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Kruit Tabbed as Hartford Union Assistant Coach
HARTFORD, Wis. -- After a four-year career at Maranatha where he finished with 4th-best time in program history, Josh Kruit ('18) now finds himself coaching at his old high school. And the recent MBU graduate is loving it.
Kruit has taken the assistant coaching position at Hartford Union High School in Hartford, Wisconsin. The Division 1, Sectional 4 school is where Kruit graduated from in 2014. Kruit served a team captain during his time there and posted a PR of 16:48 (5K) in the WIAA Division 1 Sectional in Muskego during his senior year. Kruit was consistently the number 2 or 3 runner on the squad and now finds himself helping each student-athlete improve themselves as they prepare to run on the collegiate scene.
"I'm really excited about it," Kruit said. "I love the sport, and I want to be able to pass that love onto other people and share my knowledge with them so they can love the sport as much as I do."
Besides passing a love for the sport on to the runners he coaches, Kruit's goal for the season is to see improvement from every runner on the squad.
"My goal for the season is to see improvement from last year with all of our runners," Kruit said. "Some of our runners want to get into the low- or mid-17 minute mark for the 5K, so I'd like to help them reach that goal."
"I plan on bringing some practices and workouts [from Maranatha] to the high school level," Kruit added. "It helps to have run in college because you learn the sport better at the higher level. It gives me the confidence to be able to pull from my college experience."
The first meet of the season for Kruit and the "Orioles" is tomorrow (August 25) at Watertown High School in Watertown, Wisconsin. The Glenn Harold Invitational begins with a boys race at 9:30 a.m. while the girls run at 10:20 a.m.
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Home > News > Wang Successfully Defends JSD Dissertation
Wang Successfully Defends JSD Dissertation
From left, Professor Rachael Salcido with JSD holder Wen-Lu Wang, Dan Magraw, and Professor John Sprankling.
Wen-Lu Wang, a Taiwanese hydraulic engineer and attorney, earned only the second JSD awarded in McGeorge's International Water Resources Law program history with a successful on-campus dissertation defense on December 3, 2010.
Wang's paper, "Allocating Flood Risk Through International Cooperation in an Era of Climate Change - Coordinating Flood Insurance with Flood Plain Management," argues for the international integration of flood insurance regimes. Using a PowerPoint presentation, he made the case for a treaty proposal that would draw in the major economic powers along with third world countries. He also said he believes that flood insurance will be internationalized soon and emphasized the importance of standardized flood plain management mechanisms.
Dan Magraw, the president emeritus of the Center for International Environmental Law in Washington, D.C., and Professors Rachael Salcido and John Sprankling comprised the panel that examined Wang and critiqued his dissertation with pointed questions. They delivered their favorable decision after a short adjournment and met with the new JSD holder afterward to offer detailed feedback on his proposal.
In January 2007, Wang began his JSD work when he was a deputy engineer and in-house counsel at National Chiao Tung University's Natural Hazard Mitigation Research Center in Hsinchu, Taiwan. He was admitted to JSD candidacy, legal education's equivalent of a Ph.D., in 2008.
Wang holds a B.S. in Engineering of Naval Architecture from National Taiwan University. After earning a law degree from Soochow University in Taipei, he received an M.S. in Civil Engineering from National Chiao Tung, and an LLM from the University of Pennsylvania.
Margaret Vick, '83, who was the first graduate of the rigorous JSD program, was among those in attendance at Wang's examination. The Arizona attorney recently completed a year-long USAID assignment as a legal advisor to the Afghanistan Ministry of Water and Irrigation in Kabul, Afghanistan.
McGeorge also offers a highly specialized one-year LLM in International Water Resources.
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New EU Regulatory Framework for Medical Devices and In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices
On Sept 26, 2012, the European Commission (EC) proposed two Regulations which would replace the existing rules regarding sales of medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices in the EU.
The EC estimates that around 500,000 different current products would be covered, with a sales value (2009) of some EUR95 billion. In addition to the 27 EU countries, five other countries would be covered by the rules (including Norway, Switzerland and Turkey).
The proposals will now be discussed in the European Parliament and in the European Council. The EC’s target is that they will be adopted in 2014 and come into effect over a period starting from 2015.
Any business selling or proposing to sell medical devices or in vitro diagnostic medical devices in the EU or these other countries should be aware of the proposed changes. The rules will not only apply to products manufactured in the EU, but also to imported products.
What will change?
Among the most significant proposed alterations to the current regime are the following:
Wider scope: The rules will be extended to include, amongst other new products, implants for aesthetic purposes, non-corrective contact lenses, certain products manufactured using non-viable human tissues or cells, genetic tests, companion diagnostics and medical software.
Rules on Making Products Available: There will be clearer rights and responsibilities for manufacturers, importers and distributors when developing and bringing products to the market. Manufacturers will need to have a qualified person dealing with regulatory compliance. Amongst other changes, there will be new requirements for patient information concerning implantable devices and new rules on the reprocessing of single-use devices.
Rules on Traceability: Traceability is going to be improved, including through requirements for devices to be fitted with a Unique Device Identifier, for suppliers and devices to be registered on a database and for high-risk device manufacturers to make publicly available a summary of safety and performance.
Rules for Notified Bodies: “Notified Bodies”, the regulatory bodies which in each country carry out audits of manufacturers’ systems and documents and also approve some devices, will be given enhanced investigatory powers. These include powers to carry out surprise factory inspections (“dawn raids”) and to conduct tests on devices.
Rules on Conformity Assessment: The basic self-assessment (“conformity assessment”) regime for approval of devices, with the involvement of a Notified Body varying dependent on the type of product involved, remains in place. However, the procedures under which Notified Bodies check manufacturers’ internal procedures will be tightened and streamlined. In addition, in what is probably the most controversial part of the proposals, a new “expert committee” (the Medical Device Coordination Group (MDCG)) will be established to oversee applications made to Notified Bodies for approval of high-risk devices. This “second look” approval is seen by some commentators as a move towards a centralized pre-market authorization system as found in the U.S. and as an unnecessary additional layer of bureaucracy.
Rules on Clinical Evaluation and Investigations: There will be new, stricter rules for clinical investigations on devices and concerning the clinical data which must be collected during the life cycle of a device.
What should I think about?
As noted, all devices sold in the EU will be subject to these rules, so any medical device or in vitro diagnostic medical device manufacturer, supplier or distributor active in the EU needs to be aware of these proposals and should start to think about how they would impact its business. Will some of your products now come within the rules? Are you happy that your procedures will be compliant, e.g. on testing? Do you have a concern about, for example, the MDCG? The proposals are still up for discussion, so affected businesses can consider whether they want to try to influence their shape.
For more information, see the EC’s medical devices website.
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Scientists make fake skin that heals and feels
Genetically engineered replicants — ala 'Blade Runner' — just got one step closer to reality.
Melissa Breyer
November 12, 2012, 5:01 p.m.
baby doll eye (Photo: Calvste/Shutterstock)
Scientists have been cooking up all kinds of strange things in the lab lately, from diamonds to meat to human retinas. And now they’ve got a new one ready to roll out: Fake skin. But not just a reasonable facsimile of how skin might look or feel to the touch. The ersatz epidermis mimics some of the most impressive attributes of our largest organ, like the ability to sense subtle pressure and heal itself when cut.
In the last decade, there have been major advances in creating synthetic skin — the scientific quest for "Terminator"-type self-healing materials has been many a researcher's mission. Some of the earlier attempts required impractical high temperatures for self-healing to occur. Others could repair themselves at room temperature, but only once. And importantly, all previous self-healing materials lacked the crucial property of being able to conduct electricity, which is required for sensing and interfacing.
But now, Stanford chemical engineering professor Zhenan Bao and her team have come up with a design that offers both the self-healing ability of a plastic polymer and the conductivity of a metal. The secret? A plastic consisting of long-chain molecules joined by hydrogen bonds, to which nanoscale particles of nickel were added for conductivity and increased mechanical strength.
The result was a polymer with unusual characteristics: the sci-fi ability to repair itself, along with flexibility, conductivity and, for those of you who are tactile-minded, the feel of saltwater taffy.
The molecules easily break apart, but when they reconnect, the bonds reorganize themselves and restore the structure to the pre-break state. The researchers tested the material by cutting a strip of it in half, and then gently pressing it back together. After a few seconds the material returned to 75 percent of its original strength and electrical conductivity. After 30 minutes the material was restored to 100 percent. They repeated the process 50 times, each time it returned to normal. "Even human skin takes days to heal. So I think this is quite cool," said Benjamin Chee-Keong Tee, first author of the paper.
The team also explored how to use the material as a sensor. As described in a release for the material: "For the electrons that make up an electrical current, trying to pass through this material is like trying to cross a stream by hopping from stone to stone. The stones in this analogy are the nickel particles, and the distance separating them determines how much energy an electron will need to free itself from one stone and move to another."
Since the material is flexible, twisting or pulling upon it varies the distance between the nickel particles and, hence, the ease or hindrance with which the electrons can move. It is these subtle changes in electrical resistance that translate information about pressure and tension on the skin, hence, the ability for it to "feel."
The material might be ideal for use in prosthetics, Bao suggested. The researchers also pointed out other commercial possibilities, including coating electrical devices and wires used in hard-to-reach places, minimizing the need for costly repair.
Their findings were published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
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Brian “Head” Welch doesn’t think Deftones want to tour with KoRn again, admits enjoying half of Issues
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on March 31, 2017
KoRn’s career spans well over twenty years and consists of twelve studio albums, including an unfortunate dubstep era. With as many albums out, that also means lots of touring, and having shared the stage with as many bands as they have, recently, KoRn’s Brian “Head” Welch was interviewed by metal-heads.de about touring. During the video, Welch was asked if members of KoRn were still close with Deftones. Welch replied:
“No. When we see ’em, it’s, like, ‘Hey, bro, what’s going on?’ But we’re not close with ’em. They just like to do their own thing. We would like to tour with ’em again one day, but I don’t think they want to, so… But it’s all good. When we see ’em, we just don’t talk about touring. We’re just, ‘Hey, bro. How’s the family?’ Stuff like that.”
The interview also featured Welch opening “gifts” that ended up being older KoRn albums. It was a creative approach and a few albums included Life Is Peachy (1996) and Issues (1999).
Welch mentioned the following about Life is Peachy:
“Life is Peachy that was our second record and we put it really quick like two months. But once we wrote the song ‘Twist,’ I was like, that’s all we need, that’s just insane. And I knew we had to start the record with it.”
His thoughts on Issues:
“We took time off for Issues. We took time. It wasn’t that long though, it was probably 3 or 4 months. Brendan O’Brien was the producer and he really pushed us along. And I think once we got the key songs like ‘Falling Away From Me’. And – Was ‘Somebody Someone’ on it? We got a few of those heavy hitters that people thought would do well. I think we rushed the rest of it. I like half the record a lot and then the other half I’m like – hmmm. It’s cool, it’s a nice record from front to back.”
Asked why they chose the cover of Issues to feature the doll:
“Because we started KoRn with a ragged doll and it just hit us and went along with KoRn. It was a great idea. And then we made the dolls. It was a hard choice because there were a lot of good ones.”
Check out the full interview below:
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A collection of articles on structural integration and myofascial techniques.
Myofascial Release Techniques in the Physiotherapy Setting
Mulugeta Bayisa Chala
Queen’s University, Canada
My colleagues and I at the department of physiotherapy, University of Gondar, Ethiopia regularly encounter patients with challenging and complex musculoskeletal health conditions, such as chronic pain. Chronic pain of musculoskeletal origin is often hard to treat using conventional treatment approaches such as stretching or other manual therapy techniques such as mobilization that we physical therapists use. However, since we started to augment our treatment techniques with myofascial release techniques, our confidence to treat these patients improved.
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Effectiveness of Myofascial Release in the Management of Lateral Epicondylitis in Computer Professionals
Dr M.S. Ajimsha (PhD Physiotherapy) and colleagues conducted a study on the effectiveness of myofascial release in lateral epicondylitis. The author acknowledged the techniques were in part based on those shown in Michael's book Direct Release Myofascial Technique. This study provides evidence the MFR is more effective than a control intervention for lateral epicondylitis in computer professionals. To see a more detailed description see: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
To investigate whether myofascial release (MFR) reduces the pain and functional disability of lateral epicondylitis (LE) in comparison with a control group receiving sham ultrasound therapy in computer professionals.
Using Our Bodies More Efficiently
In a recent AMTA survey, the number one issue of concern to therapists was not practice building or increased income. It was how to minimize wear and tear on their bodies.1 It raises the question - just how should therapists use their bodies as they work? In Australia, another survey revealed that the average working life of a therapist is just 3.5 years. Burn-out was listed as the main reason for leaving the profession. There's no escaping the reality that massage therapists do physical work and that takes energy. This understanding is a kind of "Physics 101" reality - work takes energy. Energy conservation for a therapist means getting better at understanding how to use their most essential resource – their own body.
Guide to Structural Integration
A User’s Guide to Structural Integration
Dr Ida Rolf originally called her unique form of bodywork therapy “Structural Integration” when she developed it over 60 years ago. For several decades it was known by the nickname “Rolfing”, a term that arose during Dr Rolf’s development of the method at Esalen Institute in California. When the residents and visitors there received her treatments they described it as being “Rolfed” rather than Structurally Integrated. Then a whole generation of people trained by her became known as “Rolfers” and the names – verb, noun and adjective – stuck. However, these days the term Structural Integration, practiced by Structural Integrators, is becoming more widespread. There are many graduates of schools certified by the International Association of Structural Integrators (IASI) including SI Australia, my Melbourne based training. It appears that 100 years after Dr Rolf received her PhD in bio-chemistry from Columbia University and used it as a springboard into a lifetime's exploration of working with fascia and human movement, the work she developed is here to stay.
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https://www.mysanantonio.com/sa-obituaries/article/Washington-helped-area-charities-as-a-grant-7251829.php
Washington helped area charities as a grant administrator
By Mary Mills Heidbrink, Staff Writer
Robert L. Washington, a longtime Buddhist, was blessed by the Dalai Lama in the late 2000s.
Photo: Courtesy
Robert L. Washington never forgot a friend.
Growing up in El Paso, Washington continued to nurture his friendships there, even after living in San Antonio for more than 30 years.
“He invited everybody from El Paso to come and celebrate at the Concepcion ranch house,” better known as the Judge Roy Bean/Padre Navarro House, which Washington bought and restored in the 1970s, longtime friend Mike Casey said. “An amazing number of people showed up at those events.”
Serving Mexican food made from El Paso recipes, which Washington considered the most authentic Mexican food, the gatherings were magical, Casey said. “He was a very loyal friend … never lost touch with anyone he formed a relationship with.”
Washington died April 10 of congestive heart failure.
Graduating from Austin High School in the late 1950s, Washington attended the University of Texas at El Paso, studying psychology. He also received a masters degree with a focus on counseling and rehabilitation from Texas Tech University in 1964.
Employed with the Texas State Department of Public Welfare and the Texas State Commission for the Blind, both in El Paso, Washington also worked with nonprofit agencies.
“He was very interested in helping others, a compassionate soul,” Casey said.
Leaving El Paso to move to Galveston, Washington worked for the Moody Foundation, where he was a grant analyst, before moving to San Antonio in 1977.
Hired as the grants coordinator at the Ewing Halsell Foundation by philanthropist Gilbert Denman, Washington proceeded to make a name for himself there and at other foundations.
“He was well known around San Antonio in the nonprofit sector,” friend and colleague Jackie Moczygemba said. “He wanted to ensure that the nonprofits were supported; he was very considerate, worked with them very closely.”
Washington was living in the King William District when he became interested in buying the almost 200-year-old Judge Roy Bean/Padre Navarro House, located on the grounds of the original Mission Concepcion.
Robert L. Washington
Born: July 12, 1941, New Hampshire
Died: April 10, 2016, El Paso
Preceded by: Father Frank L. Washington and stepmother Esther Washington; mother Fern L. Ukrijs.
Survived by: Many close friends.
Services: Celebration of life at 6 p.m. April 27 at the Lucile Halsell Conservatory, San Antonio Botanical Garden, 555 Funston Place.
“It was in disarray,” Casey said. “There were trees growing through the roof — he saved that structure.”
One of Washington’s favorite projects as a grants administrator was helping to establish the Lucile Halsell Conservatory at the San Antonio Botanical Garden in the 1980s.
“That was one of the things he was proudest of,” Casey said.
A longtime Buddhist, Washington traveled to Southern India in the late 2000s to meet the Dalai Lama, receiving a blessing from the holy leader.
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Defunct retailer Toys R Us planning U.S. comeback
Jun 24, 2019 at 3:48 PM Jun 24, 2019 at 3:48 PM
Defunct retailer Toys R Us is planning a comeback.
The New Jersey-based chain, which closed in 2018, plans to start small, relaunching its website and opening six brick-and-mortar stores, according to Time magazine.
The new stores will be about a third of the size of old Toys R Us locations, spanning about 10,000 square feet. The new stores are expected to be experiential in nature, with numerous play areas.
Former Toys R Us executive Richard Barry is leading the effort through a newly formed company, Tru Kids Inc.
Time says a number of big-name toymakers have already committed to selling their products at the newly reborn chain, including MGA Entertainment Inc., the company behind the Little Tikes and Bratz brands.
When Toys R Us closed its 700 U.S. locations, it left the country without a dedicated toy store chain. A number of retailers have attempted to fill in the gap, including Amazon, Target and Walmart.
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Home Economy Morocco the Best-Connected Maritime Hub in Africa: UN
Morocco the Best-Connected Maritime Hub in Africa: UN
Rabat - Over the past ten years, Morocco has established itself as Africa’s best-connected country in terms of maritime transport, says the United Nations report.
Tangier Med Port
Rabat – Over the past ten years, Morocco has established itself as Africa’s best-connected country in terms of maritime transport, says the United Nations report.
Morocco has consolidated its position, owing to the strategic positioning of the Straits of Gibraltar, which link Africa with Europe, according to the UN Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) latest report, Maritime Connectivity Index 2017.
Morocco has improved its performance with a grade of 67 out 100 in 2017, rising up from under 10 in 2007. It is followed by Egypt at 54.6 and South Africa at 37.4.
The report attributed the “sharp increase” in Morocco’s rating to the Tangier Med Port, which attracts deep-sea container vessels on the slope of the Strait of Gibraltar.
The 2017 Maritime Connectivity Index states that “the largest container ships of up to 18,506 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity are deployed on services between Europe and Eastern Asia, calling also at ports in Southern and South-East Asia and in Northern African countries, especially Morocco.
UNCTAD called for increasing global maritime connectivity as some developing countries, small islands and weaker economies cannot reach world markets due to expensive transport connections.
Maritime transport is the backbone of international trade. In 2008, around 80 percent of goods exchanged in the world were transported by sea, according to a report conducted by UNCTAD.
However, 80 percent of country pairs do not have a direct connection, including large trading nations that lie across the same ocean like Nigeria and Brazil.
Further, a statement issued by UNCTAD notes that “in many countries, domestic shipping services for [transport of goods] are protected from foreign competition. Such market restrictions can lead to unnecessary inefficiencies and a loss of maritime connectivity.”
The organization recommends that “national, regional and intercontinental liner shipping services should be interconnected to the extent possible,” in order to curb challenges posed by poor connectivity between pairs of countries.
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Morocco’s Tangier Port Welcomes 842,698 Passengers June-August
Le Point Afrique: Tangier Port the First in Africa
Tangier-Med Port Welcomes 33K to Morocco July 29
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HomeSportsCougars knock Rangers out of semis
Cougars knock Rangers out of semis
March 21, 2019 P. Blancher – Leader staff Sports
Four goals in a row for Dodge – South Grenville Rangers forward Jordan Dodge (#43, right) scored four goals starting in the second period to tie game two of the NCJHL semi-final series with the Vankleek Hill Cougars March 12th. The Rangers won the game in overtime 6-5, but fell to the Cougars in the series 4-2. (The Leader/Blancher photo)
VANKLEEK HILL – A no-quit attitude and several comebacks forced the NCJHL semi-final series between the South Grenville Rangers and the Vankleek Hill Cougars to six games, with the Rangers falling in overtime March 17th.
South Grenville trailed in the series 1-0 when the team launched a second period comeback from a 4-1 deficit to tie their March 12th game in Cardinal.
Jordan Dodge scored a natural hat-trick, plus a fourth goal which tied the game 5-5 three minutes into the third period.
Nearly seven minutes into overtime, Jared Fenlong scored the bookend power-play goal, giving the Rangers a 6-5 win and tying the series at one game apiece.
The series moved to Vankleek Hill the following night, where the Rangers were handed an 8-1 loss in a penalty-laden game. Dodge had the lone goal for the Rangers in the second period.
South Grenville returned the favour March 15th, tripling Vankleek Hill in their home barn 9-3. Brody Ranger, Carson Pickup, and Jack Finnerty put the Rangers up 3-1 after 20 minutes.
Ranger finished his hat trick while Pickup added one more goal in the second period, extending the team’s lead to 6-2. Brayden Forestell added two goals and Noah Edmonds one goal in the third period, to give the Rangers a 9-3 win.
Tying the series once again, the Rangers were hoping to take control of the series in March 16th in Cardinal.
Cole Edgely (power-play) and Cameron Dillon scored back-to-back goals 11 minutes into the game, to give the Rangers a 2-0 lead. The Cougars cut that in half late in the first period, but still trailed the Rangers 2-1.
Early in the second frame, Dodge landed an insurance goal on another power-play, Rangers led 3-1. Vankleek Hill scored five minutes later. The Rangers led the Cougars 3-2 after 40 minutes. Dodge again gave the Rangers some breathing room, four minutes into the third period, but that did not last. The Cougars scored twice in five minutes, tying the game a 4-4.
The Cougars scored in the opening minute of overtime, winning 5-4 and taking a 3-2 stranglehold in the series.
Back to Vankleek Hill for game six, the Cougars took a 2-0 lead in the first period, and added another two goals in the second period.
Finnerty scored a power-play goal for the Rangers with seven seconds left in the period. The Rangers trailed the Cougars 4-1, heading into the third period. Tristan Loomis netted another power-play goal five minutes into the third, followed by Finnerty’s second of the night just 15 seconds later. South Grenville had cut Vankleek Hill’s lead to one goal. Seconds later, Justin Labrosse scored, what would be the game winning goal for the Cougars. Brody Ranger closed out the Rangers’ scoring as the team tried to tie the game, landing his shot with 1:13 left in the game. South Grenville ran out of time, losing the game 5-4, and the series four games to two.
“We’ve got a great group of young men who are full of character,” said general manager Lucas Stitt. “The games we lost wasn’t so much about how the other team played but the mistakes that we had made. When our team commits to playing our type of hockey and cleaning up those issues we get much better results.”
The Cougars advance to the NCJHL finals where they will face the Clarence Castors, who put out the North Dundas Rockets in their semi-final series four games to one.
Clarence Castors
Lucas Stitt
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North Dundas Rockets
South Grenville Rangers
Vankleek Hill Cougars
Rosie & The Riveters ready to light up the St. Lawrence Stage at Upper Canada Playhouse
Editorial: Round and round we go
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NCAA.com | September 19, 2013
MSOC Weekend Preview
Cal State L.A.'s, which posted two shutout victories last week to begin CCAA play, has moved up to No. 7 in the nation in rankings. Cal State L.A. has now achieved a national top-10 ranking in seven consecutive seasons. The Golden Eagles were ranked No. 1 in the country during the 2009 and 2010 seasons.
Cal State L.A. (4-0) opened conference play last week with 1-0 victories against Cal Poly Pomona and UC San Diego. Both teams were undefeated before facing the Golden Eagles and the Tritons were ranked 25th in the nation.
Cal State L.A. began its conference schedule with hard-fought wins at home against Cal Poly Pomona on Friday and UC San Diego on Sunday. The Golden Eagles have recorded the conference's best regular-season record in two consecutive and four of the past five seasons.
The lone goal in Friday's win against Cal Poly Pomona came via a beautiful strike from Juan Ochoa, who received a throw-in from Daniel Rodriguez and launched a curving shot from about 35 yards away into the upper corner of the goal in the 29th minute. Cal State L.A. limited the Broncos to just six shots in the game and Mike Beigarten made four saves for the shutout in his Cal State L.A. debut.
The Golden Eagles won again on Sunday by a 1-0 score against the Tritons. Troy Dumlao got the game's only lone goal with an alert play. He jumped on a UC San Diego miscue in between two defenders and quickly sent a shot past the onrushing goalkeeper and inside the far post in the 47th minute. It was his first goal of the season. Beigarten made two saves in the game, including a spectacular stop in the first half of a header that seemed destined to find the net.
Cal State L.A. will play its first road games of the season this week. The Golden Eagles will face San Francisco State on Friday at 3:30 p.m. in San Francisco before meeting No. 25 Cal State Monterey Bay on Sunday at 5 p.m.
West Texas A&M is now tabbed eighth in the country, according to the latest poll. The Buffs are 4-0 for the second consecutive season. They have outscored their opponents 13-1 in their first four matches.
The Buffs began the season with three consecutive shutouts against Colorado State-Pueblo, Ouachita Baptist and McMurry, before allowing their first goal Monday in a 4-1 triumph against Lubbock Christian. After receiving votes in the preseason poll, WT's 2-0 record through Week 1 propelled them into the 14th spot in last week's rankings. The Buffs have also outshot their opponents, 81-31.
Sophomore George Beasley leads the team in goals with three after recording a hat trick in a 5-0 victory against McMurry. Beasley and senior Carl Prestidge each stand at six points on the season. Sophomore goalkeeper Garrett Cooper is 4-0 for the Buffs and boasts an incredible .27 GAA.
The Buffs return to action on Thursday, Sept. 19, as they welcome Dallas Baptist to The Pitch. Game time is scheduled for 8 p.m. WT is a perfect 6-0 all-time against the Patriots, while outscoring them 22-3 in four games in Canyon. West Texas A&M will then catch up with Texas A&M International on Saturday at 1 p.m.
DATE/TIME (ET)
7 p.m. No. 1 Simon Fraser vs. MSU-Billings
8 p.m. No. 8 West Texas A&M vs. Dallas Baptist
3:30 p.m. No. 7 Cal State L.A. vs. San Francisco State
6 p.m. No. 9 Northeastern State vs. Harding
6:30 p.m. No. 10 Rockhurst vs. Bellarmine
10 a.m. No. 4 Notre Dame (Ohio) vs. West Virginia Wesleyan
1 p.m. No. 8 West Texas A&M vs. Texas A&M International
3:30 p.m. No. 6 Lynn vs. Florida Southern
4 p.m. No. 2 C.W. Post vs. Millersville
5 p.m. No. 3 Rollins vs. Eckerd
6 p.m. No. 1 Simon Fraser vs. Northwest Nazarene
7:30 p.m. No. 5 Wingate vs. Lenior-Rhyne
2:30 p.m. No. 7 Cal State L.A. vs. No. 25 Cal State Monterey Bay
3:30 p.m. No. 10 Rockhurst vs. McKendree
5 p.m. No. 9 Northeastern State vs. Ouachita Baptist
Tuesday, Sept. 24
4 p.m. No. 4 Notre Dame (Ohio) vs. Findlay
Wednesday, Sept. 25
4:30 p.m. No. 2 C.W. Post vs. Philadelphia
7:30 p.m. No. 3 Rollins vs. Saint Leo
7:30 p.m. No. 5 Wingate vs. Catawba
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New data on chiropractic-induced strokes. Researchers representing the Canadian Stroke Consortium have reported on 98 cases in which external trauma ranging from "trivial" to "severe" was identified as the trigger of strokes caused by blood clots formed in arteries supplying the brain. Chiropractic-style neck manipulation was the apparent cause of 38 of the cases, 30 involving vertebral artery dissection and 8 involving carotid artery dissection. Other Canadian statistics indicate the incidence of ischemic strokes in people under 45 is about 750 a year. The researchers believe that their data indicate that 20% are due to neck manipulation, so there may be "gross underreporting" of chiropractic manipulation as a cause of stroke. [Beletsky V. Chiropractic manipulation may be underestimated as cause of stroke. Presented at the American Stroke Association's 27th International Stroke Conference, San Antonio, TX Feb 7-8, 2002] Dr. Stephen Barrett believes that the chiropractic profession should implement a reporting system that would enable this matter to be studied more readily.
Naturopathic accrediting agency loses approval. The Council on Naturopathic Medical Education (CNME) is no longer recognized as the accrediting agency for naturopathic schools. CNME was recognized in 1987 and accredited three of the four full-time naturopathic colleges. But in 1998, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity recommended denial of that CNME's petition for continued recognition, and on January 16, 2001, U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley concurred. The committee's recommendation was based on evidence that CNME had not responded appropriately to violations of its standards at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences. None of the naturopathic college Web sites mentions that CNME lost its recognition. Three of the schools remain accredited and the fourth is a candidate for accreditation by recognized regional accrediting agencies that are not health-related. Naturopaths are licensed in eleven states and are pressing for licensure in several others. Although Riley's decision may make it more difficult to promote licensing, it has received almost no publicity. Riley's decision cannot be appealed, but CNME is likely to reapply for accreditation in the future.
Florida doctors offered insurance against frivolous malpractice suits. Jeffrey Segal, M.D., a nonpracticing neurosurgeon concerned about the skyrocketing cost of malpractice insurance, has launched a company intended to deter frivolous suits. The insurance—called Medical Justice—will cover the cost of a countersuit if the plan's legal evaluation panel determines that the malpractice suit should not have been filed. As part of the policy—which will be administered by U.S. Legal Services -- the names of policyholders will be posted to the Internet with the hope that attorneys who were thinking of filing a frivolous suit would be deterred. The policy will be offered in Florida but may spread to other states if it proves marketable. [Albert T. Frivolous suits feel wrath of Medical Justice. American Medical News 45(6):1,4, 2002]
PC SPES and SPES recalled. Laboratory analysis by the California Department of Health Services has found PC SPES and SPES contain undeclared prescription drug ingredients that could cause serious health effects if not taken under medical supervision. Laboratory analysis of the products by the California Department of Health Services found PC SPES contains warfarin (an anticoagulant sold generically or as as Coumadin) and SPES contains alprazolam (an antianxiety drug sold generically or as Xanax). BotanicLab, which manufactures both products, has voluntarily recalled them. [State health director warns consumers about prescription drugs in herbal products. News release, Feb 7, 2002] PC SPES is openly marketed "for prostate health" but is also promoted as a cancer treatment. (The "PC" in the product's name stands for prostate cancer, and "SPES is the Latin word for hope.) The American Cancer Society has concluded that PC SPES "shows promise" but more research is needed to determine whether it is safe and effective for that purpose.
"Alphabiotics" practitioner loses chiropractic license. The Washington State Court of Appeals has upheld an administrative decision to discipline former chiropractor John D. Brown for unprofessional conduct for practicing with an expired license. In 2000, the Commission of Chiropractic Quality Assurance charged that Brown had performed chiropractic manipulations but called his practice "alphabiotics." which he claimed is a sacrament of the Alphabiotic Church, of which he said he is a priest. He testified that he was performing alphabiotic "alignment" and not a chiropractic adjustment. However, the Commission concluded that "alphabiotics" treatments are indistinguishable from chiropractic and that certain techniques he used are associated with risk of stroke. It also concluded that his failure to warn of the risk of stroke—and an inadequate response when one of his patients suffered a stroke during an adjustment—were below the state standard of care required for chiropractors. The Commission levied a $30,000 fine and revoked Brown's license for ten years. The Alphabiotics International Web site, which lacks a clear description of what its practitioners do, states that alphabiotics "can't be fully explained" but "must be experienced to be fully understood." However, the Commission concluded that Alphabiotics is a chiropractic variant in which treatment is limited to neck adjustment. The full text of the court decision is available on Chirobase.
Physical therapists may be barred from treating "subluxations." On January 15, 2001, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) declared that Medicare+Choice organizations "may not use non-physician physical therapists for manual manipulation of the spine to correct a subluxation." [CMS operations policy letter #OPL2002.023, Jan 15, 2002] The American Physical Therapy Association has responded with a letter seeking clarification. The problem has arisen because in the early 1970s, Congress amended the Medicare law to include coverage for "manual manipulation of the spine to correct a subluxation of the spine . . . which has resulted in a neuromuscular condition for which such manipulation is appropriate." To enable payment, chiropractors held a consensus conference that produced a 7-page document defining 18 types of "subluxations," many of which are fancy terms for the minor degenerative changes that occur as people age and are not changed by chiropractic treatment.
The significance of the CMS letter is unclear. Scientific practitioners (medical doctors and physical therapists) define "subluxation" as incomplete or partial dislocation—a condition in which the bony surfaces of a joint no longer face each other exactly but remain partially aligned. No such condition can be corrected by chiropractic treatment. The vast majority of chiropractors use the term to mean other things. Some describe subluxations as "bones out of place" and/or "pinched nerves"; some think in terms of "fixations" or loss of joint mobility; and some occupy a middle ground that includes any or all of these concepts. Physical therapists are justified in seeking to preserve their right to perform manual manipulation to relieve back and neck discomfort. They do not actually treat any type of subluxation. However, it remains to be seen whether the semantic tangle created by the Medicare law will be used to restrict them.
This page was revised on February 14, 2002.
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Nick Tan
Nick Tan’s sophomore release New Normal is his coming-of-age album. In the five years since Tan’s debut album, this EP chronicles the rapid transition from youth to adulthood, where everyday norms adjust and shift.
Working with renowned producers such as Leonard Soosay and Roland Lim, Tan has put together a matured re-introduction to his sound with five original tracks penned by the singer-songwriter.
New Normal will be exclusively available at Starbucks outlets in Singapore from 22 July, with the official EP launch gig hosted by Esplanade Concourse on Monday, 24 August at 7:15pm.
From the Esplanade Outdoor Theatre stage to Producers’ Pick on Mediacorp Channel 5’s ‘Live N Loaded’, Singaporean singer-songwriter Nick Tan is no stranger to the local music scene.
Accepted into the Noise Singapore Apprenticeship 2008/2009 cohort, Nick got his first experiences as a young musician under the mentorship of veteran local singer-songwriter Kevin Mathews. Through Noise Singapore, he made many industry connections as well as opportunities to perform.
Such opportunities included being featured artiste on both Power 98's Acoustic Lounge Sessions with DJ Harry Corro, as well as the Originals Only Open Mic at the Singapore Art Museum.
His foray as a recording artiste was marked by the release of his debut EP Arranged Accidents, which he recorded, produced and marketed himself. Distributed exclusively by Starbucks Singapore in May 2010, it was reviewed by local publications such as TODAY and the Business Times.
Since then, Nick has remained active in the community – playing at venues from community centres in the heartlands to festive gigs on Sentosa, being a panelist on the National Library Board’s “Artists Anonymous” series to talk to young Singaporeans about being musicians, and most recently, nabbing Best Vocalist at HomeSongs 2014, a songwriting competition organised by Ocean Butterflies and Nexus.
Nick Tan | Official Site
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Following Murakami’s Path: Japanese Books as World Literature
Culture Books Arts Jun 19, 2019
The overwhelming popularity of Murakami Haruki’s novels in translation has transformed the image of Japanese literature around the world. How will the country’s writing continue to be received on the global stage?
Reshaping the Image of Japanese Literature
Murakami Haruki’s first appearance in the New Yorker came with the English translation of his short story “TV People,” which appeared in the issue for September 10, 1990. The publication of a Japanese writer’s work in a US literary magazine was a groundbreaking moment not only for the career of the author himself but also for Japanese literature in translation—particularly in English. Murakami’s books have since been published in over 50 languages and include a number of global bestsellers, while he has received international awards like the Franz Kafka Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His combination of critical and commercial success is unique among Japanese writers.
Murakami’s arrival on the scene dramatically transformed the image of Japanese literature in translation. Edward Fowler describes how the 1955 publication of two English editions by US publisher Knopf—Osaragi Jirō’s Homecoming and Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s Some Prefer Nettles—ushered in a golden age of translation of modern Japanese literature. Focused on a “big three” of Tanizaki, Mishima Yukio, and Kawabata Yasunari, and against a background of renewed interest in Japanese culture in postwar America, the country’s literature became firmly associated with an exotic aesthetic sensibility.(*1) Murakami’s works, which are strongly influenced by US writers and blend elements of fantasy into a contemporary Japanese setting, have reshaped the image of Japanese writing for readers in the English-speaking world.
Ahead of Murakami’s English-language debut, he initially worked together with his Japanese publisher, but later chose his own agent and collaborated closely with American editors to fine-tune his fiction for English-speaking (especially North American) readers.(*2) Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit has also noted that his writing in works like After Dark appears to have future translation in mind through such aspects as careful explanations of details that would be common knowledge to Japanese readers. This use of what she calls “pretranslation”(*3) shows how Murakami has set a new template for the age of translated literature.
Light and Dark Side of Success
Some 30 years have passed since Murakami’s works arrived in the English-speaking world. He could be said to represent Japanese literature in English during the period in the same way that Tanizaki, Mishima, and Kawabata did from 1955 to the 1980s.
Murakami’s overwhelming dominance of the country’s literature in translation has its light and dark side. His prose draws influence from writers like Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut, and Raymond Carver, and presents few difficulties for rendering in English and other European languages. While he has been embraced by readers around the world, his style has also come in for criticism from many writers and critics. Perhaps foremost among them is Mizumura Minae, who, despite her fluency in English due to growing up in the United States, has chosen to write in Japanese.
In his article “The Murakami Effect,” Stephen Snyder identifies a tendency for contemporary Japanese writers to be judged solely on the basis of how closely they match the description “the next Murakami.” Authors like Ogawa Yōko and Kirino Natsuo, translated by Snyder himself, have been packaged as “Murakami-like,” ignoring their own distinctive qualities. At the same time, Snyder acknowledges that Murakami’s global success has drawn welcome attention to many other Japanese writers. In any case, it is impossible to think about the last 30 years of Japanese literature in translation without considering its most famous contemporary creator.
Greater Diversity
When considering recent translation of Japanese literature, the first thing to note is the great diversity of authors. Until around the 1980s, male writers were preponderant, but from the 1990s, works appearing in English have included those by many female writers, including Kirino, Ogawa, Tsushima Yūko, and Murata Sayaka. Kirino’s Out—published originally in 1997 and in English in 2004—is a crime story centered on women working at a box lunch factory in the Tokyo suburbs. Its high praise and nomination for the Edgar Award for Best Novel, presented by the Mystery Writers of America, spurred on further translation of Kirino’s books. Meanwhile, the speed of translation of Murata’s Convenience Store Woman—from initial publication in 2016 to English version in 2018—demonstrates the increased emphasis on promptly guiding hot Japanese bestsellers through the process.
There is also greater translation of genre fiction, including mystery and science fiction. In China, mystery king Higashino Keigo is one of the most popular foreign authors of any nationality. The publisher Haikasoru is contributing to the range of Japanese fiction read overseas with SF writers like Project Itoh (Itō Keikaku) and Toh EnJoe. And contemporary poets, such as Itō Hiromi, are also increasingly read in translation.
One new genre making waves and winning fans around the world is the light novel. These are easy-to-read books mainly aimed at young people. The ongoing manga and anime boom since the 1990s has led to popular works’ source texts or later novelizations finding readers in translation. Many light novels are part of lengthy series with distinctive vocabulary based on the characters’ circumstances, which can pose problems for translators, but they are starting to appear around the English-speaking world and in Southeast Asia.
Government support for literary translation has also played an important role. In 2002, the Agency for Cultural Affairs launched the Japanese Literature Publishing Project to promote overseas publication of Japanese works not only in English but also in languages like French, German, Russian, and Indonesian. The many books translated under this initiative—in some cases retranslations—include modern classics like Natsume Sōseki’s Botchan and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s Rashōmon, postwar masterpieces like Ōoka Shōhei’s Musashino fujin (A Wife in Musashino) and Kojima Nobuo’s Hōyō kazoku (Embracing Family), and works revealing the contemporary state of Japan. In addition to support for translation, the JLPP offered publishers guaranteed purchases of the books printed. This eased the path to other languages for important literary works that lacked commercial viability, greatly increasing the range of texts available for Japanese literature classes overseas, and was therefore highly regarded. However, politicians did not appreciate its importance, and the JLPP lost its funding for new translations in sweeping government cuts in 2010.
Becoming World Literature
Having broken free from fixed images about Japanese culture, the country’s writing appears to be moving toward gaining appreciation from many different perspectives as world literature. There are sure to be cases where foreign readers uncover new value unnoticed by Japanese speakers.
There may also be a need to rethink what “translation” actually means. After publication in English, Sakurazaka Hiroshi’s light novel All You Need Is Kill was adapted into the Hollywood blockbuster Edge of Tomorrow. Despite sweeping changes to the character and geographical setting, the central plotline—of a lead character who repeatedly relives the same day in which he battles aliens, looping back each time he is killed—was faithfully “translated.” Fascinatingly, the original motif of representing the experience of playing a video game conveyed itself to movie audiences. One might say that the core concept was successfully communicated, even with the many alterations. Can this be considered a “faithful” translation?
Society continues to transform at constantly increasing speed. Over the past 30 years, e-readers, social media, and advances in translation technology have brought change to the literary translation environment. It is common to debate which authors and works should be chosen for translation and how they should be translated. In the future, however, the central question of what universal value works can convey through translation in our mutable world will become ever more important.
From left, All You Need Is Kill by Sakurazaka Hiroshi; After Dark by Murakami Haruki; Das Bad (The Bath), a German translation of an unpublished Japanese text by Tawada Yōko; The Emissary by Tawada, which won the National Book Award for Translated Literature in the United States; and Convenience Store Woman by Murata Sayaka.
(Originally published in Japanese on May 21, 2019. Banner photo: Works by Murakami Haruki translated into various languages. © Jiji.)
(*1) ^ Edward Fowler, “Rendering Words, Traversing Cultures: On the Art and Politics of Translating Modern Japanese Fiction,” The Journal of Japanese Studies 18, No. 1 (Winter 1992), pp. 1–44. Note, however, that Knopf had previously published Futabatei Shimei’s Sono omokage as An Adopted Husband in 1919, which was widely reviewed and distributed.
(*2) ^ Murakami Haruki has written about the process himself in an essay that appears in the Japanese version of The Elephant Vanishes, and discussed it in an interview with David Karashima, which appears in the latter’s Haruki Murakami o yondeiru toki ni wareware ga yondeiru monotachi (Who We Are Reading When We Are Reading Haruki Murakami) (Tokyo: Misuzu Shobō, 2018).
(*3) ^ Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, “Pretranslation in Modern Japanese Literature and What It Tells Us About 'World Literature,’” in Translation and Translation Studies in the Japanese Context, ed. Nana Satō-Rossberg and Judy Wakabayashi (London and New York: Continuum, 2012).
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Man up, says Dr John Mayhew, and take your health seriously
by North & South / 06 October, 2017
In association with Sovereign
Dr John Mayhew, Sovereign’s Chief Medical Officer, urges men to take a common-sense, proactive approach to their health.
Reality Check-ups
New Zealand men wear their DIY badge with pride. They like their “she’ll be right”, Kiwi bloke credentials. But there’s one area where the number-eight wire mentality doesn’t cut it. Health.
Dr John Mayhew is Chief Medical Officer at health and life insurer Sovereign. He’s also Medical Officer for the Warriors and was formerly the All Blacks’ medic for 13 years. He believes men are moving in the right direction regarding health awareness, but says they have a long way to go. “We’re living longer and life expectancy for men is catching up to women’s. But males often get caught up in their job and family and don’t see the need to get medical treatment.”
He advises men to build a relationship of trust with their doctor. If they’re otherwise fit, a wellness check every couple of years may be all they need. The doctor can monitor blood pressure, cholesterol and weight, do a skin check and ask about any family history. As men get older, they should also discuss prostate testing.
In day-to-day life, Mayhew says men should moderate their alcohol and avoid cigarettes. “With alcohol, there’s a safe limit. There’s no safe limit with smoking and ‘social smoking’ is an oxymoron.” That said, he concedes that alcohol is still New Zealand’s biggest drug problem.
When it comes to diet, he says the biggest issue is not being overweight but being ‘over-fat’.
“I’m loath to give dietary advice, as there are so many schools of thought. Try to have a balanced diet. The biggest problem is still too many calories, no matter what it is.”
He suggests your BMI (weight in kilograms divided by height in centimetres squared, or use an online calculator) should be under 25. And as a general guide, a man’s waist measurement should be less than 100cm.
Being safe in the sun – using sun-screen and opting for long sleeves and a hat – is another given. As is exercising enough. Mayhew concedes technology is an exercise-deterrent. “Many jobs are not as physically demanding as they used to be – farmers get around on quad bikes and builders have all kinds of power tools. Most of us need to do exercise in some kind of formalised way.” The guideline is 30 minutes of aerobic exercise four to five times a week, adding in some strength exercises like sit-ups and press-ups. Mayhew warns that muscle strength declines as we get older and it’s important to maintain it or “suddenly you’re 75 and you can’t get out of the chair because your legs are too weak”.
Mayhew urges men to get to know their body, and take notice of any changes such as sudden weight gain or weight loss, a mole increasing in size or blood in the toilet bowl. “You need to take a common-sense approach,” he says. “Tell yourself, ‘There’s been a change in my health so I need to get advice.’ Don’t put it off.”
Mayhew has experienced a major health event himself. Last year, after a gym session he suffered a cardiac arrest (it was caused by a virus). Luckily for him, gym staff were quick to start CPR and follow up with a defibrillator. After three days in intensive care he woke up without any neurological problems. Mayhew believes defibrillators are vital life-saving devices and every school, workplace and sports team or stadium should have one.
“Last year, Sovereign paid out $70 million in health insurance claims and, in terms of cost for men, four out of the top 10 claims were cardiac-related and four were cancer-related.
“We encourage our customers to have regular check-ups, in fact we have a health screening allowance built into our Private Health Plus product so people can claim for bone, bowel, heart and prostate checks every three years. We also include sight, hearing and skin checks with this benefit.”
Of all New Zealand’s health statistics, the most alarming is our suicide numbers. And males dominate the stats, especially Maori and Pasifika men.
“Suicide makes up about five per cent of Sovereign’s life cover claims overall, but this jumps up to 15 per cent for those aged under 40 years. It’s a national tragedy and something that Sovereign is working hard to assist with, both as an employer and insurer.”
Former All Black John Kirwan was one of the first famous faces to say it’s okay to talk about depression. Others have followed, also encouraging men to talk to their doctors, join a men’s group, and build leisure, exercise and family time into the work week to avoid the build-up of stress.
Avoidance is the worst strategy when it comes to health, says Mayhew. Medical science is constantly improving, but it’s most effective when problems are dealt to early. And then, the only sensible action is action.
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Introduction to Methods for Health Services Research and Evaluation
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Semi-Riemann Geometry and General Relativity
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Introduction to Computer Science I
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Cosmic Survey: What are Your Ideas About the Universe?
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Continental Effects of 2004 Alaskan Fires (WMS)
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Aerosol Index over the Atlantic Ocean: July 1, 1988 to September 29, 1988
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Infrared Astronomy: More Than Your Eyes Can See
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Intro to Information Privacy, Spring 2009
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Europe's largest community battery to be installed at Nottingham development
"The way we generate and distribute energy in the UK is inefficient and carbon intensive. It doesn’t have to be like this."
Isaac AsheDeputy Digital Development Editor
Energy consortium representatives at new neighbourhood streetscape (Image: Dave Tully Photography)
A pioneering green scheme at a £100 million Nottingham development could provide the blueprint for environmentally-friendly developments of the future.
Europe's largest community battery is to be installed at the heart of the Trent Basin development in Sneinton, set to provide 500 new homes when built over 250 acres on the banks of the river.
Phase One, completed at the end of 2016, is made up 45 low energy homes. Phase Two will start later this year, but the entire array of photovoltaic panels will be installed as a solar farm prior to being placed on roofs as work progresses.
The battery provides 2MWh of storage - roughly equivalent to the amount of electricity used by about 660 homes in an hour.
Hucknall school receives a good Ofsted rating after being told it required improvement
This Community Energy communal battery scheme, which has taken three years to develop, will see energy generated at the site from Trent Basin's solar panels and underground heat pumps stored and used on the site.
The setup will also be connected to the national grid, with a new opt-in energy company operating the technology on the residents' behalf, buying in energy when needed and selling back any surplus.
The pioneering project, generated by a consortium of business, government and academia, is "repeatable and scalable" - providing a template for future developments.
Trent Basin
It is supported by £6m of grant funding from Innovate UK via two energy programmes - the Energy Research Accelerator (ERA) and Project SCENe (Sustainable Community Energy Networks) - and being delivered by a consortium including developers Blueprint, the University of Nottingham, AT Kearney, Smartklub, Siemens, URBED, Slam Jam, Sticky World, Loughborough University, Solar Ready and Nottingham City Council.
Gordon Waddington, ERA chief executive, said: “One of the great issues of our time is to try and make enough clean energy quickly and cheaply. This is a global issue, and perhaps the greatest technical challenge we face.
Gordon Waddington (far right), CEO of ERA, and other partners
"The Community Energy demonstrator at Trent Basin is a great example of how existing technologies can be used to enable communities to significantly reduce their reliance on non-renewable energy sources."
Professor Mark Gillott, professor of sustainable building design at the University of Nottingham's Faculty of Engineering, is heading up the academic team working on the project.
He said: “This home-grown smart technology will have a huge impact on the UK’s energy sector for decades to come and home owners will feel the benefits in their pockets with cheaper energy bills. Our aim is to make it commercially viable which will increase the take up of the technology and revolutionise the energy sector.
An artist's impression of the completed scheme
“We need a mind shift away from personalised household energy generation, storage and use to larger community schemes that provide greater efficiencies and cost savings.”
Councillor Alan Clark, portfolio holder for energy and sustainability at Nottingham City Council, said: “I am delighted that Nottingham has been chosen to pilot this innovative scheme.
"This highlights that the city is at the cutting edge of energy innovation. This growth in community renewable energy will help to sustain our status as the most energy self-sufficient city in the UK.”
Representatives of energy consortium gather at new Community Hub (Image: Dave Tully Photography)
Nick Ebbs, chief executive of Trent Basin development managers Blueprint, said: “Technologies now exist that mean we can deliver community energy in a way that can bring real benefits to consumers and significantly reduce carbon.
“The distribution system will be connected to the grid and, in addition to drawing renewable energy from community sources, will be able to buy power from the grid when it has surplus and redistribute to meet demand.
"There is a need to find ways to store energy typically at night when demand is slack, smoothing out the peaks and troughs of supply and demand.
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“The way we generate and distribute energy in the UK is inefficient and carbon intensive. It doesn’t have to be like this. With new technologies, especially in renewable energy and storage it is possible to do better.
"Our aspiration is to be able to replicate the model, once proven, with our future pipeline of large scale residential projects. It’s a game changer for the energy market.”
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1915 Film Clip May Show A Teenage Louis Armstrong Music historian James Karst explains his recent research into the early life of the legendary Louis Armstrong.
Satchmo In His Adolescence: 1915 Film Clip May Show Young Louis Armstrong
Satchmo In His Adolescence: 1915 Film Clip May Show Young Louis Armstrong 4:25
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Many works of literature have been written about Louis Armstrong. But now, jazz journalist James Karst has written about the effort to decipher a few seconds of old film that may show Louis Armstrong as a 13 or 14-year-old boy - a turning point in his life before he became famous around the world.
James Karst writes about this footage in a magazine of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. He joins us from member station WWNO in New Orleans. Thanks so much for being with us.
JAMES KARST: Hi. Thanks for having me today.
SIMON: What did you discover and where?
KARST: So I found a very brief silent film clip that shows a street scene in New Orleans, apparently in 1915, and it shows a lot of pedestrians walking back and forth. And a couple of seconds into this film clip, a newsboy walks into the scene. His back is facing the camera at first, and then he turns around and you can see that he's holding a newspaper - what I believe to be the New Orleans Item, an afternoon paper. And he briefly engages the camera, smiles and then he turns around and keeps going.
I discovered this film on the Getty Images website, where it apparently has been for a little bit over a decade. And I saw it and immediately recognized that Louis Armstrong, when he was a young man in this very year, was a newsboy in New Orleans and was one of, apparently, relatively few black newsboys in New Orleans and in this location. And so I immediately set out to determine whether or not it was him.
SIMON: And how did you begin to confirm that?
KARST: Yeah, well, I took a number of different routes. One of the first things I did was I got in touch with a Professor Kurt Luther from Virginia Tech University, who has worked on a project to identify people in Civil War-era photographs, and I talked with him about strategies for making an identification like this.
From there, I went in other directions. I looked at census records to see how many black newsboys were on the records at the time, and then I also compared features on this - the boy. I took a screen grab of the video and compared the distance between the eyes and the width of the nose and the angle of the ears and the shoulders and compared that with early images - known images of Armstrong.
SIMON: Louis Armstrong was at a home for boys who got into trouble with the law, right?
KARST: He had been released the year before - in June of 1914 - from an institution that was known as the Colored Waifs Home. And this was a reformatory - it was part reformatory, part orphanage. And Armstrong was sent there for at least the second time in early 1913 after he had been arrested for shooting a pistol into the air.
And it was at - while at that reformatory that he began to receive his first formal music instruction. He played in the marching band there. They would parade around the city and play at events on the lake and stuff like that. But when he came out, he was, you know, faced with the challenges of being 13 or 14 years old at the time and needing to provide some income for his family. He grew up in dire poverty, of course.
SIMON: You take a look at this, like, 8 seconds of film, I guess it is, and maybe it's the power of suggestion, but it certainly looks like Louis Armstrong. And you (laughter) - you really do get a sense, even from this 13-year-old youngster, of just overwhelming charisma.
KARST: Yeah, that has been sort of the reaction. The overwhelming reaction to my story is - you know, I fully expected people to try to pick it apart because it's kind of a ridiculous thing to propose. But overwhelmingly, people have said, holy smokes, we think this, you know - it looks like him. He smiles the beautiful Louis Armstrong smile that later became famous. Yeah, it's been fascinating to me.
SIMON: Well, we want to go out a bit with some Louis Armstrong music - Louis Armstrong's first recorded solo. I guess you recommended this to us - 1923 "Chimes Blues" - and it was released by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
(SOUNDBITE OF KING OLIVER'S CREOLE JAZZ BAND'S "CHIMES BLUES")
SIMON: Jazz journalist James Karst - his article is "Young Satchmo" and appears in the magazine 64 Parishes. Thanks so much for being with us.
KARST: My pleasure. Thanks for having me.
(SOUNDBITE OF LOUIS ARMSTRONG'S "SAVOY BLUES")
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Ogilvie Hardware Company, Louisiana
Interior of one apartment after the project was completed.
The Ogilvie Hardware Company Building in Shreveport, Louisiana, was constructed in 1926 adjacent to a railroad spur for a wholesale hardware business. It is individually listed in the National Register of Historic Places for its local significance as part of Shreveport’s importance in regional commerce as a railroad hub in the late- nineteenth and early- twentieth century. The historic warehouse, which is distinguished by its horizontal bands of steel windows, is constructed of reinforced concrete and hollow tile with brick veneer and consists of four stories plus a basement.
Top: Exterior: Front after rehabilitation. Bottom: Interior of refurbished historic windows with added window system. Note proximity of elevated expressways.
The warehouse remained in use until 1999 after which it sat vacant for over ten years. The building’s location, somewhat away from the city center and isolated by several elevated expressways, limited its appeal to developers for many years. It was finally purchased and in late 2011 rehabilitation work began to convert the building into affordable housing units. The ninety, one- and two-bedroom apartments that were fitted into the building carefully incorporated the industrial features that characterized the interior, such as the cast concrete columns and their unusual capitals with their alternating vertical and horizontal patterns left by the wood mold. The original steel windows were repaired and made more energy efficient with a new window system added on the interior behind the historic windows to meet LEED energy requirements.
On the exterior the loading docks were retained to serve as balconies for some of the first-floor apartments. To achieve the residential density required by the Low-Income Housing Credit program it was necessary to use the basement for apartments. With a minimal amount of excavation and subtle regrading of the ground it was possible to enhance the basement apartments with full-height windows and doors and small patios that are not visible from the primary elevation and do not alter the historic industrial character of the building. In addition to the Federal Historic Preservation Tax credit, this $ 16 million rehabilitation project utilized the Louisiana State Commercial Rehabilitation Tax Credit as well as the Federal Low-Income Housing Credit. The completed project also successfully achieved LEED Gold certification.
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U.S.|California Shooting Kills 12 at Country Music Bar, a Year After Las Vegas
California Shooting Kills 12 at Country Music Bar, a Year After Las Vegas
At least 12 people were killed in a shooting late Wednesday at a bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Borderline Bar and Grill was holding its weekly event for college students.CreditCreditJenna Schoenefeld for The New York Times
By Jose A. Del Real, Jennifer Medina and Tim Arango
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Country music was blaring and beer was flowing. The Lakers game was on the television, and if revelers weren’t line dancing they were playing pool. Then all of a sudden, into “College Country Night!” at the Borderline Bar & Grill stepped a man with a gun.
Wearing dark clothing and a dark baseball cap, he set off smoke bombs to create confusion. He shot a security guard at the entrance and then opened fire into the crowd. Patrons dropped to the ground, dashed under tables, hid in the bathroom and ran for exits, stepping over bodies sprawled across the floor.
“I remember looking back at one point to make sure he wasn’t behind me,” said Sarah DeSon, a 19-year-old college student.
And as they raced for safety, many of them thought: not again.
Just last year, they had fled the same chaos — gunshots, bodies falling — in Las Vegas, at a country music festival where 58 people were killed in the worst mass shooting in modern American history. The Borderline, a popular hangout for country music fans, had become a place of solace for dozens of survivors of the Vegas massacre to come together for music, for healing and for remembering — “to celebrate life,” in the words of one.
And now, at least some of them belong to a group that seems uniquely American: survivors of two mass shootings.
“This is the second time in about a year and a month that this has happened,” Nicholas Champion, a fitness trainer from Southern California who posted a group photo on Facebook of Vegas survivors gathering at the Borderline in April, said in a television interview. “I was at the Las Vegas Route 91 mass shooting as well as probably 50 or 60 others who were in the building at the same time as me tonight.”
When a gunman opened fire at the Route 91 Festival in Las Vegas last year, Telemachus Orfanos somehow survived.
On Wednesday night, though, he didn’t.
[Here’s what we know about the gunman.]
The mother of shooting victim Tel Orfanos expressed anger over the lack of gun control after her son, who survived the Las Vegas shooting, was killed by a gunman in Thousand Oaks Wednesday night.CreditCreditMark J. Terrill/Associated Press
“He was killed last night at Borderline,” his mother, Susan Orfanos, said, speaking rapidly into the telephone. “He made it through Las Vegas, he came home. And he didn’t come home last night, and the two words I want you to write are: Gun control. Right now — so that no one else goes through this. Can you do that? Can you do that for me? Gun control.”
Ms. Orfanos then hung up the telephone.
The authorities said the gunman, Ian D. Long, 28, of Newbury Park, Calif., was found dead at the scene after killing 12 people, including a sheriff’s deputy, and being confronted by officers who had stormed the bar. Mr. Long’s .45-caliber handgun had been purchased legally and had been outfitted with an extended magazine.
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Investigators said there was no clear motive. Mr. Long, a Marine Corps veteran who had served in Afghanistan, had apparently been wrestling with his own demons: officers responded to a disturbance at his home in April, and mental health specialists spoke to him about his military service after suspecting that he might be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. But they decided he was not a danger to himself or others, and determined they could not force him to seek treatment.
Police vehicles near the scene.CreditKABC, via Associated Press
The shooting inside the bar, a favorite local hangout for 25 years that hosted line-dancing lessons and allowed students in starting at 18, and where on Wednesday night several college women were celebrating their 21st birthdays, began around 11 p.m. Witnesses described sudden chaos. Among the estimated 130 to 180 people at the bar were five off-duty police officers, enjoying the night like the other partyers. As patrons dove for cover, the sounds of glass shattering and gunshots rang out in the cavernous bar. The gunman prowled the emptying dance floor, shooting the wounded as they lay on the ground.
Teylor Whittler, a young woman inside the bar, saw the gunman quickly reload and fire again. “He knew what he was doing,” she said. “He had perfect form.”
The attack is only the latest in a wave of mass shootings that have plagued the country this year. A man opened fire at a Pittsburgh synagogue late last month, killing 11 people in an attack that officials said was motivated by anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant rage.
As the day wore on, a handful of victims were identified. Among them were Sgt. Ron Helus, a sheriff’s deputy only a year or so from retirement; Alaina Housely, an 18-year-old freshman at Pepperdine who loved soccer and planned to major in English literature; and Cody Coffman, 22, a baseball umpire who planned to join the army.
Mr. Coffman’s father’s saw his son just before he left for the bar Wednesday evening. “The first thing I said to him was please don’t drink and drive,” he told reporters. “The last thing I said was, son, I love you.”
With mass shootings a fixture of life in this nation, Americans in large gatherings — at churches, concerts, public squares — have become accustomed to thinking through the possibilities, eyeing exit routes and weighing escape options, should the horrific happen.
Kerry Henzgen, left, and Kelly Griffin watched the procession for Sergeant Helus. “We know kids that were in there that got out,” Ms. Griffin said.CreditJenna Schoenefeld for The New York Times
Sheriff Geoff Dean of Ventura County said that the gunman apparently took his own life after being confronted by officers responding to the Wednesday night attack.CreditJenna Schoenefeld for The New York Times
“Unfortunately, our young people or people at nightclubs have learned this may happen and they think about that,” said Geoff Dean, the Ventura County sheriff, whose last day on the job before retirement was scheduled for Friday. “Fortunately it probably saved a lot of lives that they fled the scene so rapidly.”
Authorities said as many as 22 people had been injured and taken to the hospital.
One college student, Nellie Wong, was at the bar celebrating her 21st birthday. Ms. Wong was trapped in the club until the police arrived, and described the whole thing as a blur.
“She’s alive, though,” said Ms. Whittler, standing with Ms. Wong outside the bar. “She’s alive for her 21st birthday.”
Brendan Kelly, 22, was among those who survived both the Vegas massacre and the shooting at the Borderline. “It’s your worst nightmare,” he said. “It’s terrible.”
Some of the survivors of both mass shootings posted about the Las Vegas shooting on social media, including the memorial event earlier this year at the Borderline. Mr. Kelly, who has posted photographs of himself on Facebook wearing a “Vegas Strong” T-shirt and at a Borderline event, said in a television interview with ABC 7, a local affiliate, “it’s too close to home. Borderline was our safe space, for lack of a better term. It was our home for the probably 30 or 45 of us who are from the greater Ventura County area who were in Vegas. That was our place where we went to the following week, three nights in a row just so we could be with each other.”
A screen shot from Brendan Kelly’s Facebook account. Mr. Kelly, center, is among those who survived the shootings in Las Vegas and at Borderline.
A screen shot from Mr. Kelly’s Facebook account showing a photo from a Las Vegas memorial event at the Borderline Bar & Grill.
The news sent convulsions through the community of Las Vegas shooting survivors who have come to call themselves the Route 91 Family, posting constantly on private Facebook groups and getting together for what they call “meet-greets.”
Borderline is one of several places that the survivors use for these gatherings, which are meant to heal the trauma of the October 2017 shooting.
Janie Scott, 42, a Las Vegas survivor who runs a Facebook page for others, said that 47 people who made it out of that shooting had posted on her page that they were at Borderline last night.
She’d spoken with 10 of them today.
“They’re just broken,” she said. “I’m hearing a lot of: Why is this our new norm? Why is this our new norm? It shouldn’t be. At all.”
Molly Maurer, another person who said she was a survivor of both shootings, wrote on Facebook Thursday morning, “I can’t believe I am saying this again. I’m alive and home safe.”
Later in the day, she wrote again: “In the middle of this confusion and heartbreak, I just want to take a minute to say that Borderline is our place. Our parents came here, our friends work here, we celebrate our happy moments and drown out our worst here. We’re coming back from this stronger than ever.”
Chris Weber, 26, on Thursday considered himself lucky, twice. Last night he was on his way to the Borderline from a country music concert in Los Angeles to meet friends, when they got a call about the shooting. They rushed to the scene, standing outside the police perimeter awaiting word on the fate of their friends. And last year he planned to attend the Vegas festival, but backed out at the last minute.
“Someone is looking over me,” he said. “And for the people who got out last night, someone was looking over them too.”
Many of the people he knew from the Borderline were casual acquaintances, familiar faces they saw each week, drinking beer and dancing and listening to music, even if he didn’t know their names.
“Now as I look back I wish I could say I was better friends with them,” he said.
He said he knew many people who were present at both shootings. “No one should have to go through a shooting, let alone twice,” he said.
Michael Millar, 25, an accountant from Thousand Oaks, grew up hanging out at the Borderline, but was not there Wednesday night, unlike many of his friends. He said that for those from Thousand Oaks it is a point of pride to not be from Los Angeles, 40 miles to the east — he said residents love their 805 area code and country music is a big thing.
The community is conservative and popular with law enforcement and military veterans. It prides itself on its safety, and has been on a list of America’s safest communities. In 2017, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office handled just five murders in its jurisdiction, which covers thousands of square miles.
On Thursday Mr. Millar was speaking to a friend who survived both mass shootings. He said that just like in Vegas, when he heard the first shots he thought they were firecrackers. But this time, at the Borderline, a learned response kicked in.
He told Mr. Millar, “I learned from Vegas not to think twice, but to just get out.”
Jose A. Del Real and Jennifer Medina reported from Thousand Oaks, Calif. Reporting was contributed by Thomas Fuller in Thousand Oaks; Julie Turkewitz in Denver; Gerry Mullany, Russell Goldman and Tiffany May in Hong Kong; and Matthew Haag and Matt Stevens in New York.
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Women WWII veterans honored, to fly to Washington
Nesconset, NY: Monday, October 5, 2009-- A photo of Long Island women who served in the Navy (WAVES) From left: Anne Ercolano of Nesconset, Olive Lazio of West Islip, Doris Fechter of Mastic (seated), Lillian Sharkey (light blue shirt standing) of Melville, Millicent Tucci of Manorville (striped shirt) Sophie Visalli of Port Jefferson all of whom served in the Navy during World War II as WAVEs. For a Martin Evans story. Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan Photo Credit: Newsday/Audrey C. Tiernan
By MARTIN C. EVANS martin.evans@newsday.com Updated October 10, 2009 10:28 PM
As the Battle of the Bulge raged just over the horizon in January 1945, Anne Santacroce helped treat the mangled limbs and frostbitten feet of wounded soldiers at an Army hospital in Belgium.
As young trainees learned to fly at a Navy airfield in Texas, Millicent Tucci was one of the mechanics who kept the planes running, but endured sexist comments.
These and other women, who in their youth helped America prevail during World War II, are among hundreds of Long Island veterans in their 80s and beyond who are being flown to see Washington's war monuments by a group dedicated to honor them while there is still time.
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Tucci, Santacroce, and about a dozen other women will be among about 50 World War II veterans aboard a flight scheduled to leave MacArthur Airport early Saturday. Another such flight is scheduled for Nov. 7.
The women who will be traveling Saturday are among the 400,000 women whose World War II service as pilots, mechanics, nurses and in other roles challenged anti-female traditions in the armed forces and throughout society.
"Women are strong today because we served," said Lillian Sharkey, of Melville, who served as a technician at a naval hospital in Oakland, Calif., and who plans to make Saturday's flight. "We were the forerunners."
Women have served in every American conflict since the Revolutionary War, when Deborah Sampson, a Massachusetts schoolteacher, joined after passing as a man. Shot during a 1782 battle north of Manhattan, she gouged a bullet from her thigh to avoid discovery during medical treatment.
But women were not formally allowed to join the regular military until the Navy's WAVES was formed in August 1942. Manpower shortages persuaded the War Department to grant regular military status to the Women's Army Corps in 1943.
Even then, women in the military often faced dismissive attitudes of male troops, who accused them of being less competent or sexually distracting, or of displacing men from safer jobs into combat roles.
Tucci, 88, of Manorville, who left college to join the Navy in 1943, learned aircraft mechanics at the Naval Aviation Training Center in Memphis, Tenn., then went to work servicing warplanes at Chase Naval Air Station near Corpus Christi, Texas.
There, she said, an officer tried to bar her from working on engines. He relented because she was able to loosen engine bolts other mechanics could not reach. But he provoked laughter among her male colleagues when he made a crude remark about her breasts.
"It was disgusting," she said. "But nothing was ever done about it."
That same year, Santacroce, then 22 and working at a New York bank, enlisted as an Army nurse after answering a recruitment ad. After training at Bethesda Naval Hospital, she sailed to duty in Europe aboard the Queen Mary, which had been refitted as a troop ship.
Adventure gave way to edgy reality when she found herself working as an operating room nurse at a military hospital in Belgium.
Bitter winter winds rattled the hospital's windows. Further distant, a battle that engaged a combined 1 million troops - the war's largest - was sending streams of wounded men from a breach in the Allied lines known as "The Bulge."
"It was heartbreaking to see them come in," said Santacroce, 89, of Sag Harbor. "So many of them were such young boys."
"You toughen up," she said. "Not that you don't feel for them, but you had to if you were to be able to continue."
The trip is being arranged by the nonprofit group Honor Flight. The national organization is in a race against time to help as many veterans as possible visit the World War II memorial in the nation's capital while they are still alive.
World War II veterans are all in their 80s or older, and are dying at a rate of about 800 per day, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Santacroce's husband, Frank, 93, an Army combat engineer with the 36th Infantry Division during the war, died a few days after she was interviewed for this article.
"We started out with 100 but we're down to 15, 20 active now," said Anne Ercolano, 83, past president of the Suffolk Sea Gulls, an organization of female Navy veterans.
"It will be nice to go with the other Navy girls," said Sophie Viselli, 92, of Port Jefferson. "I feel we have something in common."
Doris Fechter, 86, of Mastic, said she has seen Washington's war monuments before, but is looking forward to going this time with women who served as she did. She followed her brother into the Navy to get away from small-town Aurora, Ill., married a sailor from Blue Point she had met a month earlier while celebrating Japan's surrender, and lived with him until he died in 1997.
"I'm so happy I will have the chance to see it again," she said. "This may be our last chance."
By MARTIN C. EVANS martin.evans@newsday.com
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Hockey coach search will be over soon
The Hockey India has gone through the applications for the post of head coach of the men’s hockey team and will prepare a shortlist in the next 10 days
India are likely to have a foreign coach following Harendra Singh’s exit earlier this year (Hockey India Photo)
The hunt for a foreign coach to take charge of the men’s hockey team will be over by the end of March. Mail Today has learnt from sources that Hockey India has gone through the bio-datas of applicants and in the next 10 days it will prepare a shortlist.
The final decision on who gets the coach’s job will be held after consultations and discussions with the Sports Authority of India, who are officially the employers and pay salary.
Since the time India lost in the quarter-finals of the FIH World Cup in December in Bhubaneswar, there was a huge doubt over the continuance of Harendra Singh.
Once Hockey India held its review meeting in January and decided the performance of the team under Harendra was not good enough at the Asian Games in Jakarta and the World Cup, going back to a foreign coach became the obvious choice.
Hockey India had on its website advertised for the coach’s job and various applications have been received. It is learnt two of the three short-listed coaches are from Europe and Australia. Names are being kept as confidential as there is no point in upsetting the current employers of these coaches.
When the Indian team left for the Azlan Shah tournament in Malaysia recently, with no coach in charge, it looked a bit strange. David John, the high performance director is virtually in command, though his hockey acumen is questionable.
However, this time around, Hockey India has not been in a rush to find a foreign coach as they need someone who can be of huge help to the team. At stake are the Olympic qualifiers later this year and hopefully preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Word has it that good coaches are willing to come and work in India as the salaries paid are quite handsome.
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Politics and More Podcast
Nicholas Thompson Talks to David Remnick About the End of Net Neutrality
With Dorothy Wickenden
Photograph by Ronen Tivony / NurPhoto / Sipa via AP
On December 14th, the Internet and everything you do on it may change. The commissioners of the F.C.C. are going to vote on regulations about net neutrality: the principle, in place since the advent of the Web, that Internet service providers must treat all content equally. I.S.P.s can’t change data speeds to favor some Web sites, or charge different rates for different content. Web sites great and small, including Google, Facebook, and Amazon, are in favor of neutrality, but the telecom companies that deliver Internet service would very much like to do away with it. An end to neutrality would allow them to institute differential pricing strategies, for example, or favor content that the telecoms themselves own. A majority of F.C.C. commissioners are poised to repeal the net-neutrality regulations, but Nicholas Thompson—the editor-in-chief of Wired, and formerly the editor of newyorker.com—tells David Remnick that all hope is not lost.
Dorothy Wickenden has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since 1996.
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Revisiting Tonya Harding, and the Robots Angling for Your Job
Sheelah Kolhatkar looks at a coming wave of automation that will cost millions of people their jobs, and Susan Orlean revisits her time on the trail of the disgraced Olympian Tonya Harding.
Net Neutrality, Explained
Matt and Maht, experts from the Federal Communications Commission, break down the issue ahead of the agency’s vote.
By Dan Rosen
The Economic Case Against an A.T. & T.-Time Warner Merger
Concerns about President Trump’s role in the case don’t alter the fact that, on economic grounds, the merger demands rigorous inspection.
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Expected biggest video games of 2018
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The expected biggest video of 2018 is the video game developed by the maker of Pokemon Go.
Harry Potter : Wizards Unite
Developer Niantic Labs’ next game will be Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, a new game that adapts the AR concept to the legendary wizarding property.
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is an upcoming augmented reality game from Niantic and is expected to be released in the next three months.
A big focus for the Wizards Unite game is the ability to cast magical spells. Casting spells will likely involve using gestures on the touch screen and be similar to throwing a Pokeball at a Pokemon in Pokemon Go.
There were over 750 million downloads of Pokemon Go and 75 million active players. It is expected that Harry Potter: Wizards Unite could reach similar popularity.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is an upcoming Western-themed action-adventure video game developed and published by Rockstar Games. It is scheduled to be released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 26, 2018.
Red Dead Redemption was one of the best selling games of the seventh generation of video game consoles, many analysts believe Red Dead Redemption 2 will be one of the highest selling games of 2018 and have a great impact on other game sales during the fourth quarter.
PUBG: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds came out in late 2017. During February 2018, PUBG reached over 30 million sales.
Tencent has a range of video games for the 500 million Chinese mobile game players.
Tencent spent US$8.6 billion to take over Finnish mobile game developer Supercell in 2016, and is buying media giant Vivendi’s stake in French games publisher Ubisoft for US$2.45 billion.
Total revenue of the entertainment and media industry in China is forecast to reach US$264.3 billion in 2020, up from an estimated US$228.1 billion this year
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IMCA Names Andy Seymour as Board Member
Andy Seymour, Global Director Operational Excellence at Fugro NV joins IMCA Board. Photo: IMCA
The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has added Andy Seymour, global director of operational excellence at Fugro NV in the Netherlands, to its governing board.
Seymour has a technical background coupled with financial, commercial and management expertise. He started his career at Fugro as a field surveyor progressing to shore based management positions including country manager and regional director.
In 2018 he moved into a corporate role as deputy division director and in 2019 was appointed into his current roles as Global Director Operational Excellence. He holds a first-class honors degree in Civil Engineering.
Fugro has been a strong supporter of IMCA for many years. Andy has been associated with IMCA for almost 10 years, he has been involved with the South America Regional Committee since its inception where he also held the position of Chairman. He has also been a member of the Operations Committee.
Andy Seymour commented; “After having been involved with IMCA for many years, it is exciting to have the opportunity to contribute to the Governing Board. IMCA members have been through some very tough times in recent years, and it is an honor to participate at this level as we all find our feet again.”
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Home / Music / Tom Petty, Rock & Roll’s Heartbreaker, Dead at 66
Tom Petty, Rock & Roll's Heartbreaker, Dead at 66
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers started the home stretch of the 40th Anniversary tour in Vancouver on Thursday, rocking a sold-out Rogers Arena with opening act, @thelumineers . Welcomed to the stage with a deafening standing ovation, Tom and the guys showed no rust following a two-week break after their last show in Philadelphia, stretching out on many songs throughout the two-hour-plus show with extended solos from Tom, Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench. For complete recap, set list, and photos head to www.tompetty.com/tour (📷: @actennille)
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The rocker was 66 years old
Following confirmation from Tom Petty’s manager, it is with heavy hearts we report that the musical icon has died.
A message from Tom Petty’s Twitter account confirmed the news:
Full statement: pic.twitter.com/FGCVI5yIaa
— Tom Petty (@tompetty) October 3, 2017
The singer was found unconscious in his Malibu home Sunday night after suffering a severe heart attack. He was immediately rushed to nearby UCLA Santa Monica Hospital, where he was put on life support, but quickly pulled off upon the discovery of no brain activity. Tom Petty’s manager announced the icon died peacefully at 8.40pm local time on Monday night, surrounded by family, his bandmates, and friends. He was 66 years old.
Petty, who had just wrapped up a tour with The Heartbreakers in late September, formed the backing band after releasing a pair of albums with his first ensemble, Mudcrutch, and a subsequent solo stint in the mid-seventies. They’d reach critical and commercial success with their 1979 album, Damn the Torpedoes, anchored by breakout singles “Don’t Do Me Like That,” “Refugee” and “Here Comes My Girl.” In the eighties, he formed The Traveling Wilburys supergroup with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne. Together they recorded and released two studio albums, the first of which, Vol. 1, went three-times platinum in the US, six-times in Canada in 1988. The following year, Petty released his debut solo album, Full Moon Fever, featuring what are likely his most readily-identifiable songs “I Won’t Back Down” and the floaty stadium anthem, “Free Fallin.”
The following decade found him working with Rick Rubin on his 1994 album, Wildflowers, a sophomore solo project with fellow Heartbreakers, Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench. Eight years more and he’d be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in the class of 2002, alongside Isaac Hayes, The Talking Heads and The Ramones, amongst others. Throughout his career, he’d remained a fearless advocate of artistic and creative control, never shying from throwing a suit at copyright infringers.
Petty was more than a Heartbreaker for most, but on this day, it’s hard to feel anything but broken. R.I.P. to the one and only, Tom Petty.
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Wrought Material Product Profile
Alloy 200
Alloy 200 is commercially pure (99.6%) wrought material nickel. It has good mechanical properties and excellent resistance to many corrosive environments. Other useful features of the alloy are its magnetic and magnetostrictive properties, high thermal and electrical conductivities, low gas content and low vapor pressure.
The corrosion resistance of Alloy 200 makes it particularly useful for maintaining product purity in the handling of foods, synthetic fibers, and caustic alkalies; and also in structural applications where resistance to corrosion is a prime consideration.
Other applications include chemical shipping drums, electrical and electronic parts, aerospace and missile components and rocket motor cases.
Alloy 400 is a solid solution alloy that may be hardened only by cold working. It has high strength and toughness over a wide temperature range and excellent resistance to many corrosive environments.
Alloy 400 is widely used in many fields, especially marine and chemical processing. Typical applications are valves and pumps; pump and propeller shafts; marine fixtures and fasteners; electrical and electronic components; springs; chemical processing equipment; gasoline and fresh water tanks; crude petroleum stills, process vessels and piping; boiler feed water heaters and other heat exchangers; and deaerating heaters.
Alloy 600 is a standard engineering material for applications which require resistance to corrosion and heat. The alloy also has excellent mechanical properties and presents the desirable combination of high strength and good workability.
The high nickel content gives the alloy resistance to corrosion by many organic and inorganic compounds and also makes it virtually immune to chloride-ion stress-corrosion cracking. Chromium confers resistance to sulfur compounds and also provides resistance to oxidizing conditions at high temperatures or in corrosive solutions. The alloy is not precipitation hardenable; it is hardened and strengthened only by cold work.
The versatility of Alloy 600 has led to its use in a variety of applications involving temperatures from cryogenic to above 2000°F.
The alloy is used extensively in the chemical industry for its strength and corrosion resistance. Applications include heaters, stills, bubble towers, and condensers for processing of fatting acids; evaporator tubes, tube sheets, and flaking trays for the manufacture of sodium sulfide; and equipment for handling abietic acid in the manufacture of paper pulp.
The alloy’s strength and oxidation resistance at high temperatures make it useful for many applications in the heat treating industry. It is used for retorts, muffles, roller hearths, and other furnace components and for heat treating baskets and trays.
In the aeronautical field, alloy 600 is used for a variety of engine and airframe components, which must withstand high temperatures. Examples are lock wire, exhaust liners, and turbine seals.
The alloy is a standard material of construction for nuclear reactors. It has excellent resistance to corrosion by high purity water, and no indication of chloride-ion stress-corrosion cracking in reactor water systems has been detected. For nuclear applications, the alloy is produced to exacting specifications and is designated Alloy 600T.
Alloy 625 is used for its high strength, excellent fabricability (including joining), and outstanding corrosion resistance. Service temperatures range from cryogenic to 1800°F.
Strength of Alloy 625 is derived from the stiffening effect of molybdenum and columbium on its nickel-chromium matrix; thus precipitation-hardening treatments are not required. This combination of elements also is responsible for superior resistance to a wide range of corrosive environments of unusual severity as well as to high-temperature effects such as oxidation and carburization.
The outstanding and versatile corrosion resistance of Alloy 625 under a wide range of temperatures and pressures is a primary reason for its wide acceptance in the chemical processing field. Because of its ease of fabrication, it is made into a variety of components for plant equipment. Its high strength enables it be used, for example, in thinner-walled vessels or tubing than possible with other materials, thus improving heat transfer and saving weight. Some applications requiring the combination of strength and corrosion resistance offered by Inconel® alloy 625 are bubble caps, tubing, reaction vessels, distillation columns, heat exchangers, transfer piping and valves.
Alloy C-276
Alloy C-276 is know for its outstanding corrosion resistance in a wide range of severe media. The high nickel and molybdenum contents provide good corrosion resistance in reducing environments while chromium imparts resistance to oxidizing media. The molybdenum also aids resistance to localized corrosion such as pitting. The low carbon content minimizes carbide precipitation during welding to maintain resistance to corrosion (intergranular attack) in heat-affected zones of welded joints.
Alloy C-276 is widely used in the severest environments encountered in chemical processing, pollution control, pulp and paper production, industrial and municipal waste treatment, and recovery of “sour” natural gas. Applications in air-pollution include stack liners, ducts, dampers, scrubbers, stack-gas reheaters, fans and fan housings. In chemical processing, the alloy is used for numerous components including heat exchangers, reaction vessels, evaporators, and transfer piping. In sour gas wells (those containing hydrogen sulfide), Alloy C-276 delivers a high level of performance in various downhole and surface components including tubing, coupling, and subsurface safety valves.
Alloy 800 is a widely used material of construction for equipment that must have high strength and resist oxidation, carburization, and other harmful effects of high-temperature exposure. (For high temperature applications requiring optimum creep and rupture properties,Alloy 800H and 800HT are used).
The chromium in the alloy imparts resistance to oxidation and corrosion. The high percentage of nickel maintains an austenitic structure so that the alloy is ductile. the nickel content also contributes resistance to scaling, general corrosion, and stress-corrosion cracking. The iron content provides resistance to internal oxidation.
Alloy 800 is used in a variety of applications involving exposure to corrosive environments and high temperatures. It is used for heat-treating equipment such as baskets, trays and fixtures. In chemical and petrochemical processing the alloy is used for heat exchangers and other piping systems in nitric acid media especially where resistance to chloride stress-corrosion cracking is required. In nuclear power plants, it is used for steam-generator tubing. The alloy is often used in domestic appliances for sheathing of electric heating elements. In the production of paper pulp, digester liquid heaters are often made of alloy 800. In petroleum processing , the alloy is used for heat exchangers that air-cool the process stream.
Alloy 825 is a nickel-iron-chromium alloy with additions of molybdenum, copper and titanium. The alloy’s chemical composition is designed to provide exceptional resistance to many corrosive environments. The nickel content is sufficient for resistance to chloride-ion stress corrosion cracking. The nickel, in conjunction with the molybdenum and copper, also gives outstanding resistance to reducing environments such as those containing sulfuric and phosphoric acids. the molybdenum also aids resistance to pitting and crevice corrosion. The alloy’s chromium content confers resistance to a variety of oxidizing substances such as nitric acid, nitrates, and oxidizing salts. The titanium addition serves, with an appropriate heat treatment, to stabilize the alloy against sensitization to intergranular corrosion.
The resistance of Alloy 825 to general and localized corrosion under diverse conditions gives the alloy broad usefulness. Applications include chemical processing, pollution control, oil and gas recovery, acid production, pickling operations, nuclear fuel reprocessing and handling of radioactive wastes.
Alloy 020 is an austenitic nickel-iron-chromium alloy with additions of copper and molybdenum.
The nickel content makes Alloy 020 resistant to chloride-ion stress-corrosion cracking. Copper and molybdenum give resistance to reducing environments. The molybdenum content also provides good resistance to pitting and crevice corrosion. The chromium gives resistance to oxidizing environments such as nitric acid. The addition of niobium reduces the effect of carbide precipitation during welding, thus increasing the alloy’s resistance to intergranular corrosion.
Alloy 020 has exceptional corrosion resistance in sulfuric acid environments, and is used in a range of applications involving this acid. Other uses include the production of gasoline, solvents, explosives, inorganic and organic chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food and synthetic materials. For these and other applications, Alloy 020 is readily fabricated to produce mixing tanks, heat exchangers, process piping, pickling equipment, pumps, valves, fasteners and fittings.
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Best Of What's Next: Foster The People
By Alexandra Fletcher | July 11, 2011 | 12:22pm
Photos by williams + hirakawa Music Features Foster The People
There’s nothing worse than listening to an album on repeat for days and days, gettin’ giddy for the band’s live production, only to hear a mangled version of the electro-magic you heard through your car speakers.
That’s not the case for the L.A. synth-pop all-stars in Foster The People. Nearly every show on their tour has sold out—and for good reason.
Despite the explosion of fame found through their infectious summer jam, “Pumped Up Kicks,” the guys showed up to Atlanta’s Masquerade ready to play. It’s excruciating to watch a band stand up on stage, lackadaisically forcing themselves through their hits to keep up with an invisible degree of cool, but that wasn’t an issue as lead singer Mark Foster jumped up to get closer to the crowd, to further ignite the excitement of “Pumped Up Kicks” as if it wasn’t close to the 100th time he probably performed the song.
For Foster, that crafted studio-to-stage translation comes from his classical roots, and the onstage optimism can be attributed to the fact that he just doesn’t care about what’s hip or what isn’t. Mark doesn’t barf out his words, begging for accreditation as the frontman for a brand new band. But he doesn’t boast either. There’s a healthy blend of educated humility in his tone.
If you’ve ever heard the acoustic version of “Pumped Up Kicks” you soon realize that there’s more to the band than just danceable pop music.
“Even the electronic stuff, it’s kind of production but when you break it down all of the melodies of the songs on torches are there, they can be stripped down to piano or guitar,” Foster says. “When I did solo stuff before it was just me and an acoustic guitar. I’m very familiar with that style of music, Americana kind of folk…I grew up breaking these songs down, stripping them down, so it’s a pretty natural thing for us to do.” When asked where fans could find his acoustic catalog he says, “I’d love to put an acoustic record out at some point, but I never put anything out there.”
A classically trained musician, Foster started out as a solo artist in Ohio. Growing up, he first learned to play classical piano and sang for the Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Choir. He eventually moved out to L.A. and regrouped with some close friends to form Foster The People.
“It’s been really healthy transition,” he says. “I loved being a solo for the time I had. I was coming off the heels of a bunch of bands that really weren’t that much fun to be in. I told myself I never wanted to be in a band again. But being a solo artist can be a lonely life. You carry the emotional burden, the creative burden. Everything is all on your shoulders, you don’t have anyone to share it with, anyone to share the highs or the lows with.”
Just like the structure, Foster takes a lot of pride in his poetry. Every song on Torches has something to say. A catchy summer tune, most people don’t initially recognize that “Pumped Up Kicks” speaks about gun violence in schools and the emotional state of our youth.
“I think that’s part of the reason people are scared of the song because you know you listen to it and I think it takes a few weeks for the lyrics to really sink in,” Foster says. “I’ve heard that story a lot. People are singing along or humming or whistling or whatever for a few weeks before they actually knew what I was saying. It kind of hits them like a bucket of cool water when they find out what the lyrics are. So, for a summer anthem, I think it’s a pretty vivid story. Of a topic that nobody really likes to talk about.”
Foster doesn’t really seem fazed by the fact that MTV censored the words “gun” and “bullet” in the video for “Pumped Up Kicks.”: “Most kids that see that probably already know the song and can infer that I’m saying gun or bullet,” he says. “I don’t know…it is what it is. There’s a lot of music out there that MTV plays that’s way more offensive.”
He’s been known to voice his aggravation with the hipster critics that like to catagorize the music world. So, after listening to “Call It What You Want,” I couldn’t help but wonder if it was directed at the nay-sayers.
“Yeah, it [is] I guess,” Foster says. “It’s not necessarily directed toward the hipster culture. Everybody is a critic nowadays; everybody is on their blog, on their Twitter. Everybody likes to put themselves on this high pedestal. And most people don’t really know their ass from their elbow.”
“What’s funny is when people get behind a pen or a typewriter they become way more witty or articulate and powerful,” he continues. “And it’s cool on one hand, but on the other hand…we live in a world where for every artist there are 1000 critics. ‘Call It What You Want’ for me is just about people trying to put my music in a box. I like to write in different genres, and I like to make what I like to make. It’s the aggravation of people labeling it this or that, drilling me on my style. My attitude is just like, you know, call it what you want. It is what is. Why do we need to put a label on it?”
It takes a few spins to really translate some of the meaning behind Torches, but Foster thinks the most evident message is found on “Waste.”
“I think ‘Waste’ has a pretty clear message,” he says. “It’s a pretty cultural song about unconditional love. The lyrics to that song are really powerful, really empathetic, compassionte towards humanity. You can apply it to a person that you love or a best friend or a parent.”
Foster is indifferent to how you consume the record—the music is most important to him, not the medium.
“No it doesn’t really matter. I think it’s cool to have a physical copy. I think having a physical copy of the vinyl is the coolest thing. It’s a piece art you can put on your wall.” “It’s really all about the music. If someone just wants to download it on iTunes that’s fine.”
But he’d like you to familiarize yourself with the CD jacket.
“I’m really proud of the lyrics on Torches, and I hear people misquote them all the time,” he says. “A lot of the songs are really accessible and really immediate. It’s pop at its roots. It’s pop but its quirky pop.”
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U.S., five states announce settlement with BP over gulf oil spill
Nation Oct 5, 2015 1:51 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The deal, once approved by a judge, would resolve all civil claims against BP and end five years of legal fighting over the 134 million-gallon spill. It also would bind the company to a massive cleanup project in the Gulf Coast area aimed at restoring wildlife, habitat and water quality.
“BP is receiving the punishment it deserves, while also providing critical compensation for the injuries that it caused to the environment and the economy of the Gulf region,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch said at a Justice Department news conference.
“The steep penalty should inspire BP and its peers to take every measure necessary to ensure that nothing like this can ever happen again,” Lynch said.
The settlement, filed in federal court in New Orleans, finalizes an agreement first announced in July. The next steps are a 60-day public comment period and court approval.
In a statement, BP spokesman Geoff Morrell said the settlement total announced Monday includes amounts previously spent or disclosed by the company, and “resolves the largest litigation liabilities remaining from the tragic accident.”
Among other requirements, BP would have to pay $5.5 billion in Clean Water Act penalties and nearly $5 billion to five Gulf states: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
The company would also be required to pay $8.1 billion in natural resource damages, with funds going toward Gulf restoration projects such as support for coastal wetland and fish and birds.
An additional $600 million would cover other costs, such as federal and state reimbursement claims. And up to $1 billion would go to local governments to settle claims for economic damage from the spill.
A coalition of conservation organizations, including the National Audubon Society and the Environmental Defense Fund, praised the settlement in a joint statement. The groups said that while the full damage of the oil spill may not yet be known, the process “will help bring the Gulf back to the state it was before the spill, and the release of this plan is a positive step toward that end.”
The spill followed the April 2010 explosion on an offshore rig that killed 11 workers. BP earlier settled with people and businesses harmed by the spill, a deal that’s so far resulted in $5.84 billion in payouts.
A report by Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Trustees called the oil spill damages “unprecedented.” It found that deep ocean water currents carried oil from the spill hundreds of miles from the blown-out well.
Oil from the spill was deposited onto at least 400 square miles of the sea floor and washed up onto more than 1,300 miles of shoreline from Texas to Florida. The oil was toxic to fish, birds, plankton, turtles and mammals, causing death and disease and making it difficult for animals to reproduce.
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Left: Oil floats on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico around a work boat at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico June 2, 2010. Tar balls and other oil debris from the giant, fragmented slick reached Alabama's Dauphin Island, parts of Mississippi and were less than 16 km (10 miles) from Florida's northwest Panhandle coast. Photo by Sean Gardner/Reuters
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Peace Corps Announces 2018 Top Volunteer-Producing Schools
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For the second straight year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Washington, and the University of Minnesota hold the top three spots respectively on the Peace Corps’ Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill ascends to No. 4 this year, while the University of Florida holds steady at No. 5.
There are 85 Badgers serving in the Peace Corps, bringing the all-time count of volunteers from the University of Wisconsin to 3,279. Wisconsin has appeared in the top 5 of the Peace Corps’ rankings for the past three years.
Making big jumps on this year’s large college list, the University of Texas moved from No. 25 to No. 8 and the University of Virginia moved from No. 15 to No. 6. The Texas Longhorns have 61 currently serving Peace Corps volunteers, while 62 hail from UVA.
“Peace Corps service is a profound expression of the idealism and civic engagement that colleges and universities across the country inspire in their alumni,” said Acting Peace Corps Director Sheila Crowley. “As Peace Corps volunteers, recent graduates foster local capacity and self-reliance at the grassroots level, making an impact in communities around the world. They return to the United States with highly sought-after skills and an enterprising spirit—leveraging their education, global experience, and confidence into their communities and careers back home.”
Among medium-sized schools, institutions with between 5,000 and 15,000 undergraduates, George Washington University has reclaimed the top spot with 50 volunteers. GW is followed by American University, the College of William and Mary, the University of Montana, and Tulane University in the medium-sized school rankings.
St. Mary’s College of Maryland leads the rankings for small colleges with 17 current Peace Corps volunteers. Macalester College and St. Lawrence University are tied for second with 15 volunteers each. Also making a significant jump this year, Spelman College climbed from No. 7 into a crowded tie for fourth (see rankings below).
Among graduate schools, Tulane University moved into the No. 1 spot with 27 volunteers. American University, the University of South Florida, and George Washington University hold the second, third, and fourth spots, respectively. Graduate schools at the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and the University of Denver tie for fifth.
Below find complete lists of the top schools in each category and the number of alumni serving as Peace Corps volunteers. View the complete 2018 rankings of the top 25 schools in each category and an interactive map that shows where alumni from each college and university are serving here: www.peacecorps.gov/news/topcolleges/.
Large Colleges & Universities – Total Volunteers:
More than 15,000 Undergraduates
1. University of Wisconsin-Madison – 85
2. University of Washington – 74
3. University of Minnesota – 72
4. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill – 70
5. University of Florida – 68
Medium Colleges & Universities – Total Volunteers:
Between 5,000 and 15,000 undergraduates
1. George Washington University – 50
2. American University – 49
3. College of William and Mary – 35
4. University of Montana – 34
5. Tulane University – 33
Small Colleges & Universities – Total Volunteers:
Fewer than 5,000 undergraduates
1. St. Mary’s College of Maryland – 17
2. Macalester College – 15
2. St. Lawrence University – 15
4. University of Redlands – 14
4. University of Mary Washington – 14
4. Evergreen State College – 14
4. Hobart and William Smith Colleges – 14
4. Whitworth University – 14
4. Spelman College – 14
Graduate Schools – Total Volunteers:
3. University of South Florida – 16
5. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor – 14
5. Columbia University – 14
5. University of Denver – 14
Historical, Since 1961 – Total Volunteers:
1. University of California, Berkeley 3,671
2. University of Wisconsin–Madison 3,279
3. University of Washington 3,027
4. University of Michigan 2,720
5. University of Colorado Boulder 2,504
*Rankings are calculated based on fiscal year 2017 data as of September 30, 2017, as self-reported by Peace Corps volunteers.
About the Peace Corps: The Peace Corps sends Americans with a passion for service abroad on behalf of the United States to work with communities and create lasting change. Volunteers develop sustainable solutions to address challenges in education, health, community economic development, agriculture, environment and youth development. Through their Peace Corps experience, volunteers gain a unique cultural understanding and a life-long commitment to service that positions them to succeed in today's global economy. Since President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps in 1961, more than 230,000 Americans of all ages have served in 141 countries worldwide.
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Canton cop accused of murder waives rights to speedy trial
Lori Monsewicz
Cutts and a high school classmate accused of killing Jessie M. Davis and her unborn child.
Bobby L. Cutts Jr. won’t go on trial anytime soon.
Attorneys for the Canton police officer and his former high school classmate said more time is needed to prepare for their trials, which could have started in just weeks.
Cutts and Myisha L. Ferrell waived their rights to a speedy trial early Tuesday morning.
Both are charged in connection with the deaths of Jessie M. Davis and her unborn daughter, Chloe.
Cutts, 30, formerly of Ayrshire Avenue NE in Plain Township, could face the death penalty if a jury finds him guilty of three aggravated murder charges and additional counts of aggravated burglary, endangering children and two counts of gross abuse of a corpse.
Ferrell, 29, formerly of Oxford Avenue NW in Canton, is charged with obstructing justice and complicity to gross abuse of a corpse. She could get up to six years in prison if convicted.
Davis was reported missing from her Lake Township home in June. Hundreds of people searched for the pregnant mother of Cutts’ 2-year-old son. Her decomposing body was found about a week later.
The Summit County medical examiner ruled her death and that of her unborn, near-term baby as homicides.
Not-guilty pleas
Cutts and Ferrell entered not-guilty pleas in hearings on Friday.
Ferrell appeared before Judge Charles E. Brown Jr. in a makeshift courtroom at the Stark County Jail, where she is being held in lieu of $500,000 bond.
Her attorney, John Alexander, asked that her bond be reduced or that she be assigned to house arrest, citing her need to care for her 9-year-old daughter.
Brown denied the request.
Ferrell’s trial date was set for Nov. 5 to provide her attorney more time to prepare for her defense.
Alexander said the responses from questionnaires that will go out Oct. 7 to 300 potential jurors will enable him to determine whether media exposure would prompt him to seek to move the trial out of Stark County.
“It’s very difficult for her and her family, but we’re doing everything that we can,” he said. Alexander said Ferrell is in “constant contact” with her family and has had visits with her daughter.
No trial date
No trial date has been set for Cutts, said Dennis Barr, chief of the Stark County prosecutor’s criminal division.
Cutts took a seat between his Cleveland-based attorneys, Myron Watson and Fernando Mack, and hung his head as they leaned in to talk to him.
Brown told the attorneys he would meet with them again at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 7. Barr said he expects a trial date may be set at that time, but that he didn’t expect the trial to begin until after the beginning of next year.
Mack said he and Watson planned to request investigatory reports this week to find out what information the prosecutors have and decide whether the defense would want to file for a change of venue for the trial.
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage (L) and Brexit Party Chairman Richard Tice in central London on June 7, 2019 | Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images
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Farage was at a table with millionaire hotelier John Mappin — who has shared anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and false information about Jewish financier George Soros — and artist Amanda Eliasch — who said Enoch Powell had been "sadly proven right" in his "Rivers of Blood" speech by the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing and has made anti-Islam comments.
Turning Point U.K., which is an offshoot of American group Turning Point U.S.A., was launched in Britain earlier this year by Breitbart contributor Charlie Kirk. The movement describes itself as "a grassroots organisation dedicated to educating students and other young people on the values of free markets, limited government and personal responsibility."
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The owner of the Camelot Castle Hotel in Cornwall, Mappin has shared conspiracies online about vaccines and Soros, and claims that senior figures in Hollywood and Washington are pedophiles.
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He shared a meme two days after the event that suggested the “mainstream media” is preventing the “unawake masses” from learning about the “deep state” and “Soros." Theories about Soros controlling the media, banks and politics, which Mappin has shared in the past, are considered to be anti-Semitic by critics.
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“We do not vet other people's guest lists” — A Brexit Party spokesman
He added: "This type of reporting has no place in a reputable publication. This is why the political media is losing their ratings."
Eliasch, meanwhile, shared a video of Enoch Powell's 1968 "Rivers of Blood" speech on race relations in the U.K. on Facebook after the Manchester Arena terror attack in 2017 and argued that “ethnic diversity is a huge problem.”
In the wake of the London Bridge terror attack she wrote a blog post saying Muslims live an “isolated indoctrinated life” that is “not compatible with ours,” according to BuzzFeed News. But she deleted the post after it was highlighted by the website.
She has shared theories posted by conspiracist David Icke, including one in which he claimed there is a “political system orchestrated, created and controlled to this day by the Rothschilds called Zionism. It is a tyrannical system which has no mercy on anyone who gets in its way.”
Eliasch refused to comment when contacted by POLITICO. She told BuzzFeed in May that she is not anti-Muslim, adding: "You've accused me of being anti-Islamicist [sic] when I have an Islamic driver who I absolutely adore. How dare you. I lived in Marrakech. How dare you do that.”
Farage and the Brexit Party were made aware of the online activities of Mappin and Eliasch when BuzzFeed News reported that he asked them for funding for his new political movement.
A Brexit Party spokesman said in response to a request for comment on Farage's attendance at the dinner: “We do not vet other people's guest lists.” Turning Point U.K. did not respond to a request for comment.
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Stevens continued, “He claims to be a ‘man of the people’ but he’s nothing more than a snake-oil salesman in an expensive suit.”
In a 14-minute speech at the dinner, Farage railed against the education system, which he said was teaching young people a one-sided liberal view on issues like global warming, global corporatism and defense of Judeo-Christian culture.
"Whatever it may be, on all of these issues, our young people are being taught that one view is virtuous and right and the other view is evil," he told diners.
"And this is what we have to fight. And this is why I am so pleased, Charlie Kirk, that you have bought TPUK to this country. It’s vital.”
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Prisons Up in Smoke: The Smoking Ban
The government recently announced their plans to phase in a smoking ban across all 136 prisons in England and Wales, beginning next year. The decision came after a number of high profile cases in which prison officers and inmates complained about the impact of passive smoking; yet in spite of the health benefits of imposing a ban, the decision remains controversial.
Peter McParlin, national chairman of the Prison Officer’s Association, welcomes the decision to ban smoking. He points out that ‘smoking is banned in workplaces across the UK’ and queries why prisons should be any different.
This is, of course, a fair point. The dangers of inhaling second-hand smoke are well documented, and according to the NHS, passive smoking can ‘increase your risk of cancer and other health problems.’ Terry Fullerton, a member of the Prison Officer’s Association’s national executive committee, highlights the unfairness of the situation, saying: ‘We are the only group of workers in the country that have to go to work and suffer the effects of second-hand smoke.’
80% of Inmates
However, whilst many prison officers are not impressed with smoking in prisons, most prisoners certainly haven’t been complaining.
Tobacco use is currently prevalent in all UK prisons, and around 80% of inmates smoke. Although they’re not permitted to light up in certain areas of the prison building, they are allowed to smoke in their own cells.
For many prisoners, smoking is a way of managing stress when inside. Imposing a smoking ban would leave inmates suffering from nicotine withdrawal, which at the best of times can cause irritability, frustration and even depression. In a large prison such as HMP Wandsworth, the ban could bring about a situation where over a thousand inmates were suddenly placed under significant stress- a worrying situation indeed.
Only a month ago, riots broke out in a prison in Melbourne, Australia, after a smoking ban was imposed. It’s easy to see how the same could happen in the UK, and even the Prison Governors Association president, Andrea Albutt admits that it could cause ‘stability issues’.
Tobacco – Prison’s ‘Delicate’ Economy
According to ex-inmate Charlie Gilmour, in prison, tobacco is not only used as a means of controlling stress, it’s also a vital form of currency. He states that: “In principle the ban could act as harsh medicine for helpless addicts but, in reality, it will probably cause more problems than it seeks to resolve.’ He adds that “in my experience, there are few groups of people more adept at getting around the rules than prisoners.”
Instead of smoking legally, inmates will simply resort to smuggling tobacco into the prison, as they do already with drugs and mobile phones.
Drop in Crime at Non-Smoking Prison?
HMP Isle of Man is one of the only prisons in the UK (and Europe) currently operating a smoking ban. Interestingly, crime rates have dropped since the non-smoking prison opened; which some suggest is due to the lack of tobacco creating a powerful deterrent.
A police source claims that: “It’s a standing joke now that when we nick someone we remind them that if they get sent down they’ll have to come off the cigarettes – their faces are a picture.”
Removing Another Source of Support
Although it’s undeniable that smoking is bad for your health and that prison officers should have the right to work in a smoke-free environment, it’s also clear to see that banning cigarettes in prisons has the potential to be problematic.
In an environment where stress-levels already run high, where violence is already a significant problem and where support from family and friends is limited, taking away yet another form of comfort from a prisoner perhaps nudges them one step further away from rehabilitation.
Only time will tell how successful the ban will be.
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33617492
* http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/26/whitehall-prison-smoking-ban
* http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-prison-smoking-ban-could-trigger-riots-among-stressed-out-inmates-1511992
* http://www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/2289.aspx?categoryid=53&
* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6900265/No-smoking-prison-sparks-drop-in-crime.html
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Rise Against is a punk/hardcore band from Chicago, Illinois, USA. Formed in 1999, and originally performing under the name Transistor Revolt, they released a self–produced demo entitled Transistor Revolt in 2000, a year before signing with Fat Wreck Chords to release their first two albums, The Unraveling, and Revolutions Per Minute in 2001 and 2003. They later switched to Dreamworks Records and recorded their album Siren Song of the Counter Culture. However, Dreamworks Records got taken over by the Universal Music Group and Rise Against finally found themselves on Geffen Records an Universal Music Group subsidiary, releasing Siren Song of the Counter Culture in August 2004. A re–issued version of The Unraveling was released on August 23, 2005 through Fat Wreck Chords. There is great speculation that Rise Against will release their 4th studio album in mid–2006.
Rise Against's original lineup consisted of Tim McIlrath (vocals and guitar), Joe Principe (bass and vocals), Brandon Barnes (drums), and Mr. Precision (guitar and vocals), and recorded its debut album with renowned punk producer Mass Giorgini. Mr. Precision left the band in 2001 and was replaced by Todd Mohney. Shortly after the band signed with Geffen, Mohney left and was replaced by Chris Chasse.
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The Coup, politically radical in their music, align themselves with other radical hip—hop groups like dead prez. Their music is characterized by electronic sounds and bass—driven backbeats overlaid by humorous, cynical and sometimes violent lyrics criticizing capitalism, American politics, prostitution, and police brutality, among other things.
The Coup's debut album was 1993's Kill My Landlord. In 1994 they released their second album, Genocide and Juice. After a four—year recording hiatus, the group released the critically acclaimed Steal This Album in 1998, with a title reminiscent of anarchist Abbie Hoffman's Steal this Book, and a stand—out single in "Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night". The online magazine Dusted called Steal This Album "the best hip—hop album of the 1990s". [1]
In 2001, The Coup released Party Music to widespread praise; however, in part due to distribution problems, sales of the album were low. The original album cover art depicted group members Pam the Funkstress and Riley standing in front of the twin towers of the World Trade Center as they are destroyed by huge explosions; Riley is pushing the button on a guitar tuner. The album's planned release date was just after the events of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the cover art was withdrawn hastily. The cover art was finished in June 2001; there was no connection between the band and the attacks. The album release was held back as alternative cover art was prepared.
The attention generated to the album's cover art generated some criticism of the group's lyrical content as well, particularly the Party Music track "5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO". The song's rap includes lines like, "You could throw a twenty in a vat of hot oil/When he jump in after it, watch him boil". Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin cited the song in calling The Coup's work a "stomach—turning example of anti—Americanism disguised as highbrow intellectual expression".
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Kings in Exile: Works by Antal Szerb
The best of Antal Szerb, published by Pushkin Press
With this wonderful set of books to treasure, Pushkin Press celebrates the very best work by the great Hungarian writer Antal Szerb (1901-1945). His sharp intelligence and sparkling wit are evident in everything he wrote, where the deepest meditations on the human condition are carried within darkly amusing tales. In this collection, Szerb’s ideas about identity, history, art and society are shown to be as vitally important today as they were when first written.
Contains the novels Journey by Moonlight, The Pendragon Legend and Oliver VII, the short story collection Love in a Bottle and the history The Queen’s Necklace.
“A writer of immense subtlety and generosity… Can literary mastery be this quiet-seeming, this hilarious, this kind? Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers” Ali Smith
Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901. Though of Jewish descent, he was baptised at an early age and remained a lifelong Catholic. He rapidly established himself as a formidable scholar, through studies of Ibsen and Blake and histories of English, Hungarian and world literature. He was a prolific essayist and reviewer, ranging across all the major European languages. Debarred by successive Jewish laws from working in a university, he was subjected to increasing persecution, and finally murdered in a forced labour camp in 1945. Pushkin Press publishes his novels The Pendragon Legend, Oliver VII and his masterpiece Journey by Moonlight, as well as the historical study The Queen’s Necklace and Love in a Bottle and Other Stories.
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Saudi Arabia to buy U.S. LNG from Sempra Energy - WSJ
May 21 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian Oil Co IPO-ARMO.SE, known as Aramco, has agreed to buy U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) from San Diego-based Sempra Energy’s Port Arthur project in Texas, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The terms of the deal could not be determined and it was not clear if Aramco would also take an equity stake in the project, WSJ said here
It is unclear if the LNG will be used to power Saudi Arabia’s local economy, or sold to international buyers, according to the report.
Aramco and Sempra did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment on the WSJ report.
Aramco had been pushing its conventional and unconventional gas exploration and production programme to feed its fast growing industries, as the company planned to increase gas output and become an exporter.
In the recent months, Aramco has been looking at gas assets in Russia, Australia and Africa.
Reporting by Rishika Chatterjee in Bengaluru; editing by Rashmi Aich
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Mr. Pietro Beccari has served as Chairman and CEO of Christian Dior Couture, Member of the Executive Committee within LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE since February 2018. He is a Business Administration graduate of Universita degli Studi di Parma in Italy. Mr. Beccari spent his earlier career in Marketing at Benckiser in Italy and Parmalat in the US, then in General Management at Henkel in Germany, where he was Corporate Vice-President for Haircare. In 2006 he joined LVMH as Executive Vice-President Marketing and Communications for Louis Vuitton before becoming Chairman and CEO of Fendi in 2012.
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9 Studies That Help Explain Asperger’s
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Rincon Mountain Winery 6520 Casitas Pass Road, Ventura, CA 93001
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Rene Trumpler
Rene Trumpler is one of ringette’s most innovative pioneers and has served the sport in all capacities from on-ice officiating, coaching at the highest levels, to volunteer administration at the local to national and international levels. In addition to winning the most medals as a coach in the history of Gloucester Ringette, his unrelenting efforts to make the game as enjoyable and exciting as possible contributed immeasurably to the advent of the shot clock and the evolution away from red, blue and white sticks.
In addition to pioneering several innovative sport modifications such as the ‘ringette key’, one of Rene’s greatest contributions was as principal author of the inaugural Ringette Sport Development Model which was the most comprehensive analysis of the technical aspects of every skill involved in the sport. He was also involved in the creation and publication of the most authoritative compendium of ringette drills contained and published in the history of the sport in the Ringette Canada Drill Manual.
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‘Europe on the brink of revolution’
Published time: 12 May, 2012 18:42 Edited time: 13 May, 2012 10:58
A worker from the Athens central groceries market shouts slogans during a rally in front of the Bank of Greece in Athens (Reuters/Yorgos Karahalis) © Reuters
The chorus of anti-austerity voices grows louder in Greece as Athens scrambles to form a coalition government. While eurocrats prepare to give Greece the boot, political analyst Alessandro Politi told RT speculators are Europe’s real enemy.
Greek President Karolos Papoulias has called on the leaders of the country’s three biggest parties in a last ditch effort to avoid new elections. With the Left Coalition SYRIZA party insisting that it will not participate in any government “that will implement the bailout,” Greece faces bankruptcy within weeks, and a likely ejection from the eurozone. But as Greece is told to suffer more austerity or say goodbye to the euro, Politi told RT there is a third way.
RT: Greece's predicament is unenviable. It could leave the Eurozone, maybe default, start from scratch – or try and stick out more than a decade of austerity. Which direction should it go?
Alessandro Politi: Well, there is a third direction, which is that Europe – which means the main European states – should show the solidarity which is incorporated in the Treaty of Lisbon, and which we have seen very little precious solidarity around in the past months. It is very clear that this financial assault [by speculators] is like an artichoke, first you start with the weaker states, and then you go to the heart – the heart is France, Germany and the other AAA [rated countries]. And all these countries have already been threatened with a downgrade – or like France, have already been downgraded to A.
'The middle class will be squeezed for the sake of these financial interests. This is something which goes against democracy, dignity and freedom.'
RT: It almost seems as though you’re describing some sort of chain reaction originating from Athens. Are you forecasting a fairly scary prospect for the entire eurozone by saying that other countries after Greece could also be in line?
AP: Well, if they march divided, and the speculators attack in a coordinated way, this is inevitable. This is precisely what European countries and the ECB [European Central Bank] should avoid. But for the moment, everyone says ‘I’m not Greece, no, I am different, no, Greece must pay and then the rest will see.’ And this isn’t a good idea.
RT: Okay, so it’s not a good idea. What might be a good idea? You’re looking at Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal – certainly there are fundamental members of the eurozone that are flailing right now. Is there a solution?
AP: The first thing is to collectively negotiate the debt. Each country has been left alone to its own devices. This is not a good idea when you face a full-fledged financial assault; this isn’t just a crisis. And secondly, there must be a debt auditing. We are lumping together different types of debts, and we don’t know what are the serious and really guaranteed and transparent debts, and what are shadow financing operations for which I don’t know why we should pay collectively as Europeans.
RT: Let’s address the one simple fact here that a lot of the networks seem to ignore. At the end of the day with these austerity measures, the one area the feels the pain, that feels the pinch is the people. How much longer are the public and the working middle class expected to take the brunt of these austerities when they’re losing their money and pensions, retirement, healthcare, you name it. Where’s the outrage?
AP: Greece has already hit the bottom, and very soon other countries will do the same. Because it’s not just working class, it’s really middle-middle class that will be squeezed without any pity for the sake of these financial interests. And this is something which goes against the grain of democracy and against the grain of dignity and freedom. So I think that the situation, at least in some countries, is really ready for something very similar to an Arab revolution.
'In Italy, the number of suicides is very similar to the ones we had in Tunisia. The statistics office says the number is in line with past years; I’m sure the same thing was said to Ben Ali.'
RT: In Spain we've got mass austerity protests. In Italy we saw more clashes with riot police. And demonstrators in Greece, we all know what’s happening there – only a few weeks ago one man shot himself in the head on the steps of parliament. Don’t you think that the public’s message has been clear at this point?
AP: Yes, but unfortunately there is a political class and also an entrepreneur class which has been educated by more than 30 years of deregulation, which thinks just that numbers count, and not people. So they see the facts, but they really don’t take seriously the message. We are starting in Italy to have a number of suicides which are very similar to the ones that we had in Tunisia, and what does our official statistics office say? Well, the number is in line with the past years. I’m sure the same thing was said to Ben Ali by his own statisticians. But that is not the point. It is not about the numbers, it is about politics and political perception. It’s not just spinning the news.
RT: When the whole idea of the eurozone was dreamed up by politicians, it certainly must have seemed like a good idea. Is it a case now of politicians, whether it’s eurocrats in Brussels or politicians in other flailing eurozone countries, who don’t want to see it go down the toilet on their watch?
AP: Not only, but also politicians in the apparently more secure countries don’t want to see it go down the toilet because their own banks are generally filled with toxic assets. This is something which is not really [discussed], but which is true. It’s not only a problem of countries whose debt has been singled out by speculators. Because other countries also have a worrying composition of their debt, and they still apparently are in good health. Look just at the United Kingdom. They have introduced austerity measures, but they still have a reputable economy despite knowing very well that the debt is very high. Look at the United States, who are saying ‘well, we don’t want to be touched by EU problems,’ when this world crisis was originated by scandals in the United States.
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Radisson and Jin Jiang Launch First Co-Branded Hotel
Following the Group’s acquisition by Jin Jiang International and Sino-Cee Fund late last year, Radisson Hotel Group and its shareholders have together identified several opportunities to realize the true potential of the Chinese market. Key initiatives have been defined, with the launch of co-branded hotels being a critical element of the project. The Radisson Blu Hotel, Frankfurt in Germany is the first property to be co-branded with Jin Jiang International.
Federico J. González Tejera, President & CEO of Radisson Hospitality AB and Chairman of the Global Steering Committee for Radisson Hotel Group, said: “We are keen on offering the leading hotel brands from Radisson Hotel Group to guests, owners and talent around the world. The launch of the first co-branded hotel with Jin Jiang International is an important milestone in reaching this goal. The co-branded hotels have a bright future, with the potential to extend to more than 30 properties across EMEA – including five Radisson Collection hotels in key destinations for Chinese travelers.”
Chen Liming, Vice Chairman of the Board for Jin Jiang International, said: “We are thrilled that we will now take the next step in our journey together after the acquisition. China has become the world’s largest travel market, offering a wealth of opportunity and potential. Co-branded hotels are positioned to not only improve awareness of our Chinese and Radisson brands in EMEA and China respectively, but also promote people-to-people exchanges between China and the rest of the world. We very much look forward to making the most of the available potential together.”
The Radisson Blu Hotel, Frankfurt in Germany is the first hotel from Radisson Hotel Group’s portfolio of more than 1,100 hotels to become a co-branded hotel with Jin Jiang International. The choice of Frankfurt was an obvious one: for years Frankfurt has been the number one destination within Germany for Chinese tourists. The presence of the international airport ensures that many Chinese visitors start or end their trips in Frankfurt. And what’s more, no other region in Europe offers more direct flights to China – something that is particularly valued by Chinese investors. It also gives the hotel a chance to showcase the renovation project it completed recently, making now the ideal time to welcome Chinese-speaking guests.
At the newly co-branded hotel, Chinese-speaking guests and travelers will find a range of features designed and curated to provide them with an excellent experience and make them feel at home. New hotel offerings cover all the key moments of the stay, from collateral such as menus and welcome cards being available in Chinese to guests having the ability to pay for anything with Chinese Union pay cards. In the guest rooms, small touches like the provision of tea kettles and a choice of Chinese teas make a big difference. Guests can also relax while watching Chinese television channels or by reading Chinese newspapers, available via the Radisson Blu One Touch app.
The Radisson Blu Hotel, Frankfurt also features a range of new Food & Beverage options created for Chinese-speaking travelers. It has added traditional dishes like congee, noodles and wontons to the selection available as part of the daily breakfast service. There are now Chinese meals in the hotel’s restaurant, Welcome Corner and on its room service menus – including Shanghai noodles, Hainanese chicken rice and Singapore Laksa. Guests can also enjoy a special welcome ceremony upon check-in.
As part of preparation for co-branded hotel opening, a talent exchange program was rolled out earlier this year. A team of employees – featuring chefs, reservation managers and others – from Radisson Hotel Group’s hotels and corporate offices spent three months in Shanghai with the aim of providing a true Chinese experience in European hotels. In return, a Chinese team is spending time in Europe to gain a greater understanding of European hospitality.
To facilitate the booking process for Chinese-speaking travelers, as of 30 June 2019, 53 Radisson Hotel Group properties will be featured on the WeHotel Platform, Jin Jiang International’s global hotel booking platform. The remaining properties will be available by the end of the year as well. As part of this collaboration, Radisson Rewards and WeHotel Prime, Jin Jiang’s high-end hotels loyalty program, are working together to provide localized, in-hotel benefits to members of both programs.
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Matrimonial / Family
Margaret H. Tyre
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Margaret H. Tyre, former Senior Partner of the firm, retired in 2014, having practiced law in Westchester County since 1979. She formed her own firm in Rye, New York in 1980. Margaret concentrated her practice in the areas of Matrimonial Law, Trusts and Estates and Real Estate Law. Margaret was a founding member of the Association of Collaborative Lawyers of Rockland-Westchester, which was formed to offer an alternative process for divorce. Margaret was also trained in Matrimonial Mediation, and a member of the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals. She served on the Grievance Committee for the Ninth Judicial District and served by appointment as a Special Referee for Disciplinary Proceedings. Margaret is a former member of the House of Delegates for the New York State Bar Association and has been a member of the Board of Directors for the Westchester County Bar Association and the Westchester Women’s Bar Association and formerly on the Board of the Westchester County Bar Foundation. Margaret was admitted to the New York Bar in 1979 and the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. She received her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1978.
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Lawmakers long ago all but restricted cheap handguns, and they’ve denied guns to people who abuse alcohol or have a history of domestic violence. This year, they banned guns on college campuses. The list goes on.
“No question, in many ways, California is the envy to the rest of the nation. That doesn’t mean we can’t do better,” Newsom told me.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence assesses our gun control laws like this: “California has enacted the strongest firearm laws in the nation and consistently ranks #1 on the Brady Campaign’s annual state scorecard.”
In the tough grading system imposed by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, California is one of six states that receives an A-minus. The center, which is helping Newsom write the initiative, presumably would give the state a solid A if voters approve the measure.
Then there is Guns & Ammo, which ranks California as 46th worst for gun owners: “While many states have backed away from efforts to restrict the rights of their gun owners, California is moving full steam ahead.”
Newsom hasn’t submitted the wording of his initiative. But based on his statements and fundraising pitch, he is offering five ideas. Each is familiar. His donors will have to ask themselves whether the provisions would be worth the millions a campaign would cost.
One would require the state Department of Justice to share with the FBI information about felons and others who are prohibited from owning firearms. The state already does this, though Newsom says his measure would mandate it.
Another would tighten procedures to ensure that people who are prohibited from owning guns relinquish their firearms. California already has an only-in-California program by which agents visit the homes of mentally infirm people, felons and domestic abusers and take their guns.
There’d be a ban on possession of magazines that hold more than 10 bullets, though, again, the state prohibits their sale and importation. Gun owners would be required to report lost or stolen guns to law enforcement. That makes sense, though Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed legislation to require the reporting.
Probably the biggest gap in California law involves bullets. Newsom’s initiative would require ammunition buyers to undergo background checks and sellers to be licensed – a good idea, as others have concluded.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill in 2010 by Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León regulating bullet sales, though the National Rifle Association has tied it up in court.
De León tried fixing it with another bill, but Brown vetoed it, flippantly saying: “Let’s keep our powder dry on amendments until the court case runs its course.” A similar de León bill stalled last year in the Assembly.
Then there are provisions not mentioned. Last year, Newsom supported Proposition 47, which reduced penalties for what he described as nonviolent, low-level crimes. As a result, theft of property worth less than $950 is a misdemeanor. That includes many handguns.
Here’s a suggestion for Newsom. Fix the Proposition 47 flaw by clearly stating that theft of a firearm, even one worth less than $950, is a serious crime for which you could be imprisoned. At a minimum, someone who steals or possesses a stolen gun should lose the right to own a firearm.
Newsom has an eye for emerging issues, something he proved when as the newly elected mayor of San Francisco in 2004, he started officiating same-sex marriages, a step that ultimately led to the landmark Supreme Court decision recognizing marriage equality.
In his fundraising pitch last week, Newsom called his Safety for All initiative “historic.” Newsom has been on the right side of history before. But as any student of politics knows, there are no new issues, merely politicians who seek new ways to use them to attain higher office.
Dan Morain: 916-321-1907, dmorain@sacbee.com, @DanielMorain
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A tribute to the late Terry Dolan
A great man, and great friend both of this Department and our school, left us recently. Professor T.P. Dolan of the English Department of University College Dublin, more commonly known as 'Terry', visited us for over 35 years until recent times. His funeral was earlier today in Kingscourt, County Cavan, where he was buried alongside his mother, and we were represented by the current and former Heads of English.
In his homily, the priest appositely quoted Goldsmith:
"And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew
That one small head could carry all he knew."
Terry's particular talent was a humorous lightness of touch, in discussing language and literature, that belied the deep scholarship on which that knowledge rested. This talent became known nationally-recognised due to his weekly slot on the Sean Moncrieff show on Newstalk FM, in which he explained the etymology of a bewildering range of words. This was also his party piece for so many Literary Society meetings here over the years: no pupil could catch him out (though at times he stretched things: he would look you in the eye and insist after some rather unlikely explanation "It's true", while a twinkle in his eye suggested otherwise). Regular subjects for his talks included American English, Geoffrey Chaucer (see below) and of course Hiberno-English: his masterpiece is his book A Dictionary of Hiberno-English, regularly updated, the definitive collection of English as it is used all over Ireland. He also particularly enjoyed talking about 'bad' language, his Queen's College Oxford voice articulating the origins of the 'f' word to startled pupils. The photograph at the top of this post shows him lecturing in the Lower Argyle on a Saturday evening.
Terry's Hiberno-English website can still be accessed via the Web Archive here.
In February 2008 Terry suffered a shock stroke that confined him to Tallaght Hospital for a long time. Visiting him there was to witness again his ease with everyone, particularly the nurses and doctors who looked after him, and his fellow patients. In these distressing circumstances, he never faltered from his inner core: kindness and cheerfulness. Almost a year later he returned to the Sean Moncrieff Show to public delight, and in February 2010 he gave an interview to Marian Finucane on surviving his stroke. Indeed, he became a prominent advocate of stroke awareness.
He was in great form when I interviewed him for a podcast on his beloved Geoffrey Chaucer. So here's a 30-minute treat from ten years ago (also at the bottom of this post).
He was also a stalwart of our annual Transition Year English evenings in May as a guest speaker, always commenting on pupils' work with great sensitivity. He never patronised 16 year-olds but found the best in what they wrote. His imprimatur always gave such pleasure to them.
Terry Dolan was a wonderful man. May he rest in peace.
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Swiss Army Knife quotations: 'Macbeth'
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R-L: Margot Hurlbert, CRC in Climate Change, Energy and Sustainability Policy; Ken Coates, CRC in Regional Innovation
New and renewed CRC appointments in Climate Change and Regional Innovation announced in the Johnson Shoyama policy school
Dr. Margot Hurlbert (PhD), professor in the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (JSGS) and a Fedoruk Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Science and Innovation Policy, has been awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Climate Change, Energy and Sustainability Policy. This announcement comes alongside the renewal of Dr. Ken Coates’ Tier 1 CRC appointment in Regional Innovation. Each professor will receive $1.4 million over seven years to pursue their research.
Hurlbert, is a coordinating lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on Land and Climate. Her research focuses on addressing the gap between current policy and behaviour, and understanding what is needed to address climate change.
“This is critical policy creation in a jurisdiction that necessitates the expertise of an internationally respected scholar of Dr. Hurlbert’s calibre,” says Kathy McNutt, Interim Vice-President (Research) at the University of Regina. “Her highly respected work with the IPCC is just one example of her commitment to making her research count towards solving the problem of climate change, as well as equipping our students with the tools to make a difference in the world.”
Solving climate change is a complex problem plagued by questions of which technologies best address the problem (wind, solar, hydro or nuclear power), which technologies people might accept (electric versus hydrogen fueled cars), what behavioural changes people will be willing to adopt (vegetarianism or ride sharing), and which policy instruments best address the problem (carbon tax versus cap and trade). These decisions are further complicated by considerations of the impacts of climate change including increased drought, flood, fires, and changes in river flows, land degradation, desertification, and challenges of food security.
“I am particularly interested in how policy interacts with the actions of individuals and organizations to either reinforce the social, technical, and economic structures of society—which cements carbon dependency—or to create new structures that lead to a sustainable energy future,” says Hurlbert.
Hurlbert says that an important part of her work will be to engage citizens in decision-making, and in group-learning sessions, so ideas and information can be exchanged through dialogue and debate. She will also examine how people perceive and tolerate risk.
“The carbon tax is something that our policy studies support, and there are a lot of technologies that will move us to zero carbon, like electric cars. So while we can link technology and policy, because this is also about choices and transformative change, we must also link people with those policies and technologies,” explains Hurlbert.
“Dr. Hurlbert’s research is an indication of the policy impact that the school is having,” says Murray Fulton, JSGS director, University of Saskatchewan (USask) campus. “Combined with Dr. Coates’ work with rural, remote and Indigenous communities, the JSGS is addressing a number of the wicked problems facing today’s society."
Dr. Ken Coates (PhD), Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at the school’s USask campus, is conducting research that identifies barriers preventing rural and remote communities from reaping the benefits of scientific and technological innovation enjoyed in more metropolitan areas.
“Attempts to build a new economy centered on scientific and technological innovation have failed in rural areas of Canada because they lack capacity and skilled workforces, access to research, and the resources to commercialize discoveries,” says Coates. “Since such opportunities are clustered in metropolitan areas, a major innovation divide has opened up in Canada that is growing by the year.”
Working with Indigenous groups, northern and rural communities, business groups, and provincial and federal governments, Coates examines innovation-based investment, skills training and entrepreneurship in non-metropolitan areas. He is also looking at best practices in other countries and is coordinating international efforts to encourage the use of new technologies in rural and remote regions in Canada.
“To enhance Indigenous economic and governance development, community leaders need to be in a central role in the research process, ensuring that the research contributes to local priorities and supports regional capacity building,” says Coates. “By working collectively, we are finding local uses for technological innovations, improving local governance and building sustained economies.”
The combined $2.8 million in funding received by Hurlbert and Coates was part of a $275 million announcement made today by Canada’s Science and Sport Minister Kirsty Duncan to support new and renewed CRCs at 52 institutions.
The Government of Canada created the CRC program in 2000 to attract and retain some of the world’s most accomplished and promising minds and to boost Canada's competitiveness in the global knowledge-based economy.
Government of Canada announces talented and diverse group of new and renewed Canada Research Chairs
$ 6 million awarded for Canada Research Chairs at USask
U of R announces Canada Research Chair in Climate Change, Energy, and Sustainability Policy
Erica Schindel, Communications and Marketing Specialist
Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy
University of Saskatchewan campus
306-966-2663 | erica.schindel@usask.ca
U of R student receives Vanier Scholarship to explore the media's role in reconciliation in Canada
New report explores whether 3D printing can revolutionize construction in Northern communities
No magic bullet to combat climate change according to U of S and U of R researchers
Ken Coates, JSGS professor and CRC at the U of S campus, receives award from Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business
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Home » NSO News 2016 » The Return of Comet Longmore
The Return of Comet Longmore
Comet Longmore
Credit: The Liverpool Telescope
2016 marks an unusual astronomical anniversary for the Astrophysics Research Institute: the return of Comet Longmore.
Comet Longmore is a so-called "short-period comet": a ball of dirty ice that follows an elongated path as it orbits around the Sun, only coming close enough to be visible for a few months each orbit - about every 7 years in the case of Longmore. Since short-period comets can take anywhere from a few years to a couple of centuries to complete each orbit, Longmore is a relatively quick one, but it is still rare visitor and it is not often that we get the opportunity to study it.
What makes it special to us here is that it was discovered in 1975 by Andrew Longmore, the father of LJMU astronomer Dr Steve Longmore. Andrew remembers, "Comet Longmore was one of my earliest discoveries during my first ever research position, an astronomer at the UK Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia ... [The discovery] involved manually scanning the plates using a small hand-held magnifier while they were mounted on a light table.”
Although the comet has returned to the inner Solar System near us and the Sun several times since 1975, this is the first time Steve has had a chance to get a good look at the bit of the Solar System named after his Dad. Since this represented such a rare opportunity, we made use of the power of the Liverpool Telescope. The unique robotic nature of the telescope makes it ideal to catch such fleeting events, and on the night of 21st May, a set of observations were taken that clearly show the fuzzy comet and its "tail" of dust and gas boiling off the surface and being blown off into space by the radiation of the Sun. Both Andrew and Steve are delighted with the observations, "I was absolutely delighted to have the chance to re-observe and actually see a part of our solar system that my dad had discovered decades ago, especially given the challenging observing conditions so close to mid-summer with the Moon quite full and at only a small angle from the comet!”
In the picture you may also notice a slight elongation of the stars in the field, this is due to the fact the telescope was tracking the comet as it continued on it’s orbit.
See you again in 7 years little comet!
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Home » News » Media enquiries » George Bush on atheists as citizens or patriots
George Bush on atheists as citizens or patriots
When George Bush (Senr) was campaigning for the presidency, as incumbent vice president, one of his stops was in Chicago, Illinois, on August 27, 1987.
CAN GEORGE BUSH STATE, WITH IMPUNITY, THAT ATHEISTS SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED EITHER CITIZENS OR PATRIOTS?
The History of the Issue - by Madalyn O'Hair - Reprint of American Atheists booklet from the early 1990s
When George Bush (Senr) was campaigning for the presidency, as incumbent vice president, one of his stops was in Chicago, Illinois, on August 27, 1987. At O'Hare Airport he held a formal outdoor news conference. There Robert I. Sherman, a reporter for the American Atheist news journal, fully accredited by the state of Illinois and by invitation a participating member of the press corps covering the national candidates, had the following exchange with the then Vice President Bush (Senr).
Sherman: What will you do to win the votes of the Americans who are Atheists?
Bush (Senr): I guess I'm pretty weak in the Atheist community. Faith in god is important to me.
Sherman: Surely you recognize the equal citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are Atheists?
Bush (Senr): No, I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
Sherman (somewhat taken aback): Do you support as a sound constitutional principle the separation of state and church?
Bush (Senr): Yes, I support the separation of church and state. I'm just not very high on Atheists.
On October 29, 1988, Mr. Sherman had a confrontation with Ed Murnane, co-chairman of the Bush-Quayle '88 Illinois campaign. This concerned a lawsuit Mr. Sherman had filed to stop the Community Consolidated School District 21 (Chicago, Illinois, suburb) from forcing his first-grade Atheist son to pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States - "one nation under God" (Bush Snr’s phrase). The following conversation took place.
Sherman: American Atheists filed the Pledge of Allegiance lawsuit yesterday. Does the Bush campaign have an official response to this filing?
Murnane: It's bullshit.
Sherman: What is bullshit?
Murnane: Everything that American Atheists does, Rob, is bullshit.
Sherman: Thank you for telling me what the official position of the Bush campaign is on this issue.
Murnane: You’re welcome.
This suit, now in federal district court for over three years, is not considered to be bullshit by the federal judge before whom it is pending. During the time it has been in the federal court, Robert Sherman's son, now age nine, has been physically and psychologically brutalized in his school for refusing to pledge to a "nation under God."
After Bush's election but before his taking office, American Atheists wrote to Bush asking that he consider being sworn into office on the Constitution instead of the Bible and also asking him to retract his August 1987 statement. Bush had his White House buddy, C. Boyden Gray, counsel to the president, reply on White House stationery on February 21, 1989, stating that substantively Bush stood by his original statement.
As you are aware, the President is a religious man who neither supports atheism nor believes that atheism should be unnecessarily encouraged or supported by the government.
American Atheists had not asked Bush to either "unnecessarily" or even "necessarily" encourage or support them. All they wanted was an apology for the insult.
Many Atheists wrote to Bush over the issue and Nelson Lund, the associate counsel to the president, found it necessary to reply on April 7, 1989, directly to the American Atheist General Headquarters, Inc. This letter from the White House said that Mr. Gray was adhering to his statements in the February 21, 1989, letter.
On May 4, 1989, Jon Murray, the president of American Atheists, again wrote to President Bush demanding a clarification of and an apology for his statement that Atheists "should not be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." Bush ignored the letter, as did Gray and Lund. Mr. Murray also asked for an appointment so that a group of representatives of American Atheists could meet with Bush.
Mr. Joseph W Hagin II responded on May 25,1989: again on White House stationery. He stated that the president "appreciated your taking the time to write and your willingness to share your thoughts" but that "due to heavy commitments on his official calendar" the president could not meet with representatives of American Atheists.
On January 9, 1990, George Bush, in signing a proclamation for the Martin Luther King holiday, had the gall to remark that "bigots" must be brought to justice. Again, American Atheists threw his words back in his face, asking what his designation of Atheists as being unworthy of citizenship was.
On February 5, 1990, Mr. Nelson Lund replied - again on White House stationery -- stating
We believe that our position has been adequately explained in previous correspondence.
Indeed it has -- and that position is that George Bush is a bigot.
On February 21, 1990, American Atheists wrote to every member of the United States Congress asking that body to pass a resolution condemning discrimination against Atheists by any elected or appointed official of government. The offered resolution read:
No person in public life may be free to impugn the patriotism of any minority group because of that group's opinion in respect to religion.
President George Bush is herewith censured for his public expression of August 27, 1987, at which time he stated: "I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."
You don't need to guess how many senators arid representatives answered that letter: there were none. At this point, American Atheists sent a list of the members of Congress to all of its membership and asked each one to write or telephone their congressmen. Hundreds of angry letters and telephone calls were received at the American Atheist GHQ during the next several months as it became obvious that the elected Congress was composed entirely of politicians too damn yellow to challenge Bush. In just one campaign incident, American Atheists was able to teach thousands of the nation's top-notch citizens that their government did not give a damn about them. This exercise added appreciably to the malcontentedness in the nation - and rightly so.
American Atheists then sent every single columnist in the United States a packet of information from Pat Buchanan to Jim Fain. Only one was courageous enough to write a lengthy article on the matter: Tom Tiede. And the newspapers in which Tiede was syndicated did print his column taking the president to task. A little later, the CNN feature program "Larry King Live" broadcast a quarter-hour interview with Mr. Robert Sherman, as he detailed the perfidy of President Bush.
When George Bush appeared on the campus of the University of Texas on May 19, 1990, American Atheists placed a full-page advertisement in the Austin American-Statesman detailing the above and demanding an apology and an explanation. The founders of American Atheists, a thirty-year-old organization, are both honorably discharged veterans: Richard F O'Hair, U.S. Marines (totally and permanently disabled); and Madalyn O'Hair, Women's Army Corps. Both served in World War II.
On December 23, 1990, in Chicago, Illinois, Mr. Robert Sherman met with Ed Derwinski, the secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs, to discuss exclusion of American Atheists from veterans' groups which have been chartered by the United States Congress. Mr. Derwinski said he would do
"absolutely nothing" about the discrimination.
On January 3, Mr. Sherman crossed paths with Ed Derwinski again at the Illinois inaugurations. He asked Mr. Derwinski, at that time, what American Atheists could do to have the Bush administration take an interest in the problem of discrimination against American Atheist veterans. Mr. Derwinski's response was:
What you should do for me is what you should do for everybody: Believe in God. Get off our backs.
When Mr. Sherman was in Washington, D.C., on another issue on March 20, 1991, he again met with Mr. Derwinski, who, on this occasion, shouted that the Atheists should "get off his back," that the Bush administration would do nothing for them, and that they would need to "sue" to end discrimination against them.
To add pointed insult to injury, the City of Chicago Commission on Human Rights refused to permit American Atheist Veterans to appear as a group in the Fourth of July "Welcome Home" parade for the veterans of Desert Storm in that city.
In the corridors of American history, Atheists have loomed large: Clarence Darrow, Margaret Sanger, Mark Twain, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Albert Einstein, California's Governor Culbert L. Olson, Thomas Edison, the great botanist Luther Burbank, and James Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian Institution. The list is long.
American Atheists ask that you write to George Bush, President of the United States, at The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20500 and ask him for an apology to this group which comprises 9 percent of the population.
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Sue Smethurst
Photograph © Sue Smethurst
Sue Smethurst is a senior journalist with The Australian Women’s Weekly. She has spent 20 years in media working across television, radio and magazines. Her career has taken her around the globe interviewing the likes of Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, Kylie Minogue, Olivia Newton John and Christopher and Pixie Skase. In addition to her editorial career Sue has worked on and off camera with A Current Affair and Sunrise, and spent five years as a commentator with Neil Mitchell on 3AW. Blood on the Rosary is her seventh book, and her book Behind Closed Doors was a finalist for the 2016 Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards. Sue lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children.
Books by Sue Smethurst
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‘The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot’ Trailer: With a Title Like That, What More Do You Need?
Posted on Thursday, January 17th, 2019 by Chris Evangelista
Sam Elliott is The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot, because of course he is. In this strange saga, Elliott plays a man who secretly killed Adolf Hitler, and now, decades later, has been hired by the US government to track down and kill Bigfoot. This sounds like the makings of a wacky comedy, but as The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot trailer below reveals, this movie is playing this concept straight. And that’s amazing.
The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot Trailer
When I first heard about this movie, and its long, amusing title, I assumed it was going to be a comedy. Maybe an over-the-top exploitation flick – something that could’ve been included with the release of Grindhouse. But based on this trailer, The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot is being played as a serious drama. And that actually makes me want to see it even more. There’s something particularly amazing about taking this concept, and not milking it for laughs.
Sam Elliott is a national treasure, and I’m shocked that he doesn’t seem to be the frontrunner for this year’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar. His work in A Star is Born is one of the best things about that movie, and he’s long-overdue for awards season recognition. Perhaps he’ll finally get a nomination next year, for The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot. Or…maybe not. Here’s the film’s official synopsis.
Since WWII, Calvin Barr has lived with the secret that he was responsible for the assassination of Adolf Hitler. Now, decades later, the US government has called on him again for a new top-secret mission. Bigfoot has been living deep in the Canadian wilderness and carrying a deadly plague that is now threatening to spread to the general population. Relying on the same skills that he honed during the war, Calvin must set out to save the free world yet again. Starring Sam Elliott (A Star is Born), Aidan Turner (“Poldark”), Caitlin FitzGerald (“Masters of Sex”) and Ron Livingston (Office Space), THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER AND THEN THE BIGFOOT follows the epic adventures of an American legend that no one has ever heard of.
Written and Ddrected by Robert D. Krzykowski, The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot (I love that it’s The Bigfoot and not just Bigfoot), starring Sam Elliott, Aidan Turner, Caitlin FitzGerald, Larry Miller and Ron Livingston, opens in theaters and on VOD and Digital HD on February 8, 2019.
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Interview with Karin Salvalaggio
Today is the publication day for the third Macy Greeley novel, Walleye Junction, by Karin Salvalaggio. This series is quickly becoming a favorite for mystery/crime readers, and I definitely count myself as one of its biggest fans. Karin is a talented writer and a lovely person, and I'm happy to be able to present an interview with this exciting new force in the genre.
The Interview:
The Reading Room: Growing up, Karin, you were a “military brat,” traveling around the country to different places where your father was stationed, and now, you’ve lived in England for 22 years. How has this peripatetic life influenced your writing?
Karin: Sometimes I think the characters in my novels are loosely based on childhood friends I’ve lost contact with over the years. These are the people I left behind as I moved from one location to another. I’ve always worried about them. While my brothers and myself were fortunate enough to succeed despite our nomadic upbringing, many of our friends did not. With no way to get in touch with them I’m often left wondering how they’re getting on now that the rules of the game have changed. These were people who would have lacked the financial, intellectual and cultural means to rise above the storm that befell the American economy in 2008. Are they still standing? What did they do with their lives? Happily married? Divorced? Deceased? Imprisoned? Impoverished? It’s all a bit of a mystery.
Another theme, which is prevalent in my books, is homecoming. In Bone Dust White, Leanne Adams comes home after abandoning her daughter 11 years earlier. In Burnt River war veterans John Dalton, Tyler Locke and Dylan Reed make the transition from military life to living in a small ranching community with varying levels of success. And finally in Walleye Junction, you have Emma Long returning to her rural community after a lengthy self-imposed exile. I’ve lived in England for 22 years. Perhaps, I’m trying to come home too.
The Reading Room: Noticing on your Web site the different editions for different countries, such as Germany and Italian, arouses my curiosity about how important to sales are these foreign translations to you and other authors?
Karin: Foreign translations are hugely important to authors, which is why we try to avoid selling worldwide rights. Though an individual country may not pay a great deal of money it all adds up so it’s an essential source of income. Plus you never know where you may become a bestselling author. An American writer I know is hugely popular in Italy where they’ve recently made a film adaptation of one of his novels, but back in the states he’s virtually unknown. I find it very exciting when a foreign editor makes a strong connection with my writing. It shows I’m doing something that transcends cultural and international boundaries.
The Reading Room: Your brilliant series with Macy Greeley is set in Montana, a new setting in my reading and now a favorite. Why Montana, with the different places you’ve lived in your life?
Karin: Montana has some of the most breathtaking scenery in the world. Vast tracts of wilderness butt up against sparsely populated communities settled by people who view themselves as strongly self-reliant yet live in a world that necessitates interdependency. This contradiction is constantly played out in my character arcs. These isolated communities also offer the perfect opportunity to create a ‘locked room’ murder mystery. A small town has its charms but it also has its secrets. Uncovering those secrets is where I find my stories.
The Reading Room: In your third Macy Greeley book, Walleye Junction, which comes out on May 10th, the subject matter deals with prescription pain addiction, and this book seems to be addressing the issue very seriously. The previous two books contained the issues of exploitation of children and young women in Bone Dust White and PTSD in Burnt River. And, there is the continuing issue of women in the workforce of predominately male supervised occupations. How important is it to you to include these issues and why?
Karin: The thing I deplore most in the world is injustice. Institutionalized forces, predominately driven by greed, often undermine our best efforts as individuals. Whether it is unequal pay, exploitation, corruption or protracted wars in the Middle East that have cost the US economy trillions and scarred the lives of hundreds of thousands of servicemen and women, there always seems to be someone out there who isn’t being given a fair chance.
Inspiration for Walleye Junction came from an article I saw in the The Atlantic about the rise of heroin abuse in my home state, West Virginia. The damage it is doing to the communities there is not only heartbreaking, it’s criminal. I was intrigued so I kept on researching. The more I read the more horrified I became. Up until 1999 opiate-based prescription painkillers were only prescribed to post-operative patients and those suffering from cancer. They are as highly addictive as their street cousin heroin and yet the US government neglected its duty of care and caved in to lobbyists. The pharmaceutical companies flooded the markets with Vicodin, Percocet and Oxycodone to name but a few of the lethal derivatives. Less scrupulous doctors began handing them out like candy for cash. Kickbacks pushed them to take on so-called ‘patients’ who ‘shopped’ multiple doctors for the same drugs to feed their addiction or sell on the streets. Pill mills in Florida sold prescriptions online. The drugs were picked up in vans and distributed throughout the US as ‘hillbilly heroin’. At their peak in 2007, pill mills accounted for 47 million of the 53 million Oxycodone doses prescribed. Deaths from overdoses are more common than car crash fatalities; entire families and communities have been wiped out; and now that the source is drying up and drug treatment programs are scarce, people are turning to heroin in droves.
This is a manmade epidemic. Elected officials, pharmaceutical companies and medical institutions have been grossly negligent and yet very few people are going to jail. This makes me incredibly angry. It takes a great deal of willpower to write a full-length novel. It turns out a little anger makes me type faster.
The Reading Room: Karin, when did you know that you wanted to be a writer? What circumstances led you to this realization? And, can you remember your first writing as a child that you thought was a good story?
Karin: I always wanted to be a writer but felt that it was an enterprise reserved for those lucky enough to attend Ivy League schools. I was also well aware that my college degree stretched my parent’s finances to the breaking point. It’s why I chose a major in the sciences. I knew I’d be employable and that was my first priority. I continued to read everything in sight but gradually pushed the dream of being an author aside.
A divorce is a traumatic process that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. When my ex husband moved out six and a half years ago I was unemployed, having given up my work as a graphic designer several years earlier. I’d have to retrain or find an entirely new career path. It was time to be practical again. I signed up for two courses, one to get a teaching credential and another to brush up my graphic design skills. I ended up doing neither. I went on a creative writing course/vacation in Greece for two weeks and came back with an entirely new plan. I enrolled for an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London in 2010. It was a risky move but I felt I had nothing left to lose. A year and half later I had an agent. In 2014 Minotaur published my first novel. And so it goes…
The Reading Room: Who was your first love in reading the mystery/crime genre as a youth? Or did you come to this genre later?
Karin: I was a bit of a reading whore in my youth. Never genre specific, I was just as likely to read and enjoy the literary classics as cheap paperbacks. There was certainly a long stage when I only read crime novels. I believe it was when Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cromwell were at their peak of popularity. But it came to a point when I couldn’t look at another crime novel. It was like I’d eaten too much candy. I felt a little queasy. There is a great deal of violence in some of these books, much of it graphic and I felt ashamed for finding so much enjoyment in them. I stepped away from the genre for a very long time and only read literary fiction. I’ve since come back to reading much more crime fiction, but I am wary as both a writer and a reader. I have my boundaries and I try not to go beyond them. Yes, there is violence in my books, but I’d like to think it isn’t gratuitous. I don’t linger in the morgue or at murder scenes. It’s not what interests me. I want to write about the affect of crime on close communities and families. In my mind that’s where the story lies.
The Reading Room: Your covers are so exceptional, and I've heard that some authors have little input concerning their covers and others have a definite say. What is your involvement in these striking covers?
Karin: I have almost no involvement, which is kind of ironic given I used to be a graphic designer. I imagine the design team at St Martins Press and Minotaur are given guidelines, as I doubt they have time to read every novel that comes across their desks.
The Reading Room: In the first book of this series, Bone Dust White, Macy Greeley, the state police detective, is eight months pregnant. I thought that was a daring starting point that worked very well. Can you tell me what your thinking on presenting Macy at this point in her life was?
Karin: I suppose the pregnancy was an intriguing way of introducing a character who is going through a difficult transition. Macy is clearly ambivalent about motherhood but it takes a while for the reader to understand source of her indifference and depth of her sadness. Though she ultimately accepts her new role as a mother, I never make it easy for her. It also forced me to write a crime novel where my detective wasn’t ever going to use a firearm or get into a physical altercation. Macy has to rely on her wits.
The Reading Room: I’m always curious about a writer’s habits and process, and I think others sometimes think you simply wave a magic wand. I know you work hard. Can you describe a typical writing day?
Karin: The writing process actually starts off with a bit of magic. It’s as if I see a scene in my head and the cameras start rolling. I take this as far as I can without thinking about the consequences. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t. If I worry about the finished product too much I panic.
So, this is a little insight into my highly glamorous writing life –
I have no set schedule and work when I can, which is pretty much all the time. For instance, it is now 1pm and I’m still in my pajamas, having eaten breakfast and lunch at my desk. This will continue until my schnauzer demands a walk at which point I’ll throw on some clothing and stroll around the local park or along the River Thames. I often use this time to work through ideas in my head. If I’m stuck I’ve usually figured it out by the time I get back to my desk.
The Reading Room: Having met you at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention held here in the states, in what ways do you think conventions like this one are beneficial to authors?
Karin: Bouchercon is uniquely important to me because I’m writer who’s based in London but has books published in the US. It’s the way I connect with writers and readers who share my interests. Yes, the networking aspect is an added benefit but that’s not why I will continue attending such events. Crime writers and fans of crime fiction are without doubt the nicest people in the world. I feel I’ve made some very good friends. It’s really quite special.
The Reading Room: Since you are such a favorite author of mine already, I do have to ask what book or books you’re reading for pleasure now. So, what’s on your nightstand these days, Karin?
Karin: With an upcoming deadline on book four and Walleye Junction’s forthcoming publication I’ve been busy so my reading list has been a bit neglected. I’m looking forward to reading Laura Lippman’s Wilde Lake, The Butcher Bird by S D Sykes, Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff and When She Was Bad by Tammy Cohen. I’ve recently read an anthology of Shirley Jackson’s previously unpublished work – Let Me Tell You, which I highly recommend. I’ve also read James Salter’s Light Years for the first time. Absolutely exquisite.
The Reading Room: And now, for one of my favorite questions I ask authors. What would you like your readers to know about you that isn’t in your bio information? Besides your obvious writing talent, any special interests or talents, quirky or not, you’d like to share?
Karin: If I'd gone on a painting course instead of creative writing course for my summer vacation six years ago, I may have gone off in a completely different direction. There's still time though. I'd love to go to art school someday. Meanwhile, I really only have time for the occasional doodle on a cocktail napkin...maybe I should start a series.
Walleye Junction is the third book in the Macy Greeley series by Karin Salvalaggio, and it clearly solidifies this series and author as major players in the mystery/crime genre. Karin Salvalaggio is as dedicated to excellence as her character Macy Greeley is to finding justice for victims of violence. These stories set in the vastness of Montana find their relatable rhythm in the small communities populating it. And, each of the three books in this series has a different issue that is brought to the reader’s attention through great storytelling and characters. I’m always left with a new awareness of an issue after reading one of Karin’s books, but it is an awareness born from a story into which I’m deeply drawn showing the effects that issue has on ordinary people, and which in the world of Macy Greeley result in murder. Karin Salvalaggio uses sufficient description, but never overdoes it. She deftly uses revealing dialogue to move the story forward, which keeps the action on point. Walleye Junction is announcing that the Macy Greeley series and its author are in the building.
Macy Greeley’s being a detective with the Montana State Police often sent from her home base of Helena to different parts of the state to investigate crimes. This time the trouble spot is Walleye Junction in the Flathead Valley area, with a kidnapping turning to murder. Philip Long was a local radio personality in the Flathead area who spoke his mind, often in clashing opinions to others in the community. Aware that Long has become a kidnap victim, Macy and her team try frantically to find him, but before they can bring him to safety, he is killed, right in front of Macy. All she knows though is that the killer was riding a motor scooter and wore high-end motorcycle gear, and that her own service gun was used to deliver the fatal shots. The search is on to find who kidnapped and murdered Philip Long and why. When two long-time drug addicts, a husband and wife, are found dead from heroin overdoses and their fingerprints match those from where Long was held in captivity, there is some momentary relief, but evidence soon leads Macy to believe that at least one other person was involved in the crime. One question that must be answered is what Philip Long was working on before his kidnapping and death. What big story was threatening someone to the point of murder. There are many players in this tale of greed, and the author takes the reader through the maze of these characters with great attention to detail, so that important connections can be made and dots connected leading to the murderer hiding among the town’s residents. Wives, ex-wives, husbands, ex-husbands, daughters, sons, cousins, friends. Who had the most to lose with Philip Long’s new story?
Those of us readers who are already ardent fans of the Macy Greeley series will be pleased at the continuing development of Macy’s personal life and struggles, too. Macy’s son is now two years old, and is cared for by Macy’s mother when duty calls Macy away from home. Having been disappointed in love, Macy treads carefully in her relationship with Aiden Marsh, Wilmington Creek Chief of Police. In Walleye Junction, Macy faces decisions that will move her toward taking control of her life from her past mistakes and embarrassments.
Walleye Junction is told from two points of view. The first and most significant is, of course, Macy Greeley, who so ably steers the investigation and storyline from murder to solution. The other POV is that of the character Emma Long, Philip Long’s daughter, who has been gone from Walleye for twelve years, leaving right after high school graduation and her best friend’s death from a drug overdose. Emma, like Macy, is looking for answers to her father’s death, as well as events happening before she left town. Emma’s narration in the book gives us the background the reader needs to better understand the characters and motivations of different suspects in this small Montana community. The two POVs work together beautifully to present a complete picture and a suspenseful tale. So many secrets. Which ones lead to murder?
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Strathspeys
The Strathspey is a slow graceful dance. Its music, in 4/4 time, is characterised by frequent use of the “Scotch Snap,” a short-long rhythmic figure that is equivalent to a semiquaver (16th note) followed by a dotted quaver (8th note.)
The ‘Scotch Snap’ is synonymous with Scottish Music and only really appears in this this tradition; although, it has been exported into other traditional folk-music culture.
The dance originated around the early 1700's in the valley (Scottish Strath) of the River Spey in Scotland. Strathspey was originally synonymous with a Reel, but since the 18th century, the Strathspey has referred to a slower dance than the Reel.
Listen to an example of a Strathspey:
The actual Strathspey as a tune genre can be further sub-divided into different types or styles. All of these are represented in the repertoire of Scottish Country Dances and you can find out more on each style below.
Traditional Strathspeys
Many of the Society’s Strathspey dances use old tunes composed by the great fiddle composers of the 17th and 18th Centuries.
Tunes by Gow, Marshall, Mackintosh all appear in the Society’s publications. Compositions by James Scott-Skinner, who named himself the ‘Strathspey King’ also appear regularly. Some of these tunes used were definitely composed for dancing as many of the great fiddle masters were also Dancing Masters.
Some of the tunes, however, were composed as concert pieces and would have had a less strict tempo rendition. For example, Scott Skinner’s The Bonnie Lass of Bon Accord. Often the names of the tunes acknowledge the patronage these musicians secured.
Gang The Same Gate (Book 36) uses Nathaniel Gow’s tune Mrs Dalziel, published in his Fifth Collection of Strathspeys and Reels (1809). Very much a tune for the fiddle the ‘Scotch Snap’ is also a prominent feature of this tune.
Listen to Gang The Same Gate.
Slow Airs, Laments Songs and Pastorals
Originally these types of tune were not intended to be danced to and the strict tempo associated with the Strathspey dance means that they can sometimes loose much of their original character. However, they are a type of dance that is becoming increasingly popular and if you compare the traditional type of tune with these the contrast is very clear.
The Lea Rig was the first slow-air Strathspey to be published by the Society in Book 21. It is not clear from the Society’s archives whether the dance was historically associated with the tune or whether it was a choice of the then Publications Committee.
The tune is taken from the song which according to Robert Burns the original words for this song were mostly written by Robert Fergusson (1750-74), 'in one of his merry humours'. The old words begin:
'I'll rowe thee o'er the lea-rig,
My ain kind dearie, O,
I'll rowe o'er the lea-rig,
The melody is better known by the title of Robert Fergusson's song The Lea Rig ('Leerigg' or 'Lea-rig' is an unploughed grass field).
Listen to 32 bars of The Lea Rig (Book 21) the characteristic lyrical melody of the song is clearly evident. Here the sequence played is: A, B, A, B.
Slow or 'Concert' Strathspeys
This particular style of Strathspey was never originally intended to be danced to, and when played, was very much a ‘concert piece’ and strict tempo would be ignored.
Some concert Strathspeys also contained a set of variations; particularly those composed by the ‘Strathspey King’ James Scott Skinner.
Various other composers are strongly linked with this type of Strathspey, such as:
William Marshall
James Mackintosh
The Gow family
Joseph Lowe
The Aberdeen University website The Music of James Scott Skinner is a good repository for further information on Scott Skinner and his music. It includes fascimiles of his original compositions and also sound files of the 'The Strathspey King' playing his own compositions.
On the website The Music of James Scott Skinner look for the page relating to Our Highland Queen. It includes a sound file and we encourage you to listen.
The tune was originally published in The Harp and Claymore (1904), considered by many to be Scott Skinners magnum opus.
Our Highland Queen by James Scott Skinner is one such example of a concert Strathspey that has been used as an original for an RSCDS dance, which is linked to The Royal Wedding (Five Scottish Country Dances 1982).
Listen to 32 bars of Our Highland Queen.
If you compare it with the sound file referred to on the Aberdeen University website you will hear the difference in how it was intended to be played with much rubato and interpretation by the soloist.
Here the sequence played is: A, B, A, B, in ‘strict tempo’.
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What Is The Difference Between A Symphony Orchestra And A Symphonic Band
What is the difference between a symphony orchestra and a marching band? Ask for details ; Follow Report by Pinnky9270 07/26/2017. Answered by lixB. Besides the fact that marching bands march, a marching band doesn’t have string instruments! 0.0 0 votes 0 votes Rate! Rate! Thanks. 0. Comments; Report Log in to add a comment Not the answer.
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Piano · Symphony Orchestra · Symphonic Band. Since its inception in 1874, The Augustana Symphonic Band performs music of the highest. into 32 states for appearances in a variety of settings, including Orchestra Hall in Chicago;. styles and technical ability. do not hesitate to play short excerpts in different styles.
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Relating to or having the character or form of a symphony. 2. for an orchestra of many different instruments, in three or four movements or parts. simfonie. and Dance this week are concerts by its Symphonic Band and Honors Jazz Combos.
Make a Difference. Symphonic Winds is a wind ensemble of intermediate to advanced wind, brass, and percussion musicians. This concert will feature Concert Orchestra, Academy String Orchestra, Symphonic Winds, and Preparatory Strings!. Youth Symphony will be having a fundraiser at Rooster Creek in Arroyo.
The difference between a wind symphony and a wind ensemble is partially semantics and partially size. Wind symphonies are usually larger than wind ensembles. Both reflect a more serious purpose than is often associated with the more traditional name for a group of wind instruments which is band.
The Symphonic Youth Orchestra of Greater Indianapolis (SYO) is a non-profit. to work with professional symphony musicians and instrumental masters in this. SYO is uniquely different from other youth orchestras in that it often features. bands, and composes and arranges music for small groups, band/orchestra, and.
May 31, 2007 · Answers. A string orchestra would be an orchestra using primarily the string instruments. A chamber orchestra is a small orchestra of around 30 players. Edit: Actually "symphony" seems to have had more to do with the size ,rather than the repertoire, of.
Mar 21, 2008 · The only difference is that symphony orchestra can also be used as a generic term, while philharmonic orchestra only occurs as part of a proper name. It’s correct to say that the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra is a symphony orchestra, for example, but you wouldn’t say that the National Symphony Orchestra is a ‘philharmonic orchestra.’
A concert band, also called wind ensemble, symphonic band, wind symphony, wind orchestra, wind band, symphonic winds, symphony band, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, along with the double bass.
What is the difference between a "Philharmonic" Orchestra & a "Symphony" Orchestra? T Baker, Manchester UK Philharmonic orchestras were born in philharmonic societies – societies of people who.
They are different names for the same thing, that is, a full-sized orchestra of around 100 musicians, intended primarily for a symphonic repertoire. However, if you consider the origins of the words, you may be able to find some differences. A symphony orchestra is the descriptive name of an orchestra that plays symphonies; that much is clear.
The Symphonic Band provides a challenge for students who show. In addition, students are eligible to participate in PMEA music festivals at the district, regional, Band, The High School Jazz Band, and the High School Symphony Orchestra. or two different pieces where one demonstrates your technical playing (faster.
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Feb 13, 2017. A full concert band—Indiana Wind Symphony in concert, 2014. Wind band, concert band, wind orchestra, symphonic winds – what's the difference? The differences are many: from the instruments used, to the style of music.
What is the difference between a symphony and an orchestra? Musical Ensembles: A "musical ensemble" is a group of different musicians who perform musical works together as a whole.
The CU Symphonic Band welcomes the Monarch High School Wind Ensemble, conducted by Chuck Stephen, as special guests in its final concert of the fall.
May 25, 2017 · By Jacob Stockinger Do you know the difference between a “symphony” orchestra and a “philharmonic” orchestra? Between the New York Philharmonic (below top) and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (below bottom), for example? Even if you do, you might enjoy the background given in a recent blog posting on the website of the famed classical radio station…
For students ages 13-21 in public school, private school, or home school, who have. Perform a joint concert alongside the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra. Make sure you listen to different recordings and try to play along. played with the UNT Symphonic Band, UNT Baroque Orchestra, and the UNT Opera Orchestra.
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The Augustana Symphony Orchestra is a full-size symphonic orchestra of 70-80 members that. Short excerpts in different styles are acceptable. The Augustana Symphony Orchestra join the Augustana Symphonic Band and Augustana.
9th graders may enroll in the Symphonic Band or the High School Wind Ensemble. Band/Orchestra Enrollment By Grade. Symphony Orchestra Intensive.
SMTD offers a vast breadth of performance opportunities in every. groups to 90- piece orchestras and bands, and choirs of many configurations and sizes.
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Find all of the details about the orchestra with the Oregon Symphony's Percussion. Some percussion instruments are tuned and can sound different notes, like the. The most common percussion instruments in the orchestra include the timpani, It is often used in military music and is a central part of any marching band.
Jun 23, 2019 · The Symphony vs The Concerto For Orchestra The Concerto for Orchestra format has popped up quite a bit in the 20th century, and certainly contains a lot of great masterpieces the Bartok, the Carter and the Lutoslawski ones instantly spring to mind.
May 10, 2017 · What Is The Difference Between a Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestra? Are there differences between a symphony, an orchestra and a philharmonic? ( Monika Rittershaus /.
The O'Banion Band Program is the 3rd largest and the fastest growing in the. Year Concerts, and sometimes just for fun in different locations all over the school. Symphony Orchestra, the Irving Community Band, the Lakeshore Symphonic.
A symphony orchestra denotes that it is a large orchestra, because a lot of players are required to play symphonies as they were written to be played. Apart from this there is nowadays no fundamental difference between a Philharmonic and a Symphony Orchestra.
The main difference between a concerto and a symphony is a musical piece that has several segments that normally involves an orchestra whereas a concerto is a piece that has three movements which include a soloist and an orchestra. A concerto is a musical piece in which there is a solo instrument that is accompanied by an entire orchestra.
Aug 28, 2017. In Events, Orchestras/Symphonies. Orchestras, as well as the top two bands: Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band, way to discover the unique differences of these ensembles,” said Philharmonic director Kory Katseanes.
May 23, 2019 · The Difference Among an Orchestra, a Symphony Orchestra, and a Philharmonic Orchestra is a generic term applied to a group of musicians made up of ten or more instrumentalists. There are chamber orchestras (a group of 50 or fewer musicians that play in smaller venues and recital halls), brass orchestras (groups of musicians who play trumpets, trombones, tubas, horns, etc.),
Concerts for the Hindsley Symphonic Band are held on campus in the Great Hall of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The ensemble is open to both.
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Waiting For God: The Complete Series DVD
At the Bayview Retirement Village, the elderly are expected to grow old gracefully, without making a fuss. But the eccentric Tom (Graham Crowden) and acid-tongued Diana (Stephanie Cole) refuse to put up with the appalling food and condescending staff—because even if you're "waiting for God," you don't have to do it quietly. Seen on PBS, this hilariously cynical Britcom from the early 1990s earned Cole a British Comedy Award. About 22 hrs, 9 DVDs.
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How to Combat Digital Piracy on a Budget
Thursday, January 21, 2010 from 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Time
Computer networks have radically changed the economics of distribution. With transmission speeds approaching a billion characters per second, networks enable sending information products worldwide, cheaply, and almost instantaneously. As a consequence, it is easier and less expensive both for a rights holder to distribute a work and for individuals, or pirates, to make and distribute unauthorized copies. With a few key strokes, one individual can deliver perfect copies of digitized works to scores of others or upload a copy to websites where thousands can download it or print unlimited paper copies. Just one unauthorized uploading could have devastating effects on the market for the work. A recent report from the World Intellectual Property Organization suggests that unauthorized copying of academic journals and books results in billions of dollars in lost revenue for publishers every year. However, in recent months, some publishers have responded to the dilemma by setting up coordinated services for the detection and repression of pirate activities. In this seminar, speakers from two publishing organizations will explain how their systems work and describe the approaches they have taken. An expert publisher will also present her experiences at the intellectual property coal face.
Alicia Wise, Chief Executive, Publishers Licensing Society
Mr. Ed McCoyd, Executive Director, Digital, Environmental & Accessibility Affairs, Association of American Publishers
Daphne Ireland, Director of Intellectual Property & Documentary Publishing, Princeton University Press
Charles Watkinson, Director, Purdue University Press
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Neighborhood-preference program for affordable housing proves effective
Dominic Fracassa March 7, 2019 Updated: March 7, 2019 4:01 a.m.
Neighborhood-preference program for affordable housing...
1of3Steban Guevara leaves for work from his apartment in the South of Market district in San Francisco, Calif. Wednesday, March 6, 2019.Photo: Photos by Jessica Christian / The Chronicle
2of3With the city’s Neighborhood Resident Housing Preference plan, Guevara obtained an affordable unit in his building.Photo: Jessica Christian / The Chronicle
3of3Steban Guevara drinks coffee while getting ready to leave for work.Photo: Jessica Christian / The Chronicle
A San Francisco program meant to protect people in close-knit neighborhoods from being uprooted by gentrification and soaring housing costs appears to be working some two years after it began.
City supervisors created the Neighborhood Resident Housing Preference plan in late 2015. It requires 40 percent of units in new affordable housing developments funded by the city and private sources to be reserved for people living in the supervisorial district where the projects are built or within a half-mile of them.
In San Francisco, where affordable housing is limited and slots in subsidized units are chosen in a highly competitive and complex lottery system, the preference program is meant to give people looking for affordable housing a better chance of staying in their own neighborhoods.
On Thursday, officials from the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development are expected to present a progress report on the program showing that it is within 1 percent of its target.
Twenty affordable housing developments that met the conditions for the program were completed and fully leased between July 2016 and June 2018. There were a total of 483 units in those buildings, and data from the mayor’s housing office shows 188 — or 39 percent — were occupied by people living in the neighborhood where the housing went up.
Mayor London Breed has championed the program since she was a supervisor, seeing it as a way to keep communities from fragmenting. One example: Economic shifts and the widely condemned redevelopment policies of the 1960s have decimated San Francisco’s black neighborhoods, like the Western Addition where Breed grew up. Now, just over 5 percent of the city is African American, according to U.S. census data.
“We know the mistakes of the past,” Breed said. “We saw it play itself out in the Western Addition in particular, where so many people like myself grew up in the neighborhood, get asked to support affordable housing and when the housing is finished, there’s not one person from the community even living in the new places.
“When people have relationships with people and the things they’re comfortable with, they feel connected to their neighborhoods,” she continued. “That’s how communities are created, and that’s why this is so important.”
The ability to live near his job “makes a big difference — huge. I can live where I shop, where I eat. It’s very convenient,” Steban Guevara said. “It was like I found a unicorn.”
Photo: Jessica Christian / The Chronicle
Steban Guevara was among those who got to stay close to home because of the preference program.
After drifting around the city at the end of a tumultuous relationship, Guevara ended up in a “hellhole” SRO in the Tenderloin for about a year. Through the neighborhood preference program, and with help from a housing specialist from the Bayview Senior Center who knew how to navigate the byzantine housing-placement system, he landed an affordable unit just two blocks from where he works.
The ability to stay in District Six and live near his job “makes a big difference — huge. I can live where I shop, where I eat. It’s very convenient,” he said. “It was like I found a unicorn.”
Steban Guevara’s "Wall of Accomplishments" sits above his bed inside his apartment.
“We’re really happy with the results,” said Kate Hartley, director of the mayor’s housing office. “We know San Francisco’s unique neighborhoods have their own identity, and the people who’ve lived there for a very long time are often the most at risk” of displacement.
The preference program “not only acknowledges that displacement happens, it acknowledges San Francisco’s very diverse and unique neighborhoods,” she said. “And that, when members of those communities are displaced, we really diminish our diversity and our vibrancy.”
Federal and state housing officials have long looked down on neighborhood preference legislation, viewing it as a vestige of racist housing policies and in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act, which sought to combat residential segregation.
Because of that, the city was never able to use federal or state money for affordable projects that included neighborhood preference provisions. Critics of that interpretation say it’s based on an outdated picture of the country’s housing landscape, which in many cities is now characterized by spiraling inequality that threatens to push lower-income residents from their own neighborhoods.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development still refuses to fund affordable projects that use neighborhood preferences. But things have changed in Sacramento.
Starting this year, the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development shifted its policy on neighborhood preference. Now, San Francisco officials can use state funding on projects that reserve units for nearby residents — but with a caveat: To use state money, only 25 percent of the units can be set aside.
Hartley and other housing officials are expecting state funding for affordable housing to pick up after a years-long dry spell thanks to the passage of state Propositions 1 and 2 last November. The measures authorized the state to raise $6 billion from bond sales to fund affordable housing developments for veterans and the mentally ill.
Karoleen Feng, director of community real estate at the Mission Economic Development Agency, which develops and operates affordable housing projects, praised the preference program, saying “this is one of those programs that everybody likes. We see it is a great anti-displacement tool; in addition to building the housing itself, it’s creating the ways for people to come back” to the neighborhood.
But she’s concerned about the prospect of lowering the percentage of reserved units to 25 percent when state funding is involved.
“Folks were disappointed that we only got 40 percent reserved (under city funding) and they’ll be more disappointed when we get 25 percent for buildings that we get state financing on. That will be something we’ll continue to work on, to push it back up to 40 percent.”
Dominic Fracassa is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: dfracassa@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @dominicfracassa
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In Memoriam: Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee (b.1947) died on May 24. Lee began publishing with the short story “Eustace” in 1968. She went on to write numerous novels, including the five volume Tales From The Flat Earth sequence, the Birthgrave trilogy, and The Secret Books of Paradys sequence. She was nominated for the Nebula twice, once for her debut non-juvenile novel, Birthgrave, and later for the short story “Red As Blood.” In 1980, she was nominated for the coveted Balrog Award three times, and became the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Death’s Master. She won back-to-back World Fantasy Best Short Story Awards in 1983 and 1984 and received that organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. In 2015, she received the Horror Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award.
In addition to dark fantasy and horror, Lee also wrote several young adult works, beginning with The Dragon Hoard in 1971 and eventually the Piratica trilogy. In 2004, she began publishing lesbian fiction using the pseudonym Esther Garber, and received a Lambda nomination for her collection Disturbed by Her Song. She also wrote the screenplay for two episodes of the British science fiction series Blake’s 7.
Lee was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, and suffered a recurrence in 2008.
SFWA Vice President Cat Rambo said, “Tanith Lee was one of the faces of science fiction for me. I go back to some of her work to reread it from time to time, because it’s so beautiful, so rich, and so evocative. The Birthgrave, Drinking Sapphire Wine, The Silver Metal Lover, all of the Flat Earth series…when I was first reading in F&SF, she supplied so many of those landscapes.
“Years later, I had the enormous pleasure of acquiring two of her stories for Fantasy Magazine. Each time they arrived typed, with an apologetic note from Lee about her troubles with the computer. I never minded for a moment, and I will always treasure those manuscripts. Not getting to meet her face to face saddens me personally, but the field overall has been dealt a deep wound today.”
Steven Gould, president of SFWA had this to say, “I’m very sad to hear of Tanith Lee’s death. Though I only met her in person a few times, I’ve known her writing since 1981 when I was bowled over by The Silver Metal Lover. Back when I was just getting started as a writer, her mastery of language gave me hope and despair. My thoughts go out to her husband, family, and friends.
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Bernd Karwath June 11, 2015 at 9:59 am
The words of Tanith Lee are like fires in the hearts of her companions on the road to consciousness. With her, a day in winter becomes a mist of haunting hours and night a realm of moments as strong as any dream. She opens gates to dark, mysterious caves, she paves a path of pictures through light and dancing shadows to doubt and dawning doom – a golden doom from Avillis, a sorcerer’s gift from the womb of hell – only she can tell the story the way it turns to myth. She gives birth to language that explores the human mind – she is the voice from earth which death will never find.
Bernd Karwath, Tubingen, Germany
In memory, too, of another Thursday, 11.6.(1936), when a ‘brother’ to Tanith Lee and Emily Brontë died – Robert E. Howard from Cross Plains, TX
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Kanye West thinks he’s a civil rights movement
by Jaclyn Brandt
Sep 24, 2013 at 2:07 pm EDT
Kanye West has never been shy about his admiration for himself, but he has gone above and beyond with his new comments. West now says he is a bigger rock star than people who are actual rock stars.
Kanye West thinks a lot of himself, that we already knew. But it looks like he may like himself more than we realized. The rapper spoke with BBC Radio 1 on Monday, and called himself the “No. 1 rock star on the planet.”
“Rap is the new rock ‘n’ roll,” he said. “We the rock stars. We the new rock stars and I’m the biggest of all of them.”
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There are of course quite a few rock stars who may disagree with West’s assertion, but the rapper just kept going. He added that his purpose is to push the boundaries of the world of art, music and culture, according to Us Weekly.
The one humble thing West actually conceded to was that “there would be no Kanye West if it wasn’t for Michael Jackson,” but also said he has already surpassed Jackson’s feats.
“I’ve got to a point that Michael Jackson did not break down,” West said. “I have reached the glass ceiling, as a creative person, as a celebrity… and I’ve been at it for 10 years. I look around and I say, ‘Wait a minute. There’s no one around here that looks like me. And if they are, they’re quiet as f***.’ So that means, wait a second, now we’re seriously like, in a civil rights movement.”
West not only spent the interview talking about how awesome he is, but also that no one seems to realize how awesome he is. It is one of the reasons he looks up to one of his friends.
“Jay Z is more realized than me. More of his dreams and aspirations have come true,” West said. “You don’t realize — I am so frustrated. Like, I’ve got so much I want to give. And I’ve got a million people telling me why I can’t do it.”
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The rapper did spend a few minutes to talk about his new family, Kim Kardashian and his new baby North West. It looks like someone has finally (somewhat) reined him in, and he actually attempts to spend some time with them, not working.
“It’s like family time. That’s what Kim gave me. She gave me everything, she gave me family, she gave me a support system,” he explained. “She was in a powerful enough situation where she could love me without asking me for money, which is really hard for me to find.”
There has not yet been any comment from the rock stars of the world.
Photo credit: WENN.com
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Development for Whom?
By Allen White, Jayati Ghosh, originally published by The Great Transition
Calls for a new development paradigm grow louder each day, especially in rapidly growing countries like India. Award-winning development economist Jayati Ghosh explores prospects for such a new model of equitable and sustainable development with Allen White, Senior Fellow at the Tellus Institute.
What drew you to the field of development economics?
I was interested in how societies function and how social change occurs, so I began by studying sociology. But it seemed that this discipline just skimmed the surface, that deeper underlying economic contexts and processes were crucial for understanding social change, and that without such knowledge, much would remain unexplained. So I switched to economics, where my perspective has always been that of political economy. I have never viewed development economics as a “separate” sub-discipline. From the beginning, economists have been concerned with development, defined as the evolution of economies and the processes of economic growth and change. So, to me, meaningful economics is necessarily about development, that is, human progress through economic and social change.
How does viewing economics through such a social, political, and cultural lens help us to better understand and improve the human condition?
Just as I felt that it was not possible to understand a society without understanding the economy, so, too, do I believe that it is not possible to understand the economy without understanding society—including the culture and politics that shape social interactions and drive power relations, and the evolution of these forces throughout history. Isolating the “social sciences” into separate intellectual silos greatly diminishes what and how they see, eroding their explanatory power.
Unfortunately, much of the discipline of economics moved away from this broad perspective, and tried to interpret everything through a very limited and often misleading notion of “rationality” based entirely on a methodological individualism that presumes self-interest and private calculation drive all human economic behavior. I believe this is a false approach, and when it is combined with so many of the other absurd assumptions of the models that continue to underlie much economic analysis today (like perfect competition and full employment), it is easy to see why the approach proves unsatisfactory for explaining how economies actually work and how they change over time. Recognizing the continuous interplay between economic forces and social, political, and cultural patterns provides far more useful insights into economic realities.
You have received awards from the International Labour Organization (ILO) for your scholarship relating to “decent work” in the age of globalization. What is “decent work,” and what are the key challenges to its attainment worldwide?
Work is central to human existence: it defines so much of how people live, how they value themselves and others, what constraints they face, and what capacities they are able to develop. The concept of decent work championed by the ILO is critical to ensuring that work occurs in conditions of freedom, equality, security, and human dignity. Decent work and the pillars that support it (e.g., fair income, safe working conditions, social protections) are fundamental not only to development but also to the creation of just and democratic societies.
So it is surprising that the concept of decent work took so long to be recognized in international discourse; even now it is barely given more than lip service. Globalization and the associated deregulation within nations have reduced the bargaining power of workers thereby diminishing the possibilities of ensuring decent work. The decline of welfare states and the obsession with austerity and reduced taxation, the erosion of workers’ rights and protections, the magnified threat of capital flight or relocation of production that create a race to the bottom—all of these have had deleterious impacts on social cohesion. The result is growing inequality, material insecurity, and the hollowing out of communities. These phenomena, in turn, are now causing serious political fallout because they were ignored for so long by those in power. Now, more than ever, the focus on decent work needs to be brought back to center stage. Without it, we will face massive political, social, and economic instability.
Do the policies necessary to promote decent work differ significantly for men and women? If so, how?
In most societies, women (and girls) continue to be responsible for the bulk of work associated with social reproduction—what is today referred to as the “care economy.” This means that recognized employment or work participation rates are poor indicators of the actual work performed by both women and men. Globally, time use surveys indicate that women account for about 70 percent of unpaid labor time, and so most women are working whether or not their labor is recognized as such. This unpaid work is essential for the reproduction of society and constitutes a huge subsidy to the formal, or recognized, economy. The burden of such unpaid work can prevent women from participating in paid employment, thereby reducing their earning capacity. It also means that society tends to undervalue the work done by women even when it is paid for, and that women are concentrated in low-wage occupations, reinforcing gender pay gaps and harmful social attitudes toward both women and their work. Ensuring decent work for women involves recognizing, reducing, rewarding, and redistributing unpaid work; ensuring adequate representation of such workers; and striving for gender parity in labor markets and workplaces.
World Bank data show that over recent decades, India has reduced extreme poverty much less than China. To what extent could a focus on decent work change this?
There are several sharp differences between the Chinese and Indian development experiences. One of the most crucial is the relative absence of structural change in India, in contrast to China, where manufacturing’s share of GDP and employment has increased steadily and significantly. India’s inability to move much of its workforce out of low-productivity agriculture into higher-value-added manufacturing is related to many other failures of human development: low aggregate employment generation, especially in formal jobs; persistent food poverty; minimal expansion of education; and poor health indicators. The much vaunted emphasis on modern services such as ICT is insufficient to generate the required structural change or employment creation, as the sector accounts for less than one percent of the Indian workforce.
A basic problem in India has been the single-minded focus of policymakers on GDP growth without looking at the quality or pattern of that growth or considering quality employment as a goal in its own right. This has led to poor human development indicators, including insufficient public spending on the essential social services necessary for realizing the socioeconomic rights of citizens and decent work for all.
Can developing countries achieve wage- and employment-based growth while reducing environmental strain? Is this possible without abandoning the prevailing development model?
Many economists and policymakers argue that economic development, by design, must be associated with some environmental strain. Meeting the basic needs of everyone on the planet will intensify resource use and carbon emissions. But this could be offset by reduced strain from richer groups and corporations in both advanced and developing countries. The environmental damage now occurring is neither necessary nor inevitable. In fact, it is largely due to the prevailing development model, which fails to adequately account for environmental costs disproportionately borne by the poor.
Achieving wage- and employment-led development led by wage and employment growth while reducing ecological damage requires jettisoning the current economic model. The first aspect that must be dropped is the obsession with GDP growth per se rather than the quality of growth and distribution of income and assets that result from it.
In this regard, some are advocating a Universal Basic Income as a response to poverty in India. What are your thoughts on this strategy?
The development project in India is fundamentally incomplete, both in terms of structural transformation of the economy and in terms of achieving even the minimum level of human development. The role of the state thus remains critical to fulfilling development goals and ensuring basic needs and social and economic rights of citizens by providing essential physical and social infrastructure. A Universal Basic Income (UBI) can play a role in addition to these requirements, but it is by no means a substitute for the meeting of these basic conditions by the state.
Many in India interpret the UBI as a substitute for important forms of state provision, be it the food distribution program or the rural employment program or health and education services. Replacing essential public provision with cash transfers is not only a means of privatizing these services (and thereby rendering them even more unequal), but also a way of reducing poor people’s access since the planned cash transfers are unlikely to be sufficient to meet their requirement for basic goods and services. The same Indian government talking about a UBI has still not seen fit to introduce a universal non-contributory pension scheme (surely, a must in a country where more than 95 percent of workers are not covered by pensions). The same government still provides only the paltry minimal pension of Rs 200 per month (around $3.50) to those with incomes below the poverty line. Demands for a UBI must be seen in this context, and supported only if they do not involve reduction of existing public programs to ensure basic needs and employment to the poor. These programs must be expanded and strengthened, not reduced.
You have argued that the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 will remain inadequate if they don’t recognize the underlying processes that hinder their attainment. What are these processes?
The SDGs are somewhat more realistic than their predecessor Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in recognizing the significance of policies and processes to their attainment. But the SDGs still put the onus on national governments to deliver on the stated goals without adequate recognition of how the international architecture and context, as well as national macroeconomic and trade policies, can inhibit states’ capacities to realize their commitments. The most obvious constraint is financing: meeting the SDGs would require massive increases in state expenditure in most countries, but current systems of taxation (as well as rampant tax evasion) and the prevailing emphasis on austerity clearly put limits on such increased spending. International trade and investment agreements impose further constraints by tightening intellectual property rules and allowing investor-state disputes based on expanded notions of “expropriation” that preclude state attempts at regulation and taxation. Many of the features of the international economic and financial architecture cause greater inequality across and within countries, yet the SDGs include explicit goals to reduce inequalities. It almost seems as if there are two parallel and sometimes incompatible tracks: the declared global goals (SDGs) and the existing international accords that limit what is actually possible even for the most well-intentioned of governments.
Speaking of systemic constraints, you have written about the emergence of a distinctly twenty-first-century form of imperialism. How does it differ from earlier forms, and what has been its impact been on development?
Early imperialism was explicitly related to colonial control; in the second half of the twentieth century, it relied on a combination of geopolitical and economic control derived from the clear dominance of the United States as the global hegemon and leader of the capitalist world. In the twenty-first century, imperialism increasingly relies on international legal and regulatory architecture—fortified by various multilateral and bilateral agreements—to establish the power of capital over labor. This trend has several implications: the end of the labor aristocracy in the core capitalist countries; the emergence of an implicit compact between different forms of capital in different parts of the world; the fall in wage share of national income in both advanced and developing countries; the inability of nation-states to meet their obligations of delivering social and economic rights to the people; and the erosion of democracy in different parts of the world. The economic results of this new order can be seen in the “stagnationary” tendencies in global capitalism and uneven to faltering development in less advanced countries.
Rising populist and nationalist movements in both advanced and emerging economies threaten to upend the current global order. How do you see these trends affecting the prospects for sustainable development?
The popular frustration and anger expressed around the world are predictable results of global and national economic processes unleashed by a neoliberal marketist approach that has exacerbated inequality, failed to deliver sufficient good-quality employment, eroded workers’ rights and citizens’ access to public services, and made material well-being for most people more fragile and vulnerable. Unfortunately, the political gains from such anger have mostly accrued to the far-right forces that pit workers of one country against workers elsewhere, blame migrants rather than plutocrats for their current plight, and fail to confront large capital in its various forms. This generates not just political instability but also increasingly unstable and violent societies in which older patriarchal and divisive traditions are celebrated rather than transcended.
What signs of hope do you see for a Great Transition in the coming decades to a form of global development rooted in justice, equity, and ecological sustainability?
I believe we must look to younger people for genuine movement towards a more just, democratic, ecologically sustainable, equitable, and progressive economy and society. It is clear that rigid and doctrinaire responses to the current global and national patterns based on past political allegiances are unlikely to be successful. But it is also evident that youth everywhere, forced to deal with a much more insecure and uncertain future, are also more open to creative approaches to change that recognize and seek to address various inequalities and injustices. I find evidence of such creative thinking among my own students, for example, along with a willingness to think beyond the immediate future to the medium term for change. That thinking and willingness gives me hope for the emergence of a Great Transition.
Teaser photo credit: By Dan Ruth – Flickr: Saravati Devi, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16847457
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Waterville’s Maine International Film Festival announces opening night film, achievement award winner
The 22nd annual festival that runs July 12-21 will open with "Blow the Man Down," a movie made in Maine with a mix of "dark humor, suspense, saltiness," according to organizers.
By Amy CalderMorning Sentinel
People take their seats as the Maine Shorts Program begins at the Waterville Opera House during the Maine International Film Festival at the Waterville Opera House on July 14, 2018. Morning Sentinel file photo by Michael G. Seamans
WATERVILLE — A film shot along the Maine coast and described as a mix of dark humor, suspense and saltiness is the opening night film for the 22nd annual Maine International Film Festival, which runs July 12-21 at Railroad Square Cinema and the Waterville Opera House.
The New England premiere of “Blow the Man Down” will be shown at 6:30 p.m. July 12 at the Opera House as the first major event of the 10-day festival, which draws thousands of film enthusiasts from around the world to view what organizers call the best of American independent and international cinema. A reception will follow at 8:30 p.m. under the stars in Castonguay Square, featuring the music of the Maine jam band, Muddy Ruckus, according to a MIFF press release issued Monday.
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Written and directed by Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy, “Blow the Man Down” was filmed in and around Harpswell, Cundy’s Harbor, Bailey Island, Orr’s Island and Phippsburg and stars Morgan Saylor, Sophie Lowe, Margo Martindale, Will Brittain, Gayle Rankin and Annette O’Toole. It is set in Easter Cove, a fictional fishing village on the Maine coast.
“Grieving the loss of their mother and facing an uncertain future, Mary Beth and Priscilla Connolly cover up a gruesome run-in with a dangerous man,” the release says of the film. “To conceal their crime, the sisters must go deeper into Easter Cove’s underbelly and uncover the town matriarchs’ darkest secrets.”
Mike Perreault, executive director of the Maine Film Center and festival director, said the film provides a great kickoff for the 10-day event, which showcases nearly 100 films. The festival is a Film Center project.
“With so many Maine films and filmmakers in the spotlight this year, it is important to us to celebrate Maine and its scenic and cultural beauty at MIFF, and we believe our Opening Night Celebration will do just that,” Perreault said.
Also during the festival, director and writer Hilary Brougher will be honored with the Mid-Life Achievement Award. Previous award winners include Sissy Spacek, Ed Harris, John Turturro, Bud Cort, Peter Fonda, Glenn Close, Lili Taylor, Terrence Malik, Keith Carradine, Lauren Hutton, Thelma Schoonmaker, Arthur Penn, Walter Hill, Jos Stelling, Malcolm McDowell, Jonathan Demme, Michael Murphy, Jay Cocks, Robert Benton, Gabriel Byrne and Dominique Sanda.
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Brougher’s film, “South Mountain,” will be screened at the Opera House at 6:30 p.m. July 14, which will be followed by the award ceremony.
The festival calls “South Mountain” a “meditation on a particular sort of love that grows in the wreckage of broken things.”
Lila, portrayed by Talia Balsam, is an artist and teacher who has built a modest rural paradise in New York’s Catskill Mountains with her husband, Edgar, a writer portrayed by Scott Cohen, according to the MIFF release:
“The two have been married for two decades. But then Scott unexpectedly announces the birth of a child with another woman, and Lila tests her bonds to her best friend Gigi and begins a friendship with a younger man. All is changing, or so it seems. Set in the lush span of a single summer, the film is a portrait of a woman at a moment of loss and reconfiguration. Something new is being birthed — perhaps.”
Brougher, of New York City, is a faculty member in the MFA Film Program at Columbia University School of the Arts. Her first film, “The Sticky Fingers of Time,” was released in 1996. “Stephanie Daley,” which she wrote and directed, was released in 2006 and won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival. She also won best director for the film at the Milan International Film Festival, and actor Amber Tamblyn won best actress for her role in the film at the Locarno International Film Festival.
A short film program, workshops, receptions, question-and-answer sessions with filmmakers and more are on tap for the festival, which also features MIFFONEDGE, an experiential and experimental art and film exhibition.
Festival passes and tickets may be purchased at MIFF.org, which also lists film schedules and locations.
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Steamboat Planning Commission could approve certain developments without City Council review under proposed policy change
News | March 4, 2019
Eleanor C. Hasenbeck
ehasenbeck@SteamboatPilot.com
Construction workers assemble framing for what eventually became the Trailhead Lodge in Wildhorse Meadows in 2015. (File photo by Matt Stensland)
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Editor’s note: This story was corrected at 9 a.m. Tuesday to state that the Steamboat Springs City Council would retain review authority over development applications requesting major variances.
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — In an effort to streamline the flow of development applications in the city, Steamboat Springs City Council is considering giving the city Planning Commission review authority on certain planning decisions.
“The Planning Commission currently doesn’t make any decisions,” said Planning and Community Development Director Rebecca Bessey. “They make recommendations to the City Council.”
Do you believe the Planning Commission should have review authority on certain development applications?
Yes, give the Planning Commission more authority.
No, these applications should go before City Council.
I don’t know enough to decide.
“This change would potentially place some of that decision making at the Planning Commission level and avoid having to go to City Council,” she added.
Under the proposal, the Steamboat Springs Planning Commission would be the primary review authority for specific development applications. These projects currently go before the Planning Commission, then City Council.
City Council members or any member of the public would have 10 days from the date of the decision to refer, or “call up,” the decision to City Council. Some City Council members expressed interest in delaying the date at which the call-up period would start to give the public more time to review applications.
In a late-night discussion Tuesday, City Council tabled the first reading of an ordinance making the change. It will go before council again on March 19.
The change would apply to applications for conditional use permits, conceptual development plans and preliminary plats. The Planning Commission would also have final review authority for development plans for projects larger than 16,000 square feet. City Council would retain authority over applications requesting major variances.
Development plans are filed for every new construction project in the city, but minor modifications and small developments that meet code are approved administratively.
Large developments or developments that request variances because they do not meet code go before the Planning Commission and City Council. Conditional use permits are often attached to these plans and are required for developments that seek to use the land for something other than what it is zoned for, for example, a housing complex in an area zoned for commercial development.
Some City Council members expressed interest in removing conditional use permits from the proposal.
Bessey said the code change aims to “create a more predictable and streamlined development review process,” something the Planning Department has been working to do for a few years.
“One of the areas that they identified were some code changes, including process changes to sort of speed up the process and eliminate unnecessary meetings,” she said. “The thought process there is that, if the application meets the code, then that decision can be made at Planning Commission, and potentially, there’s no need for that additional meeting at City Council.”
All of these decisions are quasi-judicial, meaning the Planning Commission and City Council must decide if a proposal meets the code — without political pressure.
“The Planning Commission is an appointed body,” Bessey said. “Their job and their role is to evaluate projects based solely on the code. They take that very seriously, and I think they do a really good job of that. I think that’s a pro — that we’re sort of empowering them to do their job.”
City Council member Sonja Macys worried that the change would create less transparency, as Planning Commissioners are appointed after an interview with council members. Though they’re public, rarely does anyone else attend these interviews.
“If we’re going to give them more authority, should we put more transparency in the appointment process?” she asked other council members, who agreed the interviews could be brought into a larger meeting space.
She also wanted to see a longer call-up period.
Bessey said, should the policy change come into effect, some public education and outreach would be required to make sure the public knew that comments at Planning Commission meetings matter.
Even if council retains the final review authority for these decisions, the Planning Department is working to make the public more aware of applications under consideration.
“I know we’ve heard some comments recently that the public is not aware of what’s happening until the very end, when we’re ready to go to public hearing,” Bessey said. “That was an issue that was raised at City Council — how to get word out to the public sooner, so that they can be more aware and engage, and we can get their comments sooner. We are looking at ways to modify our public notice procedures and try to make that information more available for the public.”
To reach Eleanor Hasenbeck, call 970-871-4210, email ehasenbeck@SteamboatPilot.com or follow her on Twitter @elHasenbeck.
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Aug 5, 2012 | 9:44AM
Transcript: Tom Coughlin Radio Interview
By John Fennelly | Aug 5, 2012 | 9:44AM
Giants head coach Tom Coughlin was interviewed on The Michael Kay Show on 98.7 ESPN NY Radio in Albany this week:
This is the second time you go into training camp as the defending Super Bowl Champion. What are the differences? Similarities?
“Here’s the thing. We don’t talk about defending. We don’t talk about those types of things. What we talk about is our goal: to win the world championship. That’s it. What we would really like to do as I mentioned is we would like to carry over from the six games at the end of the 2011-12 season into this season.
We liked to play the kind of football we played there and mainly what I am talking about is giving up 14 points a game vs. 25 points per game. We gave up 25 points a game in the regular season. We gave up 400 points. What we would like to do is to carry over. We rushed the ball in the playoffs a little bit better. We only turned it over one time, which is classic for the team that is going to win this thing. Our special teams contributed with our game out in San Francisco with our Super Bowl game where we pinned New England down inside the 10 three times. Those were the things and that’s the challenge for this team. This team to come back and play the kind of football with consistency to start fast, to start and then sustain. We came out 6-2 last year and then we ran into that 4-game buzzsaw, which everyone condemned the Giants. Of course when you lose you do get condemned, but we played against some pretty good opponents and the one game, the New Orleans game, which we were all disappointed in, but there was highly competitive games and we just didn’t win. The Green Bay game we lost that game on the final drive cause we left too much time on the scoreboard and it was 39-35 game and the San Francisco game we have a 4th down and we are certainly in position to win that game and we don’t. There were those kinds of things and when we gathered in the locker room after the San Francisco game the thing that was remarkable to me was our players were kind of upbeat. We’ll fight. They kept looking at each other saying, ‘We’ll fight. We’ll fight.’ I said perhaps we’ll have a chance to play this team again and of course it did work out that way.”
What was your response to Jerry Jones saying that the Cowboys are going to kick the Giants butt?
“Did that happen? I heard about that. I don’t know. We are focusing on our team right here for now. We are worried about our team and getting a first down and stopping people and that type of thing. We’ll worry about that game in a couple of weeks.”
Phil Simms said in USA Today that Eli Manning and Tom Coughlin are Hall Of Fame worthy. Does that matter to you?
“Well I am very, very grateful for Phil’s thoughts. That is something we can cherish. First the fact that he thought enough to speak that. I have tremendous respect for Phil. I was on the staff with Phil and really enjoyed working for him. Again we will think about that down the road. That’s kind of far out there for me right now.”
Did you see the quote by Brandon Jacobs? He said he really misses that old goat?
“He did. He referred to me as a goat? A couple of weeks ago I thought I was higher up the pole. [Laughs]“
Eli Manning said he didn’t want ESPN here camped out every day and worrying about stuff. Do you agree with that sentiment?
“Well the part I do agree with us what people are alluding to throughout the offseason and the start of camp. We’re here for a reason. We’re here to focus. We’re here to prepare ourselves for the season. We have gone away from our…we have worked hard to build the team and that is what we come up here for to kind of get together all in one circumstance and build our team. Our team chemistry and our bonding, etc. That’s what we are here for and if people let us do that then all the better.”
transcript courtesy of sportsradiointerviews.com
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Mail Data Collection
Telephone and Personal Visit Follow-Up
Chapter 9. Language Assistance Program
The language assistance program for the American Community Survey (ACS) includes a set of methods and procedures designed to assist sample households with limited English proficiency in completing the ACS interview. Language assistance can be provided in many forms, including the development of translated instruments and other survey materials, the recruiting and training of bilingual interviewers, and the provision of telephone or Internet assistance in multiple languages. Providing language assistance is one of many ways that the ACS can improve survey quality by reducing levels of survey nonresponse, the potential for nonresponse bias, and the introduction of response errors; it ensures that individuals with limited English skills will more fully understand the survey questions.
The ACS language assistance program includes the use of several key tools to support each mode of data collection-mail, telephone, and personal visit. The development of these tools was based on research that assessed the current performance of the ACS for non-English speakers. McGovern (2004) found that, despite the limited availability of mail questionnaires in languages other than English, non-English speakers were successfully interviewed by telephone and personal visit follow-up. She also found that the level of item nonresponse for households speaking languages other than English was consistent with the low levels of item nonresponse in English-speaking households. These results led to a focus on improving the quality of data collected in the telephone and personal visit data collection modes. The program includes assistance in a wide variety of languages during the telephone and personal visit nonresponse follow-up stages.1 Efforts to expand language assistance in the mail mode were postponed; the current focus in the mail mode is limited to supporting Spanish-language speakers.
This chapter provides greater detail on the current language assistance program. It begins with an Overview of the language support, translation, and pretesting guidelines. It then discusses methods for all three modes. The chapter closes with a discussion of research and evaluation activities.
1In 2005, interviewer language capabilities included English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, French, Polish, Korean, Vietnamese, German, Japanese, Arabic, Haitian Creole, Italian, Navajo, Tagalog, Greek, and Urdu.
The 2010 Decennial Census Program has placed a priority on developing and testing tools to improve the quality of data collected from people with limited English proficiency; in fact, staff involved in the ACS and the 2010 Census have been working jointly to study language barriers and effective methods for data collection. People with limited English skills represent a growing share of the total population. The 2004 ACS found that 8.4 percent of the total population who speak a language other than English at home speak English less than "very well." This is an increase from 7.6 percent in 2000 (U.S. Census Bureau 2004b).
The U.S. Census Bureau does not require the translation of all survey instruments or materials. Each census and survey determines the appropriate set of translated materials and language assistance options needed to ensure high quality survey results. The Census Bureau does require that guidelines be followed whenever a decision is made to translate a data collection instrument or a respondent letter.
In 2004, the Census Bureau released guidelines for language support translation and pretesting. These state that data collection instruments translated from a source language into a target language should be reliable, complete, accurate, and culturally appropriate. Reliable translations convey the intended meaning of the original text. Complete translations should neither add new information nor omit information already provided in the source document. An accurate translation is free of both grammatical and spelling errors. Cultural appropriateness considers the culture of the target population when developing the text for translation. In addition to meeting these criteria, translated Census Bureau data collection instruments and related materials should have semantic, conceptual, and normative equivalence. The Census Bureau guidelines recommend the use of a translation team approach to ensure equivalence. The language support guidelines include recommended practices for preparing, translating, and revising materials, and for ensuring sound documentation (U.S. Census Bureau 2004a). The ACS utilizes Census Bureau guidelines in the preparation of data collection instruments, advance letters, and other respondent communications.
The Census Bureau currently mails out ACS questionnaires to each address in a single language. In the United States, English language forms are mailed, while in Puerto Rico, Spanish is used. The cover of the questionnaire of both the English and Spanish mailouts contains a message written in the other language requesting that people who prefer to complete the survey in that language call a toll-free assistance number to obtain assistance or to request the appropriate form. In 2005, the Census Bureau received requests for Spanish questionnaires from less than 0.01 percent of the mailout sample (Griffin 2006b).
Telephone questionnaire assistance is provided in both English and Spanish. A call to the toll-free Spanish help number reaches a Spanish speaker directly. The interviewer will either provide general assistance or conduct the interview. Interviewers are encouraged to convince callers to complete the interview over the phone.
The call centers and regional offices that conduct the computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) and computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) nonresponse follow-up operations make every effort to hire bilingual staff. In addition, CAPI interviewers are instructed to search for interpreters within the sample household, or from the neighborhood, to assist in data collection. The regional offices maintain a list of interpreters who are skilled in many languages and are available to assist the CAPI interviewer in the respondents preferred language. Interviewers use a flashcard to identify the specific language spoken when they cannot communicate with a particular household. CAPI interviewers can also provide respondents that speak Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, or Vietnamese translated versions of some informational materials. These materials include an introductory letter and two brochures that explain the survey, as well as a letter that thanks the respondent for his or her participation. Future plans include expanding the number of languages that these CAPI informational materials are available in, and increasing the number of materials that are translated.
The ACS CATI and CAPI survey instruments currently are available in both English and Spanish. Interviewers can conduct interviews in additional languages if they have that capability. Because a translated instrument is not available in languages other than English and Spanish, interviewers translate the English version during the interview and record the results on the English instrument. The Census Bureau is exploring the possibility of creating translated instruments or guides for interviewer use in languages other than English and Spanish. Also, there are special procedures and an interviewer training module that deal with the collection of data from respondents who do not speak English. All ACS interviewers are given this training as part of their classroom interviewer training. The training is designed to improve the consistency of these procedures and to remind interviewers of the importance of collecting complete data for all households. The CATI and CAPI instruments collect important data on language-related issues, including the frequency of the use of interpreters and of the Spanish instrument, which allows the Census Bureau to monitor how data are being collected. The instruments also record how often interviewers conduct translations of their own into different languages. For example, Griffin (2006b) found that in 2005, more than 86 percent of all CAPI interviews with Spanish-speaking households were conducted by a bilingual (Spanish/English) interviewer. She also found that about 8 percent of the interviews conducted with Chinese-speaking households required the assistance of an interpreter who was not a member of the household.
Additional data collected allow the call centers and the regional offices to identify CATI and CAPI cases that were not completed due to language barriers. A profile of this information by language highlights those languages needing greater support. Griffin (2006b) found that, out of 31,489 cases in the 2005 CATI workload that were identified as requiring a language other than English, 9.3 percent could not be interviewed due to a language barrier. The greatest language needs were for Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, and Chinese. Call center managers used this information to identify specific language recruiting needs and hire additional staff with these skills. Similar information was used to improve CAPI.
Griffin and McGovern (2004) compared the language abilities of CAPI interviewers in each regional office with the needs of the population for that area. This assessment was based on 2003 ACS language data and regional office staffing information. The regional offices used these data to assist in recruiting support in anticipation of the full sample expansion in 2005. A planned update of this assessment for both CATI and CAPI will look at current staffing.
Chapter 8 describes the data collection methodology for people living in group quarters (GQ) facilities. Two instruments are used in GQ data collection-a paper survey questionnaire for interviewing GQ residents, and an automated instrument for collecting administrative information from each facility. The Census Bureau designed and field-tested a bilingual (English/Spanish) GQ questionnaire in 2005. Interviewers used these questionnaires to conduct interviews with a small sample of GQ residents. An interviewer debriefing found that the interviewers had no problems with these questionnaires and, as a result, this form currently is used for GQ data collection. The Census Bureau will hire bilingual interviewers to conduct interviews with non-English speakers in Puerto Rican GQ facilities. The Group Quarters Facility Questionnaire is available in both English and Spanish.
Due to limited resources, priorities were set for research and development activities related to the language assistance program. Of critical importance was a benchmarking of the effectiveness of current methods. The potential for nonresponse bias due to language barriers was assessed by McGovern (2004) and Griffin and Broadwater (2005). In addition, ACS staff created a Web site on quality measures, including annual information about the effect of language barriers on survey nonresponse. These evaluations and the Web site both show that current methods result in very low levels of noninterviews caused by the interviewers inability to speak the respondents language. These nonresponse levels remain low because of special efforts in the field to use interpreters and other means to conduct these interviews. Item level nonresponse also was assessed by McGovern. She found that the mail returns received from non-English speakers are nearly as complete as those from English speakers and that the interviews conducted by telephone and personal visit with non-English speakers are as complete as those from English speakers. The Census Bureau continues to monitor unit nonresponse due to language barriers.
Language barriers can result in measurement errors when respondents do not understand the questions, or when interviewers incorrectly translate a survey question. Staff are exploring options for developing either translated instruments or language guides for use by telephone and personal visit interviewers who conduct interviews in Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Russian to reduce the potential for translation errors. Cognitive testing of the ACS Spanish instrument identified translation concerns (Carrasco 2003). The Census Bureau is planning a more complete assessment of the Spanish instrument to improve the quality of data collected from Spanish speaking households.
Future research is planned to develop and test additional language assistance materials for the mail mode. Increasing levels of participation by mail can reduce survey costs and improve the quality of final ACS data.
Carrasco, Lorena. (2003). " The American Community Survey en Espanol: Using Cognitive Interviews to Test the Functional Equivalency of Questionnaire Translations." Statistical Research Division Study Series Report. Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau, 2003.
Griffin, Deborah. (2006b). " Requests for Alternative Language questionnaires." American Community Survey Discussion Paper. Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau, 2006.
Griffin, Deborah, and Joan Broadwater. (2005). " American Community Survey Noninterview Rates Due to Language Barriers." Paper presented at the Meetings of the Census Advisory Committee on the African-American Population, the American Indian and Alaska Native Populations, the Asian Population, the Hispanic Population, and the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Populations on April 25-27, 2005.
Griffin, Deborah, and Pamela McGovern. (2003). " Language Action Plan for the American Community Survey." Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau, 2003.
McGovern, Pamela, Deborah Griffin, and Larry McGinn. (2003). " Language Action Plan for the American Community Survey." Meetings of the Census Advisory Committee on the African- American Population, the American Indian and Alaska Native Populations, the Asian Population, the Hispanic Population, and the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Populations, May 5-7, 2003.
McGovern, Pamela D. (2004). " A Quality Assessment of Data Collected in the American Community Survey for Households With Low English Proficiency." Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau, 2004.
U.S. Census Bureau. (2004a). " Census Bureau Guideline: Language Translation of Data Collection Instruments and Supporting Materials." Internal U.S. Census Bureau document, Washington, DC, 2004.
U.S. Census Bureau. (2004b). " Housing and Population Edit Specifications." Internal U.S. Census Bureau documentation, Washington, DC.
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Data Dictionary: ACS 2005 -- 2009 (5-Year Estimates)
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Survey: ACS 2005 -- 2009 (5-Year Estimates)
Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Data set: American Community Survey Tables: 2005 -- 2009 (5-Year Estimates) (ACS09_5yr)
Table: B23001. Sex By Age By Employment Status For The Population 16 Years And Over [173]
Universe: Population 16 years and over
Variable Details
B23001. Sex By Age By Employment Status For The Population 16 Years And Over
B23001001Population 16 years and over
B23001002 Male
B23001010 20 and 21 years
Percent base:
Population 16 years and over (ACS09_5yr:B23001001)
Aggregation method:
Relevant Documentation:
Excerpt from: Social Explorer; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey 2005-2009 Summary File: Technical Documentation.
ACS 2009-5yr Summary File: Technical Documentation -> Appendix A. Supplemental Documentation -> 2009 Subject Definitions -> Population Variables -> Sex
The data on sex were derived from answers to Question 3. Individuals were asked to mark either "male" or "female" to indicate their biological sex. For most cases in which sex was invalid, the appropriate entry was determined from other information provided for that person, such as the person's given (i.e., first) name and household relationship. Otherwise, sex was allocated from a hot deck.
Sex is asked for all persons in a household or group quarters. On the mailout/mailback paper questionnaire for households, sex is asked for all persons listed on the form. This form accommodates asking sex for up to 12 people listed as living or residing in the household for at least 2 months. If a respondent indicates that more people are listed as part of the total persons living in the household than the form can accommodate, or if any person included on the form is missing sex, then the household is eligible for Failed Edit Follow-up (FEFU). During FEFU operations, telephone center staffers call respondents to obtain missing data. This includes asking sex for any person in the household missing sex information. In Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI) and Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) instruments sex is asked for all persons. In 2006, the ACS began collecting data in group quarters (GQs). This included asking sex for persons living in a group quarters. For additional data collection methodology, please see www.census.gov/acs.
Data on sex are used to determine the applicability of other questions for a particular individual and to classify other characteristics in tabulations. The sex data collected on the forms are aggregated and provide the number of males and females in the population. These data are needed to interpret most social and economic characteristics used to plan and analyze programs and policies. Data about sex are critical because so many federal programs must differentiate between males and females. The U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services are required by statute to use these data to fund, implement, and evaluate various social and welfare programs, such as the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) or the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). Laws to promote equal employment opportunity for women also require census data on sex. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs must use census data to develop its state projections of veteran's facilities and benefits. For more information on the use of sex data in Federal programs, please see www.census.gov/acs.
The sex ratio represents the balance between the male and female populations. Ratios above 100 indicate a larger male population, and ratios below 100 indicate a larger female population. This measure is derived by dividing the total number of males by the total number of females and then multiplying by 100. It is rounded to the nearest tenth.
Question/Concept History
Sex has been asked of all persons living in a household since the 1996 ACS Test phase. When group quarters were included in the survey universe in 2006, sex was asked of all person in group quarters as well. Beginning in 2008, the layout of the sex question response categories was changed to a horizontal side-by-side layout from a vertically stacked layout on the mail paper ACS questionnaire.
Limitation of the data
Beginning in 2006, the population in group quarters (GQ) was included in the ACS. Some types of GQ populations have sex distributions that are very different from the household population. The inclusion of the GQ population could therefore have a noticeable impact on the sex distribution. This is particularly true for a given geographic area. This is particularly true for areas with a substantial GQ population. The Census Bureau tested the changes introduced to the 2008 version of the sex question in the 2007 ACS Grid-Sequential Test (www.census.gov/acs). The results of this testing show that the changes may introduce an inconsistency in the data produced for this question as observed from the years 2007 to 2008.
Comparability
Sex is generally comparable across different data sources and data years. However, data users should still be aware of methodological differences that may exist between different data sources if they are comparing American Community Survey sex data to other data sources, such as Population Estimates or Decennial Census data. For example, the American Community Survey data are that of a respondent-based survey and subject to various quality measures, such as sampling and nonsampling error, response rates and item allocation. This differs in design and methodology from other data sources, such as Population Estimates, which is not a survey and involves computational methodology to derive intercensal estimates of the population. While ACS estimates are controlled to Population Estimates for sex at the nation, state and county levels of geography as part of the ACS weighting procedure, variation may exist in the sex structure of a population at lower levels of geography when comparing different time periods or comparing across time due to the absence of controls below the county geography level. For more information on American Community Survey data accuracy and weighting procedures, please see www.census.gov/acs.
It should also be noted that although the American Community Survey (ACS) produces population, demographic and housing unit estimates, it is the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program that produces and disseminates the official estimates of the population for the nation, states, counties, cities and towns and estimates of housing units for states and counties.
ACS 2009-5yr Summary File: Technical Documentation -> Appendix A. Supplemental Documentation -> 2009 Subject Definitions -> Population Variables -> Age
The data on age were derived from answers to Question 4. The age classification is based on the age of the person in complete years at the time of interview. Both age and date of birth are used in combination to calculate the most accurate age at the time of the interview. Respondents are asked to give an age in whole, completed years as of interview date as well as the month, day and year of birth. People are not to round an age up if the person is close to having a birthday and to estimate an age if the exact age is not known. An additional instruction on babies also asks respondents to print "0" for babies less than one year old. Inconsistently reported and missing values are assigned or imputed based on the values of other variables for that person, from other people in the household, or from people in other households ("hot deck" imputation).
Age is asked for all person's in a household or group quarters. On the mailout/mailback paper questionnaire for households, both age and date of birth are asked for person's listed as person numbers 1-5 on the form. Only age (in years) is initially asked for person's listed as 6-12 on the mailout/mailback paper questionnaire. If a respondent indicates that there are more than 5 people living in the household, then the household is eligible for Failed Edit Follow-up (FEFU). During FEFU operations, telephone center staffers call respondents to obtain missing data. This includes asking date of birth for any person in the household missing date of birth information. In Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI) and Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) instruments both age and date of birth is asked for all person's. In 2006, the ACS began collecting data in group quarters (GQs). This included asking both age and date of birth for person's living in a group quarters. For additional data collection methodology, please see www.census.gov/acs.
Data on age are used to determine the applicability of other questions for a particular individual and to classify other characteristics in tabulations. Age data are needed to interpret most social and economic characteristics used to plan and analyze programs and policies. Age is central for any number of federal programs that target funds or services to children, working-age adults, women of childbearing age, or the older population. The U.S. Department of Education uses census age data in its formula for allotment to states. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs uses age to develop its mandated state projections on the need for hospitals, nursing homes, cemeteries, domiciliary services, and other benefits for veterans. For more information on the use of age data in Federal programs, please see www.census.gov/acs.
The median age is the age that divides the population into two equal-size groups. Half of the population is older than the median age and half is younger. Median age is based on a standard distribution of the population by single years of age and is shown to the nearest tenth of a year. (See the sections on "Standard Distributions" and "Medians" under "Derived Measures".)
The age dependency ratio is derived by dividing the combined under 18 years and 65 years and over populations by the 18-to-64 population and multiplying by 100.
Old-Age Dependency Ratio
The old-age dependency ratio is derived by dividing the population 65 years and over by the 18-to-64 population and multiplying by 100.
Child Dependency Ratio
The child dependency ratio is derived by dividing the population under 18 years by the 18-to-64 population, and multiplying by 100.
The 1996-2002 American Community Survey question asked for month, day, and year of birth before age. Since 2003, the American Community Survey question asked for age, followed by month, day, and year of birth. In 2008, an additional instruction was provided with the age and date of birth question on the American Community Survey questionnaire to report babies as age 0 when the child was less than 1 year old. The addition of this instruction occurred after 2005 National Census Test results indicated increased accuracy of age reporting for babies less than one year old.
Beginning in 2006, the population living in group quarters (GQ) was included in the American Community Survey population universe. Some types of group quarters have populations with age distributions that are very different from that of the household population. The inclusion of the GQ population could therefore have a noticeable impact on the age distribution for a given geographic area. This is particularly true for areas with a substantial GQ population. For example, in areas with large colleges and universities, the percent of individuals 18-24 would increase due to the inclusion of GQs in the American Community Survey universe.
Caution should be taken when comparing population in age groups across time. The entire population continually ages into older age groups over time, and babies fill in the youngest age group. Therefore, the population of a certain age is made up of a completely different group of people in one time period than in another (e.g. one age group in 2000 versus same age group in 2009). Since populations occasionally experience booms/increases and busts/decreases in births, deaths, or migration (for example, the postwar Baby Boom from 1946-1964), one should not necessarily expect that the population in an age group in one year should be similar in size or proportion to the population in the same age group in a different period in time. For example, Baby Boomers were age 36 to 54 in Census 2000 while they were age 45 to 63 in 2009 ACS. The age structure and distribution would therefore shift in those age groups to reflect the change in people occupying those age-specific groups over time.
Data users should also be aware of methodology differences that may exist between different data sources if they are comparing American Community Survey age data to data sources, such as Population Estimates or Decennial Census data. For example, the American Community Survey data are that of a respondent-based survey and subject to various quality measures, such as sampling and nonsampling error, response rates and item allocation error. This differs in design and methodology from other data sources, such as Population Estimates, which is not a survey and involves computational methodology to derive intercensal estimates of the population. While ACS estimates are controlled to Population Estimates for age at the nation, state and county levels of geography as part of the ACS weighting procedure, variation may exist in the age structure of a population at lower levels of geography when comparing different time periods or comparing across time due to the absence of controls below the county geography level. For more information on American Community Survey data accuracy and weighting procedures, please see www.census.gov/acs.
It should also be noted that although the American Community Survey (ACS) produces population, demographic and housing unit estimates, it is the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program that produces and disseminates theofficial estimates of the population for the nation, states, counties, cities and towns and estimates of housing units for states and counties. (Please refer to: factfinder.census.gov/home/en/official_estimates_2008.html)
ACS 2009-5yr Summary File: Technical Documentation -> Appendix A. Supplemental Documentation -> 2009 Subject Definitions -> Population Variables -> Employment Status
The data on employment status were derived from Questions 29 and 35 to 37 in the 2009 American Community Survey. (In the 1999-2002 American Community Survey, data were derived from Questions 22 and 28 to 30; in the 1996-1998 American Community Survey, data were derived from Questions 21 and 28 to 30.) The questions were asked of all people 15 years old and over. The series of questions on employment status was designed to identify, in this sequence: (1) people who worked at any time during the reference week; (2) people on temporary layoff who were available for work; (3) people who did not work during the reference week but who had jobs or businesses from which they were temporarily absent (excluding layoff); (4) people who did not work during the reference week, but who were looking for work during the last four weeks and were available for work during the reference week; and (5) people not in the labor force. (For more information, see the discussion under "Reference Week.")
The employment status data shown in American Community Survey tabulations relate to people 16 years old and over.
Employment status is key to understanding work and unemployment patterns and the availability of workers. Based on labor market areas and unemployment levels, the U.S. Department of Labor identifies service delivery areas and determines amounts to be allocated to each for job training. The impact of immigration on the economy and job markets is determined partially by labor force data, and this information is included in required reports to Congress. The Office of Management and Budget, under the Paperwork Reduction Act, uses data about employed workers as part of the criteria for defining metropolitan areas. The Bureau of Economic Analysis uses this information, in conjunction with other data, to develop its state per capita income estimates used in the allocation formulas and eligibility criteria for many federal programs such as Medicaid.
This category includes all civilians 16 years old and over who either (1) were "at work," that is, those who did any work at all during the reference week as paid employees, worked in their own business or profession, worked on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers on a family farm or in a family business; or (2) were "with a job but not at work", that is, those who did not work during the reference week but had jobs or businesses from which they were temporarily absent due to illness, bad weather, industrial dispute, vacation, or other personal reasons. Excluded from the employed are people whose only activity consisted of work around the house or unpaid volunteer work for religious, charitable, and similar organizations; also excluded are all institutionalized people and people on active duty in the United States Armed Forces.
Civilian Employed
This term is defined exactly the same as the term employed above.
All civilians 16 years old and over are classified as unemployed if they (1) were neither "at work" nor "with a job but not at work" during the reference week, and (2) were actively looking for work during the last 4 weeks, and (3) were available to start a job. Also included as unemployed are civilians who did not work at all during the reference week, were waiting to be called back to a job from which they had been laid off, and were available for work except for temporary illness. Examples of job seeking activities are:
Registering at a public or private employment office
Meeting with prospective employers
Investigating possibilities for starting a professional practice or opening a business
Placing or answering advertisements
Writing letters of application
Being on a union or professional register
Consists of people classified as employed or unemployed in accordance with the criteria described above.
The unemployment rate represents the number of unemployed people as a percentage of the civilian labor force. For example, if the civilian labor force equals 100 people and 7 people are unemployed, then the unemployment rate would be 7 percent.
All people classified in the civilian labor force plus members of the U.S. Armed Forces (people on active duty with the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard).
The labor force participation rate represents the proportion of the population that is in the labor force. For example, if there are 100 people in the population 16 years and over, and 64 of them are in the labor force, then the labor force participation rate for the population 16 years and over would be 64 percent.
All people 16 years old and over who are not classified as members of the labor force. This category consists mainly of students, homemakers, retired workers, seasonal workers interviewed in an off season who were not looking for work, institutionalized people, and people doing only incidental unpaid family work (less than 15 hours during the reference week).
This term appears in connection with several subjects: employment status, journey-to-work questions, class of worker, weeks worked in the past 12 months, and number of workers in family in the past 12 months. The meaning varies and, therefore, should be determined in each case by referring to the definition of the subject in which it appears. When used in the concepts "workers in family" and "full-time, year-round workers," the term "worker" relates to the meaning of work defined for the "work experience" subject.
Worked Last Week (Question 29): From 1999-2007, an italicized instruction was added to the question to help respondents determine what to count as work. Starting in 2008, the instruction was removed and the question was separated into two parts in an effort to give respondents - particularly people with irregular kinds of work arrangements - two opportunities to grasp and respond to the correct intent of the question.
On Layoff (Question 35a): Starting in 1999, the "Yes, on temporary layoff from most recent job" and "Yes, permanently laid off from most recent job" response categories were condensed into a single "Yes" category. An additional question (Q35b) was added to determine the temporary/permanent layoff distinction. Temporarily Absent (Question 35b): Starting in 2008, the temporarily absent question included a revised list of examples of work absences.
Recalled to Work (Question 35c): This question was added in the 1999 American Community Survey to determine if a respondent who reported being on layoff from a job had been informed that he or she would be recalled to work within 6 months or been given a date to return to work.
Looking for Work (Question 36): Starting in 2008, the actively looking for work question was modified to emphasize 'active' job-searching activities.
Available to Work (Question 37): Starting in 1999, the "Yes, if a job had been offered" and "Yes, if recalled from layoff" response categories were condensed into one category, "Yes, could have gone to work." Starting in 2008, the actively looking for work question was modified to emphasize 'active' job-searching activities.
The data may understate the number of employed people because people who have irregular, casual, or unstructured jobs sometimes report themselves as not working. The number of employed people "at work" is probably overstated in the data (and conversely, the number of employed "with a job, but not at work" is understated) since some people on vacation or sick leave erroneously reported themselves as working. This problem has no effect on the total number of employed people. The reference week for the employment data is not the same for all people. Since people can change their employment status from one week to another, the lack of a uniform reference week may mean that the employment data do not reflect the reality of the employment situation of any given week. (For more information, see the discussion under "Reference Week.")
Beginning in 2006, the population in group quarters (GQ) is included in the ACS. Some types of GQ populations have employment status distributions that are different from the household population. All institutionalized people are placed in the not in labor force category. The inclusion of the GQ population could therefore have a noticeable impact on the employment status distribution. This is particularly true for areas with a substantial GQ population. For example, in areas having a large state prison population, the employment rate would be expected to decrease because the base of the percentage, which now includes the population in correctional institutions, is larger. The Census Bureau tested the changes introduced to the 2008 version of the employment status questions in the 2006 ACS Content Test. The results of this testing show that the changes may introduce an inconsistency in the data produced for these questions as observed from the years 2007 to 2008, see "2006 ACS Content Test Evaluation Report Covering Employment Status" on the ACS website (www.census.gov/acs).
Along with the 2008 ACS release, the Census Bureau produced a research note comparing 2007 and 2008 ACS employment estimates to 2007 and 2008 Current Population Survey (CPS)/Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) estimates. The research note shows that the changes to the employment status series of questions in the 2008 ACS will make ACS labor force data more consistent with benchmark data from the CPS and LAUS program. For more information, see "Changes to the American Community Survey between 2007 and 2008 and the Effects on the Estimates of Employment and Unemployment" (www.census.gov/hhes/www/laborfor/researchnote092209.html).
Since employment data from the American Community Survey are obtained from respondents in households, they differ from statistics based on reports from individual business establishments, farm enterprises, and certain government programs. People employed at more than one job are counted only once in the American Community Survey and are classified according to the job at which they worked the greatest number of hours during the reference week. In statistics based on reports from business and farm establishments, people who work for more than one establishment may be counted more than once. Moreover, some tabulations may exclude private household workers, unpaid family workers, and self-employed people, but may include workers less than 16 years of age.
An additional difference in the data arises from the fact that people who had a job but were not at work are included with the employed in the American Community Survey statistics, whereas many of these people are likely to be excluded from employment figures based on establishment payroll reports. Furthermore, the employment status data in tabulations include people on the basis of place of residence regardless of where they work, whereas establishment data report people at their place of work regardless of where they live. This latter consideration is particularly significant when comparing data for workers who commute between areas.
For several reasons, the unemployment figures of the Census Bureau are not comparable with published figures on unemployment compensation claims. For example, figures on unemployment compensation claims exclude people who have exhausted their benefit rights, new workers who have not earned rights to unemployment insurance, and people losing jobs not covered by unemployment insurance systems (including some workers in agriculture, domestic services, and religious organizations, and self-employed and unpaid family workers). In addition, the qualifications for drawing unemployment compensation differ from the definition of unemployment used by the Census Bureau. People working only a few hours during the week and people "with a job but not at work" are sometimes eligible for unemployment compensation but are classified as "Employed" in the American Community Survey. Differences in the geographical distribution of unemployment data arise because the place where claims are filed may not necessarily be the same as the place of residence of the unemployed worker.
For guidance on differences in employment and unemployment estimates from different sources, go to www.census.gov/hhes/www/laborfor/laborguidance082504.html.
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Trojan Battery rebrands with new logo and tagline
By Kelly Pickerel | September 24, 2018
Trojan Battery Co. has introduced a fresh, new brand. The new look includes a modern logo, vibrant colors, revised product branding and a new tagline: Charging Forward. The refreshed brand will be apparent in Trojan’s marketing campaigns, collateral, and a new website, which is slated for later this year. The classic maroon color of Trojan batteries will remain the same.
The new logo replaces the previous logo, which had been in place for over 13 years. Prior to that, the Trojan Battery logo had undergone four rebrands in its nearly 100-year-old history. The new logo depicts a revamped version of the iconic Pegasus which is now facing forward. This change in direction signifies the positive momentum that Trojan Battery is experiencing as a company.
“This is an exciting time in our industry and at Trojan. This bold rebranding is a platform for the launch of new technologies, while energizing our company and all Trojan stakeholders around the world as we go confidently into the future together,” said Neil Thomas, president and chief executive officer for Trojan Battery. “Our new logo, refreshed company colors and graphics, and new tagline, pave the way for us to be the leader in the energy storage industry.”
“Trojan is confident that the new branding supports our maturation as a company while staying true to the legacy that built this business,” said Bryan Godber, senior vice president of corporate marketing and product management. “Our continuous goal is to set ourselves apart from the competition by maintaining a brand promise that exemplifies the high quality, performance and technical support we are known for.”
The brand refresh coincides with Trojan Battery Company moving its headquarters into a new office building to accommodate the tremendous growth Trojan has experienced in recent years. The new space features an open floor plan with meeting rooms and highly collaborative workspaces.
“This is an exciting time for Trojan Battery. The new brand in conjunction with this move to a modern headquarters has invigorated our entire organization,” Thomas said. “I’m very pleased to have the opportunity to lead this dynamic organization and to position Trojan towards its next 100 years of success.”
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Plebiscite would cost more than a Tumut hospital: Kelly
Federal member for Eden-Monaro Mike Kelly said that holding a plebiscite on marriage equality would be inappropriate and “wildly unsustainable.”
Opposition leader Bill Shorten has indicated that he will block the proposed plebiscite in the Senate.
The $160 million plebiscite would call on all Australians to take part in a compulsory vote, answering the question ‘Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?’ The vote would not be binding, and the question would then be put to a conscience vote in parliament. Several right-wing Liberal senators have already said they would not vote according to the results of the plebiscite.
“We’ve never done this before on any issue ever, in the history of Australia,” Mr Kelly said. “So it’s setting a dangerous precedent. We know that this is going to cost somewhere approximating $200 million. To give you some context, the new South-East Regional Hospital we’ve just built cost $170 million.”
“We’re blowing a new hospital – which should have spent on Tumut Hospital, quite frankly – on something that isn’t even binding. We’re spending it on an opinion poll and at the end of it all we’re going to have a conscience vote. Well, we could have a conscience vote today.
“The conscience vote is the way to go, because the electorate knows who their member is, where that member stands, and how to engage directly with that member, so it’s the most democratic way forward. We should just do what we [as parliamentarians] get paid to do.”
Along with the costs of holding the plebiscite, the bill would include a further $15 million in taxpayer dollars to be allocated to the ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ camps to spend on campaigning – a move LGBTI groups say would have devastating effects on vulnerable people.
“You can only imagine the conversations that would happen in local shops, in school grounds, in church groups, in council chambers,” said Tumut-born marriage equality campaigner Ivan Hinton-Teoh. “What we’d find is an enormous division of people expressing their views – not on the right of LGBTI people to get married, but on their dignity.
“That’s what happened in Ireland [which held a referendum on marriage equality]. Formally the question was ‘is it okay for people of the same gender to get married,’ but it became a question of ‘are you okay with gay people?’ So for that question to happen in regional and rural Australia would be an enormous burden and an enormous risk.
“We know that half of all suicides in the LGBTI community occur when they’re under 16, and before they’ve come out to their families. We also know that LGBTI people are 14 times more likely than the general population to attempt suicide.
“Just in the conversation around the plebiscite, not even in the midst of the plebiscite itself, we’ve seen referrals to some health services for the LGBTI community double.”
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said that opponents of the plebiscite were condescending to the Australian public.
“That the Australian public are so immature, so unbridled, so reckless that they cannot be trusted to have a debate and make a decision on this issue,” he said to Sky News.
“If ever there was a question that should be put to a plebiscite, this is one that can be, and should be, because it is a very straightforward question.”
Labor will stand with the Greens, the Nick Xenophon Team and others to prevent the controversial legislation from passing.
Opinion polls show that approximately three-quarters of Australians currently support same-sex marriage.
Struggling LGBTI people are encouraged to contact QLife, Australia’s national counselling and referral service, at 1800 184 527 or at qlife.org.au.
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Intelligent Machines
Vying to be Captain Video
With the launch this week of Truveo, the competition between providers of a new Web service–video search–is heating up.
by Eric Hellweg
Every tale of bootstrapping technology entrepreneurs seems to involve a garage. For Tim Tuttle, though, it was an apartment. “I actually emerged with a tan–from the monitor glow,” he says.
Tuttle, founder and CEO of Truveo, a Web video search company that launched its beta site on Wednesday, spent two years in an apartment in Cambridge MA with his co-inventors to create the cutting-edge technology behind his company.
The video search arena that Tuttle entered when he emerged, just a couple months ago, is a lot more crowded than the one that existed when he went in.
Since May, Google, AOL, Yahoo, and Blinkx, as well as other sites, have added video search capabilities to their mix of search services.
As with text-based search, though, the quality and methods used by these services vary wildly. For instance, despite its dominance in text search, Google’s video search service produces somewhat haphazard results in response to some search terms, while Truveo seems closer to the mark.
Searching “Red Sox” on Truveo, for example, returned 388 files, the first 100 or so highly relevant to the Boston Red Sox–game highlights, features on the team, and so forth. Searching “Red Sox” on Google’s video search yielded 988 files, but the first page consisted entirely of clips from CSpan, weather reports, and other marginalia.
Search results vary because video search engines use different methods to hunt for video content. Most engines still focus on searching the text on a site, looking for obvious words, such as “video,” and for the file extensions most often found with video files, such as .avi, .mpeg, and .mov.
This method may be nearing the end of its usefulness, though, since many websites today are rendered on the fly, using a combination of applications and HTML. As a result, there’s not much useful data to be found by just searching the text for video information using video-search crawlers (software programs that comb through a site to assess its contents and report that data back to search engines). Many of the most popular sites with video content–CNN.com, for example–display no .avi or .mpeg links.
Tuttle says Truveo’s method circumvents this change in websites, by searching for application data instead of simple text. Truveo waits until the page is loaded before searching. This allows it to examine what is about to be displayed and to find video that text crawlers would miss.
“When our crawler looks at a web application or web page, it looks at it the same way a human would,” says Tuttle, who first began his work at MIT (undergrad, grad, and doctorate degrees) in 2003. “The crawler examines the visual characteristics of the page to find video and any metadata on the page.”
Like some other services, Truveo also pecks through a site’s metadata, contextual information supplied by the site’s owners or visitors about what can be found there. Most also look for any closed-captioning data provided by the video owner.
Blinkx software, on the other hand, actually plays any video or audio it encounters and pulls relevant data from the file itself. CEO Suranga Chandratillake says that for awhile, simply checking metadata and other page information worked well, since there wasn’t that much video around, and what was there was professionally done, with all the relevant information supplied. But now–with blogs, podcasts, and other forms of homegrown video, and an explosion of professional content appearing online, it’s not enough to rely on these methods.
“Because it’s easy and cheap to create [video] content and put it online today, things get messy,” Chandratillake says. “As a result, you need a pretty dynamic search technology.”
Whether or not Truveo’s or Blinkx’s technology will help it compete with giants like Google and Yahoo is an open question. But it’s clear that the market for online video is expanding fast, largely because broadband penetration continues to grow, making it more feasible for people to watch bandwidth-intensive video clips. Some 70 percent of U.S. homes with Internet access will have broadband by the end of 2005, up from 55 percent at the end of 2004, according to Nielsen NetRatings. And data from Jupiter Research indicate that, as of June 2005, roughly 20 percent of all Web users in the United States watch online video at least once a month.
What’s more, that percentage will likely grow as more major networks embrace the Internet as a vehicle for their content. CNN.com now offers free video (it used to be a pay service), as does MSNBC. Meanwhile, Comedy Central airs healthy chunks of its most popular program, The Daily Show, online for free. And WB will premiere a new series this fall exclusively on Yahoo. Clearly, after years of avoiding the Internet, the big media companies are quickly, if judiciously, deploying video online.
So as more video content comes online, the importance of high-quality video search will grow rapidly–just as Google’s explosion came with a massive increase in the volume of pages on the Web.
Could an Internet version of TV Guide be far off–a service pointing Web users to popular video content, both time-sensitive and “evergreen” (stored) programming?
“Absolutely yes. You’ll see applications and guides that allow users to find video on the Web in unique and novel ways,” says Tuttle. “And this isn’t Buck Rogers-type stuff. This is all going to happen in the next year.”
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FCC: we'll review complaints regarding AT&T's FaceTime regulations
By Luke Brown 2012-09-25T20:48:00.268Z Apple
FCC unafraid to act
The FCC would like some FaceTime with AT&T
The Federal Communications Commission's top dog said his agency will look into complaints regarding AT&T's rules regarding FaceTime if it becomes necessary, according to a report published Tuesday.
Speaking at Vox Media's offices in Washington, D.C., Julius Genachowski, chairman of the FCC, intimated the commission wouldn't balk from reviewing any complaints regarding AT&T's policies or net neutrality violations.
While he wouldn't offer comment on the situation specifically, Genachowski said the agency will exercise its responsibilities if a "good-faith effort" to resolve complaints against the carrier isn't made.
Those complaints could come any day now as several net neutrality advocacy groups just last week gave notice that they plan to file a formal grievance against AT&T.
FaceTime frenzy
One of Apple iOS 6's most noted improvements is the ability to talk via FaceTime over 3G, which works on certain devices like the iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, and iPad 3, on Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint's networks.
However, whereas Verizon will offer unlimited FaceTime to its cellular subscribers, the same can't be said of rival AT&T.
In order to utilize FaceTime over 3G on AT&T, customers would have to switch to one of the new shared data plans introduced.
This has caused a furor with net neutrality groups, including Free Press and the New American Foundation's Open Technology Institute, with most of the criticism pointed at AT&T for allegedly violating the FCC's net neutrality rules.
The FCC is listening
Though a formal complaint against AT&T has yet to be filed, the FCC's chairman said his agency is aware of the growing mass of objections to the cellular carrier's plans.
Genachowski said he hopes AT&T would attempt to work out the issues before the FCC had to intervene. If that doesn't happen, his agency will act, he said.
AT&T wrote a blog post last month calling the outcry merely a "knee jerk reaction" to the planned limitations, however the FCC isn't turning it's back on what it could easily ignore.
Until a formal complaint is filed, something that's been threatened by several different groups, the FCC remains on the sidelines.
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Driver using hands-free phone caused fatal crash
Drivers have been given a stark warning of the dangers of hands-free mobile phone calls after a haulier was jailed for causing a fatal crash whilst talking on a Bluetooth headset.
The Department of Transport's official stance on making hands-free phone calls is that they are a 'distraction' and should be avoided Photo: BLOOMBERG
By Nick Britten and Gordon Rayner
9:25PM BST 26 Jun 2008
Marvyn Richmond, 49, was so engrossed in a conversation with his mother that he failed to notice traffic ahead of him had come to a standstill, and ploughed into the back of the queue, killing Michael Buston, a passenger in a van.
Relatives of Mr Buston and road safety charities called for an outright ban on making phone calls whilst driving, which makes drivers four times more likely to have an accident, even if they are using a hands-free kit.
Mr Buston's father-in-law, Peter Long, whose son was badly hurt in the crash in March last year, said: "The use of hands-free phones should be stopped. Whether it's hands-free or not, it's still a distraction to any driver.
"What happened was totally avoidable. At the end of the day this man has ruined many lives, all because he was using his mobile while driving."
Richmond was jailed for four and a half years after being convicted at Lincoln Crown Court of causing death by dangerous driving.
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Around 30 deaths on the roads each year are linked to mobile phone use, but the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) believes this is "just the tip of the iceberg" because so few drivers admit to using mobile phones when they cause crashes.
Although the use of hand-held phones while driving is illegal, talking on a hands-free set is not. Drivers can, however, be prosecuted if they drive dangerously whilst distracted by a hands-free call.
Roger Vincent, a spokesman for RoSPA, urged the government to impose a blanket ban on making phone calls whilst driving, saying the current laws banning the use of hand-held mobiles failed the address the issue.
"It is the conversation itself that is the problem, because people get more and more involved in that and pay less and less attention to the road," he said.
"The fact is, whether you are using a hand held or a hands free phone, you are four times more likely to have a crash. Is it really worth that sort of risk just to make a phone call?
"The sentence shows how seriously the courts take the issue of using a mobile while driving."
Richmond, of Oakwood, Derby, an HGV driver for 25 years, caused carnage when his lorry slammed into the queue of traffic on the A631 at Corringham, near Gainsborough, Lincs.
The court was told that he was "oblivious to all around him" because of the 23-minute call to his mother and did not even apply the brakes of his Scania HGV before ploughing into the traffic.
Mr Buston, a 36-year-old married father-of-two, was killed outright, his brother-in-law Peter Long, who was in a Transit van with him, was badly injured, and the driver of the lorry at the front of the queue, Andrejz Matkowski, lost both arms.
During his summing up to the jury, Recorder David Farrell QC said the fact that Richmond probably had both hands on the wheel did not alter the fact that he was severely distracted by talking on his Bluetooth headset.
"It is not alleged that to use a hands-free mobile phone is per se illegal. It is not.
"But your attention must be focused on driving, just as it should be if you have the radio on or you have a satnav or you have passengers in your vehicle."
The Department of Transport's official stance making hands-free phone calls is that they are a "distraction" and should be avoided.
But the government-funded Transport Research Laboratory has found that even hands-free phone calls make drivers four times more likely to have an accident, with concentration levels reduced for 10 minutes after the call has ended.
The research also showed that drivers making hands-free calls had slower reaction times than those who were slightly over the drink-drive limit.
Some businesses, including the FirstGroup transport company, which employs 135,000, have already imposed their own bans on employees making any sort of phone call whilst driving on company business because of the dangers of doing so.
PC Gary Chance, of Lincolnshire police, said: "Driving is a skill that requires attention at all times. It has to be considered that the use of a mobile, even hands-free, was a major factor in this accident."
Richmond is not the first driver to be jailed for killing someone while using a hands-free phone. In 2003 Michael Leach, 29, was jailed for four years at Exeter Crown Court for a similar offence and in 2001 Roger Murray, a 37-year-old lorry driver, was jailed for 18 months in Ayr for causing a fatal crash while on his hands-free phone.
The maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years.
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Fifty Shades of Grey: Quick! Protect Britain's women from this sick filth!
The idea that Fifty Shades of Grey harms women in any way is both aggressively patronising, and frightening, argues Rebecca Reid
By Rebecca Reid
6:30AM GMT 13 Feb 2015
The release of Fifty Shades of Grey, the film, was always going create some controversy. But it’s not just the 20 solid minutes of sex scenes or Jamie Dornan’s nipples that’s generating column inches. The film is contending with accusations that it’s actually endangering women.
A blog ring, named “Fifty Shades is Abuse” are the front and centre of this campaign. The group even organised a protest of the London premier. They feel that the book is indicative of abuse, not because of the bondage and sado/masochism (BDSM) aspect, but because of lead character Christian Grey’s controlling attitude towards Ana.
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The Fifty Shades is Abuse ring (otherwise known as FSIAB) seem to think that women need protecting. In an open letter in the Daily Mail, ring member, Emma Tofi writes, “When women are telling the world that they want their very own Christian Grey, the time has come to debate this subject nationally and help to raise awareness of abuse, not glorify it.”
According to FSIAB, the “danger” of Fifty Shades is that women who watch it will be seduced by a romantic depiction of spousal exploitation. They then might fall into an abusive relationship themselves and forgive unacceptable behaviours on the basis that they’ve seen them manifest in Christian Grey and therefore desire these characteristics in their partner.
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In 1960, a barrister for the prosecution of Penguin books posed the question, regarding Lady Chatterley’s Lover: “Would you want your wife or servants to read this book?” He queried what was acceptable for a woman to read – what she could be expected to be exposed to. Fast forward 55 years and it feels like we’re having the exact same conversation. We apparently need to protect women from Fifty Shades of Grey. Of course, this is patronising, offensive and utterly ridiculous.
At the Berlin premier of Fifty Shades of Grey, this week, Dakota Johnston found herself batting off questions about whether the film represented an abusive relationship. “No person is abused in the movie,” Johnston fired back. “It’s a love story.”
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And she’s right. The book isn’t without issue. It’s not a great work of literature, and Grey’s controlling characteristics have chimed with abusive victims. No one is saying that domestic abuse is anything other than reprehensible. But, director Sam Taylor-Wood’s version of the novel takes a firm and decisive step away from abuse and towards the realm of the fairy-tale. It’s slick, sexy, and beautiful but most of all, it’s fiction.
This is a film about a 28-year-old billionaire who owns his own helicopter. He’s gorgeous, loaded, dresses perfectly and has a huge penis. Anyone who has even attempted dating should be able to realise that we’ve left reality behind by this point. Chuck in a 22-year-old virgin who doesn’t own a phone or a laptop, and give the billionaire unlimited time to email and text her? It’s practically a parallel universe. No adult woman is going to struggle with the misconception that this film has anything more than a passing acquaintance with reality. To argue that Fifty Shades is a negative depiction of a relationship is just like arguing that Harry Potter is a negative representation of boarding school.
I’m not sure who these women are that Emma Tofi claims are hunting their own Christian Grey, but they’re going to be sorely disappointed. He’s not real.
Women are adults. We are sentient, intelligent humans. How can it be that there are people arguing about whether viewing material could be “dangerous” to us? It’s the exact same sentiment that stops children from being allowed to watch horror movies. We are entertaining a discussion that casts us in the role of children. It’s aggressively patronising, and it’s frightening.
A shot from the trailer
For the first time in history, the Fifty Shades franchise has made female sexuality just as profitable as male sexuality. Our wants and needs are finally being catered for. There’s erotic fiction on the bookshelves geared at women; beautifully made female-directed porn on the internet and luxury sex toys on the high street. Our sex drive is being prioritised and the 100 million copies sold of Fifty Shades has a part to play in that.
But female sexuality and desire signifies freedom and emancipation, and that’s scary. So it’s not surprising that there are people who want to reduce it. And what better way to make a woman feel ashamed of her sexuality, of her wants, then to call them abusive? And once you’ve made women feel guilty about being turned on by the film, why not laugh at them too? Fifty Shades has been mocked and ridiculed at every turn. Condescendingly dubbed “mummy” porn, the trailer has been parodied in every way possible, from Lego spoofs to Steve Buscemi. I laughed along with the parodies just like everyone else. But then I realised that I’d been turned on by the trailer, I’d been turned on by the books and I was turned on by the film. So really I was laughing at myself.
It feels like an overreaction to suggest that the criticism of Fifty Shades is a conspiracy, but at times it feels like one. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Human Centipede, Saw: all terrifying violent films that promote murder in creative and disgusting ways. Not a word of complaint. Fifty Shades of Grey, a glossy, sleek BDSM fantasy? Take it away, lest the women develop dangerous ideas.
In the 19th century, women who suffered with depression weren’t allowed to read novels lest it inflamed them further. In the Victorian era women were diagnosed with “hysteria” – a madness that stemmed from having a womb. And now, in 2015, we’re telling women that they’re not intelligent enough to watch a sexually charged fantasy film without trying to replicate it.
We shouldn’t have to force the things that arouse us to fall in line with our politics. Nor should we squeeze our sexual fantasies into a one-size-fits-all mould. However, it is vital that no one should dress up this mock shock over Fifty Shades of Grey and pretend that it’s for women’s own good and makes us feel ashamed of the fact that we have fantasies, even dark ones, in the first place.
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Santorum’s Terrible Foreign Policy Record and Hopeless Campaign
By Daniel Larison • November 17, 2014, 10:12 PM
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Rick Santorum still can’t take a hint that his political career is over:
As he continues to lay the groundwork for a potential second presidential bid, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum will deliver a foreign policy address at Northwestern University on Wednesday, RealClearPolitics has learned.
The speech will outline Santorum’s perspective on what he calls “the mounting conflict between the Western civilized world and radical Islamists” and is part of his continuing effort to push back aggressively against the Republican Party’s noninterventionist faction.
Coming on the heels of a previous foreign policy address at Liberty University earlier this month, Santorum’s speech will also seek to boost his profile in advance of a possible presidential run, making the case that he has the most extensive foreign experience of anyone in the GOP field.
It’s true that Santorum spent a full twelve years in the Senate, but it would be a mistake to think that this experience qualifies him to be trusted on matters of foreign policy. Though he was obsessed with supposed foreign threats while in the Senate, he proved to be a very poor judge of them. During his time in office, Santorum distinguished himself by being one of the most unreasonable and fanatical hawks of the Bush era. Like other hard-liners then and later, he faulted the Bush administration for being insufficiently aggressive and for being too accommodating to “the enemy” that he claimed Bush was too afraid to call by name.
An early adopter of the nonsense phrase “Islamic fascism,” Santorum claimed that Iran was bent on world conquest. He also claimed during his failed re-election campaign that Iran was “the greatest enemy we will ever face,” and throughout that campaign he trafficked in the most desperate fear-mongering. In addition to all this, Santorum had a history of hallucinating threats that didn’t exist in Latin America, and perceiving a worldwide “authoritarian axis” for which there was no evidence.
There is probably no other recent member of the Senate other than McCain, Graham, and Lieberman who has been wrong more often on so many foreign policy issues in such a short period of time as Santorum. The fact that he could have ever been considered a suitable candidate for president on the basis of such an embarrassing record remains an indictment of the GOP and a mockery of our foreign policy discourse. Fortunately, there are good reasons to expect that another Santorum campaign would go nowhere, which is just where it deserves to go.
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15 Responses to Santorum’s Terrible Foreign Policy Record and Hopeless Campaign
Simon94022 says:
Anybody can run for President. I’m not sure why it’s an indictment of the GOP that Santorum ran and got crushed in the primaries. Especially since virtually none of his supporters were motivated by interest in his foreign policy views.
Those foreign policy views truly are appalling though.
bacon says:
As a more liberal than conservative citizen as those categories are currently defined, I say to Republicans, please nominate Santorum.
Ken_L says:
Santorum is one of those strange people who seem to lose all their critical faculties when discussing Islam. If there’s a “mounting conflict between the Western civilized world and radical Islamists”, it’s being fought overwhelmingly at the initiative of the USA and its tamer satellites in Islamic lands. The conflict can be ended any time America decides to withdraw from the Middle East.
BTW I’ve noticed that Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has adopted the childish habit of refusing to name IS without calling it a “death cult”. So an exchange might be Q: “Do you intend to send more troops to fight against IS?” A: “Whether we increase our commitment in the war against the death cult ISIS blah blah blah …” Is this something he’s picked up from American conservatives or an Abbott original?
krogerfoot says:
As someone who pretty much only comments when prompted by a mention of Rick Santorum or Marc Thiessen, I have to say that the fact that either of these men has any sort of public life whatsoever amazes me.
The photo of Santorum that adorns the front page of this site is a case in point. It is in fact a relatively flattering shot of Santorum, while still displaying the quivery-lipped pout, the brink-of-tears indignation that his views—the pious disdain for the country he wants to lead and the world he wants to invade—are greeted with merciless hilarity time and time again.
In person, Rick Santorum is said to be almost shockingly warm, personable, and relaxed, qualities that are nowhere to be seen in his speeches and debates. I see him on TV and think, how in the world did this guy ever win an election, or even think he had a future in retail politics.
Uncle Billy says:
Rick Santorum failed to win re-election to the US Senate from his home state of Pennsylvania in 2006. In fact, he has not won a general election since 2000. Why then does he think that he can be elected President? Perhaps he thinks that since he is a hard core culture warrior and ranting neocon, that will somehow make the public want him in the White House. I doubt it. He might get some votes in GOP primaries in very red states, but he has little chance outside of those states, and has become something of an embarassment to the GOP.
Like Newt, he has to pretend to be relevent and run for President to protect his “brand” so he can do the talk shows, appearances, etc and collect fees for doing so. The GOP is becoming something of a joke with people like Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, and of course, Rick Santorum, who have been out of office for years, failed to win elections, yet are constantly inflicting themselves on the public, by pretending to run for President and pontificating on issues for which they are very much out of step with most of the public.
Santorum has passed his expiration date, having failed to win a general election in 14 years. Someone should not so gently remind him that it’s time for him to find a real job.
EliteCommInc. says:
I have n issues with a policy of intervention that does se use of force as a game of social checkers.
But making Islam the enemy is in my view untenable. The ability to distinguish who the enemy is in my view extremely problematic if it stems from some descriptor rooted in extremist rhetoric or ideology.
Specific instances require (and not always) specific responses) contained in the frame in which they occur.
I think the current advances lean on the metaphysical far too much making an enemy does not exist in force, size or threat other than in our imagined fears.
Muslims are always going to evangelize. But that they are heck bent a religious body on invading Iowa is a stretch.
I guess if we provoke enough of them they may opt to convert Las Vegas by sword.
Though one suspects the endeavor would curtailed substantially by one armed bandits.
I have no issues with a policy of intervention that does not use military force as a game of social checkers.
Kieselguhr Kid says:
I guess I don’t exactly agree with Mr. Larison on Santorum or Huckabee. I mean, neither one is going to be President. But Huckabee seems like a good pick for VP — “good” here means “politically shrewd,” not, you know, “good” — should the GOP nominate a more sensible top of the ticket. These guys might be betting that running will get them a slot like that — VP, or Cabinet — in order to keep the frenzied wing of the party in-line, and that doesn’t seem like a terribly bad calculation. Santorum might even get a TV show or something out of it. I mean, God knows how distorted the world is in the mind of, say, a Herman Cain, but in general my assumption is a lot of people who have no chance of being elected can make a quite intelligent decision to run. Which isn’t to say a lot of people who have no chance can’t make a quite unintelligent decision to run too (Mr. Huntsman).
tbraton says:
“There is probably no other recent member of the Senate other than McCain, Graham, and Lieberman who has been wrong more often on so many foreign policy issues in such a short period of time as Santorum. The fact that he could have ever been considered a suitable candidate for president on the basis of such an embarrassing record remains an indictment of the GOP and a mockery of our foreign policy discourse.”
Your opening sentence of the quoted paragraph cites Joe Lieberman as one of the three worse Senators on foreign affairs. I more than share your disdain for Santorum and Lieberman (and McCain and Graham), but I seem to recall that Joe Lieberman was the Vice Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in 2000 and was a candidate for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in 2004. Does that amount to an indictment of the Democratic Party? Of course, in its wisdom, the Democratic Party nominated John Kerry in 2004, a man who was for the Iraq War (like many leading Democratic politicians, including Senator Hillary Clinton) before he was sort of against it. And, of course, the Democrats did even better in 2008 by nominating Barack Obama, who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in record time and with little effort.
steve in ohio says:
In 2012, Santorum had the benefit of being the last standing non Romney. In the crucial Ohio primary, Santorum probably would have won but for Senator Portman’s all out support for Romney. Even the moderate Mike Dewine had boarded the Santorum bandwagon. Our best friends switched from Ron Paul to Santorum (shows how people don’t pay much attention to FP when deciding upon a candidate). Anyway 2012 was Santorum’s opportunity. He will go nowhere in 2016.
philadelphialawyer says:
I agree with Uncle Billy.
It is no mystery why certain folks, with no real chance of securing the nomination, run for president. Not only does it keep them “relevant” in terms of book sales, paid speeches, talk show invites, possible Fox News gigs and so on, but, while they are running, they can live off the campaign itself.
As soon as an official campaign committee is formed and starts taking in money, Santorum can travel around the country and all of his expenses, including his rental car, his hotel bills, every meal he eats, etc, can be charged to the campaign. He can probably put more than a couple of relatives on the paid campaign staff as well.
And, compared to Newt, who won only his home State and one, neighboring State in 2012, Santorum actually won quite a few States, including Iowa (despite the shenanigans of Rove and the Romney team), and would have won even some big State primaries if not for Romney’s bottomless campaign war chest, monopoly on endorsements, and total organizational dominance.
And as the last man standing/”runner up” from last time, Santorum is not even close to being, when viewed objectively, a joke candidate. Consider, this a party in which pizza parlor owners and fraudulent businessmen like Donald Trump ran for president, and were taken seriously, at least for a time, in the last go around. And past GOP candidates include “Ambassador” Alan Keyes, some guy who ran a tractor factory, Steve Forbes, Gary Bauer, and Pat Robertson. Some of whom even won delegates.
Make no mistake, to me, all of Santorum’s views, not only those on FP, are anathema. But I fail to see why he is any more implausible than many other GOP “hopefuls.”
action at a distance says:
“Not only does it keep them “relevant” in terms of book sales, paid speeches, talk show invites, possible Fox News gigs and so on, but, while they are running, they can live off the campaign itself. “
… and for those who keep them going, it serves the useful purpose of sucking all the air and light out of the room.
Part of the 2008 Giuliani candidacy’s raison d’etre was to stoke the fear and foreign intervention machine. That meant “getting” Ron Paul, of course, and good soldier Rudi was happy to oblige the contributors who now patronize his “security” firm.
Santorum’s the same basic package. A loser even in his home state, like Giuliani, but a useful catspaw for keeping fresher, saner voices out of the presidential debates.
ScottinMD says:
Feels the US is insufficiently aggressive – Check
Iran is the greatest threat we face – Check
Latin America is a source of huge problems – Check
Didn’t the GOP just win the midterms by stoking those very fears? I’m afraid that his rhetoric is tailor-made for the 2016 campaign.
HyperIon says:
Greatest post-election picture ever…
Fast Jimmy says:
GOP primary voters are already convinced that we aren’t kicking enough A%$ and that just kicking more of it would solve most of our problems.
This doesn’t sound nearly as well in a debate with normal people watching, of which there are at least several remaining in the United States.
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World Series success continues for Britain
Jessica-Jane Applegate and Louise Fiddes claimed World Para Swimming World Series gold and silver in the women’s multi-class (MC) 200m Freestyle, with a third of a second between them on day two of the British Para-Swimming International Meet in Glasgow.
The City of Norwich swimmer took the World Series title and national honours with a time of 2:07.35 and a total score of 881 points after a close battle to the finish between her and fellow Brit, Louise Fiddes (2:07.68), who finished just seven points behind.
However, both swimmers were under the consideration time as they hope to be selected for the British team at September’s World Championships in London.
Applegate said: “I’m really happy with that, we actually went back and researched my times at Europeans and that’s even faster than what I swam then, so it’s really good to be getting back on track.”
As well as taking the gold and silver medals, the women’s MC 200m Freestyle finals saw yet another British record broken as Ellie Challis beat the previous record (4:25.48) for her S3 category with a time of 4:24.97.
The youngster has now broken three records so far this week after smashing the national 150m Individual Medley record by more than 20 seconds on the opening night, setting a new European and British record in the women’s S3 50m Butterfly heats and now adding the S3 200m Freestyle to that list.
Shocked Simmonds
Eight-time Paralympic champion Ellie Simmonds was also back to winning ways as she took gold in the women’s MC 400m Freestyle World Series final.
The 24-year-old was inside the qualification standard for the World Championships with a time of 5:19.27, just half a second outside of her own British record, earning her an impressive total of 957 points.
Simmonds said: “I’m so shocked, I don’t know what to do I’m just so happy. I wasn’t expecting to swim 5:19, so close to my personal best, my main aim going into that was to hit the qualification time (5:22.98) and to go 5:19 I’m just over the moon I can’t believe it.”
“It’s swimming, I just love it and I’m so excited to hopefully get picked for the World Championships and it’s in London which is the pool I train in all the time, so I’m just over the moon.”
The Camden Swiss Cottage swimmer competed in her first World Championships back in 2006 at just 12-years-old.
Manchester men take gold and bronze
City of Manchester’s Mikey Jones and Lewis White both finished on the podium in the men’s MC 400m Freestyle final.
Jones is the current Paralympic champion after winning gold in Rio and he didn’t settle for anything less again as he earned the World Series title, clocking a time of 4:50.56 and finishing with 886 points.
He said: “I’m very very happy with this morning. Tonight I just made a few mistakes in the final, I went out a little bit too fast but it’s a learning curve and we’ll move forward with that.”
Bas Takken of the Netherlands was the only man preventing a clean sweep for Britain as he took silver, with Lewis White behind him in the bronze medal position and Oliver Hynd finishing fourth.
Robinson ‘really happy’
Ellie Robinson took the first gold of the second night in Glasgow and finished under the World Championships consideration time.
The Northampton swimmer won the women’s MC 50m Butterfly World Series title with a time of 36.20 and a total of 920 points.
Robinson said: “I’m really happy to swim the qualifying time for Worlds. It’s quite reassuring to know that I’m ticking along and that I’m still where I need to be.”
Catchpole cruises to victory
Jordan Catchpole took the final gold medal to round off a successful night for Britain as he cruised home in the men’s MC 200m final.
The City of Norwich swimmer was just outside the consideration time, reaching the wall in 1:58.12 and racking up a huge total of 940 points.
Two Japanese swimmers, Takayuki Suzuki and Keichi Nakajima, finished in second and third, with Britain’s Dylan Broom not far behind in fourth.
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Hans Knecht of Switzerland has been a Swiss Life customer for 100 years. He still leads an independent life in his own house in Uster near Zurich. Patrick Frost, Group CEO of Swiss Life, had the opportunity to meet Hans Knecht in person.
Hans Knecht meets Group CEO Patrick Frost.
It was his grandfather who decided to provide for his grandson Hans Knecht in 1918. He concluded a contract for a deferred annuity over the age of 40 with the Rentenanstalt, as it was then known. As a result of this prudent pension planning, the now 100-year-old Hans Knecht has received CHF 1000 every year since the age of 40. This makes him the holder of the oldest current Swiss Life policy.
100-year-old policy – still ongoing
Group CEO Patrick Frost had an opportunity to meet the centenarian in person at his house in Uster, Canton Zurich. The Swiss Life boss found it an inspirational meeting: “Hans Knecht is an impressive example of how we, at Swiss Life, are sometimes in a position to accompany our customers over decades. Not only is that very exciting, it's also a privilege.” Hans Knecht even showed Patrick Frost the original policy from back then, which he has carefully kept throughout the years. It was a special moment, as Patrick Frost explains in this video (see above).
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Meowwww! First trailer for Tom Hooper's musical Cats movie purrs online
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Artwork of the TESS observatory in orbit. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab
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Everything you need to know about TESS, NASA's new planet-finding space observatory
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Update (April 16, 2018, at 20:30 UTC): The launch was scrubbed, and has been rescheduled for Wednesday, April 18. SpaceX says it's for "additional GNC [Guidance, Navigation, and Control] analysis." I am unfortunately on travel Tuesday and may not be able to update the blog with news, so follow TESS on Twitter for updates.
Update 2 (April 18, 2018, at 20:30 UTC): The new launch window opens tonight at 18:51 Eastern US time. Hopefully this time the light will stay green!
If all goes well, at 18:32 local US Eastern time today (April 16, 2018), a Falcon 9 rocket will roar into space from the Cape Canaveral launch complex in Florida. Tucked away inside the payload fairing on top of the rocket is TESS, NASA's next great planet-finding observatory.
TESS stands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, and it's designed to sweep the sky and look for Earth-analogue planets orbiting nearby stars.
But first: You can watch the launch on NASA TV, on NASA's UStream channel, and on the SpaceX webcast. Before you ask, yes, they will attempt to recover the first stage booster.
So. What's TESS and how's it going to do what it does?
The TESS observatory being cared for by technicians before launch. Credit: NASA
Astronomers announced the first confirmed planet orbiting another star (a pulsar) in 1992. Three years later one was found orbiting a Sun-like star, then more followed. Not long after that, transiting exoplanets were found: Because we see some exoplanets with their orbits edge-on from Earth, they pass directly in front of their host stars. When this happens, an orbiting exoplanet blocks a little bit of the starlight, and we see the star's brightness dip. It's usually a small amount, but with big planets and small stars the transit can produce a dip of a percent or more, easily detectable with modern equipment.
Video of Crash Course Exoplanets
NASA launched the Kepler mission in 2009 to look for more. It pointed at one spot in space (in the constellation of Cygnus), starting at something like 150,000 stars, checking their brightness. It has found more than 2,300 confirmed exoplanets, and nearly the same number of candidates (suspected exoplanets that need follow-up observations to confirm they're real). It suffered some mechanical problems that made pointing an issue, but engineers were able to salvage the mission; now it sweeps around the sky with less ability, but it's still functional. This K2 mission has found over 300 more exoplanets.
Kepler was designed to look deep into the galaxy, sensitive to faint stars to maximize the number of planets it could find. The question Kepler was tasked to answer is "How many and what kind of exoplanets are out there?"
TESS will answer a different but no less important question: "Where are the nearest rocky planets?"
To do this, it will scan a staggering 85% of the sky (an area 400 times larger than Kepler did) to look at the 200,000 or so of the brightest stars, measuring their brightness and seeking out transits. These stars are preferentially closer to the Earth (less than about 300 light-years or so), so it will find some of the nearest exoplanets in the galaxy. It will find a lot of planets in total, but estimates are that it should find roughly 50 smaller than about four times the Earth's diameter.
These are called super-Earths, and are in the size range where the planet is still potentially rocky with an atmosphere. Planets bigger than this tend to grow in size rapidly when they form, becoming mini-Neptunes; smaller than Neptune but likely possessing thick atmospheres. So four Earth widths or smaller is the sweet spot for planets like ours.
Artwork depicting the sizes of known super-Earths compared to Earth itself. The colors and, clouds, and other features are added for artistic effect, but we know very little about these exoplanets. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
The beauty of TESS is that, because it's looking at brighter stars, any planets found are easier to observe for follow-up measurements on the ground. This is critical: That means we can aim spectroscopes at them, breaking the starlight up into its individual colors. If you do that finely and precisely enough, a vast amount of information can be found about the planets. The single most important: the planet's mass.
As a planet orbits a star, its gravity tugs on the star. The planet makes a big circle (or ellipse) and the star responds by making a smaller one. We can't see that motion directly, but as the star moves it sometimes approaches and sometimes recedes from us, and that means we can look for a Doppler shift in its spectrum. The more massive a planet, the harder it tugs on the star, and the faster the star moves. So by taking a star's spectrum, we can measure the mass of the planet.
The transit gives us the size (the amount of starlight blocked depends on the planet size). When we have both mass and size, we can get the density. And that, oh yes that, is the goal.
A planet with a thick atmosphere is less dense than a rocky one with a more Earth-like atmosphere. If we can determine the density, we can start to know the planet.
Also, in some cases the atmosphere of the planet can be detected as it orbits the star. Spectra can then reveal its composition. So yeah, finding ones nearby is very, very important.
And that's just what TESS will do.
Given its grand mission, the observatory is actually shockingly small. Watch this video of technicians prepping it for launch:
Video of TESS Undergoes Integration and Testing
The whole thing is about the size of a big refrigerator, and weighs less than 400 kilos! It has four cameras on board, which are more like telephoto lenses. They're only about 10 centimeters in diameter, but the point is to see a lot of sky at once. And they'll do it: The 16.8 megapixel cameras will observe a staggering 24 x 24° area of sky (the full Moon is 0.5° across, so TESS will see an area over 700 times bigger). They'll sweep the southern hemisphere sky for a year, then switch to the north.
Infographic showing the various part of TESS. Credit: NASA / GSFC
I also have to talk about its orbit for a moment. Because it's… weird.
Instead of a low-Earth orbit, or one orbiting the Sun (like Kepler), TESS will be in a highly elliptical orbit that will take it from 110,000 to 375,000 kilometers from Earth. The orbit will also be tipped by 37°. Why such an odd configuration?
It's because this orbit is special. It's synched up so that when TESS is at apogee (farthest from Earth), the Moon is always 90° around its own orbit away from TESS. Not only that, but TESS's orbit takes it half as long to go around the Earth as the Moon does, so when TESS is at apogee one orbit the Moon will be on one side of it, and when it reaches apogee again about 13.6 days later, the Moon will be on the other side of it. This way, the effects of the Moon cancel out over the course of the month, and TESS's orbit is stable.
Video of The Unique Orbit of NASA’s Newest Planet Hunter
The long orbit has other advantages. It keeps TESS away from Earth's magnetic field, which can affect the spacecraft operation. It also keeps it in sunlight all the time, so there aren't thermal stresses on it. Low-Earth orbit satellites pass from sunlight into Earth's shadow sometimes many times per day, and that huge temperature swing can shorten the satellite's usability.
To get on this strange path, TESS will first be placed into a low Earth orbit by the Falcon 9. Then it has to raise its apogee over several orbits by firing its thrusters, until it gets close enough to make a close pass of the Moon. This will change the shape and tilt of the orbit, putting it on the correct trajectory for its mission. After that there's a two-month shakedown to make sure everything works.
Then: The planet finding begins.
I'll note nothing has ever been placed in such an orbit before. In fact, it was only first proposed in 2013! But the mathematics of it checks out, and if this works I suspect a lot more missions will use this orbit.
Because it has to swing by the Moon, the launch window is pretty tight, just 30 seconds long. The Earth's spin plus the Moon's position have to be in just the right configuration for this to work. If they miss the opportunity tonight, the next window is Tuesday.
So watch the launch if you can. It's not often you get to see a journey that involves the Earth, the Moon, thousands of nearby stars, and a possible passel of potentially Earth-like planets.
I love what we humans can do when we set our goals high. Especially hundreds of thousands of kilometers high.
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Apex Magazine #82, March 2016
Thursday, 24 March 2016 07:05 Kevin P Hallett
Apex #82, March 2016
“Agent of V.A.L.I.S.” by Lavie Tidhar
“Screaming Without a Mouth” by Travis Heermann
“Death Flowers of a Never-Forgotten Love” by Jason Sanford
Reviewed by Kevin P Hallett
The 82nd issue of Apex has three original stories. There was just one story that I felt was a little weak, the others were good or excellent reads.
This tale has a historic element. It is the story of Thomas, a man obsessed with the idea that we all live back in the Roman Empire and the modern world is but an illusion. Haunted by visions of the past, he believes he’s an agent of V.A.L.I.S. charged with discovering the truth. But he has no idea what he’s looking for.
The story’s ideas were interesting but the long narrative passages made it drag. The end was unusual, but given the context of the story, it was not a major surprise and it left no feelings of empathy for Thomas.
Travis Heermann has given us the horror story of Kasumi, a shy girl victimized by a boy she admired. From the grave, she seeks her revenge, but once on that path it proves hard to stop, as any past slight becomes justification for revenge.
Told through a series of social media postings, this story worked well. I found the style of writing drew me in, slowly revealing the plot, and piquing the imagination. This was a worthwhile read.
Sanford gives a different take on a future shaped by neuro-science in this flash science fiction story. What if we could adjust people’s memories to make them happier? Is this a benefit, would everyone gain, or would it be one of those so-called victimless crimes? An intriguing story.
The story telling immersed me and was altogether over too soon, leaving this reader with several questions about what it means to be human.
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Historic Quentin Riding Club To Be Sold At Auction
By LILLIAN SHUPE
WEST CORNWALL TWP., Pa. — The historic Quentin Riding Club will be auctioned off on July 13.
Founded in 1935, the Quentin Riding Club was known for its horse shows, particularly the Fall Classic. The club also hosted fun shows and rated competitions for hunters, jumpers, dressage mounted games and saddlebreds.
There farm included a club house and restaurant that hosted special events such as concerts and country dancing. Horses were boarded in several barns.
However, in recent years the club fell behind in tax payments and other bills. Fundraising and other efforts to find a buyer that would continue to operate the equestrian activities apparently fell through. The club ceased operations in the fall of 2018.
A minimum price of $950,000 was set although the property was appraised at $2.3 million a few years ago. A tax sale notice published in August 2018 listed the club's tax debt at more than $98,000.
The 46-acre property includes the Club House with a dining area, large turnkey kitchen, bar, rest rooms, dance floor, storage rooms and enclosed entrance and more.
There are several barns with a total of more than 400 stalls.
There is also a tenant house, three show rings, exercise ring, covered grandstand, auxiliary club house, show office, announcers building, wooden fence paddocks, macadam parking area, stream, camper electric hookups, tree lined driveway entrances and other unlisted amenities and equine related items.
The area is zoned low density residential.
See equestrian events at https://www.tapinto.net/sections/horses/events
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Welcome to Eldred's School of Martial Arts in Escondido, CA
Eldred's School of Martial Arts provides the most exciting and innovative programs YOU and YOUR child will ever experience in the area of character development.
Master Randy Eldred
6th Degree Black Belt
Mr. Eldred began his training in 1980 with the Omaha School of Karate & Judo, under Master Dale Craig, Master Dale Miller, Master Al Pepin and Master John Petak. He received his 1st Degree Black Belt in 1984 from Master Dale Miller. At that time, the Omaha School of Karate & Judo's curriculum consisted of Moo Duk Kwon, Taekwondo, Yudo, kickboxing, boxing & P.P.C.T (Pressure Point Control Tactics).
Sheila Eldred
3rd Degree Black Belt
Mrs. Eldred began training in 1992 and was awarded her 1st Degree Black Belt in 1995, 2nd in 1996 and her 3rd in August of 2003. Mrs. Eldred has been teaching classes since 1995 and has been in the Leadership program since it began in 1995 as well. She has taught the S.W.I.F.T. KICK Program in several elementary schools in Escondido and was awarded as Plaque of Appreciation from the Escondido Police Department.
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Began his training in January of 2000 and after hard work, dedication and loyalty, he received his 1st Degree Black Belt in August of 2004. Then was given permission to test again in August of 2009 for his 3rd Degree, which he was awarded. Mr. Hansen has been a part of the Eldred's School of Martial Arts Leadership Program since September 2004. He has been teaching at Eldred's School of Martial Arts since January 2004.
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Sara Vargas
Ms. Vargas has been training at Eldred’s School of Martial Arts for over thirteen years. She started when she was seven years old and it has been an amazing experience. She accomplished one of her main goals by earning her First Degree Junior Blackbelt when she was fourteen years old. After she received her First Degree Junior Blackbelt, she earned her permanent Second Degree Black Belt when she turned sixteen and was given the opportunity to become an assistant on the floor. After a couple of years, she became one of the head instructors. Being on the floor has given her the opportunity to show her leadership skills and to show how her confidence increased. When she turned eighteen she was given permission to test for her Third Degree Blackbelt. Succeeding at this was an incredible feeling. She enjoys teaching and recently took the next step and earned her Fourth Degree in 2013.
Ryan Pearo
2nd Degree Black Belt
Mr. Pearo started his martial arts training in middle school with Eldred’s School of Martial Arts in 1999. Always having an interest in the martial arts, his friend and a former instructor for Mr. Eldred, Sean Naugle, inspired him to join the team. After a year of training, he had to leave to focus on other things while in high school. This began his 7-year break from training while he graduated high school and went on to study at the Art Institute of California, San Diego. After earning his Bachelor of Science in Video Game Art & Design and becoming an Environment Artist for Rockstar Games, he came back to restart his training in 2007, a goal that he never lost sight of while gone. With a renewed passion for the martial arts, he continued to train while working in the video game industry. About a year after receiving his first degree blackbelt in 2011, he left the games industry to begin his new career in the martial arts industry. Now, a second degree blackbelt, he happily teaches here full time, and absolutely loves every minute of it.
Email: eldreds_taekwondo@hotmail.com
Location: 2127 E Valley Parkway Suite A
Escondido, CA, 92027
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Janette Wallace
With a background in banking, Mrs. Wallace married her husband in 1974. Her husband was the owner of a small construction business in Columbia Mississippi. Over the years, that small business grew into one of the largest firms in the state.
For the last 40 years, Janette Wallace has worked beside Thomas L. Wallace building and working in all facets of the construction industry. Mrs. Wallace says, "One of my greatest accomplishments was building my church’s Family Life Center in 1995. And five years later, we built our church, Woodlawn Church. I was the lead designer and coordinator from origin to completion on both of these multimillion dollar facilities."
Mrs. Wallace also owned and operated the Microtel Inn and Suites for 4 years, from 2012 - 2016.
When it comes to experience, hers is unparalleled. She has been in charge of many projects and seen even more. Her work ethic is to never stop until the project is completed and the customer is satisfied.
At TLW, Inc., we do our job first class and expect everyone affiliated to do the same.
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Christian Baker Targeted for Refusing to Make Transgender-Themed Cake
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The owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and Gov. John Hickenlooper claiming he has been bullied and targeted for his religious beliefs.
In June the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Jack Phillips, the owner of the cake shop who had declined to create a cake for a same-sex wedding ceremony.
On June 26, 2017, the same day the Supreme Court agreed to take up the case, an attorney contacted the cake shop and asked Phillips to create a cake to celebrate a gender transition from male to female. The caller asked for the cake to be pink on the inside and blue on the outside.
Phillips, who is a devout Christian, declined the request because the cake would have expressed a message about sex and gender identity that conflict with his religious beliefs.
The attorney, identified in state documents as Autumn Scardina, filed a discrimination complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and on June 28 the state notified Phillips that it had found probable cause.
The commission declared that Scardina “is a member of protected classed (sic) based on her sex (female) and transgender status (gender identity).”
Alliance Defending Freedom, the law firm that represented Phillips before the Supreme Court, blasted the commission’s investigation.
“Jack is being targeted, ADF attorney Kristen Waggoner said on the Todd Starnes Radio Show. “He’s being bullied by the state of Colorado.”
Waggoner said the attorney, who she called an LGBT activist, “essentially set him up.”
“It’s nothing more than hostility towards people of faith,” she said on the nationally-syndicated radio program. “How could you say this kind of cake – blue on the outside, pink on the inside – how can you say that doesn’t have a message? It clearly has a message.”
The lawsuit accuses the government of anti-religious hostility.
“The Constitution stands as a bulwark against state officials who target people – and seek to ruin their lives – because of the government’s anti-religious animus,” the lawsuit states.
For more than six years Colorado has been on a crusade to crush Phillips. At one point, commissioners compared Jack’s belief to slave owners and perpetrators of the Holocaust.
“Even though Jack serves all customers and simply declines to create custom cakes that express messages or celebrate events in violation of his deeply held beliefs, the government is intent on destroying him – something the Supreme Court has already to it not to do,” Waggoner said.
Phillips and his attorneys are asking for punitive damages – and they deserve every single penny.
The court needs to send a very strong message: there is no place for anti-Christian bigots in government. And any government leader, whether elected or appointed, who uses their office to abuse Christians, must be punished.
Phillips is a good and decent man. He serves all customers regardless of their sexual orientation. He simply declines to create custom cakes that express messages or celebrate events in violation of his deeply held religious beliefs.
He refuses to make Halloween cakes. He refuses to make custom cakes promoting alcohol or drug usage. And he refuses to create cakes that include disparaging messages – including those targeting people within the LGBT community.
And yet, a mob of social justice warriors – enabled by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission – will not let this man run his business in peace. You will be made to care, seems to be their rally cry.
And be warned. If this can happen to Jack Phillips, you’d better believe it can happen to your business, too.
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Pumped storage hydro could fill nuclear nuclear energy gap
By Greg Russell @MediaNetScot Journalist
Intelligent Land Investments Group CEO, Mark Wilson.
A SCOTTISH company has called for the UK Government to put pumped storage hydro (PSH) at the heart of its strategy to meet the challenge of providing a secure, low-carbon electricity supply in the coming decades.
Intelligent Land Investments (ILI) has submitted evidence to a House of Commons committee which is looking at the future investment outlook for the country’s energy infrastructure.
Members of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee are investigating the fitness of purpose of PSH after the collapse of plans for two new nuclear power stations.
The committee’s inquiry is looking into the challenges of raising finance for clean technologies – such as renewables and storage – and at governments’ approach to attracting investment in energy.
Mark Wilson, ILI Group CEO, said: “We have submitted our written evidence to the inquiry, stating our belief that the gap left by nuclear can be filled by greater deployment of renewables in combination with new pumped storage hydro plants.
“There are currently over 4GW of PSH in the pipeline.
“Several organisations have indicated that they feel doubling the Government’s target of 30% generation from offshore wind (to 45%) is required to meet our obligations.”
Wilson added: “Underpinning this with pump storage would provide the necessary flexibility, it would be cheaper overall with none of the issues that come with nuclear.
“However, this will only be possible if governments and policy makers create the necessary market and commercial environment to support major infrastructure investments such as PSH.”
“We believe this can be done while meeting the Government’s own test criteria for energy investments that was laid out in the context of Hinkley Point C.”
PSH allows the National Grid to store energy that cannot be absorbed naturally by consumers during times of peak wind or solar generation.
It does so by using this energy to pump water from a lower reservoir to an upper reservoir, where the water can be held until times of higher demand where it is released back to the lower reservoir.
This happens through turbines generating electricity like a conventional hydro plant and this process can be repeated as and when required.
ILI Group have more than 2GW of pump storage hydro in the pipeline with their first 450MW development, Red John in Inverness, currently at the planning stage, with two more projects to be submitted later this year.
Former UK energy minister, Brian Wilson, added: “One way or another, there has to be back-up to the intermittency of renewable generation, and this creates a huge opportunity for UK industry.
“In Scotland, pumped storage hydro – which provides 95% of storage around the world – is the obvious answer instead of relying on imports via interconnectors.
“Hydro power has served Scotland exceptionally well in the past and can do so for many years to come.”
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Home News Owners plan appeal after bar has its licence revoked
Owners plan appeal after bar has its licence revoked
A BATLEY bar plagued by violent incidents has been told it must close – but its owners say they’ll appeal the decision.
Le Choix Bar on Bradford Road had its licence revoked after a number of incidents in the past six months.
These included an assault on September 18 with three female victims, one of whom was admitted to hospital with injuries to her back.
On October 15, a 22-year-old man needed hospital treatment for a fractured skull, a bleed on the brain and facial nerve damage after being struck on the head.
Presenting a police application for the bar’s licence to be revoked, Sgt Leon Stansfield told a licensing panel: “I believe this business has not been run as per the premises licence for some time and continues to breach the conditions.
"The owner of the building and previous licence-holder Mohammed Rashid ran the premises without a designated premises supervisor for over a year and fully admitted to not knowing what the opening times were, or that they differed from the times the alcohol sales were permitted.”
Backing the application, Anwar Butt of the licensing authority said: “The management of this premises has been questionable...demonstrated by a continued failure to operate within the requirements of the licensing act and to ensure licensing objectives are met.
“Mr Rashid and his sister Shahista have been given every opportunity to comply with the requirements since October, 2015. They have shown themselves to have a lack of commitment to fulfilling these requirements and have laid the blame for this with either the council or police.”
Mr Rashid told the panel: “It’s a professionally-run outfit. The bar supervisor has 40 years’ experience. We have completed a £150,000 refurbishment this year. We have made mistakes before but it was not done maliciously. We have run it to a very high standard.”
In a post on the Le Choix Facebook page, the bar owners said they would be appealing the decision and would keep the bar open until this had been heard.
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The alternative to flowers!
I bet I would look good in a tux, too
News.com reports that the Webby Awards ceremony has been cancelled this year. Not the awards, just the ceremony. Darn, I was hoping to show up in a white tuxedo (I was a judge in the radio category this year). Oh well. I guess the winners will be posting five word acceptances to their web sites this year. (Found via Scripting News .)
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Maybe he wanted a cut of the t-shirts
A Portuguese newspaper is reporting that the former Iraqi Information Minister, Mohammed Said al-Sahaf, may be alive and well and hiding in a women's room in the house of one of his flunkies somewhere in Baghdad. (Search on the linked page for "Diario de Noticias".) They were supposed to have an interview with him, but it fell apart at the last minute. (Found on Media Network .)
I hadn't had time, given all the wedding-related stuff I've been doing lately, to play with the latest fad in Blogistan, Blogshares, but yesterday after finishing yet another project and having some time on my hands for a change, I registered and claimed my blog. Interesting project. I bought some shares in some blogs I read regularly, and took a speculative flyer on one or two that I thought might go up in the near future.
Meanwhile, I noticed Mark Pilgrim's post about how he had dumped a ton of shares in Dive Into Mark recently after hitting both Daypop and Blogdex (scroll down to the paragraph that begins "Sell sell sell!") and made a ton of money.
Putting 2 and 2 together and coming up with 4,000, lying in bed this morning I wondered when we'll see the first pump-and-dump scam on Blogshares. How would you do that? "Pssst! There Is No Cat is an up-and-coming blog with witty commentary and Doc Searls has plans to add it to his blogroll soon; its share price is going up." Maybe not. "Hey, There Is No Cat is about to change its name to There Is Some Pussy and become a sexblog. Imagine Oliver Willis except the pictures won't be that lame cheesecake stuff. Hits are going to go through the roof!" Closer, perhaps. "We bet you missed out on the recent IPO of There Is No Cat. TINC's market cap recently jumped 500%, proving that timing is everything in the micro-cap blogstock market. The market for blogs is highly unstable right now, and our ability to ferret out volatile blogs like TINC provides just the edge you need!" Could be....
Dance Dance Dance!
My lovely fiancee Laura pointed me to this article on The Knot about first dances. I dunno, I think maybe we're Hipsters:
"Don't sacrifice a good beat for the sake of hipness," says Meredith Stead, co-owner of Shall We Dance, located in Manhattan's fashionable TriBeCa neighborhood. "Our hippest couples usually choose to play off some highly recognizable genre," adds her husband and co-owner John Knapp, "and it works well. We've had tattooed-and-pierced downtown artists dance to a Texas Two-Step. Others have done up their first dance as though it were a Hollywood tango, using the cast album version of 'Hernando's Hideaway.'"
That's us, playing off a highly recognizable genre. Our first dance is going to be to Brave Combo's song "Laura". Nothing like a cha cha by Texas' finest nuclear polka band to start off our life together.
We've taken a couple of lessons from John Knapp at their highly fashionable TriBeCa location to refresh my muscle memory of a couple of dances I haven't done in a few years. He's really good. If you're near New York and need dance lessons, they're worth checking out. And if you're not, you could certainly do worse than their videotape Preparing for Your Wedding Dance , which was directed by Laura's friend Paul and which contains lots of interesting tips I hadn't heard elsewhere. Good stuff by good people.
Google can't do everything
Dave Winer wants Google to provide first citations for terms on the web. He uses the term "blogroll" as an example.
I think Google is the wrong place to look for this. They're not interested in history; they look to the present, not the past. If they had to maintain a complete record of the web in addition to keeping the most current state of the web, it might overwhelm them. History is not their purpose. Besides, there's someone else already doing that. I think the right place to look for this feature is Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive. Unfortunately, you can't search for content within the archive, just see what was there at URLs you can search for. So it's the Archive that should be working on this, not Google.
There Is No Cat is one year old today.
I've been blogging for a fair amount of time longer than that, actually. I started my genealogy blog on March 1, 2000, and before that, had a blog devoted to international broadcasting that started on December 23, 1999. I think these were some of the first single-topic blogs around.
The post I consider my first post was actually posted a year ago yesterday, but when I look up the domain name in WHOIS, I see that I actually bought the name on April 18, 2002, so today is the anniversary. There are a few entries before that, but they were really just fodder for when I was developing the content management system behind the site.
When I started this site, I was bored and unemployed and wanted to teach myself PHP and upgrade my MySQL skills. The site worked well at that, and even helped me get my last job as a result. Today, I'm bored and unemployed again. That doesn't feel like progress.
One of the main reasons I started the site was that I wanted the discipline of near-daily writing as a way to exercise my writing muscles and get better. It had been a while since I had written on a daily basis. I'm not sure the site has been a success on that front.
I went through the postings on the site last night just to see what I had written. Of the 441 entries I've made in the past year, I'm only truly satisfied with one, my musing upon the death of Joe Strummer. I still like that piece of writing. It has a good structure, a good rhythm, and it tells a worthwhile story.
There are a few pieces I think are pretty good, but I'm not completely happy with them. One was my entry about the way the United States is telling immigrants and potential citizens that they're not welcome here, based on the experience of one of my then co-workers. I feel a little uneasy about having written about my friend that way, and I think the piece could stand some more work.
My entry applying the works of Vaclav Havel under communism to my experiences in corporate America was okay, but the comparison is perhaps a stretch. I like some of my writing there, such as the way I tie the tag line on Patrick Nielsen Hayden's blog, where I found the link I was writing about, to the story itself, but on the whole, the entry seems kind of half-baked to me.
I'm reasonably happy with my meditation on the destruction of the Columbia. It gets to where I wanted it to go and helped me make sense of what happened. I'm not sure what I would do to make it better, so I guess I like it too.
I had a pretty oblique way of noting my birthday that I thought worked pretty well.
My dissection of the neighborhoods of Blogistan was clever in a navel-gazing kind of way. I think, though, that this is kind of baby you have to knife when you're working on anything extended. And my rant about how Knight-Ridder doesn't get the web has a few clever turns of phrase that aren't half bad.
The rest is mostly crap.
So the writing needs work, but since most of the pieces I like are later ones, it seems like maybe I'm making progress on that front. I've been kind of blocked lately, unable to write about a few things I want to, like the nature of community on the net. Maybe I'm just preoccupied with things like the upcoming wedding. I hope that's it, and that the words will start to flow better once that's over.
Aside from the writing, it's been an interesting year. One jerk threatened to sue me over something I wrote. That wasn't much fun. A couple of indisputable A-listers linked to me, although I didn't make their blogrolls. That doesn't bring as much traffic as I had thought it would, nothing like getting Slashdotted or anything (I've had sites I worked on Slashdotted three or four times; it killed one of them, but the other one, which was noted more than once, had no trouble keeping up under the onslaught). I was added to other blogrolls, though, which never ceases to surprise me. Thanks, neighbors. I don't get a huge number of visits, but there's a small community of people who visit regularly and leave tracks. Some of them are people I've known for a long time; others seem to have found me through the blog, and that's pretty cool. I don't think blogs are as conducive to making connections as some other forms of communication on the net, such as netnews, IRC, and mailing lists, but it's a lot of fun to see it happen a little.
So that's my year. It's been fun and frustrating. I expect the next one will be more of the same. I need to think of what I can do to improve my writing. Blogging doesn't seem to be conducive to long-form essay writing, so perhaps I just need to adjust my expectations.
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Tom and Daisy in Iraq
Timothy Garton Ash is an insightful writer, one of my favorites. He's written a number of books about the fall of communism in the former Warsaw Pact, something he experienced directly. He's closely followed developments there and knows how things worked there in the aftermath of the fall of the repressive regimes there. So when he says that America is starting to lose the peace in Iraq, I pay attention:
An American general moves in as viceroy, with clumsy Reader's Digest rhetoric about the honour of being at ancient Ur. Incredibly, a former head of the CIA is proposed as information minister, to supplant the incredible Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf. (One comic turn succeeds another?) I currently see all the tact of a bull in a china shop; but I hope to be proved wrong.
Stu Hughes is a funny man
I don't place all the blogs I read regularly in my blogroll because, well, I don't know why, I just don't, the list feels pretty long already and some sites don't feel like I'll want to link to them forever. But one that I think I'm going to have to add is Stuart Hughes' blog. Stuart is a BBC producer who was in Northern Iraq with correspondent Jim Muir when the team drove into a minefield. Stuart was relatively lucky; he only lost his foot and part of his leg. His colleague Kaveh Golestan wasn't so lucky; he died after apparently encountering the double whammy of an anti-personnel mine and an anti-tank mine just below it.
Anyway, Stuart is back in Wales now, has had his foot amputated, and is blogging the experience with remarkable humor:
I'd like you all to meet my new friend, Mr Stumpy. He looks a little scary at first but once you get to know him you'll see that he's actually real friendly. He prefers being calls a "residual limb" but I don't go in for all that PC crap.
Or this, on how he thinks he'll react to being treated as "disabled":
I never liked those toes very much anyway....but will they now define who I am? In the short term, almost certainly yes. For a while I'll be a "wheelchair user" and am fully expecting to shout, in a loud voice "I'M NOT MENTALLY RETARDED. I JUST HAD BY FOOT BLOWN OFF BY AN IRAQI LAND MINE. I HAVE A DEGREE AND EVERYTHING AND I'M LEARNING ARABIC" at people on more than one occasion in the coming weeks.
Then there's the (temporary) adjustment to life in a wheelchair:
Vicky came over from Bristol with a gift of fine Cuban cigars (US readers please note - I'm not supporting their economy, I'm burning their fields) and took me for a spin in Bute Park - my first outing beyond four hospital walls or the back garden. Very adventurous! It quickly became clear I need to trade in my wheelchair for a 4x4 model - mine's hopeless off-road. Typical NHS - when's New Labour going to start issuing SUV wheelchairs etc. etc. etc.
As for his colleague and friend the late Kaveh Golestan, Stuart points to photographs of his funeral in Iran. That site is devoted to portfolios of work by a number of Iranian photographers, including Golestan. It's clear he was a remarkable talent. I found his photographs incredibly moving. He really managed to capture something of the humanity of his subjects. His loss is a terrible loss.
The next attack is to embarrass them to death
Like father, like son.
A cool win
The American women's team won the World Curling Championships this weekend! I was absolutely hooked on watching curling during the last Winter Olympics, when the US women did better than expected but not as well as hoped. So it's nice to see them pull it out this time.
I love curling. It's such a bizarre-looking sport that it appeals to my sense of the absurd. I got hooked on it as a kid growing up in Detroit where it was aired on the Canadian TV station from Windsor. Back then, they used actual brooms to sweep the ice rather than these high-tech gizmos they use nowadays. Then there was a gap of, oh, 25 years or so before I got to see any more. Clearly, much like soccer, curling is a sport whose time has come in the US. Even NBC thinks so; according to the article, they'll be airing an hour of the Championships at noon next Sunday.
So why did I have to read about this in a Canadian newspaper?
The only problem is it keeps me awake
One of the benefits of insomnia is being able to see CNN International's coverage of Iraq when CNN North America switches over at 2 am eastern time. One of the disadvantages of insomnia is having to suffer through CNNI's Richard Quest as an anchor. My word, is there a more grating voice on all of television? I remember hearing Quest on the BBC World Service when he was their business reporter in North America, but he was only on for brief reports. On CNNI, he's on for hours with his cheese grater voice and unctuous attitude. The scariest thing is that they put him on at breakfast time. I suppose having to listen to him at that hour would wake me up. It's certainly keeping me awake now. I know it's a superficial complaint, but still....
He's a fine journalist, there's no doubt about that. I enjoyed and appreciated his reporting for the BBC back when. But man, couldn't they find anyone more appropriate to anchor their breakfast coverage?
Ah well, could be worse. I could be stuck watching Brit Hume.... (I do wish we got the BBC's news channel here, as well as CBC Newsworld.)
Free as in beer
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defends looters in Iraq, saying "If you go from a repressive regime...in that transition period, there is untidiness."
Hmm, I'm going to have to start thinking about what I want come the evening of November 2, 2004....
46 years after the last Hudson automobile rolled off the assembly line that my grandfather used to work on, one lone dealer in Ypsilanti, Michigan, continues to keep the faith, still in business, still servicing cars, and still selling the occasional Hudson. ( New York Times link, registration required). Unbelievable.
I think I've only seen a Hudson once, a few years ago when Laura and I were in Tucson, Arizona. It was an absolutely beautiful car, a ton of chrome gleaming in the desert sun.
Learning the hard way
Kevin Sites' blog has been reactivated briefly to provide an audio file of Kevin talking to Wolf Blitzer about the capture of him and his CNN crew by Iraqi forces still loyal to Saddam Hussein. I looked on the CNN site and didn't see anything about this. He had a terrifying experience, almost being executed at more than one point. His translator basically saved him and the rest of the crew.
In the interview, Sites said he and his crew were "heading toward Tikrit to see what things were like there." Well, unexpectedly, they're still dangerous and in a state of war. Sites was very lucky to escape with his life. He did a foolish thing by heading in that direction without military escort. The front lines are inherently the most dangerous place in a war zone, and in a situation where the lines are fluid and unpredictable, it was crazy to probe them in this way. Far too many journalists have died already in this conflict. Sites took an unnecessary risk with his life and those of his crew. There is no story worth dying for. Fortunately, he didn't quite have to find that out the hard way. (Original heads-up via Scripting News .)
One thing I forgot to mention about applying for the marriage license: the clerk at boro hall gave us a "present from the state of New Jersey". It was a bag filled with things to help us begin our married life, and based on the contents, the state is mainly concerned with our hygeine. We were given small samples of Tide laundry detergent and Downy fabric softener, as well as a sample-sized Secret deodorant. Best of all was the preparation for our first fight as a married couple: Pepto-Bismol tablets.
I suppose we'll have to send Governor McGreevey a thank you note for his generous gift.
Saddam raps!
There was an amusing story on PRI/BBC's The World about Radio Tikrit, a black clandestine radio station presumably operated by the U.S. armed forces. According to Chris McWhinnie at BBC Monitoring, the people behind the station have been having some fun, such as recording rap tunes where the vocalist imitates Saddam Hussein.
The piece closed the show. The individual piece is available in Windows Media Format on the daily rundown of the show.
So you don't forget, act before midnight tonight
Andy Sennitt at Radio Netherlands mentions a report in Newsday that the U.S. has abandoned efforts at psychological warfare involving e-mail, SMS messages, and spam in Iraq. I don't understand; I would think that the prospect of a longer pen¡s, human growth hormone, and an easy mortgage would induce any member of the Republican Guard to defect....
The downside of playing the accordion
Joey de Villa, affectionately known as AccordionGuy for the big, hulking keyboard he often totes around Toronto, had been promising to post stories of his worst dates ever. He's managed to post at least one. His intent, however, was derailed by a sudden attack of bliss, thanks to a new relationship. Last week he posted a sappy account of how his new girlfriend claimed she wasn't a goth, all evidence to the contrary. A day or so after it appeared, however, it disappeared. Today, the other shoe dropped. Turns out that Joey seems to have trumped all the other possible worst date stories he was intending to post with this bizarre tale.
You're right, Joey; you've earned a break.
Make her an honest woman
Now I really don't feel so bad about waiting six and a half years after we got engaged to get married....
I particularly like the close of the article filed by Reuters. No honeymoon?
Fingers crossed for Paul
Ben Hammersley mentions a remarkable report on BBC television by John Simpson, their World Affairs Editor and the Liberator of Kabul. Simpson was travelling with Kurdish soldiers and American Special Forces in northern Iraq when an American plane dropped a bomb on his convoy. Simpson says he was about 10-12 feet away from the bomb, so it's pretty astonishing that he's still alive. You can hear in the report that he's wounded, although not so badly that he can't report. He shooes away an American medic who approaches him to treat his wounds while he's on air. Ben didn't point to it, but you can read and even listen to the actual report on the BBC's web site.
Meanwhile, NBC is now reporting the death of one of their journalists, David Bloom, noted for his breathless reports from moving armored personnel carriers screaming across the desert. He died of a pulmonary embolism, rather than from anything combat-related, which I suppose means he could have just as easily died suddenly at home from the same thing, which is really spooky given that he's my age.
Between these two reports and the recent death of Michael Kelly in Iraq, the whole journalism situation in Iraq is a little troubling. One of Laura's old friends (in fact, her first boyfriend from when she was in high school, and still a family friend) is in Iraq as part of Ted Koppel's crew, travelling with the same group as David Bloom, the 3rd Infantry Division. Laura's been worried about him, but I figured there's no way ABC is going to let Koppel get in harm's way. But when someone of the magnitude of Simpson gets bombed, who is at least as important to the BBC as Koppel is to ABC, I start to wonder a bit.... Fingers crossed for Paul.
When Laura's parents came down to visit for the day, they brought with them an article from the Bergen Record earlier this week about the finest liquid known to mankind, Vernors Ginger Ale. The author of the article must be from Michigan to have produced such a knowledgeable, nuanced portrait of the beverage of the Gods. He's also a pretty good writer, because he captures the sensation of drinking Vernors better than anyone I've ever seen. Good stuff about some good stuff.
Live from Baghdad (or maybe Tikrit)
Radio Netherlands has an interesting look at the broadcasts of the Iraqi Satellite Channel, which has continued to broadcast to audiences outside Iraq despite American attempts to destroy the communications infrastructure in Iraq. Bits and pieces from the channel show up on CNN and MSNBC, but in The Netherlands, you can get the pure, unfiltered propaganda direct from the source via DSL [site in Dutch] (as opposed to the pure, unfiltered Objective Journalism we get direct from embedded journalists on cable TV here in the US, as well as The Netherlands).
At the recent Winter SWL Fest, my friend Tracy was demonstrating what you can get free with a relatively small satellite dish and an MPEG decoder/receiver costing a couple hundred dollars, and among the channels was this very Iraqi Satellite Channel, receiveable here in the eastern US. Sadly, since we rent rather than own, I haven't installed a satellite dish. So I'll just have to be content with whatever propaganda I can find online, on cable TV, or on shortwave radio.
This wedding thing gets more and more real with every passing day. This morning, Laura and I went down to boro hall with one of our friends and applied for our marriage license. We had to gather all the relevant documents and everything. I didn't know where my birth certificate was, so I had sent away to the state of Michigan to get one. Laura still had her original from when she was born.
Laura was nervous at home this morning as we were getting ready to go to boro hall. I didn't feel nervous until we actually got there, when I felt a little twinge. It's really happening. We had had to make an appointment to get the license, the reason for which was clear when we saw the lengthy line of prospective brides and grooms waiting. You wouldn't think there would be dozens of couples thronging to get their marriage licenses at 9 am on a Friday in April in a small boro of no distinction, but there you go. (Uh-huh. Tell some more whoppers, Ralph.)
They also wanted to see Laura's divorce papers. She wasn't happy about that, but I understand why they do that. They wouldn't want to give a license to someone who's currently married, after all. I don't mind that her former husband's name is on the application. I do hope they don't include it on the actual license, though.
Ten minutes at a Formica® counter in a dingy office and it was over. One of us can go back next week and pick up the actual license.
Running dogs?
Ed Baig, the tech columnist for USA Today, is one of the few reporters for the mainstream media who understands why people listen to shortwave radio. He absolutely nails it in his column from last Wednesday. He's got some decent suggestions for newcomers. Good stuff. (Thanks Ed Cummings for pointing this out.)
Can we send him to The Hague?
Jonanthan Freedland has an interesting op-ed in today's issue of The Guardian where he spells out just how radical and un-American the war in Iraq and George Bush's rule in general are.
This is not to pretend that there is a single American ideal, still less a single US foreign policy, maintained unbroken since 1776. There are, instead, competing traditions, each able to trace its lineage to the founding of the republic. But what's striking is that George Bush's war on Iraq is at odds with every single one of them.
He goes on to compare the current situation to a previous paralysis of dissent:
The limits of acceptable discussion have narrowed sharply, just as civil liberties have taken a hammering as part of the post-9/11 war on terror. You might fall foul of the Patriot Act, or be denounced for insufficient love of country. There is something McCarthyite about the atmosphere which has spawned this war, making Democrats too fearful to be an opposition worthy of the name and closing down national debate. And things don't get much more un-American than that.
Everything about the presidency of George W. Bush goes against American tradition, starting with the way he was installed in office. I can't wait until the day he's sent back to Crawford, Texas, with his tail between his legs. I hope we survive that long.
Our flexible language
For the nine hundred and seventy-third time today, I heard a reporter state that the Republican Guard divisions south of Baghdad have been "degraded to half their fighting capability". I want to know what that means. Does it mean the US has blown up half of their tanks? Destroyed half of their artillery? Killed half of their soldiers? I know they're used by the military and their political masters because they obscure meaning, but I wish reporters would dig a little deeper to tell us what these annoying military euphemisms specifically mean rather than just acting as court stenographers.
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Taking the Heat: Silver-Diamond Composite Offers Unique Capabilities for Cooling Powerful Defense Microelectronics (ScienceDaily)- March 4, 2011
Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are developing a solid composite material to help cool small, powerful microelectronics used in defense systems. The material, composed of silver and diamond, promises an exceptional degree of thermal conductivity compared to materials currently used for this application. The research is focused on producing a silver-diamond thermal shim of unprecedented thinness... More...
In clean energy R&D, a spark--but then what? (CNet News)- March 4, 2011
Although its short-term funding remains uncertain, the 2-year-old Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program has so far delivered on its mission to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research. But even at this week's ARPA-E Summit, a conference to tout potential game-changers, there were reminders that even great technology doesn't guarantee commercial success, which could be crucial when questions over government R&D funding arise in the future. In interviews at the conference, entrep... More...
Clarkson professor receives $400k CAREER award from National Science Foundation (North County Now)- March 4, 2011
Clarkson University Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Sulapha Peethamparan has received a $400,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). A proposal, titled "Mechanisms of Hydration Kinetics and Property Evolution in Activated Slag and Fly Ash Multi-Phase Sustainable Binder Systems," earned her the special distinction from the NSF. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is an NSF-wide activity that offers the foundation's most prestigious... More...
Russian Journal of Lithological and Mineral Resources Publishes Groundbreaking Research on Sedimentary Rocks (The Gazette)- March 3, 2011
The latest edition of Lithological and Mineral Resources, a journal of The Russian Academy of Sciences, has reported details of research directed by French sedimentologist Guy Berthault of the prestigious university, Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, showing that sedimentary rocks form very rapidly - two thousandths of the time attributed to them by the geological time scale! The experimental research spanning a period of thirty-five years was first performed in France at the Marseilles Institute of... More...
Cyclone Power receives tenth international patent for external combustion engine (Torque News)- March 3, 2011
According to the news release, the current Mexican patent marks the tenth international patent for Cyclone. The company also currently holds eight patents for the engine and its components in the United States. Cyclone Power Technologies is the developer of the award-winning Cyclone Engine - an eco-friendly external combustion engine with the power and versatility to run everything from portable electric generators and garden equipment to cars, trucks and locomotives. For the record literally, a... More...
Practical Guide to Smoke and Combustion Products from Burning Polymers (AZ Materials)- March 3, 2011
iSmithers Rapra Publishing has announced the release of Practical Guide to Smoke and Combustion Products from Burning Polymers. This Practical Guide presents one of the most complete overviews of this important topic, covering smoke generation (including obscuration, toxicity, corrosivity), small and large scale smoke assessment, regulation of smoke, and methods of controlling smoke by plastics formulation. In particular this book focuses on the assessment of fire hazard and fire risks from comb... More...
Research Update: Increasing Solar Cell Efficiency (Solar Novus Today)- March 1, 2011
As researchers develop third generation solar cells, much of their focus is on improving efficiency. New dyes, nanostructures, and quantum dots are helping new technology to achieve more. Dye-sensitized cells have advanced steadily over the last little while, and much of the research is focused on using new dyes to increase efficiency. For example, in "Porphyrin Dye Achieves 11% Efficiency in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells," researchers led by Michael Grätzel of the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne ... More...
Boiling bubbles are cool in space (Physorg.com)- March 1, 2011
An experiment to gain a basic understanding of this phenomena launched to the International Space Station on space shuttle Discovery Feb. 24. The Nucleate Pool Boiling Experiment, or NPBX, is one of two experiments in the new Boiling eXperiment Facility, or BXF. Nucleate boiling is bubble growth from a heated surface and the subsequent detachment of the bubble to a cooler surrounding liquid. As a result, these bubbles can efficiently transfer energy from the boiling surface into the surrounding ... More...
Rowan engineering prof appointed chair of prestigious journal publication (CourierPostOnline.com)- February 28, 2011
Dr. C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University professor of chemical engineering, has been appointed chair of the Publications Board of the esteemed Chemical Engineering Education (CEE) journal. Slater previously served as vice-chair and has been a board member for more than 10 years. CEE is published jointly by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) and is the leading journal in the field of chemical engineering pedagogy. Slater ta... More...
Solar Energy Faces Tests On Greenness (The New York Times)- February 23, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO — Just weeks after regulators approved the last of nine multibillion-dollar solar thermal power plants to be built in the Southern California desert, a storm of lawsuits and the resurgence of an older solar technology are clouding the future of the nascent industry. The litigation, which seeks to block construction of five of the solar thermal projects, underscores the growing risks of building large-scale renewable energy plants in environmentally delicate areas. On Jan. 25, for... More...
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Marylhurst Grad Reflects on Rough Background, Looks to Future
By Arashi Young | The Skanner News
From his time in prison to his life outside the bars struggling to find work and housing, to his life as a student studying psychology and putting all the pieces together, Brandon Hoggans has lived many lives.
Hoggans recently completed his bachelor’s degree from Marylhurst University, and spoke with The Skanner News about his past and his plans to help those who have experienced incarceration.
Here are excerpts of the interview, edited for space and clarity.
The Skanner News: First off, Congratulations on graduating.
Brandon Hoggans: Thank you very much.
TSN: What is it like to transition back to society after prison?
BH: I would say the toughest aspect of successfully reintegrating back into society is the barriers that are in place for people who are convicted felons.
I experienced barriers in employment, but primarily it was in housing where the reality set in. That made it very, very difficult. Nobody would want to rent to me even though I had money. I met all the criteria, but once they found out I had a felony, they automatically disqualified me.
Employment was tough as well. I would get interviews for jobs because of my skill levels. I was overqualified for most jobs I had applied for and I would get them. At the end of the interview, I had to bring the felony issue up, and then everything changed -- they said they wouldn't be able to hire me.
TSN: How did you work around these obstacles?
BH: I utilized the resources that I had with my family and more importantly my self-determination that somebody in this position has to have. I can imagine that the discouragement of having so many barriers in place can be the reason why people choose to get back into a criminal lifestyle. Because, in their best efforts, they aren't seeing any progress and they still have to provide for themselves and their families.
But, for me, it was my family and that self-determination to be successful.
TSN: What drew you to getting your bachelors in psychology?
BH: With these barriers, I knew that I would need some kind of credentials behind my name to open my own doors or to crack some of the doors that are closed.
I chose psychology because prison, 75 percent of it is mental -- dealing with the culture in that environment and the misguided concepts of authority and race relations. It takes a deep level of thought and understanding to survive that environment without coming out with debilitating psychological effects.
I spent from 18 to 26, my developmental years, incarcerated. I got some of my psychological concepts in that environment. Even though I grew up in there I understood that I made a mistake that got me in there, I no longer wanted to make those mistakes.
I studied psychology because I just naturally had a knack for perceiving my environment and perceiving people and understanding the thought patterns and ideas. More importantly, I had to do that as a matter of survival.
Over time, it allowed me to create some ideas for how I can help people who have experienced the same things and are coming out of prison and need to understand what kind of psychological issues they may have acquired while incarcerated.
TSN: It sounds like you gave yourself a second chance at that developmental time through your education.
BH: In my education, I was my own case study. I used my education to understand some of the things that I did as child and young adult. I know my experience is similar to many African-American boys growing up in deprived areas without a father, living in a single parent household. Those circumstances all have the potential to create the same outcomes.
TSN: How would you like to take these lessons and apply them?
BH: The biggest plan would be looking into attaining my PhD in Clinical Psychology; I have also applied to get my MSW at the University of Washington. I would like to be a psychological evaluator for ex-cons or convicted felons that are incarcerated and are trying to get back into society.
Given my understanding of the operations of prison and having been there and also the academic applications, I think I have a more practical understanding of where a person is at in that environment. If they were to be given a second chance, I know their likelihood of being successful if they were allowed to opportunity to reintegrate into society.
Eventually, I would like to have my own psychology practice, therapy practice and work with inmates who have re entered back into society and give them specific counseling to address some of the trauma that they have experienced. I want to show them how to self-actualize and use those misguided skills that led them into prison and show them that they do translate into society.
I can be that bridge and show them how that they don't have to conform as much as they believe they do. Some people don't necessarily have the capacity to work a 9 to 5 job but they have the skill set and aspirations to work for themselves. I know that I could show them how to do that, show them how to live for the first time instead of being reactive to their surroundings.
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Where is David Bowie?
In the early morning hours of Tuesday the 8th January (US time), Sony Music/Columbia Records released a new single by David Bowie titled 'Where Are We Now?' exclusively launching in the iTunes Store in 119 countries, including New Zealand. David Bowie's first new album in ten years and his 30th studio recording, ‘The Next Day’ is also available as a pre-order on iTunes with a wide release scheduled for March. January the 8th is of course David Bowie's birthday, a timely moment for such a treasure to appear as if out of nowhere.
Throwing shadows and avoiding the industry treadmill is very David Bowie despite his extraordinary track record that includes album sales in excess of 130 million not to mention his massive contributions in the area of art, fashion, style, sexual exploration and social commentary. It goes without saying that he has sold out stadiums and broken ticket records throughout the world during this most influential of careers.
In recent years radio silence has been broken only by endless speculation, rumour and wishful thinking ....a new record...who would have ever thought it, who'd have ever dreamed it! After all David is the kind of artist who writes and performs what he wants when he wants...when he has something to say as opposed to something to sell. Today he definitely has something to say.
Produced by long term collaborator Tony Visconti, 'Where Are We Now?' was written by Bowie, and was recorded in New York. The single is accompanied by a haunting video directed by Tony Oursler which harks back to David's time in Berlin. He is seen looking in on footage of the auto repair shop beneath the apartment he lived in along with stark images of the city at the time and a lyric constantly raising the question Where Are We Now?
"The moment you know, you know you know" resonates from the new single's lyric. Now we all know...David Bowie has been in the recording studio...just when we least expected it!!
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Walking Around In The Heart
Coleman Barks On Rumi, Sensuality, And The Path With No Name
By Andrew Lawler
© Chris Gruver
The drab brick building in Athens, Georgia, where I meet Coleman Barks is sandwiched between two car-repair shops. “This used to be a restaurant famous for its slaw dogs,” Barks says after I’ve stepped with surprise into a clean, spacious, well-appointed room in his new workplace and guesthouse, which still smells of fresh paint. “It’s been a crack house and a whorehouse. It’s been a machine shop. And it’s been a beauty parlor. I’m thinking of maybe calling it the ‘Inner Beauty Parlor.’ ”
Barks is a private person who avoids admirers and the curious. “One appointment ruins the day,” he explains in his gentle Tennessee accent. “I love having nothing to do.” His initial wariness gives way to animation as he takes me on a tour of the place, which has the feel of a bachelor’s lair, with its big bed and large-screen television in the windowless downstairs.
This is the house that Rumi built. Born eight centuries ago this year, the Persian mystic is now one of the best-selling poets in the United States. That astonishing fame is due in large part to Barks, who has spent much of the past thirty years rendering thousands of Rumi’s poems into an English that captures the deep humanity and sublime divinity of the poet’s verse.
A poet in his own right who has published six books of poetry, Barks taught literature at the University of Georgia for thirty years before retiring. His journey with Rumi began in 1976, when friend and fellow poet Robert Bly gave him a copy of a stilted academic translation of Rumi’s poetry. “These poems need to be released from their cages,” Bly said. Barks had never heard of Rumi, and he did not speak or write Farsi (nor does he now), but he accepted the challenge, using existing translations and his own poetic talents. That work led him to Philadelphia, where he became a student of Sri Lankan spiritual teacher Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, who provided Barks with a living example of Sufism, the mystical Islamic tradition of which Rumi was an adherent. All Muslims believe they will be reunited with God after death, but Sufis use esoteric practices to encounter the ineffable in this life. Barks’s Rumi project eventually grew into a series of books — now numbering nineteen — that shocked publishers by catapulting a thirteenth-century Persian poet onto the bestseller lists. It’s no small irony that a Persian Muslim is one of America’s most popular poets at a time when relations between the U.S. and Iran — and the Islamic world as a whole — are so strained.
Jelaluddin Rumi was born September 30, 1207, in the ancient trading city of Balkh in what is now Afghanistan, during a time of war, social upheaval, and spiritual questioning. In the West, Thomas Aquinas, Meister Eckhart, and Saint Francis of Assisi were remaking Christianity; in the Holy Land, Europeans were fighting Muslims; and in the East, the medieval world of Islam was at the height of its intellectual and artistic vigor. When Rumi was five, his father took his family west to avoid Mongol invasions, passing through the great city of Baghdad before settling at Konya in what is now Turkey. When Rumi was thirty-nine, he met the mysterious Shams, an older mendicant who was to have a profound influence on Rumi’s life and work. Legend has it that Rumi and Shams first met beside a fountain in Konya. Rumi was talking to his students with his father’s spiritual notebook, the Maarif, open beside him. Shams apparently interrupted the conversation by pushing the precious text into the water. When Rumi demanded to know why Shams had done this, Shams reportedly replied, “It is time for you to live what you have been reading of and talking about.”
This was the start of a passionate friendship between the two men. At one point Shams disappeared — or, some say, was killed by Rumi’s jealous followers. The brokenhearted Rumi ultimately composed forty-five thousand verses in honor of his lost friend. He also produced works of theology and philosophy, including the massive six-volume Masnavi, which is called the “Persian Koran” for its lyricism and wisdom. Rumi died in his bed in Konya on December 17, 1273.
Barks’s interpretations of Rumi sometimes irritate both liberal academics and conservative Islamic theologians, who say he has catered to a New Age market by downplaying the religious and patriarchal aspects of the poet’s huge corpus in favor of the universal and the sensual. Most scholars, however, give Barks credit for breathing life into poems that are notoriously difficult to translate into readable English, and for making Rumi virtually a household name in the West.
Barks has a grizzled beard and wavy eyebrows, and he drives a pickup truck. There’s little of the media star about him, despite the fact that his books of Rumi’s poetry have sold more than three quarters of a million copies, earning him the attention of everyone from Iranian imams to journalist Bill Moyers. Rumi’s poetry, Barks writes, “is God’s funny family talking on a big, open radio line.”
Lawler: Rumi’s poetry comes to us out of Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam that’s still mysterious to many in the West. How much do you need to know about Sufism in order to appreciate Rumi?
Barks: All I know about Sufis is that my teacher, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, was one. His presence was beyond religious categories. Likewise, Rumi dissolves boundaries. People from all religions came to Rumi’s funeral. When asked why, they said, “He deepens us.” His presence was poetry, and his friendship with Shams made everybody feel more alive and more in a state of praise and grief. Everything was sharpened and deepened by this longing. That’s so easily misinterpreted as New Age vagueness, but I don’t think that’s fair, because I’ve met at least one person — Bawa Muhaiyaddeen — who could be in a universal place beyond the categories of religion, and even beyond the categories we have for love.
Rumi’s poetry is love poetry, but it’s a poetry of a kind of love we may not even know yet. It’s beyond our ideas of mentoring or romance or even friendship. It’s a place beyond the synapse of relationship. “Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting,” Rumi said. All his poetry is about love as a region, not a relationship. The Sufis say that human reality is the heart, and we’re walking around in it. When somebody asked Bawa what reality was like, he said it’s like you’re driving a car, and you’re inside driving, but you’re also the landscape you’re going through. Evidently that makes sense when you’re enlightened. [Laughter.] At one point Rumi was out walking in Damascus, looking for Shams, and then he realized that he didn’t need to look; he was the friendship. Then there’s no one missing, no separation — and, suddenly, no more country music, either! “Oh, she left me. Oh, I left him. Oh, she left me again. Oh, she came back!”
Lawler: Rumi grew up in a highly disciplined household, son of a great thinker and theologian. Is that discipline necessary for any spiritual seeker?
Barks: Rumi does say you should submit to a daily practice of some sort. It’s like the knocker on the door: if you keep knocking, eventually some joy will look out the window and see who’s there.
Lawler: What is the source of Rumi’s poetry?
Barks: Rumi and Shams met in that mysterious place we call the heart. It’s difficult to explain; it has to be lived. Any claim that I might have in this area comes from having met Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, who lived at their level of enlightenment. He once asked me, “Will you meet me on the inside or on the outside?” With my typical English-teacher evasiveness, I said, “Isn’t it always both?” I should have looked in those eyes and said, “Inside.”
Lawler: What is it about Rumi’s poetry that makes it so appealing to Americans today?
Barks: We have been somewhat prepared for Rumi by our own national poets, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: our odd couple, with their extensive inner dialogues and ecstatic visions. Also I feel there is a natural expansiveness in the American soul that is willing to receive what Rumi is giving. Fluid yet formal, lyric and narrative, his poetry is like some wild mixture of Miguel de Cervantes, John Milton, James Joyce, John Coltrane, and Robin Williams on lunch break with the crew. Americans have a native hilarity that mixes well with Rumi’s sense of humor.
Lawler: How did you become a poet?
Barks: I’ve never thought of myself as anything but a writer. When I was twelve years old, I kept a little notebook of words that I loved: azalea, halcyon, jejune. I just liked the taste of them. I was getting my tools ready. Then I began writing short stories in high school and won some contests there, and I kept on writing in college, and I’ve just always kept on with it.
Lawler: Your father was headmaster of a prep school in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Did your home life feed that exploration of writing?
Barks: We ate every meal, three meals a day, with four hundred people in a big dining hall. I ate with my father and mother and brother and sister and five other people at the table. Among the tables around us were several magnificent English and Latin teachers who were storytellers and writers. There was also a group at the school called the “Round Table” that met every two or three months and discussed a book. It was a very literary place.
Lawler: Did religion enter the picture in your childhood?
Barks: We were Presbyterian, but I was sort of a river mystic. There was a curve of the Tennessee River near the school, right across from Williams Island. It was a very beautiful spot. People have been living in that place for fifteen thousand years. That’s where I learned about beauty, just watching that river. There are three mountains there — Elder, Signal, and Lookout — and you could yell at Elder Mountain and hear your name come back. And it was perfectly all right at any time just to wander off from the family and sit by the river. My sister had her own spot out on the bluff where she went. We would see her out there, and we realized that you shouldn’t go and talk to her when she was out there. She was doing what I did — just looking at the river.
Lawler: So your family allowed for creative expression and reflection?
Barks: I grew up in an ecstatic family. Anybody at any time could burst into song for any reason. My mother would just dance around the house, singing. I recall those two minutes at the end of the day when a golden light would fall across the floor, especially in April. I would lie down in it and hug myself. One time when I was doing that, I told my mother, “Mama, I’ve got that full feeling again.” She said, “I know you do, honey.” Rumi says just being sentient and in a body is cause for rapture, and I think his reminding us of that is one reason why he’s so popular.
Lawler: Rumi calls grief and joy “the double music” of life. What has this looked like in your life?
Barks: Both of my parents died in 1971, within six weeks of each other, of unrelated causes. I went into a period of grieving in which I felt as if I had blinders on. It also opened me out into a new freedom with bursts of creativity. My dreams became lucent and spectacular. Grief and joy very much did feel like two wings on the bird of my consciousness during that time.
© T. Paige Dalporto
Lawler: I was struck in your first book, The Juice (Harper & Row), by your fascination with the body. One poem is called “Big Toe”; another is “Tongue.”
Barks: Rumi says there’s a great wisdom in the body. You’ve got to listen to it and do what it tells you to do, as a student walks behind the teacher, because this one knows the way more clearly than you. This also comes down to us through Whitman.
Lawler: If that’s so, then why are you so quick to dismiss the idea that Shams and Rumi were lovers?
Barks: I seem to have been forced to make that pronouncement. Some members of the gay community like to claim that Rumi and Shams were lovers in the physical sense. I don’t believe they were. Rumi’s poetry teaches us about a friendship, a love in a place that is beyond sex.
Lawler: But why couldn’t Rumi and Shams experience love on all levels, including the physical? As you make love, Rumi says, so will God make love to you.
Barks: Rumi’s so honest, I feel he would have mentioned it. I think we would have descriptions of sexual acts. When I claim that his friendship with Shams was beyond touch and time, beyond teacher and disciple, beyond lover and beloved, beyond longing, I’m not being afraid of the erotic. They met in the heart.
Lawler: So many of the Rumi poems you’ve chosen to translate are the sensual ones. Why?
Barks: When I first began translating or rephrasing, I was in my thirties and forties, and I was drowned in sexual energy. Now, at seventy, my libido is less strong, and the poems are becoming less sensual. Maybe that’s not the right word, because they’re still delighting in the senses, but they feel less driven by sexuality.
Lawler: As you’ve aged, then, has your passionate sexuality mellowed into a more subtle sensuality?
Barks: Subtle is a good word. You slow down to the pleasures of just being in a body, and it all becomes keener and deeper. Pinot noir tastes better than the wine you guzzled before. You begin to sip and to have a more profound experience. Pleasure doesn’t go away; it becomes more complex. And the passion is there too, less coarsened by lust. I think that’s a process of soul growth, and as part of that, sexuality becomes less important. Thank God! It ran me all over the place.
Lawler: There’s a poem in which you write about jumping in the car and driving eleven hours to meet a woman.
Barks: Yeah, I did that. Rumi once mentioned a teenager who had done something naughty that teenagers do; we don’t know what — masturbation, being a peeping Tom. Rumi said, “No, don’t scold him for that. He’s getting his wings, his feelings.” Life has to be lived. You have to live your sexuality. Of course Rumi felt and followed his sexuality, just as he knew the taste of wine and how wine affects the company at a table. Jesus knew about wine too. That was the good stuff he was making at the wedding in Cana.
Lawler: We don’t seem to know much about Jesus’s sexuality.
Barks: I feel that one of the great failures of Christianity, of the organized-religion part, is that so little — nothing, really — is said about Jesus’s sexuality. The Mary Magdalene passages are expunged. We have nothing about Jesus’s life from when he was twelve until he was twenty-nine. That is a powerfully sexual time for most men. What we are given instead is monastic celibacy and a heightened sense of sexual guilt.
I don’t mean to offend anyone; this is a sensitive subject, the meeting of faith and sexuality. Just bringing it up is considered provocative, even offensive.
Along similar lines, it is not very well-known in the West how Mohammed’s sexual energy is celebrated in Islam. He had several wives, and he is said to have visited each wife every day. That part of the Islamic world is not well recognized here. You could call it the “positive masculine,” that which loves women and enjoys sex. And there are other parts of Islam that we are blind to: the courtesy and peacefulness; the attention to craftsmanship and the simple worker’s daily practice. There is also a respect for the feminine in Islam that we don’t see. We see the sexually repressed, fundamentalist elements, which are present in nearly every religion.
Lawler: One scholar, a fan of yours, says his only criticism of your versions of Rumi’s poems is that you tend to choose poems that center on love, romance, and the erotic — things Americans generally prefer to hear — while ignoring the more traditional Islamic messages of the poet.
Barks: I’m getting around to those other passages now more and more. I began thirty years ago by focusing on sensuality because that’s what I knew. The only way I can get to Rumi is through my filter. But my interests are gradually widening; my desires are changing. Now I’m getting so I like and understand more of the Koranic commentary, especially when Rumi talks about silence; that’s becoming more resonant for me. We poets can do only what resonates with us. There are many respectable translators of Rumi, but there need to be hundreds more, because he’s a universe. He has all the moods and modes of human existence.
Rumi was out walking in Damascus, looking for Shams, and then he realized that he didn’t need to look; he was the friendship. Then there’s no one missing, no separation — and, suddenly, no more country music, either! “Oh, she left me. Oh, I left him. Oh, she left me again. Oh, she came back!”
Lawler: Rumi talks quite a lot about wine. What is the link between the altered states reached through divine conversations and those reached through intoxicants?
Barks: Wine is one of Rumi’s metaphors for our desire for transcendence, for finding some kind of friendship with the divine. But so are fasting and walking a mountain road and diving into the ocean to look for a pearl. The mystery of dissolving the ego is what Rumi continually finds new terms for, although, as he says, “Love cannot be said.” He sometimes invents physically impossible images for the process, like the individual worm eating grape leaves who suddenly becomes the entire vineyard and the orchard too, with no more need to devour, no desire, no more grape-leaf thirsting. The longing of a wine drinker is notoriously not satisfied by wine. Drunkenness gives one an uncentered, artificial kind of selflessness.
Lawler: Your latest book is called Rumi: A Bridge to the Soul (HarperOne). Why a bridge?
Barks: Robert Bly and I recently went to Iran. The University of Tehran flew us over there because they wanted to give me an honorary degree, which was good, because the one I’d gotten from the University of North Carolina had worn off. [Laughter.] We went to Tehran and Isfahan and Shiraz. While we were there, I fell in love with the Khajou Bridge, which was built by Sufi architects in the seventeenth century. They say the Sufis mixed the concrete of this bridge with egg white to create some kind of chemical reaction, or perhaps to foster a connection with mother consciousness. People don’t use the bridge only to cross the river. There are two levels to it: The upper level is a road. The lower, pedestrian level is a destination in itself. People are sitting there, meditating on the steps, singing, or reciting poetry in the alcoves. There is a beautiful atmosphere. Nobody is selling anything, and there are no guardrails on the bridge. It’s slippery. It’s wonderful.
Lawler: When you were in Shiraz, did you visit the grave of the Sufi poet Hafiz [Iran’s national poet]?
Barks: Yes, we did. When we were sitting at the tomb, busloads of kids came in, first- and second-graders, and they all stood around the tomb and sang Hafiz songs. They serve great sherbet at Hafiz’s tomb, and music is going all the time. The Iranians know how to enjoy their poets.
Lawler: Didn’t you also visit Afghanistan?
Barks: The U.S. State Department sent me there in March 2005. There hadn’t been an American speaker sent to Afghanistan in twenty-five years. They decided that because Rumi was both the most-read poet in the United States and the national poet of Afghanistan — his work is on the radio all the time there — the two cultures should acknowledge that they love the same man. I went to the site where Balkh, Rumi’s birthplace, used to be. I was also invited to the city of Herat because they wanted to test me out.
Lawler: What do you mean, “test me out”?
Barks: I went to visit the Herat Literary Association, which was identified by a sign in English above the door. I walked in, and there was a long table filled with ferocious alpha males: the fire chief, the mayor, the professors, the powers of the town. They love poetry, so they meet every Thursday to read each other their own poems. They were all bilingual, and they all wanted to see what I had done with their poet. So I would read one of my versions of a Rumi poem, and then my translator would read them the original. They didn’t applaud; they just said, “Uh-huh, uh-huh.” They weren’t there to boost my ego at all. They said, “Are you a poet?” I said, “Yeah.” So they said, “Read us one of yours.” So I read them a poem called “Purring.” It’s about poetry as the human purr. Cats purr when they’re contented, and they purr when they’re mortally wounded, and they purr when they’re giving birth. Maybe poetry is some deep umbilical voice that moans at having to die and delights at being in a body. Cats can’t talk, but we can, so we talk and purr simultaneously. This is the double music we make whenever we use words. Rumi touched on this when he said language is like a reed flute: In order to make any noise at all, the reed has to be pulled out of the mud; it has to be separated from the whole. So language is always saying, “Help! I want to go back to the mud of God.” It’s always a whine, like the reed flute. A complaint.
Lawler: Is that what Rumi means when he says the only rule is to suffer the pain?
Barks: Yes. This longing you express is itself what you’re longing for. In one of Rumi’s poems, a man cries, “Allah, Allah,” in the middle of the night, until a cynic asks him, “Have you ever heard anything back?” The man says no, and he quits praying and praising. But the poem says that what you’re longing for is that longing, as when a dog whines for its master. Rumi says the whining is the connection with the master. That’s what you wanted, and you’ve got it: that core of intensity, the love that is our being alive.
Lawler: So is Rumi still a presence in Afghanistan?
Barks: Very much. I told the man taking me around Herat that I wanted to meet a real Sufi. He thought a bit and said there was a man named Omani, from the Chishti line of Sufis. He was ninety-five years old, and he had been teaching Rumi’s Masnavi for seventy-five years in this little back alley. I got my guard, this six-foot-eight Minnesota-farm-boy soldier, to escort me across town to meet him. I asked a lot of questions, and we got to talking about Rumi’s friend Shams. Finally I said, “Who is Shams?” And he said, “Shams is the doctor who comes when you hurt enough.” I replied that I’d come to Afghanistan to hear him say that. He said that in this era, the longing is not deep enough, not intense enough, but in the thirteenth century it was deep and intense enough, so Shams came to Rumi.
This man was so deeply gentle that I could have just drowned in his eyes. Apparently Rumi had that quality too. There’s a story about the Mongol armies coming close to Konya. Rumi walked out alone to talk to the Mongol general. After meeting with Rumi, the general said, “There might be other people like this man in the town, so we’re not going to go in there.” So they didn’t sack Konya.
Lawler: Given Rumi’s connections to Afghanistan and Iran, I wonder whether he would be on Homeland Security’s no-fly list today. What do you think he would make of our world?
Barks: Rumi might remind us how each human consciousness is the result of an extravagantly complicated evolution, from mineral to plant, through animal life to this human consciousness, which is continuing on into unimaginable stages beyond. He was always excited by the beauty of that and by the unique properties and potential of every person. He would be a powerful peace activist for that very reason. He would say something like: “We must nourish the strand of consciousness growing in everyone. We must reduce the absurd weaponry budget, so idiotically destructive of that growth, and we should instead spend twenty times what we do now on education, healthcare, fighting poverty and disease — all the peaceful arts.”
And Rumi would try to restore balance, which is to say compassion and tenderness, to this insane situation we find ourselves in. He would see our pretended elations, and the soulless violence we sponsor. He would do what he could to wake us up. Surely he would encourage cross-cultural linkages and propose ways to blur the boundaries between religions, so that those great mythologies and hypotheticals would not divide us but, rather, unite and befriend. Rumi would help us, and he does help us, to see the impulse toward war for what it is.
Lawler: You start with translations of Rumi’s poetry instead of the original texts. Have you ever wanted to learn Farsi?
Barks: I didn’t hear Rumi’s name until I was thirty-nine, and by then it was too late. To write poetry in another language, or even to read it, you have to have the language in your mother’s milk. You have to know the language so well that you know the nuances of how the word plank is different from the word board. You can’t learn that from a dictionary. So I’m lazy. I’m hopelessly monolingual, and I love doing this work with scholars. I really appreciate literal scholarly translations, but that’s only getting halfway; you still have to make a poem in English, and that’s what I claim to be able to do. It’s so delicious to have a text that is badly phrased — which you can pretty much count on scholars doing — and then fix it. They tend to use words like firmament, and I cross it out and put sky.
Rumi says that if you love words, you get to approach the divine through words. God exists in the space between you and what you desire. That’s why Joseph Campbell told us to follow our bliss. Whatever you love is your path. I happen to love words, so that’s where I see the beautiful, and this is, of course, the beauty parlor that we’re sitting in! I just love lively language wherever it occurs, and I like to feel it flowing through me. An artist is somebody who adores the inspired moment.
© Andrew Watson
Lawler: Is the inspired moment a visitation from the divine?
Barks: Rumi says that when you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. So for me, it’s going back to the Tennessee River. When I’ve read novelist Thomas Wolfe, I’ve felt the larger energy coming through him. He felt it too. He had to stand up to write, you know; he couldn’t sit down when he felt that energy coming through. I’ve always loved that moment when I feel the language coming. Nobody knows what the source of the flow of language is, that inspiring eloquence, but we know it when we feel it. Artists of any kind get addicted to that: “Why can’t I be this way all the time?” We destroy ourselves with ways of faking it, of manufacturing inspiration. Writers are so impatient.
Lawler: How do you develop patience?
Barks: You have to guard your time so that you have time when you are just waiting. You do that by not giving interviews! It just ruins the day!
Lawler: What else do you do for inspiration?
Barks: I have a cabin in the mountains right next to a creek. I told the real-estate agent I wanted to be so close to the creek that you can’t talk over the sound of the water. Walking seems to loosen things up for me. I try to walk at least thirty minutes a day. I also like a sixteen-ounce cafe latte — one shot, skim milk — for that coffee rush. We are in these bodies, and they do respond to chemicals.
Lawler: Do you see Rumi as a mystic, an artist, or both?
Barks: Rumi is really unusual, because he’s a master of poetry and such an enlightened human being. The most gifted artists are usually so independent that they can’t surrender their mind. Think of Vladimir Nabokov: so proud of himself and enjoying being Nabokov, and just a hairbreadth away from enlightenment. Mozart is interesting on this subject. He says, “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of a genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
To live in the heart sounds so simple. But if it is not lived, then those are just empty words. Rumi and Bawa would say that’s the work we are here to do. We’re here to dissolve the ego and live in the heart with compassion and kindness. The Dalai Lama has said, “My religion is kindness.”
I know I’m not enlightened. I’m not there. People who are enlightened say once you get enlightened, it becomes so funny because obviously everybody’s enlightened, but they don’t know it! It becomes a huge joke.
Lawler: What’s your religion?
Barks: My religion? I like them all. I have recently been reading Zen and Taoist books.
Lawler: Do you have sacred texts?
Barks: The poetry of James Wright. Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree. The poems Emily Dickinson wrote in 1863. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I love the Psalms and John 8. The poetry of Charlie Smith. Billy Collins’s Picnic, Lightning. John Ruskin; I would call him a Sufi.
Lawler: Ruskin? The nineteenth-century English art critic? How are you defining the term “Sufi”?
Barks: I define it in the most general way as someone who is on the path of the heart, whether it’s Bawa Muhaiyaddeen or Groucho Marx. Maybe it’s a way that has no definition at all. If you need a name for these strange vitalists, call them DUM — Disreputable Unaffiliated Mystics. But it’s best not to call them anything.
Lawler: Is there a difference between Barks the poet and Barks the interpreter of Rumi?
Barks: They’re beginning to flow together more and more. The work with Rumi is to get out of the way, to share the path of wisdom and experience the state of annihilation.
Lawler: Rumi talks a lot about the “great dissolution.” Is this the annihilation you’re referring to?
Barks: He has hundreds of metaphors for the dissolution of the ego: What happens to a child when it’s nursing, leaning into the breast. A dead mule being dissolved into a salt flat. Gnats in a whirlwind; that’s what it feels like to me. The drop going into the ocean, of course. These images of what it is like to die before you die. “You must be born again,” says Jesus.
Lawler: Were you ever born again when you were growing up in Tennessee?
Barks: No, although I did go up to the front in a Billy Graham crusade. It felt good, like surrender. But I know I’m not enlightened. I’m not there. People who are enlightened say once you get enlightened, it becomes so funny because obviously everybody’s enlightened, but they don’t know it! It becomes a huge joke.
Lawler: Have you ever felt the state of annihilation in your own life?
Barks: I felt something similar to it in the presence of Bawa. I felt real friendship, a connection, as well as a feeling of being out of time or place, a melting of the world. Bawa would say that this world is like snow: made of beautiful shapes, but it melts. Bawa’s teaching is slowly working on me.
Lawler: In the West, submitting to a teacher on the road to wisdom is often seen as cultish or degrading.
Barks: Islam means “submission.” Yes, we want things to be democratic, with everybody equal. It turns out they’re not. Maybe people are equal in terms of value, but in terms of soul growth, some people are farther along. This man, this being, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen came to get me in a dream. He could visit me in dreams and be conscious of having done that. I would go to see him and start telling him my dreams, and he would say, “You don’t need to tell me that dream. I was there.” If somebody told me that this had happened to them, I might not believe it was real, but it happened to me.
We have such lack of trust with spiritual teachers — the Jim Jones–guru syndrome. But with this man, trust was no problem. Surely people felt this around Jesus or the Buddha: the knowing that he is the real thing. Bawa never asked for money. He said you don’t charge for wisdom. And if he was giving a talk and he found that they were taking money at the door, he would say, “Go find the people and give it back!” This is un-American, not to charge, isn’t it?
He died in 1986, and our relationship has changed. He’s become more of a friend.
Lawler: As Shams was to Rumi?
Barks: Well, the friend is a mystery. Rumi talks about him in various ways. He’s a presence that is like sunlight. Whenever Rumi mentions the sun, he means Shams — a specific person and something as enlivening as sunlight is to the earth. Shams is, in fact, Arabic for “sun.” My teacher used to say that other people were the jewel lights in his eyes. And then there’s Joe Miller, the homegrown mystic who is dead now. He used to teach by walking; he’d get fifteen hundred people walking with him through Golden Gate Park. He’d get to the end of the park, and he’d buy a bunch of us ice cream. He called it “headquarters”: this shared inwardness, the friend, the beloved. “Coleman, now get back to headquarters,” he’d say — get back to your center. That’s the place Rumi calls “majesty.” “The Kingdom of God is within you,” it says in the Gospel of Thomas: “Lift up a stone and I am there. Break a stick and I am there.” Whoever’s saying that is the headquarters, the friend, the beloved, the sun. The sun that melts the snow.
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Andrew Lawler is a misplaced Southerner living in rural Maine whose writing has been published in Smithsonian, National Geographic, and Audubon. When not practicing serenity at airport baggage carousels, he’s learning to accept black flies and use a chain saw.
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Gov. Zapata touts infrastructure improvements in annual report
By Yucatan Times on January 16, 2017
In his fourth annual report, Governor Rolando Zapata Bello announced three infrastructure mega-projects to be developed during this year: the expansion of the navigation channel of Port of Progreso, the extension of a railway branch to the new industrial zone in Hunucma and the construction of an air logistics center in Chichen Itza.
At the Ignacio Zaragoza elementary school, located in Itzimná, where Zapata Bello attended primary school, the state official announced that an educational training institute will be created in Yucatan. And a new training center for the state’s Public Security Secretariat will be built this year too.
“In 2017, we will build a new railway line to the new Hunucma industrial area and a new railway operations center, which will ensure that the industrial companies that are coming to Yucatan have the optimal means of transportation to carry out their activities using the railroad,” he said.
This will allow “Grupo Modelo” Industrial complex, “Empaques Universales” factory, a Food Processing Plant and logistics group Kekén Trailmex to take advantage of this new railroad line.
Besides, a new 500-hectares Industrial Center in Yucatan will favor the recruitment of new industries.
Rolando Zapata’s message was broadcasted through several social networking platforms, in addition to a local radio station and television channel.
Governor Rolando Zapata Bello delivers annual report (Photo: Milenio)
Speaking of the logistics center at Chichen Itza International Airport, the Governor stated that this facility will allow cargo flights to land in the area, which will provide an important added value to primary products manufactured in our state, and he also said that through private investment, actions will be taken to activate this terminal for tourism and aeronautical services in the near future.
“Chichén Itzá Airport is a huge asset to the Yucatecan infrastructure, which for more than three decades has remained underutilized. With this intervention, the Airport will open a new horizon for the Yucatecan economy, especially in the east of the state, and will be a true global door to our products and services,” continued the governor.
On the other hand, he added in his speech that the new maritime terminal will be possible thanks to an agreement signed with the Secretariat of Communications and Transport (SCT), under a scheme of public and private participation, to dredge and provide the Port of Progreso with new depth for the navigation of larger boats.
“This will enable state enterprises to have a more competitive way to import and export their products. Increasing the depth of the Port of Progreso will increase the competitiveness of our economy, will give way to new sectors and strengthen the conditions for attracting new investments,” Zapata Bello concluded.
In addition, the governor said that the urban modernization of Avenida Colon, Avenida Cupules, Calle 60 and Calle 62 will begin next week.
The state governor emphasized that he will work for the future of the state and addressed the Yucatecans, “today I call all citizens to unite. We must remain proud of our Mayan roots, betting on culture and creativity, including all people in a more fraternal society.”
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-459ºF prospects of bailout - absolute zero!
Columnist: Phillip Tilley
By UM-Bot, January 10, 2009 in Featured News & Articles
Phillip Tilley: -459ºF. Prospects of bailout, absolute zero! When Yogi Berra was asked by his coach, “Are you stupid or just ignorant”, he responded with , “I don’t know and I don’t care”. That is funny, but it is also the attitude of most Americans concerning the economy. It reminds me of the movie “Network” where Howard Beal says, “Just let us have our color TV, our radial tires and I want to be left alone and I’ll be happy!”
A lot of people are pinning their hopes of a better economy on a new President that promised change. It would have been nice to see real change, but since our new President has chosen Timothy Geithner, the former president of the New York branch of the Federal Reserve as the new Treasury Secretary, we will be getting more of the same. Having chosen anyone outside the Federal Reserve would have been real change. Now we will have the Federal Reserve running the Treasury instead of the other way around.
They started the Federal Reserve with nothing and they still have most of it left, and there is plenty more nothing where that came from. We will have none of that. In fact, I will have none of that too, and make mine a double. You know what I always say, double my nothing or nothing. For those of you not familiar with me, in the past I proved there is no money, so money equals nothing. We like to think we have money, earn money and spend money, while in reality we live in a money matrix where we have nothing, earn nothing and spend nothing all to our ignorant delight!
The Federal Reserve will keep feeding us the same dope to keep us in a stupor. Eat your Soilent Green, take the blue pill to stay where you are like a Clockwork Orange and remain in a purple haze. We are all either stupid or ignorant on credit, cash and currency to believe anyone can fix the economy with the same cronies in charge, those monied elite.
I recently asked a group of engineers if everyone on the Titanic had a bucket and bailed water, would it have kept the ship afloat? The answer was no. Nothing would have prevented it from sinking as damaged as it was. Nothing, no one, and no bail out can prevent our economy from sinking.
It takes an average freight train a mile and a half to come to a complete stop from 70 miles per hour, if the brakes work. This economy is a run away train with no brakes. If Ayn Rand were alive today, she would witness the machine grinding to a halt as she predicted in her book “Atlas Shrugged”. What happens when an unstoppable force (the monied elite) meets an immovable object (the economy at absolute zero)? That will be something to see.
Absolute Zero is the point at which all molecular motion stops. At least that is what most scientists believe although no one has observed it or if they did they did not remember it because they would have stopped as well. That is where our economy is headed, a complete seize-up. More lay-offs and plant closings and bank failures and foreclosures, welcome to the Tribulation.
Do not expect any financial advice books to save you. Every other author spews the same crap based on conventional thinking. Conventional thinking is thinking inside the box. If so much as a single get rich quick book worked, we would all be rich. Since we are not all rich that means not one, not a single one works. They keep talking advice about a money system that went extinct in 1964. We do not use money anymore, we use Federal Reserve Note debt currency.
These people keep making buggy whips in an age of autos. There is as much difference in a horse and the horse power under your hood as there is between real money and debt currency. You can keep whipping your car hood and wondering why your car does not go any faster, but that would be stupid or ignorant.
Our prospects of an economic bail out are slim and none, and Slim just left town with my buggy whip. That means our real prospects for change are Absolute Zero. Wake up people, the money matrix has you.
Phillip Tilley is author of The Money Matrix of the New World Order and other articles.
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Sticks and stone didnt break my bone,
But old age is starting to Hurt me!
You know I read this a couple of times wondering if I had missed the point. The author dose not seemed to have any real reason for writing except to promote the Doom and Gloom of the Worlds financial problems. I think most people by now have figured out we as a nation are in trouble. He dose not support any of the "Bail Outs" but didn't give HIS version of a Plan-B. So whats the point! What as a nation can WE DO?
MID 364
...The greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort.
Bingo, ROGER!
You are absolutely correct.
Doom and gloom have become the buzzwords for the present financial situation, which, although pretty low, is not, in any way, the most dire crisis since the great depression.
I think most people understand what we can do to fix it, and that has nothing to do with bailouts, and has nothing to do with the government, which of course Obama just this week shocked many a conservative by clearly stating that only the government could provide the relief necessary...
Aaaaahhhh....
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He stated in the article nobody can fix the crisis and our odds are absolute zero, so if he gave a version of a Plan-B, wouldn't that contradict the premise of the article that there is no fix? In the first article Tilley wrote on this site titled "There Is No Money" he stated he can't save us all, hopefully he can wake some of us up so we can save ourselves! But I think we should pay attention to what he has to say because he has been scary accurate so far. In his article of January 08, he stated the implosion point was near. He was right. In his article "It's The Economy Stupid" he stated the economic stimulus package would fail. He was right. He stated in his article "2012 and the Economy" that this is a planed failure of the economy and it will end in 2012. I'm watching closely on that one, but if he is right, nothing done between now and then will stop the inevitable. Whatever we do, we must think for ourselves and do for ourselves, that I believe is the point. Stop waiting for someone else to save you, save yourself!
He stated in the article nobody can fix the crisis and our odds are absolute zero, so if he gave a version of a Plan-B, wouldn't that contradict the premise of the article that there is no fix?
You're right.
The only problem with it is that he's wrong in his position.
There's always a solution. The situation is no where near as dire as he paints it and anyone who says that no one can fix the crisis, or that there's an absolute zero chance is spewing nonsense. We have these cycles regularly, and it's always corrected. We know how this works. We've seen it before, and it appears that people forget.
In the first article Tilley wrote on this site titled "There Is No Money" he stated he can't save us all, hopefully he can wake some of us up so we can save ourselves!
If we can save ourselves, then there's certainly more than an absolute zero chance that things can be saved.
But I think we should pay attention to what he has to say because he has been scary accurate so far. In his article of January 08, he stated the implosion point was near. He was right. In his article "It's The Economy Stupid" he stated the economic stimulus package would fail.
Lots of people were accurate. It wasn't that hard to predict given the situation that existed. Congressional Republicans, in a rare recent move to assert principals they seemed to have abandoned for years, voiced dire concerns over the mortgage banking situation long ago. Their warning wasn't heeded, of course...and they were right. It's also not a long step to conclude that stimulus packages don't work. It's been seen before as well.
We also...well, many of us...know what works: free market solutions and an abject lack of government influence.
He was right. He stated in his article "2012 and the Economy" that this is a planed failure of the economy and it will end in 2012. I'm watching closely on that one, but if he is right, nothing done between now and then will stop the inevitable. Whatever we do, we must think for ourselves and do for ourselves, that I believe is the point. Stop waiting for someone else to save you, save yourself!
I will say that based on the actions of Congress, it appears to be planned in certain repsects, with a decided agenda in mind. It's also not a huge piece of reasoning to realize that if Obama does what he intends, and it proceeds unchecked, it will indeed end in 2012...and so will he.
You keep saying, 'save yourselves'. I seek to find the method in your admonition.
Demand that Congress and the President act appropriately. Contact Congressmen and Senators. Tell them to quit interfering and allow the free markets to flourish, get off the fatal tax proposals, dis-approve a trillion dollar defecits and quit talking doom and gloom and allow the American people to fix it. The system allows for this to occur naturally. But with excess government interference, there's no way it's going to happen.
Insist on investigation into the people who allowed this situation to occur: Barney Frank, Charles Schumer, Chris Dodd, et. al. Those people should be before Congressional comittees testifying...not oil company executives.
And use your best fix in the next Congressional go-around...your vote, for the right people.
You'll have to look hard for them, because 90% of incumbents don't qualify.
Whatever we do, we must think for ourselves and do for ourselves, that I believe is the point. Stop waiting for someone else to save you, save yourself!
Ah, thanks for boiling it down a little. As a member of the "Not socially Elite" I had started financial down sizing years ago. I have NO credit cards! My mortgage was already LOCKED IN at a reasonable rate, and is one My wife and I can afford. And any "EXTRA" money's are put in to Cash Dividends with one to five year maturity.
As for the U.S. and World economies, the people in charge of Corporations and Stock market commodities Buying and selling, and Banking need to change some of THIER practises before WE the common people see a let up.
Thou if the New President WANTS to send me a little EXTRA money, yes I will take it!
Well we've already voted and the Congress and President we elected think they have to fix what as you suggest should be left to the natural cycle of a free market, which would be to let a depression happen. In the natural cycle there will be busts and booms. Most people are so used to the Federal Reserve regulating a constant boom they forget this fact. What I think is more interesting is Tilleys reference to the book "A Clockwork Orange" where the government intervened and made matters worse. Our government will intervene to try to fix something so broken the attempt will fail for the reason you suggest, it should be left to the people to decide which businesses fail or succeed based on how they compete in a true free market. Those that can't compete will go out of business. Yet the plan is to prop up and reward those failures at the expense of everyone.
Pinky Floyd 2
Location:Nashville
1000% Libertarian...
This is all this writer is capable of..Gloom and doom with little hope for any..All he spouts is prattle about 'The Money Matrix' conspiracy crap...Nothing but hyperbolic jibber.
/it was a waste of time reading it...
Edited January 11, 2009 by Pinky Floyd
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We also...well, many of us...know what works: free market solutions and an abject lack of government influence
MMMMMMM no that doesn't work. lack of regulation doesn't work. that started with Reagan and we've been going down hill ever since.
you can't build a house from the top floor down. it's from the bottom up. and that's not what is being done.
The economic bang-for-the-buck of bonus depreciation is very modest (see table).[7] Indeed, of all the tax and spending policies considered, it provides the least amount of stimulus. Such incentives offer a limited boost because many businesses have difficulty quickly adjusting long-planned capital budgets. Moreover, most investment is made by businesses with no tax liability in the first place. Investment incentives also complicate matters for financially pressed state governments that base their business taxes on federal tax law.
Extending unemployment insurance and expanding food stamps are the most effective ways to prime the economy’s pump. A $1 increase in UI benefits generates an estimated $1.64 in near-term GDP; increasing food stamp payments by $1 boosts GDP by $1.73 (see table). People who receive these benefits are very hard-pressed and will spend any financial aid they receive within a few weeks. These programs are also already operating, and a benefit increase can be quickly delivered to recipients.
The benefit of extending unemployment insurance goes beyond simply providing financial aid for the jobless, to more broadly shoring up household confidence. Nothing is more psychologically debilitating, even to those still employed, than watching unemployed friends and relatives lose benefits.
Making permanent the current dividend income and capital gain tax rates would also be poor economic stimulus. The current 15% tax rate that most investors currently pay is set to soon expire and tax rates will jump. There is an argument that making them permanent would create some certainty for investors, who are currently uncertain about prospects for the stock and bond markets. But whatever the longer-term benefits, the near-term economic boost would be small. The problems plaguing financial markets are broad and deep and unlikely to be measurably affected by such a policy change. Moreover, even assuming with the most favorable financial markets, the stimulus potential of such a move is small; each $1 in net cost to the Treasury produces only 37 cents worth of GDP, according to our model.
http://www.economy.com/dismal/article_free.asp?cid=102598
so spend a 1$ on increasing food stamps and boost the GDP 1.73 $ . Do the same by increasing tax cuts to corporations and what does the GDP see back ? 30 cents.
which gets the market moving better ? The 'free market' has had a ton of tax breaks yet still lays people off but profits are through the roof ( until like we've seen lately the catch 22 of it all - failure. you can't push a product if people aren't working to afford them)
not to forget all the taxes corporations and the elite don't pay - avoid .
Most U.S. firms paid no taxes over 7-year span
Carolyn Said, Chronicle Staff Writer
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(08-12) 19:48 PDT -- When the taxman cometh, most corporations wave him on by, according to a government study released on Tuesday.
About two-thirds of U.S. companies and foreign firms doing business in this country paid no federal income taxes from 1998 to 2005, according to a study by the Government Accountability Office. Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., called the report "a shocking indictment of the current tax system."
To be sure, many of the nonpayers were small or new companies that probably made no money. But the report said that about a quarter of large corporations - ones that had more than $250 million in assets or $50 million in gross receipts - paid no taxes. In 2005, for instance, 3,565 large U.S. companies and 998 large foreign-owned companies operating here did not pay any income taxes.
The report neither identified any companies nor specified how they avoided tax liability.
There are numerous legal ways a corporation can duck taxes. The most obvious one: If you don't make money, you don't have to pay taxes. Companies also can write off previous years' losses, get tax exemptions for a plethora of expenses, use R&D credits, even wipe out tax liability when their employees exercise stock options.
But corporations can do a lot of creative accounting to "lose" money - and sometimes that can cross the line.....
....In fact, despite its high nominal rate, U.S. corporate taxes as a percentage of gross domestic product are lower than in most other industrialized nations. From 2000 to 2005, revenue from federal and state corporate income tax averaged 2.2 percent of the U.S. GDP, compared to an average of 3.4 percent in 30 of its trading-partner countries, according to the Treasury Department.
Peter R. Merrill, a principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers, wrote an article in the publication Tax Analysts, underscoring this paradox.
Data on corporate tax as a percentage of GDP "present a conundrum," he wrote. "The United States has the second highest combined statutory corporate tax rate among (the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries, yet is tied with Hungary in raising the fourth lowest amount of combined corporate income tax revenue relative to GDP in 2004."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...;type=printable
The rich do this too ... creative accounting , off shore accounts ..ect.. all the things the regular 'Joe' can't afford to pay an expert about , finding those loopholes.
so next time cons cry - play a small violin and hand them some cheese to go with that whine.
the bail outs could work if they went to the right places - building jobs via the government like infrastructure. not padding for banks , investment companies who then say the public has no right knowing what it spent the money on.
Edited January 12, 2009 by Lt_Ripley
I agree with Lt Ripley. I think this is one of the reasons Tilley calls it the money matrix, nothing is what it seems and everything seems to run backwards from what is logical.
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This Obama plan is the largest ponzi scheme I've seen this year, and there has been alot of them. you would think that we might have learned something from the failed Bush stimulus plan $825 billion. now Obama wants another $819 billion. we bail out Merrill Lynch and they give $4 billion to $5 billion in bonuses in 2008. and layoff thousands.
Why don't they just give the money to the poor and middle class?
I think the auther Phillip Tilley is offering an alternative look at economic issues.
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MID, just by saying that we've seen something like this before it's evident that you have no idea what's really going on.
I got to thinking about the bailouts and it did occur to me that perhaps GM did not deserve one. It seems to me a few years ago GM had developed an electric car that they later sent to the scrap yard. If they had of kept making them, which would have been good business, they wouldn't have been in the financial mess they ended up in. They were ahead of the pack and threw it away. They don't deserve a bail out, they deserve to go out of business for making poor decisions in the auto business. That's how capitalism is supposed to work.
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Good post, MID. However, the nature of the economic woe (and the probable solution) means that recovery will not be overnight - it will take considerable time. Of course, this leaves time for people like the OP to cry that "things aren't happening, so we have to do things my way!!!"
Mr Anderson,
I am always a little skeptical of a person who shouts loudly about money having no value, yet is apparently not too shy about collecting a lot of the stuff himself.
Edited August 7, 2009 by Leonardo
What evidence do you have that the author is collecting a lot of money? That seems a little presumptuous on your part!
What would be the consequence to Mr Tilley of his economic theories/principles being widely adopted and him and his theories being highly regarded by the majority of international economists?
I am hardly expressing an occurence that would be unlikely, in that event. Mr Tilley is as human as the rest of us.
Perhaps a better question would be, what would be the consequence to society as a whole if Mr Tilleys economic theories/principles were widely adopted?
Is it that hard to believe that a person can be altruistic? Perhaps you should not judge everyone by your own actions. From what I have read about rock stars and authors, only the top one half of a percent make any significant amount of money, the rest are also rans. I checked the rank of his book on amazon.com, and if that is any indication it certainly isn't a number one best seller, and the publisher probably never recouped their investment in the project. I see no evidence the author is in it for the money.
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Milton, MA (View All Cities)
ZIP code 02186 is located in central Massachusetts and covers a slightly less than average land area compared to other ZIP codes in the United States. It also has a slightly higher than average population density.
The people living in ZIP code 02186 are primarily white. The number of middle aged adults is extremely large while the number of seniors is large. There are also a small number of single adults and a slightly higher than average number of families. The percentage of children under 18 living in the 02186 ZIP code is slightly higher than average compared to other areas of the country.
Male 810 988 1,002 1,163 907 483 472 646 914 982 981 999 756 474 365 274 260 260
Female 734 980 939 1,150 872 430 570 839 1,023 1,131 1,144 1,101 830 562 460 511 452 539
Total 1,544 1,968 1,941 2,313 1,779 913 1,042 1,485 1,937 2,113 2,125 2,100 1,586 1,036 825 785 712 799
Under 5 810 734 1,544
5-9 988 980 1,968
10-14 1,002 939 1,941
15-19 1,163 1,150 2,313
20-24 907 872 1,779
40-44 914 1,023 1,937
85 Plus 260 539 799
12,736 47%
20,901 77.4%
1,118 4.1%
Owner 22 405 1,334 1,931 1,862 966 721 403
Renter 22 180 288 288 229 169 254 200
Total 44 585 1,622 2,219 2,091 1,135 975 603
Male 160 167 156 199 193 208 206 187 194 212 192 186 207 205 196 244 206 244 273 258
Female 132 140 154 165 211 165 194 204 206 194 196 215 150 184 166 211 207 289 277 259
Total 292 307 310 364 404 373 400 391 400 406 388 401 357 389 362 455 413 533 550 517
ZIP code 02186 has a small percentage of vacancies. The Census also indicates that there are one or more nursing homes and universities nearby.
The majority of household are owned or have a mortgage. Homes in ZIP code 02186 were primarily built in 1939 or earlier. Looking at 02186 real estate data, the median home value of $484,000 is extremely high compared to the rest of the country. It is also extremely high compared to nearby ZIP codes. So you are less likely to find inexpensive homes in 02186. Rentals in 02186 are most commonly 2 bedrooms. The rent for 2 bedrooms is normally $1,000+/month including utilities. 3+ bedrooms are also common and rent for $1,000+/month. Prices for rental property include ZIP code 02186 apartments, townhouses, and homes that are primary residences.
The median household income of $111,071 is compared to the rest of the country. It is also compared to nearby ZIP codes. So 02186 is likely to be one of the nicer parts of town with a more affluent demographic.
As with most parts of the country, vehicles are the most common form of transportation to places of employment. ZIP code 02186 uses public transportation to get to work more than almost anywhere in the country. In most parts of the country, the majority of commuters get to work in under half an hour. However, that is not the case in 02186. It has a much lower than average number of people that make it to work in under half an hour. It is much more common for employees to have to travel over 45 minutes to their place of employment than most parts of country which could indicate bad traffic or that people typically live far from where they work.
For more information, see Milton, MA household income.
Compared to other ZIPs, 02186 has a very small percentage of people that did not graduate high school. The area has some of the highest percentages of people who attended college of any ZIP.
1,124 7%
ZIP Code 02186 is in the following school districts: Milton School District and Private. There are 10 different elementary schools and high schools with mailing addresses in ZIP code 02186.
Charles S Pierce Middle School
Milton, MA 02186
District: Milton School District
Collicot
80 Edge Hill Rd
Grade Level: Primary/Elementary
Glover
255 Canton Avenue
187 Blue Hills Pkwy
Cunningham School
Milton High School
25 Gile Road
St Agatha School
440 Adams St
District: Private
Fontbonne Academy
930 Brook Rd
Delphi Academy
564 Blue Hill Ave
Carriage House School
Dorchester, MA
Dorchester Center, MA
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Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire
Tara Nummedal
What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men—and occasionally women—who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and ... More
What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men—and occasionally women—who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors of practical techniques, inventions, and cures, these entrepreneurs were prized by princely patrons, who relied upon alchemists to bolster their political fortunes. At the same time, satirists, artists, and other commentators used the figure of the alchemist as a symbol for Europe's social and economic ills. Drawing on criminal trial records, contracts, laboratory inventories, satires, and vernacular alchemical treatises, this book situates the everyday alchemists, largely invisible to modern scholars until now, at the center of the development of early modern science and commerce. Reconstructing the workaday world of entrepreneurial alchemists, the author shows how allegations of fraud shaped their practices and prospects. These debates not only reveal enormously diverse understandings of what the “real” alchemy was and who could practice it; they also connect a set of little-known practitioners to the largest questions about commerce, trust, and intellectual authority in early modern Europe.Less
What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men—and occasionally women—who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors of practical techniques, inventions, and cures, these entrepreneurs were prized by princely patrons, who relied upon alchemists to bolster their political fortunes. At the same time, satirists, artists, and other commentators used the figure of the alchemist as a symbol for Europe's social and economic ills. Drawing on criminal trial records, contracts, laboratory inventories, satires, and vernacular alchemical treatises, this book situates the everyday alchemists, largely invisible to modern scholars until now, at the center of the development of early modern science and commerce. Reconstructing the workaday world of entrepreneurial alchemists, the author shows how allegations of fraud shaped their practices and prospects. These debates not only reveal enormously diverse understandings of what the “real” alchemy was and who could practice it; they also connect a set of little-known practitioners to the largest questions about commerce, trust, and intellectual authority in early modern Europe.
Keywords: alchemists, Holy Roman Empire, practical techniques, inventions, cures, entrepreneurs, princely patrons, satirists, artists, early modern science
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1 January–9 March 1780
George Washington. Benjamin L. Huggins
BUY Cloth · 792 pp. · 6.13 × 9.25 · ISBN 9780813937823 · $95.00 · Feb 2016
With volume 24 of the Revolutionary War Series, the conflict enters a new decade. New Year's Day 1780 finds Washington in winter quarters at Morristown, N.J., having established his headquarters at the Ford mansion there one month earlier.
During the weeks covered by this volume, the Continental army experienced the harshest winter of the war. But the severity of the winter did not prevent Washington from mounting an offensive against British forces. Ice had formed a natural bridge to Staten Island, and Washington decided to use the situation to launch a major attack on the enemy's forts there. He assigned Major General Stirling to command the strike and assigned him 2,600 troops. Stirling launched the assault as planned in the early morning of 15 January, but the next day he had to report to Washington that the operation had failed. Although the attack was fruitless, it provides evidence of Washington's aggressive generalship: a major winter attack designed to cut off and capture enemy garrisons.
Washington's enemy was not idle either. In addition to several raids on New Jersey towns and surprise attacks on outlying detachments, the British launched one operation with a far more ambitious goal: to seize Washington at the Ford mansion and carry him into New York City as a prisoner. The attack failed, but it was the deep snow--and not American bullets--that stopped the cavalry force sent to capture Washington.
Enemy operations, however, were not the greatest threat to the survival of Washington's army. The harshness of the winter, the precarious state of Continental finances, and the resulting lack of provisions threatened his forces with starvation. To feed his troops, Washington implemented an emergency "requisition" of provisions throughout New Jersey.
As usual, administration of the army consumed much of Washington's time. In addition to obtaining supplies, he had to oversee recruiting the army, obtaining clothing for his men, negotiating for the exchange of prisoners, and conducting inspections, as well as attending to the professionalism and discipline of the army. His burden became so heavy that in February he felt it would be "impossible" for him to execute the duties of commander in chief unless he received more support from his senior officers.
Several letters to or from well-known figures of the Revolution appear in this volume, including Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Franklin, and Robert Morris. Washington's letter to Morris gives rare insight into the general's personal life. The commander in chief expressed his inclination to accept Morris's invitation to spend some of the winter with him, but he lamented that "public duty" necessitated remaining with the army at Morristown. He would, he explained to Morris, have to forgo such "social enjoyments" until the end of the war.
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Include women in Selective Service registration
With equal opportunity comes equal obligation. Women have spent decades earning their place in military combat: Our view
Include women in Selective Service registration With equal opportunity comes equal obligation. Women have spent decades earning their place in military combat: Our view Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/03/18/draft-include-women-selective-service-registration-editorials-debates/3130662002/
The Editorial Board, USA TODAY Published 5:47 p.m. ET March 18, 2019 | Updated 5:51 p.m. ET March 18, 2019
The United States might never resume the draft, given the bitter and deep emotional wounds lingering after hundreds of thousands of young men were conscripted for service during the divisive Vietnam War and many didn't come home.
But while the draft ended in 1973 in favor of an all-volunteer U.S. military, virtually all men ages 18 to 25 still must register with Selective Service to provide a pool of potential draftees in the event of a major mobilization.
And it is time that women sign up as well.
A federal judge in Texas ruled last month that exempting women from Selective Service violates the Constitution's equal protection principles. The Texas ruling will almost certainly be appealed, but if it is upheld, the Trump administration might move to reinstate a ban on women serving in ground combat roles, lifted in 2013.
That would be a terrible setback for women who have spent decades earning their place in America's military.
Joining the Army (Photo: Bernadette Tuazon/AP)
MARINE VETERAN: There is no military need to draft women
Today, about one in six service members is female. An estimated 378,000 serve in uniform, and roughly the same number were deployed to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where 1,000 were wounded in combat and 171 died.
Women have been flying Air Force combat missions for more than 15 years. And since ground combat restrictions were lifted, a small but growing number of women have passed the military's most grueling physical tests preparing for war.
Twenty-six women have earned the Army's coveted black-and-gold Ranger tab, including 15 now serving in combat positions. Two women have passed the Marine Corps' rigorous infantry officers course. And 170 women have graduated from the Army's basic infantry and advanced individual training, with 150 more in the pipeline.
Women are already compelled to serve in the military in Israel, as well as in Norway and, most recently, in Sweden. Bringing back compulsory military service, this time for men and women, is under consideration in Germany and France.
The all-volunteer U.S. military was stretched nearly to its limits fighting long wars at the same time in Iraq and Afghanistan. Soldiers and Marines endured multiple tours of combat that carried severe physical and emotional strains. Replenishing the ranks with volunteers remains a challenge, particularly when the economy is strong. Last year, for the first time since 2005, the Army failed to meet its recruiting goal.
The potential for resuming the draft should the worst happen is not inconceivable. Were that to happen, every able-bodied young person would — and should — be subject to national military service. With equal opportunity comes equal obligation.
Exempting half the population would ignore a valuable human resource at a moment of national crisis.
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