract approximately 10,000 delegates, the World Congress of Neurology, with 5,000 delegates, and the World Conference on Desalination and Water Re-use, with over 1,000 delegates.
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The England’s Historic Cities consortium has announced a major conference for tourism destinations and visitor attractions for this Autumn. To be hosted by Alexandra Palace in north London, the conference –...
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Extreme 1-day rainfall distributions: Analysing change in the Western Cape
Jan H. de Waal Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8034-7538
Arthur Chapman Private consultant, Jonkershoek, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Jaco Kemp Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2017/20160301
Keywords: extreme rainfall, stationarity, hazard, climate, generalised Pareto distribution
Severe floods in the Western Cape Province of South Africa have caused significant damage to property and infrastructure over the past decade (2003–2014). The hydrological design criteria for exposed structures and design flood calculations are based mostly on the implicit assumption of stationarity, which holds that natural systems vary within an envelope of variability that does not change with time. This assumption was tested by examining the changes in extreme 1-day rainfall high percentiles (95th and 98th) and both the 20- and 50-year return period rainfall, comparing the period 1950–1979 against that of 1980–2009 across the province. A generalised Pareto distribution and a peaks-over-threshold sampling approach was applied to 76 rainfall stations across the province. Of these stations, 48 (63%) showed an increase in the 50-year return period 1-day rainfall and 28 (37%) showed a decrease in the 1980–2009 period at the 95th percentile peaks-over-threshold. At the 98th percentile peaks-over-threshold, 49 stations (64%) observed an increase and 27 (36%) a decrease for the later period. The change in the number of 3-day storms from the first to the second period is negligible, evaluated at 0.9% and 0.5% at the 95th and 98th percentile peaks-over-threshold levels, using cluster analysis. While there is no clear spatial coherency to the results, the general trend indicates an increase in frequency of intense rainfalls in the latter half of the 20th and early 21st centuries. These results bring into question assumptions of stationarity commonly used in design rainfall.
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63% of analysed rainfall stations in the Western Cape display an increase in 20- and 50-year 1-day rainfall extremes.
The results challenge the current assumptions of climate stationarity made in design rainfall estimations.
We propose an alternative methodology to rainfall extremes analysis for design flood estimation.
The methods employed can be replicated by future studies in other regions.
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SmithAmundsen Selected as Outside General Counsel to the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois
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We have been appointed as outside general counsel to the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois (BBB). Ryan Jacobson, partner, will act as lead counsel. Eric Fogel, chair of the firm’s corporate group, will also provide regular advice and counsel to the BBB’s Board of Directors.
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I Like to Watch
Jeff Lewis of "Flipping Out" embodies the tragicomic hothouse flower, while Nancy Botwin of "Weeds" makes the world safe for lazy, self-involved moms.
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2008/06/22/flipping_out/
There's a cafe in my neighborhood where I go to write where everything is all wrong. The tables are the wrong height for the chairs, the chairs are uncomfortable, the walls are covered in bad art, the bad stereo system blares the worst of Journey and Lionel Richie, the breakfast sandwich features over-buttered bread and that fake-smoke-flavor ham, the room is too hot or freezing cold, the teenage cashiers are friendly but inattentive, and a herd of middle-of-the-room flies circles endlessly in the sparsely populated dining area.
Now normally, I might not notice the fake-smoke-flavored ham or the chirpily distracted cashiers, except that the stubborn mediocrity of the place makes me hypersensitive to the countless managerial mistakes unfolding before my eyes. Soon I start to wonder if I'm the only one who's bothered by the ants crawling across the floors or the strong smell of ammonia in the air or the walls the color of baby poo or the murals depicting local sights, murals that look half-finished and that include an illustration of the front of the restaurant itself.
But there's another, more corporate place nearby where everything is right. The tables and chairs are made of smooth wood and are perfectly placed, the menu is tastefully designed, the lighting makes everyone look like models at a photo shoot, classical music soothes patrons from a safe distance, cool breezes blow in the open French doors, and the small cup of gazpacho they serve has little slices of melon and a dab of pesto in it. Delightful! But it's always crowded with people who have expensive haircuts and alarmingly nice shoes, so you end up waiting a long time for a table, and then sit in a corner alone, savoring an $8 cup of gazpacho while wondering, "What does she do to afford those shoes?"
As repellent and deeply wrong as the local cafe is, the overpriced, meticulously designed corporate eatery seems certain to transform you, slowly but surely, into the kind of person who pays too much for haircuts and shoes, the kind of person who experiences gazpacho that doesn't have a little dab of pesto in it the way the rest of us experience a herd of middle-of-the-room flies. And therein lies the paradox of American upward mobility: The higher you climb, the thinner the air gets, until you can barely breathe. You become like Julianne Moore in "Safe," suffering from a nervous breakdown when the delivery guys bring a black couch instead of the white one she ordered. You become the kind of hothouse flower who only feels comfortable in perfectly calibrated, beautiful spaces, the kind of person who's never satisfied and can't play nicely with others.
Keepin' it real estate
Which brings us to the best comedy on television right now: "Flipping Out" (10 p.m. EDT Tuesdays on Bravo), in which "real estate investor" (aka flipper) Jeff Lewis parades his apparent personality disorders in front of the camera for all to see.
"Flipping Out" bestrides the professional-entrepreneur reality show genre like a colossus. This isn’t just another "Blow Out" or "Work Out," nor is it merely one of those shows aimed at allowing catty viewers to feel superior to the sad sacks depicted therein. No. "Flipping Out" is a work of pure comic genius. "Flipping Out" is the new "Curb Your Enthusiasm" -- only better.
Like Larry David, Jeff Lewis is always trying to get the upper hand on his apparent sociopathic or narcissistic or obsessive-compulsive urges. He calmly explains, in the show's second season premiere, that he's really trying to take things more lightly and not sweat the small stuff these days. Then he has this exchange with his assistant Jenni regarding the precise temperature of the latte she just fetched him.
Jeff: Is this 140 [degrees]? Really?
Jenni: Yeah.
Jeff: Honestly, I think it's like 150 or 155. It's not 140.
Jenni: She said out loud 140.
Jeff: It's not 140.
Jenni: Is it too hot?
Jeff: It's 150.
Jenni: It's 140! Come on!
Jeff: It's not 140! Trust me, I know what 140 is. I drink these every day! (Pause.) But it's OK. It's fine. It'll cool off. You know what? I'm not going to worry about it. I'm not going to worry about it.
Jenni: Good.
Jeff: But what's interesting is, it doesn't say 140 on here.
Jeff Lewis has impeccable comic timing. He knows when to pause. He knows when to lower his voice. He's perfected the art of the tag line. He's exactly the sort of tortured tragicomic character who belongs in a Jonathan Franzen novel. He tries so hard to overcome his flaws and compulsions, but he never quite succeeds.
If the first season of "Flipping Out" introduced Jeff's struggle to thrive as an entrepreneur in a world that has never lived up to his expectations, the second season of the show is the perfect sequel to the first. With the real estate market in a slump, Jeff has been forced to take on consulting work with a boss who's richer, more powerful and possibly even more difficult than he is.
"He [Jeff] shows up to a job site for 30 minutes a day and screams and yells at people," says business partner and ex-boyfriend Ryan. "And now all of a sudden he's in this world where he can't just fire his answer right back at somebody, or scream and yell at somebody."
Ryan is the ultimate straight-man sidekick who's there to set up Jeff's best punch lines. Ryan draws Jeff out, and Jeff obligingly rambles on about his psychological state, like he did during a business lunch with Ryan in the show's season premiere last week.
Jeff: So I've been doing a lot of thinking. I've been kind of, like, really mellow this week? Like I said the other day, I feel like I'm medicated but not medicated? (Excitedly) I think I'm depressed. I think I'm actually depressed! And I'll tell you why: I feel like I was on top of the world. I feel like we were flipping all these homes, six at a time, making a ton of money, I'm my own boss. And now, it's like everything's changed. At what point did I become a prostitute? Because that's what I feel like. And I'm depressed. I'm seriously depressed!
Ryan tells Jeff to suck it up and put his ego aside, but Jeff won't have any of it. "I'm being punished. God's punishing me. I've seriously thought about that. I mean, I don't think God screwed up the real estate market to punish Jeff Lewis. I'm not that much of a narcissist."
Oh, yes, you are, Jeff. Don't be shy about it now!
By the way, remember the reader mail for this column last week, where some readers claimed that Americans think that they're whores when they deign to do work that's not purely creative and inspired and free from the tedious limits of commerce? Well, Jeff certainly supports that argument.
But Jeff isn't just incorrigible. He isn't just neurotic. He isn't just insufferable. Like any great character, he's unpredictable and complicated and, at times, even a tiny bit likable. Jeff Lewis belongs with Tony Soprano and Nate Fisher and Don Draper in the pantheon of TV's most fascinating antiheroes. He's quintessentially American in his habit of wanting far, far too much, more than is good for him. His team of underlings keeps his house as spotless as a showroom under the auspices of keeping the property salable (he always lives in one of his redesigned properties until he finds a buyer for it), filling their days by sweeping up every last leaf on the patio, trimming dead leaves from Jeff's plants and turning the bottles of water in Jeff's refrigerator to face the front. Lewis' obsessive-compulsive tics are indulged, day in and day out, in the name of his profession.
But it's clear enough that Jeff can't relax in any environment that isn't pathologically fastidious. While he might say that his aim is to make enough money flipping houses so he can work less, he's clearly a workaholic who's chosen a business that invades every free corner of his life and his time for a reason. His friends are his employees. His home is a perpetual open house. He circles like a shark, picking lint off the couch and wondering what will go wrong next. And when something does go wrong, he's flooded with emotions he can't control. One tiny mishap or flaw sends him spiraling downward, convinced that God has it out for him.
And what's funnier than a depressed, narcissistic obsessive-compulsive? "Flipping Out" charts the slow unraveling of an American archetype: the perfection-fetishist. It's a cautionary tale for the control freak -- which means it should appeal to at least half of the population in this pampered land of ours.
The other half will relate to Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) of "Weeds" (10 p.m. EDT Mondays on Showtime), absent-mindedly sipping on her lukewarm Frappuccino while batting her eyes at yet another drug dealer who finds a use for her innocent white-lady looks. Although Nancy wants all the same things that Jeff Lewis wants -- big piles of cash, pretty stuff, an enormous house by the sea -- she can't be bothered to attend to any of the details along the way. She's the distracted, ineffectual, largely absent matriarch who wants to figure out some way to avoid working for a living altogether.
Ah, yes. More than the pot cultivation or the drug smuggling or the high banter, nothing offends quite like the unapologetically lazy, irresponsible mother. In America, no one is more loathed and despised than she is. This is a character who could never exist on network TV, even now, in the age of celebrating and embracing the dysfunctional among us. When dads ignore their kids, it's funny. When moms do it, it's tragic.
Plenty of people probably can't tolerate Nancy Botwin, but personally, I get a little charge when she mumbles and whines and rolls her eyes for the millionth time. This woman makes the world safe for sloppy, daydreaming assholes like me, the sorts of people who struggle with recurring urges to hide in the broom closet rather than change another dirty diaper. Even though we're soothed and comforted by our love and fierce protectiveness of our children, our inner teenagers are still petulant about having to wake up early and refrain from saying "fuck" when the little mimics are within earshot. And while it shouldn't be considered courageous to suggest that flawed, distracted parents don't generally end up chaining their kids to toilets in the basement, in these judgmental times, implying such a thing is brave, indeed.
This season, Nancy is a little more bratty than usual, too, having torched her home back in Agrestic in the hopes of getting the DEA off her scent. Her adopted home with a disapproving, somewhat loserly father-in-law, Lenny (played by Albert Brooks! Hallelujah!), will do for now, but Nancy needs to make some big money and fast if she's going to keep her family satisfied and fed in their new coastal hideaway.
Money is also the key to Lenny's heart, not surprisingly. "Listen, Bonnie and Clyde," he says to Nancy and her brother-in-law Andy. "I don't know what you two are running from, and you know what? I don't care. Why don't you just give me $300 in cash, right now, and the subject is dead?" Andy chuckles, but Nancy calmly opens her purse, pulls out $300 in cash, and hands the bills to Lenny.
Meanwhile, Celia (Elizabeth Perkins) is stuck in jail, thanks to the fact that her name is on the title to Nancy's former grow house. Why is Celia always punished on this show? Last season she was humiliated when she discovered that Nancy was sleeping with her lover, and now she's being tortured in jail. When she asks about her chances of going free, her disorganized lawyer responds, "Anti-drug crusader caught with grow house? You're fucked like a stray dog in Chinatown."
Despite the change of scenery and the welcome addition of Brooks, this fourth season of "Weeds" isn't all that different from the seasons that came before. Here's Nancy, being schooled by yet another deeply corrupt but exacting drug entrepreneur. Here are the kids, poised to stir up trouble in whatever misguided ways they can. Here's Celia, looking to nail Nancy for dumping her as a friend. (I sort of miss the days when those two were friends, don't you? Nancy could use a good friend, particularly now that her former business partner, Conrad, is out of the picture.)
Even with the same repeating story lines, the truth is I could watch 10 or 12 episodes of "Weeds" in a row, simply to follow Nancy around, slurping on her adult-size sippy cup, cocking her head and trying to figure out a good angle on whatever messed-up situation she's in at the moment. She's a hero to our inner teenagers, and we want her to get rich, damn it, rich as royalty! Let's show the world that irresponsible, lackadaisical mothers are just as entitled to big piles of cash as the tightly wound, obsessive-compulsive workaholics who more typically acquire them.
Besides, it would be interesting, to see what might happen if Nancy became a drug kingpin and got loaded. Would she stop sipping on the dregs of Frappuccinos and insist that they be kept at the perfect icy temperature? Would she hire a full-time nanny and send her kids to pricey private schools? Would she finally have the free time and money to become detail-oriented and fastidious? Would she finally have the free time and money to feel truly, deeply dissatisfied?
After all, that's the dream, isn't it? Instead of training our minds to appreciate the little comforts of our humble existences, we yearn to become more and more precious, to surround ourselves with increasingly beautiful things, to hoard our stuff and our free time and our obscene piles of money until all of that beauty and space and meticulous perfection melts into an unbearably inadequate, fly-infested, profane mess.
Here's to keeping the dream alive!
Heather Havrilesky is a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, The Awl and Bookforum, and is the author of the memoir "Disaster Preparedness." You can also follow her on Twitter at @hhavrilesky.
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In-Custody Death Reported At County Jail
Bay City News Service
Published 8:41 am PST, Sunday, November 4, 2018
MARTINEZ (BCN)
A 26-year-old inmate at the Martinez Detention Facility has died after deputies found him unresponsive late Saturday in a holding room, the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office said.
The male inmate, whose name has not yet been released, was pronounced dead at the jail after deputies and medical staff unsuccessfully tried to revive him by performing CPR, according to the Sheriff's Office. An ambulance and fire personnel also responded to the medical emergency, which was reported about 11:27 p.m.
The Sheriff's Office and Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office is investigating the death.
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Muni Metro trains now stopping at Embarcadero after drainage issue resolved
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The Tea Planter's Wife
Young, naive and hopelessly in love, Gwendolyn Hooper follows her husband, Laurence, from London to his family's tea plantation in Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) in 1926. Gwen is thrilled about the adventure of living in an exotic place, but her new home isn't quite the paradise it appears to be. As Gwen adjusts to her role as Laurence's wife and mistress of the household, she must also contend with restless plantation workers, a meddling sister-in-law and an American widow who knows Laurence all too well. Dinah Jefferies weaves a complicated story of secrets and tangled relationships in her third novel (and U.S. debut), The Tea Planter's Wife.
Upon her arrival in Ceylon, Gwen meets Savi Ravasinghe, a handsome Sinhalese artist whose presence is both stimulating and unsettling. Savi and others, including Laurence's sister, Verity, drop hints about a few disturbing secrets, such as the fate of Laurence's first wife, Caroline. Like the unnamed narrator in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Gwen lives in the shadow of her predecessor, struggling to make sense of an unfamiliar world where she doesn't know the rules. Although Gwen (like the second Mrs. de Winter) is sometimes irritatingly passive, she eventually finds the courage to take the helm of her own life. But she and Laurence must reckon with the consequences of their decisions, as well as economic and political uncertainties.
Lushly described and full of plot twists (some expected, some less so), The Tea Planter's Wife is a satisfying historical novel. --Katie Noah Gibson, blogger at Cakes, Tea and Dreams
by Dinah Jefferies
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California, New York Enact $15 Minimum Wage
New York law also requires paid sick, family leave
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By Joanne Deschenaux April 4, 2016
Both California and New York have enacted legislation raising each state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, the highest state minimum in the country.
California Law Provides for Gradual Increases
Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill (S.B.) 3 on April 4. It provides for gradual increases to the state wage rate until it hits $15 an hour in 2022 or 2023.
“This plan raises the minimum wage in a careful and responsible way and provides some flexibility if economic and budgetary conditions change,” Brown said in a statement.
The law will raise the wage rate every January starting in 2017 until it reaches $15 an hour for employers with more than 25 workers in 2022. Employers with 25 or fewer workers would have until 2023 to reach the $15 level.
The measure also sets mandatory paid sick days at three per year.
California’s minimum wage law has a built-in “pause” button under which the increases could be stopped for a year if the state goes into a recession or there is a serious budget crisis.
Lawmakers approved S.B. 3 mostly along party lines only four days after the bill was introduced. Only one Democrat in the Assembly voted against it, as did all Republicans.
During debate on the floor of the California legislature, Republicans who opposed the bill acknowledged concerns about income inequality and poverty but said they disagreed with the rushed and “one-size-fits-all” approach of the legislation. Some called for regional rates based on the cost of living in different areas of the state.
“A blanket approach presents yet another jobs roadblock for a very large number of California communities,” Senate Republican Leader Jean Fuller said in a statement.
The slow implementation of the increases recognizes that some parts of California may be more affected by economic slowdowns than other parts, Brown said.
New York Law Also Requires Paid Family and Medical Leave
New York’s Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, signed Senate Bill 6406 into law on April 4, as well. It was approved by the state Senate March 31 and the state Assembly April 1.
The measure gradually raises New York’s minimum wage to $15 an hour for most workers. It also requires employers to provide workers with 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave.
Under the law, the minimum wage for workers in New York City will rise to $11 on Dec. 31, 2016, for employers with 11 or more employees and by $2 per year at the end of 2017 and 2018. For New York City employers with 10 or fewer employees, the minimum wage will increase to $10.50 in December of this year and by $1.50 annually over the following three years.
The minimum wage will increase more gradually in the three counties surrounding the city and even more gradually in the upstate region of the state.
In Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties, it will increase to $10 this year and then rise by $1 annually over the next five years. Upstate, it will increase to $9.70 this year and then rise by 70 cents each year for four years until it reaches $12.50.
In a concession to upstate lawmakers and businesses, the minimum wage there will not rise to $15 until a study is conducted by the state and a new indexed schedule is set.
The law contains a similar provision to the “pause” provision in the California law, which provides that the state will conduct annual economic studies beginning in 2019 to determine if the scheduled increases should be suspended due to a lagging economy.
The measure also provides for the phase-in of paid family leave. Beginning in 2018, workers will get eight weeks of leave at a pay rate of at least 50 percent of their average weekly wage, with a cap of 50 percent of the statewide average weekly wage.
When the leave provision becomes fully effective in 2021, employers will have to provide 12 weeks of leave at a rate of pay equal to at least 67 percent of an employee's average weekly wage, capped at 67 percent of the statewide average weekly wage.
Employees will be eligible for leave after six months of employment with a single employer.
The paid-leave program will be funded by a payroll deduction of 0.5 percent on employees.
Paid family leave will be available to care for an infant, to care for a family member with a serious health condition or for “any qualifying exigency” resulting from a family member being called to active military service.
Joanne Deschenaux, J.D., is SHRM’s senior legal editor.
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PSG Interested in Liverpool Boss Jurgen Klopp As Ligue 1 Leaders Plot to Replace Unai Emery
French giants Paris Saint-Germain are reportedly interested in the services of Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, as they seek new stewardship next season after disappointing performances in Europe this term.
The German's name has been mentioned around the club multiple times according to Le Parisien, via CalcioMercato, but he is not at the top of what seems to be a rather long short-list.
This news over the last few weeks that the Ligue 1 leaders are planning to replace Unai Emery is not surprising considering the club failed to make it past the round of 16 in the Champions League for two consecutive seasons, despite heavy spending.
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Although those ties have come up against Barcelona and Real Madrid, the PSG board are still looking to move Emery on, despite his domestic successes. The Spaniard's contract runs out at the end of the season and it is likely that it will not be renewed.
Klopp's contract at Liverpool lasts until 2022, and the club would undoubtedly refuse to allow him to leave. Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino and ex-Barça manager Luis Enrique have also been mentioned as replacements for Emery - with the latter a reported favourite of star player Neymar.
Since taking over at Anfield in 2015, Klopp has reached two cup finals and taken Liverpool back to the Champions League - with the Reds set for an enticing quarter-final showdown with Premier League leaders Man City.
Klopp has pedigree in European competition, something which would be attractive to the PSG hierarchy. He also took his previous side Borussia Dortmund to the final of the Champions League in 2013 and is often viewed as a great motivator and someone who plays attractive football.
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Silveragecoins > Catalogue > Gold Coins and Bullion > South Africa > 1923 Sovereign
1923 George V South African Gold Sovereign
Type: George V South African Gold Sovereign
Origin: South Africa Cat. Num.: KM# 21
Era / Ruler: George V Face Value: Sovereign
Alignment: Medal Desgr. / Engr.:
Obverse: George V
Reverse: St. George slaying the dragon
Mint: Pretoria
Mintage: 64
(URS7)
Composition: Gold
Weight(g): 7.9881g
Bullion Value: $333.11
A Gold Sovereign is a gold coin first issued in 1489 for Henry VII of England and still in production as of 2009.[1] While the coin typically had a nominal value of one pound sterling or 20 shillings, the sovereign was primarily an official piece of bullion with no mark of value anywhere on the coin itself.
The name "sovereign" comes from the majestic and impressive size and portraiture of the coin, the earliest of which showed the king facing, seated on a throne, while the reverse shows the Royal coat of arms on a shield surrounded by a Tudor double rose.
1923 64 $350 $425 $550 $700 $850
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2 1/2 Shillings
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Frequently Asked Career Questions
This page contains answers to frequently asked questions about career options in psychology -- just click on a question to see its answer. Although the emphasis is on social psychology, much of the information applies to psychology in general (students interested in personality psychology may also wish to visit the Personality Project).
If you have a question that does not appear below, you might also consult the bibliography of student career resources.
Social Psychology:
What is social psychology?
How does social psychology differ from other disciplines?
Do social psychologists need to have a PhD?
Can social psychologists study multicultural/minority issues?
Graduate School:
What is required for admission to graduate school?
How difficult is it to get into graduate school?
How long does it take to finish graduate school?
What is the difference between a PhD and a PsyD?
Should I apply for a masters degree before a PhD?
How many graduate schools should I apply to?
What are the best graduate programs in psychology?
Financial Aid:
How expensive is graduate school?
Are there sources of financial aid for graduate students?
What can you do with a degree in social psychology?
How difficult is it to get a job in social psychology?
How can I locate job openings in psychology?
Further Resources:
Are there any good books with psychology career information?
What resources are available for ethnic minority students?
Where can I turn if I have additional questions?
Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. For a concise overview of the field, see What Is Social/Personality Psychology? Or, for a more detailed introduction to social psychology, read the first chapter of any popular social psychology textbook.
Social psychology is closely related to three other disciplines: personality psychology, organizational psychology, and sociology (social work is sometimes confused with social psychology, but it is really more similar to counseling psychology and clinical practice). In general, social psychology differs from personality psychology in that it focuses more on the situational influences of behavior than on individual differences between people; it differs from organizational psychology in that it does not focus specifically on behavior within organizations; and it differs from sociology in that it focuses on the behavior of individuals and small groups more than the behavior of large social systems and societies.
Most social psychologists pursue a PhD rather than a masters degree, and a PhD is usually needed to become a professor at a college or university. In some cases, however, an employer will accept a masters degree as sufficient. Thus, the answer to this question depends on the specific job and employer involved.
Yes. Many social psychologists are interested in topics such as culture and human diversity, intergroup relations, prejudice and discrimination, stereotyping, attitude formation, and other topics relevant to multiculturalism and minority issues. These topics are also studied in other branches of psychology. For example, personality psychologists have examined the role of race and ethnicity in the development of personal identity; clinical psychologists have studied the stress that minority members experience as a result of racial discrimination, industrial-organizational psychologists have assessed the results of diversity programs in workplace settings, and developmental psychologists have tracked the formation of stereotypes and prejudice in children.
Although requirements vary, most graduate programs look for students who have:
Earned high grades while completing their bachelors degree at an accredited college or university (typically, though not necessarily, as an undergraduate psychology major)
Demonstrated strong quantitative, verbal, and analytic abilities, as reflected in their scores on the Graduate Record Exam
Been evaluated positively in three confidential letters of recommendation written by undergraduate teachers, advisors, or research supervisors
Had experience doing psychological research
In addition, graduate applicants are usually asked to write a short essay describing their career aspirations, research interests, or other related topics. When writing this essay, applicants should know enough about the program they are applying to that they can discuss the fit between their interests and the program's specific features (e.g., the research that is being done at that school). The easiest way to learn about particular programs in social psychology is by visiting this interactive map of graduate programs as well as faculty member pages on the web.
Graduate schools vary widely in how selective they are. At some leading schools the admission rate is less than 5% of applicants, whereas at other schools the chances of admission are considerably higher. In general, PsyD programs at professional psychology schools are easier to enter than PhD programs at universities. For example, a December 2005 study published in the American Psychologist found that the mean admission rate for APA-accredited PsyD programs was 40%, compared with 10% for APA-accredited PhD programs.
In most cases, a masters degree in psychology takes approximately 2 years to complete, and a doctorate takes 4-6 years (that is, 2-4 years longer than a masters degree). For a doctorate in clinical psychology, another year is typically added because students must complete an internship in which they complete a certain number of hours of supervised clinical practice. These averages vary quite a bit, however, so students should check with any programs they are applying to and see what the average degree completion time has been during the past few years.
What is the difference between a PsyD and a PhD?
PsyD stands for "Doctor of Psychology," and PhD stands for "Doctor of Philosophy." Traditionally, psychologists have earned a PhD in psychology, but in recent years, the PsyD has become a popular alternative for individuals who want clinical training and have relatively little interest in research. Because social psychology is grounded heavily in research, there is no PsyD that pertains to social psychology.
A terminal masters degree (in which an M.A. or M.S. is the end result of training) used to be quite common in psychology and is still the norm in Canada, but increasingly, the trend in the United States has been for students to go directly from a bachelors degree to a doctorate. In social psychology, for example, masters degrees are far less common than PhDs. In cases when a student is unsure about pursuing a doctorate or would like to receive additional training before doctoral studies, it may make sense to enter a masters program first. This decision is best made in consultation with faculty advisors.
In general, students should apply to a variety of schools rather than only one or two favorites, especially if there is any doubt over whether they will be admitted to the programs they hope to enter. A typical strategy would be to apply to 4-6 top choices and another 4-6 second choices, making sure that the schools vary in selectivity of admissions.
What is best for a given student depends upon a variety of factors, including geographic location, affordability, faculty research interests, and so forth. In terms of the quality of graduate training and research, several program rankings have been published during the past ten years. In 1995, the National Research Council issued a report that ranked U.S. PhD programs in psychology, and there is a similar ranking for psychology departments in the United Kingdom. In addition, a ranking of U.S. and Canadian clinical PsyD and PhD programs was published in 1997. No such ranking exists specifically for social psychology programs, though there is a list of social psychology PhD programs that can be searched by keywords of interest.
Unlike undergraduate programs, PhD programs often waive tuition and fees, and some schools even offer modest stipends to their graduate students. Consequently, a school that is quite expensive at the undergraduate level may be very affordable at the graduate level. In some cases masters degree programs also offer tuition waivers or graduate stipends, though such arrangements are less common than in PhD programs. In general, the most expensive graduate degrees tend to be PsyDs from professional schools of psychology.
There are many sources of financial aid for graduate school, and a great deal of information can be found by visiting financial aid web sites. In addition, schools often have internal sources of funding, and most psychology departments will help newly admitted students locate whatever funding is necessary. Students should discuss their financial needs with psychology faculty after being admitted to a program.
Because social psychology concerns the study of human behavior, there are job opportunities for social psychologists in virtually every type of employment setting, including educational institutions, non profit organizations, corporations, government, and hospitals. For some specific examples, see What is a Personality/Social Psychologist?
For the most part, it is more difficult to find jobs inside academia than outside it. In any given year there are relatively few academic positions in social psychology, and tenure-track openings at universities tend to be highly competitive (according to one job market analysis, 553 social psychology advertisements appeared in the APS Observer Employment Bulletin between 1991 and 1996, or fewer than 100 per year). Because social psychology applies to so many employment domains beyond academia, however, most people with a PhD in social psychology are able to find a job related to their interests.
A wide variety of openings can be located through the psychology job listings maintained by the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and other organizations. Social Psychology Network also offers a Job Posting Forum in which prospective applicants can search for jobs by keyword.
There are a number of excellent books on career development in psychology, including books on how to gain admission to graduate school. For an extensive list, see the bibliography of student career resources.
Several diversity-related resources exist for students in psychology, both nationally and locally. In addition to these general resources, students interested specifically in personality or social psychology can participate in the SPN Mentorship Program. This program allows students to email career-related questions about personality or social psychology to a mentor of their choice.
The best place to turn is to local faculty members or graduate students who are knowledgeable about the area of psychology that interests you. Undergraduate psychology clubs or Psi Chi Honors Society chapters are another useful place to network with other people and share information. Finally, if these resources are unavailable and the Online Psychology Career Center does not address your question, you might try contacting one of these groups:
APS Student Caucus
American Psychological Association of Graduate Students
SPSP Student Committee
SPSSI Students and Early Career Scholars
European Federation of Psychology Students’ Associations
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Poet, Author, Sufferage Leader
Julia Ward Howe
Inductee
1819 1910 Born/Died
1970 Inducted
Wrote "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to honor Lincoln, and lyrics for the civil war hym "John Brown's Body"
Julia Ward Howe, writer, poet, leader for women’s suffrage, and author of “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, was born in New York City on May 27, 1819.
She was born into a wealthy Manhattan family and received her early education from governesses and private schools. In 1841, Ward met her future husband, Samuel Howe on a visit to Boston. The two were married on April 23, 1843 and settled in Boston where they would raise six children. Together, they published the anti-slavery periodical Commonwealth, and worked on political causes centering around abolition and later the Civil War. Dedicated to self-education, Howe studied philosophy, learned several languages and began to get more involved in public life and writing. In the late 1950’s, Howe’s poems and plays began getting attention in national magazines.
Inspired from a 1861 visit to Washington in which Howe and her husband were escorted by President Lincoln to visit a Union Army camp in Virginia, a clergyman familiar with Julia’s poetry urged her to write a new song for the war effort to replace the slave song “John Brown’s Body”. As Howe described the event later: “I replied that I had often wished to do so”.in spite of the excitement of the day I went to bed and slept as usual, but awoke the next morning in the gray of the early dawn, and to my astonishment found that the wished-for lines were arranging themselves in my brain. I lay quite still until the last verse had completed itself in my thoughts, then hastily arose, saying to myself, I shall lose this if I don't write it down immediately. I searched for an old sheet of paper and an old stub of a pen which I had had the night before, and began to scrawl the lines almost without looking, as I learned to do by often scratching down verses in the darkened room when my little children were sleeping. Having completed this, I lay down again and fell asleep, but not before feeling that something of importance had happened to me." The result was “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, published in the Atlantic Monthly in February 1862 and became the best known and most inspiration song for the Union during the Civil War.
Mostly remembered for this glorious poem, her later life in women’s suffrage was just as impressive. In 1868, the New England Woman’s Club was formed and Howe is one of its first vice presidents. She becomes the president of the New England Woman Suffrage Association and the following year becomes one of the leaders of the American Woman Suffrage Association. She was responsible for being one of the first voices introducing the idea in the United States of a national Mother’s Day with her proclamation “Mother’s Day and Peace,” and she was a founder of the Town and Country Club. Then in 1908, Julia was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
She had several writings published including Life of Margaret Fuller (1883) and From Sunset Ridge: Old and New (1898). In 1890, Howe was also a founder of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. She was also influential in other causes including support for Russian freedom and Armenians in the Turkish wars.
Julia Ward Howe died at Oak Glen, her summer home in South Portsmouth, Rhode Island, on October 17, 1910. Her memorial service was attended by 4,000 people.
Having completed this [writing Battle Hymn of the Republic], I lay down again and fell asleep, but not before feeling that something of importance had happened to me.
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Form 2 Ancient Egyptian Day
The Byron House Big Room was transformed into the busy market place of Thebes in c. 1347 BC. The Form 2 Ancient Egyptians, splendidly attired, were preparing for the festival of the Nile at the court of Queen Nefertiti. Activities included making Egyptian bread, fine fragrance cones for the ladies to wear in their hair, clay canopic jars for storage of those vital organs needed for the afterlife, clay lucky charms and frescoes, mummifying 'bodies', soap sculpting, archaeological digging and writing hieroglyphs. The afternoon saw a Nile festival of grand proportions, attended by the
Under 13 Girls Hockey Team reach national IAPS finals
The Under 13s Girls’ Hockey team travelled to Millfield School in Somerset to take part in this year’s IAPS National Hockey Finals. 16 schools in total took part in the Finals and were divided into four groups. The SJCS team came second in their group and qualified for the main Cup competition. Head of Girls’ Sport, Mrs Nikki Taylor said, “After a tense golden goal the girls were delighted to leave the IAPS as the top 8 Prep schools in the Country for hockey.” In the East Area Championships the SJCS team beat Felsted due to the girls’ fitness and work rate and they secured a well-
Form 1 Diwali Wow Day
Form 1 came together for an interactive and hands-on learning experience to find out what Diwali is, who celebrates it and how it is celebrated. They enjoyed three activities including retelling the story of Rama and Sita, creating rangoli patterns and Indian dancing. They used masks and took on characters and acted out the stories in groups and performed this to their peers. In their dance lessons the children learned some traditional hand gestures such as the ‘lotus’ and ‘picking a flower’. They mirrored each other and used traditional moves to create a small group dance. One
T1’s Drama Production ‘Babushka’
Parents and pupils alike were enchanted by T1’s rendition of their Russian Christmas story, Babushka. Babushka lived in the countryside and opened her door, one snowy night, to find three men standing before her. She wanted to join them in giving gifts to the King of Kings but had too much cleaning to do. Babushka busied herself with her housework and then set about gathering gifts to take to the new born king. She was a poor, hardworking woman who owned little, but she managed to gather a small teddy, a shawl and some juice to take with her on her journey. People say that Babushka
Design Technology Trip to Oakham School
A group of Form 5 children took part in a Design and Technology (DT) trip to Oakham School to experience their state of the art facilities, including their workshop tools and machinery, electronics and their CAD software. The group, led by Head of DT Miss Kohler, alongside Oakham DT staff, had the opportunity to design and create their own iPod dock. The children were able to put their existing DT skills into practice and had the chance to work on soldering tasks and Computer Aided Design as well as some 3D printing. One of the group explained, “It was really interesting getting to
Kindergarten Nativity ‘The Grumpy Sheep’
For their nativity play this year, St John’s Kindergarten performed The Grumpy Sheep, a re-telling of the Christmas story through the eyes of one of the shepherds’ flock. On a hillside many years ago, the shepherds receive news from a host of angels that the Baby King is about to be born in Bethlehem and that they must visit him; this is not good news for the grumpiest sheep in the flock, who does not relish the prospect of such an arduous journey. The three wise Men, after a visit from the angels too, begin their pilgrimage from Eastern lands, following the star. When the Grumpy Sheep
Our festive ‘Services in Preparation for Christmas’, held over two days in the magnificent Chapel of St John’s College, once again heralded the start of the season with a range of carols, poems and readings all presented by the children. The carols and readings were interspersed with 5 congregational hymns. The Services provided a sense of calm from the hectic nature of this time of the year and conjured up a quiet contemplative mood to help prepare for Christmas. Before and after the services, organ music was played by Senior House pupils: Alan Chen and Jaylen Cheng (Year 6), Adam
Piazza Brass
Parents and friends of the School were treated to two Christmas musical feasts at our annual ‘Piazza Brass’ Concerts at Byron House and Senior House. Our brass players were also joined this year by many of our other talented young musicians to get the crowd into the festive spirit. Director of Music, Mr Simon Kirk, explained, “A large audience huddled together in the Senior House Piazza on a beautifully crisp and still winter's day to listen to seasonal music performed by brass and percussion pupils from Byron House and Senior House. Afterwards, the Big Band and Rednotes Jazz
Annual Christmas Party for Elderly Local Residents
The St John’s Charities and Community Links Committee hosted its annual Christmas party for elderly people living in the Cambridge area to bring on the festive cheer. Committee members from both Byron House and Senior House provided merriment, conversation and entertainment for the guests. The Christmas party is part a rich and long tradition St John’s has of helping the local community. Guests and their carers enjoyed mince pies, cakes, sandwiches and drinks, as well as a programme of varied entertainment provided by the children. The Committee members helped create the wonderful
‘Twelfth Night’ for the Shakespeare Schools Festival
On 14 November, 32 invited Sixth Form pupils delivered their vibrant performance of Twelfth Night, a Shakespearean comedy both revered and ridiculous, at the Shakespeare Schools Festival (SSF). Shakespeare originally wrote Twelfth Night for the close of the Christmas season and to lift spirits in the dreary winter months. The creative process of developing the play was thorough and challenging and few would deny its worth with the Headmaster, Mr Chippington, describing the production as ‘magnificent.’ In the St John’s interpretation of Twelfth Night, the play was set in the roaring
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Vijayawada - Projects and Development
Vijayawada (Telugu: విజయవాడ; formerly Bezawada) is the third largest city in Andhra Pradesh, with a population of around 1.6 million. Located on the banks of the Krishna River and bounded by the Indrakiladri Hills on the West and the Budameru River on the North. The city is located in the Krishna District, about 275 kilometres (171 mi) from the state capital Hyderabad.
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The leading denimwear brand, Pepe Jeans London has launched its biggest flagship store in coastal Andhra Pradesh. Located on Vijayawada's high street, the store is spread across 2200 sq.ft and offers a wide range of jeans and casual wear such as shirts, t-shirts, shorts, skirts, dresses and accessories for both men and women.
Speaking on the occasion, Chetan Shah, managing director (India), Pepe Jeans London, said, “With this launch, Pepe Jeans is set to breathe in an all new store layout at par with our international showroom ambiance to provide our consumers an exclusive shopping experience. The layout has been designed to act as a continuous fusion of quality fashion products and interactive environment.”
The vast retail area of the new outlet is divided into two zones - Bluez Lounge and Fashion Lounge - to create a unique shopping experience. The store provides its consumers with a highly personalised way to shop by the latest fit, finish and style.
The décor of the new showroom evolves around contemporary look from premium full length mirrors and the unfinished rugged look on the walls to give a lounge feel to its customer with pumping music playing in the background.
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Vijayawada city awaits state funds
The Congress government in the state is adopting step-motherly attitude towards Vijayawada city by neglecting the development and not releasing funds. Many important projects including expansion of Gannavaram airport, construction of Machilipatnam port, flyovers in the city, development of the Krishna University are pending for a long time. The regrettable thing is that the state is also not releasing the grants sanctioned by the Central government for the JNNURM works.
The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) is executing developmental works worth several hundreds of crores under the JNNURM. The Centre bears 50 per cent share while the state sanctions 20 per cent. The Union government released Rs 116 crore for the JNNURM works last month. The state government is not releasing it along with its matching grants of Rs 48 crore. As a result, the VMC is struggling to clear the pending bills to the contractors, who are not able to speed up the ongoing works.
According to official information, bills pending for housing works are Rs 126 crore, for sewage treatment plant works Rs 12 crore, water pipeline works Rs 8 crore, BRTS works Rs 27 crore and road restoration works Rs 17 crore. Besides, non-planning dues are pending to the tune of over Rs 50 crore. The municipal officials on Monday requested the minister for secondary education, Mr Kolusu Parthasara-dhi, to take the issue to the notice of the Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, for the release of grants. The VMC is trying to secure another Rs 100 crore loan from a nationalised bank for payment of bills. The VMC has already taken Rs 50 crore from the Corporation Bank. The municipal commissioner, Mr G. Ravi Babu, said “We are trying to get grants released by the Central government to speed up the works.”
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Sooner the better:A dedicated bicycle track is proposed at the Jawaharlal Nehru Marg in Vijayawada.–Photo: Ch. Vijaya Bhaskar
The use of the eco-friendly bicycle is diminishing by the day. As the roads get more congested with motorised vehicles the cyclists are gradually disappearing.
The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation wants to reverse the trend by making the city roads more bicycle-friendly. Municipal Commissioner G. Ravi Babu has asked the environmental engineering division to explore the possibility of establishing a dedicated cycling track on the wider roads of the city. The feasibility of establishing a cycling track on the new BRTS Road is being worked out.
Vijayawada has several firsts in the State to its credit with regard to environmental-friendly initiatives. The VMC was the first in the country to harness electricity from solid waste; to have a plant for converting municipal waste into compost.
It was also the first city in the State to convert its entire fleet of city buses and auto-rickshaws to the eco-friendly Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). And it will be the first city in the state to supply the piped cooking gas to its citizens.
The VMC Environmental Engineer Smitha Bhanu toldThe Hindu that the Commissioner had asked the Active Bicyclers Association (ABA) that promotes bicycling programmes in the city to prepare an action plan.
The plan is to have dedicated cycling tracks on all new roads, residential colonies and in Municipal School grounds on the lines of walking tracks that could be used for exercise.
There are 20 schools with grounds spacious enough to develop cycling tracks, Ms. Bhanu said. The ABA founder V. Satyanarayana said that using the bicycle was not just eco-friendly, it was also healthier.
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Renault launches ‘Fluence' in city
VIJAYAWADA: Crazy about cars? Here's some good news. Renault has unveiled its first car in India, the luxury sedan-Fluence, besides inaugurating its first exclusive Renault dealership in the city, Renault Vijayawada. Deputy Managing Director of Renault India Sudhir Rao, unveiled the sleek luxury car at the company showroom. “Fluence is the first Renault car to be produced at a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility on the outskirts of Chennai. India being one of the three key countries in Renault's international development strategy, we are confident of giving the Indian customer their first taste of what Renault is capable of brining to the Indian market,” Mr. Rao told a press conference. Sharing the company's plans for Indian market, he said starting with 14 dealers across the country, the company intended to expand base and have 40 dealers by the end of the current year. “We intend to roll out a full range of five cars and 100 dealerships by December 2012 . Speaking about a ‘Renault Complete Care' service package, which, he claimed, was globally benchmarked providing customers with a host of facilities like COTECH technicians (with 43 days training in Renault facilities in France) at each dealership, four years/80,000 km warranty, labour-free servicing at 2,000, 10,000 and 20,000 km, competitively priced parts and service and valet service. He said the new vehicle was launched in both petrol (Rs. 14.5 lakh) and diesel (Rs. 13.9 lakh) versions in Vijayawada.
Mr. Rao said Renault had a very strong presence in India with investments of about Rs. 5,000 crore in setting up an alliance Greenfield facility for manufacturing 400,000 cars per year, a global technology and procurement centre in Chennai, a full-fledged Renault DeSign Studio in Mumbai and a global logistics centre in Pune.
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June 22nd, 2011, 05:03 PM #10
APTDC to develop fun zone at Berm Park soon
VIJAYAWADA: Fun-seekers, who scowled at not having a fun zone around to unwind, will soon be well placated.
The Vijayawada division of AP Tourism Development Corporation (APTDC) is gearing up to equip the Berm Park at Bhavanipuram with all the paraphernalia that can keep fun-lovers in good humour.
“We propose to develop a swimming pool and a partying area to host pool side parties at the park,” J. Raghupathi Rao, Divisional Manager of the corporation told The Hindu on Tuesday.
“The vacant space abutting the vehicle parking area near the entrance will be put to use for this purpose,” he said, adding that proposals to this effect would be sent for approval of the departmental higher-ups this week.
Meanwhile, as part of its endeavour to develop a beach resort circuit, the APTDC is busy planning, executing, expanding, and renovating a string of its projects spread across the region.
The Kothapatnam beach resort, an APTDC property located nearly 15 km from Ongole, is nearing completion. The place has three cottages and a restaurant. Next in the beach resort circuit comes the Vodarevu project, where the corporation has acquired an additional three acres of land.
Visitors come across this place while on their way to Chirala from Ongole. Abutting the ancient lighthouse, the project currently comprises a couple of cottages.
The picturesque Suryalanka beach is a hot favourite of tourists. Overlooking the crystal blue waters of the Bay of Bengal, the place is nestled at 9 km from Bapatla town of Guntur district. In addition to the existing 10 individual cottages and a couple of dormitories besides a multi-cuisine restaurant, the corporation authorities have taken up construction of 10 more individual cottages that are nearing completion.
“We also propose to build a conference hall with all modern facilities and a bar to accommodate 30 persons,” said Mr. Rao.
The tourism corporation has also taken control of five acres of land at Manginapudi beach in Machilipatnam for grooming the place into a perfect tourist destination.
July 2nd, 2011, 02:41 PM #11
Renault launches 'Fluence' in Vijayawada
Vijayawada, Jun 10 (PTI) French automaker Renault today launched its luxury, mid-size sedan `Fluence'' here in Andhra Pradesh.
The company also inaugurated its showroom in the city.
Ex-showroom price of `Fluence'' at Vijayawada is Rs 14.53 lakh (petrol) and Rs 13.09 lakh (diesel).
Talking to reporters after the launch, Sudhir Rao, Deputy Managing Director, Renault India, said the company was at present marketing only two models `Fluence'' (luxury) and `Koleos'' (compact SUV) through 14 dealers.
By the end of 2012, Renault will have a total of five models and a network of 100 dealers, he said.
Andhra Pradesh, considered the best market for cars, now has three Renault dealers - at Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad, Rao said.
The auto firm has a target to sell 50,000 Fluence models a year, he said, adding the company has invested Rs 5,000 crore to manufacture 4 lakh units of its cars a year.
On the impact of hike in petroleum prices and interest rates on sales, he said the effect would be only in the short term.
SIFT opens second centre in Vijayawada
Samana Institute of Fashion Techonology (SIFT) has opened its second centre in Vijayawada city of Andhra Pradesh. The first SIFT centre is located near Benz Circle in the city.
On the occasion, several speakers stressed that there is a plenty of potential for growth in the fashion industry and by pursuing courses related to the industry, the young generation can improve their creative abilities.
Mr. K.K. Sharma, Deputy Director, Weavers’ Service Centre, Union Ministry of Textiles, said that there is considerable demand for designing and fashion technology.
SIFT Chief Executive Officer, Samana Moosavi, said that the scope for students pursuing fashion technology courses is immense.
Mr. Ramakrishna, Director of SIFT, said that the courses offered by SIFT at its centres are meant for those who are searching for better opportunities to learn new skills. These courses also indirectly contribute to personality development of the candidates, he added.
He further added that these courses would be of immense help, especially to housewives, as there is plenty of scope in fashion technology for putting creative ideas to use.
Agrimart launched
The Agrimart outlet of Ratnagiri Impex Pvt Ltd which was inaugurated in Vijayawada on Sunday. Photo: Ch. Vijaya Bhaskar
The Bangalore based Ratnagiri Impex Pvt Ltd has launched its first outlet, Agrimart, in coastal districts on Eluru Road in Vijayawada. With this, the total number of outlets in the country touched 34 and third in the State.
Addressing a press conference on Sunday, company Executive Director S.V. Anand said that they were planning to open 100 outlets by next March and 300 outlets in next three years. The company has a network of more than 500 dealers, including 30 in the State, across the country. The company is selling more than 50 types of agricultural equipment at the Agrimart. The farmers could not get equipment from Oleo-mac, Agrimate, Gulivar, Coima brands and also get after sales service for them here, he said.
AP State Agro Industries Development Corporation Ltd Regional Manger D. Haribabu Chowdary, who inaugurated the Agrimart, said that the outlets of this kind would be helpful for farmers in meeting their requirements-sales, service-- at one stop.
Outlet franchisee Srinivasa Rao and others were present.
July 4th, 2011, 06:12 PM #14
Uda to launch ring road work
The Vijayawada, Guntur, Tenali, Mangalagiri Urban Development Authority (Uda) will lay the second phase of Ring Road in an extent of 2.1 kilometers 80-feet road from Gorantla village to JKC College Road at a cost of Rs 8 crore. The officials have already finalised tenders to lay the ring road. The officials are planning to start road-laying works soon. If the three kilometres road is laid, the vehicles from JKC College Road, Adavitakkellapadu areas will pass through Gorantla via Autongar and it will connect NH-5 near Autonagar.
Similarly, the vehicles coming from Pedakakani, Autonagar to JKC College area will pass through the bypass road. As a result, the traffic on the city roads is expected to come down. The Uda has already completed the first phase of the ring road. The railway officials have to shift the railway track at Gaddipadu village. If this road will come into operation, the vehicles coming from Amaravati to Pedakakani will pass through the ring road. At present, vehicles going from Pedakakani to Amaravati are going through Brodipet road in the city.
The Uda vice-chairman, Mr V.S.R.K.R. Vijay Kumar said, “We will enter into an agreement with the contractor to lay the second phase of ring road soon. Meanwhile, we will complete land acquisition.” The traffic DSP, M .Y.T. Naidu said, “If the first phase of the ring road comes into operation.
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July 7th, 2011, 04:27 AM #15
Discom to set up more sub-stations
The Southern Power Distribution Company Limited (SPDCL) will set up more sub-stations to tide over the overload problems in the city.
The SPDCL has chalked out plans to construct 33/11 KV sub-stations at Mutyalampadu, Durgapuram, Governorpet, and Brindavan Colony soon. The works are likely to commence in August.
The Irrigation Department has parted with some land for the sub-station at Brindavan Colony, and it is likely to ease overload on Bandar Road, a commercial hub.
The proposed new sub-stations will ease the problem temporarily only if the increasing demand is to be considered.
The SPDCL needs to add at least one sub-station every year in the city to meet the growing demand. But, the SPDCL could not take up any move in that direction for various reasons, including non-availability of land, officials say.
Demand increasing
The city requires at least 140 MW of power every day and the demand is ever increasing.
The existing five sub-stations, including the ones at indoor stadium and Mogalrajpuram, in the city are overloaded.
The problem is worse at Ring Road as the consumption is touching 850 amps, crossing the allocated 700 amps.
There is an urgent need for setting up two to three sub-stations to cater to the needs of Patamata and other nearby areas, officials say.
The overloading is leading to frequent tripping of supply and voltage fluctuations as the existing network cannot withstand the load.
The power supply trips automatically if the consumption crosses the permitted limit of 700 amps. But in some sub-stations, it is crossing 850 amps.
Existing network cannot take the load even if the supply matches demand. The city requires more sub-stations and transformers to avoid this kind of problems, officials say.
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The statue of former Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy coming up at the Police Control Room centre in Vijayawada. The gaigantic structure, with a replica of the Polavaram Project forming the base, blocks the view of traffic flow. Photo: Ch. Vijaya Bhaskar
July 22nd, 2011, 08:53 PM #17
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Nod for project expected any moment: NHAI official
Bypass roads to be provided to Gannavaram, Hanuman Junction
VIJAYAWADA: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) proposes to widen the Chennai-Kolkata National Highway (NH 5) to six lanes in the stretch from Vijayawada to Gundugolanu via Eluru and use the opportunity to form outer ring road to Vijayawada in a bid to take the highway traffic away from city limits.
Another road bridge would be constructed across Krishna river upstream of Prakasam barrage joining Surayapalem and Gollapudi villages as part of the outer ring road. The NHAI project director, CSN Murthi, said that they would begin work on the Rs. 1,600 crore project soon after getting clearance which is expected any moment. The work would be completed in three years.
The proposed outer ring road would take off from China Kakani, and run touching NRI hospital near Mangalagiri, Surayapalem, Gollapudi, Jakkampudi, Nunna and join the highway again at the medical college situated beyond Gannavaram.
When the road is completed, heavy vehicles moving from Chennai to Kolkata or Hyderabad or vehicles going from Hyderabad to Kolkata can skirt Vijayawada city limits. The outer ring road would help join NH 5 with Vijayawada-Hyderabad highway (NH 9) at Gollapudi. A flyover would be constructed at Gollapudi to separate the traffic moving on the two highways. The outer ring road would run over 46 km and increases the distance between Guntur and Eluru by eight kilometres.
Bypass roads
As part of widening NH 5 to six lanes, bypass roads would be provided to Gannavaram and Hanuman Junction, said Mr Murthi. The NHAI has already taken up widening of the highway to six lanes between Vijayawada and Nellore.
Asked about ham-handed widening of NH 9 to six lanes between Vijayawada and Nandigama, Mr Murthi admitted that there were problems. The NHAI acquired land for widening the highway to six lanes. But Kanchikacharla and Paritala villages opposed taking the road away from them and feared that it would hamper their development. In deference to their wishes, the NHAI laid only a two-lane bypass road and developed the existing two-lane road passing through the villages to highway standards.
So vehicles coming from Hyderabad to Vijayawada are expected to use the road passing through the villages and only those moving from Vijayawada to Hyderabad are expected to use the bypass road leading to lot of confusion. Unaware of this arrangement, many vehicles coming from Hyderabad enter the bypass road leading to accidents, particularly at night.
Mr Murthi said as land is available they can widen the bypass road to four lanes and avoid this problem if there is demand for the same.
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Airport expansion: farmers seek land for land
The farmers of Buddhavaram and Davajigudem villages near Gannavaram are once again on the agitation path in protest against what they allege the unilateral move to acquire their lands for airport expansion, even as the district administration has begun the process initially with the verification of records of lands which are required to be acquired.
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The farmers, who are likely to be affected in the land acquisition, have now come forward with the land-for-land demand. They say that in case their land is to be taken, they need to be compensated with equally valuable land presently lying unused on the western side of the airport. They say 350 acres of land is lying unused and this is being leased out for growing subabul plantations.
Another concern being expressed by farmer leaders is that the government is trying to acquire their lands offering very low rates when compared to the market rates, which they say is totally unjust. They claim that the present market rate being considered for acquisition would come to around Rs.40 lakh per acre while the rate being offered by the administration is just Rs.12 lakh to Rs.15 lakh.
Different rates are being fixed depending on the distance between land and the NH-5. As far as the district administration is concerned, it has not yet disclosed as to which lands are being considered for acquisition.
“It is too early to say. As of now, we are just verifying the records of various lands under consideration. It is still in the planning stage and we cannot say how much land is to be acquired now,” says Joint Collector Gaurav Uppal.
He told The Hindu that they were taking action regarding the acquisition process and additional land would be acquired for the purpose of further development of the airport. The revenue officials, surveyors, MROs, and the Revenue Divisional Officer concerned had been working on the details of the lands to be acquired in the past few weeks.
Meanwhile, under the leadership of CPI Gannavaram area secretary Konda Veeraswamy, the 40-odd small farmers launched their protest programmes seeking land-for-land as the only solution to the acquisition process.
“We will not allow the acquisition to happen if the government does not agree for land-for-land deal. Where is the problem for giving land lying unused with the Airports Authority?” asked Mr. Veeraswamy.
August 3rd, 2011, 06:52 PM #19
Coastal museum proposed with Rs. 4 crore
The city will soon get a coastal museum on the premises of the 124-year-old Victoria Jubilee Museum which would house the unique artefacts and other objects of historical importance from the district museums from Srikakulam to Nellore.
Speaking to The Hindu, Archaeology and Museum Department assistant director M. Chitti Babu said that a two-storied structure on the open space in the premises of the Victoria Jubilee Museum will be constructed by the Roads and Buildings Department to display the unique objects from all coastal districts. “The R & B officials had visited the site and after a meeting on August 3 they will call for the tenders. The museum building will be constructed with an estimated cost of Rs.4 crore,” he added. The new building would have the architectural features of the Victoria Jubilee Museum and the Kondalite slabs that were used for the construction of the monument (VJM) used, he said.
“The new project will profile the culture and traditions of the coastal people. Excavated material, inscriptions, paintings and textiles will be featured in the new museum,” Mr. Babu said. The department had sent estimates to the State Government. The proposed coastal museum is likely to be completed by 2013.
However, the present situation in the upkeep of the Victoria Jubilee Museum is not all that encouraging as the dearth of staff is affecting the daily routine. “We had a 50-member staff once but now it has got reduced to 17. There are no qualified guides and attenders are donning the role of a guide,” Mr. Babu bemoaned.
‘Poor sanitation'
He also said that poor sanitation and drainage was taking the sheen out of the monument that has carved a place in the history. Poor lighting both inside and outside the museum is a big concern. Owing to the fund crunch, the basic necessities are not looked after by the State Government. The monument which was built in 1887 by Robert Sewell, the then District Collector of Krishna District, is leaking and the rainwater is damaging the heritage structure
Fire control room inaugurated
Secondary Education Minister K. Parthasarathy laid a foundation stone for a fire station near Police Control Room here on Wednesday. He also inaugurated a Fire Control Room at Arundalpet here, and class rooms at APJ Abdul Kalam Municipal Corporation Urdu School. The class rooms were constructed at a cost of Rs. 20 lakh.
On the occasion, he said that all the fire stations in the district were linked with a fire control room.
There were 23 fire stations in the district. Following requests, and keeping in view the several fire accidents, proposals were sent to set up stations at Kankipadu, Pamidimukkala, Challapalli, Chatrai, Mopidevi, Gudlavalleru, Pedana, Chandarlapadu in rural areas, and at Bhavanipuram, Benz Circle, Gunadala, Jakkampudi and Satyanarayanapuram in the city, he said, adding, the new fire stations would be set up shortly.
The government was taking initiatives to modernise and strengthen the fire stations across the State.
The government had earmarked Rs. 1 crore for the fire station to be constructed near the control room. Explaining about fire accidents in the district, he said as many as 123 major and 1,727 minor fire outbreaks took place in 2010 resulting in a loss of Rs. 7.53 crrore.
The timely response of fire services saved properties worth of Rs. 11.15 crore. While 27 people lost their lives, 91 people were saved, he said.
This year, 1,211 accidents took place incurring a loss of Rs. 8.87 crore.
The fire services saved properties worth of Rs. 19.42 crore, and 90 lives. However, 40 people lost their lives, he added.
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Chelsea captain John Terry hits back at criticism over Stamford Bridge substitution
By Andy Charles
Watch our interview with John Terry, who says he is not bothered by criticism of his final Chelsea appearance
John Terry says he "couldn't care less" about criticism of his orchestrated Stamford Bridge goodbye.
Terry was replaced in the 26th minute of his final Premier League appearance for Chelsea in a pre-planned nod to the shirt he has worn since his first-team breakthrough in 1998.
The club captain was given a guard of honour by his team-mates as he left to a standing ovation, but there was post-match criticism of the move.
The Football Association has also requested bookmaker information over a series of bets placed on Terry being taken off in that precise minute, but he told Sky Sports News HQ: "I don't really care what other people think.
"It's a celebration between me and the Chelsea fans - 22 years I have been at the football club so honestly I couldn't care less what other people say.
Terry was emotional after the support he received from fans before, during and after the clash with Sunderland
"It's a special relationship between me and the Chelsea fans. They know what it means to me and they gave me an unbelievable send-off, one I will never forget. Thank you to them because it was incredible and a moment I will never, ever forget."
Terry has now turned his attentions to his final game as a Chelsea player, one in which a win over Arsenal would see the club win the FA Cup and complete the double.
Terry lifted the Premier League trophy at Stamford Bridge along with Gary Cahill
The 36-year-old could have to settle for a place on the bench but says he will be motivated to support the team whatever role he is given on the day.
"With the league sealed, the lads are fully focused. We had a small celebration after the game, and rightly so, because you work all season long to be lifting that trophy," he added.
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"We've been back on it yesterday and today and the lads are working really well. I've been on the receiving end of losing cup finals on the last day of the season and it's not a nice feeling. It's important we finish well.
"If I can be part of that, whether that's on the bench or in the squad, the manager will make his decision. I am sure he will pick his strongest side but it's a team game, everyone has been involved and I'll be professional whatever role I play."
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Since moving to New York in 2001, Frank Basile has established himself as one of today's most in-demand baritone saxophonists.
Dubbed a "prized sideman" by The New Yorker, Basile has been called upon to perform with, record with, and tour the world with many of jazz's finest musicians and ensembles. Among this illustrious list are The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, The Jimmy Heath Big Band, The Bob Mintzer Big Band, The Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra, The Joe Lovano Nonet, The Dave Holland Big Band, Dennis Mackrel's Manhattan Symphony Jazz Orchestra, The Christian McBride Big Band, The Count Basie Orchestra, Michael Bublé, The Richie Vitale Quintet, The Fabien Mary Quintet, and The Osian Roberts-Steve Fishwick Sextet.
Born in Illinois in 1978 and raised in Nebraska, Frank Basile began his musical studies in grade school. After four years on clarinet and alto saxophone, he made a permanent switch to the baritone saxophone. Once in high school, Basile’s interest in jazz began to grow and, with the help and encouragement of his parents, he sought out further instruction on the ins and outs of this great music. Basile was soon playing in numerous big bands and combos throughout the Omaha area.
Basile enrolled at the University of North Texas to continue his musical studies. While at UNT, Basile played in the world-renowned One O’clock Lab Band for six consecutive semesters. After graduating with honors and a bachelor’s degree in Jazz Studies from UNT, Basile moved to New York in the summer of 2001 as a selected member of the first Jazz Studies program at the Juilliard School.
In addition to his activities as a sideman, Basile also takes an active roll as leader of his own quartet, quintet and sextet. To date, Basile has released three recordings as a leader, and his band has headlined at many of New York's major jazz clubs.
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Lunar Eclipse 2019
Space Junk Flies at You in New 3D Film on Debris Threat
By Leonard David 2012-01-04T17:40:43Z Tech
Space Junk 3D movie poster.
(Image: © ©2011. All rights reserved. Space Junk 3D, LLC.)
Russia's huge Phobos-Grunt Mars probe is the latest dead satellite to become space junk — the kind of trash clogging the orbital corridors around Earth that is the subject of a new 3D film soon to hit the big screen.
"Space Junk 3D" is set to open Jan. 13, an IMAX 3D movie crafted to spotlight the threat from human-made orbital rubbish. The film hopes to raise awareness of the increasingly worrisome debris dilemma — an educational step to help ensure the future of space exploration and satellite communications.
The Phobos-Grunt mission, a failed bid by Russia to collect samples from Mars' moon Phobos and return them to Earth, malfunctioned shortly after its launch Nov. 8, leaving it stranded in Earth orbit. Now it is due to fall back through our planet's atmosphere, mostly burning up, around the middle of this month.
Blending scientific information with state-of-the-art, 3D visualizations, "Space Junk 3D" takes the viewer from the depths of Meteor Crater in Arizona to the growing spread of Earth-orbiting debris — a troubling legacy of more than five decades of multiple nations lofting space hardware. [Gallery: 'Space Junk 3D' - The Movie]
"After half a century of space exploration we're now suddenly faced with what has long been a staple of science fiction ... an orbiting junkyard of cast-off space debris," notes popular British character actor Tom Wilkinson, who narrates the film.
Outer space is peppered with upper-stage rocket bodies weighing several tons. Adding to the mess is everything from paint chips to cast-off bolts, pieces from exploded rocket stages and other miscellaneous fragments.
It is estimated that low-Earth orbit contains 6,000 tons of space junk. And geosynchronous Earth orbit is home to 400 dead satellites, parked in higher graveyard orbits, where they will remain for hundreds of years.
"Space Junk 3D" is to be shown in science centers around the globe, with the movie's premiere scheduled for Jan. 13th at the Omnimax Dome in St. Louis.
De-cluttering ideas
In the film, a number of ideas for ridding space of leftover debris are showcased.
One idea is to use an electrodynamic tether that would de-orbit a spacecraft by generating drag through interactions between currents in the tether and the Earth's magnetic field. This increased drag would lower the spacecraft out of orbit until it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere.
Another scheme involves capturing debris with a space net, which, like the tether, could be powered using the Earth's magnetosphere. Also, lasers are highlighted that could one day sweep space, slowing down smaller objects and causing them to tumble into the atmosphere. [How Much Junk is in Space?]
In addition, solar sails could someday be a part of newly launched satellites, a resource held in reserve and ready to help spacecraft de-orbit once their work above Earth is completed.
As for spacecraft tumbling out of orbit, they burn up in the atmosphere regularly. However, not all spacecraft-related pieces perish upon re-entry and can reach the Earth's surface at very high speeds. Luckily, 70 percent of the Earth's surface is water, greatly reducing the chances that a piece of space junk will descend into a populated area.
Cleaning lenses during 40 mph winds at Meteor Crater in Arizona.
(Image credit: ©2011. All rights reserved. Space Junk 3D, LLC. Courtesy Calvin Hall Photography)
Reaching the tipping point
A story consultant featured in "Space Junk 3D" is Don Kessler, retired senior scientist for NASA's Orbital Debris Program — viewed by many as the "father of space junk."
"It isn't a coincidence that media headlines of falling debris are growing just as we launch this film," Kessler said in a statement. "As we started researching this story we found that most scientists agree we've reached this tipping point where orbital debris will continue to grow exponentially if we don't address the problem."
Decades ago it was Kessler who published a landmark paper, "Collision Frequency of Artificial Satellites," detailing the science behind what is now unofficially known as the "Kessler Syndrome." That space-based disorder describes how space junk collides with other space junk, resulting in more and more fragments, until the debris eventually renders low-Earth orbit impassable.
Most recently, Kessler chaired a 2011 National Research Council committee that produced the report, "Limiting Future Collision Risk to Spacecraft: An Assessment of NASA's Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Programs."
As for who is in charge of cleanup duty, Kessler observed: "It will require international cooperation to address this problem because it is a global phenomenon. It's up to the international community to address the issue. Not just the United States."
Kessler said that the new film can help educate the public and world leaders, too.
"I feel like we suffer from such a lack of understanding of what the real issues are … and what we need to do in order to solve those issues," Kessler said. "And I think we get the false impression that if we put these things off and wait until we have more money or are more capable of doing it…that there's justification for that. Understanding the issues of orbital debris now — today — will make it possible for solving the problems before they get any worse."
Mixing 6.0 surround sound at Technicolor Toronto in the making of Space Junk 3D.
(Image credit: ©2011. All rights reserved. Space Junk 3D, LLC.)
Takeaway message
Ultimately, the film imparts a strong message.
"I hope that people take away from this film that there are consequences to our actions," said Melissa Butts, the movie's director. "On the flip side of that, where there is a will, there is a way. We haven't quite figured out how we're going to clean it up yet, but I believe — and the film says this pretty clearly — there is a will to make it better. I expect that young people watching this film in various parts of the world will be integral in finding a long-term solution."
"Space Junk 3D" is presented by Melrae Pictures, an award-winning creator of 3D and 2D entertainment for theatrical, broadcast, Internet and mobile distribution. The movie was produced by Melissa Butts and Kim Rowe.
The 38-minute film is available in both 3D and 2D, for giant screen and digital t-eaters.
To view the trailer and check theater showings, as well as gain access to other resources such as a K-12 Educator's Guide to orbital debris, visit: http://www.spacejunk3d.com
Leonard David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. He is last year's winner of the National Space Club Press Award and a past editor-in-chief of the National Space Society's Ad Astra and Space World magazines. He has written for SPACE.com since 1999.
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Hightown Jets defeat Division One title rivals Palestino to win Spen Valley Memorial Trophy
Hightown Jets celebrate winning the Spen Valley Memorial Trophy.
Hightown Jets won the Spen Valley Memorial Trophy, defeating Division One title rivals Palestino 2-1 in the final at Overthorpe Sports Club last Saturday.
The sides had progressed through the group stages of the competition and won their respective semi-finals to set up the clash.
The final was competitive with plenty of endeavour from both teams.
Hightown took the lead in the second minute and although it remained 1-0 at half-time, Palestino equalised soon after the break. Hightown’s winner came with 20 minutes remaining and they hung on to thwart Palestino’s efforts and lift the cup.
The Cup presentation was conducted by Bob Secker, president of the West Riding County Football Association and Heavy Woollen District FA.
As with games in the Premier League and Football League, a minute’s silence was respectfully observed before kick-off to remember the 56 victims of the Bradford City fire in 1985.
Hightown are the current Division One leaders, five points clear of Palestino, who have five games in hand.
Hightown’s final league game is against Athletico next Saturday (May 9).
This Saturday sees the Spen Valley Trophy final at Overthorpe when Palestino meet Route 1 Rovers.
Athletico suffered a 2-1 defeat at home to Fox and Hounds in Division One last Saturday.
Terry Bayton and Paul Beaumont scored for Fox and Hounds, who also scored an own goal.
Mark Hutton, Nathan Williams, Matty Softly and Matthew Blackburn netted for Cleckheaton Sporting but they suffered a 9-4 defeat at home to Idle.
Applications are being accepted from any club who wish to join the Spen Valley League next season. Applications can be made to league secretary, Soyeb Yusuf - soyeb.yusuf@ntlworld.com.
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Aggravated Assault with a Firearm: Sentencing and Penalties
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Aggravated assault is a more serious charge than simple assault because it adds on the utilization of a deadly weapon or intent to perpetrate a felony crime. If you are charged with aggravated assault with a firearm and are concerned about the sentencing and penalties that you may face, you should consult St. Petersburg assault defense lawyer Will Hanlon at Hanlon Law.
Under Florida Statute section 784.021, a prosecutor must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that:
You intentionally and unlawfully threatened to perform violence on a victim;
At the time of your threat, you seemed to be able to carry it out;
Your threat caused the victim to have a legitimate fear that violence was imminent; and
Your assault was made with a deadly weapon or a fully formed and conscious intention to perpetrate a felony crime.
To establish an intent to threaten violence, the prosecutor does not need to show that you actually intended to commit violence against someone else. Instead, an intent to do the threatening is enough.
Aggravated assault is a third-degree felony. This means that the court can sentence you to a maximum of five years’ imprisonment or five years of probation, as well as a maximum $5,000 fine. Even if you are a first-time offender, there is a real possibility that you will go to prison. As of July 1, 2016, aggravated assault with a firearm no longer carries a three-year mandatory minimum sentence in Florida. However, if you discharge a firearm while committing a forcible felony in addition to committing aggravated assault, you may face a mandatory minimum sentence.
If the aggravated assault with a firearm is against someone who belongs to a particular group of individuals, including a policeman, a college security guard, or a firefighter, the conviction will be for a second-degree felony. The prosecutor will need to show that you knew that the person was somebody who fell into the protected jobs, and when you assaulted the victim, they were doing their job. If you are convicted of a second-degree felony, the court can sentence you to up to 15 years’ imprisonment and impose a $10,000 fine. Considering the severity of these penalties, you should not hesitate to retain a St. Petersburg criminal defense attorney who can protect your rights.
You can face a more serious sentence if you are designated as a habitual felony offender, habitual violent felony offender, or prison release reoffender. If you have a prior separate conviction for a felony, attempted felony, or conspiracy to commit a felony, and one or more convictions were also for aggravated assault, you can be designated a habitual violent felony offender when the current felony to be sentenced is also enumerated under section 775.084(1)(B). The current felony for which you are to be sentenced must be a listed offense (such as aggravated assault) and must have been committed while you were serving a sentence for a conviction of a listed offense or within five years of the date of your conviction or release for a listed offense. As a habitual violent felony offender, you can face up to 10 years in prison for aggravated assault with a firearm.
Charges of aggravated assault with a firearm are serious and may be coupled with other charges, such as carrying a concealed weapon or possession of a firearm by a felon. However, there are often defenses available, and you should not assume that you will be sentenced to prison automatically.
We may be able to argue self-defense in situations in which you make threats with a firearm that are proportionate to a threat that you face. For example, if someone is waving a gun at you in a bar, it might be proportionate to take out your own gun to stop them from continuing the threat. We also may be able to argue Stand Your Ground if you are being attacked by a burglar in your own home and take out a weapon to frighten off the burglar. We may be able to argue that you justifiably were defending others or your own property. In some cases, people are charged with aggravated assault due to false allegations, and in these cases, we may be able to impeach the alleged victim. In other cases, we may be able to argue that you did not take out the weapon to threaten anyone.
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If you are looking for a tough and experienced lawyer to fight charges of aggravated assault with a firearm or another gun crime, you should call Hanlon Law. Our founder, Will Hanlon, has been providing criminal defense representation in the St. Petersburg area since 1994. You can call Hanlon Law at (727) 897-5413 or complete our online form.
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71 migrants found dead in Austria lorry had suffocated: Police
Forensic experts investigate a truck in which refugees were found dead as it stands on freeway autobahn A4 between Parndorf and Neusiedl, Austria on Aug 27, 2015.PHOTO: EPA
Sep 4, 2015, 9:37 pm SGT
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VIENNA (AFP) - The 71 migrants found dead in an abandoned lorry in Austria last week had most likely suffocated soon after they were picked up by a smuggler in Hungary, police said Friday (Sept 4).
Preliminary autospy results indicate that "if you take into account the number of people and lack of oxygen, it's fair to assume that asphyxiation occurred within no time at all", police spokesman Hans Peter Doskozil said.
The final coroner's report was expected to take another five or six weeks, he added.
The victims were believed to have been from the war-torn countries of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, Mr Doskozil said.
The 59 men, eight women and four children were discovered piled on top of each other in the back of a refrigerated poultry truck in a motorway layby near the Hungarian border on Aug 27.
Police made the gruesome discovery after noticed decomposing body fluids dripping from the vehicle.
An Afghan and five Bulgarians have so far been arrested in connection with the case.
One of the suspected drivers, 32-year-old Tsvetan Tsvetanov, denied knowing there had been anyone on board the lorry, during his first appearance in a Bulgarian court on Thursday.
Charges against him include "participation in an organised crime group, contraband trafficking and premeditated manslaughter of 71 people".
Police believe Tsvetanov and the other five, who were arrested in Hungary,- are low-ranking members of one of the numerous people-trafficking gangs that extract often large amounts of money from migrants to help them reach Europe.
The migrants' deaths led to a security crackdown in Austria and massive tailbacks formed on the border with Hungary earlier this week, as officers inspected vehicles in search of people-smugglers and migrants.
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Going to the flipside
We made it across the Panama Canal with no damage to the boat or crew. In some ways, it is a relatively straightforward process, but things do occasionally go wrong so it's a relief to be finished. We are very glad that we had experienced sailors as line handlers. Originally, we were planning to have as line handlers a non-sailing Brazilian family (a father, mother, and their 19-year old daughter), but they backed out. Instead we had our friend Mark from Amelie V, along with Huzar and Patricia from Indra, a boat we met while anchored in The Flats. Having sailors was invaluable because there was enough going on without having to explain how cleats work or how lines should be led, much less worrying about someone who isn't used to walking around on a boat.
We picked up our advisor Ricardo and his trainee Victor the afternoon of the first day. We were originally given a transit time of 4 p.m., which was then changed to 3:30. Ricardo and Victor eventually arrived around 4. We then had to motor around the entrance to the canal while we waited for a couple of big ships to come out (like when they switch over the express lanes on a highway). We learned that the only constant during the transit process is changes to plans.
We were originally supposed to nest with a 60-foot motor yacht on one side and a monohull on the other side. Nesting is where several smaller boats raft up next to each other in the locks. But then we were told that wasn't happening-- the motor yacht didn't want to nest with us. However, they were apparently told that they had to because there weren't enough ACP Linehandlers (the guys that send lines down from the sides of the locks). So we rafted up but rather than staying nested together through all three Gatun locks, we separated and re-rafted through each one. The first rafting was a bit exciting as we figured out the best way to tie up to the motor yacht but by the second and third locks, we had it down.
The first three sets of locks (the Gatun locks) raises you 84 feet, from sea level to the height of Lake Gatun. Instead of digging through land the entire way across Panama, the canal builders built a dam to flood the area in between the two sets of locks. As the Caribbean sea water mixes with the fresh water from Lake Gatun, it creates some fairly brisk current that had the boats buffeting around quite a bit. All of us, including Mark and Conrad, got a big kick out of seeing the locks close and open and watching the water level rise. As we left the last set of locks, we had to watch out in case the cargo ship in front of us used its engines to move forward because the backwash could create a significant current.
After transiting the Lake Gatun locks, we arrived in Lake Gatun at around 8 p.m. A pilot boat picked up our advisor and trainee and we had dinner. We fell asleep to the sounds of the railway and the new lock construction.
We were told to be ready to go at 6 a.m. the following morning so we dutifully set the alarm for 6 (we were pretty sure it wouldn't be a 6 a.m. start). The monohull's advisor arrived around 7 a.m. but ours didn't arrive until 8:30. We pushed the engine relatively hard over the almost 30 miles across Lake Gatun to catch up to the other monohull only to be told when we were almost there that we would have to wait a couple hours for another boat. Then we were told we wouldn't have to wait, so we rafted up with the monohull. The wait/don't wait scenario continued to repeat as we went through the locks. Since each downward lock cycle uses 26,700,000 gallons of freshwater, the canal authority wants to make sure that there is a big ship in the mix whenever possible. However, we were able to go through with just the monohull. We stayed nested together for all three locks, with our boat providing the power for both sailboats. The ACP Linehandlers throw lines with monkey's fist knots surrounding a piece of lead, which our line handlers attached to our dock lines. They are really good at hurling those monkey's fists. The ACP Linehandlers then use the dock lines to walk our boats into position within the lock chamber.
When we finally glimpsed the Pacific Ocean through the last set of locks, I felt excitement and relief. The Pacific Ocean may look a lot like the Atlantic Ocean, but for me it represents new paths we can take. Matt headed back to Colon to pick up some packages we were having shipped from the States and to help Amelie IV with their transit. We'll spend some time in Panama City and Las Perlas before heading to Ecuador.
Nana February 3, 2015 at 3:36 PM
GREAT BLOG.....enjoyed every word!
Sandy Horn February 4, 2015 at 6:09 AM
Wow Jen! Gives me goose bumps, you guys are in the Pacific!!!!!! Love to you all. We're still in Puerto Rico, but headed down island today. All the best so glad to hear you made it through the canal! Love to all,
Sandy & Brit
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Carpe Omnis Games Announces No Honor Among Thieves Card Game
What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine. That's the code of the thieves. If anything's able to be taken, it should be. Sure, they might band together in order to get into someplace none could, individually, but at the end of the day, he who gets away with the most loot is the winner, as long as everyone doesn't get caught. That's what's going on in No Honor Among Thieves, a new card game coming from Carpe Omnis Games.
The rich and powerful of the kingdom keep their wealth safe behind barred doors and armed guards, but you know a guy who’s good with locks and another who’s good with his fists. Or you know someone who can climb like a monkey, and someone else who could charm the fangs off a snake. How you do it is up to you. The important thing is that there’s gold there for the taking, and you’re going to take it all.
Assemble your crew. Make your plans. And make sure to keep a careful eye on everyone else, because everyone knows there’s no such thing as honor among thieves.
No Honor Among Thieves is a competitive/cooperative card game for three to six players, in which each player assembles a crew of thieves and sets out to see who can steal the most lucre from the rich and powerful of a fantasy city. Working alone is difficult, but working together leaves you open to treachery by your so-called allies–or gives you the chance to betray them, and take it all for yourself. An unspoken code of honor exists among the thieves of this city, but that won’t last past the first betrayal, and once that uneasy trust is gone the game gets more dangerous as players gain access to additional underhanded abilities.
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Fantasy Flight Games Previews Podracing in Star Wars: Destiny
Fantasy Flight Previews 1.4 FD Laser Cannon And E-Web Blaster For Star Wars: Legion
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Scorcese’s Shutter Island pushed back to February 2010
Film is reportedly delayed for financial reasons.
By James Rundle 24-08-09 3,831
Shutter Island, the upcoming adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s 2003 novel from Martin Scorcese, has been pushed back to a 19 February 2010 release.
The move comes as a surprise to many, who expected the film, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a US Marshall sent to a psychiatric hospital to investigate the escape of a patient, to be a serious Oscar contender for the 2009 awards. Paramount apparently expects the same of it, but hasn’t got the financial liquidity to stump up the $50-60 million needed for its marketing budget, according to Nikki Finke. Her original article also quotes Paramount chief Brad Grey as saying. “Leonardo DiCaprio is among the most talented actors working today and Martin Scorsese is not just one of the world’s most significant filmmakers, but also a personal friend. Following a highly successful 2009, we have every confidence that Shutter Island is a great anchor to lead off our 2010 slate and the shift in date is the best decision for the film, the studio and ultimately Viacom.”
DiCaprio and Scorcese have had a fruitful partnership over the last few years, with Shutter Island being the fourth film that have collaborated on. Previous films include Gangs Of New York, The Departed and The Aviator, all of which have either won or been heavily nominated for the Academy Awards.
Shutter Island also stars Mark Ruffalo, Jackie Earle Haley and Ben Kingsley.
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You are here: Home / Education / Saint Leo University Honored for Community Service
Saint Leo University Honored for Community Service
October 11, 2016 by Press Release
SAINT LEO, FL – Saint Leo University recently was named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for 2015 for measurable acts of community service by students, faculty, and staff.
The honor roll is part of the Corporation for National and Community Service’s strategic commitment to engage millions of college students in service and celebrate the critical role of higher education in strengthening communities, according to its website.
“The President’s Honor Roll recognition is a tangible demonstration that our institutional core values are more than ‘letters on a wall,’ ” said Dr. Kenneth Posner, associate vice president for Student Affairs. “The university community constantly rises to the greater community challenges and demonstrates our commitment to the university’s mission in all that we do. This recognition is gratifying and upholds our student-centered mission to prepare our graduates to go out into the world, ready to do well and to do good.”
Saint Leo’s six core values are excellence, respect, integrity, personal development, responsible stewardship, and community, and they are built into students’ courses, as well as everyday life. Specifically, the core value of community “challenges all of us to listen, to learn, to change, and to serve,” Saint Leo’s core values state.
Among its many community service activities, Saint Leo participates in Community Service Day on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Veterans Day. In the past, students prepared meals for Feeding Children Everywhere, worked at food banks and shelters, and helped local nonprofits with painting, gardening, and other maintenance projects.
This Veterans Day (November 11, 2016), from noon to 4 p.m., the university community service project will be Operation Gratitude, which sends care packages to active troops, plus letters of appreciation to new recruits, active service members, veterans, first responders, and wounded warriors.
And on October 22, Saint Leo will host its second Make a Difference Day from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Student Activities Building Green. This year the university will be working with the Office of Residence Life to sort and prepare bottle caps for donation to the Caps of Love facility in Kentucky. Caps of Love is a Florida-based nonprofit organization that recycles plastic caps, with proceeds going toward the purchase of new and refurbished wheelchairs for children around the United States with mobility disabilities. Saint Leo donated 8,000 pounds of bottle caps last year. Held around the country, Make a Difference Day is the largest national day of community service.
Past community projects that the university was honored for include:
● Students Engaged in Rewarding Volunteer Experiences (SERVE), which is a student-led group (with faculty and staff advisors) that organizes volunteer trips during spring break and other times during the year. Groups have worked with orphanages in Belize and Haiti, at a hospital in Memphis, and with rebuilding efforts in New Orleans.
● Two external fundraising projects: the Make-A-Wish Foundation and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Up Til Dawn project. Student groups organize fundraising projects for both of these organizations and gave of their time to ensure the projects’ success. In 2014, Saint Leo was honored to host a Make-A-Wish reveal for a young cancer patient during half-time of a men’s basketball game. The university also was recognized as the top fundraiser in Florida for St. Jude’s Up Til Dawn project, raising in excess of $18,000.
● Four Funded Service-Learning Faculty Fellowships were awarded to integrate service-learning experiences into academic projects, coursework and/or research for four faculty members with an average class size of 20.
“The students, staff, and faculty at Saint Leo University realize and embrace the fact that we are all part of one larger community—comprised of people from many different backgrounds and beliefs—and it is critical that we engage in an atmosphere of collaboration and interdependence,” the application for the honor roll stated.
Saint Leo University (www.saintleo.edu) is a modern Catholic teaching university that is firmly grounded in the liberal arts tradition and the timeless Benedictine wisdom that seeks balanced growth of mind, body, and spirit. The Saint Leo University of today is a private, nonprofit institution that creates hospitable learning communities wherever our students want to be or need to be, whether that is a campus classroom, a web-based environment, an employer’s worksite, a military base, or an office park. We welcome people of all faiths and of no religious affiliation, and encourage learners of all generations. We are committed to providing educational opportunities to our nation’s armed forces, our veterans, and their families. We are regionally accredited to award degrees ranging from the associate to the doctorate, and we guide all our students to develop their capacities for critical thinking, moral reflection, and lifelong learning and leadership.
We remain the faithful stewards of the beautiful lakeside University Campus in the Tampa Bay region of Florida, where our founding monks created the first Catholic college in the state in 1889. Serving nearly 15,000 students, we have expanded to downtown Tampa, to other sites in Florida and beyond, and maintain a physical presence in seven states. We provide highly respected online learning programs to students nationally and internationally. More than 82,000 alumni reside in all 50 states, in Washington, DC, in three U.S. territories, and in 76 countries.
Media Contact: Mary McCoy, University Writer & Media Relations, mary.mccoy02@saintleo.edu, (352) 588-7118 or cell (813) 610-8416
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Only in Taos: 12 unique merchants for your shopping pleasure
DISCOVER MÁS TAOS
Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2018 7:03 pm
by Scott Gerdes
John Dunn House Shops
squareup.com/store/coyotemoontaos
Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily
Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is alive and kicking at this fun, artsy shop. Inside you’ll find skeletons, sugar skulls, jewelry, pottery, clothing and folk art. And that’s just scratching the surface. Much of the inventory is handpicked in Mexico, Peru and from local artists.
103 Bent Street
fx18.com
After looking around in this cool, hip little shop, it quickly becomes a hands-down favorite place to find gifts. Here you’ll find locally made jewelry and artworks, fun clothing, books and eclectic items — too many to mention. Locals consistently vote fx18 the best “funky” store in town in The Taos News’ annual “Best of Taos” poll.
104 Taos Plaza, west side
madeinnewmexico.com
Everything here is made in the Land of Enchantment. It’s the only store in the state that can state that claim. Red and green chile powders, pods, salsas, sauces, jams, jellies, biscochitos,piñon coffee, wood carvings, Native American jewelry, T-shirts, ornaments, fetishes, clocks, Day of the Dead items, ristras, wreaths, farolitos and books.
Overland Sheepskin Company
At Overland Ranch, 1405 Paseo del Pueblo Norte
overland.com
Hours: 9 a.m.- 7 p.m. Mon.-Thur.; 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Fri.-Sat.
In 1973, 19-year-old Jim Leahy moved to Taos with a dream of designing and making sheepskin coats. In tow he had a sewing machine and a bale of sheepskins. His beautiful, functional and rugged Western creations — including coats, slippers, hats and mittens all cut and stitched by hand — were soon in demand and alongside other Taos artisans, the business became Overland Sheepskin Company.
This year marks Overland’s 45th year in Taos. Three generations of the Leahy family have followed in Jim’s footsteps and own and operate Overland today. From humble beginnings in Taos, Overland has grown to include a website and 16 locations and has become a trusted source for quality sheepskin, leather and natural fabric outerwear, accessories and home décor. Overland’s family-style way of doing business has remained its backbone, a passion for quality matched with highly rated service.
The original building now houses the sheepskins, cow hides and buffalo robes (the term “robes” is used out of respect). The rest of the store was added in 1984. Numerous artifacts are peppered throughout. On display is a dog sled made from wood, animal bones and sinew used in the late 19th century to deliver vaccines to a small town near Red River. Antique traps, harnesses, saddles, farm tools and even an old wooden apparatus that once held a punching bag are incorporated into the “Old West” atmosphere.
In the past, Overland supplied most of the sheepskin coats for the Marlboro Man ad campaign. More recently, many of the coats and hats worn by the character Walt Longmire on the Netflix hit show “Longmire” came from Overland in Taos.
The flagship store is the heart of the Overland Ranch complex on Paseo del Pueblo Norte. The property has one of the best unobstructed, full views of Taos Mountain and other Sangre de Cristo peaks in town. Overland Ranch has expanded over the years to include beautiful gardens, a Koi pond and other buildings housing restaurants, galleries and a furniture store to name a few.
Parsons Gallery
parsonsart.com
Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Closed Sundays
Parsons could almost be considered a museum — although it is a gallery — due to its important, impressive and extensive early to mid-19th century collection of works by members of the famed Taos Society of Artists, Taos founders, early Santa Fe and Taos art colony painters, as well as 19th century Navajo weavings and pueblo pottery. Parsons Gallery is located in the historic home of Ferdinand Maxwell (a pioneer landowner and friend of Kit Carson).
Robert Parson’s other gallery in Taos is Parsons Gallery of the West, which features traditional Taos art that reflects historic and contemporary impressions of the American West. It is located at 122-D Kit Carson Road and in the 1920s-’30s, the building was the home and studio of Taos Society of Artists member Victor Higgins.
Taos Adobe Quilting
102 Teresina Lane ( off the northwest corner of Taos Plaza)
taosadobequiltingandmore.com
Hours: 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat.; Noon-4 p.m. Sun.
When settlers arrived in the New World, they brought with them much of the cultural heritage from Europe, including quilting. Quilt-making flourished in the 19th century, especially in the period between 1825 and 1875. Settlers who began moving West brought quilting with them and eventually, it came to the Great Plains.
Taos Adobe Quilting has a wide assortment of quilting fabrics and feature designs specific to the area, including collections by local artists and others with a distinct Southwestern theme. They also have books, patterns, notions, kits and fat quarters.
Taos Leather Cordón y Cuero
Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Closed Sundays and some Tuesdays.
The Knapp family has been crafting original, handmade leather goods and jewelry since the shop’s establishment in 1973. At Taos Leather Cordón y Cuero (Spanish for “lace and leather”) you’ll find braided leather bracelets, necklaces, earrings, bolo ties, hat bands and cord belts. Owner Larry Knapp, who was raised in New Mexico, discovered leather on the Spanish island of Ibiza and fell in love. Early in his leather design career, Knapp made his own tools, which produced a signature style. Some of his most popular creations are “snake belts,” made from cowhide and with very fine braiding to resemble snakeskin. In his Taos home studio, Knapp fine-tuned his specialized skills for lace-making and developed silver buckle sets. He has worked with leather for 40 years. His wife, Jaya, designs and makes leather jewelry on-site, based on the braiding technique and is well-known for her men’s and women’s bolo ties. She also designs most of the silver accents on the bolo ties. Daughter Anyma Kleinsorge makes leather and silver necklaces and also earrings.
Taos Plaza
nativepeacepipes.com
Hours: 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. daily
The Native American peace pipe was and still is often used in spiritual ceremonies during which each person will smoke from it and say a prayer to the four directions. The peace pipe is not restricted to use by only Native Americans, but it is symbolically spiritual and must be respected by everyone attending a ceremony. Medicine and war pipes were also used in ceremonies. “The Indian that carried the peace pipe was often allowed to pass through enemy territory out of respect,” according to information at indians.org. “The war pipe had red feathers symbolizing blood and was smoked before going into battle.”
Owned and operated by Dean “Little Lake” Johnson. His handcrafted peace pipes are made to be used, but the beautiful craftsmanship and time involved also makes each pipe a work of art. The shop also sells American Indian music and gifts.
Taos Drums
3956 State Highway 68, Ranchos de Taos (look for the giant tepees just south of Taos)
taosdrums.com
Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat.; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun.
Every Native American drum is crafted from natural materials and renewable resources on site by two drum makers. The drumheads are made from either cow or buffalo hides (sometimes goat) and are all formed in-house. The hides take two days to naturally dry. They also hand make teepee lamps and shades from hides. Drum shells are created from wood native to Northern New Mexico — mostly cottonwood, and some aspen or pine. They come painted (also by hand) and natural. Many sizes and shapes to choose from (more than 100), plus a plethora of other Native-made, one-of-a-kind gift, jewelry and home decor items such as an extensive selection of Zapotec textiles. Visitors are welcome to tour the workshop. Be sure to see the “Thunder Drum,” made for the rock group Fleetwood Mac.
Taos Spice Merchants
226-B Paseo del Pueblo Norte (across from The Taos Art Museum at Fechin House)
taosspicemerchants.com
Hours: 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. Mon.-Sat.; 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. Sun.
Sourcing the finest and freshest whole and organic spice (more than 200 varieties) from around the world, including traditionally harvested sustainable salts with certified provenances, organic certified extra-virgin olive oils from California and crisp, bold balsamic vinegars from Texas. Also offering rubs, blends, cuisine packages and specialty culinary items. Every spice is displayed in crystal clear jars that fill floor to ceiling shelves and infuse their wonderful scents throughout the shop. Create your own blends or have master spice blender Keith Lane create something special for you. Classes on cooking with spices are also offered.
Tony Whitecrow’s Deerskin Art & Design
108-A Doña Luz Street, near Taos Plaza
tonywhitecrow.com
Hours: 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Mon.-Sat.; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday or by appointment
Tony Whitecrow specializes in one-of-a-kind, custom-made Western clothing, bedding, jackets and accessories. His work is all handcrafted, and he designs all of his own patterns. Custom orders are a specialty, such as “sexy” woman’s clothing, men’s gambler frocks, and Buffalo Bill Cody coats. He also creates full-length dresses, skirts, halter-tops, long coats, jean jackets, bags and purses. A perfected technique of hand-cut twisted fringe has become Whitecrow’s trademark.
225 Camino de la Placita (another entrance is just off the northwest side of Taos Plaza)
twirltaos.org
An experience in itself, thanks to its magical layout and artistic touches. This play and discovery space offers high-quality educational toys, games, crafts and activities that inspire play-based learning in the home and encourage positive parent/child interaction. There’s also a wonderful playground out back.
The 150-year-old adobe building was once the residence of actor Dennis Hopper and earlier of painter Agnes Martin.
One night, three short comedies
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Cool music on a hot summer night
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Hornish Soldiers to a 13th-Place Finish at Fontana
Fontana, Calif. (March 24, 2012) - Sam Hornish, Jr. driver of the No. 12 Alliance Truck Parts Dodge Challenger in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS), finished 13th in Saturday afternoon’s Royal Purple 300 at Auto Club Speedway.
Hornish started the 150-lap event from the 11th position on the grid based on his time from Saturday morning’s qualifying session when he lapped the two-mile track in 41.097 seconds at an average speed of 173.550 miles per hour.
The No. 12 Dodge Challenger started strong as Hornish was able to make up several positions in the first few laps of the race, running as high as fifth in the early portion. The initial 56 laps of the event ran without incident and over the course of the long green flag run, Hornish reported that the car was lacking overall grip while being loose on corner entry and tight on corner exit.
While running in the eighth position crew chief Chad Walter called Hornish in for a green flag pit-stop on lap 32; during which the Alliance Truck Parts team made an air pressure adjustment, changed four tires and filled the car with fuel. Once the field cycled through the green flag pit-stops the Penske Dodge was scored in the sixth position.
Over the course of the next 25 laps Hornish ran consistently in the top-six, although he did have a minor brush with the outside wall the car’s handling was not adversely affected.
Debris on the racing surface brought out the first caution flag of the day on Lap 57 at which point Hornish informed Walter that his Challenger was too loose on corner entry and would transition towards being too tight on corner exit over the duration of a long run. On Lap 59 Hornish brought the Alliance Truck Parts car into the pit lane for service. Once again the crew gave Hornish four new tires, an air pressure adjustment and fuel; this stop took a few seconds longer than normal as the pit crew struggled getting the right-side tires off due to light damage to the wheel wells that was a result of the earlier brush with the wall.
Racing resumed on Lap 62 with the No. 12 Dodge scored in the 11th position. As the race wore on Hornish reported – with urgency in his voice – that the car was not turning well on corner exit and shortly thereafter he had another brush with the wall. Despite having to fight his car around the high-speed oval, Hornish was running in the top-11 until he spun on Lap 91 bringing out a caution flag. As a result of this spin crew chief Chad Walter called Hornish into the pit lane while the pits were closed thinking that the spin may have caused the Dodge to have flat tires.
When the pits opened on Lap 93 Hornish once again brought the car to the attention of the Penske pit crew. This time they made a track bar adjustment, an air pressure adjustment, changed four tires and filled the car with fuel. Since Hornish drove through a closed pit lane he had to start at the back of the lead lap cars, with this in mind Walter called him back in the pits with one-to-go before the green flag to top off the fuel tank.
The action picked up with the green flag on Lap 97 with Hornish shown in 16th but it didn’t last long as the caution was displayed for debris on Lap 103. During this caution the No. 12 Dodge came into the pits for fuel only as they had only one set of fresh tires remaining for the latter part of the race. The No. 12 Dodge gained a few positions using this strategy and when the green flag signaled a return to racing on Lap 108 with Hornish scored in the 11th position.
The race stayed green for 25 laps during which time Hornish dropped back as far as 16th, due to other competitors having fresher tires, before clawing his way back to the 11th position. The Penske Dodge looked to be coming into to its own over the long run late in the race before a Lap 133 caution period. This was an unwelcome sight for the Dodge driver who was making his way back through the field. On Lap 135 the Alliance Truck Parts machine came into the pits for the last stop of the day. Crew chief Chad Walter made the decision to take outside right tires only and as a result the No. 12 Dodge gained seven positions in the running order, being scored in fourth when the green flag restarted the race on Lap 138.
While the two tire change gave the team valuable track position, it did not optimize the Challenger’s handling over the waning laps of the race and Hornish faded back to finish the event in the 13th position.
"We almost pulled one off today in the Alliance Truck Parts Dodge,” said Hornish. “We got track position late and just couldn't take advantage of it on the restart. We opted for two tires versus four late coming down pit road. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. We lost the balance of the car a bit after we made a slight air pressure adjustment and never really got the total balance back."
With today’s result Sam Hornish. Jr. and the No. 12 Alliance Truck Parts Dodge Challenger moves up to fifth in the NASCAR Nationwide point standings.
Penske Racing teammate, Brad Keselowski, finished third in the No. 22 America’s Tire Dodge.
The next NASCAR Nationwide Series event is at Texas Motor Speedway. The O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 will air at 8:00 p.m. ET on ESPN2 and it will be broadcast live on the Motor Racing Network and Sirius Satellite Radio Channel 90.
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Growth of SVOD services like Netflix and Stan has exploded in Australia
By Stephen Fenech On Jul 30, 2018
Demand for Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) services in Australia like Netflix and Stan is continuing to grow at a rapid pace in Australia with more than 9.1 million subscriptions.
According to analyst firm Telsyte, the adoption of SVOD up until the end of June 2018 has grown by 54 per cent year on year.
And revenue has grown at a substantially higher at up to 90 per cent, reaching more than $700m at the end of the 2018 financial year.
Telsyte forecasts that pace of growth will continue with 22 million SVOD subscriptions expected by 2022.
Streaming our entertainment through our internet-connected devices like our smartphones, smart TVs, set-top-boxes and gaming consoles has become the new normal for Australian viewers.
An estimated 43 per cent of Australian households subscribed to SVOD services by the end of June 2018 which is a 30 per cent increase on last year.
But, according to Telsyte, we’re still behind the US and UK adoption levels which is 70 per cent and 60 per cent respectively.
SVOD is also putting pressure on traditional Pay TV which is still in one-third of Australian households – the same level as 2017.
It’s only the growth of Fetch TV, which is both a SVOD and pay TV service through its set-top boxes, which has offset the decline of Foxtel subscriptions.
Netflix is the most popular SVOD service with 3.9 million subscribers with Stan second with about a million subscribers.
New players in the market like Amazon Prime and Foxtel Now are also growing thanks to their offerings of special interest programs and sport.
And other SVOD services may also be on the horizon with the possibility of a Disney and HBO entering the Australian market in the near future.
Australian viewers may also be able to access services from major sporting bodies like the National Football League, Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association.
And it’s not a case of “winner takes all” in the SVOD market.
“Consumer are becoming comfortable with multiple subscriptions and are subscribing to different providers for exclusive content and live sports” said Telsyte managing director Foad Fadaghi.
Telsyte’s research shows Australians are comfortable with subscription-based entertainment services with millions of customers already to subscribed to music services like Spotify and Apple Music and gaming services like PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold.
A real driver in the growth of SVOD is our faster internet connections and unlimited data offerings from Internet Service Providers (ISP) and as a result we are able to stream high quality 4K HDR (high dynamic range) content.
4K TVs can already be found in 15 per cent of Australian homes with penetration expected to hit 50 per cent by 2022.
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Won’t you be my neighborhood autonomous vehicle?
Optimus Ride gets cars driving safely on their own by limiting where they operate.
by Elizabeth Woyke
Photographs by Doug Levy
If you want to see the future of transportation, hop a train out of Boston to the suburb of South Weymouth. There, in a parking lot adjacent to the station, a fleet of seven cars have been picking people up and driving them to a nearby housing development—all without a human placing a hand on the steering wheel.
On a recent night, one of the vehicles carried a twentysomething woman to her condominium about a mile away. After the woman hopped in the car, which looked like a golf cart with an enclosed body and doors, she used a touch-screen tablet to select a route from a menu. A software operator sitting in the front passenger seat authorized the trip with a tap on his laptop, and a test driver in the driver’s seat pressed a button on the vehicle’s dashboard to put the car into self-driving mode. Though the driver was there for safety, in case something unexpected happened and someone needed to take the wheel, the vehicle planned the route and drove itself.
The technology comes from Optimus Ride, a Boston-based startup with deep ties to MIT that aims to be among the first companies to transport mass quantities of people in driverless vehicles. “The vehicle should arrive empty, pick you up, and drive you someplace else,” says CEO Ryan Chin, SM ’00, SM ’04, PhD ’12. “There should be no operators on board; that’s our goal.”
No company anywhere in the world has yet managed to provide a completely driverless service to a large number of people. That includes Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet that is developing autonomous vehicles, and the self-driving divisions of Uber and Lyft. There are plenty of other companies in the race, too, from major automakers to the electric-car maker Tesla to startups.
Optimus Ride aims to zip in front of these competitors by targeting a smaller market and a more specific type of driving. Instead of trying to transport people anywhere they might want to go, the startup limits its vehicles to areas with virtual boundaries, defined by GPS. These could include planned communities—as in South Weymouth—as well as university or corporate campuses, resorts, waterfronts, and areas hosting festivals or concerts.
The approach has allowed Optimus Ride to become one of only a few self-driving-vehicle companies currently generating revenue. Those rides it provides in South Weymouth? A real estate developer pays the startup to offer them as an amenity to residents of Union Point, a smart-city housing development at the 1,500-acre site of a former naval air station. Chin says he’s negotiating similar arrangements with more than a dozen other customers, including some in Asia and the Middle East. If all goes as planned, the startup could bring self-driving vehicles to a mass audience around the globe within the next two years—and perhaps even turn a profit.
Optimus Ride cofounders Albert Huang, PhD ’10; Sertac Karaman, SM ’09, PhD ’12; Ramiro Almeida; Ryan Chin, SM ’00, SM ’04, PhD ’12; and Jenny Larios Berlin, SM ’15, MBA ’15, on the test track at the company’s headquarters.
MIT roots
The road to launching a self-driving startup began at MIT. All five of Optimus Ride’s cofounders studied or worked at the Institute before establishing the company in 2015. At the time, Chin was the managing director of the City Science Initiative at the Media Lab. Ramiro Almeida, who is now Optimus Ride’s chief strategy officer, was a visiting scholar in the same project. Sertac Karaman, SM ’09, PhD ’12, was an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics; today he’s an associate professor in addition to serving as Optimus Ride’s president and chief scientist. Chief marketing and operating officer Jenny Larios Berlin, SM ’15, MBA ’15, had just earned a master’s in city planning and an MBA from Sloan. And Albert Huang, PhD ’10, now Optimus Ride’s chief technology officer, was working for Google’s research and development organization after earning a doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science.
All five had experience either designing autonomous vehicles or deploying transportation systems, so they were aware of advances being made in self-driving technology. Karaman and Huang had helped build the driverless car that MIT entered in the 2007 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge, the first serious contest involving autonomous vehicles in an urban environment. (Their team was one of just six to finish the race.) Chin had designed a shared-use electric vehicle with robotic features as part of the Media Lab’s CityCar project. Larios Berlin worked at the car-sharing company Zipcar, where she introduced the service to several university campuses. Almeida had helped lead the development of the first subway line in Quito, Ecuador, as an advisor to the city.
Almeida, who had also founded the Spanish version of Wired and several startups, helped bring everyone together. “The technology was mature enough and the market was just getting started,” he says. “I thought there was a very important opportunity for us to actually create a company.” It didn’t take them long to come up with a name—an homage to the character Optimus Prime from the Transformers franchise. “We were thinking about sentient technologies, and that evolved into talking about Transformers, because that was the first story created around sentient technologies that became a global success,” says Almeida. Chin says the group’s “general fascination with heroic robots” also played a part.
Raising funding was more challenging. Instead of aiming for full automation, or what the automotive industry calls “level 5” autonomy—which would allow a driverless car to operate wherever a human driver could—the cofounders wanted to create level 4 cars, which can drive only in areas “geofenced” by GPS. They thought that approach would let them develop and deploy autonomous technology more safely, quickly, and cost-effectively than competitors because the driving would be less complicated.
Venture capitalists didn’t always agree. “When we started, other companies were talking about developing [self-driving] technology that had no restrictions, that would be capable of doing anything people asked them to do,” says Almeida. “A lot of investors looked at us and said, ‘Guys, you’re not going to make it.’”
The cofounders persevered and have so far raised $23.25 million in two rounds of financing. Its current investors view the company’s narrow focus as a strength. “Private campuses have less traffic, pedestrians, and obstacles,” says Sanjay Aggarwal ’95, MBA ’03, a partner at the venture capital firm F-Prime, which invested in Optimus Ride in 2017. “It’s inherently easier to deploy this type of technology there.”
Chin says the MIT Center for Real Estate also helped with funding by introducing him to developers who turned into clients. Optimus Ride now employs nearly 100 people—roughly a third of them have PhDs, and almost half are MIT alumni—and aims to hire at least 100 more engineers in 2019. “We already know how to drive autonomously on our sites,” says Chin. “Now we’re learning how to scale, to get from a few sites to a few hundred, and to tens of thousands of vehicles.”
Optimus Ride outfits its vehicles with laser and camera sensors (shown here) as well as accelerometers, gyroscopes, odometers, and GPS devices.
Sensor fusion
Before Optimus Ride puts a vehicle on the road, it retrofits it with sensors and loads it with software. The startup develops all of the software the vehicle needs, but virtually none of the hardware. It currently buys its vehicles, which are electric and seat either four or six people at a time, from a company called Polaris Industries. (Known as neighborhood electric vehicles, in Massachusetts they’re officially classified as low-speed vehicles and can only go up to 25 miles per hour.) At Optimus Ride’s headquarters—a converted warehouse space on Boston’s industrial waterfront—technicians fit the cars out with computer-vision cameras, GPS devices, accelerometers, gyroscopes, lidars, and odometers that measure the rotation of the rear wheels. Data from those sensors flows to a GPU processor, which calculates what the car should do and sends instructions to a control board that handles steering, acceleration, and braking. (The company is also starting to work with another vehicle manufacturer to integrate this hardware directly into production lines.)
Machine learning analysis of the data the sensors, lasers and cameras collect produces a map of the car’s real-time progress—and any obstacles—along its route.
After software is installed, Optimus Ride tests the car on a course set up in a 10,000-square-foot driving area inside its facility. A person sitting in the passenger seat directs the vehicle via a laptop. To check that the various systems, such as the brakes, are working correctly, systems and testing engineers typically drive the vehicle within lines marked on the concrete floor with colored tape and stop at a traffic light—on loan from the City of Boston—and a pedestrian crossing installed on the course. Once the vehicle masters those maneuvers, it moves outside to the streets of the Seaport neighborhood so operators can see how it reacts in more complex situations.
When Optimus Ride first deploys vehicles at a particular site, engineers and test drivers drive a few of them around manually for several days to capture information about the surroundings. The resulting data is used to create maps that contain contextual information about lane markers, street signs, and landmarks.
Vehicles later deployed at that site can use that “base map” to navigate. They also help keep it current. “We’re always capturing data, so every vehicle that drives on that same road gives us more information we can use to improve the master map,” says Chin.
Focusing on small, geofenced areas also enables Optimus Ride to learn what Karaman, the chief scientist, calls the “culture” of driving in a specific place. To operate at the South Weymouth station, the startup had to teach its software and systems how to navigate crowds of commuters jostling to get home. In Union Point, it had to train them to recognize and then ignore tall, thin rods that the developer stuck on the sides of the road to guide snowplows. In the Seaport, the vehicles must navigate wide roads that aren’t well marked, maneuvering around the T’s Silver Line buses, dense traffic around the Design Center, commercial trucks, and seagulls. And while drivers at Union Point tend to be well behaved, “the Seaport is a great testing place because it’s just insane,” says John Sgueglia, SM ’15, who oversees vehicle systems and testing for Optimus Ride.
Going on an Optimus ride
When Optimus Ride tests its vehicles on public roads, it never wants to cause an accident or be at fault for anything. So it programs the cars to be extra cautious.
That cautiousness permeated most of the ride I took in one of the startup’s vehicles in Boston’s Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park. The industrial site is full of pedestrians, city buses, commercial trucks, and the occasional rabbit or seagull, so most of the time I appreciated the risk-averse behavior. But when we stopped at an intersection far longer than a human driver would have waited, I got a bit restless.
The issue: the oncoming traffic had the right of way and the vehicle knew it, because Optimus Ride encodes rules of the road into its software. So we waited until the road was clear before moving—even though we were driving straight ahead and the other cars would almost certainly have let us go, impatient though they might have been to turn in front of us.
Soon after we made it through the intersection, we encountered a car that was stopped with its blinkers on. Optimus Ride programs its vehicles not to cross a double yellow line, ever, so we had to wait until the car moved to the side of the road before we could proceed.
At one point I thought the vehicle should have exercised more restraint, though. Back at the intersection, a man walked in front of us just as we were finally about to move forward. The vehicle advanced about a foot and then stopped itself. The pedestrian still had plenty of room, but he gave us a dirty look.
Overall, however, the vehicle drove the way you’d want it to: keeping a safe distance from other cars, stopping at stop signs, and decelerating automatically when it crossed railroad tracks or descended a ramp. “Humans take way more risk driving than we think we do,” says system engineer and test driver John Sgueglia, SM ’15. “We could encode that way of thinking into our vehicles, but would you, as a passenger, really want us to?”
“‘Culture’ refers to the way people drive, but also the way the environment is set up,” says Karaman. “Understanding how people actually behave in these environments is critical to being able to drive fully autonomously 100% of the time someday.”
Optimus Ride uses machine learning to combine and analyze data from different types of sensors, an approach known as sensor fusion. That ability to quickly and effectively integrate data from multiple sensors is critical: the data is fed into Optimus Ride’s software, which produces a map that shows both the car’s real-time progress along its planned route and any obstacles along that path. Other vehicles show up in green, and pedestrians show up in orange, but Optimus Ride doesn’t give more weight to any particular type of obstacle; the goal, after all, is to avoid hitting any of them.
Equitable mobility
Some researchers think autonomous vehicles will exacerbate urban congestion by making driving so easy and convenient that people will favor cars over public transit. Chin says he doesn’t think Optimus Ride will do that, because it operates shared electric vehicles and is designed to transport people from home or work to the nearest bus, subway, and train stops. “We want to complement mass transit,” he says. “If we feed into those systems appropriately, that will increase ridership, which will allow them to invest in better signaling, more trains, larger stations, and so forth.”
Chin says MIT’s “general ethos” of regarding technology as a force for good helped shape these goals. “There’s this idea that if we develop really great self-driving technology, it will benefit people who don’t have good access to transportation, whether that’s because they’re economically challenged, discriminated against, or blind or deaf,” he says. “We’ve taken the stance that it’s important to do those things.”
To ensure that people with disabilities can use its vehicles, Optimus Ride conducted user research at the Perkins School for the Blind and made its user interface easily customizable. The startup also plans to widen access to more people soon. Its shuttles in South Weymouth transport only residents of the Union Point development, who book rides using a special mobile app. But other planned communities plan to provide the ride service to visitors—such as prospective tenants—for free. “You would just come to a community and vehicles would be lined up,” says Chin. “You’d open the door and get in, and it would tell you a bunch of places you could go.” Customers also expect to use the vehicles for other services, such as food and package delivery and trash pickup.
This vision of affordable, equitable, intelligent vehicles on demand might seem fanciful, but not to Kris Carter, who helps lead the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics in Boston. His agency oversees the city’s testing of autonomous vehicles and began working with Optimus Ride in 2017. “We think driverless cars could make our streets safer and give residents who don’t have great transit access some better options,” he says. “We’re excited about the technology they’re developing.”
What gives Carter confidence in Optimus Ride? Its MIT roots, in part. “They have a really nice blend of people who understand urban environments, as well as technology and how to run a business,” he says. “They can speak the same language as cities.”
TaggedSelf-driving cars, Smart cities, Machine learning, IoT
Elizabeth Woyke
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Thursday 18 July 2019 | UK News feed
Philip, the one constant through her life
By Caroline Davies
12:01AM BST 20 Apr 2006
When a young Prince Philip of Greece sought the hand of Britain's Princess Elizabeth, many obstacles lay between the young couple and Westminster Abbey, and as many challenges lay beyond.
That they celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary next year is proof that the Queen, with much of her public life dictated by duty and destiny, chose wisely in making this most crucial of personal decisions.
Prime ministers and private secretaries have come and gone. Each passing year steals further friends and confidantes. Her mother and sister are dead, and her children, though close, are forging their own lives.
The one constant throughout is the Duke of Edinburgh, still loyally, and lovingly, at her side.
It has been an outstanding working partnership, and, judging from the Queen's touching tribute to her husband in her 1997 golden wedding speech at London's Guildhall, a personal triumph too.
"He is someone who doesn't take easily to compliments," she said, giving a rare insight into their relationship, "but he has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years, and I, and his whole family, and this and many other countries, owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim or we shall ever know."
Princess Elizabeth first really noticed her future husband at the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth where 18-year-old Philip of Greece was studying. She was 13, and visiting with Princess Margaret.
But as the royal yacht sailed into the Dart estuary, news was received aboard that several of the naval cadets had succumbed to chickenpox.
To prevent the risk of contagion, plans for the young princesses to attend morning chapel were shelved and they remained, instead, at the house of the Captain of the College.
Prince Philip, a third cousin and who had previously met the princesses on a couple of formal family occasions, was sent to entertain them, no doubt hauled out of church and dispatched by his fiercely ambitious "uncle Dickie", later Lord Mountbatten, who was desperate for a love match.
Princess Elizabeth obligingly played her part, finding herself deeply impressed with Philip's handsome features, friendly demeanour and the way he vaulted over the tennis nets.
He has stressed several times that thoughts of marriage did not occur until 1946.
George VI and Queen Elizabeth were initially reluctant. They feared their daughter "too young" and were dismayed she wanted to marry the first man she had met. Politicians were anxious how a union with a man, dismissed as "a German" by the people and dubbed "the Hun" by Queen Elizabeth, would go down in Britain, or in republican Greece, where it could be seen as support for royalists at a politically fragile time. He had no money and no nationality. But the Princess persisted. And uncle Dickie's spin-doctoring skills ensured favourable media coverage and smoothed the way to his nephew's naturalisation. He even donated his name to the young suitor, who arrived at the altar as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten.
Giving up his successful naval career and deprived of any chance of utilising his sharp brain in commercial venture, the early years following his wife's Coronation were hard on Prince Philip.
The Queen was seen as passive, cautious and conventional, while the Duke was certainly more adventurous, tempestuous and active. Their partnership was a traditional one - the Queen grew up in a world where it was the man who was in charge behind closed doors.
But from being master in his own home in their early years at Clarence House, the move to Buckingham Palace somewhat initially emasculated him. Opinionated, proactive, ebullient, sometimes irascible and always questioning, he often found himself at odds with courtiers.
He was furious too that an earlier declaration forced on the Queen meant he could not even pass his own name - albeit an adopted name - on to his children.
The Queen did her best to include him, beginning so many speeches "My husband and I" that it became a national joke.
In 1960, with the birth of Prince Andrew imminent and aware of his frustration, she took the major step of declaring she was changing the rules and that her descendants - other than her children, those entitled to use HRH and descendants of females who marry - would bear the surname Mountbatten-Windsor.
Whatever their early difficulties, they appear to have come to an excellent accommodation.
In matters of the family, the Queen defers to him, such as in the choice of schooling for their children. On matters of state, he plays no part. On public duty he is either at her side or one step behind her, whichever protocol dictates.
In their early years, observers noted some timidity towards him on her part. Lord Mountbatten used fondly to recount how one day, while Prince Philip was driving the Queen and him to Cowdray Park, her husband's excessive speed caused the Queen to tense herself and draw in breath at critical moments. Eventually, Prince Philip exploded: "If you do that once more, I shall put you out of the car." She stopped.
"But you were right - why didn't you protest?" Mountbatten later asked her. "But you heard what he said," she replied, puzzled.
She does, however, take him on, unembarrassed by the presence of staff. "I am not going to come out of my cabin until he's in a better temper," one former aide recalls her saying aboard HMY Britannia during an official visit. The late Lord Charteris, the Queen's private secretary until 1977, once told royal biographer Gyles Brandreth: "Prince Philip is the only man in the world who treats the Queen simply as another human being. I think she values that.
"And, of course, it is not unknown for the Queen to tell the Duke to shut up."
The Duke's naturally flirtatious manner has led to gossip of affairs, but there has never been anything resembling proof. There must have been huge amounts of give and take, given their exceptional circumstances.
As Prince Philip himself admitted in his golden wedding tribute to his wife: "I think the main lesson we have learned is that tolerance is the one essential ingredient of any happy marriage. You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance."
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SEATTLE CITY OF LITERATURE MAP
Internal two page illustrated spread pin pointing of all the literary places and references made in Seattle City of Literature, edited by Ryan Boudinot and published by Sasquatch Books, 2015.
"This bookish history of Seattle includes essays, history and personal stories from such literary luminaries as Frances McCue, Tom Robbins, Garth Stein, Rebecca Brown, Jonathan Evison, Tree Swenson, Jim Lynch, and Sonora Jha among many others. Timed with Seattle’s bid to become the second US city to receive the UNESCO designation as a City of Literature, this deeply textured anthology pays homage to the literary riches of Seattle. Strongly grounded in place, funny, moving, and illuminating, it lends itself both to a close reading and to casual browsing, as it tells the story of books, reading, writing, and publishing in one of the nation's most literary cities." -Sasquatch Books
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Don’t just go to shows, be a part of things
Lafayette is overflowing with music and visual arts but sometimes it can be difficult to really feel connected to that community when you are always the observer.
Don’t just go to shows, be a part of things Lafayette is overflowing with music and visual arts but sometimes it can be difficult to really feel connected to that community when you are always the observer. Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/entertainment/2018/09/19/dont-just-go-shows-part-things/1304577002/
April Courville, Local Scene Published 10:38 a.m. CT Sept. 19, 2018
The Plural Noun presents: A Night of Multiple Things! will feature live music by the Kevin Sekhani Trio Thursday at the Omni Center.(Photo: Daily Advertiser)Buy Photo
This town has a great artistic scene. Lafayette is overflowing with music and visual arts but sometimes it can be difficult to really feel connected to that community when you are always the observer. If you search enough, you can find ways to participate in these creative endeavors, whether it’s going to a theater fundraiser, participating in an improv show, or meeting up with other people to live paint a scene. These events are a few ways you can explore your creative side and connect with other people in the art community.
The Plural Noun presents: A Night of Multiple Things!
7:30 p.m. at The Omni Center
The latest improve group is The Plural Noun and they are making a splash in the theater scene. Made up by a group of people who cut their teeth with Silverbacks Improv, The Plural Noun is hosting a series of multi-genre entertainment called A Night of Multiple Things. While I wouldn’t hire them to come up with catchy names, they are rumored to put on a good show.
This month’s show will include something for everyone (hence the name); music by The Kevin Sekhani Trio, a bit of stand-up comedy by Shelby Shone and improv performance by the group.
Casino Night Fundraiser for Cité des Arts
6 p.m. at Cité des Arts
Do you enjoy theater? Do you like the feeling of supporting local performing arts spaces? Cité des Arts is having a fundraiser on September 22. Casino Night is a Vegas themed night complete with dinner and playing chips. Available games include roulette, blackjack, craps, let it ride, three-card poker and Texas Hold'em.
The space at Cite is cozy, so tickets are only limited to about 120 people.They’ll be serving up cocktails during the event and all proceeds go to support the theater and programming. Remember, what happens at Cité, stays at Cité!
Tickets are $50. To purchase please call 337-291-1122, or citedesarts.org.
Les Vues Film Series: "A Root of Love"
6:30 p.m. at Vermilionville
The free cultural film series, Les Vues, is held the last Monday of the month at Vermilionville. Curated by various enthusiasts from around the state, the films range from features, documentaries, student film, shorts, and animation that particularly celebrate culture.
This Monday features the film "A Root of Love." This is a documentary about the history of the Canary Islands and the immigrants who made it to Louisiana in 1777 in support of the Spanish colony. After the film viewing, you can chat with Stephen Estopinal, the film’s curator and professional expert on all things Canarian.
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Plein Air Painting by The Makers Society of Lafayette
6 p.m. at The Wurst Biergarten
The Maker’s Society of Lafayette is an inclusive group for artists of any skill level focused on learning a new style or technique each month. They host casual meet-ups for creatives to get together to make something and each meetup is centered around a certain theme.
This month’s meeting is focused on drawing or painting live scenes from the Wurst Biergarten. If you’ve wanted to spread your creative wings or practice your acrylic skills, this would be a no pressure environment to do so. These events are free to attend but you must bring your own supplies.
The next week offers something for everyone: painting, gaming, film, and comedy. Dive in to one for checkout all four.
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Here are the 2019 Best of Acadiana winners
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What's going on at the Rose Theatre
01:00 Tue 23rd Oct 2001 | People & Places
A.� Archaeologists at the Rose Theatre, London, say it's in better condition than they thought - so a campaign is being stepped up for full excavation.< xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Q.� And how important is the Rose
A.� Amazingly important. The theatre, near Southwark Bridge, is where Shakespeare learned his craft. It is also the only Elizabethan theatre left in the world of which there are substantial remains.
Q.� When were they discovered
A.� In 1989. More than half of the Rose's remains were found during the redevelopment of an office block and a campaign stopped the site from being destroyed. Since then it has been preserved under layers of concrete, sand and water. Some of the site is waterlogged from the Thames - but that is helping to keep the remains in good condition.
Q.� Now what
A.� English Heritage has paid �17,500 for a preliminary excavation. Chief scientist Mike Corfield said: 'It would be magnificent to see the site properly explored and put on show to the public. There have been many discussions about the way the remains could be conserved and presented. We now think that a viable solution is being developed by the Rose Theatre Trust and look forward to seeing their detailed proposals.'
A Heritage Lottery Fund bid is now being prepared by the Rose Theatre Trust to develop the site for Shakespeare fans.
Q.� When was the theatre built
A.� The Rose, built by Philip Henslowe, opened in 1587 and shut in 1605 after staging plays by Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd. Shakespeare acted at the Rose and many of his early plays were performed there. It was London's fifth theatre but went out of fashion when the bigger Swan and Globe theatres opened nearby.
Q.� What about the other theatres
A. �Dr Clare Graham, of the Rose Theatre Trust, said: 'The 11 open-air theatres built in London between 1567 and 1614 are highly important cultural relics. But only 60 per cent of The Rose, and very small areas of the Globe and the Hope have been uncovered. Our best hope of gaining a better understanding of these unique buildings lies in a full-scale excavation of The Rose.
'A full-scale excavation and permanent presentation of the site would benefit not just archaeologists and scholars but students of all ages. It would also attract millions of people all over the world who venerate the work of Shakespeare.'
Q.� Any performance plans
A.� The Rose has held a highly acclaimed series of readings from Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus - the first public performances at The Rose since it shut in 1605. The trust plans to use the site for more theatrical and special events while the campaign for full-scale excavation is under way.
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An Interview with All That Remains: Order Has Been Restored
Alison Graves
I have said time and time again that metal is a genre that deserves some serious appraisal, because it’s essentially music in its purest form—no Auto-Tune or crafty computerized notes necessary. Being one of the most up front and down-to-earth modern metal bands around, All That Remains is also the most transformative, stylistically and physically, due to the release of their new album and a surprise band lineup change. For me, their music always elicits a newfound fascination with modern metal and genuine artistry. Although they’ve pretty much maintained their individuality as dedicated metal musicians, there is no doubt that they have also re-established many fans’ appreciation for the genre itself, especially when you take a listen to their album that came out this past year, The Order Of Things.
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with vocalist Phil Labonte a few weeks before the tour, when he revealed a bit about being on the road, the album’s production and reviews, and the recent lineup change. Check out more of what he had to say below!
You guys are preparing for your tour right now. Since the last time you guys were out, how are you feeling as the dates creep a little closer?
Good! We’ve spent a lot of time home this summer. Usually we don’t take summers off, but this year we didn’t see anything, you know, really attracting once the tour started to come together. We just basically relaxed and took the time off, so it was cool. We’re definitely excited to get back on the road. We haven’t been on a bus in about three or four months, so it’s about time for us to get back out there and start promoting more and getting in front of people.
From what I can tell on social media, there seems to be a bit of a debate about categorizing All That Remains’ genre, but you have referred to it as modern metal. Do you still feel that way, or do you think that the new album has sort of changed that a bit?
I think we’re still a metal band. The tones that we go after when we’re recording, like the kick drums, the guitar tones, you know, the lead tones, those things are a big part of what makes things inherently metal. A lot of people get wrapped up in whether the singer is screaming or not, and you know, if there are certain types of breakdowns.
As to whether it’s metal or core; I don’t think those are the actual things that make modern metal. It’s always been about hard-driven music, with a sort of scooped out sound on the guitars, the drums being really punchy and stuff, so I think that whether something is metal or not is really dictated by the tones together, the sonic sound of the music, regardless of whether or not your riffs have enough notes or the right kind of mesh together.
All That Remains originally started out as a side project for you, since you were also a vocalist in Shadows Fall. At what point did you decide to focus solely on All That Remains?
Well…they kicked me out (laughs).
(Laughs)
I had started writing, basically just because I wanted to play guitar again, you know, I played guitar in a band before Shadows Fall, and the whole point behind starting All That Remains was just for me to play guitar in a band again. I probably had about three or four songs written when they asked me to leave, and it was pretty much a no-brainer, it’s like, “Well, I’ve got these songs written, I’ve already started working on them, so might as well just take them and run with it.”
But you wanted to be a drummer at some point, is that right?
When I was a kid, yeah, which was a terrible idea.
When you’re a kid, you do dumb things (laughs). My parents told me no, I could not have a drum kit, because they wanted to remain sane. My godparents got me a guitar, so that worked out.
It’s been several years since you guys toured in the HardDrive Live: Fallout Tour. With a different lineup, and a new album in tow, what are you looking forward to the most in performing in it this year?
We’re very excited. We just went through a member change—our bass player quit, so we had to replace her.
Woah! What?
Yeah, this just, just happened. She got engaged last year, and she just wanted to focus for a while on her relationship and stuff.
Yeah, with the timing, that’s pretty understandable.
Yeah. It’s amicable to me, from our perspective, we understand, so we have a new guy. I wasn’t sure if you’d heard about this…
No, I had no idea.
We haven’t had a member change since 2006, and we haven’t really talked about it. But, to answer your question, we are very excited to perform. We have a new member, we’re pumped, and I mean, Jeanne [Sagan] was always an energetic person on stage, and Aaron [Patrick] is extremely energetic, so I think he’s going to fit the role absolutely fine.
Yeah, that was an unexpected surprise on my end (laughs).
Switching gears a bit here, you’ve explained the reasoning behind your album, The Order Of Things, being that it’s about accepting a lack of control over the events that happen in life, which in turn, creates inner peace. May I ask where this sort of revelation came from through your perspective?
…Getting old…(laughs).
I just turned 40 this year, and a lot of things that used to bother me just don’t bother me anymore. I’m just like, whatever. You know, there are things that happen that is worth getting upset over, but you really can’t do anything about it, so you getting worked up or letting it really ruin your day. At that point, you have to think is it the something’s fault, or is it your fault? Something you didn’t do that you have no control over destroys how you feel and ruins your day, your week, your month, maybe even your year (laughs), you have to try not to let that happen.
And those are the kinds of things—family members die, and sicknesses, and probably losing a job, those are real things to be concerned with. There are too many things that are important that makes you not want to sweat the small stuff. And that’s kind of the whole thing, just don’t sweat the small stuff.
That’s a great message. Some press outlets have referred to your album basically as a strike against those who want to dictate how the band should sound. Do you ever pay attention to those kinds of remarks, or do you usually just brush them off?
For the most part, I brush them off. Our Twitter accounts, our Facebook pages, where the people you think you’re conversing with or people that you’re talking to, those bands that are in the media, in entertainment, they never respond a lot of times. But when you’re dealing with me, it’s not that, you’re getting me. Comments and stuff don’t go through a committee, they don’t go through anywhere, it’s just my say. So, with that being said, I spend a lot of time reading stuff that people say.
There are definitely the kind of people out there that say things just to get a rise out of someone, and to be honest, I’ve made friends with a lot of dudes who were like that. The reason I even met them was because they were trashing All That Remains on the Internet. We got into a lot of back and forth stuff, and it’s kind of funny looking at it. There are just…(laughs), just so many people, I mean, everyone has access to the Internet! The Internet has given everybody a voice, and they get to decide what they’re going to go ahead complain about, because everyone goes on there and complains about every different thing. I mean, for example, you can go to an outdoorsman website and find fishermen who will find and call each other’s mother’s names (laughs).
(Laughs) That’s so true, though! No one is safe.
Exactly! It doesn’t matter what it is. I’m sure there are brilliant and talented scientists who also talk smack about each other on science websites or other message boards, you know?
Oh, most definitely. To make matters worse, I recently saw on Facebook that they’re coming out with a dislike button, so I’m sure that’ll go over very nicely (laughs).
Oh, that’ll be… (laughs). Well, that’s going to be great. I’m sure everything on the Internet will have more dislikes than real likes (laughs).
Probably (laughs). So, what have your fans’ responses been like since The Order Of Things was released back in February?
Well, it did come out a little while ago. Since I did have a little time off during the summer, I haven’t had a lot of interactions with fans, meet and greets, or really any time to talk with them about it. But you know, the responses that I’ve gotten is really thoughtful. It’s not just, “Oh, this is badass,” it really kind of seems to resonate, and that’s just a really big compliment.
Absolutely. I took a listen myself and thought it was fantastic, as well.
This album also took a new turn in a productive sense, with you making the decision to work with Josh Wilbur of Lamb Of God and Gojira. Were you concerned with taking on something that kind of strayed away from the norm for you, or was this something you were looking forward to from the beginning.
Well, we’re kind of into the habit, and so we usually had to been trying to work with Adam [Dutkiewicz] as much as we could because he’s done so much of our stuff and he’s a close friend, and he has worked on a bunch of our records and stuff. When it became apparent that he just wasn’t going to be available because of other commitments that he had like touring, we realized that we kind of don’t have anyone else in mind.
But once we started doing pre-production with Josh, I was sold. I was like “Alright, this guy’s awesome.” We’ve already talked to him about doing our next record, so that’s what our plan is next year or maybe a little earlier in the fall, maybe. But you know, we liked working with him a lot, he’s got great ideas, we feel that we’re really just on the same page, and overall it’s a lot of fun.
Many modern metal bands probably won’t admit to this, but you guys are pretty open about enjoying a bit of mainstream pop music. So, I think many fans are curious, what are the current pop tunes you’re all into at the moment?
I like the new Taylor Swift record, 1989, and to be honest with you, Bring Me The Horizon, which is a fairly heavy band has put out a record that’s really poppy that’s number two on Billboard, and it’s an awesome record, so I’ve been listening to that a lot. Their older stuff is really heavy—in the new record it kind of sounds a little like Linkin Park. I hear they’re getting a lot of crap for that. But I think they’ve written an absolutely amazing record.
Since we’re going down that road, there are a couple of Lady Gaga and All That Remains mashups on YouTube, so I’d really like to know, have you seen those yet?
Wow! (Laughs) That’s really funny, seriously.
They’re not bad—I highly recommend you check those out sometime. Maybe you and Lady Gaga can collaborate on the next record or something.
(Laughs) Yeah, I doubt it, but that’s cool.
All That Remains will be performing alongside We Came As Romans and Emmure on Nov. 4 at the Theater Of The Living Arts in Philadelphia, PA. They will also be playing Nov. 6 with We Came As Romans and Devour The Day at Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ. Then on Dec. 14, they play with Sons Of Texas at the Gramercy Theatre in NYC. The Order Of Things is available now. For more information, go to allthatreaminsonline.com.
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When I Worked For $1 An Hour
By The Billfold May 20, 2015
by Julie Morse
My first night as a bartender at Friends, a bar named after the TV show in Baños, Ecuador, was the closest thing to being a backpacker version of the movie Cocktail. That night the place was packed with locals and tourists alike. People were playing pool and dancing on stools to the Bob Marley remixes that were on an endless loop. Conversations in broken Spanish and English swirled through the billowing clouds of cigarette smoke. I was in the thick of it, pouring weak caipirinhas (Friends’ only cocktail), and regaling everyone with my story of how I got to be working at Friends in the first place.
I had only arrived to Baños a week before I started at the bar. Baños is a tourist town in the middle of the mountains, made up of several cobblestone streets, a hostel or hotel on every corner, and a line of Amazonian mist hovering far off in the horizon. I was 23 and had just graduated college; I came to Baños to study Spanish at one of its handful of Spanish schools. I had already been traveling for a couple months, mostly in Argentina, where I failed to tough it out WOOFing at a farm in the Patagonia. I learned quickly I wasn’t good at traveling, but I persisted, because I wanted to get good at it.
I couldn’t bring myself to do the organized hikes, the off-roading, the eco-tours — mainly because of money, but also because I was seeking a more “native” experience, except I didn’t know how to go about that either. The essential purpose of my journey was to get better at Spanish. Then, after about a month and a half, I found myself in Ecuador, spending more money than I had anticipated and looking for something to occupy my time and to keep me from going broke.
Baños is home to a creepy-old-man expat community, similar to the ones found in many beach towns in Thailand. Apart from sticking out because they’re white, these men are easily spotted because they’re usually accompanied by extremely young Ecuadorian males and females. It was one such an elderly ex-US military officer who gifted the bar to Roberto, a guy in his late 20s who lived in my hostel.
A tiny man — no taller than 4’8” — and with a massive mop of curly, long hair, Roberto was a Baños personality. Teachers at my Spanish school joked he was a “gringa magician” who was always dating some female backpacker. He was as charming as he was arrogant, and I got quickly bored of his stories about seducing hostel guests. Roberto came from a big family that lived near the jungle, and he was engaged to a British woman who came to visit him every four months. He started off nearly every night at the bar with a shot of caldo de gallina, Baños’s traditional drink: a mix of aguardiente, chicken broth, and sugar. Then he put on “Shot In The Night” by Saphir, a synth-y 80s hit, hop on the bar, and started dancing like Magic Mike.
When Roberto heard I was looking for work, he asked me if I would like to be his bartender. “I can pay you a dollar an hour,” he said, and I said sure. At that point I didn’t know — and didn’t really care to know — that I was being paid approximately a whole dollar less than Ecuador’s hourly minimum wage. It was something to do.
Who knows why my first night at Friends was so successful in comparison to every night that followed. On a good night at Friends we had maybe a total of 12 customers and on a bad night, three. Most of the people who came in were teenagers who wanted to use the pool table or bored students from the Spanish schools. The most regular customer was an older Polish man who was frequently came by with teenage girls and never had to pay because he was Roberto’s best friend. The military officer usually stopped by earlier in the evening with the same quiet teenage boy in tow. Roberto poured the officer a drink, and the two engaged in awkward small talk while I did my best to translate.
In backpacker territories, it’s assumed the early 20s-something-year-old, female, single traveler is honing a collection of exotic flings and one-night-stands. At Friends, I wore the same pair of slightly baggy jeans, a series of loose-fitting v-neck shirts, and a sloppy ponytail in hopes that my nonchalant look would repel this notion. Sometimes it did, but a lot of the time I averted my eyes to avoid flirty stares. During my travels, I tried to fight the misconception that I, like fellow travelers, was on a hook-up spree. It’s not that romances didn’t happen, but the burner from Hawaii who gave me a shell and told me it would guide me to Kauai, and the architecture student in Mendoza who was obsessed with Black Sabbath and with whom I stayed for two weeks are the only two on my rap sheet.
My shifts were from 7:00 p.m. to midnight. I worked every night except Sunday, making $30 a week. People pretty much only ever bought beers, which were 75 cents. Once in a while people tipped 10 or maybe 20 cents.
On my seventh night there, I was alone and bored. 10:00 p.m. rolled around and the place was dead. Roberto had left the bar a couple hours ago to go hang out at another bar. I locked up and went to find him. I found him down the street at a far livelier spot.
“Roberto, there’s been no customers for hours! Can I go home?”
Never had I seen him so annoyed. “No, I swear, more people will come. Just go back. It’s your job!”
For the next five nights, that was our routine. A few customers came, had a drink, then left, and then Roberto left, and I was alone at the bar. Hours passed, and then I locked up to go find him. He told me to go back and I did.
I was in a country to which I had no emotional or social connection — and I was attempting in any way possible to forge one. That’s the only way I could justify my decision to work as a bartender for a dollar an hour. Once I graduated college, I thought I could try to figure out a way to grow up through traveling. Yet, it took me a good two weeks to realize that working at a lonely bar and making next-to-nothing wasn’t really helping me learn about myself.
Roberto wasn’t surprised when I told him I was leaving. Despite our constant back-and-forth argument about when to close up, I think both of us felt the tiniest bit sad when my stay was over. After all, I was his first employee, and he was my first boss in a different country. I headed off to a beach town called Montañita, a massively popular tourist destination. There I got head-to-toe bed bugs and nearly drowned at a surfing lesson. Afterwards, I continued to drift through South America for another month. My last stop was Bogotá, where I spent most of my time reading at a Juan Valdez café.
In the end, my stint at Friends was really the only story I had to tell. The farm, the buses, Spanish classes, and encounters all paled in comparison. It was the one instance where I felt extracted from the aimless nature of the backpacking world. The one part of my trip that made it unique, and not just another hunt for passport stamps — which is what traveling sometimes feels like when you don’t know what you’re doing.
Julie Morse is a writer and translator living in Mexico City.
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Tim Hortons will include congee, matcha on its Chinese menu
Tara Deschamps
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Tim Hortons president Alex Macedo poses for a photograph at the restaurant chain's Hockey Hall of Fame location in Toronto on Aug. 16, 2018.
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The president of Tim Hortons says a plan to conquer a crowded Chinese coffee market hinges on tailoring its menu to local habits and tastes – including offering congee and matcha alongside signature items like double doubles.
President Alex Macedo believes the coffee chain’s plan to open 1,500 stores in Asia over the next decade will face lofty competition from a slew of companies that have dominated the market as the continent warms to drinking coffee.
“We are late to the game for sure,” Mr. Macedo said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
He’s made regular trips to Asia to observe the operations of rival coffee purveyors, including U.S. heavyweights Starbucks, McDonald’s, and Dunkin’ Donuts; Beijing-based start-up Luckin Coffee; and British chain Costa Coffee.
“They created an atmosphere that is almost get in and get out, and it is very fast paced,” he said, noting the tables and ambience differ from that in Canadian and U.S. cafes, where patrons tend to sit and linger with their cups of java.
China’s coffeehouse atmosphere contrasts against the “home-y” feeling that Mr. Macedo wants to build to encourage customers to spend as much time as they’d like at Tim Hortons Asian locations, a custom popular with many Canadian Tims regulars.
“We want our team members to be the most welcoming staff in China,” Mr. Macedo said. “We want people to be able to sit in our restaurants for 10 hours if they want to with only one cup of coffee if they want to or not ordering a cup of coffee at all.”
Tims’ coffee has already proven popular in early overseas testing, he said, as have the brand’s iced cappuccino drinks.
They will be featured on the menu alongside products featuring matcha – a tea-based powder that comes in a bright green hue and is a perennial favourite in Asia.
The food selection will reflect local taste preferences, he said, adding the company has noticed Chinese consumers don’t eat baked goods or doughnuts as frequently as Canadians.
A completely local breakfast and lunch menu will feature Asian-style rice porridge called congee.
“A lot of (Asian) coffee shops will sell a piece of cake or whatever, but they don’t have a kitchen like we do, so that is where we are spending most of our time, trying to figure out what to serve for breakfast and lunch,” he said.
Despite some of the adjustments the brand will have to make, food industry expert Robert Carter thinks the expansion makes sense because China’s growing middle class is willing to spend their increased wealth on eating out, and more people are starting to drink coffee over tea.
However, Mr. Carter believes Tim Hortons needs to find a balance between serving local cuisine and signature Tim Hortons treats in order to succeed in China.
He pointed to one menu item in particular: iced coffees.
Research, he said, indicates it is the fastest-growing area for coffee, particularly with younger consumers.
“They will try traditional brewed coffees, but it is really those coffee-based, sugary beverages that are driving them into coffee shops, not only in China, but in North America,” he said.
“I would expect Tims to have a pretty aggressive portfolio with those types of beverages.”
Tim Hortons announced an agreement last month with private equity firm Cartesian Capital to bring thousands of restaurants to China, with plans to open the first location in 2019.
Tim Hortons has previously announced plans to expand to Spain, Mexico, Great Britain and the Philippines.
Its U.S. expansion, however, appears to be faltering. Last month it closed four locations in Ohio, the latest in a string of closures south of the border in the past several years.
In June, after reports parent company Restaurant Brands International was scaling back on its U.S. expansion plans, Mr. Macedo said in a statement that the company has seen softer comparable sales growth in the U.S. in more recent quarters amid a very competitive environment.
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The Real Estate Market Foreign buyers flocking to Toronto’s downtown condo market
Foreign buyers flocking to Toronto’s downtown condo market
Toronto's skyline is seen from the waterfront near Ontario Place.
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Tamsin McMahon U.S. Correspondent
Published April 7, 2016 Updated May 16, 2018
The number of foreign investors in the Toronto region's condo market surged 50 per cent last year, with international buyers flocking to newly built units in the downtown core.
In a new assessment of foreign investor activity in the country's housing market, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said one out of every 10 condos built in downtown Toronto since 2010 is owned by someone living outside of Canada. That share is far higher than for condo units built in previous years. CMHC said foreign investors own 4.3 per cent of downtown Toronto condos built between 2000 and 2009, and 2.3 per cent of units built in the 1990s.
Those figures are consistent with developers' estimates that roughly 10 per cent of new condo sales in the city are to people outside of Canada and that international purchasers typically prefer to buy preconstruction condos through connections with local brokers. "This number seems to be more in line with what our subscribers and the industry is seeing on the ground," said Shaun Hildebrand, senior vice-president of condo research firm Urbanation.
But CMHC's figures also show a surge in both the number of new condos completed in 2015 and the share of those units bought by international investors.
The total number of new condos jumped 45 per cent last year in the Toronto census metropolitan area compared with 2014, while the number of foreign owners who bought condos that were built in the past five years jumped 95 per cent, from about 3,500 in 2014 to nearly 7,000 last year.
The shift was most dramatic in areas of the city outside of the core, where the number of new condos increased 47 per cent in 2015 compared with 2014, but the number of new units bought by people from outside of Canada more than tripled.
Mr. Hildebrand said the "massive jump" in foreign ownership last year likely reflected a surge in preconstruction condo sales in 2011, when many of the units built last year were first being offered in the presale market.
New condo sales hit a record that year, soaring 50 per cent above long-term averages, while prices also jumped 10 per cent. Both sales and price growth have since fallen back in line with long-term trends.
"There was clearly something at the time that was influencing the market," he said. "Now, with this information in hand, we can see that it was likely at least in some part driven up by an increase in foreign buying in the new condo market."
Despite the significant increase in foreign ownership, the overall number of international investors in the market remains small, representing 11,000 of the Toronto region's more than 338,000 condos and about 3,000 of the nearly 30,000 new condos completed last year.
The risk that international investors may suddenly decide to sell their units, flooding the resale condo market and driving down prices, is small, Mr. Hildebrand said.
"An extra 3,000 in a year isn't going to do much when demand is growing 15 per cent year over year and the market is pretty tight."
Outside of Toronto, CMHC's analysis shed little light on how much foreign demand is driving the condo market.
In Vancouver, where the housing agency had figures for only the overall census metropolitan area, 6.6 per cent of condos built since 2010 are owned by international investors, compared with 4.4 per cent of those built in the 1990s. CMHC did not break out numbers for the city of Vancouver or its core.
In Calgary, the highest share of foreign ownership – 1.6 per cent – was for condos built between 2000 and 2009, when the city was in the midst of an oil-fuelled building boom. International buyers owned just 0.2 per cent of the units built in the Calgary CMA since 2010.
Buyers outside of Canada had similar preferences for condos built in the early 2000s in the Montreal area, where they owned 1.6 per cent of units. Outside of the largest cities, the share of foreign investors in the condo market ranged from none in Regina, to 2.3 per cent of condos built since 2010 in Victoria.
CMHC based its figures on surveys of property managers in condominium buildings in September and October of last year. The federal agency considers anyone whose permanent residence is outside of Canada to be a foreign owner, including Canadian citizens who live outside the country but still own condos in Canada.
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Unpack the history of how institutions and procedures were set up to curb the powers of the executive branch.
Examine the legal advantages a U.S. president has that the average American citizen does not.
Discover the key roles that the media and the court of public opinion play in a presidential investigation.
Explore the possible limits to the president's ability to pardon specific individuals convicted of a crime.
Learn how investigative reports can help historians better understand presidential scandals of the past.
The president of the United States of America can shape not just a nation but the entire world. But what limits are there—if any—on presidential power? How do we keep such awesome authority in check? And who do we trust to shoulder this responsibility?
In the centuries since the founding of the republic, there have been notable challenges to presidential authority. Among these are investigations, designed to seek out and uproot abuses of executive power. They are built on a system of institutions, laws, and policies that govern how our nation protects itself from corruption and tyranny. Even today, we see this system at work in controversies and scandals that appear in the media almost daily.
The potential corruption of presidential power isn’t a new feature of American democracy—and it’s likely not going away anytime soon. How should citizens—not only of the U.S. but of the world—think about and understand investigations into such abuses?
According to law professor Paul Rosenzweig of The George Washington University School of Law, understanding investigations into presidential authority requires grasping the legal framework that surrounds what the president can and cannot do. By exploring how a presidency can be interrogated and challenged, you’ll better understand the effectiveness—and, in some cases, ineffectiveness—of such checks on executive power.
In the 12 eye-opening, timely lectures of Investigating American Presidents, Professor Rosenzweig guides you through the ins and outs of presidential investigations, using past events as a lens through which to make sense of current (and future) ones. You’ll witness the construction of the legal framework that informs how Congress and the courts handle charges of abuse of power. You’ll also dive into the investigations of presidents including Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton as a way to learn what powers exist to ensure that presidents adhere to the rule of law—and how they apply in our current political moment.
Ponder Great Legal and Political Questions
Democratic nations like the United States of America understand the need for executive effectiveness. But they also understand the importance of transparency and accountability.
Investigating American Presidents illuminates the importance of how the American government exercises that need for transparency. With his political and legal insights—based in part on his first-hand experience in the Whitewater investigation of the 1990s—Professor Rosenzweig guides you along the entire path of investigations into potential misuse of presidential power, from the establishment of legislative committees through the impeachment process.
Along the way, you’ll explore fascinating questions including:
How is it that a president has the power and authority to fire the person who is investigating him—and does the legality of that power matter?
Is it legal to indict a sitting president and, if so, what does that do to the management of the country or the rule of law?
What makes the court of public opinion such an invaluable way for a president to fight back against his or her investigators?
Which legal principles (such as those involving client confidentiality) apply to a president, and exactly how?
What would happen if, after receiving a grand jury subpoena and losing a case before the Supreme Court, a president were to simply refuse to testify?
What advantages does a president under investigation have that aren’t available to the average American—and what disadvantages, as well?
Designed to help you better understand the intricacies of everything from presidential pardons and independent counsels to obstruction of justice and the power of public opinion, Professor Rosenzweig’s lectures offer new ways to look at presidential investigations that go beyond the news analyses that you might have read or seen on television.
Examine Famous Presidential Scandals
Investigating American Presidents guides you through some of the most powerful and potent examples of how presidents have tried to misuse their power—and how the government and the public have responded.
The Whiskey Ring crisis that reached its climax during President Ulysses S. Grant’s second term in office in 1875, and is seen as one of the singular examples of his mismanagement of the executive branch.
The Teapot Dome scandal, which engulfed the administration of Warren G. Harding in 1922 and was considered by one prominent historian as “the most sensational scandal in the history of American politics” before Watergate.
The Watergate scandal, which led to Richard Nixon’s resignation from office and persuaded Congress—for a time—of the necessity of a truly independent form of investigative authority (leading to the now-defunct Independent Counsel Act).
The Clinton investigations, in which President Clinton employed four different tactics to achieve a public relations victory that convinced the American public his framing of the dispute was the more convincing one.
Get an Unbiased, Nonpartisan Perspective
Throughout the course, Professor Rosenzweig offers a nonpartisan, unbiased view of a sometimes volatile subject. His lectures aren’t concerned with political parties, but rather with the overarching progress and themes of American political and legal history. It’s a comprehensive, balanced perspective that reflects Professor Rosenzweig’s career not just in education but in law. A former prosecutor turned defense attorney and national security lawyer, he uses his career experience in tandem with his insights as a scholar and educator to provide an insider's view of the laws governing executive power and presidential investigations.
The result: 12 lectures that are detailed enough for legal experts yet accessible to learners with only a basic understanding of how the U.S. government and the justice system work.
A Stirring Reminder of American Justice
When a president abuses power, he or she harms the very fabric of American government. Lies, corruption, exploitation—they all undermine American citizens’ belief in the fairness of government and shatter our faith in its long-honored principles.
But Investigating American Presidents provides us with good reason for hope. As Professor Rosenzweig demonstrates, the presidential investigations of the past offer a stirring reminder that no one—not even the “unitary executive” of the presidency created by the Founding Fathers—is completely above the law.
American Presidents and the Rule of Law
How does the investigation of a U.S. president's misconduct differ from an investigation into the misconduct of a private citizen? After exploring the roots of the presidency and presidential power as outlined in the Constitution, consider the advantages and disadvantages a president has during an investigation. Then, Professor Rosenzweig explains why this subject is essential knowledge for any American citizen. x
Presidential Investigations through History
Presidential crises and abuses of power aren't just features of modern times. Early executive scandals have had significant long-term effects that resonate down the corridors of time. Learn how we're still dealing with the fallout of famous (and sometimes overlooked) investigations into abuses of presidential power, including Ulysses S. Grant's Whiskey Ring and Warren G. Harding's Teapot Dome scandal. x
Separation of Powers and the Presidency
Today, legislative and judicial oversight of the presidency are a permanent part of American government and critical to limiting and restraining the possibility of executive abuse. In this lecture, learn how our system of checks and balances came to exist-with, among other things, a close look at the landmark judicial review case, Marbury v. Madison. x
Watergate and the Special Prosecutor
The names of the Watergate burglars are mostly forgotten-but the consequences of their arrest brought down President Richard Nixon. Topics in this lecture include two important Supreme Court cases that shaped a president's power to dismiss personnel, as well as the Independent Counsel Act, which established a truly independent form of investigative authority. x
Rise and Fall of the Independent Counsel
After the Nixon presidency, Congress and the American public became convinced that an independent investigator function was essential. Twenty years later, they let that function expire. Why did that happen, and what's replaced it? Follow the swing from the special prosecutor of the Nixon era to the independent counsel of the Reagan and Clinton eras back to the special counsel leading the investigation of Russian election hacking and the 2016 Trump campaign. x
Can a Sitting President Be Indicted?
Assume for a moment that there exists convincing evidence of a president's criminality. What does that do to the country's management? Is it legal to indict a sitting president? Or does the president in question just "get away" with it? Ponder these and other intriguing questions about whether or not a president is in a class of his/her own when it comes to indictments. x
Presidential Use and Abuse of Privileges
Depending on where you sit, testimonial privileges are either barriers to the truth or limitations on the disclosure of sensitive information. Using the Whitewater and Lewinsky scandals that swirled around President Bill Clinton and his lawyer, Bruce Lindsey, in the late 1990s, explore the topics of attorney-client privilege and executive privilege (the right of the president to withhold information from public scrutiny). x
Presidents, Prosecutors, and Public Opinion
The most significant confrontation between a president and a president's investigators happens not in a court of law but in the court of public opinion. Often, the storyline" is the deciding factor in how an investigation will be seen by future historians. Examine four different tactics used by President Bill Clinton and his team that helped them achieve a public relations victory." x
The Pardon Power and Its Limits
Investigate the use (and possible misuse) of presidential pardons. Start by looking at two general types of pardons in American history: the justice and mercy" pardon and the "peacefulness" pardon. Then, focus on key questions about the presidential pardon power: Can American presidents pardon co-conspirators for crimes they've committed, thereby frustrating an investigation? Can they pardon themselves?" x
Presidential Lies and Cover-Ups
Presidential lies can undermine our belief in the fairness of our system of government and our faith in its legitimacy. In this lecture, focus on how the president isn't special when it comes to certain matters of law and evidence (lying under oath, obstruction of justice, and grand jury subpoenas)-as well as some key caveats to this view. x
The Value of Investigative Reports
Even if formally cleared of wrongdoing, a president or a presidential aide may live with the stigma of investigation forever thanks to an independent counsel's report. First, explore why many investigations typically happen behind closed doors. Then, turn to how the rules are different for presidents and their senior staff (and whether or not that's a good idea). x
The Law and Politics of Impeachment
Conclude this lecture series with a study of the nuclear option" in presidential investigations: impeachment. Learn why impeachment is inevitably as much a political event as a legal one-and why, when a presidency is on the line, public opinion is at least as powerful a determinant of the outcome as the laws that are on the books." x
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Paul Rosenzweig is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School. He earned his JD from the University of Chicago Law School and then served as a law clerk to the Honorable R. Lanier Anderson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He was chosen as the 15th annual Sommerfeld Lecturer at The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School and was awarded a Carnegie...
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Budget 2014: splitting watchdogs 'would shut door on open government'
Labor's Joe Ludwig labels reported plans to break up Office of the Australian Information Commissioner extremely concerning
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Joe Ludwig: handing freedom of information to the attorney general 'would be like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank'. Photograph: Alan Porritt/AAP Image
Splitting Australia’s freedom of information and privacy watchdogs as part of cost-saving measures in Tuesday’s budget would shut the door on open government, according to the Labor senator Joe Ludwig.
ABC AM has reported that the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, which oversees privacy and freedom of information investigations and reviews in Australia, will have its functions split across several other departments.
Ludwig said reports the commissioner could be handed to the Attorney General’s Department were extremely concerning. The OAIC operates at arms length from the government and is often called on to review government decisions.
“Handing over freedom of information to the attorney general would signal the death knell of open and accountable government,” Ludwig said.
“This would be like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank,” Ludwig said.
The agency was created as part of the former Labor government’s freedom of information reforms in 2009 to be an “information champion” that would promote open government and to protect Australians’ personal information.
The commissioner’s office is now investigating a massive data breach that led to the personal details of almost 10,000 people in detention being released on to the Department of Immigration website.
“This government is one of the most secretive and hidden governments in memory. Labor established the information commissioner and stronger freedom of information laws to open up government and increase public accountability,” Ludwig said.
“The reports today, if true, would shut the door on open government.”
The finance minister, Mathias Cormann, said the federal government would make significant savings by merging a range of government agencies.
"This is not a matter of targeting one area of government more than another," he said.
"We are very systematic and very methodical in going right across government."
Other organisations to be merged include the administrative appeals tribunal, classification review board, the migration review tribunal and refugee review tribunal.
Parts of the National Archives, Film and Sound Archive, National Gallery, National Library and National Museum and National Portrait gallery will also be merged.
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WHOO HOO! V AUSTRALIA SET TO SOAR WITH AOC APPROVAL
Australia’s newest international airline, V Australia, has today been cleared for take off by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) after successfully completing all requirements and receiving its Air Operators Certificate (AOC).
The final processes to secure an AOC, which V Australia applied for in August 2007, required a number of exercises over the past fortnight including an emergency evacuation demonstration and a recent proving flight, closely monitored by CASA officials, which incorporated a mock medical emergency diversion to Auckland, New Zealand.
V Australia is the first Australian operator to receive approvals for a Boeing 777-300ER on the Australian AOC.
V Australia’s Executive General Manager, Scott Swift, who was on hand late this afternoon to personally receive the AOC on behalf of the elated V Australia team, said the AOC was a credit to the entire V Australia team.
“It’s amazing what a single piece of paper can signify. What I hold in my hand is the result of three years of hard work, effort and dedication by hundreds of people across the V Australia and Virgin Blue teams.”
He continued, “Starting a long-haul airline from scratch is a phenomenal exercise and the V Australia and Virgin Blue teams have thrown their heart and souls into our mission to bring Australians a brand new, innovative, imaginative and customer service focused international airline.
“In the same way Virgin Blue forever changed the face of aviation in Australia nearly nine years ago, with our AOC in hand, today marks the beginning of the new era of trans-Pacific flying as V Australia lifts the standard for product, service and affordability on this market.”
To celebrate this significant milestone V Australia has launched a special ‘AOC WHOO HOO! Thumbs-Up Sale’ fare of $1199* (International Economy return fare) for flights between Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Los Angeles on sale from 20 February until lift-off (midnight 27 February) or until sold out, for travel between 27 February and 15 June, 2009. The airline is also offering an International Business Class return Sale Fare of $5999* and Premium Economy return Sale Fare of $2499* for the same travel period and ports, only valid for travel from 1 March to 15 June 2009.
V Australia’s inaugural commercial flight to Los Angeles will depart from Sydney International Airport at 3pm on Friday 27 February, 2009, marking the carrier’s historic entrance into the Australian aviation industry and providing travellers with a dynamic new international airline option. For those wanting to take part in the once-in-a-lifetime launch festivities there are still a handful of seats available on the inaugural flight from Sydney to Los Angeles which will feature in-flight entertainment and special commemorative gifts.
Flights from Brisbane to Los Angeles will follow shortly after on Wednesday 8 April, 2009, with non-stop services between Melbourne and Los Angeles commencing on Tuesday 15 September, 2009.
For V Australia bookings log on to www.vaustralia.com.au or phone our award winning Guest Contact Centre on 13 8287 or contact a travel agent. Flights from Sydney and Brisbane are NO LONGER subject to regulatory approval.
* All fares are for flights booked on the internet or $15 more when booked by phone. Fares are inclusive of all taxes, fees and charges and subject to availability and may not be available on all flights or peak times. A credit card surcharge of an additional $15 per person per booking is applicable. For V Australia bookings log on to www.vaustralia.com.au or phone our award winning Guest Contact Centre on 13 8287 or contact a travel agent.
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Virgin Blue and Melbourne Airport Reach Terminal Deal
TUESDAY 23 JULY 2002: Melbourne Airport and Virgin Blue have reached a 10-year agreement for the airline to operate from the former Ansett/Southern Domestic Terminal, providing Virgin Blue with much needed room to expand as well as a more efficient, comfortable facility for the increasing number of Virgin Blue Guests.
Rapid expansion has seen Virgin Blue outgrow the Domestic Express Terminal, which Melbourne Airport built for them and Impulse Airlines back in December 2000, when all existing domestic gates were controlled by Ansett and Qantas.
Once Virgin Blue moves up to the Southern Domestic Terminal, which could be in the next 30 days, there will be no terminal or gate constraints on the growing low fare carrier. The Domestic Express Terminal currently provides Virgin Blue with five gates. The new terminal will initially provide seven, an increase of 40%, with further gates to be made available as required.
Virgin Blue Chief Operating Officer, Rob Sherrard, said “The agreement means we can forge ahead with our accelerated growth plans which involve more flights in and out of Melbourne, and more low fares for people travelling to and from Melbourne. We are excited to have reached a mutually beneficial agreement with Melbourne Airport which will allow Virgin Blue to move in to the bigger terminal at a reasonable cost, providing our Guests with a more convenient, efficient and user-friendly facility.”
He continued, “It also means that we’ve moved towards addressing the needs of our growing number of corporate and business travellers in two out of three of Australia’s biggest airports.”
Melbourne Airport’s CEO Chris Barlow is also pleased to be welcoming Virgin Blue back into the main terminal building. “It seems like only yesterday that we officially opened the Domestic Express Terminal. Virgin Blue has expanded rapidly while running a well managed on-time airline and I'm so pleased that we are in a position to provide them with the extra space they need to continue to grow. And it’s wonderful to welcome them back into the main terminal building, this time with surety of expansion potential.
“We also have plans to refurbish our domestic terminal to provide a totally seamless experience for passengers connecting to and from international flights.
“Additionally, now that we have a multi-user domestic terminal in Melbourne, it means that no airline will face the same difficulty Virgin Blue and Impulse Airlines did in trying to obtain terminal space. We will be able to offer space to any airline wishing to fly to and from Melbourne. It’s a great outcome for the travelling public,” he said.
Virgin Blue will operate from Gates 1 – 7 on former Ansett Concourse A. Virgin Blue will share the Southern Domestic Terminal with Kendell Airlines.
Virgin Blue operates 70 flights per day to and from Melbourne.
Virgin Blue now flies non-stop from Melbourne to Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Canberra, Gold Coast, Launceston, Perth, Sydney and shortly Hobart. Information can be found at Virgin Blue’s website: www.virginblue.com.au
Melbourne Airport acquired the former Ansett Terminal – now known as the Southern Domestic Terminal – in May this year at a cost of $25 million, and is currently assessing plans for a multi-million dollar upgrade program for the terminal. The upgrade will not interfere with airline operations and passenger convenience.
Melbourne Airport built the Domestic Express Terminal in December 2000 for Virgin Blue and Impulse Airlines at a cost of around $9 million. When Virgin relocates, the terminal is likely to be used as a freight facility. The forward lounge will be dismantled and put up for sale.
Melbourne Airport handled just over 13.5 million domestic passengers in financial year 2000-2001.
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Analysts: September Report Key to US Future in Iraq
President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates say a report from their top general in Iraq, due in September, will be a key element in deciding the future of the U.S. commitment in that country. But some analysts say September is too early to make a realistic assessment of the new strategy the president launched in January. VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon.
The last of the additional U.S. troops President Bush ordered to Iraq won't even be there until the middle of next month, but already reporters are asking what will happen after the new Iraq commander, General David Petraeus, makes his first progress report in September.
At a news conference Thursday, Secretary Gates would not speculate on what decisions might be made at that time, but he counseled patience. "We can't turn it around overnight. And we just have to have the patience to let this play out and see if General Petraeus' strategy is going to produce positive results," he said.
But for some experts, patience until September isn't nearly enough. "I don't think we'll realistically have the necessary trend lines developing until spring of next year," said retired U.S. Army Colonel Paul Hughes, who is now an analyst at the U.S. Institute for Peace in Washington. "I think we need to really suppress our desire to have good news early because good news early in a war usually is based on false hope. Once the troops are on the ground, it's going to take probably eight to 12 months before they really begin to see the results where they can say, 'OK, we've got a trend line here that we can trust,'" he said.
But it may be difficult for some Bush administration officials and members of congress to wait that long. The president himself indicated he is focused on the September report during his own news conference on Thursday. "David Petraeus felt like it was important to tell the White House and tell the congress that he would come back with an assessment in September. It's his decision to give the assessment. And I respect him and I support him," he said.
The president also said the general's assessment is more important than anything members of congress might say. And Secretary Gates said the Petraeus report will be combined with the views of other senior generals and civilian officials to create an "overall evaluation" for the president to use in September as he decides whether to continue with the new strategy or make further changes.
For international security analyst Michael O'Hanlon at the Brookings Institution, the general's report will have to show progress in order to justify continuing the current level of U.S. military commitment in Iraq.
"All the trend lines should be in the right direction, or at least the overwhelming majority of them. The violence should be down substantially. There should be progress toward political reconciliation in Iraq. The economy, presumably, may be starting to show more life than it is now. You should be able to see that this thing is working, even if there is still a lot more work to do," he said.
O'Hanlon says it might not be possible to make that kind of progress in Iraq, especially by September, regardless of what strategy is used. But he says a lack of substantial progress by September will likely result in strong action by the Congress. "If the surge fails to make major progress by September, I think the congress could force an outright end to the war by 2008, whereas if the surge is working we could be modestly below the 160,000 troop number by 2008, but we would expect to stay well over 100-thousand throughout the remainder of Mr. Bush's presidency. So it's a fairly stark contrast. Either way you might see a reduction, but one reduction could be gradual and modest, the other reduction could be almost complete," he said.
And O'Hanlon says if there is not significant progress by September, the congress will be in a stronger position to insist on curtailing U.S. involvement in Iraq than it was this week, when it was forced to compromise with the president on war funding.
Retired Colonel Paul Hughes says forcing a quick withdrawal of most U.S. troops would be a mistake. "I don't think you'll see a substantial withdrawal of American forces for probably two or three years. This is a very rough region over there. It's a very tough world. And Americans can't sit within their borders and think that, 'Gee, we'd like to have our troops home right away because they're our troops.' Well, we're the superpower in the world and we have obligations that we have to fulfill," he said.
That argument fits with President Bush's view that a premature U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would have dangerous consequences for the Middle East and for the United States and its allies. But it may be difficult to get much support for that view in the congress, or in U.S. public opinion polls, if General Petraeus does not report strong progress in the relatively short time between now and September.
Senior US Military Leader Assesses Chances for Iraq's Stability
A top U.S. military official gives a positive assessment of the chance for stability in Iraq. Victoria Cavaliere reports from VOA's New York bureau that General Robert Holmes also believes that remaining steadfast in the fight against insurgents is the only way to beat them. U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Robert Holmes is one of two deputy directors of command at Central Command, CENTCOM, which oversees U.S. military operations in East Africa, Central…
Both Houses of US Congress OK Iraq War-Funding Bill
The U.S. Congress has approved legislation supporting military operations in Iraq, with majority Democrats calling it the best achievable at this time, and Republicans claiming victory in forcing Democrats to drop a withdrawal timetable. Approval by the House of Representatives, by a vote of 280 to 142, sent the measure to the Senate where few hours later, Senators passed the bill by a vote 80 to 14. The measure is now ready for President Bush's signature. VOA'…
Tehran's Ambassador to Iraq to Lead Talks with US
Iran's ambassador to Iraq will lead his country's delegation in talks with the United States next week. A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, Friday told state-run media that Ambassador Hassan Kazemi has been appointed to head Tehran's team. U.S. and Iranian officials will meet in Baghdad on Monday for face-to-face talks about security in Iraq. Both sides have said discussions will focus only on Iraq. Last week, a U.S. State…
Bush Prevails in Political Showdown Over Iraq
President Bush prevailed in his first showdown with the Democratic-controlled Congress over funding for the Iraq war. But as VOA National correspondent Jim Malone reports, Democrats and a large number of congressional Republicans believe the pressure to change course in Iraq will only grow in the months ahead. Mr. Bush flexed enough political strength to win passage of a funding bill for the war without the troop withdrawal deadlines that Democrats had…
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Voiceless Corner
Posted by Voiceless Music May 26, 2013
Voiceless Corner: Jay-Z's New Roc Empire
WNBA's Skylar Diggins
MLB's Robinson Cano
He had 99 problems, but not any more.
Shawn Carter, better known to the music and entertainment community as Jay-Z, has taken over the game... literally. After successfully selling his ownership shares with the Brooklyn Nets, Jay-Z has taken his Roc Nation Sports and become the new powerhouse in sports. But has he taken it too far?
With news flying on draft night that eventual #39 pick of the New York Jets, Eugene 'Geno' Smith fired his agent, there were rumblings on the reason why. Even the experts couldn't understand it. But Geno made it outright when interviewed by Sirius Radio, a few nights after the draft:
"I don't want to shed too much light on it," he said. "The thing that I can tell you is that it's not because of the whole draft experience. It's not because of one particular incident. There's a number of things. And that story, that battle will be fought on a different day. As of right now, I don't feel too comfortable talking about all the details of it.
Then, the world was once again "roc"ed as Jay-Z swooped in and became the college standout's newest representative. Sure enough, the NFL made Jay-Z enemy #1:
The NFL Players Association is investigating Jay-Z’s role in Geno Smith’s decision to choose Kim Miale and Roc Nation as his agency, according to NFL.com.
The NFLPA plans to send a letter of inquiry to Miale to determine Jay-Z’s role during the process, according to the report. Smith fired his former agents after he dropped to the 39th overall pick in the draft.
So the question is, has Jay-Z become bigger than entertainment? Should be allowed to hate? I mean, he does have enough haters, especially after word got out Geno was down. We can only hope Mr. Carter took all the right ways to get Mr. Smith under his umbrella, but then again, when you hustle, who cares about the consequences... right?
Sources: USAToday.com, NYDailyNews.com
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The history of the University of South Carolina Upstate is a chronicle of remarkable development. When Spartanburg General Hospital announced it was phasing out its diploma program for registered nurses in 1967, a citizens' committee chaired by G.B. Hodge, M.D. requested that Spartanburg be included in the University of South Carolina system to avert a serious healthcare problem.
The Spartanburg Regional Campus, as it was first known, opened its doors in the fall of 1967 to 177 students on the first floor of the Spartanburg General Hospital nursing residence. Enrollment continued to increase, which resulted in the school becoming a four-year university in 1975. In 1994, the University began offering graduate degrees. Today's thriving campus boasts 330 acres and an enrollment of about 6,000 students.
Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
Interim Chancellor
Mary Anne Fitzpatrick served as the interim chancellor of the University of South Carolina Upstate from August 1, 2016 to February 28, 2017 and is to be commended for the incredible leadership she provided to the University through a transitional time. Her vision and proven leadership helped USC Upstate continue to grow and prosper as a metropolitan university, benefiting not only the USC Upstate community, but the Upstate.
Her skills as an administrator and higher education leader proved to be invaluable in that she was able to facilitate the approval of the 2016 Faculty Manual that sets the framework for major shared governance, update the existing strategic plan, begin building a detailed and aggressive enrollment plan with the vision of reaching enrollment of 10,000 students by 2030, complete three-year faculty hiring plans, finalize the 2017-2018 budget that resulted in a balanced the budget based on existing resources, and complete all promotion and tenure recommendations.
Fitzpatrick returned to the University of South Carolina where she serves as the Vice President of System Planning and is responsible for ensuring and improving the quality, coordination, effectiveness and long-range planning for the University of South Carolina statewide system of eight campuses across 14 locations. She is also a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Psychology.
Fitzpatrick has served as the USC Columbia vice provost for special academic initiatives. She also served as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina. She was recognized by the South Carolina legislature on July 7, 2015 (H 4367) for her outstanding and dedicated 10 years of service in that role.
Prior to her appointment at the University of South Carolina, Fitzpatrick served as Deputy Dean for the College of Letters and Science (2002-2004), Vice Provost and Special Assistant to the Chancellor (1999-2001) on Distributed Learning, and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Letters and Science (1997-2001) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she also held the WARF Kellett Professorship.
Dr. Thomas F. Moore
Dr. Thomas F. Moore served as chancellor of the University of South Carolina Upstate from 2011 to 2016, leading the University toward its highest student enrollment of 6,000 and the highest occupancy ever in student housing.
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Dr. Moore focused on access, affordability and accountability to USC Upstate throughout his tenure as chancellor. He promoted access to the highest quality educational experiences while remaining affordable by balancing tuition and merit- and need-based aid and being accountable to students, parents, the community and the world.
Prior to coming to USC Upstate, Dr. Moore served as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty, chair of the department of chemistry and physics, director of the Master of Liberal Arts Program and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Winthrop University.
He was an assistant professor of chemistry at Georgia Southern College and as assistant professor of chemistry and associate professor and director of the Honors Program at Birmingham-Southern College.
Dr. Moore earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Huntingdon College and his doctorate in inorganic chemistry from the University of South Carolina. He has attended professional development programs at Harvard, Yale and Northwestern universities.
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Dr. John C. Stockwell served as chancellor of the University of South Carolina Upstate from 1994 until 2011, steering the University toward its vision as one of the leading metropolitan universities in the Southeast.
Under his leadership, the University experienced outstanding growth in academic reputation, capital development and public/private partnerships. Enrollments doubled to more than 5,500 students to include a diverse student population with sixty nations represented in the campus community and a minority enrollment of thirty percent.
Chancellor Stockwell led the University toward completion of its campus master plan, approved by the USC Board of Trustees in 1997, which included multi-million dollar capital developments in classroom space, academic support facilities, housing, athletics facilities, and, most notably, the George Dean Johnson, Jr. College of Business and Economics in downtown Spartanburg. A number of beautification initiatives were completed across the 330-acre campus to complement the $50 million highway infrastructure project.
Before coming to USC Upstate, Dr. Stockwell served as provost and chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside; dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York-Cortland; chair of the Department of Speech and Theatre at Indiana State University; and director of theatre at California State University Northridge.
Dr. Stockwell earned his Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in theatre at Bowling Green State University, and his bachelor’s degree from Cedarville College. He is also an alumnus of the Harvard University Institute for Educational Management.
Col. William J. Whitener
Col. William Jackson Whitener served as interim chancellor of the University of South Carolina-Spartanburg (now USC Upstate) from 1993-1994.
Prior to his appointment, Whitener had served as dean of the University of South Carolina-Union from 1977 until his retirement in 1984. At the time of his retirement, he was named the first dean emeritus of the campus.
A native of Gastonia, N.C., Whitener graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and held master's degrees from Columbia University and George Washington University. Before beginning his career in higher education, Whitener served as chief of staff at the United States Military Academy and retired from the United States Army after serving as an officer in varied assignments throughout the world.
Among his many accomplishment and activities, Whitener served on the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education from 1985 until 1993 and in 1988, was named to the South Carolina Commission on the Future by Governor Carroll A. Campbell. Whitener was recognized as Union County's 2012 Veteran of the Year.
Whitener, who passed away on November 13, 2012, is survived by his wife, Martha Pacolette Sarratt, have one daughter and two grandsons.
Dr. Olin B. Sansbury, Jr
Chancellor of USC Spartanburg
Dr. Olin B. Sansbury, Jr. served as director, vice president and finally as chancellor of the University of South Carolina Spartanburg (now USC Upstate) from 1973 to 1993. Under his supervision, the campus grew from an enrollment of 750 students to approximately 4,500 students, and from offering only associate's degrees to offering undergraduate degrees in thirty fields of study, as well as graduate programs in education.
Prior to his tenure at USC Upstate, Dr. Sansbury served as a faculty member and assistant director of student affairs at the University of South Carolina at Florence (now Francis Marion University), as dean of students at Francis Marion University and as assistant vice provost for student affairs at the USC Regional Campus System. He was honored by the City of Spartanburg for his contributions to the cause of higher education in South Carolina, and the date of April 21 in Spartanburg was named, "Olin Sansbury Day" in his honor.
Dr. Sansbury earned his Ph.D. in international studies from the University of South Carolina and his bachelor’s degree from Wofford College. He served in the United States Army and is a Veteran of the Vietnam War. Upon his retirement in 1993, Dr. Sansbury was granted the title of Chancellor Emeritus.
Dr. Norbert A. Stirzaker
Founding Dean
On July 1, 1967, Dr. Norbert A. Stirzaker was appointed the first director of the Spartanburg Regional Campus of the University of South Carolina, a role he held for approximately five years before returning to teaching.
During his career, Dr. Stirzaker served as a band director, public school music supervisor, professor of Education and department chair in social sciences at Rio Grande (Ohio) College, and Assistant Supervisor of Course Programs at the University of Michigan’s Extension Service. From 1961-67, he served as Director of Extension Services for the Indiana State University (Terre Haute) Adult Education program, and was instrumental in the development of the Evansville campus.
Dr. Stirzaker earned his Ph.D. and master's degrees in Education from the University of Mississippi, a master's degree in Music from Indiana University, and his bachelor's degree in Music Education from Murray State University in Kentucky.
Dr. Stirzaker passed away on January 30, 2013.
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UWS Honorary Doctorate for broadcaster Kirsty Wark
One of Britain’s most experienced television journalists, Kirsty Wark, has received an Honorary Doctorate from University of the West of Scotland (UWS) at its graduation ceremony at Crichton Memorial Church, Dumfries.
Kirsty has presented a range of television programmes over the past thirty years, from the ground breaking Late Show to Election night specials. She has fronted the BBC’s flagship current affairs show, Newsnight, since 1993.
In addition to political reporting, Kirsty hosted The Review Show, the weekly Arts and Cultural review and comment show, for over a decade.
Career highlights have included conducting long form interviews with Margaret Thatcher, Madonna, Damien Hirst and George Clooney, to name just a few.
Kirsty has several major accolades to her name including BAFTA Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting, Journalist of the Year and Best Television Presenter.
Kirsty said: “I feel very privileged to receive this Honorary Doctorate from an institution which offers so much to local students. It’s also an area with which I feel a great affinity which made the day extra special.”
Professor Craig Mahoney, Principal & Vice-Chancellor of UWS, said: “We are so pleased to have presented Kirsty with an Honorary Doctorate at our Dumfries Campus. It is particularly fitting for us to pay tribute to Kirsty in the town of Dumfries where she was born."
“She really is a leading light for our students, particularly for those looking to enter the world of media. Kirsty is an inspiring woman with so many achievements across her career to date and I am delighted that UWS is able to recognise and celebrate this with her.”
UWS Principal Prof Craig Mahoney
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Institute for Social Science Research
Strengthening Research Skills
Securing Research Funding
Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Promoting Visibility and Engagement
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Big Ideas for Big Data on the Impact of Research Funding: Julia Lane and the Opportunity of IRIS
If you want to know the impact of research funding, says science and innovation policy guru Julia Lane (NYU/Wagner and Center for Urban Science and Progress), you need a system that puts people, and not publications, at the center. And if you want to produce this knowledge at the speed and scale of its emergence, she argues, you need to be aware of the challenges and opportunities that lie in using big data in social science. In her April 1 seminar on social science and big data research, Dr. Lane described the IRIS project as one approach that has had to address both these challenges – in a project that has been the challenge of tracing the effects of federally-funded research initiatives into the economy and society. Dr. Lane’s seminar, sponsored by ISSR and CSSI, was an invitation for social scientists to take charge of the rising tide of questions about the impact of research funding, and to direct it in the scientific tradition – with clear research questions, a conceptual framework, and sound methodological approaches.
As Lane describes it, IRIS (Institute for Research on Innovation & Science) is a collaborative effort to gather and analyze key data on the flow of resources and ideas in federally-funded research. Together, its 24 current members represent 25% of all R&D spending by the federal government; its membership is soon expected to grow by another 59 members, capturing the flow of 80% of all federal research dollars. Developed by a team of six researchers that includes Dr. Lane and is led today by Dr. Jason Owen-Smith (U.Michigan/Sociology), IRIS boasts powerful mechanisms to ensure real-time data renewal, quality and confidentiality. With this integrated map of people and activity, IRIS is building the potential to answer a range of vital questions in science policy: How do investments translate into new knowledge? Who gets supported to do what, and how do their efforts fare? What economic effects ripple out from research teams, through their subcontracts and the flow of involved people through subsequent projects and teams?
At the heart of the IRIS initiative is a clearly articulated theory of change. “Publications,” argues Dr. Lane, “are not a behavioral unit of analysis. People and relationships are. The greatest technology transfer going is happening through people, not publications.” Lane pointed to the highly-visible examples of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, neither of whom was principal investigator or first author on any federally-funded research project, but both of whom were paid as Fellows through such research projects, and who leveraged the knowledge there obtained into their high-impact venture: Google. With this insight in mind about the movement of ideas through people – not papers – Lane and her collaborators have built an integrated data infrastructure based on big data - driven by the careful use of existing, “found” data: the abstracts of scientific research grants posted on agency websites, the financial codes assigned to any transaction resulting from these grants, and the broader data available through secure and anonymized links to the movements of fund recipients through IRS and Social Security databases. “Follow the people, then you’re following the knowledge.”
Julia Lane should know. She has led the National Science Foundation’s Science of Science and Innovation Policy program, which is intended to provide a scientific basis to advance understanding of the drivers and consequences of scientific innovation and collaboration. IRIS represents the fruition of a long effort to build a coherent and dynamic data architecture for research on investments in scientific research. Its core features emerged in 2013 as UMETRICS (Universities Measuring the Impacts of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness and Science), building from the earlier STARMETRICS effort that Dr. Lane led on behalf of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to assess the impacts of research funding disbursed through the American Relief and Recovery Act (ARRA). Private funding from the Alfred P. Sloan and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundations allowed the Committee on Institutional Cooperation to launch the 2-year UMETRICS pilot with data from 11 universities, now being extended and institutionalized as IRIS.
As the IRIS network grows, Lane urges university scholars and administrators to envision its potential to spark (and benefit from) their collaboration across disciplines. IRIS offers an elegant and relevant treasure trove of information about the flow of ideas and resources in the scientific enterprise. But to fulfill its potential as a source for breakthrough science, as well as effective management, this powerful tool must be steered in response to key questions: What are we measuring? What is the underlying construct? How are we measuring and what are we missing? How can we draw inferences? How can we protect human subjects? The resolution of these questions will rely on the theoretical and methodological expertise of social scientists, the substantive knowledge about each research domain provided by subject experts, and the technical and systems expertise offered in the computational and systems sciences. For those in the room on April 1 and for those responding to the pressure for universities to provide evidence of their impacts in society, participation in IRIS offers a chance to clarify our own institutional concepts and assumptions, and to engage proactively and critically in the science of science policy.
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LM Thapar School of Management
LM Thapar School of Management is one of 14 universities included in U-Multirank for India. LM Thapar School of Management is a small private university located in Mohali with 316 students enrolled (2017 data or latest available). It was founded in 2007. With regard to the scope of its subjects and degree programmes offered, the LM Thapar School of Management is a specialised institution. It does not offer programmes in foreign languages. It is characterised by a very low (or none) percentage of international students. The graduation rate of LM Thapar School of Management is 100 (masters). Its overall profile shows top performance across various indicators, with 3 ‘A’ (very good) scores overall. For a comprehensive overview of this university’s performance, see its complete performance scores in the tables below.
Off Derabassi - Barwala road
140507 Mohali
http://lmtsom.thapar.edu/
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Our MBA program content is fundamentally resilient with sufficiently strong academic rigour. We offer learning in a classroom mode with teacher as primary source of learning. In every course, our aim is to teach academic concepts with sufficient rigour...
Our MBA program content is fundamentally resilient with sufficiently strong academic rigour. We offer learning in a classroom mode with teacher as primary source of learning. In every course, our aim is to teach academic concepts with sufficient rigour and practical applications through examples, case studies, research papers, articles, etc. We also attempt to offer an innovative and contemporary course content. Endeavour is to ensure that students are developed in a holistic way by giving them sufficient exposure beyond the classroom to hone their professional expertise.
http://www.lmtsm.thapar.edu/
We realize that knowledge creation is one of the most crucial desirable aspects of teaching profession in addition to knowledge delivery. We attempt to conduct research which is rigorous & useful. Our faculty members are encouraged to engage in both s...
We realize that knowledge creation is one of the most crucial desirable aspects of teaching profession in addition to knowledge delivery. We attempt to conduct research which is rigorous & useful. Our faculty members are encouraged to engage in both socially & economically relevant research. They are creating meaningful research output in order to contribute towards creating management theory & influencing practice. Such research output endeavors to create comprehensible bearing on existing principles, thinking, techniques, procedures & practice of management discipline.
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Our program goal is to educate globally sensitive, scholarly practitioners with a social entrepreneurial Mindset. Specializations offered are Marketing, Finance, HR, Information Systems, Operations, Energy & Sustainability, Education Mgt & Leadership, ...
Our program goal is to educate globally sensitive, scholarly practitioners with a social entrepreneurial Mindset. Specializations offered are Marketing, Finance, HR, Information Systems, Operations, Energy & Sustainability, Education Mgt & Leadership, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, and International Mgt & Strategy. The program focuses on content, pedagogy, interdisciplinary research, global sensitivity, practical application of concepts & overall student learning experience. We attempt to coach our students to become self-learners and enable them to realize their potential.
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Ukraine intel assesses size of Russia's military force amassed in occupied Crimea
Among other forces, Russia has deployed three air defense divisions equipped with S400 missiles.
The Russian Federation has amassed in the temporarily occupied Crimea a 30,000-strong military force, planning to increase the contingent by another 7,000-10,000 by 2025, that's according to Vadym Skybytskiy, acting deputy commander of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
"During the period following the annexation of Crimea, the Russian command deployed a grouping on the peninsula, which now amounts to over 30,000 troops," Skybytskiy wrote in a response to an UNIAN inquiry.
It is also noted that until 2025, an increase by 7,000-10,000 military cannot be ruled out.
Among other forces, Russia has deployed three air defense divisions equipped with S400 missiles, the report says.
Since 2014, the Russian Black Sea Fleet has been replenished with six submarines and five ships, carrying Kalibr cruise missiles, the official added.
Read alsoEU agrees to extend economic sanctions on Russia until 2020 – media
UNIAN memo. In March 2014, after the introduction of its troops, Russia annexed the Ukrainian Crimea, having organized a pseudo-referendum on self-determination. The self-proclaimed Crimean government stated that 96.77% were in favor of joining the Russian Federation.
On March 18, 2014, the so-called agreement on the admission of Crimea and Sevastopol to the Russian Federation was signed in the Kremlin. Western countries never recognized the annexation of Crimea. They imposed sanctions against Russia.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine officially announced February 20, 2014, the date of the beginning of the temporary occupation of Crimea.
Tags: #Russia#Crimea#military#army#militarization
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The fight is not over in the struggle for gender equality
Josephine Monger
"I provide peer education to youth in my community–especially to girls–on rape and sexual exploitation," says Josephine Monger, national UN Volunteer Field Monitor with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Liberia. She is one of 18 UN Volunteers serving with UNDP in the country.
Josephine Monger is a national UN Volunteer Field Monitor with UNDP in Liberia. She provides peer education to youth in her community on rape and sexual exploitation. (UNV, 2017)
The issue of women’s rights is a global issue. The status of women’s rights around the world is an important indicator of global well-being. Despite many successes in empowering women, numerous issues still persist in all areas of life. For example, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence is increasing in a variety of forms in Liberia. While there may be a decrease in some instances of physical domestic violence, both physical and emotional abuse continue to occur.
I provide peer education to youth in my community – especially to girls – on rape and sexual exploitation. In most cases, the victims of these acts of violence have received threats from their perpetrators, and they are afraid to report instances of sexual violence and abuse. In my peer education sessions, I help people understand that rape and sexual exploitation need to be reported, and inform them that there are laws in place to protect victims, who can also receive treatment and counselling if needed or requested.
The work I perform in my community has raised awareness amongst many women and girls, who have developed their self-esteem and now have the confidence to stand up for themselves. My work has also resulted in several young women taking the initiative to volunteer their services in their communities.
Women are important agents for creating stability in the lives of their families and for promoting reconciliation and peace, even in very difficult or traumatic situations. However, women's peace building potential has had no significant impact on policies and decisions related to conflict because they have been absent from decision-making processes. As a volunteer, I have raised awareness about policies and laws that include women in the decision-making process.
The International Day of Women should be used to raise awareness and find solutions to the many problems – stalking and harassment, sexual and gender-based violence, and human trafficking, among others – which are still affecting women. We should also use this day as an opportunity to encourage more women to give back to their communities by volunteering in whatever way they can.
As we celebrate International Women’s Day, I would like to remember our great grandmothers who were discriminated against, but still had the courage to fight for their freedom. As we celebrate all that women have accomplished in the struggle for gender equality, let us remember that the fight is not over.
There are still many problems affecting women – our sisters in villages that still do not have access to education; the maternal mortality rate is still on the increase; sexual and gender-based violence and our culture of child marriages are still affecting women. Let us come together with one voice and speak up about these issues. Together we will find solutions.
Josephine Monger is a national UN Volunteer Field Monitor with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Liberia. She is one of 18 UN Volunteers serving with UNDP in the country.
Liberia gender national UN Volunteer UNDP
SDG 5: Gender equality
Latin America and the CaribbeanSDG 7: Affordable and clean energy
Volunteer networks are mobilized to monitor Guatemala’s volcanic eruptions
Sub-Saharan AfricaSDG 13: Climate change, SDG 14: Life below water, SDG 15: Life on land
Resilience to climate change: UN Volunteers improve environment management in Niger
Asia and the PacificSDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure, SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities, SDG 13: Climate change, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals
UN Volunteer helps prepare communities in Lao PDR for climate-related disasters
Sub-Saharan AfricaSDG 5: Gender equality, SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities, SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
UNDP in Liberia taps skills of national UN Volunteers for communities' futures
Asia and the PacificSDG 6: Clean water and sanitation, SDG 13: Climate change, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals
Here's how climate change will impact you – a UN Youth Volunteer shares her perspective
Asia and the PacificSDG 17: Partnerships for the goals
"The core strength of volunteers comes from their motivation"
Arab StatesSDG 3: Good health and well-being, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals
Who aids the aid workers? Meet a UN Volunteer Medical Doctor in Somalia
Asia and the PacificSDG 5: Gender equality, SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth, SDG 10: Reduced inequalities, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals
Serving with UN Women to promote the safe use and enjoyment of public spaces by vulnerable women
Sub-Saharan AfricaSDG 1: No poverty, SDG 5: Gender equality, SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals
Supporting the livelihoods of women in South Sudan with UNDP
Latin America and the CaribbeanSDG 5: Gender equality, SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production, SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions, SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals
Volunteer women who harvest peace in Colombia
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