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Australia Name Their World Cup Squad
The reigning world champions Australia have become the first country to name their world cup squad for the World Cup in the UK in 2011. The team which will try and defend their crown is Jodi Tiver (WA), Sandra Weston (NSW), Alison Mathie (NSW), Suzette Thomas (WA), Cameron Shepherd (QLD), Will Weston (NSW), Robert Sibley (WA) and Lance Anderson (NSW).
No one from outside the big three states, New South Wales (NSW), Western Australia (WA) and Queensland (QLD), features in the squad and it is mainly dominated by the two states which were dominant at the Australia Nationals in March, NSW and WA. QLD have just one representative in Cameron Shepherd, who also represented Australia at the Quadrangular series in 2010. He actually came into that quadrangular squad as a late replacement after Robert Sibley had to pull out due to the tragic death of his two best horses but now Sibley has also returned to the squad.
Perhaps the biggest shock is the fact there is no place in the squad for Lance’s brother Chris who was one of the best number 3’s at the Australian Nationals along with Will Weston. In the men’s section Australia have opted for 3 number 1’s and only one specialist number 3 in Will Weston, while in the ladies they seemed to have done the opposite.
So with Australia having declared their team now all that is left to do is to see if it is yet another world beating squad. It isn’t that different to the team who won the Quadrangular, with the perhaps the biggest difference being the absence of Chris Anderson, so if the other top countries in the world haven’t improved since then then Australia could probably be looking at their third straight World Cup victory.
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Reviewing Public Expenditure in Secondary Education
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Reviewing Public Expenditure in Secondary Education (OECD advice for Latin American countries)
Description: The OECD advises that improved access to public education and higher education may help Latin American countries to achieve long-run GDP growth and enhanced democratic governance.
Commentary: Public spending on education is relatively high in Latin American countries, yet the per-pupil spending is far from OECD benchmarks. Most government spending is channelled to the primary education sector, and the tertiary and secondary education sectors receive minimal support. In contrast, in OECD countries, the bulk of public spending on education is chanelled to the upper-secondary sector. Latin American countries also face demographic challenges, as the demand for primary education is increasing in these countries, while the OECD countries have experienced a decade of decline. The demographic problem may partially explain the Latin American countries’ focus on primary education as they strive to ensure that all citizens obtain at least the basic level of education. But, inequalities in access to education as well as discrepancy in school attendance still prevail in most Latin American countries, making universal enrollment in secondary education institutions hard to achieve. Latin American countries also score differently on international tests which measure learning outscomes of school children.
When it comes to evaluating the performance of an education system and government policies on education, the OECD provides the following recommendations:
Comparing the success rates of students to understand the relationship between funding, performance and equity. The conclusions from PISA studies in OECD countries suggest that in order to improve education policies, contries need to promote science in school, make school admissions more academically selective, make school achievement data available to public and increase the time students spend at school and at home doing homework.
Evaluate the proportion of students pursuing studies at graduate levels to measure the system’s ability to produce students who later engage in Research and Development and successfully contribute to innovation and technology. If the proportion of students at this level is low, then the country’s educational system is failing to succeed at nurturing talent.
Evaluate the performance of students while taking into consideration their socio-economic background. If students from different backgrounds perform at similar levels, then the educational system can be described as equitable.
Spending on public education should only be a single factor of many that play a role in improving academic performance and equality of opportunity. Spending more on education does not automatically guarantee improved academic performance.
Specifically, for Latin American countries, the OECD suggests channeling more resources to secondary schools, as many students leave secondary school before competing it. Latin American countries would also benefit from research and analysis of educational policies at regional level, in order to channel public funds to where they are needed the most.
Source: OECD (2008). Latin American Economic Outlook, “Best Practice in Public Expenditure: the Example of Education," at http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/development/latin-american-economic-outlook-2009/best-practice-in-public-expenditure_leo-2009-8-en (accessed 28 October 2012).
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New EU-procurement rules place more emphasis on environmental considerations, social aspects and innovation
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New EU rules on public procurement and concession contracts approved by Parliament on Wednesday will ensure better quality and value for money when public authorities buy or lease works, goods or services. They will also make it easier for small and medium-sized firms to bid and include tougher provisions on subcontracting.
The new legislation, already agreed with Council in June 2013, overhauls the current EU public procurement rules and for the first time sets common EU standards on concession contracts to boost fair competition and ensure best value for money by introducing new award criteria that place more emphasis on environmental considerations, social aspects and innovation.
Public authorities spend around 18% of GDP on procuring works, goods or services, making procurement a powerful lever for achieving specific societal goals. "The new rules send a strong signal to citizens, who have the right to see public money used effectively," said Parliament's rapporteur for procurement, Marc Tarabella (S&D, BE).
"New rules on concessions contracts are also a strong signal in favour of a reinforcement of the internal market. They set up a healthy economic environment from which all actors, including public authorities, economic operators and, in the end, EU citizens, will benefit: now the rules of the game will be known to everyone," added Philippe Juvin (EPP, FR), rapporteur for concessions contracts.
Thanks to the new criterion of the "most economically advantageous tender" (MEAT) in the award procedure, public authorities will be able to put more emphasis on quality, environmental considerations, social aspects or innovation while still taking into account the price and life-cycle-costs of what is procured. "The new criteria will put an end to the dictatorship of the lowest price and once again make quality the central issue," Mr Tarabella explained.
More innovative solutions
MEPs successfully championed the introduction of an entirely new procedure to strengthen innovative solutions in public procurement. The new "Innovation Partnership" will allow public authorities to call for tenders to solve a specific problem without pre-empting the solution, thus leaving room for the contracting authority and the tenderer to come up with innovative solutions together.
Less red tape for bidders and easier access for smaller companies
The bidding procedure for companies will be simpler, with a standard "European Single Procurement Document" based on self-declarations. Only the winning bidder will have to provide original documentation. This should reduce the administrative burden on companies by over 80%, the Commission estimates. The new rules also encourage the division of contracts into lots to make it easier for smaller firms to bid.
Tougher rules on subcontracting
To fight social dumping and ensure that workers' rights are respected, the new laws will include rules on subcontracting and tougher provisions on "abnormally low bids". Contractors that do not abide by EU labour laws may be excluded from bidding.
No push to privatise public services
The deal on new EU rules for concessions stresses that member states remain free to decide how they want public works or services to be performed – in-house or outsourced to private companies. The new directive "does not require the privatisation of public enterprises providing services to the public", the text adds. In addition, MEPs acknowledged the special nature of water as a public good and therefore accepted the exclusion of this sector from the scope of the new rules.
The directives will enter into force 20 days after publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. After this date, member states will have 24 months to implement the provisions of the new rules into national law.
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'They’re quite strict on education': Love Island's Anna Vakili on her Middle Eastern upbringing and how her parents felt about her leaving a pharmaceutical career behind
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Saturday 1 June 2019
Love Island 2019's line-up offers arguably the most diverse selection of contestants’ careers in Love Island history with a scientist, pharmacist, engineer, catering company manager and surfer all among the roster.
As passionate feminists here at GLAMOUR HQ, it goes without saying that for us we’re all about championing women. As well as welcoming different young professionals to the show, Love Island undoubtedly offers a unique platform for successful women to further their career afterwards too.
So when GLAMOUR jetted out to the Mallorcan villa to meet this year's cast, we couldn't help but grill them on their decision to leave behind the careers they'd worked so hard for to swan off to the sun. One of this year's contestants, Anna Vakili, 28, from London, left behind a career in pharmacy that she spent 5 years studying for, so is she leaving the career firmly back in the UK?
"The honest answer is that I don’t really want to go back to pharmacy. It was five years of training, so long, but I think I knew throughout the whole time it wasn’t for me. Coming from a Middle Eastern background, they’re quite strict on education and you have to do pharmacy, medicine or dentistry.
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"I wouldn’t say my parents were over the moon with me going on the show, ‘woo, we forced her to do pharmacy and now she’s going on reality TV’, but they’re not against it either. They’re like, 'we forced her to do that and if she wants to take her route, we have to let her spread her wings'.
"They just want to make sure I’m doing the right thing. My dad is kind of a little bit excited. He doesn’t want to say it, but he came home with the Daily Star the other day and was like ‘It’s you!' I’m looking after this forever’. You can tell he’s excited, but you can tell he doesn’t really know what Love Island is.
"You won’t believe it, but he wrote me little notes and stuck it in my suitcase. I opened it up and it’s like political stuff saying ‘Anna, you have to mention that women have been oppressed by men’ and I don’t think he understands what it’s about. No, I won’t talk about it because it’s so random."
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Anna is also hoping to bring her 'Middle Eastern spice' to the villa, revealing: "I don’t think they’ve ever had a Middle Eastern girl before, so I’ve got that bit of Middle Eastern spice. I’m a bit curvier than some of the girls that have been on before, so I’m repping it for the curvy girls, too. And because I’m a pharmacist, I’m very different… Dr Alex was like a proper doctor, whereas I feel you don’t have to be a medical professional and still be really serious and formal – you can have both worlds. You can be smart and professional, but at the same time have fun. And you can wear what you want, too."
Cheers to women owning their beauty, brains and sexuality.
Follow all the latest Love Island news, meet the rest of the Love Island 2019 cast and check out our behind the scenes look at the villa.
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Rep. Gomberg weighs in on general election state ballot measures
Tillamook County Pioneer
I’ve always believed I should tell people where I stand on difficult issues, and why I stand there.
With the Nov. 8 general election looming, this a good time to outline six of the measures you will be voting on next month. Some of these are referrals from the Legislature that require voter approval. Others are initiatives that were submitted by signed petitions for you to vote on. All of them are important and deserving of your careful consideration.
Measure 100
Measure 100 would prohibit the sale of products from 12 species of endangered animals.
It sounds crazy, but this is a major issue in Oregon, where illegal ivory, horns, animal paws, turtle shells and shark fins are exported to Asia. I strongly supported this bill in the Legislature, but time ran out to pass it. Advocates then collected signatures to place it on your ballot. I remain a strong supporter.
The Humane Society of the United States is a major sponsor of this initiative, and has three times named me Oregon Legislator of the Year.
Ballots should arrive in late October. You will also receive your Oregon Voter’s Pamphlet. This is a unique election, where nearly all of our statewide offices will be selected. We will help choose a new president, and across the state, we’ll fill offices for county commissions, judges, city councils, school boards and a variety of other important local positions. Remind your friends and neighbors to be sure and vote!
Since 2013, Rep. David Gomberg (D-Otis) has represented portions of Tillamook and Lincoln counties in Oregon’s 10th House District. He is owner and president of Gomberg Kite Productions, which includes kite stores in Lincoln City and Seaside, and an internationally renowned kite flier. He is a past executive director of the Lincoln City Chamber of Commerce.
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Bernard Bijvoet
Bernard Bijvoet is known primarily for the projects he completed with J. Duiker. Sanatorium Zonnestraal is an icon of the Nieuwe Bouwen movement and the Grand Hotel Gooiland is designed in the same tradition. Later on, Bijvoet worked with G.H.M. Holt, in particular on theatre buildings.
Bernard Bijvoet trained at the Technical College in Delft. He worked for a while with his fellow student Johannes Duiker at the firm of H. Evers in Rotterdam. Both were involved in preparing Evers’ entry for the competition for the Rotterdam town hall in 1912.
In 1917, Duiker and Bijvoet took part in the competition for the new building for the Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten art college in Amsterdam, which was never built. As a result of their cooperation they set up and ran an architectural firm in Zandvoort from 1919 to 1925. They also worked together on a number of projects with the concrete constructor J.B. Wiebenga. One of Duiker and Bijvoet’s projects was the Zonnestraal Sanatorium in Hilversum, an icon of the Nieuwe Bouwen movement in the Netherlands.
After Duiker's death in 1935, Bijvoet completed the Theatre and Grand Hotel Gooiland in Hilversum. At that point, Bijvoet had been living in France for some time, where he had worked closely with architects Pierre Chareau, E.E. Beaudouin and M.G. Lods. He returned to the Netherlands after the Second World War.
He completed countless projects with G.H.M. Holt, but Holt and Bijvoet are most renowned for their theatres in provincial cities such as Tilburg, Nijmegen and Apeldoorn, built as part of the Dutch government's politics of cultural dissemination. Bijvoet and Holt also designed plans for an opera house in Amsterdam, just to the south of the De Pijp district. These plans eventually led to the construction of the Okura hotel.
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About UsDean Stevens2018-07-29T14:59:11-04:00
Who We Are …
We are the South Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. We are the direct heir of the United Confederate Veterans, and the oldest hereditary organization for male descendants of Confederate soldiers. Organized at Richmond, Virginia in 1896, the SCV continues to serve as a historical, patriotic, and non-political organization dedicated to ensuring that a true history of the 1861-1865 period is preserved.
The SC Division Is Made Up Of Over 3,000 Members
We Have Over 60 Camps Located All Across South Carolina
There Are Programs That Contiue To Preserve The Southern History Of The Confederate Soldier
The Preservation And Conservation Of The Confederate Soldier Is At The Core Of Who We Are
The SCV Is The Greatest Hope Of Our Confederate Heritage
The Confederate Soldier
Fighters for Southern Independance
The Confederate soldier won the admiration of the world by his courageous fight against an enemy overwhelming in numbers, equipment and implements of war. With few exceptions they were volunteers who fought for principles of government in which they believed.
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Our Division Projects
The Membership of the South Carolina Division have ongoing projects that coordinate and guide preservation projects that directly care for the Confederate Soldier and the History and Relics that are left for all people to love and cherish. Whether it be the Soldier, their Flags, or the final resting places. There is a place for every member to work and contribute in the ongoing efforts.
South Carolina Division Confederate Grave Registration
The South Carolina Division is in an ongoing effort to locate, identify, certify, and document every South Carolina Confederate Soldier buried in the State and elsewhere in the world. We have located over 10,000 soldiers since the inception of the project and are continuing to reclaim our heroes.
SC Confederate Soldier Grave Registration
South Carolina Division Confederate Guardian Program
Once a South Carolina Confederate Soldier has been found and his grave has been reclaimed and restored. The SC Division has a group of men that decide to commit for the rest of their lives to care for that soldiers final resting place and become a South Carolina Division Guardian. Once this obligation has been accepted, he is responsible for this soldiers final resting place and it’s preservation.
South Carolina Confederate Flag Preservation Program
The State of South Carolina has a large collection of Confederate Battle and Regimental Flags. The collections exist in such museums as the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, The South Carolina State Museum, and other museums throughout the State. You can view some the flags that have been preserved here.
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Just before Christmas on the 20th of December in 1860, a group of 170 elected representatives from every corner of the State of South Carolina took a vote and made the decision unanimously to withdraw from the republic of free states and become independent of the United States of America. On that day those same men put their name on the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession and started a chain of events that would forever define the State of South Carolina. The South Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has embarked on a mission to honor these men and the courage that freed the State into an independent nation with the South Carolina Signers of the Ordinance of Secession Monument.
South Carolina Division JROTC H. L. Hunley Award Program
In July 2006 the South Carolina Division Sons of Confederate Veterans approved the establishment and sponsorship of the “H.L. Hunley JROTC Award”. The award program was designed to award a rising high school sophomore who has shown the high qualities as those that perished on the Hunley in 1863. For School Year 2011/2012 over 95 deserving young cadets received the award in the South Carolina Division. The Division chose to name the award the “H.L. Hunley Award” and base the criterion on the Core Values of the Navy and Marine Corps – Honor, Courage, Commitment.
JROTC H. L. Hunley Award Program
“To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought.
To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier’s good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish.”
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Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General, United Confederate Veterans, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 25, 1906
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CD Review: Stacie Collins “Sometimes Ya Gotta…”
March 28, 2011 Matheson Kamin Reviews and Suggestions 0
Stacie Collins has been known as a “harmonica blowin’ hell-cat” for a reason: the musician puts on a hell of a show in concert. Stacie Collins writes music that combines rock ‘n’ roll with blues and even a little bit of country. And the music she writes is as hard-rockin’ as she is. Having already made a name for herself in the music industry, she is currently growing her fanbase with the help of her newest album of Sometimes Ya Gotta.
Sometimes Ya Gotta, the new CD from Stacie Collins, was produced by Dan Baird of Georgia Satellites fame. The new album contains 12 tracks, all of which were written by Stacie Collins and her husband Al. With the help of Baird playing guitar on the songs and also producing the album, Collins’ music has never sounded better. And with the addition of Eric “Ebo” Borash on guitar, Warner E. Hodges on guitar, Al Collins on bass, Michael Webb on keys and Jimmy Lester on drums, Stacie has the perfect group of musicians to help her produce an album that contains her special blend of music.
Sometimes Ya Gotta begins with the song “Hey Mister”. It features the band as they rock out and it also features Collins as she blows a mean harmonica. This song is one of the hardest rockin’ songs on the release. The song is the perfect way to introduce the uninitiated to the sound of Stacie Collins.
The second song on the album is “I Won’t Do You Like That”. The song has a classic rock feel that is in the vein of Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock And Roll”.
“Little Things” feels like it has a bit of a country twang to it, though there are no fiddles or slide guitars being played on the track. The main reasons for this feeling to the track are the slight twang in Stacie’s voice and the twang in Eric “Ebo” Borash’s guitar playing. Jonell Mosser’s backing harmonies also give it a certain country feel. This song could easily be pushed as a crossover hit on both Top 40 radio stations as well as country ones.
“The Very Last Time” is a track that brings all of the musical feelings in Collins’ writing style into one song. At one point, the song has a country feeling, there’s a rock feeling, and the harmonica playing of Collins adds a little blues to the song.
Speaking of blues, Stacie and the rest of her band get down and dirty with the song “Give It Up”. The musicians all make the song feel as much like the blues as it does a rock song, the perfect combination to allow Stacie to shine on the harmonica.
The pace of the music changes drastically with the song “Carry Me Away”. The song features a rock backbone with a definite Zydeco feel, as Michael Webb joins in on the song with the accordion.
With the song “Cool,” the band once again plays the blues on the album. The slow pace, slide guitar and Collins’ harmonica really bring the blues alive on this track.
For the last song of Sometimes Ya Gotta, the band plays the song from which the title of the album was taken. It is on “Lend The Devil A Hand” that Stacie Collins and the rest of the band end the album on a strong note as they give it all they’ve got for one last song.
For her latest release of Sometimes Ya Gotta, Stacie Collins has produced an album worth checking out. If you have yet to discover her music, this would be the perfect time to do so.
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Deal reached in Transbay Tower tax district showdown
The deal almost sounds too good to be true. After threats of lawsuits, frantic backdoor dealmaking and a very harried week for the Board of Supervisors, a deal was finally reached yesterday on a dispute over taxes in the area around the new Transbay Terminal and the Salesforce Tower.
The initial dispute started over the amount of taxes devlelopers around the new Transbay Terminal were required to pay for the project. A special tax district established in the area would require the developers to pay up to $1.4 billion for public infrastructure in the area, including San Francisco’s high-speed rail connection, in exchange for upzonings that allow them to exceed city building height limits.
This was a critical deal. That $1.4 billion sticker-shock is based on recent property values, which as any San Franciscan not living under a rock knows, have shot up with our housing boom. But the developers balked at the numbers, saying the higher taxes were not part of the original deal. The city, the supervisors, and the mayor disagreed, saying the original agreement was clear. At yesterday’s hearing, Sup. Jane Kim repeatedly hinted at a deal they had reached, saying “I’m excited for what we’ll be able to announce after the closed session.”
The stakes were high. If the developers managed to stall the deal, they may have managed to not pay any of these taxes at all.
“When I woke up this morning, I said there’s no way I’d let this stall,” Sup. Scott Wiener, who has taken the lead on trying to hold the developers to the original deal, told us.
But the deal actually turned out to be pretty rosy for the city, he said, at least at first blush.
The developers will still end up paying up to $1.4 billion (officials say the actual figure will be closer to $1 billion) in the special tax district, but now will pay over 37 years instead of 30, allowing them to make smaller payments. The developers would also be bound to a later vote, further cementing the tax deal. The developers may also forefit their right to sue the city over the negotiations.
Pressure on the supervisors was strong. At yesterday’s hearing on the tax deal, advocates and developers alike showed up in force. Patrick Valentino, a staunch advocate of market-rate housing development in the city, reminded the supervisors that the initial agreement wasn’t exactly mystifying.
“It was made very clear in (the initial contract) that the fees could go up and down based on the market,” he said. “We certainly aren’t spending millions of dollars for just a bus station.”
Tom Radulovich, executive director of Livable City, threw some barbs the supervisors’ way as well. “There’s no time for waffling,” he told them, in public comment. He then made an argument for the high developer fees. “Why don’t people make 1,000-foot skyscrapers in the Nevada desert? There’s no society there, no infrastructure, no water. The value for the land is created by the infrastructure from the Bay Area’s pockets, which added billions of dollars to downtown land. We need more capacity.”
But supervisors didn’t waffle, and a deal was reached. But to be clear, it is still preliminary, with the devil in the myriad details.
The Board of Supervisors issued a continuance on the final vote for the deal for two weeks, in order to give Mayor Ed Lee and the developers time to cement all the details.
So far, the deal looks great, Wiener said. “It’s not even a compromise,” he told us. “The phrase I used was, ‘this is too good to be true.'”
But, he said, “We’ll learn new details in two weeks.”
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ISAF 2012 Worldwide Shark Attack Summary
University of Florida reports 2012 U.S. shark attacks highest since 2000
Writer: Danielle Torrent
Source: George Burgess
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Shark attacks in the U.S. reached a decade high in 2012, while worldwide fatalities remained average, according to the University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File report released today.
The U.S. saw an upturn in attacks with 53, the most since 2000. There were seven fatalities worldwide, which is lower than 2011 but higher than the yearly average of 4.4 from 2001 to 2010. It is the second consecutive year for multiple shark attacks in Western Australia (5) and Reunion Island (3) in the southwest Indian Ocean, which indicates the localities have developed problematic situations, said George Burgess, director of the file housed at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus.
“Those two areas are sort of hot spots in the world – Western Australia is a function of white shark incidents and Reunion is a function most likely of bull shark incidents,” Burgess said. “What I’ve seen in all situations when there’s been a sudden upswing in an area is that human-causative factors are involved, such as changes in our behavior, changes in our abundance, or an overt shark-attracting product of something that we’re doing.”
Eighty unprovoked attacks occurred worldwide, slightly more than 2011. Four attacks were recorded in South Africa, three of which resulted in death, which is higher than its recent average of one fatality per year. Australia had an average year with 14 attacks and two fatalities, despite the media attention regarding incidents in Western Australia that resulted in a government-sanctioned culling hunt for endangered white sharks.
“The concept of ‘let’s go out and kill them’ is an archaic approach to a shark attack problem, and its opportunities for success are generally slim-to-none,” Burgess said. “It’s mostly a feel-good revenge – like an ‘eye for an eye’ approach – when in fact you’re not likely to catch the shark that was involved in the situation. The shark that was involved in the situation also isn’t necessarily likely to do it again.”
Following long-term trends, most shark bites occurred in North American waters (42). The 53 U.S. incidents include Hawaii and Puerto Rico, which are not recorded as occurring in North American waters in the International Shark Attack File database. Florida led the country with 26, followed by Hawaii (10), California (5), South Carolina (5), North Carolina (2) and one each in Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon and Puerto Rico. One fatality occurred in California, and Hawaii had the highest number of attacks since seven in 2007, more than its yearly average of four. Most incidents in Florida occurred in Brevard (8) and Volusia (7) counties because these central east coast beaches are high aquatic recreation areas, especially for surfers, Burgess said.
“The numbers from an international standpoint were on target for the last couple of years because, in theory, each year we should have more attacks than the previous year owing to the rise of human population from year to year,” Burgess said. “Thus the shark attack rate is not increasing even though the number of shark attacks is rising. Shark attack as a phenomenon is extremely uncommon, considering the millions of hours humans spend in the water each year.”
The 2012 U.S. fatality rate of 2 percent is far lower than the 22 percent for the rest of the world, likely due to superior safety and medical capabilities in the U.S., Burgess said.
“We could reduce risks by avoiding areas and times when sharks are most common, and where danger is at its highest,” Burgess said. “A perfect example of that is in Western Australia, where people have been getting hit in areas of known white shark abundance at times of year when white shark numbers are at their highest – the responsibility is upon us, as humans, to avoid such situations or else pay the consequence.”
Surfers experienced a majority of shark incidents with 60 percent, largely due to the provocative nature of the activity. Swimmers were affected by 22 percent of attacks, followed by divers, with 8 percent.
Burgess said 30 million to 70 million sharks are killed every year in fisheries, and people need to recognize humans pose a greater threat to elasmobranchs (sharks, skates and rays) than sharks do to humans. Worldwide over-fishing, especially to meet demands for flesh and fins used in shark fin soup, an Asian delicacy, continues to contribute to the decline in shark populations, Burgess said.
In the case of a shark attack, researchers advise taking a proactive response, such as hitting the shark’s nose, since they respect size and power.
“Shark attacks are rare and it doesn’t matter whether you call them attacks or bites or bumps – your chances of having any of them are slim,” Burgess said.
For additional safety tips and to view the 2012 Worldwide Shark Attack Summary,
please visit www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/isaf/isaf.htm.
Source: University of Florida News
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Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:27 am
Excellent report and wording. Simple and full of details and massages.
We can apply details to most of the discussions here on other posts.
The low US fatality rate issue is not only related to emergency protocols but also the size and type of sharks that are involved in the interactions.
Saw the 2012 report and I’ve been trying to locate the New York incident. Do you guys have any record of it? I live near coastal New York, and I don’t remember hearing anythiing, but I don’t remember a lot of things these days.
No we don’t have the New York one yet. It might surface sometime, or it could be a made up one. Remember that file is classified with no peer review on the results.
Al Brenneka
The global shark attack file has no record of it as of now.
Reply to Mardi Grasber comment
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ADDRESS OF THE NON-GOVERNMENTAL MUSEUM NAMED AFTER NICHOLAS ROERICH TO THE PEOPLE OF RUSSIA AND COMPATRIOTS ABROAD!
Dear friends, compatriots, philanthropists and art-patrons, representatives of big business! You can help to preserve for Russia the Non-Governmental Museum Named after Nicholas Roerich and the Roerichs’ heritage!
The Museum has become an embodiment of the dream of the Roerichs, the greatest representatives of the Russian and world culture. It was founded by the renowned painter and public figure Svetoslav Roerich the younger son of the great Russian artist Nicholas Roerich. In 1990 he donated to Russia the priceless cultural heritage of his parents for the creation of a museum: hundreds of paintings, a unique archive, family relics and rare art objects. Humanistic, ethical and philosophical ideas conveyed by this heritage were meant to help in the revival of moral values of our nation, its active participation in the task of preservation and development of culture and broad international cultural cooperation, and the upbringing of a new generation on the noble principles of virtue, beauty and peacemaking.
Believing that only participation of the masses can guarantee the safety and preservation of the heritage of such a kind, Svetoslav Roerich set an indispensable condition that the museum in Moscow had to be non-governmental and had to form a part of the non-governmental organization founded by him. This condition was acknowledged by the country’s leadership in the special government resolution № 950, dated 04.11.1989. That is how were born the Non-Governmental Museum Named after Nicholas Roerich and the Soviet Foundation of the Roerichs, to which Svetoslav Roerich bequeathed the heritage, having become its honorary chairman. In 1991 after the disintegration of the USSR the Soviet Foundation of the Roerichs was transformed into the International Centre of the Roerichs (ICR). Subsequently, Svetoslav Roerich confirmed ICR’s right to the heritage.
The life of the Non-Governmental Museum has not been simple from the very beginning. Choosing from among the buildings offered by the authorities to house the museum Svetoslav Roerich opted for the old Lopukhins’ Estate dating back to the 17th-19th centuries and located in the center of Moscow. Its critical condition demanded ample financial resources that the state promised to earmark for its renovation. However, the promise was never fulfilled. Thus, a big question mark was looming over the issue of the creation of the museum.
Fighting against all odds the International Centre of the Roerichs found support in the public. The help extended by volunteers, the donations from general public and patrons from Russia, near-abroad and compatriots from far abroad helped ICR to renovate the estate and open the museum named after Nicholas Roerich there on October 9, 1997 on the anniversary of this great artist. The Roerichs’ heritage found its home in Russia and became the national wealth.
In the past several years the Museum named after Nicholas Roerich evolved into the biggest exhibition, research, cultural and educational hub of studying and propagating the artistic and philosophical heritage of our great compatriots. Its cultural activities have been highly appreciated in Russia and abroad. In 2006 by order of the President of the Russian Federation the Director-General of the Museum Mrs. Lyudmila Shaposhnikova was awarded the state Order of Friendship for her outstanding contribution to the development of museum work and cultural heritage preservation, and in 2011 with the order “For Merit to the Fatherland” Grade IV for her contribution to the cultural heritage preservation as well as many years of educational and public activities.
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And all this has been achieved without the state financial support.
For more than 20 years the museum has been financed by one of its co-founders, the greatest art-patron in Russia Boris Bulochnik. Understanding the spiritual potential of culture he heavily invested in its development, helping many cultural bodies of the country. He also supported orphanages and folk handicrafts.
After the closure of his bank in November 2013 the art-patron lost the capacity to support financially the Museum. As a result, the cultural institution of international importance found itself on the brink of destruction.
The public has spoken for the preservation of the Museum and extending it help. The on-line petition to the government has been signed by 108 000 persons. The petition was signed by a considerable number of renowned scholars, culture and public figures. Similar letters of support have been submitted by dozens of Russia’s museums and Roerich organizations. Thousands of visitors to the Museum leave their signatures in support of the Museum. The public are trying to save and preserve their culture. With the aim to extend material support to the Museum the Mayor of Moscow Mr. Sergei S. Sobyanin has allowed the Museum to use the two buildings of the Lopukhins’ Estate free of charge.
Simultaneously, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, which is supposed to support culture, acts as its destroyer applying the policy of double standards. On the one hand the Ministry officials say that culture is “the unifying foundation of Russian society.” On the other hand they virtually wage a war against the International Centre of the Roerichs in order to requisition the Roerichs’ legacy it keeps and destroy the non-governmental Museum. All this is going on the eve of Nicholas Roerich’s 140th anniversary and in the year declared the Year of Culture in Russia.
The loss of the Museum will translate into a truly national tragedy for Russian culture. It will entail the destruction of its non-governmental sector and deprive Russia of the significant evolutionary-cultural potential of the Roerichs’ legacy.
Our renowned compatriots enthusiastically believed in the great future of the Russian people and, therefore, donated it the results of many years of their labour. The time has come to protect these precious gifts for the sake of future generations!
We are addressing art-patrons and philanthropists, and all patriotic forces of our Motherland with the appeal to preserve the Non-Governmental Museum Named after Nicholas Roerich and its unique heritage.
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US Supreme Court Center > Volume 138 > WILLIAMS V. UNITED STATES, 138 U. S. 514 (1891) > Full Text
WILLIAMS V. UNITED STATES, 138 U. S. 514 (1891)
Williams v. United States, 138 U.S. 514 (1891)
Williams v. United States
Argued January 21-22, 1891
Decided March 2, 1891
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEVADA
If, through inadvertence and mistake, a wrong description is placed in a conveyance of real estate by an individual, a court of equity would have jurisdiction to interfere and restore to the party the title which he never intended to convey, and it has a like jurisdiction when a wrong description from a like cause gets into a patent of public land.
If the allegations of a bill point to fraud and wrong, and equally to inadvertence and mistake, and the latter be shown, the bill is sustainable, although the former charge may not be fully established.
The provision in the second section of the Act of June 16, 1880, 21 Stat. 287, c. 245, requiring the approval of the Secretary of the Interior to the act of the state authorities of Nevada in selecting lands under the grant made by that act, while it did not vest in him an arbitrary authority, to be exercised at his discretion, empowered him to withhold his approval when it became necessary to do so in order to prevent such a monstrous injustice as was sought to be accomplished by these proceedings.
On June 16, 1880, Congress passed an act, of which the following are the first two sections:
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled that there be, and are hereby, granted to the Nevada two million acres of land in said state in lieu of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections of land heretofore granted to the Nevada by the United States, provided that the title of the state and its grantees to such sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections as may have been sold or disposed of by said state prior to the passage of this act shall not be changed or vitiated in consequence of or by virtue of this act."
"SEC. 2. The lands herein granted shall be selected by the state authorities of said state from any unappropriated nonmineral public land in said state, in quantities not less than the smallest legal subdivision, and when selected in conformity with the terms of this act, the same shall be duly certified to said state by the Commissioner of the General
Land Office, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior."
21 Stat. 287, c. 245.
On May 3, 1883, the lands in controversy were certified to the State of Nevada under this act. This certification was based on an application by the state, formally executed July 29, 1882. On May 20, 1882, the appellant applied to the proper state officers to purchase these lands. On February 2, 1884, in pursuance of this application, a contract was entered into between the state and the appellant for the sale to him of the lands in controversy, he at the time, paying one-fifth of the purchase money and contracting to pay the balance in subsequent annual installments. On December 18, 1884, this bill was filed by the United States in the Circuit Court for the District of Nevada against the appellant alone. Generally speaking, the scope of the allegations in the bill is that the lands were improperly certified to the state; that in equity it had no title, and its contract with the appellant transferred nothing to him, and the prayer was for the cancellation of the contract between the appellant and the State of Nevada, and an adjudication that the appellant had no title or interest in such lands. On November 26, 1886, a decree was entered (30 F. 309) by which the title of appellant in the lands was divested and he directed to surrender up to the State of Nevada for cancellation all contracts or agreements he had with that state for these lands. From such decree appellant appealed to this Court.
MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after stating the facts as above, delivered the opinion of the Court.
The first contention of appellant is that this action could not be maintained because the State of Nevada was not made party, it holding the legal title; second, that the circuit court erred in finding that there was fraud or wrong by which the title was passed to the State of Nevada, and
third that even if there were fraud or wrong in this matter, the outcome of the proceedings was the necessary one, and therefore the bill should not have been sustained.
With respect to the first contention, it cannot be doubted that the certification operated to transfer the legal title to the state, Frasher v. O'Connor, 115 U. S. 102, nor that the contract between the state and appellant passed to him the equitable title, the legal title being retained by the state simply as security for the unpaid part of the purchase money. The proposition therefore is that where there are outstanding two interests or titles, held by different parties, the real owner cannot proceed against either without joining the other; that only one action can be maintained to divest these parties of their separate titles, and that to that action both adverse holders must be parties. The proposition is not sound. A court of equity has jurisdiction to divest either one of the adverse holders of his title in a separate action. Doubtless the court has power, when a separate action is instituted against one, to require that the other party be brought into the suit if it appears necessary to prevent wrong and injury to either party and to thus fully determine the title in one action; but such right does not oust the court of jurisdiction of the separate action against either. It has jurisdiction of separate actions against each of the adverse holders, and there is no legal compulsion, as a matter of jurisdictional necessity, to the joinder of both parties as defendants in one action. There are special reasons why this rule should be recognized in this case. It may be that the circuit court would not have jurisdiction of an action again the state; that an action against a state on behalf of the United States can be maintainable only in this Court, and that when brought in this Court, no other party than the state can be made defendant. We do not decide that these things are so, but suggest the difficulty which must have presented itself to the counsel for the government, and which justifies a separate suit against the holder of the equitable title. The State of Nevada might have intervened. It did not, doubtless because it felt it had no real interest. It was no intentional party to any wrong upon the
general government. If its agency had been used by the wrongdoer to obtain title from the general government; if, conscious of no wrong on its part, it had obtained from the general government the legal title, and conveyed it away to the alleged wrongdoer, it might justly say that it had no interest in the controversy, and that it would leave to the determination of the courts the question of right between the government and the alleged wrongdoer, and conform its subsequent action to that determination. That certainly is the dignified and proper course to be pursued by a state which is charged to have been the innocent instrumentality and agent by which a title to real estate has been wrongfully obtained from the general government. The jurisdiction of the circuit court over this bill was properly sustained.
The second contention is that the court erred in finding that there was fraud or wrong by which the title was taken away from the general government. The allegations of the bill are of fraud and wrong, but they also show inadvertence and mistake in the certification to the state, and it cannot be doubted that inadvertence and mistake are, equally with fraud and wrong, grounds for judicial interference to divest a title acquired thereby. This is equally true in transactions between individuals and in those between the government and its patentee. If, through inadvertence and mistake, a wrong description is placed in a deed by an individual, and property not intended to be conveyed is conveyed, can there be any doubt of the jurisdiction of a court of equity to interfere and restore to the party the title which he never intended to convey? So of any other inadvertence and mistake, vital in its nature, by which a title is conveyed when it ought not to have been conveyed. The facts and proceedings attending this transfer of title are fully disclosed in the bill. They point to fraud and wrong, and equally to inadvertence and mistake, and if the latter be shown, the bill is sustainable, although the former charge against the defendant may not have been fully established.
For satisfactory answer to this inquiry, a fuller statement of facts is necessary. On May 19, 1879, defendant made in the
proper land office of the United States a desert land entry for 240 acres, including therein the lands in controversy. 19 Stat. 377. On July 26, 1879, he conveyed to the New Philadelphia Silver Mining Company, for the sum of $5,000, eighty acres thereof, described as the east 1/2 of southeast 1/4, section 33, township 8, range 50 east, Nye County, Nevada. The conveyance was with this warranty:
"And the party of the first part agrees to and with the party of the second part that he has full right and power to sell and convey the said premises and water rights, and that they are now free from all encumbrances, sales, or mortgages."
Within the succeeding year the grantee erected a ten-stamp quartz-mill on the premises at the expense of about $58,000. Becoming embarrassed, this eighty acres, with improvements, passed by sheriff's and receiver's deeds to Matthiessen and Ward, the title thus passing finally by the 16th of December, 1881. The consideration of $5,000 named in the original deed was paid to Williams. On May 20, 1882, he executed papers for the relinquishment to the government of his desert land entry, and at the same time made application to the state for the purchase of these lands as agricultural lands. At his instance, the state, on July 29, 1882, applied to the government for a certification of these lands. On August 12, 1882, by letter from the Land Department, cancellation of the desert land entry was made on the books of the local land office, and subsequently, as stated, in May, 1883, the lands were certified to the state, and thereafter the application of Williams for purchase from the state was accepted, and the contract entered into.
Further, it appears that on June 20, 1881, the receiver of the Philadelphia Company wrote to the Commissioner of the Land Office, giving notice of the company's interest in these lands and asking instructions as to steps necessary to protect its title. This information was followed, on February 10, 1882, by interview and communication to the department from the counsel of Matthiessen and Ward. On April 14, 1882, the Commissioner answered the inquiry of the receiver, informing
him that desert land claims were not assignable. On May 23d he advised Ward that there was no evidence in his office showing a relinquishment by Williams of the desert land entry. In August, 1882, the land register of Nevada, replying to an inquiry of Matthiessen and Ward, said:
"Mr. Williams informed me that he would try and procure the cancellation of his desert land entry. We have received no notice as yet of the cancellation of said entry."
As, weeks before, Williams had filed relinquishment papers in that office, and the matter of cancellation, having been referred to Washington, was waiting response, this communication was obviously deceptive, and suggests conspiracy between the register and Williams. So obvious is this that on September 11, 1882, the Commissioner of the General Land Office wrote to the register for an explanation. In that letter, after referring to his information to the agent of Matthiessen and Ward, as above quoted, he adds:
"Upon a cursory examination of the matter, it would seem that the information, if furnished by you as aforesaid, was not in accordance with the facts in the case and misleading in result, and therefore calculated to create suspicion in the public mind as to the honest administration of your office in matters coming before you for official action. Large and valuable interests were affected by the relinquishment of Williams, and the company should have been notified when it was filed in your office, or at all events when it applied to you through its agent for information. Please explain the matter at once."
On September 6, 1882, an application was made on behalf of Matthiessen and Ward for reinstatement of the desert land entry, and a protest against embracing in the state's selection the eighty acres, heretofore referred to, conveyed by Williams to the Philadelphia Company. This application for reinstatement of the desert land entry was denied by the Land Commissioner on February 21, 1883. The application by the state for this land was at the instance of the appellant, and the application was included in a list known as "List Number 24." On January 8, 1883, Mathiessen and Ward made, in due form, an application for the five acres upon which the buildings were situated, as a mill site. The application was
denied by the land office in Nevada on the ground that the land was embraced in the selection theretofore made by the State of Nevada. Appeal was made to the Land Office at Washington, and the appeal papers were received there January 18, 1883. On January 23d Curtis & Burdett, attorneys for Matthiessen and Ward, appeared in the Land Office at Washington and asked to be advised of any action. Immediately thereafter the officers in the Land Department noted, in pencil, within brackets, on list 24, against the land in controversy, these words, "mill site." The effect of this annotation was to suspend action in respect to these lands until the adverse claim had been investigated and removed. Thereupon the controversy as to the right to select these lands proceeded in the department. While this controversy was pending in the department and undetermined, list 24 was presented for approval, and the annotation of the words "mill site" having been by some person erased, and there appearing on the face of the list no controversy as to any of the lands, the certificate was made in May, as heretofore stated. The controversy proceeded in regular order until December, 1883, without any suspicion on the part of the Commissioner of the Land Office that any certification of title had been made to any of these lands, or that the controversy was not still open for adjudication. In December, 1883, on discovery of this mistake by the Land Commissioner, he telegraphed to the Governor of Nevada to return the approved list, which application was declined, by telegram, on the advice of the attorney general of the state. On the 14th of December, 1883, the Secretary of the Interior telegraphed to the Governor of Nevada, as follows:
"[Received at Carson, Dec. 14, 4:03 P.M. Dated Washington D.C. ___ 14, 1883.]"
"To Governor of Nevada, Carson City, Nev.:"
"Has land mentioned in dispatch of commissioner of 11th instant been sold and deeded, or either? If so, to whom? Unless the list can be returned and corrected, I desire to have proceedings commenced immediately to set aside the certification."
"H. M. TELLER, Secretary"
On the same day, the appellant telegraphed as follows:
"[Received at Carson, December 14, 4:46 P.M. Dated Washington, December 14, 1883.]"
"To Governor Jewett W. Adams or W. M. Garrard:"
"Have deed for my state land claim executed immediately. Give Harry Day money, if he has not got it. Will remit from Hot Creek. Don't delay. Answer."
"Jos. T. Williams"
On the 15th of December, the Secretary of Interior telegraphed to the state register as follows:
"Tract inadvertently certified while adverse claim was pending and undecided. Much embarrassment will result to department if list be not returned as requested."
On the same day, he received this answer:
"Carson, Nev., December 15, 1883"
"To H. M. Teller, Washington, D.C.:"
"The land referred to is applied for and contracted to J. T. Williams, but no patent is yet issued."
"J. W. Adams, Governor"
These facts make it clear that when list 24 was presented to the department, and it had received notice of an adverse claim as to these lands, the ordinary annotation was made on the list opposite to these lands to indicate an adverse claim, and that pending the adjudication of the merits of that claim no certification would have been made; that by somebody's act (and the record does not disclose the party), this customary departmental entry of notice was rubbed out, and that thereafter the list, passing through the hands of the various officers of the department, with every mark of approval from the various subordinate officers, and not challenged as to this controversy, was inadvertently, unintentionally, and through mistake certified to the State of Nevada. Can there be any doubt that this land was certified through inadvertence and
mistake, and that the Land Department did not intend to certify it to the state, or approve the selection made by the state until after the determination of the pending controversy? Who made the erasure cannot be, from the testimony, determined. The defendant and his attorney in Washington City each testify that he did not make it or know of its being made; yet who would make such an erasure save one interested in having the fact of the contest removed from notice? The suggestion made by counsel for appellant that Matthiessen and Ward caused this to be done in order to lay the foundation for this bill, when in fact their controversy in the department had not been adjudicated as to the right of the state to make this selection, is so puerile as to intensify the suggestion against the appellant. That Williams had some information from within the department is evident from the fact that on the very day the secretary telegraphed to the Governor of Nevada, he telegraphed insisting upon immediate execution of the deed from the state -- a telegram received at the capital of the state forty-three minutes after that of the Secretary. We do at impugn the truthfulness of the appellant or his counsel in the testimony given by each "that he neither made or knew of the making of this obliteration;" yet we cannot but be impressed with the conviction that there was someone in the department employed to look after appellant's interests in this controversy, and who, without special direction or authority, assumed to do that which he thought, and which would apparently, promote his employer's interests, to-wit, the erasure from this list of any notice of contest or adverse claim. Of course, if fraud was done by one employed by appellant, he, though ignorant, must bear the consequences of that fraud. We do not doubt what the verdict of a jury would be, as to a charge of fraud, under these circumstances; but we do not care to place our decision upon this ground. We rest it upon the incontrovertible fact that through inadvertence and mistake, this land was certified to the state.
This brings us to the final contention: that if there had been no erasure, that if the contest had been had, the lands must inevitably have been certified to the State of Nevada,
because they were, within the description of the act, "unappropriated nonmineral, public land" selected by the state; that the desert land entry by Williams in 1879 gave to him no right which he could sell or transfer; that therefore the deed from him to the Philadelphia Company passed nothing as against the government; that, having failed to reclaim the land within the time prescribed, his right in the land ceased, and his cancellation of his desert land entry was a mere matter of form to clear the face of the record; that at the time of the selection and application by the state, there was no legal adverse claim; that therefore the state had a right to select it; that, having made such selection, it was the duty of the department to certify the land and thus transmit the legal title, and that the government pays no attention to private disputes between parties who have transactions in respect to public lands before it parts with its title and before any right is vested in either of the disputing parties.
In the main, we do not doubt these propositions of law; but there are certain equitable considerations which the department is authorized to recognize, and, when recognized, no court will ever disturb its action. Consider the facts in this light: Williams had made a desert land entry. His proposition by that entry was to reclaim this land by irrigation. He conveyed by deed a portion of it to the Philadelphia Company, warranting that he had perfect title and right to convey, and receiving $5,000 for this conveyance. On the faith of it, the company expends $58,000 in improvements. The time for reclamation passes, and he has failed in his implied duty to the government. With a view to secure to himself a title which he has once conveyed with warranty, he schemes to surrender his desert land entry for cancellation and induce the state to select and obtain title to the lands as agricultural nonmineral lands, and then buy the title thus obtained by the state. When the department is advised of these facts, it declines to certify the title to the state. If all questions of jurisdiction and procedure were removed, would any court issue a mandamus to compel the officers of the Land Department to certify those lands to
the state? Would not the equity developed by these facts forbid the court to issue such an order? The certification after selection by the state is to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior. This is no mere formal act. It gives to him no mere arbitrary discretion, but it does give power to prevent such a monstrous injustice as was sought to be accomplished by these proceedings. It gives the power to the Secretary to deny this application of the state, and refuse to approve its selection, and hold the title in the general government until, within the limits of existing law or by special act of Congress, a party who, misinformed and misunderstanding its rights, has placed such large improvements on the property, shall be enabled to obtain title from the government.
We would not be misunderstood in respect to this matter. We do not mean to imply that any arbitrary discretion is vested in the Secretary, but we hold that the statute requiring approval by the Secretary of the Interior was intended to vest a discretion in him by which wrongs like this could be righted and equitable considerations, so significant and impressive as this, given full force. It is obvious, it is common knowledge, that in the administration of such large and varied interests as are entrusted to the Land Department, matters not foreseen, equities not anticipated, and which are therefore not provided for by express statute, may sometimes arise, and therefore that the Secretary of the Interior is given that superintending and supervising power which will enable him, in the face of these unexpected contingencies, to do justice. The decision of the circuit court is right, and must be
MR. JUSTICE GRAY was not present at the argument of this case, and took no part in its decision.
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I joined the Swansea and District Writers Circle this year while visiting the area as a professor of history on a Leverhulme Trust grant to Swansea University. Everyone has been welcoming and enthusiastic in their critiques, writing, and lectures.
I am working on my latest non-fiction monograph on health in medieval England. I am the author of Care and Custody of the Mentally Ill, Incompetent, and Disabled in Medieval England (Brepols 2013) and the editor of four other books of historical essays, including (with Christina Lee) Trauma in Medieval Society (Brill 2018), (with Sara M. Butler) Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages (Brill 2014), Medicine in Medieval Law and Custom (Brill 2010) and (with Tory Vandeventer Pearman) The Treatment of Disabled Persons in Medieval Europe (Mellen 2010). I head a publication series at the University of Amsterdam Press, ‘Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability’, and sit on the board of two other series one at Brill, ‘Explorations in Medieval Culture’, and the other at the University of Virginia Press, ‘Peculiar Bodies’.
I also write fiction, as WJ Turner and as Pluma Elliot—my grandmother’s name. I have won several awards for my fantasy, including the best book prize at the Harriet Austin Writers’ Conference. I just finished a new novel and will be looking for a press. At the Sandhills Writers’ Workshop, I have lectured on writing sagas, on drafting novels in seven stages, and on novel-writing generally. Born in Maine and having lived much of my life in California, I now live in Georgia (USA) and work at Augusta University (where the Masters’ Tournament in golf is held with their famous green jackets). I tell people I live on an old farm because out in the country, I am on a perpetual writer’s retreat.
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Stories from Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Jones - McKee (Engagement ~ 10/05/04)
ORAN -- John and Faye Jones have announced the engagement of their daughter, Teresa Elizabeth, to Ryan Franklin McKee, son of Toledo and Betty McKee of Painton. A 1998 graduate of Oran High School, the future bride received a Bachelor of Science in agronomy in 2002 from Southeast Missouri State University at Cape Girardeau. She is an agriculture lime and fertilizer inspector for the state of Missouri...
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JACKSON - Lucille Cook, 82, died Oct. 3, 2004, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born Oct. 28, 1921, in Whitewater, daughter of the late Lee and Ida Barks Huffman, she was a member of the First Baptist Church in Jackson where she was active with the adult Sunday school. ...
Marshall Bonifield (Obituary ~ 10/05/04)
CHARLESTON - Marshall W. Bonifield, 80, died Oct. 5, 2004, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Nov. 27, 1923, in Charleston, son of the late Wroe W. and Ferrel Irene Howard Bonifield, he lived in the Commerce area for many years, where he was engaged in farming and was a member of St. Paul United Methodist Church. He returned to Charleston in 1996...
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Wheeler - Loper (Engagement ~ 10/05/04)
ORAN - Michael and Linda Wheeler have announced the engagement of their daughter, Kelly Irmina, to William D. Loper Jr., son of Brenda Rhodes of Oran. The future bride graduated in 2000 from Oran High School and is the human resource manager for Wheeler Steel Works Inc. at Morley...
Joe Justice (Obituary ~ 10/05/04)
PORTAGEVILLE - Joe Justice, 65, died Oct. 4, 2004, at his home. Born Oct. 18, 1938, in Fulton, Miss., he was the son of the late Noel and Zellie Mae Camp Justice. On June 7, 2001, he married Nadine Hampton who survives of the home. Other survivors include: two sons, Terry Winchester of Franklin, Tenn., and Joey Justice of Phoenix; two daughters, Doris Ann Stedronsky of Thompsonville, Mich., and Becky Garcia of Tinley Park, Ill.; two stepdaughters, Linda Johnson of Sikeston and Brooke Winchester of Portageville; one brother, Johnny Justice of Austin, Texas; three sisters, Debbie Miller and Mary Nell of Bentonville, Ark., and Ellen Woolbright of Campbell; and six grandchildren, two stepgrandchildren and several great-grandchildren.. ...
City updates its software for computers (Local News ~ 10/05/04)
SIKESTON - After struggling with incompatible softwares for many years, Sikeston city government is hoping to streamline city business with an integrated software project. Council members authorized staff to enter into a contract with Tyler Technologies for MUNIS Integrated Software during their regular meeting Monday...
Rocket launch (Local News ~ 10/05/04)
Delilah Tayloe, Sikeston Depot curator, launches a model rocket as students from the New Madrid County Central Middle School look on Monday. The rocket launching was part of the Mars Rover Space Exploration Exhibit that is currently on display.
As registration deadline nears, hints of voter boom coming true (Local News ~ 10/05/04)
BENTON - Wednesday is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 2 presidential election and new voters in Southeast Missouri are keeping local clerks busy. Scott County Clerk Rita Milam said there are a number of first time voters getting in their applications to her office while others are inquiring to be sure their names are on the voter rolls . "There is a lot of action going on," added Milam...
Loss of monument is a loss for society (Column ~ 10/05/04)
The exhausting battle over a Ten Commandments monument in Alabama came to a quiet end Monday when the United States Supreme Court rejected a final appeal on the monument's removal from a government building. Thus ends this chapter in the ongoing battle over the separation of church and state. But it probably won't be the final chapter...
Water, sewer rate hike may be needed (Local News ~ 10/05/04)
SIKESTON - Electricity prices for Sikeston residents and businesses should remain stable, but water and sewer prices will need a rate hike. Ed Throop, executive director of the Board of Municipal Utilities provided City Council members with a "report on its financial condition" as well as a "thumbnail sketch" of recent BMU activities during the regular City Council meeting Monday...
Sikeston JV defeats Poplar Bluff (High School Sports ~ 10/05/04)
SIKESTON - The Sikeston junior varsity football team evened its record at 2-2-1 with a 28-15 victory against Poplar Bluff on Monday at SPS Stadium. Sikeston trailed 15-0 in the third quarter but rattled off 28 unanswered points to pull out the dramatic victory...
Speakout 10/5 (Opinion ~ 10/05/04)
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Stallings - Silverthorn (Wedding ~ 10/05/04)
JONESBORO, Ark. - Bethany Michelle Stallings and Mark Alan Silverthorn II were married in a 2 p.m. ceremony June 26, 2004, at the Forest Home Church of the Nazarene before the Rev. Ken Stallings. The bride is the daughter of Ron and Deb Stallings of Jonesboro and parents of the bridegroom are Mark and Melisa Silverthorn of Sikeston, Mo...
Sikeston, Kelly fare well in Notre Dame Invitational meet (High School Sports ~ 10/05/04)
CAPE GIRARDEAU - Freshman Matt Rushing, in his first varsity race barely missed medaling, (top 20) by finishing 24th in Saturday's Notre Dame Cross County Invitational. Rushing made over a one minute improvement in his personal best time over the 3.1 mile course running 18.31...
SHS volleyball falls to Caruthersville in straight sets (High School Sports ~ 10/05/04)
SIKESTON -- The Lady Bulldog volleyball team suffered a straight-set loss, 17-25 and 19-25, to Caruthersville on Monday at the Field House. "Tonight we were very sluggish out of the gate and never seemed to get into sync," said Sikeston coach Steve Beydler. "We began to make a little bit more of a match toward the middle of the second game, but, ultimately, it was too little, too late."...
Fire Prevention Week (Local News ~ 10/05/04)
The City of Miner is celebrating Fire Prevention Week by conducting public tours of the fire station, visiting preschools and day care centers in the area and passing out smoke detectors - "as many as needed for the citizens of Miner," said the city's Fire Chief Benny Thurston, pictured right. Also pictured is Miner fireman Wayne Harris...
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Stardock’s Star Control Will Have Alternate Timeline
Posted on January 5th, 2014 by Anthony Suarez
(tech demo does not represent final product)
In an interview with Arc Technica’s Lee Hutchinson, Stardock CEO Brad Wardell has stated the following:
Wardell’s Star Control would take place 43 years before the events of Star Control 2 and would function as a prequel. “We plan to start the game around 2112 with aliens first contacting the Earthlings and the formation of Star Control,” he explained. From there, the game will proceed in the same open-ended adventure fashion as Star Control 2—Wardell told Ars that the player would captain the Earthling flagship, which can be fortified with upgrades as it explores the galaxy.
“This has been a much discussed topic internally,” he replied. “Since Paul and Fred can’t officially be involved, we decided we would create a new continuity that splits off from the Ur-Quan continuity starting 250,000 years prior where something happened to the Precursors.”
Splitting off an alternate timeline, says Wardell, gives series creators Ford and Reiche the ability to continue the “main” Star Control plot if they choose to do so at some point. “Morally, we just didn’t feel it would be right to try to impose our vision onto Paul and Fred’s sci-fi universe,” explained Wardell.
We asked for more details on that team of fanatics, and Wardell didn’t disappoint: “The game itself is being developed by veteran developers from Firaxis, Big Huge Games, and Stardock, whose engineering and art talent are amazing, but also know what a Star Control game should be like,” he said.
Maybe this could be a sign that a new dev team composed people from other places will be created similar to the formations of Sledgehammer Games for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and 343 Industries for Halo: Reach.
“We intend to make Super Melee a pretty big part of the game from a multiplayer point of view,” Wardell confirmed. “It’ll be an expansion on what was in Star Control 2, except we would like to support more sophisticated battle arenas and up to 8 players. We picture there being a lot of different modes for Super Melee, ranging from classic to Dota-style super melee.”
As with all good things, Star Control will come only to those who wait. “We don’t expect to even consider what a release date is until next year (2015) at which point we’ll have a good idea of how far along we are,” he said. However, unlike Star Control 2’s dual platform release, the new title will be available on a multitude of systems. “We do expect the new one to be home on the PC but also be available on Mac, PS4, Xbox One, Steambox, and any other platform that Nitrous supports.”
Comparing this to the Star Trek reboot
When 2009 Star Trek (directed by JJ Abrams) was released, it received very positive reviews and was very profitable. It reached levels of success that surpassed the previous films. I did enjoy the movie and it really showed how special effects have evolved over time. It also took place in an alternate timeline, giving Abrams and the writers room to change things around without having to “retcon” anything.
Budgeting have always been an issue for Star Trek and it’s great to see that Star Trek is growing into a successful movie franchise just like Star Wars, which JJ Abrams will also be directing in the future.
Some decisions had to be made by the producers in order to gain this success, mainly a plot that revolves saving a planet and lots of action. It’s very hard to make a big-budget sci-fi movie that doesn’t revolve around saving the world or the universe. There is much more action to maintain a fast pace.
Did you know that Gene Roddenberry was not directly involved in the development of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan? Due to the mixed reception of The Motion Picture, his role was changed to Executive Consultant, and a new script and director was chosen for the sequel.
The reason why I mentioned Star Trek is because the target audiences are different and the competition is much greater. There are a certain set of expectations one can make about big-budget sci-fi and can not be easily applied to games. They were aware of the previous Star Trek movies and what can be done to make it more successful.
It’s very clear that Brad Wardell wants to create a new Star Control game that appeals to fans and is approved by Paul and Fred. Due to TFB’s contract with Activision, they cannot be directly involved in the development of this game. Activision loves Skylanders way too much. Stardock is known for their stance against DRM and their publishing of niche games/utilities made of smaller budgets compared to larger studios and making a profit (e.g. Sins of a Solar Empire, Demigod). It’s very early in development and no concept art of this Star Control has been released yet. However, I feel that this new team Stardock is putting together may be able to pull it off. They’ve got a lot of things to cover to match the unique touches of SC2 such as the music, alien artwork, witty dialog, fonts and unique ship design. Strangely enough, SC2 was never 100% polished and Paul and Fred worked overtime to get it done and left things out such as Groombridge and the infamous “planet lander bug”.
Only time can tell when we will get more details about what kind of game this is going to be. Brad has also stated that this will not be a 4X style game (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) like SOASE.
What do you think about this Star Control and its alternate timeline?
Ars Technica – Stardock CEO reveals details about new Star Control title in development
Polygon – New Star Control to include series creators’ input, alternate timeline
Nitrous-Engine Techdemo
LittleTinyFrogs – Brad Wardell’s post about Star Control
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4 Responses to “Stardock’s Star Control Will Have Alternate Timeline”
Patrick "Chmmr" Mac Manus // Jan 20, 2014 at 8:01 pm
A 3D reboot will kill it.
Mn-Quah // Feb 11, 2014 at 10:28 pm
This is the best news in a long, long time! Looking forward to it!
Erik // Apr 12, 2015 at 6:35 am
This is a terrible, atrocious idea. Many games could benefit from reboots, but the people looking forward to this is the people who are nostalgically connected with SC2. This game doesn't need a redesign at all. Not ships, not aliens. If they want to make another Galactic Civilizations, I suggest they do so, and leave this franchise alone. Evidentally they don't have the same love for it as the fans does. Please stop this, for the sake of Frungy.
M // Nov 17, 2015 at 10:29 pm
Honestly?
I think the Stardock version so far actually looks WORSE to me then SC3.
And I'll back it up too!
You see, in the past I talked a bit with the developers of Master of Orion 3 (And we know how THAT turned out.) Tried to explain to them that their supposedly ultra cool harder sci-fi idea's where NOT what Master of Orion was about. And they did not listen.
Now on this Star Control reboot, I've already seen some Stardock guy ramble about how the aliens all had to be non-humanoid and couldn't speak english because he didn't like that.
And not only is that the EXACT same attitude as the Master of Orion 3 developpers. It also shows this team doesn't GET Star Control, and that they don't respect it either.
Star Control is supposed to be colourful, set firmly in the space opera genre, and have a very strong element of humour to it.
It is NOT supposed to be hard-sci-fi-ish at all, about starfish aliens that don't speak english because real aliens wouldn't speak english. Star Control has ROOM for a race like that (Though the Orz already have a lock on that role!) But it's not all about that sort of sci-fi.
And Star Control 3, poor as it was at least tried to keep the genre and spirit right.
And Stardock won't try that. Ergo it'll just be some spacegame that, given Stardock's reputation will probably be quite mediocre. That will feel NOTHING like Star Control at all.
And since Ford and Reiche aren't writing it, it's non canon to begin with.
As such, whilst I do think Project 6014 will be a nice fan project that will get the rough spirit of the original right. (Also non canon, but looks like it'll be fun if it'll be completed) I am not exited AT ALL about Stardock's attempt.
Completely indifferent, but with negative expectations.
The fact that, that Wardell guy is apparently one of those gamergaters is a minor annoying detail. (As I can't fucking STAND gamergaters, MRA's and other suck fuckers.) But I don't suppose that'd affect the game that much. More of a cherry on what looks like a non-appetizing sunday.
(Also those JJ Abrams movies... Blegh... I know *I* did NOT enjoy them)
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Blog too, part two
too, part two
In ALL, LIFE LESSONS by Stephanie Klein June 15, 2005 27 Comments
My father had to coach my mother in many things. I expect he had to teach her a lot in the bedroom, too, but I don’t spend much time imagining that. I correlate my mother’s reticent temperament, and low self-esteem, with the fact that she witnessed physical abuse as a child. Like all parents, hers did the best they could. They didn’t know any better, insensitive to the effects of their frustration on their daughters. A garage door. Her mother, my Puerto Rican grandmother, was raised in an orphanage with her biological sisters, so she always put her siblings before her own daughters. It’s what she knew; it was her modeling. My mother has two older sisters who were repeatedly abused in front of her. An iron. So she learned to keep silent and do as she was told. A thick leather belt. She lived in fear, cowering behind walls and hiding in closets.
When it came to cooking, fishing, laughing, dancing with her eyes closed, and anything categorized as creative, my mother didn’t need lessons; it was in her genes. Sometimes, my parents would analyze her tennis serve or my father would teach her a new grip for her golf swing, but this isn’t the schooling about which I’m referring. When it came to—actually, when it comes to—assertiveness, communication, and the expression of love, my mother needs help.
She has always put her sisters before anyone else, my father, my sister, me. According to my ex-therapist, my father did the mothering in the house. A little too much mothering and not enough fathering. “It’s the mother’s role,” she’d whine, “to teach her daughter about being a woman. About how to be savvy. The mother talks to her daughter about her body, and leads by example.” My mother has always been thin, protruding collarbones thin, despite the fact that she eats like a truck driver. And when she undressed, she hid in her closet, and sometimes, when she’d need something from her dresser drawer, she’d scurry over, covering her nipples with her hands. My mother was ashamed.
It was her job to discipline fat Stephanie, and according to the ex-therapist, “your father’s role to treat you like Daddy’s little girl, to love you unconditionally.” My parents did the best they could. My father thought he was helping by telling me no man would want me if I were fat. “Men are shallow dogs, Stephanie.” He was right, and he was wrong.
Late at night, in their bed, with a muffled baseball game on the television, he’d ask my mother, “Did you tell the girls you love them today?” She’d shrug. “It’s very important that you tell them, Yolanda. They need to hear it.” It wasn’t what she knew, and it was really hard for her to say.
My sister said it constantly, to anyone who’d listen. I remember hearing her tell one of her camp friends, “I love you,” over the phone and thinking, “Oh my God. She tells her friends she loves them?” I envied it. I also remember times when she turned red from crying tantrums, thinking I didn’t love her. “Stephanie, you don’t love me; you never say it.” She was probably only eight years old at the time, and she is still the type of person who needs constantly. She craves touch, wants me to pet her head and hold her hand. “You don’t really love me, do you?” is her way of saying, “I need more from you.” She’s starved for affection; it’s why she loves children and my needy dog.
In contrast, I never touched my friends or told them I loved them. Telling a friend, “I love you,” is like having seex for the first time. It’s a big deal for me. I don’t love all of my friends.
How do you know when it’s love between friends? I try to imagine how I’d feel if they died. How much of a loss would I feel? What if I died? What songs would they hear that made them think of me, how long would it take them to get over me, for it to stop hurting? Who will wonder if I knew how much they loved me? If they died, who, of my friends, would I worry didn’t know how much they meant to me? That’s my gauge. If I worry at all the person doesn’t know how much they mean to me, it means I’m ready to tell them I love them. That’s my tell.
I now touch my friends and tell them I love them. I’m not afraid they won’t know how to respond. It’s not about vulnerability about getting to it first. For me, it’s a fear they won’t know their worth to me. It’s why I say it. I’m just not an, “I love you,” abuser. I don’t throw it out there at the end of phone calls. I say it like I mean it. When someone is upset, when I’m drunk, or when a friend makes me laugh. Sometimes it’s, “I love you; you’re just like I am.” That’s really narcissistic of me, but it’s a reason I love some of my friends.
Now with a man, I’ll say it—I’ll even say it first—if I love him in that, “you need to know how important you are to me” way. If he died, I’d want him to know, so I say it. But, with a man, it means a lot more than that, even to me. “I love you,” from me to a man is a promise. It’s my heart. But, it’s not forever. “I love you,” means different things to different people.
For some, it’s a declaration of forever. If you say the L-word, it means marriage and babies, and always. It means you’re ready to spend forever together buttoning one another’s hard to reach buttons. So it’s a phrase they reserve for those they’d take a bullet for, and for family (because even if you hate them, you’ll always love them. You’re born with that.) And if you say it first, to someone who thinks this way, you might get a blank stare in response. Your stomach will tighten, and you’ll wish you could snatch it back up. Or you’ll get a “too” and wish you’d waited for them to say it first… in which case, you’ll sit at your computer trying to figure out which songs you’d like played at your funeral. Like I’m doing now. Like I’m always doing. I’m kinda sick that way, too.
That was beautiful and definately something I can relate to, always having a hard time saying "I love you" and also growing up not hearing it that much.
wonderful. thanks.
that three-word phrase can be wrought with uncertainty and vulnerability, regardless of the relationship.
My boyfriend says saying "I love you." is like crying, men just don't do it. He thinks Americans are tooooo free and easy with the word "love". Hard to explain to a Scottish man how you can love your guy best friend, who happens to be gay! He said he will tell me he loves me when he is putting a diamond ROCK, and I mean a BIG ONE, on my fingers. But i know he thinks about and he cares, that is all that matters.
BridalBeer
I once tutored the right responses to a boyfriend. I felt he meant well and that he was socially challenged. I was wrong.
it's a bit unnerving to know that somewhere, someone out there you have never met has such incredible insight into who you truly are that you wonder how these things are possible.
I feel something of a voyeur and it creeps me out, which is why I haven't posted until now.
For whatever reason, I finally felt compelled to say "hey" and drone on about how I could relate to a lot of things you have written about. I don't know if that makes you a great writer or just a person who has an uncanny ability to consistently write about things that are happening in my own life in a manner that forces me to think and rethink, but whatever it is – keep it up.
I liked this one. It told me a lot more about you and your past than a lot of the others. It was very cool. (BTW, I've considered the whole funeral music stuff too. I'd definitely like to have Adagio for Strings somewhere in there.) Thanks for being so open.
Like a bad habit we can coach ourselves out of: "I will quit smoking, I will drink less, I will exercise more", coaching ourselves to say "I love you" seems the most daunting of prospects, but a worthy one to overcome no less.
This was one of your best posts… I love the ones that give more of you. You give so much of your day-to-day, but I really dig your way-back-when.
~erin
yes, i agree, definitely one of your more thoughtful posts…when you go deeper into yourself rather than staying on the surface with your comings and goings, your posts have more
substance…and i won't tell you again
to seek psychotherapy, since you make it clear
in this post you've already had some experience in it.
But does it really have to be said to be felt? My parents never tell me they love me, and once upon a time, when I inquired about it, I was given an "of course I love you" plus the whole shifting-eyes-uncomfortably deal. It wasn't disheartening, but instead one of the most endearing things my parents ever did for me. I felt that they love me so much that they can't even bring themselves to say it in words because three little words can't get their point across. Of course, I never say "I love you" to my parents either, because I don't think it's sufficient either.
That was a great post. Thanks.
When both people know that they love each other, then it becomes a matter of chilvary like walking towards a door. Everyone knows that at some point, someone's going to have to say it first/open the door, and custom suggests that the gentleman should take the lead.
But I have no idea how it's suppose to go when there's uncertainty.
and the songs are….
You are so right.
NeilPuck
This post spoke to me more than any other of yours I read. Sometimes I feel like if it's shot right back to you that your original expression becomes lost, a throw away. It needs time to set there, to be felt and absorbed. If someone says "neil you look very nice", I won't shoot right back with "so do you" for fear that they will think it's just an obligatory response. I wan't the other person to know that I mean it when I say it. There is a third response to "I love you". It may seem like splitting hairs. Simply omit the word "too". Then it's not a call and response, but an expression of the same level. It doesn't say, "I love you cause you love me" It means, I love you in the same manner and as deeply as you love me. I don't like throwing things around either. I tell very few of my friends that I love them. The word can become diluted. The special people in my life know they're special.
It's ironic that I read this just now. I just (about 5 minutes ago) talked to my grandfather and told him I love him. It is the first time I can recall doing this, I did it becuase it is true and I don't think I practice communicating my love often enough. It felt awkward, since I'm just getting started. He said it back without hesitation. That makes me feel–so happy.
Telling someone you love them irrespective of how that someone will react is a threat. It's a threat because it demands a response, whether you believe it does or not. You're putting a person on notice when you tell them you love them. And what right do you have to do that? If you're doing it for yourself, that's selfish. And if you're doing it for them, you have no idea how they will necessarily react. That's irresponsible. Telling a person you love them crosses a very important line that shouldn't be trifled with. Love isn't a Hallmark card. It's something that matters and should be treated with dignity, respect and, yes, caution. Cause in this crazy, mixed-up world, love is all we've got and we can't afford to F it up.
My mother, for all her faults, set a really good example of love for her own body. She was/is a supermodel in her own mind :)
It was just her and my sister and I. So we lived like semi-nudists during the summer. Swanning about the house in our underroos…
I still feel fat sometimes. But when I look in the mirror I can see myself for what I am, almost objectively. I don't have any distortion like so many other women I know.
Actually, there are people who always say "thank you" to an "I love you"……and the other person´s happy. I think it´s a sign of appreciation for the other´s feelings.
I don't know if you're the same, but I find it intensely difficult to write about my family because of all the tumultuous, unresolved feelings underlying relationships. This was very sensitively written. What does your mother think of this though?!
I rarely say it. And when I do, it's only to those special few.
I used to have a friend that would say "What if you died tomorrow? Wouldn't you be glad that you said it? Even if that person already knew you loved them, maybe they just needed to hear it."
But I think that just saying "I love you" does not make it so.
Gosh! this is good. This is true, honest in the art of being. The theme of love, vulnerability and oh the mommy thing. Universal, any writer that can do that with seeming effortlessness thats great.
A Mom
Very interesting post, you definitely have the knack for analyzing why people act the way they do. A big thing to remember though, is once you've figured out your parents and grandparents et al were just doing what they knew, and what they thought was best – you need to forgive them.
Your life is/will be different, you take the good you learned from them, you avoid the mistakes they made – you'll have your own to make.
Being able to see more than what's on the surface for people's actions is a good thing, but don't let it hang you up – once you know the WHY – you can just accept them and love them – flaws and all.
Again, you have to bellitle the fact that you are puertorrican. What does your grandmother's nationality has to do with the fact that your mom was abused?
there is a worse response than "too", its "I know you do."
So few people quote Sabrina. I love that you use the "button each other's hard to reach buttons" phrase. Its one of my favorites.
Ive always stood that when you say 'i love you' it means forever and the guy i was with knew this from the start. When he said he loved me, i just staired. Since our relationship or mess should i say ended, i realise he didnt love me at all but maybe i was the fool who loved him. He said it, didnt mean it, i mean it and didnt say it, my first love. Can love ever be simple??
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Media Bias ?
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Admittedly, I do very little ‘political posting here’. In fact I don’t really write here unless I feel a compelling. And when I came across this email the other day, I felt ‘compelled’ to share.
Let me preface this by saying that during the Bush Presidency, I grew tired of the constant belittling of George Bush. From news commentators to late night comedians, it was a non-stop barrage of insults and criticism of his presidency. Even Paul McCartney, of Beatle fame, was quoted this past week at a White House function of which he was a guest, saying: “After the last eight years, it’s great to have a President who knows what a library is.”
Oh sure, Bush had his moments of saying something awkward that made for good chuckles, but you do grow weary when there seems to be a bias in the media that is obviously slanted towards one particular party over another. I have no problem declaring that my political views lean towards ‘republican/conservative’. So when I saw this email forwarded to me this past week, it hit a nerve. I don’t forward many emails myself, let alone post them on here. But this one spoke some truth. –
“If George W. Bush was an idiot”
If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a TelePrompTer installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan’s holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?
If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the nonexistent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had stated that there were 57 states in the United States , would you have said that he is clueless.
If George W. Bush would have flown all the way to Denmark to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking out his front door in Texas , would you have thought he was a self important, conceited, egotistical jerk.
If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?
If George W. Bush had misspelled the word “advice” would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoes as proof of what a dunce he is?
If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?
If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?
If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?
If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America , would you have approved.
If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?
So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can’t think of anything? Don’t worry. He’s done all this in 9 months — so you’ll have three years and three months to come up with an answer.
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Study Guide: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer - BookNotes
TWILIGHT BY STEPHENIE MEYER: LITERATURE ANALYSIS / SYNOPSIS
QUOTES - IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS AND ANALYSIS
15.) Bella and Edward finally begin their romance, and are allowed to question one another. When Edward asks Bella questions about her life, we come to this poetic passage about life in Phoenix:
I tried to describe impossible things like the scent of creosote - bitter, slightly resinous, but still pleasant - the high, keening sound of the cicadas in July, the feathery barrenness of the trees, the very size of the sky, extending white-blue from horizon to horizon, barely interrupted by the low mountains covered with purple volcanic rock. The hardest thing to explain was why it was so beautiful to me - to justify a beauty that didn't depend on the sparse, spiny vegetation that often looked half dead, a beauty that had more to do with the exposed shape of the land, with the shallow bowls of valleys between the craggy hills, and the way they held on to the sun. I found myself using my hands as I tried to describe it to him. (232)
The closing sentence shows how involved Bella becomes when describing these things, and thus how important it is to her. The sacrifice she makes for the sake of her mother by moving to Forks is thus made apparent. The language of this passage is unusual in its run-on sentences and unusually heavy descriptions. Bella tries to explain how it is a unique kind of beauty that had to do with exposed land, the play of shadow and light - very much in keeping with the notion of twilight that follows soon after.
16.) In the car together, Edward makes this observation:
"It's twilight," Edward murmured, looking at the western horizon, obscured as it was with clouds. His voice was thoughtful, as if his mind were somehow far away. I stared at him as he gazed unseeingly out the windshield.
I was still staring when his eyes suddenly shifted back to mine. "It's the safest time of day for us," he said, answering the unspoken question in my eyes. "The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way... the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don't you think?" He smiled wistfully. (232-233)
Twilight is treasured by Edward as the "safest time of day" - when he no longer must deal with the sun and staying away from it. However, he also considers it the "saddest" time as it ends the day and marks the return of night. His question about darkness being "predictable" is odd - for humans, darkness symbolizes what is unknown and mysterious and dangerous. Vampires are completely at home in the darkness, however, and there is nothing that can hide from them. For Edward, then, being a vampire is boring - but daytime, when he poses as a human among humans, is a dangerous time but also positive for him.
17.) The relationship between Edward and Bella soon enough comes to a head, as they prepare for an important day together:
I intuitively knew - and sensed he did, too - that tomorrow would be pivotal. Our relationship couldn't continue to balance, as it did, on the point of a knife. We would fall off one edge or the other, depending entirely upon his decision, or his instincts. My decision was made, made before I'd ever consciously chosen, and I was committed to seeing it through. Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. It was an impossibility. (248)
The word "pivotal" is a distanced, intellectual term - it is balanced in turn by the more visual and visceral image of their relationship being "on the point of a knife". Finally, there is the last image of balance where they would "fall off one edge or the other" - whether it's falling in love or plunging to one's doom, there will be a sudden change as a result of this coming decision. However, Bella has already made her decision of being with Edward and she was "committed" to this choice; so the true choice falls upon Edward and what he wants, as she admits. In a way, she is placing herself into the traditional role of a damsel in distress, waiting for her hero to swoop down - or for the vampire villain to take advantage and feast on her blood.
18.) When the two go on their special hike, Edward finally reveals what happens when he is in the sun:
Edward in the sunlight was shocking. I couldn't get used to it, though I'd been staring at him all afternoon. His skin, white despite the faint flush from yesterday's hunting trip, literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface. He lay perfectly still in the grass, his shirt open over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his scintillating arms bare. His glistening, pale lavender lids were shut, though of course he didn't sleep. A perfect statue, carved in some unknown stone, smooth like marble, glittering like crystal. (260)
The beauty of Edward rises to a completely new level: Bella can't help "staring at him all afternoon" as his skin sparkles "like thousands of tiny diamonds", a reminder of both his ability to dazzle women and of the affluent life he leads. When Bella first saw the Cullens, she likens them to works of art - now she does so again, calling Edward a "perfect statue".
19.) After this, Edward describes to Bella why he is attracted to her as a vampire:
"You see, every person smells different, has a different essence. If you locked an alcoholic in a room full of stale beer, he'd gladly drink it. But he could resist, if he wished to, if he were a recovering alcoholic. Now let's say you placed in that room a glass of hundred-year-old brandy, the rarest, finest cognac - and filled the room with its warm aroma - how do you think he would fare then?"
We sat silently, looking into each other's eyes - trying to read each other's thoughts. He broke the silence first.
"Maybe that's not the right comparison. Maybe it would be too easy to turn down the brandy. Perhaps I should have made our alcoholic a heroin addict instead."
"So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?" I teased, trying to lighten the mood. He smiled swiftly, seeming to appreciate my effort. "Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin." (267-268)
The analogy chosen by Edward is purposely provocative: first that of an alcoholic, then that of a heroin addict. The pause between the alcoholic and heroin addict comparisons has the lovers looking into each other's eyes, which may be why Edward heightens his analogy in such a manner. Edward essentially confesses his helplessness to Bella, albeit in a clever way that flatters her - she is more than desired, she is needed by him in an overpowering manner. Further, she isn't just a random victim and he isn't just a random vampire - they are meant for each other on a very specific way that deals with each of their essences. Bella tries to "lighten the mood" as Edward has difficulty trying to convey his feelings to her, has difficulty getting in touch with his humanity, as much as he wants it for her sake.
20.) Soon after, a very different analog is called upon:
"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion." (274)
Note that Edward earlier described how he liked to hunt down mountain lions; now he describes himself as a lion, with all that it entails about ferocity and pride and its regal nature. There is also an echo of the Bible in this phrasing, or rather a popular mis-quoting from Isaiah 11:6 about "the lion sleeping with the lamb". The actual passage reads, "The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead them." The notion is that a peaceful, blessed union - a Godly union, one may even claim - is achieved when predator and prey are united... or in this case, are in love. However, they both see the absurdity of their situation, as seen by how they describe their respective animals.
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer: Free BookNotes Summary
Mescallado, Ray. "TheBestNotes on Twilight". TheBestNotes.com. . 09 May 2017
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Hyder v Womack
United States District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania.
Amber Hyder, Plaintiff,
Jonathan Womack and Contract Freighters, Inc., Defendants
No.3:18-cv-1583
RICHARD P. CONABOY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
*1 We consider here Defendants’ Partial Motion to Dismiss, for a More Definite Statement, and to Strike (Doc. 2). The parties have fully briefed this motion (Docs. 3 and 5) and it is now ripe for review.
1. Factual Summary.1
Plaintiff’s complaint was initially filed in the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas but this action was removed to this Court on August 7, 2018. The Court enjoys jurisdiction here on the basis of diversity of citizenship. The action arises from a motor vehicle accident that occurred in Luzerne County on May 31, 2017. Plaintiff was operating a Toyota RAV4 on the San Souci Highway in Hanover Township, Luzerne County when she slowed and came to a stop due to traffic in her lane of travel. While she was stopped, Defendant Womack, who was operating a tractor trailer owned by Defendant Contract Freighters, Inc. of Joplin, Missouri, failed to stop in time to prevent striking her vehicle in the rear. The accident caused physical damage to Plaintiff’s vehicle and she suffered physical injuries due to the impact. Plaintiff’s suit sounds in negligence and negligent entrustment. She also alleges an entitlement to punitive damages based upon her allegation that Defendant Womack operated the tractor trailer with reckless indifference to her safety or, in the alternative, that Defendant Contract Freighters, Inc. was recklessly indifferent to the safety of her and the motoring public in general in employing Defendant Womack without adequate vetting of his driving record. Defendant’s motion seeks to dismiss the punitive damages aspect of Plaintiff’s complaint, strike references to Defendant Womack as a “professional driver”, and eliminate 4 sub-paragraphs of her Complaint.
2. Legal Standard.
A party may move to dismiss a claim or claims set forth in a plaintiff’s complaint under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for “failure to state a claim under which relief can be granted.” The purpose of a motion to dismiss is to test the legal sufficiency of the complaint. Sturm v. Clark, 835 F.2d 1009, 1011 (3d. Cir. 1987). The Defendant bears the burden of showing that no claim has been presented. See e.g., Hedges v. United States, 404 F.3d 744, 750 (3d. Cir. 2005)(citation omitted).
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has articulated the appropriate standard applicable to a motion to dismiss in light of the United States Supreme Court’s decisions in Bell Atlantic Corporation v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 433 (2007), and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009):
[T]o survive a motion to dismiss, a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true to ‘state a claim that relief is plausible on its face.’ ” Iqbal, 129 S.Ct. at 1949 (citing Twombly, 550 U.S. at 570). The Court emphasized that “only a complaint that states a plausible claim for relief survives a motion to dismiss.” Id at 1950.
*2 McTernen v. City York, 577 F.3d 521, 530 (3d. Cir. 2009). The Third Circuit Court discussed the effects of Twombly and Iqbal in detail and provided a roadmap for district courts presented with a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim in a case filed only one week before McTernen, Fowler v. UPMC Shadyside, 578 F.3d 203 (3d. Cir. 2009). That case states:
District Courts should conduct a two-part analysis. First, the factual and legal elements of a claim should be separated. The District Court must accept all of the complaint’s well-pleaded facts as true, but may disregard any legal conclusions. [Iqbal, 129 S.Ct. at 1949]. Second, a District Court must then determine whether the facts alleged in the complaint are sufficient to show that the Plaintiff has a “plausible claim for relief.” Id at 1950. In other words, a complaint must do more than allege a Plaintiff’s entitlement to relief. A complaint has to “show” such an entitlement with its facts. See Phillips v. County of Allegheny, 515 F.3d 224, 234-35 (3d. Cir. 2008). As the Supreme Court instructed in Iqbal, “[w]here the well-pleaded facts do not permit the Court to infer more than the mere possibility of misconduct, the complaint has alleged – – but it has not shown that the pleader is entitled to relief.” Iqbal, 129 S.Ct. At 1949. This “plausibility” determination will be “a context-specific task that requires the reviewing court to draw on its judicial experience and common sense.” Id.
Fowler, 578 F.3d at 201-11.
The Circuit Court’s guidance makes clear that legal conclusions are not entitled to the same deference as well-pled facts. In other words, “the Court is ‘not bound to accept as true a legal conclusion couched as a factual allegation.’ ” Guirguis v. Movers Specialty Services, Inc., No. 09-1104, 2009 WL 3041992 at 2(3d. Cir. September 24, 2009) (not precedential)(quoting Twombly, 550 U.S. at 555).
3. Discussion.
Pennsylvania has adopted the Restatement of Torts (Second) formulation for punitive damages based upon recklessness. See Martin V. Johns-Manville Corp., 494 A.2d 1088, 1096 (Pa. 1985). That formulation states:
Punitive damages may be awarded for conduct that is outrageous, because of the Defendant’s evil motive or his reckless indifference to the rights of others. (emphasis supplied.)
See Section 908 (2), Restatement of Torts (Second).
Here the Plaintiff alleges in paragraphs 10(1) and 10(J) of her complaint that Defendant Womack operated the tractor trailer he was driving at a speed in excess of what was reasonable under the circumstances and followed the Plaintiff’s vehicle more closely than was reasonable under the circumstances. The Court finds that if either of these allegations of speeding or tailgating are proven, a reasonable juror could infer “reckless indifference” on Defendant Womack’s part.
Apparently, Plaintiff had her vehicle under sufficient control to enable her to stop her vehicle before contacting the vehicle immediately in front of hers. Defendant Womack did not do so. From that simple fact jurors could reasonably determine that, as alleged in Plaintiff’s Complaint, Womack, who was operating a multi-ton commercial vehicle at the time of the accident, was driving too fast for conditions, following too closely, and/or simply not paying that degree of attention the situation required. Any of these things might be seen by reasonable jurors as “outrageous” due to “reckless indifference” as per Martin v. Johns-Manville, supra. Mindful of the fact that whether mere negligence has crossed the line to become “outrageous” is normally a jury question (See Sabo v. Juarez, 2009 U.S. Dist LEXIS 66452, M.D.Pa. July 31, 2009), the Court finds that Plaintiff’s Complaint is adequately specific and sufficient to meet the plausibility requirement of Iqbal and Twombley, supra, as regards Plaintiff’s prayer for punitive damages.
*3 Defendants also seeked to strike references in the Complaint to Defendant Womack as a “professional driver” on the strength of Fredericks v. Castora, 360 A2d. 696 (Pa. Super. 1976). That case stands merely for the proposition that there is no heightened standard of care for professional drivers in determining negligence. In Fredericks, this determination was made in the context of argument over the propriety of the trial court’s jury charge that did not include instruction that professional drivers should be held to a higher standard care. Importantly, a close reading of Fredericks reveals that punitive damages were not an issue in that case. Should this case reach trial stage, the Court will insure that the jury is properly charged as to the Pennsylvania negligence standard. The fact that defendant Womack is characterized as a “professional driver” in the Complaint is of no legal significance at this point.2 Moreover, should this case go to trial, the jury will obviously be well aware that Womack was a professional driver in any event. Should the jury ultimately find negligence in this case, the fact that Defendant Womack is a professional driver may then appropriately be considered by the jury in determining whether punitive damages should be assessed. Accordingly, the Court sees no need for any modifications to the Complaint inasmuch as it clearly informs the Defendants regarding what issues they confront and plausibly articulates a claim for punitive damages. Thus, the Defendants’ motion will be denied in all respects. An Order consistent with this determination will be filed contemporaneously.
The “facts” in this section are derived from the allegations of Plaintiff’s complaint which, in the context of a Rule 12(b) (6) motion must be accepted as true. Morse v. Lower Merion School District, 132 F3d 902, 906 (3d Cir. 1997).
The Court also notes that, once discovery has been completed, Defendant will be free to make additional motions should the evidence adduced support same.
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The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has begun its two-day review of Australia’s record on racial equality. Shutterstock
Australia’s record on racial equality under the microscope
November 28, 2017 12.17am EST
Fiona McGaughey, University of Western Australia
Fiona McGaughey
Lecturer, Law School, University of Western Australia
Fiona McGaughey previously received a bursary from Graduate Women (WA) and an Australian Postgraduate Award from the Australian government.
Overnight in Geneva, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) began its two-day review of Australia, asking government representatives to explain their progress in promoting racial equality and tackling racism.
The CERD notified the government in advance of the key focus areas of the review. Not surprisingly, these include the situation of Indigenous people, and of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees; racist hate speech and hate crimes; and human rights and anti-racism protections in Australia’s laws and policies.
What is the CERD?
Australia has ratified seven of the nine core human rights treaties. Each treaty has its own treaty monitoring body, like the CERD, comprised of independent experts who are nominated by governments but do not represent them.
These bodies monitor states’ compliance with their international law obligations as set out in the treaty, primarily through periodic reporting.
Most recently, Australia received criticism from another one of these bodies, the Human Rights Committee, which highlighted shortcomings in relation to Indigenous rights, treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, and the lack of a national bill of rights.
Read more: UN slams Australia’s human rights record
It is often overlooked that of these nine core treaties, the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), was actually adopted before any of the others. The CERD became operational in 1970, and ICERD is now the third most commonly ratified UN human rights treaty, with 177 states signed up.
Australia and CERD – the background
The CERD last reviewed Australia’s record in 2010.
The recommendations made in 2010 contained 21 specific actions for the government. These included the recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as First Nations Peoples, supporting the proper performance of the Australian Human Rights Commission, appointing a Race Discrimination Commissioner, and addressing Indigenous contact with the criminal justice system.
Like many other UN human rights bodies, in 2010 the CERD also recommended that Australia review its mandatory detention regime of asylum seekers, with a view to finding an alternative to detention and ensuring that the detention of asylum seekers is always a measure of last resort.
Another recommendation in 2010 was that Australia criminalise the dissemination of racist ideas and incitement to racial hatred or discrimination.
In this regard, Australia has formally limited its obligations by having a reservation to the relevant article of the treaty. Reservations allow states to commit to treaty obligations, but with caveats.
Despite criticisms of Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act and suggestions that the federal parliament may even have exceeded its external affairs power by going further than was required by the ICERD treaty, the reality is that Australia lacks comprehensive criminal sanctions against incitement to racial hatred. Many other countries have such criminal laws in place.
On Tuesday in Geneva, the government will continue to seek to convince the CERD that it has made progress on these recommendations. It could refer to the appointment of a Race Discrimination Commissioner at the Human Rights Commission, for example Where it has not made good progress, it will be expected to provide explanations.
The last two reviews of Australia by the CERD in 2010 and 2005 were carried out in typical diplomatic mode – the review is called a “constructive dialogue”.
However, Australia’s review by the CERD in 2000 is famous in human rights circles, as there were unusually heated exchanges between Philip Ruddock and one of the committee members.
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The events were captured by Spencer Zifcak in his book, Mr Ruddock goes to Geneva. Subsequently, the then foreign minister, Alexander Downer, said:
… if a United Nations committee wants to play domestic politics here in Australia, then it will end up with a bloody nose.
Australia has more recently also rejected the authority of UN human rights bodies, but conversely has just been appointed to the UN Human Rights Council and will take up its seat in 2018.
The Human Rights Committee, one of the aforementioned seven treaty bodies, is sometimes confused with the Human Rights Council – a completely separate UN human rights body. The Human Rights Council is the key UN human rights body, a more politicised entity.
Who actually holds Australia to account?
Being subject to reviews by international human rights bodies is important for the upholding of human rights in Australia – we are currently the only sestern democracy lacking a statutory or constitutional bill of rights.
Also, unlike many other states, we are not part of a regional human rights framework.
Several interested parties made submissions to the CERD and delegates are in Geneva for informal briefings with the committee members. They will inform the committee of the key concerns they have about the government’s progress. NGOs have already made the committee aware of the situation on Manus Island.
My research has found that such submissions can be quite influential and help shape the recommendations eventually delivered by the committee. However, mechanisms to ensure the government implements the recommendations are lacking.
Therefore, those in civil society with an interest in racial equality, NGOs, academics, trade unions and others should be aware of the recommendations and encourage the government to progress their implementation.
The CERD will finish its review of Australia today, which should be available to view via webcast.
In a few weeks, the committee will hand down its concluding observations, containing recommendations for the Australian government.
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Frequently asked questions — our views on the riot in Little India
Posted by webmaster on December 10, 2013 in News, Our Stand, Press Releases
We will inundated with press enquiries on Monday, 9 December 2013, following the small riot in Little India the night before. Many reporters asked similar questions. Below are the more common ones and your responses.
Q: To what extent can or should the incident be read as indicative of any underlying tensions or frustrations felt by these foreign workers — social, economic, etc?
We need to be careful not too read too much into this incident without a clearer idea of the details of what happened. At the present moment, little is known about how exactly it started. All we have heard is that the crowd was upset with the bus driver, and for some unknown reason started lobbing objects at the police and ambulance first responders. But why were they directing ire at the first responders? What interaction took place between the gathered crowd and first responders that might have led to misunderstanding?
It is a well-known fact that riots are complex events, often triggered by some minor dispute. The minor dispute could be one where an authority figure (e.g. police) may be trying to do his job, but in doing so, was perceived by a crowd as being excessive, rude, unreasonable or overbearing.
It is also well-known that when a community harbours an underlying grievance, the threshold for tipping into anti-social acts is lower. There is an extra-sensitivity to perceived (even unintended) slights. The foreign worker communities here have been at the receiving end of employment unfairness for a long time. Many do not receive correct salaries, or have no way (in the absence of payslips) to check whether they have been correctly paid. Some have not been paid for months; TWC2 sees a regular stream of such complaints. Other workers have been denied proper medical treatment by their employers. Yet others have seen their friends repatriated suddenly without receiving full salaries or injury compensation.
However, while we can understand that there are festering grievances, it is not possible at this stage to say what part these feelings played in the explosion of random violence.
Nonetheless, it would still be good for the authorities to pay more attention to such grievances. Doing so would reduce whatever sense of resentment may exist, and thereby raise the threshold of the tipping point, to better prevent another incident from happening again.
Q: Minister Lui Tuck Yew just said today that he felt that alcohol could have been a contributory factor to the riot. What does TWC2 think of that?
It took place in a part of Little India where Tamils like to congregate, and indeed, alcohol sales are quite brisk there. As to whether it played any significant part, we just don’t know.
What we can say is that foreign workers have been congregating in this area for years, imbibing and socialising. As far as we know, there has not been any special reputation for disorderly behaviour through these years. Given this track record, it is perhaps no more than speculation that alcohol played any significant part.
Q: Residents in that area have said that Racecourse Road is often crowded. Is TWC2 aware of the situation there and can you tell us why foreign workers often gather there especially on Sundays?
It’s a pattern seen in urban landscapes all over the world. People like to congregate where they feel at home. Indian nationals, as foreigners and a minority, feel more at home in Little India. They get the food they like, have shops that cater to their needs, and is a convenient, central location to meet with friends who work (or live in dorms) from far corners of Singapore. The music, speech and aromas around them are warmly familiar. We can’t fault them for feeling comfortable in the district.
It’s a vibrant area. On weekends, it can get very crowded, but that’s because amenities are limited and workers excluded from many places, such as void decks. The sheer numbers of Indian workers recently brought into Singapore would of course have increased crowding further.
Q: Some have said that more should be done to manage crowds in Little India especially on Sundays such as spreading out the gathering points, making it an alcohol-free zone. Does TWC2 agree, and if so, what measures do you think should be taken? If you do not agree, can you tell us why?
We need to be conscious of the fact that sometimes Singapore actively denies foreign workers use of public spaces, e.g. void decks. Moreover, with low pay, they can’t afford to spend their leisure time within commercial spaces, e.g. restaurants. Their dorms suffer from overcrowding, so staying in there is not conducive. All they are left with is a limited amount of public space, mostly five-foot ways. On dry days, they get the use of a few open fields, but currently with the wet season, the ground is too moist to sit on. So they crowd even more into the walkways. This can raise tempers.
We can’t see how one can “manage crowds” in Little India by just shooing people around the already tight spaces. Clearly, a more sustainable solution must involve creating new built spaces that have amenities and provide shelter in all weather conditions.
As for “spreading out the gathering points”, we must remember that people are free to choose where they want to go. It takes a whole eco-system of shops, restaurants, and fellow countrymen’s preferences to create a popular location. It is better to upgrade facilities and add extra amenities within Little India than to try to go the whole hog of social engineering.
Making it an alcohol-free zone is going too far and will deprive workers of one of the few things they enjoy. First of all, alcohol has been consumed for years in the area with no incidents on this scale; secondly there is little evidence that it was a factor on Sunday night.
Q: Has there been any bad blood between the police and foreign workers in Little India?
Perhaps not the main police force, but the auxiliary police could have antagonised many foreign workers in the last few years. The auxiliary police have been hired to patrol void decks and related areas, and quite aggressively chase away migrant workers who naturally wish to enjoy the shade and the space. TWC2 has also noticed that they issue summonses quite liberally for minor infringements such as littering. While we don’t condone littering, education is key, not overzealous policing.
Foreign workers likely see the actions of the auxiliary police as harassment.
It won’t be surprising if they confuse the auxiliary police with the main police.
Q: Has TWC2 received any phonecalls from employers/ employees regarding the incident?
We have not received any phone calls from employers and do not expect to receive any. Some workers may be interested to discuss the situation with us merely as a passing interest during our interaction with them at TWC2’s soup kitchen. In this regard, we are not expecting our clients to be personally involved in the riots.
In view of the large population (about 1 million) of low-wage foreign workers, the number of workers involved in the riots can be viewed as miniscule. Statistically, we are not expecting our present clients to have been involved in the riots.
Q: Has TWC2 been contacted by any participants in the riot?
We have not been contacted by any participant in the riot, and we are not planning to look actively for participants. TWC2’s mission is focussed on employment issues and fair treatment of workers in their jobs. Our mission does not extend to incidental issues, e.g. what they do in their free time. The riot is not employment-related and we have no expertise in such matters.
However, if there are any participants who approach us for legal assistance, we may be able to point them in a direction where they can get help. At best, the extent of our involvement would be to put people in contact with each other.
Q: Some people feel that there were already too many foreigners in Singapore. Will this incident exacerbate their negative sentiments?
We must be careful not to read too much into the immediate reactions and aftermath of such incidents. It is only human to have heightened reactions in the short term.
While we acknowledge these sentiments, we believe that these sentiments are mostly directed towards foreign workers who are immediate competitors for jobs that Singaporeans are interested in and willing to do. However, low-wage foreign workers are usually doing jobs which Singaporeans are uninterested in. Generally, Singaporeans understand the need for the foreign workers to carry out such jobs.
From our personal experiences with our clients, they have rarely expressed experiences of xenophobia or prejudices against them, and instead have received kindness from Singaporeans. They are generally quite comfortable within Singapore society even if many of them have job-related frustrations. “I like Singapore,” they often say, “but I just don’t like my boss.”
Q: Will it increase any form of prejudice towards foreign workers?
Those who generally love their prejudices will love this event. For members of the public who are reasonable, we believe that they will be able to view the event in perspective.
See also: Riot in Little India after bus knocks down pedestrian.
TWC2 media statement on rioting in Little India.
Little India riot — learning the right lessons from this episode.
A small riot broke out in Little India on Sunday night, 8 December 2013. The junction of Race Course Road and Hampshire Road (just north of Little India MRT Station) is usually teeming with South Asian migrant workers Sunday nights. The area is more popular with Tamils than with Bangladeshis. News reports say that it...
Posted on December 9, 2013 in News, News Flash
For immediate release 9 December 2013 TWC2 is saddened and disturbed by the rioting in Little India last night. We do not condone senseless acts of violence and would like to see those responsible apprehended and put to justice. We are also concerned about the vitriol and xenophobia online against foreign workers. We would like...
Posted on December 10, 2013 in News, Our Stand, Press Releases
A 19-year-old worker from India was killed and 18 others injured after the lorry they were in was involved in a head-on collision with another lorry on Tuesday, 3 July 2012, reported the Straits Times. He had been working in Singapore for only five months. Mr Kathiravan and three others were flung out from the...
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By the time Pete Buttigieg arrived at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, on the night of April 5, the space was at capacity and the crowd had swelled to fill half the parking lot. It was drizzling, but word quickly spread that Buttigieg would speak before heading inside, so those denied admission stayed put, preparing to lift up their phones to document this moment in the twilight, when the suddenly famous mayor of a small city in a state they’d probably only ever visit by accident or under force would make the case for his campaign to be the savior who delivers America from President Donald Trump.
The mayor of South Bend, Indiana (pop. 102,245), for the past eight years and a candidate in the 2020 Democratic primary (pop. 18 and expanding) since January, Buttigieg is in the middle of what the mainstream media likes to call “a moment,” that dreamy season between obscurity and overexposure when all anyone asks is “Who is Pete Buttigieg?” or “How do you pronounce Buttigieg?” or “Should I care about Pete Buttigieg?” Which is mostly a way of asking, “Is this for real?”
“Candidly, I don’t even know all the reasons why this is going so well,” Buttigieg told me, and (candidly) I don’t quite believe him. But somehow it is, and Buttigieg (BOOT-edge-edge) is now running alongside or out in front of just about everybody except for Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, the candidates whose names are most familiar to voters. In a New Hampshire poll released on April 10, he placed third, as he did in an Iowa poll from March 24. A few one-off polls a year before a primary might not mean anything, of course. There’s a possibility that Buttigieg is to the 2020 Democratic primary what Jon Huntsman was to 2012’s Republican one. But as we now know [gestures broadly] way crazier things have happened than a candidate maintaining his or her unexpected popularity all the way through to the conventions, and Buttigieg’s campaign has benefited from more than a month of fawning from media elites and genuinely impressive fund-raising numbers — it raised more than $7 million in the first quarter, the campaign says, which was apparently much more than those inside the campaign were expecting or knew exactly what to do with.
“I think everything about this is as improbable as it is well aligned,” Buttigieg told me. “There’s that line about me being a laboratory concoction of what a politician might be. I get where that comes from, but then again, in what laboratory would you have cooked up as your entry in a presidential contest ‘mid-size-city midwestern mayor who’s not even 40 yet,’ you know?” He’s 37, and it doesn’t take much imagination to see why a skeptic might assess what’s on offer here and come away in disbelief that a single, organically grown person prone to consultantspeak could check so many boxes relevant to this moment, including, I guess, those for the always advantageous political qualities of “false modesty” and the “ability to be all things to all people.”
Sick of old people? He looks like Alex P. Keaton. Scared of young people? He looks like Alex P. Keaton. Religious? He’s a Christian. Atheist? He’s not weird about it. Wary of Washington? He’s from flyover country. Horrified by flyover country? He has degrees from Harvard and Oxford. Make the President Read Again? He learned Norwegian to read Erlend Loe. Traditional? He’s married. Woke? He’s gay. Way behind the rest of the country on that? He’s not too gay. Worried about socialism? He’s a technocratic capitalist. Worried about technocratic capitalists? He’s got a whole theory about how our system of “democratic capitalism” has to be a whole lot more “democratic.” If you squint hard enough to not see color, some people say, you can almost see Obama the inspiring professor. Oh, and he’s the son of an immigrant, a Navy vet, speaks seven foreign languages (in addition to Norwegian, Arabic, Spanish, Maltese, Dari, French, and Italian), owns two rescue dogs, and plays the goddamn piano. He’s actually terrifying. What mother wouldn’t love this guy?
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When I asked him if he was drawn to politics early on, the type of child who was president for Halloween, he said, “I think I actually did dress up as a politician once on Halloween.” He tried to move on, talking about his boyhood dream of being a pilot. But wait — which politician was it, I asked? “It was just a politician in general,” he said. “I remember I made, like, a little — for whatever reason, I noticed the little microphones, the little mics that politicians wear, and I, like, made a little one of those out of paper and clipped it to myself and wore a little suit.”
Outside in Manchester, I couldn’t even see him at first, when the crowd, a dense mass of white people wearing Patagonia, suddenly swarmed to the right. There was cheering and chanting, then finally his recently identifiable face sprouting on the stalk of his five-foot-nine-inch frame from amid the forest of iPhones and cameras and mics. “I heard the way you ingratiate yourself to voters is to stand on things, so I found this park bench here,” he said.
This was a joke at the expense of Beto O’Rourke, another candidate in the Democratic primary who has earned some notoriety for his Tom Cruisian habit of perching himself on surfaces not ordinarily designated for such activity. And it killed — a reflection of Buttigieg’s deft delivery, sure, but also of his audience.
Mayor Pete, as he’s known (though people who seem to really know him, including his husband, call him Peter), was surrounded by adoring or at least very curious people. He began to deliver a short version of his stump speech. By definition, a stump speech is something that gets repeated often. I can unfortunately still clearly recall the portions of Ted Cruz’s speech relating to his dad sewing money into his underwear when he first came to America from Cuba — and the last time I heard it was during the Republican primary that ended three years ago. Politicians also just repeat themselves a lot in general once they decide how they’ll talk about issue X or Y. Life is less complicated and less dangerous that way.
But judging him by this standard, Buttigieg is still unusually controlled. Even his modulations are the same from speech to speech and interview to interview. In most of them, he uses the phrase “theory of the case,” meaning his belief that defeating Trump — and Trumpism — is a job for someone who understands the folks who put him in office well enough to convince them that there’s another way. “I don’t think you can ever have an honest politics that revolves around the word again,” he likes to say, an indirect criticism of the slogan that defines the president’s worldview.
Speaking in Manchester, he asked, “What will America look like in 2054, when I reach the current age of the current president?” It’s a line he employs with “Lock her up!” frequency. He said his campaign “will not only win an election but help us begin to win an era.” And by this he doesn’t mean the same thing Bernie Sanders does by “revolution,” but something much more like what Obama meant by “change.” Even on the trail, he talks a lot more about democratic reforms and the party’s long game than you’d think voters would have any tolerance for, as they stare down what many seem to consider the most important election of their lifetime, and possibly the country’s.
David Axelrod, Obama’s longtime strategist and now Buttigieg’s friend, observed that Buttigieg has something in common not only with Obama but with the two Democratic presidents before him: faith. “His fluency on faith and his willingness to speak about it is an asset,” he said. “Carter, Clinton, and Obama — they all shared that quality. It was one of the cues that opened the door to voters.”
Eric Lesser, now a Massachusetts state senator, is a friend of “Peter’s” from Harvard. He worked on the 2008 campaign and then for Axelrod in the Obama White House. “He reminds me of the very early phases of President Obama,” Lesser said. “Just the fact that he is so deeply thoughtful and intellectual, and also somebody who is relatable.”
Axelrod said there are “two ways” to look at the race: You either “beat Trump at his own game,” and alienate crucial voters in the process, or you “build a bridge for people who may have voted for Trump and who may like some of the things he’s done but are troubled by him.” Buttigieg is uniquely able — and willing — to do this, Axelrod said, because such voters helped get him reelected (with 80 percent of the vote) when Mike Pence — a born-again Christian and zealous opponent of the LGBTQ community — was the governor of Indiana. Buttigieg is often asked how he would defend himself against Trump on the debate stage, or once the insult-comic campaign alter ego logs back on full time. He always says the same thing, that you’ll never be able to beat him with a savage one-liner, that beating him will mean ignoring him, to some degree, so that someone else — and their ideas — can get some oxygen.
But before he gets to present his theory of the case against Trump, he’s got to get through his case against the other Democratic contenders. Or at least that’s how I thought a primary worked. Buttigieg either sees things differently or wants to avoid meaningful bickering at this early stage with his competitors, and so he’s pretending to. “I think the thing about having so many of us in the field is that, for somebody like me, you’re not competing against any individual. You’re competing against the house,” he said. “And it’s possible, in that way, to — I think — run your own plan and talk about your own case and let others figure out for themselves all the ways in which I am simply not like any of the others.” Operationally, the strategy of his campaign seems to be: Pick up enough Democrats who found Trump’s message appealing to actually win in Iowa and New Hampshire, then ride the momentum and publicity (he’ll say yes to any interview; see here, and here) into Super Tuesday. And from there …
“He has an eye for making his brand seem bigger and larger than it is,” one senior Democratic consultant told me. “And eventually, if you fake it enough, that becomes true. Everything he’s projecting makes it look like a real campaign.”
Buttigieg with supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire, on April 5, 2019.
Photo: M. Scott Brauer
Buttigieg was elected mayor at 29 years old, in 2011, a boy wonder whose career as a McKinsey consultant (an expression of conventional mid-aughts corporate ambition for a graduate of a place like Harvard, but in 2019 at least theoretically problematic for the Democratic electorate) was neutralized by a résumé that suggests civic-minded aspirations: the degrees from Harvard and Oxford, stints working and volunteering for the presidential campaigns of John Kerry and Obama, respectively, one recent failed campaign of his own for state treasurer, and eight years of service as an intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve. “I feel that I did good work there,” he told me of his time at McKinsey. “Obviously, the firm’s made some mistakes, uh, which are embarrassing to the firm. And I only worked on things that I believed in but also decided to leave private practice to come home to my community in the Midwest and make a difference there.” What Buttigieg believed in then was grocery-store pricing, which is what he says he worked on at the firm.
As South Bend goes, so goes the nation, and as soon as Buttigieg was elected mayor, he was talked about as a future presidential hopeful. I’m just kidding.
But he did bring with him a technocratic vision for the future of his city, which had decayed over the previous half-century as industry collapsed throughout the Rust Belt. On Election Night, Buttigieg promised “to apply new tools,” address vacant housing, “forge new alliances,” improve the school system, “find every way possible” to deal with crime and violence, and “create a new culture of customer service” to advance the efficiency, transparency, and cost-effectiveness of city services. “We’re going to think bigger about South Bend’s borders,” he said. “We’re going to find new ways to find partnerships — not just across the region but around the world — so that South Bend is truly a global city.”
His own horizon seemed a little more limited. In a place like Indiana, a liberal like Mayor Pete could never win a statewide office. (He tried, once, for state treasurer, and was humiliated.) But maybe he could somehow vault himself into national politics, presenting himself as a moderate voice from the heartland even if all he’d ever won was the mayoralty of a college town. Of course, Buttigieg was still in the closet at that point.
He joined the Navy Reserve before coming out, and before the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” It was a strange time to be signing up for military service, 2009, when a Democratic president had just won a landslide victory as an antiwar candidate. Buttigieg’s decision, he told me, came from “an awareness that somebody was going to be tasked with those duties, and if it was gonna be somebody, then why wouldn’t it be me?” By the time he was actually deployed, nearly everyone on both sides of the aisle had decided the war was a disaster. During a 2017 interview with his friend and mentor Axelrod, Buttigieg was asked if his decision had been motivated in part by politics. As Axelrod put it, “The cynic would say [it was] a résumé enhancer.” Buttigieg said, “Not really. I mean, it was more of the family tradition. I have reflected on that. The thing I asked myself was, If it was as damaging politically as it is actually helpful politically, would I have still done it? I hope the answer is yes. There’s no way to know. There’s no way to run that experiment, I guess.”
When I asked him to elaborate, he told me, “There are a lot of motivations for service, and the quest for honor has been one of them since antiquity. But something like serving in the military — especially the extent to which it has a real price, and I don’t just mean the risk of coming into harm but the moral cost of becoming involved even peripherally in killing — means it’s not something you do lightly. And it’s not something you do unless you trust your own motivations for doing it.” He added that, while military service is popular now, and “people are tripping over themselves to hug a service member,” that’s not always the case. “You really wanna make sure that you’re making this choice as independently as you can from the question of what other people would think. Because what other people will think is gonna change.”
After he returned in 2015, he made the decision to publicly come out, at the age of 33, five months before voters took to the polls to decide whether to reelect him. “The first time I knew that you could be gay and still be in politics, I guess, was when I became aware of Barney Frank, who’s also just a remarkable mind and a very interesting person to watch,” Buttigieg told me. “I was vaguely aware of Harvey Milk, and have come to understand more and more his significance. But there were not a lot of gay political role models that I could look to, certainly in my own geography, when I was getting started.” He has said that if there had been “a pill” he could have taken to stop being gay, “I would’ve swallowed it before you had time to give me a sip of water,” and that if he could’ve found the part of him that made him gay, he would’ve “cut it out with a knife.” He told me, “It took me a very long time to be ready.” As he struggled for acceptance, he “became involved with some extraordinary women, out of a desire to find whatever part of me might be straight and give it every last shot.”
He started to tell me that story: “When I came out in my late 20s,” he began, before I cut him off: “In your book, you wrote you came out at 33, no?” “Oh, sorry,” he said, “I guess it was 33.” But that was only the last stage in the process, he explained. By his late 20s, as he prepared to lead South Bend, he had already come out to a close friend. “That was something that I knew I should do before taking office as mayor, because I didn’t think that I should have a position of that level of responsibility while something as important in my own self was unresolved.”
In this race, candidates like Biden and Beto have received criticism for their privilege as straight white men. Buttigieg’s homosexuality — which also may confer a fundraising opportunity — has served to insulate him somewhat. But not entirely. Jason Johnson, editor of The Root, said the “mostly white” reporters are “kissing his butt,” and, “looking for a white guy who makes them feel good about themselves.” Buttigieg’s record on race in South Bend, whose residents are 40 percent black and Latino and 25 percent below the poverty level, has come under scrutiny. He was forced to explain why, in 2015, he said that, “all lives matter,” (the phrase, he explained, hadn’t yet been weaponized by the right as a response to the Black Lives Matter movement). And the crowning jewel of his data-driven revitalization initiatives, a project to fix or demolish 1,000 homes that were vacant or not up to code, has been cast by critics as a form of soulless gentrification.
A campaign volunteer from Connecticut earlier this month.
In Washington, D.C., earlier this month, Chasten Buttigieg made the rounds at the LGBTQ Victory Fund National Champagne Brunch, where Pete was scheduled to speak. Pete repeated a line he has been using for months in interviews on national television — if Mike Pence and others like him have a problem with his sexuality, “your problem is not with me. Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator” — but this time, with the world listening, it created an entire news cycle and received a response from Pence himself, who said Buttigieg “knows better” than to be “critical of my Christian faith and about me personally.” Chasten has become an object of fascination thanks to his Twitter and Instagram accounts, where he’s quick and funny and acts, consciously or not, to humanize his husband. The campaign recognized his value early. The night before the event in the capital, Chasten was making his own appearance in Houston, giving a speech before the Human Rights Campaign.
“I want to introduce myself. I work for Smucker’s,” a man said as he approached Chasten and shook his hand. “Really!” Chasten said. “Well, with a name like Smucker’s …” The man stared blankly, prompting Chasten to glance self-consciously at the people around him. “I’m looking around, like, anyone?” he said later. The Smucker’s man told Chasten that the company, which also owns Jif peanut butter, wanted to donate a pallet of it to a shelter on behalf of the campaign, which is not as odd as it may sound — in Pete’s book, he explains that when his father-in-law was growing up, in poverty, Jif in the cupboard was a sign that things were going okay. Chasten now has the colors of the Jif label tattooed, flaglike, on his arm.
Speaking to reporters after the peanut-butter-donation exchange, Chasten was cautious. “I don’t really want to answer any political questions and things like that right now,” he said. Then, he got caught in the same elevator with those reporters. The elevator went to the wrong floor. Then it picked up an older couple. This is the hazard of being on the trail. “I feel like, if you guys wanna talk about the dogs, ice cream, you know, the weather, I can answer all those questions,” he said, “but I just wanna make sure I do everything right for the team.”
There was a beat, and then a reporter asked, “Which is your favorite dog?”
After the 2016 election, Buttigieg wrote a post on Medium called “A Letter From Flyover Country,” in which he proposed a new way forward for the Democratic Party. A couple weeks later, he joined the race to be Democratic National Committee chair, an unglamorous and ultimately unsuccessful effort. Rather than walking away humiliated after dropping out — the best option, with the other being third place in what most people considered a two-man race — he left with even loftier ambitions. “A lot of things went through my mind after the DNC process,” he said. “I learned a lot about the country, about the party. I was also reminded how much I loved my job as mayor, and so I wasn’t sad to come back to this work.” Buttigieg often says how much he loves being mayor of South Bend, but it’s worth pointing out that he has left or attempted to leave the job temporarily or permanently three times: when he deployed, when he ran for the DNC, and now as he campaigns for president. Perhaps getting ahead of such questions, he told me that he was never eager to serve a third term as mayor because most mayors “wear out their welcome” after two. Mostly, he said, “I was just trying to read the moment.”
Jennifer Holdsworth, his campaign manager for that race, who is informally advising his presidential campaign, said that when he dropped out, “we had dozens of people walking out of their suites and running up to us, and basically being like, ‘Why are you dropping out? We have nowhere to go now after the first vote. We need you to stay in this, and if you don’t stay in this, then you better run for president.’ ” But she didn’t take it seriously at first, and neither did the rest of the staff. “We were like, Okay, well, that’s a big leap,” she said. “There was really no discussion of it, literally at all, within the team during the race.”
Buttigieg was more open to the crazy idea. “People said — a few people, a very small, few people said — that I should think about running for president, and I wasn’t sure whether to take that seriously or whether it’s just kind of a nice thing you say to any person you know personally who’s in elected office. And yet it lined up enough with the situation I saw around me that it began to remind me of moments when I decided to run for other offices. I saw a need that the office called for, and I saw it match in some way with what I had to offer.” He said he knew it would be an “underdog project” and that it would be “audacious, maybe even offensive, to some people, for me to try to undertake it.”
He was also concerned about losing again. “It was pointed out to me that you could only go so far collecting participation ribbons,” he said. “So running for DNC and, frankly, losing worked out really well for me. Running and losing for something twice in a row usually means you’re gonna be done with politics for at least a while.”
“He has no way out of South Bend other than doing this, really,” the senior Democratic consultant I spoke to said. “The DNC race was really smart because it put him in front of all of these people nationally. The mechanics of running for president — there’s really only a few hundred people who help prop you up until the first vote is cast, and they all had him on their radar. He has a mind for networking.” Hiring Lis Smith, now his campaign spokeswoman, for the DNC race was a kind of aggro move for Buttigieg. She is well known and well liked by the national media but disliked by many of her fellow Democratic stagehands, in that particular way a certain kind of woman often finds herself disliked. Smith, is the highest-profile member of a staff that tallies in the 30s. “If he can keep himself in the spotlight, he’ll attract good hires,” the senior Democratic consultant said. “The problem is all of these candidates are going to have their moment in the sun. When the spotlight isn’t on him, and the world isn’t moving organically for him, will it all still work?”
Lesser — who, serving the people of Massachusetts, has endorsed Elizabeth Warren’s campaign — said Buttigieg was “never the type of person on campus who ran around in a pinstripe suit glad-handing everybody.” Instead, he would “reach out to and chat with and buck up students who had setbacks,” a subtler and more effective form of making a political impression. When, as a recent Harvard graduate, Lesser was in charge of luggage on Obama’s 2008 campaign, Buttigieg drove out to Gary, Indiana, “just to help me unload everything and then left.” Obama wasn’t ever going to be there, he said. “There was no glory in that. He wasn’t getting face time with the senator.” Lesser, who, again, has endorsed Warren, said, “A set of historic and once-in-a-lifetime events have coalesced around bringing him to this moment. He is not someone who was looking for power for power’s sake.”
Corey Johnson, speaker of the New York City Council, said he’d never met Buttigieg when he received a call from him earlier this year, asking him to attend a dinner hosted in his honor by the author and liberal Twitter personality Molly Jong-Fast. The day of the event, Buttigieg followed up the call with a text urging him to come. They met and talked, and soon Johnson watched in awe as the spark he saw “turned into a bonfire.” He said he’d introduced Buttigieg at a fund-raiser just a few months later and was “literally bombarded” with messages from “people who I know and who I don’t know who follow me on social media, gay and straight,” who were upset that they didn’t get a chance to attend the event and meet the candidate. “In New York City, I felt a real groundswell of organic support for him.” That’s likely why, after Buttigieg formally kicks off his campaign on April 14 in South Bend, he’ll be flying to New York, then Iowa, then New York again, and finally New Hampshire.
Which is where we were, walking down a main street in Concord, surrounded by photographers who walked backward in front of us to document the scene. “There’s a kind of whiplash to it,” Buttigieg said, “but it’s a good thing. The speedup of it, the trajectory of it, has definitely been more dramatic than we had expected. But we also prepared by putting together a good team, knowing that, sooner or later, if our theory of the case was right, we were going to grow. We didn’t know that we’d explode onto the scene this early in the year, and that creates the challenge of making sure that we can sustain that energy. But I think the way you outlive the flavor-of-the-month period is through substance. We’re gonna have a substantive process.”
What does that mean? I have no idea. The campaign website, Pete for America, doesn’t feature a policy section, something that has caught the attention of critics who say Buttigieg is an empty suit — or, in his case, empty dress pants plus a white or blue shirt with the sleeves rolled up (tie, but no blazer). Buttigieg talks in specifics about the Electoral College (he wants to get rid of it) and the Supreme Court (he imagines an extreme reconfiguration, with 15 judges instead of nine, five of them confirmed by unanimous vote of the other ten, a way of ensuring nonpartisanship, he says). On other matters, he is less detailed. “I’m very specific on policy. I just think that we need to talk about values first. You can’t just expect people to be able to derive your values by looking at the minutiae of your policy proposals,” he told me.
“Elizabeth Warren is sort of running laps around people right now in terms of producing policy,” Axelrod told me. “He will have to build out some of his policy ideas. But the main thing is, how do you go from an organization that won a race in a venue that is smaller than a congressional district and scale that up to a national campaign? That’s challenging. In that regard, the early success is a mixed blessing.” He added, “Now you’re in the game and you’re drinking from a fire hose, and you have to scale up very, very quickly.”
Speaking by phone a few days later, I asked Buttigieg if he was afraid he would fuck this up. “Anytime you’re in a position of responsibility, you’re afraid of fucking it up. Not only when your own projects or future are at stake but, especially, when others are counting on you,” he said. “I also don’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves talking about why this is working, because not a vote has been cast. I haven’t won anything other than a few media cycles.”
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UN launches probe into “pernicious” two child policy
23/05/2016 by Graeme Sneddon
SNP MP, Alison Thewliss, has welcomed moves by the United Nations to launch an investigation into the UK’s proposed rape clause and two child policy for tax credits.
In February, Ms Thewliss wrote to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, and asked the UN to investigate whether the UK Government’s proposed rape clause and two child policy breached the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which the UK signed in 1990.
The SNP politician believes that the UK Government’s “medieval” proposals could breach at least five of the fifty-four articles in the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child.
Recently, the UN responded to Ms Thewliss and confirmed that it also had concerns about the UK’s proposed welfare policies. Accordingly, the UN’s Committee on the Rights of the Child will be launching an investigation next week.
Ms Thewliss welcomed the UN’s intervention and said:
“Everyone knows that the medieval two child policy and rape clause is unworkable, immoral and is now almost certainly in contravention of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, which the UK signed up to almost twenty five years ago.
“I warmly welcome the UN’s decision to intervene and shine a very bright light onto this cruel and thoughtless Government, which appears hell bent on making life as difficult as possible for ordinary people.
“It is clear that, over the last ten months, the Tories had hoped this campaign would be quietly dropped but the fact it has caught the attention of the UN suggests this policy is now totally untenable. The UN probe is a major boost to our campaign to end the pernicious two child policy and rape clause.
“This Government simply cannot be allowed to get away with a policy that is tantamount to social engineering.”
Questions remain unanswered on rape clause and two child policy
Alison Thewliss MP supports campaign to help those struggling financially
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Institutions and development: Some thoughts and open questions
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Institutions and Development
Capitalist institutions have clearly brought about a great deal of progress in what are today’s developed countries. It is therefore no wonder that the prevailing belief in institutional economics is that underdevelopment is chiefly a consequence of institutional shortcomings. The prevailing idea in the literature is that some countries have succeeded in building “good” political institutions (ones that provide checks and balances for society) and “good” economic institutions (ones that drive physical capital accumulation, investment in human capital and innovation), whereas others have “bad” institutions (ones that block accumulation and innovation). Countries that have good institutions grow steadily. Those that have bad institutions grow less or grow very fast for a few years and then lapse into severe crises and periods of stagnation. In the short run, the differences may appear to be negligible, but over the span of several decades, they build up and result in very disparate levels of development.
If this explanation is to be anything more than a tautology – with “good institutions” and “bad institutions” being just another way of talking about rich and poor countries – we have to specify exactly what we understand those labels to mean. A first step is to think about institutions as being the rules of the game that govern social interactions (North 1981). This raises new questions: Who determines what the rules of the game are? How likely is it that they can be altered? In order to answer these questions, we have to take another step back and start to think about the rules of the game as just one endogenous variable in a more complex system.
An important step in that direction is to regard institutions as the outcome of the distribution of political power within a society, since those who wield political power are the ones who establish the rules of the game that govern interactions among organizations and players. Seen in this way, the fundamental thesis of institutional economics implies that certain patterns in the distribution of political power promote growth while others hinder it. This does not mean, however, that there are not certain types of political institutions, such as constitutions, for example, that are difficult to change and that exert an exogenous influence over the distribution of political power for an appreciable period of time.
The next question is, then, which distributions of political power promote growth? The answer is more evident for extreme cases and over the long term, but much less clear for intermediate cases and transitions. Let us suppose that we are in a society where total anarchy reigns. Political power is completely dispersed, and there is no organization that is capable of concentrating a substantial share of coercive power. Property rights are non-existent and there is no contract enforcement. This is not an environment that is conducive to capital accumulation or technological or economic innovation. Some concentration of political power is necessary in order for economic growth to be possible. At the other extreme, let us suppose that we are in a country that is governed by a small elite. It is highly likely that this elite will use its quasi-monopoly on political power to establish rules of the game that will increase its members’ revenues without caring how much of a distortionary effect those rules have on the rest of society. The key problem is that there is no way that the elite will make a commitment to refrain from expropriating the property of the rest of the members of society or to fulfil its part of an agreement (North and Weingast, 1989). In this kind of environment, there are very few incentives for the rest of the members of society to accumulate wealth or to innovate. An elite that monopolizes political power may produce a better world than would exist under total anarchy, but it is not likely to fuel economic development. None of this means that there may not be isolated, short-lived success stories under either anarchy or autocracy. Yet the fact remains that theoretical arguments can be coupled with historical evidence to demonstrate that extreme distributions of political power do not tend to promote economic growth over the long term.
Most of the situations of interest in the modern world are not extreme cases in terms of the distribution of political power, however. Accordingly, the important questions that we would like to answer are: What kinds of changes need to be made in the distribution of power in order for a country such as Argentina, for example, to put an end to decades of bleak economic performances? At this juncture, we simply wish to make three points. First, when we talk about institutional changes, what we really mean is changes in the distribution of political power. Second, the change in the distribution of political power must modify the rules of the game in a way that will result in a stronger economic performance. In other words, those who gain political power have to have incentives for establishing rules of the game that will be more conducive to progress than those who lose political power. Third, generally speaking, it is no simple matter to determine what the best distribution of political power is or how to make the transition towards that distribution.
Finally, we would like to pose the following question regarding the fundamental thesis of institutional economics: Is an inadequate distribution of political power really the main obstacle to development? On the one hand, we have structural issues, or, in other words, rigidities in a country’s economic structure that cause economic actors to prefer different sets of rules of the game (see, for example, Galiani, Schofield and Torrens, 2014, and Galiani and Torrens, 2014). We may also find ourselves looking at structural obstacles even when the immediate cause of a weak economic performance is the distribution of political power. There may also be a disconnection between the de jure and de facto distributions of such power. In certain types of economic structures, the de facto distribution of power may block any attempt to shift the de jure distribution of power in the right direction (Acemoglu and Robinson, 2006). On the other hand, we have ideological and cultural issues, or, in other words, aspects of the population’s perceptions and beliefs that are usually thought of as being volatile. And what about situations where, overall, the distribution of political power in a society is close to being the best possible one but where a fiercely ideologized population refuses to accept the mechanisms that will lead to progress? It is very difficult to devise a sound theory about the formation and diffusion of ideologies and beliefs, and it is perhaps partly for this reason that institutional economics has placed less emphasis on these subjects. We simply wish to draw attention to the fact that, in many instances, explanations based on the interplay of vested interests may not in themselves be enough to account for the poor performance of many countries. Beliefs and ideas may also play an important role (Mokir, 2009).
In sum, if we want to put an end to underdevelopment, we will have to alter the distribution of political power in such a way that those whose incentives are most closely aligned with pro-progress rules of the game have more political power. For intermediate cases (those that are neither anarchistic nor autocratic), it is not easy to determine what the optimum distribution of political power is. Nor is it a simple matter to change the distribution of political power in a country, although we do know that there are windows of opportunity for doing so. A country’s structure and ideology may play a pivotal role as well, however. In those kinds of cases, we need to put more effort into determining what kinds of changes in the economic structure are needed or into championing pro-progress ideas in the cultural arena.
Acemoglu, Daron, and James Robinson, 2006. De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence. American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 96(2), pp. 325-330.
Galiani, Sebastian, and Gustavo Torrens, 2014. Autocracy, Democracy and Trade Policy. Journal of International Economics, 93(1), pp. 173-193.
Galiani, Sebastian, Norman Schofield and Gustavo Torrens, 2014. Factor Endowments, Democracy and Trade Policy Divergence. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 16(1), pp. 119–156.
Mokyr, Joel, 2009. The Enlightened Economy. London: Penguin Books.
North, Douglass, 1981. Structure and Change in Economic History. New York: Norton.
North, Douglass, and Barry R. Weingast, 1989. Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutional Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England. The Journal of Economic History, 49(4), pp. 803-832.
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Home Walk of Fame Stars Nick Nolte
Inducted to the Walk of Fame on November 20, 2017 with 1 star. Comments
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Hollywood Chamber Honors Actor Nick Nolte With Star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame
Watch LIVE the ceremony as Nick Nolte unveiles the star on the Walk of Fame below
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce proudly honored actor Nick Nolte with the 2,623rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, November 20th, at 11:30 a.m. PST. The star was dedicated in the category of Motion Pictures at 6433 Hollywood Boulevard in front of the Pacific Theatre.
“Nick Nolte is a Hollywood favorite and we are thrilled to dedicate his star on our iconic Walk of Fame,” stated Leron Gubler, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce President and CEO.
Helping Emcee Leron Gubler to unveil the star guest speaker Gavin O’Connor who directed Nolte in the film “Warriors”.
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce which administers the popular star ceremonies encourages people who are unable to attend and fans around the world to watch the event exclusively on www.walkoffame.com.
Nolte is currently starring in “Graves” in his Golden Globe nominated performance as ex-president Richard Graves, a former two-term POTUS who hopes to end the wrongs of his administration 25 years after leaving the White House. Season 2 of “Graves” premiered on EPIX October of 2017 and currently airs Sunday nights at 10:00 PM ET on EPIX. The season finale is December 10th. Produced by Lionsgate, “Graves” was created by Joshua Michael Stern (“Swing Vote,” “Jobs”) who also serves as showrunner and Academy Award® winner Greg Shapiro (“The Hurt Locker,” “Zero Dark Thirty”) is the executive producer. Executive Producers include Keith Eisner (“The Good Wife”) and Eric Weinberg (“Scrubs”), with David Iserson (“Mad Men”) as Supervising Producer and Bill Hill (“Veep,” “Eastbound & Down”), Lisa Parsons (“Arrested Development”) and Abby Genwanter (“Pushing Daisies”) as producers.
Nolte, an Omaha, Nebraska native, played college football before he discovered theatre, and began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse. He then studied briefly with Bryan O’Byrne at Stella Adler’s Academy in Los Angeles. Soon following, he traveled for several years performing in regional theatres.
Landing a breakthrough role in the legendary television series “Rich Man, Poor Man” marked only the beginning for Nolte, launching him into international fame and garnering him Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations for his performance. Following its success, he made his feature film starring debut in “The Deep” opposite Jacqueline Bisset. Nolte has since never looked back. Diversity of character became Nolte’s signature in his early film career, with roles as a drug-smuggling Vietnam veteran in “Who’ll Stop The Rain,” as a disillusioned football star in “North Dallas Forty” which he developed with author Peter Gent, as free-spirited beat-era writer Neal Cassady in “Heart Beat,” and as a reclusive marine biologist in “Cannery Row.” Nolte continued to challenge himself with such character roles as the philosophical vagrant in “Down and Out in Beverly Hills,” a tough cop in “48 Hours,” an American photojournalist in “Under Fire,” and a determined lawman in “Extreme Prejudice.” He created another unique character in “Weeds,” as an ex-con turned playwright.
With an ability to masterfully portray a wide range of roles, Nolte was most recently seen in “A Walk in the Woods,” co-starring Robert Redford. He starred in Lionsgate Films’ coming-of-age mixed martial-arts drama “Warrior,” for which he received Academy Award®, Screen Actors Guild, and Broadcast Film Critics nominations for Best Supporting Actor. He was also seen in the Ben Stiller-directed Hollywood parody “Tropic Thunder,” Paramount Pictures’ “Spiderwick Chronicles,” Sony Pictures Classics’ “The Beautiful Country,” directed by Hans Peter Moland and executive produced by Terrence Malick; the Olivier Assayas-directed “Clean,” co-starring Maggie Cheung; “The Peaceful Warrior,” adapted from the Dan Millman novel “Way of the Peaceful Warrior” and directed by Victor Salva; and “Neverwas,” directed by Joshua Michael Stern and co-starring Ian McKellan, Jessica Lange, and William Hurt.
Nolte’s additional film credits include “Hotel Rwanda,” “The Good Thief,” “The Hulk” and “Northfork” for Paramount Classics. Nolte also re-teamed with director Alan Rudolph to film “Investigating Sex,” in which he starred opposite Neve Campbell and Robin Tunney.
In recent years, Nolte has successfully added to his credit, top-contending films such as director Paul Schrader’s “Affliction,” for which he received Academy Award®, Golden Globe, and Independent Film nominations for Best Actor; Oliver Stone’s “U-Turn” co-starring Sean Penn and Jennifer Lopez; “Afterglow” produced by Robert Altman; “Jefferson In Paris,” where he portrayed Thomas Jefferson; Martin Scorsese’s thriller remake “Cape Fear,” and “The Prince of Tides,” in which he starred opposite Barbra Streisand, and received an Oscar® nomination for Best Actor and won the Golden Globe as Best Actor from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. He starred opposite Julia Roberts in “I Love Trouble,” and as a basketball coach in “Blue Chips” for director William Friedkin. Additionally, Nolte starred in “I’ll Do Anything” for writer/director James L. Brooks, and in the critically-acclaimed “Lorenzo’s Oil,” co-starring Susan Sarandon.
Other Nolte film credits have included “Three Fugitives,” “Farewell to the King,” Scorsese’s segment of “New York Stories,” Karel Reisz’s “Everybody Wins,” and Sidney Lumet’s “Q&A.” Nolte also voiced the character of Vincent the Bear in DreamWorks’ animated feature “Over the Hedge.”
Nolte’s long-anticipated autobiography Rebel will be published by HarperCollins on January 23rd.
Nolte is a strong supporter of the Red Cross.
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Monday, April 30, 2012 Mike No comments
From The Gateway Pundit via The Curt Jester:
“This contraception fight in particular was illuminating. It was like being in a time machine,” Obama told the crowd, many of whom had purchased tickets that cost $1,000 to attend. “Republicans in Congress were going so far as to say an employer should be able to have a say in the health care decisions of its female employees. You know, for a party that prides itself on being rabidly anti-regulations of almost any kind, for folks who claim to believe in freedom from government interference and meddling, it doesn’t seem to bother them when it comes to a woman’s health.”
Now, let's take a minute and look at this. Here is a man who wants to take the decision about what constitutes women's health care not only away from women, but away from their employers, and reserve it to himself, and he has the audacity to point a finger at anyone else? How does this even make sense except in doublespeak.
Drink More Pepsi
You've probably seen this in other blogs but Pepsi has announced that they will not be using aborted fetal tissue in the development of new flavors. Children of God for Life had broken the story a year or so ago about Pepsi's association with Senomyx. They have now announced that their call for a boycott of Pepsi products is over because of this new development. For all my friends who tell me it is wasting time to write letters to big corporations I say "not always."
Thursday, April 26, 2012 Mike No comments
So, churches in Kansas can't refuse to let gays use their buildings (privately owned buildings) for any purpose, even if that purpose is against the moral teachings of the church. However, New York schools can refuse to let Christians use their buildings (paid for by taxpayers, some of whom belong to the very congregations affected) for the purpose of exercising their first amendment rights to practice their religion.
Saturday, April 14, 2012 Mike 1 comment
"My views are totally consistent with Catholic social doctrine."
$5,540 out of $379,035? Really? Now in fairness, maybe the VP has given $100,000 secretly and doesn't report it on his income tax statement. On the other hand, maybe his adherence to Catholic social doctrine is as faithful as his adherence to Catholic moral teachings.
Understand I'm not criticizing how much he gives compared to anyone else, I'm pointing out his hypocrisy.
The Great Divorce
Friday, April 13, 2012 Mike No comments
I am really getting frightened for our country, and our kids. I hear our dear leader being called Caesar, and I don't think of Julius, but Nero. Bread and circuses, fiddling, Christian persecution, he seems to have it all. Worse yet, he seems to have done his homework on how to cause a schism in the Church, or at least exploit the latent schism in American culture.
It's enough to make one think the end times are here. Well, perhaps not, but I do hear everything from (premature) triumphalism to (hopefully premature) despair. There are certainly small triumphs, but also small defeats every day. I do think it's fairly plain if you look without bias that four more years on this same track, and the good cardinal's fears will become fact, and that thought sobers me. From the USCCB letter referenced above:
HHS mandate for contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs. The mandate of the Department of Health and Human Services has received wide attention and has been met with our vigorous and united opposition. In an unprecedented way, the federal government will both force religious institutions to facilitate and fund a product contrary to their own moral teaching and purport to define which religious institutions are “religious enough” to merit protection of their religious liberty. These features of the “preventive services” mandate amount to an unjust law. As Archbishop-designate William Lori of Baltimore, Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, testified to Congress: “This is not a matter of whether contraception may be prohibited by the government. This is not even a matter of whether contraception may be supported by the government. Instead, it is a matter of whether religious people and institutions may be forced by the government to provide coverage for contraception or sterilization, even if that violates their religious beliefs.”
State immigration laws. Several states have recently passed laws that forbid what the government deems “harboring” of undocumented immigrants—and what the Church deems Christian charity and pastoral care to those immigrants. Perhaps the most egregious of these is in Alabama, where the Catholic bishops, in cooperation with the Episcopal and Methodist bishops of Alabama, filed suit against the law:
It is with sadness that we brought this legal action but with a deep sense that we, as people of faith, have no choice but to defend the right to the free exercise of religion granted to us as citizens of Alabama. . . . The law makes illegal the exercise of our Christian religion which we, as citizens of Alabama, have a right to follow. The law prohibits almost everything which would assist an undocumented immigrant or encourage an undocumented immigrant to live in Alabama. This new Alabama law makes it illegal for a Catholic priest to baptize, hear the confession of, celebrate the anointing of the sick with, or preach the word of God to, an undocumented immigrant. Nor can we encourage them to attend Mass or give them a ride to Mass. It is illegal to allow them to attend adult scripture study groups, or attend CCD or Sunday school classes. It is illegal for the clergy to counsel them in times of difficulty or in preparation for marriage. It is illegal for them to come to Alcoholic Anonymous meetings or other recovery groups at our churches.
Altering Church structure and governance. In 2009, the Judiciary Committee of the Connecticut Legislature proposed a bill that would have forced Catholic parishes to be restructured according to a congregational model, recalling the trusteeism controversy of the early nineteenth century, and prefiguring the federal government’s attempts to redefine for the Church “religious minister” and “religious employer” in the years since.
Christian students on campus. In its over-100-year history, the University of California Hastings College of Law has denied student organization status to only one group, the Christian Legal Society, because it required its leaders to be Christian and to abstain from sexual activity outside of marriage.
Catholic foster care and adoption services. Boston, San Francisco, the District of Columbia, and the state of Illinois have driven local Catholic Charities out of the business of providing adoption or foster care services—by revoking their licenses, by ending their government contracts, or both—because those Charities refused to place children with same-sex couples or unmarried opposite-sex couples who cohabit.
Discrimination against small church congregations. New York City enacted a rule that barred the Bronx Household of Faith and sixty other churches from renting public schools on weekends for worship services even though non-religious groups could rent the same schools for scores of other uses. While this would not frequently affect Catholic parishes, which generally own their own buildings, it would be devastating to many smaller congregations. It is a simple case of discrimination against religious believers.
Discrimination against Catholic humanitarian services. Notwithstanding years of excellent performance by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services in administering contract services for victims of human trafficking, the federal government changed its contract specifications to require us to provide or refer for contraceptive and abortion services in violation of Catholic teaching. Religious institutions should not be disqualified from a government contract based on religious belief, and they do not somehow lose their religious identity or liberty upon entering such contracts. And yet a federal court in Massachusetts, turning religious liberty on its head, has since declared that such a disqualification is required by the First Amendment—that the government somehow violates religious liberty by allowing Catholic organizations to participate in contracts in a manner consistent with their beliefs on contraception and abortion.
Religious liberty is not only about our ability to go to Mass on Sunday or pray the Rosary at home. It is about whether we can make our contribution to the common good of all Americans.
The above excerpt is just a list of some of the issues discussed. The entire letter is well worth a read. The thing that gives me hope (and despair) are the words of St Francis - "Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society." There is a Church Triumphant, but it is not on this Earth. St. Jude, ora pro nobis.
[N.B. The title of this post is an excellent book by C. S. Lewis - highly recommended by yours truly.]
It's no joke
Tuesday, April 03, 2012 Mike No comments
Sometimes Pro-lifers can be jerks. Hey, even I have been a jerk (maybe, once). Sometimes in the zeal to be right we want others to be wrong, and we forget that they are people too, and not everything they do is always wrong and evil. And so it is that I can't agree with my fellow pro-lifers in the condemnation of the laughing abortionist.
Yes, there is the 911 call audio, and yes, he laughs during the call. But from the outrage and headlines and accusations you might picture him cackling maniacally over the writhing body of a suffering woman, as he kicks her in the teeth and steals her baby.
I listened to the audio. Despite the fact that he is an abortionist he doesn't sound maniacal. To me he sounds scared. The laughter isn't the snide, contemptuous laughter of someone who despises the woman in their care, nor is the the "nudge nudge wink wink" laughter of someone cavalier about the well being of another. To me it sounds like nervous laughter of someone who feels powerless to help the person in front of them and really wishes they could.
For all I know I am wrong and everyone else is right. But I think rather than condemning this man for his laughter I'll pray that both the doctor on the phone and the woman in distress are OK, and that they experience and know God's mercy and love.
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Rev. Dr George Rodonaia's
Unusual NDE
George Rodonaia underwent one of the most extended cases of a near-death experience ever recorded.
Pronounced dead immediately after he was hit by a car in 1976, he was left for three days in the morgue.
He did not 'return to life' until a doctor began to make an incision in his abdomen as part of an autopsy procedure.
Rev. Dr George Rodonaia's Near Death Experience
Dr. Rodonaia explains part of his amazing death experience; killed by the KGB, pronounced dead, taken to the morgue for three days and returned to life during his own autopsy.
Dr. Rodonaia was a psychiatric researcher who worked for the KGB and later became a dissident. He was a scientist trained in historical materialism and did not believe in God. When he left his body he went into a world of light and love and found out that God Is.
Dr. Rodonaia underwent one of the most extended cases of a 'clinical near death experience' ever recorded. Pronounced dead immediately after he was hit by a car in 1976, he was left for three days in a morgue. He did not 'return to life' until a doctor began to make an incision in his abdomen as part of an autopsy.
Another notable feature of Dr. Rodonaia's near death experience - and this is common to many - is that he was radically transformed by it. Prior to his near death experience, he worked as a neuropathologist. He was also an avowed atheist. Yet after the experience, he devoted himself exclusively to studying the psychology of religion. He then became an ordained priest in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Today he serves as an associate pastor at the First United Methodist Church in Nederland, Texas.
Prior to his NDE, George Rodonaia worked as a neuropathologist. He was also an avowed atheist. Yet after the experience, he devoted himself exclusively to the study of spirituality, taking a second doctorate in the psychology of religion. He then became an ordained priest in the Eastern Orthodox Church. He served as a pastor at St. Paul United Methodist Church in Baytown, Texas.
Rev. George Rodonaia held an M.D. and a Ph.D. in neuropathology, and a Ph.D. in the psychology of religion. He delivered a keynote address to the United Nations on the "Emerging Global Spirituality."
Before emigrating to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1989, he worked as a research psychiatrist at the University of Moscow. The following is Dr. Rodonaia's experience in his own words from Phillip Berman's excellent book, The Journey Home:
“The first thing I remember about my NDE is that I discovered myself in a realm of total darkness. I had no physical pain, I was still somehow aware of my existence as George, and all about me there was darkness, utter and complete darkness - the greatest darkness ever, darker than any dark, blacker than any black. This was what surrounded me and pressed upon me. I was horrified. I wasn't prepared for this at all. I was shocked to find that I still existed, but I didn't know where I was. The one thought that kept rolling through my mind was, "How can I be when I'm not?" That is what troubled me.
Slowly I got a grip on myself and began to think about what had happened, what was going on. But nothing refreshing or relaxing came to me. Why am I in this darkness? What am I to do? Then I remembered Descartes' famous line: "I think, therefore I am." And that took a huge burden off me, for it was then I knew for certain I was still alive, although obviously in a very different dimension. Then I thought, if I am, why shouldn't I be positive? That is what came to me. I am George and I'm in darkness, but I know I am. I am what I am. I must not be negative.
Then I thought, how can I define what is positive in darkness? Well, positive is light. Then, suddenly, I was in light; bright white, shiny and strong; a very bright light. It was like the flash of a camera, but not flickering - that bright. Constant brightness. At first I found the brilliance of the light painful, I couldn't look directly at it. But little by little I began to relax. I began to feel warm, comforted, and everything suddenly seemed fine.
The next thing that happened was that I saw all these molecules flying around; atoms, protons, neutrons, just flying everywhere. On the one hand, it was totally chaotic, yet what brought me such great joy was that this chaos also had its own symmetry. This symmetry was beautiful and unified and whole, and it flooded me with tremendous joy. I saw the universal form of life and nature laid out before my eyes. It was at this point that any concern I had for my body just slipped away, because it was clear to me that I didn't need it anymore, that it was actually a limitation.
Everything in this experience merged together, so it is difficult for me to put an exact sequence to events. Time as I had known it came to a halt; past, present, and future were somehow fused together for me in the timeless unity of life.
At some point I underwent what has been called the life-review process, for I saw my life from beginning to end all at once. I participated in the real life dramas of my life, almost like a holographic image of my life going on before me - no sense of past, present, or future, just 'now' and the reality of my life. It wasn't as though it started with birth and ran along to my life at the University of Moscow. It all appeared at once. There I was. This was my life. I didn't experience any sense of guilt or remorse for things I'd done. I didn't feel one way or another about my failures, faults or achievements. All I felt was my life for what it is. And I was content with that. I accepted my life for what it is.
During this time the light just radiated a sense of peace and joy to me. It was very positive. I was so happy to be in the light. And I understood what the light meant. I learned that all the physical rules for human life were nothing when compared to this unitive reality. I also came to see that a black hole is only another part of that infinity which is light.
I came to see that reality is everywhere. That it is not simply the earthly life but the infinite life. Everything is not only connected together, everything is also One. So I felt a wholeness with the light, a sense that all is right with me and the universe.
I could be anywhere instantly, really there. I tried to communicate with the people I saw. Some sensed my presence, but no-one did anything about it. I felt it necessary to learn about the Bible and philosophy. You want, you receive. Think and it comes to you. So I participated, I went back and lived in the minds of Jesus and his disciples. I heard their conversations, experienced eating, passing wine, smells, tastes - yet I had no body. I was pure consciousness. If I didn't understand what was happening, an explanation would come. But no teacher spoke. I explored the Roman Empire, Babylon, the times of Noah and Abraham. Any era you can name, I went there.
So there I was, flooded with all these good things and this wonderful experience, when someone begins to cut into my stomach. Can you imagine? What had happened was that I was taken to the morgue. I was pronounced dead and left there for three days. An investigation into the cause of my death was set up, so they sent someone out to do an autopsy on me.
As they began to cut into my stomach, I felt as though some great power took hold of my neck and pushed me down. And it was so powerful that I opened my eyes and had this huge sense of pain. My body was cold and I began to shiver. They immediately stopped the autopsy and took me to the hospital, where I remained for the following nine months, most of which I spent under a respirator.
Slowly I regained my health. But I would never be the same again, because all I wanted to do for the rest of my life was study wisdom. This new interest led me to attend the University of Georgia, where I took my second Ph.D., in the psychology of religion. Then I became a priest in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Eventually, in 1989, we came to America, and I am now working as an associate pastor at the First United Methodist Church in Nederland, Texas.
Many people have asked me what I believe in, how my NDE changed my life. All I can say is that I now believe in the God of the universe. Unlike many other people, however, I have never called God the light, because God is beyond our comprehension. God, I believe, is even more than the light, because God is also darkness. God is everything that exists, everything - and that is beyond our ability to comprehend at all. So I don't believe in the God of the Jews, or the Christians, or the Hindus, or in any one religion's idea of what God is or is not. It is all the same God, and that God showed me that the universe in which we live is a beautiful and marvellous mystery that is connected together forever and for always.
Anyone who has had such an experience of God, who has felt such a profound sense of connection with reality, knows that there is only one truly significant work to do in life, and that is to love; to love nature, to love people, to love animals, to love creation itself, just because it is. To serve God's creation with a warm and loving hand of generosity and compassion - that is the only meaningful existence.
Many people turn to those who have had NDEs because they sense we have the answers. But I know this is not true, at least not entirely. None of us will fully fathom the great truths of life until we finally unite with eternity at death. But occasionally we get glimpses of the answer here on Earth, and that alone is enough for me. I love to ask questions and to seek answers, but I know in the end I must live the questions and the answers. But that is okay, isn't it? So long as we love, love with all our heart and passion, it doesn't matter, does it?
Perhaps the best way for me to convey what I am trying to say is to share with you something the poet Rilke once wrote in a letter to a friend. I saw this letter, the original handwritten letter, in the library at Dresden University in Germany. (He quotes from memory, as follows:)
"Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek for the answers that cannot be given. For you wouldn't be able to live with them. And the point is to live everything, live the questions now, and perhaps without knowing it, you will live some day into the answers."
I place my faith in that. Live the questions, and the universe will open up its eyes to you.”
Rev. Rodonaia's account of his episode with an infant during his NDE
More information concerning George's NDE account is described in Dr. Melvin Morse and Paul Perry's book entitled 'Transformed by the Light'. Dr. Morse refers to George by his Russian name ‘Yuri’. The following is an excerpt from 'Transformed by the Light' which describes George's observation of an infant while George is out of his body.
"During Yuri's NDE, he could go visit his family. He saw his grieving wife and their two sons, both too small to understand that their father had been killed.
"Then he visited his next-door neighbour. They had a new child, born a couple of days before Yuri's ‘death’. Yuri could tell that they were upset by what happened to him. But they were especially distressed by the fact that their child would not stop crying.
"No matter what they did he continued to cry. When he slept it was short and fitful and then he would awaken, crying again. They had taken him back to the doctors but they were stumped. All the usual things such as colic were ruled out and they sent them home hoping the baby would eventually settle down.
"While there in this disembodied state, Yuri discovered something: "l could talk to the baby. It was amazing. I could not talk to the parents - my friends - but I could talk to the little boy who had just been born. I asked him what was wrong. No words were exchanged, but I asked him maybe through telepathy what was wrong. He told me that his arm hurt. And when he told me that, I was able to see that the bone was twisted and broken."
"The baby had a greenstick fracture, a break in the bone in his arm probably cause by having been twisted during childbirth. Now Yuri and the baby knew what was wrong, but neither had the ability to communicate the problem to the parents.
"Eventually the doctor from Moscow came to perform the autopsy on Yuri. When they moved his body from the cabinet to a gurney, his eyes flickered. The doctor became suspicious and examined his eyes. When they responded to light, he was immediately wheeled to emergency surgery and saved.
"Yuri told his family about being 'dead'. No one believed him until he began to provide details about what he saw during his travels out of body. Then they became less skeptical.
His diagnosis on the baby next door did the trick. He told of visiting them that night and of their concern over their new child. He told them that he had talked to the baby and discovered that he had a greenstick fracture of his arm.
The parents took the child to a doctor and he x-rayed the arm only to discover that Yuri's very long-distance diagnosis was right."
P.M.H. Atwater's Tribute to George Rodonaia
I knew George well; he was part of my research base and a brief version of his story is in my book 'Beyond the Light'. I say ‘brief’ because what happened to George is beyond the scope of books about the near-death phenomenon and could have easily been a book unto itself.
George was a vocal Soviet dissident during the time when such a stance could get you killed. And that is exactly what happened - he was assassinated by the KGB.
Because his case was highly political, an autopsy had to be performed. His corpse was stored in a freezer vault for three days until then. He revived on the autopsy table as he was being split open by the doctors, one of which was his own uncle.
Of all the cases I have investigated in my 26 years of work in the field, his is the most dramatic, the longest, the most evidential and the most soul-stirring.
Now our beloved George Rodonaia has returned "Home" to stay. During the years afterward, he never failed to share his story and to help others every way he could. My only regret is, he never wrote his own book about his experience. Yet, perhaps he did, on everyone's heart who ever heard him.
Blessings, dear George, you will be missed. PMH
"The longest journey is the journey inwards of him who has chosen his destiny, who has started upon his quest for the source of his being."
- Dag Hammarskjold
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Tata salt 'safe for consumption', says company
Mumbai, June 26 (IANS) Tata Chemicals, which manufactures the Tata Salt brands, on Wednesday assured that its salt is "safe and harmless" for consumption.
The company said that India is among countries like US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand that have permitted the use of potassium ferrocyanide in salt.
The level permitted by regulator Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is lowest at 10 mg/kg, and the Codex Alimentarius - an authoritative guideline on food safety - has declared potassium ferrocyanide as safe for consumption at levels of 14 mg/kg, the company said.
The Tata Chemicals reaction came a day after Godhum Grains & Farm Products Chairman and consumer activist Shiv Shankar Gupta on Tuesday claimed that the potassium ferrocyanide levels are alarmingly high in reputed Indian salt brands, leading to a huge controversy.
Quoting the analysis report of the American West Analytical Laboratories, Gupta had cited examples of the government-manufactured Sambhar Salt with potassium ferrocyanide at 4.71 mg/kg, the privately-manufactured Tata Salt at 1.85 mg/kg and Tata Salt Lite 1.90 mg/kg.
However, Tata Chemicals dismissed the allegations as "totally false and misleading" and said that potassium ferrocyanide content in its brands is "well within permissible limits" and is "safe and harmless" to the human body when consumed as per approved levels.
It added that iodine is another essential micronutrient needed by the human body daily in small quantity, and is part of the government's efforts to address the issue of Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD).
"Since 1983, Tata Salt has partnered with the government in this (IDD) initiative and played a pivotal role in the battle against iodine deficiency. As per FSSAI, adequate salt iodisation has saved four billion IQ points in the past 25 years," the company said.
Tata Chemicals reiterated that Tata Salt is a reputed and responsible brand which follows rigorous quality control processes at all levels to ensure safe, healthy and high-quality products for the consumers.
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Global warming may cause higher loss of biodiversity than previously thought
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, August 22, 2011. If global warming continues as expected, it is estimated that almost a third of all flora and fauna species worldwide could become extinct. Scientists from the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum, BiK‐F) and the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung discovered that the proportion of actual biodiversity loss should quite clearly be revised upwards: by 2080, more than 80 % of genetic diversity within species may disappear in certain groups of organisms, according to researchers in the title story of the journal “Nature Climate Change”. The study is the first worldwide to quantify the loss of biological diversity on the basis of genetic diversity.
Most common models on the effects of climate change on flora and fauna concentrate on “classically” described species, in other words groups of organisms that are clearly separate from each other morphologically. Until now, however, so‐called cryptic diversity has not been taken into account. It encompasses the diversity of genetic variations and deviations within described species, and can only be researched fully since the development of molecular‐genetic methods. As well as the diversity of ecosystems and species, these genetic variations are a central part of global biodiversity. In a pioneering study, scientists from the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK‐F) and the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturkunde have therefore examined the influence of global warming on genetic diversity within species.
Over 80 percent of genetic variations may become extinct
For this purpose, the distribution of nine European aquatic insect species, which still exist in the headwaters of streams in many high mountain areas in Central and Northern Europe, was modelled. They have already been widely researched, which means that the regional distribution of the innerspecies diversity and the existence of morphologically cryptic, evolutionary lines are already known. If global warming does take place in the range that is predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), these creatures will be pushed back to only a few small refugia, e.g. in Scandinavia and the Alps, by 2080, according to model calculations. If Europe’s climate warms up by up to two degrees only, eight of the species examined will survive, at least in some areas; with an
increase in temperature of 4 degrees, six species will probably survive in some areas by 2080. However, due to the extinction of local populations, genetic diversity will decline to a much more dramatic extent. According to the most pessimistic projections, 84 percent of all genetic variations would die out by 2080; in the “best case”, two‐thirds of all genetic variations would disappear. The aquatic insects that were examined are representative for many species of mountainous regions of Central Europe.
Slim chances in the long term for the emergence of new species and species survival
Carsten Nowak of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK‐F) and the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturkunde, explains: “Our models of future distribution show that the “species” as such will usually survive. However, the majority of the genetic variations, which in each case exist only in certain places, will not survive. This means that self‐contained evolutionary lineages in other regions such as the Carpathians, Pyrenees or the German Central Uplands will be lost. Many of these lines are currently in the process of developing into separate species, but will become extinct before this is achieved, if our model calculations are accurate.” Genetic variation within a species is also important for adaptability to changing habitats and climatic conditions. Their loss therefore also reduces the chances for species survival in the long term.
New approach for conservation
So the extinction of species hides an ever greater loss, in the form of the massive disappearance of genetic diversity. “The loss of biodiversity that can be expected in the course of global warming has probably been greatly underestimated in previous studies, which have only referred to species numbers,” says Steffen Pauls, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK‐F), of the findings. However, there is also an opportunity to use genetic diversity in order to make conservation and environmental protection more efficient. A topic that is subject to much discussion at present is how to deal with conservation areas under the conditions of climate change. The authors of the study
urge that conservation areas should also be oriented to places where both a suitable habitat for the species and a high degree of inner‐species genetic diversity can be preserved in the future. “It is high time,” says Nowak, “that we see biodiversity not only as a static accumulation of species, but rather as a variety of evolutionary lines that are in a constant state of change. The loss of one such line, irrespective of whether it is defined today as a “species” in itself, could potentially mean a massive loss in biodiversity in the future.”
Bálint, M., Domisch, S., Engelhardt, C.H.M., Haase, P., Lehrian, S., Sauer, J., Theissinger, K, Pauls, S.U., Nowak, C., Cryptic biodiversity loss linked to global climate change. Nature Climate Change (2011). doi:10.1038/NCLIMATE1191.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE1191
Dr. Steffen Pauls
LOEWE Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum (BiK‐F)
email: steffen.pauls@senckenberg.de
Dr. Carsten Nowak
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung und LOEWE Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum (BiK‐F)
Phone +40 6051 61954 3122
email: c.nowak@senckenberg.de
LOEWE Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum (BiK‐F), press officer
email: sabine.wendler@senckenberg.de
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Interview / Reggae / UK / Video
WATCH THIS: Reasoning With Ed Sheeran
by Reshma B on Jun 5, 2012 • 8:59 am 1 Comment
Reshma B Interviews The UK Phenom Who’s Redder Than Red
Ed Sheeran played a little gig today at Buckingham Palace for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Playing 300 gigs a year is nothing unusual for the 21-year-old singer-songwriter from Suffolk, England first whose single “The A-Team” lodged in the UK Top 10 for three months in 2011. His follow-up tune, “You Need Me I Don’t Need You” reached No. 3 on the British pop charts. Now signed to Atlantic, Sheeran has a dozen or so EPs under his belt, including Slumdon Bridge with Yelawolf, whose rapid-fire flow Ed likens to UK Grime artists. “I don’t think anyone has a specific sound anymore,” says Sheeran, whose music draws on a plethora of sounds and styles. He spent years gigging with his cousin’s reggae band Laid Blak, and often interpolates their ganja tune “Red” into his live set, as well as snatches of Damian Marley’s “Welcome To Jamrock” and 50 Cent’s “In Da Club.” Sheeran’s debut album, titled simply +, is already a hit in England, and will be released in America one week from today on June 12. After blazing a solo acoustic version of “You Need Me I Don’t Need You,” Ed sat down with the Reggae Girl About Town…
“My eyes are red, I’ve been burning.” Let’s go to the video tape…
Tags: 50 Cent, Ed Sheeran, Jr. Gong, UK
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Kikira says:
Personally i think he should incorporate a little more reggae in a few of his songs (it’s amazing), i mean if he like it then do it, ain’t nothing funny about it really 🙂 i think it fit him well, but all in all he is an amazing singer……. hope he never stop singing.
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The link between Ladies Mile and the New York Public Library
June 3, 2014 January 14, 2015 Bowery Boys 1541 Views 1 Comment Bryant Park, Ladies Mile, New York Public Library
Arnold, Constable and Co’s new Fifth Avenue store. Today it house the lending library for the New York Public Library.
When did Ladies Mile — New York’s elegant Gilded Age shopping district — finally become un-fashionable?
Unlike the slow demise of so many neighborhoods in the city’s past, the end of Ladies Mile was closely observed by the press. On October 4, 1914, the New York Sun ran the foreboding headline “Last Chapter in Fall of Old Department Store Zone Recorded Last Week By Arnold, Constable.”
“When Arnold, Constable and Co. move next September to the new building that Frederick W. Vanderbilt is to erect on the site of his home at Fifth Avenue and Fortieth Street, not a department store will remain on Broadway between 14th and 23rd streets, for nearly half a century the recognized high class shopping center of New York City.”
Below: Display windows at the 5th Ave location in 1935 (Pictures are courtesy MCNY)
B Altman, the first of the major department store owners to move to Fifth Avenue, was immediately seen as a visionary. “Every one can see today that this shrewd business man knew what he was doing, for Fifth Avenue is not only the greatest shopping street in New York, but is said to lead all others in the world.”
The B Altman department store building is still around, on the northeast corner of 34th Street and Fifth Avenue. It’s now the home for the City University of New York.
The building which contained the Fifth Avenue store of Arnold, Constable and Co. is still around as well.
The upper-crust store was one of Ladies’ Mile’s last holdouts, even as the other fine shops like Lord & Taylor had already moved uptown. Their new department store, catty-corner to the New York Public Library main branch, finally opened in November 1915 and stayed open for sixty years, until 1975. The structure was then bought and turned into the Mid-Manhattan Library.
Incidentally, just yesterday, the New York Public Library released its newest plans to refurbish this much distressed building.
Compare this picture of Arnold Constable & Co., from 1915, with the one taken yesterday at the Mid-Manhattan Library:
← The sumptuous story of Ladies’ Mile: Traces of cast-iron grandeur, the architectural delights of the Gilded Age
Come to the Airdome! Over 100 years of outdoor movies in NYC →
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Music Monday: Yano: Oboe Concerto
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You know, as good as I like to think my musical memory is, sometimes things happen that really make me question it. Take today’s piece: I was absolutely over the moon for Marco Aurélio Yano’s oboe concerto in high school, and then I completely forgot about its existence until a brief notice in the most recent issue of The Double Reed* about the impending publication of the piano reduction reminded me of how many feelings I had about it. So, of course, I rushed off to listen to it again, and all of those feelings came rushing back.
And so here we are. There isn’t a lot of biographical information about Marco Aurélio Yano out there, and much of what little there is focuses so intently on his disabilities (he was born with quadriplegia) that it’s difficult to get a fully rounded picture of him as a human being — while his quadriplegia certainly shaped his life experiences and isn’t something to be erased or swept under the rug, it seems doubtful that it was his entire world, that he had no other likes, dislikes, opinions, or personality traits. But since I didn’t know him personally, I have to rely on what others have written, and those writings are largely silent on such matters. Yano was born in 1963 in São Paulo to a Japanese-Brazilian family, and in due course he graduated from the State University of São Paulo (UNESP) with degrees in conducting and composition. It was at UNSEP that Yano met and befriended the oboist Alex Klein, who is a champion of obscure and contemporary oboe repertoire, and honestly deserves a profile all his own.
Naturally, given Klein’s dedication to expanding the oboe repertoire, it was only a matter of time before he commissioned a concerto from Yano. It was a fairly specific commission as these things go: Klein wanted the work to be at least half an hour long, scored for a large orchestra that took an active part in developing the musical material, to push the limits of oboistic technique in both traditional and extended areas, and to reference Yano’s Brazilian heritage. In other words, Klein wanted a monumental showstopper that would push even the best oboists in the world to their limits and beyond. He got it.
Or, rather, he got most of it. The commission came in 1988, and by 1991, Yano had written out the entire concerto in short score — all the melodies and harmonies and rhythms were worked out, and there were a few indications of which instruments would play what in the orchestra, but most of the orchestrational work was yet to be done, and there were almost certainly some fine-tuning revisions still in the works. Unfortunately, by 1991 Yano had contracted brain cancer, and he died that year with the orchestration unfinished. He was 27 years old. Edmundo Villani Cortes, Yano’s compositional mentor at the time of his death, worked together with Alex Klein to finish the orchestration and tweak the solo part for playability reasons (Klein and Yano had been planning to meet after the orchestration was finished to go over the solo part together and adjust it as needed; this is pretty standard practice for concerto commissions), giving us the work as it stands today.
Massive, heavy chords begin the first movement, each subsiding into a low held drone that builds (often with the help of the synthesizer) to a new mass of sound. The entire orchestra comes together for the last of these, falling away to reveal the solo oboe hanging plaintively in midair. The cadenza that follows is largely built around a motive that echoes the pronunciation of Yano’s full name, a motive that will show up in various guises thruout the work. The first instrument to rejoin the soloist is the synthesizer, the two instruments engaging in a playful imitative duet that soon launches a much faster, but still discordant passage in the full orchestra. The solo line begins simply enough, but soon breaks into dazzling displays of virtuosity over the orchestral tumult below.
A somewhat more singing line in the oboe is soon taken over by the violins in a searing tutti that leads to a rather more mysterious dance supported by various glittering percussion instruments that gradually shift from pitched to unpitched ones. An extended virtuosic display ensues, one that brings the faster tempo to a halt and paves the way for a cadenza filled with distortions and extended techniques, supported by jittery waves of synth and unquiet glissandi in the strings. The low brass make another attempt at faster music, but the oboe seems reluctant to join in at first, only breaking into rapid-fire displays when the full orchestra has joined in and the new tempo is inevitable. It doesn’t last long, tho, and the oboe winds up marooned on an impossibly long high note — like a flatline on a heart monitor — while the orchestra fades into a sobbing silence. (Alex Klein reads this movement as a depiction of Yano’s life, ending with his death, and titled it “In Memoriam” to acknowledge this. You can read more about his reasoning by downloading the program note booklet about this recording from the Cedille website — I certainly find it a pretty compelling argument.)
Rather than the orchestral introduction of the first movement, the second begins with a solo cadenza. Plaintive and lonesome, seeking for something out of reach, there is a tenderness and lyricality here that was largely missing from the first movement, and it provides a transition into the seresta that follows. Strings slip in under the last solo lines, and then a bassoon plays a brief melody before the oboe takes the lead again in music that is simple and tender and achingly nostalgic. The oboe sings over a constant bed of rich, warm strings, frequently duetting with solo wind instruments from the rest of the orchestra. Gauzy washes give way to expansive vistas, but the music never loses the emotional thread that ties this movement together into the beating heart of the work. There are moments of virtuosity, to be sure, especially in the second cadenza that comes towards the movement’s end, but simplicity is the overarching order of the day.
Clocking in at a little over 15 minutes, the frevo that concludes the work is the longest of the three movements, but it earns its length. It starts unassumingly enough with light pizzicato strings plucking out a guileless pattern in 7/8 (instead of the expected 4/4), over which the oboe soon lays a perky dance tune. Other instruments slowly join in — a xylophone here, some bowed strings there — until the full orchestra bursts into a rousing rendition of the dance. A playful interlude involving much back-and-forth between the soloist and the orchestra then follows, which segues directly into a reprise of the oboe’s first statement of the dance theme, this time more embellished and supported by various brass instruments. A tumult ensues that almost seems in danger of ending things eleven minutes early, but instead of stopping, the tempo slows, and a distant solo horn presents a noble, lyrical melody over delicately shimmering strings.
Once the oboe takes this new theme up, it begins to take on the character of an anthem or ballade, a folk song without words. As with the seresta, simplicity and tenderness carry the music forward, but here the piece has transcended the ache of the second movement, and floats freely in expansive bliss. There is no overpowering climax to this section, it stays smooth and even for its entire course, ultimately fading into a reverent silence.
And then the dance returns. The theme is deconstructed and hard to hear, the music primarily being occupied with blistering passages for the soloist of ever increasing virtuosity, the orchestra largely relegated to percussive interjections. And then, almost like magic, the simple little dance tune returns, and the piece builds with growing excitement — and something that almost sounds like a quote from West Side Story — to one last cadenza for the oboe, this one punctured periodically by light accompaniment from other instruments. The orchestra returns quietly, but quickly builds, not to another tutti rendition of the dance theme, but instead to a blazing, expansive reprise of the central anthem, the brass carrying the melody in a brilliant apotheosis that leaves time only for a few last dazzling displays from the soloist to bring the work to a giddy close.
*The Double Reed is a quarterly journal published by the International Double Reed Society that prints news and pieces of scholarly interest to the double reed community, as well as reviews of double reed sheet music and recordings. Its existence makes me unreasonably happy, and I kind of doubt I’ll ever actually stop subscribing to it.
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Ariana Homayun
Photo: Brian White
Birth Date May 15, 1997 (22 years old)
Resides West Hills, CA
United States 9th $250
AVP 21st (2 times) $0
NVL 9th $250
Overall 9th $250
Season Assoc Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 9th Money Points Rank 13th 17th 21st 25th 29th 33rd 41st 49th
2013 AVP 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 135.0 64th 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0
2014 NVL 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 225.0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
2015 AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 50.0 164th 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2015 NVL 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 75.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
2016 NVL 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $250.00 300.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2017 AVP 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 100.0 180th 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
(507th) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $250.00
(691st) 1,271.0 0 1 3 0 4 3 1 1
(Rank) 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $250.00 1,271.0 0 1 3 0 4 3 1 1
Partner Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 9th Money Points 13th 17th 21st 25th 29th 33rd 41st 49th
Meaghan Wheeler 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 430.0 0 0 2 0 3 2 1 0
Amy Ozee 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 91.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Total 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 521.0 0 0 2 0 3 3 1 1
National Volleyball League
Meaghan Wheeler 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $250 750.0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
Total 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $250 750.0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
Meaghan Wheeler 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $250 1,180.0 0 1 3 0 4 2 1 0
Total 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $250 1,271.0 0 1 3 0 4 3 1 1
Location Assoc Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 9th Money Points 13th 17th 21st 25th 29th 33rd 41st 49th
California: Hermosa Beach AVP 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 91.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
California: Hermosa Beach NVL 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $250 600.0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
California: Huntington Beach AVP 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 150.0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
California: Long Beach NVL 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 150.0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
California: Manhattan Beach AVP 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 170.0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0
California: San Francisco AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 50.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
California: Santa Barbara AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 0.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Utah: Salt Lake City AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 60.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
8/23-25 Manhattan Beach Meaghan Wheeler Q14 33 60
Q2: l. Kaui Salzman / Amanda Wiggins (Q3,25) 11-21, 16-21 (0:40)
9/26-29 Santa Barbara Meaghan Wheeler Q15 29 0
Q1: l. Bianca Peigler / Carrie Wright (Q18) by Forfeit
10/17-20 Huntington Beach Meaghan Wheeler Q18 21 75
Q1: d. Morgan Martin / Katherine Wanket (Q15) 19-21, 21-18, 15-6 (1:01)
Q2: l. Kendra VanZwieten / Traci Callahan (Q2,14) 11-21, 15-21 (0:39)
8/7-10 Salt Lake City Meaghan Wheeler Q14 29 60
Q1: l. Keao Burdine / Kaui Salzman (Q19) 16-21, 16-21 (0:44)
8/14-17 Manhattan Beach Meaghan Wheeler Q3 33 60
Q2: l. Meg Dawson / Juliana Evens (Q19,28) 15-21, 17-21 (0:37)
9/18-21 Huntington Beach Meaghan Wheeler Q12 21 75
Q1: d. Darshaya Gallard / Miki Schneider (Q21) 21-12, 21-6 (0:40)
Q2: l. Tealle Hunkus / Kendra VanZwieten (Q5) 15-21, 18-21 (0:46)
2014 National Volleyball League
9/19-21 Hermosa Beach, United States Meaghan Wheeler Q6 17 225
Q2: l. Josie Lehman / Deketa Stubblefield (Q3,13) 14-21, 19-21 (0:39)
Q2: l. Isabelle Carey / Morgan Martin (Q23) 15-21, 17-21 (0:43)
8/6-8 Hermosa Beach, United States Meaghan Wheeler Q13 29 75
8/11-13 Hermosa Beach, United States Meaghan Wheeler Q15,13 9 $250.00 300
Q1: d. Camie Manwill / Laurel Weaver (Q18) 21-19, 23-21
Q2: d. Julianne Lackey / Katie Lindstrom (Q2) 21-10, 24-22
Q3: d. Jody Mohle / Megan Thornberry (Q10) 25-23, 21-15
W1: l. Kimberly Hildreth / Maryna Samoday (4) 21-14, 10-21, 9-15
C1: d. Molly Menard / Michelle Williams (5) 18-21, 21-18, 15-5
C2: l. Meghan Mannari / Taylor Nyquist (2) 17-21, 17-21
7/6-9 San Francisco Meaghan Wheeler Q21 29 50
Q2: l. Christina Matthews / Kristen Petrasic (Q12) 21-23, 20-22 (0:44)
7/20-23 Hermosa Beach Amy Ozee Q33 33 50
Q2: d. Taylor Jarzombek / Jamie Walsh (Q32) 21-11, 21-12 (0:40)
Q3: l. Branagan Fuller / Delaney Knudsen (Q1) 26-28, 19-21 (0:44)
7/13-15 Long Beach, United States Meaghan Wheeler Q3 21 150
Q2: l. Avery Bush / Litara Keil (Q19) 21-23, 20-22
Ranking: 41st
Q1: d. Jaylyn Porras / Daisy Segura (Q70) 21-9, 21-9 (0:31)
Q2: l. Kimberly Hildreth / Sarah Schermerhorn (Q6) 17-21, 16-21 (0:44)
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Janis Freidenfelds: Career 2002-10
Janis Freidenfelds
Photo: CEV
Birth Date March 9, 1983 (36 years old)
Home Town Krimulda
Resides Krimulda
International 13th (4 times) $800
FIVB 33rd $0
FIVB C&S 13th (4 times) $800
Europe 13th � 100
CEV 21st � 0
CEV C&S 17th � 100
CEV Jr/Youth 13th � 0
Overall 13th (5 times) $942
Season Assoc Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 9th Money Points Rank 13th 17th 21st 25th 29th 33rd 41st 57th CQ
2005 FIVB C&S 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $100.00 5.0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2005 FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2006 FIVB 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 27.0 224th 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0
2007 FIVB C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 2.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
2008 FIVB C&S 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $450.00 15.0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
2008 FIVB 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 39.0 242nd 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0
2009 FIVB 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 33.0 201st 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0
2010 FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 3.0 305th 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
(391st) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $800.00 203.0 4 1 1 0 2 2 14 10 1
2002 CEV Jr/Youth 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 0.00 14.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2008 CEV 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 0.00 45.0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
2009 CEV C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 100.00 8.0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
(Rank) 4
(585th) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 100.00
(708th) 67.0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
(717th) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $900.00 270.0 5 2 2 0 3 2 14 10 1
Partner Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 9th Money Points 13th 17th 21st 25th 29th 33rd 41st 57th CQ
Martins Freidenfelds 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 119.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 7 0
Andris Laizans 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 54.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 1
Total 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 173.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14 10 1
F�d�ration Internationale de Volleyball Challenger & Satellite
Andris Laizans 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $350 13.0 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Martins Freidenfelds 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $450 17.0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
Total 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $800 30.0 4 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0
Conf�d�ration Europ�enne de Volleyball
Martins Freidenfelds 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 0 45.0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Total 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 0 45.0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Conf�d�ration Europ�enne de Volleyball Challenger & Satellite
Martins Freidenfelds 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 100 8.0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 100 8.0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Conf�d�ration Europ�enne de Volleyball Jr/Youth
Andris Laizans 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 0 14.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Martins Freidenfelds 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $592 189.0 1 1 2 0 3 1 9 7 0
Andris Laizans 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $350 81.0 4 1 0 0 0 1 5 3 1
Total 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $942 270.0 5 2 2 0 3 2 14 10 1
Location Assoc Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 9th Money Points 13th 17th 21st 25th 29th 33rd 41st 57th CQ
Austria: Klagenfurt FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 12.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Bahrain: Manama FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 9.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Canada: Montr�al FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 9.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
China: Shanghai FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Croatia: Zagreb FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Czech Republic: Brno FIVB C&S 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 6.0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0
Czech Republic: Prague FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Estonia: P�rnu FIVB C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $450 12.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finland: �land FIVB 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 18.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
France: Le Lavandou FIVB C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $100 3.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
France: Marseille FIVB 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 12.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Italy: Rome FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 9.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Italy: Roseto degli Abruzzi FIVB 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 6.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Liechtenstein: Vaduz FIVB C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $100 3.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Netherlands: The Hague FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 9.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Norway: Kristiansand FIVB 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 17.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Poland: Myslowice FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Poland: Stare Jablonki FIVB 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 30.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1
Portugal: Espinho FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Russia: St. Petersburg FIVB 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 18.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Spain: Barcelona FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 9.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Switzerland: Lausanne FIVB C&S 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $150 6.0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austria: St. P�lten CEV 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 0 15.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
England: Blackpool CEV 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 0 30.0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbia: Novi Sad CEV C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 100 8.0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Switzerland: Basel CEV Jr/Youth 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 0 14.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 100 67.0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
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“Ah, the memories of being a college DJ, playing those Ahmad Jamal and Vince Guaraldi seduction tunes, interlaced with a little folk music, Johnny Mathis, and so on. Cast Your Fate To The Wind was a huge hit on most charts in the pre-Beatles era, and the album that carried it was originally titled Jazz Impressions Of Black Orpheus, until the single hit the charts…”
Music Reviews - Jazz/Concord and Rhythm Willie: Herb Ellis (DVD-Audio)
“About as amiable as it gets, this session from 1974 has been remastered to DVD-A from the analog stereo tapes, and presents 9 standards, ranging from The Shadow of Your Smile to Love For Sale, with Herb Ellis playing most of the lead guitar at left, but with Joe Pass embroidering, underlining, and sweetening with much more than rhythm guitar. Ray Brown provides bass leadership, as is his wont, while Jake Hanna keeps the rhythm strong with his drum kit through all the electric guitar doodling…”
Supersounds (Fall 2003) - Classical SACD and CD
“This new SACD is to my ears the best Mahler recording ever. Zander’s reading has passion and impulsion, and the sound is simply amazing. The louder you play it, the better it sounds, and I didn’t have the advantage of discrete multichannel, listening through the Pioneer Elite DV-AX10, which preceded 5-channel SACD. However, I’ll take state-of-the-art 2-channel over mediocre multi any time. By the time we finally got to the “hammers of fate” in the finale, I was totally immersed in this immense symphonic conception…”
“In 1999, The Flaming Lips (Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, and Michael Ivins) achieved rare critical recognition following the release of their 10th album The Soft Bulletin. Hailed by rock pundits of all stripes and persuasions as both a surprise masterpiece and one of the most finely crafted pop albums of the 1990s, The Flaming Lips rocketed-out from the depths of indie-rock obscurity that had previously defined their 15 year career…”
Music Reviews - Rodney Crowell: The Houston Kid
“Whether these songs are autobiographical or not is really irrelevant. The stories Crowell shares on this record are told and played with such conviction that they live and breathe their own lives. Here we have an artist with a comfortable foot in the door of the country music establishment singing about a crack-addicted gigolo spreading HIV to whoever will give him enough money to get through the day. Not exactly Grand Ol’ Opry or Shania Twain cover material…”
Music Reviews - Kasey Chambers: Barricades and Brickwalls
“If you get close enough to another person the two of you will often develop a secret speech pattern-a soft, sensitive tone that comes out subconsciously when you are sharing your most comfortable, precious moments. If it accidentally emerges in the presence of outsiders it sounds like baby-talk, but when it’s just the two of you it sounds perfect. Chambers sounds perfect…”
Music Reviews - Ryan Adams: Gold
“I have discovered where Tom Cochrane has been hiding the last little while. He’s gone to the 7 ½ floor of the Skydome Hotel, pushed aside the mini-bar and crawled inside the brain of one, Ryan Adams. He got Ron Sexsmith to crawl in there with him too, adding the exquisite song structure that ol’ Red Rider could never quite muster. The result is Gold, an impossibly good record with absolutely no Can-Con….”
Supersounds (Fall 2001) Andrew Marshall Listens to some of the first DVD-Audio & SACD Releases
“After the AES Seminar in May I hunkered down with some DVDs and SACDs (I’ve been collecting the latter for over a year) and started to listen critically to both formats. Multi-channel SACD has only been demonstrated at shows, and players and discs do not yet exist for consumers, but will soon, to the dismay of those who bought 2-chennel players (myself included). DVD-Audio, meanwhile, is trying to be all things for all channels (well, 5 of them at least), and some old 70s masters are being remixed to sound fresher for the new millennium…”
Music Reviews - At the Drive-in: Relationship of Command
“Every once in a while an album comes along in which the listener is overwhelmed with the sensation that if there was no release for this music, the artist may have died. This notion is the very height of pretension, and I love it. The concept of rock `n roll as an explosive medium is basically a lie-the number of bands that can twist your guts and make it feel good are few and far between, and their lifespan is almost always more insect than human…”
Music Reviews - The Beta Band: Hot Shots II
“For most of us on this side of the Atlantic, any awareness of the Beta Band most likely starts with the film High Fidelity. In one of the film’s most memorable scenes record store owner Rob Gordon (played by John Cusak) boasts to one of his employees that he will sell several copies of a Beta Band EP in the next several minutes. Not long after “Dry the Rain” begins to flood the store, jaded, know-it-all record geeks are asking after the band and picking up copies of the EP for themselves. “It’s really good”, one of them says to Cusak, who responds with “I know”…
Music Reviews - Lightnin’ Hopkins: Goin’ Away
“The Texas blues begin and end with Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin’ Hopkins. Both were tremendous innovators, featuring a conversational singing style and masterful guitar work. Mance was too busy sharecropping to get to the studio before he turned fifty, but Lightnin’ had already been recording for the better part of twenty years by the time he got to Goin’ Away, at the age of 51…”
Music Reviews - Gord Downie: Coke Machine Glow
“I always thought if Gord ever made an album outside of the [Tragically] Hip machine he would go country, smoothing out the band’s rough edges. Instead he delivers a mixed bag of treats, some familiar, some fantastic, but each satisfying. The minimalist production values and understated musicianship push Downie’s vocals to the forefront, which I imagine was the point of the exercise. His lyrics have always been personal, but Coke Machine Glow feels more direct. Instead of telling stories, these songs take on the illusion of conversation…”
Music Reviews - Ella and Oscar
“During the 1970’s this Los Angeles based label made countless recordings with ageing jazz legends. Spin through the jazz bins at a well stocked used record store and you’ll probably find more than a few Pablos with their distinctive black and white artwork. There’s also a distinctive Pablo sound, usually characterized by excellent, albeit dry, studio damped, sonics. Some might argue that these records were on the sterile side, capturing performances by artists well past their prime, legends just going through the motions. In some cases I think that’s probably true…”
Music Reviews - Hollow Bamboo: Ronu Majumdar, Ry Cooder and Jon Hassell
“If you’re a fan of what is almost certainly Water Lily’s most popular release, the Grammy winning A Meeting By The River, than this 2000 release from the small Santa Barbara label is something of a no-brainer. Similar in approach to Meeting, Hollow Bamboo pairs eastern musical masters with western ones, this time pairing Ry Cooder (guitar and Turkish Oud), Rick Cox (guitar), and Jon Hassell (trumpet) with Bamboo Flute virtuoso Ronu Majumdar, and Abhijit Banerjee on Tabla. As he did on Meeting, Ry Cooder’s son Joachim adds percussion on several tracks as well…”
“Grant Green was a jazz guitarist who recorded as band leader and side man with the majority of musicians who passed through the Blue Note doors during those special years between 1960 and 1965 (see footnote below). His name appears on over one hundred albums, including thirty under his own name, making him Blue Note’s most recorded artist. Later in the sixties and early seventies he created some of the coolest and hottest rare-groove and small ensemble jazz-funk there is. Some critics even elevate him to the status of forefather of acid jazz…”
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Emeritus Professor Aline-Wendy Dunlop awarded an MBE for services to autism in Scotland
Autism Network Scotland’s very own Emeritus Professor Aline-Wendy Dunlop was awarded an MBE for services to autism in Scotland in June this year.
Aline-Wendy first worked with a pupil with autism in the final year of her teacher training in 1970: later she worked at Milton House Primary School in Edinburgh’s Royal Mile where the first specialist autism class was set up. Her interest in autism continued throughout her years of school teaching and into her career in teacher education both at Edinburgh and Strathclyde Universities.
In 1996 she and a colleague, Gilbert Mackay set up the working group that developed the first multi-professional postgraduate programme for autism in Scotland. The first students enrolled in 1998 and Aline-Wendy became Course Director at that time.
In 2004 she and Dr Tommy MacKay instigated the National Centre for Autism Studies (NCAS) and were joined by Charlene Tait and Helen Marwick as Co-Directors: many projects have been realised through NCAS including the Scottish Autism Services Network, the Scottish Autism Toolbox, the Autism Training Approval Project, the Autism Adult Health and Well-being Project and most recently Autism Network Scotland which aims to be a hub for autism information and to provide opportunities for the sharing of interesting practice about autism for Scotland.
Aline-Wendy is a member of the Scottish Government Autism Reference Group which developed the Scottish Strategy for Autism.
Aline-Wendy says that when she received the letter awarding the MBE she hesitated about accepting as all the work she has been able to do for autism has because of the amazing people she has worked with over the years, and the MBE it is such an individualised award. However she decided to go ahead and accept as this is truly an award for autism and highlights the importance of continued work towards positive and fulfilling lives for people with autism, their families and the professionals who work with them.
Everyone at Autism Network Scotland would like to say a hearty congratulations to Aline-Wendy on her award.
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ANCA GLENDALE ORGANIZES CAMP DARFUR EXHIBIT IN GUSD HIGH SCHOOLS
ANCA Glendale April 28, 2017
G LENDALE—The Armenian National Committee of America – Glendale Chapter (ANCA-Glendale) in conjunction with Glendale Unified School District (GUSD) Board of Education, organized Camp Darfur Exhibits in Glendale High School on March 29th, in Clark Magnet High School on April 6th, and in Herbert Hoover High School on April 17th.
Camp Darfur is an interactive genocide awareness and educational exhibit hosted by the non-profit organization iACT. The purpose of the exhibit is to bring attention to the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan, by placing it in an historical context with the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Colombian Genocide, the Rwandan Genocide, and Bosnian Genocide. This traveling refugee camp raises awareness and examines Sudan’s Darfur region and its humanitarian crisis and gives students the opportunity to discover their ability and power to make a difference.
Individual tents dedicated to each Genocide exhibit information, pictures, news articles, personal encounters and survival testimony. By entering the tents, students become immersed into the sobering realties of each tragedy. While the Camp Darfur exhibit puts genocide in the global context, it also makes the students’ experiences very unique. Over the years students have left messages on the tents, from words of encouragement and sorrow, to sheer astonishment at man’s inhumanity to man. Students are encouraged to sign petitions to end the cycle of genocide and are asked to reflect on their experiences by answering questions. The exhibit is both an educational and an emotional experiences for young students.
“Camp Darfur Exhibit at our school sites had a huge impact on students as well as teachers and staff. The visuals and the facts about all Genocides which happened in the 20th Century, helped the students understand the importance of becoming proactive human beings in stopping and preventing future atrocities all over the world. After reading the students’ reflections, it was evident that the exhibit sparked a sense of care and kindness in all the students who participated. I’d like to thank Camp Darfur Exhibit organizers and ANCA Glendale for providing this educational opportunity to our high school students,” stated GUSD Board of Education President, Dr. Armina Gharpetian,
“Every spring, during the month of April the City of Glendale commemorates the Armenian Genocide. We at ANCA Glendale believe that genocide education is very important for our students, and think that the interactive approach of the Camp Darfur exhibit is a very impactful way of teaching students about not only the Armenian Genocide, but also and unfortunately, about genocides from around the world. Glendale, Clark Magnet and Hoover High Schools’ students were very interested in the exhibit and signed petitions and pledges against the crimes of genocide. We hope to continue featuring this exhibit for the upcoming years while adding Glendale Community College as a campus where the exhibit will be presented,” stated ANCA Glendale Board Member, Lucy Petrosian.
The ANCA-Glendale advocates for the social, economic, cultural, and political rights of the city’s Armenian American community and promotes increased civic participation at the grassroots and public policy levels.
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Here’s Why Caribbean Bankers Are Giving The IMF Chief A Thumbs Up
Caribbean360 August 28, 2016
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Saturday August 27, 2016 – The Caribbean Association of Banks Inc. (CAB) is strongly supporting IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde’s proposed approach to dealing with the de-risking/correspondent banking issue that threatens some regional economies. It’s her suggestion that “it is a collective action problem that calls for a collective solution” that is getting her a thumbs up from the CAB.
De-risking is where international banks limit or terminate their relationships with regional financial institutions because of fears that money laundering and questionable sources of funds which would cause them [international banks] to receive heavy fines from their regulators.
The CAB said in a statement issued yesterday that it has been active in raising and advocating on the issue and its effects on the Caribbean region since 2014, when it brought the matter to the attention of Caribbean governments and other stakeholders.
The CAB had requested regional intervention and highlighted that the loss of correspondent banking relationships could render the Caribbean region unbankable and ultimately destabilize all sectors of the economies.
Correspondent banking relationships are critical for the enabling of key economic and financial transactions such as remittances, foreign direct investments (FDIs) and international trade in goods and services which constitute some of the key drivers for sustaining the Caribbean region’s growth and development.
The CAB noted that the average remittance totals for Jamaica and Guyana for the years 2000 to 2013 were 15% and 14% of GDP respectively. Figures from 2009 – 2013 indicate that FDIs account for as much as 15.4% of GDP for smaller states and 8.6% for larger states of the Caribbean. Also, for the developing countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, trade accounted for 58–100% of GDP for smaller states and 83% of GDP for larger states, from 2012 – 2014.
“These figures all demonstrate the extreme susceptibility of the Caribbean to de-risking practices,” the association said.
“As Managing Director Lagarde notes, ‘Correspondent banking is like the blood that delivers nutrients to different parts of the body. It is core to the business of over 3,700 banking groups in 200 countries’. The CAB concurs with these sentiments and wishes to highlight that if the current trend is allowed to continue with no solution in sight, the very livelihoods of Caribbean people will be in danger.
“The CAB supports the work of the IMF towards resolving this issue and commits to continue to work assiduously with its members to ensure that they satisfy any requirements on their part,” it added.
IMF: Barbados Economy Turning A Corner
Multi-Million-Dollar Tourism Loan Facility Launched in Jamaica
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Eagleton alumni share advice for pursuing political careers
12/04/14 3:34am Lin Lan
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Four Eagleton Institute of Politics alumni convened in the Wood Lawn Mansion on Douglass campus yesterday evening to discuss their careers and disperse advice for current students.
Years ago, when Christopher Paladino sat at the end of a conference table with future Gov. Chris Christie, Paladino joked with him about when they would order pizza.
They were both working at the same law firm and would both eventually go into politics.
Paladino, a 1982 undergraduate associate of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, talked to students yesterday about the career path he took before his current position as president of the New Brunswick Development Corporation.
On yesterday’s panel for “Eagleton Institute Alumni Panel: Careers in Politics,” four Rutgers alumni shared their work in politics at the Wood Lawn Mansion on Douglass campus.
The speakers were alumni of Eagleton, which hosted the event.
Kristin Phillips-Hill, an undergraduate associate in 1988, was a full-time volunteer in her community before becoming the State Representative-Elect of the 93rd District of Pennsylvania.
“There was a lot of unrest in our school district, a lot of spending,” Phillips-Hill said. “People were worried about the constantly escalating school property tax, [and] there didn’t seem to be a correlation between the spending and the quality of education.”
One of her opponents was backed by the Tea Party, and the other by the teacher’s union, which at first made Phillips-Hill feel less optimistic about her chances.
After realizing her uniqueness as a candidate — she wasn’t held to any one group’s interest — she gained more confidence and began campaigning door to door.
“My father said to me the night of the primary election, ‘You’ve been preparing for this job your whole life,’” she said.
Christine Stearns, a fellow of the institute in 1996, is now vice president of health and legal affairs at the New Jersey Business and Industry Association.
“Learning about ... how those factors come together in how policy is created at the state house, it is a balance of trying to figure out good politics and policy and hoping it all lands in a good place,” Stearns said.
Abdur Yasin, a fellow of 2013, is now fire captain of West Orange Township in New Jersey.
When he first became a fire fighter, tensions existed around employee contracts, and Yasin quickly became involved in representing public employee interests.
“We all remember 2008 and the financial collapse,” he said. “Right around that time, the 2 percent cap came out, and we were facing another contract.”
After the difficult process of negotiating contracts with other members of a panel, Yasin applied for a graduate degree in public policy at Rutgers.
“We ended up saving the jobs, and after that, I said I didn’t want to face this type of problem again,” he said.
Ruth Mandel, director of Eagleton, gave students the advice of taking advantage of the extensive alumni network.
“Don’t let an opportunity go by,” she said. “If there’s someone here who can be helpful to you, talk to them before they leave at the end of the night.”
Other advice included practicing good writing, communication and interpersonal skills. Yasin strongly emphasized soft skills, which are most influential in politics.
“The network that I gained access to by having been part of the Eagleton program have been invaluable to me in the years,” Stearns said.
Paladino pointed out that maintaining positive relationships in politics is especially vital because many politicians will continue working together for a long time in their careers.
“Look around this room: Most of you probably won’t drift far from New Jersey,” Paladino said. “So be nice to each other, because they’re not going away,” he joked.
Phillips-Hill encouraged students to be honest, because politicians should not represent the interests of other politicians, but of their voters.
“People will respect you more, if that’s your position,” she said.
Lin Lan
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Costume Drawing for Le Roi Arthus Arthus
1858-1921 Belgian Fernand Khnopff Gallery Fernand Khnopff was born to a wealthy family that was part of the high bourgeoisie for generations. Khnopff's ancestors had lived in Flanders since the early 17th-century but were of Austrian and Portuguese descent. Most male members of his family had been lawyers or judges, and young Fernand was destined for a juridical career. In his early childhood (1859-1864) he lived in Bruges where his father was appointed Substitut Du Procureur Du Roi. His childhood memories of the medieval city of Bruges would play a significant role in his later work. In 1864 the family moved to Brussels. To please his parents he went to law school at the Free University of Brussels (now divided into the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) when he was 18 years old. During this period he developed a passion for literature, discovering the works of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Leconte de Lisle and other mostly French authors. With his younger brother Georges Khnopff - also a passionate amateur of contemporary music and poetry - he started to frequent Jeune Belgique ("Young Belgium"), a group of young writers including Max Waller, Georges Rodenbach, Iwan Gilkin and Emile Verhaeren. Khnopff left University due to a lack of interest in his law studies and began to frequent the studio of Xavier Mellery, who made him familiar with the art of painting. On the 25th of October 1876 he enrolled for the Cours De Dessin Apres Nature ("course of drawing after nature") at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts en Bruxelles. At the Academie, his most famous fellow student was James Ensor, whom he disliked from the start. Between 1877 and 1880 Khnopff made several trips to Paris where he discovered the work of Delacroix, Ingres, Moreau and Stevens. At the Paris World Fair of 1878 he became acquainted with the oeuvre of Millais and Burne-Jones. During his last year at the Acad??mie in 1878-1879 he neglected his classes in Brussels and lived for a while in Passy, were he visited the Cours Libres of Jules Joseph Lefebvre at the Acad??mie Julian.
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We Can Learn From Shepherds
This is the time of year when you can walk into the mall, or Barnes and Noble, or just about anywhere and hear songs like, “Hark the Herald Angels Sing,” playing for your shopping pleasure. A friend of mine said he sometimes wants to shout out, “Hey! Hey, everybody, do you hear that? Do you understand what that song means?” But sadly, there are some places where you won’t hear songs about Jesus. Dave Barry used to write for the Miami Herald, and this is how he started one of his columns around Christmas time: “To avoid offending anybody, the school dropped religion altogether and started singing about the weather. At my son’s school, they now hold the winter program in February and sing increasingly non-memorable songs such as ‘Winter Wonderland,’ ‘Frosty the Snowman’ and — this is a real song — ‘Suzy Snowflake,’ all of which is pretty funny because we live in Miami. A visitor from another planet would assume that the children belonged to the Church of Meteorology.”
“Hark the Herald Angels Sing” is not about the weather. The first verse ends with this: “glory to the newborn king.” Question: To whom were the angels heralding this amazing news, the news of a king being born? The shepherds, of course! And where were the shepherds? Another Christmas song tells us: “The first Noel, the angel did say, was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay.” Why were they lying around in fields? The song, and the Bible, tells us: because they were keeping their sheep.
There were some famous shepherds in the Old Testament, the greatest being David, shepherd-boy turned King of Israel. At the time when Jesus was born, however, shepherds were scorned and despised. Ironically, the first people besides Joseph and Mary to see the Savior with their own eyes, the shepherds, did not have legal standing in those days to give testimony in a courtroom that they had seen the Savior with their own eyes. That didn’t matter to God.
What can we learn from the shepherds? Plenty, but here’s one thing: they obeyed the Good News. The shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” Notice first that their obedience was corporate, and that’s a great thing. The shepherds went together, encouraging one another to obey the Lord. If you are hanging out with people who make a habit of obeying the Lord, and encouraging you to obey the Lord, you are hanging out with good people. Second, their obedience was immediate. “And they went with haste.” They hurried to obey God. There were lots of reasons to delay: as many sheep as there were, those were each a reason. We are not told what they did with the sheep. Maybe the angels told them that they could leave the sheep in the field and they would be fine. Maybe they found some substitute shepherds who were off that day. Maybe they just looked at the sheep, looked at each other, and called out, “Good luck Fluffies!” as they hurried off. Probably not, they were shepherds, which means they were first and foremost protectors of sheep. But God had spoken to them through a heavenly host, an army of angels. And it was with great joy that they obeyed God with abandon!
There is delight and surprise waiting for those who will make haste and obey God’s command. Third, their obedience was grounded. They said, “Let’s go see this thing which the Lord has made known to us.” They did not hesitate to obey because they had heard the very Word of God. Finally, their obedience was rewarded. “And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger.” Seeking the Lord will lead to finding the Lord. God always rewards obedience. Always!
May God bless you and yours this Christmas with hearts fully yielded to Him.
By Mark Fox
Mark Fox
J. Mark Fox is the author of A Faithful Man and the pastor of Antioch Community Church in Elon, NC. You can follow him on Twitter at @jmarkfox.
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Sunset Hollywood, Seattle Sound And European Christmas Vacation Anthony Bourdain Style! Also My Latest Swedish Snus Haul…
Sunset Hollywood, Seattle Sound And European Christmas Vacation Anthony Bourdain Style! Also My Latest Swedish Snus Haul ~
UPDATE: @ BOTTOM OF THIS POST 12/23/14
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So I just got off the phone with a relative visiting Los Angeles, and I ask, where have they gone…”We’ve been to Venice Beach, Santa Monica, yada yada, and Disneyland in Anaheim. We’ve been very busy, tomorrow we head to San Diego where we will be able to relax a bit more.” I replied, “Awesome…what about the Sunset Strip, how did you like that?” I remember when I went to California for my first time…I had a local take me to see the sites, and when I brought up that I wanted to go to the strip, she said…’there’s not really much there, but I get it, we can make a stop there so you can check it out.’ I get it many locals will say that it’s a dirty waste of time. Not me, I thought, I was on a pilgrimage and if I did not experience anything other than “The Strip” that would be fine. I also get that it’s very touristy…I did not care it was the 1980’s and I had to go. So anyway my relative on the phone today says, they did not go to Sunset, and they would not have a chance. It was like a knife in my chest…WHATTTTT!!! At least do a drive through, WTF! So much amazing history but I guess it’s not to be. I know some of you are saying F Sunset, dirty waste of time…WRONG!
All I could think of to myself is that some day they will regret not going to the strip, just to see The Rainbow, The Whiskey, and The Troubabour. It reminded me of my first trip to Continental Europe with my Grand Parents when they took us on the “safety tour” in the 80’s when I was young, God love em, but I remembered that they tried to censor our trip. I grew up in Iceland so debauchery was not new to me, but the grandparents were a bit naive and did not get that we, the young ones already experienced the “adult stuff”. My uncle, aunt, and cousins lived near Nijmegen, Holland. It was pretty awesome experiencing it like a local…riding the bike paths in and out of the city and the 10 miles from Beuningen to Arnhem. We had Fritz Met, fries and mayonnaise, had to explain what the American word “Cool” to a local (It did not mean cold), and were hit with major porn next to the Disney Movies at the “Video Ring” while renting VHS tapes. As you know women’s breasts on TV, on the front page of the newspaper, and at the beach is normal in Europe.
We ate horse meat burgers (salty strange), canned hot dogs, and dairy products like eggs / butter / and unpasteurized fresh milk not refrigerated. Actually reminded me of Iceland, not the same, but eating strange foods that is. Remember there was no Anthony Bourdain or Andrew Zimmern on TV then and wandering gastronomy was not popular with Americans…still is not, but people “get” foi gras now even if they don’t want to eat it themselves. Now I know better to go for the Pig Cheek and Tuna Collar…first! Thank you Mr. Bourdain.
I also went to a Dutch school with my cousin and a friend of his, and all the students were asking me all kinds of questions about celebrities (blech!) and MTV (remember it was the 80’s). It wasn’t all bad, in fact I had a great time in English class. Everyone in Holland had English class in school, what was really cool was when I listened to the kids speaking English (Very fluent by the way), I realized they were learning British English. When they asked me to read a passage in their class book everyone seemed amazed and were stunned that I did not have an Icelandic accent. American English I found out that day was quite different from UK English.
Anyway I did not accept the idea of a censored Europe, no matter what they did (Much more on that later in this piece, see the plane ride home)…I spent my free days to do whatever I wanted, on my own wisely. I knew what I was looking for and I was going to take advantage of it, no matter what anyone said. We drove to Paris and I remember my Grandparents rushing us by the nude statues…very silly indeed, could not be avoided in The Louvre. Also all the sex shops near the Moulin Rouge was awkward for them…lol. We also went to East Germany, this was before the wall came down, and it was quite sad. Far from the free East Berlin Berghain / Panoramabar lawlessness I would visit several years ago, totally not like I remembered in a great way. We further went to Antwerp Belgium, Amsterdam NL (All Over NL), Berlin DE, Luxembourg, and Zurich Switzerland. It was a very fun trip.
I know now days seeing police dogs and Machine guns at airports is pretty common, but back then it was not. You see we planned our trip months ahead and found ourselves in Holland with military fighter jets doing mission test runs above the house. We turned on the radio and in Dutch, they were saying America was on the brink of w*ar after blo*wing up one of K*had*afi’s homes, kil*ling his s*on. It was pretty scary for a while we did not know what was going to happen day to day. Would we be taking our scheduled flight a few weeks later from Brussels to the US. We thought about leaving early, thankfully we did not as everything seemed to settle down when it was time to leave.
So as I said I was not going to allow a censored tour of europe, I was a young kid but had been around the block a few times. So I was worried about customs searching my bags especially with all I had acquired on my trip…unknowingly by my Grandparents and with the heightened security. My collectables in my luggage were; several Cuban Cigars, a bottle of cheap French Drinking Wine that all the locals in Paris drank at lunchtime with their bread and fromage, 1 bottle of Russian Potato Vodka, 1 bottle of REAL Czechoslovakian Absinthe, 1 Switchblade, 1 pen…woman with disappearing dress, 1 pack of Po*rn Star Playing Cards, and there was more but you get the idea. I was not even a teen yet and I was a walking ball of debauchery to go, just add water. It was that Heavy Metal music, it was a bad influence on me…I’ll blame it on that. K.
So we get to the airport in Brussels and began to put our luggage on the conveyor to the x-ray. As it went through I could have pissed myself. Breathe! As soon as my bag came through I picked it up and hustled it away about 30 feet to the bottom of the escalators. I grabbed another bag of my family’s as well. Then all of a sudden there was a commotion behind the scanner and two airport officials come out from behind and start pulling my Grandmother’s bag apart, obviously looking for something. They found nothing as my bag was safely away. Ah to be young again, man was I a handful. That was very close…very very close! Imagine them unpacking my suitcase full of treats right in front of my stunned Grandparents?!?! Anyway I passed through customs and on arrival in the US scuttled without even a search or declaration form in the US. As I walked by inspectors they paid me no attention as I tried to steady my bag, the bottles had come unwrapped and were now clinking. I almost shat myself…steady hand!
More to come about my trips to Continental Europe in the future, time to get back to music, Los Angeles, and Seattle. Forward a few years…Now it was the late 80’s, but I had travelled to LA in 83, 85, 88 and 89 and I did not establish my connections in the music industry until the middle of 1989. I thought to myself, I had missed out on Hendrix and the 60’s scene, as well as the Punk Movement in the 70’s (single digits, although I saw the Ramones in 83 but that does not count, right, as I missed the movement). So I had to go to LA for the 80’s Glam Metal Scene…the Sunset strip was insane. The freaks were out and dressed to kill, it was more than you would imagine, the smell of Aqua Net and Phunky Kush was overwhelming. I got to see almost all of the LA Metal bands as there were shows every night of the week. It was a pretty carefree time as I was traveling back and forth between the UK, Boston, New York City, Los Angeles, and Seattle quite often. There were also many side trips to Vegas and Frisco as well. In the future I would find myself living between the UK, Reykjavik, Boston, San Diego, and San Francisco between tours in the 90’s. What made it even more amazing was that I was able to physically see the major turn in the music industry from LA Glam to The Seattle Sound.
When I look back on it, it was a seismic shift but as I just liked loud music I transitioned easily from Motley Crue and Ratt to Alice In Chains and Nirvana. I did not give a fuck about the politics and I got along with almost anybody, so at the time I did not notice the music was too different, of course it was different, but more importantly I could feel that I was part of something very unique and a part of history. What made everything more confusing was that Guns N’ Roses, Janes Addiction, and The Red Hot Chilli Pepper’s holding it up for LA blurring the Alternative lines. Megadeth, Metallica, Anthrax, and Slayer (The Big Four) where holding things up for thrash in the US and even bigger in Europe and South America. I would just the same listen to LA Guns, Mudhoney, or Megadeth (just as I do today)…where I really noticed the transition was when I went back home to work in the clubs in the 90’s. All the work shifted from LA to Seattle for sure but back home Glam Metal was out and “Grunge” (hate that term) was in at some point. I didn’t get the memo that Metal was out and Seattle was in. I just went with the flow. The difference at home was the radio had stopped playing 80’s metal and full rotation was set on Seattle, it was really strange. Instead of taking my flights to LAX, I was now heading for SEATAC. That’s just the way it was. Not Enough time to write about the Raves and The Grateful Dead, Old Skool Rap Shows ( Notorious BIG, Snoop Dogg, Tupac, Warren G, NWA, Public Enemy, Wu Tang Clan, KRS 1, Dr. Dre, etc.) that’s for other articles…I was going nonstop for sure!
My experiences during these times are just beginning to be published, every day still I remember a new adventure and make note to be sure I remember to write about it here. “Bastard Saint” the Series has turned into something bigger. A book about all my experiences set to a bizarre ethereal netherworld. Based on a true story…there is so much to it, I will be posting excerpts from it in the New Year of 2015. Sorry, much later than I had expected because I want to give everybody a taste of how the book is coming along and the characters within, without giving away everything in a few posts. However I will probably self publish and give it away for free. So I look to give everyone here pieces to wet the tongue, while leaving people wanting to see development and progress with the full text.
So in closing here I wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Holidays! Have a drink and a toke on me…I’ll be sticking with my coffee, Ettan, and Skruf Xtra Stark with a little Thunder Ultra Raspberry / Thunder Frosted, Oden’s Kanel, Gotlandskt Julesnus to keep it real for the season! Real Swedish Imported Snus Taxes Paid(Med Smak Av Jul !)….not that American SNUS Shit!
Most Recent Imported Swedish Snus Haul:
UPDATE: 12/23/14 ~ Excellent News…I guess it was meant to be. I just got off Facetime and the relatives did make it to the Sunset Strip today and they Loved It!!! They are now safely in San Diego [Dago] @ Mission Bay. Pacific Beach Manana!
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The Greatest Moments in Rock and Roll History Series #4 + Today’s Favorite Videos #6 – A Little Bit For Everyone… [Direct ~ Links]
Reviews for individual albums or sets will be posted HERE (The Main “DAY” Page) but daily Videos & Playlists will be posted in the Playlist “Night” Feed Blog. Again you can access it from the “Playlist “Night” Feed” button in the header menu below the “HOME” button. Or you can get there using the links below.
Todays Favorite Videos #6…A little something for everyone…[Video-Direct Links]
http://playlists.christmachine.com/youtube/todays-favorite-videos-6a-little-something-for-everyonevideo-direct-links-nsfw/
The Greatest Moments in Rock and Roll History Series #4 – Lynyrd Skynyrd – Live lynyrd-skynyrdKnebworth UK 1976…[Video]…
Just one editorial note The Greatest Moments in Rock and Roll History Series, even though numbered is not in any particular order. I would not try to rank such greatness…they all reach the top. 8]
http://playlists.christmachine.com/youtube/the-greatest-moments-in-rock-and-roll-history-series-4-lynyrd-skynyrd-live-knebworth-uk-1976video/
Photo: Courtesy Of Doc Keyaza
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Limbless Man’s Mind Still Trying to Cope With Multiple Amputations Caused by Medical Malpractice
January 15, 2013 | News
Nashua, NH (Law Firm Newswire) January 14, 2013 – Life can change on a dime. That is what happened in this case.
“The plaintiff in this case went to bed one night with his wife and the next thing he knew he was in a hospital being told by a doctor he had lost his arms and legs. It was a situation reminiscent of the worst horror movie anyone could ever remember seeing,” said Charlie Donahue, a Nashua medical malpractice lawyer with offices in Keene, New Hampshire. “Limbless and speechless, the man needed the assistance of a competent medical malpractice lawyer. His whole life had been turned upside down and he would need managed care 24/7.”
The plaintiff lost both arms and legs as a result of methicillin-sensitive staphylococcus aureus (MSSA). It did not have to happen, because if caught in time, MSSA is treatable with antibiotics. How did this bizarre medical emergency happen? In 2011, their son was taken to the hospital for treatment for a sore. Their 11-year-old had MSRA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), was given intravenous drugs and recovered.
A few weeks later, the plaintiff developed similar sores, and suspected he had the same infection that his son had. He went to see the same physician’s assistant his son went to, but was only given oral antibiotics. No swabs were taken at the time. The antibiotics did not clear up the infection, and by the man’s third visit to the same physician’s assistant he was afraid the infection was spreading, causing MRSA arthritis. He was told by another physician’s assistant that it was likely he was suffering from bursitis.
“Thinking bursitis might make some sense, the man went home. He collapsed two days later and was rushed to hospital, where he had his hands and feet amputated, followed later by his right leg at the knee and the left leg below the knee. His wife had to give permission for the amputations, as he was in a coma,” explained Donahue. He now has prosthetic hands and will eventually get prosthetic legs, but that will not happen without further intensive rehabilitation.
A once highly independent man, and former police officer, now has to rely on others to help him with his daily living tasks. His lawsuit hopes to drive home the message that hospitals need to be on the alert for medical mistakes, and check prior records if someone else in the family had a similar infection previously. His statement of claim asserts the hospital repeatedly failed to properly diagnose and treat his infection, despite the fact his son had been treated for something similar.
“Does this case stand a chance of winning? Yes. Based on the evidence, it does. It would have taken a mere minute or so to swab the man and send for lab results, which have revealed the issue, with appropriate treatment to follow. Instead, the man was given what amounts to a run around. His life will never be what it once was, and he paid a horrendous price for another person’s negligence,” Donahue stated.
To learn more about New Hampshire personal injury lawyer Charlie Donahue, visit http://www.donahuelawfirm.com.
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Keene, NH 03431
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EGAM commemorates the Roma genocide on August the 2nd, with a special thought for the victims of the Lety (Czech Republic) concentration camp , now a pig farm
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The European Grassroots Antiracist Movement – EGAM pays homage to the victims of the Roma genocide perpetrated by the Nazis and its allies during WWII, to the survivors and their descendants.The history of the Roma genocide is still too little known, and its memory still too poorly transmitted, although strong efforts, especially by the civil society, have been made in recent years.On this day, it is important that various institutions, from civil society to the political world, at the local as well as at the national and at the European levels, commit themselves to ensure a better knowledge of this history and a better transmission of this memory.
This history is part of the history of Europe. It thus concerns all Europeans, and transmitting it is a way to fight racism and discrimination today.
Indeed, genocide denial – to a lesser level, the lack of transmission of memory – is the continuation of the logic of genocide, which is the most violent political act to which racism can lead.On this day of dignity and remembrance, we especially think of Lety, in Czech Republic, where a pig farm, funded by the EU, is now located on the site of a former Roma concentration camp.
In June, EGAM held there the first European commemorations, along with Roma and other human rights leaders from more than 20 countries from all over the continent.As we did then, we ask today, including through the various commemorations our member or partner organizations hold in various countries, the Czech government to change the location of the pig farm and to build of a proper memorial on the place of the site of the former concentration camp.
We ask the European Commission to push for this solution, which is the one preferred by the farm owners.Until this has not been done, the memory of the victims of the Roma genocide will go on being sullied, and so will democracy in Europe.
Here is the link to the short video of the European commemorations at Lety :
Press contact :
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Created in 2010, EGAM – European Grassroots Antiracist Movement is a network that gathers the main antiracist NGOs from more than 30 countries. Our goal is to work for a more integrated and more active European civil society against racism, antisemitism, racial discrimination and genocide denial.
Since 2011, EGAM and its members and Roma partners have been organizing the Roma Pride, a European mobilization for the dignity of Roma people which takes place every year the first week-end of October in about 15 countries.
In October 5th 2014, we will renew this initiative simultaneously to continue fighting racism and discrimination and to promote the diversity of Roma cultures and histories in Europe.
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Bangladesh cyclone is race against time as winter approaches
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The approach of winter in Bangladesh has intensified the race against time to provide blankets, food and shelter to thousands of people left destitute by Cyclone Sidr, says a leading Bangladeshi aid worker.
With temperatures beginning to fall in some of the coastal districts where thousands lost their homes, Sylvester Halder, Associate director HEED (Health, Education & Economic Development), which is supported by Christian relief & development agency Tearfund, says: “We are moving towards winter and thousands of people are living in the open without warm clothes or shelter. It is getting cooler and people urgently need clothes, blankets and food to survive.” He said temperatures, currently 15 degrees and falling during the night, in January could drop as low as six degrees Celsius.
Mr Halder, whose organisation is currently distributing emergency food aid to 10,000 people, welcomed the DEC Appeal, saying: “There are many urgent needs such as food and blankets, but it will take one to two years for some of these communities to recover. We need also to make a long-term response ensuring that we replace the bamboo and straw huts that were destroyed with stronger homes that will withstand storms and cyclones.”
In the hours before Cyclone Sidr struck, HEED’s staff and community volunteers successfully helped 27,000 people evacuate to nine cyclone shelters across five districts. “If we did not have a system of warning some of these people would have perished,” says Sylvester Halder.
The Disaster Emergency Committee’s 13 major aid agencies today (Thursday) launched an appeal to help millions of people left without food and shelter following the Bangladesh cyclone.
The DEC Appeal will provide desperately needed relief to people suffering after one of the most ferocious cyclones to hit Bangladesh in decades. More than five million people have been affected. Families have been left without enough food, water, or shelter, while an estimated million homes have been destroyed or damaged and around a million acres of cropland devastated.
For donations, please log on to the DEC website at www.dec.org.uk or phone 0870 6060900
The Disasters Emergency Committee agencies are Action Aid, British Red Cross, CAFOD, CARE International UK, Christian Aid, Concern Worldwide, Help the Aged, Islamic Relief, Merlin, Oxfam, Save the Children, Tearfund and World Vision
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Remarks By President George Bush On West Coast Ports
President George Bush comments on the West Coast ports work stoppage, its effects on the economy and the injunction to halt the stoppage temporarily.
THE PRESIDENT: I appreciate my Cabinet secretaries joining me here for this announcement. For over a week our ports along the Pacific Coast have been shut down. These ports handle more then $300 billion a year in trade. The work stoppage is hurting our entire economy. It is hurting truckers and rail operators who carry goods to other parts of America. It's hurting farmers and ranchers and manufacturers, retailers and consumers who make, buy, and sell the products that pass through our ports.
The crisis in our western ports is hurting the economy. It is hurting the security of our country, and the federal government must act. Americans are working hard every day to bring our economy back from recession. This nation simply cannot afford to have hundreds of billions of dollars a year in potential manufacturing and agricultural trade sitting idle. We can't afford it. Because of the situation at the West Coast ports, our economy is already losing up to $1 billion a day -- economic losses that translate into lost jobs.
The farm economy alone is losing a thousand jobs a day. Automotive plants cannot get all the parts they need, and they're laying off workers. Stores cannot begin stocking up for the holiday season. All of this will only worsen as time goes on.
The work stoppage also threatens our national defense. These ports load the ships that carry supplies to our men and women in uniform. These ports also receive parts and materials used by our defense contractors to complete projects and maintain military equipment.
Federal mediators have been trying to get the workers and port operators to resume operations while they negotiate their differences. The Secretary of Labor has been working hard to get people back to work. Unfortunately, the union and the management have been unable to reach an agreement. After a lot of work, particularly by our Labor Department and Secretary, after a lot of discussions, we have been unable to bring the two parties together, and therefore stronger action is required. Because the operation of western ports is vital to our economy and to our military, I have determined that the current situation imperils our national health and safety.
I have appointed a board of inquiry to investigate the issues at stake. Today, the board submitted an official report stating each party's position. I am now directing Attorney General Ashcroft to seek an injunction under the Taft-Hartley Act, ending the lockout and requiring work at the ports to resume at a normal pace. This dispute between management and labor cannot be allowed to further harm the economy and force thousands of working Americans from their jobs.
This injunction will allow the parties more time to resolve their differences. It is not, however, a permanent solution to the problem, and the federal government will continue working with both sides to pursue a settlement. The ultimate responsibility for an agreement lies with the worker representatives and the port operators. I expect both sides to put the concerns of our national health and safety first, and work in good faith to resolve their differences as quickly as possible.
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Peter Herdrich is an active writer, producer, and presenter, on media, technology, communications and cultural heritage subjects and is frequently sought as an expert by media outlets around the world, including ABC, Al Jazeera, the Huffington Post and NBC.
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A distinguished group of panelists will discuss recent issues including:
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Katharyn Hanson, Archaeologist, Smithsonian Fellow, Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute
Peter Herdrich, CEO of Cultural Capital Group and co-founder, The Antiquities Coalition
Lawrence M. Kaye, c-chair of Art Law Group, Herrick, Feinstein LLP
Zakir Yılmaz, Expert at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Turkey
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Tea parties and nap time
Each morning, it's my goal to do two things before Baby J wakes up: first, grab a bowl of gluten-free Honey Chex. And second, read the Morning Jolt by Jim Geraghty on National Review Online. It gives me a condensed, link-filled, 4-point summary of the day's news. And it usually makes me laugh, too.
Yesterday's Jolt featured commentary on the liberal snickering about Sarah Palin, who recently said to the crowd at a Tea Party rally: "Don't party like it's 1773 yet." Geraghty has written before about what he calls our "narrative-reinforcement" main-stream media, saying that:
...once the narrative is set, it is very hard to alter... It's been remarked in the Corner, among other places, that every prominent Republican is either classified as either dumb or evil. Dumb: George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford (or at least bumbling). Evil: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Newt Gingrich.
Sarah Palin, as we all know, must be stupid in the eyes of the media. She has five kids and a strange accent. And once a public official labeled "dumb" says something, it must be dumb. If she says gravity pulls objects towards the earth, the lazy who are convinced they are clever will claim she denies the existence of human flight.
So when Palin says to a crowd, "Don't party like it's 1773 yet," of course she must have meant 1776 and is such a phenomenally gaffe-prone dunce that she botched a date almost every grade-schooler knows.
Many a liberal blogger, reporter and pundit took to their Twitter accounts to report and mock the line, failing to recall that something relevant did indeed happen in 1773: the Boston Tea Party. There's plenty more great conservative commentary on this on the web, especially by Michelle Malkin and Neo-Neocon, but I bring this up with reference to (what else) my own life.
Husband came home from work yesterday and said that a co-worker of his (a former co-worker of mine, as well) asked about me and how I was doing, "staying home and all."
I asked, "What'd you tell him?"
"I said you were really enjoying it."
"And he said?"
"He said he didn't believe me."
I know this is only a small conversation, probably said without much thought and with no real significance, but it saddens me to hear about people who believe the media narrative that mothers can't be happy at home.
Now, I said "happy" at home. I didn't say it's a carefree, energetic, walk-in-the-clouds existence. It's a job, and it's my job. And jobs are hard. But the best jobs--all of them--include meaningful work, personal rewards and a sense of accomplishment.
Gloria Feldt, former head of Planned Parenthood, recently had this to say about women choosing to stay home with their children:
They make it harder for the rest of us to remedy the inequities that remain. We have to make young women aware of how their choices affect other women. It should be acceptable criticism to point out that, although everyone has the right to make their own life decisions, choosing to “opt out” reinforces stereotypes about women’s priorities that we’ve been working for decades to shatter, so just cut it out. And, the “individual choice” women have to become stay-at-home moms becomes precarious when they try to return to the workplace and find their earning power and options reduced. If we could see child-rearing as a necessary task and not an identity, and if we could collectively recognize that facilitating it benefits us all, we would go much further in guaranteeing women’s choices than we do when we are expected to uncritically celebrate every individual’s decision.
Ah. Pardon me, Gloria, while I make it "harder" for you and your world of truly misogynistic, misplaced priorities by playing peek-a-boo with my infant.
If having your baby fed, content, changed and sleeping in his own crib at 3:19 on a Wednesday afternoon doesn't make a mother feel happy, I'm not sure what would. Granted, I have other projects built into my day (especially during nap time) that let me focus on writing, designing, and video production. And luckily, some of those projects bring in a very small amount of much-needed income. But still, if I only had the baby, that would be good, too. I would be happy. To Gloria Feldt, the liberal media at large and especially that one co-worker, I say: Believe me.
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Ignorance is death
Changing Baby J’s diaper a few weeks ago, I was half listening, half watching Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life interviewing Christopher Cardinal Schönborn on the EWTN cable channel. The two men, both crusaders for the unborn (and all other human life), discussed legal and spiritual ways to fight the evil of abortion.
The interview didn’t truly catch my attention, though, until photos of the saddest sight possible flashed on the screen: small babies, burnt, dismembered, desecrated. Babies with their eyes open. Babies murdered through abortion.
Seeing those images never fails to immediately bring me to tears. Writing about it, days later, I’m still emotional.
However, whereas I’ve regretted seeing other forms of gratuitous violence, sex or other graphic content on television and in movies (The Dark Knight, for instance, was a great flick, but oy!), I’ve never regretted being face to face with the reality of abortion.
Why? Because: Ignorance is death.
Perhaps nothing divides the pro-life crowd more than the issue of seeing abortion. We’ve all seen the groups that stand outside college campuses or along busy roadsides displaying large poster images of aborted children. They make us wince. They should.
Catholic author and mother Danielle Bean writes that while she is completely pro-life,
“I am not sure anyone should have the right to display graphic and disturbing photos in public places. I am raising my children to be 100% pro-life as well, but I don’t want someone else deciding for me when they are ready to see horrifying images of dead babies.”
Bean goes on to say that these tactics “do very little to promote the cause of life” and that the more powerful image is the one of the baby in utero. I greatly respect Ms. Bean and love reading her work, but I do disagree on this point.
I’ve heard other passionately and actively pro-life women argue against the images as well. “How will a post-abortive woman ever believe she’s worthy of forgiveness when she’s forced to look at photos of what she’s done?” is a reasonable question (and one that I think is sufficiently answered by the wonderful team at Rachel’s Vineyard).
One of the hallmarks of Fr. Frank’s ministry with Priests for Life is that “America won’t reject abortion until it sees abortion.” On their website, viewers can find photo gallery after photo gallery of every aspect of abortion: the abortion procedures, in detail; the abortionists, in their own words; the remains of the innocent. Fr. Frank writes:
“We present here some of the grim reality of abortion. Only seeing such images can bring us to the kind of indignation needed to sustain the sacrifices that will be necessary to finally bring an end to this injustice.”
Perhaps most poignantly, he states: “Abortion is a reality which is so horrific that words alone can never convey its meaning.”
In an age when abortion is euphemized to the extreme (“products of conception,” anyone?), his own words ring true.
One horrifically honest campaign created by Priests for Life is called “Is This What You Mean?” Truncated descriptions of abortion procedures, described by abortionists themselves, are outlined. I can barely read more than five without having to leave the webpage. It’s that awful. And that real.
While I sympathize with Ms. Bean and the many other hard-working, dedicated pro-life individuals that object to the use of these disturbing photos (whether on street corners, in front of abortion mills or on the Internet), I’m firmly in Fr. Frank’s camp.
That’s not to say that showing the humanity of the living unborn baby (as opposed to babies killed by abortion) isn’t thoroughly effective and, at times, the better strategy for reaching hearts. A key moment in the movie Juno comes as the pregnant heroine approaches an abortion clinic and meets a peaceful protester, who happens to be her classmate. The pro-life girl says, “Your baby probably has a beating heart, you know. It can feel pain. And it has fingernails.”
At the mention of fingernails, Juno makes an about-face and says, “Really, fingernails?”
Showing and explaining fetal development is not only useful, but it has saved many, many children.
But in an age when shock sells, sometimes it takes more than the mention of fingernails to get someone’s attention to the reality of abortion. Sometimes it takes the truth—the burnt, bloody and broken truth. Because ignorance is death.
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Wallingford Road, north side
Facing south on the north side of Wallingford Road, the Frederick F. Brewster Bungalow is surrounded by open meadows in a primarily residential neighborhood just to the west of Durham Center.
Address: Wallingford Road, north side
Current Owner: Otte, Joel C.
Historic Name: F.F. Brewster Bungalow
Set into the slope of a hill, the concrete foundation is fully exposed on the south elevation. The clapboarded balloon frame is topped with an asphalt shingled, ridge-to-street gable roof. The facade features a 1 story full length, shed-roofed, enclosed sunporch and a large shed dormer with three-over-three sash. A modest entryway is located on the western elevation and one-over-one sash are featured throughout the main block. The exposed basement exhibits a 1 bay garage door flanked by two small, square window openings to the east.
This 2 1/2 story Bungalow Cottage was erected by Frederick F. Brewster in 1926. In that year, Frederick F. Brewster, a successful carriage maker from New Haven bought one and a half acres from Charles A. Brown on which he had this house built. Brewster in 1920 purchased the three farms to the west of this lot as a summer residence and built a number of early-20th-century style homes to house employees of his farm. Presumably, Brewster erected this cottage for the same purpose. In 1945 the property was purchased by the Bolt family, who sold it to the present owners in 1977 . The popular early-20th-century Bungalow style varied in style and form throughout the nation, with each locale using its own traditions, such as the Colonial style in the east, the California style in the west and the Prairie style in the middle-western United States. Architecturally, the Frederick F. Brewster Bungalow is significant as a typical Bungalow style used in the northeast during the building boom after World War II.
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When Giving Up is Not an Option
by Clementine Bihiga
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Clementine Bihiga was born in 1986. She is an inspirational speaker and the author of “Happily Broken: Discovering Happiness Through Pain and Suffering”.
When Clementine was eight years old her family was forced to flee their home in Rwanda. The Genocide and Civil war of 1994 killed almost 1 Million people in 3 months. Clementine and her family lived in multiple refugee camps and settlements before they were admitted to the USA in 1999 as political refugees.
Clementine who faced many life and death situations at a young age. Clementine not only grew up in refugee camps, she found herself waking up among the dead, she was a victim of bullies in high school and she lost her daughter in utero. Clementine has turned her tragic past into a positive calling by inspiring others to never give up.
Sometimes as humans, we are so quick to give up.
How many times have we been turned down and decided to stop?
How often do we take rejection as a sign that it’s not meant to be?
Seek others’ approval before running after our dreams?
Feel defeat because things are not going our way?
As a refugee, I started facing rejection at a very young age. For starters, I fled my country when I was eight years old and had to fend for myself when my parents disappeared for a period of 2 weeks. When I eventually reunited with our parents, my naive self, thought I was going back home to Rwanda.
That didn’t happen.
Instead, we went to live in refugee camps where we faced death right in the eyes every day.
In these camps, malaria, cholera, typhoid, etc. claimed over half of the refugees there. We would wake up every day and find ourselves surrounded by dead bodies. At this point, l felt like life wasn’t worth living. This was too much for my little 8-year-old brain and body to handle.
Fear was my best friend.
One day I went to Lake Kivu to fetch water and wash a shirt my mother had bought me. I had to lay on a “log” as an anchor so that I could swim towards the shirt (I couldn’t swim) and when I made the small leap so that I could grab my shirt, the log turned and I saw that it was actually a dead body.
There was not enough room to bury bodies during the genocide, bodies were being thrown in the lake. We used this water for drinking, cooking, washing clothes, dishes and bathing.
Life wasn’t fair. I wanted to give up.
When my family eventually got to the U.S.A., I was bullied in high school for being “different.” Every day, I would want to quit going to school because I had suffered so much. It felt like life was not giving me a break.
In my adult life, I lost a daughter when I was 27 weeks pregnant. No one could explain why I lost her. I was told it’s like getting into a car accident. I felt lost and angry and many more emotions. After this, I really wanted to give up.
But even with all these life-shattering experiences, giving up was not an option.
I had to be resilient. Resilient for my young son, resilient for my family, resilient for my country and resilient for the world. I want to make my mark and leave this world a better place for future generations.
What did I do to change the course of my life?
I put myself through college. I was active on campus. My public speaking journey took off, and I still was able to graduate with a master’s degree (3.9 GPA).
I wrote a book about my journey. I hope that a tired soul, one who is exhausted in this life, one who needs a break, one that’s on the edge of giving up, will pick up my book, hear my story and decide to keep pushing forward.
How many people are saying NO to you?
Are tired of your bills and are just stressed out?
Do you have a teenager that’s out of control and are you ready to throw in the towel?
Can’t get those sales numbers high enough for your manager?
Can’t get your business off the ground? Going through a health crisis?
How many times have you wanted to give up and tell yourself “I Can’t?”
Next time you want to give up, remember my story and say to yourself “If that 8-year-old girl can do it, so can I.”
Yes. You Can. Never Give Up!
Your family depends on your resilience. Your business depends on your resilience.
Humanity depends on your resilience.
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Clementine Bihiga
Clementine Bihiga is an inspirational public speaker and the author of "Happily Broken: Discovering Happiness Through Pain and Suffering". At the age of eight, Clementine and her family were forced to flee their home in Rwanda due to the Genocide and Civil war of 1994 which killed almost a million people in 3 months. Clementine and her family lived as refugees in multiple refugee camps and settlements before they were admitted to the USA in 1999 as refugees. Clementine who faced many life and death situations at a young age including living in refugee camps and waking up among the dead, being bullied as a high school student and losing a daughter, has turned her tragic past into a positive calling of inspiring others to never give up. When Clementine climbed on a "log" in lake Kivu trying to rescue a shirt taken by the waves and finally realizing it was a dead body, she could have given up. When she was almost beaten to death by a motorist on her way home, she could have given up. When she woke up among dead bodies claimed by Malaria, Typhoid, Cholera, etc. she could have given up hope. When she got to the USA and was bullied in high school for being different every single day, she would have quit and given up. Life was unforgiving for Clementine, but she pressed on. Clementine is a prolific linguist who speaks 5 languages, she is actively involved with many organizations such as the Student Leadership Council, World Youth Alliance, the United Nations Agents of Change, the Human Rights Committee, The Student Achievement in Research and Scholarships and the Student Advisory Committee for Foreign Discrimination. Clementine was also selected to be on a panel of the Africana Studies at the Stander Symposium and a panel on International Discrimination. Clementine was able to work as a Campaign Fellow for the United WayShe and intern at the New York State Attorney General's Office. While still in college. After college, Clementine and her husband Chris, who she met in a refugee settlement in Kenya were married. They became proud parents of a son in 2011. As a full-time mother and a full-time employee in Healthcare sales, Clementine decided to also get her Masters Degree. She accomplished this in one year and graduate with a 3.9 GPA with a Masters in Public Administration in HealthCare Administration and also earned a promotion at work for exceeding her sales goals by 160% the same year! She can be seen speaking at many conferences and groups on topics of Self-esteem, Resilience, Working Together, Bullying and Transforming Pain into Happiness
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Clementine Bihiga is an inspirational public speaker and the author of "Happily Broken: Discovering Happiness Through Pain and Suffering". At the age of eight, Clementine and her family were forced to flee their home in Rwanda due to the Genocide and Civil war of 1994 which killed almost a million people in 3 months. Clementine and her family lived as refugees in multiple refugee camps and settlements before they were admitted to the USA in 1999 as refugees. Clementine who faced many life and death situations at a young age including living in refugee camps and waking up among the dead, being bullied as a high school student and losing a daughter, has turned her tragic past into a positive calling of inspiring others to never give up. When Clementine climbed on a "log" in lake Kivu trying to rescue a shirt taken by the waves and finally realizing it was a dead body, she could have given up. When she was almost beaten to death by a motorist on her way home, she could have given up. When she woke up among dead bodies claimed by Malaria, Typhoid, Cholera, etc. she could have given up hope. When she got to the USA and was bullied in high school for being different every single day, she would have quit and given up. Life was unforgiving for Clementine, but she pressed on. Clementine is a prolific linguist who speaks 5 languages, she is actively involved with many organizations such as the Student Leadership Council, World Youth Alliance, the United Nations Agents of Change, the Human Rights Committee, The Student Achievement in Research and Scholarships and the Student Advisory Committee for Foreign Discrimination. Clementine was also selected to be on a panel of the Africana Studies at the Stander Symposium and a panel on International Discrimination. Clementine was able to work as a Campaign Fellow for the United WayShe and intern at the New York State Attorney General's Office. While still in college. After college, Clementine and her husband Chris, who she met in a refugee settlement in Kenya were married. They became proud parents of a son in 2011. As a full-time mother and a full-time employee in Healthcare sales, Clementine decided to also get her Masters Degree. She accomplished this in one year and graduate with a 3.9 GPA with a Masters in Public Administration in HealthCare Administration and also earned a promotion at work for exceeding her sales goals by 160% the same year! She can be seen speaking at many conferences and groups on topics of Self-esteem, Resilience, Working Together, Bullying and Transforming Pain into Happiness Read articles by Clementine Bihiga
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Melania Trump, What is Your Truth?
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"God's Not Dead" Review - Written by Tim Hellman
'GOD'S NOT DEAD': Zero Stars (Out of Five)
Christian propaganda movie about an extremely religious college student who takes on the challenge of debating his atheist philosophy professor, whether God exists or not, in front of his class. The film was directed by Harold Cronk and written by Cary Solomon, Chuck Konzelman and Hunter Dennis. It stars Kevin Sorbo (of TV's 'HERCULES' fame), Shane Harper, David A. R. White, Trisha LaFache, Cory Oliver, Hadeel Sittu, Benjamin Alfred Onyango and Dean Cain (of TV's 'LOIS & CLARK' fame); it also features cameos by the Christian rock band Newsboys and Willie and Korie Robertson (of TV's 'DUCK DYNASTY' fame). The filmmakers only intent here is to convert non-Christians and they go about it in a pretty despicable way.
Josh Wheaton (Harper) is a Christian freshman, enrolling in a philosophy class taught by Professor Jeffrey Radisson (Sorbo). He soon learns that Radisson is an atheist, who doesn't want to waste time going over religion in his class, so he asks all of his students to sign a statement proclaiming that God is dead (in exchange for a passing grade, for that portion of the course). Josh refuses to do this, so Radisson challenges him to debate the topic with him (in front of the class) and allow the class to decide who has the winning argument. Josh feels his faith insists he accept the challenge. The movie also deals with several other characters, in side plots, dealing with their own religious struggles.
Despite the amateur filmmaking, bad acting, ludicrous scenarios and lack of character depth, this film represents everything non-Christians despise about Christians. It's extremely bigoted in it's portrayal of atheists and just about anyone else, that's not a Christian. Atheists are shown as hateful and vengeful people; and followers of other (non-Christian) faiths are displayed as misguided individuals. The Christians in this movie are also shown as pretty self righteous individuals, that care more about being right than doing what's right. The message here seems to be solely that you have to accept Christ as your savior and not actually follow what he teaches. I grew up a Catholic and I'm still an extremely spiritual person; I also know a lot of Catholics and other Christians. This movie gets everything wrong.
Labels: God's Not Dead, Reviews, Roadside Attractions
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Welcome to the 516th Edition of my series. Today starts the annual contest of the Madness where a group of people have a contest to watch Halloween oriented films. I have been doing this from the beginning which I believe is eight years now. It is always an enjoyable time where while I have never won, I still get referred to as "The King of the Loophole" for going after what they call Wild Cards which are names in the industry that do not have to be horror and I exploit them for what they are worth while still watching other Halloween oriented films. Last week in football, I saw my real team of the 49ers fall to the Cardinals and hope this was a wake up call while getting back to the Niners from the first week. That being said, I finally got a win with my fantasy team on my CBS league and hope that is the start of my winning ways but we will just have to see. For right now, I will just get the movie recommendations out there.
Godzilla (2014): I start the week out with this creature feature. In this version, a nuclear plant in Janjira is destroyed killing many including supervisor Joe Brody's, played by Bryan Cranston, wife Sandra, played by Juliette Binoche. Years later, Joe's son Ford, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, must go to Japan to help his estranged father uncover the truth. They discover that a couple very destructive creatures are on the loose and that the only hope may be Godzilla. The King of the Monsters battles them but also has a lot of humans leery of Godzilla. Elizabeth Olsen co-stars as Joe's wife after being twins in THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON. Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn, and many others co-star in this action film. This was a pretty good looking Godzilla and they had pretty decent human characters which these films can lack at times. This was a pretty fun watch in my opinion.
Collateral (2004): Michael Mann directed this film. Jamie Foxx stars as L.A. cab driver Max who has a lot of dreams but has called his job temporary for 12 years. His life changes when he picks up Vincent, played by Tom Cruise in one of his best performances, who turns out to be a hitman and forces Max to help him in his jobs like with pick ups and such. Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Bruce McGill, Debi Mazar, Javier Bardem, Jason Statham, and many others have parts in this film. This is a very suspenseful films with great performances from the leads into a really good climax.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings (2001): This is the first of Peter Jackson's adaptation of the novels from J.R.R. Tolkien. An ancient and evil ring has been found in which the noble wizard Gandalf discovers it is one of the three rings of the dark lord Sauron. A hobbit of the shire named Frodo, played by Elijah Wood, is given the ring and is to make a journey to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it. Joining him in his epic journey are humans Aragorn, played by Viggo Mortensen, and Boromir, played by Sean Bean, an elf named Legolas, a dwarf named Gimli, played by John Rhys-Davies, and Frodo's hobbit friends Samwise, played by Sean Astin, Pippin, played by Billy Boyd, and Merry, played by Dominic Monaghan. Andy Serkis provides the voice of Gollum who is a character that would become very significant in the ones after this. Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Liv Tyler, Hugo Weaving, and many others co-star in this installment of the series. For those that like Tolkien and the fantasy genre, Peter Jackson put a lot of attention and effort to this film.
La Jetee (1962): This is my short film for the week which was written and directed by Chris Marker. This deals with time travel during the aftermath of World War 3. This is a rather beautiful story told in stills and photos along with narration. Terry Gilliam has cited this one as an inspiration for his movie 12 MONKEYS. This is about 30 minutes. It is hard for me to really go in-depth but was a very innovative sci-fi film. This was released on the Criterion Collection and is worth a look.
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936): This is an adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel of the same name. Roland Young stars as George McWhirter Fotheringay who is the common man but discovers that everything he says can come true. He starts out using it for got but gets carried away. Ralph Richardson and George Sanders co-star in this film. This is a pretty decent sci-fi film of more unknown Wells.
World Without End (1956): Edward Bernds directed and wrote this sci-fi movie. A group of astronauts accidentally enter a time warp where they end up in 26th Century Earth. They run into some mutant like people and find a group of humans who live underground to stay safe from the mutants. When getting there, no one really knows what to think of them. They try to get them to band together and build a different world while trying to get back into their own time period. Hugh Marlowe and Rod Taylor star in this b-movie. There are large spiders, mutants, girls in short skirts, not a bad little outing. Kind of a cross between PLANET OF THE APES and THE TIME MACHINE. I think you will understand my reference when watching it.
Paranorman (2012): Chris Butler and Sam Fell co-directed and wrote this animated film. Norman, voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee, is a boy who can speak to the dead and no one will believe him. His eccentric uncle informs him of an annual ritual he must take up to save the town from a centuries old curse. When agreeing to cooperate, things do not go as planned which unleashes a witch and the dead. Now, he must stop things from getting worse while learning the truth behind the curse. Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Bernard Hill, Jeff Garlin, Tempestt Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, and many ohters co-star in this film. This is a good one for the family to watch during the holidays and is good for the misfit kids out there that are different and misunderstood. The animation in this movie is also very well done.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964): Stanley Kubrick directed this satire to nuclear war based on the novel RED ALERT by Peter George. Sterling Hayden stars as General Jack D. Ripper whose actions lead to potential nuclear holocaust. Peter Sellers stars as three characters being General Mandrake, President Muffey, and the title character. Keenan Wynn, George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, James Earl Jones, and many others co-star in this well-done comedy. There are many funny lines and funny moments that include having to owe coke, not fighting in a war room, and Slim Pickens embracing his redneck ways. Sellers plays each part very well especially Strangelove. This is a comedy which still holds up today.
Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941): This is my second animated film for the week which is a rare featured film from Dave Fleischer. This is about a world of bugs trying to live in human society. Their town of Buggsville is in danger when the populace learns that a giant skyscraper is to be built over they tiny town. The grasshopper Hoppity searches for a new place for his group to live and for a couple of the humans that he likes. This is a pretty fun movie but at the same time beneath the surface has some rather dark undertones. It is still one that the family can enjoy. I had not heard of this now so I hope to help it get on the radar. Classic animation buffs will really like this one.
The Skin I Live In (2011): I end with this Spanish film from Pedro Almodovar. Antonio Banderas stars as plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard who becomes obsessed with trying to synthesize the perfect skin after his wife dies in a car accident. He has a guinea pig in Vera Cruz, played by Elena Anaya who is essentially a prisoner in his home. He gets closer but people in the medical community begin to question what he is doing in his home. His past also is coming back to haunt him. This is a pretty good psychological horror film. Banderas possibly puts on his best performance as the surgeon.
Well, that is it for this week, tell me what you like and dislike and stay tuned for next week which so far includes Jennifer Lawrence, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Peter Lorre, Christopher Lee, Joan Crawford, and many others.
Labels: Columns, Shaun Berk's 10 Movie Recommendations
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Millbrae, Stranorlar, Co. Donegal, Ireland
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Peadar & Sadie with their children and grandchildren celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary
Peadar McGranaghan Finn Valley Centre Community Hero December 2016
Peadar McGranaghan originally from Keelogs, Ballindrait, Castlefinn has been involved in community for many years both in his local area of Castlefinn and as a stalwart member of the Finn Valley Athletics Club. Married to Sadie, the couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last year and were 51 years married on the 23rd of November 2016.
They set up their own home in Castlefinn where they reared their family of six, two girls, Catriona and Sinead and four boys, Peadar, Dermot, Hugh and Kevin. They are also the very proud grandparents of fourteen grandchildren.
Peadar’s first involvement in community was as a member of the local show jumping fraternity where he was involved in training horses and taking part in events over the years. Through this interest in horses he eventually began working for the Baird family in Ard Na Glass who had horses which he tended to. He formed many friendships throughout these years with local horse owners and the Anderson family from Ard Na Glass as still involved in the training and racing of horses.
Fitness was a priority to Peadar and he developed this in many ways throughout his lifetime. He joined the FCA and remained a member for six years taking part in training frills, camps and field days. As a youngster Peadar had been involved in local athletics taking part in all local sporting activities, GAA and soccer so it was a natural progression that this enthusiasm continued into adulthood. He was involved in the early days in the development of the local GAA and soccer clubs in Castlefinn using the site where the C.P.I. now stands as a base for a pitch and changing rooms prior to these clubs acquiring their own venues. Eventually the money became available through cross border and government funding for the CPI Centre and Peadar was involved in the early days of this committee that secured these funds.
Peadar with daughter Catriona who is current 1500m indoor champion
Having been involved in athletics at a young age he became further involved as a supportive parent through his children who had developed the same love of athletics from him. In 1974 he joined what was the relatively new Finn Valley Athletics Club. Not being one to shirk responsibility Peadar was happy to provide the conduit which enabled the Finn Valley AC to broaden its base to Castlefinn and the greater Finn Valley area. As his children came of age they all eventually joined as members and the love of athletics became firmly established in the second generation of the Mc Granaghan family.
Being a man who was always willing to roll up the sleeves, Peadar became involved in the day to day running of the committee eventually completing coaching training and continuing from there as a juvenile coach. Coaching for events such as the Donegal Championships, Ulster’s and All Ireland’s soon followed resulting in Peadar achieving great success with his teams.
Both Peadar and Patsy McGonagle made a formidable team in the world of athletics training and it was no surprise that the FVAC were strong at national level in long distance and cross country in the early days, holding the coveted spot of Top Team & Club in Ulster for many years. Peadar coached mainly middle distance and cross country and as the club developed and acquired a base, the discipline of track & field was enhanced with the development of the track at FVAC, so he turned his hand to track & field when required. Prior to the development of the Finn Valley Club in Stranorlar, the training was completed at the local Sean McCumhaills GAA Club and Peadar is quick to give credit to the club for the use of its location for training and indeed to the many local farmers who gave the use of their fields for cross country.
When Finn Valley AC purchased an old factory in 1978, Peadar got involved in fundraising for the club and continued with it until the club were in a position to generate their own income. In 1993 Peadar was employed at the Finn Valley Centre as a Supervisor of a FAS Community Employment Scheme which led to him becoming the Manager of the Pobal Community Service Programme where he remained up to his retirement in October 2004. As supervisor and manager, he overseen the development of the Finn Valley Centre into a community based enterprise with the help of Neil Martin and Rosaleen McGonagle.
He has and continues to coach alongside Patsy Mc Gonagle to the present day but also pays tribute to the many other people who were the forerunners in the development of athletics in the county particularly during the early 70’s and eighties, namely, Hugh McClafferty who brought people all the way from Downings to train with a club that had little or no facilities at the time. Jack Foley and Patsy McGinley of Castlefinn, Manus O’Donnell and the late Hughie Gallen R.I.P. who officiated at sports events. Peadar took over Hughie’s role manning the Long Jump after his untimely death in 1980 at the young age of 48. These early athletics mavericks blazed the trail for athletics in Donegal, coaching many of today’s current athletics coaches as youths.
Peadar, alongside Patsy trained and travelled with senior teams to International competitions and they had great success with the Senior Ladies Team winning 10 All Ireland National Championships from 1993 to 2004, eight of which were won in a row. The team consisted of the following athletes over this period; Kay Byrne, Catriona McGranaghan, Belinda McArdle, Dawn Hargan, Ita Boyle, Rosaleen Campbell, Rosemary Bogle, Noeleen Porter, Clodagh McCool, Margaret Synnott, Helena Crossan. He also travelled to Cassino in Italy, Gateshead in England, Scotland and Dover in the South of England on many occasions.
Working mainly with juvenile athletes he took on the young team of Ian Ward, Ryan McDaid, Shane Bonner RIP, Pauric McLaughlin, Aidan Connolly and Darren McGlinchey when they were just 10 years old winning nine All Ireland middle distance juvenile competitions in a row.
National Champions 2011
He has also had many athletes who have achieved excellent results on an individual basis, in particular; Aaron McGlynn who won 13 All Ireland first places and two as team leader with his team members Jimmy Keegan, Luke Gavigan, Shane McMonagle, Samuel McClintock and Adam McGranaghan. Aaron also qualified for the youth Olympics held in Russia, Denver Kelly who won national track & field in 800 and 1500 and Mark Bonner won the national 1500.
To this day Peadar still travels nationally to athletics events and competitions with juvenile teams that he trains and he is constantly developing up and coming juvenile teams.
Hobbies and Charity Fundraising
Peadar with his Massseey Fergusons
Having grown up on a farm Peadar was always around tractors, and not having the luxury of a mechanic on hand when required, he learned to fix the family tractor. He has carried this skill through to the present day and he now has a great interest in vintage tractors which he buys, sources parts for and restores alongside his son Hugh. He owns three show tractors, two Massey Ferguson 35’s and one Massey Ferguson 148 Massey Fergusons which are now collectors’ items. He puts these tractors to good use in charity tractor runs and fundraisers for charity and takes part every year in the Crossroads Vintage Shows as well as in Burt and St. Joseph’s Hospital, Raphoe Show and Anthony Gallinagh’s tractor run in Stranorlar. Usually he travels to about six shows per year as well as one that is run to support the Cancer Bus to Galway. As well as taking part in charity tractor runs he also supports many other charities including Concern, Red Cross, River Blindness, Crumlin, Sightsavers and World Vision.
The McGranaghan Family
Being and active man Peadar enjoys modern and old time dancing which he and Sadie regularly attend. They can be seen in McBrides on a weekly
basis and occasionally they will travel to Kesh, Garvagh, Aghyarayn, Finn Valley, Lifford and Cranford for dances. In recent times Sadie organised a dance and coffee morning to support the hospice who cared for their daughter in law, Lisa Mc Granaghan R.I.P. who passed away in March 2015. Together they raised €3,600 between both events.
You wouldn’t need to be a rocket scientist to guess that Peadar’s motto in life is to do the best for everyone you meet while keeping going and active. His philosophy is “You’ll do nothing for anyone if you’re not active yourself”. At 77 years and as busy as Peadar is, he is certainly living that motto to the full.
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Much Ado About Matcha
Grace Lim
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It may surprise you to know that matcha, or green tea in powdered form, is actually a dying tradition in the country that it originated from. This was revealed to me by Syun Hattori and Izzat Iskandar of Niko Neko Matcha.
Hattori, who is half Malaysian, grew up in Ichionomiya, a suburb near Nagoya, before finishing his secondary school education in Malaysia. He was exposed to matcha traditions from a young age as both his mother and grandfather conducted tea ceremonies on special occasions.
“Serving matcha was a way for the host to show his or her appreciation to the guests. However, it is not practised that much anymore in Japan because people mostly drink green tea out of a teabag, which is more convenient,” Hattori explains.
As a half-Japanese living in Malaysia, Hattori was constantly finding ways to introduce this slice of Japanese culture here. He then convinced Izzat, a friend from college in the US, to join him on his journey to introduce matcha.
Opened in 2015, Niko Neko’s biggest challenge was overcoming the relatively alien concept of matcha here.
Hattori explains that the tea comes from the Camellia Sinensis plant, which is also the source of the green tea leaves in teabags.
Hattori (left) and Izzat
The tea is differentiated according to the level of fermentation. Black tea is fermented at 50% - 80%, and white tea at 1% - 5%. Green tea, on the other hand, is not fermented at all. Instead, the leaves are air-steamed to maintain the natural green colour.
“Green tea is further separated into two categories, shaded and non-shaded,” elaborates Hattori. “The non-shaded variety is further divided into different types such as sencha, which is the one used in teabags with no additional processes. There are also genmaicha, which is sencha with roasted brown rice, and hojicha, which is essentially roasted sencha.
“For shaded tea, the entire tea farm is shaded with a bamboo tarp just before harvest. The roots of the plant contain an amino acid called L-theanine that converts into catechins when exposed to sunlight. Catechins are responsible for the astringent, bitter taste in tea, whereas L-theanine gives off a sweet umami taste. When you cover the plant, it conserves more L-theanine in the leaves, maintaining more of the umami flavour.”
He adds that the shaded leaf variety also has many types, the most prominent being kabusecha, which is shaded for less than 20 days before harvest, and gyokuro, which is hidden from the sun for more than 20 days before harvest. The latter is considered to be the highest quality of green tea in Japan. In between is matcha, which is shaded for exactly 20 days before harvest.
Matcha is highly valued due to its unique processing methods. Made from the meat of the leaf minus the veins, stalk and stems, this plump part of the leaf is ground into powder. It is the only green tea in powdered form.
Niko Neko gets its matcha from family-owned farms in Kyoto. “This is how we ensure quality. Harvesting is done in the old way, with each leaf picked by hand. To crush the leaves into powder, we also stick to the traditional method with a grinding stone,” says Izzat.
At the moment, Niko Neko offers three types of matcha: Yuri, Kiku and Ren. Yuri has a more intense flavour with a prominent aftertaste, which is good for making cakes and matcha latte.
Kiku is well-suited for the health conscious, as it is balanced in terms of its L-theanine and catechin content. The former is rich in antioxidants while the latter reduces cholesterol.
Meanwhile, Ren possesses a rich umami flavour and contains almost zero catechins. Hattori points out that this is favoured by matcha enthusiasts for its superior quality and taste.
The business partners have since been supplying matcha to various cafes in town such as Piu Piu Piu, Rinse KL Café and Strangers at 47.
“We portray Niko Neko as a lifestyle brand. We cannot just take something in a traditional form and ‘force’ people to accept it so what we’re trying to do is collaborate with bakers and cafés. We also conduct educational workshops,” Hattori says.
This article first appeared in Focus Malaysia Issue 276.
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Art and Luxury join forces at the Luxury Law Summit 2017
15 May 2017 at 13:19 BST
Luxury and art have long been bedfellows. As 200 luxury leaders arrive in London for the annual Luxury Law Summit, artist Mark Dickens discusses doing a collaboration deal with Formula One maestro Bernie Ecclestone.
Luxury houses have joined forces with artists over the years with many of the top companies collaborating with artists - Louis Vuitton has recently linked up with US artist Jeff Koons on a range of handbags. Artist Mark Dickens worked with Bernie Ecclestone to produce a major Formula One collaboration of works spanning the globe. He discusses how the deal came about as well as the legal aspects of putting together the collaboration. Mr Dickens will join artist Philipp Humm, the former European CEO of Vodafone who is using his business acumen to carve out a career as an artist. They will be joined by Trino Verkade, who started out with the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen and is now a trustee at his foundation Sarabande. The event will be held at the Luxury Law Summit in London.
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Corporate counsel »
A capital idea as associate general counsel takes data privacy skills to outside counsel, while Skyscanner clo takes time to consider next move.
Eulonda Skyles, associate general counsel for privacy, data security at Capital One is to join Baker Hostetler in its Washington office. Baker Hostetler said in the announcement of her hire that its data privacy and protection team has worked on nearly 25 percent of data breaches reported in the past year. Ms Skyles joined Capital One in 2014 and served as associate general counsel for IP litigation before moving to her in-house privacy and data security law role at the company. Earlier in her career, she served as litigation counsel at Yahoo!
The chief legal officer of travel metasearch engine Skyscanner, Carolyn Jameson, is stepping down after nearly six years in the top job. Ms Jameson will remain at the Scotland-based company in an advisory role until the end of April, and plans to take some time out before deciding her next move.
New Zealand’s Vista Group has appointed Kelvin Preston as its general counsel and company secretary. Mr Preston joins the Vista Group, which provides film industry technology solutions globally, from specialist corporate law firm Harmos Horton Lusk.
UK infrastructure group Balfour Beatty has hired a new general counsel ahead of the upcoming retirement of incumbent David Mercer. Jonathan Lagan joins from UK supermarket chain Tesco, where he was legal director of finance, corporate and technology. Mr Mercer has been general counsel since mid-2015, with the role expanded to include company secretary in April 2016.
Tesco is replacing Mr Lagan with property legal director Faye Goss, who will take on Lagan’s corporate team while also running the supermarket’s relationships with its global roster of law firms.
Voyager Therapeutics, a clinical-stage gene therapy company has announced the appointment of Robert Hesslein as general counsel. Mr Hesslein’s experience includes more than 25 years as an in-house attorney leading and building legal organizations within the biotechnology industry. He joins Voyager from Foundation Medicine, where he served as senior vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer.
FMC Corporation has appointed Michael F Reilly as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary, effective April 1, 2019. He will assume the role when Andrea E Utecht, executive vice president, general counsel and secretary, retires on March 31, 2019. Mr Reilly joined FMC in 2002 as group counsel for the Agricultural Solutions business with responsibility for all business legal affairs. Ms Utecht will retire at the end of March after nearly 18 years with FMC and a career spanning more than 40 years in corporate law.
UK National Grid has hired former Gowling WLG head of energy Derek Goodban as UK general counsel, replacing Rachael Davidson. Mr Goodban joins the FTSE 100 electricity and gas utility company after almost two decades at Gowlings. Ms Davidson left the position last summer to become general counsel at subsidiary company National Grid Ventures.
Daniel Nordby has rejoined law firm Shutts & Bowen as a partner after spending almost two years as general counsel to former governor of Florida Rick Scott. As general counsel, he was the chief legal advisor to governor Scott and advised on the appointment of more than 100 judges to Florida’s trial and appellate courts.
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Fantastic Parasuicides (Movie)
Hanging Tough: Soo-yeong Park Gina had fall asleep in a library and missed her exam. She jumped from the roof top of her school, but found herself totally fine. And there are three other people: Min-ho, who wants to bring peace to the world with his handmade bomb; a school nurse, who feels love towards Gina; and finally, a chief teacher suffers fro… more Hanging Tough: Soo-yeong Park Gina had fall asleep in a library and missed her exam. She jumped from the roof top of her school, but found herself totally fine. And there are three other people: Min-ho, who wants to bring peace to the world with his handmade bomb; a school nurse, who feels love towards Gina; and finally, a chief teacher suffers from the delusion that somebody is trying to kill him. But there is one thing that they have in common: they are trying to kill themselves. Everything happening at school is so bizarre and confusing to Gina. Whether or not she wants, she gets into unexpected and gruesome fights with them. Can she save all of them and the world in the end? Fly Away, Chicken!: Chang-ho Jo There is a helpless man who has failed as a cop and decided to take his life by himself. He heads for a secluded beach and witness some guys assaulted a woman sexually one night. He’s been ignoring the incident in the thought that there is no point to eliminate one evil person. Next morning, when aiming a gun to his head he sees the two guys from last night are hanging out with the dead woman’s dress on the beach. There are only three bullets in his gun. He uses two for killing those guys and is about to use the final one for himself. Then suddenly, another guy lying under the sand is caught by his eyes. He starts to chase the guy. Happy Birthday: Seong-ho Kim It is another birthday to a 70-year-old solitude old man today. He expects someone to celebrate his birthday but nobody knows it’s his birthday. Desperately, he decides to throw himself to a railroad to kill himself. At the moment, he finds a young man with cash bag who tries to kill himself, too. He used to work for a funeral service as a car driver and ran away with the cash bag. However, he realizes there is no place to escape, and makes up his mind to suicide. Since gangsters are running after him to get the bag back, old man and young man run away to the container ship dock at Incheon. Changing the clothes of each other, the young man enters the coffin of his funeral car and the old man locks the coffin in. The old man dives into the ocean and disappears. less
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You Are Here: Maps & Charts > New York > Plan of New York Harbour and part of North River in 1776.
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Plan of New York Harbour and part of North River in 1776.
This previously unpublished manuscript plan provided the basis for a later, historic, Des Barres map of the Operations of His Majesty's Fleet and Army in New York in 1776.
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This never seen before manuscript plan was drawn in 1776, just after the British had taken Manhattan and following the ensuing skirmishes between the British and the Americans from August through to November of that year. This 'rough' plan is especially important because it is unquestionably the source from which J. F. W. Des Barres published his historic 'A Sketch of the Operations of His Majesty's Fleet and Army Under the Command of Vice Admiral the Rt. Hble. Lord Viscount Howe and Gen./Sr.Wm. Howe, K.B. in 1776.' in London Jan 17, 1777.
The plan presented here gives, through its 'References', the story of events which eventually saw George Washington and his beleaguered army escape the clutches of a much superior British force.
Des Barres 'Sketch' was not the only plan or map produced around this time depicting the extraordinary events which saw George Washington out-numbered and increasingly desperate to keep the resistance alive. Amongst those who contributed to feed the thirst of both governments and the news-hungry British public for news and accounts depicting events in this theatre or war, were: Samuel Holland, George Sproule, J. F. W. Des Barres, John Bowles, William Faden, Charles Blascowitz & Claude Joseph Sauthier (see Heritage Charts A204) and Montresor.
The Des Barres map which derived directly from this 'rough', likewise covers the area from Sandy Hook to Haverstraw, and Jamaica Bay to the western New Jersey. The Des Barres 'Sketch', in typical style, goes beyond the core information provided by this succinct plan. Des Barres depicts in detail the geographical setting for the war as it took place in this region in great topographical detail. He shows troop positions and strengths, fortifications and battle sites, topography of roads, towns, houses; shoals, sand-banks, soundings in the bay and on the rivers and land relief. On Des Barres edition Captain "Larry" Sneden house is marked at Snedens Landing on the western bank of the Hudson River. Note that this 'rough' only indicates 'Sneedings Bluff'.
As with this plan, the published Des Barres 'Sketch' includes an inset of References, which tells the story of all of the major places and events from the initial invasion up to and including the battle at Fort Washington. A comparison of the two 'References'; that of this plan and that of Des Barres confirms, for the first time, the link between the two documents and the historic significance of this 'rough' plan. For a full list of the References, and other comparative material please visit the Heritage Charts 'Logbook'.
A close examination of this 'rough' plan raises one question above all others: Who is responsible for the work? Whoever it was, if Des Barres had exclusive access to such a contemporary document, was likely to be one of the trusted and talented team of surveyors and hydrographers working in the area at the time. The most likely candidate for this work would be Lieutenant John Hunter. Hunter is known to have been aboard Vice Admiral Richard Howe's flagship MHS Eagle in New York harbour in 1776. Whoever it was, it was someone with training as there are tantalizing clues included in the plan which uses (by then) standardized symbols for sand-banks and even land relief, despite the rather rushed nature of the work. The bold lettering on the chart such as 'HUDSON OR NORTH RIVER', along with a few other examples follows a recognizable format. Other script on the page varies greatly in style but that is not, especially in the case of such surveys produced under fire. Finally, it worth noting that the chart was transmitted back to England for dissemination, and the eyes of Des Barres, by Captain (later Admiral) Hyde Parker, commander of HMS Phoenix. Once again a Naval connection to be considered.
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THE ASSOCIATION OF HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
AHSNH
Call for 2018 Award Nominations
May 24, 2018 Judith Solberg
The Association of Historical Societies of New Hampshire is pleased to welcome nominations for its Local History Awards. The awards recognize outstanding work of organizations and individuals seeking to preserve, interpret, and/or promote appreciation and understanding of an aspect of New Hampshire history. The Association’s mission is to encourage and assist in the study, preservation, and understanding of New Hampshire’s history.
For details on the Association’s award guidelines and nomination and submission process, please download the Association’s 2018 announcement and Nomination Form.
Any individual, group, or organization that has furthered the preservation, interpretation and/or promotion of appreciation and understanding of an aspect of New Hampshire history is eligible to be nominated for an Association award. The Association encourages historical societies, museums, and private individuals to nominate themselves or others.
The Awards Selection Committee of the Association will consider the following:
Significance or impact of undertaking on a community, region or the state of New Hampshire
Use of professional practice, volunteer engagement, and degree of support
Projects (or people) that act as a model for others seeking to preserve and interpret local history (excluding building preservation projects)
Awards may be given in any or all of the four categories in a given year. The Association reserves the right to move a nomination into another category if the supporting materials so warrant. All decisions of the Selection Committee are final.
The Association will award excellence in the following categories:
Research/Documentation—including archival work and genealogy.
Collections Management—including acquisitions, stewardship and/or preservation. The Association does not award projects involving building restoration.
Public Education/Public Programs—including publications and school programs
Lifetime Achievement— the Selection Committee will also consider applications for lifetime achievement to be given to an individual who has displayed outstanding volunteer commitment and contributed to state or local history in a substantial way that may be a model for others.
Deadline & Submission Info
Applications are due October 6, 2018. Complete this application and email a pdf version along with necessary attachments to dired@hsccnh.org, or complete and mail five (5) copies of this form and five (5) copies of supporting materials to: Association of Historical Societies of New Hampshire, Awards Committee, 75 South Main Street, Unit 7, PMB 101, Concord, NH 03301. Nominations must be postmarked October 6, 2018.
Questions? Contact Jennifer Carroll, dired@hsccnh.org or 603-352-1895.
Awards will be announced at the Association’s annual meeting on October 21, 2017.
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From one family to another
She just wanted to say thank you.
The Head Lake Grill owner and operator Diana Gomes provided a luncheon to the Haliburton Highlands Secondary School senior boys’ basketball team for being a second family to her and her son, Travis Carroll, who played for the team since Grade 10.
“Thank you for being good kids and doing your thing and being kids,” she said.
With only eight players, the team was representative of the little engine that could.
She explains they’re her “boys.”
“I’m like their surrogate mother and the crazy aunt they never had,” she said.
Gomes said her business just marked four years, closely mirroring the time her son has been with the team.
“When you do well you should be rewarded,” she said, referring to the Hawks and its Kawartha High School League title.
Travis is her only son and said his teammates are like the brothers he never had, giving him an opportunity to grow as a person and be part of a team.
“This really brought him out ... with dealing with people and knowing how to act and speak,” she said. “They’re life skills. Things you need on a day-to-day basis as you get older and you grow up, right?”
The biggest change happened, she said, last year. He became more committed to the team and the effort, feeling a responsibility to all of its members. He also worked out in the summer leading up to this season.
Although head coach Dave Waito was not able to attend, the team’s other coaches Gord Cochrane and Mike Rieger shared the meal with the team and handed out gifts specific to each player.
Carroll was handed a block of wood with a brief description of his last game.
It referred to his last game, which relates to his solid post move in the key and for his perfect shooting from the free throw line – four shots made from four shot attempts.
Like the shot he took to join the team more than four years ago, it was a solid one for his foundation to becoming the man he has become.
This was a stellar year that may not be duplicated any time soon by another Hawks basketball team.
They were simply dominant in the Kawartha High School Basketball League, finishing 7-1. Cochrane even bought a cake for the luncheon to recognize the achievement.
It was the team’s bond that was the foundation for success built not from just one great season, but several years of work that culminated in an unforgettable year.
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International Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
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The States Parties to This Convention,
Considering that the Charter of the United Nations is based on the principles of the dignity and equality inherent in all human beings, and that all Member States have pledged themselves to take joint and separate action, in co-operation with the Organization, for the achievement of one of the purposes of the United Nations which is to promote and encourage universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion,
Considering that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out therein, without distinction of any kind, in particular as to race, colour or national origin,
Considering that all human beings are equal before the law and are entitled to equal protection of the law against any discrimination and against any incitement to discrimination,
Considering that the United Nations has condemned colonialism and all practices of segregation and discrimination associated therewith, in whatever form and wherever they exist, and that the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples of 14 December 1960 (General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV)) has affirmed and solemnly proclaimed the necessity of bringing them to a speedy and unconditional end,
Considering that the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of 20 November 1963 (General Assembly resolution 1904 (XVIII)) solemnly affirms the necessity of speedily eliminating racial discrimination throughout the world in all its forms and manifestations and of securing understanding of and respect for the dignity of the human person,
Convinced that any doctrine of superiority based on racial differentiation is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous, and that there is no justification for racial discrimination, in theory or in practice, anywhere,
Reaffirming that discrimination between human beings on the grounds of race, colour or ethnic origin is an obstacle to friendly and peaceful relations among nations and is capable of disturbing peace and security among peoples and the harmony of persons living side by side even within one and the same State,
Convinced that the existence of racial barriers is repugnant to the ideals of any human society,
Alarmed by manifestations of racial discrimination still in evidence in some areas of the world and by governmental policies based on racial superiority or hatred, such as policies of apartheid, segregation or separation,
Resolved to adopt all necessary measures for speedily eliminating racial discrimination in all its forms and manifestations, and to prevent and combat racist doctrines and practices in order to promote understanding between races and to build an international community free from all forms of racial segregation and racial discrimination,
Bearing in mind the Convention concerning Discrimination in respect of Employment and Occupation adopted by the International Labour Organisation in 1958, and the Convention against Discrimination in Education adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1960,
Desiring to implement the principles embodied in the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Al l Forms of Racial Discrimination and to secure the earliest adoption of practical measures to that end,
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City/State: Midland, Texas
High School: Lee
· 2000 Nebraska Football Hall of Fame<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
· 1989 NCAA Today’s Top Six Award
· 1989 First-Team All-American (AFCA/Kodak, Walter Camp)
· 1989 GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-American
· 1989 Lombardi Award Semifinalist
· 1989 First-Team All-Big 8
· 1988 First-Team All-American (AP, Coaches)
· 1987 GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-District VII
· 1987 Second-Team All-Big 8
· Two-time Lee Jeans Academic All-Big 8
Continuing the long tradition of outstanding centers at the University of Nebraska, Jake Young was named a first-team All-American by AFCA/Kodak and by the Walter Camp Foundation to become the third Husker center in the Tom Osborne era to be a two-time All-American, joining Rik Bonness (1974-75) and Dave Rimington (1981-82). At the NCAA convention in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Dallas in January, both he and two time Husker volleyball All-American Virginia Stahr will receive the Today’s Top Six Award, the organization’s top award for student-athletes. A third Husker athlete, 1989 NCAA women’s outdoor triple jump champion Renita Robison (wife of starting inside linebacker Pay Tyrance) was one of six winter-spring sport finalists for the award, giving Nebraska three of the 12 finalists. Young joined quarterback Gerry Gdowski as a GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-American. A three-year starter, Young and All-America tackle Doug Glaser were the only returning starters from last year’s offensive line, and led a unit the powered Nebraska to its sixth NCAA rushing title of the 1980s at 375.3 yards per game. Young also helped Nebraska lead the Big 8 and rank second national in coring offense at 44.7 points per game, while leading the conference and ranking third in the NCAA in total offense at 513.3 yard per game. He was on of 12 Lombardi Award semifinalists, a two-time All-Big 8 selection, a two-time Lee Jeans Academic All-Big 8 performer, and a two-time GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-District VII pick.
Young became the ninth Nebraska center to earn All-America honors, receiving the accolades from both the Associated Press and the conference coaches. Young also received Lee Jeans Academic All-Conference honors and became a two-time CoSIDA/GTE Academic All-District selection (he had a 3.380 grad-point average in finance). He anchored an offensive line which powered Nebraska to its fifth NCAA rushing crown of the 1980s at 382.3 yards per game, and helped I-back Ken Clark to the third-best season ever for a Husker runner at 1,487 yards. Young and his linemates helped Nebraska rank fifth nationally in scoring offense (39.5 points per game) and seventh in total offense (477.9 yards per game). He suffered a knee strain in practice three days before the season opener, and was forced to miss the Aug. 27 Kickoff Classic vs. Texas A&M. He played, but did not start, the following week vs. Utah State, then started every game after that.
Sophomore (1987)
Young moved to center from guard in the spring, but missed nearly all four weeks of spring practice because of a broken leg. He came back full strength in the fall, though, and became the first true sophomore to start on the offensive line in 14 years since Rik Bonness in 1973, and earned second-team All-Big 8 honors from both wire services, as well as the first of his GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-District honors. He was the junior member of an offensive line that helped Nebraska rank second in the NCAA in total offense (489.0 yards per game), third in rushing (373.5) and third in scoring (38.5 points per game).
Recruited out of Robert E. Lee High School in Midland, Young began practicing with the varsity during his first week on campus in August, and played guard for both the varsity and freshmen teams. He saw enough playing time with the varsity to become the first true freshmen to earn a letter on the offensive line since freshmen eligibility was restored in 1972.
Before Nebraska (Midland Lee High School)
An all-state offensive guard for Coach Jack Tayrien, he helped lead his team to a 10-3 record and the quarterfinals of the Class 5A playoffs in 1985. Midland Lee, incidentally, is the same high school which produced 1979 Husker All-America tight end Junior Miller.
Finance major. The son of Jake and Barbara Young, he has a sister, Erin. Jake was born March 22, 1968, at El Paso, Texas.
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Blackhawks Announce 2009-10 Television Broadcast Schedule
In conjunction with official television broadcasting partners Comcast SportsNet and WGN-TV Channel 9, the Chicago Blackhawks announced today their 2009-10 regular-season television schedule, which covers 74 games, home and away. Veteran announcers Pat Foley and Eddie Olczyk will provide the coverage on each broadcast, which can be seen in HD. Click here for the full broadcast schedule.
The 2009-10 regular season marks the second time in team history all Blackhawks games, home and away, will be televised, which includes a National Hockey League high nine times on VERSUS. Chicago’s sixth consecutive year on Comcast SportsNet features 54 contests, beginning when the squad opens the regular-season against the Florida Panthers as part of NHL Premiere 2009 in Helsinki, Finland on Friday, October 2 at 11:30 A.M. (CT). That contest will also appear nationally on VERSUS.
Comcast SportsNet will also carry the Blackhawks’ North American season opener at Joe Louis Arena against the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday, October 8 at 6:30 P.M. (CT) and the club’s home opener at the United Center against the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday, October 10 at 7:30 P.M. (CT). “Blackhawks Pre-Game Live” will air prior to the majority of every game on Comcast SportsNet with “Blackhawks Post Game Live” immediately following each contest.
The Blackhawks second consecutive season on WGN-TV Channel 9 launches on Saturday, October 17 when the team battles the Dallas Stars at the United Center. Chicago makes 20 appearances on the station, which was also its home from 1961 to 1975.
In addition, Chicago will have the chance to make up to four more appearances on NBC’s “Game of the Week” in the second half of the season, once the league and network announce those contests as part of their flex scheduling agreement.
Every game in 2009-10 can be heard on the radio home of the Blackhawks, News/Talk 720 WGN Radio, with John Wiedeman and Troy Murray calling the action.
Comcast SportsNet officially launches its coverage when it carries the Blackhawks’ preseason opener at the United Center against the Washington Capitals on Saturday, September 19 at 7:30 P.M. Earlier that day, the Blackhawks will host their second annual “Blackhawks Training Camp Festival,” at the United Center from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. The event includes the opportunity to watch a live Blackhawks practice, a 5K walk/run and 10K inline skate named “The Mad Dash to Madison,” a three-on-three street hockey tournament, live music and more. For more information or to purchase tickets log on to chicagoblackhawks.com.
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March 21st, 2016 at 11:14 am
Power Sources Based on High Efficiency Thermopower Wave Devices
in: Big Problems,Breakthrough Thinking,Climate Change,Current Events,cutting edge,Ecological Products,Economy,Energy,Engineering,Environment,Future,Global Warming,Hot Issues,Ideas,Latest News,Science & Technology News
Engineers from MIT have developed an alternative system for generating electricity that harnesses heat and uses no metals or toxic materials. The batteries that power the devices of modern life, from smartphones and computers to electric cars, are mostly made of toxic materials such as lithium that can be difficult to dispose of and have limited global supplies.
The new approach is based on a discovery announced in 2010 by Michael Strano, the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor in Chemical Engineering at MIT, and his co-workers: A wire made from tiny cylinders of carbon known as carbon nanotubes can produce an electrical current when it is progressively heated from one end to the other, for example by coating it with a combustible material and then lighting one end to let it burn like a fuse.
That discovery represented a previously unknown phenomenon, but experiments at the time produced only a minuscule amount of current in a simple laboratory setup. Now, Strano and his team have increased the efficiency of the process more than a thousandfold and have produced devices that can put out power that is, pound for pound, in the same ballpark as what can be produced by today’s best batteries. The researchers caution, however, that it could take several years to develop the concept into a commercializable product.
The new results were published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, in a paper by Strano, doctoral students Sayalee Mahajan PhD ’15 and Albert Liu, and five others.
Catching the wave
Strano says “it’s actually remarkable that this [phenomenon] hasn’t been studied before.” Much of his team’s work on the project has focused on not just improving the efficiency of the process but also “developing the theory of how these things work.” And the latest experiments, he says, show good agreement between theory and experimental results, providing strong confirmation of the underlying mechanism.
Basically, the effect arises as a pulse of heat pushes electrons through the bundle of carbon nanotubes, carrying the electrons with it like a bunch of surfers riding a wave.
One key finding that helped to verify the theory is that sometimes the wave of heat produces a single voltage, but sometimes it produces two different voltage regions at the same time. “Our mathematical model can describe why that occurs,” Strano says, whereas alternative theories cannot account for this. According to the team’s theory, the thermopower wave “divides into two different components,” which sometimes reinforce one another and sometimes counter each other.
The improvements in efficiency, he says, “brings [the technology] from a laboratory curiosity to being within striking distance of other portable energy technologies,” such as lithium-ion batteries or fuel cells. In their latest version, the device is more than 1 percent efficient in converting heat energy to electrical energy, the team reports — which is “orders of magnitude more efficient than what’s been reported before.” In fact, the energy efficiency is about 10,000 times greater than that reported in the original discovery paper.
“It took lithium-ion technology 25 years to get where they are” in terms of efficiency, Strano points out, whereas this technology has had only about a fifth of that development time. And lithium is extremely flammable if the material ever gets exposed to the open air — unlike the fuel used in the new device, which is much safer and also a renewable resource.
While the initial experiments had used potentially explosive materials to generate the pulse of heat that drives the reaction, the new work uses a much more benign fuel: sucrose, otherwise known as ordinary table sugar. But the team believes that other combustion materials have the potential to generate even higher efficiencies. Unlike other technologies that are specific to a particular chemical formulation, the carbon nanotube-based power system works just on heat, so as better heat sources are developed they could simply be swapped into a system to improve its performance, Strano says.
Already, the device is powerful enough to show that it can power simple electronic devices such as an LED light. And unlike batteries that can gradually lose power if they are stored for long periods, the new system should have a virtually indefinite shelf life, Liu says. That could make it suitable for uses such as a deep-space probe that remains dormant for many years as it travels to a distant planet and then needs a quick burst of power to send back data when it reaches its destination.
In addition, the new system is very scalable for use in the increasingly tiny wearable devices that are emerging. Batteries and fuel cells have limitations that make it difficult to shrink them to tiny sizes, Mahajan says, whereas this system “can scale down to very small limits. The scale of this is unique.”
This work is “an important demonstration of increasing the energy and lifetime of thermopower wave-based systems,” says Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at RMIT University in Australia, who was not involved in this research. “I believe that we are still far from the upper limit that the thermopower wave devices can potentially reach,” he says. “However, this step makes the technology more attractive for real applications.”
He adds that with this technology, “We can obtain phenomenal bursts of power, which is not possible from batteries. For instance, the thermopower wave systems can be used for powering long-distance transmission units in micro- and nano-telecommunication hubs.”
The team also included Anton Cottrill, Yuichiro Kunai, David Bender, Javier Castillo Jr., and Stephen Gibbs. The work was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Office of Naval Research.
Image Credit / Article via scitechdaily.com
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Sweden is building a road that recharges electric buses that drive over it
in: Electric Vehicles,Green Friendly,Science & Technology News,Transportation
One of the biggest hassles for electric car owners is having to charge them. To get around the problem of needing to provide myriad electric charging stations, the Swedish transport administration is exploring the idea of having special roads which charge vehicles’ batteries as they drive over them.
To showcase the concept, the Smart Road Gotland consortium will be building an initial 1 mile stretch of road between the town of Visby and the airport on Gotland Island in Sweden. The road will be used to charge an electric truck and bus, using technology developed by the company Electreon, which will be carrying out construction. The majority of the $12.5 million project is funded by the Swedish government.
“The bus will be used for a shuttle for passengers traveling between the airport and town,” Noam Ilan, vice president of business development for Electreon, told Digital Trends. “It is exciting since it is the first time ever that a heavy truck will charge wirelessly from the road. Once we prove this works, it can bring the most elegant and cost-effective solution to the huge problem of emission from long-haul trucking.”
Ilan notes that the initial test will investigate whether or not the system is capable of transferring the required energy. It is also necessary to check that the road section can function (and, indeed, survive) in the harsh Swedish winters. “The best-case scenario is that, once all of this is proven, we will deploy the infrastructure in Sweden and other countries, making long-haul trucks electrification a reality with no visual hazards and in a cost-effective manner,” Ilan said.
Provided that all goes according to plan, the hope is that this will pave the way for a further 2,000 km of electric dynamic charging roads to be installed in Sweden. This would transform one of the country’s major highways, serving heavy transport, into an e-road. The cost of this is estimated at around $3 billion. While this is certainly expensive, it could actually turn out to a price worth paying.
“When you compare it to the cost of huge batteries and the loss of cargo capacity, as well as the operational expenses of charging and the cost of fast chargers and grid upgrades, it definitely makes sense,” Ilan said.
Sweden isn’t the only country to be exploring this technology. In Israel, a similar project aims to install a stretch of smart road between the city of Eilat and nearby Ramon International Airport.
Via DigitalTrends
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World Première Recording of Ina Boyle's Elegy (1913) - CD Release
Franco-Swiss cellist, Nadège Rochat, releases her third album of cello music, Cello Abbey, which includes the world premiere recording of Boyle's, Elegy (1913) for cello solo and orchestra.
The CD includes cello and orchestral works by British and Irish composers:
William Walton: Cello Concerto (1956)
Ina Boyle: Elegy for cello & orchestra (1913)
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto (1919)
Nadège Rochat (cello)
Staatskapelle Weimar
Paul Meyer (conductor)
My aim is to shed light on neglected composers and compositions and to expand the violoncello repertoire in general. With this recording I wanted to give a voice to lesser-known composers, and so I began to search for every piece for violoncello and orchestra written in England during Elgar’s and Walton’s time, a fascinating and exhausting quest that lasted for days and nights. When I finally came across Ina Boyle’s works for cello and orchestra, I felt immediately attracted to it. As a woman myself, I was fascinated by her life story – she never married and devoted her entire life to music. During her time, that was apparently the price to pay for a woman in her position who wanted to spend her life doing things other than child-rearing or looking after a household. I also share her fondness for solitude and for the countryside. She paid a very high price for it – had she chosen to live in London like her friend Elizabeth Maconchy, who tried to motivate her on numerous occasions, she would have found it much easier to make a name for herself as a composer.
— Nadege Rochat
Read the first review of Cello Abbey here:
https://www.hraudio.net/showmusic.php?title=12147#reviews
The CD is available to buy here:
Nadège Rochat
RIAM - Saluting the Feminists
On Friday March 24th, the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Smock Alley Theatre 1662, celebrated the World Premiere of Siobhan Cleary's opera, Vampirella. This event also commemorated some of its key female pedagogues throughout the years, and also salute a strong army of Irish women composers including, Ina Boyle.
Ita Beausaung and Laura Watson discuss Ina Boyle and other Irish Women composers and musicians in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
LISTEN BACK HERE:
http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/liz-nolans-lyric-notes/programmes/2017/0317/860531-liz-nolans-lyric-notes-friday-17-march-2017/?clipid=2432472#2432472
RTE Lyric fm Release "Composing the Island" feature CD
RTE Lyric fm release Composing the Island CD highlights include music by Ina Boyle
Last September a unique festival of music took place sponsored by Bord na Móna and presented by RTÉ and the National Concert Hall as part of RTÉ 2016 and Ireland 2016. Twenty-eight live concerts featuring both the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and RTÉ Concert Orchestra, together with a number of the leading Irish vocal and instrumental ensembles, and soloists traced a chronological journey of music by Irish composers over the 100 years since The Rising. The festival featured almost 200 selected works by some 90 composers, providing a unique opportunity to encounter the range and depth of Irish composition. In the words of The Irish Times, “Composing the Island was a landmark – there is no going back.”
This Composing the Island double CD release is a sample of music by twenty-composers from that festival, capturing for posterity something of its essence and spirit. It includes works by composers from the earliest years, many whom have been almost forgotten now, like Norman Hay and Ina Boyle, the latter of whom lived all her life in Wicklow but created a remarkable body of music whose European sensibility is tinged with a clear sense of her own nationality. Others such as John F. Larchet, Aloys Fleischmann and Seán Ó Riada played a key role in the teaching and development of music, and musical institutions in Ireland in the twentieth century. Ó Riada’s work on the CD, two movements from his Hercules Dux Ferrariae: Nomos No. 1, gives a fresh insight into his orchestral output, an area often overlooked in preference to his better known forays into traditional Irish music. - RTE Lyric fm
The CD is available to download on I-tunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/composing-island-century-music/id1186765340?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
I am Wind on Sea - contemporary vocal music from Ireland
Aylish Kerrigan, mezzo-soprano
Dearbhla Collins, piano
Elaine Agnew | Seoirse Bodley | Ina Boyle
John Buckley | Rhona Clarke | Ann-Marie O'Farrell
Six accomplished composers from Ireland are featured in this album, mostly writing for voice and piano, though two include percussion and electronic elements as well. Aylish Kerrigan, one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary Irish vocal music, is a guest professor at the Wuhan Conservatory in China. Her accompanist, Dearbhla Collins, has performed German lieder, contemporary art song, and theater music worldwide. Each of these works is a world premiere recording. The CD will be officially launched on December 9th at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
The CD includes Boyle's Three Songs by Walter de la Mare (1956), ‘The Song of the Mad Prince’ and ‘The Pigs and the Charcoal Burner’ are from the poet’s Peacock Pie (1913) collection, with ‘Moon, Reeds, Bushes’ taken from Bells and Grass (1941).
These are delightful songs which explore a world of darkish humour, fantasy and lost love. These moods are emphasised in this fine performance.
— John France (MusicWeb)
Boyle’s other contribution is the ‘Sleep Song’ to traditional words translated by Padraig Pearse. It is the oldest piece on this CD having been composed in 1923.
The temperament of the song is a perfect balance between countryside description and lullaby.
http://www.prostudiomasters.com/album/page/10624
Aylish Kerrigan
Dearbhla Collins
FIDELIO TRIO WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2016
Soprano Joan Rodgers to perform a selection of songs by Ina Boyle
GlasDrum with Music at DCU present the FIDELIO TRIO WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2016 from December 2nd to 4th in Belvedere House, St Patrick’s Campus DCU, Drumcondra, Dublin 9.
Building on the success of the 2015 festival, this year’s event brings guests Matthew Jones (viola), Chi-chi Nwanoku (double bass) and Joan Rodgers (soprano) together with the Fidelio Trio – Darragh Morgan (violin), Adi Tal (cello) and Mary Dullea (piano) for four sumptuous performances in the intimate 18th century atmosphere of Belvedere House.
This project has been made possible with funding from the Arts Council – An Chomhairle Ealaíon and with the support of Dublin City University (DCU).
Programme Sunday 2nd December:
Rhona Clarke A Different Game (World Premiere)
Ina Boyle Selected Songs
Ann Cleare New Work for Piano Trio (World Premiere)
Clara Schumann Piano Trio in G minor Op. 17
Golden Plec Review of Boyle's Glencree Symphony No.1, Composing the Island.
RTÉCO OPENS ‘COMPOSING THE ISLAND’ AT NATIONAL CONCERT HALL | REVIEW
Review: Michael Lee, September 13th 2016
The most impressive discovery of the evening is the Symphony No. 1 (Glencree) of Ina Boyle. Last performed in studio concerts on Radio Éireann back in the 1940s, this is, amazingly, its first complete public performance. From the very start, the symphony establishes an arresting sound-world, concentrated and serene by turns. The orchestra brings out the work’s intensity with sensitive and focused playing, bringing to life a work that has been unjustly neglected. The solidity and confidence of the orchestral writing is impressive. One only wishes that the composer had had the encouragement and experience to achieve a more balanced structure, and the work certainly leaves one wanting more. Given the dark poignancy of silence surrounding her music, however – Boyle was fated to hear very few of her large-scale works performed – the symphony’s understated ending is perhaps all the more appropriate. It is an auspicious and provocative start to this celebration of Irish music.
Read the full review here:
https://www.goldenplec.com/live-reviews/rteco-opens-composing-the-island-at-national-concert-hall-review/
Irish Times review of Boyle's setting of Two Poems by John Donne (1939, 1946).
In praise of Composing the Island - Lost Irish treasures unearthed.
Review: Michael Dervan, 14th September 2016
But for me, the real discovery came from Ina Boyle, whose two John Donne settings for tenor and string quartet create a fascinating bridge between the world of early music and the 20th century.
They were sung by Robin Tritschler with the Vanbrughs, and Tritschler’s separate song recital with pianist Peter Tuite (of Harty, Stanford, Bax and Hughes) was a model in how an approach that distances itself from sentimentality can cast this repertoire in a whole new light. Just the kind of demonstration to make this festival a treasurable event.
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/in-praise-of-composing-the-island-lost-irish-treasures-unearthed-1.2789964
Irish Examiner review of Boyle's Glencree Symphony (1927).
Classical Review: Composing the Island at the National Concert Hall, Dublin
Review: Cathy Desmond, Saturday, September 10, 2016.
It was the work of Ina Boyle from Wicklow that impressed most. Her first symphony titled Glencree completed in 1927 was performed only once in 1945 in a live radio broadcast by Radio Eireann. The harmonic language was colourful. There was refreshing rhythmic energy in parts and assured writing for solo parts, most notably for oboe and cor anglais, well executed by Concert Orchestra principals. Boyle wrote many works including two more symphonies and an opera. Based on tonight’s evidence, her work warrants more than an occasional dust down.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/classical-review-composing-the-island-at-the-national-concert-hall-dublin-420316.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=click&utm_campaign=nextandprev
Watch the live performance here on RTE Podcast:
http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/composing-the-island-30004220/10620992/
Jonathan Grimes
Ina Boyle's Elegy will be recorded for the first time by cellist Nadège Rochat
Classical cellist and recording artist from Switzerland/France, Nadège Rochat, will be recording Ina Boyle's Elegy from 1913 for cello and orchestra this month as part of an upcoming CD of works by British and Irish composers.
The work will be recorded on a CD, entitled Cello Abbey, by the Staatskapelle Weimar alongside two well known cello concertos by Elgar and Walton.
Nadège is seeking funding for the project and there is a page available with more information on how you can donate to help fund the recording costs here.
The video below gives some background on the project and Ina's Boyle's Elegy.
Forthcoming performances of Ina Boyle's music
A number of scheduled performances including some by a younger generation of musicians are planned over the coming year.
Jennifer Davis
Irish Heritage is an Irish Cultural organisation which has showcased young Irish musicians in London for the last 40 years. It will present Ina’s music as part of its recital series “Celebration of 100 years of music in Ireland – 1916-2016” next year
The Chiral Quartet will repeat their performance of the String Quartet, given at CIT Cork School of Music, as part of the first London recital by the Irish Conservatoires at the Guildhall School of Music on 12 April 2016.
On 17 February 2016, two of Ina Boyle's settings of poems by Padraig Pearse will feature in the recital programme at the Royal Overseas League. This will be given by Irish soprano Jennifer Davis and other rising young Irish artists. Jennifer is currently part of the Jette Parker Young Singers Programme at the Royal Opera House.
Welcome to Ina Boyle's web site
We're delighted to welcome you to this new web site featuring information on Irish composer Ina Boyle's music.
A composer whose music has been re-discovered in recent years, Ina Boyle was unique in many respects in being one of the few Irish women composers active during the first half of the twentieth century. Her output features orchestral, vocal and choral and chamber works, many of which have received performances in the past number of years.
The site, which will be maintained by the Contemporary Music Centre (CMC) on behalf of a working group chaired by Katie Rowan, a relative of the Boyle family, will serve as a key information source about her music and will feature updates on performances of her work, as well as other news about her. The working group includes a number of representative people drawn from the Irish classical music sector, including Dr Kerry Houston (DIT Conservatory of Music), composers Nicola LeFanu, David Byers, musicologist Dr Ita Beausang, broadcaster Jane Carty, writer and music critic Ian Fox, Director of the European Opera Centre in Liverpool Kenneth Baird, Jonathan Grimes (Contemporary Music Centre), and Emma O'Keeffe (MPhil DIT Conservatory of Music).
We're delighted that thanks to the support of the Boyle family, her unpublished works will be available to order from the CMC. To view a list of works and see which ones are available in typeset format, please see the compositions section of this site.
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India By State - Jammu and Kashmir - Business Opportunities
Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) offers boundless investment opportunities to prospective investors. It has rich reserves of water, agro, forests, herbal and mineral resources. Minerals which are commercially exploitable in the State are coal, gypsum, bauxite, lignite, magnetic and lime stone. A number of mineral based projects have been identified for private investment. Main industrial units in the State are handlooms, handicrafts, gems and jewellery, etc. which have been accorded the priority status. However, main occupation of the people in J&K is agriculture and related activities like horticulture, sericulture and floriculture. Besides, the scenic beauty of landscapes makes J&K the most preferred tourist hotspot.
About 80 percent population of the State depends on agriculture. Paddy, wheat and maize are the major crops. Barley, bajra and jowar are cultivated in some parts. Gram is grown in Ladakh. The horticulture industry in Kashmir has become the bulwark of rural economy in the State, providing job facilities to the thousands of people directly and indirectly. The major horticulture items are apple, pear, cherry, walnut, almond, peaches, saffron, apricot, strawberry and plum. The area under orchards is 242 lakh hectares. The State produces fruit worth Rs 2,000 crore annually including export of walnuts worth Rs 120 crore. Jammu and Kashmir State has been declared as Agri Export Zone for apple and walnuts. Market Intervention Scheme has also been launched for improving quality fruit for export by ensuing proper grading.
The State has suitable agro-climatic conditions for growing variety of flowers. The floriculture industry in the State offers a good source of supply to the domestic and international market. There is potential for this activity to be propagated on a commercial basis.
Floriculture & Horticulture
Horticulture is the bulwark of rural economy in the state generating revenue of over US$ 10.5 million yearly and providing job facilities to thousands of people directly and indirectly. With an immense potential for exports of processed food and allied services, the state is a leader in the production of apples, walnuts, pears, almonds and apricots. The state has suitable agro-climatic conditions for a variety of flowers and its floriculture industry offers a good supply to both domestic and international market.
Handicraft is the traditional industry of the State and has been of crucial importance given its large employment and export potential. Some of the items of industry are papier-mache, woodcarving, carpets, shawl making, embroidery etc. The handicrafts industry, particularly the carpet industry, has been a source of substantial foreign exchange. It provides employment to about 3.40 lakh artisans. The number of industrial units has also gone up. Jammu has Urban Haats, while a similar Haat is being commissioned in Srinagar. An Export Promotion Industrial Park has been established at Kartholi, Jammu. A similar Park is being set up at Ompora, Budgam. A pashmina de-hairing project assisted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is coming up in the Leh industrial estate of the State
Mineral-based
The state has vast deposits of minerals like coal, gypsum, bauxite, lignite, graphite, magnetic and limestone. Out of above major minerals deposits, coal is exploited the most. The other minerals, which follow coal in exploitation, include gypsum and lignite etc. Lignite being used as fuel in industries in the state is also exported to Punjab and nearby states.
Deposits of commercially exploitable minerals
No. Mineral Deposits
1. Coal 33 million
2. Gypsum 1 million (Proven) (Indicated 9.5 million)
2. Bauxite 8 million
4. Graphite 16 million
5. Line stone Around 200 million
Source: IndiaStat
Kashmir is extremely popular for its quality of silk and its traditional silk weaving industry. The state houses two large silk factories - in Srinagar and Jammu. The factory at Srinagar manufactures around 300,000 metres of various types of silk fabrics, georgette, parachute and suiting. The government woollen mill at Srinagar is another established manufacturing unit, which has a capacity of 2,018 woollen and 1,576 worsted spindles. The state also has a special package of US$ three million for the development of sericulture for price stabilization, procurement of cocoons, and cultivation of mulberry plantation in private lands etc.
Jammu and Kashmir provides varieties of cultural, religious spots, adventure and sight seeing activities. It is famous for its towering snow clad mountains, bubbling streams, transparent and sparkling lakes, flower meadows, colourful orchards and rare fauna. All such features of Jammu and Kashmir have always attracted numerous tourists from all over the world. Tourism has emerged as an important and one of the major contributors to the State's economy. There are various places of tourist attraction in the State which are being visited by both foreign and domestic tourists. Kashmir Valley is described as 'paradise on earth.'
Jammu was visited by 1.1 million tourists during 2008. The state's major tourist attractions include Chashma Shahi springs, Shalimar Bagh and Dal Lake in Srinagar; Gulmarg, Pahalgam and Sonamarg in the valley; Ladakh and Vaishno Devi temple and Panitop near Jammu.
National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Ltd. (NHPC)
National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Limited was incorporated in 1975 as a private limited company with an objective to plan, promote and organise an integrated and efficient development of hydroelectric power. The Corporation later expanded its objects to include other sources of energy like geothermal, tidal, wind etc. Currently, NHPC has two operating plants Salal-II and Uri plants in the state with an installed capacity of 3¥115 and 4¥120 MW respectively. Sewa-II plant of 120 MW installed capacity is under construction in the state. Further, five projects have been identified by the state for detailed project report (DPR) and infrastructure development.
Indian Telephone Industries Ltd. (ITIL)
Founded in 1948, ITIL is the pioneering venture of India in the field of telecommunications. This premier PSU has contributed to 50 percent of the current national telecom network. It manufactures the entire range of telecom equipment including telephones, large digital switches, transmission systems, microwave, fibre optic systems and satellite communication systems. It has its manufacturing unit in Srinagar.
Singer India Ltd. (SIL)
Singer entered the Indian sewing machine market as early as 1871 and over the years has not only become the leading player in the sewing machine market but has expanded its product range significantly to cater to daily household requirements. The sewing machine production unit of the company is located at Jammu, manufacturing different models of the machine. The state also hosts television and steam press manufacturing units in the state.
Zamindara Rice Mills
Zamindara Rice Mills is a golden trading house exporting to 52 countries. It gained entry into the state with the Chenab textile mills of Jammu & Kashmir merging with the company in 1997. The company is a part of the A.K.K Birla group which is one of the top business houses and among the textile industry leaders in India.
Maral Overseas Ltd.
The unit of Maral overseas was set up in 1985 in Jammu with technical collaboration with Devanlay -the manufacturers of Lacoste brand of sportswear. The plant in Jammu was India's first vertically integrated plant. The unit produces a wide range of yarns, fabrics and garments.
Jai Beverages Private Ltd.
Jai Beverages was incorporated in 1999 as a Pepsi India franchise in Jammu. The unit was established with an initial investment of approx. US$ 6.4 million. The plant boasts of ultra modern facilities and also has water treatment facilities at the plant. The state and especially the economy of the region have witnessed an upsurge since the inception of the plant. The unit has already contributed to over 650 direct and indirect employment opportunities in the state and the number is growing steadily overtime. The unit has thus significantly affected the level of industrialisation of the state.
Sutlej Industries Ltd. (SIL)
Sutlej Industries, a K. K. Birla group company is one of the top business houses and is also among the textile industry leaders in India. It is a government recognised golden trading house exporting to 52 countries. SIL entered the state when the Chenab textiles mills of Jammu and Kashmir merged with the Sutlej Industries in 1997.The plant produces synthetic and blended yarns and is equipped h the latest machinery, equipments and skilled labour force. Government of Jammu & Kashmir has selected SIL's Chenab textile mills for a special award for its contribution towards generation and promotion of employment opportunities in the state and contribution to the state revenue.
Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT)
HMT was incorporated by the Government of India in 1953 as a machine tool manufacturing unit. However, over the years the company has diversified into watches, tractors, printing machinery, metal forming presses and die-casting and plastic processing industry. HMT has seven exclusive machine tools unit with ISO 9001 certification. HMT has its manufacturing unit for hand wound watches in Srinagar which initiated in 1975.
Kashmir Steel Rolling Mills
The steel rolling mill is an SSI unit set up in 1981 with the initial investment of US$ 133 thousand for the manufactures of re-rolled iron and steel products. The unit has raised its investment in plant and machinery to about US$ 154 thousand and has provided 300 direct and 4000 indirect employment opportunities in the state. The unit has also been accredited with ISO: 9002 certification.
Jammu & Kashmir offers boundless investment opportunities to the prospective investors, as it has rich resources of water, agro, forests, herbal and minerals in addition to its unparallel natural beauty
Jammu & Kashmir has seen steady rise in the industrial investment proposals. The total number of industrial proposals surged from 67 during August 1991 to March 1998 to a significant 153 till March 2003 and further to 225 during August 1991 to June 2004. Consequently, the total proposed investment in the state grew from US$ 101.3 million to US$ 335.6 million and further to US$ 560.9 million during the period considered. An increasing share of investment in the state during the recent years can be expected to attract foreign direct investment in the near future.
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And Our Guns Were Very Good
I have an agenda; you should know this as you begin reading. My goal is to convince you that the guns of the 18th century were so different than the guns of today that while applying constitutional principles to them is essential, applying unadulterated 18th-century law to them is madness.
About Tuesday, Jan. 27, 1701, John Lawson makes the following entry in his "Journal of a Thousand Miles Travel'd": "At Night, we lay by a swift Current, where we saw plenty of Turkies, but pearch'd upon such lofty Oaks, that our Guns would not kill them, tho' we shot very often, and our Guns were very good."
I share this quote for many reasons. First, "we shot very often, and our guns were very good" sounds so much like Hemingway that I think Hemingway himself would be jealous. Second, though, is that once again we are talking about guns, and I think Mr. Lawson has some light to shed.
Lawson, walking through backcountry among wild animals and possibly enemies, would naturally have carried a weapon with him. To understand that weapon I turned to my trusted source, advisor, and friend Dale Loberger. Dale delivered a lecture about old roads that I wrote about, and he joined the Trek to teach how to use period surveying and outdoors tools. Most important, though, when I was just beginning my journey and
That's a fowler -- the kind of gun Loberger figures Lawson would have had. Plus all the rest of the stuff Lawson would have had. Where's the Gore-tex?
showing off the absurd pile of 21st-century outdoors accoutrements I was going to bring with me on my first venture out, he tweeted the image you see at left. Dale has since demonstrated himself to be a trustworthy source and a trustworthy friend and thoroughly versed in the equipment of Lawson's time. So I asked whether he'd help me understand what a gun was back in Lawson's day -- a day which, neatly, differed very little from the days a century hence when the successful American revolutionaries were reserving to the people the right to keep and bear arms. In light of the recent -- and constant --
madness our population demonstrates about guns, I asked Dale to help me understand. These arms that our ancestors famously defended our right to bear: What were they? How did they work? Could the framers have been able to even imagine the level of instant mayhem we currently use them to inflict on one another, and if so could they have taken that into consideration?
What those guns were and how they worked was clear to Loberger, and he explained it to me. "I suspect that what Lawson most likely had was called a fowler," he told me. "A civilian shotgun of the day, single-barrel of course, but smooth bore." It would have shot buckshot or solid ball or both. Dale can load and shoot his fowler four times a minute in competition; a rifle, with smaller pan and breach, would take even longer to load, up to 45 seconds, but because of the rifling that imparted spin to the ball through the patch loaded around it, it offered a much more accurate shot, especially at a distance; the fowler wasn't accurate at a distance. So anyhow, if you think of an eighteenth-century gun, think 15 seconds between shots, with those seconds spent shaking a ball or shot out of a bag, measuring black powder and pouring it into the barrel; putting in a wad and ramming that down; putting in a ball (or a load of shot) and doing the same; then priming the pan, then shooting.
"The technology is not big," Dale said of the flintlocks of the period. "It's a rock hitting a piece of steel, causing black powder to ignite." The guns of the eighteenth century required considerable interaction. You couldn't just pick one up and shoot someone, let alone shoot a room full of people.As you know, sometimes the powder in the pan burned up but failed to ignite the powder and you got a flash in the pan; if while you were in the half-cocked position of your loading process your trigger tripped, you went off half-cocked; and in the late 18th century when mass production of firearms began, stores of barrels, locks (the trigger part), and wooden stocks filled warehouses, and then a craftsman could easily assemble a rifle, lock, stock, and barrel.
So anyhow that's your gun-related phraseology lesson, but more important, obviously, is that when it came time for the United States Constitution, and the framers enshrined the people's right to hold onto guns so they would be prepared to participate in that famous well-regulated militia, that's the kind of gun they'd have been thinking about. The type of gun that might have been able to allow you to harm one person if you barged into a learning environment all prepared and crazy, but would probably have enabled plenty of people to stop you before you got to your second shot.
That is, think less technology than tool -- like an ax, or a shovel; not like a computer or an airplane. It was a pretty simple thing, and you had to do a lot to make it work.
In fact, much earlier in his journal Lawson described one of his guides: "Our Indian having this Day kill'd good Store of Provision with his Gun, he always shot with a single Ball, missing but two Shoots in above forty; they being curious Artifts in managing a Gun, to make it carry either Ball, or Shot, true. When they have bought a Piece, and find it to shoot any Ways crooked, they take the Barrel out of the Stock, cutting a Notch in a Tree, wherein they set it streight, sometimes shooting away above 100 Loads of Ammunition, before they bring the Gun to shoot according to their Mind."
I bring that up, again, because I want you to think: this was the kind of tool a gun was. This thing with moving parts that would get rusty if you didn't clean them and that could shoot a few times a minute if you were very fast and well prepared and close to your target. A think you needed to wrestle into condition for it to work the way you wanted it to.
And again, my point: the thinking of eighteenth-century minds about eighteenth-century tools gives us a magnificent place to start. But slavishly applying only that thought to twenty-first-century weapons of mass destruction makes no sense. It makes no sense at all.
Dale himself -- "I'm very pro-gun myself," he says, and I know it to be true, in the most responsible way possible -- brings up the "well-regulated militia" point that's been receiving a good bit of attention in recent days -- here, and here, and here. "During the revolution, when men weremustered to the army, they were required to bring a gun with them. The assumption was, we're gonna need people who know how to use weapons. Men need to have them and they need to have familiarity with how to use them. That made perfect sense." Which it did -- until the military started providing its own weapons and storing them. Suddenly the well-regulated militia was supplying its own arms, so the people didn't ... well, as Dale says, "Some of what I've told you does go against my case and the case for why people want to have guns."
Dale also goes into significant detail about how people living on the frontier -- "and you're worried more about bears or Indians, that would be a good reason to have a gun." Most colonists were farmers, though, and "there's no significant need for a gun if you're a farmer." Going hunting was a waste of a day, and you'd spend that day much better tending your crops. You weren't worried about wildlife or hostile natives, so a gun would not have been important to you. This is Dale telling me this. He further noted that a gun would have been all but useless as a weapon of mass murder back then. If you wanted to commit such a crime then -- and people did -- you'd use "an edge weapon," like a knife, or maybe a club, like the person in the link.
Now Dale does believe strongly in the importance of keeping weapons, above all for the Jeffersonian "blood of patriots and tyrants" capacity they give the people to stand up to a government leaning towards totalitarianism. It's very hard to argue against that fear, and it's very, very hard to worry about the views of people like Dale -- responsible, thoughtful people willing to discuss their points of view like civilized people even when those perspectives differ. Dale understood my purpose in this piece and cooperated because he believes in the importance of understanding. I would fight hard for the right of people like Dale to keep and bear arms, and I suspect, bowing to that need for a well-regulated militia, Dale would support most calls for training, background checking, and the kind of gun control laws and programs that have rendered other countries far safer than ours. I'm not sure about that -- and I'll give him space to clarify if he likes -- but the point isn't really the second amendment.
The point is the tool. When Dale and I camped together he made breakfast using only his knife as a tool, and he taught me to use many other tools, like those for surveying. Above all else I think of Dale as someone who understands tools and uses them appropriately.
Lawson, himself a surveyor as well as the user of a fowling piece, knew the difference between a tool and a weapon of mass destruction. I believe the framers would have too. For the last decade or so the Supreme Court has been unable to tell the difference. I think Lawson would roll his eyes.
Lawson understood that a gun could be very good when it could shoot game. I believe he'd have known that a gun could be very bad when it could squeeze off hundreds of rounds per minute and was unregulated to the point of absurdity.
Dale Loberger
I appreciate the tone that my friend, Scott Huler, used in this article in reference to our conversation. As I told him then, I knew his opinion and he knew mine. Fortunately, we continued to have a civil discourse as we conjectured about the opinions of our ancestors and how they may relate to the modern world. As we are both students of history, neither of us can claim a better knowledge of how historic figures would view the modern advances in firearms or growth of our government. He has laid out his argument and has invited me to add to that discussion. I hope to express myself as eloquently as he did.
To understand the mind of the eighteenth century man, we must understand the political thought that guided his opinions. That is not to say that all men presented with the same facts fell into the same line of thought, however. The shared experiences of that time led men to either side of the battle during the American War for Independence with equal vigor. The second amendment was a statement written by the side that won that battle. Expressed in that statement are the memories, the fears, and the hopes of its authors and those who voted for its passage.
Europeans, the English in particular, had a long tradition of legal rights dating back at least to the Magna Carta of 1215. Although that document had been effectively replaced, it remained a significant icon even in the eighteenth century. When the rights of a new wave of immigrants to the Carolinas were trampled by wealthy officials in the decades after Lawson, the growing populace exercised the idea of “regulation” and elected Regulators to negotiate on their behalf with the colonial English government for relief of oppressive and arbitrary judgments. The Regulator Movement culminated in the Battle of Alamance (1771) where it was squashed by the “corrupt” government of William Tryon representing the authority of the King and Crown. Tryon demanded royal allegiance and destroyed property of those sympathizers of the movement to eliminate their ability to oppose his dominion by waging any further effective resistance. By the time that the rebellion-minded “yankees” in Boston and eventually Philadelphia caught up to the Carolinians in the idea of organized resistance, the war was over - at least in the minds of many southerners. Continued usurpations by royal military leaders like Cornwallis and Tarleton on behalf of the government eventually led many loyal citizens to distrust their government and refuse its ultimate authority to the point that winning a war became unrealistic and eventually led to a resignation of British troops at Yorktown and a final settlement freeing the colonies to form a new union. It was the men who fought this battle of ideals that enshrined the right of ordinary citizens to keep and bear arms against any foe of the Constitution “foreign or domestic.” They knew, first-hand, the dangers of an unchecked government. The militia they empowered was not the military under authority of any federal government, but citizens fighting for their own rights as free “men” who were “endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.” Given that context, it is not fair to think that a “military providing its own weapons” is a reasonable substitute to a “well-regulated militia.” By definition, a “militia” is a group of “able-bodied civilians” in service to their country (or the prevailing idea of the period in question, "service to the Constitution.")
The next difficulty in the conversation becomes the unforeseen advancement in firearms since the second amendment was drafted. Given the purpose that the framers of the Constitution wrote their words, it should be clear that they intended “able-bodied citizens” to have weapons equal to that of the military in order to potentially depose unjust leaders. The argument to this point is certainly made in Thomas Jefferson’s words to William Stephens Smith in 1787 that the “tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” The practicality and wisdom of such power in individual hands to potentially cause “mass destruction” today is a clear counterpoint to the period intentions and a valid limitation to my modern mind. The legitimate question then becomes where the line is drawn by a government to restrict the possession of “arms” in defense of individual rights when the government is seen not as the guarantor of those rights, but the biggest potential threat to them. History is replete with examples of abusive governments both predating the Constitution and since. I believe a valid argument can be made that those governments with restrictive gun ownership at any given time were some of the worst abusers of civil rights.
Guns in the eighteenth century were also not as readily avai
Guns in the eighteenth century were also not as readily available then as they are today. There were absolutely never any background checks to ownership, but the cost of a gun was typically a significant portion of a worker’s annual income. This was an effective form of self-regulation against those without money or a job. I do not believe that this was an intentional way to limit gun ownership, however. Up through the early nineteenth century, all “able-bodied men” were still expected to own and have familiarity with the use of firearms. Even though we had a small standing army, militia gatherings for drill practice were still common and penalties for failure to participate were enforced. The reasonable limitation here could be made that protected owners were considered (as "well-regulated militia") to be “able-bodied citizens” acting in uniformity of purpose. While this certainly excused the physically infirmed from participation in drills, I believe the logical limitation was against those who were “otherwise unfit” to handle a weapon such as those of an “unstable mind” or those looking to extort personal profit. Again, I believe some legitimate argument could be made for limiting ownership to those “qualified” through a licensure program in order to counteract the dramatic increase in availability, quality and capacity of firearms available today.
While not trying (yet) to debate modern laws, I believe that the founding fathers had every intention of making weapons available to the populace, as a supplement to the ballot box, in order to help keep the government accountable and honest. However, there are numerous challenges when extending their notions to the modern world that they could not have foreseen. As both sides of the debate continue to interpret the second amendment, I would hope that they do so from knowledge of the eighteenth century mind along with its very specific concerns and remedies instead of a legalistic parsing of phraseology. The details of our modern world are quite different from history, but the human condition itself is little changed. My personal belief is that the foundation of debate should be how we integrate modern evidence into our current protected rights, not the experimentation of modern political theories outside of our genuine historical context.
Scott Huler
Dale, this is just marvelous. Thank you for improving my understanding of the time and giving me much more to think about.
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Senator Hatch credits successes to his BYU college years
byDeseret News | Oct. 23, 2009
Mormons We Know
During his first two years at BYU — long before he became a U.S. senator — Orrin Hatch went on two dates.
And the women asked him.
"I didn't feel like I had good enough clothes," he said Thursday at Brigham Young University. "I certainly didn't have money to take girls on dates. I was ashamed to even ask them, I thought I was going to be turned down."
Despite such humble beginnings, the Utah Republican senator said he loves BYU not only for the education he received, and the fact that he met his wife, Elaine, in an astronomy class, but also because of the preparation for an LDS mission, which dramatically shaped his future.
"I couldn't have been anywhere near the missionary I was had I not gone to the religion classes at BYU," he said. "Had I not had these experiences at BYU, I don't believe my mission would be nearly as successful as it was. And I don't believe I would have decided to become a lawyer."
Hatch was honored Thursday as the 2009 distinguished graduate from the College of Family, Home and Social Sciences, as part of homecoming week celebrations.
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Who invented the Hubble Space Telescope?
Category: History, Science, Technology
The Hubble Space Telescope was developed by the United States Space Agency, NASA with valuable contributions from The European Space Agency. Though the funding was obtained in 1970, it was first launched only in 1990 because of the number of problems and delays that included financing. The space telescope takes its name from Edwin Hubble, a famous astronomer who was one of the numerous scientists and engineers whose laborious work in the field of astronomy provided much data which helped NASA build the Hubble space telescope.
Hubble Space Telescope is a large telescope meant for use in space and was launched into space by a space shuttle. The Hubble Space Telescope has been very successful in providing sharp images of universe’s farthest objects. The design itself is of very complex nature consisting of several parameters, and many key specialist organizations were entrusted with the development and construction of various components and systems. The mirror of the telescope was required to be polished to 10 nanometers accuracy. Polishing machines are controlled by specially built sophisticated computers and were used to finish the mirror to the desired shape.
The Hubble Space Telescope has helped astronomers solve mysteries of the universe. It has helped to recalculate the age of the universe and the images by giving valuable inputs to the field of astronomy.
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About Liberty Township
Development Highlights
Cincinnati Children's Hospital - Liberty Campus
U.S. News & World Report ranked Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center No. 2 in the Nation in the magazine's 2018-2019 list of best children's hospitals.
Cincinnati Children's Liberty Campus is a full-service hospital with 42 inpatient beds, a 24/7 emergency department, and a full complement of support services, including a blood bank, full-service cafeteria, outpatient and inpatient pharmacies and family resource center. It also houses expanded medical and surgery specialty clinics, including new cancer services.
In 2016, Cincinnati Children's partnered with the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and UC Physicians to open the Proton Therapy Center. The $120 million facility is one of the most advanced proton research and cancer treatment centers in the world. Located at Cincinnati Children's Liberty Campus, the Proton Therapy Center has the world's only proton treatment gantry fully dedicated to research.
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In 2007, U.S. advertisers spent US $24.6 billion on search engine marketing.[3] In Q2 2015, Google (73.7%) and the Yahoo/Bing (26.3%) partnership accounted for almost 100% of U.S. search engine spend.[4] As of 2006, SEM was growing much faster than traditional advertising and even other channels of online marketing.[5] Managing search campaigns is either done directly with the SEM vendor or through an SEM tool provider. It may also be self-serve or through an advertising agency. As of October 2016, Google leads the global search engine market with a market share of 89.3%. Bing comes second with a market share of 4.36%, Yahoo comes third with a market share of 3.3%, and Chinese search engine Baidu is fourth globally with a share of about 0.68%.[6]
To prevent users from linking to one version of a URL and others linking to a different version (this could split the reputation of that content between the URLs), focus on using and referring to one URL in the structure and internal linking of your pages. If you do find that people are accessing the same content through multiple URLs, setting up a 301 redirect32 from non-preferred URLs to the dominant URL is a good solution for this. You may also use canonical URL or use the rel="canonical"33 link element if you cannot redirect.
The fee structure is both a filter against superfluous submissions and a revenue generator. Typically, the fee covers an annual subscription for one webpage, which will automatically be catalogued on a regular basis. However, some companies are experimenting with non-subscription based fee structures where purchased listings are displayed permanently. A per-click fee may also apply. Each search engine is different. Some sites allow only paid inclusion, although these have had little success. More frequently, many search engines, like Yahoo!,[18] mix paid inclusion (per-page and per-click fee) with results from web crawling. Others, like Google (and as of 2006, Ask.com[19][20]), do not let webmasters pay to be in their search engine listing (advertisements are shown separately and labeled as such).
There are many reasons explaining why advertisers choose the SEM strategy. First, creating a SEM account is easy and can build traffic quickly based on the degree of competition. The shopper who uses the search engine to find information tends to trust and focus on the links showed in the results pages. However, a large number of online sellers do not buy search engine optimization to obtain higher ranking lists of search results, but prefer paid links. A growing number of online publishers are allowing search engines such as Google to crawl content on their pages and place relevant ads on it.[16] From an online seller's point of view, this is an extension of the payment settlement and an additional incentive to invest in paid advertising projects. Therefore, it is virtually impossible for advertisers with limited budgets to maintain the highest rankings in the increasingly competitive search market.
A breadcrumb is a row of internal links at the top or bottom of the page that allows visitors to quickly navigate back to a previous section or the root page. Many breadcrumbs have the most general page (usually the root page) as the first, leftmost link and list the more specific sections out to the right. We recommend using breadcrumb structured data markup28 when showing breadcrumbs.
On April 24, 2012 many started to see that Google has started to penalize companies that are buying links for the purpose of passing off the rank. The Google Update was called Penguin. Since then, there have been several different Penguin/Panda updates rolled out by Google. SEM has, however, nothing to do with link buying and focuses on organic SEO and PPC management. As of October 20, 2014 Google has released three official revisions of their Penguin Update.
With the development of this system, the price is growing under the high level of competition. Many advertisers prefer to expand their activities, including increasing search engines and adding more keywords. The more advertisers are willing to pay for clicks, the higher the ranking for advertising, which leads to higher traffic.[15] PPC comes at a cost. The higher position is likely to cost $5 for a given keyword, and $4.50 for a third location. A third advertiser earns 10% less than the top advertiser, while reducing traffic by 50%.[15] The investors must consider their return on investment and then determine whether the increase in traffic is worth the increase.
In 2013, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held in Lens.com, Inc. v. 1-800 Contacts, Inc. that online contact lens seller Lens.com did not commit trademark infringement when it purchased search advertisements using competitor 1-800 Contacts' federally registered 1800 CONTACTS trademark as a keyword. In August 2016, the Federal Trade Commission filed an administrative complaint against 1-800 Contacts alleging, among other things, that its trademark enforcement practices in the search engine marketing space have unreasonably restrained competition in violation of the FTC Act. 1-800 Contacts has denied all wrongdoing and is scheduled to appear before an FTC administrative law judge in April 2017.[29]
Webmasters and content providers began optimizing websites for search engines in the mid-1990s, as the first search engines were cataloging the early Web. Initially, all webmasters only needed to submit the address of a page, or URL, to the various engines which would send a "spider" to "crawl" that page, extract links to other pages from it, and return information found on the page to be indexed.[5] The process involves a search engine spider downloading a page and storing it on the search engine's own server. A second program, known as an indexer, extracts information about the page, such as the words it contains, where they are located, and any weight for specific words, as well as all links the page contains. All of this information is then placed into a scheduler for crawling at a later date.
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By Regina Villiers. Originally published August 12, 1992 in The Suburban Life, added August 16, 2016.
The old Madeira Municipal Building which was torn down to make way for the just completed new city hall.
When the old Madeira city hall, which once had been Madeira’s Methodist Church, gave way to progress and the spiffy new Madeira Municipal Building, it did not go gently.
Many citizens waged a losing battle to save the old building and remodel it, instead of erecting a new city hall. And many people still resent its loss.
“I just felt real bad when they tore it down,” Genevieve Greene said.
Mrs. Greene had many reasons to mourn the passing of the old building. She taught Sunday school there when it was a church, and she also has other happy memories of the church.
“It was a lovely church,” she said, “and we had a nice choir.” She remembers the Christmas walks and the Easter suppers. “We have always been a friendly church. We feel that, and we like other people to know that too.”
Wanda Gardner also has happy memories of the building when it was a church. Her high school graduating class held its baccalaureate service at the church in 1942. Rev. Budd conducted the service. She also remembers going to garden club meetings there.
The old church was completed and dedicated in April 1928. The lot at the corner of Miami and Euclid had been bought for $1200 in 1924. The building cost approximately $34,000.
Men of the congregation helped in the actual construction of the building. The women of the church would prepare meals and serve men on the job, from early morning until hours after dark, as they labored. The Depression set in soon after the completion of the church, and the small congregation used various means to meet their financial obligations and keep the church going.
During the 1930’s, the church went through difficult financial times. There were periods when they did not know how they could pay the minister and keep the building warm. The church was served by part-time ministers.
But the congregation persevered and kept the church going. By 1951, the church had grown to 244 members. They realized they needed a full-time minister, so they hired the Rev. Daniel Scovanner.
By 1955, the church mortgage had been paid and the church had grown to over 400 members. At this time, plans were made to build a new community church, St. Paul Community Methodist, to serve both Madeira and Kenwood.
And so in 1958, Madeira Methodist Church merged into St. Paul Community Church.
St. Paul Church then sold the old church building at Miami and Euclid to the city of Madeira for $50,000. Madeira remodeled the building at a cost of $125,000 to be used as a new municipal building.
The building was remodeled and Madeira moved into its city offices there in May 1959.
As a church, the building had been yellow brick. When the city took it over, the exterior was painted a dark gray, with white trim, red roof and doors.
A newspaper article, dated May 27, 1959, lists the renovation as costing $125,000.
Madeira celebrated the opening of the new city hall, as it usually does such momentous events, with a parade and an open house.
In 1964, the building was completely repainted, inside and out, and the heating and air conditioning systems were changed and improved.
In the late 1970’s, the building was again remodeled at a total cost of $93,647.
In a 1987 appraisal of the building, its value was listed as a total of $202,020 – $93,590 for the land and $108,430 for the building.
You might want to compare some of these figures with figures from 1796 when the .623-acre lot of the building sold for 41.5 cents.
Oven the years, many community events and meetings occurred in the old municipal building. For years, two polling places were located there where people voted and visited with neighbors on election days.
And for a time, until the building of the new Madeira Branch Library, the library was located in the old building. The librarians were Carol Hauss and Mary Van Pelt.
Van Pelt has many memories of those years. She remembers standing at the window and watching Miss Nelle Hosbrook try to cross the intersection at the corner of the building when the streets were completely glazed with ice. She held her breath, but Miss Nelle, already quite old, made it across.
In 1989, the Ohio Historical Society described the old building as: “Renaissance Revival – a one-story, t-shaped brick building with a front gable and a large, round, brick arch tripartite window, intersected by a stone belt course,” It went on to describe the tower and the brick lintels and stone sills.
Most people in Madeira don’t remember the old municipal building. They see it in there hearts, as it looked when they walked past it or when they attended church there, browsed in the library, voted, or attended some community event or celebration with their families and visited with their neighbors.
They are memories permanently etched. They will not go away.
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Pastworld by Ian Beck
Published by Bloomsbury
Pastworld is the greatest theme park ever devised. London - the real London - transformed into a living, breathing recreation of the Victorian era.
To Eve, a lifelong resident of Pastworld, horse-drawn carriages and gas lamps are modern technology. Eve doesn't even know she's living in a simulation - until she is forced to flee the only home she's ever known, and to confront the truth about her city and herself.
To Caleb, a tourist visiting Pastworld, the theme park is the perfect antidote to the stifling conformity and regulation of 2048. The gritty wildness of the past is thrilling - until he finds himself at the scene of a murder, holding the knife, and suddenly becomes a fugitive from an antiquated justice system.
And in the midst of it all, in the thick London fog, a dark and deadly figure prowls, claiming victim after victim. He's the Fantom, a creature both of the past and of the future, in whose dark purpose Caleb and Eve will find their destinies combined.
I received this book from Bloomsbury for review having never heard anything about it before and was instantly intrigued by the concept. Pastworld follows the entwining stories of a variety of characters based in a theme park which is set up to be London in the Victorian era. That was enough to sell it for me (my history geek brain was very very excited about it). I loved the idea that people would actually pay good money to go back into the past and experience life as was. I drawn even further in when I found out one of the main characters had live there all her life and didn't know the world outside (it actually reminded me a little of the concept for the film the village)
The way the story was told was quite unusual in that there were a variety of view points used to tell the over arching story line rather than one narrator throughout. It did mean you got the know the characters less but did mean that you got a broader experience and introduction to the world of the Pastworld theme park. I liked the variety of characters including Eve and Caleb and particularly enjoyed Bible J. I did find Eve a little confusing at first especially her motives behind her decisions but it becomes clear why she has done as she had as the story goes on. I also loved the main villain of the piece as loved how a Jack the Ripper twist was added to the story (you can't have Victorian London without him).
The story twisted and turned wonderfully keeping me thoroughly engaged and interested throughout. I didn't see the final twist/outcome until it hit me and actually it made me want to reread the whole thing again to see if I had missed any clues as it put a real ethical spin on the entire story.
Awesome book which definitely hasn't been getting the exposure it deserves.
A huge thanks to Bloomsbury for sending me a review copy!
resugo said…
ooh...this sounds really good. Thanks for the recommendation!
Yeah, I haven't seen many reviews of this one either. I think it sounds fab. I had it checked out once from the library but didn't have time to get to it before it had to be returned. Might just have to give it another chance after your great review :)
It just looks fantastic. I love the concept
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Israeli government to deport Israel-Palestine Director of Human Rights Watch
By Myriam Purtscher - April 18, 2019
Tags: [BDS] [Human rights]
The Israeli government has upheld a deportation order against Human Rights Watch (HRW) director for the region, Omar Shakir, giving him two weeks to leave the country.
The Jerusalem District Court decided on 16 April to revoke Shakir’s work permit stating that his activities against Israel’s West Bank settlements amount to a boycott of the country.
Under an Israeli law passed in 2017, any foreigner who “knowingly issues a public call for boycotting Israel” can be denied obtaining a residency permit or work visa and barred from entering the country.
Tuesday’s ruling was the first time since the law was enacted against someone already residing in the country and has given Shakir until 1 May to exit Israel.
Shakir, a US citizen, has worked as HRW's Israel and Palestine director since October 2016.
Israel's Interior Minister Arye Dery has labelled Shakir a “boycott activist” for his alleged support of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Both HRW and Shakir have denied having any part in the movement.
According to Al Jazeera, the court stated Shakir "continues his actions publicly to advance a boycott against Israel, but it's not on the stages at conferences or in university panels, rather through disseminating his calls to advance boycott primarily through his Twitter account and by other means".
The court cited Shakir’s support on Twitter for Airbnb's decision to remove postings from Israeli settlements in the West Bank as an example. Airbnb has since reneged on that decision.
In a statement, Human Rights Watch has said this ruling sets a precedent that could threaten the rights and worker status of other advocacy organisations in the region.
“Israel portrays itself as the region’s only democracy, but is set to deport a rights defender over his peaceful advocacy,” said Tom Porteous, deputy program director at Human Rights Watch.
“The decision sends the chilling message that those who criticize the involvement of businesses in serious abuses in Israeli settlements risk being barred from Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.”
A press release from Israeli Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem, said this court ruling “shines a spotlight on the place Israel holds in the infamous club of countries that restrict the activities of human rights organizations.”
B’Tselem further stated they will stand in solidarity with HRW and continue to publicise the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
“B’Tselem cordially informs the Israeli government that together with our colleagues in HRW and other human rights organisations, we will go on and provide the public – in Israel and all over the world – the facts. We will make sure that the reality of occupation will continue to be heard everywhere - until its end,” the statement said.
According to Middle East Monitor, Shakir’s lawyer, Michael Sfard, said: “Today’s ruling endangers the activities of all the international human rights organisations in Israel and in the occupied [Palestinian] territories […] the court has toed the line with a regime that seeks to silence criticism even at the cost of infringing on society’s most important liberties. We will of course appeal.”
Human Rights Watch is planning to challenge the decision in Israel’s Supreme Court and seek an injunction allowing Shakir to remain in Israel until the appeal is heard.
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Publishing: a new monthly for children hits newsstands
Focus Wild, a magazine dedicated to the world of animals expands the portfolio of titles published by Gruner+Jahr/Mondadori
Gruner+Jahr/Mondadori has launched a new product with the Focus brand in the Italian magazine market dedicated in particular to children who love animals.
The title is called Focus Wild and the monthly makes its first appearance on the newsstands on Tuesday 26 July. The magazine is edited by Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, head of the children’s and young people’s area of Gruner+Jahr/Mondadori (Focus Junior, Focus Pico e Focus Geronimo Stilton).
Focus Wild is aimed at children between the ages of 10 and 14 with a passions for the world of animals in general. The new title is divided into two main areas: the first is the section entitled Mondo, where readers can admire high quality images and reports about animals and their behaviour, interviews with well known personalities and a range of interesting curiosities. The second section, entitled How-to, features pages dedicated to looking after domestic pets.
“With this new product,” underlined Fabienne Schwalbe, managing director of Gruner+Jahr/Mondadori, “the recognised authority of the Focus brand will be able to satisfy the needs of a market that, until now, was not catered for in print. The launch of Focus Wild, with its innovative approach, puts us again in step with the times and tastes of our targets and confirms our absolute leadership in the kids’ edutainment segment.”
“Focus Wild,” added Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, “is a magazine that, as well as presenting the wonders of the animal world, also features surveys and reports on environmental problems and suggests a number of ways in which “you can do something”. In fact there are a great number of kids who are passionate about animals and want to get involved personally. This magazine is for them.”
With 68 pages and in the 22 x 28.5 cm format, Focus Wild will have a cover price of €3.50, and a print run for the launch of 150,000 copies.
The launch of the new title will be supported by a major advertising campaign on Mediaset channels, as well as digital and satellite channels aimed at children, ad pages in both Gruner+Jahr/Mondadori and Mondadori titles and point of sale posters.
Advertising sales are being managed by Mondadori Pubblicità.
25 Jul 2011 / at 13:00
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Panorama d’Italia returns and flies to New York: the very best of Italian excellence in 11 stages
Starting from Turin of 5 April and ending in Ragusa in November with many new features. And in the autumn, a transfer to the US for “This is Italy – Parts Unknown”. This is Panorama d’Italia 2017
The fourth edition of Panorama d’Italia, the live & media experience of Panorama, kicks off on 5 April to talk about Italy directly from its streets with initiatives and events open to everyone. After the record-breaking 2016 edition, the Mondadori Group newsmagazine, edited by Giorgio Mule, returns to celebrate the protagonists of the best of Italy in the business world, the economy, culture, science and food and wine, in 10 new stages taking in 13 Italian cities between April and November, with a successful award-winning format and many new features.
An authentic consecration of a now tried and tested formula of talk shows, debates with the protagonists of national politics, conferences, shows: in three years some 13 million people were reached by the tour and the public who intervened directly at the various appointments in the 30 cities amounted to some 320,000 thousand, with 1,123 guests and speakers (including 17 ministers, 15 Regional Presidents and 26 mayors), 1,210 media mobilised for 636 events, all open to the public, 511 entrepreneurs involved round table discussions with the participation of over 1,800 companies (including 500 innovative start-ups) and, finally, 37 universities and a total of 121 sponsors.
“Like all creatures, in this case editorial, also Panorama d’Italia has its own development path,” said the editor of Panorama Giorgio Mule. “After making the week dedicated to Milan permanent, this year, in addition to the 10 Italian stages, we decided to take a leap: to America. So, it is with considerable pride that we are launching This is Italy – Parts Unknown, a twin of the Panorama d’Italia that will be in New York in the autumn. We did this following in the path laid out by the President of the Italy, Sergio Mattarella. In fact, in October 2016, the President encouraged Panorama d’Italia to “enhance the excellence in which Italy is rich, and to expand knowledge and confidence in the future.” And that is what we will do in this, even richer, edition of Panorama d’Italia and that’s what we’ll do in New York with This is Italy – Parts Unknown,” Mulè concluded.
The stages of the tour and the American “expedition”
In 10 stages from April to November, Panorama will cross Italy from north to south, involving local excellence and prestigious guests, moderated by the magazines leading journalists and others. For four days each city will host a full calendar of events in the most representative places in close contact with the protagonists.
We get started in Turin (from 5-8 April) and then make a stop in Bologna (19-22 April), Pavia (17-20 May), Spoleto, Norcia and Montefalco (7-10 June), Bari (28 June-1July), Trieste and Udine (6-9 September), Olbia (27-30 September), a special stop in Milan (15-21 October) and, finally, Caserta (8-11 November) and Dubrovnik (22-25 November).
This year these dates will be supplemented by This is Italy – Parts Unknown, a special stage in New York, from 31 October to 2 November: three days of events with a programme entirely dedicated to the discovery and celebration of our country through food and wine, business, fashion, design, art and culture. A showcase of excellence, thanks to the collaboration of Italian Business and Investment Initiatives and the support of the prestigious US Council on Foreign Relations, that includes four workshops dedicated to companies that have been able to put down roots in the United States, the excellence of Italian food and manufacturing, the best practices of Italian institutions and the capacity of cities to modernise. During a gala dinner at the Harvard Club, Italian & American Leadership awards will be presented. Among the Italians to be awarded will be the tenor Vittorio Grigolo, the football player Andrea Pirlo and the chef Vito Mollica.
There will be a number of new features in the 2017 edition, which confirms the most popular of appointments recent years and will expand the range of initiatives with new partners and new projects.
A city in the mirror: Inthera, a company of the Mondadori Group, will conduct research dedicated to the territory of each stage to find out people’s views on work, their faith in and expectations for the future, their sense of belonging, social values, and their level of satisfaction with available services. The research will also examine issues related to consumption and buying propensity.
Focus meetings: after the extraordinary reception of last year, Focus will double its presence in the Panorama d’Italia programme, with four the events organised in every stage by Italy’s most widely read magazine, with 5 million readers, and edited by Jacopo Loredan. The novelty of 2017 is “Health on a plate. Discovering the truth and misconceptions about food”, a new format dedicated to nutrition and health, that will take the form of a Q & A with researchers and industry experts. Also making its debut this year is “Discover the past, understand the present”, which with Focus Storia will look at current events through episodes and events which have their origin in the local history of our country.
Also confirmed is the appointment with astronomy, which last year saw the astronaut Umberto Guidoni “Walking in space” with scientists and astronauts from the Italian Space Agency (ASI-Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) and the European Space Agency (ESA). Another repeat feature is the meeting dedicated to the environment with “Pollution and climate change: a changing earth”, in collaboration with the Department of Earth Sciences and Environmental Technology of the CNR, the Italian Air Force and Greenpeace Italy. During the event secondary school students will be the protagonists of a training workshop organised by Focus journalists.
Startups and innovation: the title is “Eureka: an idea becomes a business”, and it is a Panorama d’Italia competition that rewards business ideas and the most innovative projects aimed at the collective well-being of local communities. A panel of industry experts will award the idea and the most innovative start-up with a week of intensive training in New York as part of the “One Week Accelerator Program NY organised by the Italian Business & Investment Initiative.” An extraordinary showcase for business opportunities across the Atlantic for makers and startuppers from the nine regions involved in the tour and operating in the sectors of mobility; green economy; environmental health; youth and schools/work; tourism; wellness and lifestyle; integration and multicultural initiatives; an cyber security.
Projects for schools: students from the schools in the territories involved in the tour will have an increasingly active role in the 2017 edition of Panorama d’Italia. The new feature this year is called “Treasures of Italy: the city speaks”, a contest with which Panorama will rewards a high school with an entire computer room provided by Lenovo. To participate, students will create a photographic and/or journalistic reportage, a promotional video, an artistic artefact, a painting, a poem or a short story on the theme of beauty linked to the territory visited by Panorama d’Italia. In addition, Panorama has donated more than 7,000 books to colleges in previous years thanks to the “100 books for a school” initiative, enriching the libraries of the schools that have won the competition, which returns this year. This also includes “The beauty of Milan”, the initiative that in 2016 gave Milanese high schools the opportunity to make a special edition of the school newspaper, and then awarded 10 students with an internship at Mondadori, part of a combined school and work programme. This year, as well as books for the school library, participants can also win computers and other technological tools for their school.
Naturally, there is the Milan stage of the tour, which, after the extraordinary success of 2016 – with 22,000 participants and 54 events over 7 days – this year will be held from 15 to 21 October. Among the guests will be Benji & Fede, the pop duo favourite of the very young, and stars of a unique event in favour of the charity Lega del Filo d’Oro.
Cooking classes: in addition to the usual space given to culinary excellence with show cooking events featuring best chefs and meetings with personalities from the world of food, this year the taste experience is enriched with cooking classes in collaboration with Eataly: group lessons experts and focused on recipes, to be tried out in the company of friends and family, and special moments even for children.
On the occasion of the triple stage in Umbria, there will be a big concert in Spoleto to celebrate the territory in a special evening of music and solidarity and with the special participation of Serena Autieri. The popular musicians Giovanni Allevi and Niccolò Agliardi have already signed up for the show.
Meanwhile, a Panorama d’Italia info point will be a fixed feature in 10 cities throughout the duration of this stage, and in other areas there will be an alternating series of institutional and entertainment events. As always, the protagonists are artists, musicians, writers and celebrities, with exclusive interviews, presentations, showcases and previews.
An appointment reserved for the cinema, and curated by Piera Detassis, editor of Ciak and president of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, will be especially dedicated to actors and directors.
Among the inevitable appointments with art, we will once again feature Vittorio Sgarbi, an exceptional guide to the artistic heritage of the area. Meanwhile, The Secret City, guided tours of palaces and other places of art generally closed to the public, will bring to light the hidden treasures of each city. An opportunity to rediscover the beauty of the area is also the purpose of the bike tour organised by EICMA, which with a special appearance by Roberto Giacobbo who will guide participants around a series of monuments and architectural treasures. Among the recurring guests there will also be the editor of Chi Alfonso Signorini who will conduct exclusive special talk shows with the most popular show business personalities of the moment.
Panorama will also renew its commitment to training and work: once again this year Panorama d’Italia will provide opportunities for young high school graduates, university undergraduates and graduates to participate in panel discussions and individual orientation sessions, in collaboration with the HRCommunity Academy Italia, with the HR managers of leading companies in the area.
Also our charity partnership with the Lega del Filo d’Oro will remain central with a contribution to the construction of the new Osimo Centre, an entirely new home for the deaf and blind and multi-disabled. Fundraising efforts are brought to life thanks to our collaboration with Cruciani, which has created a new limited edition bracelet especially for the occasion, to be sold exclusively at the events of the stages of the tour and on the Lega del Filo d’Oro web site. All proceeds from the sale of the bracelet will go to the charity association.
Panorama d’Italia online
The main events will be visible live on Panoramaditalia.it, on the Panorama.tv channel and on Facebook. Over the past few years we have broadcast more than 540 hours of live streaming of events, as well as live updates, photos and videos from the stages in progress. The site dedicated to the tour will this year provide an area for recording the events, which will offer a free three-month subscription to the digital edition of Panorama.
You can share all your impressions and experiences from the events of Panorama d’Italia on all of the leading social networks using the hashtag #panoramaditalia. The Twitter account @panoramaditalia will comment in real time on all the most important moments involving the protagonists of the events. Users of the social community are currently are 350,000, with 5,665,000 total views on Facebook alone.
Panorama d’Italia is fortunate to be able to count on the support of high-level partners, who share the same commitment to the promotion of Italian excellence around the country and the world. They include: Ab medica, Autostrade per l’Italia, Cobat, Eataly, EICMA, Enel, Grimaldi Lines, IBM, Intesa San Paolo, Lenovo, Lottomatica, Università Telematica Pegaso, Poste Italiane, Sicily by Car, Teva. The charity partnership with the Lega del Filo d’Oro will accompany all tour dates. In addition, stage by stage, there will also be active media partnerships with leading local newspapers, and TV and radio stations.
Panorama d’Italia is produced in collaboration with Triumph Group International for executive production and logistics; the registration platform is managed by The Rocks, while the digital strategy is developed and run by FPS Media.
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1. foreign terrorist organization (om gruppe) a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals
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Take notice that the following development permits for the proposed uses listed below have been approved by the Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8.
Any person wishing to appeal the decision may do so by filing a written notice of appeal, outlining the reasons for the appeal, within 21 days to the Secretary of the Subdivision and Development Appeal Board, Municipal District of Bighorn, Box 310, Exshaw, Alberta TOL 2CO. The applicable fee, must be submitted with the appeal letter.
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**Note: This permit is a Discretionary Use. This decision will be advertised in the local newspaper. The decision, or conditions attached thereto, may be appealed by an affected party in writing, including a statement as to the reasons for the appeal, within twenty-one (21) days of this advertisement to the Secretary of the Subdivision and Development Appeal Board, M.D. of Bighorn Municipal Office, Box 310, Exshaw, Alberta, T0L 2C0. The applicable appeal fee must be submitted with an appeal letter. The applicant may appeal within twenty-one (21) days of receipt of this decision.
The applicant may appeal within twenty-one (21) days of receipt of this decision.The above mentioned permits shall not come into effect until 21 days from the date this notice is displayed. Further information regarding these permits may be obtained from the M.D. of Bighorn No. 8 Municipal Office at 673-3611 or 233-7678 (Calgary Direct Line).
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Above, a preemie at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; below, illustration of ‘Biobag’ research. (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia)
Culture of Life | May. 26, 2017
‘Incubator Tech’: The Brave New World of Babies
Lambs have been successfully gestated in ‘artificial wombs’ outside of their mothers, using new technology that will be tried in humans soon.
Celeste McGovern
Eight baby lambs born extremely premature have successfully developed for four weeks in “Biobags” of temperature-controlled sterile fluid — a revolutionary innovation in the world of neonatal intensive care that produced superior results to all current incubator technology.
But along with the medical potential of these “artificial wombs,” some observers question the moral implications of such scientific advances, noting they could negatively impact the institution of motherhood.
A study published in Nature Communication describes how the team of researchers at the Center for Fetal Research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHoP) developed an “extra-uterine” system that used the fetal lamb’s own heartbeat to generate blood flow and an oxygenating circuit attached to the lamb’s umbilical cord vessels to connect to an external gas exchange unit similar to an artificial placenta.
The lamb fetuses were also enclosed in a liquid environment where they could swallow and breathe fluid to mimic the animal’s natural life in the womb as closely as possible.
“Animals opened their eyes, became more active, had apparently normal breathing and swallowing movements, grew wool and clearly occupied a greater proportion of space within the bags,” says the paper.
The longest runs were terminated at 28 days due to animal protocol limitations rather than instability, making the lamb experiments the most successful of their kind to date and suggesting that they could be supported longer, if necessary.
Pictures in the study and footage of the lambs show that they developed from pink, clearly premature fetuses to chubby, woolly lambs who seem unperturbed by their technological surroundings.
“It never fails to strike me what a miracle it is to see this fetus that is clearly not ready to be born enclosed in this fluid space, breathing, swallowing, swimming, dreaming, with complete detachment from the placenta and from mom. It is an awe-inspiring site,” Emily Partridge, the lead researcher on the study, said in a hospital video about the research.
Risks of Premature Birth
The “extra-uterine” research on lambs is motivated by the desire to improve survival rates among human babies. About 1% of American babies are born significantly premature, and these babies only have about a 50% chance of surviving.
“Of those infants that do survive the early neonatal period, they are normally around 90% morbidity, so the majority of those infants born at 24 weeks have some sort of illness; and most of the time that is due to lung immaturity,” explained Marcus Davey, one of the CHoP researchers.
More than one-third of all infant deaths and one-half of cerebral-palsy cases in the United States today are attributed to premature birth.
“Amongst those that survive, the challenges really are some of the things we all take for granted: walking, talking, seeing, hearing and developing along the normal path,” said Kevin Dysart, a neonatologist at the CHoP.
According to the study, as the limit of viability has extended back further, the total number of patients with severe complications from being born earlier is actually increasing, and the problem is not going away.
Working From Scratch
Researchers have made several attempts to develop an “artificial placenta” over the past 50 years, but with very limited success. Advances in neonatal intensive care have pushed the limits of viability to 22 to 23 weeks of gestation, but that has come with high rates of chronic lung disease among preemie survivors, particularly those born before 28-weeks gestation.
Initially, the researchers working at CHoP had no grant, so they rummaged around for equipment from hardware and plumbing shops, beer stores and eBay, to put together a primitive “fish-bowl system,” which gradually evolved into the “Biobag,” resembling a large Ziploc storage bag, which is currently in use.
The “Biobag” is filled with a simple electrolyte system, and, since natural amniotic fluid is much more complex, containing many growth factors, the search for an optimal artificial amniotic fluid is underway.
“If it’s as successful as we think it can be, ultimately the majority of pregnancies that are predicted at risk for extreme prematurity, would be delivered early onto our system rather than delivered premature onto a ventilator,” said Dr. Alan Flake, the center’s director.
“With that, we would have normal physiologic development and would avoid essentially all of the major risks of prematurity,” Flake said. “We’re in the process of interacting with the FDA, so it’s not inconceivable that we could be talking about a clinical trial one to two years from now.”
Utopian or Dystopian?
The prospect of human babies being gestated in plastic bags within a few years generated a storm of commentary about the societal implications.
Artificial wombs that can gestate babies — or clones of babies — are the only missing technology in the fictional Brave New World dystopia described by author Aldous Huxley.
“An artificial womb could present a better alternative to commercial surrogacy, which many denounce as exploitative,” Aarathi Prasad wrote in The Guardian. “It might also mean that the divide between mother and father can be dispensed with: a womb outside a woman’s body would serve women, trans women and male same-sex couples equally without prejudice.”
“If an artificial womb is created, it will mean that women will be freed from the dangers of pregnancy and create a more equal distribution of ‘labor,’ with women able to work throughout gestation,” she added. “It will also give men an essential tool to have a child entirely without a woman, should they choose. It will ask us to question concepts of gender and parenthood.”
Others questioned whether this development might frustrate champions of abortion on demand by requiring that “viable” fetuses be saved in artificial wombs rather than aborted.
“Up to now, we’ve been either born or not born. This would be halfway born, or something like that. Think about that in terms of our abortion politics,” Dena Davis, a bioethicist, told NPR.
“States could theoretically require women getting abortions to put their fetuses into artificial wombs,” Scott Gelfand, another bioethicist, remarked in the same article.
The CHoP researchers themselves said their technology is exclusively about saving premature babies and improving their outcomes. “It is a hugely important point that we do not intend to challenge the currently accepted standard for a viable infant. The challenging age that we are trying to offset is that 23-to-24-week baby who is faced with such a challenge to adapting outside of the uterus on dry land,” Partridge said.
Catholic Perspectives
Advancing technologies aimed at preserving and protecting vulnerable human life, including that of premature babies, is something the Church has always endorsed.
Unlike artificial conception, which the Church considers “gravely immoral” because it infringes on the “child’s right to be born of a father and mother known to him,” there is nothing inherently wrong with any of the components of the new neonatal technology.
However, like most new reproductive technologies that are racing in development, future ethical quandaries and misuses are likely to arise.
“I’m worried about using artificial wombs for ‘leftover’ embryos, unless there are adoptive parents ready and willing to bring the baby home,” Christopher Kaczor, a professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, told the Register. He has written about how advances for growing embryos will one day open up a Pandora’s box of gestating possibility. “Also, anytime a new technology like this is used on human beings before maturity, they are being experimented on without their consent, which is ethically problematic.”
Those ethical quagmires are likely to fill newspaper pages in the future, but the first generation “artificial womb” is essentially a revolutionized incubator, which may save lives and dramatically improve the health of babies, which Catholics can use in good conscience and celebrate.
Celeste McGovern writes from Scotland.
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A (Very) Private Resident’s View of The Grenadian by Rex vs. Government of Grenada
in Business, Commentary, Tourism
Grenadian by Rex resorts
Since arriving in Grenada in early January for my usual winter sojourn, I have read several articles in various newspapers recounting “movements” in a match between the Government of Grenada and Rex Resorts. In a nutshell, seems that Government wants to evict Rex so that they can be replaced by a ‘five-star’ resort. The [new] resort operator reputedly has already been identified but remains unnamed and, if one is lead to believe, is just waiting in the wings. I might note that such restricted disclosure is not all that unusual as many Governments generally operate under the rule that “too much information in the Public Arena can prove harmful to their longevity.”
If I have it right, the Government maintains that The Grenadian by Rex is a bit ‘dishabille’ (aka rundown), which they claim is decidedly contrary to Rex’s solemn undertaking to the Government back around 1990 to establish and operate a “5-Star Resort” or the equivalent. The Government claims to have obtained the Court’s consent to terminate the Lease and evict The Rex and have moved very publicly to do so. Rex claims that they are, in fact, in full compliance with the terms of the Lease and also have plans and actions currently underway to further renew and upgrade their facilities. On what information is available to the Public, the matter seems to revolve around what standard of operation(s) were agreed to between the parties and, in particular, exactly how this was documented in the 99 Year Lease between the parties.
It appears that the exact wording of the matter as covered in the Lease has never been publicly disclosed by either of the parties. Both parties continue to rely on what they believe the Lease is/was intended to convey, not what it actually says — which is all that really matters. It appears that this might soon change as, upon my suggestion, an Editor, to their credit, has agreed to obtain a copy of the Lease and to analyse it to provide readers with a third party view on the contested claim concerning “standards”. I look forward eagerly to reading their “independent” view on this seemingly central issue.
The inference by Government spokespersons that Rex should be a 5-star Hotel, or move aside and allow the Government to redevelop the property as a 5-Star Resort, perhaps conveniently overlooks the fact that every tourist destination needs a range of accommodations, activities and prices to maximise its appeal to all potential visitors. One gets the feeling from our government that all Grenada accommodations should be at an equivalent standard to Sandals LaSource or perhaps even higher.
Consider that on their website, Virgin Holidays currently offers a week for 2 from 28 March 2017 at Sandals LaSource starting from £5,219 pounds sterling and from £3,049 pounds sterling at Rex, for the exact same period. When one compares the respective offerings and the vast difference in prices, it is clear they are not trying to attract the same potential guests which is great for Grenada!
Just because Rex is listed as a 3-star Resort, and below the standard of Sandals LaSource, does not make them a ‘dog’. Virgin Holidays lists 1,765 Trip Advisor Reviews for Rex of which 35% are ‘Excellent’; 43% ‘Very Good’ and 14% ‘Average.’ Compositely, 92% of guests to The Rex had their expectations met, and in the majority of cases, exceeded. Not surprisingly, Trip Advisor gives Rex a 4 out of 5 Guest Satisfaction Rating. This is at direct variance with the Government’s implied intent to convince us that the Rex is a ‘dump’ and does not deserve to exist any longer. Guests clearly enjoy both Resorts!
The most important consideration to Grenadians should be how such action by the government will increase the economic well-being of the Island, and this is not being addressed. In this regard, “LaSource” could prove a very useful precursor of the financial consequences of their intended actions. Sandals came to Grenada only after the Government of the day literally agreed to “give the shop away” to get them here. Consider, in the words of Mr Nazim Burke, Finance Minister, “Sandals LaSource is to enjoy the following concessions: Zero Corporate Taxes for 25 years; a ‘cap’ (?) on Property Taxes for 25 years; Zero Import Duties, VAT and Customs Service Charges on Capital Inputs for 25 years; Zero Import duties for 25 years and Zero VAT for 15 years on all consumer goods; a “cap” (?) on VAT on Occupancy for 25 years”. With such concessions, one wonders whether Sandals spends any money locally, except for very low wages?
Sandals LaSource de facto became a ‘replacement’ for the original LaSource, which I believe was at that time paying the full rate of every one of the above tax categories, providing millions of dollars of government revenue annually. This was replaced by virtually zero or a very minimum income from Sandals, which we can expect to continue over the next 15 to 25 years. Incidentally, at the time of announcing the ‘deal’ with Sandals, the Finance Minister postulated that the approximately 225 jobs displaced in the process would be taken up by Sandals. The reality has proved very different, and the very few that did get to join Sandals did so at very much lower wages than before.
Note to the (politically brave) Press; Here is an excellent opportunity to do some investigative journalism by conducting a survey among the leading resorts on the Island covering the more popular and generic staffing positions such as housekeeper, bartender, waiter/waitress, and the like. Cooperation for such an exercise may not exactly be readily forthcoming, but this could be overcome with ingenuity. The findings may prove of great interest to the public and help you sell newspapers, rather than consistently relying on printing press releases in many cases.
One can anticipate that similar or even more generous concessions than those granted to Sandals will/has become a blueprint for the Government’s replacement of Rex, and perhaps all of the new ‘5-star’ Resorts being developed under the auspices of the “Citizenship by Investment” Program — Grenada’s new saviour, on which the public has absolutely no information. Why can we not know?
I think that it would be very, very instructive for someone in the Finance Ministry to go back and enumerate all of the revenues received from the original LaSource in its last full year of operation and compare this to the revenues received from Sandals in their last 12 months of operation. The results might just delight their superiors! I use the term “very instructive” as I think the very same result will occur by replacing Rex (whom I believe are paying the full established tax rates), with another Resort with the same or more concessions than Sandals.
The original LaSource got to a point where it could not continue with the very high debt burden that it emerged out of Hurricane Ivan with, largely because the lead insurer refused to pay their 50% of the Hurricane Claim that was accepted and settled by their 2 co-insurers. As I mentioned above, I do not believe that LaSource was operating with any concessions from Government, and it could have been a better financial deal for the government to have offered them enough concessions to facilitate a restructuring of their debt. I am confident that concessions at the extreme levels of Sandals would not have been necessary. Ah, the benefit of hindsight!
An obvious concern to the public should be that the concessions granted to Sandals, and likely to all of the projects being development under the CBI Programme, gives all of these resorts a tremendous financial advantage over the many other establishments that do not enjoy similar concessions. Strangely, I have yet to notice any discussion on this very important factor anywhere!
Having said all of this, I do not have any idea of the financial viability of Rex’s operation, as I have absolutely no connection whatsoever with them. It is entirely possible that Rex may secretly be delighted at the opportunity to get out of Grenada on favourable financial terms. All of their actions/reactions could merely be a ‘public dance’ to assist them in extracting the best possible compensation from Government. Interestingly, if this be the case, the way the Government has approached the matter very clumsily provides significant ‘leverage’ to Rex to extract additional compensation, some of which to offset the obvious damage being done to their business by the Government’s public actions.
In closing, it has been said elsewhere that the desire to replace Rex is part of a government strategy to expand the number of available rooms on the Island. However, despite the fact that ‘logic’ and ‘government’ are foreign to each other, I dismiss this. Could anyone believe that removing and replacing rooms rather than building additional rooms at an alternate site would increase the room stock?
Murder will (certainly) be out!
The Grand Poobah
PS: The fact that our governments feel it necessary to grant such incredible concessions to invest in Grenada is a startling testament to the very high taxation burdens now imposed on Residents — while we drive blissfully on pot-holed roads with virtually no enforcement of traffic regulations!
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Sweetwater Records' recording artist Ray Fogg has been leaving audiences with a guilty smile on their faces at Put-in-Bay, the popular Lake Erie party island for over 20 years.
Each year he presides over the official opening and closing of the tourist season at the world famous Round House Bar. Then, he spends most of the tourist season performing at the Reel Bar, with special appearances at the Round House Bar.
During the off-season his tour has taken him to world famous venues like Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West and the Tropical Isle in New Orleans' French Quarter, as well as to Great Lakes towns throughout Michigan and Ohio, where he draws enthusiastic fans hungry for their winter-time Ray Fogg fix.
Its hard to put a tag on Fogg's shows. Most leave the show knowing that they have laughed hard and often. But Fogg gets his laughs within clever songs that are not for the kids adults only! So, some call it a comedy show and some call it a concert. Lets just say its a hell of a lot of fun! Ponder song titles like Kiss My Bass and If They Could Just Cut Off Your Big Fat A** I Think I Could Love You Forever and you get the idea.
The Detroit News said Fogg "weaves music, comedy and heartfelt songs about island life into an entertaining show." "One island is not enough to hold all of Fogg's talent" said the Sandusky Register. Cleveland's Sun Papers said, "What attracts people to Fogg's shows is his ability to write, and better yet ad lib, edgy comical songs and anecdotes perfectly suited to a beer-drinking crowd.
In May 2009, Fogg released his sixth CD, Island Life, which features songs revolving around life on an island. Since 1998, he has released six CDs with his band, The Swingin' Lesbian Frogs, entitled Waves in 1998, Kiss My Bass in 1999, I'm Busy (boating, drinking, singing) in 2001, Live from Put-in-Bay - Christmas in July in 2003 and Sorry If I Was A Dick Last Night in 2006. Waves features many of Fogg's heartfelt songs about the islands. Kiss My Bass features the humorous and raunchy songs which have become popular at Ray's live shows. Some of these songs may not be the most politically correct songs, but they're funny as hell!! I'm Busy strikes a balance between the first two CDs with great songs such as "The Moon Song" as well as more drinking songs like "Everyone's a 10 at 2:00". The Live CD captures an evening at Put-In-Bay where Fogg holds court through the summer. As the title suggests, Sorry If I Was A Dick Last Night takes aim directly at the profane wit people have come to expect at Fogg's live shows.
But on his latest effort, Island Life, Fogg has left the dirty stuff behind and returned to his roots, so to speak, with a recording that showcases his serious songwriting. Of his past releases, this CD, a collection songs about life on an island, is most reminisant of his 1998 Waves CD. There are some funny parodies here too, but its rated PG this time!
For Booking Information
Call Mark Ray at Sweetwater Records (216) 749-3334
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GUEST VIEWPOINT: Natural Gas Supply Crisis Poses Threat to Region’s Economic Health
John Ravitz | February 2019
John Ravitz
Editor’s Note: The following was the testimony given by John Ravitz, executive vice president and chief operating officer of The Business Council of Westchester, at a hearing of the New York State Public Service Commission at a hearing at the White Plains Library on Feb. 13.
Good evening. My name is John Ravitz. I am Vice President and COO of the Business Council of Westchester, the only business membership organization whose focus is on economic development and advocacy in Westchester County. I appreciate the opportunity to address the commission on this urgent matter.
With hundreds of millions of dollars in new development and thousands of residential housing units in jeopardy, the Business Council of Westchester is deeply concerned by Con Edison’s announced moratorium on adding new natural gas customers in Westchester effective March 15. Upon receiving the announcement, the BCW immediately convened a high level briefing with Con Edison that was attended by more than 50 leading developers, all of whom have important proposed development projects pending in Westchester County.
The developers in attendance, and dozens more who have contacted us since, expressed a combination of frustration and anger that the situation has been allowed to reach a full-blown crisis, one that poses a serious threat to the future development and the economic health not just of Westchester, but across the entire metropolitan area.
Without question, the root cause of the problem is the lack of gas transmission pipeline capacity necessary to supply Con Ed with enough gas to meet increased demand. This situation has been years in the making. The state’s unwillingness to approve any new pipelines as a way of encouraging creation of new alternative energy sources has backfired. We now have the worst of both worlds: no available new gas supplies and no viable alternatives!
The pipeline companies have given up trying. Over the years they have spent countless millions seeking environmental approvals for new or expanded lines, only to be rejected in the end. At the same time, alternative energy sources such as wind turbines and solar installations have lagged far behind and face their own environmental obstacles.
The $3.5 million Smart Solutions program, which the BCW has always supported, which was approved last week by the PSC, falls well short of the urgent action that is needed to provide sufficient energy to supply future demand. Two of the key elements of the program—creating up to five natural gas storage sites and three facilities for the conversion of organic waste to renewable energy—will undoubtedly face significant local opposition and require lengthy environmental review processes with no certain outcomes. And, even if some of these measures are ultimately adopted, the impact on the overall energy supply would be too little too late.
An example of what lies ahead can be found in the upstate Village of Lansing near Ithaca, where a natural gas hookup moratorium was imposed. This led directly to the abandonment of a planned new medical facility that would have created 100 new jobs. It should also be noted that since the gas moratorium was put in place in Lansing not a single new restaurant has opened, and the community is facing an economic crisis.
That scenario would be magnified 10-fold in Westchester, which is experiencing a major renaissance in its urban centers including Yonkers, White Plains and New Rochelle. In Yonkers alone, there are 8,000 new units of residential housing and more than 2.2 million square feet of commercial space on the drawing boards, development that is projected to create some 5,400 construction jobs.
Westchester County’s Industrial Development Agency has approved inducements for $881 million in development, including 1,800 units of rental housing estimated to create 2,900 construction and permanent jobs, largely in White Plains. In New Rochelle, the state recently approved more than $100 million in funding for waterfront development.
The moratorium on natural gas puts all these projects at risk. That is not a viable option. The BCW is forming a high-level task force that will fully assess the situation and propose both short and long-term solutions to address the problem. The task force will begin work immediately and will include outreach to local, county and state leaders to work together to address the immediate and long-term situation.
The business and development community stand ready to step forward and work with Con Edison, the state government, the Public Service Commission and other involved parties to tackle the issue head-on. The moratorium is a wake-up call that can’t be ignored. We’re confident that working together we can and will find viable solutions.
Tough decisions must be made in the very near future, and some options will face strong opposition. However, without new gas pipeline capacity to Westchester and the region, we face a huge disruption in economic development and affordable housing projects, particularly in areas that need it most.
The Business Council of Westchester urges in the strongest terms that the PSC review the current situation and offer realistic, quickly achievable solutions starting with exploring ways and a willingness to expand the existing supply pipelines.
John Ravitz is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of The Business Council of Westchester.
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Will a "6.71" massacre happen today?
Posted By: FrancisDrake
Date: Wednesday, 21-Mar-2018 20:17:59
In Response To: HEAD'S UP: Ominous four-digit sequence appears like (Divine) "Handwriting on the Wall" (Street) TWICE in the past week. Saw it in a dream... (FrancisDrake)
Yesterday Monday March 19, 2018 was 25 years of 364 days each since the Federal siege of the Branch Davidian headquarters ended Monday April 19, 1993 with the place being burned and 76 men, women and children massacred: By each other or by the government depending on which view one takes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege
Today Tuesday March 20, 2018 is 180 years of 364 days each (=182×360 days) since the "Haun's Mill Massacre" of 17 Mormons--including children--took place Tuesday October 30, 1838, one victim was hacked to death with a scythe.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haun%27s_Mill_massacre
That was 5×364 = 7×260 days after the Mormon headquarters building and hundreds of homes in Independence Missouri were burned Tuesday November 5, 1833, within two days Mormons were forced at gunpoint out of Jackson County Missouri, which they believed was a "New Jerusalem".
"November 5, 1833: About a mile from Independence, the body of Mormons was met by officers from the Missouri Militia who explained that the militia had been called out to protect both sides in the dispute...After some discussion, the Mormons gave up their arms and returned to their homes.
"News spread rapidly that the majority of the Saints were now disarmed and mobs proceeded to fall onto every Mormon community. They wrecked, burned, pillaged. and ruined over 200 houses, dispersed the stock, whipped the men, and drove the young, old, sick, and helpless from their homes. Twelve hundred people were forced out at night into the teeth of a rising November gale.
"The people of whole settlements were herded together and driven before the mob. One group - all women and children except for three very old men - was driven thirty miles across a burnt prairie. The ground was thinly crusted with sleet, and the trail of the exiles could be easily followed by the blood which flowed from their lacerated feet...."
http://bishoppartridge.blogspot.com/2012/06/chapter-eleven-expulsion-from-jackson.html?m=1
Two years after the Waco Masscre, Federal employees were massacred at the Federal Building in Oklahoma City Wednesday April 19, 1995.
Six years after the Waco massacre took place the Columbine High School massacre, Tuesday April 20, 1999, that day was 85×364 days after Germans and French troops began massacring one another as World War I got underway Tuesday August 4, 1914.
Wednesday April 21, 1999 was 2000 times 360 days after Tuesday January 4, 28 A.D. when Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist (January 6, Julian Calendar).
Today is 1997 times 364 days since Jesus was baptized January 4, 28 A.D. That means the Haun's Mill Massacre was 1817 times 364 days after Jesus was baptized, the Waco Massacre was 1972 times 364 days after Jesus was baptized, the Oklahoma City massacre was 1974 times 364 days after Jesus was baptized and I already mentioned the Columbine Massacre was 2000 times 360 after Jesus was baptized.
28600 days ago (110 times 260) Russians began massacring Finnish people upon invading Finland November 30, 1939.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
"On 30 November 1939, Soviet forces invaded Finland with 21 divisions, totalling 450,000 men, and bombed Helsinki inflicting substantial damage and casualties... The Finnish statesman J. K. Paasikivi commented that the Soviet attack without a declaration of war violated three separate non-aggression pacts: the Treaty of Tartu signed in 1920, the non-aggression pact between Finland and the Soviet Union signed in 1932 and again in 1934, and also the Covenant of the League of Nations, which the Soviet Union signed in 1934..."
Today and October 30, 1838 and November 30, 1939 are day 71 in the 260-day count, "6 Artisan" in the Maya/Aztec Calendar, perhaps it could be expressed as day "6...71" sort of like June 1971 can be described as "6/71" or September 11 as "9/11".
I had that dream October 26, 1990 where I was standing in a river (like Jesus and John the Baptist did on January 4, 28 A.D.) and there were millions of dead fish-like creatures in the water, I held some in my hand to study them and a voice said sadly: "Six point seven one inches same as last time"
(See the post above this one is "replying" to for more about the dream and its interpretation and the fact that the number 6.71 appeared prominently on Wall Street January 26 and February 1 of this year.)
Noah's Flood is described in the 6th and 7th Chapter of the 1st book of the Bible.
"inches" refers to Great Pyramid inch-per-year prophecy, the center date of the Great Pyramid is Sunday October 27, 1844 which was 1840 times 360 days (288×2300) after the Crucifixion of Jesus on Wednesday March 26, 31 A.D. (which was 418×7×360 days after the Maya Era Base Date of Wednesday March 26, 2854 B.C....freakin amazing, man.)
Seventy times 364 days after Saturday night October 26, 1844, Germany "with great sadness" declared war on Russia Saturday night August 1, 1914--I'm alluding to the sadness in the October 26, 1990 dream, which took place 4.5 years after the tragic Chernobyl Ukraine nuclear disaster April 26, 1986. Yesterday a small but very rare (unusual) earthquake shook Ukraine at 9:48 a.m. CDT
https://m.emsc.eu/earthquake/earthquake.php?evid=654958
Also, an ominous earthquake in Kosovo last night at 7:55 p.m. CDT, Serbia's claim to Kosovo is involved in the root causes of World War I.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kosovo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip
Interestingly, a rare earthquake on the Belgium-Germany border at 7:55 p.m. CDT February 16, 2001 which is 6240 days (24 times 260) before last night's quake at that same time:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000a9rz#executive
...Reminds me that when Pluto entered the sign of Scorpio for the first time in 248 years, on November 8, 1983 (October 26 in the Julian Calendar), an historic earthquake struck Belgium at 7:50 p.m. CDT November 7, 1983. That was 48 times 260 days plus 71 days ago last night...
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp0001zn0#executive
The "6.71" dream took place 923,000 days after the sudden fall of Babylon September 24-25, 538 B.C., that is 50 times 71 times 260 days.
The Haun's Mill Massacre was 2 times 71 times 260 days before November 30, 1939. Two hundred days later, the French government agreed to surrender to invading Nazi Germany June 17, 1940 which is 400 times 71 days ago:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/france-to-surrender
Exactly one hundred years ago tonight at 9:35 p.m. CDT Wednesday March 20-21, 1918, the largest concerted artillery barrage in history began "Operation Michael" and the "Battle of St. Quentin", some 3,500,000 shells were fired.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Michael#St._Quentin
Exactly ten thousand days later, at 6:15 p.m. CDT Sunday August 5, 1945 the U.S. Navy dropped the Atomic Bomb over Hiroshima Japan.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
Fourteen years earlier (twice 7), Maine's largest earthquake shook New England at 1:04 a.m. EST March 21, 1904.
Twice seven years plus seventy years (84 years) before that was Monday March 20, 1820. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Vision
The 260-day count re-aligns with the 365.25-day year every 42 or 84 years.
Twice seventy years later a megaquake offshore Japan at 12:08 p.m. Sunday March 20, 1960...that was 42 years after Operation Michael began.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/iscgem878564#executive
So today is 198 years since March 20, 1820. 198 times 364 days after March 20, 1820, a megaquake offshore Russia at 6:34 p.m. CDT Monday July 17, 2017, preceded by a powerful foreshock at 6:05 a.m. CDT--
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2017-07-17/magnitude-77-quake-hits-alaska-usgs
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20009wwj#executive
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20009x42#executive
A major earthquake in Aachen, Germany--where Charlemagne reigned--5720 days ago, that is twice 11 times 260 days, it happened at 12:45 a.m. CDT Monday July 22, 2002.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000b8j3#executive
Seven times seven times seven times seven days ago, the biggest earthquake in more than a century struck Colorado at 12:46 a.m. CDT Tuesday August 23, 2011:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Colorado_earthquake
At 12:51 p.m. that day, the largest Eastern U.S. earthquake in 67 years shook Washington D.C:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Virginia_earthquake
The next day a major earthquake in Peru at 12:46 p.m. CDT.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000j6z8#executive
Sure enough a little earthquake north of Anchorage Alaska at 12:46 a.m. CDT just now (13 minutes ago).
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ak18714698#executive
HEAD'S UP: Ominous four-digit sequence appears like (Divine) "Handwriting on the Wall" (Street) TWICE in the past week. Saw it in a dream...
FrancisDrake -- Tuesday, 20-Mar-2018 02:02:17
Great reader reply: 6 is man 7 angels 1 God, Noah and the gathering..."A feel of FREEDOM is in the air!".
FrancisDrake -- Friday, 2-Feb-2018 13:33:21
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oliverhaddo -- Friday, 2-Feb-2018 16:54:22
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Expansion Leads to Office Move for Peak Scientific Singapore
Member News 20th June 2019
Laboratory gas generation specialist, Peak Scientific, relocated to a new bespoke office facility in Singapore last week, on 11 June 2019. The move came following the global company’s recent plans for introducing increased capacity to support growth in its Asian markets.
Peak Scientific first launched its office in Singapore with the aim to provide enhanced support to its Asian market through its sales, technical support and after-sales channels.
The additional capacity of the company in the region is set to bolster Peak Scientific’s services to meet the rise in local demand. The new facility will also see an increase in employment opportunities over the coming years.
Jonathan Golby, CEO at Peak Scientific, says, “Since the opening of the first office in Singapore, Peak Scientific continued to grow from strength to strength. The new facility will enhance the services Peak Scientific provides to the ever-growing market demand across all of Asia.
“In the face of rapid growth, expanding the range of our facilities was the natural next step for Peak Scientific.
“It’s an exciting time for the company – we are looking forward to a bigger team, as we continue to work together to meet our customers’ needs.”
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India’s jaw-dropping money experiment
While the rest of the world was focused on the US Presidential Election last week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi suddenly declared that he was voiding about 86% of the rupees in circulation.
“Oh, yes, and by the way, the banks and ATMs won’t be working for at least the next two days.”
Some numbers:
According to the Reserve Bank of India, there are 16,500,000,000 actual ₹500 notes in circulation, and 6,700,000,000 ₹1,000 notes.
Each ₹500 is worth around $7, and each ₹1,000 note is worth slightly less than $15.
In case you’re wondering, in total, those bills were worth about $216 billion – which is equivalent to about 80% of the entire South African economy.
That’s also equivalent in value to almost a sixth of the Indian economy.
Also (and I’ll come back to this), about 68% of all transactions in India are cash-based (compare that to the US at 20%, or the UK at 11%).
And while we’re here, just consider that the Indian economy is about five times the size of South Africa’s – but they have about 27 times the amount of actual cash in circulation.
To be honest – one of the most impressive parts of this story is that Mr Modi managed to have a ‘surprise’ at all. We’re talking about a country of almost 1.2 billion people: someone should have leaked it out.
In practice, this meant that no logistical planning could take place. My favourite quote:
The government deliberately didn’t reconfigure the more than 200,000 cash machines beforehand to help keep the announcement a secret. The machines are being re-calibrated so that they can dispense new 500 and 2,000 rupee notes, which do not fit into the existing cash trays in the ATMs.
Un. Real.
Why is this happening?
Well, the official story is that this is trying to root out ‘black money’ and reduce corruption. Essentially though, this is about tax collection. Two things to point out:
Cash is almost entirely anonymous.
Bank transfers are never anonymous.
When 68% of transactions are cash-based, the job of a tax collector is difficult. They have to rely on in-depth lifestyle audits and tax raids.
But in a cash-less economy, the tax collector just asks to see your bank statement.
And in a more cashless economy, the cashlessness is self-reinforcing. If everyone uses cash, then it’s easy to fall off the radar – but if everyone uses bank transfers, then it’s quite challenging to be the only tax-evader in the room using cash. Eventually, somewhere down the line, you’re going to want to buy a house or a car or some kind of asset with all your untaxed wealth – and if you throw cash on the table, someone is going to ask a question.
So even if the Indian government says that it’s going to replace the notes with new notes:
There are apparently going to be limits on how many new ₹2,000 notes are printed;
Anyone depositing large numbers of rupee cash bundles has to justify where their money came from; and
How keen do you think the Indian people will be to keep all their cash savings in new ₹2,000 notes, now that the Indian government has proved that it can and will just declare them worthless?
What this says about money
This is exactly the kind of thing that gets anti-fiat-money folks riled up. Governments create this paper, declare it to be legal tender by ‘fiat’, and then they can just as quickly illegally-tenderise it by:
Money printing that leads to hyperinflation; and/or
Skipping the money printing entirely, and simply declaring bank notes to no longer be bank notes.
For me, it’s a reminder that cash is not a risk-free investment. If you want to hold cash, then there’s a risk that the governing-protector of that cash could do political things with it.
It’s also a reminder that governments have increasingly strong incentives to discourage the use of bank notes. After all, the easiest and cheapest money to print is the electronic money that lives as a few bytes of binary code in a bank ledger. It’s also the easiest to tax.
And who cares if all the poor, who can’t afford the fees associated with bank charges, and who don’t have proofs of address and proper IDs and all that KYC documentation that the global banking regulators demand, are quietly restricted from the business of living?
45 Years off the gold standard (this post involved burning retired currency and turning it into art – I’m quite proud of it).
“How long will this Fiat monetary system hold up?”
Money: no longer a store of value, really
Rolling Alpha posts opinions on finance, economics, and the corporate life in general. Follow me on Twitter @RollingAlpha, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/rollingalpha.
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Raoul August 22, 2017 at 06:59
erm. what happened to a long comment I added yesterday. Moderation? 🙂
Jayson August 22, 2017 at 07:14
Hey! I am not sure – there’s no sign of it on my end, unfortunately!
But yes, I do moderate everything. I’m a fan of comments that disagree with posts (because those are conversation-starting). But I get a lot of comments on here that are thinly-disguised adverts. And that doesn’t really add anything to the debate, so I spam those 🙂
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MONDAY, FEB. 18 | 1:15 PM
Afternoon Matchup: On Monday, the San Jose Barracuda and San Diego Gulls connect for the seventh meeting on the 10-game season series and the second matchup over the last three days. Since San Jose beat the Gulls 5-3 on Dec. 3, San Diego has won the last five-consecutive meetings, outscoring San Jose 27-to-11 in those games.
The New Guys: On Tuesday, the Barracuda recalled forward Colby McAuley from the Orlando Solar Bears and signed veteran forward T.J. Hensick from the Toledo Walleye. McAuley skated in Tuesday’s win, registering two penalty minutes. Hensick was leading the ECHL in scoring (17 goals, 41 asssits) in 47 games when the Barracuda signed him. Among active AHL players, Hensick, 33, is 11th in games played (630), eighth in goals (166), third in assists (402) and second in points (568). The Howell, Michigan native spent the last two years in Ontario with the Reign. In head-to-head matchups against San Jose over the last two seasons, Hensick led Ontario in scoring both seasons (2016-17: 1+7=8, 2017-18: 1+8=9).
Dazzling Dezzy: On Tuesday, sophomore d-man Nick DeSimone netted a late-tying goal to force overtime in an eventual 2-1 San Jose shootout win against Tucson. On Friday, he collected a helper and is now third on the Barracuda in points (30), T-fifth in goals (9), third in assists (21) and second in power-play goals (4). DeSimone is currently riding a six-game point streak (two goals, five assists), the longest such streak of his career. DeSimone is T-10th among all AHL defenseman in points and T-8th in goals.
Frank the Tank: Acquired from the Ottawa Senators in the Erik Karlsson trade, third-year pro Francis Perron is second on the Barracuda in points (33), T-first in goals (15), T-fourth in assists (18), first in power-play goals (7), first in shooting percentage (19.5%), second in game-winning goals (3), and first in multi-point games (8). Perron scored the shootout game-winner on Tuesday, the first shootout goal of his career in six attempts.
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Posted on August 24, 2012 by Skagway Sleuth
Shipwreck at Long Bay
Long Bay, also known as Nahku Bay or Fortune Bay is between Skagway and Dyea. At extreme low tide there can be seen remains of the Bark Canada which, after a series of mishaps, sank in Long Bay in February 1898.
Originally the Bark Canada was full-rigged ship launched at Bath, Maine on November 19, 1859. Built by John Larrabee, master builder for F.F. & J. Patten Company, ship builders. Her original dimensions were 179′ 6″ in length and 996 tons. She was probably buit for the cotton trade with England, as her fist voyage was to New Orleans. In 1874, she was sold for $40,000 and San Francisco became her new home port. She made numerous voyages up and down the west coast and at least three trips back to New York during this period. In 1887, she was listed as being cut down to a bark, a common practice of the day. By 1888 her home port was Tacoma Washington.
She left Tacoma in late January 1898 with a cargo of some 800,000 board feet of Puget Sound fir lumber, 400 bundles of shingles, 200 doors, 200 windows, a few wagons, a lot of miscellaneous building material, 200 horses, and an unknown number of passengers. Much of the lumber was from the St. Paul nd Tacoma mill and was intended for the Chilkoot Railroad & Transport Company operating out of Dyea and for George Brackett’s wagon road that was being built up the White Pass. She was loaded to capacity and was being towed up by the tug Pioneer with Fred C. Andrews, the captain.
It took two weeks to reach Skagway because of rough seas and stormy weather along the way. She arrived inSkagway on Monday, Februray 14, 1898 and spent about a week in Skagway unloading part of her cargo before leaving for Dyea. On the 19th while heading to Dyea a squall blew the vessel on the rocks. She was re-floated again only to be blown asore three days later. She was described as stranded and a total loss on February 24, 898. The passengers and most of the cargo were saved but the 4 remaining horses had to be shot.
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Gov. Inslee Highlights Need to Stop Invasive Species with Awareness Week
Wed Feb 27th, 2019 2:13pm
Submitted by the San Juan County Noxious Weed Control Program
In partnership with the Washington Invasive Species Council, Gov. Jay Inslee signed a proclamation recognizing the week of Feb. 24 as Invasive Species Awareness Week in Washington state.
“We are fortunate to live in a state filled with natural beauty and abundant natural resources,” Inslee said. “To keep it that way, we all must do our part to prevent harmful plants and animals not found in Washington from settling here. Nationally, invasive species pose a $137 billion threat to crops, wildlife and forests.”
The week included opportunities for people to learn how to prevent the spread of invasive plants and animals in their everyday lives. For example, people are encouraged to clean their boats and other equipment before going to a new lake or river, and to buy firewood close to where they’ll burn it. Families can learn how to find new homes for unwanted pets rather than letting them loose outdoors.
“In Washington, people spend an estimated $26 billion on outdoor recreation, which puts nearly 200,000 people to work in living-wage jobs every year,” said Kaleen Cottingham, director of the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office, which houses the Washington Invasive Species Council. “As an organization that invests in the outdoors, we know the risk invasive species pose to our environment and the communities that depend on it. That’s why this week is important. We hope more people will understand what’s at stake and will join the hundreds of other folks in doing their part to prevent the spread of invasive species.”
Washington state has a comprehensive strategy for dealing with dozens of invasive plants and animals, including an aggressive prevention effort.
“As the agency primarily responsible for ensuring healthy fish, wildlife and habitat for Washington, we need to stop aquatic invasive species with the help of people and partners around the state,” said Kelly Susewind, director of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. “Prevention is less expensive and far more effective than trying to remove invasive species once they arrive.
“Our partners, including the Washington Invasive Species Council, among others, are helping to ensure harmful critters don’t get into our waters. WDFW stations for boat inspection and decontamination around Washington have found and stopped quagga and zebra mussels, which could cause more than $100 million in damage and management costs to our dams and water facilities if they ever become established.”
“Washington state benefits from well-managed, resilient forests that create natural resources and recreation jobs, wildlife habitat and clean water,” said Hilary Franz, public lands commissioner. “Invasive species such as gypsy moths and emerald ash borers can decimate those forests. Healthy forests support healthy communities, and we should all do our part to protect both.”
“Invasive species threaten almost half of native species listed as federally endangered, including salmon,” said Guy Norman, member of the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. “Northern pike are an invasive fish right on the border of vital salmon spawning habitat. If we don’t stop their spread, it would be devastating to our endangered salmon and the species that depend upon them, like orca whales.”
People can take simple actions to help prevent the introduction and spread of noxious weeds and other invasive species by doing the following:
• Before venturing outdoors, clean hiking boots, bikes, waders, boats and trailers, off-road vehicles and other gear to stop invasive species from hitching a ride to a new location.
• Watch for noxious weeds. Visit the Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board’s website to learn about noxious weeds.
• Download the app to report sightings of invasive species.
• Don’t dump unwanted pets, aquarium plants or water, science kits into waterways.
• Campers should buy firewood where they’ll burn it, or gather it on site when permitted.
• Use weed-free certified forage, hay or mulch.
• Plant only noninvasive plants in your garden.
• Volunteer to survey public lands and trails as a Citizen Science Invasive Plant Monitor with the Pacific Northwest Invasive Plant Council.
• Become a Washington State University master gardener and help identify, report and properly manage exotic and invasive pests.
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Industry Sound Studio
Industry Sound Studio of Modesto Launches Improved Online Session Booking System
New booking system makes it even simpler for artists to line up time at the top studio in the Central Valley, Industry Sound Studio reports
Modesto, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/06/2015 -- Industry Sound Studio, a leading Central Valley audio recording studio, launched an improved, simplified online session-booking system. The new system makes it as simple as possible for visitors to the studio's website to book sessions ranging in length from one hour to a full month. Those interested can also add the services of the studio's highly trained audio engineers, with all-inclusive, flat-rate packages for the recording of anything from a single song to a full album being available by request.
"We're all about helping people make great music and recordings," Industry Sound Studio representative Chris Mitchell said, "That means we are always looking for ways to make it simpler get into the studio and start playing. For this reason, we are proud to introduce our newly improved online booking system. It's making it easier than ever before to take advantage of the best recording facility in the whole Central Valley."
Even with the increased availability of relatively affordable digital equipment, dedicated, professional studios remain the venues of choice for those who are serious about recording music. From the sound treatments that keep out unwanted background noise to the selections of microphones, effects, and other equipment that no home studio could hope to match, a professional recording studio will contribute in many important ways to the quality of the final mix.
With a full suite of the best available recording equipment, Industry Sound Studio is the recording studio Modesto bands and those from elsewhere in the Central Valley prefer over all others. Located in a quiet, easily accessible neighborhood and overseen by a distinguished graduate of the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences, the studio offers a complete range of cutting-edge equipment and tools that contribute directly to the making of top-quality recordings.
That includes a control room stocked with the industry-leading Pro Tools recording, editing, and mixing platform, with touch screen interfaces making it easy to leverage the software's impressive power. The studio's main tracking room is equipped to capture 32 or more separate tracks at a session, opening up valuable possibilities for bands of all sizes and kinds. In addition to having a full selection of microphones and other important recording tools, Industry Sound Studio also offers clients the use of extras like a professional-level Yamaha digital keyboard, a number of high-quality guitars and other musical instruments, and a range of highly regarded amplifiers.
These features and more have made Industry Sound Studio the music recording studio Modesto experts seek out and recommend to others most frequently. With the release of the newly improved online booking system, artists throughout the Central Valley will find it even easier than before to book their own sessions at the top studio in region.
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