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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 354 › Teamsters Union v. Vogt, Inc.
Teamsters Union v. Vogt, Inc., 354 U.S. 284 (1957)
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Teamsters Union v. Vogt, Inc.
Argued February 26, 1957
Decided June 17, 1957
Respondent owns and operates a gravel pit in Wisconsin, where it employs 15 to 20 men. Petitioner unions sought unsuccessfully to induce some of respondent's employees to join the unions, and began picketing the entrance to respondent's gravel pit with signs reading, "The men on this job are not 100% affiliated with the A.F.L." As a result, drivers of several trucking companies refused to deliver and haul goods to and from respondent's plant, causing substantial damage to respondent. On respondent's application, a State Court enjoined the picketing. The injunction was sustained by the State Supreme Court on findings by it that (1) the picketing had been engaged in for the purpose of coercing respondent to force its employees to become members of petitioner unions, and (2) such picketing was for "an unlawful purpose," since Wis.Stat. § 111.06(2)(b) made it an unfair labor practice for an employee individually or in concert with others to
"coerce, intimidate or induce an employer to interfere with any of his employes in the enjoyment of their legal rights . . . or to engage in any practice with regard to his employes which would constitute an unfair labor practice if undertaken by him on his own initiative."
Held: the judgment is affirmed. Pp. 354 U. S. 285-295.
(a) Prior decisions of this Court have established a broad field in which a State, in enforcing some public policy, whether of its criminal or its civil law, and whether announced by its legislature or its courts, may constitutionally enjoin peaceful picketing aimed at preventing effectuation of that policy. Pp. 354 U. S. 287-293.
(b) Consistently with the Fourteenth Amendment, a State may enjoin peaceful picketing the purpose of which is to coerce an employer to put pressure on his employees to join a union in violation of the declared policy of the State. Pappas v. Stacey, 151 Me. 36,116 A. 2d 497, appeal dismissed, 350 U.S. 870. Pp. 354 U. S. 293-295.
270 Wis. 321a, 74 N.W.2d 749, affirmed.
CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN
MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is one more in the long series of cases in which this Court has been required to consider the limits imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment on the power of a State to enjoin picketing. The case was heard below on the pleadings and affidavits, the parties stipulating that the record contained "all of the facts and evidence that would be adduced upon a trial on the merits. . . ." Respondent owns and operates a gravel pit in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, where it employs 15 to 20 men. Petitioner unions sought unsuccessfully to induce some of respondent's employees to join the unions, and commenced to picket the entrance to respondent's place of business with signs reading, "The men on this job are not 100% affiliated with the A.F.L." "In consequence," drivers of several trucking companies refused to deliver and haul goods to and from respondent's plant, causing substantial damage to respondent. Respondent thereupon sought an injunction to restrain the picketing.
The trial court did not make the finding, requested by respondent,
"That the picketing of plaintiff's premises has been engaged in for the purpose of coercing, intimidating and inducing the employer to force, compel, or induce its employees to become members of defendant labor organizations, and for the purpose of injuring the plaintiff in its
business because of its refusal to in any way interfere with the rights of its employees to join or not to join a labor organization."
It nevertheless held that, by virtue of Wis.Stat. §103.535, prohibiting picketing in the absence of a "labor dispute," the petitioners must be enjoined from maintaining any pickets near respondent's place of business, from displaying at any place near respondent's place of business signs indicating that there was a labor dispute between respondent and its employees or between respondent and any of the petitioners, and from inducing others to decline to transport goods to and from respondent's business establishment.
On appeal, the Wisconsin Supreme Court at first reversed, relying largely on A.F. of L. v. Swing, 312 U. S. 321, to hold § 103.535 unconstitutional on the ground that picketing could not constitutionally be enjoined merely because of the absence of a "labor dispute." 270 Wis. 315, 71 N.W.2d 359.
Upon reargument, however, the court withdrew its original opinion. Although the trial court had refused to make the finding requested by respondent, the Supreme Court, noting that the facts as to which the request was made were undisputed, drew the inference from the undisputed facts and itself made the finding. It canvassed the whole circumstances surrounding the picketing, and held that
"One would be credulous indeed to believe, under the circumstances, that the union had no thought of coercing the employer to interfere with its employees in their right to join or refuse to join the defendant union."
Such picketing, the court held, was for "an unlawful purpose," since Wis.Stat. § 111.06(2)(b) made it an unfair labor practice for an employee, individually or in concert with others, to
"coerce, intimidate or induce any employer to interfere with any of his employes in the enjoyment of their legal rights . . . or to engage in any practice with regard to his employes which would
constitute an unfair labor practice if undertaken by him on his own initiative."
Relying on Building Service Employees v. Gazzam, 339 U. S. 532, and Pappas v. Stacey, 151 Me. 36, 116 A.2d 497, the Wisconsin Supreme Court therefore affirmed the granting of the injunction on this different ground. 270 Wis. 321a, 74 N.W.2d 749.
We are asked to reverse the judgment of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which to a large extent rested its decision on that of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine in Pappas v. Stacey, supra. When an appeal from that decision was filed here, this Court granted appellee's motion to dismiss for lack of a substantial federal question. 350 U.S. 870. Since the present case presents a similar question, we might well have denied certiorari on the strength of our decision in that case. In view of the recurrence of the question, we thought it advisable to grant certiorari, 352 U.S. 817, and to restate the principles governing this type of case.
It is inherent in the concept embodied in the Due Process Clause that its scope be determined by a "gradual process of judicial inclusion and exclusion," Davidson v. New Orleans, 96 U. S. 97, 96 U. S. 104. Inevitably, therefore, the doctrine of a particular case "is not allowed to end with its enunciation and . . . an expression in an opinion yields later to the impact of facts unforeseen." Jaybird Mining Co. v. Weir, 271 U. S. 609, 271 U. S. 619 (Brandeis, J., dissenting). It is not too surprising that the response of States -- legislative and judicial -- to use of the injunction in labor controversies should have given rise to a series of adjudications in this Court relating to the limitations on state action contained in the provisions of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. It is also not too surprising that examination of these adjudications should disclose an evolving, not a static, course of decision.
The series begins with Truax v. Corrigan, 257 U. S. 312, in which a closely divided Court found it to be violative
of the Equal Protection Clause -- not of the Due Process Clause -- for a State to deny use of the injunction in the special class of cases arising out of labor conflicts. The considerations that underlay that case soon had to yield, through legislation and later through litigation, to the persuasiveness of undermining facts. Thus, to remedy the abusive use of the injunction in the federal courts, see Frankfurter and Greene, The Labor Injunction, the Norris-LaGuardia Act, 47 Stat. 70, 29 U.S.C. § 101, withdrew, subject to qualifications, jurisdiction from the federal courts to issue injunctions in labor disputes to prohibit certain acts. Its example was widely followed by state enactments.
Apart from remedying the abuses of the injunction in this general type of litigation, legislatures and courts began to find in one of the aims of picketing an aspect of communication. This view came to the fore in Senn v. Tile Layers Union, 301 U. S. 468, where the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment did not prohibit Wisconsin from authorizing peaceful stranger picketing by a union that was attempting to unionize a shop and to induce an employer to refrain from working in his business as a laborer.
Although the Court had been closely divided in the Senn case, three years later, in passing on a restrictive, instead of a permissive, state statute, the Court made sweeping pronouncements about the right to picket in holding unconstitutional a statute that had been applied to ban all picketing, with
"no exceptions based upon either the number of persons engaged in the proscribed activity, the peaceful character of their demeanor, the nature of their dispute with an employer, or the restrained character and the accurateness of the terminology used in notifying the public of the facts of the dispute."
Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 U. S. 88, 310 U. S. 99. As the statute dealt at large with all picketing, so the Court broadly
assimilated peaceful picketing in general to freedom of speech, and as such protected against abridgment by the Fourteenth Amendment.
These principles were applied by the Court in A. F. of L. v. Swing, 312 U. S. 321, to hold unconstitutional an injunction against peaceful picketing, based on a State's common law policy against picketing when there was no immediate dispute between employer and employee. On the same day, however, the Court upheld a generalized injunction against picketing where there had been violence because
"it could justifiably be concluded that the momentum of fear generated by past violence would survive even though future picketing might be wholly peaceful."
Milk Wagon Drivers Union v. Meadowmoor Dairies, 312 U. S. 287, 312 U. S. 294.
Soon, however, the Court came to realize that the broad pronouncements, but not the specific holding, of Thornhill had to yield "to the impact of facts unforeseen," or at least not sufficiently appreciated. Cf. People v. Charles Schweinler Press, 214 N.Y. 395, 108 N.E. 639; 28 Harv.L.Rev. 790. Cases reached the Court in which a State had designed a remedy to meet a specific situation or to accomplish a particular social policy. These cases made manifest that picketing, even though "peaceful," involved more than just communication of ideas, and could not be immune from all state regulation.
"Picketing by an organized group is more than free speech, since it involves patrol of a particular locality and since the very presence of a picket line may induce action of one kind or another, quite irrespective of the nature of the ideas which are being disseminated."
Bakery and Pastry Drivers Local v. Wohl, 315 U. S. 769, 315 U. S. 776 (concurring opinion); see Carpenters Union v. Ritter's Cafe, 315 U. S. 722, 315 U. S. 725-728.
These latter two cases required the Court to review a choice made by two States between the competing interests of unions, employers, their employees, and the
public at large. In the Ritter's Cafe case, Texas had enjoined as a violation of its antitrust law picketing of a restaurant by unions to bring pressure on its owner with respect to the use of nonunion labor by a contractor of the restaurant owner in the construction of a building having nothing to do with the restaurant. The Court held that Texas could, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment, insulate from the dispute a neutral establishment that industrially had no connection with it. This type of picketing certainly involved little, if any, "communication."
In Bakery and Pastry Drivers Local v. Wohl, 315 U. S. 769, in a very narrowly restricted decision, the Court held that, because of the impossibility of otherwise publicizing a legitimate grievance and because of the slight effect on "strangers" to the dispute, a State could not constitutionally prohibit a union from picketing bakeries in its efforts to have independent peddlers, buying from bakers and selling to small stores, conform to certain union requests. Although the Court in Ritter's Cafe and Wohl did not question the holding of Thornhill, the strong reliance on the particular facts in each case demonstrated a growing awareness that these cases involved not so much questions of free speech as review of the balance struck by a State between picketing that involved more than "publicity" and competing interests of state policy. (See also Cafeteria Employees Union v. Angelos, 320 U. S. 293, where the Court reviewed a New York injunction against picketing by a union of a restaurant that was run by the owners without employees. The New York court appeared to have justified an injunction on the alternate grounds that there was no "labor dispute" under the New York statute, or that use of untruthful placards justified the injunction. We held, in a brief opinion, that the abuses alleged
did not justify an injunction against all picketing, and that A. F. of L. v. Swing governed the alternate ground for decision.)
The implied reassessments of the broad language of the Thornhill case were finally generalized in a series of cases sustaining injunctions against peaceful picketing, even when arising in the course of a labor controversy, when such picketing was counter to valid state policy in a domain open to state regulation. The decisive reconsideration came in Giboney v. Empire Storage & Ice Co., 336 U. S. 490. A union, seeking to organize peddlers, picketed a wholesale dealer to induce it to refrain from selling to nonunion peddlers. The state courts, finding that such an agreement would constitute a conspiracy in restraint of trade in violation of the state antitrust laws, enjoined the picketing. This Court affirmed unanimously.
"It is contended that the injunction against picketing adjacent to Empire's place of business is an unconstitutional abridgment of free speech because the picketers were attempting peacefully to publicize truthful facts about a labor dispute. . . . But the record here does not permit this publicizing to be treated in isolation. For, according to the pleadings, the evidence, the findings, and the argument of the appellants, the sole immediate object of the publicizing adjacent to the premises of Empire, as well as the other activities of the appellants and their allies, was to compel Empire to agree to stop selling ice to nonunion peddlers. Thus, all of appellants' activities . . . constituted a single and integrated course of conduct, which was in violation of Missouri's valid law. In this situation, the injunction did no more than enjoin an offense against Missouri law, a felony."
Id. at 336 U. S. 497-498.
The Court therefore concluded that it was
"clear that appellants were doing more than exercising a right of free speech or press. . . . They were exercising their economic power, together with that of their allies, to compel Empire to abide by union, rather than by state, regulation of trade."
Id. at 336 U. S. 503.
The following Term, the Court decided a group of cases applying and elaborating on the theory of Giboney. In Hughes v. Superior Court, 339 U. S. 460, the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment did not bar use of the injunction to prohibit picketing of a place of business solely to secure compliance with a demand that its employees be hired in percentage to the racial origin of its customers.
"We cannot construe the Due Process Clause as prohibiting California from securing respect for its policy against involuntary employment on racial lines by prohibiting systematic picketing that would subvert such policy."
Id. at 339 U. S. 466. The Court also found it immaterial that the state policy had been expressed by the judiciary, rather than by the legislature.
On the same day, the Court decided Teamsters Union v. Hanke, 339 U. S. 470, holding that a State was not restrained by the Fourteenth Amendment from enjoining picketing of a business, conducted by the owner himself without employees, in order to secure compliance with a demand to become a union shop. Although there was no one opinion for the Court, its decision was another instance of the affirmance of an injunction against picketing because directed against a valid public policy of the State.
A Third case, Building Service Employees v. Gazzam, 339 U. S. 532, was decided the same day. Following an unsuccessful attempt at unionization of a small hotel and refusal by the owner to sign a contract with the union as bargaining agent, the union began to picket the hotel with signs stating that the owner was unfair to organized
labor. The State, finding that the object of the picketing was in violation of its statutory policy against employer coercion of employees' choice of bargaining representative, enjoined picketing for such purpose. This Court affirmed, rejecting the argument that
"the Swing case, supra, is controlling. . . . In that case, this Court struck down the State's restraint of picketing based solely on the absence of an employer-employee relationship. An adequate basis for the instant decree is the unlawful objective of the picketing, namely, coercion by the employer of the employees' selection of a bargaining representative. Peaceful picketing for any lawful purpose is not prohibited by the decree under review."
A similar problem was involved in Plumbers Union v. Graham, 345 U. S. 192, where a state court had enjoined, as a violation of its "Right to Work" law, picketing that advertised that nonunion men were being employed on a building job. This Court found that there was evidence in the record supporting a conclusion that a substantial purpose of the picketing was to put pressure on the general contractor to eliminate nonunion men from the job and, on the reasoning of the cases that we have just discussed, held that the injunction was not in conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment.
This series of cases, then, established a broad field in which a State, in enforcing some public policy, whether of its criminal or its civil law, and whether announced by its legislature or its courts, could constitutionally enjoin peaceful picketing aimed at preventing effectuation of that policy.
In the light of this background, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in 1955 decided, on an agreed statement of facts, the case of Pappas v. Stacey, 151 Me. 36, 42, 116 A.2d 497, 500. From the statement, it appeared that three union employees went on strike and picketed a restaurant peacefully
"for the sole purpose of seeking to organize other
employees of the Plaintiff, ultimately to have the Plaintiff enter into collective bargaining and negotiations with the Union. . . ."
Maine had a statute providing that workers should have full liberty of self-organization, free from restraint by employers or other persons. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court drew the inference from the agreed statement of facts that
"there is a steady and exacting pressure upon the employer to interfere with the free choice of the employees in the matter of organization. To say that the picketing is not designed to bring about such action is to forget an obvious purpose of the picketing -- to cause economic loss to the business during noncompliance by the employees with the request of the union."
It therefore enjoined the picketing, and an appeal was taken to this Court.
The whole series of cases discussed above allowing, as they did, wide discretion to a State in the formulation of domestic policy, and not involving a curtailment of free speech in its obvious and accepted scope, led this Court, without the need of further argument, to grant appellee's motion to dismiss the appeal in that it no longer presented a substantial federal question. 350 U.S. 870.
The Stacey case is this case. As in Stacey, the present case was tried without oral testimony. As in Stacey, the highest state court drew the inference from the facts that the picketing was to coerce the employer to put pressure on his employers to join the union, in violation of the declared policy of the State. (For a declaration of similar congressional policy, see § 8 of the National Labor Relations Act, 61 Stat. 140, 29 U.S.C. § 158.) The cases discussed above all hold that, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment, a State may enjoin such conduct.
Of course, the mere fact that there is "picketing" does not automatically justify its restraint without an investigation into its conduct and purposes. State courts, no
more than state legislatures, can enact blanket prohibitions against picketing. Thornhill v. Alabama and A. F. of L. v. Swing, supra. The series of cases following Thornhill and Swing demonstrate that the policy of Wisconsin enforced by the prohibition of this picketing is a valid one. In this case, the circumstances set forth in the opinion of the Wisconsin Supreme Court afford a rational basis for the inference it drew concerning the purpose of the picketing. No question was raised here concerning the breadth of the injunction, but, of course, its terms must be read in the light of the opinion of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which justified it on the ground that the picketing was for the purpose of coercing the employer to coerce his employees.
"If astuteness may discover argumentative excess in the scope of the [injunction] beyond what we constitutionally justify by this opinion, it will be open to petitioners to raise the matter, which they have not raised here, when the [case] on remand [reaches] the [Wisconsin] court."
Teamsters Union v. Hanke, 339 U.S. at 339 U. S. 480-481.
Therefore, having deemed it appropriate to elaborate on the issues in the case, we affirm.
MR. JUSTICE WHITTAKER took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, with whom THE CHIEF JUSTICE and MR. JUSTICE BLACK concur, dissenting.
The Court has now come full circle. In Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 U. S. 88, 310 U. S. 102, we struck down a state ban on picketing on the ground that
"the dissemination of information concerning the facts of a labor dispute must be regarded as within that area of free discussion that is guaranteed by the Constitution."
Less than one year later, we held that the First Amendment protected organizational
picketing on a factual record which cannot be distinguished from the one now before us. A. F. of L. v. Swing, 312 U. S. 321. Of course, we have always recognized that picketing has aspects which make it more than speech. Bakery and Pastry Drivers Local v. Wohl, 315 U. S. 769, 315 U. S. 776-777 (concurring opinion). That difference underlines our decision in Giboney v. Empire Storage & Ice Co., 336 U. S. 490. There, picketing was an essential part of "a single and integrated course of conduct, which was in violation of Missouri's valid law." Id. at 336 U. S. 498. And see Labor Board v. Virginia Elec. & Power Co., 314 U. S. 469, 314 U. S. 477-478. We emphasized that
"there was clear danger, imminent and immediate, that unless restrained, appellants would succeed in making [the state] policy a dead letter. . . ."
336 U.S. at 336 U. S. 503. Speech there was enjoined because it was an inseparable part of conduct which the State constitutionally could and did regulate.
But where, as here, there is no rioting, no mass picketing, no violence, no disorder, no fisticuffs, no coercion -- indeed nothing but speech -- the principles announced in Thornhill and Swing should give the advocacy of one side of a dispute First Amendment protection.
The retreat began when, in Teamsters Union v. Hanke, 339 U. S. 470, four members of the Court announced that all picketing could be prohibited if a state court decided that that picketing violated the State's public policy. The retreat became a rout in Plumbers Union v. Graham, 345 U. S. 192. It was only the "purpose" of the picketing which was relevant. The state court's characterization of the picketers' "purpose" had been made well nigh conclusive. Considerations of the proximity of picketing to conduct which the State could control or prevent were abandoned, and no longer was it necessary for the state court's decree to be narrowly drawn to prescribe a specific evil. Id. at 345 U. S. 201-205 (dissenting opinion).
Today, the Court signs the formal surrender. State courts and state legislatures cannot fashion blanket prohibitions on all picketing. But, for practical purposes, the situation now is as it was when Senn v. Tile Layers Union, 301 U. S. 468, was decided. State courts and state legislatures are free to decide whether to permit or suppress any particular picket line for any reason other than a blanket policy against all picketing. I would adhere to the principle announced in Thornhill. I would adhere to the result reached in Swing. I would return to the test enunciated in Giboney -- that this form of expression can be regulated or prohibited only to the extent that it forms an essential part of a course of conduct which the State can regulate or prohibit. I would reverse the judgment below.
Oral Argument - February 26, 1957
First Party
Teamsters Union
Second Party
Vogt, Inc.
Argued
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Rice’s holdings in the Canadian energy companies could be considered a major conflict of interest should she be picked as the next Secretary of State. Keystone would cross an international border, so it would ultimately be up to the State Department and its secretary to approve or reject the company’s application to build the pipeline.
Reports suggest she could sell her shares or put them in a blind trust to avoid a conflict, should she be appointed as Clinton’s replacement by President Barack Obama.
According to a spokesperson for Rice, she has followed all of the financial reporting laws required of her as a public servant, "and is committed to continuing to meet these obligations," Erin Pelton reportedly said in a statement to reporters.
Still, environmentalists who oppose the oilsands and the Keystone XL pipeline expressed concern this week at the news that Rice is so heavily invested in them, and her appointment risks angering Obama’s supporters on the left.
But Republicans could face a dilemma now opposing Rice’s appointment over comments she made about the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya — that it appeared to have sprung from a protest, and not a pre-planned attack — since the party is keen to have the pipeline approved, a move Rice would likely support.
Rice is married to a Canadian, TV producer Ian Cameron, and also worked in Toronto as a management consultant in the 1990s.
And much of Rice’s significant wealth — estimated at between $20 and $40 million — is invested elsewhere in Canada. She has millions wrapped up in Canadian banks, as well as investments in Maple Leaf Foods, RIM, Canadian Pacific Railway, and Rogers.
She also owns between $15,000 and $50,000 in Canadian Tire money — err — stocks.
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Fela Kuti and The New Afrika Shrine
Nigerian musician and composer Fela Anikulapo Kuti | © Laurent Rebours/AP/REX/Shutterstock
Lize Okoh
Updated: 3 September 2018
Fela Kuti was a celebrated Nigerian musician who spoke against corruption and bad governance. His nightclub, The New Afrika Shrine, plays host to the yearly Felabration festivities, with both serving as a lasting legacy, ensuring the name Fela is forever ingrained in the memories of Nigerians the world over.
A brief introduction to Fela Kuti
Fela Kuti is arguably the most legendary of Nigeria’s exports. Prominent in the 1960s and 1970s, Fela was a multi-instrumentalist composer, founding father of the Afrobeat music genre, and human rights activist.
One of his most popular songs, titled I.T.T. (International Thief Thief), was a song that spoke about the legacy of the European colonisation of Africa. This song and many others like it, with electrifying beats, riffs and somewhat humorous and catchy lyrics, speak power to how Nigerian and other Africans were suffering under post-colonialism and government corruption.
Fela remains well revered to this day for his activism, his unconventional lifestyle, and for his contribution towards revolutionising the Nigerian music scene.
Fela Anikulapo Kuti performs at the "Party of Humankind" of the French Communist Party at La Courneuve in Paris, France
© Laurent Rebours/AP/REX/Shutterstock
The original Afrika Shrine
One of Fela’s keyboardists, Dele Sosimi, revealed that in 1971 the venue at which Fela performed most frequently became known as ‘The Afrika Shrine’. On Saturdays he’d request a moment of silence during his performance to pay homage to the ancestors and gods, and then perform a ritual that usually took about 10 to 15 minutes. Sosimi added that Sundays were usually family-orientated, so that parents could take their children to watch the performance. Tuesdays were ‘Ladies Free’ nights, and Fridays were reserved for discussions about current affairs and the politics of the day.
The Afrika Shrine was opened with the hope of creating a haven with disregard for class or status, where ordinary people could come together and be themselves.
Fela continued to performed at his infamous Afrika Shrine whenever he was in Lagos, until 1977 when it was raided by police and subsequently burned down.
The New Afrika Shrine
In October 2000, on the third anniversary of Fela’s death, his eldest son, Femi, opened The New Afrika Shrine in celebration and in honour of his father’s memory. Four times bigger than the original, The New Afrika Shrine is a cultural centre for the community and accommodates up to 2,000 people.
New Afrika Shrine
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The New Afrika Shrine is now an open-air entertainment venue, which hosts a variety of events including performances by Femi Kuti and his band The Positive Force. Other artists who have performed at the shrine include Fuji artist Remi Aluko, contemporary Nigerian stars such as Wizkid, Olamide, Lil Kesh and Reekado Banks, and Fela’s son, Seun Kuti, who performs on the last Saturday of every month. Entrance to the venue is free on most occasions.
While enjoying the entertainment and atmosphere, guests are also able to indulge in local delicacies such as jollof rice, ofada and ayamase, peppered snails and moi moi, served by chefs from the onsite restaurant, NAS Kitchen operated by Fadekemi Adepeju, the younger sister of Fela’s personal chef.
The vibrant and energetic spirit of Fela is kept alive with paintings and artworks of him around the venue.
On July 3, 2018, France’s current president, Emmanuel Macron became the first president in history to visit The New Afrika Shrine.
Felabration
Felabration is an annual, week-long music festival established in 1998 by Yeni Anikulapo Kuti, Fela’s daughter, to celebrate the memory and life of Fela Kuti. The celebration usually takes place over the week of Fela’s birthday in October, at The New Afrika Shrine in Ikeja, Lagos. It attracts visitors from all over the world, making it an official tourist destination by the Lagos State Government.
Dancers prepare for their performance at the 2014 Felabration
© Emmanuel Ogabi / WikiCommons
Felabration features performances from top music acts from Nigeria, as well as guest performances from other international musicians and personalities. The celebration also includes street performances, photo exhibitions and debates.
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Details of Tax Revenue - Dominican Republic
Americas Desk: dev.americas@oecd.org
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Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean
Revenue Statistics in LAC Countries is a joint publication by the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, the OECD Development Centre, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) , the Inter-American Center for Tax Administrations (CIAT) and the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB). It presents detailed, internationally comparable data on tax revenues for 25 Latin American and Caribbean economies, two of which (Chile and Mexico) are OECD members. Its approach is based on the well-established methodology of the OECD Revenue Statistics (OECD, 2018), which has become an essential reference source for OECD member countries. Comparisons are also made with the average for OECD economies. Comparable tables show total tax revenue data and by tax as a percentage of GDP, and, for the different types of taxes, as a share of total taxation. Detailed country tables show information in national currency values
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Ministerio de Hacienda (Ministry of Finance).
Source Periodicity
Year ending 31st December.
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Link to Release calendar
This data is released at the same time as the annual OECD Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean. The latest edition became available in March, 2019.
Population & Scope
Institutional coverage
The figures exclude local government tax revenues as the data are not available.
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The data are on a cash basis.
The figures exclude social security contributions to general government managed by the private sector.
Details of Tax Revenue - Dominican RepublicContact person/organisation
Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbeanhttp://www.oecd.org/ctp/revenue-statistics-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-24104736.htmInstitutional coverage
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Tag Archives: House-spouse
Temptation in matrimony
Posted on 2014/05/09 by Belgian Biblestudents - Belgische Bijbelstudenten
165 Abundant peace belongs to those who love your law;+ Nothing can make them stumble. {Or “For them there is no stumbling block.”}
165 Abundant peace belongs to those loving your law,+ And for them there is no stumbling block.+ (RefB)
who love your law:
(Psalm 1:2, 3): 2 But his delight is in the law of Jehovah,+ And he reads His law in an undertone* day and night.+3 He will be like a tree planted by streams of water, A tree that produces fruit in its season, The foliage of which does not wither. And everything he does will succeed.+
(Proverbs 3:1, 2):3 My son, do not forget my teaching,* And may your heart observe my commandments, 2 Because they will add many days And years of life and peace to you.+
(Isaiah 32:17): 17 The result of true righteousness will be peace,+ And the fruitage of true righteousness will be lasting tranquillity and security.+
(Isaiah 48:18): 18 If only you would pay attention to my commandments!+ Then your peace would become just like a river+ And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.+
(Psalm 19:7): 7 The law of Jehovah is perfect,+ restoring strength.*+ The reminder of Jehovah is trustworthy,+ making the inexperienced one wise.+
(Psalm 40:8): 8 To do your will, O my God, is my delight,*+ And your law is deep within me.+
(Psalm 112:1): 112 Praise Jah!*+א [Aleph] Happy is the man who fears Jehovah,+ב [Beth] Who takes great pleasure in his commandments.+
(Matthew 5:3): 3 “Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need,*+ since the Kingdom of the heavens belongs to them.
(Romans 7:22): 22 I really delight in the law of God according to the man I am within,+
(James 1:25): 25 But the one who peers into the perfect law+ that belongs to freedom and continues in it has become, not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work; and he will be happy in what he does.+
Abundant peace belongs to those loving [God’s] law, and for them there is no stumbling block.—Ps. 119:165.
22 Suddenly he goes after her, like a bull to the slaughter, Like a fool to be punished in the stocks,*+23 Until an arrow pierces his liver; Like a bird rushing into a trap, he does not know that it will cost him his life.*+ (Proverbs 7-22-23)
7 Do not be misled: God is not one to be mocked. For whatever a person is sowing, this he will also reap;+ (Galatians 6:7)
Woman Taken in Adultery – Harmon Foundation; National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
If you find yourself tempted to develop an improper romantic relationship, meditate on the damaging consequences of fornication and adultery. (Proverbs 7:22,23; Galatians 6:7)
Those who commit immorality displease Jehovah and hurt their spouse and themselves. (Malachai 2:13,14) In contrast, contemplate the benefits that come to those who maintain chaste conduct. Not only do they have the hope of living forever but they also enjoy the best life now, including a clean conscience. (Proverbs 3:1,2) So love the truth, and “keep strict watch that how you walk is not as unwise but as wise persons” in these wicked times. (Ephesians 5:15,16) We are well-equipped to protect ourselves from the traps set by Satan (= the evil). Jehovah has given us what we need to “stand firm” and “quench all the wicked one’s burning missiles”! — (Ephesians 6:11,16). w12 8/15 4:18, 19
10 Finally, go on acquiring power+ in the Lord and in the mightiness of his strength. 11 Put on the complete suit of armor+ from God so that you may be able to stand firm against the crafty acts* of the Devil; 12 because we have a struggle,*+ not against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the wicked spirit forces+ in the heavenly places. 13 For this reason take up the complete suit of armor from God,+ so that you may be able to resist in the wicked day and, after you have accomplished everything, to stand firm.
14 Stand firm, therefore, with the belt of truth fastened around your waist,+ wearing the breastplate of righteousness,+ 15 and having your feet shod in readiness to declare the good news of peace.+ 16 Besides all of this, take up the large shield of faith,+ with which you will be able to extinguish all the wicked one’s burning arrows.*+ 17 Also, accept the helmet of salvation,+ and the sword of the spirit, that is, God’s word,+ 18 while with every form of prayer+ and supplication you carry on prayer on every occasion in spirit.+ And to that end stay awake, constantly making supplication in behalf of all the holy ones. 19 Pray also for me, that the words may be given to me when I open my mouth, so that I may be able to speak boldly in making known the sacred secret of the good news,+ 20 for which I am acting as an ambassador+ in chains, and that I may speak about it with boldness, as I ought to speak. (Ephesians 6:10-20)
Preceding articles:
Father and motherhood
Father counterpart of the mother
Dignified role for the woman
Gender roles and Multitasking parents
Loving and having respect for the woman
Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: Verleiding in het huwelijk
Find more to read:
No time for immorality
Don’t cut your conscience to fit this year’s fashions.
What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness
Importance of parents 1
Doctrine and Conduct Cause and Effect
Fragments from the Book of Job #3: chapters 21-26
I Only hope we find GOD again before it is too late !
People Seeking for God 2 Human interpretations
Science, belief, denial and visibility 2
Philosophy hand in hand with spirituality
The Third Word: Scripture twisting is blasphemy
Sincerity not a test of truth
Act as if everything you think, say and do determines your entire life
Truth never plays false roles of any kind, which is why people are so surprised when meeting it
Fixing our attention
How to look for and how to handle the Truth
The truth is very plain to see and God can be clearly seen
Getting to know the Truth
Determined To Stick With Truth.
Unarmed truth and unconditional love
It is a free will choice
United people under Christ
A Righteous War (jehovahswatchtower.wordpress.com)
The Bible mentions many battles that were fought throughout the ages. War has been a fact of life for mankind for thousands of years.
Whatever happened to Sodom & Gomorrah?
Today’s news articles tend to show that Gays are gaining some acceptance and many people in the world today tend to believe that Homosexual people are just as entitled to the benefits, respect and rights that normal people enjoy. It appears that being Gay is gradually gaining respectability as a life style.
A Warning Message That Most People Will Ignore Just Like in Jeremiah’s Day
Jehovah has sent his messengers to warn mankind of an impending destruction. And they too were told by means of the Bible – that
the vast majority of mankind will not listen.
God’s faithful messengers have never been popular. People did not appreciate them or their message. They detested and persecuted the messenger. Instead of becoming angry with God who composed the message, they poured out their wrath upon the faithful servant who delivered it. It has always been so. Therefore, it should be no surprise today.
How the Lord’s Advent becomes effective in the Individual Man (havau22.wordpress.com)
The effect of the Lord’s perpetual presence is, that man is made rational, and that he can become spiritual. This is effected by the light proceeding from the Lord as a sun in the spiritual world, which man receives in his understanding; and that light is the truth by which he has rationality.
Psalm 34 | Bible Resources (spiceofyourlife.wordpress.com)
The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
It’s My [Pity] Party And I’ll Cry If I Want To (laurarogers09.wordpress.com)
The chaos, the tears, the frustration, and the unknown. All you know is that God loves you and that He is working all things for your good (Romans 8:28), but right now it just feels like you’re an ant and God is a kid with a magnifying glass. You’re tired, desperately needing rest- physically and spiritually. You need a minute to just be still and rest in Him, but you look at your laundry list of things to do and the moment of peace slips away.
It may be true that “History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new… We don’t remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now.” Ecclesiastes 1:9,11. This may sound abysmal to you, but I find that it gives me confidence that I will overcome whatever hardship I face and nobody, not even me, will recall how terrible it was once it is over. How often do we go through hardships and look back and think to ourselves “it was worth it” or “I would do it again in a heartbeat?” It may be annoying to think that way in the midst of a difficult time, but I think that it is the right thing to do.
How Can God’s Guidance Bring Us Happiness Now?
The standards and principles of human relations in the Scriptures are practical, eternal, and universal. When families apply them, homelife improves. Consider the importance of love, respect, and communication. How much happier many families would be if each member always applied the principle: “You must love your fellow as yourself”! (Leviticus 19:18) How much happier many marriages would be if mates respected each other and communicated freely and considerately, as did Elkanah and Hannah!—1 Samuel 1:8.
Facing the Loss of Your Mate
what if the husband or the wife dies? Then that bond, unbreakable in life, is broken. The surviving widow or widower is often left with a blend of heartache, loneliness, and maybe even some anger or guilt. During her marriage of 58 years, Daniella knew many who lost their mates. * But after her husband died, she said: “I never understood this experience before. There is no way to comprehend it until you go through it.”
Is premarital sex wrong?
The Bible uses the word “fornication” for some forms of sexual activity outside marriage. God expects his worshippers to “abstain from fornication.” (1 Thessalonians 4:3) Fornication is listed as a serious sin, as are adultery, spiritism, drunkenness, idolatry, murder, and thievery.—1 Corinthians 6:9, 10;Revelation 21:8.
When discussing immoral sexual practices, the Bible mentions not only fornication but also sexual “uncleanness” and “loose conduct.” (2 Corinthians 12:21) Clearly, there are various forms of sexual intimacy that are offensive to God when performed outside marriage, even when there is no intercourse.
Demon Possession and Pornography
“The first change that happened was an addiction-effect.The porn-consumers got hooked. Once involved in pornographic materials, they kept coming back for more and still more. The material seemed to provide a very powerful sexual stimulant or aphrodisiac effect, followed by sexual release, most often through masturbation.”
-Dr. Victor B. Cline is a psychologist at the University of Utah
“The second phase was an escalation-effect. With the passage of time, the addicted person required rougher, more explicit, more deviant, and ‘kinky’ kinds of sexual material to get their ‘highs’ and ‘sexual turn-ons.’ … Being married or in a relationship with a willing sexual partner did not solve their problem. Their addiction and escalation were mainly due to the powerful sexual imagery in their minds, implanted there by the exposure to pornography. They often prefer this sexual imagery, accompanied by masturbation, to sexual intercourse itself.
This nearly always diminished their capacity to love and express affection … Their sex drive is diverted to a degree away from their spouse-and the spouse easily senses this, and often feels very lonely and rejected.”
Doomed to Divorce?
Did the gloomy statistics about parenting kids with special needs mean our marriage was bound to fail?
many writers still suggest that as many as 80 percent of marriages with children with special needs end in divorce, recent studies don’t actually bear out this claim. In 2010, a study published in the Journal of Family Psychology demonstrated that the divorce rate for parents of children with autism is 24 percent. While this rate is 10 percent higher than that of the average family in this study, it is still a far cry from the 80 percent number that gets bandied about. Moreover, this study demonstrated a lower rate of divorce among parents of children with Down syndrome than the general population.
What If Your Spouse Cheats?When you married, if you’re like most couples, you made a vow pledging your faithfulness. But now you’ve discovered your spouse didn’t take that vow seriously. It doesn’t matter whether it was a one-night stand or a long-term affair, the results are the same—your spouse’s action has left in its wake fear, doubt, distrust, betrayal, hurt, and anger.Ultimately, it’s what you do with these emotions—how you process them—that makes the difference. For you and your marriage’s sake, you need to process these emotions in a positive way.
Retaliation is a common but negative response. Vengeful tactics include having an affair yourself to show your unfaithful spouse what it feels like to be betrayed or going to her workplace to cause a scene. Any effort at revenge is doomed to failure. Returning wrong for wrong simply makes the other person feel less guilty and stimulates him or her to return fire for fire.
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Poverty and conservative role patterns
In the industrialised countries sometimes we can not help to get the impression that women are still more than once looked at as a lust-object.
Until the second half of the 20th century, women in most societies were denied some of the legal and political rights according to men. It has taken a very long time before women got the right to vote and to have their say in the house, community, village, city, country. In many industrialised countries the women got interesting positions but are not yet equally paid and do have to prove themselves twice as hard than the men. They may be allowed to share their thoughts and may have gained significant legal rights, we still can not neglect that women still do not have equality with men. This is evident at home, at their workplace, and in society in general.
In the 1890s when gender role reversals could be caricaturized, the idea of an aggressive woman who also smoked was considered laughable. In 1929, Edward Bernays proved otherwise when he convinced women to smoke in public during an Easter parade in Manhattan as a show of defiance against male domination. The demonstrators were not aware that a tobacco company was behind the publicity stunt. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The traditional role of man was to work and make money, which would be used by all in the household. The traditional role of the woman was to stay at home, take care of the children, clean the house, and cook. Because society has always associated money with power, the person bringing home the money had the power. The man often made the final decision on all household matters because he had the money. Women were treated like they were property of men, with no voice about their own fate.
In many countries there are still more job offers for men and is it still easier for a man to climb the social ladder. A man can have both a family and a successful career whereas women who want to fulfil themselves as professionals have to sacrifice their personal life in most cases or, if they choose to have a family as well, they are sometimes regarded as bad mothers because they do not allocate 24 hours a day to raising their children.
Our society takes it for granted that the woman should take care for the children. The woman is made to take care of her own personal life and as a mother, she also has to take care of her children´s life. Lots of man still want to keep up their ‘higher position’ and look down at women who want to step onto the ladder of progress and a better position in business. On the other hand others do find the women who stay at home are lazy and are not willing to contribute to the welfare of the family, where the man should be the one who has to decide everything and the wife only has to follow his will. but many of the contemporary society do not see that the person wanting to stay at home to take care of the children and the household should not at all be idle. the important task of bringing up children looks to be one of the most neglected tasks of this age. Women will always be important to society because they bring a sense of love, and emotion, and for this reason at least, society should start considering their situation more carefully.
Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, USA (1942). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Our society has to become more aware that there is no superior or inferior person. We are all the same, created in the image of God the Divine Creator, so to consider that women are not as good as men is very wrong. Only to give women lesser roles to play in our society is not showing the full respect the woman deserves. We also should teach children that women can not be inferior just because they’re not men. Typecasting also can be a very dangerous sport. Women can do whatever a man can do and parents should let male and female children swap duties and play with the toys they would like to play with. In case a boy wants to play with puppets or dresses they should allow them, but should never try to impose on those children that because they prefer to play with puppets, that they would be gay.
Lots of gender problems we encounter today are provided by the specific typecasting of women’s and men’s roles, in the previous years. It is our willingness how to look at women and men which is going to decide how people are going to treat others, also those who have a gender complexity or gender questions. The role of women in our society may have changed significantly and positively in the past three decades, but we still may find that girls are pushed by their parents in certain fields of study. Though we must be honest, in countries like Belgium, women do receive many opportunities and are challenged in all sorts of fields which fifty years ago were considered male jobs. A minus point in Belgium is that for several jobs done by women, they are still paid less than men, and that should be corrected.
Child care arrangements for children under age 5 with employed mothers (by income); low income is defined as below 200% of the federal poverty level; source of data: http://mchb.hrsa.gov/mchirc/chusa_04/pages/0310wm.htm (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Women and girls may have many more opportunities and face different challenges today, but often men leave them behind with the children, creating very difficult situations to avoid poverty. When we consider 60% of the average national income and the inability to receive enough income to pay for rent and living costs to be the poverty line than we notice that 14.7% of Belgians live below the poverty line, and that 22% of the women face poverty. Today Belgian industry should shame itself that it is possible that bakeries can ask 2,65€ for a brown loaf of 600 grammes whilst the person is only receiving 822 euros per month for singles and 1,726 euros per month for a couple with two children. Who can live on such a low income when we have to face rents of 750€ to 1200€ for a small flat?
In Belgium, one in seven people have to do with less! Increased energy prices and rising rents and housing affect our purchasing power and especially people with low incomes are there to suffer.
Risk factors for insecurity and poverty include divorce, economic dependence on a ( new ) partner, very low skills, long-term unemployment or weak employment situation, a debt mountain, old age. Retired persons are having it more difficult to cope and are not allowed to earn much extra or they loose their retirement premium. Because women are still living longer than men, they are the worst victim in that poverty range.
That there is still gender inequality we can see at the number of single mothers who take more than 80 % of single-parent families. Female heads of households are at high risk to be below the poverty threshold. After all, they accumulate the problems of struggling families where there is only one breadwinner with the weaker socio – economic position of women and the inefficiency of the social protection, such as inadequate protection of the unpaid care work and too limited compensation for the cost of children.
Married women staying at home form a larger and hidden group under the insecure women. Because of the generalization of the two-earner position the double income has become the average income welfare standard. The shrinking number of working women at home without income or benefit concentrates more and more among the low-skilled women with several children and by parents who made the choice that it is more important to have a spiritual upbringing than a material upbringing. For these women the benefits of a professional job outside the house do not outweigh by the accumulation of work and family responsibilities. Moreover, their lack of education and work experience and their economic dependence on a partner makes them a particularly vulnerable group .
Older single women are affected by the income -based pension. The wage gap against women in the labour market and by an incomplete career as a result of caring for children and relatives, many women receive in retirement hardly the statutory minimum. The fear of not going to receive any allotment making it possible to live properly when retired makes that many women do not want to take on house-duties, and prefer to have their children placed in childcare, while they can create a better and often a more than necessary income for the family.
The legal form that it is not necessary to have the marriage bond of man-woman, but that people can choose either to have a same gender matrimony or a looser living-together or cohabit contract, where people can more easily and legally swap partner, makes the position for the female person even weaker. We only can observe that in the end it seems in most cases the women are left with the children.
In the new-constituent families with the same sex parents, we can find similar questions coming up for whom is going to be the one who takes care for the behavioural education. They also will be looked at by others when one of the partners chooses to take care of the children and to give them special personal love and that extra education the schools are not providing any more.
An example of a stay at home dad and kids. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The number of stay-at-home dads began gradually increasing in the late 20th century, especially in developed Western nations. Though the role is subject to many stereotypes, and men may have difficulties accessing parenting benefits, communities, and services targeted at mothers, it became more socially acceptable by the 2000s, but now it starts loosing interest again because it becomes financially more difficult to survive when there is only one person working in the household.
There are now financial ramifications in deciding whether the mother or father should become the stay-at-home parent. In cases where the woman is the higher-paid parent, it makes more economic sense for her to continue to work while the man takes on the caregiver role.
With the growth of telecommuting, many men are also able to work from home. this made that either the woman or the man can work at home and be there for the children. Differences in parent‘s schedules can also account for some of the stay-at-home dads. Sometimes the father works odd work shifts while the mother has a typical nine-to-five work schedule.
Some retired males who marry a younger woman decide to become stay-at-home dads while their wives work because they want a “second chance” to watch a child grow up in a second or third marriage.
The choice of one of the partners, be it a man or a woman to stay some of the time or most of the time at home, is not looked favourably by the present generation. Those who make such a choice often have to face a very negative attitude from the society around them.
The patronizing attitude taken on by many, makes it difficult for many parents to choose for bringing up their children with the Law of God and getting them to know the Word of God.
Those families who do find it important that their children feel the warmth of a caring family, finding a parent at home when they return from school, receiving that extra information about the Higher Being, are confronted with the negative attitude of our contemporary society for the ancient ‘woman role’ of ‘housewife’, or the contemporary position of ‘houseman’.
It is true that, when we want to be a Christian family, we shall have to make the choice of diving our time between, work, school, leisure time and worship time. This will demand economical sacrifices, but there we should consider what would be the more valuable. Shall the ability to go twice or three times abroad on holiday, having the newest generation of i-phone or tablet, bring happiness?
When we want to be a Christian family should we keep to conservative role patterns? No, Christians also should evolve with time and should be aware of the possibilities they can get to work together as equal partners creating a safe home-ground for their children. They also may look at the Old and New testament examples of how women and men divided their task between each other.
The conservative Christians who do find that women do not have to play any part in decision making and/or in teaching the Word of God, should look better at the many examples given in the Holy Scriptures where women proved a very good asset in the upbringing of children and teaching them the Word of God.
Because that Word of God does not receive enough attention any more in our regions we as parents shall have to make choices and shall have to divide the duties at home to create enough opportunities for both partners to develop professionally well, and to develop as partner and parent, trying to create a place where the Word of God can receive the appropriate place. To succeed in such matter, financial sacrifices shall have to be made, as well as the making of the choice who will spend time at home with the children when. The father as well as the mother should each take some duties in the household and man also shall have to accept that the woman also shall work at the spiritual well-being of the child.
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Census Says: Women Are Still Getting the Short End of the Stick (US) (feimineach.com)
In 2012, women were statistically much poorer than men. And women that were already poor in 2011 stayed that way.
one in seven women live in poverty. One in seven. That’s almost 17.8 million women – or 14.5% of the female population. For men, this percentage is lower, at 11%.
Recalibrating the poverty line (blogforarizona.com)
Our definition of poverty, Schwarz says, was calibrated in the 1960s and it’s in need of recalibration. Then, food was a third of an average family’s budget, and the poverty threshold was set at 3 times the cost of an adequate food diet. Today, food is one-sixth of an average family’s budget, but the poverty line is still set at three times the cost of buying food for a family.The poverty line is set at $23,500 for a family of four. According to Schwarz, it should be closer to $41,000.
Who’s Job Is It Anyway? (transnationalplanning.wordpress.com)
how much women were able to thrive in an environment where the men were somewhat “absent”, that is to say, they were not engaged in the affairs that these women were tackling for whatever reasons. Patel & Mitlin stated: “Most of the most powerful women leaders came from among the lower-income and most socially disadvantaged neighborhoods, in part because in these areas the man had given up.” It was amazing to see the role that these women were playing in their communities. Without them, who knows how much worse things would be for their families.
Perhaps what we need is not a clear demarcation of what each respective gender should be capable of doing but rather the unhindered opportunity for anyone to be able to address a need. This needs to be an approach accepted by both men and women. In a symbiotic relationship, each member does what is necessary because all will benefit from it. No one stands on ceremony and debates or dictates roles. It just gets done.
The disease of poverty is a doctor’s business everywhere (janeparry.wordpress.com)One fifth of Hong Kong’s population lives below the official poverty line. This was set for the first time in September 2013, at 50% of median monthly household income before tax and welfare transfers.Hong Kong has one of the highest per capita GDPs in Asia and ranks 11th globally, yet its Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality, indicates it has the worst income disparity in the developed world. The announcement of the poverty line and that there are 1.3 million people living below it has been big news in Hong Kong, but it hasn’t generated the sense of righteous outrage that such a statistic should.
The Shocking New Study On American Children In Poverty (davidmixner.com)
In America, 22.5% of our children live below the poverty line. That is also one out of every four children! That comes to 16,400,000 children living without their basic needs of food, shelter, clothes, education, etc being met by our society.
Women, Indigenous Australians identified in poverty report (abc.net.au)A 10-year study has found Australia’s most disadvantaged are more likely to be women, Indigenous, and have health problems.To coincide with national poverty week, researchers at the University of Canberra have released a study which tracked 900 people for a decade, who were identified as marginalised in 2001.
The study found 60 per cent of those identified by the study as marginalised in 2001 had escaped those conditions by 2010.
New Book Shows How to Curb Intergenerational Poverty (prweb.com)A new book, Parent Power: The Key to America’s Prosperity, by Dr. Jack Westman reveals the power parents have to create America’s productive citizens. They also have the power to create social problems in the context of intergenerational poverty.Dr. Westman calls attention to the fact that one-third of children and youth in the United States are failing in some aspect of their lives. The United States is at the top of the list of developed nations in child abuse and neglect and the bottom in educational achievement.
Five children die every day from abuse in the United States. Three million referrals are made to child protective services every year.
When gender inequality is good economics (globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com)
While we know that individuals, economies and societies would benefit from gender parity in the long term, gender inequality is often a perfectly rational choice for individuals in the short term.
Gender imbalances, and their resulting economic consequences, are still startlingly visible everywhere, from the developed world to emerging markets.
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Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés
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In 1923, after abandoning The Large Glass, Marcel Duchamp let it be known that he had stopped making art in order to devote himself to his favorite pastime, chess. Thus the news, after Duchamp's death in 1968, that he had actually spent the last two decades of his life working secretly on an elaborate, final project was greeted with universal surprise. Accompanied only by a carefully compiled installation manual, the content of the piece remained mysterious while its bold realism shocked both Duchamp's champions as well as his detractors. In accordance with the artist's final wishes, the piece was acquired by the Cassandra Foundation and offered to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where it took its place nearby the artist's other major works in 1969.
Michael R. Taylor is the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Michael R. Taylor (Author) with essays by Andrew Lins, Melissa S. Meighan, and Beth A. Price, Ken Sutherland, Scott Homolka, and Elena Torok
In his early thirties, Marcel Duchamp convinced everyone that he had abandoned making art in favor of playing chess. But from 1946 to 1966, he was secretly at work in his studio on West Fourteenth Street in New York City. There he produced his final masterpiece: Étant donnés: 1º la chute d’eau, 2º le gaz d’éclairage, composed of a battered wood door through which one views a prone, nude female, holding aloft an antique gas lamp against a landscape of trees, waterfall, and sky. Unveiled as a permanent installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in July 1969, the year after Duchamp’s death, the work startled the art world with its explicit eroticism and voyeurism, as well as its trompe l’oeil realism. Since its public debut, Étant donnés has been recognized as one of the most important and enigmatic works of the twentieth century.
Published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the original installation of Étant donnés and to accompany the first major exhibition on the work and its studies, this richly illustrated book presents a wealth of new research and documents that draw upon previously unpublished works of art, photographs, and other materials. The catalogue also examines the critical and artistic reception of Étant donnés, as evidenced by the subsequent work of Les Levine, Hannah Wilke, Robert Gober, Marcel Dzama, Ray Johnson, and other artists who have engaged with Duchamp’s provocative and challenging tableau-construction.
George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award 2009, Art Libraries Society of North America
Outstanding Catalogue Based on a Permanent Collection 2009, Association of Art Museum Curators
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The Jazz Head Collective – beijo
Jazz Head Entertainment proudly presents beijo, (bey-yo-Portuguese for Kiss). The third CD from The Jazz Head Collective continues to blend elements of Smooth Jazz, R&B, Funk, Neo Soul and hip hop. Touching your eardrums with soothing melodic, rhythmic tracks as well as tracks that are groovy and funky in their own nature. Available now on CDBaby, ITunes, Amazon, Spotify, Pandora and other digital music outlets.
Founded in 2013, JazzHead Entertainment, (also known as The Jazz Head Collective) is a record label, audio/video recording and photography studio. Base in Northern Virginia, the collective consist of producers, musicians and artist that work solo and as a group in crafting songs for JazzHead Entertainment as well as artist outside the label. The collective adds their own very special touch to each production by blending elements of Smooth Jazz, R&B, Funk, Neo Soul and hip hop. Touching your eardrums with soothing melodic, rhythmic tracks as well as tracks that are groovy and funky in their own nature.
This project is available at CDBaby.
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13 dead including deputy and gunman in California bar shooting
TravelWireNews EditorNovember 8, 2018 12:27 pm
Sacramento: Authorities in Thousand Oaks, California, northwest of Los Angeles, reported 13 fatalities at a bar and dance hall late on Wednesday after multiple shots were fired by a man inside.
Ron Helus, a sheriff’s sergeant, was among those killed. The gunman, who opened fire without warning, was found dead inside the Borderline Bar and Grill, authorities said. The venue was filled with young people for ‘College Country Night.”
Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said he had no reason to believe that there was a link to terrorism, “but we certainly will look at that option.” The only weapon recovered by early Thursday was a handgun, he said.
“It’s a horrific incident,” Dean told reporters. “It’s part of the horrors that are happening in our country and everywhere, and I think it’s impossible to put any logic or any sense to the senseless.”
The deputy, who died at the hospital about an hour after sustaining his injury, was a 29-year veteran of the force and was expecting to retire soon. He was survived by a wife and a son. “He died a hero,” Dean said, “because he went into save lives.”
In addition to the dead, Dean estimated that there were upward of 10 to 12 shooting victims who were “rescued from the scene and taken to local hospitals.” Additional victims with minor injuries fled the scene on their own, he added.
“I know there are parents wondering, ‘Oh my gosh, was one of my children in there? Or was it my sister or my brother?’” he said.
Reports of a shooter came in about 11:20pm Pacific time on Wednesday, and deputies arrived on the scene at 11:22pm, authorities said.
Helus, the sheriff’s sergeant entered the venue with a highway patrol officer several minutes later, at which point Helus was struck “multiple times,” Dean said. The highway patrol officer stepped back and secured the perimeter.
The gunfire briefly quieted, the sheriff said, as people scrambled to hide in restrooms and in attics.
“It was sheer panic,” said Teylor Whittler, 19, who was inside the venue at the time. “Everyone ran and dropped as fast as they could.”
She said she ran to the back door, where people crowded during a pause in the gunfire. “And then all, of a sudden, a couple of guys started running to the back door and said, ‘Get up he’s coming.’”
The Borderline Bar describes itself as the county’s largest country dance hall and live music venue. With a dance floor covering about 2,500 square feet, it is open until 2am five days a week.
Authorities said more than 100 were inside at the time of the shooting. Scores of colleges lie within a 20 mile radius of the bar, including Pepperdine University, California Lutheran University and Moorpark College.
Claire Gietzen told an ABC affiliate that she ran behind the bar when gunshots broke out, but then joined a man who pulled down a ladder leading into the attic.
“He motioned for me to follow him. I thought that was the best option at the time,” she said. “[We heard] gunshot after gunshot. I heard glass breaking. I heard commotion and screaming. We kept thinking it would stop for a while, that we were OK, and then it would start up again.”
Special weapons and tactics teams arrived on the scene a short time later, along with the FBI. Video from the scene showed bar-goers rushing injured people to medical response vehicles.
When the authorities re-entered the nightclub, they found the suspect — whom they believe to be the lone gunman — dead inside, Dean said.
“We don’t know who shot the deputy,” he added. “We don’t know who shot anybody at this point.”
He said that authorities have not yet identified the suspect.
Matt Wennerstrom of Newbury Park, California, a regular at the bar, described the shooter as a “tall figure,” over 6 feet, wearing “all dark clothing.” He said he saw the gunman open fire on employees working at the front of the bar.
“At that point I grabbed as many people around me as I could and pulled them down underneath the pool table that we were closest to until he ran out of bullets for that magazine and had to reload,” the eyewitness said.
During the pause, Wennerstrom, 20, said he and others threw barstools through a window and helped people escape. He told ABC he was able to push “30 or 35 people through that window.”
A man and his stepfather interviewed by ABC said they heard about 12 shots before they were able to exit through the front door of the nightclub.
“He fired the first shot,” the stepfather said. “And I knew it was real. My son thought it was a joke, so I pulled him down and got some cover. I looked up, and he was moving to the right. He shot the front doorman, who was just a young man. Then he shot the cashier, just a young girl.”
Multiple eyewitnesses described seeing smoke, possibly from smoke bombs.
Rochelle Hammons, 24, told The Post that she heard four shots before she was able to flee.
“All of a sudden we heard four shots, you know, ‘bang, bang, bang, bang.’ Everyone got down on the floor. Everyone ducked and covered each other,” she said. “As everyone crouched down on the floor, I figured that my only chance would be to run out to the nearest exit. I saw the nearest exit, and I ran out as fast as I could.”
From inside her car, she saw the first police officer arrive, she said. She rolled down her window and told him there was an active shooter inside.
“You gotta hurry, you gotta get in there,” she urged him.
The shooting unfolded just over a year after 58 people were killed at a country music festival in Las Vegas when Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
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Trevor brings to advertising a deep knowledge and experience in narrative filmmaking, having collaborated on projects alongside a variety of celebrated producers, directors and actors including Keanu Reeves, Will Smith, Jennifer Connelly, John Cleese and Wesley Snipes in the production of the Blade series, as well as apprenticed with director Scott Derrickson (Dr. Strange, Sinister) on feature films for Sony Pictures and 20th Century Fox.
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The Tulsa Oilers announced that their American Hockey League affiliate, the Manitoba Moose, have recalled forward Jiri Fronk and defenseman Brennan Serville.
Fronk, 22, has suited up for five games with the Oilers where he tallied two points (1 goal and 1 assist).
Serville, 22, has split time between the Oilers and Moose this season skating in 17 games with Tulsa and three with Manitoba. The Winnipeg Jets 2011 draft pick (round 3, #78 overall) has registered one assist with the Oilers.
The Oilers finish their weekend on the road tonight against the Fort Wayne Komets at 7:30 p.m EST.
Third year pro, Emerson Clark, is spending his first season here in Tulsa. Clark is a left wing hailing from Whitby, a suburb of Toronto, Ontario. The twenty three year old spent four years in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) before signing his first professional contract with the Toledo Walleye also of the ECHL. As a junior in the OHL, Clark produced a total of twenty-six goals and eighteen assists. He also made two playoff appearances.
Clark’s spent a few years with Greenville, South Carolina’s ECHL team, playing a total of ninety-six regular season games with the team. His stint in North Carolina gave him a fourteen game playoff experience where he was able to post two goals along with three assists. During those fourteen games, Clark was awarded thirty-five penalty minutes. During his final full season (2014-2015) in Greenville, he lead the team in penalty minutes with a grand total of 217 penalty minutes and ranked third among the team for goals.
Clark spent nine games during the current season in Greensville before he was traded to Tulsa. In his first game representing the Oilers, Clark scored a goal against the league leaders, Missouri. The next day he pulled an assist at Allen and at the end of January he had a Gordie Howe hat trick. A Gordie Howe hat trick is named after the great Gordie Howe. When a player has a goal, an assist and a fight in a single night, they receive rights to another Gordie pack!
Currently, Clark is on loan to the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League, affiliates of the St. Louis Blues. Since his arrival in Chicago, Clark has played in six games, scored a goal and recorded an assist. Emerson hasn’t shied away from the penalty box in the windy city, in fact, he has recorded eighteen minutes while he has been there.
Tom Kroshus, an ivy leaguer, is also spending his first season in the Tulsa Oilers locker room. Kroshus spent his undergrad years at the prestigious Princeton University. As a matter of fact, Kroshus isn’t the only one in the family who is both intellectually and athletically talented. He has an all-american cross country runner sister that also attended Princeton and a brother who played hockey for an ivy league opponent, Harvard.
Before heading off to the Tiger orange and black, Kroshus played two years in the Canadian Junior Leagues. While in the juniors he played for two leagues where he scored thirteen goals and assisted in twenty-six others in a single season. After he made it to Princeton, he developed into a team leader. He was placed on the ECAC All-Academic Team his final three seasons and during his senior year, Kroshus was awarded the Tucker Ironman Award through the team.
The Calgary, Alberta native has played in sixteen games with the Oilers, scored five assists and received seventeen minutes in the penalty box.
You can catch both Emerson Clark, as soon as he returns from the windy city, and Tom Kroshus right here in Tulsa at one of upcoming games this season. Both Clark and Kroshus have become extremely important to the Oilers in the limited time that they have been here. They make the game fun and exciting to watch. While both of these players are still considered rookies, their skill levels are quite impressive. You aren’t going to want to miss catching these two players this season. We only have five regular season games at the BOK Center. March 18th and 19th, as well as another back to back set March 29th and 30th. Our fan appreciation night will be on our final game of the regular season, Saturday, April 9th. These games are the perfect events for family fun. Mark some games in your calendar and make way for some super exciting things to do in Tulsa.
Victoria, British Columbia’s Brian Nugent rocks the ice from the left wing, pretty convenient since he shoots left handed. Nugent has been a professional hockey player for three years now, however this is the first he has been in a Tulsa sweater.
Nugent played a juniors for the Victoria Grizzlies who are in the British Columbia Hockey League. Back in 2005-06 when Nugent started with the team their mascot was Salsa. He recently tweet from his twitter account (@briannugent16) that he loved seeing the team bring back the jerseys for a special night because he had “many fond memories wearing the uni!” During his time in Victoria, he improved dramatically. During his first season, he scored only five goals and six assists. By his final game he had put up twenty-seven goals and twenty five assists for his final season. He also played in a total of fourteen playoff games that year and scored four goals.
After his time with the Salsa/Grizzlies was completed in 2009, he headed to Northern Michigan University, a Central Collegiate Hockey Association team. His first year out of the CCHA was spent in Las Vegas as a Wrangler. Playing in twenty five games, he rode away with a goal and two assists. The next year he moved on to Cincinnati Cyclones locker room. While he played there for two season, he will actually be returning to the rink tonight, February 26th, as a Tulsa Oiler.
This season Nugent earned his first point as an Oiler when helped with a goal on opening night versus Wichita. The next night, he scored a breakaway in Allen. In December he scored his first shorthanded goal when the Oilers hosted the Idaho Steelheads.
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UK’s most popular health food franchise Holland & Barrett have announced plans to open 100% vegan shops in response to the fast-rising vegan population, and to expand into the field of vegan beauty, a market currently led by the Body Shop.
Holland & Barrett are a chain of health food shops with over 1,300 stores in 16 countries and especially prevalent in the UK. With this new expansion, their intention is to distance themselves from their stereotyped image from the past when they were known for selling only supplements and nuts. Now that veganism is so widespread in Great Britain, with 7% currently following a plant-based diet excluding those identifying as vegetarians or flexitarians, the chain is growing and progressing along with the moving trends.
One strategy to create this updated image is for the stores to effectively stand against Body Shop with a major expansion into cruelty-free beauty. There are current plans in place to test-run two vegan stores, which will sell around 1000 items in both food and beauty. At present, only half of the Body Shop’s products are vegan; Chief Executive Peter Aldis is quoted by the Guardian saying of Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, “If she was here now she would be doing this.”
Aldis states of Holland & Barrett’s future vision: “We don’t want to feel like a place for alternative hippies. We want vegan to become more mainstream and there are lots of very good reasons why it will.”
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Round-table discussion: Races to watch in 2012
January 7, 2012 Tim 12 Comments
Here at Velo Voices we love to talk about cycling, and nothing delights us more than the opportunity to talk to each other and to fellow fans about the sport. In the third of a four-part series to kick off 2012, we take a look at the big races coming up in 2012.
Races to watch in 2012
Which races are we hoping to attend this year?
Kathi: I want to go to all of them. However, unless God throws a suitcase full of cash down on me, that might not be possible. Definitely going to the end of the Tour in Paris – I do every year and love it every time. I would love to go to the opening weekend in Liege – so many great chances to see the riders up close, so that’s a real possibility. I’m chomping at the bit to go to a spring classic but I suspect that might be a cobblestone too far at the moment. But you never know! Kitty Fondue [that’s Kathi’s alter ego, the one against whom Cancellara has taken out the restraining order – Ed] might be on the barricades! Oh, and the Olympics – I live in Richmond so they nearly ride through my living room in the road race…
Sheree: Living in France, I’m at a distinct advantage to the rest of you, with a number of races literally on my doorstep. I’m planning on seeing (in chronological order) Tour of Haut Var, Paris-Nice, Milan-San Remo, GP Miguel Indurain, Tour of Basque Country, Giro, Tour of Switzerland, Classica San Sebastian, Vuelta and World Championships. There’s one notable omission, I’m not planning on watching live any stage of the Tour this year. Well, that’s what I’m saying at the moment. Who knows what’ll happen as July approaches.
Kathi: Wow, Sheree, that’s some race schedule! I think the only ones we might overlap on would be Tour de Suisse (if I’m lucky enough to get a business meeting in Switzerland at the time to pay for the airfare like I did last year) – but if I’m going, I’ll let you know and maybe we can find one another on the barricades!
Tim: Sadly I’m a frustrated armchair fan. With two under-fives to manage – and number three due to arrive between Fleche Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege – I will struggle to get to races this year, although if we can manage the logistics I’ll target the two Tour stages that start and finish in Rouen or maybe the Tour of Britain. Oh, and the Olympics, of course. Thank God for Eurosport, that’s all I can say.
Jack: I’m with you Tim, I’m afraid that I’m not going to be able to get to any major races this year. Hopefully the Tour of Britain will be within a reasonable distance from Manchester (through the city centre would be perfect!) and I’ll be able to get along to that.
What do you think of this year’s Giro d’Italia route?
Tim: I like it, for two main reasons. Firstly it is more varied, with more sprint stages and the toughest climbs not arriving until deep in the final week to ensure the maglia rosa is not decided until the very end. And secondly we won’t have a repeat of last year’s farcical situation where all the sprinters withdrew halfway through the race and the points competition effectively became a shadow version of the GC. It’s not as soul-crushingly tough as last year’s edition – but it’s more than tough enough.
Sheree: It’s a more measured race. I feel last year’s got a little out of hand. I know it was to celebrate the unification of Italy but it rather blew up in their faces by effectively being over by stage nine.
Kathi: Nice to see that they’ve seen sense on the routing. I think it’ll be a good Giro this year for all the reasons you mention, Tim. I still think the one that Basso won in 2010 was my favourite – with Evans playing an epic part in it. And the mud stage. Loved that.
Jack: I do love the madness of the Giro, but I’m in agreement that last year went a little bit OTT. It should make for a much closer contest, and I’m rather excited to see the riders climb the highest point in Grand Tour history over the Passo Stelvio on the penultimate stage, which will of course determine the overall winner.
What about this year’s Tour de France route?
Sheree: You have to hand it to Christian Prudhomme, after the past two editions honoured the Pyrenees and Alps respectively, he’s gone for what looks like a more traditional style Tour. Plenty of time-trialling, the most kilometres since 2007, and only three summit finishes. But they’re tough summits. He’s also urged the riders not to restrict their reconnaissance just to the summit finishes. Advice they ignore at their peril.
Tim: I really like it. It definitely bucks the recent Grand Tour trend of loading the dice in favour of the pure climbers. With an increased emphasis on time-trialling, you have to think the parcours plays in favour of defending champion Evans and Contador (if he rides). For sure, Andy Schleck cannot count on making one big attack in the mountains, unless he significantly improves his TT performances. That’s a good thing in my eyes.
There is also plenty for the sprinters, and with HTC-Highroad no more I think we will see less predictable sprints and more winners. There are several new climbs too, which adds to the variety, even though it’s a shame there is no Ventoux or Alpe d’Huez.
Kathi: I like it because it means, with the TT element, the climbers (that’s you, Andy!) will need to just go all out at every opportunity. No more dicking around and putting off the attacks for another day (which drives me crazy!) And I think we’ll have a wild card in this year – maybe a young rider taking his chances or an older rider, wily enough to figure it all out and sneak some time past the main contenders. I’m looking forward to it!
Jack: I’m rather reserving judgement over this race route, as I thought that last year’s was phenomenal. I’m worried that this one is a bit over-conservative in terms of lack of climbing, but on the bright side that should mean that the summit finishes that we do see should be nothing short of spectacular, and hopefully the more traditional race route will mean there will be less of the first week madness we saw last year, when the field was decimated by crashes.
What other races are you particularly looking forward to?
Kathi: I’m starting to become a real classics devotee – they’re for the hard men, the big men, the men who just ride their guts out and leave it all on the cobbles! They’re so punishing – one of the things I love about cycling is the suffering (so sado-masochistic!) and this is big boy suffering. This is suffering and looking like you’ve been dragged through a dirt hedge at the end. Backwards. I think Thor is going to come back strong for Paris-Roubaix and it’ll be another epic struggle so if I had to pick one, that’s the one.
Sheree: Frankly, I look forward to all the races. Okay, maybe not the Tour of Beijing. Two of my favourites are those hard-man cobbled classics where I’ll be rooting for Tom Boonen and hoping to see him duke it out with the best of the rest.
Kathi: It would be good to see Tom and his magnificent Boonens make a stand at the classics again.
Jack: I am a lover of the classics. Without doubt they are my favourite races. I love the aspect of who dares wins that comes with one-day racing, and how the likes of Paris-Roubaix (my personal favourite!) really do separate the good riders from the best. You need everything to win it: luck, skill, strength, grit and determination. I’m already brimming with excitement.
Other than that, anything else! Like Sheree, I look forward to all of the racing. The Giro is my favourite Grand Tour, with the Tour and the Vuelta not far behind. I’m eagerly anticipating the season getting underway, and all of this writing is making me even more impatient.
Tim: I will always have a soft spot for the Vuelta simply because it often throws up new names for the future. Beyond that, I’m really looking forward to seeing whether Philippe Gilbert can repeat his 2011 form in the spring classics, and whether Fabian Cancellara can bounce back after being man-marked out of contention. If I had to choose one one-day race, though, it would be Paris-Roubaix.
How do you feel about the UCI’s policy of globalising the sport with events such as the Tour of Beijing?
Tim: On the whole it can only be a good thing, both commercially and in terms of building participation in developing nations. I hope it won’t be long before we see WorldTour races in Africa.
Having said that, the inaugural Tour of Beijing was distinctly underwhelming despite its spectacular setting. Okay, it takes any new race a while to settle, but the parcours was deadly dull – a paucity of decent climbs and too many flat stages which concluded with long, straight finishes – and the pollution levels were a real concern.
Sheree: I’m in favour of globalisation; the sport won’t survive without it. I’m looking forward to seeing whether the Africans can repeat their success at athletics on bikes. I don’t see why not given time, training and opportunity. Then there’s the Asians. Surely it won’t be long before the Chinese are a force on two wheels.
However I worry about the UCI being involved in the promoting and running of events, such as the Tour of Beijing. They can’t be responsible for handing out event licences, deciding the event calendar and then profiting from promoting their own events. Haven’t they heard of segregation of duties and good corporate governance?
Tim: Totally agree. It’s like the separation of church from state, isn’t it? Whatever the UCI’s intentions, managing both sides of the equation leaves them wide open to accusations of a conflict of interest.
Kathi: I agree with you, Sheree. Conflict of interest with bells on! But as for the races themselves, they need to actually mean something and not just be an exercise in making a bunch of money while transporting riders all over the world to ride half-heartedly. The Tour Down Under is a big success but it took some time to bed in so the right race will succeed.
Jack: I think that the globalisation of the sport is necessary, and to be honest if the racing is exciting then I don’t really care where it is. Unfortunately the Tour of Beijing wasn’t a race to set your heart pumping, but nevertheless it was their first go at holding a WorldTour race – they still could get the formula right yet.
Tim: Quite right, Jack. I’m sure the Tour of Beijing will improve, and could one day turn into quite a spectacle if they get it right.
That’s it for this round-table. See you all for the final part of our discussion on Monday!
If you would like to add your voice to the discussion, please feel free to add a comment below. And look out for the final part of our round-table on Monday, where we will have a look at our favourite riders and teams for 2012.
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Dragos Irimia says:
Let’s see … last year I was the official blogger of the cycling Tour of Romania so I hope I can do it again this year. Then there’s the Tour of Sibiu also in Romania, also an UCI event. And I’m hoping for a stage at the Tour of Poland. I haven’t studied the routes for Il Giro and Le Tour so .. no comment 🙂
I can’t wait for the spring classics (with a * for the Tour of Flanders) and (odly enough) Tour of Turkey. The scenery there is amazing !
Globalisation is good, it brings new sponsors and a lot of exposure. Tough I would like to see more involvement from UCI in developing the sport in countries like Romania.
I’m not familiar with the Romanian races, sadly, although I was mightily impressed by Marcel Kittel, Peter Sagan and Dan Martin at the Tour of Poland. The race clashes with the TdF this year, so it will be a big opportunity to see riders on ‘lesser’ teams shine. I very much doubt 1t4i will receive a wild-card for the Tour, so I expect Kittel and his compatriot John Degenkolb to ruin riot in the sprints in Poland.
Echoing Kathi, if you would like to do a guest post on either the Romanian races, Romanian riders or indeed anything else just drop us a line on velovoices@gmail.com and we’d be delighted to discuss.
kittyfondue says:
Fancy doing a guest blog or two about the Romanian races?
Have any Romanian riders ever ridden for a Pro-Tour, Pro-Continental or Continental team? I can’t recall any. However, I did see two of your riders competing in the time trial at the World Championship’s in Mendrisio 2009 and was much impressed by Edvard Novak, a below the leg amputee, who beat his able-bodied team mate.
Impressive stuff from Novak. I love stories like this – maybe an angle for us to consider for the future?
I’m not aware of any current Romanian riders at either ProTour or ProContinental level, although there are certainly quite a few at a lower level. Dragos will know for sure – he’s on Twitter at @3ditorial.
txtmstrjoe says:
Hey gals and guys, great job as always!
With the time difference (I’m either getting up to go to work or am actually at work when the big boys are on their bikes) during the racing season and no TV when I’m off (unless it’s the weekend, and I’m visiting my parents), I have precious little opportunity to watch this grand sport unfold as you good folks do. As I’ve told Tim many times in the past, I truly rely more on the written word to get my race fix; I’m so happy you all love the sport and are doing such a great job writing about it.
Curiosity begs me to ask the question, though: How aware is Europe of the USA’s racing scene? Given my stated limitations, the biggest bike race I know about on my side of the Pond is the Amgen Tour of California (coincidentally, the state where I live in!). How good is the coverage of this race in Europe?
Over here, cycling is nowhere near a mainstream sport, and though it is undoubtedly growing, with the end of Lance Armstrong’s reign the quality and intensity of US coverage will drop away again until the next great American champion arrives. (Personally, I honestly don’t care about the riders’ nationalities in cycling, or any other sport. But American event coverage is definitely slanted to emphasize American successes as and when they happen. (I think that’s one reason why Formula 1 is struggling to return to its place of prominence in the American consciousness even as recently as the 1980s, when it was still fairly big.) With no American star to follow, the quality of the coverage dips.)
Anyway, thanks again for the great job with this project! I love boosting you guys whenever I can. 🙂
Hey Joe – thanks so much for all the enthusiasm! I would say that there are a few North American races that get some coverage over here. The Tour of California is definitely the biggest one and that does get decent TV coverage, as well as big write-ups on the blogs and in the mags. That’s considered the most important NA race over here because most of the big teams go over – both from a ‘satisfying sponsors’ point of view as well as it being a good race, at the right time, to start building up some mountains in the legs in preparation for the Tour de France. With those teams go some big big names who aren’t riding the Giro (as they now clash) – the Schlecks seem to prefer it to the Giro. British Eurosport certainly shows every stage – or at least an hour of highlights – each night.
The ProTour Grand Prix in Montreal and Quebec in the autumn get coverage as well – again, because some of the big names race there. Thomas Voeckler won the Quebec race in 2010 and the mighty Philippe Gilbert won Quebec and got 3rd in Montreal this year – with those names, we’re always going to get some sort of TV coverage. But that’s about all, really, as far as North American races getting onto the radar of European race fans.
But keep reading – we’re looking to widen our scope, especially on Facebook, in the next few weeks to give some quick rundowns of race results so we’ll keep you up to date on the cycling scene!
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@Tim @Sheree @kittyfondue – I would love to write guest posts about the races in Romania. Novak was in the Tour of Romania this year but sadly had to quit because of a stomach bug. He remained in the caravan as a DS for Tusnad Cycling Team, the only Romanian continental team. Also a DS was Mircea Romascanu, the most famous romanian rider. He was a big name bag in the day. Sadly he raced in “Course de la Paix” only and the Olympics – comunism and all that. I talked to him and he said that Bernard Hinault’s manager wanted him to flee from Romania to race for Renault-Elf-Gitane. He was not allowed to go 😦
The most known rider today and the one with chances of going to major races is Andrei Nechita. He is 23, he trained with Liquigas second team for a while. Now he’s riding for a low key italian team. He won the Tour of Romania 2011, he is the national road race champion and he qualified for the Olympics – the road race – which is a HUGE achievement. He was also at the World Championships in 2011. Tough he did not came with the first peloton 😦
Thanks for the info, Dragos. It’s always interesting to know what’s going on in the up-and-coming nations. I’m increasingly on the look-out for news on the Malaysian cycling scene (which is where my family is originally from).
Drop me a line on Twitter with dates etc and we’ll schedule a guest post(s) in, which we can link back to your blog.
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I am a Marxist
The writings and saying of Marx have definitely influenced me over the years, and today I thought I’d share some of my favorites with you:
“From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”
“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”
“I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll make an exception.”
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
[When told that he couldn’t swim in an exclusive club because he was Jewish]: “My son is only half Jewish, can he go in up to his waist?”
“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.”
“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”
“Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.”
“A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.”
“I’ll always remember the first time I had sex. I kept the receipt.”
“I chased a girl for two years only to discover that her tastes were exactly like mine: We were both crazy about girls.”
“Oh, are you from Wales? Do you know a fella named Jonah? He used to live in whales for a while.”
“I’ve been around so long I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.”
“She got her good looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.”
“The only game I like to play is ‘Old Maid’, providing she’s not too old.”
“Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.”
“If you fall out of that window and break both your legs, don’t come running to me.”
Animal Crackers:
“We took some pictures of the native girls but they weren’t developed. But we’re going back again in a few weeks!”
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I’ll never know.”
“You know, you two girls have everything. You’re tall and short and slim and stout and blonde and brunette. And that’s just the kind of a girl I crave. Why, you’ve got beauty, charm, money! You have got money, haven’t you? Because if you haven’t, we can quit right now.”
Mrs. Rittenhouse: “You are one of the musicians? But you were not due until tomorrow.”
Chico: “Couldn’t come tomorrow. That’s too quick.”
Groucho: “Say, you’re lucky they didn’t come yesterday.”
C: “We were busy yesterday, but we charge just the same.”
G: This is better than exploring. What do you fellows get an hour?”
C: Ah, for playing we getta ten dollars an hour.”
G: I see. What do you get for not playing?”
C: Twelve dollars an hour.”
G: Well, clip me off a piece of that.”
C: Now… for rehearsing, we make a special rate, that’sa fifteen dollars an hour.”
G: That’s for rehearsing.”
C: That’sa for rehearsing.”
G: And what do you get for not rehearsing?”
C: You couldn’t afford it.You see if we don’t rehearse we don’t play. And if we don’t play, that runs into money.”
G: “How much would you charge to run into an open manhole?”
C: “Just the cover charge.”
G: “Well, drop in sometime.”
C: “Sewer.”
G: “I used to know a fellow who looked exactly like you by the name of Emanuel Ravelli. Are you his brother?”
C: “I am Emanuel Ravelli.”
G: “You’re Emanuel Ravelli?”
G: “Well, no wonder you look like him. But I still insist there is a resemblance.”
C: “Heh, heh, he thinks I look alike.”
G: “Well, if you do, it’s a tough break for both of you. [directly to camera] Well, all the jokes can’t be good. You’ve got to expect that once in a while.”
C: [while playing the same first part of a song over and over] I can’t think of the finish!
G: That’s funny, I can’t think of anything else.
“Signore Ravelli’s first selection will be ‘Somewhere My Love Lies Sleeping’ with a male chorus.”
“Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh… Now you tell me what you know.”
“Do you mind if I don’t smoke?”
Monkey Business:
“I know, I know, you’re a woman who’s been getting nothing but dirty breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten your brakes, but you’ll have to stay in the garage all night.”
“I’ve been looking for a girl like you — not you, but a girl like you.”
“Sir, are you trying to offer me a bribe? How much?”
Horse Feathers:
“Why don’t you go home to your wife? I’ll tell you what: I’ll go home to your wife, and outside of the improvement she’ll never know the difference.”
Groucho: “Tomorrow we start tearing down the college.”
The Professors: “But Professor, where will the students sleep?”
G: “Where they always sleep. In the classroom.”
Chico: “There’s a man outside with a big black mustache.”
Groucho: “Tell him I’ve got one.”
Groucho: [directly to the camera while Chico plays the piano] “I’ve got to stay here, but there’s no reason why you folks shouldn’t go out into the lobby until this thing blows over.”
Groucho: “Are you suggesting that I, the president of Huxley College, go into a speakeasy without even giving me the address?”
Duck Soup:
Groucho: “Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you: he really is an idiot. I implore you, send him back to his father and brothers, who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary. I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth.”
Chico: “I’ll tell you what I’ll do: I’ll take five and ten in Woolworth.”
“You’re a brave man. Go and break through the lines. And remember, while you’re out there risking you’re life and limb through shot and shell, we’ll be in be in here thinking what a sucker you are.”
“Well, that covers a lot of ground. Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself. You better beat it – I hear they’re going to tear you down and put up an office building where you’re standing. You can leave in a taxi. If you can’t get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that’s too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff. You know, you haven’t stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.”
“Go, and never darken my towels again!”
“Here are the plans of war. They’re as valuable as your life. And that’s putting them pretty cheap. Watch them like a cat watched her kittens. Have you ever had kittens? No, of course not, you’re too busy running around playing bridge. Can’t you see what I’m trying to tell you? I love you.”
Beautiful Girl: “Hold me closer… closer… closer….”
Groucho: “If I hold you any closer, I’ll be in back of you.”
Groucho: “Not that I care, but where is your husband?”
Mrs. Teasedale: “Why, he’s dead.”
G: “I’ll bet he’s just using that as an excuse.”
T: “I was with him till the very end.”
G: “Huh! No wonder he passed away.”
T: “I held him in my arms and kissed him.”
G: “Oh, I see. Then it was murder. Will you marry me? Did he leave you any money? Answer the second question first.”
T: “He left me his entire fortune.”
G: “Is that so? Can’t you see what I’m trying to tell you? I love you.”
Mrs. Teasdale: “Notables from every country are gathered here in your honor. This is a gala day for you.”
Groucho: “Well, a gal a day is enough for me. I don’t think I could handle any more.”
Groucho: “Lieutenant, why weren’t the original indictment papers placed in my portfolio?”
Zeppo: “Why, uh, I didn’t think those papers were important at this time, your excellency.”
G: “You didn’t think they were important? Do you realize I had my dessert wrapped in those papers?”
A Night at the Opera:
Chico: “Hey, wait – wait! What does this say here? This thing here?”
Groucho: “Oh, that? Oh, that’s the usual clause. That’s in every contract. That just says if any of the parties participating in this contract is shown not to be in their right mind, the entire agreement is automatically nullified.”
C: “Well, I don’t know.”
G: “It’s all right. That’s in every contract. That’s what they call a sanity clause.”
C: “Ha ha ha! You can’t fool me. There ain’t no Sanity Clause!”
Groucho: “Do they allow tipping on the boat?”
Steward: “Yes, sir.”
G: “Have you got two fives?”
S: “Yes, sir!!”
G: “Well, then you won’t need the ten cents I was gonna give you.”
A Day at the Races:
Stuffy Man: “Why, I’ve never been so insulted in my life!”
Groucho [looking at his watch] “Well, it’s early yet.”
“Hey, don’t drink that poison! That’s $4.00 an ounce!”
At the Circus:
Pauline: “I’ve waited so long to find someone like you.”
Groucho: “Oh, someone like me? I’m not good enough for you, eh?”
The Big Store:
Margaret Dumont: “… I’m afraid after we’re married a while, a beautiful young girl will come along, and you’ll forget all about me.”
Groucho: “Don’t be silly. I’ll write you twice a week.”
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leochampion | June 29, 2014 at 6:40 pm
I suspect his politics would have been similar in cynicism to Mencken’s, but bluntly I’d vote for a man with that wit even if his platform was straight Karl. Congress hasn’t had a real wiseass since Barney Frank retired.
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Artistic rendering of exotic 2D superconductivity in a material made from nanolayers of nickel (bottom layer) and bismuth (top layer). Magnetic fluctuations from the nickel layer allow electrons to pair up on the surface of bismuth. These pairs move losslessly in a phenomenon called superconductivity. (Credit E. Edwards; transmission electron microscopy images from the real materials are projected onto the cube layers. These images were re-used for this graphic with author permission)
Deep within solids, individual electrons zip around on a nanoscale highway paved with atoms. For the most part, these electrons avoid one another, kept in separate lanes by their mutual repulsion. But vibrations in the atomic road can blur their lanes and sometimes allow the tiny particles to pair up. The result is smooth and lossless travel, and it’s one way to create superconductivity.
But there are other, less common ways to achieve this effect. Scientists from the University of Maryland (UMD), the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Fudan University have now shown that tiny magnetic tremors lead to superconductivity in a material made from metallic nano-layers. And, beyond that, the resulting electron pairs shatter a fundamental symmetry between past and future. Although the material is a known superconductor, these researchers provide a theoretical model and measurement, which, for the first time, unambiguously reveals the material’s exotic nature.
In quantum materials, breaking the symmetry between the past and the future often signifies unconventional phases of matter. The nickel-bismuth (Ni-Bi) sample studied here is the first example of a 2D material where this type of superconductivity is intrinsic, meaning that it happens without the help of external agents, such as a nearby superconductor. These findings, recently published in Science Advances, make Ni-Bi an appealing choice for use in future quantum computers. This research may also assist scientists in their search for other similarly strange superconductors.
Mehdi Kargarian*, a postdoctoral researcher at UMD and a co-author of the paper, explains that even after a century of study, superconductivity remains a vibrant area of research. “It is a rather old problem, so it is surprising that people are still discovering types of superconductivity in the lab that are unprecedented,” Kargarian says, adding that there are typically two questions scientists ask of a new superconductor. “First, we want to understand the underlying electron pairing—what is causing the superconductivity,” he says. “The second thing, related to applications, is to see if superconductivity is possible at higher temperatures.”
Superconductors, particularly the exotic types, largely remain shackled to unwieldy cryogenic equipment. Scientists are searching for ways to push superconducting temperatures higher, thus making these materials easier to use for things like improved electricity distribution and building quantum devices. In this new research, the team tackles Kargarian’s first question and the material hints at a positive outlook for the second question. Its exotic superconductivity, although still cryogenic, occurs at a higher temperature compared to other similar systems.
Ni-Bi superconductivity was first observed in the early 1990s. But later, when Fudan University scientists published studies of an ultrapure, ultra-thin sample, they noticed something unusual happening.
The strangeness starts with the superconductivity itself. Bismuth alone is not a superconductor, except under extraordinarily low temperatures and high pressure—conditions that are not easy to achieve. Nickel is magnetic and not a superconductor. In fact, strong magnets are known to suppress the effect. This means that too much nickel destroys the superconductivity, but a small amount induces it.
UMD theorists* proposed that fluctuations in nickel’s magnetism are at the heart of this peculiar effect. These tiny magnetic tremors help electrons to form pairs, thus doing the work performed by vibrations in conventional superconductors. If there is too much nickel, magnetism dominates and the effect of the fluctuations diminishes. If there is too much bismuth, then the top surface, where superconductivity takes place, is too far away from the source of magnetic fluctuations.
The goldilocks zone occurs when a twenty-nanometer-thick bismuth layer is grown on top of two nanometers of nickel. For this layer combination, superconductivity happens at around 4 degrees above absolute zero. While this is about as cold as deep space, it is actually quite lab-friendly and reachable using standard cryogenic equipment.
The idea that magnetic fluctuations can promote superconductivity is not new and dates back to the end of the 20th century. However, most earlier examples of such behavior require strict operating conditions, such as high pressure. The researchers explain that Ni-Bi is different because straightforward cooling is enough to achieve this type of exotic superconductivity, which breaks time symmetry.
The researchers employed a highly customized apparatus to search for signs of the broken symmetry. Light should rotate when reflected from samples that have this property. For Ni-Bi, the expected amount of light rotation is tens of nanoradians, which is about 100 billionths of a tick on a watch face. Jing Xia*, a co-author of the paper and a professor at UCI, has one of the only devices in the world capable of measuring such an imperceptible light rotation.
In order to measure this rotation for Ni-Bi, light waves are first injected into one end of a single special-purpose optical fiber. The two waves travel through the fiber, as if on independent paths. They hit the sample and then retrace their paths. Upon return, the waves are combined and form a pattern. Rotations of the light waves—from, say, symmetry breaking—will show up in the analyzed pattern as small translations. Xia and his colleagues at UCI measured around 100 nanoradians of rotation, confirming the broken symmetry. Importantly, the effect appeared just as the Ni-Bi sample became a superconductor, suggesting that the broken time symmetry and the appearance of superconductivity are strongly linked.
This form of superconductivity is rare and researchers say that there is still no recipe for making it happen. But, as Xia points out, there is guidance in the math behind the electron behavior. “We know mathematically how to make electron pairs break time-reversal symmetry,” Xia says. Practically, how do you achieve this formulaically? That is the million-dollar question. But my instinct is that when you do get magnetic fluctuation-mediated superconductivity, like in this material, then it is highly likely you get break that symmetry.”
* M. Kargarian is a postdoctoral researcher at the Condensed Matter Theory Center (CMTC), University of Maryland (UMD) and is affiliated with the Joint Quantum Institute. V. Yakovenko and V. Galitski are members of CMTC, fellows of the Joint Quantum Institute, and UMD professors. J. Xia is a professor at the University of California, Irvine.
Written by E. Edwards/JQI
"Time-reversal symmetry-breaking superconductivity in epitaxial bismuth/nickel bilayers," X. Gong, M. Kargarian, A. Stern, D. Yue, H. Zhou, X. Jin, V.M. Galitski, V.M. Yakovenko, J. Xia, Science Advances, 3, (2017)
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In an arranged marriage of optics and mechanics, physicists have created microscopic structural beams that have a variety of powerful uses when light strikes them. Able to operate in ordinary, room-temperature environments, yet exploiting some of the deepest principles of quantum physics, these optomechanical systems can act as inherently accurate thermometers, or conversely, as a type of optical shield that diverts heat. The research was performed by a team led by the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) (link is external), a research collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland.
Published: Wednesday, 14 June 2017 15:57
Image credit goes to Martin Vasquez from Autonomous University of Puebla
Distinguished University Professor Raman Sundrum and postdoc David Curtin, are featured in the June issue of Physics Today magazine as the authors of the feature story, “Hidden Worlds of Fundamental Particles”.
An artist's rendering of a neural network with two layers. At the top is a real quantum system, like atoms in an optical lattice. Below is a network of hidden neurons that capture their interactions. (Credit: E. Edwards/JQI)
Machine learning, the field that’s driving a revolution in artificial intelligence, has cemented its role in modern technology. Its tools and techniques have led to rapid improvements in everything from self-driving cars and speech recognition to the digital mastery of an ancient board game.
Now, physicists are beginning to use machine learning tools to tackle a different kind of problem, one at the heart of quantum physics. In a paper published recently in Physical Review X, researchers from JQI and the Condensed Matter Theory Center (CMTC) at the University of Maryland showed that certain neural networks—abstract webs that pass information from node to node like neurons in the brain—can succinctly describe wide swathes of quantum systems.
Dongling Deng, a JQI Postdoctoral Fellow who is a member of CMTC and the paper’s first author, says that researchers who use computers to study quantum systems might benefit from the simple descriptions that neural networks provide. “If we want to numerically tackle some quantum problem,” Deng says, “we first need to find an efficient representation.”
On paper and, more importantly, on computers, physicists have many ways of representing quantum systems. Typically these representations comprise lists of numbers describing the likelihood that a system will be found in different quantum states. But it becomes difficult to extract properties or predictions from a digital description as the number of quantum particles grows, and the prevailing wisdom has been that entanglement—an exotic quantum connection between particles—plays a key role in thwarting simple representations.
The neural networks used by Deng and his collaborators—CMTC Director and JQI Fellow Sankar Das Sarma and Fudan University physicist and former JQI Postdoctoral Fellow Xiaopeng Li—can efficiently represent quantum systems that harbor lots of entanglement, a surprising improvement over prior methods.
What’s more, the new results go beyond mere representation. “This research is unique in that it does not just provide an efficient representation of highly entangled quantum states,” Das Sarma says. “It is a new way of solving intractable, interacting quantum many-body problems that uses machine learning tools to find exact solutions.”
Neural networks and their accompanying learning techniques powered AlphaGo, the computer program that beat some of the world’s best Go players last year (and the top player this year. The news excited Deng, an avid fan of the board game. Last year, around the same time as AlphaGo’s triumphs, a paper appeared that introduced the idea of using neural networks to represent quantum states, although it gave no indication of exactly how wide the tool’s reach might be. “We immediately recognized that this should be a very important paper,” Deng says, “so we put all our energy and time into studying the problem more.”
The result was a more complete account of the capabilities of certain neural networks to represent quantum states. In particular, the team studied neural networks that use two distinct groups of neurons. The first group, called the visible neurons, represents real quantum particles, like atoms in an optical lattice or ions in a chain. To account for interactions between particles, the researchers employed a second group of neurons—the hidden neurons—which link up with visible neurons. These links capture the physical interactions between real particles, and as long as the number of connections stays relatively small, the neural network description remains simple.
Specifying a number for each connection and mathematically forgetting the hidden neurons can produce a compact representation of many interesting quantum states, including states with topological characteristics and some with surprising amounts of entanglement.
Beyond its potential as a tool in numerical simulations, the new framework allowed Deng and collaborators to prove some mathematical facts about the families of quantum states represented by neural networks. For instance, neural networks with only short-range interactions—those in which each hidden neuron is only connected to a small cluster of visible neurons—have a strict limit on their total entanglement. This technical result, known as an area law, is a research pursuit of many condensed matter physicists.
These neural networks can’t capture everything, though. “They are a very restricted regime,” Deng says, adding that they don’t offer an efficient universal representation. If they did, they could be used to simulate a quantum computer with an ordinary computer, something physicists and computer scientists think is very unlikely. Still, the collection of states that they do represent efficiently, and the overlap of that collection with other representation methods, is an open problem that Deng says is ripe for further exploration.
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"Quantum Entanglement in Neural Network States," D.L. Deng, X. Li, D. Sarma, PHYSICAL REVIEW X, 7, (2017)
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Scientists in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) collaboration now report the detection of a third gravitational wave event, named GW170104 and described in the July 1, 2017 Physical Review Letters. UMD's Peter Shawhan and Alessandra Buonanno are principal investigators in the experiment.
For a detailed account, see the CMNS story here.
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Volcano Profile | Weekly Report (3 May-9 May 2017)
In a special report INSIVUMEH reported that a new phase of activity (the fourth of the year) at Fuego began on 5 May and was the strongest activity recorded since 2012. Strong explosions, sometimes producing shock waves, generated dense ash plumes that rose 1.3 km above the crater and drifted more than 50 km S, SW, and W. Ashfall was reported in many areas downwind, including San Pedro Yepocapa (8 km N), Morelia (9 km SW), Santa Sofía (12 km SW), El Porvenir (8 km ENE), finca Palo Verde, Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa (23 km SW), Siquinala, San Andrés Osuna, Chuchu, and La Reunión. Lava flows traveled 2 km down the Santa Teresa (W) drainage and 3 km down the Las Lajas drainage. Pyroclastic flows descended the Trinidad (S), Las Lajas (SE), Ceniza (S), and Santa Teresa drainages. Residents of Sangre de Cristo (8 km WSW) were evacuated. Explosions were not reported that next day and the lava flows may have stopped advancing. According to a news article, about 300 people had been evacuated from Panimache (8 km SW). During 7-8 May lower-energy explosions generated ash plumes that rose as high as 750 m above the crater and drifted 8-20 km W and SW. Gases were observed rising from pyroclastic flow deposits in the ravines.
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Michele Higgins 5 Facts About Matt Higgins’ Wife
March 21, 2019 by L.A Girl Leave a Comment
Michele Higgins
Michele Higgins is the proud wife of businessman, Matt Higgins –who’s been tapped as a guest Shark on Shark Tank season 10.
Michele’s hubby is the CEO of RSE Ventures –a private investment firm that focuses on companies across sports and entertainment, food and lifestyle, media and marketing, and technology. At the same time he is also the chairman of the Miami Dolphins.
Higgins began his career as the youngest press secretary in New York City history, where he helped manage the global press response during 9/11. He has been an executive for two NFL teams.
He’s been happily married to wife Michele for years. Meet her below
#1 The couple tied the knot in 2004
According to their NY Times wedding announcement, the couple became husband and wife on December 4, 2004. At the time, Michele Lauren McManus –served as a spokeswoman for the Department of Education in New York City.
#2 Her daughter was diagnosed with autism
41-year-old Michele who is a former gymnast –gave birth to the couple’s daughter, Collette in 2008. They are also the proud parents of one son, Matthew born in 2006. Their daughter was diagnosed with autism at age two.
#3 She found a new treatment for Collette
The couple had been on a constant quest for answers after Collette was diagnosed at age 2. They turned to early intervention therapy, but felt like she was slipping away. Then, a late-night Google search, directed Michele Higgins to a new treatment. Cholesterol taken three times a day, began to transform their daughter within days. Collette slept through the night, which she had never done before. She locked eyes with her parents for the first time in her life, too.
#4 She and her husband give back
After their daughter Collette, was diagnosed with autism at age 2, the couple decided to get involved. They felt the need to give back, in 2011 they ran the ING New York City Marathon. At the time it was reported that, the family had raised more than $23,000 for the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
#5 Her husband is a cancer survivor
Higgins was treated for testicular cancer in 2007, he’s been an active philanthropist, raising money toward research for testicular cancer and autism.
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Bradley Raymond 5 Facts About Soledad O’Brien’s Husband
Bradley Raymond
Bradley Raymond is the longtime husband of TV personality and journalist Soledad O’Brien.
Bradley’s wife has served as a TV anchor and correspondent on MSNBC, CNN, Al Jazeera America, and HBO. The NY native was born September 19, 1966 as María de la Soledad Teresa O’Brien.
O’Brien who attended Harvard University left CNN in 2013 and runs her own production company, Starfish Productions. She’s not only won numerous accolades on her professional life but is also happily married. Meet her hubby in his top facts below.
#1 They have been married for over two decades
Bradley Raymond and Soledad have been married since 1995 and have since remain a solid marriage for the last 24-years.
#2 He is a father of four kids
Together the couple has four children, 15-year-old twin sons Charles and Jackson; and two daughters, 19-year-old Sofia and Celia, 17.
#3 He has an impressive resume
According to his profile on Chrunchbase, Raymond is the Head of Investment Banking at Stifel and where he has been working since 2010. Prior to joining Stifel, Mr. Raymond was Co-Head of Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners.
The man has over two decades of technology investment banking experience. Previous employers include Thomas Weisel Partners and Morgan Stanley –where he served as Co-Head of Software Investment Banking.
#4 He went to Berkeley
According to his LinkedIn, he earned an AB degree from Harvard College and an MBA from The Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
#5 Bradley Raymond keeps a low profile
Bradley who also goes by Brad, is the type of husband who is perfectly ok with letting Soledad get all the attention. He’s only been spotted sharing the red carpet next to his stunning wife a few times.
Jennifer Holland 5 Facts about James Gunn’s Girlfriend
Jennifer Holland
Jennifer Holland is the loyal girlfriend of actor and filmmaker, James Gunn –perhaps best known for his work on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol’s 1, and 2.
As you may or may not recall, Jennifer’s man was removed from the upcoming Disney’s Guardians of the Galaxy 3 –due to offensive tweets that were discovered last year. However, reports say the 51-year-old director has been reinstated by Disney.
Despite the controversy surrounding Gunn, Jennifer Holland has stayed by his side. Find out more about her in her top facts below.
#1 Jennifer Holland is an actress
Holland, is a Chicago native who according to her IMDb page has had a number of roles including; American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, American Horror Story and most recently –Sun Records.
Her most recent project is, Brightburn, to be released in May 2019.
#2 She met Gunn on a blind date
Jennifer Holland and Gunn were set up on a blind date by a mutual friends in 2015. According to an Instagram post celebrating their third anniversary –Gunn says that by the time they were driving to their dinner date they had discussed ‘thoughts on marriage, having children, and psycho exes.” As they entered the restaurant while waiting to be seated, they ‘discussed the deaths of loved ones. Intimate, honest, casual discussion was the natural energy’ He wrote.
Gunn finishes the post with ‘I knew she was very different from anyone I had ever known’
#3 She is a lot younger than he is
Jennifer Holland was born in 1987, which makes her 32-year of age. Compared to her beau’s 51 –she is his junior by 21-years.
#4 She lives with him
Jennifer and Gunn who currently share the same home, have been in a relationship for about four years. Prior to her, Gunn was married to actress Jenna Fischer from 2000 until 2008.
#5 She is active on social media
Holland has an Instagram account where she has a following of over 50k. The stunning blonde often shares images of her and Gunn, their travels and also about their gods, Maga and Eda.
Jacinda Ardern’s Boyfriend Clarke Gayford
Clarke Gayford
Clarke is the proud handsome boyfriend of New Zealand politician and Jacinda Ardern –currently serving as the country’s Prime Minister.
Clarke’s partner became the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand in October 2017. She previously served as Spokesperson for Social Development.
Jacinda grew up in Murupara and Morrinsville, New Zealand, as the daughter of police officer Ross Ardern.
The self-described feminist, who is also the leader of the New Zealand Labour Party became a senior-ranking member of the Young Labour Party –after earning a degree in communications from the University of Waikato. In 2008, she was elected President of the International Union of Socialist Youth.
She and longtime boyfriend, Clarke became first time parents last year. They welcomed a daughter, Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford, together in June 2018.
The 39-year-old has been in a relationship with Clarke for several years. The two first met back in 2012 after being introduced by a mutual friend.
Born October 24, 1977; the Gisborne native is a well-known TV personality. Though he is not into politics, Gayford is a TV presenter and an avid fisherman. In fact, in his show, ‘Fish of the Day’ Gayford combines his two passions, TV and traveling.
He graduated from the NZ Broadcasting School and has had lots of TV and radio gigs – including presenting on C4 and working for George FM.
Previous work includes hosting the United Travel Getaway in 2007; three years later in 2010, he moved on to presenting the third season of Extraordinary Kiwis. He is currently the host of ‘Fish Of The Day’
The father of one, recently grabbed headlines after he said he supports students protesting across New Zealand calling for action on climate change. The couple is also dealing with the mass shootings at two mosques that killed 49-people.
Officials have confirmed that least 49 people were killed and 20 seriously injured in the carefully planned and unprecedented attack that has shocked the nation. The death toll makes the Christchurch mosque shootings as bad as New Zealand’s previous worst mass killing in 1943.
Find Clarke Gayford on Twitter here.
Elizabeth Henriquez 5 Facts About Hercules Capital Manuel Henriquez’ Wife
Elizabeth Henriquez
Elizabeth Henriquez is married to former top exec, Manuel Henriquez –who served as the CEO of Hercules Capital, a Silicon Valley hedge fund.
Elizabeth’s husband has just stepped down from his CEO job after he was charged by the FBI in the college admission cheating conspiracy.
According to reports, rich parents paid up tens of millions of dollars to get their rich kids into elite colleges and universities by cheating on entrance exams and getting non-athletic students admitted on fake athletic scholarships.
Manuel Henriquez is among at least 50 people charged over the scheme and with him, his wife. Check out five facts about her below.
#1 Elizabeth Henriquez was arrested along her husband
Federal prosecutors allege that Henriquez, along with his wife, participated in the cheating scheme paying to help their daughters cheat on standardized tests. Both Manuel and wife, Elizabeth were arrested and were released on a $500,000 bond each.
#2 Her husband has Spanish roots
Elizabeth’s husband is a native of Santo Domingo, DR –who received a B.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University and is a member of the University’s Board of Directors.
#3 She was a proud wife
Prior to the scandal Elizabeth’s husband was a big shot. Per his profile on crunchbase, he was a Managing Director at VantagePoint Venture Partners before becoming the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Hercules Technology Growth Capital. He is described as a 25-year veteran of the venture capital and financing community.
#4 She is a housewife and mother
The couple has been married for decades and together are the parents of two college-age daughters. Not much is known about, Elizabeth Henriquez, however the wealthy housewife often appears in the social pages in Silicon Valley and is apparently involved in charity.
#5 One of her daughters was also involved in the scheme
According to the complaint, Isabelle Henriquez – received a score of 1900 out of 2400, a 320-point improvement from her previous score. Elizabeth Henriquez is said to have gloated after her daughter cheated on her SAT.
Isabelle –who is currently a junior at Georgetown –also had ‘spectacular extracurricular and character references made. She was designated a tennis recruit despite having never played tennis.
Mossimo Giannulli 5 Facts About Lori Loughlin’s Husband
Mossimo Giannulli
Mossimo Giannulli is the fashion designer husband of TV and Film actress, Lori Loughlin –from Full and Fuller House fame.
Mossimo and Lori have been together for decades and are currently involved in a college admission scandal. Turns out, his actress wife has been charged of participating in a massive bribe to get their daughter into college.
According to an investigation, dozens of wealthy parents paid a college prep organization to help admit students into elite colleges like Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, among others.
54-year-old Lori rose to fame for playing Rebecca Donaldson on the ABC sitcom Full House and its Netflix revival Fuller House. She also played Ava Gregory on Summerland. The New York native began her career as a model at age 12, and was featured on many national print advertisements while attending Hauppauge High School in New York. She went onto appear in other famous TV shows like Beverly Hills 90210 and Seinfeld.
Check out five interesting facts about her husband.
#1 He is a famous fashion designer
Mr. Giannulli was born Massimo Giannulli June 4, 1963; to parents Gene and Nancy Giannulli. The California native is the creator of the popular Mossimo clothing line. The brand has specialized in youth clothing, specifically in items such as shirts, jeans, jackets, socks, underwear, and accessories.
#2 He and Lori were in previous relationships
Lori’s first tied the knot in 1989 to Michael R. Burns –an investment banker who later became the vice president of Lionsgate. However, they divorced in 1996. The following year she and Mossimo became husband and wife, two years after they first met in 1995.
Massimo was previously married to Chris Clausen, but they also ended in divorce.
#3 He is a father of three
Since their nuptials the two welcomed two daughters together. Isabella Rose was born on September 16, 1998 and Olivia Jade on September 28, 1999. Their daughter Olivia is a YouTube star who gives beauty tips on her channel.
Mossimo is also the father of a son, Gianni Gene Giannulli –born from his first marriage.
#4 He faked his way through college
According to his youngest daughter, Olivia Jade Giannulli her father didn’t go to college. She revealed during an interview “He has a really crazy story in college,” “He, like, built his whole entire brand and he wasn’t actually, like, ever … enrolled in college.” “But he, like, faked his way through it and then he started his whole business with tuition money that his parents thought [was] going to college.”
His original biography states that Mossimo studied architecture (like his father) and business at the University of Southern California, but he dropped out after three years.
#5 He almost went bankrupt
In the late 90’s the stoke of Mossimo Inc, dropped from $50 to $3, Mossimo was ready to face bankruptcy, but then Target came to his rescue. Mossimo’s clothing line is sold in 600 stores internationally (Australia, Mexico, UK, Philippines, India, Japan and South America) and in 1,700 stores within the United States.
5 Facts About Darrell Sheets’ Girlfriend Romney Snyder
Romney Snyder
Romney Snyder is the proud girlfriend of reality TV star, Darrell Sheets –best known for appearing on A&E’s Storage Wars.
Romney’s man suffered a heart attack over the weekend and will be getting surgery. According to reports, Darrell has been sick for a while and was transported to the hospital after suffering what he described as a mild heart attack. Sheets took to social media and said he has a congestive heart failure and a severe issue with his lungs. He also gave a shout to his fiancé, Romney Snyder for being by his side.
Born May 13, 1958; the San Diego native has been in the storage auction business for years. Known as “The Gambler,” his over 30-years- experience has led him to make some truly impressive finds like the four Picassos and the world’s most lucrative comic book collection he scored through storage auctions.
Sheets is the father of a son, Brandon who has also appeared on the show. He and Brandon’s mother were married but the couple split. He and new love, Snyder have been dating for a while. Check out five interesting facts about her.
#1 She founded a nonprofit
Snyder who is originally from Irvine, is the founder of HiCaliber Horse Rescue Village –of which she also served as its CEO. According to its page, HiCaliber a specialized in saving horses from slaughter auctions claiming that between 2001 and 2018, more than one thousand horses were saved.
#2 She was accused of fraud
HiCaliber is currently being dissolved and last year it was reported that the nonprofit was facing animal cruelty and fraud allegations. When reached by phone Romney offered no comment.
#3 She is a mom
Romney Snyder is an adoptive mom. Years ago she adopted two special needs boys, Tanner and Travis.
#4 She lost one child
On Facebook, Romney Snyder says “I am a mom of two adopted special-needs boys: one who lives with me, and one who lives in my heart.” One of her sons, Tanner, died in 2017.
#5 She is a director of communications
According to her LinkedIn, Romney attended Golden West College and is certified to interpreting for deaf people. She is currently listed as the director of communications at ABILITY Awareness.
Kirsten Corley 5 facts About Chance The Rapper’s Wife
Kirsten Corley
Kirsten Corley is the lovely wife of rapper, Chancellor Johnathan Bennett –whom you probably know best as Chance the Rapper.
Kirsten’s husband is a Grammy winner independent artist who’s been active in the music industry since 2011 gaining wider recognition for his 2013 mixtape Acid Rap.
The Chicago native was born April 16, 1993 –and showed an interesting in making music since his high school days. In fact, his mixtape, 10 Day –was made during a ten-day suspension from high school while on his senior year. He certainly made heads turn and was featured in Forbes –in the publication’s Cheap Tunes column.
Chance is also a member of the Chicago collective Save Money and has worked as the lead vocalist for the band The Social Experiment. In 2016, Chance dropped a surprise mixtape titled Coloring Book –which earned him seven Grammy nominations.
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The 25-year-old is certainly successful and has a beautiful lady to share that success with. Check out five facts about his lovely wife, Kirsten.
#1 They have known each other since they were kids
According to a Tweet, Chance and Kirsten first met at his mother’s office party as kids, where Corley and two pals performed Destiny’s Child’s “Independent Women, Part 1.” They didn’t start dating until 2013, the two briefly broke up in 2016 and got back together the next year.
Kirsten gave birth to a baby daughter in September 2015. The couple named their daughter Kinsley Bennett.
#3 They recently tied the knot
Kirsten and Chance actually tied the knot at the Cook County Clerk’s Office in December. But celebrated their nuptials at the Pelican Hill resort in Newport Beach, Calif., on March 9th, 2019. Chance proposed to Corley last Fourth of July at a family picnic.
#4 She is a former model
Kirsten did some modeling back in the day, she appears in a 2014 editorial shoot, wearing T by Alexander Wang.
#5 She used to play basketball
Kirsten who is also a Chicago native born May 31, is nearly 6-foot tall, which came in handy as she used to play basketball during her high school days.
Check out Kirsten Corley on Instagram here.
Rachel Sharp 5 Facts about Luke Perry’s Ex-wife
March 4, 2019 by L.A Girl Leave a Comment
Rachel Sharp
Rachel Sharp was once the wife of late actor, Luke Perry –who became a beloved TV icon following his role on Dylan McKay on Beverly Hills 90210. At the time of his death, Luke was dating family therapist and former actress Wendy Madison Bauer.
Rachel’s husband died at age 52 after he was rushed to the hospital last week following a massive stroke. Perry, widely known as a teen heartthrob found new fame back in 2017 when he was cast to play Fred Andrews on CW’s series, Riverdale.
He is survived by two adult children, his mother, Ann Bennett; both siblings; a fiancée and former spouse, Rachel Sharp. Check out five interesting facts about her below.
#1 They were married for a decade
The couple went their separate ways in 2003 after 10-years of marriage. The married at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills in 1993 during a private ceremony which was attended by some of the show’s cast.
#2 She allegedly sent him lingerie
Tabloids reported that Sharp actually was a huge fan from watching him on 90210 and mailed him a piece of lingerie, which caught Perry’s attention. However, it was the actor himself who said the two had met at a restaurant.
#3 She is a mother
Rachel Sharp is the proud mom of two children 21-year-old son, Jack and 18-year-old daughter, Sophie –from her marriage to Perry.
#4 She did some acting
Rachel ‘Minnie’ Sharp is a former actress, according to her IMDb, She played a character named Emily in the 1987 fantasy film Teen Wolf Too starring Jason Bateman. She is also described as a furniture saleswoman.
#5 Her son is a wrestler
The couple’s son Jack, followed his father’s footsteps as an entertainer. However, Jack is in a different industry as a professional wrestler. Jack goes by Jungle Boy.
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Henry Chase Hager Top Facts About Jenna Bush Hager’s Husband
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Henry Chase Hager
Henry Chase Hager is the proud husband of teacher, author, journalist and newest Today show host, Jenna Bush.
We’ll sure be seeing more of Henry’s wife, as she’s been hired to replace Kathie Lee Gifford in the fourth hour of NBC’s Today. Jenna Bush and her twin sister, Barbara were born November 25, 1981 –with Jenna being the youngest of the twins, they became the first twin children of a US president –automatically thrown into the limelight.
The Texas native actually joined NBC News when she was 27. She has since contributed for the network in a number of roles including as a correspondent, contributor and co-host. Jenna who holds an English degree from the University of Texas at Austin, is also a teacher and author. But enough about her, meet her man below.
#1 He is her husband of over a decade
In 2008, she tied the knot to hubby, Henry Hager. The couple met around 2004 on her father’s campaign trail. Though they weren’t initially serious, Henry asked for permission to marry her in 2007.
#2 He worked for President Bush before he became his father-in-law
A Richmond, Virginia native; Henry Hager graduated from Wake Forest University in 2000. He also holds an M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
He worked for Karl Rove, moved on to the 2004 reelection campaign and then joined the Commerce Department.
Hager worked for George W. Bush, back when he was the President of the United States. He worked as a Staff Assistant to the Senior Advisor at the White House to President George W. Bush from 2001-2003. During the 2004 Presidential Campaign, Hager served as Deputy Operations Manager.
#3 Henry’s father is also a former politician
Henry Chase Hager was born May 10, 1978. His father is John H. Hager –a business man who served in the Army and was also a former Virginia Republican Party Chairman.
#4 He has two kids
Henry and Jenna are the proud parents of two children, daughters Margaret Laura born in 2013; and Poppy Louise Hager, born in 2015.
#5 Hager currently serves as Director at KKR
According to his profile, Henry Chase Hager currently serves as a Director at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. He joined the firm in 2011. Prior to joining KKR, he was with Constellation Energy in its corporate strategy and development group, where he was involved in a number of merger, acquisition, and other corporate advisory transactions.
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Minnesota Homeschoolers Lobby Legislators to Challenge Obamacare
Posted on May 29, 2010 by homeschoolbookreviewblog | Leave a comment
You might be interested in this item from the Eagle Forum’s May 2010 Education Reporter.
Each year, a group of Minnesota homeschool students gathers weekly at a church in Roseville, Minnesota to research, discuss, and draft mock legislative resolutions for four public policy issues. Since the students choose topics for the Student Senate class, the 14- to 18-year-olds always pick subjects that interest them; this year they delved into modern slavery, nuclear power and the American war on terror.
Last month they decided their fourth topic, health care, merited more than just academic inquiry.
“After the health care bill passed, we were all sort of outraged, not only at the content of the bill, but the way it was passed, and just the machinations and the back room deals and all that,” explained Student Senator Fletcher Warren, age 18, in a radio interview with Sue Jeffers. “So we decided that we should do what we could . . . We wrote out this resolution . . . detailing our concerns, such as the unconstitutionality of it.violating the commerce clause, etc.”
The resolution calls upon Minnesota’s governor, attorney general, and the state legislature to seek an injunction that would relieve the state of having to comply with newly enacted national healthcare legislation.
On April 6th, the 32 students comprising the class gathered at the St. Paul statehouse to hand-deliver letters and copies of the signed resolution to Minnesota legislators.
The students were able to meet with four representatives and two senators, all of whom welcomed their young constituents.
Warren served as chairman of the healthcare committee for the class and was pleased with the way legislators received the student delegation and their message. “The [state legislators] were all quite friendly and quite pleased to take [the resolution],” he said, describing the experience as “overwhelmingly positive.”
homeschooling in Sweden
Many homeschoolers in the United States have been following the saga of Swedish couple, Christer and Annie Johansson, whose 7-year-old son, Dominic, was literally yanked off a plane and taken into custody by the state last year. You can learn more about the original incident from the following article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109334 .
Recently, Mary Pride, publisher of Practical Homeschooling magazine, made some comments on this in the May 2010 issue of Home-School News ( www.home-school.com ). The Johanssons were homeschooling their son (which is still legal in Sweden) for a short period prior to moving to India, Annie’s native country. They followed all the rules, notifying the local school of their plans, and requesting curriculum for their son. Apparently, after initially agreeing to do so, the principal changed his mind once some local people objected. Eventually this escalated to a court battle, with the parents fined each day Dominic did not attend school. They felt they were on safe ground according to their rights under Swedish law, so stood firm. That’s where the situation rested, until the police “stormed the plane” one minute before take-off and grabbed Dominic away from his parents. They have only been allowed to see him for brief periods once every five weeks since then. It’s not just the Johanssons, either. Some Swedish authorities have been cracking down on other homeschool families.
In fact, the Swedish government is apparently considering making homeschooling illegal, as it is in Germany. Home School Legal Defense Association emailed a letter by Michael P. Donnelly to members of the Swedish Parliament which contained the following. It has come to our attention that many Swedish families would like to homeschool their children. While many have been allowed to do so, there is increasing repression of these families through court proceedings. We are also informed that the Swedish Parliament is considering changes to the current school law that would allow home education only in “exceptional circumstances” and make it possible for homeschooling families to face criminal sanctions.
We wish to point out that Sweden’s behavior in repressing home education and in considering laws that would severely restrict, if not entirely eliminate home education, is similar to behavior for which Germany has been criticized. In fact, the United States of America has granted political asylum to a German family who fled persecution because of their desire to homeschool their children. This persecution took the form of fines and other threats based solely on the fact that they homeschooled their children. If Sweden adopts this strict law, as recommended in Chapter 24, Paragraph 23 of the proposed new Swedish school law, it appears likely that the same circumstances that currently exist in Germany would appear in Sweden, forcing many Swedish citizens who wish to homeschool to flee their home country. It is our understanding that some Swedish families have already chosen to flee because of harassment from local school authorities who arbitrarily deny them their right to teach their own children.
While we understand that nations have their own culture and laws, Sweden is a country based on Western notions of justice and liberty. In addition, Sweden often points to its positive record on human rights. Yet as United States Federal Immigration Judge Lawrence Burman wrote in his opinion granting the German Romeike family political asylum, “No country has a right to deny these basic human rights.” He refers to the right of parents to decide the best form of education for their children, which includes the right, even if regulated, to educate their own children themselves.
As you know, the Treaty of Amsterdam calls for respect for those fundamental rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. These same rights are solemnly proclaimed in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, most notably Article 6 (Right to liberty and security of person), Article 7 (Respect for private and family life), Article 10 (Freedom of thought, conscience and religion), Article 14 (Right to education), Article 20 (Equality before the law), Article 21 (Non-discrimination), Article 22 (Cultural, religious and linguistic diversity), Article 24 (Rights of the child), and Article 47 (Right to an effective remedy and a fair trial). These formative documents each indicate that homeschooling should be possible for those who choose it. Furthermore, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights itself states in Article 26 that parents retain the right to choose the kind of education their children receive.
In his report on the German education system in 2006 United Nation’s UN Special Rapporteur Vernor Munoz writes,
[A]ccording to reports received, it is possible that, in some Länder, education is understood exclusively to mean school attendance. Even though the Special Rapporteur is a strong advocate of public, free and compulsory education, it should be noted that education may not be reduced to mere school attendance and that educational processes should be strengthened to ensure that they always and primarily serve the best interests of the child. Distance learning methods and home schooling represent valid options which could be developed in certain circumstances, bearing in mind that parents have the right to choose the appropriate type of education for their children, as stipulated in article 13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The promotion and development of a system of public, government-funded education should not entail the suppression of forms of education that do not require attendance at a school. In this context, the Special Rapporteur received complaints about threats to withdraw the parental rights of parents who chose home-schooling methods for their children.
The UN report notes in recommendations Section 93(g) “[T]hat the necessary measures should be adopted to ensure that the home schooling system is properly supervised by the State, thereby upholding the right of parents to employ this form of education when necessary and appropriate, bearing in mind the best interests of the child.”
Scientific research and practical experience around the world has conclusively proven that homeschooling is at least as effective as public schools both academically and in producing well-socialized and productive members of society. In many cases, homeschooling has proved more effective. There is no other country in the world that has as much experience with this form of education as the United States. With over 2 million homeschooled students (nearly 3% of the school age population), the United States’ experience has been overwhelmingly positive and demonstrates that measures to restrict home education, such as those before the parliament today are repressive and are not necessary to safeguard the State’s interest in education or in protecting children.
For more research, please read a report by the Fraser Institute of Canada. http://www.fraserinstitute.org/Commerce.Web/product_files/Homeschooling.pdf
For additional research, please also visit HSLDA’s online research. http://www.hslda.org/research/default.asp
We urge you to vote against this severe law to modify Chapter 24 Paragraph 23 in the proposed new Swedish school law. This change would essentially ban homeschooling in Sweden. In a pluralistic and democratic society such as Sweden, freedom in education must be respected. It is the recognized human right of parents to determine the best form of education for their children.
Now there is hope. In an item headlined, Cavalry arrives for beleaguered homeschool family: Top human rights expert to argue for return of abducted 7-year-old, Bob Unruh of WorldNetDaily (April 30, 2010), reported the following:
A top human rights expert who also is accomplished in Swedish law has been assigned to help a homeschool family whose 7-year-old son was taken into custody by police and has been detained by social services agents in Sweden for almost a year.
The startling assignment by Swedish courts of attorney Ruby Harrold-Claesson to the case of Christer and Annie Johansson came only days after WND reported on a campaign by the Home School Legal Defense Association for homeschoolers and others worldwide to contact Swedish authorities about the case.
The Johansson’s son, Dominic, was apprehended last year by police on a jetliner as the family awaited departure on a planned move to India, Annie’s home country. There were no charges against the family or allegations of criminal activity.
Local education officials and social workers object to the family’s choice to provide a homeschooling education for their son, even though the activity technically remains legal in Sweden.
The latest development came after a hearing between the parents and social workers over Dominic’s status was canceled. The boys parents are allowed a short visit once every five weeks.
Court officials picked a local attorney to represent the family, but Christer Johansson rejected him out of hand, and the court, in a move that surprised advocates for the family, appointed the nationally known human rights leader. Harrold-Claesson is president of the Nordic Committee for Human Rights.
“The lawyer is a real freedom fighter,” Michael Donnelly, an executive with the HSDLA, told WND. “She goes toe-to-toe over this issue. She’s a fighter for the family in Sweden.”
Donnelly said because of Harrold-Claesson’s successful activism she’s looked on with suspicion by authorities and social services agencies, which is why the appointment was surprising.
Donnelly told WND the situation in Sweden overall appears to be deteriorating for homeschooling families. He said he has just begun working on another case in which a family has been fined 20,000 Swedish kroners, about $4,500, for homeschooling a 13-year-old who, by court statements of school officials themselves, is outstanding both academically and socially.
For more information, read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=147501 .
Mary Pride concluded with the following information: In a bit of good news, a top human-rights campaigner has been assigned to represent the family. This occurred just a few days after Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) started campaigning on behalf of the Johanssons. If you’d like to help, first please pray for this family. Could anything be more heart-wrenching than to have your child literally ripped from your arms? Second, please go to this page ( http://www.hslda.org/hs/international/Sweden/201005060.asp ) and find out how you can contact the Swedish committee that will be convening on May 12 to discuss “what to do” with Dominic Johansson. It includes email and phone numbers for committee members.
You can read more details in the June issue of Biblical Homeschooling, a free e-mail homeschooling newsletter; to receive it, send a blank e-mail to biblicalhomeschooling-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and then follow the instructions that will be e-mailed to you; or subscribe from the web at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biblicalhomeschooling/ .
more on the homosexualization of America
In an item headlined, Chicago Tribune‘s Rex Huppke Gaga for Homosexuality, Laurie Higgins, Director of IFI’s DSA of the Illinois Family Institute, wrote, Rex Huppke, who purports to be a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, but is, in reality, a mouthpiece for homosexual activism, has written yet another propaganda piece about homosexuality. Huppke wrote an article — not an opinion piece — but an article that doesn’t even attempt a pretense of objectivity.
I have consistently chronicled the homosexualization of America by the forces of the radical left-wing homosexual rights movement, both in this blog and in my e-mail homeschooling newsletter ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biblicalhomeschooling/ ) because one of the reasons that so many have chosen to homeschool is to get their kids out of the homosexual indoctrination that is being done in so many public schools, and now the anti-homeschooling movement is criticizing homeschooling precisely because those children are not being presented with a variety of views differing from those of their parents.
Lauries primary focus in the article was Huppkes a thinly disguised endorsement of U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez’ disastrous immigration reform proposal which would allow “foreign-born partners of gay and lesbian Americans the same path to citizenship as heterosexual spouses.” However, she made an interesting observation that I want to pass on to you. After citing some examples of homosexuals whose lovers are from foreign countries used by Huppke to create sympathy, Laurie said:
Unfortunately, in an increasingly non-rational, non-thinking culture, appeals to such tales of woe carry persuasive power. It is these kinds of narratives that are shaping the views of even conservative Christians, particularly younger Christians who are not being taught to think critically. As Thomas Sowell, African American Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, writes: The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”
Others have chronicled the fact that even many children from Christian homes are much more accepting of the radical homosexual rights agenda because of their exposure to it in public schools. As homeschoolers, we can teach our children to think critically and Biblically on these topics. Laurie ended the article with Some concluding and random thoughts: Appeals to emotion are not reasons. The presence of sad feelings tells us precisely nothing about the morality of homosexuality — or any other moral issue. The presence of emotional and sexual feelings and sexual interactions between two (or more) people does not render their relationship a family structure worthy of affirmation or legal status. Rex Huppke is not reporting; he is cheerleading and proselytizing. And she is absolutely RIGHT!
Nathaniel and Hans Bluedorn (authors of The Fallacy Detective and The Thinking Toolbox which are studies of logic especially for homeschoolers). where are you when we need you?
well, at least some common sense (or is it that they’re just running scared?)
The following item appeared on World Net Daily on 5/21/2009.
District kills LGBT indoctrination for kids
Lawsuit that demanded right to opt children out also dropped
By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
A lawsuit that demanded a right for parents to opt their young children out of a “gay” indoctrination program in a California school district was dropped after the district suddenly killed the worst of the curriculum, officials told WND today.
‘And Tango Makes Three’ book about homosexual male penguins who name their chick Tango because ‘It takes two to make a Tango.’ This was part of Lesson 9.
Brad Dacus, president of Pacific Justice Institute, had been working on the case pending against the Alameda Unified School District.
Dacus said the case was filed because parents wanted to uphold a state law allowing them not to have their children participate in health education programs if they choose. But he said the decision to drop the case was made when the district announced it was canceling “Lesson 9” of the Caring School Community curriculum, which was adopted by the school board last year.
“We’re very pleased,” he said. “But we’re calling upon parents all across the country to investigate and find out just what material is being pushed in their school district.
“We’re hoping that this school district learns tolerance is a two way street. One way tolerance is not tolerance at all. It’s tyranny,” he said.
District officials did not return a WND message asking for comment
Dacus said the problem was that most of the Lesson 9 program went far beyond a message against bullying.
“The rest was all about acceptance, actual, moral and social acceptance of these very controversial and even medically dangerous lifestyle choices,” he said.
According to a report from the institute, that section of the curriculum at issue “gave a monopoly to anti-bullying and diversity instruction to only one protected class LGBT. Lesson 9 excluded all other children who would be subject to bullying because of gender, race, religion, nationality and disability.”
“The dismissal of the appeal comes after attorneys for the district informed the Pacific Justice Institute that the board of education voted to discontinue use of Lesson 9 and replace it with materials that cover each legally protected class,” said the institute reported.
“While the district had claimed that a LGBT curriculum was necessary to address bullying and harassment in elementary schools, documentation from the district obtained by PJI through a public records request revealed that, of the approximately 170 incident reports in an 18-month period, there were no school incidents of harassment due to sexual orientation in the elementary grades,” the institute report said.
“The vast majority of reported complaints on AUSD campuses involved opposite-sex sexual harassment and racial tension, not sexual orientation.”
Kevin Snider, a PJI attorney representing the parents, said “all children deserve safe schools.”
“To give one group the sole voice in safe-school instruction was an attempt to teach impressionable children that the LGBT lifestyle is both moral and normative,” he said.
The dispute spawned at least three lawsuits, several administrative complaints and board meetings attended by hundreds from the community.
“This has been a significant gain by parents. We are remaining vigilant and will continue to keep an eye on the district,” Dacus said.
The parents’ case technically was on appeal, following a ruling from Judge Frank Roesch in Alameda Superior Court, who refused to let the parents take their children out of such classes.
Pacific Justice reported at the time the decision came late last year that Roesch blasted the parents for seeking enforcement of a provision of the California Education Code that gives parents a right to opt their kids out of health education.
Education Code Section 51240 allows a parent to have a student excused from instruction, “If any part of a school’s instruction in health conflicts with the religious training and beliefs of a parent or guardian of a pupil.”
However, Pacific Justice Institute said Roesch repeatedly insinuated that the parents are bigots and insisted there can be no homosexual indoctrination because, he purportedly argued, people are born that way.
In his opinion, Roesch said the opt-out provision in section 51240 “is not reasonably construed to include instruction in family life education, but was intended to be more limited in scope.”
WND earlier reported when the district was accused of violating federal law for approving the mandatory homosexual curriculum for children as young as 5 without allowing parents to opt out of the lessons.
The Lesson 9 curriculum was in addition to the school’s current anti-bullying program.
more good reading
No Greater Joy: Michael and Debi Pearl have long been “big names” among many homeschoolers, and their free magazine No Greater Joy ( www.nogreaterjoy.org ) along with their books has been very popular. There have been occasions when I have disagreed with what they have written, sometimes mildly and other times, though very few, a little more strongly, and I have not hesitated to express my disagreement. However, there is something with which I do NOT disagree with them and in fact support them whole heartedly.
In the May/June, 2010, edition of No Greater Joy, Mr. Pearl has an article, “Spank and Save a Child,” which begins, “You may have noticed No Greater Joy and Michael Pearl receiving a lot of negative press lately over advocating corporal discipline as part of a comprehensive child training program.” Some of that bad press has even come from left-wing homeschoolers, who appear to be deathly afraid of the homeschooling movement becoming identified with such “radical, right-wing, fundamentalist, conservative” ideas as spanking.
The article continued, “Even CBS, after running an uninformed criticism of us, offered to fly us to New York to answer their unfounded charges on The Morning Show. I was eager to answer, and readily agreed….CBS called for a pre-interview and then canceled the afternoon before the show. I think they discovered that I was not the Bible thumping caricature they had hoped. One news outlet reviewed our web site and gave a very positive review, saying there was nothing in our material that would ever lead to child abuse.”
That is par for the course with the mainstream (i.e., leftist) media. Mr. Pearl went on to make several other interesting observations. “…The battle is much bigger than the spanking flap. They’re not just coming after me, but all parents who believe parenting is as God-given responsibility. The anti-spanking campaign is a front for an anti-family agenda, a progressive socialist movement to reengineer society with government the only mentor of children….But homeschool parents and Christian parents protect their children from corrupt worldviews. The socialists know that the last remaining bulwark against brainwashing children is parental headship—thus their hostility toward the family.”
I could quote more, but rather than giving further excerpts, let me encourage you to read the entire article; if you don’t get the magazine, it can be found at the Pearls’ website:
www.nogreaterjoy.org/articles/general…/spank-and-save-a-child/ .
I noticed several comments at the website, most in agreement with Michael, but others in sounding their shrill disagreement, often citing studies which claim that spanked children are much more prone to violence; of course there are many other studies which show just the opposite, but this issue will not be settled by studies. For those who accept the Bible, it must and will be settled by the inspired word of God.
By the way, I realize that not everyone who opposes spanking is necessarily a left-wing, anti-family socialist, but all who argue against spanking play right into the hands of the left-wing, anti-family socialist crowd. It is one thing for a family simply to choose not to use spanking as a form of punishment; I have no problem with that. But so many want to characterize those who do choose to spank as violence-teaching child beaters, and they often work actively to ban spanking in one way or another. That is anti-family.
Home School Court Report: The Mar./Apr., 2010, issue of The Home School Court Report ( www.hslda.org ) from Home School Legal Defense Association features a cover article “Seeking Refuge in the Land of Liberty: The Romeikes’ Journey” by Mike Donnelly. Many homeschoolers in the United States have been following the trials and tribulations of Uwe and Hannalore Romeike who were forced to leave Germany simply because they wanted to homeschool their children and raised up a prayer of thanks to God when Judge Lawrence O. Burman granted them asylum in the U. S. Of course, did you know that our “family-friendly” Obama administration’s Agency for Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement is using YOUR tax dollars to appeal Judge Burman’s landmark decision, claiming that ‘Germany’s harsh treatment of homeschoolers is merely prosecution, rather than persecution,” while at the same time supporting illegal Hispanic immigrants’ “fast track” to citizenship (because it wants the Hispanic votes). Donnelly responds, “It is repugnant that ICE, and by extension the U. S. government, would support the German government in its persecution of homeschoolers.” Whatever happened to “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free…”? And there is a lot of other information of interest to homeschoolers (including an article by Dr. Rodger Sayre on how to treat acne).
Practical Homeschooling: The Apr./May/June, 2010, issue (#93) of Practical Homeschooling magazine ( www.home-school.com ) has an great editorial by publisher Mary Pride, “Now, More Than Ever;” Don Aslett’s “Beware of These ‘Biggest’ Lies;” part 2 of Marilyn Molewyk’s “A Whole New Look at Socialization;” and other useful material.
Home School Enrichment: The May/June, 2010, issue of Home School Enrichment magazine ( www.HomeSchoolEnrichment.com ) includes articles by Maribeth Spangenberg, “The Box of Education;” by Stacey Posey, “Schooling Through the Summer;” by Christian Overman, “The Missing Curriculum” (about the Christian worldview of work and vocation); by our friend Marc Carrier, “Managing the Family Project;” by Jonathan Lewis, “Thank You, Mom: A Tribute to Homeschooling Moms;” by Katharine Trauger, “Why Do We Quit?”; and by our friend Joanne Calderwood, “The Underwhelmed Homeschooler;” among others.
How long will we continue to stomach what goes on in public schools?
The following item was reported by One News Now:
4 little words + 1 American flag = ‘offensive’
Becky Yeh – OneNewsNow California correspondent – 5/12/2010
A 7th-grade teacher in California has criticized a 13-year-old student for writing "God bless America" across her drawing of the American flag — one more reason, says a conservative activist, why parents should remove their children from public school.
Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com, notes that this situation provides more proof that "government schools are not godly schools."
"It’s another sad example of why concerned parents need to do what’s necessary to get their children out of government-run schools and into the safe havens of home-schooling and solid church schools," he comments.
Taryn Hathaway’s drawing pictured the American flag with the statements "God Bless America," "One nation under God," and "In God We Trust" written across and around the flag. The middle-school Salinas student was told she could not draw the flag because it was "offensive," yet the instructor went on to praise another student’s drawing of President Obama.
Tracy Hathaway, the mother of the 13-year-old student, is shocked over the teacher’s reaction. She contends that her daughter did nothing wrong and believes she was merely exercising her rights.
"My daughter wasn’t trying to break any rules, and she wasn’t trying to create a scene," Hathaway shared with Fox Radio. "She was just expressing her view and saying, ‘This is America, and I want God to bless it.’"
The Hathaway family met with the teacher, questioning why Taryn’s drawing was insulting. But having received no reply, Tracy Hathaway told KSBW that a simple "heart-felt apology’ from the teacher is all she wants.
Another meeting is scheduled with the teacher this week, so an apology may be forthcoming.
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Home > Biographies > Tony Butala
Tony Butala began singing professionally at age seven in Sharon, Pennsylvania. By the age of eight, he was singing on KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh, PA. Within a few years, he moved to Hollywood, California to become a member of the famous Mitchell Boys Choir. Since 1932, The Mitchell Boys Choir had appeared in over one hundred motion pictures, scores of television and radio shows, radio and television commercials, and world-wide concert tours.
While in the choir, Tony appeared in such classic films as White Christmas, War of the Worlds, On Moonlight Bay, and he was the voice of one of the “Lost Boys” in the classic Walt Disney animated film Peter Pan. He was the singing voice of child actor Tommy Rettig in the Doctor Seuss script, Stanley Kramer production, 5000 Fingers of Doctor T, released by Columbia Pictures.
The one change Tony Butala, original and founding member of The Lettermen, would have made in the 50 plus year career of one of the most popular vocal groups in history is a surprising one:
We chose the wrong name! In the late 50’s, when you started a vocal group and wanted to stand out from the crowd, all you had to do was use a novel new name that would give your group a unique look and image. If you are a new group in today’s world and want to get noticed, you have to dye your hair purple or pink, multi-pierce your face, ears, and tongue, and even then you may not be different enough to get any notoriety.
Tony’s favorite things in life are his family, Croatian heritage, wine, and Pittsburgh sports.
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A Disturbing Trend: 18-Yr-Old Bleeds To Death While People Kept Making Videos And Clicking Pictures
The Logical Indian Karnataka
February 2nd, 2017 / 2:52 PM
Source: NDTV | Image Courtesy: indiatimes
On 2 February 2017, an 18-year-old boy riding his bicycle was run over by a bus. The incident happened in Koppal, 380 km from Bengaluru.
The boy – Anwar Ali – lay on the road, bleeding profusely, for almost 30 minutes before he was rushed to a nearby hospital. In this duration, many people saw Anwar and, instead of helping him and taking him to a hospital, they clicked photographs of him bleeding using their mobile phones.
Anwar was finally rushed to a hospital, but it was too late; he succumbed to his injuries and passed away.
His brother told PTI, “No one came to his help, they were making videos and clicking pictures. If someone had cared, my brother could have been saved. More than 15 to 20 minutes were wasted there.”
A growing trend
Anwar’s is not a rare case. Only three days ago, students hit by a cab had to wait for hours before being taken to a hospital. Similarly, a 38-year-old police officer was trapped and bleeding under a police jeep, forced to fend for himself despite the photograph-clicking crowd around him. He later died; had it not been for the apathy of the bystanders he could have been saved.
Road safety in India
In a country where 16 people become victims of road accidents every hour, road safety is a primary issue.
In 2010, the World Health Organisation estimated that India has the highest number of road accident deaths in the world.
Some studies show that 80 percent of the road accident victims could be saved if medical treatment is made available within one hour of the accident. There are still certain apprehensions that prevent people from helping the hapless victims, and the biggest deterrent is the fear of being questioned by the police and hospital staff.
When a road accident happens, the hour immediately after the accident is called the ‘golden hour’. This hour is very crucial to saving the lives of the victims.
Pedestrians and bystanders come into the scene now. The responsibility falls on them, as dutiful citizens, to help the accident victim. But many times we see that people don’t come to the aid of the victim; they either choose to ignore and walk away or they just stand still and watch what happens next. This is a phenomenon known as the Bystander Effect.
The Bystander Effect, or Bystander Apathy, is a social psychological phenomenon where people do not offer any help to a victim because they assume someone else will do it. The greater the number of people standing around, the less likely that any of them will help.
In times of calamity, the help of fellow-humans acts as a beacon of light. Stories of strangers helping a person involved in an accident move and inspire us all. For this to happen we need to act; we need to train our minds to beat the Bystander Effect.
In March 2016, the Supreme Court gave its approval to the central government’s notification that provides protection to the Good Samaritans – or the people who help victims of road accidents by taking them to a hospital or reporting about the incident.
The law will now ensure that reporting a road accident to police or taking a victim to the hospital will no longer be a harrowing experience for Good Samaritans.
Karnataka became the first state in India to come out with legislation for the Good Samaritan law. The same was followed by New Delhi government.
Why have we become so narcissistic that getting likes on social media has become more important than saving someone’s life? Let us be more aware of our responsibilities as conscious bystanders. It is a matter of life and simply clicking pictures and videos and sharing it on social media does no good. We should be more sympathetic and show concern.
It is not just the law but our collective efforts that will bring a change in society. Also, Police need to create more awareness about Good Samaritan Law and how it protects those who save road accident victims.
We at The Logical Indian with the help of our community members and SaveLife Foundation (SLF) have been trying to create awareness about the Good Samaritan Law and Road Safety Law. Every citizen of our country must be aware of this law and it can only be done with the help of yours.
Also read: Afraid Of Police While Helping Road Accident Victims? Now, Don’t. SC Approves Good Samaritan Law
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Home » Arts & Entertainment » And Now a Bit of Classic Vaudeville
Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief on Sep 25, 2010 in Arts & Entertainment | 0 comments
And Now a Bit of Classic Vaudeville
I love researching and studying legendary entertainers, particularly those before my time. One of those who was virtually gone from the scene by the time I was in elementary school was comedian Eddy Cantor, a huge vaudeville star, who also made some early sound musicals — several of them with pioneering color — in the late 20s and 30s. He later became a radio star and early TV star until he had a heart attack and retired from the scene. Cantor was a living cartoon who’d dance around the stage, roll his eyes and clap his hands. If you look at some of the Warner Bros. cartoons you’ll see occasional parodies of him.
If you’re interested in watching, enjoying or studying showmanship here are two gems. Real gems.
First, watch him in a move from the late 40s doing the song that made him famous in vaudeville “If You Knew Susie”. This is in black and white and done twice:
For comedy buffs: the woman in that clip is Joan Davis, a comedienne who made some films with Abbott & Costello and in the 50s had her own show “I Married Joan,” which was along the lines of “I Love Lucy.” She died of a heart attack in her 50s in the early 1960s.
Second, here is a COLOR clip from 1929 of him doing “Making Whoppie” — a song that was considered somewhat risque in his day. Again, watch the way he “sells” his song. This clip by the way is NOT colorized.
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What Is the Difference Between a 22 Long Rifle and a 22 WMR
When it comes to choosing the right type of firearm, ammunition that you hunt, shoot with or even concealed carry, and the weight of the round you shoot, it can be a difficult process. Taking the time to do your homework can pay big dividends when it comes to making the most out of your investment in time and equipment.
A great example of this would be when comparing the.22 Long Rifle (LR) and the.22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire (WMR). These two rounds can easily be confused with each other due to the .22 label before the identifier, however, each has its own place in the world of shooting and marksmanship. Underestimating either is doing a great disservice to the round itself and your own enjoyment shooting it.
A Brief History of The Round
The .22 caliber, or 5.6mm, a round of ammunition has been around for over a century, owing its roots to the Bullet Breech Cap of 1845 in France, but introduced by the J. Stevens Arms and Tool Company in its more common form in 1887.
While it is often seen as an all-purpose plinking, target shooting, and short-range small game type of round today, it was the predecessor of many different larger rimfire calibers that have come out since its inception.
While calibers have come and gone, the versatility of the .22 has kept it a relevant and ready round found on many gun ranges across the United States. Today there are many different variations of the.22 available for consumer purchase. From short, shot, to extended range, these rounds come in various grains and configurations that we will discuss a little further on to suit the needs of the person shooting it and the performance that they are trying to achieve. As varied and versatile the round is the firearms that make use of them are no different.
The Perfect Plinking Ammo: 22LR
For many people, hearing the name .22LR means a round that is predominantly for plinking or used in the taking of small animals. However, there are other benefits to using the .22LR for target plinking that can't be found in different calibers.
Firstly, this type of ammo, in many of its forms, is highly affordable and easy to find. On average, a .22LR round will cost you somewhere in the area of $0.046/rd from most online ammunition sellers. The .22 WMR round, by comparison, will run you somewhere in the neighborhood of $0.16 per round. Shopping for sales and looking for great prices on this ammo can result in hours of enjoyment.
The Perfect Target Practice Round
Using .22 ammo for target practice ammo is probably its most commonly used application. While there has been an upswing in 5.56mm, the .22 remains firmly in control due to its inexpensive cost, quiet report, and lack of recoil from the rifle or pistol that it is fired in. For these simple reasons, it serves as a great way to teach those individuals that do not have much experience with firearms. So, if you have a friend, a son, a daughter, or a significant other that is interested in learning how to shoot, this is the round that you are looking for.
For those with more experience and capability, many communities across the country offer marksmanship leagues that use this versatile round to compete against each other or simply to have fun shooting in a community format. If it sounds like something that you might be interested in, simply do a search for your local shooting ranges and call for more details.
Practical Hunting Applications
When it comes to hunting with the.22LR, there are many variables that come into play. Each state has its own guidelines on a specific caliber, grain, bullet length, and other factors that determine whether a round is legal to hunt a particular species.
While the .22LR can penetrate and dispatch most of your common smaller animals, it is not legal in most states to hunt larger animals with. This is largely due to the light size of the round and the difficulty that comes to lethally penetrating a larger game animal due to thick hides and skulls.
22 LR is great for hunting small animals and pests but it's not good for larger animals because it doesn't have enough stopping power. Photo by Dan Gold on Unsplash
While it is capable of killing these same animals in many situations, ethics of taking a questionable shot or round come into play. That is, not to say that in a survival situation it would not be effective, the legalities of hunting with it do not allow for its use as such.
In all states, centerfire cartridges or shotguns capable of shooting legal sized slugs or buckshot are required to hunt for game such as deer, bear, and wild hogs. This is due to the round being primarily effective at a range up to about 50-75 yards. After this distance, the trajectory of the round drops significantly as the distance is increased. No, the round is better left for smaller quarry such as squirrels, prairie dogs, rabbits, in some states turkey, and other small game where it excels against competing rounds.
The Powerful .22 WMR Round
The 5.6x27mmR 40 grain .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire or the WMR for short was first introduced in 1959 as the .22 Mag. and was put into production in 1960 by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Shortly after its introduction, Smith & Wesson, Ruger, and others were building firearms capable of using the round. Platforms that were made to fire the round include pumps, bolt-actions, single-shot, semi-automatic, and lever-action rifles.
When it was first introduced, this was the round that you needed if you were looking for anything that could hit a target at around 125-yards. This round was challenging to manufacture due to the tremendous pressure that resulted from its being shot. It might be a small round, but its increased power allowed for more versatility and capability when hunting. At that time it significantly changed the landscape of firearms for both food procurement and protection of your family.
With being a substantial increase in case size than the .22 Long Rifle (25.4mm), the .22 Mag (34.3mm) was able to produce greater stopping power through increased velocity and energy upon impact. These attributes allowed it to reach significantly higher chamber pressures to the tune of 24,000 PSI.
In terms of diameter, the diameter of the average WMR was around .224 inches or 5.7mm; this is, in fact, the same dimensions of the modern .22 centerfire Hornet round. As these new ballistically similar bullets have come out en mass via the .224, many shooters have once again become excited and energized about once again shooting the .22 caliber round. With so many choices and variants, the .22 has found ways to remain relevant due to its versatility and affordability for the casual shooter.
The first rendition of the rounds had some exciting results. When shot from the rifle, the shell could reach an astounding 2,000 fps in velocity when shot from a rifle and 1,550 fps from the barrel of a pistol. These bullets were 40-grain hollow points and were cased in a thin full-metal jacket.
After many generations of perfecting the round. The shell could reach 1,910 fps and 1,480 respectively. The amount of energy that was projected was around 360 foot-pounds. This was almost twice as much power and momentum of the 40-grain .22 LR cartridge.
At this point, the small little magnum was not so tiny after all and packed quite the punch.
Variations In the .22LR Round
Beyond the low cost of shooting a .22, one of the most significant features is the versatility of the round. The .22 is available in many different grains with significantly different capabilities. A breakdown below from Federal Cartridge from their 2007 Interactive Ballistic catalog identifies a few of the variations of the round and the effect on weight versus velocity and energy of the round in the .22LR platform.
22LR Variations: Ballistic Performance
Bullet mass/type
40 gr. (2.6 g) Solid[2] 1,200 ft/s (370 m/s) 104 ft·lbf (141 J)
38 gr. (2.5 g) Copper-plated HP[2] 1,260 ft/s (380 m/s) 134 ft·lbf (182 J)
31 gr. (2.0 g) Copper-plated RN[3] 1,750 ft/s (530 m/s) 204 ft·lbf (277 J)
As you can see, the effect that the weight of the round has largely affects the velocity that it is fired at. A heavier round results in lower speed and lower energy, thus a reduced range for the .22LR
Variations In the .22WMR Round
The .22WMR round itself is subject to the same variations that affect its performance and capabilities as the .22LR. The chart below from Cartridges of the World gives a good breakdown of the effects that weight, velocity, and energy all have on each other.
22WMR Variations: Ballistic Performance
30 gr. (1.9 g) HP 2,300 ft/s (700 m/s) 322 ft·lbf (437 J)
40 gr. (2.6 g) JHP 1,875 ft/s (572 m/s) 324 ft·lbf (439 J)
As you can see, the .22WMR generally has a larger weight and considerably more velocity pushing the bullet portion of the round along its trajectory. While ballistically similar to the LR round, the WMR has an increased range and energy at the point of impact compared to its counterpart. While unimportant in controlled distance plinking and target shooting applications, this becomes increasingly important when used in a hunting capacity.
Additionally, it is important to remember that these numbers do not take into consideration the effect that weather and air conditions such as wind have on the bullets as they travel in space.
Weather And Its Effects: .22WMR Vs. .22LR
Due to the short range that these bullets are fired, long-range considerations such as humidity and air density have on their flight path is minimal. However, due to the generally light weight of the rounds, wind can have a considerable effect on their trajectory.
At the very limits of their usable range, the decrease in velocity and increased wobble may wreak havoc on consistent patterning on windy days. In this matter, the .22WMR and its larger grain size and increased powder loan are likely to experience less of the effects of weather than its .22LR counterparts.
On windy days, long distance shooting with a caliber of this size may result in using “Kentucky Windage” to effectively hit targets. This means that the shooter must identify the impact of the round in relation to the desired point of impact. Once this is determined, the shooter then holds his or her aimpoint to the appropriate distance opposite of the target and pulls the trigger. This adjustment should allow the round to hit the target as desired as long as there are no considerable shifts in wind direction or velocity during that time.
The following chart gives you a great idea of what to expect when it comes to the drift of your bullet when faced with a ten mph wind at a 90-degree angle for a couple of different rounds. After all, drift is an important consideration when it comes to hitting what you are shooting at. This factor is more likely to affect hunters as they are the ones that are typically taking shots at the range in the environment.
Bullet Drift: 22WMR vs 22LR 40 Grain
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As you can see, at ranges beyond 30 yards, drift becomes significant, even at a wind speed as low as ten mph. At distances beyond 90 yards, a drift of 5 inches makes for a significant adjustment when you are shooting at a bullseye on a target that may only be a couple of inches across. Over adjusting with your scope when faced with conditions like these make for a firearm that will not be reliable the next time that you are out shooting under other circumstances.
Comparing Trajectory 22 W MR and 22 LR
When it comes to hitting what you are aiming at, it is essential to understand the expected trajectory of the round that you are shooting. While there are a number of variables that come into play when it ultimately comes down to the path of the bullet, an expected trajectory can be mapped based off of energy and range.
Common Uses of the .22 Caliber Round
The primary use of the .22 caliber round has varied little throughout its lifespan. From its use as a common hunting and self-defense round shortly after its manufacture, to a more target and plinking based round in modern times, the .22 in all of its variations as etched a place in history.
During the 1960's it was not uncommon to have a hunter serve in lieu of a federal game warden in those times where an unwanted wildlife pest such as a skunk or raccoon took up residency on someone's property. On many accounts, these individuals were called upon by local farmers and homeowners and were asked to remove everything from hawks, English sparrows, crows, and other pests.
Typically, the firearm of choice was some sort of .22 caliber rifle, but for many, the choices were the WMR variant. When called upon, these pest control people would do there best to protect wildlife when possible and keep residents safe and sound and free of unwanted pests.
Improvements to the Design
Just like everything else in history, when a product is designed and produced and found to be effective, improvements, and adaptations are sure to follow. In the case of the .22LR that improvement was the .22WMR.
When it was initially developed and for some time afterward, the .22 WMR had a formidable reputation. This is largely in part because it was common knowledge that any rifle that could safely and effectively fire this round packed a considerable punch and was very powerful. Once it was found to be safe, effective, and efficient, the improvements followed its newfound popularity. Manufacturers such as Smith & Wesson, Ruger and Savage started creating auto-loading rifles and pistols designed to fire the round and its 24mm length.
Due to its high pressure (24,000 PSI) inside of the case of the round a possible issue resulted when compared to the original inertia-driven actions. The autoloading platform for the .22 WMR involved much trial and error before a repetitively successful model was produced. However, in the 1990's, manufacturers have successfully replicated and improved such technology, and as a result, all avid shooters were eager to try century-old technology that had been modernized. After the technology had been built for the .22 WMR, Remington came out the with Model 597 to make use of the improved round.
The versatility and the variety of platforms that can fire the round make these improvements useful to owners of all firearms types as technology continues to improve, and significant improvements are made by firearms manufacturers. Whether you own a revolver or have been thinking about purchasing one, Taurus, Ruger, Smith & Wesson, and many more manufacturers have made rimfire capable platforms available in their revolver and semi-automatic pistol lines.
A few of the more popular modern pistols making use of the .22LR caliber rimfire cartridges are listed below:
22LR Pistols
Walther P22 Target model (semi-automatic)
S&W Model 17 (revolver)
Ruger Single-Six (revolver)
Ruger GP100 (revolver)
The Colt Woodsman (semi-automatic)
22WMR Pistols
S&W Model 351C Rimfire Revolver .22 Magnum
Kel Tec PMR30 22 WMR semi-automatic
Taurus Tracker 992 Revolver
Ruger LCR Revolver
North American Arms Mini 22 Magnum Revolver
The Overlooked .22 Loads
While the advantages of the .22 WMR load are evident, variations exist that make this already versatile load even more exciting. Doing a little research and talking to your local firearms dealer may reveal a wealth of information that would be otherwise missed by the majority of casual shooters.
Other variants of this round include but are not limited to, the 22TCM, 22BB, 22 Extra Long, 22 Accelerator, 22 Winchester Automatic, and others.
Variants of the .22 Round
High-velocity: These rounds travel at speeds of 1200–1310 fps-Use standard 36 or 40-grain bullets and smokeless powder.
Barrel Rifling
Understanding what makes a rifle is important when it comes to knowing the fundamentals of accurate and predictive fire. In terms of the .22, a series of rifling grooves cut into the interior of the barrel make the round more accurate by spinning the bullet as it travels through the barrel. Variations occur from manufacturer to manufacturer, but two common twist rates are 1-20 and 1-16. This means that for every 20 or 16 inches, a bullet will make one revolution as it travels down the barrel.
The twist is largely based off of the type of round that the firearm was made to shoot and the length of the barrel. In firearms that have been “shot out” or the grooves have been worn down to the point of being ineffective in keeping the bullet in an accurate and predictive path, barrel inserts are available to bring your old worn out firearm back to life.
Many people that build their own rifles have the capability of cutting their own rifling through the use of milling machines that are designed to cut at a specific depth and path. It is not recommended that someone that not know what he or she are doing attempt this as a mistake could result in injury and even death to the person firing the gun.
Rimfire Conversion Kits
The appeal of shooting the low cost, yet effective .22LR round has lent to some pretty impressive innovations in the firearm marketplace. This is evident through the presence of kits that can be installed into various calibers of larger hunting rifles and pistols to shoot the smaller round. Replacement upper receivers exist for AR10 and AR15 platforms. Replacement barrels for 1911 series pistols for various manufacturers are readily available from a variety of sources.
These kits are immeasurably important for the shooter that wants to spend more time at the range without overspending on ammunition. Remember, the .22 round is approximately $0.046 per round as compared to the 45 ACP and its cost of around $0.38 per round. That means that for every one round of 45 ACP that you shoot, you could be shooting about eight rounds of .22. For the person that loves to shoot a particular handgun, the conversion kit essentially pays for itself in little to no time.
These same kits not only exist for the LR round, but for the .22 WMR round as well in all platforms. So, if you have a particular preference for one or the other, there is a conversion kit out there for you. This is something that any serious marksman or woman should consider when deciding where to spend your money when it comes to ammunition and range time.
Important Considerations
While understanding the difference between the .22LR and the WMR is important, it is even more important to understand the firearm that you are looking to shoot that round from. It's also important to find the best 22 scope to shoot from. That is because rifles that are designed to shoot the LR round are not capable of chambering the WMR round. Trying to do so can result in significant damage to the weapon or even possibly an accidental discharge in extreme cases. However, it is likely that these same firearms may be capable of chambering a “short” or some other variant of the .22 caliber round. If you have questions about whether or not your firearm is compatible, ask an expert to ensure that your time spent on the range is not only enjoyable but safe.
The shared history and similarities between the .22LR and the .22 WMR make for a plethora of choices for the most discerning marksman. Whether you are looking for a round for self-defense, hunting, plinking, or target shooting, both of these rounds lend themselves nicely to whatever needs you may have.
Doing the research and spending the time at the range to better understand how all of the factors that we have discussed play into ballistic performance will ensure that you have a round that is not only safe but effective as well. So, when you find yourself with some time on your hands and a firearm capable of firing both of these rounds, hit the range and experience the exhilaration of sending some .22 rounds down range with some friends.
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The Brexit disaster could destroy the United Kingdom
David Faris
Illustrated | REUTERS/Phil Noble, Dzyuba/iStock
If you're ever feeling glum about the wretched state of American politics, you can give thanks that at least we aren't the god-forsaken United Kingdom. Thanks to the dopey machinations of English nationalists, the U.K. may not survive the next decade in its current political incarnation. Nearly three years after a coalition of lying nitwits and careless grifters convinced a narrow majority of voters in the U.K. to plunge the country into seemingly endless political turmoil by leaving the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May's government is on the brink of a disastrous, unnegotiated departure from the EU, which in addition to inviting economic calamity, may ultimately push Scotland, Northern Ireland, and eventually even Wales to leave the U.K.
The country is now fewer than three weeks away from the March 29 deadline that has been hovering over British politics since May's government invoked Article 50 nearly two years ago. Since then, she has been trying to find a departure agreement with the EU that can satisfy a majority in Parliament. But her efforts have so far failed. That leaves the least-good "hard Brexit" — a departure from the EU without any negotiated agreement between London and Brussels on the terms — as perhaps the most likely outcome at this juncture. If no one blinks between now and the 29th, that is exactly what will happen.
When May's "soft Brexit" agreement was resoundingly rejected by Parliament in January, her government continued to work on an arrangement with the EU, and is set to hold another vote in the House of Commons today after May returned from last-minute talks with new assurances that could appease some of her critics. But all indications are that this gambit will fail, again. That may leave the U.K. with only three choices — a ruinous unnegotiated exit from the European Union, another three months of fruitless bargaining with the EU, or perhaps the only thing that can save not just British membership in the EU but the very integrity of the United Kingdom itself: a second referendum.
May's failure to steward a compromise through Parliament is puzzling. If Westminster parliamentary democracy is thought to have one very clear advantage over its American counterpart, it is decisive governance. The prime minister is a sitting member of Parliament and leads either the majority or the lead party in a coalition. Particularly with the kind of party discipline that U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy can only dream of, a British government should rarely find itself incapable of implementing a prime minister's vision. Yet that is the unfortunate position the May government finds itself in.
First, the passage of time and the inability of the conservative minority government to build consensus around a negotiated departure has eroded the willingness of Labour Party elites to go along with Brexit at all. And without some Labour votes for a deal, May has nothing, because the Conservatives are also hopelessly split between those who want to chuck caution into the bin and trigger a sharp break versus those who support May's deal. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn's earlier decision to respect the will of the British public by backing the referendum result was abruptly reversed last month when it began to look like the issue was going to tear his own party apart. He now backs a second referendum. And with good reason: A hard Brexit could not only rattle the markets and plunge both the U.K. and the Eurozone into recession, but also lead to a disastrous breakup of the United Kingdom itself.
It has been five years since the Better Together campaign defeated Scottish secessionists by just over 10 points to remain in the U.K. Smarting from that defeat, leaders of the Scottish National Party (SNP) have been thirsting for a rematch with unionists ever since. That project has been complicated, to say the least, by the fact that support for Scottish independence does not appear to have climbed at all in the interim.
And that's where Brexit comes in. SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has said she won't call for a new referendum until the curtain drops on the Brexit drama, gambling that if the U.K. does leave, especially on harsh terms, it might spike support for Scottish independence above 50 percent, since Scotland voted 62-38 for Remain in the 2016 referendum and clearly sees itself as part of Europe. That intuition is backed by recent polling suggesting that Scots prefer independence to either version of Brexit.
But the Brexit breakup of the U.K. might not stop there. In Northern Ireland, which is part of the U.K. and not the Republic of Ireland with which it shares an island, a similar dynamic is at play. A resounding majority in Northern Ireland voted Remain, and there is no way for the U.K. to fully leave the EU without re-imposing a "hard border" between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The Irish border has emerged as perhaps the stickiest wicket in Brexit negotiations, and there's no clear way through. Either there must be some kind of a border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, or there must be one between Northern Ireland and England. If not, the U.K. will not actually have extricated itself from the EU's freedom of movement rules. May's new deal with the EU apparently includes "legally binding" language that would prevent the U.K. from remaining beholden to EU rules and regulations indefinitely.
But the Irish border problem still threatens the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended the decades-long "Troubles" between Irish nationalists and pro-U.K. unionists in Northern Ireland. May's earlier deal contained a provision that can lead to a "border poll," or referendum on unification with Ireland and departure from the U.K. While unification is not in and of itself a bad thing, the risk is that either a hard border or the pressures of a referendum could break the fragile peace that has held for two decades now.
It would be a great irony indeed if the selfish designs of English Brexiteers ended up fulfilling the dreams of both Irish and Scottish nationalists by cracking up the union altogether. And that's to say nothing of growing nationalist sentiment in Wales, which, although it voted Leave, has seen a decades-long project to revive the Welsh language bear fruit in the form of heightened nationalist feelings. While independence is currently a fringe position, imagine a Wales shorn of its fellow Gaelic entities in Northern Ireland and Scotland, facing English hegemony all on its own. It's not hard to see that scenario leading to a cascade of support for leaving the U.K. altogether and perhaps even a revival of separatism in Cornwall.
But what if the whole mess could be avoided entirely? That's the promise of the last-hour Labour Party gambit of calling for a second referendum. But there are several obstacles.
First and most importantly, Labour does not run the British government, and it's not clear that a parliamentary majority could be persuaded to back a fresh poll. The prime minister may yet buck the odds and persuade a parliamentary majority to support her deal with the EU, and if not she might either buy more time for negotiations, or simply let Article 50 work its dark magic on its own. But a new vote is now clearly the best option, and Corbyn is likely to put a referendum amendment in one of the upcoming votes on the matter. As the ship of state drifts inexorably toward the hard Brexit iceberg, either now or this summer, it is not outside the realm of possibility that enough MPs come to their senses and support a do-over.
Wouldn't holding a second referendum be anti-democratic, a slap in the face to the voters who endorsed the Leave campaign in 2016 and who have been waiting for years to see Brexit brought to fruition? Arguably no. While Leave cheerleaders told people the U.K. could easily negotiate terms with the EU, the reality has proven vastly more complicated. And that sense of being sold a bill of goods means that if the referendum were held today, Remain would win by 12 points, according to a recent poll.
That raises a kind of philosophical question: Is it proper to act on behalf of a long-gone momentary majority in a three-year-old referendum? Or should the U.K. take steps to ask today's existing voters (given the age splits in the 2016 poll, hundreds of thousands of Leave voters are probably already dead) for a clear majority one way or the other — either for May's deal with the EU, or for staying in the EU?
The late Benedict Anderson famously called nations "imagined communities" — millions of total strangers who somewhat mysteriously come to believe that they share a common fate. He wrote that, "the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion." In the end, Brexit threatens to rupture not just a nascent European communion, but to force everyone in the U.K. to revisit the question of exactly who they "imagine" themselves to be when they close their eyes.
Editor's note: A previous version of this article mischaracterized the results of Wales' vote. It has been corrected. We regret the error.
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Pets and Nature
Difference between Hawk and Eagle
Aren’t you tired of mistaking these two? You know they are two different birds and you know each of them symbolizes something. Mentioned in literature and in movies, hawks and eagles hold a different kind of place in the minds and hearts of humans. They are revered, respected, admired. Let see what we can find out to help us better distinguish between these two birds.
2 Hawk vs Eagle
A short tail hawk
A hawk is a bird of prey of the Accipitridae family and the Accipitrinae sub-family. They are medium sized and they hunt both during the day and at night. The term “hawk” is used by some authors to describe a wide variety of raptors. Their most impressive features are their keen eyesight and their hunting abilities. A hawk can see an object 20 feet in front of it with great clarity. They are very agile and intelligent creatures. Hawks are used in “hawking” and “falconry”, a hunting activity in which small game is caught by birds of prey.
There are around 250 species of hawks, of which some are already endangered as they have been hunted by humans. The average lifespan of a hawk is between 13 and 20 years. Their colors are usually reddish brown or grey. Their distribution is very wide, although they prefer open areas such as deserts and fields, due to the fact that they might find their prey more easily. Hawks live on lizards, rabbits, mice, fish, squirrels, smaller birds and snakes, among other animals.
The reproduction pattern of the hawks is different than that of most birds. Prior to the mating season, both males and females will prepare the nest. They will continue to prepare it for the eggs during nesting season after they have mated. Five eggs are laid one year after the actual mating and they will hatch one month later, being cared for by both parents in the meantime. The young hawk will leave the nest at six weeks old and will be able to hunt on its own and live as an adult. Only some species of hawks mate for life.
A bald eagle
An eagle is a bird of prey of the Accipitridae family. There are about 74 species of eagles, 60 of which can be found in Eurasia and Africa and 14 on the American continent and in Australia. They are large birds, their size ranging from 15 to 40 inches in height, with a wingspan of 27 to 98 inches. The most popular type of eagle, the American symbol, is the bald eagle, a species with shiny white feathers on its head and black feathers on the rest of its body. Other eagles may be brownish and golden.
One of the most impressive features of the eagle is the speed with which it can soar. Its hunting habits are just remarkable. The eagle has very strong feet called talons. Without even stopping, the eagle can snatch even bigger prey and carry it through the sky for long distances with the help of its very strong feet. Talons take a few years to grow, making a clear difference between the youngling and the adult.
When killing its prey, the eagle will bite it at the back of the neck then swallow it whole. An eagle’s beak is made out of keratin and it keeps growing all through its life, just like human nails and hair. Being such a large animal and with its ability to fly really high, the eagle has very few natural enemies, being pretty high on the food chain.
As far as family life goes, eagles are said to mate for life. Females place their nests extremely high up and lay two eggs. These nests are called eyries. Of these two eggs one of the hatchlings will usually be stronger and kill its sibling. The strong sibling can live up to 30 years.
Hawk vs Eagle
So what is the difference between a hawk and an eagle?
Both of these birds are raptors and they live in areas where their prey is available. The main difference between the two is in size. Despite the fact that there are various species of both hawks and eagles and that they vary in size, it is still obvious that eagles are considerably larger. And since strength comes with size and eagles are bigger, it is easy to conclude that the eagle is stronger than the hawk. Otherwise, as far as taxonomy goes, they are both part of the same family, the Accipitridae.
They are both really swift fliers and great hunters with strong beaks and talons. However, hawks go for smaller prey, while eagles can hunt and pick up larger animals. Hawks have been domesticated and used for hunting, unlike eagles which are more difficult to manage. Both hawks as well as eagles are symbols of greatness, courage, intelligence and achievement.
As far as mating and social behavior is concerned, eagle females can only lay two eggs at a time, whereas hawk females can lay five, even up to seven eggs. Hawks are more likely to flock as they have more chances of survival when they do. A group of hawks is called a cast. Eagles, on the other hand, use the heights at which they can soar and their size as a natural means of protection. Even so, they still get together in groups which are called convocations.
Hawk Eagle
Member of Accipitridae family Member of Accipitridae family
There are about 250 species There are about 74 species
Reddish-brown, grey colored White feathers on the head and black feathers on the body for the bald eagle; other species have brownish or golden feathers
Medium sized bird Large bird (largest species can even be as tall as 40 inches)
Average life-span of 13 to 20 years Approximately 30 years
A group of hawks is a cast A group of eagles is called a convocation
– The eagle’s nest is called the eyrie
Known for its amazing eyesight and for its hunting technique Known for its powerful talons and for its hunting technique
Females lay five eggs Females lay two eggs
The young bird leaves the nest at six weeks and starts to hunt on its own It takes years for the young eagle to grow its talons to their full size, meaning that it takes a while before it can start hunting like an adult
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25 Best Things to Do in Minnesota
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Minnesota is a land of incomparable wilderness, lakes, and unique historical and cultural sites. Whether you are paddling the many waterways, hiking scenic trails, or snowshoeing off the beaten path, Minnesota is a perfect destination for adventurous nature lovers. The "Twin Cities" of Minneapolis and Saint Paul make up a thriving economic and cultural center with many interesting places in which to spend your time. Duluth is more of a crossroads, with elements of big city industry as well as tons of green space.
1.Minnesota's North Shore Scenic Drive
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Minnesota's North Shore Scenic Drive is a beautiful, 142-mile wilderness journey from Duluth to Grand Portage. Bordered on one side by Lake Superior and on the other by the Sawtooth Mountains, sights include breathtaking cliffs, beaches and thousands of acres of forest. Lighthouses and waterfalls dot the landscape and there seems to be no end to the recreational opportunities.
Many adventures await along the route, including golfing, tent and RV camping, canoeing, hunting, rock climbing, dogsledding, and more. Eight of Minnesota's State Parks are accessible along the way. It takes about three hours to make the journey if you drive straight through, but you could easily stretch the journey to several days by stopping along the way.
2. Minneapolis Institute of Art
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The Minneapolis Institute of Art is a fine art museum in Minneapolis. Free to the public, it is one of the largest art museums in the United States. The collections cover more than 5,000 years of history and contain more than 80,000 objects, including paintings, photographs, textiles, drawings, prints and decorative arts.
The museum includes objects from several regions of the world and is quite comprehensive. In addition to their regular collections, the museum features a variety of traveling collections from other museums. A number of tours are available, ranging from free public guided tours to school tours and private group tours. Read more or Things to Do in Minneapolis
2400 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404, Phone: 888-642-2787
3. Como Park Zoo & Conservatory, St. Paul, Minnesota
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Como Park is a park, zoo and conservatory located in St. Paul. The park is very popular and receives more than 1.9 million visitors each year. The zoo is home to many species of animals that are exhibited for the visiting public. In addition to the zoo and conservatory, recreational facilities at Como Park include an amusement park, carousel, golf course, swimming pool and the 68-acre Lake Como.
The park is expertly landscaped and includes many artistic features such as fountains and sculptures. Como Park hosts many events throughout the year and offers cafes, food carts and gift shops to make your visit both comfortable and enjoyable. Things to Do in St. Paul
1225 Estabrook Drive, Saint Paul, MN 55103, Phone: 651-487-8200
4. Quarry Hill Nature Center
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Quarry Hill Nature Center is an educational center located in Rochester. It sits amidst a 329-acre park that offers a variety of outdoors activities. There are paved and unpaved trails as well as a historical cave. During winter, cross-country ski and snowshoe rentals are available to enhance enjoyment of the park.
The Harry L. Buck Children's Pond provides aquatic learning experiences for children of all ages. Ducks nest in a box on an island in the pond and a variety of other wildlife can be seen. The center hosts a variety of classes, day camps, trips and activities throughout the year. Read more or Things to Do in Rochester
701 Silver Creek Road NE, Rochester, MN 55906, Phone: 507-328-3950
5. Minnesota Marine Art Museum
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The Minnesota Marine Art Museum is an art museum in Winona that is located in a unique historical building on the banks of the Mississippi River. It houses five different galleries of art and artifacts which include marine art, folk sculptures, impressionism, Hudson River School paintings, as well as space for traveling exhibits. The museum's primary focus is marine and maritime art.
One of the most famous pieces in their collection is one of the two surviving copies of "Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Emanuel Leutze, which was on display at the White House prior to becoming a part of the Marine Art Museum. Read more
800 Riverview Drive, Winona, MN 55987, Phone: 507-474-6626
6.The Duluth Experience
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The Duluth Experience offers some of Duluth's most unique cultural experiences, engaging tourists and residents alike with the city's diverse cultural, culinary, and outdoor recreational scene. The touring company offers a wide variety experiences for participants of all ages, including city bus and walking tours elaborating on the city's rich history and culture. Tour experiences include winter outdoor activity excursions, enjoying activities such as snowshoeing and fat tire biking, and winter photography workshops taking advantage of the beauty of the North Shore landscape. Other experiences include brewery tours, which explore the craft breweries of the North Shore craft beer scene and let participants taste a variety of high-quality brews.
211 E 2nd St, Duluth, MN 55805, Phone: 218- 464-6337
7.Leif Erickson Park & Rose Garden
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The Rose Garden of Leif Erickson Park in Duluth is a traditional English style garden located on the banks of Lake Superior. Its beautiful flowers and stunning location make the park a relaxing and beautiful place to visit at any time of the year. The 2.5-acre park contains over 3,000 rose bushes and many other plants and trees.
It is connected to Duluth's Lakewalk, which is a walking and biking trail running about three miles along the lakeshore. In addition to stunning flora, the gardens include some beautiful architectural structures, fountains and statues. The marble gazebo in Leif Erickson Park is a popular place for weddings and other events.
S 13th Ave E & London Road, Duluth, MN 55802, Phone: 218-730-4300
8. Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
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The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is an arboretum and horticultural garden that is part of the University of Minnesota. It is the largest public garden in the upper Midwest and comprises more than 1,100 acres. Over 5,000 plant varieties can be found in the park.
The arboretum features gardens displaying plants developed for northern climates as well as educational exhibits, demonstration gardens and a unique Japanese garden area. The property features natural areas, including miles of hiking and cross-country skiing trails. There is a horticulture library and conservatory on site. Guided tours are available as well as a three-mile driving route that passes many of the park's highlights. Read more
3675 Arboretum Drive, Chanhassen, MN 55317, Phone: 952-443-1400
9. National Eagle Center, Minnesota
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The National Eagle Center is a non-profit organization, aviary and educational center which is dedicated to conserving and protecting eagles as well as to educating the public. Five eagles are housed at the center. These were all rescued and are now used in outreach programs and ceremonies across the state and country.
Visitors can visit the eagles in the viewing room, where you can see them at close range as they are tethered rather than in a cage or behind glass. There are volunteers to answer questions during viewing hours as well as thrice daily 45-minute educational feeding programs that include a question and answer session, giving visitors another chance to learn about eagles. Read more
50 Pembroke Avenue, Wabasha, MN 55981, Phone: 651-565-4989
10.Munsinger Gardens
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Munsinger Gardens is a botanical garden on the Mississippi River in St. Cloud. It is a 14-acre park located on the site of a former sawmill. The gardens include flower-lined paths which wind through tall pine trees. Water features include a lily-pond and fountain and there is a greenhouse on site.
Don't be surprised by the peacocks roaming the gardens! Events such as art exhibits, musical concerts and the like happen regularly. The gardens are a great place to have a peaceful walk and their beautiful, natural setting on the riverbank make them a popular wedding venue.
1515 Riverside Drive SE, St. Cloud, Minnesota, 56304, Phone: 320-257-5959
11.Mill City Museum, Minnesota
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Mill City Museum is a museum in the St. Anthony Falls Historic District on the banks of the Mississippi river in Minneapolis. The museum is built on the site of what was once the world's largest flour mill. The museum is dedicated to preserving and teaching the history of the flour industry, the role of the river, and the city of Minneapolis.
In addition to great exhibits and educational programming, the museum has an onsite restaurant as well as a gift shop which sells a variety of souvenirs and gifts, including many locally-made items, historical books and mid-20th century retro collectibles.
704 South 2nd Street, Minneapolis, MN 55401, Phone: 612-341-7555
12. Science Museum of Minnesota
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The Science Museum of Minnesota houses exhibits related to technology, science, natural history and mathematics. A number of exhibits are permanently on display at the museum. Dinosaurs & Fossils includes several dinosaur skeletons while the Human Body is an exhibit which shows the various human body systems and even allows visitors to extract DNA in the Cell Lab.
Other exhibits focus on the Mississippi River, renewable energy, Native American history and much more. The Science Museum also has a dual screen IMAX/Omnimax theater which was the first of this type of convertible theater to be built in the northern hemisphere. Read more
120 W. Kellogg Blvd., Saint Paul, MN 55102, Phone: 651-221-9444
13. North American Bear Center
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The North American Bear Center is a unique bear and wildlife educational facility. From beautiful wildlife murals to naturally posed bear mounts and background forest and bear sounds, the indoor exhibit area is designed to allow yourself to become immersed in the bear experience. A wall of windows enables visitors to peer into the bear enclosure, which is equipped with ponds and waterfalls.
The Bear Center includes three living black bears, which are housed in a 2.5-acre naturalistic habitat. The bears can be viewed from either the indoor viewing area or an outdoor balcony. The center also has a theater, a 1/4-mile interpretive trail walk, a gift shop, and daily programming and events. Read more
1926 MN-169, Ely, MN 55731, Phone: 218-365-7879
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14.Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
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The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is a park in Minneapolis. At 11 acres, it is one of the largest urban sculpture gardens in the United States. The garden boasts 40 permanent art pieces as well as several rotating pieces. The garden has many well-known and loved pieces, but the centerpiece and most famous sculpture in the garden is the "Spoonbridge and Cherry" fountain.
The garden provides a relaxing atmosphere to enjoy the sculptures in an expertly landscaped and manicured setting of plazas and walkways. The Sculpture Garden is currently closed for renovation but is set to reopen in June 2017.
726 Vineland Place, Minneapolis, MN 55403, Phone: 612-230-6400
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15.Lake Superior Marine Museum
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The Lake Superior Marine Museum is a maritime heritage museum in the historic Canal Park area of Duluth. This museum exists to display and preserve the marine history of the Lake Superior and Port of Duluth-Superior area. They work closely with the Corps of Engineers in acquiring museum-worthy artifacts and publications.
Exhibits interpret the history of the area's commercial shipping industry as well as that of the nearby Aerial Lift Bridge. The museum displays three replica cabins and a pilothouse. There are many interactive displays available for visitors to get a hands on experience of marine history as well as 50 scale models and a three-story steam engine.
600 South Lake Avenue, Duluth, MN 55802, Phone: 218-720-5260
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16.Minnesota History Center, Minnesota
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The Minnesota History Center is a library and history museum located near downtown Saint Paul. It has an ideal location between the Mississippi River and the Minnesota State Capital. The museum displays artifacts from the Minnesota Historical Society's large collection in 44,000 square feet of gallery space. The museum also hosts traveling exhibits and often has historical programming and visiting lecturers.
The center is a popular event venue and hosts events such as concerts, dance performances, conferences, lectures, political campaign events, parties, and weddings on a regular basis. Cafe Minnesota offers a variety of food options and there are two museum gift shops on the premises.
345 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55102, Phone: 651-259-3000
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17.Pipestone National Monument
Pipestone National Monument is a catlinite or "pipestone" quarry near the city of Pipestone. Plains Indians have traditionally used the stone to make ceremonial pipes, which are an integral part of their religious practices. The quarries are sacred places for the Dakota, Lakota and other tribes.
The tradition of making prayer pipes continues today, but only those with Native American ancestry are allowed to quarry the pipestone. However, the National Park Service maintains the site as a historical monument and cultural heritage site. The monument includes a ¾-mile walking trail that leads to several points of interest, including the quarries themselves, waterfalls, creeks and prairie areas. The Three Maidens picnic area includes picnic tables and restrooms.
36 Reservation Avenue, Pipestone, MN 56164, Phone: 507-825-5464 x214
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18.Split Rock Lighthouse
The picturesque Split Rock Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on the northern shore of Lake Superior, near Silver Bay. The lighthouse has been restored to look as it did in 1920 and is a National Historic Landmark. Visitors to the property can tour the four buildings on site and climb the lighthouse.
The keeper's home is staffed by guides in period-appropriate costumes who show what life was like for light keepers and their families during the early 20th century. The lighthouse itself is the centerpiece of Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, which boasts a picnic area, tent camping and 14 miles of hiking and multi-use trails.
3713 Split Rock Lighthouse Road, Two Harbors, MN 55616
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19.James J Hill House
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The James J. Hill House is a historic mansion in Saint Paul. The home was built by railroad tycoon and builder of the Great Northern Railway James J. Hill in 1891. The 36,000-square-foot home is a National Historic Landmark and is available for touring.
The interior of the home features an art gallery which displays Hill's private art collection, some of the family's furnishings, a pipe organ, and very intricate, hand-carved woodworking. A small gift shop is available, selling books and items relating to the railroads, the Hill family, and the historic site itself.
240 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55102, Phone: 651-297-2555
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20.Glensheen, The Historic Congdon Estate
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Glensheen is a mansion in Duluth which is operated as a historic house museum. The property includes almost eight acres of waterfront property on Lake Superior. The 27,000-square-foot Jacobean style house has 39 rooms and the interior is filled with ornate Victorian furnishings.
Glensheen has gained a certain amount of unfortunate fame as the site of the murders of Elisabeth Congdon and her nurse Velma Pietila in 1977. Tour guides are prohibited from speaking about the murders during the tours, but there are books about the incident available for purchase on site. In addition to the impressive home, the estate also includes gardens, bridges and trails for visitors to enjoy.
3300 London Road, Duluth, MN 55804, Phone: 218-726-8910
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21.Xcel Energy Center
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Xcel Energy Center is a multi-purpose arena in Saint Paul. The arena can hold almost 18,000 guests and has four spectator levels, one level for suites and three levels of general seating. The building is the home arena of the NHL's Minnesota Wild and is the former home of the Minnesota Swarm lacrosse team.
In the recent past, it has hosted high profile events such as the Republican National Convention. The arena hosts multiple events throughout the year such as concerts, sporting events, conferences and more. Tickets for events can be purchased on the center's website.
199 W. Kellogg Boulevard, Saint Paul, MN 55102, Phone: 651-265-4800
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22.The Frederick R Weisman Art Museum
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The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum is an art museum on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The collections lean toward modern art and include more than 20,000 images from artists such as Marsden Hartly, Alfred Maurer and Charles Biederman as well as Native American Mimbres pottery and Korean furniture.
The building has a unique stainless steel design on the side that overlooks the Mississippi. The other side of the museum is made of brick so that it fits in with the other campus buildings facing it.
333 East River Road, Minneapolis, Phone: 612-625-9494
23.International Wolf Center, Minnesota
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The International Wolf Center is a conservation, education and research organization based in Ely, Minnesota, dedicated to teaching others about wolves and advocating the survival of wild wolves. The center includes a variety of educational exhibits and a theater which shows film presentations about wolves.
Visitors to the center can view the resident "ambassador wolves." This pack of four captive wolves live in a naturalistic habitat and can be viewed from behind glass windows inside the center. The pack includes two Great Plains wolves and two Rocky Mountain wolves. The "Little Wolf" exhibit is a children's exhibit which provides an interactive learning experience for kids aged 3 to 9.
24.Great Lakes Aquarium
Great Lakes Aquarium is located on the Duluth waterfront. It is one of the few freshwater aquariums in the United States. The aquarium features animals which reside in the Great Lakes region and other freshwater ecosystems around the world.
205 different species can be seen at the aquarium, including fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals. The main exhibit is the 85,000 gallon "Isle Royale" which extends through both floors and can be viewed from many different angles. There are several other permanent exhibits as well a variety of rotating exhibits.
353 Harbor Drive, Duluth, MN 55802, Phone: 218-740-3474
25.Guthrie Theater
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Guthrie Theater is a performing arts center in Minneapolis. The theater is also involved in the production, education, and professional training of the theater arts. The theater has its own local acting company where actors hone their skills by performing classic and modern works throughout the year. There are three theaters as well as a 178-foot cantilevered "Endless Bridge" to the Mississippi river that is open to the public.
This riverside location provides phenomenal views. There is an onsite restaurant as well as catering facilities and conference and private event services. The Guthrie Theater website has a calendar with current event information and ticketing services.
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Enger Park and Tower
Enger Park and Tower is a public park and observation tower located in Duluth. Its 80-foot, five-story, blue stone observation tower provides stunning views of Lake Superior and panoramic vistas of the Twin Ports area. Each of the five levels of the tower has a lookout with stairway access.
The tower is the centerpiece of Enger Park, which has several lovely and unique gardens. During your visit you can learn about the park's interesting history. It was dedicated by the King of Norway in 1939 and Norwegian royalty has visited on several occasions. Things to Do in Duluth
16th Ave W & Skyline Drive, Duluth, MN 55811, Phone: 218-730-4300
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Army Hopes to Resolve Contract Dispute by Oct. 17
By Nick Wakeman, Senior Editor
SEPT. 22 - The protest of an Army contract award to GTSI Corp. of Chantilly, Va., and IBM Corp. of Armonk, N.Y., should be resolved by Oct. 17, Army officials said.
Federal Data Corp. of Bethesda, Md., and Litton-PRC Inc. of McLean, Va., filed protests after GTSI and IBM were awarded the contract on Aug. 29. The contract is worth a potential $857 million to GTSI and $618 million to IBM.
Under the Army's Maxi-Minis and Database-1 contract, GTSI and IBM would compete with each other for task orders to provide the service with commercial, high-end 64-bit servers, workstations, operating systems, software, networking, engineering, training and support services. The Navy and the Internal Revenue Service also are expected to be heavy users of the contract.
Vera Meza, branch leader of the Army Material Command's protest program, which is overseeing the dispute, declined to detail the grounds FDC and PRC are citing in their protest.
"They are disappointed they were not chosen," Meza said.
Officials with the two protesting companies declined to comment, as did officials with GTSI and IBM.
In a statement, GTSI officials said that the company has petitioned the Army to allow GTSI to contest the protests.
Meza said that there are several options for resolving the protest, and one of those is adding contractors to the contract since the MMAD-1 program is a multiple award contract.
When GTSI won the contract, company Chairman and Chief Executive Dendy Young touted the win as the largest contract in the company's history.
With the win, the company's stock surged from $3.38 to $5.06 the day after the award was announced. Since then, however, the company's stock has fallen again, closing at $3.50 on Sept. 21.
The company's stock fell as investors read more details of the contract, said Thomas Meagher, vice president of equity research for BB&T Capital Markets of Richmond, Va.
While the contract has a ceiling of $857 million for GTSI, only $75,000 is guaranteed, according to Army documents.
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County Attorney’s Office defends plea deal given to man who threw child from Mall of America balcony
“We were in constant consultation with the family and they are satisfied with this."
Bloomington Police
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office is defending the plea deal given to the man who threw a five-year-old boy from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America, after a backlash from members of the public frustrated with what many viewed as a lenient sentence.
Emmanuel Aranda, 24, of Minneapolis, pled guilty Tuesday during a hearing in Hennepin County court to attempted first degree murder and took a deal, agreeing to a 19-year sentence. The victim, who has been identified as Landon, was seriously injured after a 40-foot fall.
Aranda reportedly told investigators he went to the mall looking for someone to kill, and chose the boy at random.
According to Chuck Laszewski, the spokesperson for the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, Aranda agreed to the maximum possible sentence they could of asked for in a plea deal under state law, and had the case gone to trial, a judge would have only been able to add one more additional year to Aranda's sentence. The maxium sentence for attempted first degree murder under state statute is 20 years.
Laszewski said that the victim's family had approved of the plea deal.
“We were in constant consultation with the family and they are satisfied with this. This allows for justice one month after the incident. It saved the family a lot of pain and further suffering from having to have a drawn out court case, including a possible trial,” he said.
Many News Talk 830 WCCO listeners were outraged when they heard that Aranda had only been sentenced to 19 years, including producer and podcast host Sheletta Brundidge. In an appearance on “Hey, it’s Cory Hepola” show, Brundidge echoed the views of many listeners when she said Aranda’s actions had likely traumatized the victim’s family for life and also instilled fear in the community.
"I'm from Texas, we give people 40 years for snatching a purse...."
Needless to say, @TwoHauteMamas1 was not pleased when hearing Emmanuel Aranda - who threw a 5-year old off of a balcony at Mall of America - is only facing 19 years after pleading guilty.
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Marsh Halberg, a criminal defense attorney not associated with the case, said he thought the plea deal was a good result for the government, and that people who thought the sentence wasn’t long enough should direct their frustration elsewhere.
“I don’t think people should be angry at the County Attorney's Office if they think they were not harsh enough. The maximum is 20. He's getting 19. It's a guaranteed result. It's done. It's over now,” Halberg said. “ If you don't like the law that that's the maximum, then change the law but don't be mad at the County Attorney's Office.”
A GoFundMe page to cover the boy's medical expenses has surpassed more than $1 million from nearly 30,000 donations. His family has said he is conscious and is no longer in critical condition.
The page also has a statement from Landon's family on the boy's progress:
"As hearings begin this week, the family would like to inform media that they will not be providing commentary on any court proceedings. The child continues to heal and the family asks for continued prayers and privacy. In addition, the family has retained the communications firm Tunheim in order to help respond to media requests."
Aranda remains in custody without bail.
Sentencing is scheduled for June 3.
Emmanuel Aranda
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office
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Tom Holland Dropped A Major Avengers: Endgame Spoiler Last Year
Between the recent TV spot, the odd interview comment, and the various toy leaks that continue to make the rounds, we’re getting more Avengers: Endgame material than ever these days for fans to scrutinize for potential clues. But as we take the time to process each new development, it can be all too easy to lose track of the intel that was dropped on our laps many months ago.
One big moment that some of you may recall, for instance, came in April of last year, when Tom Holland dropped one of his patented spoilers during an interview with Access. The revelation came after the Spider-Man actor and his co-star Benedict Cumberbatch were asked which of the two of them flubbed the most lines during the filming of Avengers: Infinity War.
While Cumberbatch quickly offered himself as the answer, Holland then jumped in with this accidentally revealing defense of his co-star:
“He has the most difficult lines, though. He has to talk about so much Quantum Realm… stuff.”
Hi-Res Screenshots Show Off The New Avengers: Endgame TV Spot
Seeing how the Quantum Realm was never brought up in Infinity War, and the movie was filmed back-to-back with Endgame, many fans soon came to the conclusion that Holland was actually referring to this year’s release. Sure enough, developments in recent months seem to have confirmed those suspicions, from the cliffhanger ending of Ant-Man and the Wasp, to Michael Douglas’ claim that the mysterious microverse is an “integral” part of Endgame.
What makes this spoiler fairly unique after all this time, however, is its suggestion that Doctor Strange in particular will have lines about the Quantum Realm, despite his demise in last year’s release. While it’s long been assumed that we haven’t seen the last of Cumberbatch’s character, Holland’s comments imply that Stephen Strange is somehow returning to the action in time to be involved in the team’s adventures in the region.
Fans have already had a good few months to come up with their theories for what this might mean, but it’s not long now until we get some official answers when Avengers: Endgame hits theaters on April 26th, 2019.
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Beyoncé Dethrones Taylor Swift, Beats Adele as Highest-Paid Woman in Music for 2017
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Bow down, b---hes: Queen Bey is the year's highest-paid woman in music.
After reviewing pretax incomes from June 1, 2016, through June 1, 2017, Forbes has christened Beyoncé as the highest-earning female artist of the year, sweeping in with a $105 million pretax, nearly doubling last year's summary of $54 million that placed her fifth on the list.
According to the report, the bulk of the "Love Drought" singer's earnings originated from her Formation World Tour, which grossed an effective $250 million on its own.
Thanks to tour stops, Adele finished second with $69 million, a slight dip from the $80 million that earned the "Send My Love" star runner-up status in 2016; and Reputation favorite Taylor Swift, who was last year's title-holder with $170 million, fell to third this time around at $44 million courtesy of her 1989 World Tour.
In a nutshell: all hail the queen.
You can view the list of highest-paid female artists of 2017 in full at Forbes.
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Pastor Tim became a part of the leadership team at Living Word Christian Center in 1984 and was an Associate Pastor from 1989 until May 31st, 2017. He and His wife Renee, also a Pastor at Living Word, resigned after being a part of Living Word for 33 years on May 31, 2017. They felt impressed by God to pursue the tremendous growth of their ministry “Fresh Manna,” as well as teaching conferences and seminars, and increasing their involvement on the mission field through Tim & Renee Burt Ministries.
Prior to working at LWCC, he worked at Northwest Airlines for 13 years. In 1985 he founded and was President of American Infant Care Products which marketed his patented invention, the first fold-down commercial infant changing table now used worldwide in public restrooms.
In their tenure at Living Word, Tim and his wife Renee created a Small Group Ministry when the church was about 800 people in size. Under the leadership of Sr. Pastors Mac and Lynne Hammond, the church grew to over 10,000 people. Pastor Tim & Renee led a diverse Small Group Ministry of over 200 groups. Tim also led weekly men’s groups and a monthly Men’s Breakfast of 250 plus men called Manhood for 27 years. Tim’s responsibilities also included oversight over the Visitor and Member Relations Department, Leadership and Volunteer Development, and the Pastoral Care Department. Pastor Tim was also the Minnesota State Director of Christians United for Israel from 2006 thru 2017. Tim is a Christian blogger writing a daily inspirational and teaching devotion three days a week called “Fresh Manna” which has been read in over 218 countries. He has a Bachelor of Theology Degree from Maranatha College. Tim was named one of the top 55 blogging Pastors. He is one of the top Social Media influences in Minneapolis, Mn, including a strong presence on Twitter with over 186,000 followers. Between Tim’s blog and Twitter influence, he virally averages reaching between 4 to 8 million people daily with the gospel of Jesus Christ and the love of God.
Tim and Renee are the parents of four children and seven grandchildren. He loves to blog, golf, run and walk. He is a five time marathon finisher. He is also a two time award-winning gardener winning the Grand Prize in his city for his beautiful home garden, and a Master Gardener for the University of Minnesota’s Master Gardener Extension.
To learn more about Tim and Renee Burt Ministries and our vision and efforts, click here:
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What the World Would Be Like If Rupert Murdoch Hadn’t Been Born
By Tim Nudd
An oldie but a goodie—Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie star in this 1995 spoof of It's a Wonderful Life, in which Rupert Murdoch (played by Laurie) gets a glimpse of what the world would be like without him. Let's just say no one's in mourning.
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Ethics Director Questions Trump’s Reimbursement To Lawyer
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NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump revealed in his financial disclosure that he reimbursed personal attorney Michael Cohen as much as $250,000 for unspecified "expenses," with no mention of a $130,000 payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about a sexual tryst she said they had.
The head of the nation's ethics office on Wednesday questioned why Trump didn't include this in his previous year's sworn disclosure and passed along his concerns to federal prosecutors.
"I am providing both reports to you because you may find the disclosure relevant to any inquiry you may be pursuing," David Apol, acting director of the Office of Government Ethics, wrote to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Apol wrote that he considers Trump's payment to Cohen to be a repayment on a loan and that it was required to be included in Trump's June 2017 disclosure.
But Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani told Fox News Channel's Laura Ingraham that he didn't think the repayment "had to be disclosed at all because I think it was an expenditure that he reimbursed."
He also the president was "fully aware" of his decision to reveal the fact that Trump had reimbursed Cohen in a previous Fox News appearance and "endorsed the strategy."
"We wouldn't do it without him," Giuliani said on "The Ingraham Angle." ''He's the client, after all, and has tremendous judgment about things like this. And I think it — that the OGE, the Office of Government Ethics, basically agreed with us that it had been fully disclosed."
"The fact is that that president disclosed everything that he could disclose. He can't disclose more than he knows. And we're very comfortable with it," he added.
But ethics experts say that if that payment was knowingly and willfully left out, Trump could be in violation of federal ethics laws.
"This is a big deal and unprecedented. No president has been previously subject to any referral by (Office of Government Ethics) to DOJ as a result of having failed to report an item on their public financial disclosure report," said Virginia Canter, a former ethics official in the Clinton and Obama White Houses who is now with the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
How Trump dealt with the Daniels hush money in his disclosure has been closely watched, particularly after Giuliani gave interviews earlier this month saying the president had reimbursed Cohen in a series of payments after the campaign was over. Trump and Giuliani have clashed over what the president knew and when he knew it.
In a footnote in tiny type on Page 45 of his 92-page disclosure, Trump said he reimbursed Cohen for "expenses" ranging from $100,001 to $250,000. The report said the president did not have to disclose the payment but was doing so "in the interest of transparency."
While the disclosure didn't specify the purpose of the payment, Cohen has said he paid $130,000 to Daniels in the weeks before the 2016 presidential election to keep her from going public about her allegations that she had sex with the married Trump in 2006.
Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, tweeted, "Mr. Trump's disclosure today conclusively proves that the American people were deceived."
The tweet continued: "This was NOT an accident and it was not isolated. Cover-ups should always matter."
The Trump Organization referred questions about the disclosure report to the president's lawyer Sheri Dillon of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. Dillon didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Cohen footnote appears in a report giving the first extended look at Trump's revenue from his properties since he became president. In all, Trump's vast array of assets — hotels, resorts, books, licensing deals and other business ventures — generated revenue last year of at least $453 million. The report estimated the holdings are worth at least $1.4 billion.
His Washington, D.C., hotel near the Oval Office, a magnet for diplomats and lobbyists, took in $40 million. His Doral golf course and resort in Miami took in $75 million. His Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, received $25 million, and his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, generated $15 million.
Some of the 12-month figures for his properties are down from his previous report, but that earlier report covered about 16 months and so it is not directly comparable.
The figures are before expenses and so give no indication of how much profit the president made off the properties.
Trump has at least $315 million in debt, about the same as he reported a year ago. One of his biggest lenders is Ladder Capital, which has lent more than $100 million. Trump owes Deutsch Bank as much as $175 million.
The debt figures are given in broad ranges in the report and capped at $50 million, so it's unclear just how much Trump actually owes. The president's tax returns would give a clear picture, but Trump has broken with tradition by refusing to make them public.
When Trump took office, he refused to fully divest from his global business, another break with presidential tradition. Instead, he put his assets in a trust controlled by his two adult sons and a senior executive. Trump can take back control of the trust at any time, and he's allowed to withdraw cash from it as he pleases.
His report shows that Trump received $64,840 from the Screen Actors Guild pension fund. Trump has appeared in several movies, including "Home Alone 2" and "Zoolander."
For operating New York's Wollman Rink in Central Park, the president took in $9.3 million.
Though it was published three decades ago, Trump's "The Art of The Deal" last year generated as much as $1 million.
Abdollah and Associated Press writer Richard Lardner contributed from Washington.
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Joseph Schillinger
Joseph Schillinger and the Rhythmicon
Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger (Russian: Иосиф Моисеевич Шиллингер, 1 September [O.S. 20 August] 1895[1][2] (other sources: 31 August [O.S. 19 August] 1895[3]) – 23 March 1943) was a composer, music theorist, and composition teacher who originated the Schillinger System of Musical Composition. He was born in Kharkiv, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) and died in New York City.
1 Life and career
Life and career[edit]
The unprecedented migration of European knowledge and culture that swept from East to West during the first decades of the 20th Century included figures such as Prokofiev and Rachmaninov, great composers who were the product of the renowned Russian system of music education. Schillinger came from this background, dedicated to creating truly professional musicians, having been a student of the St Petersburg Imperial Conservatory of Music. Unlike his more famous contemporaries, Schillinger was a natural teacher and communicated his musical knowledge in the form of a precise written theory, using mathematical expressions to describe art, architecture, design and (most insistently, and with most detail and success) music.[citation needed]
In New York, Schillinger flourished, becoming famous as the advisor to many of America's leading popular musicians and concert music composers including George Gershwin, Earle Brown, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Oscar Levant, Tommy Dorsey and Henry Cowell.[citation needed]
George Gershwin spent four years (1932–1936) studying with Schillinger. During this period, he composed Porgy and Bess and consulted Schillinger on matters concerning the opera, particularly its orchestration. There has been some disagreement about the nature of Schillinger's influence on Gershwin. After the posthumous success of Porgy and Bess, Schillinger claimed he had a large and direct influence in overseeing the creation of the opera; George's brother Ira Gershwin completely denied that his brother had any such assistance for this work. A third account of Gershwin's musical relationship with his teacher was written by Gershwin's close friend Vernon Duke, also a Schillinger student, in an article for The Musical Quarterly in 1947;[4] some of Gershwin's notebooks from his studies with Joseph Schillinger can be found at the Library of Congress.
In the field of electronic music, Schillinger collaborated with Léon Theremin, the inventor of an early electronic musical instrument, the Theremin. Schillinger wrote his First Airphonic Suite for Léon Theremin, who played the instrument at the premiere in 1929 with the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Nikolai Sokoloff.[citation needed]
Chart by Joseph Schillinger graphing Johann Sebastian Bach's Invention no. 8 in F Major, BWV 779
His mathematical principles were applied to various fields other than music. For example, Schillinger collaborated with the film maker Mary Ellen Bute and he also published a new method of notating choreography.
In the USA Schillinger taught at a number of educational institutions but his greatest success was his postal tuition courses,[citation needed] which later became The Schillinger System of Musical Composition, published posthumously in a 2 volume set compiled by Lyle Dowling and Arnold Shaw.
Schillinger accredited a small group of students as qualified teachers of the System and after his death, one of them, Lawrence Berk, founded a music school in Boston to continue the dissemination of the System. Schillinger House opened in 1945 and later became the Berklee College of Music where the System survived in the curriculum until the 1960s.[citation needed]
There has been debate surrounding how many teachers were certified by Schillinger himself; the numbers cited range from seven to twelve certified teachers. Yet, to date, only seven certified teachers of the Schillinger System have been substantiated. Two certified teachers were Asher Zlotnik of Baltimore, Maryland, a student and personal friend of Lyle Dowling[5] and Edwin Gerschefski.[6]
Schillinger System of musical composition
^ Gojowy, Detlef (2005). "Schillinger, Joseph". In Finscher, Ludwig (ed.). Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Personenteil 14 (Riccati – Schönstein) (2 ed.). Kassel/Stuttgart: Bärenreiter/Metzler. ISBN 978-3-7618-1134-4.
^ "Schillinger, Joseph". SNAC. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
^ James M. Burk and Wayne J. Schneider. "Schillinger, Joseph". In Deane L. Root (ed.). Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 31 August 2017. (subscription required)
^ Dukelsky, Vladimir (Vernon Duke) (1947). "Gerswhin, Schillinger, and Dukelsky: Some Reminiscences". The Musical Quarterly. 33: 102–115. doi:10.1093/mq/xxxiii.1.102. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
^ "Asher G. Zlotnik Papers". University of Maryland Special Collections in Performing Arts. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
^ Goss, Glenda Dawn, Jean Sibelius: A Guide to Research, Routledge (Routledge Music Bibliographies), 1997. ISBN 978-0-8153-1171-3. Cf. p.216 on Edwin Gerschefski in the summary of his son's (Peter Edwin Gerschefski) Ph.D. thesis at Florida State University in 1962 on Jean Sibelius.
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Arden. Jeremy, Keys to the Schillinger System, course B, Basic principles and foundations.; Rose Books 2008, ISBN 978-1-59386-032-5
Arden, Jeremy, "Focussing the musical imagination: exploring in composition the ideas and techniques of Joseph Schillinger", Ph.D. thesis 1996, City University, London.
Brodsky, Warren. "Joseph Schillinger (1895-1943): Music Science Promethean" American Music 21/1 (Spring, 2003): 45-73.
Butterworth, Neil. A Dictionary of American Composers, Garland, 1984.
Lyman, Darryl. Great Jews in Music, J. D. Publishers, 1986.
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Sitsky, Larry. Music of the repressed Russian avant-garde, 1900–1929, Greenwood Press, 1994.
Dowling, Lyle. A Brief Note on the Schillinger System. New York: Allied Music, 1942.
Carter, Elliott. "The Schillinger Case: Fallacy of the Mechanistic Approach." Modern Music 23 (1946): 228-230.
Cowell, Henry and Sidney. "The Schillinger Case: Charting the Musical Range," Modern Music 23/3 (1946): 226-8
Cowell, Henry. "Joseph Schillinger as Composer," Music News 39/3 (1947): 5-6
Duke, Vernon. "Gershwin, Schillinger, Dukelsky: Some Reminiscences," Musical Quarterly 33/1 (1947): 102-115
Human, Alfred. "Schillinger Challenges Genius," Musical Digest 29/8 (April, 1947): 12-14, 16.
Previn, Charles. "Schillinger's Influence on Film Music," Music News 39/3 (1947): 39-40.
Shaw, Arnold. "What is the Schillinger System?" Music News 39/3 (1947): 37-38.
Slonimsky, Nicholas. "Schillinger of Russia and the World," Music News 39/3 (1947): 3-4.
Schillinger, Frances. Joseph Schillinger: a Memoir. New York: Greenberg, 1949 (Reprint: New York: Da Capo Press, 1976)
Solomon, Seymour. "Schillinger and 20th Century Rationalist Trends in Music," Music Forum and Digest (Jan., 1950): 4-5
Smith, Charles Samuel. "An Analysis of Selected Mathematical Aspects of Schillinger's Approach to Music," M.A. Thesis, University of Iowa, 1951.
Backus, John. "Pseudo-Science in Music," Journal of Music Theory 4 (1960): 221-232.
Gojowy, Detlef. "Sowjetische Avantgardisten," Musik und Bildung 1/12 (Dec. 1969): 537-542.
Vaglio, Anthony. "The Compositional Significance of Joseph Schillinger's System of Musical Composition as Reflected in the Works of Edwin Gerschefski," Ph.D., diss. University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, 1977.
Augustine, Daniel. "Four Theories of Music in the United States, 1900-1950: Cowell, Yasser, Partch, Schillinger," Ph.D. diss., University of Texas, 1979.
Burk, James M. "Schillinger's Double Equal Temperament System." In The Psychology and Acoustics of Music: a Collection of Papers, ed. E. Asmus. Lawrence, KS: [publisher], 1979.
Gilbert, Steven E. "Gershwin's Art of Counterpoint." Musical Quarterly 70/4 (1984): 423-456.
Burk, James M. "Joseph (Moiseyevich) Schillinger," in New Grove Dictionary of American Music, ed. By H. Wiley Hitchcock. New York: Macmillan/Groves Dictionaries, 1986.
Isenberg, Arnold. "Analytical Philosophy and The Study of Art," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 46 (1987)
Heath, James. "Joseph Schillinger: Educator and Visionary," Jazz Research Papers (IAJE) 10 (1990): 126-131.
Nauert, Paul. "Theory and Practice in Porgy and Bess: the Gershwin-Schillinger Connection," Musical Quarterly 78 (1994): 9-33.
Sitsky, Larry. Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 1900-1929. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Beyer, Richard. "George Gershwin's Variations on 'I Got Rhythm'," Musica 49/4 (July-Aug 1995): 233-238.
Rosar, William H. "Letter to the Editor," Musical Quarterly 80 (1996): 182-184. [response and amplification to Nauert's article]
Levinson, Ilya. "What the Triangles Have Told Me: Manifestations of the Schillinger System of Musical Composition in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess," Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1997.
Weissberg, David Jeffrey. "Fractals and Music" Ph.D. dissertation, Rutgers University, 2000.
Quist, Ned. "Toward a Reconstruction of the Legacy of Joseph Schillinger" MLA Notes 58/4 (June 2002): 765-786.
Review of "Music from the Ether: Original Works for Theremin" American Music 22/1 (Spring 2004): [192]-197.
The Schillinger Society
The Practical Schillinger Online School
Joseph Schillinger Papers, 1918-2000 Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
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Routledge is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, specialises in providing academic books, journals, & online resources in the fields of humanities, behavioural science, education and social science; the company publishes 1,800 journals and 5,000 new books each year and their backlist encompasses over 70,000 titles. Routledge is claimed to be the largest global academic publisher within humanities and social sciences. In 1998, Routledge became a subdivision and imprint of its former rival, Taylor & Francis Group, as a result of a £90 million acquisition deal from Cinven, a venture capital group which had purchased it two years for £25 million. Following the merger of Informa and T&F in 2004, Routledge become a publishing unit and major imprint within the Informa'academic publishing' division. Routledge is headquartered in the main T&F office in Milton Park, Abingdon and operates from T&F offices globally including in Philadelphia, New Delhi and Beijing.
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Ira Gershwin
Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century. With George he wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows, featuring songs such as "I Got Rhythm", "Embraceable You", "The Man I Love" and "Someone to Watch Over Me", he was responsible, along with DuBose Heyward, for the libretto to George's opera Porgy and Bess. The success the Gershwin brothers had with their collaborative works has overshadowed the creative role that Ira played, his mastery of songwriting continued, after the early death of George. He wrote additional hit songs with Kurt Weill, Harry Warren and Harold Arlen, his critically acclaimed 1959 book Lyrics on Several Occasions, an amalgam of autobiography and annotated anthology, is an important source for studying the art of the lyricist in the golden age of American popular song. Gershwin was born in New York City, the oldest of four children of Morris and Rose Gershovitz, who were Russian Jews, born in St Petersburg, who had emigrated to the US in 1891.
Ira's siblings were George and Frances. Morris changed the family name to "Gershwine". Shy in his youth, Ira spent much of his time at home reading, but from grammar school through college he played a prominent part in several school newspapers and magazines, he graduated in 1914 from Townsend Harris High School, a public school for intellectually gifted students, where he met Yip Harburg, with whom he enjoyed a lifelong friendship and a love of Gilbert and Sullivan. He dropped out; the childhood home of Ira and George Gershwin was in the center of the Yiddish Theater District, on the second floor at 91 Second Avenue, between East 5th Street and East 6th Street. They frequented the local Yiddish theaters. While George began composing and "plugging" in Tin Pan Alley from the age of 18, Ira worked as a cashier in his father's Turkish baths, it was not until 1921. Alex Aarons signed Ira to write the songs for his next show, Two Little Girls in Blue produced by Abraham Erlanger, along with co-composers Vincent Youmans and Paul Lannin.
So as not to appear to trade off George's growing reputation, Ira wrote under the pseudonym "Arthur Francis", after his youngest two siblings. His lyrics were well received, allowing him to enter the show-business world with just one show; the same year, the Gershwins collaborated for the first time on a score. It was not until 1924 that Ira and George teamed up to write the music for what became their first Broadway hit Lady, Be Good. Once the brothers joined forces, their combined talents became one of the most influential forces in the history of American Musical Theatre. "When the Gershwins teamed up to write songs for Lady, Be Good, the American musical found its native idiom." Together, they wrote the music for four films. Some of their more famous works include "The Man I Love", "Fascinating Rhythm", "Someone to Watch Over Me", "I Got Rhythm" and "They Can't Take That Away from Me", their partnership continued until George's sudden death from a brain tumor in 1937. Following his brother's death, Ira waited nearly three years before writing again.
After this temporary retirement, Ira teamed up with accomplished composers such as Jerome Kern. Over the next 14 years, Gershwin continued to write the lyrics for many film scores and a few Broadway shows, but the failure of Park Avenue in 1946 was his farewell to Broadway. As he wrote at the time, "Am reading a couple of stories for possible musicalization but I hope I don't like them as I think I deserve a long rest."In 1947, he took 11 songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim. He wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's 1964 movie Kiss Me, although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film A Star Is Born. American singer and musical historian Michael Feinstein worked for Gershwin in the lyricist's latter years, helping him with his archive. Several lost musical treasures were unearthed during this period, Feinstein performed some of the material. Feinstein's book The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs about working for Ira, George and Ira's music was published in 2012.
According to a 1999 story in Vanity Fair, Ira Gershwin's love for loud music was as great as his wife's loathing of it. When Debby Boone—daughter-in-law of his neighbor Rosemary Clooney—returned from Japan with one of the first Sony Walkmans, Clooney gave it to Michael Feinstein to give to Ira, "so he could crank it in his ears, you know, and he said,'This is wonderful!' And he called his broker and bought Sony stock!" Three of Ira Gershwin's songs were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, though none won. Along with George S Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, he was a recipient of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Of Thee I Sing. In 1988 UCLA established The George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Musical Achiev
Kharkov Governorate
Kharkov Governorate was a governorate of the Russian Empire founded in 1835. It embraced the historical region of Sloboda Ukraine. From 1765 to 1780 and from 1796 to 1835 the governorate was called the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate. In 1780-1796 there existed the Kharkov Viceroyalty. By the Imperial census of 1897. In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language. William Henry Beable, "Governments or Provinces of the Former Russian Empire: Kharkov", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook – via Open Library Kharkiv Governorate at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
Kharkiv known as Kharkov, is the second-largest city in Ukraine. In the northeast of the country, it is the largest city of the Slobozhanshchyna historical region. Kharkiv is the administrative centre of Kharkiv Oblast and of the surrounding Kharkiv Raion, though administratively it is incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. Population: 1,439,036 The city was founded in 1654 and after a humble beginning as a small fortress grew to be a major centre of Ukrainian industry and culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv was the first capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, from December 1919 to January 1934, after which the capital relocated to Kiev. Presently, Kharkiv is a major cultural, educational and industrial centre of Ukraine, with 6 museums, 7 theatres and 80 libraries, its industry specializes in machinery and in electronics. There are hundreds of industrial companies in the city, including the Morozov Design Bureau and the Malyshev Tank Factory.
Some sources offer that the city was named after Kharko. Among other names there are Charkow, Zakharpolis. Cultural artifacts date back to the Bronze Age, as well as those of Scythian and Sarmatian settlers. There is evidence that the Chernyakhov culture flourished in the area from the second to the sixth centuries; the city was founded by re-settlers who were running away from the war that engulfed Right-bank Ukraine in 1654. The years before the region was a sparsely populated part of the Cossack Hetmanate; the group of people came onto the banks of Lopan and Kharkiv rivers where an abandoned settlement stood. According to archive documents, the leader of the re-settlers was otaman Ivan Kryvoshlyk. At first the settlement was self-governed under the jurisdiction of a voivode from Chuhuiv, 40 kilometres to the east; the first appointed voivode from Moscow was Voyin Selifontov in 1656 who started to build a local ostrog. At that time the population of Kharkiv was just over 1000, half of whom were local cossacks, while Selifontov brought along a Moscow garrison of another 70 servicemen.
The first Kharkiv voivode was replaced in two years after complaining that locals refused to cooperate in building the fort. Kharkiv became the centre of the local Sloboda cossack regiment as the area surrounding the Belgorod fortress was being militarized. With the resettlement of the area by Ukrainians it came to be known as Sloboda Ukraine, most of, included under the jurisdiction of the Razryad Prikaz headed by a district official from Belgorod. By 1657 the Kharkiv settlement had a fortress with underground passageways. In 1658 Ivan Ofrosimov was appointed as the new voivode, who worked on forcing locals to kiss the cross to show loyalty to the Moscow tsar; the locals led by their otaman. However, with the election of the new otaman Tymish Lavrynov the community sent a request to the tsar to establish a local Assumption market, signed by deans of Kharkiv churches. Relationships with the neighboring Chuhuiv sometimes were non-friendly and their arguments were pacified by force. With the appointment of the third voivode Vasiliy Sukhotin was finished the construction of the city fort.
Meanwhile, Kharkiv had become the centre of Sloboda Ukraine. The Kharkiv Fortress was erected around the Assumption Cathedral and its castle was at University Hill, it was between today's streets: vulytsia Kvitky-Osnovianenko, Constitution Square, Rose Luxemburg Square, Proletarian Square, Cathedral Descent. The fortress had 10 towers: Chuhuivska Tower, Moskovska Tower, Vestovska Tower, Tainytska Tower, Lopanska Corner Tower, Kharkivska Corner Tower and others; the tallest was Vestovska, some 16 metres tall, while the shortest one was Tainytska which had a secret well 35 metres deep. The fortress had the Lopanski Gates. In 1689 the fortress was expanded and included the Saint-Pokrov Cathedral and Monastery, baptized and became the center of local eparchy. Coincidentally in the same year in the vicinity of Kharkiv in Kolomak, Ivan Mazepa was announced the Hetman of Ukraine. Next to the Saint-Pokrov Cathedral was located the Kharkiv Collegiate, transferred from Belgorod to Kharkiv in 1726. In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, the area was included into Kiev Governorate.
Kharkiv is mentioned as one of the towns making a part of the governorate. In 1727, Belgorod Governorate was split off, Kharkiv moved to Belgorod Governorate, it was the center of Kharkiv Sloboda Cossack regiment. The regiment at some point was detached from Belgorod Governorate attached to it again, until in 1765, Sloboda Ukraine Governorate was established with the seat in Kharkiv. Kharkiv University was established in 1805 in the Palace of Governorate-General. Alexander Mikolajewicz Mickiewicz, brother of Adam Mickiewicz was a professor of law in the university, another celebrity Goethe searched for instructors for the school. In 1906 Ivan Franko received a doctorate in Russian linguistics here; the streets were first cobbled in the city centre in 1830. In 1844 the 90 m
Rhythmicon
The Rhythmicon—also known as the Polyrhythmophone—was the world's first electronic drum machine. In 1930, the avant-garde American composer and musical theorist Henry Cowell collaborated with Russian inventor Léon Theremin in designing and building the remarkably innovative Rhythmicon. Cowell wanted an instrument with which to play compositions involving multiple rhythmic patterns impossible for one person to perform on acoustic keyboard or percussion instruments; the invention, completed by Theremin in 1931, can produce up to sixteen different rhythms—a periodic base rhythm on a selected fundamental pitch and fifteen progressively more rapid rhythms, each associated with one of the ascending notes of the fundamental pitch's overtone series. Like the overtone series itself, the rhythms follow an arithmetic progression, so that for every single beat of the fundamental, the first overtone beats twice, the second overtone beats three times, so forth. Using the device's keyboard, each of the sixteen rhythms can be produced individually or in any combination.
A seventeenth key permits optional syncopation. The instrument produces its percussion-like sound using a system, proposed by Cowell, that involves light being passed through radially indexed holes in a series of spinning "cogwheel" discs before arriving at electric photoreceptors. Nicolas Slonimsky described its capabilities in 1933:The rhythmicon can play triplets against quintuplets, or any other combination up to 16 notes in a group; the metrical index is associated... with the corresponding frequence of vibrations.... Quintuplets are... sounded on the fifth harmonic, nonuplets on the ninth harmonic, so forth. A complete chord of sixteen notes presents sixteen rhythmical figures in sixteen harmonics within the range of four octaves. All sixteen notes coincide, with the beginning of each period, thus producing a synthetic harmonic series of tones; the early introduction of the instrument was fortunate for Cowell and Theremin as brothers Otto and Benjamin Miessner has been working on a similar instrument with the same name.
Cowell had planned to exhibit the rhythmicon in Europe. In October 1931, in a letter to Ives from Berlin, he said, "I have been composing and have finished the second movement of my work for the Rhythmicon with orchestra for Nicolas to use in Paris in February." Composer Charles Ives, Cowell's close friend, commissioned Theremin to build a second model of the Rhythmicon for use by Cowell and his associate, conductor Nicolas Slonimsky. The Rhythmicon was publicly premiered January 19, 1932 by Cowell and fellow music educator and theorist Joseph Schillinger at the New School for Social Research in New York. Schillinger had known Theremin since the early 1920s and had a lifelong interest in technology and music; the radically new instrument attracted considerable attention, Cowell wrote a number of compositions for it, including Rhythmicana, 1931, Music for Violin and Rhythmicon. Slonimsky said that Cowell's special piece Rhythmicana was completed too late to be used at the Paris concerts. On May 15, 1932, a New Music Society concert in San Francisco included – along with the premiere of Xanadu, a new work by Mildred Couper – a demonstration of Cowell's new instrument.
According to some sources, the concert premiered Cowell's "Rhythmicana", in four movements with orchestra, "Music for Violin and Rhythmicon". According to several others, the Rhythmicana concerto was not performed publicly until 1971, it was played on a computer. Before long the shine wore off. In 1988, Slonimsky wrote: Like many a futuristic contraption, the Rhythmicon was wonderful in every respect, except that it did not work, it was not until forty years that an electronic instrument with similar specifications was constructed at Stanford University. It could do everything that Cowell and Theremin had wanted it to do and more, but it lacked the emotional quality essential to music, it sounded sterile, lifeless — like a robot with a synthetic voice. Cowell soon left the Rhythmicon behind to pursue other interests and it was all but forgotten for many years. One of the original instruments built by Theremin wound up at Stanford University; this latter instrument is operational. Theremin built a third, more compact model after his return to the Soviet Union toward the end of the 1930s.
This version of the instrument now resides at the Theremin Center in Moscow. According to many unsubstantiated accounts, in the 1960s, innovative pop music producer Joe Meek experimented with the instrument, though it seems unlikely that he had access to any of the original three devices. More composer Nick Didkovsky designed and programmed a virtual Rhythmicon using Java Music Specification Language and JSyn. Schillinger once calculated that it would take 455 days, 2 hours, 30 minutes to play all the combinations available on the Rhythmicon, assuming an average duration of 10 seconds for each combination. Léon Theremin #Some of Michael. Henry Cowell, Bohemian. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-02751-5. Lichtenwanger, William; the Music of Hen
The Library of Congress is the research library that serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States; the Library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D. C.. The Library's functions are overseen by the Librarian of Congress, its buildings are maintained by the Architect of the Capitol; the Library of Congress has claimed to be the largest library in the world. Its "collections are universal, not limited by subject, format, or national boundary, include research materials from all parts of the world and in more than 450 languages."The Library of Congress moved to Washington in 1800 after sitting for 11 years in the temporary national capitals in New York City and Philadelphia. The small Congressional Library was housed in the United States Capitol for most of the 19th century until the early 1890s. Most of the original collection had been destroyed by the British in 1814 during the War of 1812, the library sought to restore its collection in 1815.
They bought Thomas Jefferson's entire personal collection of 6,487 books. After a period of slow growth, another fire struck the Library in its Capitol chambers in 1851, again destroying a large amount of the collection, including many of Jefferson's books. After the American Civil War, the Library of Congress grew in both size and importance, which sparked a campaign to purchase replacement copies for volumes, burned; the Library received the right of transference of all copyrighted works to deposit two copies of books, maps and diagrams printed in the United States. It began to build its collections, its development culminated between 1888 and 1894 with the construction of a separate, extensive library building across the street from the Capitol; the Library's primary mission is to research inquiries made by members of Congress, carried out through the Congressional Research Service. The Library is open to the public, although only high-ranking government officials and Library employees may check out books and materials.
James Madison is credited with the idea of creating a congressional library, first making such a proposition in 1783. The Library of Congress was subsequently established April 24, 1800 when President John Adams signed an act of Congress providing for the transfer of the seat of government from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington. Part of the legislation appropriated $5,000 "for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress... and for fitting up a suitable apartment for containing them." Books were ordered from London, the collection consisted of 740 books and three maps which were housed in the new United States Capitol. President Thomas Jefferson played an important role in establishing the structure of the Library of Congress. On January 26, 1802, he signed a bill that allowed the president to appoint the Librarian of Congress and establishing a Joint Committee on the Library to regulate and oversee it; the new law extended borrowing privileges to the President and Vice President.
The invading British army burned Washington in August 1814 during the War of 1812 and destroyed the Library of Congress and its collection of 3,000 volumes. These volumes had been left in the Senate wing of the Capitol. One of the few congressional volumes to survive was a government account book of receipts and expenditures for 1810, it was taken as a souvenir by British Admiral George Cockburn, whose family returned it to the United States government in 1940. Within a month, Thomas Jefferson offered to sell his personal library as a replacement. Congress accepted his offer in January 1815; some members of the House of Representatives opposed the outright purchase, including New Hampshire Representative Daniel Webster who wanted to return "all books of an atheistical and immoral tendency." Jefferson had spent 50 years accumulating a wide variety of books in several languages and on subjects such as philosophy, law, architecture, natural sciences, studies of classical Greece and Rome, modern inventions, hot air balloons, submarines, fossils and meteorology.
He had collected books on topics not viewed as part of a legislative library, such as cookbooks. However, he believed, he remarked: I do not know that it contains any branch of science which Congress would wish to exclude from their collection. Jefferson's collection was unique in that it was the working collection of a scholar, not a gentleman's collection for display. With the addition of his collection, the Library of Congress was transformed from a specialist's library to a more general one, his original collection was organized into a scheme based on Francis Bacon's organization of knowledge. He grouped his books into Memory and Imagination, which broke down into 44 more subdivisions; the Library followed Jefferson's organization scheme until the late 19th century, when librarian Herbert Putnam began work on a more flexible Library of Congress Classification structure that now applies to more than 138 million items. In 1851, a fire destroyed two thirds of the Jefferson collection, with only 2,000 books remaining.
By 2008, the Librarians of Congress had found replacements for all but 300 of the works that were in Jefferson's original collection. On December 22, 1851 the largest fire in the Library's history destroyed 35,000 books, about two–thi
Composer [videos]
A composer is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music, instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms. A composer may create music in any music genre, including …
French composer Louis-Nicolas Clérambault composing at the keyboard
Musical notation from a Catholic Missal, c.1310–1320
Music theory [videos]
Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": — The first is what is otherwise called'rudiments', currently taught as the elements of notation, of key signatures, of time signatures …
Barbershop quartets, such as this US Navy group, sing 4-part pieces, made up of a melody line (normally the second-highest voice, called the "lead") and 3 harmony parts.
A violinist performing
Bregman
A Classical piano trio is a group that plays chamber music, including sonatas. The term "piano trio" also refers to works composed for such a group.
Kharkiv [videos]
Kharkiv, is the second-largest city in Ukraine. In the northeast of the country, it is the largest city of the Slobozhanshchyna historical region. Kharkiv is the administrative centre of Kharkiv Oblast and of the surrounding Kharkiv …
The mythical Kharko or Chariton. 1890.
19th-century view of Kharkiv, with the Assumption Cathedral belltower dominating the skyline.
Sumska Street is the main thoroughfare of Kharkiv
Monument to the persecuted kobzars in Kharkiv
Russian Empire [videos]
The Russian Empire, also known as Imperial Russia or simply Russia, was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of …
Peter the Great officially renamed the Tsardom of Russia as the Russian Empire in 1721 and became its first emperor. He instituted sweeping reforms and oversaw the transformation of Russia into a major European power.
Empress Catherine the Great, who reigned from 1762 to 1796, continued the empire's expansion and modernization. Considering herself an enlightened absolutist, she played a key role in the Russian Enlightenment.
The eleven-month siege of a Russian naval base at Sevastopol during the Crimean War
Russian troops taking Samarkand (8 June 1868)
Ukraine [videos]
Ukraine, sometimes called the Ukraine, is a country in Eastern Europe. Excluding Crimea, Ukraine has a population of about 42.5 million, making it the 32nd most populous country in the world. Its capital and largest city …
The baptism of the Grand Prince Vladimir led to the adoption of Christianity in Kievan Rus'.
Furthest extent of Kievan Rus', 1054–1132
Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Hetman of Ukraine, established an independent Ukrainian Cossack state after the uprising in 1648 against Poland.
Russia's victory over Charles XII of Sweden and his ally Ivan Mazepa at the Battle of Poltava (1709) destroyed Cossack autonomy
New York City [videos]
The City of New York, usually called either New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States and in the U.S. state of New York. With an estimated 2017 population of 8,622,698 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles, New York is …
Clockwise, from top: Midtown Manhattan, Times Square, the Unisphere, the Brooklyn Bridge, Lower Manhattan with One World Trade Center, Central Park, the headquarters of the United Nations, and the Statue of Liberty
New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it "New York".
Fort George and the city of New York c. 1731
The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolution, took place in Brooklyn in 1776.
Sergei Prokofiev [videos]
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major …
Sergei Prokofiev in New York, 1918
Composer Reinhold Glière, Prokofiev's first composition teacher.
Prokofiev, as drawn by Henri Matisse for the premiere of Chout (1921)
Sergei with his two sons, Sviatoslav and Oleg, and his wife, Lina Prokofiev, 1936
Sergei Rachmaninoff [videos]
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor of the late Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the Romantic repertoire. — Born into a musical family, Rachmaninoff took up the piano at …
Rachmaninoff in 1921, photographed at Kubey-Rembrandt Studios.
Rachmaninoff at age 10
The Moscow Conservatory, from which Rachmaninoff graduated in 1892.
Rachmaninoff in 1897, the year his Symphony No. 1 premiered.
Benny Goodman [videos]
Benjamin David Goodman was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".In the mid-1930s, Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in the United States. His concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938 is …
Goodman in 1942
Goodman in Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Goodman in concert in Nuremberg, Germany (1971)
Goodman's star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Glenn Miller [videos]
Alton Glenn Miller was an American big-band trombonist, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was the best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best-known big bands. Miller's recordings include "In the Mood", "Moonlight …
Miller c. 1942
1939 Baltimore Hippodrome Ballroom concert poster.
First gold record award for "Chattanooga Choo Choo" is presented to Glenn Miller by W. Wallace Early of RCA Victor with announcer Paul Douglas on far left, February 10, 1942.
Bust outside the Corn Exchange in Bedford, England, where Miller played in World War II.
Electronic music [videos]
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology. In general, a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means, and that produced using electronics only …
Front page of Scientific American in 1907, demonstrating the size, operation, and popularity of the Telharmonium
Léon Theremin demonstrating the theremin in 1927
Karlheinz Stockhausen in the Electronic Music Studio of WDR, Cologne, in 1991
RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer
Theremin [videos]
The theremin is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist. It is named after the Westernized name of its Soviet inventor, Léon Theremin …
Alexandra Stepanoff playing the theremin on NBC Radio, 1930
The components of a modern Moog theremin, in kit form.
Robot playing Theremin
Lydia Kavina, protégée of Léon Theremin and instructor to other thereminists, in 2005
Baltimore [videos]
Baltimore is the largest city in the state of Maryland within the United States. Baltimore was established by the Constitution of Maryland as an independent city in 1729. With a population of 611,648 in 2017, Baltimore is the largest such independent city in the United States. As of 2017, the …
Bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British. Engraved by John Bower
The Battle Monument is the official emblem of the City of Baltimore.
Sixth Regiment fighting railroad strikers, July 20, 1877
Sherwood Gardens, Guilford neighborhood, Baltimore
Florida State University [videos]
Florida State University is a public space-grant and sea-grant research university in Tallahassee, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the state of …
Main entrance to Dodd Hall, built in 1925. Dodd Hall was the location of Florida State's library until 1956. Rendered in gold leaf, is the phrase “The half of knowledge is to know where to find knowledge.”
Chemistry lab in 1900, at what was then known as the West Florida Seminary
Student protest in Tallahassee – 1970
Landis Green is located in the center of the main campus
Jean Sibelius [videos]
Jean Sibelius, born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius, was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely recognized as his country's greatest composer and, through his music, is often …
Sibelius in 1913
11-year-old Sibelius in 1876
Sibelius (right) socializing with Akseli Gallen-Kallela (the artist, left), Oskar Merikanto and Robert Kajanus
City, University of London [videos]
City, University of London is a public research university in London, United Kingdom and has been a constituent college of University of London, since 2016. — It was founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute and became a university in 1966 when The City University was created by royal charter. The …
Old Arms of City, University of London
Northampton Square in front of the main university building
The Grade II listed College Building
The main entrance of City, University of London, in Northampton Square. The entrance was substantially remodelled in 2017 and opened by the Rector, The Princess Royal
George Gershwin [videos]
George Jacob Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris …
George Gershwin in 1937
Birthday party honoring Maurice Ravel in New York City, March 8, 1928. From left: Oskar Fried; Éva Gauthier; Ravel at piano; Manoah Leide-Tedesco; and George Gershwin.
1973 U.S. commemorative stamp honoring Gershwin
Oscar Levant [videos]
Oscar Levant was an American concert pianist, composer, music conductor, bestselling author, radio game show panelist and personality, television talk show host, and actor. He was as famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies …
from the trailer for Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Levant in An American in Paris (1951)
Crypt of Oscar Levant at Westwood Memorial Park
Porgy and Bess [videos]
Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by the American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin. It was adapted from Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward's play Porgy, itself an adaptation of DuBose Heyward's 1925 novel of the same …
Ruby Elzy as Serena in the original Broadway production of Porgy and Bess (1935)
John W. Bubbles as Sportin' Life in the original Broadway production of Porgy and Bess (1935)
Poster for the 1959 film version
Rhythmicon [videos]
The Rhythmicon—also known as the Polyrhythmophone—was the world's first electronic drum machine. — Development — In 1930, the avant-garde American composer and musical theorist Henry Cowell collaborated with Russian inventor Léon …
Joseph Schillinger and the Rhythmicon (1932)
The third Rhythmicon constructed by Theremin
Saint Petersburg Conservatory [videos]
The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory is a music school in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students. — History — The …
The conservatory, as seen in 2013
Theatre Square and the conservatory, as seen in 1913
Tommy Dorsey [videos]
Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. He was known as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" because of his smooth-toned trombone playing. His technical skill on the trombone gave him …
Tommy Dorsey, 1947
The grave of Tommy and Jane Dorsey in Kensico Cemetery
Henry Cowell [videos]
Henry Dixon Cowell was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario. His contribution to the world of music was summed up by Virgil Thomson, writing in the early 1950s: — Henry Cowell's music covers a wider range in both …
Sidney Robertson Cowell
Image: Henry Cowell as a young man
Library of Congress [videos]
The Library of Congress is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. The Library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in …
Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building
The Great Hall interior
Musical composition [videos]
Musical composition, or simply composition, can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece, or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music. People who create new compositions are called composers. Composers of …
A page from the score for a string quartet for two violins, viola and cello.
Kharkov Governorate [videos]
Kharkov Governorate was a governorate of the Russian Empire founded in 1835. It embraced the historical region of Sloboda Ukraine. From 1765 to 1780 and from 1796 to 1835 the governorate was called the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate. In 1780-1796 there …
Kharkiv Governorate of the Russian Empire
Earle Brown [videos]
Earle Brown was an American composer who established his own formal and notational systems. Brown was the creator of open form, a style of musical construction that has influenced many composers since—notably the downtown New York scene of the 1980s (see John …
Earle Brown (right) with David Arden, August 1995
Ira Gershwin [videos]
Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.With George he wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows, featuring …
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Regional Overview – Middle East
Last week, violence continued in Gaza and the West Bank, but also in the area surrounding the Sea of Galilee as Israeli forces sparred with Syrian armed groups from across the border. Within Syria itself, Islamic State (IS) militants launched several attacks in As-Sweida governorate, which were in turn met with a regime counteroffensive. This comes at a time when regime forces are making strong gains in both Dar’a and Queneitra governorates. In Iraq, the anti-regime protests continued and violence surged in Erbil governorate, while in Iran mass labour strikes were renewed in response to broken promises by authorities. Finally, in Yemen clashes continued in Al Hudaydah and Al-Bayda governorates between Houthi and anti-Houthi forces, with the former allegedly targeting oil tankers in the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
In Gaza, clashes between Israeli police and locals reportedly led to the death of at least four people by live fire, three of whom were teenagers. Similar clashes occurred in the West Bank, although in most cases police response was less severe with only injuries being reported.
In addition, rocket and mortar fire continued along the Gaza border despite the July 21 ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. However, it appears that the majority of Israeli targets were not Hamas, but rather the unidentified groups who continue to launch makeshift incendiary devices into Israel, causing fires throughout HaDarom district.
Meanwhile, the occupied Golan Heights was a tense middle ground between Israeli forces and groups within Syria. Following a July 22 Israeli airstrike on regime Defense Factories in western Hama, several attacks were made from Syria into the Golan Heights and its environs. Most importantly, Israeli forces shot down a Syrian regime warplane on July 24 as it entered Golan Heights airspace, reportedly killing the pilot. Beyond that, an unidentified attack drone was shot down on July 23, while Israeli warplanes destroyed a rocket launcher in Quneitra three days later after an unidentified group used it to fire projectiles into the Sea of Galilee.
In southwest Syria, IS fighters launched several deadly surprise attacks and suicide bombings on areas in the Syrian regime-held As-Sweida governorate. Attacks on As-Sweida city, Mtuna, Dama, and other villages killed at least 255 civilians and local gunmen, the latter of whom attempted to repel the attacks. IS fighters abducted a number of civilians as well as regime forces during the fighting, later releasing a video demanding that the regime cease its operations in Dar’a’s Yarmouk Basin and exchange IS prisoners and their families for those recently abducted.
However, Syrian regime forces showed no sign of capitulating to the demands as they launched several counterattacks on IS positions in As-Sweida. Regime forces also continued to clash with the IS-affiliate Khalid ibn al Walid Army in the Yarmouk Basin, making major advances towards controlling a number of key towns in the area. These clashes caused large-scale civilian displacement from the Basin as people fled towards regime-controlled areas.
In Dar’a and Queneitra governorates, Syrian regime forces gained territory as they continued to battle with rebel and Islamist faction fighters. At least nine additional towns and villages, including Quneitra city, reached surrender and evacuation agreements with regime forces. This comes as evacuations from previous deals were ongoing across several governorates.
Meanwhile in Iraq, massive protests continued last week against government corruption and a lack of basic services throughout the southeast and in Baghdad. However, the violence of the week prior was not repeated, possibly as a result of government actions such as the suspension of the electricity minister Qassem al-Fahdawin on July 29 (DW, July 29, 2018).
In Iraqi Kurdistan, Turkish warplanes ramped up their assault on PKK positions in Erbil and Dahuk governorates, with an airstrike in the latter reportedly leaving two civilians dead. In the same area, suspected IS gunmen attacked and took control of the Erbil governorate building, taking at least one employee hostage before they were reportedly killed during an engagement with SWAT police.
In Iran, nationwide labour strikes began and/or expanded last week, mostly led by truck drivers but also by employees of Iran’s Railway Services and Technical Construction Company. For the drivers at least, this round of strikes was in response to authorities not fulfilling their original promises made after weeks of labour strikes in May-June 2018. The trucker strike has spread to at least 31 cities, although one local source stated that drivers in 85 cities had joined (PMOI, July 25, 2018). Apart from the strikes, general labour protests continue throughout the country in response to general job insecurity.
Finally, in Yemen, anti-Houthi forces led by the “Bayhan Brigade” began a renewed assault on Houthi positions in Malagim district of Al-Bayda governorate. Clashes and airstrikes were reported along key transportation routes in the district throughout the latter half of the week. As well, Houthi forces reportedly caused minor damages to a Saudi oil-tanker moving past the western coast of Al Hudaydah, however pro-Houthi sources claim that they had targeted a Saudi battleship (the “Dammam”). A second tanker was also targeted by Houthi forces on the same day, leading the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (ARAMCO) to halt shipments through the Bab al-Mandab strait. In Hays town, Houthi shelling reportedly led to a number of civilian deaths and prompted a protest in which locals demanded that anti-Houthi forces push them back and out of shelling range of the city. Besides this, violence between pro-Houthi forces and anti-Houthi coalition-backed forces was at a low when compared to recent weeks; the heaviest fighting occurred on the outskirts of Zabid town and Al Hudaydah port city.
Tom Hart
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Tom Hart is the Global Research Coordinator with ACLED, and a part-time brewer and genealogist. He received his BA in International History from Carleton University in Ottawa, where he focused on colonial relationships, intercultural interaction, and geocultural perspectives. Tom is currently based out of Ottawa, Canada, and is fluent in English and French.
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By ACSH Staff — June 20, 2006
Beginning in the 1950s, people suffering from smoking-related diseases started suing cigarette companies.
That made sense. Those companies were found to be suppressing evidence cigarettes cause any number of health issues and trial lawyers were happy to take a cut for helping patients get compensation.
More recently though, people with obesity and obesity-related medical problems have sued companies in the food industry. Some attorneys and activists view anti-cigarette litigation as a model that may be applicable to obesity. However, food is not tobacco, there are no addictive chemicals being pushed into foods to make people crave them, and there are important differences between the two health issues and the two forms of litigation.
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Home>Books>Birth strike
The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work
by Jenny Brown
PM Press 2019
When House Speaker Paul Ryan urged U.S. women to have more children, and Ross Douthat requested “More babies, please,” in a New York Times column, they openly expressed what policymakers have been discussing for decades with greater discretion. Using technical language like “age structure,” “dependency ratio,” and “entitlement crisis,” establishment think tanks are raising the alarm: if U.S. women don’t get busy having more children, we’ll face an aging workforce, slack consumer demand, and a stagnant economy.
Feminists generally believe that a prudish religious bloc is responsible for the protracted fight over reproductive freedom in the U.S. and that politicians only attack abortion and birth control to appeal to those “values voters.” But hidden behind this conventional explanation is a dramatic fight over women’s reproductive labor. On one side, elite policymakers want an expanding workforce reared with a minimum of employer spending and a maximum of unpaid women’s work. On the other side, women are refusing to produce children at levels desired by economic planners. By some measures our birth rate is the lowest it has ever been. With little access to childcare, family leave, health care, and with insufficient male participation, U.S. women are conducting a spontaneous birth strike.
In other countries, panic over low birth rates has led governments to underwrite childbearing and childrearing with generous universal programs, but in the U.S., women have not yet realized the potential of our bargaining position. When we do, it will lead to new strategies for winning full access to abortion and birth control, and for improving the difficult working conditions U.S. parents now face when raising children.
“Jenny Brown compellingly explains the low U.S. birth rate: those primarily responsible for the labor of bearing and raising children (women) are responding as one should to lousy working conditions—by going on strike! Brown’s bold and brilliant book ventures into terrain that left and feminist thinkers have avoided for far too long. A breathtakingly accessible analysis, supported by riveting and intimate testimonials, it’s also an inspiring call to action.”
—Liza Featherstone, The Nation
“Birth Strike is a well-researched and wide-ranging analysis of how the public responsibilities of pregnancy and parenting have been privatized to benefit a capitalist for-profit system designed to minimize labor costs to produce wealth for the few. Offers fresh insight into how women's biological power may be harnessed to resist reproductive oppression.”
—Loretta J. Ross, author of Reproductive Justice: An Introduction and editor of Radical Reproductive Justice
“An audacious analysis of the falling U.S. birth rate; of the exploitive, often untenable conditions for raising children here and now; and of what might be done to change things. Feminist insight illuminates every chapter of this thoughtful book.”
—Alix Kates Shulman, author of Memoirs of an Ex–Prom Queen and A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing
“An astute analysis of power relations not only in the sphere of reproduction but also in the worlds of work, immigration, and government policy as they bear on women's ability to control their bodies. She illuminates the historical context of the writings of Marx and Malthus, the crusades of Comstock, and recurring elite pleas for women to supply more workers and soldiers. Brown lays bare why U.S. women who want to be mothers, and those who don't, have it far worse here than in Europe. Then she tells us how to change that.”
—Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes
“This book lays bare how U.S. politics around race and immigration are closely connected to the struggle for reproductive freedom, both in the past and today. You will never think about reproductive rights in the same way again.”
—Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in Americaand How to Be an Antiracist.
“Jenny Brown reveals to us how and why reactionary ruling interests in the United States support heavy birth rates and oppose both abortion and birth control. Also given is a good report of various other countries and their prevailing interests. In all, an excellent read!”
—Michael Parenti, author of The Culture Struggle, Democracy for the Few, and Against Empire
“Why are we still struggling for childcare and paid leave in the U.S.? Basic rights to birth control and abortion? In Birth Strike, Jenny Brown exposes the economic interests at play and shows the mighty power of women to change the game.”
—Lise Vogel, author of Marxism and the Oppression of Women
“Jenny Brown provides a compelling case that the battle over abortion and birth control is not just a religious or cultural difference of opinion. Rather, within these battles are deeper debates over the control of human labor. Capitalism cannot exist without labor, and employers have a strong interest in ensuring a steady supply. The more women can control their own bodies, the less power capitalists have over social reproduction. Filled with fascinating history and contemporary analysis, this book illuminates how women’s liberation is in fundamental conflict with capitalism. Read this book to learn how women must take their political struggle beyond what are often narrowly misunderstood as ‘women’s issues.’”
—Stephanie Luce, professor of labor studies and sociology, City University of New York, author of Fighting for a Living Wage and Labor Movements: Global Perspectives
“Birth Strike is an important contribution to the subject of women and our reproductive rights. Unlike much of the literature on contraception and abortion, Jenny Brown situates her analysis within the larger economic context of both labor and human rights.”
—Ti-Grace Atkinson, author of Amazon Odyssey and founder of The Feminists
“Jenny Brown’s rational and forthright answer to what the abortion struggles are about will surprise American women on both sides of the issue. Hint: it’s not religion or politics.”
—Peggy Dobbins, author of From Kin to Class, WITCH founder
“Jenny Brown’s book Birth Strike is a game-changer and is equal in significance to Betty’s Friedan’s Feminine Mystique in the 1960’s, which sparked a movement.”
—Carol Downer, Feminist Women’s Health Centers founder and author of A Woman’s Book of Choices
“A few years ago, statisticians discovered that the birth rate . . . in the U.S. had hit an all-time low. . . . In her provocative book Birth Strike . . . Brown jumps off from this evidence to discuss the history of birth control and right to secure a legal abortion in the face of the ruling class of men who traditionally have dictated the rules of women’s reproductive labor. This book is worth reading.”
—Susan Brownmiller, author of In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution
Jenny Brown is a National Women’s Liberation organizer and former editor of Labor Notes. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to have “morning-after pill” contraception available over-the-counter in the U.S. and was a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. In addition to Labor Notes, her work has appeared in Jacobin, Huffington Post, and Alternet, and she is coauthor of the Redstockings book Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America. She is the author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now.
Author: Jenny Brown
Publisher: PM Press
Subjects: Feminist Studies/Labor Studies
Shout your abortion
Editors: Amelia Bonow and Emily Nokes • Foreword: Lindy West...
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A v Times Newspapers Ltd
[2003] 1 FLR 689
Private: Jonathan Cohen QC
In both cases the father was applying for a specific issue order, seeking a direction that the mother give the child the immunity appropriate to the child’s age. In interim proceedings, a judge made an order stating that provisionally, subject to the overall discretion of the trial judge, the evidence of the experts, legal argument and judgment would be heard and given in open court, but the evidence of the parents and any evidence specific to either child would be heard in chambers. The hearing was the subject of considerable press interest. On the first day of the trial the press informally requested permission to come into court, which was refused by the trial judge. On the second day, counsel for certain newspapers applied formally for the hearing to be in public, opposed by all parties. The trial judge rejected the application on the basis that the welfare of the children concerned prevailed over the important principle of freedom of publication. The result of the application was that 1 day and part of the second day of the hearing were lost. The mothers, fathers and the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service sought the costs associated with resisting the press application.
Held – declining to award costs against the press –
(1) The normal rule was that family cases involving children would be heard in chambers, in other words, in private, on the basis that it was against the welfare of children for decisions about their future to be conducted in the light of publicity; the press were well aware of that rule, and of the almost total lack of exception to it, save for the obvious one of the court itself seeking the assistance of the press and the media in tracing a child who had gone missing (see paras [34 ], [36 ], [37 ]).
(2) There was no duty on CAFCASS Legal or parents to engage with or give prior notice to the press in relation to any hearings involving children, whatever publicity there might be surrounding the case, although they were of course entitled to express a view about whether there should be publicity if approached by the press or the media beforehand (see para [37 ]).
(3) The question of whether any part of a case involving children was to be heard in open court was for the court alone to decide; prior agreement of the parties did not confer jurisdiction (see para [38 ]).
(4) It was for the press and media to consider before any hearing whether they wished to apply for the normal restriction on publicity to be lifted. Whilst the question of costs was always a matter for the court’s discretion, the press were unlikely to incur the risk of an adverse costs order on such a prior application if they presented an arguable case, even if they were unsuccessful. If, on the other hand, they knew in advance of the hearing but left it until after the hearing had begun to make such a submission and the hearing was disrupted, different considerations arose. In such circumstances, the press and the media risked an order for costs being made against them even if the application was successful, as an application could be improperly applied for when, though arguable on the merits, it had unnecessarily caused disruption to a hearing (see paras [39 ], [40 ]). 5) In this case the press applicants knew in advance that there was to be a hearing at which the question of publicity would arise, but left it until the second day to make a formal application, so that substantially increased costs were incurred. Ordinarily the press applicants would have been ordered to pay the costs of all the other parties in respect of the application. However, in this case the interlocutory order which had indicated that some of the hearing might be in open court had given the press applicants an arguable case. It should not be assumed that such a result would follow on any future application during a trial when the application could and should have been made beforehand (see paras [41 ]-[43 ], [46 ]).
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Keynote Speakers and Plenary Panels, November 13 and 14 - 2018 AARP Livable Communities National Conference
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Randall "Keith" Benjamin II
Director, Department of Traffic and Transportation, Charleston, South Carolina
Keith Benjamin has led the city of Charleston, South Carolina’s Department of Traffic and Transportation since April 2017. In this position, he oversees all transportation maintenance, planning and partnerships at the local, county and state level. Benjamin previously served in the Office of Policy Development, Strategic Planning and Performance as well as led the Office of Public Liaison at the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Prior to his federal service, Benjamin was the community partnership manager for the Voices for Healthy Kids Community Consortium with the Safe Routes to School National Partnership. At the national, regional and local level, he provided technical assistance to policy campaigns in underserved communities, built coalitions, increased leadership capacity, engaged elected officials, created advocacy resources and led the Nation Active Transportation Diversity Task Force. Benjamin has also previously represented the Transport Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO, advocating on behalf of 200,000 members and retirees. He has also served on Capitol Hill, working for former Senator Carl Levin (Michigan), the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, the Committee on House Administration, former Representative Kendrick Meek (Florida), and the late Representative Donald Payne, Sr. (New Jersey).
A 2018 Next City Vanguard Fellow, Benjamin has served as a member of the National League of Cities Advisory Panel on Health Disparities, the Better Bike Share Partnership Equity Panel, the National Working Group on Healthy Food Access with the Food Trust and the National Urban League and the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board, Citizens Advisory Committee. He is a graduate and deans awardee of Swarthmore College. [CM .75]
Twitter: @RKBtwo
PLENARY PANEL (Engaging People)
Building Livable Communities through Citizen Engagement
Engaging citizens to enhance where they live through their skills and life experiences is essential to creating livable communities, and older adults — the “Experienced Class” — are leading the charge. People age 50-plus are involved in their communities and with causes they champion. In this session, city leaders will share how the contributions of “experienced” residents and people of all ages are helping to solve challenges and inspire change. [CM .75]
Myung J. Lee, Executive Director, Cities of Service | Twitter @CitiesOfService, @MyungLee
The nonprofit Cities of Service helps mayors build stronger cities by changing the way local government and citizens work together. Myung Lee previously served as a deputy commissioner with the City of New York Administration for Children’s Services. She has extensive nonprofit management experience and has led organizations focused on homeless assistance, domestic violence and early childhood development.
Byron W. Brown, Mayor, Buffalo, New York | Twitter @MayorByronBrown
The four-term mayor of New York’s second largest city, Byron W. Brown has directed and delivered on major projects in every section of the city, improving and strengthening neighborhoods throughout Buffalo. His goal is to make Buffalo a place “where no one is left out, and no one is left behind.”
G.T. Bynum, Mayor, Tulsa, Oklahoma | Twitter @GTBynum, @CityOfTulsaGov
Prior to being elected mayor in 2016, G.T. Bynum served for eight years on the Tulsa City Council, becoming the council’s youngest chairman ever. Throughout his time in city government, Bynum’s focus has been on fiscal restraint, public safety and infrastructure.
Karen Freeman-Wilson, Mayor, Gary, Indiana | Twitter @KarenAboutGary, @TeamGaryIndiana
As the mayor of her hometown since 2012, Karen Freeman-Wilson is the first woman to lead the city of Gary and the first African-American woman to be a mayor anywhere in the state. A former state attorney general and director of the Indiana Civil Rights Commission, Freeman-Wilson holds leadership roles with the United States Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities.
Joe Micheli, Head of Commissioning, Early Intervention, Prevention and Community Development City of York Council, United Kingdom | Twitter @JoeMicheli94, @CityOfYork
With a three-decade career in community development, Micheli is a member of the Cities of Service coalition and has led the development of volunteering and social action strategies in York and Barnsley, where as the head of stronger communities, he developed the council’s award-winning community engagement programs.
PLENARY PANEL (Engaging Partners)
Conversations with Anchor Institutions
“Anchor institutions” can bring skills and resources that complement efforts to create and encourage livable communities for people of all ages. In this session, representatives from the philanthropic, nonprofit and public sectors talk about their experiences working with anchor institutions. [CM .75]
Susan T. Mosey, Executive Director, Midtown Detroit, Inc. | Twitter @MidtownDetroit
Detroit’s University Cultural Center and New Center districts make up the city’s midtown, where the nonprofit Midtown Detroit, led by Susan T. Mosey, works on community improvement projects, real estate and small business development, arts programming and marketing.
Nora Moreno Cargie, Vice President of Corporate Citizenship, Tufts Health Plan President,, Tufts Health Plan Foundation | Twitter @TuftsHealthPlan, @THPFoundation, @NCargie
Leveraging the resources of the Tufts Health Plan Foundation, Nora Moreno Cargie and her team build relationships with nonprofi t organizations, businesses, municipal leaders, community members and older adults in support of stronger, vibrant communities that are great places to work, grow up and grow old.
Alan DeLaTorre, Research Associate, Portland State University, Institute on Aging | Twitter @Portland_State, @akdelatorre
An urban gerontologist, Alan DeLaTorre has been involved in Portland’s age-friendly initiative since 2006. He also serves as coordinator of PSU’s Senior Adult Learning Center, chair of the Environmental Design Committee for the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education and as an appointed volunteer with AARP Oregon.
Patrick Pontius, Senior Community and Economic Development Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | Twitter @AtlantaFed
Prior to recently joining the Federal Reserve, Patrick Pontius served as the executive director of the White House Council on Strong Cities, Strong Communities, where he led an interagency team that piloted an innovative model of federal-local collaboration.
Placemaking and Public Spaces
Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP, PP
Commissioner New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
An internationally recognized planner, Mitchell J. Silver specializes in comprehensive planning, placemaking and implementation strategies.
As New York City’s parks commissioner since May 2014, he oversees the management, planning and operations of nearly 30,000 acres of parkland, which include parks, playgrounds, beaches, marinas, recreation centers and wilderness areas.
Prior to returning to his native New York City for the position, Silver served as the chief planning and development officer and planning director for Raleigh, North Carolina, where he led the comprehensive plan update process and a rewriting of the development code to create a vibrant 21st-century city. His career has included roles as a policy and planning director for New York City’s Department of Planning, a principal of a new planning firm, a town manager in New Jersey, and deputy planning director in Washington, D.C. He is a past president of the American Planning Association.
Silver is a contributing author and editor of the International City/County Management Association’s (ICMA) latest edition of Local Planning: Contemporary Principles and Practice. He’s been elected to Planetizen’s list of the 100 Most Influential Urbanists and named an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences, an honorary fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia and an honorary lifetime member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. He has been honored as one of the top 100 City Innovators in the world by UBM Future Cities. In 2012, the Urban Times named Silver one of the top international thought leaders of the built environment.
Silver has taught graduate planning at Hunter College, Brooklyn College, Pratt Institute and North Carolina State University and is the Dunlop Lecturer in Housing and Urbanization at Harvard University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Pratt Institute and a master’s in urban planning from Hunter College. [CM .75]
Twitter @Mitchell_Silver, @NYCParks
INNOVATION SHOWCASE
Rapid-Fire Presentations about Making Communities More Livable
During this LOR Foundation-hosted session, conference attendees will deliver rapid-fire presentations about ways their communities are becoming more livable. [CM .75]
LaMonte Guillory, Chief Communications Officer | LOR Foundation | Twitter @LaMonteG, @LORFoundation
LaMonte Guillory drives the LOR Foundation’s external presence within the philanthropic and rural communities by ensuring that LOR represents the people who make up the vibrant, growing and culturally significant rural towns of the American West. He advances important discussions about the future of rural livability and the need for community-driven solutions to leaders, policy makers, the media, funders, nonprofits and national associations.
PLENARY PANEL
Looking Forward: The Issues That Matter for Cities
Nancy LeaMond of AARP and Bryan K. Barnett — mayor of Rochester Hills, Michigan, and vice president of the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) — discuss several of the key issues being faced by city leaders and how local governments and residents are working together on solutions. [CM .75]
Nancy LeaMond, Executive Vice President | Chief Advocacy and Engagement Officer, AARP | Twitter @NancyLeaMond
With responsibility for driving AARP’s social mission on behalf of Americans 50-plus and their families, Nancy LeaMond’s team includes 650 staff members across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. She leads major AARP issue areas, including the AARP Livable Communities initiative.
Bryan K. Barnett, Mayor, Rochester Hills, Michigan | Twitter @MayorBarnett @RochesterHills
When he won a historic third term in 2015, Bryan K. Barnett became Rochester Hills’ longest-serving mayor. His administration has been nationally recognized for innovation, fiscal responsibility and environmental leadership. Barnett will become the president of the USCM in June 2019.
Putting It All Together: A Focus on Age-Friendly States
Three states have enrolled in the AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities. Representatives from Colorado, Massachusetts and New York explain how they’re working to make their states livable for residents of all ages, life stages and abilities. [CM .75]
Mike Festa, State Director, AARP Massachusetts | Twitter @michaelefesta, @aarpma
Mike Festa leads AARP’s programs, advocacy and outreach to his state’s more than 800,000 AARP members. From 2007 to 2009, Festa served in Governor Deval Patrick’s cabinet as the Secretary of Elder Affairs. An elected legislator in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007, Festa began his career as an assistant district attorney in Middlesex County and served in local Melrose government for 12 years as an alderman-at-large and school committeeman.
Wade Buchanan, Senior Advisor on Aging, State of Colorado
As an advisor to Governor John Hickenlooper, Wade Buchanan takes a holistic, visionary and cross-departmental approach to tackling aging issues within the state government and collaborating with private, public and nonprofit partners. Buchanan played a critical role in bringing Colorado to age-friendly state status. He previously served as the executive director of the Bell Policy Institute, AARP Colorado’s key partner in work-and-save legislation.
Robin Lipson, Chief of Staff and Chief Strategy Officer Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs | Twitter @Mass_EOEA
Along with Secretary of Elder Affairs Alice Bonner, Robin Lipson works on initiatives to help older people remain in their communities. Lipson has been the lead staff person supporting Governor Charlie Baker’s Council to Address Aging and serves on the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative.
Greg Olsen, Acting Director, New York State Office for the Aging | Twitter @NYSaging
Greg Olsen oversees the office of aging’s day-to-day operations and the administration of federal and state-funded programs that assist the state’s more than 3.7 million older adults and their families.
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CIA chief to announce partnership with UNM
By Chris Quintana / Journal Staff Writer
Friday, November 4th, 2016 at 12:18am
Former CIA Director John Brennan
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The University of New Mexico is getting a visit from the CIA Director John Brennan next week to announce a partnership between the federal agency and the state’s largest university.
He will come to Albuquerque for a campus community event titled, “Intelligence and Security Challenges in the Next Decade,” from 3 to 4:30 p.m., Thursday.
He’ll also participate in a question-and-answer session with Emile Nakhleh, the director of the Global and National Security Policy Institute at UNM.
Brennan is expected to announce a partnership between the CIA and UNM that would “provide opportunities for students and faculty,” said Dianne Anderson, a university spokeswoman.
The nature of the partnership between the university and the federal agency was not immediately announced Thursday.
The event is open to those with a valid UNM ID. Those interested are also required to RSVP. An email was sent Thursday to UNM students and employees with a link to register for the event.
Brennan was sworn in as the director of the CIA in 2013, and previously served as a counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama. Reuters recently reported that Brennan announced “the most sweeping” reforms of the CIA’s 69-year history about 18 months ago to focus on threats from the digital realm.
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Niger: Displacement in Diffa region
Created: 05/04/2019 +
Over 18,800 people have been displaced in March 2019 in Diffa region as a result of Boko Haram activities and attacks against civilians, adding to the 249,000 people previously displaced by the conflict, including 104,300 IDPs, 25,700 returnees and 118,900 refugees from Nigeria. In most cases, IDPs have fled without taking their belongings and are in urgent need of shelter, food and NFI support. Assessments conducted in the IDP sites have also shown a need for improved WASH infrastructure. Protection remain a high concerns as attacks against civilians have continued throughout the month of March and the risk of gender based violence is high.
Conflict and displacement in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso
In the region of Liptako Gourma, overlapping Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, an upsurge in violence since the beginning of 2018 has led to the displacement of more than 235,000 people. In Mali, long-standing tensions between Dogon (pastoralist farmers) and Fulani (nomadic herders) communities over access to land and water points escalated into clashes in 2018, and “self-defence” militias associated with both communities have led a series of attacks on the civilian population. The conflict, exploited by Islamist armed groups to strengthen their presence in the region, has spilled over into both Niger and Burkina Faso where tensions between communities are increasing and attacks against civilians, led by armed groups operating across the borders, have become more frequent. In Burkina Faso, the country most affected by the upsurge of violence in 2019, more than 70,000 people have been displaced since the beginning of the year. IDPs are in urgent need of food and shelter assistance in particular. Access to health services and education are also constrained for both IDPs and host communities.
CrisisInSight: Global Risk Analysis
The Global risk analysis outlines 18 contexts where a significant deterioration is expected to occur within the next six to nine months, leading to a spike in humanitarian needs. This report comes as a result of ACAPS daily monitoring and independent analysis of the globe to support evidence-based decision-making in the humanitarian sector.
Considering the diversity and complexity of the crises, combined with the number of contexts included in the report, it has not been possible to cover each crisis in detail. Instead, we have highlighted the broad evolution of the crises to flag potential deteriorations and inform operational, strategic, and policy decision-makers.
Did you find this report useful? Help us improve our analysis, take our survey!
Migration in West and North Africa
These scenarios consider how migration dynamics within and via West and North Africa (including across the Mediterranean Sea) might evolve in the first half of 2019 and the potential humanitarian consequences.
These scenarios are not attempts to predict the future. Rather, they describe situations that could occur in the coming six months, and are designed to highlight the possible impacts and humanitarian consequences associated with each scenario. The aim is to support strategic planning, create awareness and promote preparedness activities for policymakers and other actors working on migration. The time frame is until June 2019 although the scenarios may remain valid some months longer.
ACAPS has developed these scenarios for the Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) under the DFID-funded Safety, Support and Solutions – Phase 2 programme.
Niger: Cholera Epidemic in Maradi region
1,489 cholera cases (including 26 deaths) have been reported in Maradi region since 15 July. After showing signs of improvement in early August, the outbreak intensified after 10 August. More than 930 cases, including at least 19 deaths, have been reported since 11 August. The outbreak was initially contained in Madarounfa department but has now spread to the heavily populated city of Maradi, the capital of Maradi region. Heavy rainfall and floods in the area have affected more than 20,000 people and are exacerbating the risk of contamination.
Niger: Hepatitis E in Diffa Region
Between 9 January and 25 April, a total of 164 cases of hepatitis E, including 25 deaths (CFR: 15.2%) have been reported in Diffa region, where there is a population of 673,146. The outbreak was declared by the Nigerien authorities in mid-April. All the deaths occurred among pregnant mothers. Over 76% of reported cases were among females. As of 28 April, five of the six health districts in Diffa region had been affected, with Diffa and N’Guigmi districts accounting for 96% of all cases reported.
Niger, Diffa Displacement
Boko Haram attacks in Yebi and Bosso, two towns in the east of Niger’s Diffa region, have displaced an estimated 50,000–75,000 people since 19 May. Most of the displaced population first sought safety in the town of Toumour, 25–30km west of Bosso town, but have since moved westwards and northwards, fearing further BH attacks.
Newly displaced populations are being reported among host communities and in spontaneous sites along the national highway that connects Diffa and N’guigmi departments. Others are heading to Kablewa, an official camp that is already nearing capacity. The new arrivals will have severe humanitarian needs after travelling up to 100km to reach safety, with little food, water or shelter. The capacity of host communities to cope with the newly displaced is low, and humanitarian agencies, while present, are already stretched to meet the needs of the 241,000 existing displaced.
Access in Bosso town is limited. Reports suggest most civilians have left, but this is yet to be confirmed and those who remain likely face high protection and humanitarian needs.
Crisis Overview 2015: Humanitarian Trends and Risks for 2016
The Crisis Overview 2015: Humanitarian Trends and Risks for 2016, outlines the countries considered to be in greatest humanitarian need as we approach the end of 2015.
Based on our weekly Global Emergency Overview (GEO), and three years of data on humanitarian needs across 150 countries, we have identified eleven countries where humanitarian needs are likely to be highest in 2016, as well as seven that merit attention, as they face a potential spike in needs. A final section considers the potential impact of the current El Niño event across a number of regions.
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Drop that weapon! You’re on Candid Camera
With the recent spate of clashes between law enforcement officers and citizens, many civil rights experts have stated that the outcome of the police investigation would’ve been different had the defendant possessed a video recording of the encounter.
On the surface, that would certainly appear to be true. In fact, reporter Kevin Fagan of the San Francisco Chronicle quoted the CEO of one camera manufacturer that makes a vast majority of the body cams police wear, as saying, “It’s a no-brainer to start using these devices.” Is it a no-brainer? Not necessarily.
Careful thought, study, and discussion should go into the deployment of any devices that impact law enforcement and legal proceedings—and people’s lives—so dramatically.
Let’s first examine the numerous reasons why wearing a body camera is a good idea. (I’d like to acknowledge Chris Schoppmeyer, the vice president for Agency Affairs for the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, for assembling this pro/con list and Jon Adler, the organization’s president, for giving me permission to use, and modify, it.)
Police-worn body cams will:
• Reduce false complaints of police misconduct.
• Decrease use of force incidents. (In fact, in Fagan’s article, he notes that this is exactly what’s happened.)
• Improve the behavior of suspects and the quality of evidence gathered.
• Enhance public trust and create safer communities with a return on the investment.
• Decrease litigation and increase cost savings for each law enforcement agency.
• Expedite plea agreements, which will reduce legal and court costs associated with drawn-out trials.
But body cams are not a panacea. For one, there is no federal policy governing body cameras, and state mandates are either nonexistent or inconsistent. This is, of course, reparable and, if handled properly by legislators, will be helpful in setting standards regarding 1) the long-term storage of the recordings; 2) the handling of the footage (in use of force incidents, the involved officers should not be permitted to edit—and chain of evidence needs to be clearly documented); 3) the delineation of what incidents should not be filmed because of privacy concerns (example, a sexual assault case); etc.
With all the aforementioned advantages, what could possibly go wrong? After all, it’s giving a judge or investigative review panel a first-hand view of exactly what happened in an altercation/call. But that’s the problem; it’s not really an accurate accounting of what transpired. Here’s why:
• Unlike a dashboard camera, which is mounted to the car and does not move, the body worn camera has the ability to move its field of view. This is both good and bad—but the important thing is to understand how this can limit your ability to see, in retrospect and onscreen, what occurred. Since the camera has no peripheral vision, what the officer sees in his/her periphery, and more importantly, the threat(s) presented by it—are not represented in the recording. In addition, there’s only one angle being shown. It’d be like trying to have a single umpire at a baseball game and expecting him to get all the calls correct. It would never happen. That’s why there are multiple umpires and the one with the best angle, and proximity, makes the call. However, even four umpires, all looking at the same play, don’t always get it right. Major League Baseball started using instant replay in an attempt to correct this, but despite having cameras showing multiple angles, sometimes it’s still difficult to determine if the correct call was made. Most significantly, upon reviewing a replay from all these cameras, the umpire’s call is overturned 47% of the time. With a single camera, what are the odds a police review board or jury would see all that they need to see to render an accurate judgment?
• Media, social, or judicial condemnation of a law enforcement officer based solely on body worn camera footage might not be a case of justice being served. If a picture’s worth a thousand words, a video is worth perhaps ten million words. Point is, people are swayed by what they see. Jurors will look at a video and believe it represents 100% of the case: but as is clear from this post, it’s a more complex equation.
• Current body cams don’t record physiological and psychological phenomena that an officer experiences under duress. These are high stress situations and, being human, he or she reacts based on a heart that’s pumping faster than normal, breath that’s coming shallower than normal, a visual field that is more focused, and narrower, than normal. Let’s examine that last point: As a survival mechanism, our brains may suppress some incoming visual images that seem unimportant in a life-threatening situation to allow us to zero in on the threat. You’re not even aware of what your brain is screening out. The camera, however, completely misses this variable; it’s like it does not exist.
• Our brain may play visual tricks on us that the camera can’t match. If a suspect is driving a vehicle toward an officer, it will seem closer, larger, and faster than it really is because of a phenomenon called “looming.” As a result, camera footage may not convey the same sense of threat that the officer experienced.
• An officer can usually tell when he or she touches a suspect whether that man or woman is going to resist arrest. The cop may quickly apply force as a preemptive measure, but on camera it may look like he or she launched an unprovoked attack because the sensory cue the officer felt cannot be recorded visually.
• Camera speed differs from the speed of life. Most of us have experienced this phenomenon.
• A body cam only records in two dimensions. Specifically, it cannot capture depth of field, which is the third dimension that’s perceived by the human eye because of its binocular vision; thus, accurately judging distances on footage can be difficult. At the very least, this technical limitation ensures that the recorded footage will be different from what the officer saw. “Different” does not automatically mean “significant,” but it can.
• Time-stamping that is automatically imposed on camera footage is a gross number, generally measuring the action minute by minute. In some high-profile, controversial shooting cases, that is not sophisticated enough.
• A body worn camera could cause an officer to second guess the course of action and impact his decision-making the next time he/she encounters a similar situation. If he/she acted properly but the camera tells a slightly different story because of the above factors, either the officer or his/her superior may inject uncertainty into his/her approach, causing him/her to hesitate next time, resulting in injury or death.
• A body cam is worn in one of three places—none of which approximate the angle of the officer’s eyes. The result is that the angle on film is different from that seen by the cop during the contact. And as alluded to previously, the camera lens is limited to the area where an officer’s squared shoulders are facing.
• The camera only records video—not audio. For law enforcement officers, the ability to capture audio is of equal importance. Critical communication, such as warnings by the cop or threats expressed by the suspect(s), are not captured by the recording. (A further benefit to having audio capability is that in a worst-case scenario where an officer is attacked and injured, he/she would be able to give a description of the suspect even if the camera didn’t capture the attack.) Perhaps future versions of the devices will have audio capability, but for now that’s not part of the equation—even though it needs to be.
A recent Washington Post article by Marc Fisher and Peter Hermann quoted former police chief Jim Bueermann, who now serves as president of the nonprofit Police Foundation, as saying that today’s videos “show only a slice of time, midstream, and the field of view of the camera is very limited.” According to Bueermann, the next generation of body cameras promises views from multiple angles along with technology that will allow supervisors to monitor officers in real time, checking for rising blood pressure and a spiking pulse, “so we can provide a calming, defusing effect and say, ‘Chill out, we’re on our way.’”
In sum, are law enforcement officers perfect? Of course not. Do they always follow the rules? Again, no. Are they always well-meaning? I believe a majority are, but there’s no question there are rotten apples in every agency. They’re human, and as in all professional careers, good and bad are part of the territory. Surgeons operate on patients when they’re intoxicatgd. Engineers and architects, driven by money, use inferior materials and people die. Attorneys collude to do unethical things to reap profit. Politicians take bribes. Religious leaders sexually abuse young men. To expect all cops to be model citizens is illogical.
There’s no question that we need to continuously strive to train law enforcement officers properly, to evaluate them, to weed out those who should not be policing our streets, carrying weapons, upholding the law. We expect professionalism, adherence to procedures, respect, and courtesy. And because people behave better when they’re being monitored by those in power, where judgment can be passed, promotions made or broken, or embarrassment experienced, body cams can, in many cases, assist superiors in achieving this. They are, however, only one tool. And that’s how they should be viewed: not as a magic bullet, but as a potentially useful piece of a comprehensive solution.
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Haiti's cholera deaths increase
Latest official statistics show more people dying nearly two months after the deadly cholera outbreak hit the country.
Officials say tolls have averaged out to around 50 new reported deaths a day [REUTERS]
The cholera death toll in Haiti is rising daily, with official figures indicating that 3,333 people have died since the outbreak of the epidemic in mid-October.
Official sources state that, as a result of cholera, the numbers have averaged out to around 50 new reported deaths a day.
The epidemic, the first in Haiti for more than a century, has further devastated an already desolate community still recovering from the January 2010 earthquake that crippled much of the country and left some 250,000 people dead.
The total number of cholera infections has soared to 150,000; newest data from December 26 noted 432 more deaths than previous health ministry statistics.
On Thursday, authorities in the neighbouring Dominican Republic also said there had been 139 reported cases there, though none of them fatal.
The outbreak of the disease triggered anti-UN riots in the capital Port-au-Prince last month, as some Haitans turned their anger on Nepalese peacekeepers who they accused of bringing cholera into the country.
Angry mobs in the deeply superstitious nation also stoned or hacked to death at least 45 people - most of them voodoo priests - accusing them of spreading the water-borne bacterial infection.
But experts say the outbreak was likely sparked by a human source from outside the region. The United Nations has promised a thorough investigation into the origin of the epidemic.
Cholera, which causes deadly diarrhoea and vomiting, often affects poor countries with limited access to clean water and proper sanitation.
Haiti is ranked lowest in the America's on the UN's Human Development Index. Following the January 2010 earthquake, many are homeless or live in temporary camps in and around the capital, leaving them vulnerable to further exposure to the disease.
The Pan-American Health Organisation in early December estimated Haiti could see up to 400,000 cholera cases over the next 12 months, half of them within three months alone.
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Allego starts partnership with shell to operate fast charging at selected shell stations in the Netherlands and in the United Kingdom
Shell and Allego are working together to install and operate the first fast chargers for electric vehicles at selected Shell service stations. The project will include selected charging sites at Shell stations in the United Kingdom and in The Netherlands. The goal is that fast chargers are expected to be operational at all selected locations by the end of 2017. The first chargers are due to open in Greater London, Derby and the western part of the Netherlands (Randstad)..
Shell and Allego are delighted to be working together to bring fast charging capability (50 kW) to selected Shell service stations in the UK and the Netherlands to meet the needs of EV drivers who want to recharge on the go.
Reliable and open charging network
Anja van Niersen, CEO of Allego: ”We are proud being a service partner for Shell and that we can contribute to the transition towards cleaner mobility. We are looking forward to support Shell in delivering excellent value to its customers.” Allego is monitoring the EV market intensively. “We see that people are willing to shift towards electric mobility. But a lack of appropriate level of charging infrastructure and interoperable charging services is one of their main concerns. Allego and Shell join forces by adding fast chargers at the right service stations. Shell now actively contributes in creating a reliable and open charging network. A network that is accessible for all EV drivers, despite the brand of the car.”
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Human welfare
Political refugees
European Mass Migration Crisis
Prosecutor: Most Cologne New Year’s suspects are refugees
BERLIN (AP) — Most of the suspects identified in connection with a series of robberies and sexual assaults in Cologne during New Year’s celebrations are refugees, prosecutors said Monday.
The crimes, described as unprecedented by authorities, sparked uproar in Germany and a heated debate about the country’s ability to integrate almost 1.1 million people who sought asylum there last year.
Cologne prosecutor Ulrich Bremer said 73 suspects have been identified so far — most of them from North Africa. A total of 1,075 criminal complaints have been filed, including 467 alleging crimes of a sexual nature ranging from insults to rape.
“The overwhelming majority of persons fall into the general category of refugees,” Bremer told The Associated Press, saying recent reports describing only three of the suspects as refugees were “total nonsense.”
Initially, authorities in Cologne were accused of downplaying the fact that the attackers included many asylum-seekers because of the political sensitivity of the issue.
The suspects included 30 Moroccan nationals, 27 Algerians, four Iraqis, three Germans, three Syrians, three Tunisians, and one each from Libya, Iran and Montenegro, Bremer said.
“They have various legal statuses, including illegal entry, asylum-seekers and asylum applicants,” he said of the foreign suspects. “That covers the overwhelming majority of suspects.”
Twelve of the 73 suspects are linked to sexual crimes, though only one of those — a Moroccan asylum-seeker who entered Germany in November — is in custody, he said.
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HomeThe Very First Gift Shops
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Credit must be given to these first two gift shops, which opened doors almost simultaneously in San Pedro to open the doors to this now thriving business. Today there must be close to some 25 gift shops and souvenir places combined with boutique, children's gifts, and other accessories. The pioneers in gift shop business are The Sea Turtle Gift Shop and D & G's Gift Shop.
Genaro Nuñez, Sr. (deceased) was a fisherman for many years. When not diving for lobster, he spent some time collecting old bottles, glass buoys, and other collectibles that served as a second income. Pretty soon, he was attracting a few tourists by word of mouth to his home where he sold these items. Later he shaped turtle shells into a variety of products like bracelets, combs, and earrings. Still later it was discovered that black coral could be shaped, carved and polished and that it carried a pretty good price. It was considered precious because it was found only beyond 100 feet of depth under the sea. All of this was in the early 1970's. When Genaro decided that this could be a profitable business, he moved over to the Barrier Reef Building (now defunct and site of The Alliance Bank), and John Bremekamp helped Genaro with a name and to make the business grow.
Dimas Guerrero Jr. was also a fisherman for many years. In his youthful years, Dimas spent a lot of time doing artistic work like making tattoos for a lot of Sanpedranos or painting sceneries at bars and local establishments. This of course was not considered gift shop business. But gradually Dimas started painting T-shirts using enamel sprays and this attracted visitors to buy especially if it carried the name of San Pedro on the design. From sprays to stenciling T-shirts and there you had another souvenir. An artist by instinct, Dimas also carved conch shells, turtle shells, black coral and anything that could be converted into a souvenir. When Dimas returned from a fishing trip, he also brought back some black coral, which he had dived for in the deep waters. At the time Dimas was dating Gloria, his wife today, so his friends suggested the name D & G's for the gift shop.
Selling of souvenirs was slow in the early 70's, so it could not be a full-time business. However, both of these businesses have grown into reputable and profitable establishments. Sea Turtle Gift Shop still carries a very wide range of souvenirs and even offers servicing to cellular phones. D & G's has expanded into finer products including gold jewelry made locally. All gift shops on the island today should have an appreciation and respect for the two pioneers in gift shops who did all the struggling and learning by trial and error. Twenty Five Years Ago congratulates these two firms for their vision and trust in the tourism industry and for "hanging in there".
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A road less traveled
As the nation's infrastructure deteriorates, demand for road maintenance and repair is overtaxing public works departments, forcing them to come up with
Written by Maria Lameiras
As the nation’s infrastructure deteriorates, demand for road maintenance and repair is overtaxing public works departments, forcing them to come up with new ways to complete the projects. Some agencies are beginning to use performance contracts for road maintenance because they require less oversight.
Performance contracting is a significant shift from conventional methods because it reallocates responsibility among the parties. The contracts identify desired results and give contractors flexibility in choosing the methods and materials to meet their goals. Contractors are rewarded for exceeding expectations and penalized for falling short. “With this type of contracting method, more emphasis is placed on the contractor’s management and oversight of the project, and especially its quality control of construction,” says Christopher Schneider, a construction and system preservation engineer with the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHA) Office of Asset Management.
In traditional maintenance contracts, the owner agency specifies what work will be done and how, giving it complete power in directing the work, but also leaving it with all the risk to achieve the desired system condition. In performance contracting, the owner agency sets standards to specify what it wants to achieve, and the contractor selects the methods, materials and techniques that will best meet those standards. The contractor manages and directs the work, and the owner agency monitors progress to ensure the conditions are met. Risks and rewards are shared between the contractor and government agency, and performance goals and measurements are set along with incentives and disincentives.
“Heretofore, the only thing the contractor cared about was his employees coming home safely at night and completing the project as soon as possible to increase profitability,” says James Sorenson, chief of construction and maintenance for FHA’s Office of Asset Management. “Performance contracting gives a contractor better control of his process and guarantees to the owner agency that he will provide the desired product at the desired performance level. They will build on the incentives for innovation, and they will manage their own quality control to ensure they don’t default or receive disincentives.”
Paving the way
In 2000, the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DCDOT) and the FHA tested a performance contract with Richmond, Va.-based VMS for all maintenance and preservation activities on the national highway system in the district that were previously the responsibility of the DCDOT. The $70 million, five-year contract covered 344 lane miles, 2,950 catch basins, seven miles of drainage ditches, 450,000 feet of curb and gutter, 109 bridges, four major tunnels, and snow and ice control.
“It was a learning experience both for VMS and the government,” Sorenson says. “We set up a system to establish a baseline of where we were at and targeted some benchmarks, telling the contractor that they must meet or exceed these benchmarks. The project was highly successful, and the district has been very satisfied with the results.”
“The contractor brought in innovative ideas, and that is another savings because innovation saves time and money. The contractor is more capable of making that happen than a public agency,” Sorenson says, adding that a contractor, if left alone, can use new methods and materials for the job without wrangling with the public agency to adopt them. For example, the contractor introduced velocity-fed pothole patching, a system by which a machine uses air pressure to blow water and debris from a pothole, sprays a tack coat of binder on the insides and bottom of the hole, then blows asphalt and aggregate into the hole at 50 to 90 mph. Then, the hole is covered with a layer of aggregate. Roads can be opened to traffic immediately afterward, and patches last a long time.
The DCDOT plans to continue using performance-based asset preservation contracts and is expanding the concept to other assets, such as lighting and tunnels. DC Streets II, a follow-on contract that will include several D.C. National Highway System assets, also is being developed.
Getting what you ask for
Performance contracts for transportation projects have been used with success throughout the world; however, some U.S. agencies and contractors are reluctant to fully embrace the concept because of the variability of conditions affecting roadways, such as traffic volume, the environment and pre-existing problems. “Contractors are hesitant to guarantee what they have no control over,” Sorenson says. “The trick is determining what performance goals and what target values or measures to put into the contract. These must be both acceptable to the agency and achievable by the contractor.”
This year, Aspen, Colo.’s 15-year street maintenance warranty contract with Wichita, Kan.-based Koch Performance Roads expired after just seven and a half years. The contract specified that the warranty would last 15 years or until the heavy truck traffic count reached 4.6 million. “Based on traffic counts, the warranty expired this year, so we lost out on about seven and a half years because of traffic accumulation,” says Jerry Nye, Aspen streets superintendent.
The traffic counting system, which was meant to track only heavy trucks over 18 feet in length, actually registered some heavier extended and crew-cab style pickup trucks as Class 2 vehicles, artificially raising the heavy traffic count on the streets and nullifying the warranty sooner than city officials expected, Nye says. The city has resumed street maintenance, but it would consider a similar warranty or performance contract if it needs to outsource maintenance work in the future. “The work we received was great. The streets are still scoring in the 85 to 90 pavement condition index,” Nye says. “We would have to look at a different way to make sure we could extend the warranty out further.”
Missing the target
The Michigan Department of Transportation has had mixed experiences with performance-based contracting. “We did a contract 10 to 12 years ago for performance-based maintenance that didn’t go all that well, and we haven’t done one of those since,” says Kirk Steudle, agency director. “What we have done is use performance specifications in aspects of what we do, whether in construction or maintenance, where we can prescribe what outcome we want in the end.”
The Michigan DOT is beginning to consider including performance specifications in all construction and maintenance contracts. “All of the specifications are written to give the contractor a lot of flexibility in the design and material choices, but they ultimately have performance targets they have to meet in a year or two or three years,” Steudle says. “We have another group of warranties we use on asphalt and concrete paving geared toward materials and workmanship. We control the design, but we have a warranty on it to make sure the contractors use the best materials and handle it properly, so we hold them to some performance targets.”
While some contractors are willing to meet the targets, others are not. “What we’ve heard from contractors is that they are willing to stand behind their work, but they don’t want to take responsibility for decisions that are made for them,” Steudle says.
In a traditional contract, the contractor is paid when work is completed. However, performance contracts can set long-range goals, and owner-agencies can choose to hold a portion of payment over the life of the contracted performance measures. If a contract specifies that a roadway must perform at a certain level at one, five and 10 years after work is completed, a portion of the payment can be held in bonds to be paid in those increments, as long as the roadway is still performing at the specified levels.
Some contractors may balk at the long-range terms, so owner-agencies can find alternate means to ensure long-term performance. “Some owners have addressed these concerns by requiring shorter-term, renewable warranty bonds,” Sorenson says. “Also, if the owner-agency is comfortable with the contractor, the owner-agency can waive the bond after one to three years.”
Typically, performance contracting drives superior workmanship on the part of the contractor, says James Bryant, program manager for the Virginia Department of Transportation’s performance improvement department. “The contractors do tend to step up to meet the terms of the contract because there is financial incentive for them to perform as efficiently as possible,” Bryant says. “That incentive is the cost of doing business. If they can do something in one hour versus two or three hours, they can then turn that revenue to other assets or continue to help operations run more efficiently.”
Making the partnership work
The Virginia Department of Transportation is in the final year of a performance-based contract with VMS for the maintenance of 251 miles of interstate, including all fences and guardrails, mowing, snow removal, pothole and crack repair, and the rehabilitation of roadways and bridges. The contract originally ran from 1996 until 2001 and was renewed for an additional five-year term in 2002. “In general, we’ve found that they do very well in routine maintenance functions — mowing, litter removal, debris removal, incident response,” Bryant says. “But, there have been concerns because of the way the performance measures were written for pavements and bridges that the state could do a better job managing the long-term performance for those particular assets.”
Recently, the Virginia legislature mandated that the Virginia DOT outsource 100 percent of the maintenance on the approximately 1,117 miles of interstate roadways in the state by July 1, 2009. “We are evaluating the available options to make the best business decision, and performance-based contracts are among the tools in our toolbox,” Bryant says.
Sorenson says performance contracting has the potential to help address a number of issues facing the transportation industry. “Performance contracting is a working partnership,” he says. “Properly administered, performance contracting can be a win-win for all involved. This is especially important at a time of increasing roadway needs, staff attrition for both owners and industry, and limited public dollars.”
Maria Lameiras is an Atlanta-based freelance writer.
Contracting resources
The Federal Highway Administration (FHA) is working with industry and transportation agency representatives to create a performance-contracting roadmap. It also has created a new initiative, Highways for LIFE, to “accelerate the adoption of innovations and new technologies to improve highway safety and quality.” FHA recommends performance contracts as one of the best ways for agencies to achieve the results they desire. “States will be encouraged to consider this contract approach as one of the innovations when applying for Highways for LIFE funding,” says James Sorenson, chief of construction and maintenance for the FHA Office of Asset Management. “If they consider using this method, we will offer technical support to work with the agency and the contractors to establish reasonable criteria and measures for the contract that fits your type of work.”
The FHA also has created a Web page, www.specs.fhwa.dot.gov, to help agencies create specifications for performance contracts. “We have taken in all aspects of maintenance and construction contracting to help define the common terminology and measures and criteria for roadway elements,” Sorenson says, adding that the Washington-based American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials plans to hold a workshop on the topic later this year.
— Maria Lameiras
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Virginia Commonwealth University, a research university, offered Homeland security and emergency preparedness degrees for the first time to attract students
Written by ERIN SEMPLE
Virginia Commonwealth University, a research university, offered Homeland security and emergency preparedness degrees for the first time to attract students this past spring.
“They have a degree that no one else does,” says William W. Newmann, Ph.D., associate professor and director of undergraduate programs for VCU’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs. “They are pioneers. It gets them noticed,”
Recent graduates of the program include Avery Church of Exmore, Va., Bryan Downer of Richmond, Va.; James Yassine of Sterling, Va.; and Amanda Turner of Gloucester, Va. Church and Yassine received dual degrees in political science and Homeland security and emergency preparedness; Turner’s dual degree includes forensics science.
“I feel really marketable,” Turner says. She had considered joining the Virginia Air National Guard before the Sept. 11 terror attacks, but a recruiter encouraged her to hold off until she received a college degree so she could become an officer. “Sept. 11 hit home and gave me a drive to want to help,” she says. “The average person, day-to-day, sees the news stories, and it does not seem to affect their daily lives, but once you start taking the classes, you realize that the global war has reached our doorstep.”
Turner also received recognition as the top student to graduate this semester, and she will pursue a career as a support staff member with a federal government agency. She is also interested in getting an online master’s degree in Homeland security emergency preparedness, which VCU hopes to offer as early as spring 2007.
“Homeland security and emergency preparedness are what I wanted to study because I want to serve the country,” Downer says. The graduate adds that the program taught him about the legal issues of Homeland security and emergency preparedness. “You are always going to be confronted with these issues,” he says. “Things must be done appropriately even if you are doing the right thing. A legal background in this industry is necessary. When you take all of these classes, you begin to see how they are interconnected.”
Downer says the Sept. 11 attacks also inspired him to want to serve the United States. “I would say that Sept. 11 was like having someone throw gasoline on the campfire. That was my resolve to do something to help secure the nation,” he says. “I wanted to do something to help, but I did not know what I could do. The program at VCU has shown me ways to get involved and pitch in to help.” He plans to pursue a career in customs and border protection. “I would suggest to anyone considering it, make sure you are committed,” Downer says. “You are studying how to protect the country from terrorism and even national disasters. We are teaching people to save lives.”
Associate Professor William Parrish, a former senior official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, says this program will bring professionals to Homeland security departments, since the program covers the six missions of national strategy for Homeland security: intelligence and warning; border and transportation security; domestic counterterrorism; protecting critical infrastructure and key assets; defending against catastrophic threats; and emergency preparedness and response.
“Unfortunately the Sept. 11 attacks did happen, and terrorism is here,” Parrish says. “There need to be qualified and trained professionals for Homeland security departments. Many people were assigned to new positions with no training and background on Sept. 12. Now, we have a program that can put professionals out there.”
Parrish, a retired U.S. Marine Colonel, served as the first associate director for Homeland security at the Presidential-directed Terrorist Threat Integration Center. The students also benefit from guest lectures from government agencies in Washington, D.C., and support from the Virginia state government.
“The FBI was practically doing back flips when they learned we were starting this,” Newmann says. “The Virginia Department of Emergency Management is also very interested and excited.”
VCU received approval for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Homeland security and emergency preparedness from the State Council of Higher Education in May 2005. A master’s degree program has been developed, and it should be offered by spring 2007.
The program in Homeland security and emergency preparedness is designed to give students both theoretical and practical knowledge. Students study emergency planning and management principles; the nature and effects of natural disasters; the nature of the terrorist threat to the United States from both foreign and domestic organizations; and counterterrorism policies.
For more information on the program, visit http://www.vcu.edu.
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Cornell University: Shaping the Future of Technology Through Data Science and Statistics
Cornell University was founded in 1865 in Ithaca, New York by Andrew D. White and Ezra Cornell, the latter famously stating “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.” The founders could not have envisioned the full extent of modern data science, of course, but scientific research of all types has been at the heart of Cornell’s mission since its beginning. Statistics itself – the precursor or original discipline underlying data science – first came to prominence at Cornell after World War II, with the presence of two seminal figures in the field, Jack Kiefer and Jacob Wolfowitz, as faculty members. Since then, Cornell’s Department of Statistics and Data Science (as it is now called) has hosted and continues to be the home of many prominent researchers in theoretical and applied statistical methods.
Data Science Programs at Cornell
Cornell University offers two undergraduate degrees in statistics and data science, as well as the M.S. and Ph.D., all of which enroll numerous students who find successful careers upon graduation. But its flagship Master of Professional Studies in Applied Statistics, or M.P.S., is unique and is the only program of its type offered by an Ivy League university. The M.P.S. is a two-semester Master’s degree program that provides training in a broad array of applied statistical methods. It has several components: (i) a theoretical core focusing on the underlying mathematical theory of probability and statistical inference (with a 2-year calculus prerequisite); (ii) a wide selection of applied courses including (but not limited to), data mining, time series analysis, survey sampling, and survival analysis; (iii) certification in the SAS® programming language (required); (iv) a professional development component including in-depth training in career planning and job searching, interviewing and resume writing, professional standards and etiquette, etc.; and (v) a year-long, hands-on, start-to-finish professional data analysis “capstone” project.
The Dynamic Leadership
Dr. John Bunge is the founding director of the M.P.S., in 1999-2000, and served in that role for 12 years. The position was then held by another Statistics professor, and at the end of his (6-year) term Dr. Bunge again became Director and will continue through 2021. Dr. Bunge has witnessed the program growth from an initial enrollment of 6 students to its current steady-state of 60, which is about the institute’s maximum capacity.
Interestingly, the number of M.P.S. applications seems to continue to increase so that the demand for the available spaces becomes ever more intense. “We are content with many of the decisions we made in designing the program (as long ago as the 1990’s), but we continue to monitor professional trends in data science and to adapt our program accordingly,” Dr. Bunge said. “In particular in the past decade we have added a second “concentration” to the M.P.S., so that students may now specialize more in classical (and modern) statistical data analysis; or (the second concentration) in more computationally oriented data science, including topics such as Python programming, database management and SAS, and big data management and analysis.”
Prominent Features of the Program
Dr. Bunge believes one of the chief advantages of the program and curriculum is that Cornell gives students a broad foundation in the fundamentals of statistical analysis and related computing. These skills are transferable: they can be used in finance, pharmaceutical and biological research, survey sampling and public opinion research, data security and privacy control, and many other fields. The institution has seen graduates move among seemingly unrelated applications areas, owing to the fact that their fundamentals are sound. Other advantages include: (i) Cornell’s extraordinary, world-class faculty in Statistics and Data Science, who teach most of the M.P.S. courses; (ii) its dedicated professional development advisers and support staff, who spend enormous amounts of time with the M.P.S. students; and (iii) Cornell’s focus on continuous improvement of the program, and its desire to anticipate (to the degree possible) future developments in the professional data science landscape.
Offering Extraordinary Industry Exposure
The main type of practical exposure offered to M.P.S. students is the M.P.S. project. During the fall semester, the faculty identifies a number of current applied research projects, some within Cornell or from Weill Cornell Medicine (the university’s medical school in New York City), some from external clients in the private or nonprofit sectors. The M.P.S. class is then divided randomly into teams of 3 or 4 students, and each team ranks the available projects by preference. The faculty then assigns projects to teams, attempting to accommodate preference as well as possible (this is known as the “fair item assignment” problem). Teams then have until the end of the spring semester to complete their projects. In the course of this, the team must communicate continuously with the client; formulate and re-formulate the problem in statistical terms; organize and manage relevant data (provided by the client); carry out statistical analyses using suitable computational methods and software; and finally provide both a written and an oral presentation of the results.
Upon completion, the projects are evaluated by the students themselves, the clients, and the faculty, and each year one or two “best project” awards are made. This is the closest experience to actual on-the-job statistical consulting that can be obtained within the academy, and it is very effective both as a learning process and as proof of competency for M.P.S. graduates.
In addition, Cornell allows M.P.S. students to elect to take an additional semester of study, which then introduces the opportunity for an internship in the intervening summer, another form of practical exposure for students.
Overcoming Academic and Industry Challenges
Dr. Bunge feels the most significant challenge is simple, and characteristic of any aspect of the technological or scientific enterprise: keeping abreast, or preferably ahead, of current developments. In practical terms, for example, what software will the students need to be familiar with? SAS® is still important but R is increasingly so, not to mention scripting languages such as Python, and big data resources or environments such as Hadoop. It is a major undertaking to stay current with developments in these areas much less to predict their future directions, and academics, while experts in their own fields, are less conversant with trends in industry, government, banking and so forth. From a broader perspective, what will be the industries of the future, and how will they apply data science? A forward-looking program cannot ignore, to take just three examples, quantum computing, genome editing (CRISPR), and for-profit space exploration (e.g., asteroid mining). These may seem like science fiction at present, but in no time at all, we will be sending our data science graduates to work in these fields, and we must prepare them accordingly, he said.
Remarkable Accomplishments of the University
The most important achievements of the university are the outcomes for its M.P.S. graduates. First, Cornell has a near-perfect placement rate: for the class of 2017, 96% of its 52 graduates were placed in statistics or data science field, with a median salary of $75K/year (range $50K-155K), and job titles such as Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Statistician, Engineer, and so on. Cornell also offers an aggressive program of exploring H-1B visa opportunities for international students. “In addition, we know that our M.P.S. program is highly regarded both within the U.S. and internationally, based on the information from our partners, clients, and employers, and also from our own graduates. Indeed, probably the best endorsement of our program is that our own M.P.S. graduates often hire later graduates into their own firms,” Dr. Bunge added.
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The forever war
U.S. judge says Qualcomm owes Apple nearly $1 billion in rebate payments
Qualcomm ordered to pay nearly $1 billion in patent royalty rebates, but a payment may not be forthcoming.
Harish Jonnalagadda
In a preliminary ruling, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California ruled that Qualcomm owed Apple nearly $1 billion in rebate payments that were part of the business cooperation agreement of the two companies. Today's ruling is unrelated to the patent fight that both companies are embroiled in, but pertains to the matter of patent royalty rebates.
As noted by Reuters, both companies had a patent licensing agreement that worked in the following manner:
In general, the contract factories that built Apple's iPhones would pay Qualcomm billions of dollars per year for the use of Qualcomm's patented technology in iPhones, a cost that Apple would reimburse the contract factories for. Separately, Qualcomm and Apple had a cooperation agreement under which Qualcomm would pay Apple a rebate on the iPhone patent payments if Apple agreed not to attack in court or with regulators.
While the agreement worked for several years, Qualcomm decided to stop paying Apple when it found that the company was making "false and misleading" statements to the Korean Fair Trade Commission, which was investigating Qualcomm at the time over antitrust violations. Qualcomm viewed this as a breach of its agreement, but Apple countered by saying that it was making lawful responses in an ongoing investigation.
Apple then filed the lawsuit stating Qualcomm had missed rebate payments, which amounted to nearly $1 billion. The judge sided with Apple in this issue, ordering Qualcomm to pay the $1 billion it owed. Qualcomm's general counsel Don Rosenberg commented on the ruling:
Although the Court today did not view Apple's conduct as a breach of Apple's promises to Qualcomm in the 2013 Business Cooperation and Patent Agreement, the exposure of Apple's role in these events is a welcome development.
It's unlikely a payment will be forthcoming as Reuters notes that Apple's contract factories have already withheld the $1 billion in payments to Qualcomm. A decision will be finalized when both companies meet in court next month.
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Country Snapshot: Sweden
By Dominic Stevenson
A strong historical association with mining and a positive outlook mean that the minerals industry will continue to be an important part of Sweden’s economy for the foreseeable future
Sweden has long been associated with mining. The Falun copper mine operated for more than 1000 years before closing in 1992, and is now a popular tourist attraction. Sweden’s rich mining history continues today, and the country is one of the leading ore producers in the European Union.
Sweden is a Scandinavian country located in northern Europe. It is bordered on the east by the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Bothnia, and shares a north-eastern land border with Finland. Its border with Norway runs down the western side of the country, and Denmark is accessible to the south via road, rail and ferry. Sweden’s capital, Stockholm, is located in the south-east of the country. Most major population centres are also located in the south, which has a relatively mild climate compared to the northern areas of the country. Approximately 85 per cent of the country’s inhabitants live in urban areas, with Stockholm being home to 1.5 million people.
A history of industrial innovation
Sweden’s industrial sector is highly developed, and includes internationally recognised companies such as Volvo, SAAB and Ericsson from a wide range of industries. Many world-leading companies involved in the minerals sector are of Swedish origin, such as Sandvik (founded in 1862), Atlas Copco (founded in 1873), LKAB (founded in 1890) and Boliden (founded 1931).
Sweden has a strong culture of research and innovation in the minerals sector. Research bodies and companies work together to help solve key industry issues. The Luleå University of Technology offers a number of minerals-related degrees, and includes a Division of Mining and Geotechnical Engineering that is responsible for more than 30 courses.
Leading producer in the minerals sector
Sweden is a member of the European Union (EU) and is the EU’s largest iron ore producer. Alongside iron ore, Sweden also produces base and precious metals.
Sweden’s geology, coupled with its high-quality infrastructure, makes it an attractive country for investors. Sweden ranks consistently well in the Fraser Institute’s Annual Survey of Mining Companies, which surveys mining companies from around the world to build a ‘most attractive’ list of mining jurisdictions based on both geological and policy-related factors. Sweden finished eighth on the most recent (2016) list, and has been one of the top ten most attractive jurisdictions for the last five surveys.
Sweden’s ore deposits are found throughout the country, although ore mines are typically clustered in the less-densely populated northern regions. According to the US Geological Survey yearbook, Sweden has a number of deposits likely to be attractive to investors, including base-metal, gold and iron ore. Other resources produced by Sweden include copper, lead, silver and zinc.
Permits for exploration and mining are controlled by the Chief Mining Inspector, who is head of the Mining Inspectorate unit of the Geological Survey of Sweden (GSU). The Chief Mining Inspector is guided in their role by the Swedish Minerals Act, which sets out regulations concerning exploration permissions and extraction rights.
The minerals industry in Sweden – past, present and future
The Swedish government understands the importance of the minerals sector to Sweden, noting that it is a creator of jobs and population growth throughout the country, particularly in rural areas. Mining tourism has further potential to impact positively on Sweden’s economy and culture. The Falun copper mine is on UNESCO’s World Heritage List and offers tours of the historic mine and accompanying buildings.
In a 2013 document that provides an overview of Sweden’s mineral strategy, the Swedish government noted that while the mining sector was controlled mostly by Swedish companies during the 20th century, foreign interest in the sector has grown – especially after regulations regarding mineral rights permits for overseas citizens were removed in the early 1990s.
In 2013 Sweden had 16 operating metal mines. Projections of Sweden’s future involvements in the minerals sector point to the industry remaining strong, and indeed potentially even growing, with the SGU predicting up to 30 metal mines in the country by 2020, rising to a possible 50 operating mines by 2030. The Swedish government has predicted that ore production will reach 120 million tonnes by 2020.
Feature image: By Kabelleger/David Gubler (www.bahnbilder.ch). CC BY 3.0. Photo available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6549332.
Information in this snapshot came from the following sources:
Atlas Copco. Atlas Copco Group History [online]. Available from: www.atlascopco.com.au/en-au/About-us/History
Australian Trade and Investment Commission. Market profile: Export markets – Sweden [online]. Available from: www.austrade.gov.au/Australian/Export/Export-markets/Countries/Sweden/Market-profile.
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2016. Sweden country brief [online]. Available from: www.dfat.gov.au/geo/sweden/Pages/sweden-country-brief.aspx
Boliden, 2017. Our history [online]. Available from: www.boliden.com/operations/about-boliden/bolidens-history/
Central Intelligence Agency, 2016. The World Factbook: Sweden [online]. Available from: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sw.html
Falu Mine website [online]. Available from: http://www.falugruva.se/en/
Fraser Institute, 2016. Fraser Institute Annual Survey of Mining Companies 2016 [online]. Available from: www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/survey-of-mining-companies-2016.pdf
Geological Survey of Sweden. Swedish ore mines [online]. Available from: www.sgu.se/en/mineral-resources/swedish-ore-mines/
Government Offices of Sweden, 2013. Sweden’s Minerals Strategy: For sustainable use of Sweden’s mineral resources that creates growth throughout the country [online]. Available from: www.government.se/reports/2013/06/swedens-minerals-strategy-for-sustainable-use-of-swedens-mineral-resources-that-creates-growth-throughout-the-country/
LKAB, 2017. It starts with the iron [online]. Available from: www.lkab.com/en/about-lkab/lkab-in-brief/it-starts-with-the-iron/
Luleå University of Technology. Division of Mining and Geotechnical Engineering [online]. Available from: https://www.ltu.se/org/sbn/Avdelningar/Geoteknologi?l=en
Sandvik. History [online]. Available from: www.home.sandvik/en/about-us/our-company/history/
US Geological Survey, 2016. 2013 Minerals Yearbook: Sweden [online]. Available from: https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/2013/myb3-2013-sw.pdf
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Sunday, October 17, A.D. 2010
Joseph Julian Overbeck
My ignorance often surprises me. Until this week, I did not know who Joseph Julian Overbeck was, and I was similarly unaware of how old certain ecumenical tendencies were. For the last week, I have casually been reading about the history of relations between the Orthodox and the Anglicans. I have found some surprising discoveries.
For example, after Metropolitan Platon (Rozhdestvensky) of the Metropolia broke relations with the Karlovtsy Synod in the mid 1920’s, he tried to establish an autonomous church in the United States, the American Orthodox Catholic Church. He charged Aftimios Ofiesh, the bishop of Brooklyn and the successor to Bishop Rafael, to carry out this task. However, Platon withdrew his support for the new church after American Episcopalians found it objectionable, as they considered themselves to be the senior church in America. This indicates the degree to which the leadership of the Metropolia respected (and, might we wonder, recognized) an Anglican ecclesiological claim. How some things never change . . .
From what I have read, Saint Tikhon and many other bishops and priests had very cordial relations with the Anglicans in the relative past. The Anglicans were extremely generous to the Orthodox in this country and even globally, as Britain and her children ascended to being the most powerful political and economic forces in the world. Anglicans assisted Greece after Greek independance from the Ottomans, Anglicans developed cordial relations with imperial Russia, Anglicans allowed Orthodox Christians in America to use their facilities for worship and for community functions, and Anglicans sent medical and educational supplies to Orthodox Christians in the Dar al-Islam. Yet, do such friendly relations necessarily lead to a willingness to blind oneself to ecclesiological inconvenient facts? The most modernist bishops like Platon or Meletios (Metaxakis) of Constantinople leant toward recognizing the Anglicans as part of the Church along the lines of Anglican branch theory. Yet, the cynical side of me also wonders why these very same modernists were so power hungry in their episcopal activities and likewise had a history of rebellion against the authority of their superiors and conciliar decisions, not to mention the tradition of the Church. Were the wealthier and more powerful Anglicans simply a tool for these men’s own worldy ambitions? Were they willing to trade the continuity and doctrine of the Church for money and prestige? Of course, I cannot judge their hearts, but their actions should caution us in our assessment of their work.
However, the story of Joseph Julian Overbeck marks quite a contrast to that of Platon, though the partisans of the West might accuse him of selling himself to the East for the same reasons. The readiness to accuse betrayal might depend on one’s perspective. According to his OrthodoxWiki entry, Overbeck was German professor and a priest in the Roman Church. In the mid nineteenth century, he left the Roman Church and began attending Lutheran services. After studying Ephraim the Syrian, he began to explore Orthodoxy, to which he eventually converted. Following his conversion, Overbeck attempted to establish what we now call the Western rite. He wanted to refound the Western Churches that had departed the apostolic faith.
I discovered Overbeck through his Catholic Orthodoxy and Anglo-Catholicism, A Word about Intercommunion between the English and the Orthodox Churches, published in A.D. 1866. Google Books also has a copy of it. I was shocked to learn how the ecumenical themes have not changed. Of course, the ecumenical issues between East and West present themselves given the history and doctrines of the Orthodox, Rome, and the Protestants, but I was surprised that already in Overbeck’s time, men were discussing the same issues in the same way as they continue to do so.
The nineteenth century was the historical century. The West began an intense search for its roots—an endeavor that had been largely ignored for the previous centuries of “Enlightenment.” You can see such a movement in the arts with Romanticism and in the celebration of national and of folk traditions. Consider the amazing developments in philology, archaeology, and hermeneutics in the age of Schleiermacher, Schliemann, Grimm, Newman, and Hugo. Even the Scottish Calvinists bequeathed us their monumental Ante-Nicene Fathers collection.
I knew about the intense interest of nineteenth century Europeans and Americans in their history, but I was not aware that the resourcement manifested in interest in the Orthodox Church. I assumed that such did not come about until the twentieth century, but I was wrong. Though Overbeck was a German, he found kindred spirits in the Oxford Movement. His OrthodoxWiki article notes that one hundred twenty-two men involved in the Oxford Movement joined Overbeck in requesting the Russian Church to establish a Western rite in Orthodoxy. The article also mentions how the Greeks were quite wary of the idea and that their opposition effectively stopped the movement. However, the Russians and the Arabs did establish a Western rite, but it has remained rather marginal and small. The Greeks continue to dismiss the possibility of Western rite Orthodoxy, and most Western converts to Orthodoxy abandon their ancestral liturgical forms when they ecclesially orient themselves.
What is dispiriting in this is that Overbeck seems to have been wrong about the spiritual hunger of disaffected Westerners. I would like to believe that theologically curious and intellectual honest Protestants would necessarily convert to Orthodoxy, or at least to Rome like Newman, once they were exposed to the apostolic faith. For it appears that they pine in their sectarian chaos and faddish theological confusion for the solid wholeness of the continuously lived ancient Christian way, delivered to the apostles and guarded by the faithful. I fancied that only residual anti-Roman bigotry and lack of opportunity condemned Protestants—and confused modernist Roman Catholics ignorant of the riches within their own tradition—to remain adrift in a sea of trendy superficial religious gimmicktry, resigned apathy, or resentful agnosticism. However, the English speaking world has had several generations of freedom and of opportunity to escape the spiral of apostasy and of heresy so rampant in their societies. Most people would rather live horizontal, hedonist lives, and the religiously committed minority seems content to ignore the theological contradictions of their ever mutating “denominations.” Even those folks seemingly most ripe for conversion, such as the Anglo-Catholics or various communities of traditionalist Old Catholics, appear to indulge in the sectarianism so prevalent in the so called episcopi vagantes cultures. Overbeck and Newman, who opted to swim the Tiber, are not typical men. They offer no omen for the future. The future for so many Western Christians, it seems, will be a never ending cycle of hustlers and charlatans peddling heresies like the gospel of wealth, the “living church,” or the “emerging church.” Like perpertual adolescents, these Protestants rebel without end, all the time trying to find their way home but too ignorant, too independent, and too proud to answer the call of their fathers.
Posted by Joseph on Sunday, October 17, Anno Domini 2010
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Talea Ensemble: Killing Jar
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Talea Ensemble returns to Americas Society with two substantial works for chamber ensemble: a new electroacoustic work by Canadian composer David Adamcyk and a work for voice and chamber ensemble by Kate Soper entitled Voices from the Killing Jar with soloist Lucy Dhegrae. Soper writes: "A killing jar is a tool used by entomologists to kill butterflies and other insects without damaging their bodies: a hermitically sealable glass container, lined with poison, in which the specimen will quickly suffocate. Voices from the Killing Jar depicts a series of female protagonists who are caught in their own kinds of killing jars — hopeless situations, inescapable fates, impossible fantasies, and other unlucky circumstances — each living in a world constructed from among the countless possible sonic environments of the Wet Ink Ensemble, for whom the work was written."
Kate Soper, Voices from the killing jar
David Adamcyk is a Canadian composer, electronic musician, and sound engineer living in New York. He creates musical works for the concert hall and theatrical stage, often incorporating technology. He was the assistant to Martin Matalon and Philippe Leroux, has collaborated with artist Julia Randall, and has worked with Quasar, Cairn, the MSO, Talea, ECM+, IRCAM, Esprit Orchestra, and SMCQ. David has taken part in the Nouvelles Rencontres composition program at Domaine Forget in St-Iréné and was selected for the National Arts Center's Young Composers program in Ottawa. He has won four prizes at the SOCAN Foundation composer’s competition, and was also one of the five finalists in the CBC/SRC Evolution composition competition. David holds a doctorate in composition from McGill University, and currently teaches sound recording, live sound, and electronic music at Columbia University’s Computer Music Center and at the Manhattan School of Music.
Kate Soper is a composer, performer, and writer whose work explores the integration of drama and rhetoric into musical structure, the slippery continuums of expressivity, intelligibility, and sense, and the wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice. She has been hailed by The Boston Globe as "a composer of trenchant, sometimes discomfiting, power" and by The New Yorker for her "limpid, exacting vocalism, impetuous theatricality, and...mastery of modernist style." A Pulitzer Prize finalist, Soper has been commissioned by ensembles including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, the Tanglewood Music Center/BUTI, the MIVOS string quartet, and Yarn/Wire. Praised by The New York Times for her "lithe voice and riveting presence," Soper performs frequently as a new music soprano. As a singer and performer with experience in Western Classical and Indian Carnatic music, songwriting, improvisation, and experimental theatre, she has sung in U.S. and world premieres of works by composers such as Peter Ablinger, Beat Furrer, George Lewis, Matthias Spahlinger, and Katharina Rosenberger, and has appeared with groups such as the Morningside Opera Company, the Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf, and the Dinosaur Annex Ensemble. She performs regularly in her own works, and has been featured as a composer and vocalist on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW series, the New York City-based MATA and SONiC festivals, the Lucerne Forum for New Music, Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York, the Sacramento Festival of New Music, and the American Composers Orchestra's Orchestra Underground series. Soper is a member of Wet Ink, a New York-based new music ensemble dedicated to seeking out adventurous music across aesthetic boundaries. She is the Iva Dee Hiatt assistant professor of music at Smith College.
About the soloist
Lucy Dhegrae regularly premieres new vocal works and operas, and has worked closely with such composers as Unsuk Chin, Jason Eckardt, Susan Botti, Alexandra Vrebalov, and Sky Macklav. Her opera premieres include Trillium J by Anthony Braxton, Andy: A Popera (Opera Philadelphia/Bearded Ladies Cabaret), A Marvelous Order by Judd Greenstein, and Ashley Fure's The Force of Things. Dhegrae's festival appearances include Darmstadt (Germany), Klangspuren (Austria), Mostly Mozart Festival, Bard Music Festival, Gesher Music Festival (St. Louis), and Aldeburgh Music Festival (as a Britten-Pears Young Artist). She is the 2018 recipient of Univeristy of Michigan School of Music's Emerging Artist Award, and among the first cohort of fellows with Turn the Spotlight, a new mentorship program for young professionals. As an "adventurous mezzo-soprano" and "raconteur" (The New Yorker) she directs Resonant Bodies Festival, and international presenter of boundary-pushing contempory music vocalists, which she founded in 2013. She has taught at SoundSCAPE (Cesena, Italy) Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada), and Bard College Conservatory's Graduate Vocal Arts Program; and has been invited to present lectures at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music, CUNY's Graduate Center, NYU, and William Paterson University. She graduated from the Bard College Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program (MM in Vocal Performance '12) as well as the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance (BM in Vocal Performance '08) and is a core member of the new music ensemble Contemporaneous.
About the ensemble
Talea Ensemble has been labeled “a crucial part of the New York cultural ecosphere” by The New York Times and given many important world and U.S. premieres of new works by composers including Pierre Boulez, Tristan Murail, Olga Neuwirth, John Zorn, Unsuk Chin, Rand Steiger, Beat Furrer, and Fausto Romitelli. Talea has performed at Lincoln Center Festival, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Wien Modern, Contempuls, Newport Jazz Festival, La Ciudad de las Ideas (Mexico), Art Summit Indonesia, and the International Contemporary Music Festival (Peru). Radio broadcasts of performances have been heard on ORF (Austria), HRF (Germany), and WQXR’s Q2. As an active collaborator of new music, Talea has joined forces with the Austrian Cultural Forum, Consulate General of Denmark, Korean Cultural Service NY, Italian Cultural Institute, and the Ukrainian Institute. Assuming an ongoing role in supporting and collaborating with student composers, Talea has served as ensemble-in-residence at Harvard University, Columbia University, Stanford University, Ithaca College, Cornell University, and New York University. Talea has recorded works on the Living Artists Label, Gravina Musica, Tzadik, and New World Records. Recently commissioned composers include Anthony Cheung, Oscar Bettison, and Georges Aperghis.
Talea Ensemble returns to Americas Society with a concert featuring electroacoustic works by David Adamcyk (Canada) and Kate Soper (United States).
Event Funders
The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas concert series is made possible by the generous support of Presenting Sponsor MetLife Foundation.
The Fall 2018 Music program is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
David Adamcyk; Kate Soper, Image: Richard Burbridge.
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Military Bowl Odds, Pick, & Prediction: Virginia Tech vs. Cincinnati
07th Dec 2018 | Admir Aljic
Monday, 12/31/2018 at 12:00 pm
VIRGINIA TECH (6-6) at CINCINNATI (10-2)
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O/U/P
257: VIRGINIA TECH 52 29.8 30.7 6-6 5-7-0 7-5-0 170.2 256.8 427 206.5 230.3 436.8
258: CINCINNATI -6 34.9 16.1 10-2 7-5-0 4-7-0 238.1 220.1 458.2 102.4 188.2 290.6
The ninth annual Military Bowl will take place on December 31, with the Cincinnati Bearcats favored by five over the Virginia Tech Hokies. The total is set at 53.5 for this game. Navy won last year’s contest, dominating Virginia 49-7, so this should hopefully be a much closer contest.
Virginia Tech enters the game at 6-6 thanks to victories in their final two games, including defeating Marshall 41-20 in their final contest of the season. Cincinnati is 10-2, after beating ECU in their final game by 50 points.
Hokies Turn Tide to Close Out Season
After losing four straight games and nearly finding themselves out of bowl contention with a 4-6 record, Virginia Tech (5-7-0 ATS, 7-4-1 O/U) battled back with a 34-31 overtime victory over Virginia before defeating Marshall by 21 points to give them a 6-6 record. A victory over then No. 19 Florida State started the year, and they would add a 17 point victory over then No. 22 ranked Duke to move to 4-1. However, a loss to No. 3 Notre Dame turned the season, as they would lose to Georgia Tech, then No. 24 Boston College, Pitt, and Miami before getting back into the win column.
The Hokies are averaging 29.8 points per game and 426.9 points per contest. There defenses allowing 30.7 points per game and 436.7 yards of offense per contest. The offense has lost just five fumbles this season, while the defense has recovered 12. That could be a huge factor in this game.
The offense is led by Ryan Willis who has thrown for 2497 yards and 22 touchdowns. Willis has completed 58.0% of his passes and has only eight interceptions this season. Stephen Peoples is the leading ground gainer, averaging 5.1 yards per carry. He has 760 yards rushing and five touchdowns. Damon Hazelton is the leading receiver with 45 catches for 745 yards and eight touchdowns.
Bearcats Look to Return to Top 25
It appears that a 10-2 mark has not impressed those voting in the national rankings, as Cincinnati (7-5 ATS, 5-7-0 O/U) enters the Military Bowl out of the top 25 in both polls. This, despite impressive victories over UCLA, Navy, and USF. In fact, their only losses are a seven-point defeat to Temple in overtime and a loss on November 17 to then No. 11 ranked UCF 38-13.
The defense has been impressive for Cincinnati this season, allowing 16.1 points per contest and only 289.9 yards per game. The offense is producing 34.9 points per game while averaging 458.2 yards per contest. The Bearcats have dominated after the first quarter this season. After edging opponents 100-71 through the first frame, Cincinnati is a +198 over the final three quarters this year.
This is a very well balanced offense. Michael Warren leads the team in rushing with 1181 yards and 17 touchdowns. He is averaging 5.2 yards per carry. Quarterback Desmond Ridder has rushed for 579 yards this season and has been impressive with his arm as well, completing 62.5% of his passes for 2359 yards and 19 touchdowns. He has been intercepted just five times this season. Kahlil Lewis has been his primary target, making 55 catches for 768 yards and nine scores.
Virginia Tech:
2-6 ATS in their last eight games overall.
9-4 ATS in their last 13 games in December.
1-4 ATS in their last five games on field turf.
Cincinnati:
2-7 ATS in their last nine bowl games.
0-4-1 ATS in their last five games in December.
5-2 ATS in their last seven non-conference games.
The Winner Prediction
Cincinnati started as 7.5 point favorites, but have seen that number reduced to 5.0. It appears that oddsmakers are a bit antsy about the American Athletic Conference powerhouse, but they shouldn’t be. The Bearcats, under the direction of second-year head coach Luke Fickell, have gotten back to a place that they have not been since Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly roamed the sidelines for Cincinnati.
Virginia Tech rallied at the end of the season to become bowl eligible, and the underdog has won the last five meetings between these two teams, but they do not have the firepower to keep up with this Bearcats offense. Look for Cincinnati to roll by the third quarter.
The Pick: Cincinnati Bearcats -5.0 (-110)
The Total
These two teams are averaging 55 points per game combined, putting them slightly over the total set for this contest at 53.5. The defenses are allowing slightly under 51 combined, making this a tough call. Both of these teams have gone over in five of their last seven games in December, but we really like that Cincinnati defense. They have gone under in 10 of their last 15 non-conference games, and one cannot argue with just 16.1 points per game allowed.
The Pick: Under 53.5 points (-110)
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Panel Explores Legalized Marijuana Impacts on Trucking Industry
October 28, 2018 • by Deborah Lockridge
Increasing numbers of states are legalizing marijuana, but it's still against federal law.
Trucking is caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to marijuana, between public opinion and increasingly liberal state laws on cannabis use on one hand, and a federal government that classifies marijuana as one of the most dangerous illegal drugs on the other.
Marijuana advocates have been very successful in getting states to legalize cannabis use, said Abigail Potter, ATA’s self-described “drug czar,” in an educational session Oct. 27 during the American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition in Austin, Texas. Already, 31 states and the District of Columbia have medical marijuana laws on the books. There are 13 that have decriminalized possession, which focuses on reducing fines and jail time for small amounts of marijuana. And nine states and DC have legalized marijuana for recreational use; regulating it and taxing it brings in needed revenue.
One of those states is Colorado. Greg Fulton, president of the Colorado Motor Carriers Association, said the state has brought in millions and millions of dollars in tax revenue. The state previously had legalized medical marijuana, but Fulton said the industry was surprised when the recreational law passed – and that the impact was more than they had expected. After all, he said, it was evident that a lot of people were getting marijuana prescriptions for medical use. “Little did we know how much pain our young people were in,” he said, tongue in cheek.
Meanwhile, Canada just this month became only the second country in the world to make recreational use of marijuana legal. Jonathan Blackham, director of policy and affairs for the Canadian Trucking Alliance and Ontario Trucking Association, said his group “pushed back” during the process of writing the actual regulations to address highway safety concerns, but there are still a lot of unknowns.
Attitudes about legal marijuana have changed significantly, especially among younger Americans.
Image: Pew Resarch
Because marijuana is a Schedule 1 controlled substance on the federal level, however, truck drivers are not allowed to use it; nor are trucking companies allowed to transport it.
Some of the areas of concern that the panel outlined were:
A recent study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute found that in the first states to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana, there has been a 5.2% increase in crashes.
There’s no clear process at this point for how to measure driver impairment, as there is with alcohol. “We are transportation safety people; we want that kind of standard,” Potter said. Blackham said after the industry and highway safety groups pushing the issue, Canada scrambled and approved a portable device that tests oral fluids which could be used by enforcement, the Drager 5000, but he said few enforcement officials have it yet so it’s unclear how well that will work.
There are no neat charts showing how much alcohol’s in a glass of wine or a cocktail. In fact, the amount of THC in different strains of marijuana can vary greatly, a problem made more difficult by the growth of “edibles” for those who would prefer to eat their pot than smoke it.
In an industry facing a driver shortage, legal use of cannabis may cut into the available driver pool. Some drivers could even consume edible cannabis unawares and fail a pre-employment drug test. One Colorado fleet, Fulton said, tells people who re looking for a job to not even bother to apply if they have partaken of cannabis within a certain period of time – yet still was getting a 60% failure rate on its pre employment drug testing.
In Colorado, dispensaries and grow houses tend to be located by zoning and other factors in the same areas that trucking companies are. Because of the increased demand, the price of real estate for terminals and warehouses has doubled and even tripled.
When it comes to medical marijuana, companies need to be aware of potential implications under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Some states that have legalized marijuana for medical uses specifically say in their laws that employers do not have to make accommodations, but others are the opposite, and some are silent on the issue.
Companies in states with legalized marijuana need to make sure they have clear company policies regarding its use, but those policies are all over the map. For some, it’s basically, “don’t come to work stoned.” For others, there may be zero-tolerance policies.
Meanwhile, it’s likely the trend toward legalization will only continue. Potter pointed to a Pew Research Center poll released earlier in the month showing a huge shift over the past decade. Today, 62% of Americans support full legalization of marijuana. Younger Americans are even more supportive, with 74% of Millennials approving of legalization. Legalization and medical marijuana referendums are on the November ballot in several states.
Potter said at some point, it’s likely the federal government may move marijuana to a less-restricted category in the controlled substances list.
While the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is focused on finding ways to identify people who are driving while impaired by marijuana, “I think the challenge is we want to prevent that person from getting behind the wheel in the first place. With alcohol it’s not under the influence is not our standard; you are out of service at .04, you are not allowed to drive at .02. As an organization, we need to start thinking about what are those levels.”
Related: Massachusetts Officials Debate Methods for Drugged Driving Tests
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Sailing following winds on the SCOTIA SEA on our way to South Georgia
Leaving the stormy and windy Elephant Island behind, now Europa face the open waters of the Scotia Sea. Straight away after turning around from Point Wild we started enjoying great sailing under favourable winds. On our way, during the last 24 hours, now and then Fin whales are spotted, some of them popping up to breathe quite close to the ship. From now on, as we gradually get used again to the watch system, about 700nm of the rough waters of the Scotia Sea lay ahead of us. Next to the famous Drake Passage, it equals its neighbour on its stormy weather and treacherous seas. A long stretch of water not to be underestimated, that is comprised between Tierra del Fuego and the several islands that form the so-called Scotia Ridge, including South Georgia. Since the early explorers, sealers and whalers back then at the beginning of the 20th century ventured its waters, it is considered a famed tempestuous, cold and blustery area. On top of its fierce reputation, its waters are often filled with drift-ice and icebergs wandering northwards from the Weddell Sea, making for a careful navigation and sharp lookouts. Like we faced since the early morning, when after a night of good sailing under SE-ly winds of about 25kn that made for gradually adding the Main Course, Outer Jib, Spanker and finally the Top Gallants, we came across one of those iceberg filled areas. Huge tabular icebergs can be seen all around, not really representing any difficulty for the navigation, but it’s the small pieces calved from them that can make things more complicated. Bergy bits, growlers and brash-ice seem to extend in bands as they drift away from their original mother-icebergs. Making good progress under sail, good lookouts are necessary from the fore-deck and aloft as well, to find a good route amongst all of them. With the fair breeze now blowing 18 to 20kn from the SSE, the Europa sails almost downwind and for an easier and safer navigation through the icy field, crew works on tweaking the sail configuration to these circumstances, while the Mate takes over the wheel. Basically on a Dead-run sail, Fore Top Mast Staysail and Dekzwabber come down and are furled, but the rest of the well-adjusted canvas still pulls us at 6.5kn. Similar difficulties were sure experienced in the past by William S. Bruce during his Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904), when he sailed this waters on the ship “Scotia”, which gives name to this Sea. Bruce was a deter-mined and enthusiastic Scotsman, that was to be on the Scott’s expedition on board the “Discovery” (1901-1904), famous for overwintering twice far South in the Ross Sea, and breaking the furthest South record, also mapping a large area of the Ross Ice Shelf and Victoria Land. But he declined the offer as he already got his own exploratory plans in Antarctica going on. Bruce and his crew embarked on a two-year exploratory and scientific journey that brought them to the Weddell Sea. It was not easy for him to finance the expedition, but finally he could get a strong and sea-worthy Norwegian Bark which he refitted and re-named as the “Scotia”. On February 25, 1903, during the first year of the expedition, they reached as far as 70º 25’ S, turning around then and looking for shelter to spend the winter at South Orkney Islands. At that moment we are sailing just a couple of hundred miles Northwest of them. There they fitted a camp that not much later was taken over by the Argentine Government, being the
first Antarctic permanent Station, still occupied nowadays. Next summer the “Scotia” set sail southwards once more into the icy Weddell Sea, now reaching 74º 01’ S on March 9. During this voyage they discovered new lands on the Eastern side of the Weddell Sea, calling it Coats Land after his sponsors. Over those famous waters we sail, and paying tribute to their changeable reputation, already by lunchtime we leave behind the densest part of the spectacular ice field, that left its roots in the Weddell Sea to seemingly go with the flow of winds and currents, acting as a magnificent farewell to Antarctica on our way. However, not all the ice navigation is over yet, as many other icebergs can be seen in the horizon, but appear to be more spread out, not clustering on dense patches. As soon as the conditions improve the royals are unfurled and clued down, and during the day they just have to come down for a short period when a squall pass our way in the afternoon. Enjoying our first full day at sea, taking pleasure in the good sailing we are having, gradually we get used again to our watch system. Part of the days at sea are the set of talks, lectures and trainings put together by our guides and crew. Today a wrap-up documentary on Shackleton’s adventure was broadcasted in the Lounge. The “Endurance” film, filled up with lots of original pictures and even short movies of the expedition, acts as a reminder of the incredible struggle Shackleton and his men went through. First in the Weddell sea and then during the absolutely extraordinary and skilled navigation Captain Worsley made in the small sloop “James Caird” from Elephant Island to South Georgia, roughly the same route we are following now with the Europa. In the afternoon the talk was about the sea-ice characteristics, drifting and its global effects on the planet. Having met lots of it in the Weddell Sea, now we were more properly introduced to its formation, characteristics and relation with the major thermo-hyaline oceanic
circulation, that at the end represents one of the major controllers of the Earth climate, with its implications on the glacial and
inter-glacial periods. With a warming world due to the emission of greenhouse gases, there is great concern about the development of the thickness of the icecap and the extent of the sea ice surrounding the continent. Another concern related with human activity and atmospheric emissions is the depletion of the protective Ozone layer due to the artificial chemical compounds known as CFCs. Humans had be-come one of the drivers of the Earths' climate, and even the geological era we live nowadays is called accordingly: the Anthropocene. In the meantime, people around the outer decks, fighting the cold temperatures could admire the soaring flight of the elegant Light mantled albatrosses and White-chinned petrels. And surprisingly enough, the small Wilson storm petrels and also its rarer relative Black-bellied storm petrel seem to enjoy the winds and swells of this open waters. Little and delicate as they look but tough as they are, flutter un-tiredly over this high seas, far away from any land.
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Susan Vaughn
Aug 29, 2013 at 2:00 AM Aug 29, 2013 at 11:00 PM
Thank yous were handed out all around Sunday afternoon, even by the two honorees at an appreciation reception for their roles in the commemoration of Barnstable’s own Revolutionary War patriot, Mercy Otis Warren.
EDWARD F. MARONEY PHOTO
MASTERS OF CEREMONIIES – Program host Rob Sennott and honoree Alice George listen as county historian Lou Cataldo speaks during Sunday’s ceremony honoring his and George’s service to the Mercy Otis Warren Woman of the Year award.
Mercy Otis Warren leaders honored
Louis Cataldo and Alice George were honored at the program in a lovely garden reception at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Barnstable Village for their roles in getting the patriot’s statue erected on the Barnstable Superior Courthouse lawn in 2001 and in establishing the Mercy Otis Warren Cape Cod Woman of the Year Award in 2002.The two worked together to commission and fund the statue and develop the award for Cape Cod women.
Cataldo. 92, was emcee for every Woman of the Year ceremony and George, 70, chaired the award selection committee for 10 years. Both retired from those positions this year.
After reading the official Congressional citation from U.S. Rep. Bill Keating, his aide, Stefanie Coxe, added a personal note: “What strikes me is you have stayed in the background…but recognized something that needed to be done, like Mercy (did).”
In another citation, Barnstable County Commissioner Bill Doherty listed George’s other contributions in several civic and charitable organizations, as a special needs teacher in Yarmouth and as an accomplished tennis player and golfer. She also worked with Cataldo to get the John F. Kennedy statue at the JFK Hyannis Museum.
Town Councilor Ann Canedy, who introduced George, described her as “quiet, diplomatic and unassuming, and the unsung doer in my life and in Yarmouth and Barnstable.”
In accepting the appreciations, George said, “I am grateful to have this opportunity with Lou. I was put in the company of a man who has had great awareness of the past.” She also recognized the first awards selection committee chairwoman, Anneli Karniala in the audience, and said, “The future of the award is now in the capable hands of Judith Walden Scrafile,” the new committee chairwoman, who was introduced.
Reading the county commissioners’ citation, Commissioner Sheila Lyons related Cataldo’s many efforts toward preserving Cape Cod history over six decades through the Tales of Cape Cod oral history program he founded in 1949, the Iyannough burial site in Cummaquid, the Old Customs House in Barnstable Village as well as the James Otis and Mercy Otis Warren statutes.
Master of ceremonies Rob Sennott also added a personal note on Cataldo from his associations with him as former Barnstable Patriot publisher. He called Cataldo “a tireless man for whom ‘no’ is not an option.”
Cataldo thanked all those involved in the Mercy Otis Warren and other Cape historical preservation efforts, in particular his ‘righthand woman,” co-archivist Tess Korkuch.
“There are a lot of historical events,” he said, “and if we forget them, we forget all those before.”
State Rep. Brian Mannal, representing Barnstable’s legislative delegation, called the 12 Woman of the Year honorees “the movers and shakers of Cape Cod” and “a group you wouldn’t want to mess with.” Eight of the award winners were present and introduced Sunday.
A bronze statuette sculpted by David Lewis in the likeness of Mercy Otis Warren is given every year to a Cape Cod woman who has demonstrated leadership in the community and has made a significant contribution to the arts, education, business or community involvement, while embracing the ideals of patriotism.
Nomination forms are available at www.barnstablecounty.org/
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Astros See Minor League Titles Pay Dividends
By J.J. Cooper
No matter how many dogpiles and post-game celebrations you are a part of, you never really plan what to do.
The final out is recorded, the sprint and the screaming begins and rational thought is replaced by euphoria.
Tyler White has become an expert. His three years as an Astros minor leaguer have each ended in championship celebrations. And in every one of those years, the celebration is always just a blur of excitement, a mass in the middle of the field and a lot of yelling.
MASTERING THE MINORS
Since general manager Jeff Luhnow arrived in Houston before the 2012 season, the team has had the best record in the minors and has won the most minor league titles.
Team W L PCT MilB Titles
Astros 1682 1376 .550 6
Mets 1608 1373 .539 2
Twins 1468 1285 .533 3
Diamondbacks 1627 1445 .530 6
Rangers 1462 1310 .527 2
Giants 1447 1332 .521 1
Cardinals 1562 1476 .514 3
Rays 1552 1482 .512 3
Yankees 1548 1483 .511 1
Nationals 1419 1365 .510 2
Cubs 1393 1342 .509 3
Pirates 1471 1449 .504 2
Red Sox 1397 1390 .501 5
Dodgers 1385 1384 .500 1
Blue Jays 1518 1522 .499 2
Athletics 1379 1394 .497 2
Indians 1362 1408 .492 3
Tigers 1354 1417 .489 2
Rockies 1393 1459 .488 2
White Sox 1357 1424 .488 2
Marlins 1347 1423 .486 1
Phillies 1347 1426 .486 0
Mariners 1438 1527 .485 1
Braves 1323 1420 .482 1
Orioles 1342 1446 .481 1
Royals 1421 1563 .476 3
Padres 1318 1459 .475 1
Angels 1311 1456 .474 1
Reds 1283 1479 .465 1
Brewers 1273 1472 .464 1
White and his teammates have learned from experience. Triple-A Fresno’s Pacific Coast League title never turned into a dogpile—too much risk of someone getting spiked or otherwise injured. Instead, it turned into a mosh pit around the pitcher’s mound. For many of the players in the celebration, this wasn’t their first championship. They’ve lived and learned.
"It’s never bad to be labeled as winners. That’s definitely a good thing,” White said.
White was on short-season Tri-City’s New York-Penn League champs in 2013. He and several of those same teammates moved up to high Class A Lancaster to win the California League title in 2014. And last year he earned a midseason promotion to Fresno, where he helped the Grizzlies win the PCL and a Triple-A National Championship.
White is an anomaly in that he’s gone three-for-three on winning titles, but if you are an Astros minor leaguer of recent vintage, there’s a good chance that at some point you’ll win a championship and learn to enjoy the feel of a celebration. Last year, Houston sent six of its seven minor league affiliates to the playoffs. The Grizzlies and Rookie-level Greeneville (Appalachian League) each won titles. Over the past four seasons, Houston’s minor league teams have won six minor league titles—tied with the Diamondbacks for the most over that stretch. The Red Sox have five minor league crowns, the only other team with more than three.
In spring training, the Astros award championship rings to their minor league teams that won titles the year before. The team flies in the minor league team’s general manager, there’s a dinner, general manager Jeff Luhnow speaks and the team is honored in front of the organization.
"You come in and get a really good meal. It’s a blast,” White said.
Two years ago, Carlos Correa’s impromptu speech at the low Class A Quad Cities’ ring ceremony was a further indicator of why the Astros’ believed he was a natural leader. The Astros have gotten plenty of practice at throwing a party. With at least one title every year, the Astros’ have had a reason to have a championship banquet every spring training of Luhnow’s tenure so far.
It has been an impressive run of success at the minor league level for the Astros. Houston spent the first several years of Luhnow's tenure as the worst team in baseball at the major league level before turning into a playoff team in 2015. In the minor leagues, the success came much more quickly.
From 2012-2015, the Astros won 55 percent of their minor league games, easily the best in the minors over that stretch (the Mets are second).
What makes that surprising is just how bad Houston was in the minors right before Luhnow and his staff arrived. From 2008-2011, Houston finished with the worst record in the minors three times in four years--and the one year they weren't 30th, they were 29th.
During those four years, Houston's minor league teams had a collective .417 winning percentage. From 2008 to the present, no other organization has had any one season where their affiliates finished with a winning percentage that poor. No other team has won less than 46 percent of its games over that time period.
“When Jeff and the regime came over a few years back, the organization not only wanted to replenish the talent in the system but also change the culture," Astros' director of player personnel Quinton McCracken said.
The rebuilding effort that began in 2011 under previous general manager Ed Wade started to lay the groundwork, but Luhnow's scouting and analytics-based approach has helped the Astros' win at every level in recent years.
When Luhnow was scouting director in St. Louis, the Cardinals had a knack for getting value both at the top and much deeper down in their drafts. Not coincidentally, the Cardinals won 52 percent of their minor league games and five minor league titles from 2008-2011.
Houston has seen a similar payoff. The Astros had developed an impressive depth of minor league talent. They are winning with youth and prospects. Fresno won the Triple-A National Championship with the youngest lineup and the second-youngest pitching staff in the Pacific Coast League. Double-A Corpus Christi had the best record in the Texas League (89-51) with the youngest lineup and the youngest pitching staff in the league. Greeneville won the Appalachian League title with the third-youngest lineup and second-youngest pitching staff in the league.
“It's been a collective effort. Changing the whole image of the organization," McCracken said. “When you draft players and develop them properly, the end results are teams that are competitive . . . It starts with the foundation of drafting quality, talented players that have those intangibles and that winning mentality. The Correas of the world, the (Alex) Bregmans, they make players around them better. That can be contagious. It raises the bar."
So just how valuable is winning in the minor leagues? Well, it depends. It's possible to have rather meaningless success by stacking a team with players who aren't age-appropriate for the level. But if you can win with prospects then you might have the makings of something, especially if you are trying to turn around a team that has been losing for far too long.
“The primary goal of the development system is to produce major league value," Luhnow said. “Developing players should always be the primary objective, and has been both with the Cardinals when I was there as well as the Astros since I've been here. Having said that, developing players while winning is the optimal outcome and the winning speeds up their development. Players that have a winning mindset in the minor leagues carry that over to the big leagues and it is an advantage. The talent gaps between teams is small in pro ball and often the teams that win are doing all the little things right. That's a mindset that helps in the show."
The Royals front office knew a lot about losing. When Dayton Moore's front office staff arrived and started trying to rebuild the organization, they knew that they weren't going to be winning in the big leagues soon, but they believed they could build a core of young talent that would win on its way up.
“It was a very conscious effort," said Royals assistant general manager Scott Sharp, who formerly was the farm director. “We had not won at the major league level. The focus was on scouting and player development. The idea was, we'll take this group and put them together. If they win in the minor leagues, that will translate to the major leagues. They will expect to win because they have won all along as teammates. So when they get to the majors, 'Why can't we win here?' ”
Kansas City tried to group Mike Moustakas, Salvador Perez, Eric Hosmer, Danny Duffy and others together throughout the minors hoping they could build a tradition of winning together.
The Moustakas-led Burlington Bees won the 2008 low Class A Midwest League title. Much of that same group won the Double-A Texas League title in 2010 thanks to Hosmer's six playoff home runs, including two, two-run home runs in a 6-5 win in an elimination game against Springfield. A year later, many of the same players won the Triple-A Pacific Coast League title with Omaha.
When Hosmer hit a two-run home run in the 11th inning to beat the Angels in Game Two of the 2014 American League Division Series, many Royals flashed back to his Texas League heroics. When the team arrived in spring training in 2015 motivated to win a World Series, Sharp couldn't help but think about how many of those same players responded to a surprisingly early playoff exit in the 2009 high Class A Carolina League.
“I think it was a very conscious effort to teach these guys, 'Hey, you can win.' You're going to win with these guys here and at the major league level," Sharp said. “When you bring those players up together they become accountable to each other. They have shared in those experiences instead of a collection of players who hadn't played together before. I think it's how you define winning at the minor league level is the most critical part. It's extremely important to win at the minor league level, but you have to do it with the right types of players. You can't put fifth graders in a second-grade dodgeball game to win it. But if you teach the second graders to win, that's important."
When the Royals get their World Series rings, it will be Duffy's seventh championship ring (2008 Midwest League, 2010 Texas League, 2011, '13 and '14 Pacific Coast League, 2014 American League and now 2015 World Series). It's fair to say that this latest ring will be a little pricier than the other six in his safe.
No Astros player has seven rings, but many have two or three. And more and more Astros are reaching the majors having won on a smaller stage. And Houston has reason to believe that will pay dividends in the big leagues as well.
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Radio: Easy Beat
Wednesday 19 June 1963 Radio No Comments
The Beatles' second appearance on the BBC radio show Easy Beat necessitated a rush back to London following Paul McCartney's 21st birthday celebrations.
The show was recorded in front of an audience of screaming fans at London's Playhouse Theatre between 8.45 and 9.45pm. It was broadcast on the BBC Light Programme from 10.30am on Sunday 23 June 1963.
The Beatles performed four songs: Some Other Guy, A Taste Of Honey, Thank You Girl and From Me To You.
John Lennon beats up Cavern DJ Bob Wooler at Paul McCartney's 21st birthday party
The Beatles Ltd is formed
2018: Paul McCartney announces new single I Don’t Know/Come On To Me
2015: Paul McCartney live at Firefly Music Festival, Dover, Delaware
2012: Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr pay tribute to Victor Spinetti
2009: Beatles’ first management contract up for grabs
1967: Paul McCartney admits taking LSD
1967: Recording: All You Need Is Love
1964: Live: Sydney Stadium, Sydney
1964: UK EP release: Long Tall Sally
1945: John Lennon’s half-sister Victoria is born
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5 things to know about Alex Azar, Trump's pick for HHS secretary
Emily Rappleye - Tuesday, November 14th, 2017 Print | Email
President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Monday he selected Alex Azar to fill the post of HHS secretary, left open by Tom Price, MD, who resigned Sept. 29 following an investigation into his extensive use of taxpayer-funded private jets.
Mr. Azar "will be a star for better healthcare and lower drug prices," according to President Trump. Here are are five things to know about the latest nominee to the Trump cabinet.
1. Mr. Azar is a former pharmaceutical executive. He worked at Eli Lilly for 10 years, spending the latter half of his tenure as president of the company's U.S. division, according to The New York Times, where he oversaw men's health, women's health, neuroscience, immunology, cardiology and the Alzheimer's sales teams. He left Eli Lilly in 2016.
2. Despite his background in pharmaceuticals, not much is known about Mr. Azar's views on drug prices, NPR reports. Ben Wakana, executive director of advocacy group Patients For Affordable Drugs, told NPR Mr. Azar's intimate knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry could be an asset as the Trump administration works to reduce drug prices. However, Democrats are skeptical he may not be able to lead federal initiatives to reduce drug prices and remain impartial, The New York Times reports.
3. Mr. Azar has a conservative political history. After graduating from Yale Law School in 1991, Mr. Azar clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia, and later went on to work for Kenneth Star during the Clinton Whitewater investigation. Mr. Azar was "active" in the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, he wrote in a Yale alumni student profile, and was tapped to serve as general counsel of HHS under Secretary Tommy Thompson during President George W. Bush's first term, which was his first healthcare-focused professional role. He stayed on for a second term, serving as deputy secretary of HHS under Secretary Mike Leavitt.
4. Mr. Azar is a "detail-oriented bureaucrat" who knows how to "get things done," NPR reports. Former HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt told NPR Mr. Azar's deep knowledge of regulatory processes will be key in changing how the ACA is implemented to favor Republican beliefs.
5. He believes the states should have more authority over their Medicaid programs, according to NPR. This aligns with the views of CMS Administrator Seema Verma.
Mr. Azar must now be vetted by the Senate.
Trump selects Alex Azar to lead HHS
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Across industries, hospitals see 2nd highest number of CEO exits in October
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Kimberley Walsh, Matthew Kelly & Wendi Peters join Jay McGuiness in BIG
by Best of Theatre Staff on Thursday 9 May 2019, 10:56 am in Cast Changes and Announcements
Wendi Peters, Kimberley Walsh and Matthew Kelly will star as Mrs Baskin, Susan Lawrence and George MacMillan respectively. They join the previously announced Jay McGuiness as Josh Baskin. Based on the smash-hit movie starring Tom Hanks, BIG The Musical makes its West End premiere at the Dominion Theatre for a strictly limited nine-week season from 6 September to 2 November 2019, with a Gala Night in aid of Make-A-Wish on Tuesday 17 September.
Wendi Peters is best known for her role as Cilla Battersby Brown in Coronation Street – a role that she played for over four years, returning briefly in 2014. Wendi plays the recurring character Cook Jenkins in Hetty Feather (BBC) and her other television credits include Queen Shania in Hacker Time (BBC), Kelly in Sadie J (BBC), Marion in Crime Stories (ITV) and 'Podger' Pam Jolly in Bad Girls (ITV). Theatre credits include Princess Puffer in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Arts Theatre, West End), Grumpy Old Women Live 2 - Chin up Britain (National Tour and Novello Theatre, West End), Vagina Monologues(National Tour), and Martha Watson in White Christmas (Dominion Theatre). Most recently, Wendi could be seen in the National Tours of Salad Days, Quartet, Wonderland and Oh What a Lovely War and as Dorothy Needham in the world premiere of Hatched ‘n’ Dispatched at Park Theatre, London.
Kimberley Walsh rose to prominence in the record-breaking girl band Girls Aloud. During their 10 years together, the group achieved twenty consecutive top ten singles in the UK, including four number ones, with over 4.3 million single sales and 4 million albums sold in the UK alone. In 2012, Kimberley was runner up in Strictly Come Dancing. As an actress, Kimberley has starred as series regular Rebecca in Disney’s The Lodge, played Claire Butterworth in the second series of Channel 4’s Ackley Bridge, and appeared in children's movies Horrid Henry and All Stars. In the West End, she starred as Princess Fiona in Shrek The Musical, Jovie in Elf the Musical, and joined Denise Van Outen for a week-long run at Cadogan Hall in Sweet Charity.
Matthew Kelly’s many television credits include the award-winning thriller Cold Blood, Benidorm, Bleak House and Moving On,although heis probably best known for presentingYou Bet! and Stars in their Eyes.His West End appearances include the original Stanley in Funny Peculiar (a role he had created at the Liverpool Everyman), Waiting For Godot with Ian McKellan and Roger Rees, Tim Firth’s play Sign of the Times, the musical Lend Me A Tenor! and as Lennie in the Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s production of Of Mice and Men at the Savoy Theatre, for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor. His other most recent theatre credits include W.H. Auden/Fitz in the first revival of Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art, Pride & Prejudice (Regents Park Theatre & UK Tour), The Jew Of Malta, Volpone and Love’s Sacrifice for the RSC, TOAST (Park Theatre & 59E59 in New York), the musicals Spamalot and Legally Blonde(National Tours), Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Trafalgar Studios,London).
Jay McGuiness originated the role of Josh Baskin at the Theatre Royal Plymouth in 2016. Jay came to fame as part of the successful boy band The Wanted. His fame widened when he won Strictly Come Dancing in 2015 with professional dancer Aliona Vilani. He and fellow bandmate Siva won last year’s celebrity version of Channel 4’s Hunted, raising money for Stand Up To Cancer. Jay is also a regular contributor to the BBC’s The One Show and is currently starring in Rip It Up - The 60’s in London’s West End until June.
BIG is a joyous, heart-warming musical about 12 year-old Josh Baskin who longs to be big. When a mysterious Zoltar machine grants his wish, he finds himself trapped inside an adult’s body and he is forced to live and work in a grown-up world, but his childlike innocence has a transforming effect on the adults he encounters.
With music by David Shire and lyrics by Richard Maltby, BIG has a book by John Weidman and direction and choreography by Morgan Young. Associate choreographer is Helen Rymer, orchestrator and musical supervisor Stuart Morley, set and costume designer Simon Higlett, lighting designer Tim Lutkin, video designer Ian William Galloway, and sound designers Terry Jardine and Avgoustos Psillas, wig and hair designer Richard Mawbey, musical director Jeremy Wootton, illusions by Chris Fisher, casting directors Natalie Gallacher CDG for Pippa Ailion Casting and Sarah Bird CDG, and general management by David Pearson for Encore Theatre Productions Ltd.
Based on the Twentieth Century Fox Film BIG written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg, Michael Rose, Damien Sanders and Paul Gregg for Encore Theatre Productions Limited present the Theatre Royal Plymouth production of BIG.
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Home Industry Segments M&A/Investment Jacobs to sell energy, chemicals, resources unit to WorleyParsons for $3.3B
Jacobs to sell energy, chemicals, resources unit to WorleyParsons for $3.3B
Jacobs Engineering
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. to sell its Energy, Chemicals and Resources (ECR) segment to WorleyParsons Limited for $3.3 billion, consisting of $2.6 billion in cash and $700 million in WorleyParsons ordinary shares.
The Jacobs Board of Directors and the WorleyParsons Board of Directors each have approved the transaction. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of calendar 2019, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
Jacobs said, "Following the completion of the transaction, Jacobs will be focused solely on its two higher growth, higher margin lines of business - Aerospace, Technology, Environmental & Nuclear (ATEN) and Buildings, Infrastructure & Advanced Facilities (BIAF)."
The company said it will report results for fiscal 2018 on November 20.
Upon closing, Jacobs expects to receive about $2.6 billion in net proceeds from the transaction, which initially will be used to pay down floating-rate debt, while also maintaining a disciplined approach to deploy capital for increased shareholder value, including mergers and acquisitions.
The company noted that it will provide further details about its capital allocation strategy, as well as its updated pro forma financial outlook, at the company's investor day on February 19, 2019.
At the close of the transaction, Jacobs will receive approximately 58.2 million shares of WorleyParsons stock, which will equate to approximately 11 percent of WorleyParsons ordinary shares based on WorleyParsons' outstanding shares post-close. The shares will be subject to a six-month holding requirement (but not earlier than August 31) following the transaction's closing.
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Veena Malik is all set to make her Bollywood debut
By nirmal on June 16th, 2011
Pakistani actress Veena Malik is all set to make her Bollywood debut. The official announcement was made at an event in Versova, Mumbai.
A participant from the famous Salman Khan hosted reality show Bigg Boss 4, Veena Malik made headlines for her speculated romantic relationship with Ashmit Patel. Veena’s Bollywood debut does not come as a surprise since Bigg Boss earned her a considerable fan base in India.
Her debut movie has been titled Daal Mein Kuch Kaala Hai. Buzz suggests that Veena will be playing a double role in the movie.
Daal Mein Kuch Kaala Hai will be directed by Aanand Balraj, the younger brother of Deepak Balraj. Deepak has directed the movie Hafta Bandh.
Categories: Bigg Boss, Features, News, Veena Malik
Tags: Bollywood, Daal Mein Kuch Kaala Hai
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Singer, Television Personality, Songwriter
December 18, 1980 (age 38)
Who Is Christina Aguilera?
Songs and Albums
'Liberation'
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Christina Aguilera Biography
Singer, Television Personality, Songwriter (1980–)
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera is renowned for her powerful voice and such hit songs as 'Genie in a Bottle,' 'What a Girl Wants,' and for being a reality singing competition judge for 'The Voice.'
Singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera was born on December 18, 1980, in Staten Island, New York. Aguilera began her career as a cast member on The All New Mickey Mouse Club. She rapidly rose to stardom following the release of her hit single, "Genie in a Bottle," which earned her a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Her other hit singles include "What a Girl Wants," "Come on Over Baby," "Lady Marmalade" and the sexually charged "Dirrty." In recent years, Aguilera has served as a coach and mentor on the singing-competition show The Voice.
Christina Aguilera arrives at the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 22, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California
Photo: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
'All I Wanna Do'
In 1993 Aguilera earned more national attention when she landed a spot as a "Mouseketeer" on The All New Mickey Mouse Club. Her fellow castmates were a collection of future stars, including Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Ryan Gosling and Keri Russell. The ambitious singer lasted just two years on the program before she moved with her mother to Japan, where she recorded the hit single "All I Wanna Do" with Japanese pop icon Keizo Nakanishi. More success soon followed.
'Christina Aguilera'
In 1998 Aguilera was tapped to sing "Reflection" on the soundtrack for the Walt Disney film Mulan. The singer made her debut at the all-female concert festival Lilith Fair the following year, and signed with RCA Records. Also in 1999, she released her debut album, Christina Aguilera, which went on to sell more than 8 million copies thanks in part to the chart-topping hits "Genie in a Bottle" and "What a Girl Wants." The album earned Aguilera the 2000 Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
'Lady Marmalade'
With fellow Mouseketeers Spears and Timberlake also lighting up the charts with their respective music, Aguilera became one of the leading faces of a group of teen pop stars. But she wasn't comfortable maintaining the squeaky clean image this sort of role foisted upon her. After teaming up with Pink, Mya and Lil' Kim on the popular single "Lady Marmalade," Aguilera released her second album, Stripped, in October 2002. As its title suggests, the pop superstar had embarked down a new path. Highly sexualized and more commanding than its predecessors, the album featured a number of hit singles, including "Dirrty," "Beautiful" and "Make Over."
'Stripped'
Coupled with a series of new piercings and tattoos, Aguilera and her new music startled some critics while endearing her to others. Stripped went on to sell more than 4 million copies, and Aguilera, rightly so, was unapologetic about the music or her look. "I knew it was a bold move, and I knew a lot of people would not be ready for it," the singer said of the album in an interview with The New York Times.
'Back to Basics'
In 2006 Aguilera changed course again with the release of Back to Basics, a two-disc collection of influential standards from the 1920s through the '40s. Like she'd done with her previous album, Aguilera used the music to help define her style. She also adopted a classic Jean Harlow look for a time.
'Bionic'
In 2010 Aguilera returned to record stores with Bionic. She experimented with a more electronic-edged sound with this album, which featured collaborations with Le Tigre and M.I.A. While Bionic nearly reached the top of the charts, it failed to spawn any major hit singles.
That same year, Aguilera made her film debut in the musical Burlesque, co-starring alongside Cher. Aguilera also contributed several songs to the movie's soundtrack, including "Show Me How You Burlesque" — a minor hit. While the film was highly anticipated by many, it was ultimately maligned by critics and largely ignored by movie-goers.
Aguilera appeared to be stumbling professionally and personally around this time. At the Super Bowl in February 2011, she seemed to forget some of the lyrics to the National Anthem. Not long after, the pop star was arrested for public intoxication. Both incidents sparked a wave of stories concerning her possible alcoholism.
'Liberation'
On June 15, 2018, Aguilera will release her sixth studio album, 'Liberation.' The album is executive produced by Aguilera, and the first single off the album, "Accelerate," features Ty Dolla $ign & 2 Chainz.
'The Voice' Judge
By the spring of 2011, however, Aguilera had gotten back on her feet with a full-time spot on a new television competition, The Voice. Aguilera served as a judge/coach for singers while competing against teams led by fellow musical talents Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton and Adam Levine. While some rumors circulated about behind-the-scenes drama between Aguilera and her team members, the pop star proved to be a strong supporter of her protégées. In the summer of 2011 she even contributed her vocals to Levine's band, Maroon 5, for their mega hit single "Moves Like Jagger." Following The Voice's Season 3 finale in 2012, Aguilera announced that she would be leaving the series for a time. She was replaced by Shakira for the show's fourth season.
Around the time she left The Voice, Aguilera released the album Lotus. The record received a lukewarm reception. She fared much better as a featured vocalist on rapper Pitbull's single, "Feel This Moment," which the duo performed together on the Season 4 finale of The Voice. Around this time, Aguilera announced that she would be back for the show's fifth season, and she later returned to the judge's chair for Season 8.
Proving her vocal abilities remained among the best in the business, Aguilera in 2015 won a Grammy Award with A Great Big World for their ballad "Say Something." That year, the veteran pop star also returned to her early television roots with a recurring role on the country music drama Nashville.
'Paper' Cover
In advance of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival debut of the sci-fi romance Zoe, in which she enjoyed a starring role, Aguilera gave an interview to Paper magazine and appeared on its cover sans makeup. The singer-actress explained her ever-transforming look, from "assless chaps and two toned-plaits" to "old Hollywood-inspired retro glam" to her more recent choices. "I'm at the place, even musically, where it's a liberating feeling to be able to strip it all back and appreciate who you are and your raw beauty," she said.
While filming Burlesque (2010), Aguilera became romantically involved with set assistant Matthew Rutler.
The singer has a son, Max, from her previous marriage to record producer Jordan Bratman; the couple married in 2005, separated in 2010 and finalized their divorce in 2011. Aguilera and Rutler announced their engagement on Valentine's Day 2014, and welcomed a daughter, Summer Rain, on August 16th of that year.
Outside of her performance career, Aguilera has showed her compassionate side, working with AIDS awareness campaigns and affiliating herself with the Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh. In early 2010, she took on the role of Ambassador Against Hunger for the World Food Program — a responsibility that led her to Haiti, where she helped earthquake victims.
In 2016 Aguilera recorded the song "Change," which were in honor of the victims affected by the Orlando nightclub shooting in 2016.
Christina Maria Aguilera was born on December 18, 1980, in Staten Island, New York, to father Fausto Xavier Aguilera and his wife, Shelly Loraine Fidler. Aguilera's early home life was troubled. Her father, an Ecuadorian immigrant and sergeant in the U.S. Army, was an abusive husband. It wasn't until Aguilera was six that her mother managed to end the marriage and move her two daughters (Christina and her younger sister, Rachel) to a new life in Rochester, Pennsylvania.
At an early age, Aguilera developed a deep love of music — a gift she no doubt inherited from her musical mother, an experienced violinist and pianist. By the time she was in elementary school, Aguilera's big voice had swept through a number of local talent shows, causing harsh envy from her schoolmates and even some parents. It became so bad that Aguilera's mother eventually made the decision to home-school her daughter.
Still, Aguilera continued to perform, and in 1990, she earned a spot on the nationally syndicated television program Star Search. There, the nine-year-old prodigy wowed audiences with a mesmerizing rendition of Etta James' "A Sunday Kind of Love," placing second in the competition.
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Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Taylor Swift made a splash in the country music world in 2006 and has gone on to become one of the top acts in popular music.
Cuban-American superstar Gloria Estefan fronted the band Miami Sound Machine. Songs like "Conga" and "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" topped the charts in the 1980s and 1990s and became pop classics.
American singer Linda Ronstadt is an award-winning superstar of both pop and country music. She has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide.
Pop icon Lady Gaga's debut album, 'The Fame,' included the hits 'Just Dance' and 'Poker Face.' She also won a Golden Globe for her role in 'American Horror Story' and an Oscar nomination for her co-starring role in 'A Star Is Born.'
With hits such as "Vision of Love" and "I Don't Wanna Cry," pop diva Mariah Carey holds the record for most No. 1 debuts in Billboard Hot 100 history.
Britney Spears has been one of the most successful — and sometimes controversial — solo acts in popular music. Six of her first seven albums reached No. 1 on the 'Billboard' 200.
Grammy award-winning artist Mary J. Blige is getting her Hollywood Walk of Fame star this January in a ceremony to be introduced by Sean “Diddy” Combs, the Hollywood Chamber announced. Blige was also recently nominated for a Golden Globe.
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Doctor Calls for Alzheimer’s Boot Camps to Spur Drug Development
Published: Apr 09, 2018 By Alex Keown
It’s no secret that drugmakers have struggled to develop a therapeutic to treat or halt the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Multiple drugs have failed in late-stage trials and some companies, such as Pfizer, have largely given up on the space.
While researchers have struggled in the lab with beta-amyloid and tau tangles, one organization believes that if Alzheimer’s scientists were required to meet patients who have been diagnosed with the disease that would spur research inspiration and motivation. Leslie Norins, chief executive officer of Alzheimer’s Germ Quest, Inc., has proposed nationwide Alzheimer’s “boot camps” of “experiential programs” to drive new developments. Norins said that most researchers in the Alzheimer’s field have not spent more than a few hours with patients. He said the researchers have “textbook knowledge” but lack realistic experience with how the disease mentally disables seniors.”
In his call for a boot camp, Norins said one reason for the lack of personal contact between researchers and Alzheimer’s patients is age difference. He said researchers are in their twenties and thirties, while Alzheimer’s patients are senior citizens.
Norins said he came up with the idea for a boot camp after the time spent in a senior center that provides care for Alzheimer’s patients. Despite the myriad of backgrounds that Alzheimer’s patients had, the disease rendered them “almost childlike,” Norins said. After watching the attendants care for the patients, Norins said similar exposure to the patients could “increase motivation for every Alzheimer's researcher and administrator across the country."
“It's time for Alzheimer's researchers and administrators to venture out of their ivory towers. We're going to try and convince the leading distributors of Alzheimer's research monies, both government and non-government, to set up ‘boot camp’ experiences for their grantees and staffs at respite care centers,” Norins said.
The time spent in the Florida care center wasn’t Norins’ first exposure to Alzheimer’s. There is a history of the disease in the family of his wife Rainey Norins. Both her mother and grandmother fell to Alzheimer’s.
In January Norins’ organization Alzheimer’s Germ Quest, announced a $1 million challenge award for the scientist who provides persuasive evidence that an infectious agent is the root cause of Alzheimer's disease. There is a three-year window for the challenge. Norins believes that the root cause of Alzheimer’s is bacterial and in the announcement pointed to some research that supports that theory. When making the announcement Norins said most researchers are “fixated on the safe old favorites” of beta-amyloid and tau.
"Hopefully, this challenge will help jump-start additional research interest globally in microbes,” Norins announced in January.
Norins issued his challenge about a week after Pfizer announced it was abandoning new research into Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. While Pfizer has stepped back from the space other companies are not giving up. Biogen, Denali, Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson are all continuing with programs.
This morning the University of Finland released a report that said the use of antiepileptic drugs is associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Continuous use of antiepileptic drugs for a period exceeding one year was associated with a 15 percent increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, the university said in a statement sent to BioSpace. University researchers found that the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia was specifically associated with drugs that impair cognitive function. These drugs were associated with a 20 percent increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease and with a 60 percent increased risk of dementia.
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Míle buíochas do mo chara Bríd, a rinne an crois Bhríde álainn seo!
Many thanks to my friend Bríd, who made this lovely St. Bríd’s cross.
Gabhaim molta Bríde.
Ionúin í le hÉirinn.
Ionúin le gach tír í.
Molaimís go léir í.
I sing Bríd’s praises.
She is Ireland’s beloved.
She is beloved of every land.
May we all praise her.
This lovely song — a hymn to St. Bríd (or “Brighid” in the older style of Irish spelling) — is one of the first sean-nós (“SHAN-nohss”), or “old style” songs I learned in the Irish language.
As her feast day is on February 1, which also marks the beginning of spring in Ireland, this song tends to pop into my head at about this time every year. St. Bríd is an intriquing and complex figure, and she’s an intrinsic part of Irish culture.
Wait a second…isn’t it “Brigit”?
As this blog is tied to the Irish language, I want to get pronunciation straightened out right away. Yes, in English, she is often referred to as “Brigit.”
This pronunciation and spelling, however, is based on a misunderstanding of the pronunciation of Brighid. It’s pronounced “Breej,” or in some parts of Ireland, closer to “Breeds.” In contemporary Irish spelling, it’s spelled Bríd.
Because of this misunderstanding, Ireland’s saint is sometimes confused with St. Bridget of Sweden. In fact, “Bridget” isn’t an Irish name at all; it’s Germanic.
What about “Bride”?
You’ll sometimes see “St. Bride” or “St. Bridie” as well, but neither of these is correct either. Bríde, as you see it in the song above, is the genitive case of Bríd, and is pronounced “BREEJ-eh.” In the old spelling, it would have been Brighde.
The genitive case can’t stand alone as a name. It’s used in the same way we use apostrophe + s in English, and would be the equivalent of saying “Bríd’s.”
For the sake of simplicity, and because contemporary Irish is the language I speak, I’ll be using Bríd from here on out.
Saint or goddess?
One of the things that makes St. Bríd so intriguing is that her story is both pagan and Christian, and it’s hard to tell where one story ends and the other begins.
What we know is that there almost certainly was a real woman named Bríd who became the abbess of Leinster, and whom the Catholic Church honors as St. Bríd of Kildare. Along with St. Patrick and St. Columba, she is counted as one of Ireland’s patron saints sometimes referred to as “The Mary of the Gael.”
She is said to have been born sometime in the late 4th or early 5th century, the daughter of a druid and a Christian slave. She founded two monasteries in Kildare, one for women and one for men, and has had many miracles attributed to her. Shrines and holy wells dedicated to her can be found all over Ireland.
There is also, however, an ancient, pre-Christian, Irish goddess named Bríd, and here’s where the two stories get pretty tangled.
The goddess Bríd was the patron of poetry, smithing, medicine, arts and crafts, cattle and other livestock, and spring. She’s also said to have invented keening — a particular style of Irish lament — upon the death of her son Ruadán.
We can guess, at the very least, that Bríd of Kildare was named for the goddess. We know that the Catholic Church chose to place her feast day on February 1, which is also the pagan Irish feast of Imbolc, the coming of spring, which is also associated with — you guessed it — the goddess Bríd.
Further, many of the miracles attributed to St. Bríd involve things that were sacred to the goddess Bríd, including miracles involving cattle and butter, as well as healing miracles.
And, of course, there are those holy wells, which pre-date Christianity in Ireland by quite a bit, and of which many would have been sacred to the goddess Bríd.
We may never know whether the church co-opted the pagan traditions wholesale or whether the traditions surrounding the worship of the goddess and the veneration of the saint merged naturally (I’m inclined to think that a mixture of the two is most likely).
Regardless, the traditions of St. Bríd’s Day, aka Lá Fhéile Bríde (Law leh BREEJ-eh), aka Imbolc, are a deeply ingrained part of Irish culture, and a wonderful way to celebrate the coming of spring!
Some ways to celebrate St. Bríd’s day
Here are some things you can do to celebrate St. Bríd’s day:
Make a St. Bríd’s Cross (Cros Bhríde: “krus VREEJ-eh”)
As the saint (or goddess) is said to travel the countryside blessing households on this day, you can:
Hang a piece of white cloth or ribbon on an outside door for her to bless as she passes by.
Put a bit of bread and butter on your windowsill to refresh her on her journey. As she’s usually accompanied by her red-eared cow, a bit of corn would also be appreciated.
Because she was known for caring for the poor, a donation of food to your local food bank or soup kitchen would not be amiss.
Give your pets a special treat. Bríd is a patron of farm animals, but for those of us who don’t have farms, a treat for a beloved pet or a donation to your local humane organization is a great way to honor her special day.
Raise your glasses! Bríd is also the patron of brewing.
Learn something of her language. Goddess or saint, Bríd’s language was Irish! We’ll be happy to help you start to learn Irish, if you like! At the very least, you can learn a traditional greeting for the day:
Lá Fhéile Bríde Sona Duit (Law leh BREEJ-uh SUN-uh ditch): Happy St. Bríd’s Day To You!
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Gearóid Ó hAnnaidh
Lá Fhéile Bríde sona daoibh go léir!
– A happy St. Brigid’s Day to you all!
Gearóid
Meghan R
If you look up the name ‘Brigid’ in the original texts that make up the Cath Maige Tuired, in some of the manuscripts it’s simply spelled Brig (no fada) and Brigit (pronounced Brigid) appears too. So for the original Old Irish spelling of the Goddess (as opposed to the Saint), named as the daughter of the Dagda and mother of Ruadán, it should be either Brig or Brigit with a T.
Ana at Bitesize
Hi Meghan,
Thank you for taking the time to comment.
Let me find this out for you and we will post the answer here.
Due to the fact that Irish spelling has been evolving and non-standardised for the past few thousand years, you will find widely varying spellings for the same word. To save precious space on parchment, vowels were often left out.
In printed copies of older manuscripts, accents are often left out for a number of possible reasons; the accent may have been too difficult to see, the printer was unable to make the accent sign, the original was translated and anglicised, the transcriber saw it as irrelevant or the original writer did not bother including an accent as he expected any future readers to recognise the name.
Therefore, all such spellings would be pronounced either as “Breed” or “Breej,” as both pronunciations are used to this day. I would suspect “Brig” to have the latter pronunciation.
When looking for ancient spellings, from my experience, the only reliable sources are scans of the original manuscripts.
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In pictures: Walking the former Grimsargh to Preston railway line
Posted on - 26th July, 2013 - 7:00am | Author - Michael Holdsworth | Posted in - History, Opinion
Discovering the former Preston to Longridge railway line
As a kid, I was besotted with trains. Growing up near a railway station, watching Thomas the Tank Engine all the time and having the nerd in me developing early meant it was a given, really. As I grew older the interest in the trains themselves waned, however as my social politics developed and I took more of an interest in history, particularly local history, my interest in the railways as part of Britain’s heritage and the way in which they developed and, in some cases, discarded. Being a native of the “grim north”, I’m fiercely proud of our role in the Industrial Revolution and the part northern towns and cities played in developing the country as a whole.
And it was that thinking that led me to joining Liam on a bus to Grimsargh in order to walk the former Preston to Longridge line from the old Grimsargh station through to Deepdale where the line split off. The line, opened in 1840, was originally designed to carry quarried stone in horse drawn carriages, then was earmarked for an ambitious plan to link it to Yorkshire. That never happened and the line shut to passengers in 1930 and to goods in 1967. From Grimsargh the line went off up to Longridge, with a spur through to Whittingham Lunatic Asylum. In Deepdale, the line forked firstly toDeepdale Street station, which only closed as a coal depot in the 1990s and secondly to Deepdale Station, where the line ran through the Miley Tunnel and onto the main Preston station.
The first stop en route, once we’d got off the bus a stop early and eventually found where we were going, was The Plough in Grimsargh. When the station was first in use, this inn doubled as the booking office until a proper station building was put in place. After a couple of pints, some decent food and watching England toil in the field against Australia at Lord’s we eventually decided we’d better get on with what we were doing.
The first clue we’d spotted to suggest we were definitely in the right area just happened to be Old Station Close which had been built on the site of the old station. Now just a bland collection of houses, with one side following the alignment of the station. Next to this was the route of the line itself, now named Old Railway Walk and a walking/cycle path designed to be enjoyed by all. It wasn’t long, however, before we realised that the path itself was headed up and over one former railway bridge, onto the main road above. A quick glance ahead showed that the path was still there so, despite a few protestations from Liam, we headed down there. After all, if you’re going to do something, you’ve got to do it properly.
Old railway sleepers and the banking either side are clues to the uninitiated as to the “pathway’s” former use. It’s clearly not a well-trodden path and anyone sensible could clearly see why and would have bailed out. We, however, carried on until we hit the first major obstacle. Clearly we weren’t going any further, so we emerged back onto the main road and found another path which then connected with the railway line again.
After negotiating this bit of rural Preston for a while, passing some modern housing estates, we joined a proper path, part of which forms a section of the Guild Wheel. It’s also part of the reclaimed railway route which Lancashire County Council have used to create a cycle/walk way. More examples of the history of the pathway are visible along the route, although how many people notice these is another question altogether.
After crossing the M6 we found ourselves leaving the rural behind and hitting the more urban surroundings of Ribbleton. Symbolised by this, which they clearly wouldn’t stand for in places like Grimsargh. More brickwork lined the pathway, which led up to the old Ribbleton Stationon Gamull Lane. The building itself is still visible, an uninhabited house with a rather junk filled garden. After crossing the road and walking around the front of the station, we re-joined the path and walked past more brickwork, along more pathway and alongside more overgrown greenery. Must be another nature reserve.
Eventually, just behind West View Leisure Centre, we really couldn’t get any further. A rather large fence prevented access to an overgrown area of track that even we would’ve backed away from. A set of buffers unexpectedly sat just beyond the fence, left to rust whilst reminding the odd daft soul of what once was.
We headed out and round, joining the line again on Skeffington Road, where, oddly, a railway warning sign still exists. The level crossing just further down was the last bit of accessible track on this stretch. Fences and walls prevented further access, so we found our way through onto Deepdale Mill Street. This was the last bit of track we could get at, part of the Deepdale Street spur of the line. The line splits just after Skeffington Road, so we were unable to get to the junction. Before leaving this section, we headed a few hundred yards down the road to the railway bridge for the Maudlands line, which is 100 years old this year. Unfortunately the plaque shows that this has been very much forgotten.
We wound our way down Fletcher Street onto Deepdale Street and, at the bottom, gazed across Deepdale Street station, which has come to a rather sad end. Considering how recently it was used, you have to look closely to find any clues that the station was there. After a few wistful sighs it was out onto Deepdale Road to try and find Deepdale station.
We missed the exact location initially, meaning I went back a day later to take a couple more snaps. (Stop laughing at the back.) However, a clue as the proximity was to be found in the old paving stones used. From there we followed the line as closely as possible, through to the absolute finishing point of this stretch, as the linedisappeared off into the Miley Tunnel. At that point, the two of us called it quits and headed to the Lamb and Packet for a post-walk debrief.
I myself, however, wasn’t quite finished. My walk home just happened to take me past the “other end” of the Miley Tunnel, where the line emerges. Firstly at Maudland Bridge Station, which bordersMaudland Road and Cold Bath Street. Then, just further up, two blocks of student accommodation (…) cover the Engine Shed andMaudlands station just next to it, with the former line running between them. Again, I hadn’t done as thorough a job on this as I should have, so ended up going back the next day for the last couple of snaps. The advantage of living close.
That, however, was that. A few reminders remain across the route of part of this city and the North West’s fine and proud industrial heritage, but many of them will just be ignored by people who have no idea what they are. Local councils have tried to retain the interest of the local public in making it known that they are developing former railway land. And whilst that might work in Grimsargh, it sure as hell doesn’t seem to fly in Ribbleton.
Do you have any memories of the line? Have you ever walked the route? Let us know in the comments below
This post was originally made on the Under Grey Lancastrian Skies blog
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Google Employees Discussed Tweaking Search Results to Counter Trump Travel Ban
Allum Bokhari
Google employees brainstormed ways to tweak the tech giant’s search functions to encourage users to push back against Trump policies following the President’s proposed travel ban on certain countries in 2017, according to a report on Tucker Carlson Tonight that was also confirmed by the Wall Street Journal.
Via the WSJ (paywalled):
Days after the Trump administration instituted a controversial travel ban in January 2017, Google employees discussed how they could tweak the company’s search-related functions to show users how to contribute to pro-immigration organizations and contact lawmakers and government agencies, according to internal company emails.
The email traffic, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, shows that employees proposed ways to “leverage” search functions and take steps to counter what they considered to be “islamophobic, algorithmically biased results from search terms ‘Islam’, ‘Muslim’, ’Iran’, etc.” and “prejudiced, algorithmically biased search results from search terms `Mexico’, `Hispanic’, `Latino’, etc.”
According to the WSJ, the email chain was “sprinkled with cautionary notes about engaging in political activity,” but nonetheless discussed ways to use the company’s power over search as a response to Trump’s proposed travel ban on certain Muslim-dominated countries.
The report follows Breitbart News’ release of a leaked recording of Google’s post-election meeting in 2016. The video shows company executives, including co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai, lamenting the election of Trump, and brainstorming ways to ensure that the president’s election and the populist movement were just a “blip” and “hiccup” in history.
Google did not deny the existence of the emails, but insisted that none of the ideas discussed were ever acted upon.
“These emails were just a brainstorm of ideas, none of which were ever implemented,” a company spokeswoman said in a statement. “Google has never manipulated its search results or modified any of its products to promote a particular political ideology—not in the current campaign season, not during the 2016 election, and not in the aftermath of President Trump’s executive order on immigration. Our processes and policies would not have allowed for any manipulation of search results to promote political ideologies.”
Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter, Gab.ai and add him on Facebook. Email tips and suggestions to allumbokhari@protonmail.com.
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Kent, History and Topographical Survey
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 9
Parishes: Bishopsborne
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 9. Originally published by W Bristow, Canterbury, 1800.
BISHOPSBORNE
Charities.
Church of Bishopsborne with the Chapel of Barhan annexed.
LIES the next parish eastward from Bridge, described before, in the hundred of that name. It is called in Domesday, Burnes, that is, borne, from the bourn or stream which rises in it, being the head of the river, called the Lesser Stour; and it had the name of Bishopsborne from its belonging to the archbishop, and to distinguish it from the several other parishes of the same name in this neighbourhood. There is but one borough in this parish, namely, that of Bourne.
THIS PARISH lies about five miles eastward from Canterbury, just beyond Bridge, about half a mile from the Dover road, and the entrance of Barham downs in the valley on the left hand, where the church and village, the parsonage, the mansion and grounds of Bourne place, and the seat of Charlton at the opposite boundary, with the high hills behind them, topped with woods, from a most pleasing and luxuriant prospect indeed. In this beautiful valley, in which the Lesser Stour rises, and through which the Nailbourne at times runs, is the village of Bourne-street, consisting of about fifteen houses, and near it the small seat of Ofwalds, belonging to Mr. Beckingham, and now inhabited by his brother the Rev. Mr. Beckingham, and near it the church and court-lodge. On the rise of the hill is the parsonage, an antient building modernized, and much improved by the present rector Dr. Fowell, and from its whiteness a conspicuous object to the road and Barham downs. About a mile distant eastward, in the vale, close to the foot of the hills, is Charlton, in a low and damp situation, especially when the nailbourne runs. On the opposite side of the church westward, stands the ornament of this parish, the noble mansion of Bourne-place, (for several years inhabited by Sir Horace Mann, bart. but now by William Harrison, esq.) with its paddocks, grounds, and plantations, reaching up to the downs, having the bourn, which is the source of the Lesser Stour, which rises here in the front of it, directing its course from hence to Bridge, and so on by Littleborne, Ickham and Wickham, till it joins the Greater Stour river. This valley from this source of the bourn upwards, is dry, except after great rains, or thaws of snow, when the springs of the Nailbourn occasionally over flow at Liminge and Elham, and directing their course through this parish descend into the head of the bourn, and blend their waters with it. From this valley southward the opposite hills rise pretty high to the woodland, called Gosley wood, belonging to Mr. Beckingham, of large extent, and over a poor, barren and stony country, with rough healthy ground interspersed among it, to the valley at the southern boundary of the parish, adjoining to Hardres; near which is the house of Bursted, in a lonely unfrequented situations, hardly known to any one.
THE MANOR OF BOURNE, otherwise Bishopsborne, was given by one Aldhun, a man of some eminence in Canterbury, from his office of præfect, or bailiff of that city, (qui in hac regali villa bujus civitatis prafectus suit), (fn. 1) to the monks of Christ-church there, towards the support of their refectory. After which, anno 811, the monks exchanged it, among other estates, with archbishop Wlfred, for the manor of Eastry, and it continued part of the possessions of the see of Canterbury, at the time of taking the survey of Domesday, in which it is thus entered, under the title of the archbishop's lands:
In Berham hundred, the archbishop himself holds Burnes in demesne. It was taxed for six sulings. The arable land is fifty carucates. In demesne there are five carucates, and sixty-four villeins, with fifty-three borderers having thirty carucates and an half. There is a church, and two mills of eight shillings and six pence, and twenty acres of meadow. Wood for the pannage of fifteen hogs. Of herbage twenty-seven pence. In its whole value, in the time of king Edward the Confessor, and afterwards, it was worth twenty pounds, now thirty pounds.
The manor of Bishopsborne appears by the above entry to have been at that time in the archbishop's own hands, and it probably continued so as long as it remained part of his revenues, which was till the 35th year of king Henry VIII. when archbishop Cranmer, by an act specially passed for the purpose, exchanged this manor with the park, grounds and soil of the archbishop in this parish, called Langham park, with Thomas Colepeper, sen. esq. of Bedgbury, who that year alienated it to Sir Anthony Aucher, of Otterden, who gave this manor, with the rest of his possessions in this parish, to his second son Edward. Since which it has continued in the same line of ownership as Bourne-place, as will be more particularly mentioned hereafter, down to Stephen Beckingham, esq. the present owner of it. A court leet and court baron is held for this manor.
BOURNE-PLACE, formerly called the manor of Hautsbourne, is an eminent seat in this parish, for the manor has from unity of possession been for many years merged in the paramount manor of Bishopsborne. It was in very early times possessed by a family who took their name from it. Godric de Burnes is mentioned in the very beginning of the survey of Domesday, as the possessor of lands in it. John de Bourne had a grant of free-warren and other liberties for his lands in Bourne and Higham in the 16th year of king Edward I. He left an only daughter Helen, who carried this estate in marriage to John de Shelving, of Shelvingborne, whose grandson, of the same name, died anno 4 Edward III. at which time this manor had acquired from them the name of Shelvington. He left an only daughter and heir Benedicta, who carried it in marriage to Sir Edmund de Haut, of Petham, whose son Nicholas Haut gave to William, his youngest son, this estate of Bishopsborne, where he afterwards resided, and died in 1462, having been knight of the shire and sheriff of this county. From him it descended down to Sir William Haut, of Hautsborne, sheriff in the 16th and 29th year of king Henry VIII. whose son Edmund dying unmarried in his life-time, his two daughters, Elizabeth, married to Thomas Colepeper, esq. of Bedgbury, and Jane, to Sir Thomas Wyatt, of Allington-castle, became his coheirs, and on the division of their estates, this of Hautsborne was allotted to the former, and her hus band Thomas Colepeper, in her right, became possessed of it, and having acquired the manor of Bishopsborne by exchange from the archbishop, anno 35 Henry VIII. immediately afterwards passed away both that and Hautsborne to Sir Anthony Aucher, of Otterden, whose family derived their origin from Ealcher, or Aucher, the first earl of Kent, who had the title of duke likewise, from his being intrusted with the military power of the county. He is eminent in history for his bravery against the Danes, in the year 853. They first settled at Newenden, where more of the early account of them may be seen. He at his death gave them to his second son Edward, who afterwards resided here at Shelvington, alias Hautsborne, as it was then called, whose great-grandson Sir Anthony Aucher was created a baronet in 1666, and resided here. He left surviving two sons Anthony and Hewitt, and two daughters, Elizabeth, afterwards married to John Corbett, esq. of Salop, LL. D. and Hester, to the Rev. Ralph Blomer, D. D. prebendary of Canterbury. He died in 1692, and was succeeded by his eldest son, who dying under age and unmarried, Hewitt his brother succeeded him in title and estate, but he dying likewise unmarried about the year 1726, the title became extinct, but his estates devolved by his will to his elder sister Elizabeth, who entitled her husband Dr. Corbett afterwards to them, and he died possessed of the manor of Bishopsborne, with this seat, which seems then to have been usually called Bourneplace, in 1736, leaving his five daughters his coheirs, viz. Katherine, afterwards married to Stephen Beckingham, esq. Elizabeth, to the Rev. Thomas Denward; Frances, to Sir William Hardres, bart. Antonina, to Ignat. Geohegan, esq. and Margaret-Hannah-Roberta, to William Hougham, esq. of Canterbury, the four latter of whom, with their respective husbands, in 1752, jointed in the sale of their shares in this estate to Stephen Beckingham, esq. above-men tioned, who then became possessed of the whole of it. He married first the daughter of Mr. Cox, by whom he had the present Stephen beckingham, esq. who married Mary, daughter of the late John Sawbridge, esq. of Ollantigh, deceased, by whom he had an only daughter, who married John-George Montague, esq. eldest son of John, lord viscount Hinchingbrooke, since deceased. By his second wife Catherine, daughter of Dr. John Corbet, he had two daughters, Charlotte and Catherine, both married, one to Mr. Dillon and the other to Mr. Gregory; and a son John Charles, in holy orders, and now rector of Upper Hardres. They bear for their arms, Argent, a sess, crenelle, between three escallop shells, sable. He died in 1756, and his son Stephen Beckingham, esq. above-mentioned, now of Hampton-court, is the present owner of the manor of Bishopsborne, and the mansion of Bourneplace.
BURSTED is a manor, in the southern part of this parish, obscurely situated in an unfrequented valley, among the woods, next to Hardres. It is in antient deeds written Burghsted, and was formerly the property of a family of the same name, in which it remained till it was at length sold to one of the family of Denne, of Dennehill, in Kingston, and it continued so till Thomas Denne, esq. of that place, in Henry VIII.'s reign, gave it to his son William, whose grandson William, son of Vincent Denne, LL. D. died possessed of it in 1640, and from him it descended down to Mr. Thomas Denne, gent. of Monkton-court, in the Isle of Thanet, who died not many years since, and his widow Mrs. Elizabeth Denne, of Monktoncourt, is the present possessor of it.
CHARLTON is a seat, in the eastern part of this parish, which was formerly the estate of a family named Herring, in which it continued till William Herring, anno 3 James I. conveyed it to John Gibbon, gent. the third son of Thomas Gibbon, of Frid, in Bethers den, descended again from those of Rolvenden, and he resided here, and died possessed of it in 1617, as did his son William in 1632, whose heirs passed it away to Sir Anthony Aucher, bart. whose son Sir Hewitt Aucher, bart. in 1726, gave it by will to his sister Elizabeth, and she afterwards carried it in marriage to John Corbett, LL. D. of Salop, who died possessed of it in 1735, leaving his window surviving, after whose death in 1764 it came to her five daughters and coheirs, who, excepting Frances, married to Sir William Hardres, bart. joined with their husbands in the sale of their respective fifth parts of it in 1765, to Francis Hender Foote, clerk, who resided here. Mr. Foote was first a barrister-at-law, and then took orders. He married Catherine, third daughter of Robert Mann, esq. of Linton, by whom he had three sons, John, mentioned below, who is married and has issue; Robert, rector of Boughton Malherb, and vicar of Linton, who married Anne, daughter of Dobbins Yate, esq. of Gloucestershire, and Edward, in the royal navy; and three daughters, of whom two died unmarried, and Catherine, the second, married first Mr. Ross, and secondly Sir Robert Herries, banker, of London. Mr. Foote died possessed of them in 1773, leaving his wife Catherine surviving, who possessed them at her death in 1776, on which they descended to their eldest son John Foote, esq. of Charlton, who in 1784, purchased of the heirs of lady Hardres, deceased, the remaining fifth part, and so became possessed of the whole of it, of which he is the present owner, but Mr. Turner now resides in it.
MRS. ELIZABETH CORBETT, window, executrix of Sir Hewit Aucher, bart. deceased, in 1749, made over to trustees, for the use and benefit of the poor, a tenement called Bonnetts, and half an acre of land adjoining, in this parish; now occupied by two poor persons, but if rented, of the annual value of 3l.
The poor constantly relieved are about eleven, casually seven.
THIS PARISH is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Bridge.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is a large building, consisting of three isles and three chancels, having a tower steeple at the west end, in which are four bells. This church is a large handsome building, but it is not kept so comely as it ought to be. In the chancel is a monument for Richard Hooker, rector of this parish, who died in 1600; on it is his bust, in his black gown and square cap. A monument for John Cockman, M. D. of Charlton. His widow lies in the vault by him, obt. 1739; arms, Argent, three cocks, gules, impaling Dyke. Memorial for Petronell, wife of Dr. John Fowell, the present rector, second daughter of William Chilwich, esq. of Devonshire, obt. 1766. She lies buried in a vault under the altar. A large stone, twelve feet long, supposed to be over the remains of Mr. Richard Hooker. A memorial on brass for John Gibbon, gent. of this parish, obt. 1617; arms, Gibbon, a lion rampant-guardant, between three escallops, impaling Hamon, of Acrise, quartering Cossington. Memorials for Mrs. Jane Gibbon, his wife, obt. 1625, and for William Gibbon, gent. obt. 1632. A memorial for William Gresham, obt. 1718. In one of the windows are the arms of the see of Canterbury impaling Warham. In the middle isle, in the south wall, above the capital of the pillar, opposite the pulpit, is a recess, in which once stood the image of the Virgin Mary, the patron saint of this church, to which William Hawte, esq. by will anno 1462, among the rest of his relics, gave a piece of the stone on which the archangel Gabriel descended, when he saluted her, for this image to rest its feet upon. On the pavement near this, seemingly over a vault, is a stone with an inscription in brass, for William, eldest son of Sir William Hawt. A memorial for Farnham Aldersey, gent. of this parish, only son of Farnham Aldersey, gent. of Maidstone, obt. 1733. Memorials for several of the Dennes, of this parish. In a window of the south isle, are the arms of Haut, impaling Argent, a lion rampant-guardant, azure. The south chancel is inclosed and made into a handsome pew for the family of Bourne-place, under which is a vault appropriated to them. The window of it eastward is a very handsome one, mostly of modern painted glass; the middle parts filled up with scripture history, and the surrounding compartments with the arms and different marriages impaled of the family of Beckingham. On each side of this window are two ranges of small octagon tablets of black marble, intended for the family of Aucher, and their marriages, but they were not continued. In the church-yard, on the south side, is a vault for the family of Foote, of Charlton, and a tomb for Mrs. Elizabeth Corbett, obt. 1764; arms, Corbett, which were Or, two ravens, sable, within a bordure, gules, bezantee. At the north-east corner of the church-porch are several tombs for the Dennes.
The church of Bishopsborne, with the chapel of Barham annexed, was antiently appendant to the manor, and continued so till the exchange made between the archbishop and Thomas Colepeper, in the 35th year of king Henry VIII. out of which the advowson of this rectory was excepted. Since which it has continued parcel of the possessions of the see of Canterbury to the present time, his grace the archbishop being the present patron of it.
This rectory, (including the chapel of Barham annexed to it) is valued in the king's books at 39l. 19s. 2d. and the yearly tenths at 3l. 19s. 11d. In 1588 here were communicants one hundred. In 1640 one hundred and forty-eight, and it was valued, with Barham, at two hundred and fifty pounds per annum.
PATRONS,
RECTORS.
Or by whom presented.
The Crown, jure preg. Richard Hooker, A. M. July 5, 1595, obt. Nov. 2, 1600 (fn. 2)
The Archbishop. Charles Fotherbye, S. T. B. Dec. 6, 1600, obt. 1619. (fn. 3)
John Warner, S. T. P. 1619, vacated 1638. (fn. 4)
The Crown. John Lee, S. T. P. Dec. 12, 1662, obt. 1679. (fn. 5)
The Archbishop. George Thorpe, S. T. P. June 27, 1679, obt. 1720. (fn. 6)
Charles Bean, A. M. Feb. 2, 1721, obt. March 30, 1731. (fn. 7)
John Lynch, S. T. P. May 5, 1731, obt. 1760. (fn. 8)
John Frost, A. M. June 23, 1760, obt. April 28, 1765. (fn. 9)
John Fowell, S. T. P. July 12, 1765, the present rector. (fn. 10)
1. See Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. i. p. 19.
2. The learned writer of eight books of Ecclesiastical Polity, of which five were published in his life-time. He was first rector of Draiton Beauchamp in Buckinghamshire, then rector of Boscomb, in Wileshire, and prebendary of Salisbury. His monument was put up in 1632 by Sir William Cowper, Knight and baronet. Wood's Ath. Ox. vol. i. p. 302. See his life by Walton, and in Biog. Brit. vol. iv. p. 2664. And in Zouch's edit. of Walton's Lives, 4to. 1796.
3. Archdeacon and prebendary, and lastly in 1615, dean of Canterbury, in which cathedral he lies buried.
4. He vacated this rectory on being made bishop of Rochester.
5. Archdeacon of Rochester, and wrote himself Lee, alias Warner.
6. Likewise rector of Ickham, and prebendary of Canterbury, in which cathedral he lies buried.
7. He held this rectory with the vicarage of Lid by dispensation, which last he exchanged for the rectory of Ickham, and lies buried in the chancel of Barham church.
8. Afterwards dean of Canterbury. He held this rectory with that of Ickham by dispensation.
9. He held this rectory with that of Pluckley by dispensation.
10. He holds this rectory with that of Chartham, by dispensation; also rector of the sinecure of Eynsford.
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(Labirent)
US Premiere
Director: Tolga Ornek
Turkey, 2011, 124 min
Shooting Format:RED
Cast:Timucin Esen, Meltem Cumbul
Crew:Producers: Tolga Ornek, Murat Dortbudak - Screenwriters: Tolga Ornek
Sales:www.ekipfilm.com
Email:leyla AT ekipfilm.com
Web:www.labirentfilm.com
A massive explosion rips though a busy street in Istanbul, Turkey. 95 people are dead; 30 Americans and 5 British. The massacre sends shockwaves from Turkey to London and Washington, DC. A new terrorist organization is behind the attack. The explosion is just the beginning.'Labyrinth' is the code name of the operation conducted by Turkish intelligence to stop a second, more devastating attack that will plunge Turkey, the only democratic Muslim country in the region, into chaos and destroy the fragile balance of the Middle East. After the initial attack, Turkey becomes a battlefront for terrorists and Turkish, British and American intelligence officers. Everyone has his own agenda in the fight that stretches from Istanbul to Eastern Turkey and from Frankfurt to Northern Iraq. The story revolves around a group of Turkish intelligence officers and their race to stop the terrorist organization. The group is led by Fikret, a veteran with nothing in his life but his career, and Reyhan, one of the best field operatives in the country who's also a single mom trying to balance her family life with a career in the shadows. Despite Fikret's reluctance to admit it, their common struggle and hardships bring them closer.
Tolga Ornek, gained international reputation with his docu-dramas; "Ataturk", "Mount Nemrud", "The Hittites" and "Gallipoli". In 2008, he released his first feature film, "Cars of the Revolution", a film on the true story of 1961 to produce the first Turkish car. The film has been received by great critical acclaim and has won awards. Ornek's next feature film "Losers Club" was released March 2011 and drew in 485.000 viewers. This film was inspired by a radio show from the 90's, which became a cult with breaking all the rules of conventional broadcasting. Ornek's third film "Labyrinth", which was supported by Eurimages, Turkish Ministry of Culture and HessenInvestFilm, is released December 2011 in Turkey and several countries of Europe. This film has also been received by great critical acclaim.
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Casey Q. Carlile
Location: Marshall, Texas
Phone: 903-471-3221 888–743-1934 (Toll Free)
Casey Q. Carlile is a graduate of Marshall High School. After graduation, Casey attended Baylor University where he earned a degree with majors in Entrepreneurship and Management of Information Systems. After graduating from Baylor, Casey attended Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law in Dallas. During law school Casey served as a staff member and Articles Editor for the International Law Review Association, and was selected to work as a law clerk for Justice Tom James and Justice Ed Kinkeade of the Dallas Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas. Casey earned his law degree from SMU in two and a half years and graduated cum laude with honors. After graduation, Casey passed the Texas Bar Exam and returned home to Marshall to practice law with his father and brother. After a year of working as an associate attorney, Casey became a full partner in the Carlile Law Firm, LLP.
During his career Casey has served as lead counsel and second chair in numerous trials obtaining significant jury awards in cases involving automobile accidents and occupational exposure to silica and asbestos. Casey is admitted to practice law in all Texas state courts and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. During his legal career Casey has represented thousands of individuals injured by chemical exposures, automobile wrecks, trucking collisions, defective products, and defective drugs. Casey also represents wrongful death claims and Social Security Disability claims.
Casey is partners with his older brother, D. Scott Carlile. Together, they have dedicated their practice to helping injured clients and making the community safer. Casey married his high school sweetheart Heather Labouve Carlile in 1998, and together they are the proud parents of three children. Casey is very involved in family life, his church and the local community. Casey regularly coaches his children’s sports teams and enjoys spending time helping his children pursue their passions. Casey is a member of First United Methodist Church and has served on numerous committees and in leadership positions. Casey has served on the board of directors for the Boys & Girls Club of the Big Pines and is a past president of the board of directors for the Marshall Downtown Development Corporation. In his spare time Casey enjoys spending time with his family, playing golf, watching sports, working in his yard and hanging out with friends. Casey is a member of the East Texas Trial Lawyers Association, the Harrison County Bar Association, The Texas Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice, and the Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America.
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From Meccania to Atlantis - Part 5: From Screeching Cats to SDG
From the desk of Takuan Seiyo on Fri, 2008-12-19 20:08
The Chinese conundrum
This is the proper space for continuing with a chapter named Exodus, but we will defer that subject. The holiday of Christian redemption approaching, the day the German-Jewish philosopher-theologian Franz Rosenzweig called “a day of entry into eternity,” it behooves us to take notice.
Rosenzweig (1886 -1929) owes his own redemption from history’s benign neglect to the erudite Asia Times columnist Spengler, who has been championing this, in Spengler’s words, “sublime master of German letters,” for a long time. But for Christmas, one would do well to take exception to both Spengler’s and his prototype Oswald Spengler’s pessimism concerning the fate of the West.
Spengler’s December 1 much-quoted essay for Asia Times was entitled China’s six-to-one advantage over the US. In it, Spengler expounded on an issue I had commented on before, for it impresses daily on the mind of the thinking Westerner who lives in the Orient. I last expressed it in these words:
“China has 30 million students of classical piano and 10 million classical violinists. America has 40 million of ¿Tiene Preguntas? China has 50,000 students of geology who will be launched all over the world to look for new sources of raw materials. America has 500 students of geology, most of them foreigners, but 50,000 students in law schools.”
The Far East, in this case China, is running circles around the West, particularly with respect to the U.S. Frankenstein that hot-wired this Oriental colossus. Spengler adduces China’s six-to-one advantage in the number of classical pianists as an indication that China is rising to a dominant position versus the United States – and Europe, we might add.
“Chinese parents are selling plasma-screen TVs to America,” writes Spengler, “and saving their wages to buy their kids pianos - making American kids stupider and Chinese kids smarter. Watch out, Americans - a generation from now, your kid is going to fetch coffee for a Chinese boss. [snip] Americans really, really don’t have a clue what is coming down the pike. The present shift in intellectual capital in favor of the East has no precedent in world history.”
Spengler continues, “The world’s largest country is well along the way to forming an intellectual elite on a scale that the world has never seen, and against which nothing in today’s world [snip] can compete. Few of its piano students will earn a living at the keyboard, to be sure, but many of the 36 million will become much better scientists, engineers, physicians, businessmen and military officers.”
I share this feeling. Anyone with one foot in the West and one in the East who sees how the West packs itself with imported low-IQ minorities, how it corrodes its institutions of education through dumbing down for the sake of the self-esteem of such minorities, and how it debases the quality of its elite through reverse racism and sexism, reads the daily newspaper with a sense of deep foreboding.
In the East, it’s strict meritocracy. In China, the principle for gaining admittance to the lowest rung of the ruling elite is no different than it was 2500 ago, when Confucius had to cram for the Mandarin examination. In Japan, you gain admittance to a quality college strictly on the results of an examination. Nothing counts but your score – then, it’s Ashi kiri.
Ashi kiri is a sword-cut through which an able samurai could separate a grown man from his legs in one stroke. It means, cutting in half. The top half, per exam score results, goes to college. The bottom half goes to honorable and well paying assembly line jobs.
That’s the way it ought to be in a society that wants to live and grow and attain glory. But in Body Snatcher land, biographical and demographic details including skin color and gender, not IQ and test scores, separate the future Praetorian Guard from those who’ll never see the inside of the Harvard or Oxford Quadrangle. Not a sound recipe for success against the likes of China.
In classical music, China has embraced a highly elitist discipline, and one that, as Spengler puts it, is the most explicitly Western of all art forms. Furthermore, he comments, this drive to transcend national culture and master one of the most difficult disciplines of a foreign culture characterizes an empire that is determined to succeed.
“China's commitment to classical music,” Spengler adds,” will have effects that are at once too subtle and too powerful to categorize easily.” He submits, correctly in my opinion, that classical music produces better minds and promotes success in other fields, even though there is no direct causal link between producing good musicians and good scientists, for instance.
The incompetence, decadence and stupidity that one wades through on a daily basis in the West contrast one’s daily experience in the East. To begin with, the common Orientals are smarter. That mean IQ of 105 versus 99 for Whites is a tremendous advantage in producing an intelligent, competent workforce. When you add to it a work ethic unseen in the West since 19th century Northwest Europe, and a Confucian morality, the comparison is not flattering to the West.
But worst of all is that East Asians have an abiding desire to adopt what’s best in Western culture, from Cervantes to Max Planck, but we think in our fathomless arrogance that we have nothing to learn from them other than sushi and flying kung fu tricks. It’s dreadful.
The sun also rises in the West
Never give up. This being the birthday of the West’s redeemer compels one to look for a hole in Spengler’s gloomy tableau. Prospecting for such holes, looking for a way out of the other Spengler’s chute of Der Untergang des Abendlandes, one reviews Asia Times’ cultural pundit’s text. One finds a tear in it, and sunshine is pouring through that tear.
Spengler cites the Chinese piano prodigy Lang Lang’s performance of Mozart's C Minor Concerto K 491, with the China Philharmonic under the baton of Long Yu, as a portent of China’s nascent originality in high technology.
I don’t know much about the next generation of anti-missile radar and electric car batteries that Spengler projects from Lang Lang’s playing. But as a son of a mother who, like many such Polish mothers of her social class, wanted her son to be another Frederic Chopin, I know something about piano playing.
So listen up. Lang Lang’s performance of Mozart’s 24th Concerto conjures irresistibly Noel Coward’s quip that Mozart’s music is “like piddling on flannel.” And seeing Lang Lang’s playing, doubles that impression.
This is Mozart by a musical prodigy who doesn’t understand Mozart. Lang is a technical wizard with a perfect memory and total control of his fingers and his instrument. But one whose idea of Mozart must have come from the frilly portraits on confectionery wrappers and gilded souvenir saucers he may have bought as a tourist in Salzburg.
Mozart could ride a horse, punch a man, insult a prince, belch and fart heartily. He has probably dallied with more than a few wenches standing up on a dark staircase with odors of boiling potatoes and sizzling speck wafting about. This was no silk-stockinged court poodle, piddling on flannel while standing on brocade – though he may have played that role when necessary.
There is strength, vigor, grandeur, defiance, resilience, even force in Mozart, not just streams of little pearls spilling from Meissen porcelain. And Lang Lang’s 24th Concerto misses all that. To him, Mozart is a technical exercise in delicate finesse. But to a thinking, feeling Westerner, Mozart is a spiritual epiphany and a testimony to God's greatness.
Our strength -- lying in tatters now but resurrectable within two generations, is in our inequality. In our diversity and multiculturalism too, though they have little in common with the Body Snatcher (1) meaning of these terms. Classical music, the highest art, is a living embodiment of the glory of our inequality, and of our diversity in that inequality.
If you want to play the Father Vogler part in Amadeus, go ahead, tell me, "We are all the same under the skin. We are equal in the eyes of God."
I shall then cock my head, wait a beat like F. Murray Abraham's Salieri, and repeat his smashing retort to the padre, "Are we?"
A Colombian fan of Mozart listens, unbeknown to himself, to motifs of bawdy pop song from 18th century Vienna, processed through the mind of a man touched by God. The Korean Chopin virtuoso performs common Polish folk dances of the early 19th century, transformed by a genius into what Frederic’s girlfriend, a renowned artist who called herself George, called “the language of God.” And Johann Sebastian Bach just pencilled in his partner’s name right at the bottom of his scores: three letters, SDG, for Soli Deo Gloria.
That partner’s touch was so powerful, that a century later a great German musician converted to Christianity after studying the score of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, redeeming it from a century of obscurity, then mounting its production with an orchestra and choir of 400 in Berlin in 1829. This sublime work had been forgotten for 93 years, since its second performance in Bach’s lifetime, in 1736.
The resurrector of Bach & Deo’s work was Felix Mendelssohn. Son and grandson of grandees in the German-Jewish community, and a nominal Christian, Mendelssohn gained deep faith under Bach’s remote tutelage, and would hold on to it until his premature death at the age of 38. What Mendelssohn’s faith infused into his brief life resulted in a body of eternal music, so woven into Western culture that a piece of it accompanies every bride to the altar, even in the Far East, even today.
Beethoven, though not a conventional Christian, had powerful religious sentiments too, composed transporting liturgical music, and wrote in his conversation books that God can be experienced through art. And the possibility of touching the transcendent through the intermediation of a genius creator, a Beethoven, is a distinctive feature of Western Civilization, inherited from the Greeks. It is a singular blessing.
I, for instance, cannot reach the transcendent through theology or ritual. The priest talks, the incense wafts, and I leaf in my mind through Edward Gibbon’s clever deconstruction, The Christians and the Fall of Rome, that’s been around since 1776. But let the organ boom, or let me sit quietly in a pew at an old cathedral or at a Beethoven concert, and I am gone to another dimension. Nietzsche himself, upon hearing St. Matthew Passion in 1870, said, "One who has completely forgotten Christianity truly hears it here as Gospel."
Because the greatest Western music, the greatest of the West’s creation, reflects God’s glory as filtered through higher brains than ours. It shows us our own smallness and it consoles us in that smallness.
We have at our disposal a miraculous fountain of transcendent inspiration and invigoration, embedded in the works of Western culture. Such works have reached heights beyond anything that any other culture has ever produced in music, painting, sculpture, drama, literature, science.
It’s this frequency that Lang Lang’s otherwise exquisite receptors did not read. And that frequency is not within the spectrum that Chinese music can transmit either. Both its spiritual content and its sound are like the screeching of cats compared to the West’s musical glory.
The miracle of the broad-bottomed bell
Screeching Cats versus SDG is another way of looking at the contest between the East and the West, and another way of looking at the West’s destiny. Yes, the Orient’s mean IQ is 6 points higher, its labor is better, its values are sturdier. But our IQ and talent distribution spread is wider, which is another way of saying that our strength is in our inequality – or would be if inequality could be sprung from the dungeon where it has been stuffed, gagged and trussed, by demented Body Snatcher equalizers.
We have to take a detour to consult wiser men in this field. Comparative intelligence studies, such as in Richard Lynn’s seminal Race Differences in Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis and (with Tatu Vanhanen) IQ and Global Inequality, assume, for comparison purposes, a Standard Deviation of 15 in intelligence distribution across all races, cultures and genders.
But the standard deviation (“sigma”), which one may define as a measure of the spread of the sampled distribution from its mean, is not identical across races and genders. A timid suggestion that it might be so, relative to genders, got the President of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers, fired from his job. After all, Body Snatchers don’t fool around when it comes to Heresy, Apostasy and Desecration of the Host.
Summers said that the dearth of women among science and engineering professors in the Ivy League is the result of disparity in the sigmas of IQ distribution among males and females. The mean IQs give men the slightest edge, perhaps 2 points, but it’s the larger standard deviation that counts here. That’s why there are few women at the threshold level of three-and-a-half or four sigmas above the mean, i.e. minimum IQ of 152 -160, where cutting-edge science is being done.
This was entirely consistent with the body of up-to-date psychometric research. Moreover, this is transparently true even without research. It’s what one knows from second grade of elementary school.
The real morons in your class were boys. As were the nerds, doing with their brains what no else could. The girls on the other hand were, well, more “average.” Neither as stupid as some of the boys, nor as smart as some other boys. Rare exceptions to this.
To be so severely censured and punished as Summers was for stating something so obvious and universally observable is a symptom of a society that has careened into madness. But we already know that, and are looking here at ways to walk out on that madness.
That disparity in the width of the bottom of the distribution bell exists also between the races (2), and between different ethnic groups. The Japanese saying, “The nail that sticks out will be pounded down” expresses a cultural proclivity to produce narrow-based IQ/talent/personality bell curves, with as few deviants as possible. Orson Welles’ famous quip about the Italian Renaissance and Swiss cuckoo clocks, in a film scene of pure genius, (4) was a poetic exaggeration that a psychometrician could support by comparing the width of the Italian IQ bell distribution to the Swiss one. This would explain the overabundance of genius in Italy, even though an Italian who really wants to get his mail, rents a mailbox in Switzerland.
And that is why one cannot share either Asia Times’ Spengler’s or Oswald Spengler’s pessimism about the future of the West, compared to China or to any other part of the world.
The psychometric website La Griffe du Leon has drawn some qualitative conclusions from quantitative IQ sigma differences. La Griffe has coined the term “Smart Fraction” relative to different national populations, and computed its definition as the portion of the population with a verbal-analytical IQ of at least 106. La Griffe has found a direct proportionality between that and per-capita GDP. It’s another way of saying that the wider the bell-bottom of the statistical distribution of verbal-analytical IQ, the wealthier the people, when the means are not too far apart. (3)
Because the verbal-analytical IQ of Whites is higher than that of Orientals, it nullifies the general IQ advantage Orientals have due to their outstanding visual-spatial ability. But it also means that the more sub-106 immigrants are added to the population of the West, the poorer the West will be. China, needless to say, will not dilute itself with such immigrants.
But that’s still not what Spengler or I are after. An IQ of 106 links to bookkeepers, lab technicians, salesmen, with registered nurses and junior executives somewhat higher. In La Griffe’s words, “These people are not rocket scientists. They are, however, vital to a flourishing economy.” [ibid.]. But Spengler is talking about the Lang Langs of this world, whose IQs start at 135, and I am talking about the Beethovens of this world – the “Supersmart Fraction” whose IQs start at 160.
One in ten thousand. And from that pool, at most one in fifty – the second cut being determined no longer by IQ but by God’s alchemy (which you are welcome to call by a scientific name). Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Galileo, Stephen Hawking, Johannes Kepler, Gottfried Leibniz, Pierre Laplace, Isaac Newton, James Watt, Johann Sebastian Bach, Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, Mozart, Wagner, Miguel Cervantes, Johann Goethe, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Voltaire, Martin Luther, Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Plato, Hugo Grotius, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, William Pitt – all IQs from 160 and up (5).
The good news is that there are no people in the world who can produce brainpower at that level commensurate with the ability of people of European origin. The bad news is that the West has grossly mismanaged this most precious resource in the last 50 years.
The West’s grace, its redemption, is in the 160+ extreme right hand tail of the IQ bell curve, which it alone seems to be able to populate significantly. The West has, as well, more and worse killers, louts, sociopaths, morons than the Orient does. That’s because when the base of the bell is broad, both the left and the right tails are long. The way to greatness lies in coaxing the right tail to produce more and better genius, while containing the excesses of the left tail through just law and order, tradition, and restrictions applied on commercial activity that lowers the lowest common denominator.
Body Snatcher state, which is the state of every single country inhabited by Euro-origin people, operates by a different principle, though applied with varying zeal. That principle, to quote Steve Sailer’s memorable insight, is for the right tail of the IQ Bell Curve to use the left tail to wage war on the middle.
It’s not the extreme right tail, the +4 sigmas, not our Galileos and Haydns who are waging this war, but the +2 sigmas. It’s the faculty of Harvard, Stanford and Oxford, and the editors of the grandest news media, and top business tycoons like George Soros and Maurice Strong, and high-IQ politicians like Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Al Gore, Giscard d'Estaing, Barack Obama.
The middle is you and I. The left tail is the willfully underachieving “minorities-of-color,” white yobs at the public trough, and crowds of recidivist criminals going through the revolving door of Body Snatcher justice. The right tail ruling elite is doing what it can to lengthen this tail through an out-of-control immigration of the primitive and the uneducated.
The future of the West could be brilliant, not in the least involving serving coffee to piano-playing Chinese engineers. But for that, we have to realize that what the Chinese really are doing is not piano-playing but eugenics.
They are doing eugenics through Western culture and by breeding the smart to the smart or rich. We are doing our reverse eugenics through MTV and rap, debased popular culture and watered-down education. We are doing positive eugenics by breeding the beautiful to the handsome, and the fast to the strong, but that can only produce a population of more graceful coffee servers.
To reverse the direction of the West’s down-escalator, Body Snatchers state’s war against the middle of its subjects’ IQ bell curve must cease. The right tail has to stop using the left tail to flail the middle with.
Universal “human rights” must recede before “local peoples’ rights.” Reverse racism and sexism must stop, to allow the best to rise and the less good to sink to their relative level of incompetence. Dumbing down public education must stop, for giving a proper take-off field to the pool from which the 120+ and the 160+ IQs arise is far more important than preserving the self-esteem, racial pride, or loose discipline of those who do not make it to the right side of the IQ mean.
The gushing stream of the primitive and the uneducable from the Third World to the First should be dammed, impenetrably. Resources ought to be spent to give the best possible education to the indigenous, rather than providing an expensive sham palace for footbaths, hot meals, and multiculti pap to anyone who makes it past the border gate.
Freedom must come back, for the freedom to be unequal is far more important than maintaining a fraudulent façade of the equality of unequals. Justice must come back. Not as ‘social justice’ but as impartial laws applied to individuals irrespective of their group affiliation, favored “victim” or otherwise.
But that’s still not enough. What will be missing is SDG. The Western intellectual elite has lost its awe of the universe and of the superior, what we call “divine,” intelligence permeating it. Instead of working to glorify the creation of that intelligence, they work to obtain commissions from government commissions.
One can understand the disdain particularly gifted people have for organized religion and its grooves meant to guide the average flock. But Mozart and Beethoven, Newton and Einstein, Jefferson and Franklin were freethinkers, immune to conventional religiosity, but still permeated by the SDG spirit.
God does not play dice with the universe. But even a genius, as long as he went through 12 years of Body Snatcher education in his youth, will have lost his love and reverence for something higher than himself.
Even a big Supersmart Fraction will not help, if the smarts are not linked to goodness and wisdom. Both goodness and wisdom can be obtained through the contemplation of Soli deo Gloria, and by a humble retreat from the “progressive” chute that leads in one direction only: coffee-making for the Chinese.
The West now has many more smart people than it used to, but far fewer wise ones. Wisdom lies in regressing to the past. To the Bible, the Greeks and the Romans, the old aphorisms and the 160+ IQ people, not the 120+ IQ people. As Charles Murray has put it, those with superior intelligence need to learn to be wise.
The Gift of Redemption
A bell curve society is not enough, however wise and virtuous the smart ruling elite may be. Hope is important. Opportunity is important. Encouragement and empathy are important. The left-tails of IQ and talent distributions should not be cut off as though at the hips, and forgotten.
If I had the opportunity to counsel a person of lesser intellectual potential, domestic or imported but earnestly yearning to better his lot in life, this is what I would say in the context of China’s piano-playing tsunami, though it can serve as a metaphor for the larger context:
You may be just a minor cabinetmaker in a small, dinky shop. Your alcoholic father beat you when you were young, and your native lower-class culture discouraged education.
You will never be invited to the emperor’s gilded chambers like Mozart was. Beautiful women will not faint upon your entrance, as they did upon Liszt’s. Your name will vanish forever a few years after you are dead.
You have no chance of being equal. Don’t let Body Snatchers propaganda fool you. Forget the self-esteem crap they teach you in school.
Even if you had the means to buy yourself a piano and give up your saws and chisels for the practice of music, even if you used your minority status to gain admittance to a prestigious conservatory under Body Snatcher rules, even if you practiced 12 hours a day, you will never be Mozart’s equal. And that’s not because of the mystery of his genius.
For Mozart was the son of a great musician and the brother of a great musician, and the grandson, on his mother’s side, of a talented amateur musician. And Clara Schumann, a giant among virtuoso pianists, was not only the wife of the composer Robert Schumann and the great love of composer Johannes Brahms, but also the daughter of Friedrich Wieck, perhaps the best piano teacher of the 19th century. And Beethoven was the son and grandson of professional musicians. And there were at least 60 individuals surnamed Bach in the annals of Western music.
And it’s no different in our times. Krystian Zimerman is the son of musicians. Yo-yo Ma is the son of musicians. Ennio Morricone, a living legend, is the son of a trumpet player. But he also honed his native talent – as have all the others-- by decades of arduous study and journeyman work.
But with all the opportunities given, and with all your hard work, you still cannot be equal -- because your genes are not equal. You were not born a blank slate; banish Body Snatchers’ lying promises. They are lying to flatter you so that you vote for them, or to sell you stuff you don’t need.
Life is unfair. It cannot be made fair by reengineering society, which is the Body Snatchers’ sacred project. It cannot be made fair by giving everyone a subhonest mortgage loan and putting a flat-panel import TV in every parlor. Both the left and what passes for the right lie about this.
If I go along with the government’s scheme to redistribute my earnings to you, will you give me a piece of your chiseled cheekbones in return? Cheekbones, talent, charisma are all distributed “unfairly,” you know, and they are as good as money in the bank.
It’s Western Civilization that’s God’s equalizing gift. If you play Mozart’s music in your shop, you will make better cabinets. Even cows yield better milk with Mozart. So, first, chuck all those rap CDs. Forget about the stupid Associate degree the Snatchers will give you if you just enroll in their stupid Multicultural Studies program at their stupid Community College.
Make cabinets. But make them the way JS Bach composed music: SDG. Laborare est orare – to labor is to pray. And pipe in a bit of Bach or Schubert while you are working, for that will put you in touch with a higher power, a power that will infuse you.
If you are more sensitive to the play of space than the play of time, buy a wall calendar with the twelve most magnificent medieval cathedrals of Europe. Contemplate those pictures daily.
In time, you will have become the best cabinetmaker in town. You will make so much money that you will be able to hire a chamber orchestra for your daughter’s wedding.
And that daughter will have spent her childhood helping you in tidying up your workshop at the end of the day. While Bach is on your portable CD player. And her son will get started on the violin when he is four years old, which will help him in becoming a successful engineer.
By then, your seed will be in the pool of potential equals. And a hundred years later, perhaps a Mozart or a Galileo bearing your surname may be born.
You are standing at the threshold of a magnificent cathedral, the edifice of Western Culture. Much of it was built SDG, for a glory greater than man’s glory. Even the side chapel of its science was built with a sense of that glory, and awe.
It’s a capacious edifice too. It will take you in no matter where you live, no matter your race, religion or social background. It will reward you and your heirs a thousand times over, if you love it sincerely. But if you are foreign-born and live in the West, leave your other baggage outside, and enter in a spirit of reverence and humility.
Remember this at Christmas.
(1) The basic analogy reverts to Part 1, where we cited the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers. In the film, alien “Body Snatchers” produce giant legume Pods that replace living people while appearing to be identical to them. From the Pods develop the new Body Snatchers who cultivate further Pods etc. I use these terms interchangeably, usually preferring Pods as a catchall term, and Antipod as the antithesis of Pod.
(2) To visualize it, go here, scroll to the middle of the article and see a narrow-bottomed red IQ bell distribution of East Asians superimposed over the blue, broad-bottomed Whites’ IQ bell.
(3) ibid.
(4) Highly multicultural and diverse genius too, before there was “multicultural” and “diverse.” The Third Man is the work of a great English writer, Graham Greene, and a great English director, Carol Reed, some great British, Austrian, American and Italian actors, an American polymath genius, Orson Welles, a near-genius Australian cameraman, Robert Krasker, a Yugoslav-German giant among editors, Oswald Hafenrichter, an unforgettable Viennese musician, Anton Karas, and arguably the two greatest film producers in history, the American-Jewish David O. Selznick, and the Hungarian-British-Jewish Alexander Korda.
(5) These names are taken from popular sources, e.g. http://www.kids-iq-tests.com/famous2.html and their connection to genius-level IQ is by now a truism. However, there is no explanation I could find as to why it’s possible to estimate Plato’s IQ, but not Aristotle’s; Alexander Pope’s but not Shakespeare’s. Clearly some dozens more Western greats belong in this Pantheon.
From Meccania to Atlantis - Part 1: The March of the Body Snatchers, 28 October 2008
From Meccania to Atlantis - Part 2: From the Clenched Fist to the Raised Middle Finger, 1 November 2008
From Meccania to Atlantis - Part 3: From Encirclement to Breakout, 27 November 2008
From Meccania to Atlantis - Part 4: Tribe, 12 December 2008
From Meccania to Atlantis - Part 4½: Darkness in the Cranium, 14 December 2008.
Cat Planet (AKA Cat Country)
Submitted by Vinegar Joe on Tue, 2008-12-23 00:53.
This excellent novel was written by Lao She (老舍).......he was murdered/committed suicide during the Cultural Revolution.
Submitted by Armor on Sat, 2008-12-20 19:21.
Personally, I resent the destruction of European peoples, but I don't care that China is doing well, technically and economically. Good for them! The important thing is not for Europe or North America to have a bigger GDP than China.
@Wynne
Submitted by Takuan Seiyo on Sat, 2008-12-20 06:22.
Thank you for your comment. I agree with its negative part and have to recuse myself from the positive one. I am a writer first and a political activist fourth, so you and other readers will have to bear with content and style embellishments which, I hope, will make the exercise more interesting. But I do have a concrete plan, or else I would not be wasting your time to belabor matters that others have also belabored without offering solutions. I'd not be wasting my time either: my books are calling. Ars longa, vita brevis.
I am enough of a pro in writing to know that "must," "have to" are silly expressions, suitable only when talking about oneself but not about others, unless one has a means to compel those others. That's precisely why much of the "counter-jihad" writing strikes me as silly, because it starts from the premise that Islam "must" reform itself. In my case, I am using these as a shortcut, as a deferral of the subject to a later date.
You have read here 4500 words of a 45,000 word piece, much of it still unwritten. If I took a detour around that "must" I'd have to add another 1000 words to this chapter just for the detour. I prefer to go to that place directly, in a future installment.
Submitted by KO on Sat, 2008-12-20 15:33.
Thanks to Mr. Seiyo for his moving Christmas sermon. It is a plea to Westerners, not to engage in civil war, but to rededicate themselves to living in accordance with the Good--not the false, delusory good of the cultural and governmental establishment, but the Good as revealed through our highest spirits, by God.
One way readers may respond to this sermon is to contribute to renewing education in their respective localities. Government schools may or may not be beyond hope, but private schools offer unlimited scope for contributing to our future.
China is a country of tremendous intellectual and spiritual resources, but the human spirit is persecuted more cruelly there than we Westerners (those of us who have not lived under totalitarianism) can even imagine. The reigning cruelty is not only Communist, it goes all the way back, one its purest expressions being the Legalist political philosophy of the Qin period. Pre-Communist writers recognized it, Lu Hsun and the author of The Cat Planet whose name escapes me. This cruelty rules now, so that a Lang Lang emerges from the gauntlet of his training like a creation of Dr. Moreau from under the scalpel. Yet there is a well of spiritual yearning in China which may be capable of understanding Mozart at the highest level if its persecution by the spirit of cruelty ever relents. Relevant here may be Eric Voegelin's contention that Chinese civilization did not complete the leap from being a cosmological, to a transcendental, civilization.
We wish the Chinese well in their quest for the Good, and have compassion for the burden of self-inflicted suffering they bear that seems much greater than anything we inflict on ourselves. Yet our task is to heal ourselves. The poison that we have ingested is crippling. May we be graced with the strength of St. John, who drank unharmed from the poisoned chalice!
Brief note from the cabinet shop
Submitted by Wynne on Sat, 2008-12-20 05:46.
Here we have another of Mr. Seiyo's splendid postings. Above all, I find his work great fun to read. It is instructive, careful, skillfully crafted, insightful and smart. It is wonderfully optimistic and even inspirational.
But (and we knew this was coming) I believe there comes a time where pessimism and reality intersect. Within two generations the Western Tradition, and almost certainly its institutions may well have suffered the fate of Humpty Dumpty. History, already infected and compromised by ideological distortions, will become (the last century is replete with precedent) a completely non-factual instrument of the Left, thus (arguably) forclosing the customary path to restoration and redemption.
Mr. Seiyo cites Charles Murray. Among his reasons for undertaking to write, with Herrnstein, The Bell Curve was Murray's concern about the emergence of an elite society that is insular (intellectually and physically) and self-referential**. And what that might mean to the making of future policy. I think he may have been too late to be predictive, since one can make the case that what he feared had already begun in the immediate wake of WWII and reached a cultural tipping point in the pathology of the late 60's. Murray may have discovered the etiology of Podism, though he doesn't account for the exacerbating--perhaps causative--effects of the demographic boom.
Mr. Seiyo uses several paragraphs to enumerate the things or that thing that "must" or "has to" be done (eg. To reverse the direction of the West’s down-escalator, Body Snatchers state’s war against the middle of its subjects’ IQ bell curve must cease. The right tail has to stop using the left tail to flail the middle with.). I am in complete agreement, but I believe we have come to a point where analyses and categorical imperitives (absent strategic action) diminish in usefulness.
It is a source of great frustration that, so far, I am unable to put forward what is most urgently needed--a strategy, let alone plan, to counter the current state of affairs, so I cannot fault Mr. Seiyo. I hope he will fill that gap.
What can a handful of +4 sigmas do to counter the growing majority power of the +2 sigmas?
I cannot conlude this comment without acknowledging and expressing my appreciation for the almost lyrical spirituality of Takuan's (first "name" used advisedly) current installment.
**Herein lie the seeds of the powerful narcissist component of elitism.
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The US government is suing VW for emissions cheating
Matthew DeBord
A Volkswagen company logo adorns the VW factory in Wolfsburg, Germany
The Justice Department is suing Volkswagen over an emissions-cheating scandal that has affected hundred of thousands of vehicles in the US and millions worldwide.
"The United States will pursue all appropriate remedies against Volkswagen to redress the violations of our nation's clean air laws," said Assistant Attorney General John Cruden, head of the departments environment and natural resources division, Reuters reported.
The lawsuit will be filed in the Eastern District of Michigan and then transferred to Northern California, where class-action lawsuits against Volkswagen are pending.
It does not preclude the Justice Department from pursuing criminal charges against Volkswagen, a senior Justice Department official told Reuters.
"Today's filing of a civil complaint under Sections 204 and 205 of the Clean Air Act seeks injunctive relief and the assessment of civil penalties," the DOJ said.
The affected cars, ranging across the numerous brands of the VW Group, use diesel engines.
These engines were rigged with cheat software to evade test that would determine if they were emitting excessive amount of nitrogen oxide. In a statement, the DOJ explained the environmental issues connected to NOx:
NOx pollution contributes to harmful ground-level ozone and fine particulate matter. These pollutants are linked with asthma and other serious respiratory illnesses. Exposure to ozone and particulate matter is also associated with premature death due to respiratory-related or cardiovascular-related effects. Children, the elderly and people with pre-existing respiratory disease are particularly at risk of health effects from exposure to these pollutants. Recent studies indicate that the direct health effects of NOx are worse than previously understood, including respiratory problems, damage to lung tissue and premature death.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the lawsuit was filed by the DOJ on behalf of EPA "against Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., Volkswagen Group of America Chattanooga Operations, LLC, Porsche AG, and Porsche Cars North America, Inc. for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act."
When the news broke last year that the EPA was issuing a notice of violation to VW, the action was confined to the automaker's small-displacement 2.0-liter TDI diesel engines.
Later, the action was broadened to include some 3.0-liter engines.
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A mosquito virus that had never been identified in humans was found in a Florida boy — here's what to know about the Keystone virus
Kevin Loria
Zika inspired major waves of mosquito control efforts in Florida.
Associated Press/Alan Diaz
A viral illness that's never been known to infect humans, Keystone virus, was identified in a Florida boy, according to a recent study.
Keystone virus is widespread in the Southeast and is part of a family of viruses that can cause encephalitis, or brain inflammation.
This case is a reminder that new viruses carried by vectors like mosquitoes are worth looking out for.
When a 16-year-old boy showed up at a north central Florida urgent care center in August of 2016, no one could figure out what he was infected with.
According to a report recently published on the case in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, the boy (who remains anonymous) had a fever of around 100 degrees. A rash that started on his chest was spreading to his abdomen, arm, back, and face. It was aggravated by heat and sunlight, though didn't cause pain.
The boy said that he'd been bitten by numerous mosquitoes while attending band camp.
The case appeared in the midst of the Zika outbreak, but the teen tested negative for Zika, Chikungunya, and dengue. However, in one of the urine samples collected by doctors, researchers eventually identified a virus that's been known to infect animals, including squirrels, raccoons, and whitetail deer: Keystone virus.
This was the first time that a Keystone virus infection has been confirmed in a human, though it's known to be widespread among animals in the southeastern US, from the Chesapeake Bay to Texas. The disease comes from a virus family that's known to cause encephalitis, or brain inflammation. And it's a reminder that there are always emerging diseases to be watching out for.
The virus is carried by a relative of the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that carry Zika.
Diagnosing the Keystone virus
Identifying the infection was no easy task, since there'd previously been no way to test for Keystone virus. But because of the Zika outbreak happening at the time, researchers were determined to identify the condition to see whether there was reason to be concerned about more new diseases being spread by mosquitoes.
"We couldn't identity what was going on," Dr. Glenn Morris, director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida, told WUSF Public Media. "We screened this with all the standard approaches and it literally took a year and a half of sort of dogged laboratory work to figure out what this virus was."
It's possible that Keystone virus is more widespread amongst people than experts realize, according to the case report. Surveys conducted almost 50 years ago found antibodies to the virus in about 20% of people in the Southeast, indicating that they'd been exposed, though live virus had never been found in a person before.
Most likely, any symptoms of the virus that people have experienced have been mild, like fever or rash. There are no reported symptoms in animals, though in some areas, 30% of squirrels or 10% of deer surveyed have been found to be infected with Keystone virus.
Researchers are most concerned by the fact that Keystone virus is part of the "California serogroup" family of viruses, which are known to cause encephalitis, or brain swelling, that can be dangerous. It's possible that Keystone could cause this in some cases, based on observations of the virus in cell cultures and the behavior of related viruses. But that didn't happen to they boy in the case report.
As the researchers wrote, doctors should start looking for Keystone virus in cases when patients have unexplained viral encephalitis.
"It's one of these instances where if you don't know to look for something, you don't find it," Morris said in a statement.
Plus, they wrote, this finding underscores the fact that there are all kinds of diseases circulating out there that could one day infect humans.
SEE ALSO: Diseases from ticks and mosquitoes have tripled in the US — and warmer weather means it will probably keep getting worse
NOW WATCH: Should we kill off one of the most dangerous creatures in the world?
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Conan O'Brien Is Going To Armenia & His Past Trips Abroad Prove It Will Be A Successful Trip
By Maitri Suhas
In his latest venture abroad, Conan O'Brien is traveling to Armenia. If you don't know Coco, he's taken his show on the road (and overseas) before, most recently becoming the first late-night host to broadcast from Cuba, and he'll be the first to do a show live from Armenia, as well. The show will air on November 10 at 11 PM ET on TBS, and it will be the first time that both Conan and his longtime assistant Sona Movsesian, who is of Armenian descent, have been to the country.
In a press release for the upcoming broadcast from TBS, Coco said jokingly, "I think it's every boss's responsibility to take their assistant back to their ancestral land. That's why I'm going to make sure my next assistant was born in a five-star resort in Tuscany." Armenia is a unique choice to say the least — 2015 marked the 100 year anniversary of the Armenian genocide, and the country still suffers from internal conflict — but hopefully Coco will show the same charm and respect to the people of that nation that he did earlier when he went to Cuba.
The reason Coco's Cuban trip was a success was that he positioned himself as the outsider, and the comedy came from the fact that nobody there really knew who he was. He indulged in the typical touristy stuff, as a talk show host is wont to do, like wearing a Panama hat, rolling cigars, and asking locals if they knew him (they didn't). But he did show a sense of awareness about the difference between American and Cuban cultures, including along with his jokey bits some commentary about the new relationship between the United States and Cuba, and what it meant for the future of the island nation.
Speaking about his trip to Cuba, Conan told reporters in March:
I felt really strongly about this — I don’t want this to be a snarky American comedy take. I don’t want this to be political,” O’Brien told a group of reporters over lunch in New York last week. “A lot of my [on-location sketches] are me as a fish-out-of-water … I want to go as a comedian who’s making fun of himself and I want to try and make the Cuban people laugh. In that regard, I think we were successful.
Conan's Cuba shows were a hit with viewers, with over 1.81 million people watching the broadcast. Conan also did an unscripted show earlier this year from San Diego Comic-Con.
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Who is Annaliese From 'Bachelor in Paradise'? She's Back To Find Love
By Tai Gooden
Paul Hebert/ABC
People can’t seem to get enough of reality dating shows like The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. Each season starts off with a new person hoping to find love in a small pool of carefully selected potential soul mates. Many former contestants been eliminated and heartbroken, but Bachelor in Paradise gives some of them another shot at finding love on a competition show. One of these people is Annaliese Puccini, a Bachelor Season 22 contestant who will be on Bachelor in Paradise Season 5, premiering on August 7. A few die-hard Bachelor fans may remember her but a lot of people will be wondering who is Annaliese from Bachelor in Paradise and what happened last time she was on TV. She’s definitely a woman with many interesting stories about her past.
Annaliese made an intriguing debut on The Bachelor when she hopped out of the infamous arrival limo wearing a mask. She coyly withheld her name from bachelor Arie Luyendyk, Jr. and called herself the kissing bandit, which was a callback to his nickname when he appeared on a previous season of The Bachelorette.
The 33-year-old California native told Glamour that she is a painter, event planner, and actress who loves to tackle creative projects, which was seen when she made a painting for Arie. Annaliese seemed to have a great shot at winning his heart, but the pair never quite gelled and she eventually became known for her childhood stories.
Arie is a race car driver, so it totally made sense that he would take the ladies on a group date to enjoy his favorite activity. But, Annaliese tearfully revealed that she couldn’t participate because was trapped in a bumper car as a child while other people hit her repeatedly (that’s the whole point, right?). On another group date, she said she couldn’t be near dogs because her grandmother’s dog bit her and nearly caused her to lose an eye.
No one knows if these stories are legit, but they surely became fodder for many social media jokes and memes. Annaliese also spent a lot of time stressing over Arie’s attraction to her fellow contestants because he rejected her kiss when she went in for one. Ouch. Annaliese was soon eliminated outside of the rose ceremony in Week 3 and deleted her Twitter account afterward, likely because of the attention that comes with being a contestant.
Interestingly, Annaliese’s Instagram page tells a different story about her experience with dogs. There’s several photos of her hanging out with a few cute pups and one post even reveals that she used to volunteer at an animal shelter, dog sit, and was a former foster mom for animals. Maybe she just didn’t feel comfortable with the dogs at that event. Or, perhaps she was just discouraged and wanted to find a way out of the competition. Either way, it couldn’t have been that bad because she’s back for another round of Bachelor action, this time in Paradise.
She will be joined by a few ladies from her Bachelor season, including Tia Booth, Kendall Long, and Bibiana Julian. It remains to be seen how they will interact with each other and if Annaliese will finally find love, but it’s sure to be another interesting season full of drama, kisses, and heartbreak.
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Found 7 blog entries for October 2012.
This Week's Best Beach Condos
Friday, October 26th, 2012 at 9:49am.
Sue Boyle
Six beachfront condos went on the market this week ranging in price from $217,000-$825,000. If you've always dreamed of beach and sunset views, one of these new listings will probably be perfect for you.
Starting north and moving south, South Seas Tower 4 has two new listings. Unit 10 is on the 10th floor and features gorgeous views of the Gulf and TigerTail Beach. Priced at $389,000 this condo also has lots of tile and remodeled baths. Unit 16, on the 16th floor, is one of the sought after end units with views of the Island and the Gulf. It's priced at $549,999. Featuring over 1500 square feet, this condo has an updated kitchen with granite countertops and trey ceilings, updated baths with granite and nice, turnkey furnishings. One of the
Marco Island's Most Economical Neighborhood
Thursday, October 25th, 2012 at 2:09pm.
Buyers consistently ask me where they can get the most bang for their buck on the Island. I would have to say Old Marco. Located west of the Jolly Bridge, you'll love the Key West vibe and with the current properties on the market topping out at $549,000, you'll love the price too! You can live in Old Marco and practically never leave. There are several great restaurants and shopping within walking distance and a marina right down the street. Following are some examples of what you can buy in Old Marco:
Located on 821 Elm St., this single family home features a private dock with lift and in-ground swimming pool. The pool is screened in so you can relax and enjoy the outdoors as long as you like. With water direct access, this home is a good
Hottest Listing of the Week on BuyMarco.com
Friday, October 19th, 2012 at 10:09am.
The most viewed listing this week on BuyMarco.com is one in Smokehouse Bay Club priced at $170,000. Smokehouse Bay is one of the most picturesque bays on Marco Island. It is surrounded by luxury, waterfront homes and condos and marinas. Smokehouse Bay Club is a low-rise condominium that is comprised of both waterfront and inland condos. It is located within a short walking distance to shopping and dining on Collier yet it's quiet and peaceful.
This particular unit is has two bedrooms and two baths. Its floorplan is efficient and roomy. The amenities at Smokehouse Bay are great including two swimming pools, one of which overlooks the bay.
This weeks most popular listing is actually not the least expensive in the community. There is one unit
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October 16 - Today's New Listings
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 at 1:06pm.
We have four new listings in the Marco Island MLS to talk about today - 2 homes, 1 condo and 1 lot. The first home is a fantastic, water-direct home. "Water-direct" is the term we use for property on the water that doesn't require its owner to navigate under a bridge on the way to the Gulf. This particular home has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and just about 2000 s.f. of living area. It's on a 100'x110' lot with very quick access to the Gulf. It's a super deal at only $689,000
The next home we have is located off the island in King's Lake. The interesting thing about King's Lake, besides being a great neighborhood, is Bob Seger lives here. At least, that's what I've heard. The house for sale has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and
Home Prices Rise
Monday, October 15th, 2012 at 4:32pm.
According to a new survey by CoreLogic, a private real estate data provider, home prices went up 4.6% in August compared to one year ago which is the "largest year-over-year increase in more than six years." Prices also rose 0.3% between July and August which is the sixth straight month of gains. The good news about the steady increase in prices, the increase in home sales and rising builder confidence is that it looks like our housing recovery may actually be sustainable.
The Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller index also rose in July after two straight years of declines. Also, all of the states are seeing a rise in home prices except for six that still show a decline. Five of these include Rhode Island, Illinois, New Jersey, Alabama and
October 10 - Our Most Popular Listing
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012 at 11:04am.
This week, the most popular listing on our website is this one. It's a fantastic 2/2 in French Village. So, what's so great about it? Well, it's across the street from the beach. It's close to the beach access. It's on the first floor. It has low maintenance fees. It's in great condition. And, it's only $199,900.
French Village is located toward the southern end of the island, right on Collier Blvd. Owners are within easy walking distance to shops, restaurants and the movie theatre. The property was built in 1979 but you wouldn't know it by looking at it. Like so many properties on Marco, good funding and management have kept French Village looking like new. I think anyone would be proud to call this great property "home" or "home away from
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012 at 1:25pm.
We all have dreams that we are convinced we'll achieve one day. Marco Island dreams are our business. When it comes down to it, though, we are really afraid of our dreams. We're afraid of the unknown. We are afraid of actually taking the leap and making the commitment. The grandest dreams we carry inside are tempered by a fear of failure and sometimes a fear of success. We all know the expression, "be careful what you wish for, you might get it." Most of us will admit that we're at least a little afraid of change.
But change is good. None of us are getting any younger and the clock is ticking. The status quo, no matter how nice it may be, will satisfy us less and less over time. We have to take action or life can get stale. A shake-up can
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Book Discussions:
Manana Forever?
Jorge G. Castaneda
Jorge G. Castaneda was a Foreign Minister for Mexico with 11 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1991 Forum as a Professor for Political Science in the National University of Mexico. The year with the most videos was 2006 with two videos. The year with the highest average number of views per program was 2011 with an average of 337 views per program as a Professor for the Politics Department in the New York University. Most common tags: Mexico, Drug Trafficking, Immigration.
Appearances by Title:c. January 1, 2010 - Present Professor, Politics Department, New York University Videos: 2 c. January 15, 1991 - Present Professor, Political Science, National University of Mexico Videos: 1
Foreign Minister, Mexico c. January 1, 2002 - c. January 1, 2004 Videos: 8
Global Drug Trade
Panelists talked about the global drug trade and highlighted the drug problem in the U.S. and Latin America, and offered…
Manana Forever?: Mexico and the Mexicans
Jorge Castaneda discussed the political and economic state of Mexico, including the drug market, violence, and the…
Jorge Castaneda, former Mexican foreign minister, talked about the challenges facing that country. After his remarks he…
Mexico's War on Drug Trafficking
Jorge Castaneda talked by video uplink from New York City about his recent Foreign Policy Magazine article, “What’s Spanish for…
Filter By All Event Types Forum - 7 Call-In - 2 Interview - 1 News Conference - 1
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Andi Cumbo-Floyd addresses racism through YA historical fiction
Andi Cumbo-Floyd will read from her book, Charlotte and the Twelve, at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center on December 16. Courtesy of the artist
Raennah Lorne
Local author and historian Andi Cumbo-Floyd came of age on the Bremo Plantations in Fluvanna County. In central Virginia, “there are plantations everywhere, but we don’t call them that,” says Cumbo-Floyd. “We call them farms or estates.” While she knew “people had been enslaved there,” she says she “didn’t really have an awareness of what that meant.” A college course on Native American cultures opened her eyes. “Suddenly I was aware I had not learned a lot about American history,” she says.
Eager to know more, Cumbo-Floyd took a summer job as an assistant for an anthropologist researching the medical conditions of enslaved people, which allowed her access to UVA’s vast collection of the Cocke family papers—the same Cocke family that established Bremo Plantations in 1808. “It started me on the road,” Cumbo-Floyd says.
Andi Cumbo-Floyd book reading
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
On this path, her curiosity intertwined with her love of the written word. She went on to study writing and to teach composition, but when her mother’s health declined, Cumbo-Floyd returned to Bremo Plantations to care for her.
After her mother passed away, Cumbo-Floyd’s father made her a generous offer. She could live with him, all expenses paid, for one year and write a book. “I was able to live at a place where people were enslaved, research at UVA and walk the land where they had been,” Cumbo-Floyd says.
Her father had been the manager of the land for more than 20 years by that point, and he was able to point out its history, such as where the slave quarters had been. Cumbo-Floyd spent her year there getting reacquainted with the physical space, learning the history and healing from the loss of her mother.
The result was a work of creative nonfiction, The Slaves Have Names: Ancestors of My Home, published in 2013. But Cumbo-Floyd learned in the process of writing it, “There are real limits to [creative nonfiction] in writing the history of enslaved people. There’s not a lot of data.”
For this reason, she turned next to historical fiction, and also to a young adult readership. The exploration of Bremo Plantations as a teenager manifested as a (thus far) two-part young adult fiction series called The Steele Secrets, which centers on protagonist Mary Steele, who has the supernatural ability to materialize in unexpected places and to see ghosts.
In the first book, which was published in 2015 and shares the series title, Mary finds herself in a cemetery where she uncovers the hidden history of her town. In the second book, Charlotte and the Twelve, published last year, Mary materializes at a Rosenwald School—historically significant schools constructed for African-American children in the South from 1917 to 1932 as part of a collaboration between Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company. In the story, Mary meets the ghost of a teacher named Charlotte, as well as her 12 deceased students, and learns they were murdered. “It turns out it was a racially related crime that has present-day ramifications in 2017, when the book is set,” Cumbo-Floyd says.
Her book’s relevance to current discussions about history and racism in Charlottesville isn’t lost on Cumbo-Floyd. She still hasn’t processed the white supremacist rallies and violence of the summer, but, she says, “In relation to my work it just reminds me that…as hard as it is to write these stories, it’s really important.” Further, says Cumbo-Floyd, “I’m privileged to be able to write these stories through my education and my white skin. I want to be sure I honor that and do it justice.”
Tags: Andi Cumbo-Floyd, author, Charlotte and the Twelve, YA
ARTS Pick: Second Draw
ARTS Pick: Christmas at The Paramount
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Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/making-preschool-possible/)
Making preschool possible
By Linda Lenz | July 22, 2005
When the new School Reform Board of Trustees unveiled plans to balance the school system’s budget for the next four years, it cautioned against jumping to the conclusion that Chicago schools don’t need more money. Providing Chicago’s children with the kind of education they need—indeed, that the city itself needs—will require more money, school officials stressed. The articles in this issue on early childhood education show why.
To begin with, the board took a $3 million increase in money the state appropriated for prekindergarten programs for “at-risk” youngsters and used it to help balance the school system’s general operating budget. That’s legal under legislation passed last May that took the strings off much of Chicago’s school revenue; state pre-k money now comes to Chicago as part of a block grant. If the $3 million had been used as originally intended, it could have brought sorely needed preschool education to close to 1,000 3- and 4-year-olds, leaving “only” 11,000 unserved.
As our articles point out, money is not the only obstacle to opening more preschool classrooms. In many schools, there simply is no space. The School Board’s highly regarded Department of Early Childhood Education has reduced this problem somewhat by funneling state pre-k money to private day care centers so that they can afford to offer quality educational programming. Eventually, the School Board’s planned school construction program will help.
But there is still a need for central and regional offices to exercise leadership in getting schools to help solve their own space problems, either with year-round schedules, split shifts or busing to underused schools. If hundreds of parents are willing to put their children on buses to Beasley Magnet School, across the street from Robert Taylor Homes, then surely programs can be mounted that would attract children to less threatening neighborhoods.
In the meantime, parent-education programs, such as Parents as Teachers and HIPPY, offer a good alternative to schools that don’t have space for preschool classes. In these programs, family educators visit homes to help parents of infants and toddlers learn how to interact with their children in ways that promote healthy development and school readiness. But of course, they, too, cost money.
THIS ISSUE This issue on early childhood education was made possible by a generous grant from the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation.
NEXT MONTH Accountability is the watchword of the new school administration. In November, CATALYST will explore that issue, giving status reports on Chicago’s plans as well as on programs already operating in Dallas, Tex., and the State of Kentucky.
Moving the legacy forward
When Catalyst Chicago went to press with this issue, lawmakers in Springfield had finally passed a stopgap budget that will let schools open in the fall, in Chicago and in other districts that had sounded the alarm about possible shutdowns. After a year-long stalemate, the temporary budget will allow the wheels of state government to continue turning for a time. But there’s no reason to breathe a sigh of relief, at least for longer than a few seconds.
School portfolio needs a plan
Charter schools present the most controversial and divisive issue I’ve encountered in 36 years of education reporting. Supporters passionately defend charters, and opponents fiercely attack them, leaving little room for rational consideration of their merits and shortcomings, and what role they might best play in a school district’s game plan. In this issue, we hope to bring some measure of clarity to the debate by illuminating the issues through the experiences of one charter network and school communities that have rallied to compete against charters.
Well, since you asked …
I’m often asked — by friends, television hosts, people I’ve just met — whether Chicago’s public schools have gotten any better after decades of reform. I know they’d like a simple yes or no, but I find neither satisfying. Rather, it’s been more like yes and no, or two steps forward, one step back.
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Weather Alert in Will, Ogle, Livingston, Lee, La Salle, Kendall, Kankakee, Iroquois, Grundy, Ford, DeKalb, Kane, DuPage and Cook counties.
George, Hill lead Pacers with 20 points each in 104-84 win over Jazz
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana Pacers made sure not to start another losing streak.
After falling behind by five early, the Pacers woke up, took off and never looked back in their 104-84 victory over the Utah Jazz at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Wednesday.
The victory made up for Tuesday's loss at Milwaukee for the Pacers.
"Clearly (Tuesday's) loss to the Bucks didn't sit well with our guys," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. "They came out focused."
Pacers swingman Paul George, who was named Eastern Conference Player of the Week earlier this week, continued his strong play by finishing with 20 points, 11 rebounds and four rebounds in only 33 minutes. Point guard George Hill added 20 points, five rebounds and five assists.
Swingman Gerald Green had a breakout game, scoring 21 points off the bench in 23 minutes.
"We knew we had to step it up, and I took it personally to try to get going and try to be aggressive at both ends," George said."
Power forward Derrick Favors led the Jazz (14-13) with 16 points and nine rebounds. Utah is 1-1 on its current four-game road trip.
The Pacers (14-12) got off to a slow start, falling behind 11-5 less than four minutes into the game.
Fast forward four minutes and they took off without having ever feeling threatened again.
The Pacers took the lead for good, 16-14, on two Hill free throws. The pushed their lead up to 11 points later in the quarter.
The Jazz only got as close as seven the rest of the way, before the Pacers went up by double digits, 37-26, for good on a George fast break dunk.
The Pacers, who shot 51 percent from the field, outscored the Jazz 28-2 in the paint in the first half.
"We just wanted to regain that edge," Green said. "We just wanted to start that out at the defensive end. It went well for us."
The Pacers maintained their grip as one of the best defensive teams in the league by holding the Jazz to 37-percent shooting.
"They are a good defensive team," Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin said. "They took us out of what we wanted to do early. They forced a lot of late shot-clock shots, most of them from the perimeter."
Jazz center Al Jefferson and power forward Paul Milsap combined to score 11 points on 3-of-15 shooting. Utah committed 18 turnovers.
"We've been preaching all year that we want to be the best defensive team in the NBA," Hill said. "We knew coming into the game that we had to take things away. We knew they were a physical basketball team and that they could score in bunches."
The final percentage is deceiving because Utah was able to improve its percentage during garbage time in the fourth quarter. The Jazz scored 33 points in the final quarter when Pacers coach Frank Vogel was resting most of his key rotation players.
They held the Jazz to below 30 percent from the field for nearly three quarters.
The Pacers held an opponent to single digits in a quarter for the second time this season when the Jazz only scored eight in the second quarter. The Pacers led 53-31 at halftime.
NOTES: There was an Indiana feel on the Jazz roster. Gordon Hayward went to high school and college in the state. Point guards Jamaal Tinsley and Earl Watson spent time with the Pacers at different points in their careers. ... Vogel said despite center Roy Hibbert's struggles this season he will still use him over Ian Mahinmi at the end of games because Hibbert is the anchor of their defense and they can turn to other players for offense. ... Maybe it's because his younger brother is in the lineup or because he's just finding a rhythm, whatever the reason is, Tyler Hansbrough has finally started finding a groove offensively. He's 12-of-19 from the field since Ben Hansbrough became George Hill backup at point guard. ... Pacers rookie center Miles Plumlee was recalled from the Ft. Wayne Mad Ants, the team's D-League affiliate, on Wednesday. He averaged 14.4 points and 10.4 rebounds in five games with the Mad Ants. ... Ben Hansbrough sat out the second half with a sprained left shoulder. D.J. Augustin, who was demoted to third-string point guard last week, played the entire fourth quarter, scoring seven points and dishing out an assist.
Panic as police respond to Loop building for reports of active shooter that turned out to be false alarm: ‘It went terribly wrong’
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Will Marktown survive? East Chicago neighborhood fights to stay alive
By Javonte Anderson
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Paul Myers crouched on the empty bucket as he put the finishing touches on his freshly painted white picket fence.
He crossed the street and surveyed the finished product. The white gloss enamel paint shimmered in the sunlight. He was proud.
The fence surrounded the yard of Myers' childhood home in the Marktown Historic District in East Chicago. His grandfather purchased the house for his parents after they married nearly half a century ago.
Painting the picket fence, which historically symbolized the idyllic middle-class American home, was a small victory for Myers who keeps asking himself, as each year passes, will Marktown survive?
Marktown was built in 1917 as a planned community to accommodate workers at local industrial plants. Designed by renowned architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, it was a unique neighborhood that resembled an English village with pastel-colored stucco homes, gabled roofs and streets so narrow that residents park their cars on the sidewalks.
Boxed in by heavy industry, the residential area was so extraordinary it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
But as Marktown prepares to celebrate its 100th birthday, its residents are clinging on and fighting to preserve what's left of this historic community. It faces the prospect of fading into oblivion as BP continues to purchase and demolish homes within the district.
"Is Marktown still restorable?" Myers asked rhetorically. "Yes. But we need city support and we need city help and then we can save what's left of Marktown."
There are visible signs of deterioration — boarded-up houses and vacant lots. BP has purchased 52 properties in Marktown in the last five years, according to Lake County property records. BP did not respond to several requests for comment.
But despite BP's undeniable presence, including its oil refinery that looms as a backdrop to this isolated community, there are still visible signs of life. On a recent weekday evening, kids were riding their bicycles through the streets, people tended to backyard gardens and squirrels scurried on top of fences.
"Look around," Javier Madrigal, a lifelong resident, said, gesturing toward the park across from his home. "Marktown is still a nice place. I don't care what anyone says."
Madrigal, who raised his three daughters in the neighborhood and lives on the same block as his father and brother, said he has no intention of leaving.
"I'm comfortable," he said. "It's not much, but it's mine."
Dozens of groups visit Marktown every year for tours, said Myers, president of Marktown Preservation Society.
"I've always been extremely intrigued by Marktown," said Paul Diebold, assistant director of preservation services at the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
"Here is this whole small village created from scratch. It's a very intriguing story to me. I think it's something well worth saving. ... It's lasted a long time and I hope it continues to be here."
Myers shuddered when asked what Marktown's future holds.
"It's too much to think about," he said. "There's a couple of things I won't do. I won't go by and try to figure out what homes are occupied; I'm not going to try and figure out how many people are left here.
"It's sort of like when you get old and you don't want to go to the doctor because you don't want the news. I just don't want the answers to those things right now."
Myers, like many current and former residents, is wholeheartedly invested in preserving the only place he's ever called home. And while keeping the physical structures is important, so are the memories and traditions.
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"You see that park right there?" Myers asked, pointing to the park across from his home.
"I took my parents' ashes and grandparents'ashes and I spread them in that park," he said. "You get the picture?"
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Sheetmusic Ludwig van Beethoven opus 18:1
String quartet in F major. 1800. Time: 22'00.
The String Quartet No. 1 in F major, op. 18, No. 1, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1798 and 1800 and published in 1801. It is actually the second string quartet that Beethoven composed.
The quartet consists of four movements:
Allegro con brio
Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato
Scherzo: Allegro molto
According to Beethoven's friend Karl Amenda, the second movement was inspired by the tomb scene from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The quartet was heavily revised between the version that Amenda first received and the version that was sent to the publisher a year later, including changing the second movement's marking from Adagio molto to the more specific Adagio affetuouso ed appassionato. Of these modifications, Beethoven wrote:
"Be sure not to hand on to anybody your quartet, in which I have made some drastic alterations. For only now have I learnt to write quartets; and this you will notice, I fancy, when you receive them."[1]
The theme of the finale is almost directly borrowed from the finale of his earlier string trio, Op. 9 No. 3 in c minor; the themes are very closely related and the resemblance is obvious even on a first hearing.
^ Winter & Martin, p. 151
Robert Winter, Robert Martin eds. (1994). The Beethoven Quartet Companion. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-08211-7. ; especially the essay by Michael Steinberg (pp. 150-155)
String Quartet No. 1: Free scores at the International Music Score Library Project.
String quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven
No. 1 in F major · No. 2 in G major · No. 3 in D major · No. 4 in C minor · No. 5 in A major · No. 6 in B♭ major
Opus 59 (Rasumovsky)
No. 7 in F major · No. 8 in E minor · No. 9 in C major
Other middle period quartets
No. 10 in E♭ major, Op. 74 (Harp) · No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 (Serioso)
Late quartets
No. 12 in E♭ major, Op. 127 · No. 13 in B♭ major, Op. 130 · No. 14 in C♯ minor, Op. 131 · No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 · Große Fuge, Op. 133 · No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
String quartet arrangement of Op. 14, No. 1 by Beethoven
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "String_Quartet_No._1_(Beethoven)". Allthough most Wikipedia articles provide accurate information accuracy can not be guaranteed.
Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"
Cor de Groot
Symphony No. 8 in F major
15 Variations with Fugue "Eroica-Variationen"
Katherine Chi
String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor
Végh Quartet
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JP Morgan: If OPEC doesn't maintain its cuts, oil could stay lower for longer
Published Wed, Jan 2 2019 12:35 AM EST Updated Wed, Jan 2 2019 7:31 AM EST
If the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) does not follow through with its commitment to reduce oil production throughout this year, Brent crude prices could struggle to find support, J.P. Morgan's head of Asia Pacific oil and gas, Scott Darling, said.
In an early December meeting, OPEC and non-OPEC countries agreed to take about 1.2 million barrels a day off the oil market — initially for six months — starting January.
If that commitment does not extend throughout the year, Brent prices could hover around the investment bank's "low oil price scenario," which is around $55 per barrel for 2019, according to Darling.
If the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) does not follow through with its commitment to reduce oil production throughout this year, Brent crude prices could struggle to rise, according to J.P. Morgan's head of Asia Pacific oil and gas.
In an early December meeting, OPEC and non-OPEC countries agreed to take about 1.2 million barrels a day off the oil market — initially for six months — starting January, amid a persistent imbalance between global oil supply and demand.
"Well, J.P. Morgan said prior to the OPEC meeting early December, that if OPEC didn't really cut by more than around 1.2 million barrels per day, and they did just for the first half, (not) for the full year, that we could gravitate toward ... our low-oil-price scenario, which is $55 Brent for 2019," Scott Darling told CNBC's "Squawk Box " on Wednesday.
On Wednesday afternoon during Asian hours, Brent traded down around 1 percent at $53.28.
Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Khalid al-Falih listens during a news conference after an OPEC meeting in Vienna, Austria, November 30, 2017.
Heinz-Peter Bader | Reuters
Darling said factors that could keep oil prices weak in 2019 include sluggish demand for crude and the uncertainty over full compliance from OPEC members, including the largest producer Saudi Arabia, over the agreed 1.2 million barrels per day supply reduction.
In recent months, the Saudis increased production by more than 1 million barrels per day. Now, the kingdom will aim to cut about 900,000 barrels per day in just two months. With oil prices struggling, some have said the kingdom needs Brent crude to rise significantly to balance its budget.
Last year, oil prices suffered their worst annual loss since 2015 — Brent fell around nearly 20 percent while U.S. crude suffered a roughly 25-percent decline as stock market volatility, geopolitics and softening demand predictions roiled the energy market.
For his part, Darling said geopolitical risks in places such as Venezuela could also push oil prices up.
"In some parts of the world, you've still got aging oil infrastructure, which leads to unplanned maintenance. It only takes a few of these events and you suddenly get more support to the oil price," he added.
J.P. Morgan said in November that Brent crude prices will average $73 a barrel in 2019, down from an earlier prediction of $83.50, in part due to North American supply ramping up in the second of the year.
— CNBC's Tan Huileng and Tom DiChristopher contributed to this report.
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Bill on federal workers' back pay in shutdown heads to Trump
Published Fri, Jan 11 2019 2:33 PM EST Updated Fri, Jan 11 2019 6:36 PM EST
Some 800,000 federal employees, more than half still on the job, were due to miss their first paycheck Friday under a stoppage that neared a record for the longest government shutdown.
By a vote of 411-7, the House passed a bill requiring that all government workers receive retroactive pay after the partial shutdown ends.
The Senate approved the bill unanimously Thursday and the president is expected to sign the legislation.
President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable discussion at the U.S. Border Patrol Station in McAllen, Texas, January 10, 2019.
Leah Millis | Reuters
President Donald Trump is edging closer to declaring a national emergency to pay for his long-promised U.S.-Mexico border wall as pressure mounts to end the three-week impasse that has closed parts of the government and deprived hundreds of thousands of workers of their salaries.
Some 800,000 federal employees, more than half still on the job, were due to miss their first paycheck Friday under a stoppage that neared a record for the longest government shutdown. With the closure's growing impact on the economy, national parks and food inspections, some Republicans are becoming uncomfortable with Trump's demands.
U.S. government shutdown about to become longest on record
Lawmakers tried to reassure federal employees on Friday that Congress was aware of the financial hardship they are enduring. By a vote of 411-7, the House passed a bill requiring that all government workers receive retroactive pay after the partial shutdown ends. The Senate approved the bill unanimously Thursday. The president is expected to sign the legislation.
Trump visited McAllen, Texas, and the Rio Grande on Thursday to highlight what he calls a crisis of drugs and crime along the border. He said that "if for any reason we don't get this going" — an agreement with House Democrats who have refused to approve the $5.7 billion he demands for the wall — "I will declare a national emergency."
Trump was consulting with White House lawyers and others about using emergency powers to take action on his own, and over the objections of Congress, to construct the wall. Bypassing Congress' constitutional control of the nation's purse strings would lead to certain legal challenges and bipartisan charges of executive overreach. Trump said his lawyers had told him the action would withstand legal scrutiny "100 percent."
The wall was the central promise of Trump's winning campaign in 2016. Supporters have tried to convince him that an emergency declaration is the best option to end the shutdown and would give him political cover to reopen the government without appearing to be caving on his pledge. Trump, they argue, could tell backers that he was doing all he could to fight for the wall, even if his order were held up or blocked in court.
But not everyone in the administration is on board.
Senior aide Jared Kushner, who traveled with the president to Texas, is among those urging caution on the declaration, according to a person familiar with Kushner's thinking but not authorized to publicly discuss the issue.
Trump is growing more frustrated as the shutdown drags on and is complaining that his aides are not offering him an exit strategy.
In the meantime, the administration has taken steps to lay the groundwork should Trump issue the declaration.
The White House has directed the Army Corps of Engineers to comb through its budget in search of money for the wall, including looking at $13.9 billion in unspent disaster relief funds earmarked for areas including hurricane-damaged Puerto Rico, Texas and more than a dozen other states. That's according to a congressional aide and administration official familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the request.
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., a lawmaker with a close relationship with the president, discounted that option, saying it was not "under very serious consideration."
"If there's a list of top 10 priorities on where to get money from, that doesn't make the top 10 list," Meadows said.
Defense Department officials had already been poring over data on more than $10 billion in military construction projects to determine how much of it would be available for emergency spending this year.
On Friday, officials in Puerto Rico said diverting disaster money to the wall was "unacceptable" and that the island was struggling to recover from Hurricane Maria, the Category 4 storm that hit more than a year ago and caused more than $100 billion in damage
Gov. Ricardo Rossello said the wall should not be funded "on the pain and suffering" of U.S. citizens who have faced tragedy after a natural disaster.
It was not clear what a potential compromise between the White House and Congress might entail. Efforts at negotiating a broader immigration deal involving immigrants brought to the country illegally as children collapsed with little progress.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said at one point that he didn't "see a path in Congress" to end the shutdown, then stated later that enough was enough: "It is time for President Trump to use emergency powers to fund the construction of a border wall/barrier."
Vice President Mike Pence visited the Washington headquarters for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and pledged that the administration will keep fighting for the border wall.
"Just as you fight every day to keep our nation safe, this president and this administration will keep fighting to build the wall and give you the resources and reforms you need to do your job," Pence told several dozen unformed agents. "That's my promise."
During his Thursday trip to the border, Trump insisted he was "winning" the shutdown fight and criticized Democrats for asserting he was manufacturing a sense of crisis in order to declare an emergency.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., accused the president of engaging in political games to fire up his most loyal supporters and suggested that a heated meeting Wednesday with legislators at the White House had been "a setup" so that Trump could walk out of it.
The partial shutdown would set a record early Saturday, stretching beyond the 21-day closure that ended Jan 6, 1996, during President Bill Clinton's administration.
If the shutdown lasts two more weeks, the cost to the economy will exceed price of Trump's wall
Published Fri, Jan 11 2019 11:37 AM EST Updated Wed, Jan 16 2019 7:04 PM EST
Yun Li@YunLi626
It will only take another two weeks for the shutdown to cost the economy more than $6 billion, according to S&P Global Ratings.
The partial government shutdown enters its 21st day Friday, tying the record for longest lapse in federal funding.
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Study: California Has Highest Dividend Tax Burden
By Ali Meyer | March 20, 2014 | 7:07 AM EDT
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(CNSNews.com) - The United States places a heavy tax burden on dividend income, leading to “lower savings, less investment and lower living standards for all,” says a recent study from the Tax Foundation.
The study found that the average combined federal and state top marginal tax rates on dividends paid to individuals in the United States is 28.6 percent--the ninth highest in the 34-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
And taxpayers in five states face combined top marginal rates far higher than the OECD average. In fact, only five OECD countries had a higher top marginal tax rate on individual dividend income than California, Hawaii, New York, Oregon and Minnesota.
The Tax Foundation argues that reducing the dividend tax burden will lead to faster economic growth, higher wages, and better living standards.
The ten U.S. states with the highest combined federal, state, and local top marginal tax rates on personal dividend income are: California, 33.0 percent; Hawaii, 31.6 percent; New York, 31.5 percent; Oregon, 31.0 percent; Minnesota, 30.9 percent; D.C., 30.4 percent; Vermont, 30.4 percent; New Jersey, 30.4 percent; Maryland, 30.3 percent; and Maine, 29.8 percent.
The ten states at the lowest end of the scale are: Washington, 25.0 percent; Nevada, 25.0 percent; Alaska, 25.0 percent; Texas, 25.0 percent; South Dakota, 25.0 percent; Florida, 25.0 percent; Wyoming, 25.0 percent; North Dakota, 26.3 percent; Pennsylvania, 26.8 percent; and Alabama, 27.4 percent.
The report noted that most states tax personal dividend income as ordinary income, which means that states with high income tax rates also have the highest taxes on personal dividends.
Dividends are payments made by a corporation to an individual who owns that corporation’s stock. Corporations distribute these dividends to investors from their after-tax profits. Once shareholders receive this dividend income, they must pay personal income taxes on it, making the personal dividend tax a double tax on corporate profit.
The Tax Foundation offers the following example of why the dividend taxes are so burdensome:
“Suppose a corporation earns a profit of $100. It then needs to pay the corporate income tax rate of 39.1 percent ($39.10 corporate tax bill). Its after-tax profit is $60.90. The corporation then distributes these after-tax profits as dividends to its stockholders. The stockholders then need to pay the (average) 28.6 percent personal dividends tax rate on the dividends ($17.41 dividend tax bill). In total, the tax burden on the corporate profits is $56.52, for an integrated tax rate of 56.5 percent. The United States’ two layers of corporate taxation places a heavy burden on corporate investment, especially considering the United States also has the highest statutory corporate income tax rate in the OECD.”
The Tax Foundation says the dividend tax burden influences corporate behavior: Because dividend income generally has been taxed at higher rates than capital gains, corporations have had an incentive to retain their earnings, increasing investors’ capital gains rather than distributing profits through dividends.
“As a result, the number of firms that distributed their profits through dividends consistently declined between 1984 and 2002. However, in 2003, dividend tax rates were lowered to 15 percent, and the tax bias between capital gains and dividends was nearly eliminated. Following this change, the number of firms offering dividends drastically increased the next year.”
The study concludes that reducing the tax burden on personal dividends “will lead to faster economic growth, higher wages, and better living standards for all.”
Ali Meyer
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Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf
Intelligence in Public Literature
Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf
Compiled and reviewed by Hayden Peake
Al-Qaeda’s Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings, by Fernando Reinares
Global Intelligence Oversight: Governing Security in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Zachary K. Goldman and Samuel J. Rascoff
Practise to Deceive: Learning Curves of Military Deception Planners, by Barton Whaley
Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider’s Account of the Politics of Intelligence, by Melvin A. Goodman
Special: Five Books on the British Special Operations Executive During World War II
Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s Defeat, by Giles Milton
SOE’S Mastermind: An Authorized Biography of Major General Sir Colin Gubbins, KCMG, DSO, MC, by Brian Lett
Agent Michael Trotobas and SOE in Northern France, by Stewart Kent and Nick Nicholas
Codenamed DORSET: The Wartime Exploits of Major Colin Ogden-Smith, Commando & SOE, by Peter Jacobs
RAF and the SOE: Special Duty Operations in Europe During WW2, edited by John Grehan
Agent M: The Lives and Spies of MI5’s Maxwell Knight, by Henry Hemming
The CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the Early Cold War, by Sarah Harris
Inventing Loreta Velasquez: Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist, by William C. Davis
LORENZ: Breaking Hitler’s Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park, by Captain Jerry Roberts
MacArthur’s Spies: The Soldier, The Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II, by Peter Eisner
A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor, Betrayal, Blame and a Family’s Quest for Justice, by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
Three Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, A Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in US History, by Joe Navarro
War in the Desert, by T. E. Lawrence, edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson
Al-Qaeda’s Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings, by Fernando Reinares. (Columbia University Press, 2016) 231, endnotes, bibliography, maps, index.
Fernando Reinares is the director of the Program on Global Terrorism at the Elcano Royal Institute and professor of political science and security studies at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, both in Madrid. The focus of his research is on individual jihadists, their motivations, and the networks that link them. In Al-Qaeda’s Revenge, he tells how those responsible for bombing commuter trains near Madrid on 11 March 2004, killing 191 people and wounding 1841, were identified as part of the global threat from al-Qa‘ida’s jihadist terrorism.
Immediately after the 3/11 bombings, the government blamed ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna), the Basque separatist organization in Spain. An investigation soon discredited this conclusion and blamed the attack on local radicals who had little or no connection to an outside organization. Mr. Reinares’s analysis, however, disproved this result and established that the attacks were conducted by a coalition of several terror groups under al-Qa‘ida’s direction.
The original al-Qa‘ida cell in Spain was created in 1994 (8) and it helped the 9/11 attackers in the planning phase. Most but not all of them were arrested by Spanish authorities after 9/11; the group’s leader, Abu Dahdah and at least four others remained at large. (9) In the first part of Al-Qaeda’s Revenge, Mr. Reinares shows how the remnants formed links with groups from Algeria and Morocco to create the 3/11 network. Part 2 discusses why Spain was selected, the decisionmakers—Abu Dahdah and others—involved, the connection between the 3/11 network and the al-Qa‘ida command center in Pakistan, why the 3/11 bombings did not constitute a suicide attack (though some involved later martyred themselves) and the social and political consequences of the bombings.
Al-Qaeda’s Revenge also describes the bombers’ connections in London, Milan, Belgium, and Indonesia, as well as what happened to those who left Spain after 3/11. The intent of al-Qa‘ida’s global ambitions and the complexity of its worldwide structure becomes apparent as Mr. Reinares names the many participants and examines their relationships. He also discusses the intelligence exchanges between US and Spanish authorities as each worked to track the terrorists involved. (91–92)
In his foreword to Al-Qaeda’s Revenge, former CIA officer Bruce Riedel, now with the Brookings Institution, characterizes the book as “one of the most important . . . written on the subject of radical Islamic terrorism in Europe and North America since 9/11.” (xiv) Riedel gives it high marks for the depth of research, the quality of analysis, and the accuracy of its often complex results. Right on all counts.
Global Intelligence Oversight: Governing Security in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Zachary K. Goldman and Samuel J. Rascoff. (Oxford University Press, 2016) 357, footnotes, index.
Of the 15 contributors to this volume, 11 are lawyers, all are academics, and none claim any professional experience in the intelligence profession. They come from seven countries: Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Israel, Canada, and the United States. Oversight in each nation is discussed, and one contribution considers it in the “Five Eyes” context. In her preface, former Congresswoman Jane Harmon writes that “the world wants to know . . . who is watching the watchmen?” Oversight is her answer. (xiv) To illustrate that oversight works, she cites “the inspiring example” of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA interrogation techniques. (xv) She admits that “Congress can do better,” suggesting that “members ask spies the tough questions every chance we get.” (xvi, emphasis added)
Global Intelligence Oversight gives an overview of how oversight has developed and how it is currently working. Compared to the United States, “parliamentary oversight across the liberal democratic world is not as robust,” (xix) the editors assert. Several contributors expand on this point. More generally, they “offer insights into the purposes intelligence oversight may serve beyond legal compliance.” (xxvi)
As might be expected from lawyers, the descriptions and recommendations concerning oversight are not always expressed in simple declarative sentences. For example, in an otherwise informative study, on “Oversight Through Five Eyes,” the author argues that “the similarity of intelligence structures and oversight across the Five Eyes states is neither coincidental nor unintentional. Rather it is the result of a phenomenon of isomorphic ‘institutional convergence’ that results in homogenization of state practices across a wide variety of contexts . . .” (38) He argues that the process of isomorphic convergence has resulted in a model that could become an “international norm for intelligence oversight.” (70)
In addition to chapters on oversight in the countries named above, other topics include global technical changes under way in government and industry, the legal aspects of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and the challenging issues associated with oversight within the European Union. The chapter entitled “The President as Intelligence Overseer” surprises no one by concluding that “the White House ought to be an object, not a source, of intelligence oversight.” (235)
Global Intelligence Oversight does leave some issues for the future. For instance, the term oversight is never defined, which makes it difficult to identify the line between oversight and management. Likewise, there is the implicit assumption that the legislative branch of government is the proper body to conduct oversight, as opposed to an independent joint commission of experts. Finally, one may reasonably ask whether the conference from which the book emerged would have benefited from the contributions of an experienced, career intelligence officer.
Practise to Deceive: Learning Curves of Military Deception Planners, by Barton Whaley. Introduction by Denis Clift. (Naval Institute Press, 2016) 246, footnotes, bibliography, appendices, no index.
Denis Clift, president emeritus of the National Intelligence University, writes in the book’s introduction that “the most important readings” in advanced denial and deception are the writings of Barton Whaley. One of the teaching techniques Whaley employed involved practical exercises, using actual case studies. Practise to Deceive contains 88 of those studies with detailed analysis of their objectives and application.
The case studies are typically one to five pages in length and contain examples from Sun Tzu to the first Iraq war in 1991. They are arranged in four categories: the first three consider learning, planning, and seeking approval for specific operations from the working level; the fourth looks at these factors from an institutional point of view. Cases are presented chronologically within each topic.
For example, case #2 deals with tactical deception measures employed by Gen. Lord Roberts, when his army relieved the siege of Kimberly during the second Boer War. Whaley notes that Roberts’s intelligence officer, Lt. Col. G. F. R. Henderson, based his recommendations for deception on lessons drawn from his study of Stonewall Jackson’s operations during the US Civil War. Operation ERROR (case #15, 39–42) is concerned with deception operations in the India-Burma theater—planned and conducted by Col. Peter Fleming (Ian’s brother).
Three interesting cases (numbers 19, 52, and 53) involve British scientist R. V. Jones, including his discussion of the “Theory of Practical Joking and the Theory of Spoof,” and his contribution to defeating the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain.
Whaley also includes two controversial cases. The first concerns “Maj. Meinertzhagen and the Haversack Legend, Palestine 1917.” Meinertzhagen was Gen. Allenby’s intelligence officer, “who plagiarized a real plan and pretended to carry it out—thereby fabricating the celebrated legend of the ‘Meinertzhagen Haversack Ruse.’”[1] (75–76)
The second and even more controversial case involves Lawrence of Arabia’s exploits, that Whaley labels “a myth.” (80) But he doesn’t stop there. “Simply put,” he writes, “Lawrence was a con man whose deceptions were directed more against allies than foes.” (81) Curiously, one of his sources is the unreliable Meinertzhagen. Thus readers are cautioned against accepting these views without consulting the great volume of evidence to the contrary.
The more recent case studies include “General Schwarzkopf’s Deception Planners, Iraq 1991” and “Jody Powell and the Iranian Rescue Mission, 1980.” (245–246)
Two of four appendices examine the deception planning for Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s preparation for invading the Soviet Union. Another examines Operation Cloak, the British deception plans against the Japanese in Burma. The fourth lists other important operations—for example, Operation Bodyguard, prior to the invasion of Europe in World War II, and source material for further study.
Overall, Practise to Deceive is an interesting and valuable account of deception theory in practice.
Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider’s Account of the Politics of Intelligence, by Melvin A. Goodman. (City Lights Books, 2017) 421, endnotes, glossary, index.
The writings of former senior intelligence officers deserve special attention particularly when they are also teaching intelligence-related courses at prestigious institutions. Whistleblower at the CIA is an important example. Retired CIA senior analyst Melvin Goodman claims whistleblower status “because of [his] revelations before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during confirmation hearings for Bob Gates [as DCI].” (9) In his final chapter, he adds, “I wish I had gone further as a whistleblower.” (379) Whistleblower at the CIA can be seen as an attempt to fulfill that wish.
After a few words about his background and why he joined the CIA in 1968, Goodman launches a relentless and spirited attack on the Congress, the Defense Department, the State Department, the Intelligence Community—including the DNI—the media, and most of all the CIA. His concerns range from corrupt behavior to politicization in intelligence matters.
Following up on a theme of his 2008 book, Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of The CIA (Rowman and Littlefield), he writes in Whistleblower, “The CIA’s decline over several decades was marked by mediocre leadership, particularly by directors such as William Casey, Robert Gates, Porter Goss, and George Tenet, who tailored intelligence to satisfy the neoconservative biases” of presidents Reagan and George W. Bush. And “Tenet and Goss, as well as Michael Hayden and John Brennan, endorsed barbaric interrogations methods, and Brennan tried to block the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of torture in secret prisons.” (21) Later, Goodman returns to the topic of CIA directors, labeling Generals Hayden and Petraeus “unsuited to lead the CIA,” adding that John Brennan “lied to the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee,” and then criticizing President Obama for “selecting CIA chiefs, considering the disappointment of Panetta, Petraeus, and Brennan.” (270–271).
Other topics subjected to Goodman’s hostile scrutiny include the chapter on “CIA’s Double Standards and Double Dealing,” a discussion on the “lack of internal oversight . . . [and] the demise of the Office of the Inspector General and the virtual disappearance of the statutory inspector general” (214); the myth that the Intelligence Community functions like a community (230); the unwillingness of the press “to adequately question and investigate government” (313); the preferential treatment given some members of the press (324–327); and the willingness of some in the media to succumb to CIA pressure. Even Steven Colbert—“(or his lawyers)”—is included. (332)
But Goodman reserves most of his bitterness for Bob Gates, to whom he gives indirect credit for his whistleblower status. This criticism of Gates is focused in Chapter Eight, where he explains how the two met in 1968 and why they drifted apart. Goodman depicts Gates as complicit in CIA’s institutionalized politicization of intelligence, fueled internally by corrupt officers from the top, down—a harsh judgment, coming from an “insider” who left the agency over three decades ago.
What has been quoted above is but a small sample of the Goodman’s explicit dissatisfaction with the Intelligence Community, its elements, its personnel, and its performance. The only personnel who are uniformly praised are his fellow whistleblowers, from Ellsberg to Snowden. Goodman concludes with the unsupported comment that “as long as the secret government manages to operate beyond the law and allows former officials such as Mike Morell, Jose Rodriguez, and John McLaughlin to lie about illegalities and abuse, the Agency will remain an enemy of democracy—and I will champion the path of dissent.” (379)
Readers who encounter Goodman’s doggedly negative opinions of the CIA and the Intelligence Community should note the absence of any contrary views.
Special: Five Books on the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) During World War II
Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s Defeat, by Giles Milton. (Picador, 2017) 368, endnotes, photos, index.
SOE’S Mastermind: An Authorized Biography of Major General Sir Colin Gubbins, KCMG, DSO, MC, by Brian Lett. (Pen & Sword Ltd, 2016) 274, bibliography, photos, index.
Agent Michael Trotobas and SOE in Northern France, by Stewart Kent and Nick Nicholas. (Pen & Sword Ltd, 2015) 294, end of chapter notes, bibliography, photos, index. Foreword by Mark Seaman.
Codenamed DORSET: The Wartime Exploits of Major Colin Ogden-Smith, Commando & SOE, by Peter Jacobs. (Pen & Sword Ltd, 2014) 201, endnotes, bibliography, photos, index.
RAF and the SOE: Special Duty Operations in Europe During WW2, edited by John Grehan. (Frontline Books, 2017) 309, appendices, photos, no index.
Unlike the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 and Graham Greene’s Ministry of Fear (Viking, 1943), Giles Milton’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (MUW) referred to a real but secret organization, Britain’s unconventional warfare agency during World War II, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Since hundreds of books have been written about SOE operations, the first question that comes to mind is, “What more is there to say?” The short answer is, “Not much.” MUW does add some new detail about the organizations that preceded SOE, how the key personnel were recruited, and more about their personal careers. The operations it describes, for example those in France, Norway, and Czechoslovakia, have all been well covered elsewhere. Regrettably, there is no mention of “der Englandspiel” (“England game”), the term used by the Germans for the operation that captured and doubled team after team of SOE agents sent to Holland—all but two of whom died. Likewise, operations in Burma and Indo-China are ignored, while the Jedburghs receive only brief mention. References to operations in Yugoslavia are oblique—though not included in the index. Even the source of the title is dubious: according to Milton, it was Churchill himself who coined the phrase “ungentlemanly warfare”—but he fails to provide adequate proof for this assertion (he cites the British National Archives Cabinet Paper Collection, but there are 785 files and volumes reposited therein, rendering his claim impossible to verify). Finally, a central thread of the book is the role played by Colin Gubbins, who became the head of SOE, but his story is more completely covered in the second book listed above.
SOE’S Mastermind: An Authorized Biography of Major General Sir Colin Gubbins, is the second and more recent biography of Gubbins (the first, Peter Wilkinson and Joan Bright Astley’s Gubbins and SOE, was published in 1993 by Leo Cooper, Ltd.). The adjective “authorized” does not designate official sponsorship; rather, it derives from the cooperation extended to author Brian Lett by Gubbins’s grandson, which included access to family papers.
Colin Gubbins was born in Tokyo in 1896, where his linguist father was serving with the Foreign Office. When World War I began, he was on vacation from Royal Military Academy Woolwich, studying German in Heidelberg. Due to be interred as an enemy alien if caught, Gubbins’s escape makes interesting reading in Lett’s account.
Gubbins was commissioned in 1914 into the Royal Field Artillery and served the entire war on the western front, where he was “shot, gassed, and suffer[ed] from trench fever.” (42) After the war, he served with Gen. Edmund Ironside in Russia, where he learned guerrilla warfare fighting the Bolsheviks. He would go on to serve in Ireland, India, Czechoslovakia, and the War Office before and while assigned to MI(R), a predecessor unit of SOE. It was while in MI(R) that he wrote a handbook on irregular warfare that became part of SOE training. (89) After service in Norway, he returned for domestic duty, but in 1940 was seconded to SOE as director of operations and training.
SOE’S Mastermind describes how Gubbins rose to become head of SOE and the many successful operations he conducted throughout the world in this role. Curiously, however, Lett does not mention the failure of the SOE attempts to send agents to the Netherlands and how the Germans doubled all the agents dispatched (for an account of that disaster, see Nigel West, Secret War: The Story of SOE, Britain’s Wartime Sabotage Organization (Hodder & Stoughton, 1992) and Pieter Dourlein, Inside North Pole: A Secret Agent’s Story (William Kimber, 1953). Lett does comment on Gubbins’s relationship with William Donovan and his view of the Jedburgh teams whose delayed insertion into France before D-Day led Gubbins to tell historian M.R.D. Foot that “they had been absolutely wasted by not being pushed in at once.” (229)
Operations were not the only problems Gubbins had to confront: Lett describes the attacks on SOE’s autonomy and its very existence by the Foreign Office and the Secret Intelligence Service. Gubbins survived only with the support of Roundell Cecil Palmer, Third Earl of Selborne, then serving as Britain’s minister of Economic Warfare, and that of Winston Churchill, as Churchill moved to expand SOE operations worldwide.
In the concluding chapter of SOE’S Mastermind, Lett dons the robes of “professor hindsight” and raises a provocative conspiracy theory. While most authors record that SOE was abolished in January 1946 when its mission was absorbed by MI6, Lett challenges that version: “The author believes that Colin, the expert on cover resistance, ensured that, from January 1946, SOE simply went underground.” (256) The key word here is “believes,” as Lett offers no source; in fact, there are no source notes in the book—a major deficiency. Well written, but more entertainment than history.
The story told in Agent Michael Trotobas and SOE in Northern France takes a tack that is very different from the top-down and overview approaches of the two previous books. Here we encounter an SOE team in the field and one that has not previously received book-length treatment. In his foreword, Imperial War Museum historian Mark Seaman writes that “it is perhaps surprising that it has taken so long for a biography of Michael Trotobas, one of F Section’s [a part of SOE] most daring and resourceful agents, to be written.”
Major Trotobas was an atypical officer in many respects. His working class French parents decided to emigrate to America and left France for London in 1912 on their way to Southampton. At Waterloo Station, they took the wrong train and missed their ship, the RMS Titanic, which was embarking upon its maiden voyage. They decided to seek their fortune in England instead. Michael Trotobas was born in 1914 and lived a working class life playing rugby; boxing at school; and traveling in France, where he perfected his French. In 1933, he joined the Army and by the time World War II started, was a senior sergeant with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France. Wounded during the withdrawal at Dunkirk, Trotobas returned to Britain, was commissioned, and was then seconded to the SOE. After training, he was assigned to set up a resistance circuit in France. The team parachuted in during the late fall of 1941. Within weeks, nearly all had been captured and imprisoned. As one SOE officer later reported, the arrests “almost cleaned up our organization in the unoccupied zone. The opening of 1942 therefore found us without radio contact . . . except Miss Virginia Hall established in Lyon . . . and keeping more or less an open house for F Section agents.” (48) (Hall was an SOE asset at that time.)
Trotobas and his colleagues did manage to escape with the help of the resistance, including Hall, and after a lengthy, convoluted series of events, reached England by the end of the year. Two months later, in early 1943 he was back in occupied France heading up the FARMER circuit that operated out of Lille, 40 miles south of Dunkirk.
The authors devote extensive attention to FARMERS’s daily existence, the persistent frustrations with communications and coordinating supply drops, personnel problems, helping downed airmen escape, sabotage operations, (135) and the ever persistent threat of betrayal that limited FARMER operations. One such betrayal has a special relevance for coauthor Stewart Kent and involves two resistance members, a mother and daughter, Jeanne and Yvonne Pachy—Kent’s grandmother and mother. The women were betrayed to the Gestapo and subsequently imprisoned; Trotobas organized Yvonne’s escape, but Jeanne had already been sent to Ravensbruck, where she perished.
It was also a betrayal that led to Trotobas’s own dramatic death on 27 November 1943. The authors relate those circumstances and their consequences during and after the war.
Agent Michael Trotobas and SOE in Northern France gives a glimpse of SOE field special operations during World War II. It is well documented and, where gaps exist, they are noted. The FARMER operations have resonance today.
Codenamed DORSET: The Wartime Exploits of Major Colin Ogden-Smith, Commando & SOE depicts another side of SOE operations in World War II. Ogden-Smith came from a well-educated, middle class British family. With his two brothers, he joined the army as war loomed in 1939. Ogden-Smith served first with the commandos and then with the Small Scale Raiding Force before joining SOE, where he became the leader (codename DORSET) of Jedburgh team FRANCIS. Author Peter Jacobs, himself a retired RAF navigator, gives Ogden-Smith’s former service some attention, but concentrates on SOE and FRANCIS.
According to Jacobs, the Jedburgh team concept “was the brainchild of SOE.” (91) Each team was to consist of an SOE and an OSS officer (one fluent in French), and a radioman (usually enlisted). Exceptions to this staffing arrangement occurred due to personnel availability; FRANCIS was affected by such constraints and was made up of two Brits and a Frenchman. Their mission was to serve as a link with the local resistance and the invasion forces, to coordinate supply drops, and to conduct sabotage. They were not spies and they wore their national uniforms.
Jacobs reviews the Jedburghs’ training, mainly at Milton Hall, the ancestral home of the Fitzwilliam family. It was here that the other members of FRANCIS—Guy Le Borgne, the French member, and Arthur Dallow, a Brit radioman—were added to team. (105) Their particular mission was to support a Maquis cell in Brittany. On 9 July 1944, team FRANCIS, led by now Major Ogden-Smith, was dropped near the small town of Meslan, southeast of Brest, an area full of Germans. The team landed safely but miles apart, and it was four days before they were reunited. By the end of July, after only brief contact with the Maquis, Ogden-Smith was dead and the FRANCIS mission ended. Le Borgne and Dallow survived, saved by Ogden-Smith’s firing on the attacking Germans while they escaped. Jacobs gives a detailed account of the battle at a farmhouse near the town of Kerbozec where the team had been hiding from the enemy. They had been betrayed to the Germans by a Belgian collaborator, his wife, and son. Le Borgne reported to London that they had been “executed on my orders . . . two days later.” (169)
Codenamed DORSET is well documented with interviews, archival documents, and Ogden-Smith’s personal diary. Jacobs reveals what it was like at the action-end of SOE, and reiterates that betrayal by putative allies is nothing new.
RAF and the SOE: Special Duty Operations in Europe During WW2 is a report prepared by the Air Ministry staff at the end of World War II. It provides a chronological account of how the RAF worked with SOE to supply the weapons, radios, funds, and personnel required to conduct and support operations in the European and Mediterranean theaters during World War II. It was frequently a contentious relationship, since satisfying SOE requests meant diversion of aircraft resources from their traditional RAF mission, and not-infrequent losses only complicated matters. (12) The alternative of letting SOE have its own aircraft was never seriously considered. The report tells how this mission was accomplished with help from the US Air Force, using mostly unarmed single engine aircraft operating to and from makeshift airfields at night, behind enemy lines. Converted bombers were employed to drop supplies and teams of agents. Communication with ground staff was always risky.
The overall numbers are impressive. From 1942 to 1945, “6,700 personnel of 18 different nationalities” were landed or parachuted to the resistance behind enemy lines. Some 33,000 sorties were flown, of which “22,000 were successful and nearly 11,000 were failures.” (105) The report details the flights made to each nation, the relationship with the reception committees, the amount of supplies and personnel delivered or recovered, any difficulties encountered, and the reasons for failures and successes.
The difficulties often resulted from team penetration by the Gestapo. For example, the report discusses actions taken when it was discovered that the “whole SOE organization in Holland was penetrated by the Germans and had been run by the Germans for the last year.” This resulted in the suspension of sorties to Holland. Suspension was also considered for flights to Poland, but for “operational flight hazards” as well as security issues. (50–51)
The concluding chapter assesses the value of the RAF support to resistance, guerrilla, and sabotage operations as expressed by the resistance movements and the allied commanders they supported. RAF and the SOE is the only authoritative account of air support to the SOE. The issues of planning and coordination it discusses remain relevant today.
Agent M: The Lives and Spies of MI5’s Maxwell Knight, by Henry Hemming. (Public Affairs, 2017) 354, endnotes, bibliography, photos, index.
Maxwell Knight was a tad eccentric. After WWI naval service he was a jazz musician, worked for a private intelligence agency, offered his services to the British fascists, and ran a pub. He would later host BBC nature broadcasts (300 for radio, 40 for TV) for young people, all the while keeping as pets mice, a baboon, a mongoose, a parrot, and a bear—a small one—in his apartment. He wrote more than 20 books on natural history, attended séances held by a spiritualist, and after two years of marriage had not consummated the relationship. (57) He also served briefly with MI6, where his unconventional methods were not appreciated. Then, in 1931, he joined the Security Service (MI5) and found a home. In Agent M, author Henry Hemming tells the story the man known within MI5 as “M.”
Knight’s eccentricities were not confined to his personal life. He was self-taught in the field of counterintelligence and security, and he trained each of his agents personally, especially well-educated young women, whose employment, other than as secretaries, was very unusual at the time. His MI5 mission to penetrate the fascists and the Communist Party produced important results, and Hemming gives several examples. One involved H. G. Pollard, whom Knight recruited to work for the Daily Worker—heretofore unreported, and the details of which Hemming discovered in recently released MI5 files.
The Woolwich Arsenal operation where M used his best female agent, Olga Grey, to penetrate the communist NKVD ring working there, is the best known. The principal Soviet agent, Percy Gladding, was caught, but his NKVD handlers escaped; here, Hemming adds nothing new. In the Tyler Kent case, Knight’s agents developed evidence that led to the arrest and conviction of Kent, who had worked as a code clerk in the American embassy, and that of his fellow conspirator, Anna Wolkoff.
Of course the NKVD had recruited agents in MI5, and during World War II, one of Knight’s agents provided clues that led to the identification of a secretary who confessed to “passing on classified information to the Party.” According to Hemming, Knight’s nephew told him that his uncle even suspected Anthony Blunt, but lacked the evidence to raise the issue formally, and never mentioned it to superiors. (277) Whether Knight was just commenting for history after Blunt’s exposure isn’t discussed.
Knight continued to run penetrations of left wing organizations after World War II, but his operations gradually diminished. He retired in 1961 and pursued his many other interests. Hemming concludes that, despite his agent handling skills, his eccentricities assured he would never advance within MI5. (280)
When Ian Fleming published his James Bond books and called the head of the service “M,” there was press speculation that “M” was based on Fleming’s wartime boss, Adm. John Godfrey. Hemming, however, concludes that it was “most likely a nod to Max.” (294) He doesn’t consider another more likely candidate—Stewart Menzies, head of MI6. Fleming never revealed who inspired his choice. Another comparison with a fictional character is true: David Cornwell (later John le Carré) was one of Knight’s promising young officers and also illustrated two of Knight’s books. Citing John le Carré’s biographer, Adam Sisman, Hemming notes that Knight was, however, the inspiration for Jack Brotherhood in The Perfect Spy. (81)
There are several flaws in Agent M worth noting. First, the title is inaccurate, though this is not the fault of the author: Knight was no agent; he was simply a case officer who called himself “M.” Second, Hemming is also prone to using too many distracting “may haves”, “it is possibles”, “in all likelihoods”, where circumstances are unknown. Finally, not all significant details are sourced. (157) Still, Agent M celebrates the unique Maxwell Knight and his agents and is a story well told.
The CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the Early Cold War, by Sarah Harris. (Routledge, 2016) 193, end of chapter notes, index.
“The Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) is widely considered one of CIA’s most daring and effective Cold War covert operations,” wrote Michael Warner, then a CIA historian, in a 1998 article.[2] The following year, British scholar Frances Stonor Saunders took a less positive view in her book, Who Paid The Piper (Granta Books, 1999). She argued that secret CIA funding and manipulation of the CCF was, in the long run, a detriment to the liberal left in countering Soviet cultural propaganda, while contaminating the reputations of the authors, artists, scientists, and philosophers whose works the CCF had promoted. Joel Whitney, in his book Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers (OR Books, 2016), takes a similar position. In 2002, Pierre Grémion, while not mentioning CIA’s role, wrote that he “considered the Congress as an important semi-autonomous transnational organization that contributed a great deal to the intellectual debates of the time.[3] In 2008, Hugh Wilford concluded that “the implication that the CIA exercised complete control over the recipients of their covert largesse” was inaccurate and neglected a more complex reality.[4]
The CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the Early Cold War analyzes these interpretations and complexities from a different perspective. Author Sarah Harris, a Cambridge lawyer with a PhD in international relations, focuses on the contribution of “the man who helped found the Congress, became its de facto manager, and ensured its survival,” Michael Josselson. It was Josselson’s personal contacts with the “intellectuals who flocked” to the CCF and his relationship with the CIA that explain the “positions the Congress took,” and were the “key to the Congress’s successes.” (x)
Josselson had initiated several actions, the most important of which was recommending the CIA provide for a stand-alone “Congress for cultural freedom” in June 1950. The result was a conference, to be held in Berlin, that would “feature non-communist intellectuals, who would hopefully champion Western cultural and political ideals, denounce totalitarianism” and signal to the world that “a critical mass of Western intellectuals adamantly opposed the Soviet system.” Covert funding was also being used by the Soviets for their already-extensive series of front organizations supporting “hundreds of prominent artists writers and scientists . . . dedicated to championing the Soviet Union as the world’s best chance for world peace and its paramount defender of culture.” (1) Curiously, this fact never was accepted by participants as normal.
The Berlin conference was the scene of much controversy between East Germans and the Western attendees—that included Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Hugh Trevor-Roper, Nicolas Nabokov (author Vladimir Nabokov’s cousin), and Arthur Koestler—and among the attendees themselves. As Harris reveals, many of the delegates had participated in previous conferences with the same objective. The best known was sponsored by the Soviets in New York, where communists had dominated the scene. But in the end, the Berlin delegates voted to establish the CCF.
The CCF went on to sponsor more conferences, concerts, books, travel, and magazines all over the world. Its most famous magazine was the British Encounter, co-edited by Bertrand Russell, Stephen Spender, Nancy Mitford, and Isaiah Berlin, among others. The Encounter experience was typical of CCF-supported publications: it sided with the West in the Cold War, and it criticized the United States during the McCarthy era and on other policies.
But the CCF was never a smoothly running organization, and Harris examines this aspect in detail in order to show how Josselson struggled to keep it functioning. There were turf battles within elements of CIA when management changed, and disputes among editors and authors. The most significant, prolonged, and unsuccessful effort to shape CCF policy came from the American Congress of Cultural Freedom, an offshoot of the CCF, led by an ex-communist turned right-wing CIA contractor.
Harris ends her study with an account of the 1967 scandal that exposed the CIA covert funding in the midst of the Vietnam War. She quotes Josselson as he answered the question, “Does the end justify the means?” His response was that the “record of accomplishment does seem to me . . . to justify the means in this case . . . the only thing wrong in the means was the deception I was obliged to practice about the source of funds.” (183)
Harris concludes that the value of the CCF is not just “a question of history, but a moral and political judgment.” (184) The CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the Early Cold War provides a balanced and scrupulously sourced assessment of a singular period in our history.
Inventing Loreta Velasquez: Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist, by William C. Davis. (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016) 358, endnotes, bibliography, photos, index.
In his bibliographic essay, “Companions of Crisis: The Spy Memoir as a Social Document,” former OSS officer and CIA analyst Curtis Carroll Davis, while discussing Civil War espionage, observes that “sooner or later some of its wartime practitioners are constrained, for a variety of reasons, to tell their stories.”[5] He notes 19 autobiographical narratives that appeared after the Civil War, two of which were written in the first person. The first was Nurse and Spy in the Union Army, by Sarah Emma Edmonds—a somewhat embellished account of a woman who posed as male soldier and spy.[6] The second, The Women in Battle, by Loreta Janeta Velazquez[7] “made similar claims on the part of the Confederacy.[8] It is the latter that intrigued Civil War historian William Davis.
While in his 1964 article Curtis Carroll Davis accepted The Women in Battle as a genuine expression of Velasquez’s experiences, William Davis’s thorough and scholarly review of the book identified “obvious errors and impossibilities” in her account that sent him to the archives. (1) It is from these records—mostly press accounts from interviews she frequently gave—that Davis concludes, “we may never know her real birth name, or the true name or the true number and names of all her husbands and her children.” (3) Of her early life, little is known—Davis discusses the speculation to which she contributed—though court records and press stories reveal she was a teenage prostitute and minor criminal who spent time in prison under a variety of names.
A few of the episodes in The Women in Battle that could not be substantiated include claims that she fought with her slave, Bob, in the major battles of 1861 and 1862; her role as a blockade runner and courier; her marriage to a Confederate officer who left her a widow; and her tales of being wounded at Shiloh, where she had a chance to kill Ulysses S. Grant. (165)
It was in September 1861, writes author William Davis, that Velasquez “decided to leave the brothels behind” and become Confederate Lt. Harry Buford, though she seldom hid her femininity from her colleagues. (16) The account of her espionage while “married” to a Confederate officer occupy several chapters in the book and, absent evidence of authenticity, are the basis for much of her post-war reputation. (51ff) And, as Davis points out (probably because The Women in Battle is a singular account), her reputation remains positive to this day. He describes several contemporary social scientists who willingly ignore the story’s false claims and see great value in it as a model for opening dialogue around gender identity issues. (245)
For those who wonder what happened to Velasquez after the war, Davis says she remained a “confidence woman . . . and pioneering female swindler” as she schemed to survive. (3) In 1911, she announced plans for a new edition of The Women in Battle and a book on US-Mexico relations, but neither was to be: suffering from dementia, she was admitted to St. Elizabeth’s mental hospital in Washington, DC, where she died in 1923. (234)
Inventing Loreta Velasquez should relieve any doubts about the authenticity of Velasquez and her book.
LORENZ: Breaking Hitler’s Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park, by Captain Jerry Roberts. (The History Press, 2017) 240, appendices, photos, index.
With the publication of The ULTRA Secret by F. W. Winterbotham in 1974 (Harper and Row), the British acknowledged that the cryptographers at Bletchley Park had successfully decrypted the German military signals encrypted by the Enigma machine and transmitted using Morse code, during most of World War II. The decrypted Enigma material was eventually assigned the codename ULTRA. Winterbotham notes that ULTRA messages “carried the very highest command traffic from Hitler . . . to his High Command, the Chiefs of the Army, Navy and Air Staffs.”[9] But the material processed through Enigma still required manual encryption and decryption.
By 1941, a new machine was in use: the Lorenz, named for the German company that manufactured it, simultaneously enciphered and transmitted the text as it was typed; likewise on the receiving end, decipherment was automatic. The Lorenz replaced the Enigma as the preferred German Geheimschreiber (secret writing) machine during the war, but Bletchley was able to break this system, too. LORENZ tells how they did it.
Author Jerry Roberts worked at Bletchley Park in what was called the Testery, named after British major Ralph Paterson Testery, who headed the team. The intercepted Lorenz traffic was initially codenamed FISH, later TUNNY. The Testery quickly realized this system was far more complicated than Enigma. Gradually they worked out that the Lorenz encoding machine had 12 rotors, compared to Enigma’s four. Roberts’s teammate, Bill Tutte, broke the system in 1942 without ever having seen the Lorenz machine itself. (72) The initial decryption work was done by hand, and Roberts devotes two chapters (Chapters 9 & 10) to explain how that was done. Later, a machine called COLOSSUS was constructed to determine the rotor settings necessary for automatic decryption, and Roberts discusses that, too. (Chapter 11)
LORENZ also has a chapter on the impact of the decrypts on World War II. Roberts credits Lorenz decrypts with alerting the Allies to the upcoming Battle of Kursk. He also comments on their contribution to D-Day preparations. This is of interest since these feats have previously been attributed to Enigma traffic. (129)
The details of the Lorenz device (and at least one variant) were declassified in 2002, and other authors have made reference to its contribution. But Jerry Roberts, the last surviving member of the Testery team, provides the only firsthand account of the team’s work at Bletchley. He also provides biographical details of his pre- and post-war life.
LORENZ fills gaps in the history of Bletchley Park and provides material for future historians who seek to establish more precisely the contribution of codebreaking during World War II.
MacArthur’s Spies: The Soldier, The Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II, by Peter Eisner. (Viking, 2017) 348, endnotes, bibliography, photos, index.
On 2 January 1942, the Japanese army occupied Manila, unopposed. Most of the American and Filipino troops surrendered and some survived the notorious Bataan death march to prison camps. But a few escaped into the hills and formed resistance units that harassed the Japanese. Several civilians remained in Manila and built a network of agents who smuggled supplies to prisoners in POW camps. Both groups collected intelligence for MacArthur.
Years later, while reading about the war in the Philippines, author Peter Eisner came across a reference to a clandestine enterprise “operated by a mysterious woman known to the POWs only as “High Pockets.” (xi) Research led to the discovery of a 1947 book, Manila Espionage (Binfords & Mort, 1947), by Claire Phillips (“High Pockets”). The book purported to tell of her exploits as a spy for the Americans but lacked any source notes. Still, Phillips gained modest post-war celebrity and appeared on This Is Your Life in 1950, then a popular radio show. A film version, I Was An American Spy, reached theaters in 1951, introduced in the movie’s prologue by Gen. Mark Clark, who stated MacArthur had recommended Phillips for the presidential Medal of Freedom. Phillips went on to publicize herself in newspaper interviews and appeared on the Chet Huntley (NBC) evening news program before she disappeared from public view.
Positive publicity notwithstanding, Eisner spotted inconsistencies in her book, plus obvious embellishments in the movie and her interviews. Curious, he went to the National Archives in search of the facts. MacArthur’s Spies is the story of what he found.
The archive files were sparse, but in a bit of scholarly luck, Eisner found Phillips’s handwritten diary of her wartime life. From this and other clues, he learned that Claire Phillips was born Clara Mabel De La Testa, just one of multiple names she would adopt—not all associated with her many marriages. Eisner traces her path to Manila, where she met and later claimed to have married Army private John Phillips, 10 years her junior, shortly before the war. Eisner found no record that she did.
Claire remained in the Manila area after the invasion and, with the help of friends, she began a double life—in more senses than one. One part involved the nightclub, called the Tsubaki, that she did, in fact, operate. It was staffed by young female entertainers who catered to Japanese officers, businessmen, local Filipino collaborators, and—unknown to the Japanese—members of the underground. Eisner tells how she and selected colleagues began intentionally acquiring useful military information from the club’s Japanese patrons that was then passed to the Americans, one of whom was Corporal (later Captain) John Boone, a leader of a guerrilla unit in the mountains. Another was an US Navy officer, Charles Parsons, who lived clandestinely in Manila and maintained contact with MacArthur’s headquarters in Australia. MacArthur’s Spies tells their stories in some detail.
It was the second half of Phillips’s double life that led to her nickname “High Pockets.” Her putative husband was said to be in a POW camp, and with the help of the Red Cross she attempted to locate him to deliver allowable convenience items. She never found him, though, and gave the items to other prisoners; in the process, as she would later claim in her book, she would accept messages from POWs for delivery to the Army, and these she often stuffed in her brassiere, thus expanding her silhouette. The POWs dubbed her “High Pockets,” and she adopted the nickname. (120) Eisner records another, less colorful version of how the nickname originated, given by one of her colleagues, but can’t confirm either story. (286)
The Japanese military security service, the Kempeitai, eventually discovered Phillips’s networks. She, along with her Filipino colleagues, was imprisoned in May 1944. Eisner records the appalling details of their confinement. She was released in February 1945 upon MacArthur’s return.
After her return to the United States and the publication of her book, Phillips’s celebrity status gradually diminished and she sued the government for the expenses she incurred in the operation of her club. Although she won the case, the amount awarded was insufficient to sustain her and she took odd jobs before lapsing into alcoholism, succumbing on 22 May 1960—“almost sixteen years after she was dragged into a dungeon by the Kempeitai.” (288)
MacArthur’s Spies doesn’t totally set the record straight; Claire Phillips told too many variations of her life story for that. But it does establish that she was a loyal American who risked her life for her country during World War II.
A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor, Betrayal, Blame and a Family’s Quest for Justice, by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan. (HarperCollins, 2016) 520, endnotes, bibliography, photos, index.
To most citizens in 1942, “Remember Pearl Harbor” was a patriotic slogan and a song—but not to Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, and LTG Walter C. Short, commander of the US Army, Pacific (Hawaiian Department). Blamed for “dereliction of duty,” they were forced to retire at reduced ranks. They became the focus of public controversy and the objects of several investigations that sought to explain how the disaster could have happened. Courts-martial was considered but ultimately rejected because of the risk of exposing the MAGIC secret (the United States had broken Japan’s diplomatic codes).
A Matter of Honor presents a chronological examination of events in Hawaii, Washington, and Japan that involved—or should have involved—Kimmel and Short from before and just after the attack to the present. They do not absolve Kimmel of responsibility, a position Kimmel himself acknowledged, but they do raise doubts about the treatment Kimmel and Short received, especially from the CNO, Admiral Stark, and question whether others should have shared in the blame—a position Kimmel held.
Some historians and journalists have long speculated on the reasons for surprise at Pearl Harbor, and conspiracy theories emerged early on. Even President Roosevelt was suspect: some claimed the president knew the attack was coming and “ordered that no timely warning be sent to those defending Pearl Harbor.” (26) Others suggested “high officials in Washington knew, before the attack, that Japanese warships were steaming toward Hawaii.” (26) Still others charged that British double agent Dusko Popov had warned the FBI that an attack on Pearl Harbor was coming, and that the Bureau took no action. The authors dismiss these and similar theories for lack of conclusive evidence. The book presents a long list of books and articles about these and other conspiracy theories that have been found wanting. (477)
Adm. Kimmel testified at a post-war investigation and argued he had not been provided with crucial MAGIC intelligence, such as the November 30 message that instructed the Japanese embassies to destroy their codes and files. Still, the Navy did not alter its decision and has not done so to this day.
Three generations of Kimmels have since attempted to correct the record and restore the ranks of both officers (Gen. Short died in 1949). Authors Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan present a long list of very distinguished naval officers, who with the 10,000-member Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, petitioned the Navy Department and the president to take that action—but no avail.
A Matter of Honor does not provide a reason for the Navy’s adamant opposition (which was supported by several presidents), but it does hint that if changes are made, reputations of other distinguished wartime officers would be damaged, necessitating a correction of their testimony and reassessment of their performance, and thus a revision of history. Whether that is a price too high is a decision left to the reader.
Three Minutes To Doomsday: An Agent, A Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in US History, by Joe Navarro. (Scribner, 2017) 349, photos, index.
Clyde Conrad was a US Army sergeant and classified document control NCO serving in West Germany in the mid-1970s when he began selling the Top Secret war plans in his vault to the Hungarian security service. It wasn’t long before CIA sources behind the Iron Curtain reported that sensitive military secrets were being delivered regularly to the Hungarians, and the Army CI element was notified. It took years to track down Conrad and assemble the evidence required to arrest him in 1988. The story of how they accomplished this is told by Col. Stuart Harrington in his book, Traitors Among Us (Presidio Press, 1999).
In describing some significant breakthroughs in the case, Herrington mentioned FBI agent Joe Navarro, who interviewed former Army sergeant, Rod Ramsay, who had worked for Conrad and succeeded him as Top Secret control officer when Conrad retired. Ramsay eventually provided much confirmatory evidence concerning Conrad’s operations and, to everyone’s surprise, added details that were until then unknown.[10] Three Minutes To Doomsday tells that story.
Joe Navarro was something of a maverick FBI agent serving in Florida. A Cuban émigré with a degree from Brigham Young University, he had applied to the Bureau at the suggestion of one of his professors. In 1988, he was assigned to the field office in Tampa, Florida, where he became a member of the SWAT team and a pilot who conducted aerial surveillance. On 23 August 1988, he was tasked to accompany a visiting officer from the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) while he interviewed Roderick James Ramsay about his time working for Conrad.
During the interview, Navarro noticed how Ramsay’s body language suggested he knew something that bothered him, but that he was reluctant to reveal. After the INSCOM officer concluded that there wasn’t much more to learn from Ramsay and returned to Washington, Navarro mentioned his concerns to his supervisor and asked for permission to follow up. His request was approved, but not without an encounter with FBI bureaucracy—the first of many throughout the case that illuminates internal turf wars, centered on credit-sensitive careerists seeking to protect prerogatives.
Three Minutes To Doomsday follows Navarro over the next 20 months as he and two gifted female special agents slowly establish an extraordinary relationship with Ramsay that capitalized on Ramsay’s genius IQ, his photographic memory, and his need for an understanding friend besides his mother. Through a carefully orchestrated series of interviews, they develop such a deep bond of trust and friendship with Ramsay that he unburdens himself about his traitorous behavior without fearing arrest. At the same time, Navarro observes the legal constraints that will permit prosecution if Ramsay confesses. In the end, Ramsay gives up details Conrad had withheld, including the location of Top Secret documents in a secret house, some of which involved nuclear war plans given to the Hungarians and shared with the KGB.
Once the information Ramsay provides is verified, he is arrested. His first response to the arresting officer is, “Does Joe Navarro know about this?” (303)
The bureaucratic and psychological strain on Navarro was severe and he was forced to take sick leave before he could return to work. Curiously, before Navarro put a stop to further communication, Ramsay continued to write and call him from prison, where he was serving a 36-year sentence. An informative, instructive, and valuable counterintelligence contribution.
War in the Desert, by T. E. Lawrence, edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson. (Castle Hill Press, 2016) 404, appendix, frontispiece of Lawrence, no index.
War in the Desert has an unusual history. Its author, T. E. Lawrence, was an eccentric young Oxford archeologist who was commissioned as an intelligence officer at the start of World War I. Sent to Cairo, he served in the Arab Bureau until 1916, when he was designated liaison to the Arab leader who was fomenting a revolt against Turks. Having arranged British support for the Arabs, Lawrence ended up leading the revolt that contributed to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. He returned to Britain as a colonel and a reluctant celebrity known as “Lawrence of Arabia,” thanks to the stories American journalist Lowell Thomas wrote about him. After declining a knighthood, he participated in the Paris Peace Talks, then left the Army and returned to Oxford to write a book about his adventures. Before it was finished, he was tasked to become an advisor to the colonial secretary, Winston Churchill, and he served on the Foreign Office commission that created the Arab countries in the Middle East, which exist in various forms today.
By 1922, Lawrence had returned to Oxford and had finished his book, Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Eight draft copies were printed as proofs in August 1922, and he sent copies to his literary friends Edward Garrett and George Bernard Shaw, asking for their opinions. Two weeks earlier, Lawrence—for reasons still a puzzle—had joined the RAF as an enlisted man. A short time later Lawrence received an offer to publish an abridgement for £7000.00, equivalent to more than £300,000 today. Shaw opposed any abridgement. Garrett proposed to undertake the task and Lawrence agreed, though he made multiple changes. By November 1922, War in the Desert was complete—160,000 words—and Lawrence contemplated leaving the service and devoting himself to other pursuits. Then in January 1923, Lawrence wrote to his publisher withdrawing the book. He gave no reason, though Shaw’s opposition may have been a factor. War in the Desert would wait 93 years before publication.
The idea of an abridged version did not disappear when Lawrence abandoned War in the Desert. Encouragement from friends resulted in a 100-copy, fine press, abridged subscription edition—80,000 words fewer than the Oxford edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom; in 1926, that edition sold for £30.00 (about £1500.00 today). A year later, an abridged trade edition entitled Revolt in the Desert was published. Despite his need for funds to augment his anticipated retirement from the RAF, Lawrence decided not to accept any royalties.
War in the Desert has now been rescued from oblivion. The first seven chapters—omitted from Revolt in the Desert and other abridgments—tell how he wrote his story of the Arab Revolt. The editor’s introduction adds further detail about its origins and disagreements over topics; a table of contents compares the War chapters with those in the Oxford edition, so one can see which have been omitted. However, even if War in the Desert had appeared when originally planned, its publication would probably not have materially influenced subsequent critiques of Lawrence and his writings. For more on this aspect, see Jeremy Wilson’s biography of Lawrence,[11] and Barton Whaley’s assessment in Practise To Deceive.[12]
War in the Desert adds to the Lawrence lore and will be of interest to those who have followed his legendary life. Copies can be obtained from the publisher.
[1] In his published post-war diaries, Meinertzhagen claimed to have placed false war plans in a haversack that successfully deceived the Turks as to the location of the main attack into Palestine. Lockman showed that to be a false claim, but the myth has persisted. See J. N. Lockman, Meinertzhagen’s Diary Ruse: False Entries on T. E. Lawrence (Cornerstone Publications, 1995).
[2] Michael Warner, “Origins of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1949–50” Studies In Intelligence, 38, no. 5 (1995), 89.
[3] Quoted in Giles Scott-Smith, The Politics of Apolitical Culture: The Congress of Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and the Post War American Hegemony (Routledge, 2002), x.
[4] Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wurlitzer: How The CIA Played America (Harvard University Press, 2008), 249.
[5] Curtis Carroll Davis, “Companions of Crisis: The Spy Memoir as a Social Document,” Civil War History, 10, no. 4 (December 1964), 385–400.
[6] Sarah Emma Edmonds, Nurse and Spy in the Union: Army Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle Fields (W. S. Williams & Co. 1865).
[7] Inconsistent spellings of both her given name and surname are documented in Inventing Loreta Velasquez (e.g., Loreta and Lauretta, and Velasquez and Velazquez).
[8] Loreta Janeta Velazquez, The Women in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures of Travels of Mrs. L. J. Velazquez Otherwise Known as Lt. H. T. Buford Confederate States Army, ed. C. J. Worthington (Dustin, Gilman & Co., 1876).
[9] F. W. Winterbotham, The ULTRA Secret (Harper and Row, 1974), 24.
[10] Stuart Harrington, Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catcher’s World (Presidio Press, 1999), 382–384.
[11] Jeremy Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T. E. Lawrence (Atheneum, 1990).
[12] Barton Whaley, Practise To Deceive: Learning Curves of Military Deception Planners, Case #34 (Naval Institute Press, 2016).
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Ranbir, Alia win big at 64th Filmfare Awards
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Mumbai, March 24 (IANS) Bollywood superstars Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt won the best actor awards for their roles in the films "Sanju" and "Raazi" respectively at the 64th Filmfare Awards 2019 on Saturday.
The film "Raazi" won five awards including the category of Best Film, Best Director.
The lovebirds grabbed the attention on the award ceremony at the star-studded night that was graced by Bollywood stars like Sonam Kapoor, Jahnvi Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Sunny Leone, Kajol, Arjun Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Karan Johar -- among many others.
After receiving the best actress award, Alia said, "Meghna for me 'Raazi' is you, your blood and sweat. You are my main chick Vicky without u the film wouldn't be complete. Thank u my mentor Karan for being my mentor, father and my fashion police. Tonight's all about love there my special one, I love you (Ranbir Kapoor)."
While Meghna Gulzar won the Best Director for the film "Raazi", Gulzar won the Best Lyricist award for the song 'Ae Watan'. Arijit Singh won the Best singer for lending his voice for the same song.
Vicky Kaushal won the Best Actor In A Supporting Role for the film "Sanju". He also made his debut as a performer at the Filmfare stage and paid a tribute to the legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan his performance was choreographed by Shiamak Davar.
Ranveer Singh won the Critics Awards for Best Actor for his role in the film "Padmaavat". Dedicating the award to his grandmother, Ranveer said, "I dedicate this award to my nani as it was my nani as favourite character. One day I called my sister and asked what nani is doing, she said that nani is on terrace doing her favourite thing that is watching 'Padmavaat'."
He was present alongside his wife, the gorgeous actress Deepika Padukone.
The film "Badhaai Ho" on the other hand, also won several awards. Neena Gupta bagged the Critics' Award for Best Actor (Female). Gajraj Rao and Surekha Sikri won the Best Actor In A Supporting Role awards. Akshat Ghildial won the Best Dialogue Award for the film.
Ayushmann Khurana starrer Sriram Raghavan's directorial venture "Andhadhun" won the Critics' Award for Best Film.
The Best Debutant award has been given to Sara Ali Khan for "Kedarnath" and Ishaan Khattar for "Beyond The Cloud".
Ishaan said, "I am nervous in between so many huge personalities and thank you all."
After receiving the award Sara said, "I remember when I used to come to watch Filmfare and I had a dream to come on this stage as an actress."
Amar Kaushik won the Best Debut Director award for the film "Stree".
Hema Malini received The Lifetime Achievement Award for completion of 50 years in the Hindi film industry.
During the award ceremony, the film fraternity paid a shradhanjali to the late actress Sridevi.
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Restaurants could be first to get genetically modified salmon
June 21, 2019 / 10:35 AM / AP
AquaBounty is producing the first genetically modified salmon approved for human consumption in the U.S.
Companies are working to transform how Americans eat plants and animals, but consumer advocates urge caution.
AquAdvantage salmon may first show up in restaurants or university cafeterias, which are not required to tell diners their fish are genetically modified.
Inside an Indiana aquafarming complex, thousands of salmon eggs genetically modified to grow faster than normal are hatching into tiny fish. After growing to roughly 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) in indoor tanks, they could be served in restaurants by late next year.
The salmon produced by Maynard, Massachusetts-based AquaBounty are the first genetically modified animals approved for human consumption in the U.S. They represent one way companies are pushing to transform the plants and animals we eat, even as consumer advocacy groups call for greater caution.
AquaBounty hasn't sold any fish in the U.S. yet, but it says its salmon may first turn up in places like restaurants or university cafeterias, which would decide whether to tell diners that the fish are genetically modified.
"It's their customer, not ours," said AquaBounty CEO Sylvia Wulf.
Supercharging growth with DNA
To produce its fish, AquaBounty injected Atlantic salmon with DNA from other fish species that make them grow to full size in about 18 months, which could be about twice as fast as regular salmon. The company says that's more efficient since less feed is required. The eggs were shipped to the U.S. from the company's Canadian location last month after clearing final regulatory hurdles.
As AquaBounty worked through years of government approvals, several grocers including Kroger and Whole Foods responded to a campaign by consumer groups with a vow to not sell the fish.
Already, most corn and soy in the U.S. is genetically modified to be more resistant to pests and herbicides. But as genetically modified salmon make their way to dinner plates, the pace of change to the food supply could accelerate.
This month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to simplify regulations for genetically engineered plants and animals. The move comes as companies are turning to a newer gene-editing technology that makes it easier to tinker with plant and animal DNA.
That's blurring the lines around what should be considered a genetically modified organism, and how such foods are perceived. In 2015, an Associated Press-GfK poll found two-thirds of Americans supported labeling of genetically modified ingredients on food packages. The following year, Congress directed regulators to establish national standards for disclosing the presence of bioengineered foods.
But foods made with the newer gene-editing technique wouldn't necessarily be subject to the regulation, since companies say the resulting plants and animals could theoretically be produced with conventional breeding. And while AquaBounty's salmon was produced with an older technique, it may not always be obvious when people are buying the fish either.
Pushback from safety advocates
The disclosure regulation will start being implemented next year, but mandatory compliance doesn't start until 2022. And under the rules, companies can provide the disclosures through codes people scan with their phones. The disclosure also would note that products have "bioengineered" ingredients, which advocacy groups say could be confusing.
"Nobody uses that term," said Amy van Saun of the Center for Food Safety, who noted "genetically engineered" or "genetically modified" are more common.
.@AquaBountyTech's GE salmon eggs are hatching at the Indiana facility. Today I got to seem them up close. Can't wait to share my newest story on the company and its fish very soon hopefully. pic.twitter.com/NeX1PTzmht
— Samantha Horton (@SamHorton5) June 19, 2019
The Center is suing over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of AquaBounty's salmon, and it is among the groups that asked grocers to pledge they wouldn't sell the fish.
The disclosure rules also do not apply to restaurants and similar food service establishments. Greg Jaffe of the Center for Science in the Public Interest noted that AquaBounty's fish will represent a tiny fraction of the U.S. salmon supply, and that many people may not care whether they're eating genetically modified food. Still, he said restaurants could make the information available to customers who ask about it.
"The information should not be hidden," Jaffe said.
AquaBounty's Wulf noted its salmon has already been sold in Canada, where disclosure is not required. She said the company believes in transparency but questioned why people would want to know whether the fish are genetically modified.
"It's identical to Atlantic salmon, with the exception of one gene," she said.
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A group of nine financial companies has announced plans to launch their own trading market.
A group of nine financial companies has come forward with plans to launch their own trading market dubbed the Members Exchange, aiming to bypass the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq.
The goal, according to the founding members, is to reduce costs and simplify trading.
The firms include Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investment, UBS, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Approval is not expected until at least 2020, but the firms, which will enjoy collective ownership, said they would file papers with the US market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission, early this year.
Douglas Cifu, Chief Executive of another firm involved in the Members Exchange, Virtu Financial, was quoted by the BBC as saying: “The launching of MEMX is a testament to the market-wide demand for competition, innovation, and transparency.”
At the same time, the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), which represents companies that operate exchanges, defended the current system in a statement Monday, saying exchanges create the data and set fees based on its value to the customer.
The idea has been tried before. In 2008, investment banks in Europe set up an exchange called Turquoise, in a similar effort to increase competition. Although loss-making, it gained a 7% share of the market before being taken over by the London Stock Exchange.
In the US, the IEX Group launched a new national stock exchange in 2016. Known as the Investors Exchange, it currently claims about 2.6% of the market.
Three big companies dominate the rest of the market: the Nasdaq; the Intercontinental Exchange, which runs the New York Stock Exchange; and the CBOE, which focuses more on options contracts and currency exchanges.
Shares in Intercontinental Exchange fell more than 2% after the Members Exchange announcement on Monday. Shares in Nasdaq dropped 2.6% while the CBOE fell 1.9%.
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The Story Behind How Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood Met and Fell in Love
The pair will celebrate their 11-year wedding anniversary on December 10.
By Maria Carter
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are currently country music's reigning power couple, but did you know the two have been friends since before either singer was signed by a record label?
The pair met in 1987 while recording a demo at songwriter Kent Blazy's attic studio and immediately hit it off. "It's strange because I felt that feeling like when you just meet your wife, but I'd been married [to Sandy Mahl] for 13 months," Garth said of their first meeting in a 2013 interview on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. (Trisha was also married at the time, to musician Chris Latham.)
On the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, 1997.
Garth promised Trisha that she could open for him once he got a record deal, according to CMT. Two years later, following the release of his first album, Garth kept his word and the two friends went on tour together. They also collaborated on duets such as "Like We Never Had a Broken Heart," from Trisha's debut album, and "In Another's Eyes," which appeared on her 1997 record, A Collection of Hits.
In 2000, Garth retired to spend more time with his daughters. A year later, he and Sandy filed for divorce. (By that point, Trisha had divorced, remarried, and split with her second husband, bass player Bobby Reynolds.)
Quietly and away from the public eye, romance began to blossom for the longtime friends. In 2002, they were spotted holding hands at a memorial service for Nashville songwriter Harlan Howard—their first public acknowledgment of their feelings for each other. After that, they made appearances together here and there, at events and restaurants.
Speaking with Ellen DeGeneres about the dissolution of his first marriage and his burgeoning relationship with Trisha, Garth has said: "You keep hacking [at marriage], you work and you work and then comes that time where you're looking at the rest of your life going, how do you want to live it? [Trisha] is somebody who I always enjoyed being around, and we had a lot more in common than I ever dreamed we did and we started seeing each other after the divorce, after we came off tour."
The couple got engaged in 2005 at Hee Haw star Buck Owens' Crystal Palace, a country music venue in Bakersfield, California. They were there for the unveiling of bronze statues of Garth and fellow music legends Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and Elvis. When Garth's statue was revealed, the likeness featured a wedding band on its left hand—a dead giveaway of what was about to happen. "You're not going [to do this] in front of these people?" Trisha asked, mock pouting.
Volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in 2007.
On stage, in front of a crowd of 7,000 people, Garth got down on one knee, removed his hat, and asked, "Will you marry me?" Even though they'd been living together for years at that point, friends say Trisha was stunned."Her knees were like Jell-O," talent coordinator Jerry Hufford told People.
She said yes, of course, all the while shedding tears of joy. They tied the knot later that year at their Oklahoma home, in the presence of just four family members.
On stage during a performance at the 50th Annual CMA Awards.
Since then, the couple has proven that their partnership is a strong one. They've toured together, performed at the CMA Awards together, and, most recently, released their first joint album: a collection of holiday songs called Christmas Together. They will celebrate their 11-year wedding anniversary on Dec. 10.
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The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines food additives as ‘any substance, the intended use of which results or may reasonably be expected to result, directly or indirectly, in its becoming a component or otherwise affecting the characteristics of any food.’ In other words, an additive is any substance that is added to food.
Types of ingredients
Examples of uses
Names found on product labels
Preservatives Prevent food spoilage from bacteria, molds, fungi, or yeast (antimicrobials); slow or prevent changes in color, flavor, or textur and delay rancidity (antioxidants); maintain freshness Fruit sauces and jellies, beverages, baked goods, cured meats, oils and margarines, cereals, dressings, snack foods, fruits and vegetables Ascorbic acid, citric acid, sodium benzoate, calcium propionate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite,calcium sorbate, potassium sorbate, BHA, BHT, EDTA, tocopherols (Vitamin E)
Sweeteners Add sweetness with or without the extra calories Beverages, baked goods, confections, table-top sugar, substitutes, many processed foods Sucrose (sugar), glucose, fructose, sorbitol, mannitol, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, saccharin, aspartame, sucralose, acesulfame potassium (acesulfame-K), neotame
Color Additives Offset color loss due to exposure to light, air, temperature extremes, moisture and storage conditions;correct natural variations in color;enhance colors that occur naturally;provide color to colorless and “fun”foods Many processed foods (candies, snack foods margarine, cheese, soft drinks, jams/jellies, gelatins, pudding and pie fillings) FD&C Blue Nos. 1 and 2, FD&C Green No. 3, FD&C Red Nos. 3 and 40, FD&C Yellow Nos. 5 and 6, Orange B, Citrus Red No. 2, annatto extract, beta-carotene, grape skin extract, cochineal extract or carmine, paprika oleoresin, caramel color, fruit and vegetable juices, saffron (Note: Exempt color additives are not required to be declared by name on labels but may be declared simply as colorings or color added)
Flavors and Spices Add specific flavors (natural and synthetic) Pudding and pie fillings, gelatin dessert mixes, cake mixes, salad dressings, candies, soft drinks, ice cream, BBQ sauce Natural flavoring, artificial flavor, and spices
Flavor Enhancers Enhance flavors already present in foods (without providing their own separate flavor) Many processed foods Monosodium glutamate (MSG), hydrolyzed soy protein, autolyzed yeast extract, disodium guanylate or inosinate
Fat Replacers (and components of formulations used to replace fats) Provide expected texture and a creamy “mouth-feel” in reduced-fat foods Baked goods, dressings, frozen desserts, confections, cake and dessert mixes, dairy products Olestra, cellulose gel, carrageenan, polydextrose, modified food starch, microparticulated egg white protein, guar gum, xanthan gum, whey protein concentrate
SOURCE: Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Direct additives are those that are intentionally added to foods for a specific purpose. Indirect additives are those to which the food is exposed during processing, packaging, or storing. Preservatives are additives that inhibit the growth of bacteria, yeasts, and molds in foods.
Additives and preservatives have been used in foods for centuries. When meats are smoked to preserve them, compounds such as butylated hydroxya-nisole (BHA) and butyl gallate are formed and provide both antioxidant and bacteriostatic effects. Salt has also been used as a preservative for centuries. Salt lowers the water activity of meats and other foods and inhibits bacterial growth. Excess water in foods can enhance the growth of bacteria, yeast, and fungi. Pickling, which involves the addition of acids such as vinegar, lowers the pH of foods to levels that retard bacterial growth. Some herbs and spices, such as curry, cinnamon, and chili pepper, also contain antioxidants and may provide bactericidal effects.
Uses of Additives and Preservatives in Foods
Additives and preservatives are used to maintain product consistency and quality, improve or maintain nutritional value, maintain palatability and wholesome-ness, provide leavening, control pH, enhance flavor, or provide color. Food additives may be classified as:.
Antimicrobial agents, which prevent spoilage of food by mold or microorganisms. These include not only vinegar and salt, but also compounds such as calcium
Nutrients Replace vitamins and minerals lost in processing (enrichment), add nutrients that may be lacking in the diet (fortification) Flour, breads, cereals, rice, macaroni, margarine, salt, milk, fruit beverages, energy bars, instant breakfast drinks Thiamine hydrochloride, riboflavin (Vitamin B2), niacin, niacinamide, folate or folic acid, beta carotene, potassium iodide, iron or ferrous sulfate, alpha tocopherols,ascorbic acid, Vitamin D, amino acids (L-tryptophan, L-lysine, L-leucine, L-methionine)
Emulsifiers Allow smooth mixing of ingredients, prevent separation. Keep emulsified products stable, reduce stickiness, control crystallization, keep ingredients dispersed, and help products dissolve more easily Salad dressings, peanut butter, chocolate, margarine, frozen desserts Soy lecithin, mono- and diglycerides, egg yolks, polysorbates, sorbitan monostearate
Stabilizers and thickeners, binders, texturizers Produce uniform texture, improve “mouth-feel” Frozen desserts, dairy products, cakes, pudding and gelatin mixes, dressings, jams and jellies, sauces Gelatin, pectin, guar gum, carrageenan, xanthan gum, whey
pH Control agents and acidulants Control acidity and alkalinity, prevent spoilage Beverages, frozen desserts, chocolate, low-acid canned foods, baking powder Lactic acid, citric acid, ammonium hydroxide, sodium carbonate
Leavening agents Promote rising of baked goods Breads and other baked goods Baking soda, monocalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate
Anti-caking agents Keep powdered foods free-flowing, prevent moisture absorption Salt, baking powder, confectioner’s sugar Calcium silicate, iron ammonium citrate, silicon dioxide
Humectants Retain moisture Shredded coconut, marshmallows, soft candies, confections Glycerin, sorbitol
Yeast nutrients Promote growth of yeast Breads and other baked goods Calcium sulfate, ammonium phosphate
Dough strengtheners and conditioners Produce more stable dough Breads and other baked goods Ammonium sulfate, azodicarbonamide, L-cysteine
Firming agents Maintain crispness and firmness Processed fruits and vegetables Calcium chloride, calcium lactate
Enzyme preparations Modify proteins, polysaccharides and fats Cheese, dairy products, meat Enzymes, lactase, papain, rennet, chymosin
Gases Serve as propellant, aerate, or create carbonation Oil cooking spray, whipped cream, carbonated beverages Carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide
propionate and sorbic acid, which are used in products such as baked goods, salad dressings, cheeses, margarines, and pickled foods
Antioxidants, which prevent rancidity in foods containing fats and damage to foods caused by oxygen. Examples of antioxidants include vitamin C, vitamin E, BHA, BHT (butylated hydroxytolene), and propyl gallate
Artificial colors, which are intended to make food more appealing and to provide certain foods with a color that humans associate with a particular flavor (e.g., red for cherry, green for lime)
Aritificial flavors and flavor enhancers, the largest class of additives, function to make food taste better, or to give them a specific taste. Examples are salt, sugar, and vanilla, which are used to complement the flavor of certain foods. Synthetic flavoring agents, such as ben-zaldehyde for cherry or almond flavor, may be used to simulate natural flavors. Flavor enhancers, such as monosodium glutamate (MSG) intensify the flavor of other compounds in a food
Bleaching agents, such as peroxides, are used to whiten foods such as wheat flour and cheese
Chelating agents, which are used to prevent discoloration, flavor changes, and rancidity that might occur during the processing of foods. Examples are citric acid, malic acid, and tartaric acid
Nutrient additives, including vitamins and minerals, are added to foods during enrichment or fortification. For example, milk is fortified with vitamin D, and rice is enriched with thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin
Thickening and stabilizing agents, which function to alter the texture of a food. Examples include the emul-sifier lecithin, which, keeps oil and vinegar blended in salad dressings, and carrageen, which is used as a thickener in ice creams and low-calorie jellies
Regulating Safety of Food Additives and Preservatives
Based on the 1958 Food Additives Amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act of 1938, the FDA must approve the use of all additives. The manufacturer bears the responsibility of proving that the additive is safe for its intended use. The Food Additives Amendment excluded additives and preservatives deemed safe for consumption prior to 1958, such as salt, sugar, spices, vitamins, vinegar, and monosodium glutamate. These substances are considered ‘generally recognized as safe’ (GRAS) and may be used in any food, though the FDA may remove additives from the GRAS list if safety concerns arise. The 1960 Color Additives Amendment to the FD&C Act required the FDA to approve synthetic coloring agents used in foods, drugs, cosmetics, and certain medical devices. The Delaney Clause, which was included in both the Food Additives Amendment and Color Additives Amendment, prohibited approval of any additive that had been found to cause cancer in humans or animals. However, in 1996 the Delaney Clause was modified, and the commissioner of the FDA was charged with assessing the risk from consumption of additives that may cause cancer and making a determination as to the use of that additive.
The FDA continually monitors the safety of all food additives as new scientific evidence becomes available. For example, use of erythrosine (FD&C Red No. 3) in cosmetics and externally applied drugs was banned in 1990 after it was implicated in the development of thyroid tumors in male rats. However, the cancer risk associated with FD&C Red No. 3 is about 1 in 100,000 over a seventy-year lifetime, and its use in some foods, such as candies and maraschino cherries, is still allowed. Tartrazine (FD&C Yellow No. 5) has been found to cause dermatological reactions ranging from itching to hives in a small population subgroup. Given the mild nature of the reaction, however, it still may be used in foods.
Nitrites are also a controversial additive. When used in combination with salt, nitrites serve as antimicrobials and add flavor and color to meats. However, nitrite salts can react with certain amine in food to produce nitrosamines, many of which are known carcinogens. Food manufacturers must show that nitrosamines will not form in harmful amounts, or will be prevented from forming, in their products. The flavoring enhancer MSG is another controversial food additive. MSG is made commercially from a natural fermentation process using starch and sugar.
Bacteria—Single-celled organisms without nuclei, some of which are infectious.
Bactericidal—A state that prevents growth of bacteria.
Bateriostatic—A substance that kills bacteria.
Carcinogen—A cancer-causing substance.
Enrichment—The addition of vitamins and minerals to improve the nutritional content of a food.
Fermentation—A reaction performed by yeast or bacteria to make alcohol.
Fortification—The addition of vitamins and minerals to improve the nutritional content of a food.
Leavening—Yeast or other agents used for rising bread.
Microorganism—Bacteria and protists; single-celled organisms.
Despite anecdotal reports of MSG triggering headaches or exacerbating asthma, the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Health Organization, the European Community’s Scientific Committee for Food, the American Medical Association, and the National Academy of Sciences have all affirmed the safety of MSG at normal consumption levels.
In the United States, food additives and preservatives play an important role in ensuring that the food supply remains the safest and most abundant in the world. A major task of the FDA is to regulate the use and approval of thousands of approved food additives, and to evaluate their safety. Despite consumer concern about use of food additives and preservatives, there is very little scientific evidence that they are harmful at the levels at which they are used.
In Europe, food additives and preservatives are evaluated by the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Food. Regulations in European Union countries are similar to those in the United States. The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Food Additives work together to evaluate the safety of food additives, as well as contaminants, naturally occurring toxicants, and residues of veterinary drugs in foods. Acceptable Daily Intakes (ADIs) are established on the basis of toxicology and other information.
Branen, A. Larry. Food Additives, 2nd edition. New York: Marcel Dekker, 2002.
Clydesdale, Fergus M. Food Additives: Toxicology, Regulation, and Properties. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1997.
Potter, Norman N., and Hotchkiss, Joseph H. Food Science, 5th edition. New York: Chapman & Hall, 1995.
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Commodore is no fan of Babcock's
Jan 27, 2009 at 12:01 AM Jan 27, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Blue Jackets defenseman Mike Commodore has relied on several sources of motivation to transform him from a minor-league prospect to an established NHL veteran.
One of them will be standing behind the visitors' bench tonight in Nationwide Arena.
Detroit Red Wings coach Mike Babcock played a role in making Commodore a better defenseman. But as appreciation rates go, Commodore's is about on par with Enron stock.
"Mike Babcock was without a doubt an obstacle in my career," said Commodore of the coach who traded him from Anaheim to Calgary in 2003.
"I wanted to prove him wrong, I'm not going to lie. I used him as big-time motivation. I thought he put his best foot forward to bury me."
Commodore's perceived injustice -- the kind that can be found in almost every NHL locker room -- adds intrigue to the Blue Jackets-Red Wings rivalry. The outspoken defenseman now gets to face his former coach six times a season.
In one breath, Commodore says "it's water under the bridge," and in the next concedes, "I still get fired up talking about it."
Commodore's story is a familiar one to many players and a hazy one to many coaches who make judgments on countless prospects in their organizations.
Jackets coach Ken Hitchcock said he has had about 20 players over the years tell him that decisions he made were used as future incentive.
Babcock had no idea he was such a motivational tool for Commodore.
"The only thing I ever questioned about Mike was his conditioning," Babcock said. "In my mind, Mike always has been a quality guy. When he came up, I didn't think he was in condition. That's it."
Babcock was a rookie NHL coach during the 2002-03 season and Commodore had just arrived via a trade from New Jersey. Commodore, who had played 57 NHL games for the Devils, said Babcock screamed at him during a drill on the first day of training camp. Commodore later watched as a player fresh from junior hockey, Kurt Sauer, got promoted ahead of him.
"It didn't take long before I knew I had a one-way ticket to (minor-league affiliate) Cincinnati," Commodore said.
He admits he took a poor attitude to the minors, where he spent three or four nights a week drinking. The Ducks recalled Commodore twice, but he never played in a game.
The defenseman says Babcock ripped him in the media, although he can't recall the particulars.
"It was something to the effect that I had no business in the league," Commodore said. "My (father) is still mad about it."
Babcock traded Commodore to Calgary in a deal that brought forward Rob Niedermayer to Anaheim. The then-Mighty Ducks reached the Stanley Cup Finals that year, losing to New Jersey in seven games.
"That was tough for me to take," Commodore said, laughing. "Both teams had traded me. I didn't watch much of those Finals."
Commodore says Babcock's comments about his midseason conditioning had validity. He arrived at camp the next season in excellent shape and helped the Flames reach the Cup Finals in 2004. He won the title with Carolina in 2006.
One of the first people Commodore thought about when lifting the Cup was Babcock.
"Over the years, guys remember certain things about coaches, and that's fine," Babcock said. "Mike always has had a great attitude and an infectious personality."
Commodore has run into Babcock at several golf outings, but never mentioned his gripe. Their career paths have followed a similar trajectory, each making it twice to the Cup Finals.
"He has done very well for himself," Commodore said of Babcock, who won the Cup with Detroit last year. "You can't deny he has had a good career."
In 1986, Hitchcock was coaching junior hockey and traded away five players to get future NHL star Mark Recchi. In the first game against his former players, two of them tossed pucks at Hitchcock on the bench after scoring goals.
Commodore won't be tossing pucks tonight. And probably not any thank yous.
treed@dispatch.com
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VIDEO AND PHOTOS: Take That musical set to come to Southampton
Take That set to bring musical to Southampton
By Lorelei Reddin
TAKE That will bring their new musical The Band to Southampton as part of a UK tour this autumn.
Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald, with co-producers David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers, made the announcement yesterday on stage at Manchester Apollo where Take That first performed in 1992.
It followed a rapturous reception to a rehearsed reading of the new musical in front of an audience of invited guests, from fans to friends, including the Daily Echo.
Gary Barlow explained: "It's new for us to stand in the audience and watch our music being performed. I'm falling in love with the show, we're very proud of it. It's a celebration of our music, brilliantly written. It'll make you feel like you're 15 again!"
Mark Owen added: "It is the story of Take That. We're in it from the beginning to the end. We met those kids when they were 16 years old outside our houses and at our gigs. We've seen them grow up and they've stayed with us. It's really about the people who have supported us for 25 years. It's wonderful to be a part of."
Howard Donald told the Daily Echo: "I cry every time I see it! We're so proud of it. We talked about this when we did the Circus tour and said we have to do a musical and here it is. Being back here again sends a shiver up my back."
The Band is a new Tim Firth musical featuring the music of Take That about what it’s like to grow up with a boyband. For five 16 year-old friends in 1992, ‘the band’ is everything. Quarter of a century later, we are reunited with the group of friends, now 40-something women, as they try once more to fulfil their dream of meeting their heroes.
Based on a true story, the idea came about after Take That received a moving letter from a lifelong fan. Other original Take That members Robbie Williams and Jason Orange are being consulted as the show takes shape.
The Band will be played by AJ Bentley, Nick Carsberg, Yazdan Qafouri Isfahani, Curtis T Johns and Sario Watanabe-Soloman, who, as Five to Five, won BBC’s Let It Shine.
Playing the parts of Rachel and Young Rachel will be Rachel Lumberg and Faye Christall.
Take That, one of the world's biggest boy bands turned manband with hits including Back For Good, Rule The World, Never Forget and The Flood, have a number of Hampshire connections. Howard lives in Ringwood and Mark is a Petersfield resident.
Theatre bosses are hoping both stars will see the show when it arrives at Mayflower Theatre from October 31 to November 11.
Tickets go on sale at midday today.
Call 023 8071 1811 or visit mayflower.org.uk
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Given set to leave hospital
Last updated at 12:26 22 September 2006
Newcastle goalkeeper Shay Given is expected to leave hospital tomorrow as he continues his recovery from surgery to repair a tear in his bowel.
The 30-year-old Irishman had an operation in London on Monday a day after being injured in a collision with West Ham striker Marlon Harewood.
Magpies boss Glenn Roeder has been in touch with Given, and today revealed he should be discharged from hospital tomorrow before heading back to the north-east.
Roeder said: "Shay will be leaving hospital in the morning and be travelling back up to Newcastle. He has started to feel a lot better over the last couple of days.
"Even after the operation, he was in a fair amount of pain from surgery and needed to keep taking the pain-killers. I have spoken to him every day and he is feeling a lot better."
Given will be out for around six weeks, but will begin his rehabilitation over the next few days.
Roeder said: "Once we get him back up here at the weekend, then probably early next week, he can come back to the training ground.
"I know the surgeon and he said he had done a neat and tidy job, made the incision as small as possible so he can recover as quickly as possible.
"We are probably looking at around six weeks until Shay will be fit again."
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