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Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards
Entry Showcase
Interview with 2019's Best Non-English-Language Winner
Our Best Non-English-Language category presents us with an opportunity to celebrate vizzes featuring topics and commentary outside of the English-speaking world - i.e., most of the global population. In 2019 the Brazilian news outlet Estadão took home the prize with their project "Simulation Shows Which Children Are Adopted (And Which Are Not) In Brazil."
Estadão produced exhaustive & empathetic coverage on the fate of foster children in South America's largest country. Designer Vinicius Sueiro, project lead alongside Estadão team members Bruno Ponceano, Mariana Cunha and Julia Marques, answered a few of our questions about this fascinating journalistic endeavor.
Can you briefly describe the story behind the project?
Among children living at a foster home, you could probably find a 14-year-old black boy who has a brother or sister. These are the most common attributes of children available for adoption. However, the profile most sought out by future parents is that of a 2-year-old white girl and only child. According to our simulation, the 14-year-old’s chance of being adopted within 12 months is 1 in 1,000. The girl’s adoption is taken for granted. Seeking a more sensitive approach, we opted for a visual metaphor and represented each child
as a small plant that grows as the years go by.
Each child in the simulation is represented as a plant that grows as time passes. Parental preferences greatly impact the likelihood of adoption as the child grows older.
How did Estadão decide to cover this topic?
Have you ever felt like you’re doing the same work over and over? The newsroom routine can get really exhausting – and that was my feeling around August 2019. To shake things up a little, I proposed that the whole team should take a break. What if we went to a public park, worked outdoors, ran an idea workshop and returned home with dozens of fresh ideas? My directors were on board with the idea and that’s exactly what happened.
The team and I co-created the mechanics of the workshop. Basically, we sorted verbs, nouns and adjectives and, in groups, we had 10 minutes to write down a few ideas that stitched those words together. We then voted on our favorites. After that, we had one week to create a raw prototype with the best ideas. The ones that seemed promising would be taken forward.
The first random words my group produced had to do with fertility. We remembered a piece by the WSJ that analyzed the preferences of families in Brazil regarding sperm donors and we thought it would be interesting to compare it to the preferences regarding adoptions. As it later turned out, we had enough data to build a compelling story on the adoption process in Brazil.
In order to tell the story, we developed an open source simulator that matches prospective parents and children. This simulator lets you interactively track how long it would take for a 2-year-old to be adopted – and compare it with the waiting time of a 10-year-old. Through running the simulator thousands of times, it became possible to identify the attributes that most facilitate or hinder the adoption of a child. Being over 5 years old, having siblings or some kind of disability makes adoption extremely difficult.
What made you choose clusters of flowers to depict children in the foster system?
Well, it began like almost all data visualizations: every person was a dot. But that is usually too cold – and we wanted readers to feel connected to the story. So we asked ourselves what could symbolize nurture and care.
We tried to go the route of making the clusters resemble a bird's nest. Every child was represented as a branch. The concept was ok, but those dry branches were a bit sad - and we wanted to give it life. That’s when it occurred to us to paint them green and turn them into sunflowers. This representation encoded 3 types of information:
The higher the plant, the older the child
The V-shaped ending means that the child has at least one brother or sister
The flower indicates that this child has a physical or cognitive disability
After running the simulation up until a total of 1,000 children were adopted, we grouped them by different categories: race, disability and siblings. We then compared the characteristics of children available for adoption with those of children who were adopted. This indicates that, although skin color plays an important role during selection, there are other more selective filters in action. For example, almost half of the children with cognitive impairments are not adopted. In addition, children that have brothers or sisters are much less likely to be adopted if they are over 10.
Did you design with universal comprehension in mind?
We actually did not design with universal comprehension in mind, but I believe it is a consequence of using familiar visual metaphors, which makes the simulation more universal in a sense that it evokes familiar concepts. The interactive simulation is a guided “tour” to the underlying data – and I believe this step-by-step explanation makes it easier for people to understand, even if they do not speak Portuguese.
What challenges did you overcome in creating this piece?
The simulation algorithm was the craziest piece of software I have ever wrote. If I were to do it again, I would definately not write it in JavaScript, as the performance was terrible. Of course the interactive part should use JS, but I had to build a parallel version without any DOM manipulation (to increase performance) to be able to run the matching algorithm thousands of times. The output was a JSON file that was analysed in Python, using Pandas.
One fun fact - on the simulation, I honestly don’t know what would happen if the 10-year-old child was actually adopted in less than a year. The chances are so low that I didn't even handle this scenario. Up until now we didn’t receive any complaints regarding this case, so I guess it is not a BIG problem. I’m not proud of it, but I didn’t really have the time to handle this case.
For news outlets in particular, what do you think is the potential of data design to relate local stories globally?
I believe that visual design – along with other ways of making humans better perceive data – is an important factor when transforming numbers into ideas that people really feel connected to. The way in which Giorgia Lupi has covered this topic in her manifesto about data humanism is amazing – and I would like to quote a few words that really resonate with our decisions behind this story:
“The more ubiquitous data becomes, the more we need to experiment with how to make it unique, contextual, intimate.” - Giorgia Lupi on data humanism
Furthermore, I’d like to point out that a few Brazilian researchers, like Luiz Morais, are building up a list called Anthropographics, that covers data projects about people that abide by similar principles. Feel free to check them out.
What was the impact of submitting this project to the Awards and winning the prize for Best Non-English Language dataviz?
Back in 2017, Rodrigo Menegat and I won a bronze medal in the same category with the All the Government Barbecues project. This visibility was incredibly positive for me and Rodrigo. But the project itself was independently published – and had only been viewed a few thousand times. Being published with a major media company really brought the spotlight on this project. It had an incredible impact on the public, as seen through Twitter comments on the article:
“Reading about adoption, watching the simulator they developed and crying inside an Uber. I really want to be a stable adult to be the mother of these kids”
Our underlying goal was to promote a shift in perception, so that those charts and numbers could look – a few years from now – a bit different.
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Obama's approval numbers defy critics
In Washington it's believed that elections are decided by the economy and foreign policy.
But President Obama's numbers defy that conventional wisdom by staying solid even though the economy is in terrible shape.
Oddly enough he's doing very well with the public even though they're unhappy with the state of the economy. His approval rating is much higher than observers expect it to be based on how the country is actually doing.
The most likely explanation for this is that the majority of Americans still blame George W. Bush for the state of our economy. In fairness Obama hasn't turned it around yet, but it looks like the public didn't expect him to overnight and are intent on letting him win the war and not just the battles.
Gridlock in Congress may be another contributing factor, where's the GOP's rightward march and insuperable opposition to tax cuts and deficit spending are looking more and more extreme to the average voter. Fears over a default have now attached themselves to the Republican party, who - alongside the Tea Party -are now being blamed for the lack of pragmatism that's currently playing out before the cameras.
But it may be something more immediate than Obama's economic policies that's keeping his numbers high. It could simply be the public perception of him as a brilliant if overly cautious political operator who, time after time, meets his targets.
One other contributing possibility, and it bears thinking about, is the quality of the 2012 GOP field.
With several candidates already signing a shockingly extreme (and even racist) pledge to mollify the religious right, whilst others are accused of pandering to their ever changing audiences - the 2012 models barely command the respect of their own base, so it remains to be seen how credible a threat they really pose the president when their candidate of choice is eventually selected.
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Ludwig van does it again
February 19, 2016 by Fraser Beath McEwing
Another entire program of Beethoven under Vladimir Ashkenazy, with the addition of a solo violinist, again packed the Sydney Opera House for the second of the 2016 APT Master Series concerts, writes Fraser Beath McEwing.
Last week we got the Fourth Symphony and the Emperor Piano Concerto making their contribution to the complete Beethoven symphonic and concerto picture. Last night, the jigsaw pieces were the Violin Concerto and the Fifth Symphony, two of the greatest Beethoven crowd pleasers.
James Ehnes Photo:
Opening the program, Canadian born James Ehnes strode on to the stage carrying his eight million dollar Marsick Stradivarius followed, at a trot, by the self-effacing Vladimir Ashkenazy. Tall and straight, Ehnes looked like Michelangelo’s David in tails. The audience had plenty of time to contemplate his striking appearance as he waited through the long introduction of the concerto for his arpeggio opening. When it came, I marvelled at his technique, with his incomparable trills and perfectly even runs. But at this point, the mob may lynch me, because I was disappointed with his tone and projection. The last time I’d heard the Beethoven violin concerto in the Opera House was four years ago when Anne-Sophie Mutter played it – also under Ashkenazy. On that occasion I was enchanted by a tone that reminded me of ripe fruit.
At age 40, Ehnes has built an enviable reputation and I can see why. Technically, he is flawless, and that would work magic in a recording studio or salon concert, but in an acoustically draining space like the Sydney Opera House, he needed a steroid or two. Even in the slow movement, which gives the soloist plenty of opportunity to be expansive, the honey didn’t flow. The final movement brought some oomph here and there, but the hairs on the back of my neck stayed in place.
Plenty would disagree with me, and that includes members of the orchestra who sat and applauded Ehnes. Even Ashkenazy led an interim clap after the first movement – which had the severe lady sitting next to me hissing with anger over breaking the mood.
In fairness, I must say that Ehnes’s Bach encore, when he didn’t have to compete with the orchestra, was superlative.
Vladamir Ashkenazy conducts the Beethoven Violin Concerto Photo: Henry Benjamin/J-Wire
Even though the concerto was a considerable attraction, it was Beethoven’s fifth that the audience had come to hear.
Let me digress to relate a story I heard about Sir Thomas Beecham and Beethoven’s Fifth. If you look at the score, you’ll see that the famous da da da dum opening bar is a little deceptive. The first note comes after a quaver rest, which means the conductor has to begin the whole piece with a brief silence. This apparently caused Sir Thomas some consternation because he didn’t want to wave his arms to start the orchestra when all he needed was a sliver of quiet. He got over the problem by holding his hands aloft and shaking his body from the feet up until the spasm reached his arms, whereupon he would signal the first quaver note with a downbeat. Somehow the orchestra caught on, because he became a highly regarded Beethoven conductor.
I watched to see how Ashkenazy would handle that opening quaver rest, but he was too quick for me. He scurried across the stage to begin the second half and started conducting as he was stepping onto the podium. Subsequent repeats of the motif didn’t really decide it for me either. I suspect he gets over the problem by some rapid horizontal arm pumping only visible from the choir seats – which had been left totally empty for some reason.
Fraser Beath McEwing
But on to more serious musical matters. The fifth was simply inspirational. Whether the orchestra was playing for Ashkenazy or for Beethoven didn’t matter. The effect was uplifting. There was a degree of fervour I hadn’t heard from the SSO in a long time – if ever. Right from the first bars there was emotion, power and beautifully controlled tempi. If you wanted to encapsulate the passion of the players you only had to watch the leader, Dean Olding, who normally goes about his business calmly, but for this performance he went flying on a magic carpet.
One of the unusual features about this symphony, arguably Beethoven’s greatest, is that a number of wind instruments sit blowless for the first three movements, but blast off in the fourth. Thus, for a volcanic finish, the sound is enhanced by piccolo, double bassoon and trombone players with fresh lungs ready to lift the roof.
What I thought might be a ho-hum night turned out to be soul food.
Fraser Beath McEwing is an accomplished pianist and commentator on classical music performance and is a founding member of The theme & Variations Foundation Advisory Board which provides assistance to talented young Australian pianists. His professional background is in journalism, editing and publishing. He is also the author of three novels. and a Governor of the Sir Moses Montefiore Home.
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Rubicon Project is an advertising technology company focused on automating the buying and selling of advertising. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Rubicon Project has engineered one of the largest real-time cloud and big data computing systems, processing trillions of transactions within milliseconds every month. In April 2014, the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the ticker RUBI.
Rubicon Project offers advertising automation solutions to both buyers and sellers. The company’s Advertising Automation Cloud brings both parties together on a technology platform that self-optimizes based on its ability to analyze and learn from vast volumes of data. The Automation Cloud uses more than 50,000 algorithms to execute real-time transactions. The platform is used by the world’s leading publishers and mobile application developers to transact with hundreds of buying platforms and tens of thousands of advertisers globally.
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Rubicon Project’s Orders platform automates the buying of direct order inventory, and supports the creation of automated private marketplaces. It has been adopted by more than 270 publishers and most major agency trading desks (3,500+ premium advertisers).
The main value proposition behind the Buyer Cloud Orders platform is automation. The platform specifically addresses the time-consuming direct deal process between buyers and sellers of digital advertising, for both non-guaranteed and guaranteed direct orders. Rubicon Project also streamlines the negotiation between parties, eliminating the need for phone calls, emails and faxes. Further, agreements between buyers and sellers are automatically executed in real-time bidding using Deal IDs.
Using the platform, buyers also benefit from access to exclusive advertising opportunities. The proposal creation process is extremely intuitive and buyers save time through automated digital RFPs. Using the platform, buyers can discover highly relevant inventory and also conduct searches by price, bids & impressions, ad type, ad size, content, audience demographics, platform, operating system, location, keywords, etc. to find exactly what they need for the campaign.
To demonstrate the value proposition to buyers, Rubicon Project’s team shared a brief case study highlighting a leading digital media provider.
Background: The client is a provider of premium internet media available to viewers around the world. They have tens of millions of subscribers.
Goals: The client wanted to have “always-on” access to targeted, high quality inventory to advertise their newest content as well as be able to reallocate FTE hours to higher ROI activities – like creating better content.
Solution: Rubicon Project helped by working with the client to create a private marketplace of 20+ hand-selected premium publishers that the client could access at any time, as needed. Rubicon also assisted by enabling the client’s team to discover, negotiate and execute buys in under two days’ time and eliminating the need for insertion orders (IO), emails, RFPs and phone calls back and forth.
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Andy Samberg Quotes
Quotes by and about Andy Samberg
Samberg: "[When I went trick-or-treating as a kid] there was a nice house we'd walk up to in the neighborhood where the people didn't want to deal with handing out candy, so they would leave a bucket with full candy bars and a note that said: Please take one. My dickhead friends and I would roll up and just dump the whole thing into our bags and take off. If you're not gonna bother saying hi to the kids then don't expect us to play by the rules."
Samberg: "If you don't ask your boss [first] he can't say no."
Samberg: "People always ask [me] for advice and I always say: 'Get out of your comfort zone. Leave where you're from. Get out and experience more of the world.'"
Samberg: "I hate [having a packed schedule]. I pretty much know what I'm doing every part of the day for the next year, and saying that out loud gives me the shits."
Samberg: "I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling."
Samberg: "The older you get, the funnier fart jokes are. Any 20-year-old can make fart jokes. But when Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner do it? Holy sh-t! If you let go of fart jokes, you've let go of a piece of humanity."
Samberg: "Awesometown was the name of a TV pilot I made with my two creative partners, Akiva [Schaffer] and Jorma [Taccone], right before we got our SNL auditions. It was all sketch comedy, and we wanted it to be a kind of sanctuary from natural disasters and wars and everything that was getting you down."
Samberg: "Anytime you make something that is encouraging ridiculousness and surrealism and taking things less seriously, is my favorite kind of comedy."
Samberg: "I was trying to make jokes in class in school as early as first grade. I wanted to be on 'SNL' since I was eight. So, I locked in the comedy very early on. And my parents always tell me that even as a baby I was constantly laughing and giggling. I'm just a laughy kind of guy I guess."
Samberg: "[There is an] episode of Inside the Actor's Studio with Dave Chappelle, when James Lipton plays a clip from Half Baked and says, 'That was a remarkable piece of acting.' Chappelle just dies laughing. That was my favorite thing ever. There's no way to talk about comedy seriously without sounding like a dickhead."
Samberg: "[Adam Sandler is] such a hyper-positive guy and he's like: 'You're gonna be great - just decide what you want to do and then you can do it.'"
Samberg: "[Joanna Newsom] is just one of the best songwriters I've ever heard. Her songs do the thing that's my favorite thing that art can do, which is be full of beauty and yet melancholy at the same time. 'Cause that's what life is, really: beauty, and also melancholy."
New York Magazine: "His childhood was, it seems, untroubled by exceptional trauma, corrosive unpopularity, or other psychic scars that might have warped him into a jester."
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Why Marchionne Stood Out as an Industry Leader
A look at some of the biggest accomplishments of the former CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, who died Wednesday.
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MILAN (AP) — Sergio Marchionne, the founding CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles who died Wednesday, was widely recognized as an industry leader. Here's a look at some of his biggest accomplishments.
Creating Value: Since taking over Fiat in 2004, Marchionne has increased the company's market value more than tenfold. Fiat's share price rose from $1.64 to as much as $23.40 this year. That increase reflects the takeover of Chrysler but also the spinoff of key units, like Ferrari.
Getting Cash from GM: The move that made Marchionne's name as a dealmaker was getting General Motors to pay $2 billion in 2005 to sever ties with Fiat. The two companies had had a legal contract by which Fiat could have forced GM to buy out the company. GM was afraid of taking on Fiat's debt. So Marchionne convinced it to pay the divorce fee instead — money that helped Fiat get back on its feet.
Buying Chrysler for Nothing: In 2009, as CEO of Fiat, Marchionne struck an agreement to take over Chrysler without putting down a penny. In exchange, it offered its small-car technology, which Chrysler had been lacking. That saved Chrysler from liquidation and since then it has become the profit-leader in Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
Spinoffs: Marchionne unlocked wealth by spinning off subsidiaries, above all the sports car and racing unit Ferrari and the construction vehicles manufacturer CNH. Ferrari is now worth $32 billion and CNH about $21 billion.
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IFLA LGBTQ Users SIG CFP 2015: Access, Development and Transformation
By Rae Montague and Lucas McKeever
IFLA LGBTQ Users SIG CFP 2015
Developing Equitable Access for LGBTQ Library Users
According to the Lyon Declaration (http://www.lyondeclaration.org), sustainable development must take place within a human-rights based framework, which relies on equitable access to information and freedom of expression. What does this mean in terms serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) library users? How do librarians enable equitable access to information of interest and importance to LGBTQ individuals and groups? How is freedom of expression represented in library services and collections?
The LGBTQ Users SIG (http://www.ifla.org/about-lgbtq) seeks submissions from scholars emphasizing access to information and freedom of expression linked to LGBTQ library services. Discussions may emphasize areas such as:
· LGBTQ special collections
· Library as safe space
· Library service to LGBTQ patrons in Africa
· Library service to rainbow families
· Outreach/partnerships with community organizations
· Promoting inclusive access
Academic, public, school, special librarians, and other professionals are encouraged to respond to the CFP in order to share insights and approaches with the larger library community at the World Library and Information Congress in Cape Town, South Africa (http://conference.ifla.org/ifla81).
Presenters are expected to prepare a formal paper as well as a PowerPoint presentation. In unusual cases when this is not possible, speakers will prepare a substantial abstract, including references with URLs and bibliographies, to accompany their presentation. Selected works will have abstracts and links to full papers on the conference website. Papers and presentations can be made in any of the official IFLA languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, but an accompanying translation of all papers into English must be provided. Attempts will be made to provide translations into other official languages.
IFLA LGBTQ Users SIG CFP Important Dates and Notes
Deadline for submitting 300 word proposals for papers/presentations plus a brief biographical statement of speaker(s). Information should include: title of presentation; abstract; all authors, noting likely presenter; institutional affiliations; contact information, including all email addresses.
Announcement of final program and communication with all who submit proposals. IFLA HQ notified of outcome from call.
15 May 2015 –
Deadline for submission of final paper. Papers should be no more than 3,000 words.
30 June 2015 –
Deadline for all PowerPoint presentations from speakers.
June/July 2015 –
Speakers will be notified of the time of the program.
Proposals will be reviewed by a jury composed of members of the LGBTQ Users SIG,
generously being hosted by the Acquisitions and Collection Development Section.
Unfortunately, there are no funds to assist with your attendance at WLIC 2015.
In accordance with IFLA’s Open Access Statement, all papers that are presented at the WLIC 2015 should be available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
All submissions and any questions should be sent via email to ifla.lgbtq@gmail.com
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Revisiting the competitiveness concept
By Professor Arturo BrisArturo Bris
with José Caballero
Concepts and ideas “travel” (Said, 1983). These building blocks of intellectual activity reflect existing societal conditions. Initial circumstances, however, evolve, and thus concepts and ideas come under scrutiny—what was an appropriate understanding of specific historical conditions enters a reinterpretation phase. In the process, they are transformed to reflect the reality of changing contexts. Cultural and intellectual life is thus nourished and sustained. Such is the evolution experienced by the concept of competitiveness.
The World Competitiveness Yearbook adopts an understanding of competitiveness that “… analyzes how nations and enterprises manage the totality of their competencies to achieve prosperity or profit.” The latter interpretation is supplemented by an academic definition which states that competitiveness “… analyzes the facts and policies that shape the ability of a nation to create and maintain an environment that sustains more value creation for its enterprises and more prosperity for its people.”
We are in the process of revisiting such understanding. Our objective is to strengthen the operationalization of our ranking and all of its components. We note for example that observers highlight the difficulties in fitting “prosperity” into the competitiveness conceptual framework. They point out that national prosperity seems difficult to link directly to enterprise performance. Seemingly the main objection lies in what the outcome of competitiveness is. We thus endeavor to reconsider the crucial components of our conceptualization of competitiveness.
We observe that countries do shape the environment in which enterprises create value. Legislation and the institutional framework (i.e., government efficiency factor) are channels through which governments influence competitiveness. At the same time, the availability of contextual elements such as the technological infrastructure (i.e., infrastructure factor) sets limitations on competitiveness. Business efficiency greatly contributes to competitiveness while economic performance also plays a determinant role. There is not, however, linear causality avmong these elements.
Our task is nevertheless to identify an effective outcome of the interactions among the competitiveness factors.
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Revisiting our definition of competitiveness to read as “the ability of a country to facilitate an environment in which enterprises can generate sustainable value” allows us to fulfill that task. To operationalize this definition, we propose to measure sustainable or long-term value creation through two elements: the long-term profitability of companies and their employment levels during the same period. Of course, positive and negative feedback can be put forward. We welcome such dialectical process so as to further our understanding of competitiveness.
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By Stephen E. Arnold Managing Director - ArnoldIT.COM
MapReduce, Chubby and Hadoop
In short, Hadoop along with Lucene/Solr and the NoSQL data management tools represent an outright attack on traditional enterprise-grade, commercial-carrier solutions. IBM, for instance, is savvy and has embraced open source to reduce certain costs without compromising its ability to sell engineering support services and for-fee software that connects, extends or amplifies the basic functions of the open source solution. IBM and a handful of other companies have figured out how to comply with the open source community approach and build a business. Red Hat, Cloudera and Lucid Imagination are three firms that have built solid businesses via open source.
Long-march approach
My view is that Google is committed to open source software. The reason is that as open source gains momentum, Google weakens some of its staunchest competitors in the enterprise market. Instead of attacking one outfit head on, Google seems to take a five-year or long-march approach. As commercial solutions face increased competition, Google can selectively target specific business opportunities.
I no longer doubt Google’s commitment to open source. The reason is that Google has made its Android operating system available as open source. Although there are risks associated with forks in Android, the benefit of the approach is that Google can gain “shelf space” without spending much on marketing. Who can beat free? Android is available on a range of devices. They include mobile phones that Motorola seems committed to burn into my brain every time I watch a television program to set top boxes that promise a personalized television guide. Apple and Microsoft will have to find a way to blunt Android. Nokia already is struggling to maintain its revenues, and further disruption in mobile and embedded device markets is a certainty.
The irony
The downside to Google’s approach is that Google may find itself fighting a company using Google-inspired technology. Facebook is a good example. Mark Zuckerberg has hired Xooglers (former Google employees) and uses some open source software. Google, as I write this, has no current product that puts Facebook at a competitive disadvantage. Microsoft invested more than $200 million in Facebook in 2007. Google, on the other hand, suggested that it would have its own Facebook-type product sometime in 2010. If Google’s next Facebook killer follows the trajectory of Google Buzz, Google will be in a unique position. Its own open source initiatives have put steel in the backbone of a competitor like Facebook.
The irony is delicious. Google’s open source efforts and former Google employees become the nemesis of Google. That’s one of the risks of what I call the ultimate Red Bull-charged air race—“the open source card.” Google may not be playing solitaire. In Google’s high-stakes race, open source-centric companies may win a trophy and a series of races. Although hard to accept, Google could be an also-ran. Open source is disruptive, and Google’s open source tactics may lack the horsepower to power to victory after victory
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The Beautiful Game,
More Beautiful Than It’s Ever Been
PES 2020 not only represents a giant leap forward in terms of gameplay mechanics, it also introduces a multitude of visual improvements to enhance your experience in matches and menus alike.
Experience stadiums recreated in stunning fidelity using high performance 3D scanning technology. Witness spectators in the stands react with jaw-dropping realism to the highs and lows of each match. Watch as dynamic lighting systems affect the angle of shadows cast on the pitch as time elapses during play. See every step, stride, pass and shot animated seamlessly as players pound across lustrously rendered green turf. Marvel at the polish of a completely overhauled user interface as you navigate intuitively formatted menus designed from the ground up with ease-of-use in mind.
If you’re going to play the beautiful game, PES 2020 is undoubtedly the most beautiful way to play it.
Enhanced Lighting Engine
Whether you’re playing under the hot midday sun or the brilliant glow of the floodlights at night, lighting conditions in PES have never looked this vibrant. Vast improvements made to the lighting engine ensure a greater level of immersion as the stadium, stands and players are brought to life under both natural and manmade light.
Enjoy a unique visual experience in every match as dynamic daytime lighting systems simulate the sun’s position in the sky to create hyper-realistic shadows.
Improved Player Models
3D full-body scans have been taken of various players to add a new layer of photorealism to player models in PES 2020.
Scanned players have been recreated with exceptional attention to detail, with each of their movements calculated and rendered in game with stunning accuracy.
Realistic Custscenes and Replays
This year, you’ll be able to sit down and treat yourself to a movie-grade experience with Master League’s cinematic cutscenes, expertly interwoven with the mode’s new dialogue system. Special attention has also been paid to improving the graphical quality of replay footage, allowing you to analyse every second of playback to dissect each individual play in amazing detail.
Enhanced Turf Rendering
Dramatic improvements to turf rendering are coming to PES 2020 adding depth and personality to each blade of grass.
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College Hill neighborhood enjoys 4th of July Independence walk
Spotted Photo Gallery
by: Keith Horinek, KSNT
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – The College Hill neighborhood, located just north of Washburn University, canceled their annual 4th of July parade and festivities this year because of coronavirus.
Instead of a full-blown parade, the neighborhood opted for a walking parade instead.
People were encouraged to dress in their red, white and blue. As well as walk-in their neighborhood between College Ave., Jewell Ave, 16th street and 13th St.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - The Washburn University Men's and Women's basketball teams were in action Saturday afternoon in Lee Arena against the Pittsburg Gorillas.
The lady Ichabods lost a close game in overtime 61-69. The 8th ranked Ichabod men won their 10th game of the season against the Gorillas 84-62.
Washburn University hosts the Missouri Southern Lions for Thursday night basketball
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - The Washburn Ichabods hosted the Missouri Southern Lions in a Thursday night basketball game. The lady Ichabods won the early game 56 - 49. The Ichabod men won the late game 99-58.
Topeka Habitat for Humanity breaks ground on three new homes
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - The Topeka Habitat for Humanity broke ground on three new homes this winter. The homes are located at 2600, 2616 and 2626 S.W. Buchanan St.
Janice Watkins, Topeka Habitat for Humanity CEO, "We have quietly broken ground on three new homes this year. Work is slow because we have to work with small crews because of COVID."
Raise a glass: Boulevard Brewing Co. unveils beer for late Topeka native, proceeds for charity
Topeka man dies in shooting with Shawnee County Sheriff’s deputies
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The Amazing Spider-Man Pop-Up Book Review
Reviewed by Kidzworld on Mar 26, 2007
Spider-Man is back - and this time in 3-D! Check out this Spidey pop-up book, featuring real comic strip excerpts.
A new series of pop-up comics features all of your fave Marvel comic book heroes (and villains) in 3-D form. Book one follows Peter Parker as he turns into one of the greatest superheroes of our time - Spiderman!
Peter Parker is an intelligent but bullied orphan living with his aunt and uncle when he's bitten by a radioactive spider at a school demonstration. He soon realizes that he has gained spider-like abilities and dons a disguise so he can flex his super-skills anonymously. The Amazing Spider-Man Pop-Up has all the background info you could want on the webbed-one, including how he got his name, and what terrible crime lead him to become the hero that we know and love.
The Villains
This book doesn't just focus on Spider-Man himself, it also gives you the story behind classic Marvel villains too. Get the goods on The Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Vulture, Electro, Kraven, Mysterio and The Sandman! Each character has a pull-out fact file card that gives you the characters vital stats - such as height, weight, powers and when the character first appeared in Marvel comics. You can't call yourself a true fan unless you know this stuff!
The Amazing Spider-Man Pop-Up has all the old-school comic book styling you love, with a modern three-dimensional twist! The illustrations are vibrant and amazingly detailed, and the pop-ups really bring the action to life. Spiderman's story is cleverly blended into each of the distinct character profiles - so you can read each individually, or the book from front to back to get Spider-Man's whole story. It's Spider-Man-tastic!
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Mainstream Parties in Crisis: The Antiestablishment Challenge
Fernando Casal Bértoa
José Rama
Over recent decades, democracies have seen a decline in support for traditional political parties. In parallel, the vote shares of populist and other antiestablishment forces have increased dramatically, especially during the last decade. As maintained elsewhere, the latter development is the consequence of the former, with its negative consequences for the functioning of democracy. This article shows that only the regeneration of traditional parties, and not the banning, marginalization, or accommodation of antiestablishment ones, can tackle the problem at its root.
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Israel began directly electing its prime minister in 1992, only to abandon this change less than ten years later. What came between was a series of hard lessons in the…
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New Research Suggests That Alien Life Might Not Exist After All
Last updated 8:26 PM, Thursday April 05 2018 GMT+1
A new piece of research suggests that the existence of alien life out there in the universe might be less likely than previously thought.
Yes, the universe could be a lot lonelier than we think after all - the truth may just not be out there.
The research, from the University of Cardiff, - and bear with me here - has discovered that a chemical called phosphorus might just be in shorter supply than sci thought.
This is important because the element is vital for energy transfer and storage within cells and is basically essential for the formation of DNA.
Assuming that for alien life to exist, they would need to have cells and DNA and the like, this phosphorus shortage could mean that alien life is hard to come by in the vastness of space.
Phosphorus is created during the explosions at the end of the lives of stars. These explosions are called supernovae and they create a load of energy - like, enough to outshine entire galaxies.
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However, the new research has discovered that in your average supernova the conditions are not always present for the creation of phosphorus.
This means that our little planet might just have been incredibly lucky to have been situated where it was - within a reasonable distance of the correct type of supernova.
This doesn't mean that there are not other life forms out there, just that they might be even more far-flung and few than we might reckon.
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Dr Jane Greaves, an astronomer from the University of Cardiff, told The Metro: "The route to carrying phosphorus into new-born planets looks rather precarious.
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"We already think that only a few phosphorus-bearing minerals that came to the Earth, probably in meteorites, were reactive enough to get involved in making proto-biomolecules.
"If phosphorus is sourced from supernovae, and then travels across space in meteoritic rocks, I'm wondering if a young planet could find itself lacking in reactive phosphorus because of where it was born?
"That is, it started off near the wrong kind of supernova.
"In that case, life might really struggle to get started out of phosphorus-poor chemistry, on another world otherwise similar to our own."
Get all that? Good.
The evidence comes from a study that they've been performing using Britain's William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands to observe the Crab Nebula is a search for signs of iron and phosphorus.
The Crab Nebula is the aftermath of a supernova that is 6,500 light years away. They're going to widen their search to include other supernovae to see if they show the same signs.
It could be that E.T's home is a lot further away than previously thought. I'm not sure if this is good news or bad news.
Featured Image Credit: Dr Jane Greaves/University of Cardiff
Topics: News, Interesting, Alien, Aliens, Weird, space
Tom Wood is a LADbible journalist and Twin Peaks enthusiast. Despite having a career in football cut short by a chronic lack of talent, he managed to obtain degrees from both the University of London and Salford. According to his French teacher, at the weekends he mostly likes to play football and go to the park with his brother. Contact Tom on [email protected]
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Commission Meeting Agenda Item
Home Commission Meeting Agenda Item 2020029
Staff Recommended Motion
Fiscal Impact
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Draft Ordinance 2020-01
Ordinance 2020-01 (First Reading) — An Ordinance of the Town of Lady Lake, Florida; Amending Ordinance 2016-17 Pertaining to the Town of Lady Lake Land Development Regulations, Chapter 17, Sign Regulations; Amending Sections 17-1.-Purpose and Intent, 17-2.-Permitting Requirements, 17.3.-General Requirements, 17-4.-Permanent Signs, 17-5.-Temporary Uses and Special Event Signs, And 17.7.-Prohibited Signs; Providing for Severability; Providing for Codification; Providing for an Effective Date; and Providing for Publication in Accordance with Law.
Staff recommends approval of Ordinance 2020-01 – Chapter 17 – Sign Regulations Amendments.
On June 6, 2016, the Town Commission approved Ordinance 2016-17 in an effort to update Chapter 17, Sign Regulations, which were originally adopted in 1994. After this sign code update, a U.S. Supreme Court decision specifically focusing on sign regulations in more than two decades was widely publicized eventually reaching municipalities to clarify when government may impose content-based restrictions on signage.
The argument from the Plaintiff, Pastor Clyde Reed with Good News Community Church from the Town of Gilbert, Arizona, is that the Town of Gilbert’s ordinance imposed stricter limitations on signs advertising religious services than signs that displayed other content such as "political" or "ideological" messages.
The U.S. Supreme Court found that content-based sign regulations violated people’s First Amendment right to the freedom of speech as it did not survive strict scrutiny since it could not be proven that the ordinance was tailored to further a compelling government interest.
Just like many other municipalities, Town Staff took a cautious approach not to make any hasty changes and see how the new ruling was being applied. At the same time, we started looking at the Town’s sign Code, its provisions, applications, and ways in which we can improve it to reinforce valid content-based regulation or make it more content-based neutral. Since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling, municipalities have been urged to take a detailed look at their sign codes and make progress towards content neutrality.
When regulating signage, municipalities have the ability to regulate the following criterion:
The size of signs
Number of Signs
Locations in which signs may be placed, including setbacks, heights, and restrictions on signs allowed per mile of roadway or distance separations
Distinguishing between lighted and unlighted signs
Distinguishing between placement of signs on private and public property
Distinguishing between the placement of signs on commercial and residential property
Distinguishing between on-premises and off-premises signs
Duration (Permanent or Temporary)
Section 17-1) – Purpose and Intent – Articulated purpose statements to substantiate the Town’s Sign Code intent.
Section 17-2) – Permitting Requirements – Revision of the Signs exempt from permitting requirements subsection to clarify some gray areas and provide general guidance to the public. The goal is to gradually minimize categories and exceptions to limit content-based distinctions thus eliminating the potential to favor some forms of speech over others.
Section 17-3) – General Requirements – Revisions as it pertains to compliance with building construction and maintenance requirements.
Section 17-4) – Permanent Signs – Revisions as it pertains to compatibility of sign design and construction materials in accordance with architectural elements of the project, except as provided by Florida Statutes.
Section 17-5) – Temporary Uses and Special Event Signs – Revisions to language requiring content specific on temporary signs and clarification on existing practices.
Section 17-7) – Prohibited signs – Revisions to reduce categories while streamlining and clarifying prohibited signs affecting the safety, welfare and well-being.
The Town Commission is scheduled to consider Ordinance 2020-01 for second and final reading on Monday, March 16, 2020 at 6 p.m.
The Technical Review Committee (TRC) members individually reviewed Ordinance 2020-01 and determined it to be complete and ready for transmittal to the Planning and Zoning Board.
At the February 10, 2020 meeting, Planning and Zoning Board voted 3-0 to forward Ordinance 2020-01 to the Town Commission with the recommendation of approval.
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LADY LAKE, FLORIDA; AMENDING ORDINANCE 2016-17 PERTAINING TO THE TOWN OF LADY LAKE LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS, CHAPTER 17, SIGN REGULATIONS; AMENDING SECTIONS 17-1.-PURPOSE AND INTENT, 17-2.-PERMITTING REQUIREMENTS, 17.3.-GENERAL REQUIREMENTS, 17-4.-PERMANENT SIGNS, 17-5.-TEMPORARY USES AND SPECIAL EVENT SIGNS, AND 17.7.-PROHIBITED SIGNS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW.
Be it ordained and enacted by the Town Commission of the Town of Lady Lake, in Lake County, Florida, as follows:
WHEREAS, on December 2, 1991, the Town of Lady Lake adopted a Comprehensive Plan (Ordinance No. 91-21) pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 163, Part II, Florida Statutes and Chapter 9J-5, Florida Administrative Code, and
WHEREAS, on January 23, 1992, the Florida Department of Community Affairs determined that the Town of Lady Lake Comprehensive Plan was in compliance with the requirements of Chapter 163, Part II, Florida Statutes and Chapter 9J-5, Florida Administrative Code; and
WHEREAS, on August 15, 1994, the Town of Lady Lake adopted the Land Development Regulations of the Town of Lady Lake, Florida, in accordance with the Town of Lady Lake Comprehensive Plan and the requirements of Chapter 163, Part II, Florida Statutes; and
WHEREAS, on June 6, 2016, pursuant to the provisions of the Town of Lady Lake Land Development Regulations, the Town Commission of the Town of Lady Lake amended Chapter 17 “Sign Regulations” of the Land Development Regulations: and annexed territory as if all such annexed territory had been a part of the Town of Lady Lake, Florida at the time of the passage and approval of said laws and ordinances.
WHEREAS, on February 10, 2020, pursuant to the provisions of the Town of Lady Lake Land Development Regulations, the Planning and Zoning Commission of the Town of Lady Lake reviewed the proposed amendment to the Land Development Regulations, which are attached hereto as Exhibit “A”, and recommended to the Town Commission of the Town of Lady Lake that said amendment be adopted.
WHEREAS, the Town of Lady Lake has elected to amend Chapter 17 “Sign Regulations” of the Land Development Regulations, finding it is in the best interest of the Town of Lady Lake and promotes the general welfare of its citizens.
Section 1: Amendment
The Land Development Code of the Town of Lady Lake, Florida, dated August 15, 1994 (the “Land Development Code”), is hereby amended as provided below:
Chapter 17 — Sign Regulations, Sections 17-1), 17-2), 17-3), 17-4), 17-5), and 17-7) of the Land Development Regulations amended as set forth in Exhibit “A”.
Section 2: Severability
If any section, sentence, clause, phrase or word of this Ordinance is for any reason held, or declared to be unconstitutional, inoperative or void, such holding or invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of this ordinance; and it shall be construed to have been the Town Commission’s intent to pass this Ordinance without such unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative part therein; and the remainder of this Ordinance, after the exclusion of such part or parts, shall be deemed and held to be valid, as if such parts had not been included herein; or if this Ordinance or any provisions thereof shall be held inapplicable to any person, groups of persons, property, kind of property, circumstances or set of circumstances, such holding shall not affect the applicability thereof to any other person, property or circumstances.
Section 3: Conflicts
All ordinances or part of ordinances in conflict with any of the provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed.
Section 4: Codification
The provisions of this Ordinance shall be codified as and become part of the Codes of Ordinances, Town of Lady Lake. The sections of this Ordinance may be re-numbered or re-lettered to accomplish such intention and the word "Ordinance", or similar words, may be changed to "Section", "Article", or other appropriate word.
Section 5: Applicability
This Ordinance does not have retroactive applicability and does not apply to applications filed prior to the effective date of this Ordinance.
Section 6: Effective Date
This ordinance shall become effective upon adoption.
PASSED AND ORDAINED this 16th day of March, 2020 in the regular session of the Town Commission of the Town of Lady Lake, Lake County, Florida, upon the Second and Final Reading.
Town of Lady Lake, Florida
Jim Richards, Mayor
Attest:
Kristen Kollgaard, Town Clerk
Approved as to form:
Derek Schroth, Town Attorney
Sec. 17-1. — Purpose and intent.
The regulations and requirements herein set forth shall be the minimum requirements:
To promote the public health, safety and general welfare [begin add] by ensuring properly designed and located signs that are clear and legible to the user. [end add] [begin delete], and [end delete]
[begin add] To establish the placement of signs on residential and non-residential properties. [end add]
To protect the character [begin add] and quality [end add] of [begin delete] residential, business, and industrial [end delete] areas throughout the Town [begin add] to attract commerce, businesses, residents, and visitors. [end add]
[begin delete] Therefore, the [end delete] [begin add] To [end add] display [begin delete] of [end delete]signs [begin delete] should be [end delete] appropriate to the land, building or use to which they are appurtenant and be adequate, but not excessive, for the intended purpose of identification or advertisement[begin add] ; being sensitive to surrounding land uses and maintain an attractive community appearance. [end add]
[begin add] To promote and aid the public and private sectors in the identification, location, and advertisement of goods and services. [end add]
[begin delete] It is intended that signs placed on land or on a building for the purpose of message display, identification or for advertising a use conducted thereon or therein shall be deemed to be accessory and incidental to subject land, building or use [end delete]
[begin delete] With respect to signs advertising business uses, it is specifically intended, among other things, to avoid excessive competition and clutter among sign displays in the demand for public attention. [end delete]
Sec. 17-2. — Permitting requirements.
Except as otherwise provided in this Code, it shall be unlawful for any person to erect, construct, [begin add] install, attach, place, paint, alter, relocate, [end add] enlarge, move or convert any sign in the Town, or cause the same to be done, without first obtaining a sign permit for each such sign as required by this chapter. No permit shall be issued until the building official determines that such work is in accordance with the requirements contained in this chapter.
1) Application. Prior to the erection of any sign, the owner of the premises where the sign is to be located, or his agent, shall submit a sign permit application on a form or forms provided by the Town. A building permit is also required if a sign has a foundation. The installation of a permanent sign, including face changes, requires the submittal and approval of a sign building permit before installation. The changing of advertising copy or message, on digitally or manually changeable copy signs, which are specifically designed for the use of replaceable copy, shall not require a sign or building permit.
2) Sign plan. All site plans submitted for Town approval shall be accompanied by a sign plan. The sign plan shall indicate the location or placement, sizes, types (pole, monument, wall, etc.) and styles (channel letters, cabinet, etc.), materials and form of illumination for all signs to be installed within the development, including any outparcels to be developed in conjunction with the main site or at a later date.
3) Fees. Sign permit applications are subject to permitting and processing fees, which are established by resolution. Billboard permits are subject to an annual fee.
4) Signs exempt from permitting requirements. The following types of signs may be erected without a sign permit, provided such signs and operations conform to the provisions contained in this Chapter and with all other building, structural and electrical standards of the Town:
A) Public information signs. Public signs located wholly on public property [begin add] , erected or required by government agencies or utilities, including traffic, utility, safety, railroad crossing, and identification or directional signs for public facilities [end add]. Signs used for public safety requiring a location within a public or private right-of-way are exempt from setback requirements.
B) Agricultural signs. Signs related to bona fide agricultural activities being performed on the property are permitted, provided they do not exceed 15 square feet. One sign per street frontage is allowed.
C) [begin delete] Governmental [end delete] [begin add] Government or regulatory [end add] Signs required by federal, state or local law or regulations.
D) Real estate signs. Real estate signs, as provided in Section 5 of this chapter.
E) Membership signs. Membership signs of two square feet or less per street frontage.
F) Political campaign signs. Political campaign signs, as provided in Section 5 of this chapter.
G) Construction signs. Construction signs, as provided in Section 5 of this chapter.
H) Governmental flags. The flying of ground-mounted freestanding national, state[begin add], county,[end add] [begin delete]or[end delete]city[begin add], or other political unit flags[end add]. [begin delete] ; provided that such flags shall not be used in such a manner as to attract attention for commercial purposes. [end delete]
I) Non-political flags. [begin delete] A company, organization, or non-political entity may display one non-political flag in affiliation with the operations. However, the installation of a flag pole structure must adhere to the requirements of the adopted Florida Building Code, as amended. [end delete] [begin add] Flagpoles shall not exceed 1.5 times the allowed building height for the district in which it is located, but in no event shall a flagpole exceed a height of 50 feet. A building permit shall be required for flagpoles.
J) One identification sign per building entrance six square feet or less in area.
K) Permanent regulatory and parking signs six square feet or less in area.
L) Permanent wall signs of an informational nature, not including business Identification signs, such as signs identifying service or delivery entrances, six square feet or less in area.
M) Sign walkers
N) Official traffic signs
O) Signs inside a building, or other enclosed facility, which are not meant to be viewed from the outside and are located greater than three feet from the window.
P) Holiday and seasonal decorations
Q) Address signs. Up to two signs stating address, number or name of occupants of the premises and do not include any commercial advertising or other identification.
Residential districts. Signs not to exceed three square feet in area.
Non-residential districts. Signs not to exceed five square feet in area.
R) Personal expression signs of any sign type, including flags, provided that they do not exceed three square feet in area per side, are non-commercial in nature, and not illuminated.
S) Signs or emblems of a religious, civil, philanthropic, historical or educational organization that do not exceed four square feet in area.
T) Private drive signs
U) Security and warning signs.
V) Memorial signs, public monument or historical identification sign erected by the municipality, including plaque signs up to three square feet in area.
W) Art and murals provided such signs do not contain any commercial messaging. [end add]
(Ordinance Number 2009-15, § 1(Exhibit A), 10-5-2009; Ordinance. Number 2016-17, § 1, 6-6-2016)
Sec. 17-3. - General requirements.
a) Compliance with other regulations. All signs shall be designed, erected, altered and maintained in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and in compliance with the requirements of the building and electrical codes of the Town of Lady Lake. [begin add] Signs maintained contrary to the provisions of this article are declared to be nuisances and may abated as provided by law. [end add]
b) Construction and maintenance. All signs, pursuant of this chapter, together with their parts, supports, braces, guys and anchors shall be [begin add] of sufficient weight and durability to withstand wind gusts, storms and [end add] properly maintained, treated and/or painted. All signs shall be maintained in good condition and repair at all times. Unless made of galvanized or non-corroding material, all signs shall be thoroughly painted when necessary. No sign structure or framework may be exposed by removal of sign faces or advertising copy for a period in excess of 15 days. [begin add] In no case shall any permanent sign be secured with wires or strips of wood which are visible and not an integral part of the sign. [end add]
c) Illumination of signs. Any light from any illuminated sign shall be shaded, shielded, or directed so that the light intensity or brightness shall not adversely affect the surrounding or facing premises or adversely affect the safe vision of operators of vehicles moving on public or private roads, highways or parking areas. Light shall not shine directly on or into residential structures. A licensed engineer must certify that the light emitted from the sign will not cause any adverse effects to operators of vehicles on adjacent roadways.
d) Calculating sign area. The allowable size of freestanding signs is determined based on the width of a site along a public street. The allowable size of building signs varies depending on the type of occupancy. For single-use buildings, the maximum size is calculated based on the width of the building facing the street. For multi-tenant buildings, the sign area is calculated based on the width of the main facade of the business, regardless of the building orientation.
Unless otherwise provided, the total sign area within a single lot shall not exceed the allowable square footage set forth in this chapter. Billboards and signs required by federal, state or local law shall be excluded when calculating maximum allowable square footage for on-premises signs.
In computing sign area in square feet, standard mathematical formulas for common shapes will be used. Common shapes shall include squares, rectangles, trapezoids, circles and triangles. In the case of irregular shapes, straight lines drawn closest to the extremities of the shape will be used (see graphic below). The total sign area will be the area of the smallest common shape that encompasses the several components of the sign. All words and components of a sign or related message shall be included as one sign. Individual words or components may be considered separate signs only if they are obviously disassociated from other components. When signs are enclosed in a border or highlighted by background graphics, the perimeter of such border or background will be used to compute sign area. Double-faced signs that meet the definition contained in this chapter shall be considered one sign.
e) Sign placement standards.
1) Freestanding signs.
A) No freestanding sign shall be erected closer than 100 feet from any other freestanding sign. Outparcel businesses not allowed to have a freestanding sign because of this provision may be advertised on one of the six tenant signs allowed on the freestanding sign that identifies the main development.
B) Freestanding signs shall only be allowed on sites with a frontage of 100 feet or more on a public street.
C) No freestanding sign shall be allowed on sites where the maximum front yard setback allowed is ten feet.
D) On-premises signs shall be located wholly within the premises and shall maintain a five-foot setback from the right-of-way/property line to the nearest point of the sign.
E) Signs located within the sight visibility triangle, as defined in, Chapter 9, Section 9-5, shall meet the clearance requirements specified in that section.
2) Wall signs.
A) No wall sign or supporting structure shall project more than 12 inches from the wall of a building.
B) No wall sign shall extend above the roof line except where an exterior parapet wall projects above the roof line, in which case, such sign may extend to the top of such wall.
C) Wall sign shall not cover upper story windows or architectural ornamentation.
D) Wall sign width shall not exceed 75 percent of the facade width.
E) Wall sign size shall not exceed 20 percent of the square footage of the façade.
3) Other signs.
A) Projecting signs shall be erected only on a wall of a building and shall not project out more than 48 inches.
B) Projecting signs shall not project into the public right-of-way, a parking space, a travel lane, or a driveway.
C) Awning signs shall not be placed on the curved or diagonal portion of the awning.
D) The width of an awning sign shall not exceed 75 percent of the width of the awning.
E) Projecting and awning signs shall maintain a clearance of nine feet between the finished grade and the bottom of the sign if it extends over a sidewalk or walkway area.
F) Directory signs may be attached to a wall or freestanding but shall not be located within 50 feet of any public right-of-way line. The Town Manager may allow a directory sign closer to the street if it is determined that the sign is not being used for advertisement purposes.
4) Electronic message boards/marquee signs. Electronic message boards/marquee signs require the submittal and approval of a special permit use application. Application procedures are as follows:
A) Notification of public hearing: The Town shall send notice per F.S. § 166.041, to adjoining property owners within 150 feet of the subject property at least ten days prior to the Town Commission hearing. Such notice shall include the date, time, and place of the public hearing before the Town Commission.
B) Public advertising: Notice of public hearing shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the Town at least ten days prior to the Town Commission hearing. Notice shall also be posted in a conspicuous location at the Town Hall and may be posted at other locations at the discretion of the Town.
C) Procedure for public hearing:
1) TRC review. The TRC will review the submittal and make recommendations to the Town Commission.
2) Town Commission action. The Town Commission shall consider recommendations of the TRC board before taking final action.
Electronic message boards must adhere to the following guidelines:
1) Shall only be placed on approved freestanding signs.
2) Maximum copy area shall not exceed 14 square feet per each side.
3) Flashing, scintillating, beacon or running lights or movement or which gives the visual impression of such flashing, scintillation, or movement shall not be allowed.
4) Shall only display text. The text shall be amber-colored or similar lettering with black background.
5) All electronic message boards or marquee signs are required to incorporate dimming features and capabilities. These features will be reviewed concurrent with the permitting process.
f) Sign design. All signs shall be designed consistent with the architecture of the primary building, and shall adopt similar design elements, such as materials, textures, colors, and shapes.
(Ordinance Number. 2009-15, § 1(Exhibit. A), 10-5-2009; Ordinance. Number 2016-17, § 1, 6-6-2016)
Sec. 17-4. - Permanent signs.
[begin add] All permanent signs shall be compatible with the design of buildings and sites, reflecting the architectural style, building materials, textures, colors and landscape elements of the project; except as provided by Florida Statute (§) 553.79(20)(a)(1) and (2). [end add]
A) Residential zoning districts. The following standards apply to on-site identification signs within the AG-1, RS-3, RS-6, MX-5, MX-8, MF-12, MF-18, RP, MH-9 and residential PUD zoning districts.
1) Residential subdivisions and multi-family developments.
Type of Signs Number of Signs Maximum Sign Area Sign Height
Monument/Wall 1 double faced monument or 2 single-faced wall signs per development entrance 24 square. feet. (site frontage < 100 feet.) 32 square. feet. (site frontage > 100 feet.) 6 feet.
Directional Determined on a case-by-case basis 4 feet. 3 feet.
Directory Determined on a case-by-case basis 2 square. feet. per unit, up to a maximum of 24 square. feet. total per sign 6 feet.
2) Non-residential uses in residential districts. The following signs are allowed for each use approved through special exception/conditional and for institutional uses within residential districts
Monument 1 per site frontage on a public street 32 square. feet. 6 feet.
Wall, awning, marquee or projecting 1 per building frontage on a public street* 2 square. feet. per lineal foot of building frontage on a public street, up to 24 square. feet. NA
Directional Determined on a case-by-case basis 4 square. feet. 3 feet.
Directory 1 per site frontage 2 square. feet. per location identified up to 24 square. feet. total per sign 6 feet.
*The Town Manager may allow an additional wall, awning, marquee, or projecting sign on a secondary facade only if a public entrance to the business on that secondary facade needs to be identified. The size of such signage on secondary facades shall be discounted from the maximum wall sign area allowed.
B) Non-residential zoning districts. The following standards apply to signs within the CT, LC, HC, CP, PFD, non-residential PUD's and I zoning districts:
1) Single-use developments. Single-use developments shall comply with the following standards, in addition to the general placement standards contained in section 17-3e):
A) Wall signs shall be placed on the side of the building facing the public street.
Monument 1 per site frontage on a public street 80 square. feet. per sign 8 feet.
Wall, awning, marquee or projecting 1 per building frontage on a public street 2 square. feet. per lineal foot of building frontage on a public street, with up to 200 square. feet. maximum, or 20 percent of square footage of the façade, whichever is greater. NA
Window 1 per façade 50 percent of the glass area where the sign is placed. NA
Directional Determined on a case-by-case basis 4 square. feet. each 3 feet.
Drive-Through Menu 2 per site 24 square. feet. 6 feet.
Menu Board 1 per site 6 square. feet. NA
B) Applicants may be allowed an additional wall, awning, marquee, or projecting sign on secondary facades street(provided that a minimum of 75 percent of the façade remain unobstructed when viewed from any given point along the right of way)and/or along facades which face the patrons’ parking area. The size of such signage on secondary facades shall be discounted from the maximum wall sign area allowed.
2) Multi-tenant developments. Multi-tenant developments such as shopping centers, mixed-use developments and office parks shall comply with the following standards, in addition to the general placement standards contained in section 17-3e):
Monument 1 per site frontage for the main site plus 1 per frontage for each outparcel, subject to meeting sign separation requirements. Local - 80 square. feet. Neighborhood - 120 square. feet. Community - 150 square. feet. Regional - 198 square. feet. 8 feet.
Wall, awning, marquee or projecting 1 per tenant, except as noted below 2 square. feet. per lineal foot of façade width, with up to 200 square. feet. maximum, or 20 percent of square footage of the façade, whichever is greater. NA
Window 1 per facade for each tenant. 50 percent of the glass area where the sign is placed. NA
Directory 1 per site 2 square. feet. per tenant, up to a maximum of 24 square. feet. total per sign 6 feet.
Directional Determined on a site-by-site basis 4 square. feet. each 3 feet.
Drive-Through Menu 2 per tenant 24 square. feet. 6 feet.
Menu Board 1 per tenant 6 square. feet. NA
A) Freestanding (pole) signs with a maximum height of 20 feet are allowed along US 441 or CR 466. The sign shall meet all other standards for monument signs except for height and setback. Signs taller than eight feet shall be setback at least ten feet from the property line.
B) The maximum sign area permitted for freestanding signs (pole or monument) shall be calculated based on the size of the entire development site (including outparcels), as defined below:
1. Local: Up to 64,999 square. feet. Gross Leasable Area.
2. Neighborhood: 65,000 to 152,999 square. feet. Gross Leasable Area.
3. Community: 153,000 to 386,999 square. feet. Gross Leasable Area.
4. Regional: 387,000 square. feet. Gross Leasable Area or more.
C) The total freestanding sign size allowed shall be divided among the center and the various outparcels located within the development site. The sign plan shall specify how the area will be divided among those qualifying and proposing to use a freestanding sign.
D) The freestanding sign may identify name of the center and up to eight tenants/occupants. The individual tenant signs shall be uniform shape and size.
E) Wall signs shall be placed on the main facade of the business.
F) Large-scale anchors, which exceed 75,000 square feet in gross leasable area, may display one major wall sign and two secondary signs on the main facade, not exceed the maximum square footage allowed in this section. The secondary signs shall not exceed 32 square feet each.
G) Individual tenants may be allowed to display an additional wall, awning, marquee, or projecting sign on a secondary façade (provided that a minimum of 75 percent of the façade remain unobstructed when viewed from any given point along the right of way) and/or along facades which face the patrons' parking area. The size of signs displayed on secondary facades shall be discounted from the total maximum wall sign area allowed.
H) Tenants lacking individual entrances and/or building frontage at street level may only be identified in a directory sign.
I) The Town Manager may allow more than one directory sign based on site-specific conditions.
(Ordinance. Number. 2009-15, § 1(Exhibit. A), 10-5-2009; Ordinance. Number. 2016-17, § 1, 6-6-2016)
Sec. 17-5. — Temporary [begin add] Uses and Special Event [end add] signs.
All temporary signs erected for directional purposes, public information or to direct attention to special events shall be confined to those that are of a general public interest [begin delete] and shall be limited to the giving of such information [end delete]. Other temporary signs allowed include:
a) Real estate signs.
1) A maximum of two signs are allowed per property, with one sign per frontage, advertising the sale or lease of real property or a business opportunity.
2) Large parcels with a site frontage of 500 feet or more are allowed a maximum of two signs per frontage, at least 250 feet apart.
3) Real estate signs shall not be illuminated and shall not exceed 12 square feet in districts zoned residential or 32 square feet in other districts.
4) Said signs are subject to setback, height, and other requirements pertaining to freestanding signs applicable to the district where placed, provided however, real estate signs shall not be subject to the provisions of this chapter requiring a minimum separation distance between ground or pole signs, but shall be governed by the provisions set forth above regarding the location of real estate signs.
[begin delete]5) Real estate signs shall contain only the following information, or any combination thereof at the option of the sign owner: [end delete]
House, apartment, unit, business, or other short description of the property.
The words "For Sale, For Lease, For Rent, For Exchange, For Let, See Your Broker", or similar phrase.
The registered name of the broker and the term "Broker", "Realtor", or logo if the offer is through an agent, or the words "By Owner" if the offer is not through an agent.
One telephone number and/or "Inquire Within" or a similar phrase, and a room, apartment, or unit number if needed. [end delete]
b) Political campaign signs. Signs announcing candidates seeking public office and other data pertinent thereto [begin add] including other non-commercial speech [begin add] shall be permitted subject to the following regulations:
1) The maximum size allowed shall be nine square feet in all residential zoning districts and 32 square feet in all other districts.
2) No sign shall be located within or over the public right-of-way or located on utility poles.
3) No sign shall be located or erected on any property owned by the Town of Lady Lake, with the exception of campaign signs to be located at polling sites on election dates.
4) No sign shall be erected prior to 30 days before the first primary.
5) Candidates eliminated during any election, except the general election, shall remove signs within five days following said election. After the general elections, all candidates shall remove signs within five days. Any signs remaining shall be discarded.
6) Signs in private property shall be removed as per subsection 5), above. In the sign removal action process, as established hereby, Town Manager or designee shall remove any sign that is remaining five days following an election at property owner's expense.
c) Open house signs. In all zoning districts, two on-premises signs not to exceed 12 square feet in area each, inviting the inspection of property may be placed in addition to a permitted for sale or lease sign. [begin delete] Said sign shall be limited to the words "OPEN" or "OPEN HOUSE" or similar words [end delete]. All signs shall be removed daily at the end of the open house.
d) Banners, feather flags, and other promotional signs.
1) Banners and feather flags. Promotional banners and feather flags may be allowed to the general requirement for all signs set forth in section 17-3 and the following conditions:
A) No more than two signs per business and no more than three multi-tenant businesses can display banners or feather flags at a one time. However, if a single use development has two frontages, then the business would be allowed to place a maximum of one banner and one feather flag per frontage or two feather flags per frontage as long as the total size does not exceed the maximum size allowed. No more than four permits may be issued for each tenant per calendar year.
B) The sign(s) shall not exceed 32 square feet in size and shall be exempt from the maximum allowable square footage for on-premises signs.
C) Permit required. No promotional signs may be displayed for a maximum of 15 consecutive days and for a total of 60 per calendar year. Failure to remove a banner and/or feather flag within the prescribed time frame shall result in a violation of this provision. No permits shall be issued during the calendar year in which such a violation occurs.
D) Promotional signs may be displayed for a maximum of 15 consecutive days and for total of 45 days per calendar year. Failure to remove a banner within the prescribed time frame shall result in a violation of this provision. No new permits shall be issued during the calendar year in which such a violation occurs.
E) Signs shall be maintained in good repair. Frayed edges, faded lettering, holes, and similar signs of deterioration shall be considered a violation of this provision.
2) Grand opening sign application.
A) All commercial, industrial, public and quasi-public uses and mixed-use developments (commercial combined with multi-family residential) will be allowed to display a grand opening event with a valid permit.
B) Signage for a grand opening event will be permitted for a period not to exceed 30 days and will only be issued to new business or existing business relocating to an entirely new location.
C) The display must occur within the first 60 days following C.O. issuance or three months of a new business relocation. Changes in ownership of an existing business shall not be entitled to apply for a grand opening sign application.
D) Grand opening signage shall not be in the right-of-way of any public street or within five feet of any property line and each single sign shall not exceed 32 square feet.
E) Signage shall not obscure building address numbers, be displayed on a roof top, extend vertically above the fascia of a building, or encroach into fire lanes. Moreover, Town shall not be liable for temporary sign options that are not securely placed.
F) Allowable signs per each grand opening event may include a combination not to exceed a maximum of three sign options.
G) Temporary sign options are:
1) Banner. A banner attached to a building, where the banner lies flat against the building surface at all times.
2) Pennants/streamer. An individual object and/or series of small objects made of lightweight plastic, fabric, or other material, which may or may not contain text, which is suspended from and/or twined around a rope, wire or string.
Streamers: Hung on wall.
Pennants: Strung together in front of façade.
3) Balloon(s). A spherical, flexible, nonporous bag inflated with air or gas lighter than air, such as helium, and intended to float in the air.
4) Rigid portable sign. A sign which is not permanently affixed and designed for or capable of movement. A rigid portable sign is not considered to be a portable reader-board or "trailer sign."
e) Temporary sponsorship banners. Subject to compliance with applicable provisions of the Town of Lady Lake Sign and Zoning Regulations, the parks and Recreation Department in coordination with Growth Management may authorize not-for-profit organizations to erect temporary program sponsorship banners in Town Facilities, subject to the following conditions:
1) Eligibility. Only certain non-profit organizations that operate to serve Town of Lady Lake residents are eligible to erect banners under this section. The eligible organizations may erect temporary banners for only those businesses, organizations, individuals and other entities that provide monetary support or other material assistance through the form of sponsorship to the eligible organization. Subject to the conditions expressed herein, the Parks and Recreation Department has the discretion to determine which not-for-profit organizations and program sponsors are eligible to erect banners under this section.
2) Location. The location of temporary program sponsorship banners in town parks shall be limited to three main sites: 1) around the interior perimeter of the outfield fence at the Guava St. Athletic Complex; 2) interior perimeter of the outfield fence at the Rolling Acres Sport Complex; and 3) around the log cabin facilities.
3) Duration. Banners permitted under this section may be erected or displayed only for the duration of the season. Banners must be removed following the conclusion of the season.
4) Construction. Banners permitted under this section must be single-sided, non-illuminating, temporary or portable in design, and constructed with weather-proof material.
5) Size. Banners permitted under this section cannot exceed 32 square feet in area.
6) Color/format. Banners permitted under this section must be consistent in format, preferably dark lettering with white background. Wording on banners permitted under this section is limited to the name and logo of the program sponsor.
7) Permit requirements. A complete banner application shall be submitted for permitting. There is no fee charged for this application. Regular enforcement of the sign code requirements is applied this section. Moreover, Town shall not be liable for banners that not securely placed.
8) Other. Subject to the conditions expressed herein, the parks and recreation department has the discretion to develop additional location requirements at the three sites and other restrictions and guidelines for banners permitted under this section.
9) Prohibited activities. Commercial advertising, except for temporary program sponsorship banners as permitted
f) A-frame signs. A-frame signs shall be permitted within multi-family and commercial zoning districts, subject to the following regulations:
1) Size. Signs shall be no greater than two feet in width and three feet in height. Total dimensions shall not exceed eight square feet for double-sided signs.
2) Number. One A-frame sign shall be permitted per apartment complex or per business.
3) Display. Signs shall be displayed only:
A) During the posted hours the business is open to conduct business; or
B) During the posted hours an apartment rental office is open to conduct business.
4) Location. A-frame signs shall be located only:
A) At grade level.
B) On-site or adjacent to apartment buildings.
C) Sidewalk signs are shall be placed no more than one foot from commercial buildings.
5) Prohibited locations. A-frame signs shall not be located:
A) Within rights-of-way on in raised or painted medians.
B) Across any street from the business being advertised.
C) In parking aisles or stalls.
D) In driving lanes.
E) On equestrian or multi-use trails.
F) So that less than a minimum of four feet is clear for pedestrian passage on all sidewalks and walkways, or so as to cause a hazard to pedestrian traffic.
G) On fences, boulders, planters, other signs, vehicles, utility facilities, or any structure.
H) Within a minimum distance of 15 feet from any other A-frame sign.
I) Within a minimum distance of 30 feet from an access drive or street intersection.
g) Construction signs. Non-illuminated construction signs of 32 square feet or less are allowed at active construction sites. A maximum of two construction signs will be allowed per parcel. The minimum setback is five feet from the property line. Any such sign shall be removed within 15 days after the certificate of occupancy for the structure is issued.
[begin add] h) Sign Walkers. Sign walkers shall be permitted under the following regulations:
1) Location. sign walkers shall be located only:
A) 30 feet from a street or driveway intersection measured from the back of the curb or edge of pavement if no curb exists.
B) Five feet from the street measured from the back of curb or edge of pavement if no curb exists
C) Sign walkers shall yield right-of-way to pedestrians, bicycles and all others traveling or located on the sidewalks.
D) At grade level
2) Prohibited locations: sign walkers shall not be located:
A) In raised or painted medians
B) In parking aisles or stalls
C) In driving lanes or driveways
D) On equestrian or multi-use trails
E) So that less than a minimum of four feet is clear for pedestrian passage on all sidewalks and walkways, or so as to cause a hazard to pedestrian traffic.
F) On fences, boulders, planters, other signs, vehicles, utility facilities or any structure.
G) Within a minimum distance of 20 feet from any other sign walker
H) In a manner that results in sign walkers physically interacting with motorists, pedestrians, or bicyclists.
3) Display. Sign shall be:
A) Displayed only during the hours the business is open to conduct business.
B) Held, worn, or balanced at all times.
4) Elements prohibited. The following shall be prohibited:
A) Any form of illumination, including flashing, blinking, or rotating lights;
B) Animation on the sign itself;
C) Mirrors or other reflective materials;
D)Attachments, including, but not limited to balloons, ribbons, speakers. [end add]
Sec. 17-6. — Off-premises signs.
Signs commonly referred to as outdoor advertising, billboards or poster panels which contain commercial or noncommercial advertising or on which any other matter may be displayed, depicting goods, services or other things not sold or available upon the parcel of property on which the signs are located, are classified as off-premises signs and deemed by this article to constitute a separate use. The control and regulation of the display of such advertising is deemed to be appropriate to the character and sound development of the Town, and it is intended that such advertising be confined to certain commercial and industrial properties.
Billboards may be placed only on property which is zoned CT, LC, HC, or I and which is adjacent to U.S. Highway 27-441.
1) Identification of billboard signs. Every billboard sign hereafter erected, constructed or maintained, for which a permit is required, shall be plainly marked with the name of the person, firm or corporation erecting and maintaining such sign and shall have affixed on the front thereof the permit number issued for said sign by the building official.
2) Single and double-faced billboards. A billboard structure may be single or double-faced, but any double-faced billboard structure shall have advertising surfaces of equal size and shape. For the purposes of this chapter, the following types of billboards shall be considered double-faced billboards:
A) A billboard structure where the signs are placed back-to-back as long as the backs of the signs are not separated by more than 48 inches.
B) A billboard structure when constructed in the form of a "V" when viewed from above, provided the internal angle at the apex is not greater than 45 degrees and the billboard's structure is not separated by more than 36 inches at the apex of the "V."
3) The total height and length of a billboard face shall not exceed 14 feet by 48 feet, respectively. The total advertising surface area shall not exceed 672 square feet per advertising surface. Molding, skirts and aprons shall not be included in the total advertising surface area square footage if copy does not appear in these areas. The molding, skirt or apron may, however contain the name of the owner of the structure.
If the molding, skirt, or apron contains other copy, computation of the total advertising surface area shall include the square footage of the nearest rectangular shape whose perimeter encloses that copy.
4) Extensions will be allowed (additional square footage) not to exceed 15 percent of the allowable square footage of advertising surface area. Extensions will be allowed to a maximum of five additional feet above the allowable height of 40 feet above ground level. It is not the intent of this language to allow rectangular extensions which result in billboard with additional square feet of internal advertising surface.
5) Structure requirements.
A) No billboard or attachment or extension thereto shall exceed an overall height of 40 feet above the ground level, except as provided in section above. No stacking of billboard faces shall be permitted.
B) Ground clearance. Clearance of not less than 15 feet shall be maintained between the lower edge of a billboard and the ground.
C) Supporting structure. No portion of the supporting structure shall be visible above any advertising display area. All bracing shall be hidden or covered so that it shall not be visible from the public right-of-way. The covered portion of the ends of such signs shall not be used for advertising purposes. Supporting structures must be of "monopoly" or single metal post design. No portion of a billboard structure may project more than five feet over the roof of any other building or structure so as to constitute an obstruction to firefighting equipment.
6) Established setbacks.
A) No portion of any billboard shall be erected or maintained within 20 feet of any property line.
B) No billboard structure shall be erected within 50 feet of the nearest residential zoning district; the distance to be measured from the closest point of the billboard structure to the closest residential zoning district boundary.
C) No billboard structure shall be erected in such a position that the sign face is directed to any residential zoned property within 100 feet of such billboard structure; the distance to be measured perpendicular to the sign.
D) No billboard structure shall be erected or maintained within 40 feet of a ground or pole sign.
E) Limited access highway. Along limited access highways and expressways as established by the State of Florida or any of its political subdivisions, no billboard shall be allowed within 150 feet of the outside curb (the nearest curb to the proposed sign) of the main traffic route of such street or highway. It is intended specifically by this provision that such setback shall not be measured from the curb line of ramps or ways used exclusively for access to or exit from such highway or street; however, all billboards located along such ramps or ways shall meet all appropriate yard and building setback requirements for the zoning district in which they are located.
7) Number of billboard signs permitted; spacing requirements.
A) General provisions. No billboard structure shall be constructed unless the required distance to the nearest existing or approved billboard structure is maintained as provided herein.
B) Spacing requirements. No two billboards shall be spaced less than 2,000 feet apart on the same side of the highway. No billboard shall be spaced less than 1,000 feet apart from any billboard located on the opposite side of the highway.
8) Illumination and movement. No billboard shall be erected, or any existing billboard maintained, that incorporates flashing, scintillating, beacon or running lights or movement, or which gives the visual impression of such flashing, scintillation or other movement. No tri-vision signs shall be permitted.
Sec. 17-7. — Prohibited signs.
a) Prohibited signs. The following signs or types of signs are prohibited in the Town of Lady Lake.
1) A sign erected without a permit where a permit is required.
2) Any sign not specifically authorized by this Code.
3) Any sign that interferes with traffic or might reasonably be confused with or obstruct the view or effectiveness of any official traffic sign, traffic marking or otherwise obstruct the sight of motorists or pedestrians.
4) Signs that encroach into an electric utility clear zone, as determined by the standards contained in the latest National Electrical Code.
5) [begin add] Snipe signs and [end add] signs attached to trees or utility poles.
[begin delete] 6) Snipe signs, sandwich signs or other portable signs. [end delete]
7) A sign found by the building official to be structurally unsafe or a hazard to public safety.
8) Any abandoned sign. This includes:
A) Any sign face that advertises a business no longer conducted or product no longer sold. In making the determination that a sign advertises a business no longer being conducted, the Town shall consider the existence or absence of a current occupational license, utility service deposit or account, use of the premises, and relocation of the business.
B) Any sign structure which has not been used for business purposes for over six months, and that is non-conforming to existing codes regarding height, setback or sign area.
[begin delete] 9) A series of two or more signs that must be read together to obtain a single message. [end delete]
10) Flashing except for community event boards used by public agencies.
11) A sign that obstructs any fire escape, window, door or other opening used as a means of ingress and egress so as to prevent free passage of persons.
12) Any sign that interferes with openings required for ventilation.
[begin delete] 13) Wind-activated or inflatable signs and similar decorations used to attract attention to commercial establishments, except for those specifically authorized by the Town Commission for special events. [end delete]
14) Roof-mounted signs.
15) Any vehicle sign except:
A) Political signs.
B) Bumper stickers.
C) Signs required by law, ordinance, or regulation.
[begin delete] D) Signs that identify the owner or lessee of the vehicle and the products or services of the owner or lessee. [end delete]
E) Any vehicle that displays a sign permitted by this section shall not be parked in any residential or commercial area for longer than 90 continuous hours unless such vehicle is parked so said signs thereon are screened to prevent such signs to be viewed from any public street, sidewalk, or residence. It is the intent of this prohibition to prohibit vehicles from being utilized as on-premises signs except as is incidental to bona fide vehicle use.
16) Any sign that is unsightly because of deterioration or lack of maintenance.
17) Off-premises signs, except as permitted in this chapter.
18) Tri-vision signs [begin add] and mechanical movement signs including revolving signs. [end add]
19) Signs harmful to minors. [begin add] With regard to sign content, any description or representation, any word or picture in whatever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, or sexual excitement, when it:
Predominately appeals to the prurient, shameful, or morbid interest of
minors in sex, and
Is patently offensive to contemporary standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable sexual material for minors, and
Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value [end add]
20) Hand-crafted signs attached to vehicles which are not part of the body of the vehicle or weren't engineered by the manufacturer or a conversion company.
[begin add] 21) Signs that by shape, color, design, and placement are likely to be confused with a road sign, or any other traffic control sign or device.
22) Signs which advertise activities illegal under Federal, State, or local laws, rules or regulations.
23) Any signs that imitate, resemble, interfere with, or obstruct official traffic lights, signs, or signals. [end add]
b) Removal of prohibited signs.Immediate removal of prohibited signs will be required according to the following procedures:
1) The Town Manager, or his designee, shall immediately notify the owner of any prohibited sign, by certified mail, that the sign is prohibited and must be removed or brought into compliance within ten days after receipt of the notice. The notice shall also inform the owner of the penalties provided in this chapter.
2) If the owner of the prohibited sign fails or refuses to remove the sign or bring into compliance within ten days after receipt of the required notice, the Town may institute an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to require removal of the sign.
(Ordinance. Number. 2009-15, § 1(Exhibit. A), 10-5-2009)
Sec. 17-8. — Enforcement.
a) The Town Manager, or his designee, is hereby authorized and directed to enforce all provisions of this chapter through Code Enforcement Board procedures and action, or such court procedures as the Town deems appropriate.
b) Conflict with other regulations. Where the provisions of this chapter are in conflict with any other local, state, or federal ordinance or code or parts of ordinances or codes, the most stringent provision shall govern.
c) Severability clause. Should any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence or clause of this chapter be declared unconstitutional or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such portion will be deemed a separate, distinct and independent provision, and such holding shall not effect the validity of the remaining portions hereof.
Commission Meeting Agenda Item 2020029 (.pdf document)
Draft Ordinance 2020-01 (.pdf document)
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In a buffer solution, if [Aƒ{] < [HA], which of the following must be true?
a. pH < pKa
b. pH = pKa
c. pH > pKa
d. pH < 7.00
e. pH > 7.00
Here is the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation.
pH = pKa + log [(base)/(acid)].
base is A
acid is HA
If base < acid, the fraction must be less than 1, the log of a number less than 1 is negative; therefore, pH must be .....than pKa.
Which of the following pairs would make a good buffer solution in an aqueous solution? A) H2SO4 and NaHSO4 B) Ca(NO3)2 and HNO3 C) HCl and NaCl D) HF and NaOH E) none of them I know the answer is D but I don't understand why. I
In protein precipitation, two liters of 5mM buffer solution with pH 5.2 is needed in the isolation of albumin. Which among the buffer solutions is best fitted for the said purpose?justify your answer. a. acetate buffer with
HOW CAN U TELL IF HNO3 +KNO3 IS A BUFFER SOLUTION A buffer solution must contain a weak acid and its conjugate base OR a weak base and its conjugate acid. HNO3 is a strong base and KNO3 is the salt of a strong base (KOH) and a
The solubility of Mg(OH)2 in a particular buffer solution is 0.66g/L . What must be the pH of the buffer solution?
Select the statements that correctly describe buffers.? 1) The pH of a buffer solution does not change significantly when any amount of a strong acid is added. 2) The Ka of a buffer does not change when any amount of an acid is
Which of the following is true about an acidic solution? a. it's pH is below 7 b. its hydrogen ion concentration is low c. it is neutral d. it can act as a buffer
Consider a buffer solution consisting of CH3NH3Cl and CH3NH2. Which of the following statements are true concerning this solution? (Ka for CH3NH3+ = 2.3 x 10 -11). 1. A solution consisting of 0.1 M CH3NH3Cl and 0.1 M CH3NH2 would
use the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation to calculate the pH of a buffer solution prepared by mixing equal volumes of 0.20 M NaHCO3 and 0.10M Na2CO3.(Ka=5.6x10^-11). how would you prepare NaHCO3-Na2CO3 buffer solution that has the
You prepare a buffer solution by dissolving 2.00 g each of benzoic acid, C6H5COOH, and sodium benzoate, NaC6H5COO, in 750.0 mL water. (2 pts each) a) What is the pH of this buffer? Assume that the solution’s volume is 750.0 mL.
Chemist needs a buffer with pH of 4.5. how many milliliters of pure CH3COOH (density;1.049g/ml) must be added to 500ml of 0.1M NaOH solution to obtain such a buffer?
Chem--buffers
Explain why a mixture formed by mixing 100 mL of 0.100M CH3COOH and 50 mL of 0.100M NaOH will act as a buffer? in adittion to this, how do you identify if a an aqueous solution is a buffer solution, such as a solution with an acid
A buffer consisting of H2PO4- and HPO42-, helps control the pH of physiological fluids. Many carbonated soft drinks also use this buffer system. You were asked to prepare this buffer from K2HPO4 and KH2PO4. Identify the week acid
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A mysterious new trailer has landed for your first must-watch show of 2021
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"And they lived happily ever after..."
Like many people, I got myself a 2021 calendar to keep track of all the amazing NON-holidays I'll be going on this year.
Instead, we'll have to fill our days with something else to look forward to.
So grab yourself a red marker and put a BIG circle around 15 January 2021 - the date that Episode 1 of WandaVision lands on Disney+.
There's already been a couple of trailers for the mysterious new nine-episode series, plus there are lots of reasons to get excited about watching it, but this latest teaser has intrigued us even more...
WandaVision stars Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany as Wanda and Vision (no excuse for getting the name of the show wrong), as a newlywed couple who have just moved to town following the events of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
They soon begin to realise, however, that something is not quite right as they settle into their supposed suburban bliss together.
Liam Neeson says he is retiring from action films
The show is directed by Matt Shakman whose previous TV work includes Mad Men, Game Of Thrones, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia and the peerless Succession, while Disney fans will also be delighted to hear that the Oscar-winning songwriters of Frozen, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, have written a series of unique songs for several episodes of show, with this trailer revealing one of the original new theme songs.
And if you're not a fan of those tracks, we'd just advise you to not worry about it and... ... ... ... let it go.
2021 off to a flyer, jokes-wise.
If you're missing all things Marvel at the moment, you can also put your MCU knowledge to the test by taking this Ultimate Quiz right here, but in the meantime, as you count down the days to 15 January, check out the brand new trailer below.
All is not as it seems...
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Part III: Existing Coverage and Analysis
Previously in this series:
Preface and Contents
Part I – Introduction and Overview
Part II – Some Well-Known ‘Coincidences’
Contents – Part III
5 – Existing coverage by ACT bloggers/YouTubers
6 – Why are the existing analyses so poor?
7 – The importance of context
Is there a reason why so few people take these ‘coincidences’ seriously? Are the ‘truthers’ actually discrediting the work of legitimate researchers?
In Part III of this series we are taking a look at the existing coverage and analysis of the ‘Illuminati card game’.
The games are occasionally referred to by alternative/conspiracy/truth (ACT) outlets/individuals, usually due to what seem like eerily-accurate ‘predictions’ of various events which have taken place since the games were released.
If you conduct a websearch on the matter you will find numerous blogs, personal websites and forums discussing the games. Generally these discussions seem to follow the standard ACT narrative:
-The games were released by the ‘Illuminati’ (or, alternatively, whoever released the games is a member of the ‘Illuminati’)
-It is a form of ‘predictive programming’ and/or ‘putting the truth in plain sight’
For just one example of the latter line of argument, see this page from ‘Cutting Edge’, which spends some time analysing various cards and then concludes with the following:
This role-playing game called the “Illuminati — New World Order”, or “INWO” is smoking gun proof that the Illuminati plan to produce Antichrist was well known in certain circles in 1995, when the game was distributed. Too many details are presented by these cards too close to the actual event to be accidental. The game depicts the events of 9/11 quite accurately and it depicts the planned events of bio-terror that are filling our daily news.
If ever you doubted that a global conspiracy could or did exist, you can doubt no longer. This game demonstrates both the existence of the conspiracy and its main details.
Unfortunately the author of this Cutting Edge piece concludes by suggesting that the Illuminati card games are proof that one needs to accept Jesus and seek salvation.
Few analyses of the games focus on the company behind the games, but there do exist some. See for example this this 2012 piece by ‘Global Report 2010’, which is probably the best review I have found so far. Unfortunately the article does not go into any real detail about the history of the company which produced the games, its founder, or his/their philosophies.
In terms of video content, there are plenty of videos on YouTube which focus on either one or a handful of cards. I won’t waste space listing them here; you can perform a search for ‘Illuminati card game’ in the YouTube search bar and see for yourself.
Chances are that you will notice a pattern among such videos: terrible production values, and only superficial analysis of each card.
Some of these videos may be interesting (and in some cases are even well-produced) but, as with the written reviews available, they fail to address the most interesting and important elements which any serious analysis of the games ought to explore:
The history of Steve Jackson Games
The founder of Steve Jackson Games
The philosophies of Steve Jackson Games
Without this context, any reference to the game or its cards can never be anything more than trivial or perfunctory.
In short: The games have been referenced in countless blogs and YouTube videos but these analyses are almost always superficial and lacking context.
Consider how many times the games have been referenced in ACT videos on YouTube alone. Chances are that you have already seen the following cards more than once:
You’ve probably seen these referenced a few times by various ‘truth’ individuals/outlets.
Why is it that so many people refer to these games but so few (if any) ACT content creators have taken the time to perform a serious analysis of them?
The answer is every bit as obvious as it is bleak: the ACT audience doesn’t want or demand serious research. Since serious research takes serious time to conduct, the typical ‘truth’ blogger/YouTuber will not bother, because they can get more clicks with less effort by churning low-quality material i.e. superficial analyses.
The typical ‘truther’ consumes ‘truth’ material for titillation and entertainment, not to seriously challenge their own ideas or develop as thinkers. Therefore a reference in passing to the ‘Illuminati game’, the pointing out of an apparent connection between a single card and a recent media event, is all they desire.
Want to believe in Flat Earth? There’s an ‘Illuminati card’ for that! Figured out that the ‘moon landings’ were bogus? There’s an ‘Illuminati card’ for that!
It is titillating, and it is entertaining, to watch videos about some game called ‘Illuminati’ and how it apparently ‘predicted’ the future, or ‘put the truth in plain sight’.
I am not claiming that there is anything necessarily wrong with this. As humans we seem to crave entertainment and titillation.
In short: Existing ACT coverage of the games is poor because the typical ‘truther’ wants only entertainment and titillation.
Screenshot google ‘context’ 20-Nov-2017.
Context allows true understanding.
Would you judge a book by its cover? Would you judge a film by its promotional poster?
Of course not. Therefore, before learning about:
The history of the company which produced the game
The founder of the company which produced the game
The philosophies of the people who created the game
…why would any intelligent person judge a game?
By the end of this series you will know more about all of these things and more. You will therefore have a better understanding of the context behind the ‘Illuminati card game’ than any of the countless ACT bloggers/YouTubers who want to tell you what to believe about the game.
As a result of this context, you may come away with a very different opinion to that which you held before beginning the series.*
In short: This series will focus on not only the cards themselves but also the context behind the games.
Notes – Part III
*The vast majority of people alive today detest changing their minds, and will go to great lengths to avoid even reconsidering their preconceived notions.
If you are somebody who bases his/her opinions on the evidence, rather than the other way round, then proceed onto Part IV and enjoy!
Summary – Part III
5) The games have been referenced in countless blogs and YouTube videos but these analyses are almost always superficial and lacking context.
6) Existing ACT coverage of the games is poor because the typical ‘truther’ wants only entertainment and titillation.
7) This series will focus on the cards themselves as well as the context behind the games.
In Part II we looked at some well-known ‘coincidences’ involving the ‘Illuminati card game’ and events in ‘real life’:
In Part IV we are taking a look at some recent examples of life apparently imitating (game) art.
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Irony – When An Advocate for Healthcare “Transparency” Hides Who They Are
By Mark Graban On Jun 23, 2014 Last updated Jun 23, 2014
I received a tweet the other day from what appears to be a patient safety advocacy group. That's always great to see.
However, I am usually curious to see who the group is, who their leaders are, etc.
The website is “Just Ask” or www.PatientSafetyAct.com. They raise serious issues about the lousy (my word, not theirs) level of patient safety that we see in the U.S. (and this is a global problem – see the statistics).
Their website has a page full of serious patient safety concerns, including:
What are safe patient/nurse ratios?
Nurses are often overburdened
With deeper exploration of the site, it seems they really primarily advocating for a Massachusetts law that would set legal maximums for how many patients a nurse can have. California is currently the only state with such a law, I believe.
I'm wondering how a site and a page about patient safety can ignore crucial problems like:
Hospital-acquired infections
Sure, having overburdened nurses and staff can lead to those problems, but nursing ratios aren't the only lever that can be pulled.
Patient Safety or Politics?
The website seems MORE interested in highlighting issues like hospital profit levels and high CEO pay. This is the same approach taken previously by the Minnesota Nurse's Association, an approach that's heavier on political rhetoric than concern for patients.
The site is not only advocating for a nursing ratios law, but they're also advocating for something called the “The Hospital Profit Transparency And Fairness Act.” They want to cap CEO and they want to cap profit levels at 8%.
Most hospitals would LOVE an 8% profit margin, actually. The averages in the industry are far lower. The anonymous Twitter account responded to my article about how it's silly for hospitals to spend more on marble and fancy buildings than they do on patient safety. If the profit margins were somehow capped at 8%, then the hospitals will just find ways (some wasteful) to spend money to make sure their profits aren't “too high.”
I'm all for patient safety, but I don't think it can be legislated and I don't think those particular laws are good ideas.
Who Owns & Runs the Site?
So who is behind the website? There's no “About Us” page.
Doing a “whois” search of public internet records shows a guy listed on LinkedIn as working in “Public Relations and Communications” and there's no tie to any healthcare advocacy organization.
There is a physical address on the site.
340 Turnpike Street
Canton, MA 02021
Doing a Google search on that address turns up… the Massachusetts Nurses Association. I guess that isn't too surprising.
Are they looking out for patients and/or looking out for their own best interests as a union? Those aren't always going to be in alignment.
Shame on the creators of the website for hiding behind anonymity and for not disclosing their apparent connections to the union.
It's also questionable, if not shameful, that the group is soliciting donations for this anonymous group…
To their credit, they do disclose:
I understand that contributions to the Committee to Ensure Safe Patient Care are not tax deductible.
If they want to be political advocates and have a political discussion, then fine… but I don't think they should wrap themselves in the flag of patient safety.
Patient-Focused Organizations I Support
I prefer to support non-profit groups that aren't pushing a political agenda, such as:
Louise Batz Patient Safety Foundation (of which I'm a board member)
The Emily Jerry Foundation (listen to my podcast with Chris Jerry)
The Jose King foundation (listen to my podcast with Sorrel King)
National Patient Safety Foundation (I've been a donor)
This is a human issue, not a partisan issue. It can be addressed through better systems, better processes, and better management. I'm more optimistic making progress that way than I would be through legislation.
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Thomas Sortino says 7 years ago
Mark – Good on you for doing the research before providing support. I completely agree that there are many moral and ethical reasons to improve processes, and that good leadership is better able to make those changes than legislation. Legislation will only set a ‘minimum standard’, while good leadership will always look for a better way.
Mark Graban says 7 years ago
I’d be curious if the unions who are pushing for legislating nurse/patient ratios can provide data that shows that patient safety has improved in California and, if so, how we know that it’s the result of the ratios.
Don’t get me wrong… I certainly understand that nurses are overburdened and they are often put in really bad situations. I think most hospitals are UNDERSTAFFED given today’s poor processes. We can either throw people at the problem (at best, a short-term solution) or we can improve systems and reduce waste.
David G Divoky says 7 years ago
I agree with you Mark!
I think one thing that would reduce the pressure on ratios is the utilization of other health facilities besides hospitals. There needs to be MORE discussion on this topic, and I think it is imperative in today’s health care environment. Many patients with minor health needs, such as flu shots or blood-pressure checkups, are now going to local “retail clinics” largely because they’re found at retail outlets such as pharmacies, and reserving hospitals for more serious conditions. This is a great way to allocate health care more efficiently and thereby relieve some of the pressure on the hospitals. I think Kaiser Permanente has really understood this component well as their model is clinic centric.
There is a place for the hospital and certainly there’s a time. But we need to make sure that it’s used appropriately and that there are alternatives out there so that patients who don’t need hospital care can get their needs met at places outside the hospital setting.
Former Massachusetts hospital CEO Paul Levy’s take via his blog:
Deception, not irony
Short post, but he minces no words there.
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Will the game be on and how has Maguire-Drew done? Key questions about Lincoln City's next opponents
The Imps are set to take the biggest away following of the season to the Ricoh Arena
Lincoln City and around 4,000 travelling fans will descend on the Ricoh Arena on Saturday for a key clash in the race for the play-offs.
Coventry Telegraph football writer Andy Turner answers some key questions about the Sky Blues.
Any concerns about the game being called off?
Not at this stage. The Ricoh Arena has under soil heating so the pitch should be OK, albeit currently in a dreadful state due to the mix of rugby and football being played on it.
As of Wednesday, Coventry has escaped any heavy snowfall. The only concern will be if there is bucket loads between now and Saturday and the roads and pathways around the ground are adversely affected.
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It didn’t quite happen for Jordan Maguire-Drew at Lincoln. How has he done for Coventry?
It hasn't quite happened yet! He made an eye-catching debut against Premier League Stoke in the FA Cup and started the next two games against Exeter and Swindon before dropping out of the matchday squad altogether for the next three games.
He then re-emerged to start against Accrington but was hauled off at half-time and has not been seen since.
Jordan Maguire-Drew in action for the Imps earlier this season. His loan spell from Brighton was cut short and he joined Coventry (Image: CameraSport)
Coventry are one of the best sides we’ve seen at Sincil Bank this season but they haven’t really kicked on. What’s been the issue? Has their FA Cup run got in the way?
They only lost three in the following 11 league games after victory over the Imps but had a dreadful February, losing four on the spin - three in the league and one against Brighton in the FA Cup.
The poor run coincided with hugely influential skipper Michael Doyle carrying an injury in one of those games and missing the other three.
Coventry's Michael Doyle shields the ball from Alex Woodyard (Image: Andrew Vaughan/CameraSport)
His return to the side has seen City get a gutsy point at Mansfield with 10 men for most of the game and three points at third-placed Wycombe on Tuesday night.
The Cup run didn't really get in the way and even the defeat at Brighton was full of positives, not least the improving form of January signing Jonson Clarke-Harris.
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Payments banks came into being thanks to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) push to ensure that the banking sector deliver financial inclusion. Photo: Bloomberg
Don’t write off payments banks
3 min read . Updated: 01 Jun 2016, 04:01 AM IST Sumita Kale, S.V. Divvaakar
The withdrawal of three licencees should not be read as a doomsday omen for the idea and underlying rationale
With three of the 11 payments banks licencees dropping their plans to start the banks recently, the fundamental premise and economics of payments banks have been questioned. While these decisions are understandably based on sound specific reasoning, they should not be read as a doomsday omen for the idea and rationale of payments banks. It is too early to write off a well-intentioned idea that puts change and innovation before incumbency. Rather, these withdrawals should be seen as signalling the need for introspection and course-correction to adapt to the fast-changing, competitive landscape of India’s banking and payments sector.
Payments banks came into being thanks to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) push to ensure that the banking sector deliver a comprehensive set of financial services to the poor and the unbanked. With full-service banks clearly finding it uneconomical to deliver to low-income and rural India, the Nachiket Mor committee conceptualized new models under a differentiated banking system.
Unlike small finance banks, payments banks are an untested model. The RBI’s intention was clear from day one—focus on purely payments and deposits, targeting the bottom of the pyramid and underserved segments. The RBI has also clearly made the point that lean and mean business models are the way forward. In opening a new narrow bank model, it has told its biggest constituency—the incumbent scheduled commercial banks—that they are not protected when it comes to future spoils, and will need to get their retail footprint together on competitive terms.
With the RBI looking for models based on innovation, customer service and economies of scale, approvals were not restricted to existing banks and other payments providers. The RBI, therefore, gave a fair chance to others who demonstrated financial capability and had wide distribution networks in rural India. Payments banks were designed with low-value, high-volume transaction profiles befitting the bottom of the pyramid. And thus, payments bank money trees are not going to sprout leaves too soon, not until they have sunk their roots in unbanked land.
There is another factor at play here. At the core of the payments banks concept lies the RBI’s clear intent that the payment services must have a bank interface and be under its direct regulatory overview. That is in keeping with the RBI’s tradition of calibrated liberalization, which has helped India weather some nasty international financial storms. But this pragmatism might impose a regulatory load on the new players that some of them find difficult to deal with; thus, the early churn is only to be expected.
That only leaves the long-haulers in the fray. Those remaining in the game such as India Post and Paytm have lots to bring to the table when it comes to serving the payments and deposit needs of small businesses and low-income customers.
The big picture is indisputable: digital transactions have seen a huge surge from mid-2014 since the payments banks guidelines came in. The United Payments Interface from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is set to be another game-changer in payments. Access through mobile phones is becoming cheaper, rural connectivity is improving under Digital India and the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana has been immensely successful in strengthening access to banking and other financial services across the country through an agent network and expanding the direct benefit transfer programmes.
Ironically, those who have argued against the concept’s viability may have only strengthened the case for the remnant licencees, who can push for further liberalization of norms and operational guidelines. This will only work to the advantage of the few hands still stuck in what some see as the ‘cookie jar’.
We would argue differently. If the payments market is to be seen as a cookie jar, then widen its mouth! Instead of doing away with payments banks or liberalizing the rules just to retain the current licencees, perhaps this is a great opportunity for the RBI to rectify the one flaw in the payments banking licensing model: throw the floor open to smaller players with a proven technology and business model, and lower the entry threshold of ₹ 100 crore to something more reasonable and within the reach of small but solid players.
It is too early to write a well-intentioned idea off and to question the wisdom of the central banker who is trying to resolve the inherent complexities of financial inclusion.
Churn is a good thing. We are amidst one, and shall emerge from it better off, for the sake of those whose needs must be served now.
The authors Sumita Kale and S.V. Divvaakar are with the Indicus Centre for Financial Inclusion.
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Re-Covering the Ney Collection: An Online Exhibit
Posted on July 9, 2020 by Chelsea Rizzolo, Music Library Intern
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Although the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library might be physically closed, we still seek to support the University’s music students. One such student is Juan Castrillón, doctoral candidate in Ethnomusicology in the Department of Music, who curated the multi-modal Music Library exhibit, Re-Covering the Ney Collection. Originally installed in the Marian Anderson Gallery in February, the exhibit was made virtual once the Music Library closed in March. Castrillón’s work is still accessible to the wider Penn when the reaches international audiences and educates Penn virtually about a fascinating musical artifact.
The exhibit features four Turkish reed-flute instruments known as ney flutes, which were acquired by the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania at the end of the nineteenth century. These flutes are among the oldest existing artifacts of their kind, according to William Galpin in The Music of the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians (1937).
“For over ten years I had been conducting research in Muslim mysticism, analytics of listening, and liturgical Sufi practices in contemporary Istanbul,” says Castrillón, an accomplished neyzen (ney flute player) himself. “But it wasn’t until 2018 that I was able to work with the instruments, thanks to a serendipitous request made by Dwaune Latimer, the Jean Friendly Keeper of the Museum’s African Collections, who wanted my informed opinion about the ney.”
Installation of physical ney exhibit.
One of the intentions of hosting the exhibit in and through the Music Library was to encourage undergraduate Library-goers to engage with graduate-level research. During the spring 2020 semester — before COVID-19 closed the library — Penn professors assigned their students to visit the physical exhibit for just that purpose.
Students in Glenda Goodman’s course on Popular Music “praised the exhibit for how informative it was, particularly given the small amount of space it takes up,” Goodman reported. “They also were interested in the idea that sacred music could be ‘popular,’ and were curious about the technical skill required to play the instrument.”
Students in World Musics and Cultures were given extra-credit assignments to explore the exhibit. One student interviewed Castrillón about his path to learning the ney and was fascinated by the key tenets of teacher-student relationships in devotional Islamic traditions.
In the virtual exhibit, photos of the rare Museum flutes are displayed alongside digital texts on the ney, classical sheet music from the Middle East, and audio resources available through the Penn Libraries. Castrillón’s curation is influenced by his ethnomusicological research on listening and Muslim mysticism, as well as his performance expertise on the instrument. The exhibit features a downloadable syllabus based on Castrillón’s research.
The virtual exhibit features a video recording of Re-Discovering the Ney, a recital offered in the Marian Anderson Gallery last December. Castrillón performed alongside Sufi dancer Ibrahim Miari, assistant professor at the Jewish Studies Program.
Ibrahim Miari, Sufi dancer, and Juan Castrillón, Neyzen, performing in the Music Library, December 2019.
The exhibit also includes an interview with Liza Vick, Head of the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library and Eugene Ormandy Music & Media Center. Vick describes how the Music Library became involved in this multi-modal, collaborative effort to bridge Penn Libraries’ unique holdings with international research, community art, and online learning.
Visit Re-Covering the Ney Collection virtually here, and learn more about Castrillón’s scholarship in an article from the Pennsylvania Gazette here.
Special thanks to Liza Vick for her assistance with this post.
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Opioid addiction can be overcome with mindfulness, study suggests
People practice mindfulness. New research shows that the techniques can help people overcome their addiction to opioids.
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By Melissa HealyStaff Writer
The ancient practice of mindfulness may be a powerful tool in fighting the modern-day epidemic of opioid addiction, new research suggests.
In a series of studies, an eight-week course in mindfulness techniques appeared to loosen the grip of addiction in people who had been taking prescription painkillers for years and experienced powerful cravings for the drugs.
Compared to research subjects who discussed their pain and opioid use in group sessions for eight weeks, those who focused on their breathing, bodily sensations and emotions showed evidence of reduced drug-craving and greater control over those powerful impulses.
The brains of subjects who got mindfulness training also evinced a renewal of pleasure in people, places and things that typically falls away as addiction takes hold. The brain activity of those who attended group sessions showed no evidence of having recaptured a sense of joy in life’s positive offerings.
The results were published this week in the journal Science Advances.
If borne out in further research, the findings may open a new front in a battle against an epidemic that has claimed 400,000 lives and holds roughly 2 million Americans in its grip. The study suggests that mindfulness training can help to reverse the process by which opioid drugs hijack the brain’s reward and pleasure-seeking networks, making drug use the central focus of a person’s life.
In so doing, it could become a powerful addition to — or, for some patients, a replacement for — medication-assisted treatment. That approach uses drugs such as methadone, buprenorphine and extended-release naltrexone to wean people with addiction back to a lower and safer opioid dose, or off the painkillers altogether.
Those medications are considered the most effective addiction treatments available. But a report issued in March by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine concluded that they are not yet widely available to most who need them. The report also noted that many patients would need to take these medications over a lifetime, as treatment for a chronic brain disease.
These drawbacks have made the search for better or complementary treatments an urgent one.
“This is another potential tool in the toolbox” of addiction treatments, said Dr. Cecilia Westbrook, a researcher and resident physician at the University of Pittsburgh’s Western Psychiatric Hospital who was not involved in the new study. Not every patient will be open to it, or have the mental powers to practice these techniques, and making it widely available to people with addiction could be a challenge, she said.
But for many, mindfulness training might be part of a powerful cocktail to fight addiction, said Westbrook, whose own work found that mindfulness can aid in smoking cessation. Just as depression treatment appears more effective when medication and psychotherapy are used together, mindfulness might help boost the impact of medication-assisted addiction treatment.
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Those who study the effects of substance abuse have observed for more than a decade that as addiction takes hold, the human brain experiences profound changes. Brain regions that drive us toward pleasurable activities — to eat, play, socialize, have sex — begin to discount those normally healthy behaviors as the reward-seeking network turns up the volume on cues linked to the addictive substance.
Scientists call the result “hedonic dysregulation.” Addicts call it jones-ing.
Evolved to ensure the survival of species, these impulses to identify and move toward rewards are powerful drivers of behavior. When they’re hijacked by unhealthy substances or activities, the new normal can be a spiraling, and self-reinforcing, loss of pleasure from healthy activities.
Eric L. Garland, director of the Center on Mindfulness and Integrative Health Intervention Development at the University of Utah, wondered whether mental training could help reverse this implacable dynamic. So he recruited 135 chronic pain patients with opioid use disorder and ran some experiments.
The study participants were white men in their mid-50s on average who had typically taken opioid medications for about a decade. Many did not consider themselves addicted to painkillers, but most recognized that their opioid use had become problematic.
Researchers at the University of Utah prepare for an electroencephalogram test to see whether mindfulness techniques helped people overcome their addiction to opioids.
(Spencer Bott / University of Utah College of Social Work)
Garland and his team gauged the subjects’ level of hedonic dysregulation with an electroencephalogram, a device that can capture the brain’s distinct electrical signals through the scalp.
At moments when a person is viewing, pondering or reacting to a cue the elicits strong emotions, the brain’s electrical activity offers up a tell: there’s a spike in the amplitude of an electrical signal called the late positive potential, or LPP. That distinctive signal typically reflects broad activation in deeper regions of the brain that are key to the processing of emotions.
In his first experiment, using 40 subjects, Garland established that when his opioid-using subjects were shown pictures of opioid pills or pill bottles, their brains responded with much higher LPP amplitudes than when they looked at pictures of household objects unrelated to their medication.
In two experiments that followed, 95 veterans with long-term, problematic opioid use were divided into two groups. One group attended eight weekly meetings where a social worker prompted participants to express their emotions and discuss topics pertinent to chronic pain and opioid use (or misuse).
The other group got eight weeks of mindfulness training for two hours a week, and were asked to practice meditative techniques for 15 minutes a day. Subjects learned to control and focus on their breathing, progressively relax their bodies, and take note of their emotions and sensory experiences as if from a distance. They learned to recognize the longing, jitters, tightness and tingling of a drug craving. In a process sometimes called “urge surfing,” they practiced breaking cravings down into their component parts and noticing how those feelings changed as they focused their attention on them, rather than acting on them.
The mindfulness training also contained a cognitive-behavioral component. As subjects practiced conscious control of their breathing and attention to sensations, they were instructed to contemplate the consequences of indulging the craving versus remaining abstinent.
Finally, they got an intensive course in savoring the pleasures and meaning of beautiful or moving things — first a rose, and then an object, place or experience of their choosing. They practiced shifting attention away from drug cravings to those powerful objects.
After the eight weeks were up, researchers attached an array of electrodes to the participants’ scalps and measured their brains’ responses to images of pills and pill bottles.
The researchers collected data on how the body automatically responds to emotional images and drug-related stimuli. They measured where a person’s eyes looked, variations in heart rate from moment to moment, smiles and frowns, and eye blink responses.
The brain signals of those who attended group therapy suggested their emotional response to cravings had increased over eight weeks. But those who got the mindfulness training exhibited a significant downward change in their LPP response to pictures of opioids. When viewing cues that would ordinarily induce cravings, they showed a marked ability to manage those powerful prompts to action.
In a third experiment, participants were shown photos that elicit happy emotions in healthy people: friends laughing and socializing, scenes of natural beauty, and moments of athletic triumph. Then they were asked to imagine themselves being in the picture and savoring the feeling.
Those who got the mindfulness training had LPP responses that were significantly higher than their pre-treatment scores, a sign that their brains had shifted to attach more meaning and positive emotion to these happy scenes. Participants who attended group therapy sessions, by contrast, saw their LPP responses decline.
In a final test, Garland and his team asked participants to rate their feelings of drug-craving or happiness as they viewed those pictures of happy, beautiful or inspiring scenes. The graduates of mindfulness training — and especially those who were most successful at “savoring” these happy moments — assessed their opioid cravings as much less urgent than their counterparts who got group therapy.
Subjects who spent the most time spent practicing mindfulness techniques outside of class were more keenly attuned to positive pictures and less triggered by pictures of opioids. In other words, dose mattered.
“The idea that ... with care and effort you can begin to undo that rewiring that comes with addiction — that is significant,” Westbrook said.
Now the research team is extending these studies under grants from the Defense Department and National Institutes of Health. To Garland, treating addiction with mindfulness training holds the promise of making recovery stronger, more durable, and more meaningful.
“Recovery is much more than relapse prevention,” he said. “Recovery is a holistic process, and one part of that is for a patient to reclaim a meaningful life in the face of all the hardships he or she has experienced. Giving patients a specific set of tools to cultivate meaning in life is important.”
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New group to help companies recruit and retain more women engineers and scientists
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The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has joined forces with Prospect, the trade union representing professionals in the UK, to announce a new joint working group to help companies recruit and retain more women engineers and scientists.
The group, which has grown out of a conference to coincide with International Women's Day, will establish best practice guidance to share across industry on how best to recruit and retain women in science and engineering roles
Only six per cent of engineers in the UK today are women. This is due to a number of factors from the careers advice girls are given in schools, to schools not instilling girls with the confidence to opt for science and maths at A level. But it is also due to some employers needing to make their approach to recruitment and retention more female friendly.
Supported by Meg Munn MP, Baroness Prosser, Naomi Climer, President of Sony Media Cloud Services and IET President-elect, and Denise McGuire, Vice President of Prospect, the group will also have industry representation from a range of major employers who attended the conference, including BAE Systems, the Met Office and Atkins Global.
Unconscious bias: How can organisations and individuals shift subconscious social attitudes, stereotypes and ingrained recruitment and promotion attitudes that exist and negatively impact a more diverse workforce?
Good practice for retention: How can we encourage organisations to recognise that creating a level playing field for women benefits everyone. Flexible working, fair pay and a more inclusive culture should be on all organisations' agenda because they are proven to improve overall staff retention, and are good for business.
Commenting on the new working group, Naomi Climer, President-elect of the IET and a member of the working group said: "We have talked about the lack of women in engineering and science for many years now. More female-friendly retention and recruitment practices are an important part of the challenge. By bringing together a working group which for the first time has representatives from Government, trade unions, industry and professional bodies, we want to get to the crux of the issue and come up with some hard hitting and practical guidance that can help more companies address this significant problem.
"While International Women's Day is about championing women's achievements, it's also about making sure that women are achieving their potential. And it's also about making sure our world economies – which increasingly depend on engineering, manufacturing and technology – are not being hampered by the fact we are missing out on the talent and contributions of 50% of the potential workforce."
Denise McGuire, Vice President of Prospect, said: "Women are in STEM for careers, not just for International Women's Day! We need to stamp out Unconscious Bias and make the world of work a fairer place for everyone."
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When you’re out and about, most people will be using a fabric face mask as they're affordable and reusable.
You can even make your own face mask if you’re up for the task or are struggling to find any to buy.
These are designed to block larger droplets from coughs and sneezes, but not small particles like some of the other masks we'll cover below.
The main aim of such masks is to help stop you from unknowingly passing on COVID-19 rather than protecting yourself against the virus, said Shyam Morjaria, medical director at online pharmacy UK Meds.
“Homemade fabric face masks provide the least amount of protection [out of all the masks], but a higher level of protection than not wearing a mask at all,” said Morjaria.
“If you are walking out in public and shopping in areas where people are maintaining social distancing, a fabric mask may be sufficient for your needs.”
Unlike the other face masks, cloth ones can be reused, but you must make sure you wash your mask in between uses.
They're widely available at pharmacies and online retail giants such as Amazon. Thankfully, most of the panic-buying and price gouging has now eased so you can pick them up fairly cheaply.
The Grocer has also put together this helpful guide to the various face masks you can pick up at the major supermarkets.
Expect to pay: £5+ each
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Disposable surgical masks
Surgical masks are usually most commonly associated with doctors in surgery but have become a popular choice for people when they're out and about.
While they do create a barrier between you and the immediate environment, they don’t filter the air of small particles that can be transmitted via a cough or sneeze, which is partly due to the loose fit of the mask.
Research by the University of Edinburgh discovered surgical masks and hand-made masks limited the forward flow of air when breathing out but generated ‘far-reaching leakage’ of fluid particles.
“Surgical masks are disposable and sufficient when you are going into areas that are less likely to be contaminated, such as walking outdoors or standing in areas where you know people will practice social distancing correctly,” said Morjaria.
If you do choose surgical masks, only wear them for a maximum of eight hours at a time before disposing of them properly.
You can find surgical masks in most pharmacies and Amazon. At the time of publising, we saw 50 face masks for £6.99 on Amazon with a £2.99 delivery charge
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Respirator masks are designed to fit more snugly around your face and are commonly used in healthcare settings. Similar to surgical masks, they should not be shared or reused.
Unlike other face masks, respirator masks have different gradings (FFP1, FFP2, FFP3) that offer various levels of protection.
The most affordable option is FFP1, which filters at least 80% of particles; this rises to at least 94% with a FFP2 graded mask.
Out of all three, FFP3 graded respiratory masks offer the best protection by filtering 99% of particles.
“NHS guidelines stipulate FFP3 face masks are best for virus and bacterial infection control when the contagion is spread through coughing and sneezing, such as with the coronavirus,” says Morjaria.
However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends you don't buy these masks as supplies are critical and must be reserved for healthcare workers.
Expect to pay: around £30 for 10 but as above you shouldn't purchase them for general use to avoid shortages
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Wearing a mask: best practices
It might seem fairly obvious, but it's vital you ensure you're following best practice when wearing (and disposing of) face masks.
If you didn't watch either of the embedded videos above which cover the basics, take a look at the World Health Organization’s guide on how to wear a face mask to make sure you’re best protected before you venture out.
Do you wear a face mask? Which do you prefer and how much does/did it cost? Let us know your experiences in the comments sections below.
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Any modern business is likely to feature low carbon strategies in their business plan. In today’s world, businesses want to play their part in a sustainable future by helping the UK cut its carbon emissions. Carbon emissions don’t just impact the environment either – they impact the finances and livelihood of every business too. But with solutions such as renewable energy and free solar, cutting carbon emissions have never been easier.
Cutting costs
A reduction in carbon emissions is synonymous with reduced energy costs. Energy costs money, so by cutting emissions and switching to cheaper, renewable energy, businesses will better be able to manage their budget. In time, businesses will become more profitable too – thanks to the simple changes they’ve made.
An opportunity to earn
Cutting carbon emissions and switching to renewables like solar also gives businesses an opportunity to earn. Businesses can sell back any used energy to the grid – and pocket the earnings.
Attracting new employees
Safeguarding the environment has never been more popular. For many entering the working world, green policy and corporate social responsibility is key. So, when a business boasts environmentally-focused polices, they’ll find it easier to attract new employees.
What business doesn’t want to be innovative? By ignoring rising carbon emissions and sticking to age-old forms of energy, businesses fail to embrace innovation. The adoption of carbon-free energy and renewable technologies help show that a business is one of the moment – rather than one of the past.
A green future
Many businesses are keen to safeguard the long-term future of our society. Therefore, many are willing to make changes and reduce their carbon footprint if this means they’re doing their bit for the environment.
A business with a green conscience can also use its green initiatives in its PR too. By tackling issues like greenhouse gases, businesses often appear more human and can gain credibility in the public eye. In turn, this can influence consumer choice too. In fact, research has shown that the public is more willing to trust businesses with long-term environmental strategies.
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Leicester boss Claude Puel insists his side will not underestimate Sheffield United in the FA Cup on Friday.
The Foxes host the Championship outfit on Friday evening and Puel is confident they can progress in the competition, but he feels the Blades will provide a stern test.
The Bramall Lane club are eighth in the Championship as they chase back-to-back promotions and Puel thinks Leicester will have to be at the top of their game to avoid an upset.
“I think this team has good players,” Puel told reporters. “For example, this team played last season in League 1. They move on and now for the first season in the Championship they play perhaps to move on into the Premier League.
“They have this possibility. It’s a strong team and powerful with good attributes in the Championship. They are comfortable with the ball and have ability and spirit on the pitch to give their best.
“I’m impressed that they are physical and powerful but also, they have quality and fighting spirit. They don’t like any games and they give their best in all situations. We need to be ready for this team.”
Leicester downed Sheffield United 4-1 in the Carabao Cup in August but Puel thinks his side are in for a much tougher assignment in the FA Cup.
He added: “I think it’s important to watch the last game because the team improved along the season.
“For me, Sheffield United is not the same team since the summer and for us it’s the same.'
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Young girl sexually assaulted after man enters property and goes into her bedroom in the early hours
'We are doing all that we can to trace the person responsible and bring them to justice'
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A man sexually assaulted a young girl after entering her bedroom in the early hours.
He was disturbed by others in the property and fled.
Detectives have launched an investigation and have appealed to the public for information following the incident at around 4.30am today (Friday).
Police patrols have been stepped up following the incident at a property on a street off Outwood Road in Radcliffe, Bury.
Officers were called to the house following reports of an intruder.
The man was reported to have entered the property before going into the bedroom of a young girl, where he sexually assaulted her, Greater Manchester Police said in a statement.
He was disturbed by others in the house and left, the force said.
The intruder may have been seen on Outwood Road heading towards Radcliffe.
Police are hunting a man described as white, aged between 30 and 50 and approximately 6ft.
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He was wearing light coloured trousers, dark jacket and glasses.
Detective Superintendent Howard Millington, of GMP’s Bury district, said: “This was an incredibly traumatic incident for the young girl involved and we’re doing all we can to provide her with specialist support.
"Her welfare is one of our top priorities as we try to establish the full circumstances surrounding the incident.
"I appreciate that what happened may cause concern among residents in the local community but I want to make it clear that we are doing all that we can to trace the person responsible and bring them to justice.
"I would like to reassure people that this was an isolated incident and we will have increased patrols in the area whilst enquiries continue.
"I urge anyone who has any information, no matter how small, to please contact us”.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact police on 0161 856 8172 quoting incident number 344 15/11/19.
Information can also be passed on anonymously by calling Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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'Family man' died after choking on his Sunday roast dinner
Father-of-three Stefan Laws from Hull tragically passed away in his daughter's kitchen
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Stefan Laws' family frantically tried to save his life as he choked on a roast dinner
A beloved family man died after choking on a Sunday roast dinner at his daughter's home.
Stefan Laws died on November 25 last year after going round to her house in Goole, Hull.
At the inquest into the 53-year-old's death yesterday, Hull Coroner's Court heard that his family and their neighbours had desperately tried to clear his throat using back slaps and the Heimlich manoeuvre.
But it was only after paramedics arrived that they were able to remove the potato, peas and Yorkshire pudding that was lodged in his airway, Hull Live reports.
Despite continuing extensive efforts to resuscitate him, Stefan passed away in his daughter's kitchen.
Stefan's son Carl said: "It was such a massive shock to us.
"He died the day after my birthday and I've been trying to stay strong for my sisters and the rest of the family.
"It's something we'll never get over, it's something we have to support each other on.
"They say time is a healer but how do you fix something that's permanently broken? You can't fix a broken heart."
The court heard that Stefan suffered from diabetes, which he managed with medication, but which also contributed to a mindset that told him to eat his meals quickly to boost his blood sugar levels.
He had three children who he raised mostly alone after his wife sadly passed away after suffering with epilepsy.
Carl said: "He brought us up as mum and dad, not just our dad.
"Nothing was ever too much trouble for him, he was just a really caring person. Everybody knew him as 'Big Stef', not just because of his size but because he had a big heart.
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"I don't believe there'll be anyone that's so strong-minded yet so soft and kind-hearted."
Stefan also left behind five grandchildren.
"He lived for his grandchildren," Carl said. "I mean we were his world but then his grandchildren were too.
"He was a family man - he spent all of his time with us. And he loved laying and watching Dave and a bit of Gold on TV."
At the inquest, area coroner Rosemary Baxter concluded that Stefan's death was the result of a tragic accident.
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The specialty of radiology is varied and challenging, using the latest technology for both diagnostic and interventional work
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THEY’RE often the first to make a diagnosis and use some of the most advanced healthcare technology around. The job of a radiologist is varied but essentially involves the use of imaging to diagnose, treat and monitor various disease processes.
The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) has reported a “massive growth” in applications of radiological imaging and imageguided treatments, fuelling what they call a “worldwide shortage” of trained specialists. As they push for additional training places to meet this demand, now could be the ideal time to take an interest in this field.
Entry and training
Doctors can move straight into specialty training from foundation year two, although some choose to train in another field before applying. Radiology specialty training lasts five years (ST1 to ST5) with no competitive application process at ST3. Core radiology training generally lasts three years (ST1 to ST3) followed by advanced (special interest) radiology training for a further two. An additional year is added for those who choose to subspecialise in interventional radiology.
Doctors must enrol with the RCR before beginning training and maintain membership throughout (currently £151 per year). They must also pass the three-part fellowship (FRCR) examination. Part one is normally taken halfway through ST1, with successful completion a requirement to advance into ST2. Part 2A is about to change to a single multiple choice exam covering all areas of the curriculum while Part 2B is based on practical image viewing. These are expected to be completed by the end of ST4 before progression to ST5.
The RCR’s Specialty training curriculum for clinical radiology details the competences required to be awarded a certificate of completion of training (CCT). These will be achieved through a variety of learning methods, from formal teaching programmes to experiential learning on the job. Achievements can be documented in the trainee’s ePortfolio.
The many special interest areas of radiology offer something to suit most personality types, whether you are looking for patient interaction and quick procedures (breast radiology), or enjoy handling more complex specialist cases (neuroradiology). Trainees usually start thinking about special interests around ST3 and most focus on two areas in ST4 and ST5, with options including cardiac, emergency, gastrointestinal, paediatric, thoracic and more. Trainees can also be appointed to the subspecialty of interventional radiology at ST4.
Radiologists have a vital role to play at both ends of the clinical spectrum – in both diagnosis and interventional treatment – and deal with a wide range of cases. For diagnosis, there are a variety of imaging techniques at their disposal. Standard examinations can involve plain radiographs, ultrasound, and computed tomography (CT), while more complex techniques include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography coupled with CT or MRI (PET-CT and PET-MRI).
The RCR describes how rapid advances in technology, along with advances in identifying diseases on diagnostic images, means imaging can be used at increasingly early stages of the diagnostic process.
Radiologists can also play a direct part in patient management, from performing urgent minimally invasive procedures and stopping life threatening haemorrhages to undertaking day case procedures such as oesophageal stenting or angioplasty. One treatment they do not perform is radiotherapy for tumours which is the responsibility of the clinical oncologist.
The RCR says: “Masses identified by radiology can be biopsied with guidance of the needle path by imaging techniques and without recourse to a surgical procedure in most cases. Interventional radiologists use image guidance for a rapidly increasing array of minimally invasive procedures, from arterial to colonic stenting, from vascular embolisation for uncontrollable bleeding to image guided ablation of tumours.”
As the government continues to push for a so-called “seven-day NHS”, it is likely that access to out-of-hours imaging will have to increase. While this may mean greater demand for radiology services, it could also mean more shift and weekend work for specialists. Whatever the future holds, this stimulating and satisfying field has much to offer.
• The Royal College of Radiologists – www.rcr.ac.uk
• “A career in radiology”, BMJ
Joanne Curran is an associate editor of FYi
Q&A Dr Hefina Whiteley-Jones, specialty trainee in radiology based in Brighton
What first attracted you to radiology?
Radiology experience at medical school was non-existent for me, and I found it a rather mysterious entity. But during foundation and core surgical training I realised that radiologists often provide the answer when others have failed and major management decisions were being made based on the radiologist’s opinion. Radiologists also make big calls in MDTs, as well as getting involved in highpressure major interventional procedures. The other attractive aspects include a great work/life balance, varied sub-specialties, flexibility for part-time working and training, and potential for private practice. And of course, radiology is at the cutting edge of technology, so we have the best toys in the hospital!
What do you enjoy most about the job?
My added value in a patient’s journey is huge. You are always working to ensure they get the right imaging and the right treatment at the right time. You can perform life-saving major interventions if you’re after some adrenaline, or smaller procedures if that’s not your thing. There are a range of new skills to learn, which is really rewarding. The research opportunities are vast and teaching and learning is made much easier as the patients are always available for review. I am truly excited to imagine where the specialty will be in 10 years’ time – scanners are continually improving, imaging sequences are continually in development, and the radiologist’s role will be more central than ever, especially in cancer care.
What do you find most challenging?
The exams are tough and probably the biggest hurdle for trainees. The Royal College of Radiologists has recently cut these from 11 to seven in an attempt to improve things. There is an ever increasing workload: the UK has half the number of radiologists it should have, with more and more scans being performed. This does mean of course that the future for radiology as a specialty is very bright and employment prospects are excellent. Trying to follow that loop of bowel on cross-sectional imaging is always a challenge, although this does get easier with time.
Has anything surprised you about the specialty?
I have found the reduced patient contact quite positive and I enjoy the balance. It gives me more time for other activities, e.g. research, and when I do see patients I value it. I also found that radiologists are generally a happy bunch who truly enjoy their job, and are not (usually) grumpily locked away in a dark room.
What do you consider the most important attributes of a good radiologist?
Attention to detail, excellent clinical knowledge, and good negotiating skills. An interest in anatomy is vital, as this is the universal language of radiology that you continue to hone throughout your career. IT skills are useful, and good hand-to-eye co-ordination is crucial for procedures. Radiologists need to be inquisitive and ask questions, and often suggest diagnoses that the clinicians have not yet considered. There is nothing more satisfying that clinching the diagnosis in a difficult case.
Is there any advice you could give to a final year or FY trainee considering radiology?
Do a taster week to get a real idea of what radiology entails and talk to radiologists about their job. I would recommend a good foundation in clinical medicine and surgery, e.g. completing CMT or CST, and postgraduate exams are a good idea too. They set you in good stead for the clinical requirements of the job and help you perform better at interview. I love my job - it is incredibly satisfying, interesting, and there is always time for a cup of tea. So if you think it is the job for you, go for it! You absolutely won’t regret it.
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From the invention of the modern hospital to the development of vaccines, pandemics have had an enormous impact on our well-being, be it through revolutionary developments in the healthcare industry or innovation in medical science. Here are a few examples
COVID-19 is not the first pandemic to reap havoc and tragedy around the world, and it won't be the last. Every few decades or centuries, a deadly new disease, or the mutation of an existing one, appears in a heartbeat and spreads just as quickly, destabilizing millions and killing many. In terms of combatting outbreaks, what has humanity learnt since The Black Death ravaged Europe in the mid-14th century? What progress has been made to safeguard society? The answer is twofold: a lot and not enough. Vaccines can take months, more likely years, to develop and yet, one positive is that pandemics have triggered vast investments in innovative health and medical developments, so better preparing the world for the next. Here are a few examples:
1. Foundations of the modern hospital
The Black Death, or Bubonic Plague, ravaged Europe in the 14th century when 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina in October 1347. The bacteria, or bacillus, that triggered the plague is known as Yersinia pestis, an airborne disease which can also spread through bites from fleas and rats. Over the next five years, the pandemic wiped out an estimated 100 million people, the equivalent to two-thirds of Europe’s population.
‘Hospitals’ in Europe had, until then, operated as extensions of the Catholic Church and were designed to treat the poor and needy. The word itself originated from the French "Hôtel-Dieu", meaning “hostel of God”. Nuns and clergy would treat the sick, patients were encouraged to confess their sins before God, and medical treatments mostly consisted of herbs and ointments.
As the Black Death decimated communities, tens of millions of infected people rushed to these hospitals in desperate search of treatment and care. The black plague and the ensuing panic marked a significant turning point for the role and life-saving importance of the institution we know and respect today. The religious hostels of the 14th century have since morphed into a modern-day total of almost 20,000 facilities across 177 countries.
2. Quarantine as a Strategy Against Disease
As a result of COVID-19, we are all familiar with the concept of ‘social distancing’, and its effectiveness in helping prevent the spread of an epidemic. Figuring it out has taken time though, 650 years to be precise. The first known use of ‘social distancing’ was in 14th century Venice, in an effort to combat the spread of The Black Death. At the time, Venice was one of the world’s international trade hubs, and its harbour one of the busiest. Fearful of the disease reaching its shores, port workers would order incoming ships to dock in the port for a quarantine period of 40 days before they were allowed to disembark. The word "quarantine" derives from the Italian word for ‘forty’, namely 40 days of isolation. The other condition was that the crew had to demonstrate they were free of any symptoms before disembarking. It was later discovered that the port workers' quarantine period was correct, as the length of time between exposure to the Black Death and developing symptoms is a maximum of 37 days.
The quarantine imposed in Venice was declared a success and the other major ports adopted the practice. Quarantining has since been used to slow the spread of diseases and to determine whether people develop symptoms. Years later, Venice established what is considered to be the first quarantine hospital, or lazaretto. History repeated itself this year as Japan refused entry to the Diamond Princess cruise ship and ordered its passengers to quarantine for several weeks.
3. The Invention of the Vaccine
Smallpox had terrorized mankind since the Pharaohs and taken millions of lives in the process. It was not until the late 18th century, and the quick observations of a British doctor, that a vaccine was developed as a protection against disease. In 1796, as the smallpox epidemic gripped Europe, Dr. Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who contracted cowpox were less likely to fall ill to smallpox. Cowpox is manifested in lesions and blisters on cow udders, and while it can infect humans who come in contact with an infected animal, its symptoms are less severe than smallpox and are similar to the symptoms of a mild flu.
In a revolutionary idea for the time, Jenner scraped the puss from a blister that had grown on an infected cow's udder and inoculated it into both arms of an eight-year-old boy, James Phipps, the son of Jenner’s gardener. A single blister grew on the child’s hand, he developed mild symptoms yet did not lead to full-blown infection. Two months later, Jenner repeated the experiment, this time injecting the boy with smallpox matter. Young Phipps did not become ill, nor did he develop any symptoms. As a result, Jenner discovered a whole new world of preventative medicine. Jenner coined the term, ‘vaccination’, from the Latin vaccinus, meaning of or from the cow. Once vaccinated, a patient develops antibodies that make them immune to cowpox, but they also develop immunity to the smallpox virus. The vaccines proved so successful that, in 1980, the World Health Organization declared smallpox as the first disease to be eradicated by vaccination.
4. The Establishment of a "Ministry of Health"
The Spanish Flu of 1918 was a severe pandemic that infected 500 million people and killed an estimated 50 million around the world. Five years later, the Soviet Union established the People’s Commissariat for Health, what would later become the model for Ministries of Health around the world. England, France and Germany followed suit, as countries moved to a more centralized and population-focused healthcare system, where the state plays an active role in protecting its citizens' health and wellbeing.
So, how will COVID-19 impact global healthcare? There are already signs of a seismic shift in the industry as demand intensifies for homecare solutions and the latest in digital health technology. As bright as future innovations may appear, we would be wise to heed the lessons from 14th century Venice, quarantine and play our part to “flatten the curve.”
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How Michigan State's culture fostered a sexual predator and masked assaults
By Emily Lawler and Julie Mack | MLive.com
Larissa Boyce says she told a Michigan State University coach in 1997, but it stopped there.
Tiffany Thomas Lopez says she told MSU athletic trainers in 1999 and 2000, but it stopped there.
Amanda Thomashow says she told an MSU Title IX investigator in 2014, but it stopped there.
The complaints these women raised weren't trivial, isolated or rare. They were telling the university one of its prized doctors, Larry Nassar, was a serial molester.
At its core, the campus wasn't safe.
What led the university to harbor a sexual predator for nearly two decades wasn't one big failing. It was a series of institutional blind spots, miscalculations and cultural problems that created one of the biggest crises in the university's 163-year history.
Nassar, 54, is in federal prison for possession of child pornography -- and if he lives past that 60-year sentence, he will serve on 10 counts of first-degree criminal sexual assault.
More than 150 women gave victim-impact statements at his sentencing hearings, many with harsh words for the university.
"This is what it looks like when institutions create a culture where a predator can flourish unafraid and unabated and this is what it looks like when people in authority refuse to listen, put friendships in front of the truth, fail to create or enforce proper policy and fail to hold enablers accountable," Rachael Denhollander, Nassar's first public accuser, told an Ingham County courtroom.
But Nassar's imprisonment doesn't end the university's struggle to explain and overcome the cultural problems that led it to this point. And it's become clear that the issues go beyond Nassar.
This month, three former MSU football players accepted a plea deal in a rape case. Another former player still has charges pending in separate case. A woman in a civil lawsuit claims three MSU basketball players raped her, something the university says it reported to police but was unable to get her to follow up on.
Meanwhile, Dr. William Strampel, former dean of MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine and Nassar's former boss, is facing four criminal charges for actions related to his supervision of Nassar as well as Strampel's own alleged sexual harassment of MSU students.
"It's clear now this goes much deeper than one guy with a problem," Thomashow said.
Lou Anna K. Simon presided over insular culture
For years, Michigan State University was synonymous with Lou Anna K. Simon.
Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon talks to Danial Munford of MSU Police Department on the second day of Larry Nassar's sentencing at the Ingham County Circuit Court in Lansing on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. (Neil Blake | MLive.com)
Simon came to MSU in the 1970s to get her doctoral degree in higher education administration and rose through the ranks, becoming MSU's first woman president in 2005.
"There have been two great MSU presidents in my lifetime - one was John Hannah and the other was Lou Anna Simon," John Forsyth, a member of the MSU faculty emeriti steering committee and Simon supporter, said in February.
A no-nonsense leader and hard worker, Simon was generally well-liked by faculty, who appreciated how she expanded facilities and programs "when state support for higher education was sinking like a stone," Forsyth said. "She created a supportive environment where people could excel."
But coming up through MSU meant Simon could surround herself with loyalists and create an "entrenched, top-down" structure, said Andaluna Borcila, a professor in the university's James Madison College and one of 61 Faculty Senate members to vote 'no confidence' in the Board of Trustees.
The university provost, June Pierce Youatt, earned her degrees at MSU, as did five of MSU's 19 deans. By comparison, Wayne State University has no deans with degrees from Wayne and the University of Michigan has one of 19 deans with a U-M degree.
It's unusual for a Big Ten university to have a provost and president both from the same school, said Keith Hearit, assistant to the provost at Western Michigan University and whose academic background is in crisis management.
MSU's senior administration has been "pretty much an insider's game," said Tom Watkins, former director of the Michigan Department of Mental Health, Superintendent of Michigan Department of Education and a former top aide at Wayne State University.
The "disconnect" between senior leadership and MSU faculty and students contributed to the Nassar controversy, Borcila said. "While not necessarily responsible for the tragedy that occurred here, (it) certainly helped conceal it."
"You really get into an echo chamber in university administration," Hearit said. "It's very tribal. It's easy for senior leaders to get insulated, and that's always a challenge. It's further complicated when you have a strong leader."
While it's unclear how much Simon knew about Nassar, she was made personally aware of concerns about Strampel's conduct in a 2004 memo obtained by MLive though the Freedom of Information Act.
Roberty Ofoli, a MSU associate professor in chemical engineering, said he's seen power concentrate in the administration in the hiring process. When he sits on hiring committees, nobody wants a ranking of recommended candidates anymore. An administrator surrounded by other administrators makes the final decision.
"It just started gradually. It probably got much worse under Simon, but it's just been going on and on and on. And then all of a sudden you look at where you are today and where you were 10 years ago and say 'how did I get here?'" Ofoli said.
He said leaders typically want to surround themselves with people who will challenge them and aren't afraid of controversy, but that isn't what Simon did.
"You are never going to know what's going on when everybody is afraid to say something to you," Ofoli said.
Trustee Dan Kelly looks on during an MSU Board of Trustees meeting at the Michigan State University Hannah Administration Building on Jan. 31, 2018. (J. Scott Park | Mlive.com)
Simon resigned in January, blaming outside forces.
"As tragedies are politicized, blame is inevitable. As president, it is only natural that I am the focus of this anger," she wrote in her resignation letter.
MLive was unable to arrange an interview with Simon through the university, where she maintains an office.
MSU Board of Trustees Chairman Brian Breslin has expressed a desire to cast a wide net in the search for a new president. But in the meantime, Interim President John Engler is one more MSU graduate at the helm.
History of Title IX failings
Twenty-five years ago, MSU hired a Title IX pioneer to shake things up.
Merrily Dean Baker was the only woman to sit on the original Title IX committee for the federal Office for Civil Rights, and she helped write the rules early in her career. In 1992, she became MSU's athletic director, the first female AD in the Big Ten.
But Dean Baker lasted only three years at MSU. She says she hit up against an insular administration, a board majority whose priorities were a winning football and basketball team, and a leadership disinterested in Title IX, the federal law meant in part to protect university students from sexual misconduct.
"If you talk about this culture problem that needs to be addressed, it's nothing new," Dean Baker said. "It was fully in place when I was there. And it wasn't changed. It only now caught up to them."
In 1997, two years after Dean Baker left MSU, Boyce and another teenage gymnast say they told then-MSU gymnastics coach Kathie Klages that Nassar had digitally penetrated their vaginas during treatments for sports injuries.
In 1999 and 2000 when she was a MSU softball player, Tiffany Thomas says she told several MSU trainers that Nassar was sexually inappropriate during appointments.
In both cases, Dean Baker said, Klages and the trainers were required by Title IX to report the allegations and MSU had a duty to investigate. That didn't happen.
"Obviously, they didn't put the fear of God in these coaches and trainers to report, or they would have known that the first time they heard anything, they had to tell," Dean Baker said.
Larissa Boyce (left), Tiffany Thomas Lopez (center) and Amanda Thomashow (right) all say they told MSU staff members about Larry Nassar's conduct long before he was fired in 2016.
Those weren't the only cases of Nassar complaints to MSU staff.
In 2014, Thomashow filed a formal complaint alleging she was molested by Nassar at MSU's Sports Medicine Clinic. Nassar was ultimately exonerated, and continued to see patients for another two years before he was fired in September 2016. At least 20 patients say they were molested during that time.
"I knew what happened was wrong," Thomashow said. "But they really made me question myself."
At Nassar's Ingham County sentencing hearing, Denhollander said Nassar's victims have yet to receive an explanation for why MSU ignored complaints about Nassar's behavior.
"The reason we were not believed is because people did not listen," Denhollander said. "No one 'knew' because no one handled the reports properly. Victims were silenced."
Issues beyond Nassar
Sexual assault accusations at the university aren't limited to staff. The Title IX process handles complaints students lodge against other students.
Larry Nassar listens during his sentencing at Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte on Feb. 5, 2018. (Cory Morse | MLive.com)
But the process itself isn't easy, said Lauren Allswede, a former counselor in MSU's Sexual Assault program from 2008-15. Allswede made waves when she criticized how the university handles sexual assault complaints against athletes.
When students entered the university's Title IX process, she said, it was disorienting, with no clear explanation to victims of what the process entailed or how long the process could take. She watched one case take three and a half years.
"It added chaos to their life," Allswede said about victims' experiences with the Title IX process.
The U.S. Office for Civil Rights warned Michigan State in September 2015 that it had created a "sexually hostile environment" and failed victims in several ways. MSU promised to reform.
"It's been made crystal clear in the past several years that university employees are mandatory reporters (of sexual abuse), and we've put significant time and attention on that," MSU Trustee Dianne Byrum said.
But the university's Title IX problems are far from over.
In January, the NCAA announced an investigation into MSU's handling of the Nassar situation. The same week, Athletic Director Mark Hollis abruptly retired amid a flurry of news reports about MSU's handling of sexual assault cases involving athletes.
In February, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced a new Title IX investigation, also prompted by the Nassar case.
In March, an outside evaluation of MSU's Title IX compliance found many students lack "basic awareness" of resources available to sexual-assault victims.
Two days after that report was issued, MSU announced the creation of a new office to oversee Title IX efforts and 12 new staff positions to handle Title IX complaints.
Former Michigan Gov. John Engler was named interim President following Lou Anna K. Simon's resignation in the fallout of the Nassar scandal. (Jake May | MLive.com)
Meanwhile, Allswede is among those critical of the university's defense of MSU's athletic department. In a Feb. 13 email, Engler was dismissive of a news report, saying the university would "affirm the integrity" of its coaches.
"It took 20 years for people to recognize Nassar" as a sexual predator, Allswede said. "And now all his survivors, we believe and they're important. But in the next breath, it's like these other survivors who claim they were raped by athletes, they're lying."
A lack of empathy
The Nassar controversy revealed an institutional arrogance, the university's tendency to operate within silos and Simon's weakness as a communicator.
Simon's academic background was in math and analytics, Byrum said. "She approached things very much like a math problem. She was very analytical, and felt if you had the right pieces, you could solve the problem."
"In many aspects, that approach worked very well," especially on issues where Simon could study the data and refer to best practices, Byrum said.
"But when you had to deal with human problems that were less analytical, that was not (Simon's) strong suit," Byrum said.
"From the board's perspective, the donations were coming in, the sports teams were doing well, the stadiums were filled. So what's the problem?"
- Tom Watkins
That was particularly evident in the Nassar controversy, which pitted the human tragedy of an MSU doctor who molested patients for 20 years against the administration's concerns about the potential legal liability.
As the Nassar scandal grew, Simon spent months portraying MSU as one of Nassar's victims, refusing to acknowledge any institutional missteps.
Yet that stance crumbled in January as Nassar victims went before the national media in an Ingham County courtroom and dramatically recounted the times those on MSU's payroll dismissed concerns about Nassar's behavior.
"Anyone looking at it could see what had really happened," said Watkins, the former state superintendent.
In the end, Watkins said, Simon failed the essential leadership test: "Sometimes you need to say, we were wrong and we need to make things right."
Watkins added that Simon's unwillingness to do that was exacerbated by the MSU Board of Trustees, which fully backed Simon for months and gave her a $150,000 raise in December 2017. A month later, days before Simon's resignation, board Vice Chair Joel Ferguson gave a radio interview in which he praised Simon as a stellar fundraiser and shrugged off the possibility of a NCAA investigation.
"From the board's perspective, the donations were coming in, the sports teams were doing well, the stadiums were filled. So what's the problem?" Watkins said. "But most people were looking at that perspective and saying, 'Are you kidding me?'"
The board and senior leadership "came across as elite, insular, isolated, and we-don't-need-you-to-tell-us-things," he said.
MSU doctor's victims talked for 20 years. Was anyone listening?
For two decades he was a household name in the gymnastic community, a star in sports medicine and a sought-after physician at Michigan State University. If there was a dark side to Dr. Larry Nassar, almost nobody saw it.
Under Simon, Michigan State's communications about Nassar reflected a culture of "institutional arrogance and institutional ignorance, and it caught up to them," Dean Baker said.
When the Nassar controversy first broke, Hearit said, the higher education community sympathized with MSU for having to face the consequences created by a rogue employee.
"But then it got the point where action needed to be taken, and there was no action," he said. "Within the higher ed community, there was real shock at the flat-footed response."
Michigan State sophomore Brooke Rosin chants "silence is violence," continuously alongside hundreds of MSU students who take to the streets throughout campus in East Lansing as they protest in support of sexual assault survivors on Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. (Jake May | MLive.com)
Campus community pushing for cultural change
Now "cultural change" are the buzz words on campus and among MSU stakeholders.
Thomashow and other victims pushed a package of bills in the Michigan Legislature that would broaden the definition of who is legally a mandatory reporter among other reforms. Those bills have passed the state Senate, and are now pending in the House.
It's not just state and federal lawmakers seeking reform.
MSU junior Rachel Alexander said the Nassar scandal has brought into question the attitude among some that sexual assault is an inevitable part of campus life.
"I think what you're seeing here in a lot of real ways is we're done with that narrative," Alexander said. "We want this to end here."
She's seeing a lot to be hopeful about on campus, but questions if the people at the top are listening.
In his first two months on the job, Engler has made numerous changes in senior administration; reorganized several departments - including the Title IX office, communications department and the university's medical colleges - and had taken steps to fire Strampel even before his arrest, said Emily Gerkin Guerrant, MSU's spokeswoman.
"We have a lot of healing that needs to happen in our MSU community, but I'm confident it can happen. My goal is to help create a stronger university, one with improved communications, a culture of respect for all people and a safe environment for students. The actions we've taken in the past few months are a step in that direction," said Engler in a statement. He was not available for an interview.
Engler also has acknowledged that mistakes were made and a culture change is necessary - a dramatic shift in messaging compared to Simon. And he's expressed eagerness to reach a quick settlement with the Nassar victims suing MSU, with mediation expected to begin this month.
The shadows of Michigan State students Connor Meston, left, Faith Hatt and Blake Johnson appear on "the rock" near the center of MSU's campus in East Lansing as they take time to read every hand-painted name on Jan. 26, 2018. (Jake May | MLive.com)
Michigan State's recovery "really depends on whether they are serious about wanting to change the culture," Dean Baker said.
"If they get the right people in there, the sky's the limit. It's a wonderful institution," she said. "But they have to stop tripping over their own feet."
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Recent decisions by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit have reinvigorated the debate over whether mandatory individual arbitration provisions are enforceable with respect to ERISA claims and, if so, whether these provisions are worth including in your ERISA plan document.
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In August, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit decided Dorman v. Charles Schwab Corp., et al (Dorman v. Schwab).[1] In this case, the Ninth Circuit (1) expressly overruled prior precedent holding that ERISA claims were not arbitrable; (2) held that under US Supreme Court precedent ERISA claims are arbitrable; and (3) further held that the Schwab Retirement Savings and Investment Plan (the Plan) document at issue contained a valid, enforceable mandatory individual arbitration provision. On November 7, the Ninth Circuit denied former Schwab employee Michael Dorman’s motion to have this case reheard en banc, ensuring that, for now, Dorman v. Schwab is the law of the land within the Ninth Circuit (pending a potential Supreme Court review).
In this case, Mr. Dorman, a participant in the Plan, brought a putative class action lawsuit under ERISA Sections 502(a)(2) and (3) alleging that the defendants (collectively Schwab) breached their fiduciary duties by including and retaining poorly performing Schwab-affiliated investment funds in the Plan in order to generate fees for Schwab.
Schwab filed a motion to compel arbitration and asserted that Mr. Dorman was prohibited from bringing this class action lawsuit by virtue of a mandatory arbitration/class action waiver provision in the Plan document. This provision (the Arbitration Provision) provided that (1) “[a]ny claim, dispute or breach arising out of or in any way related to the plan shall be settled by binding arbitration;” (2) any arbitration would be conducted “on an individual basis only, and not on a class, collective or representative basis;” and (3) if the class action waiver were held to be unenforceable, then “any claim on a class, collective or representative basis shall be filed and adjudicated in a court of competent jurisdiction, and not in arbitration.”
The district court denied Schwab’s motion to compel individual arbitration for a variety of reasons, including that the Ninth Circuit had previously held that ERISA claims were not arbitrable.
The Ninth Circuit reversed the district court and expressly overturned its prior precedent as fundamentally inconsistent with intervening Supreme Court decisions. The Ninth Circuit explained that Supreme Court precedent held that federal statutory claims are generally arbitrable and that arbitrators can competently interpret and apply federal statutes. Thus, the Ninth Circuit concluded that claims under ERISA may be arbitrated.
Turning to the language in the Plan, the Ninth Circuit further held (in a separate memorandum opinion that is described as “. . .not appropriate for publication and. . .not precedent. . .”) that the Arbitration Provision was valid and enforceable. In addressing the validity and enforceability of arbitration clauses generally, the Ninth Circuit explained that under the Federal Arbitration Act, claims alleging a violation of a federal statute are arbitrable absent a “contrary congressional command” and that ERISA has no such command. With respect to the Arbitration Provision, the Ninth Circuit concluded that it was not designed to insulate fiduciaries from liability (which would be prohibited under ERISA). Further, because the Arbitration Provision was included in the Plan document, the Plan as a whole and any individuals who participate in the Plan (including Mr. Dorman) agreed to individual arbitration.
In contrast, in Munro v. University of Southern California, No. 17-55550 (9th Cir. July 24, 2018), another recent Ninth Circuit decision addressing the arbitrability of ERISA claims, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court decision that an ERISA claim was not arbitrable. The primary basis for concluding that the claim was not arbitrable was that the plan as a whole had not consented to arbitration. More specifically, because the class action was brought on behalf of the plan as whole under ERISA Section 502(a)(2), and because the mandatory arbitration language was only included in participants’ employment agreements and not the plan, the plan as a whole did not consent to arbitration. In addition, the mandatory arbitration language only applied to individual claims and not those made on behalf of others, such as the plan.
Therefore, if a plan sponsor intends to enforce mandatory arbitration or class action waivers with respect to ERISA 502 claims, the plan sponsor should ensure that the arbitration provision/class action waiver is included in the plan document itself. Further, any individual consent that an employee may sign should be expansive and include claims for benefits brought by the individual on behalf of any benefit plans in which the employee is a participant.
Do You Really Want to Require Individual Arbitration?
Recognizing that a plan can require individual arbitration under Ninth Circuit precedent, the next question is whether the plan sponsor really wants to amend the plan document to include such a provision.
On the one hand, arbitration is generally less expensive than litigation.
On the other hand, arbitrators are likely to be less familiar with ERISA’s nuances and an errant arbitration decision could raise a number of difficult compliance questions for the plan’s fiduciaries. For example, if an arbitrator determines that plan fiduciaries breached their duty with respect to one participant, it is not clear what obligation there would be to correct this issue for other participants. Further, it is not clear whether prior arbitration decisions would have any preclusive or precedential effect on the plan’s fiduciaries or its participants, so that if the plan prevails in an arbitration proceeding, that result may not preclude other participants from bringing similar claims. In addition, while federal courts may bind federal agencies, it appears that an arbitration decision may not have the same binding effect on an agency auditing the plan. Finally, it may be to the plan’s advantage to be able to settle a claim common to the plan’s participants in a federal court class-action lawsuit binding on all the participants; it is not clear how such a class-wide settlement could be obtained where individual arbitration is the prescribed method of resolving claims.
Mandatory individual arbitration provisions may be a useful plan design tool to mitigate litigation risk and to ensure that disputes are resolved in the most efficient manner available, but these provisions are not necessarily a one-size-fits-all tool for benefit plans. Plan sponsors should carefully consider the pros and cons of including such provisions in their plans and discuss them with their employee benefits counsel before proceeding.
If you have any questions or would like more information on the issues discussed in this LawFlash, please contact any of the following Morgan Lewis lawyers:
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[1] See No. 18-15281, 2019 WL 3926990 (9th Cir. Aug. 20, 2019) (slip op.) and Dorman v. Charles Schwab Corp., et al, No. 18-15281, 2019 WL 3939644 (9th Cir. Aug. 20, 2019) (slip op.).
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Red Bull wants engine freeze guarantee before taking over Honda programme
by Ryan Wood
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Red Bull has said it will require a guarantee from Formula 1 that engine development will be frozen before the first race of the 2022 season, if it’s to push ahead with plans to takeover Honda’s engine programme.
Honda confirmed earlier this month that it will quit F1 at the end of next season, putting Red Bull and AlphaTauri’s future in the sport under threat.
Neither team is keen to return to the de facto supplier, which would be Renault given next year it will have no customer teams with McLaren switching to Mercedes, therefore Red Bull has only a handful of options, one of which is to license Honda’s engine intellectual property (IP) and run its own engine programme.
This is the “preferred” option according to Red Bull’s Helmut Marko, but he says they must be guaranteed that the engines will be frozen after 2021 as they cannot afford to develop the power unit once Honda steps away.
“It’s a very complex subject,” the Austrian told German’s Sport1 channel. “It would be preferable that we take over the IP rights to then prepare and deploy the engines ourselves in Milton Keynes.
“But this will only be possible on the condition that the engines are frozen by the first race of 2022 at the latest. We cannot afford to further develop [the engine] technically nor financially. That is a prerequisite.”
F1 is set to switch to a new engine formula in 2026 – although there are calls to bring this date forward – therefore is development is frozen on the current formula, it would mean they would remain the same for four seasons.
Marko insists Red Bull cannot return to a customer deal, because it would prove detrimental to the development of their car.
“All engine manufacturers have their own team and that means they develop the engine around their own chassis,” he added.
“We would have to adapt our chassis [to the engine] and be confronted with a technical solution that we would be forced to accept.”
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BETTER TALL SAUL
By MVP Staff
Being a Globetrotter is a platform for change, Ryan Dinsdale discovers.
Saul White Jr, a committed father and husband, leaves his family for six months each year.
He and his wife raise their four young children, Saul the Third, Amare, JC, and baby Aleena in Oklahoma, two states away from where Saul grew up in Illinois.
But that distance is nothing to Saul. As a Harlem Globetrotter, he goes much further
“It’s always tough to leave your family for the road,” he confessed, his deep voice rumbling with sincerity. “We leave on Christmas day, all the way to June.”
Each night, Saul puts on his flashy red and blue jersey, its gold accents matching his bleach-blond hair, as the Globetrotters perform their half basketball, half circus-act show in hundreds of cities worldwide.
Australia, Israel, and Italy are among his favourite countries to visit, but “just to see all the different cultures and all the different crowds is a blessing,” especially, Saul explained, when you consider where he came from.
Summit-Argo is a sleepy village in Cook County, Illinois. In 1927, Hemingway described it as a place no one’s heard of, a sentiment that still holds weight today. It is best known for high crime rates.
But there’s a reason it’s tattooed on Saul’s bicep. Summit-Argo raised him. Summit-Argo handed Saul his first basketball.
When Saul was born, his grandfather told his mom that he’d be special, and the same man took Saul to Harlem Globetrotter games in Chicago.
The White’s was a basketball household. Saul and his brother Whitney learned the game from their father, who played with NBA legends Isiah Thomas and Doc Rivers. “My family were born to be basketball players,” he laughed.
“My parents were big motivators, and my community always supported me as a kid. They pushed me to be a better person and a better athlete.”
The centre of that community is Argo High School, where Saul started studying in 2002. His basketball coach, Bill Toulios, vividly remembers the teen’s talent.
On a hot day in 2003, the team piled into a school bus and drove for an hour down to Kankakee Illinois. “We were playing in a summer league tournament,” said Bill.
“Saul made this one move that I am still so amazed at.” He cut past his guard, drove to the hoop, “and there was this big centre, about 6’7.”
Saul is 5’11, small for the basketball world, but he can jump. With childlike excitement, Bill continued: “When he took off I thought, ‘okay, he’s either gonna get fouled or he’s gonna lay it in.’
“But he did neither of those; he slammed the ball down on this guy. It was such a great move, and the place went crazy, and right there I knew he could be great.”
Saul knew it himself, so could always be found working. He’d either be in the gym or the classroom, “and always with a smile on his face,” said Bill.
“We’re very proud of him. Wherever he goes, whether its Shanghai or London, he always says he’s from Summit-Argo, and that’s a sense of pride that we always appreciate.”
Argo staff and students make sure to attend any Globetrotter games in Illinois, and Saul returns the favour.
“When he comes back to the building it’s a whole event,” said Bill. “He talks to his old teachers; he talks to the kids. He does a lot of summer camps with us here too.”
Having a platform to inspire children is one of Saul’s biggest motivations.
“My own drive comes from a lot of obstacles I’ve been through in my life,” he explained.
“A lot of kids don’t have it as easy as the next. Some have it hard, so they need that motivation, or they need that push to keep going.”
Saul is a role model, and that aspect of the job makes it all worth it.
He’s made hundreds of kids smile with his on-court antics, and he’s trained teenagers who became NBA players.
Being a Globetrotter has granted Saul that privilege.
“It’s given me a platform to reach millions and millions of people,” he explained, “and I’m just trying to be a positive impact.”
Social media is another influential platform, and Saul uploads speeches about valuing yourself, knowing your worth, and staying focused.
“Every day I’m working to improve myself by being a better basketball player, and a better father and husband, and just better in life,” he explained. He tries to instil that work ethic into his fans, “to give the kids something to hope for.”
He does so because he knows life isn’t easy; he also knows what’s possible.
Saul got his break when he uploaded highlight reel to YouTube in 2011. The Globetrotters saw it, liked it, and offered him a job. “It was a perfect fit,” he said, “and now I’m eight years strong.”
Did he ever expect this much success? “No,” he laughed. “That’s the easy answer.”
“Coming from a small town, every kid has that dream. You want to be that doctor, or that basketball player, or whatever you put your mind to. But you also don’t know if it will ever happen.”
“And then all of that hard work just turns around, and it does happen,” he said, still sounding surprised. “You’re like, ‘wow, my dream really came true.’”
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By Rich Woods Senior Editor for North America Neowin @@TheRichWoods · Jan 4, 2020 23:14 EST with 3 comments
Samsung announced its next Galaxy Unpacked event today. It will once again be held in San Francisco like its spring event was last year, and it will be on February 11.
The most obvious product that the Korean firm will announce is its next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S11, which actually might end up being called the Galaxy S20. The new handset is expected to arrive with a wide array of new camera features, such as 8K video recording, a 108-megapixel main sensor, and more. Naturally, it will launch with Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 865 chipset, at least in some regions, as Samsung typically used its in-house Exynos chips in international markets.
Another thing expected to make its debut at the event is the next iteration of the Galaxy Fold. The first iteration of the device was originally announced at the same event last year, and while it launched later than expected due to some issues with the original design, it might already be time for a refresh.
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Lagu Indonesia Raya versi Youtuber Malaysia viral di media sosial. Menanggapi ini, through the Embassy in Jakarta, an official statement delivered.
The Malaysian government stated that it strongly condemns any negative form of provocation. And will take firm steps under applicable legal provisions.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Kemlu) has communicated to the Malaysian government until the video that belongs to the YouTuber MyAsean removing.
“Since two days ago the Indonesian Embassy in KL and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have communicated with the government and relevant authorities in Malaysia regarding this incident,” said the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Teuku Faizasyah to Liputan6.com, Senin (28/12/2020).
Faiza saw that the Malaysian government had taken action on what Indonesia said, including taking down YouTube shows that insulted the song, Indonesia Raya.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that the perpetrator is from Malaysia.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has submitted to the sanctions in the neighboring country’s law. Malaysia is currently conducting an investigation.
“The sentence hangs over the rule of law in Malaysia,” said Faiza.
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Ohanaeze: Security For Ndigbo, My Priority – Obiozor
Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at 1:28 PM
The newly elected President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, George Obiozor, has said his main priority is to ensure security for Igbos.
Obiozor emerged president after an election which held last Sunday in Imo state.
Thanking Ndigbo for electing him, Obiozor said: ”I know this is no easy decision on the part of Ndigbo or even my humble self. But I promise you all and my God, that I shall take up to the best of my ability to tackle the challenges and the responsibilities that come with the hallowed office with honour, dignity, dedication, decency and decorum.
”My dream type of leadership is leader/manager model, using the most and best available efficient persons and instruments to achieve Igbo collectively defined objectives. I believe this can be done without malice but with diplomatic dexterity, decency, candour and decorum.”
Obiozor said his decision to contest in the election was not based on personal ambition.
He said: ”My most compelling necessity was service, a timely and crucial service at one of the most critical times in Nigeria’s history with dire consequences, particularly for Ndigbo as a national entity.
”Indeed, not only has governance become both difficult and complex in Nigeria, but down right an existential threat to Ndigbo in particular. The Igbo dilemma in Nigeria has come at last. And the time requires a very careful and delicate skilled manager in the relationships between Ndigbo and other Nigerian nationalities especially the national power elites. This requires a mature and experienced person with a capacity to build enough consensus to define and defend the interest of Ndigbo.”
Consequently, Obiozor said his ”four points priority agenda for Ndigbo are security, economy, education, peace and reconciliation.”
His words: ”Ndigbo must be safe at home and abroad. Ndigbo must never again be victims of circumstances they did not create nor can they control. Security of Ndigbo, young or old will be a priority in my tenure. And security does not come alone, it comes with justice. Therefore, we must always seek justice, equity and fairness no matter how difficult or how long it takes to achieve them.”
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Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 3:05 PM
A man identified as Wisdom has been arrested by the Delta State Police Command for allegedly maltreating, starving and locking up his two-year-old son in a dark room.
Information gathered has it that the victim identified as Zino have been maltreated by his father and stepmother at No. 113 Okumagba Avenue, Off Deco Road, Warri, Delta State.
The Director-General, Young Nigerian Rights Organization, Comrade Victor Ojei, who spoke with Punch on Sunday in Asaba disclosed that the under-age child was allegedly molested by the father and stepmother.
He said, “Zino is a two-year-old child whom the biological mother dropped with his biological father and stepmother at No. 113 Okumagba Avenue. Since then the father and stepmother have been giving this child all sorts of maltreatment and starvation.”
“They lock him up in a dark room and beat him up when he receives help from neighbours. Neighbours now are afraid so they don’t end up killing him.”
“Police from B Division station Sunday morning arrested the father, Mr Wisdom. We are also taking him to a family court before the end of this week. The infant is now hospitalized at Warri.”
“I commended all the people that assisted us to ensure that the man was arrested.”
The Executive Assistant on Girl Child to the Governor of Delta State, Barrister Bridget Anyafulu, said that Delta state government is implementing the child right law, adding that the welfare of any child in the state remains paramount.
“The child is in the hospital right now receiving treatment. No payment will be made under 0-5 free medical programme of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.”
“We don’t want to hear that a child is suffering anywhere even if the child is living with the stepmother. It is the duty of that stepmother to be a good caregiver to that child,” she explained.
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Indian government names Shashanka Bhide, Ashima Goyal, Jayanth Varma as new MPC members
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Indian government named Shashanka Bhide, Ashima Goyal and Jayanth Varma as its nominees on the central bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) late on Monday.
The Reserve Bank of India was forced to delay the bi-monthly committee meeting set to take place from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, as it required at least four MPC members to proceed and the Indian government had failed to name replacements for three previous appointees whose tenure ended in September.
The committee, of three government nominees and three RBI members, had been scheduled to announce India’s key interest rates and monetary policy for the next two months on Oct. 1.
The new members have been appointed for a four-year term, according a government notification.
Ashima Goyal is a member of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s economic advisory council. Goyal is a professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai and was a visiting fellow at Yale University.
Shashanka Bhide is a senior advisor at the National Council for Applied Economic Research, a New Delhi-based think tank, whose work has involved research into agriculture, poverty analysis and macroeconomics.
Jayanth Varma is a finance and accounting professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He was formerly on the board of India’s capital markets’ regulator.
Some market participants and economists said the delay in the committee meeting and rate decision risked causing even greater uncertainty in India, the world’s hardest hit major economy in the pandemic. It recorded a sharp contraction of 23.9% in the April-June quarter.
The RBI is widely expected to keep key rates unchanged at the upcoming monetary policy review, as it attempts to manage high retail inflation while keeping its policy stance accommodative. The RBI has slashed rates by 115 basis points in response to the COVID-19 pandemic since late March.
The RBI said last week the dates of the rescheduled MPC meeting would be announced shortly.
(Reporting by Aftab Ahmed; Editing by Euan Rocha and Richard Chang)
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix J - Emergency Preparedness Scenario Vignettes." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Airport Emergency Communications for People with Disabilities and Others with Access and Functional Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25507.
J-1 A P P E N D I X J Emergency Preparedness Scenario Vignettes These vignettes serve multiple functions, including laying the foundation of a discussion-based or tabletop exercise, assisting planners in understanding the multifaceted aspects of accessible emergency communications, and as a starting place for emergency communications strategy development. The vignettes are by no means inclusive of every individual travelerâs experience. Active-Shooter Scenario Michelle is a 32-year-old vice president of a start-up company that specializes in autonomous vehicle technologies. She has just arrived on an incoming flight and is preparing to gather her bags at baggage claim. Without warning, a person on the departures level pulls out a gun and begins firing indiscriminately into the crowd. An active-shooter warning is paged over the public address (PA) system that tells people to exit through the closest door. As others around her begin to run for the exits, Michelle is forced to lie down behind a baggage carousel because her visual impairment does not allow her to see the location of the exits. Bomb Threat Harold is an elderly man who has made the trip from his first nation to the local airport to meet his son, who is returning home after a trip to New York City. Harold also is planning to get the batteries in his hearing aids replaced, as they have both died and left him without most of his hearing. This is not usually a problem for Harold, because he has lived alone ever since his wife died a few years ago. After parking, he walks into the terminal and wanders over to the arrivals screen to find his sonâs flight, which appears to be on time. Harold settles into a comfortable chair in the arrivals area. Before long, Harold begins to see people leaving the building in a hurry and strains to hear what might be happening. Unable to decipher the PA system, he looks to the television screens but finds no information there. Deciding that there is nothing urgent going on, Harold is eventually surprised when he is confronted by a police officer with an explosives- detection dog. Harold manages to get across that he is a person who is hard of hearing. Eventually, an airport employee who speaks American Sign Language (ASL) explains that the terminal has been shut down and evacuated as a result of a suspicious device.
J-2 Airport Emergency Communications for People with Disabilities and Others with Access and Functional Needs Explosion Hassan is a Syrian doctor who has been recruited to work at the Mayo Clinic. He speaks enough English to get by; however, he is traveling with his wife Fatima and their young daughter Yara, who donât speak English. After disembarking from their flight, they make their way to the bathrooms so that Fatima can change Yaraâs diaper. While Hassan waits for them outside, an explosion and loud crash interrupt his thoughts. Before he can figure out what is happening, security and police are rushing in one direction, and he is being carried along with the crowd, away from the bathrooms. An immediate announcement is put out over the public address (PA) system and is also flashed on internal screens throughout the airport asking people to leave the terminal by the closest door and stay away from the main entrance. Fatima, speaking no English, is unaware of the problem and is unable to find Hassan after leaving the bathroom. She follows the icons for baggage claim, thinking that Hassan might meet her there. As she moves through the terminal, she is confronted by the first-responding police officers, who find her just inside the main entrance. As they reach her, they mistake her for a threat and arrest her. It is several hours before she is able to explain, through an interpreter, that she was just lost and looking for her husband. Fire Miriam is a 40-year-old post-graduate student who is flying to California to complete research for her doctoral dissertation. A congenital condition has left her requiring the use of a wheelchair to get around. After arriving at the airport, she goes to get something to eat before going through the security checkpoint. As she begins to eat her breakfast of bacon and eggs, the fire alarm goes off. She hears the alarm, sees the strobe lights, and begins to make her way back the way she came. Unfortunately, the fire has happened in a neighboring restaurant and her path is blocked by smoke and flames, so she looks for another exit. She discovers a narrow hallway with an exit sign and begins to make her way down it. She reaches the end of the hallway and opens the door to find herself facing a flight of stairs. The hallway is too narrow for her to turn her wheelchair around and she is forced to remain at the doorway until a responding firefighter sees her and helps carry her down the stairs, where she is placed in an ambulance to be evaluated for smoke inhalation.
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Airport Emergency Communications for People with Disabilities and Others with Access and Functional Needs Get This Book
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 201 provides guidance and tools for airports to aid in effective communication with passengers and persons with disabilities, including those with cultural and language differences.
The report includes a primer that discusses issues, techniques, and the unique requirements and challenges of communicating with people with disabilities and others who have access or functional needs.
The report explores uses of technology and other methods that incorporate ADA considerations and communication challenges with airport stakeholders, and training programs for airport personnel, including templates for development of curricula.
There are case study examples of methods of emergency communication at airports and in other industries, and for universal messaging for emergency communications.
The project that produced the report also produced templates in support of airport emergency plans specifically addressing individuals with limited English proficiency, step-by-step tools that include a needs assessment tool that airports can use to determine what steps must to be taken to comply with ADA requirements concerning communications, and templates/worksheets/checklists for planning tabletop exercises that focus on communicating with people with disabilities and access or functional needs during emergency events. These resources are described and linked to below.
The Inventory Checklists (from Appendix A) list plans, reports, documents, programs, and services that are helpful in emergency communications for DAFN. The checklists make it easy to review what the airport has in place, what needs to be developed or updated, etc.
The Accessibility Walkthrough Worksheet (from Appendix B) is a tool to structure evaluations (ideally conducted by members of a DAFN Advisory Group, as discussed in the report) that identify and assign accessibility ratings to existing communications modes and resources from curbside through baggage claim, and identify modes or resources that can be added or improved.
The FAA Airport Accessibility Checklist (from Appendix C) is reproduced online in PDF for convenience; a url is provided that directs users to the FAA source.
The Accessibility Strategy Quick Reference Guide (from Appendix D) summarizes key aspects of core, enhanced, and emerging strategies described in the report.
The CONOPS Template (from Appendix F) provides generic text for an Emergency Communications Concept of Operations document that airports can edit to meet their needs and those of the communities they serve.
The Disability Equity Training document provides training content, including empathy exercises, from Appendix G in a format that can be adapted and customized for use by practitioners.
The 1-Minute Read Poster (from Appendix H) provides a reproducible, one-page reference on how to offer and provide assistance respectfully to people with DAFN.
The Outreach Brochure (also from Appendix H) is provided in a separate downloadable file for use and distribution by practitioners.
The Exercise Toolkit (from Appendix I), with checklists and materials to support a discussion-based exercise and a full-scale, operational exercise, is reproduced in Word to facilitate adaptation and use by practitioners.
The Prepared Scenario Vignettes (from Appendix J), which can be used to lay the foundation of a discussion-based or tabletop exercise.
Front Matter i–viii
Chapter 1 - Introduction 1–3
Chapter 2 - Understanding Airport Accessibility 4–14
Chapter 3 - Identifying the Emergency Communications Needs of People with DAFN 15–21
Chapter 4 - Developing Emergency Communications Strategies That Include People with DAFN 22–37
Chapter 5 - Incorporating the Strategies into an Emergency Preparedness Program 38–43
Chapter 6 - Conclusions and Recommendations 44–45
Abbreviations 46–48
References and Suggested Reading 49–52
Appendix A - Inventory Checklists 53–56
Appendix B - Accessibility Walkthrough Worksheet 57–64
Appendix C - FAA Airport Accessibility Checklist 65–68
Appendix D - Accessibility Strategy Quick Reference Guide 69–80
Appendix E - Potential Solutions 81–84
Appendix F - Emergency Communications CONOPS Template 85–94
Appendix G - Training Program Resources 95–104
Appendix H - Sample Staff Training Flyer and Brochure 105–110
Appendix I - Exercise Toolkit 111–118
Appendix J - Emergency Preparedness Scenario Vignettes 119–120
Appendix K - Example Full-Scale Exercise Notes 121–124
Appendix L - Sample Mass Notification System Requirements 125–126
Appendix M - Signage and Symbols 127–134
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Charlotte “Bathroom Ordinance” Is Unconstitutional and Void
March 22, 2016 by Elliot Engstrom 65 Comments
On Wednesday, the General Assembly will convene in Raleigh for a special session to discuss a controversial Charlotte ordinance that requires places of public accommodation to allow anyone to use whatever restroom they choose based on their self-identified gender. In passing this law, however, the city of Charlotte purported to exercise power that it simply does not have. The constitution, statutes, and case law of North Carolina make this clear.
A special session repealing the ordinance is certainly the fastest way to deal with the situation. Nonetheless, it is worth noting that Charlotte’s purported “non-discrimination” ordinance is unconstitutional on its face, and is therefore completely void as a matter of law.
Under Article VII, Section 1 of the North Carolina Constitution, cities and towns exist at the pleasure of, and derive all of their powers from, the State of North Carolina. Cities have no inherent powers, but instead have only those powers delegated to them by legislative enactment. However, G.S. 160A-4 does require that courts broadly construe any grant of power to a city. Our appellate courts have shed light on exactly how these constitutional provisions and statutes work out in practice.
In 1977, the city of Goldsboro passed a resolution to annex Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. The federal government had ceased providing certain emergency services to the base, and so Goldsboro annexed the area in order to provide these services. The federal government did not object to the annexation. The Supreme Court of North Carolina held in 1978 that the annexation was legal, but only because it was done in accordance with the city’s grant of power from the General Assembly to annex nearby lands in order to provide emergency services.
Thirty years later, in 2008, the North Carolina Court of Appeals considered a challenge by the City of Asheville to a statute revoking its authority to charge higher rates to water consumers located outside its corporate limits than those located within those limits. The city argued in part that when it acts in a “proprietary capacity,” it should be treated as a private actor, not as a municipality. The Court of Appeals rejected this argument, holding that a municipality like Asheville is a creature of the state with no inherent powers other than those expressly conferred or necessarily implied through grants of power from the General Assembly.
In 2014, the Supreme Court of North Carolina considered a Chapel Hill ordinance banning the use of cell phones while driving within city limits. The issue before the Court was whether Chapel Hill exceeded its power by passing the ordinance. The Court noted that G.S. § 160A-174 grants cities broad ordinance-making power. However, whenever state law and a city ordinance come into conflict, the city ordinance must be struck down as unconstitutional. The Court found that the General Assembly had repeatedly passed laws aimed at reducing the dangers associated with mobile phone usage on roads, and therefore the State had preempted any municipal regulation in the field of mobile phone use by drivers. The Court therefore found the Chapel Hill ordinance unconstitutional and invalid. Writing for the majority, Justice Paul Newby stated:
In conclusion, we recognize municipalities’ need to protect their citizens, but we are unwilling to construe our General Statutes to give municipalities unfettered power to regulate in the name of health, safety, or welfare, as there is nothing in government more dangerous to the liberty and rights of the individual than a too ready resort to the police power.
Applying these principles to the Charlotte ordinance, it is clear that the city has overstepped its bounds. Charlotte is a mere creature of the state, with only those powers granted to it by the General Assembly. While it has broad general ordinance-making power, these ordinances may not conflict with state law or occupy an area preempted by the legislature. The “bathroom ordinance” purports to create protected classes by prohibiting discrimination against gay and transgender individuals. But this area of regulation is clearly preempted by the legislature, which has passed numerous laws and constitutional provisions on discrimination against protected classes in places of public accommodation. Just a few such laws include the Persons with Disabilities Protection Act, North Carolina’s Civil Rights Act, the State Fair Housing Act, and the Equal Employment Practices Act. Put simply, the city of Charlotte lacks the power to create protected classes because this field has clearly been occupied by the General Assembly. Charlotte’s non-discrimination ordinance is therefore unconstitutional.
But if the ordinance is invalid, why call a special session of the legislature instead of challenging it in court? The answer is twofold. First, the General Assembly wants to send a clear message to any other municipalities considering similar ordinances that this sort of behavior by Charlotte will not be tolerated. Second, invalidating the ordinance during a special session is a much more expedient way of dealing with the issue than a lawsuit, which could take months or even years to be resolved.
The General Assembly should be careful, however to make it plain that it is not implicitly validating the actions of Charlotte by calling a special session. Supporters of these types of ordinances may argue that by invalidating Charlotte’s ordinance through a special session, the General Assembly is tacitly admitting that it was previously a valid exercise of the city’s ordinance-making power. The General Assembly should be sure to make clear that this is not the case.
Filed Under: Articles, Center for Law and Freedom, Issues, Miscellaneous Tagged With: charlotte, lgbtq, municipal law, North Carolina Court of Appeals, north carolina supreme court
Lonnie says
What’s this act of Authoritarianism by the Conservative NCGA costing the taxpayers of NC?
A.P. says
What will *not* acting cost taxpayers?
Safety of women and children.
Dignity and peace of mind.
How? If a transgender person enters a restroom, do you peep to see their plumbing? How are you harmed by their freedom? Why are the Authortiarians interfering with the rights of communities?
NC now has it’s unconstitutional Christian version of Shariah Law. Will public stoning be next?
Mark J Schug says
Unbelievable that you geniuses are against the legislature voiding that sick ordinance…the ordinance says “self identifying” ….meaning a pervert could decide that he’s a woman on any given day and use a woman’s restroom while one of your daughters is in there!!!….It doesn’t specify that the individual has to have had an actual physical gender change thru proper medical channels…”it was a deviant’s dream”…you lefties are dangerously arrogant and stupid!…
Addie says
God have mercy on us all! Where are we going? I pray God will watch over all our children and keep them safe! I can’ t imagine the thought process behind this law!
Mark J Schig says
Addie, read the comments above mine..their thought processes are on display…Common sense and a moral compass left the building quite awhile ago..
LEW says
If God wanted me to use the same facilities as women, He would not have given me a penis!
Let this minister explain this for you.
https://www.facebook.com/kaye.barley?fref=photo
https://www.facebook.com/OneWorldVoice/?pnref=story
Sorry for posting the wrong link above.
https://www.facebook.com/OneWorldVoice/videos/598767663633145/
Right wing Christian version of Sharia Law is very unpopular and bad for the NC economy. Elon University releases statement. America is not a Theocracy, Civitas Institute must be thinking of Iran as their model.
http://www.elon.edu/e-net/Article/129694
Norm Kelly says
Common sense is anathema to the liberal mind. Protected classes is what gets more demoncrats elected to office. Without creating protected classes, Conservatives win. Does not matter that the law creates a situation that is intolerable and would have been illegal just the day before. If I identify as a black woman, would I be able to use the same public shower as every other woman? According to the perverts in Charlotte that passed this law, the answer is a definite yes. Because I self-identify as a black female, which I most definitely am not, I would be allowed to shower with persons that actually are female. Today, legal and nothing can be done about it. Yesterday, I would be arrested for any number of reasons. Including endangering actual women. But when you stop thinking, start being a good lib voter, you suddenly expect that it’s acceptable for men to use women’s rooms and women to use men’s rooms. Start thinking again and not only do you realize the idiocy of this law, but you realize you should never have been a lib to start with. When you’re young you are supposed to be a lib. When you gain experience, get a job, pay taxes, you realize that liberalism is doomed to failure and you turn conservative. It’s natural. Just like having a penis means you are a man, and having a vagina means you are a woman. It’s just the way it is and even the unthinking liberal mind can’t change this! They will continue to try, claim we are worse than Sharia law, attempt to prevent us from being Christians in public, etc. etc. etc. Our only option is to fight back. And continue to think. And continue to vote. The liberal religion is the only tolerable religion, and the only publicly acceptable religion. Their religion is big government, centralized planning.
The only defense against liberalism is educated voters.
Charlotte obviously lacks enough of us!
Lonnie, that gnawing feeling you care with you perpetually….that’s from fomenting ignorance that you know is ignorant….why try so hard to sway toward something so stupid?
How about staying with the facts of the poor public policy issue we’re discussing. How are you harmed by the freedom and liberty of transgender citizens having a restroom labeled where they are safe and comfortable? Most small restaurants are just relabeling both the mens and women’s restroom as unisex, problem solved. Universities often a handicap or some restrooms as transgender, so anyone can enter, do their business in private and leave. If my point of view is so “stupid” why are major corporations, media and universities writing editorials and letters condemning the unnecessary bigoted legislation? People make person attacks when fact are not on their side.
It wasn’t a personal attack….read the bill and re-read my comment. Although you do leave yourself open with statements like….”why are so many people and corporations protesting the recision?”…you take the feigned outrage of about 1% of the population… A few entities that want to pander and jump on the bandwagon and somehow extrapolate that to “so many”…would that be so many, in realation to a population of 300,000,000 people?……Did you read the bill?….it says “self identify”…..people of rational thought need to step into these frays because of this kind of intellectual dishonesty. No depth of thought on an issue. And no compass. Bathrooms unisex? Are you serious?…the scary part is that you are!….there would be nothing wrong with medically/physically completed transgendered using the bathroom designated to their choice of gender “medically altered from birth”…..men’s and women’s restrooms should and will remain exclusive to male/female….your response illustrates a reason that there’s a vocal minority in this society that needs to be directly confronted!…
Here’s how Kroger is dealing with the issue in a common sense way.
Conservative public policy always assures The State of North Carolina lots of press coverage, the only problem, most that press is very negative and hurts the NC economy and jobs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/north-carolinas-rush-to-bigotry/2016/03/26/49ec63b8-f2bf-11e5-89c3-a647fcce95e0_story.html
This is a nationwide poll that shows even 50% of Godless liberals don’t agree with this.
CBS News Poll: Transgender kids and school bathrooms
CBS/AP
As the issue of the rights of transgender people comes more to the foreground, schools across the U.S. have been confronted with a new issue: how to handle gender-specific bathrooms and locker rooms.
A state law passed in California allowing transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice, while some school districts in other parts of the country have been criticized for mandating that students use the facilities of the gender with which they were born.
Most Americans (59 percent) aren’t comfortable with the idea of transgender students picking which bathroom or locker room to use, and think they should use the facilities of the gender they were born as, while 26 percent think they should be allowed to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their preferred gender.
Born this way: Stories of young transgender children
Women (at 29 percent) are slightly more receptive to the idea than men (23 percent).
But there are greater differences by age. Just 23 percent of Americans age 30 and older think transgender students should be able to pick which facilities to use, compared to 35 percent of Americans under 30.
There are political differences as well. Republicans (at 71 percent) are more likely than Democrats (56 percent) and independents (55 percent) to think transgender students should have to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their birth gender, as are conservatives (69 percent) in comparison to liberals (50 percent) and moderates (55 percent).
CBS news poll
There is very little economy left to hurt after 8 years of Obama,Hillary,Nancy Pelosi,and Harry Reed.
That is the dumbest thing you have posted. You do know there are actual facts, numbers and data to show how racist and untrue this comment is don’t you?
“The dynamic between the sitting president and his party’s nominee is set to be dramatically different than in 2008, the last time there was an open election for the presidency in both parties, should Mr. Obama’s current approval rating remain. In March 2008, Mr. Bush’s approval rating was 32%, with 63% disapproval, making him a rarity on the campaign trail.”
http://www.wsj.com/articles/barack-obama-appears-to-benefit-from-economy-2016-campaign-1458336611
“The American people may not be particularly psyched about the direction of the country, or their economic future. Still, the economy, by many objective measures, is doing quite well. The unemployment rate is 4.9 percent. There are 143.56 million payroll jobs in the U.S., a record, and some 5.5 million job openings. The collective net worth of Americans has hit a record, at $86.8 trillion.The number of people without health insurance has plummeted to a historic low, below ten percent. While wobbly of late, the stock markets remain buoyant. Inflation is essentially non-existent. Even with wages essentially stagnant, the lay of the economic land provides a very solid floor of support for the president’s approval rating.”
http://fortune.com/2016/03/22/obama-approval-ratings-president/
The argument that taking a rational stance against these special interest issues has a negative effect on the economies where legilatures make the correct decisions as they did here in NC is a specious one….it’s nonsense…any economic loss ends up being balanced out by clear thinking people who will spend there money here in support…a small scale example of that is Chic-fil-A….we might recall the uproar and the protests called by the left to boycott Chick-fil-A over their corporate stance of defending traditional marriage…As a result of that stance Chick-Fil-A’s sales increased significantly for the very reason mentioned above…good people taking action….and furthermore…a culture won’t hold up very long when virtually everything is boiled down to economics…these Alinksky tactics have to be confronted….eventually does “anything go”? …lastly, the issue as usual is being distorted by the media….will sanity ever re-enter the room?….
Sanity will never re-enter the room as long as there are Lonnies out there,Mark.
Angeline says
Elliott Engstrom – Thank you for your fine article. Reading the last two paragraphs, I noticed that you did not mention that the new Charlotte ordinance, which would have required all businesses to change their restroom policies and take away the expectation of privacy people have when using the restroom, was going to go into effect on April 1 if no action was taken.
North Carolina Legislators and Governor McCrory are going to have to walk this back or cost many North Carolina residents their jobs, NC businesses customers and the Sate of North Carolina tax revenue.
With 59% of the people against this,the only ones who will walk this back are the companies that have queers for CEO’S,like Apple.
Your comments have degenerated into bullying, homophobic bigot lacking logic or reason. Could we get back to a debate of actual merits of ideas and solutions?
The Saul Alinsky whacko brigade moans about the 1% controlling the 99%….they’re correct….only they have the groups backwards..here we go again…and the people wanting to excercise principle and rational thought get pilloried by these amoral special interests…with total committment and backing of a mass media machine…..folks…they have to be confronted and pushed back…it’s beyond the pale now….Lonnie, whomever you are…take your specious nonsense someplace else…
Could not have said it better.We conservatives need to do like these wackos.We need to push back on these corps.that are going after North Carolina.When they find out most people are against them they will sit down and shut up.The money they lose will make them change their tune.We need to quit buying from any of them and let them know that we are not taking this crap anymore.Lonnie is a little picture taker in Boone that carries water for the Democrooks up there.He is a harmless joke but I love making him look like a Loon.
The moral high ground is not on the side of you authoritarians, justice is not on your side right wing extremist, human rights and civil rights are not on the side of pandering bigots and facts are not on Civitas Institute. Personal attacks are all you have left.
Let me remind you of the issues you’ve avoided.
NC Republican politicians have passed a law, they cannot enforce just to pander to bigotry, ignorance and hate. The HB-2 will cost NC taxpayers thousands in legal fees to defend an unconstitutional bill that will be over turned in the courts. North Carolina small businesses will loose business as customers refuse to attend the NC Furniture market, Furniture manufacturing employees will loose jobs, Major league sports will avoid or move to less bigoted states, costing the NC economy more revenue.
NC could loose title 9 funding, if courts still on appeal rule against Virginia. “the threat of losing Title IX funds was real enough to convince authorities in Illinois and California to comply.”
The next issue are major corporation avoid locating in NC or moving out of NC.
This pandering HB-2 bill will be very expensive and serve no purpose.
Conservative NC Carolina politicians need to walk this back before it become a disaster for North Carolina’s economy. Most know the courts will find this homophobic pandering law unconstitutional in the end.
You talk about morals,you wouldn’t know a moral if you stepped on it.Decent people are not going to be swayed by your political correctness and how many jobs will be lost.We have already lost 7 million manufacturing jobs under Ostupid.We conservatives are not going to take this from the queer community any more.That Homophobic crap doesn’t bother me in the least.I don’t hate them and I really don’t fear them.They have pushed people around for several years now and people are getting sick of hearing that it’s normal and an alternative way of life.Just sit and think for a second what they do and tell me that’s normal.If you think that’s normal then I think for sure you are light in the loafers.
Do you understand morals are not just about how you perceive sex? The number one indicator of morality is do you understand and practice the “Golden Rule”.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/sexual-predator-jailed-after-claiming-to-be-transgender-in-order-to-assault
Thanks to Pinto for this link that shows what will happen if the Charlotte law was allowed to stand.
Old Lonnie says two rape incidents,what’s the big deal?Now that’s the real liberal Democrat.Not the one Lonnie talks about.Kindness,justice,public good.The Democrat has become a collection of misfits and racists like Ostupid,Al(l don’t pay no taxes) Sharpton,Jesse Jackson and several others.I expect their next crusade will be it’s o.k. To have sex with animals.What is the public good and justice for the rape victims?Where is the kindness for them?I’am sure they would be blamed for being too sexy by being naked while taking a shower.
Let get what I said correct, you can’t take the actions of a couple of individuals to dehumanizes millions of a demographic group, stripping that group of full citizenship rights, human rights and Liberty. What you and Civitas Institute suggest is what was done in Germany in the 1930s. Hundreds of thousands of the Greatest Generation died fighting the type totalitarianism you people are supporting. Today’s ALEC, Civitas Institute and religous extremist have a constant drum beat of fear mongering propaganda aimed at marginalizing one group after another just like Hitler did with Jewish citizens and others.
What about the second amendment,Lonnie?A few crazies shoot somebody and you want to take everybodies guns.That’s a right too.Muslims blow up people and you and that Muslim President are worried about the backlash on those poor old peace loving Muslims.So,you can take that rights crap of yours and shove it where the sun don’t shine.Like I said little minds that don’t have a valid argument drag out the Hitler junk.Women have a right not to have strange men in their bathroom.We need three bathrooms,one for normal men,one for normal women,and one for deviate Democrats.By the way,what are you going to do about the Few Democrats that had a brain and voted with the Republicans on no transgender bathrooms.Are you going to their houses and beating on some pots or do you use that liberal kindness and forgive them.
Liberals do want to restrict gun ownership and possession from those crazies that might kill innocent citizens regardless of their religous beliefs, sexual preferences or politics.
Why are you opposed to letting local governments expand personal freedom and liberty?
That is not what you morons want,and you know it.You want all guns so we can’t protect ourselves from what the Demoturd party has become.You people are the ones that want to take my right to go in a bathroom without seeing a 6 year old girl staring at me.What are you going to do with the 11 Democrats that were not perverts and voted against you?Send me an answer that has Authoritians,Oligarch,Plutocrats and the rest of your special words that you answer with over and over.
This will come as a shock but Republicans don’t have a monopoly on corruption, conservativism or supporting an American Theoracy.
I’m a Liberal but not all Democrats are liberals nor do they all understand and try to follow the “Golden Rule”, being a liberal is pretty much just this simple question. How would I feel if the roles were reversed?
How would I feel if the roles were reversed?What does that mean?Its incoherent.
“em·pa·thy
ˈempəTHē/
the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.”
I empathize with a 12 year old girl who walks out of a stall and is immediately startled upon seeing some perverted male standing in the same bathroom that used the law as an excuse to prey on the defenseless and satisfy his sick urges..and the trauma in some instances would probably cause the child to fear ever using a public restroom again…this nonsense needs to come to whatever conclusion the good lord has in store…..you lefties are literally dangerous to all…including yourselves but you’re far too stupid to see it!
Just part of 70%,Lonnie.Like you liturds love to say”It is settled law and you and the other queers lost”.Is that getting trough your thick skull?
Settled law will be once this has made the trip to the SCOTUS. The question is can State government override local control.
Fear and false narratives drives conservatives to be irrational. The facts are a threatening non transgender male in a women’s restroom will be a problem for police to deal with as they have in the few places it’s been a problem. Most turned out to be conservative activist trying to prove it could happen.
True transgender citizens will likely draw little attention, like the person you often encounter where you’re unsure of their gender, some will look very feminine others like Ann Coulter.
Transgender females the new law forces into the Women’s restroom may well be sporting full beards and look very masculine.
Educate yourselves to reduce your fear and misconceptions.
The Police will deal with this because lots of these freaks are going to be stomped into a greasy spot when they molest some guys wife.Its going to be you freaks with the fear not normal people.We do not fear you freaks.False narratives,that’s your over and over for the week.Its a shame you can’t see how stupid you seem with your over and overs.I can’t figure out which version of queer you are.It must be transgender since you are spending so much time trying to tell us it’s normal.
You don’t get out much do you? False narrative means your fears are not based in facts and that conservative political stradigist are playing you for a fool.
How is society protected by lies of who the real threat is and where a real crime is likely to take place?
What is the NCGA going to do to protect children in churches?
“According to the Insurance Journal, in the three largest insurers of Protestant churches in the United States, there are about 260 claims of child sex abuse against pastors, youth workers, church volunteers or congregation members every year.”
“Of 13,600 sexual assaults reported against children/youth in Canada in 2008, 75% of the accused were known to the victim, with 33% being family members and 42% being acquaintances.”
http://cbwc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Abuse-Prevention-Manual-May2015.pdf
If anybody knows what false narrative is it would be you ,Lonnie.You must type it 50 times a day.At least when I do get out it is not to take pictures of all the queers in Blowing Rock and Boone.What is your point about queers in churches,the churches I have been in didn’t check at the door to see who was a pervert.What is your point on queers being family members?Queers are all over the place.Now you and your idiots want them in public bathrooms.
You are the one that should be fearful,Lonnie.I can’t believe somebody hasn’t taken you out behind the wood shed with that mouth of yours.
Like Jim Crow era terrorist would have done if someone questioned their authorterianism?
Exactly,Dufus.
Please explain the “family values” you learned at home? Why are you still in the mentality of a 4th grade bully?
How about you explain the family values you grew up with.I would like to know what kind of family taught you that grown men using a bathroom in the same room with young girls is a good thing.You must have been bullied in the 4th.grade,it seems to be on your mind a lot.
The family values I learned as a kid were be truthful, kindness, respect, justice, fairness, pull your own weight and follow the Golden Rule.
What were your?
Pull your own weight,that’s rich.Everything you talk about is taking away from taxpayers and giving to non taxpayers to buy their votes.Exactly where does fairness come in to that.When you go and shout down speakers,is that what you call respect?Truthful,I have a little problem with some of the truth in some of those links of yours.Justice,where is the justice of the Democrats taking over half of ever dime I ever worked my tail off for.Then,giving it to some bum that had 3 generations of family that had never had a job.If you really believed in the Golden Rule,you couldn’t believe in stealing people’s money and giving it to someone that won’t work.Have fun in La La Land.
You have a lot of anger issues in tat last post, the folks at Civitas Institute should get a bonus.
Tat last post?I think you have had a stroke.That explains a lot.I do have a lot of anger with someone that compares Franklin Graham with anybody in a murdering cult.
Franklin Graham’s uses his loud public voice, amplified by tax deductible donation to encourage ignorance, hate, discrimination and false stereotypes. LBGT citizens are put at risk by irresponsible hate speech of Franklin Graham.
I’m not sure of your background on this subject but here’s what people who’s life’s work is in the study of the subject have to say.
“The law, officially called “The Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act,” ostensibly seeks to protect the public from transgender people. It prevents transgender women and men from using bathrooms that reflect their gender, insisting that people use the washrooms of the sex listed on their birth certificates.
A birth certificate litmus test for gender displays a deep ignorance about the complexity of human biology and gender identification. This statute presents itself as a necessary solution to a non-existent problem, since there is not a shred of evidence to support the contention that transgender people pose any threat to anyone when they use bathrooms appropriate for their gender. In fact, denying transgender people in this way actually endangers them, making them vulnerable to insult and assault.”
“The writer is director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, UNC-Greensboro.
Also signing this column: Dr. Wanda Balzano, chair, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Wake Forest University; Dr. L. Kimberly Epting, coordinator of the Women’s, Gender and Sexualities Studies Program, Elon University; Dr. Karey Harwood, director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, N.C. State University; Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, director Africana Women’s Studies Program, Bennett College; Dr. Silvia Tomášková, chair, Women’s and Gender Studies Department, UNC Chapel Hill; and Dr. Priscilla Wald, director, Women’s Studies Program, Duke University.”
http://www.greensboro.com/opinion/columns/rifkin-hb-makes-north-carolina-less-safe/article_b921ae42-6d9f-54aa-ae24-0e9eac37655c.html?mode=jqm
Lonnie,
Not a shred of evidence that transgender people pose a threat to anyone?I guess you didn’t read all the examples that Pinto sent.Educate yourself,Lonnie.I noticed all the co-signers to this nonsense are all so called teachers.We the normal tax paying citizens should be able to,sue state supported schools for having nothing but left wing professors.Why people send their kids to college anymore is beyond me.The don’t teach kids anything about anything that they can make a living.All they teach is how it’s a good idea for men to go in women’s bathrooms and diversity.You are a perfect example.Franklin Graham and his father have helped more people than all those race baiter friends of yours combined.Don’t give me that crap about LBGT discriminated againest.My wife worked at banks for years.If there is a man working in a bank that has been hired in the last few years in a bank,there is a big chance he is a queer.Since the banks have to answer to Obama for everything that is about all they hire.
Woman’s and gender studies program.Can you get a degree in that.A degree in that and 5 dollars will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks that will be served to you by someone with one of these degrees.People need to quit sending their kids to colleges with courses like this.I heard on the radio yesterday that 40% of these kids are not paying their college loans.Do I smell another bailout?Puerto Rico is broke and they are talking about bailing them out.How much more money can they print and steal from the taxpayers?
The law only applies to public (government) facilities. Private businesses still have full control over who can go in which bathroom so this law is largely moot–unless you spend all day, every day in a government building. From my experience, if there is a government establishment with questionable men on the premises and lurking about (jail, prison, social security office in the middle of a work day, etc.) I am not going to want to use the facilities anyway, no matter who is allowed in.
Hey Jane,
You better invest in some depends.
You and Jane sound like you may live in very sheltered environments ( Gated communities, Country Clubs, and Cruise Ship Travel), sorry for your loss.
Lying Lonnie,
The only loss I have is having to live in a country with morons like you.
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8th May 2013 Latest News
On Friday 3rd of May 2013 Royal Brunei Airlines (RB) has signed a worldwide cargo partnership agreement with Air Logistics Sdn Bhd (ALSB), a joint venture company between BIACC Sdn Bhd, one of its subsidiary companies and Air Logistics Networks Limited, a UK based company and a subsidiary of Air Logistics Group, the world’s leading cargo General Sales and Service Agent (GSSA) Air Logistics Group.
This partnership will be in full force in three months time and will activate Air Logistics Group global network of 71 offices for the worldwide sales and marketing of RB cargo capacity. Under the Agreement, ALSB will also manage cargo handling activities at all destinations on the RB network.
RB’s global cargo presence and distribution capability will be enhanced significantly with this partnership, positioning Brunei Darussalam as a growing transshipment and distribution center of excellence for Air Cargo transportation in South East Asia.
The agreement was signed by Mr. Dermot Mannion, Deputy Chairman of RB, Stephen Dawkins, Director of ALSB and Mr. Ariffin Haji Emran, Director of Air Logistics Sdn Bhd and Managing Director of BIACC with Mr. Karam Chand, Chief Commercial and Planning Officer of RB.
Mr. Karam Chand states, “RB is proud to be in partnership with ALSB which is another significant step in building Brunei as an important center of regional and international cargo activity.”
This joint venture corporation, between Air Logistics Group and BIACC of Brunei, to represent RB is a ground breaking International Cargo Management agreement; comments Stephen Dawkins Chief Operating Officer of Air Logistics Group.
‘RB clearly understands the value of its cargo business and it appreciates how two strong partners linked under ALSB, a cargo outsource specialist, can create a comprehensive, transparent network adding substantial revenue and immediately decreasing costs whilst RB maintains its reputable identity on the world cargo stage’
This partnership marks a landmark co-operation in the worldwide cargo business. RB will benefit from the most comprehensive GSSA worldwide network available in the cargo industry today. In addition to using the first class handling facilities at Brunei International Airport, there is plenty of scope to leverage significant growth in cargo activity from RB’s network of 14 destinations and current projected annual throughput of 30,500 tons.
Mr Ariffin Haji Emran adds,” BIACC has been handling RB’s cargo hub at Brunei International Airport for the past 12 years and throughout the years it has gained valuable experience in handling the national carrier requirements and understands the needs to ensure efficient and fast handling of all types of cargo particularly transit/transshipment cargo. BIACC’s participation in this strategic project, will add value to the business to provide a seamless efficient air cargo network, which will be supported by its experience, skilled and well trained manpower, and latest state-of-the art ground handling management system. BIACC is confident that the synergy created by this collaboration will create a strong platform to achieve the desired objectives and goals set for this important project.
ALSB will also benefit from the reliability of RB services and the excellent shipment facilities provided by BIACC at Brunei International Airport.”
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Dr Hannah Fry
Dr Hannah Fry is an Associate Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL where she studies patterns in human behaviour. Her research applies to a wide range of social problems and questions, from shopping and transport to urban crime, riots and terrorism.
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You are accused of a crime. Who would you rather determined your fate – a human or an algorithm?
An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look you in the eye before passing sentence.
Welcome to the age of the algorithm, the story of a not-too-distant future where machines rule supreme, making important decisions – in healthcare, transport, finance, security, what we watch, where we go even who we send to prison. So how much should we rely on them? What kind of future do we want?
Hannah Fry takes us on a tour of the good, the bad and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us. In Hello World she lifts the lid on their inner workings, demonstrates their power, exposes their limitations, and examines whether they really are an improvement on the humans they are replacing.
The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus
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How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list ? Can you predict Her Majesty’s Christmas Message? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily thinner – shimmying up and down chimneys for a whole night – or fatter – as he tucks into a mince pie and a glass of sherry in billions of houses across the world?
Full of diagrams, sketches and graphs, beautiful equations, Markov chains and matrices, The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus brightens up the bleak midwinter with stockingfuls of mathematical marvels. And proves once and for all that maths isn’t just for old men with white hair and beards who associate with elves.
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There is no topic that attracts more attention, energy and time and devotion than love. Love, like most things in life, is full of patterns. And mathematics is ultimately the study of patterns.
In her book The Mathematics of Love and TEDxTalk of the same name, Dr. Hannah Fry takes the audience on a fascinating journey through the patterns that define our love lives, tackling some of the most common yet complex questions pertaining to love: What’s the chance of us finding love? What’s the chance that it will last? How does online dating work, exactly? When should you settle down? How can you avoid divorce? When is it right to compromise? Can game theory help us decide whether or not to call?
From evaluating the best strategies for online dating to defining the nebulous concept of beauty, Dr. Fry proves— with great insight, wit and fun — that maths is a surprisingly useful tool to negotiate the complicated, often baffling, sometimes infuriating, always interesting, patterns of love.
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'Graffiti vandal' jailed after damaging trains and railways across west London
Maksymillian Knapik caused criminal damage to trains and railway infrastructure costing £73,000
Maksymillian Knapik has been sentenced to 20 months in prison
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A man who caused criminal damage to trains and railway stations including at Acton and White City has been sentenced to 20 months' imprisonment.
Maksymillian Knapik, 25, of no fixed address, damaged a variety of trains and railway infrastructure on the London Underground and National Rail.
Between February and July last year, he damaged infrastructure including Ealing Common depot, White City, Acton depot, Boston Manor station and the railway between Ravenscourt Park and Hammersmith.
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British Transport Police (BTP) said the damage cost £73,000 to repair.
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For many of the offences he dressed in hi-visibility clothing and wore a white hard hat.
While committing an offence at Ealing Common depot, Knapik dropped his tabard and hard hat. His DNA was later found on the hard hat.
Knapik was arrested on May 17, 2016 when a security guard at Ealing Common depot noticed fresh graffiti on a train and saw Knapik running away.
BTP officers attended and arrested the "graffiti vandal," as they called him.
Knapik was found guilty of criminal damage.
At Blackfriars Crown Court on May 15, he was sentenced to 20 months' imprisonment and given a five-year Criminal Behaviour Order.
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GOP defends Trump as Bolton book adds pressure for witnesses
by: ERIC TUCKER, ZEKE MILLER and LISA MASCARO, Associated Press
FILE – In this July 31, 2019 file photo, then National security adviser John Bolton speaks to media at the White House in Washington. Bolton says he’s ‘prepared to testify’ in Senate impeachment trial if subpoenaed (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators faced mounting pressure Monday to summon John Bolton to testify at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial even as Trump’s lawyers mostly brushed past extraordinary new allegations from the former national security adviser and focused instead on corruption in Ukraine and historical arguments for acquittal.
Outside the Senate chamber, Republicans grappled with claims in a forthcoming book from Bolton that Trump had wanted to withhold military aid from Ukraine until it helped with investigations into Democratic rival Joe Biden. That assertion could undercut a key defense argument — that Trump never tied the suspension of security aid to political investigations.
The revelation clouded White House hopes for a swift end to the impeachment trial, fueling Democratic demands for witnesses and possibly pushing more Republican lawmakers to agree. It also distracted from hours of arguments from Trump’s lawyers, who declared anew that no witness has testified to direct knowledge that Trump’s delivery of aid was contingent on investigations into Democrats. Bolton appeared poised to say exactly that if called on by the Senate to appear.
“We deal with transcript evidence, we deal with publicly available information,” Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said. “We do not deal with speculation.”
Trump is charged with abusing his presidential power by asking Ukraine’s leader to help investigate Biden at the same time his administration was withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in security aid. A second charge accuses Trump of obstructing Congress in its probe.
Republicans are to conclude their arguments Tuesday.
On Monday, Trump’s attorneys, including high-profile lawyers Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz, launched a historical, legal and political attack on the entire impeachment process. They said there was no basis to remove Trump from office, defended his actions as appropriate and assailed Biden, who is campaigning for the Democratic nomination to oppose Trump in November..
Former Florida Attorney Ggeneral Pam Bondi devoted her presentation to Biden and his son, Hunter, who served on the board of a Ukraine gas company at the same time his father was leading the Obama administration’s diplomatic dealings with Kyiv. The legal team argued that Trump had legitimate reasons to be suspicious of the younger Biden’s business dealings and concerned about corruption in Ukraine and that, in any event, he ultimately released the aid without Ukraine committing to investigations the president wanted.
Democrats say Trump released the money only after a whistleblower submitted a complaint about the situation.
Trump has sought, without providing evidence, to implicate the Bidens in the kind of corruption that has long plagued Ukraine. Though anti-corruption advocates have raised concerns, there has been no evidence of wrongdoing by either the former vice president or his son.
Starr, whose independent counsel investigation into President Bill Clinton resulted in his impeachment — he was acquitted by the Senate — bemoaned what he said was an “age of impeachment.” Impeachment, he said, requires an actual crime and a “genuine national consensus” that the president must go. Neither exists here, Starr said.
“It’s filled with acrimony and it divides the country like nothing else,” Starr said of impeachment. “Those of us who lived through the Clinton impeachment understand that in a deep and personal way.”
Dershowitz, the final speaker of the evening, argued that impeachable offenses require criminal-like conduct, though that view is largely rejected by legal scholars. He said “nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense.”
“Purely non-criminal conduct, including abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, are outside the range of impeachable offenses,” Dershowitz said.
Elizabeth Warren, a presidential campaigner like Biden but also a Senate juror, told reporters she found Dershowitz’s arguments “nonsensical.”
Even as defense lawyers laid out their case as planned, it was clear Bolton’s book had scrambled the debate over whether to seek witnesses. Bolton writes that Trump told him he wanted to withhold security aid from Ukraine until it helped with investigations. Trump’s legal team has insisted otherwise, and Trump tweeted Monday that he never told Bolton such a thing.
“I NEVER told John Bolton that the aid to Ukraine was tied to investigations into Democrats, including the Bidens,” Trump said. “If John Bolton said this, it was only to sell a book.”
Republican senators face a pivotal moment. Pressure is mounting for at least four to buck GOP leaders and form a bipartisan majority to force the issue. Republicans hold a 53-47 majority.
“John Bolton’s relevance to our decision has become increasingly clear,” GOP Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah told reporters. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said she has always wanted “the opportunity for witnesses” and the report about Bolton’s book “strengthens the case.”
At a private GOP lunch, Romney made the case for calling Bolton, according to a person unauthorized to discuss the meeting and granted anonymity.
Other Republicans, including Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, said if Trump’s former national security adviser is called, they will demand reciprocity to hear from at least one of their witnesses. Some Republicans want to call the Bidens.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell didn’t know about Bolton’s book, his office said. But the GOP leader appeared unmoved by news of the Bolton book. His message at the lunch, said Indiana GOP Sen. Mike Braun, was, “Take a deep breath, and let’s take one step at a time.”
Once the president’s team wraps its arguments, senators have 16 hours for questions to both sides. By late in the week, they are expected to hold a vote on whether or not to hear from any witnesses.
While Democrats say Bolton’s revelations are reminiscent of the Watergate drip of new information, Republicans are counting on concerns subsiding by the time senators are asked to vote. They are being told that if there is agreement to summon Bolton, the White House will resist, claiming executive privilege.
That would launch a weeks-long court battle that could drag out the impeachment trial, a scenario some GOP senators would rather avoid.
Trump and his lawyers have argued repeatedly that Democrats are using impeachment to try to undo the results of the last presidential election and drive Trump from office.
Democrats, meanwhile, say Trump’s refusal to allow administration officials to testify only reinforces that the White House is hiding evidence. The White House has had Bolton’s manuscript for about a month, according to a letter from Bolton’s attorney.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said: “We’re all staring a White House cover-up in the face.”
Rep. Adam Schiff, who leads the House prosecution team, called Bolton’s account a test for the senators.
“I don’t know how you can explain that you wanted a search for the truth in this trial and say you don’t want to hear from a witness who had a direct conversation about the central allegation in the articles of impeachment,” Schiff said on CNN.
Bolton’s account was first reported by The New York Times and was confirmed to The Associated Press by a person familiar with the manuscript on the condition of anonymity. “The Room Where It Happened; A White House Memoir” is to be released March 17.
Joe Biden, campaigning in Iowa, said he sees no reason for testimony by him or his son.
“I have nothing to defend. This is all a game, even if they bring me up,” he told reporters. “What is there to defend? This is all — the reason he’s being impeached is because he tried to get a government to smear me and they wouldn’t. Come on.”
Trump said people could look at transcripts of his call with Ukrainian President Zelinskiy to see there was no pressure for investigations to get the aid. In that call, Trump asked Zelinskiy to “do us a favor” with the investigations as he was withholding nearly $400 million in military aid to the U.S. ally at war with Russia.
Democrats argued their side of the impeachment case last week, warning that Trump will persist in abusing his power and endangering American democracy unless Congress intervenes to remove him before the 2020 election.
Eventual acquittal is likely in a Senate where a two-thirds majority vote would be needed for conviction
Associated Press writers Alan Fram, Mary Clare Jalonick, Andrew Taylor, Matthew Daly, Laurie Kellman and Padmananda Rama contributed to this report.
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3 Firefighters Hospitalized With Injuries From Battling Wildfire In California The U.S. Forest Service said 14 firefighters, overrun by the blaze in Los Padres National Forest, used portable fire shelters. Three were airlifted to a hospital, where one is in critical condition.
3 Firefighters Hospitalized With Injuries From Battling Wildfire In California
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The Dolan Fire, pictured Aug. 22, has burned more than 37,000 acres along the central California coast. On Tuesday, more than a dozen firefighters battling the blaze deployed portable fire shelters, and three were hospitalized with injuries. Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
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The Dolan Fire, pictured Aug. 22, has burned more than 37,000 acres along the central California coast. On Tuesday, more than a dozen firefighters battling the blaze deployed portable fire shelters, and three were hospitalized with injuries.
Three firefighters battling the growing Dolan Fire in central California on Tuesday were injured and airlifted to a hospital, where one remains in critical condition.
The U.S. Forest Service said 14 firefighters deployed portable fire shelters — a last resort survival tactic — around 8:30 a.m. as fire overtook their station at the Los Padres National Forest.
Nacimiento Station was destroyed, and firefighters suffered burns and smoke inhalation.
Three firefighters were transported to Community Regional Hospital in Fresno, where a hospital spokesperson confirmed one injury is considered critical and two are categorized as "fair."
The Forest Service described the situation as "evolving," and said it will share additional information as it is confirmed.
"We have procedures in place for emergencies such as this and are being assisted by local officials as part of that plan," it said in a statement.
According to the Forest Service, more than 800 personnel are assigned to help manage the wildfire, which is burning in the Monterey Ranger District of the Los Padres National Forest.
It has burned more than 73,000 acres since Aug. 18, and is 40% contained as of Tuesday evening.
The fire intensified overnight into Tuesday, nearly doubling in size thanks to extreme heat, low humidity and high winds.
Parts of Monterey County are under evacuation orders and warnings, and Los Padres is one of eight national forests that the Forest Service ordered temporarily closed beginning Monday night, citing "the threat of unprecedented and dangerous fire conditions."
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Multiple large fires are lashing the state amid a wildfire season that is proving particularly destructive.
As of Tuesday, according to CAL Fire, there are 14,000 firefighters battling 25 wildfires that have collectively burned more than 1.8 million acres of land.
Dolan Fire
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Welcome, Michigan, to our Hunting Works For America family
Here at NSSF we eat, sleep and breathe hunting and the shooting sports. To most of us the fall hunting season has us feeling like kids at Christmas. For me this represents the best of times spent with loved ones and cherished friends. This same kind of excitement was shared by a group of folks that assembled today at the headquarters of the Michigan State Chamber of Commerce in Lansing, Michigan, to help launch our second new Hunting Works For America state chapter in as many months.
The press conference today marked the kickoff of our 14th state chapter! This launch marked a first for any of our state chapters in that the program had already attracted 100-plus partners prior to our official launch! This is a true testament to the types of support hunters get in the Great Lakes State!
To me and hundreds of thousands of hunters, Michigan is a sportsman’s paradise and a true powerhouse when it comes to hunters, their enthusiasm for the sport, their impact on local economies and their contributions to wildlife in general. Michigan sees over half a million hunters every year and that’s a lot when you consider that’s nearly 4 percent of all U.S. hunters. Hunters spend a lot of money on their sport in the retail sector as well on equipment and travel expenses, over $2 billion to be exact and this ranks Michigan hunters number two in the nation! This spending supports not just numerous businesses, but also conservation. There are some truly beautiful places to hunt in Michigan and the money hunters spend on licenses, tags, and equipment excise taxes pays to keep the state wild and beautiful. While many people enjoy our outdoor spaces for free, it’s hunters who are more often than not footing the bill to conserve them.
In addition, the hunters in Michigan pay over $280 million in state and local taxes. And, last but maybe most important, the sport of hunting contributes over 34,000 jobs and over $1.2 billion in salaries and wages. Looking at these numbers its clear hunting works in Michigan.
We are committed to supporting hunters in Michigan and across the nation so that every last American understands the important contributions they make to our country. Hunters support local businesses, especially those in smaller, more rural communities.
I welcome the hunters and shooters of Michigan to our Hunting Works For America family. We work with every chapter to make sure that the stories and contributions of America’s hunters are highlighted in order to make sure hunters have the respect they deserve.
Hunting Works For Michigan will be a wonderful addition to the Hunting Works For America family and we look forward to working with the hunters in that truly beautiful state.
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Tom Banse covers national news, business, science, public policy, Olympic sports and human interest stories from across the Northwest. He reports from well known and out–of–the–way places in the region where important, amusing, touching, or outrageous events are unfolding. Tom's stories can be found online and heard on-air during "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" on NPR stations in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
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CWU Hopes To Replace Chimps Who Died
By Tom Banse • Nov 27, 2012
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The director of a chimpanzee institute at Central Washington University says she feels urgency to bring in new animals. The education and research program in Ellensburg is now down to two aging chimps after the weekend death of another ape known for his sign language abilities.
The chimpanzee named "Dar" was 36 years old when he died unexpectedly on Saturday of unknown causes. Autopsy results are expected later this week.
Heavy Rain Sets Off Landslides Around Region
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OLYMPIA, Wash. - Heavy rains and high winds are making it hard to get around parts of western Washington and northwest Oregon this afternoon. Flood watches and warnings are in effect across a wide area of the Northwest. At least half a dozen mudslides have blocked highways and rail lines since this morning .
The freight train of storms pummeling the Northwest has saturated soils. Some places are not getting enough time between downpours for the water to drain off. Oregon's Department of Geology put all of western Oregon on notice for increased potential of landslides.
Practicality Of 'No New Taxes' Pledge Debated In Olympia
OLYMPIA, Wash. - In Olympia, a new revenue outlook shows a shortfall in the next state budget cycle. That is putting renewed attention on promises not to raise taxes.
Washington's Democratic governor-elect Jay Inslee made such a pledge during the recent campaign. So did many Republicans elected to the Legislature.
The chief budget writer for House Democrats, Ross Hunter, says he's working on a no-new-taxes spending blueprint for the next two years. But Hunter Wednesday predicted the product will include so many unpalatable cuts, he doubts it could pass.
Oregon's Gold Medalist Eaton Wins Another Honor
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Eugene-based track star Ashton Eaton already has a world record to his name and a gold medal in decathlon from this year's London Olympics.
Sports Ethics Expert Praises Ex-WSU Footballer For Speaking Out
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A Pac-12 spokesman said Monday that the athletic conference does not have a timeline for completing a review of the WSU football program.
Heavy Air Tankers Battle Taylor Bridge Fire In Central Wash.
By Tom Banse • Aug 14, 2012
CLE ELUM, Wash. - Heavy air tankers are dropping retardant on a stubborn wildfire still wreaking havoc in Washington’s Kittitas Valley.
While overall it seems like firefighters are getting the upper hand on what’s now called the Taylor Bridge fire, it’s clear that in places, it’s still putting up stiff resistance.
Wash. Veteran Having Difficulty Repatriating Captured War Flag
By Tom Banse & Tom Banse • Aug 10, 2012
Wednesday will mark the 67th anniversary of the Japanese surrender to end World War Two. With each passing anniversary, there are fewer and fewer living witnesses to the event. Time is also running low for an aging U.S. Marine veteran who wants to return a captured Japanese war flag.
Ex-U.S. Marine George Koller of Clarkston, Washington collects war memorabilia. Among his possessions is an inscribed "good luck flag" carried into battle by a Japanese fighter pilot. The airman's plane crashed into the jungle of New Guinea late in World War II.
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6.3 quake strikes Papua New Guinea
18 Apr, 2010 12:52 AM Quick Read
Herald online
No casualties have been reported following a 6.3 earthquake which struck the east coast of Papua New Guinea.
The US Geological Survey said the quake occurred at about 9:15am (11.15am NZT) local time in the Pacific island nation and that the epicentre was 29km east of the city of Lae.
Officials at the National Disaster Centre in Lae told Reuters the quake had been felt in the city but there were no reports of buildings collapsing.
However, villagers reported cracks in buildings and a damaged water tank in the Hidden Valley gold and silver mine area, according to AFP.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii did not issue a tsunami alert.
- NZ HERALD STAFF
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Friars lose Simeon rematch in super-sectional
Fenwick hopeful with young squad returning
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020 11:40 AM
Fenwick's Audrey Hinrichs (No. 31) takes the ball up during the Friars' loss to Simeon on March 2 (Alex Rogals/Staff Photographer).
By James Kay
Walking into Concordia University for the Class 3A IHSA Super-sectional between the Fenwick and Simeon girls basketball teams, you would have thought the Friars were playing a home game. The raucous Friar student section made its presence known as Fenwick went toe-to-toe with the best team in the state.
However, Simeon outscored the Friars 32-9 in the second half and came out with a 59-37 victory to end what has been one of the most successful postseason runs for Fenwick's program in recent memory.
"Honestly, we all wanted to get farther than we did last year," said sophomore Elise Heneghan. "After that upset [to Nazareth], it took a huge toll on us and we all came into this season wanting to improve. We lost to a great Simeon team, but we are going to learn from this."
After letting Simeon dictate the pace of the game when the two teams played each other on Jan. 4, the Friars slowed the game down from the onset. Despite allowing 16 points in the paint, Fenwick only surrendered six points in transition in the first quarter and trailed 19-11.
The momentum shifted in the second quarter when the Friar offense started to click. Fenwick whipped the ball around in their half court sets and freed up sophomore Audrey Hinrichs in the post. Simeon had no answer for her as she scored 18 points in the first half, leading Fenwick to a 28-27 lead going into halftime.
"After playing [Fenwick] earlier this season, we knew that they were going to go to [Heneghan and Hinrichs]," said Simeon head coach Johnny Davenport. "We struggled to contain them inside in the first half, but then we started to execute the game plan we had going into the game, which was to deny them the ball."
In the second half, Simeon didn't allow any breathing room for Heneghan and Hinrichs to operate the high-low game that has worked so well for them all season. Simeon dared the Friars to beat them from beyond the arc, and Fenwick struggled to bury shots from deep. They went 0-for-9 from three-point range and went 2-15 from outside the entire game.
"We have relied heavily on [Heneghan and Hinrichs] all year," said assistant coach Erin Power. "We are capable of shooting from the outside, but you can't depend on it in the way you can typically depend on those two. It was just one of those nights."
Hinrichs led the Friars with 19 points (Simeon contained her for one point in the second half) to go along with three rebounds. Heneghan (1-for-7 from the field) was held to five points and dealt with foul trouble early on in the first half.
Simeon's Aneesah Morrow had a game-high 21 points, 16 rebounds and four steals. Khaniah Gardner put up 12 points and four rebounds. Both players played the entire game as Simeon only ran out six players on the night (Fenwick had 10 players play six or more minutes).
Hinrichs and Heneghan have played for the same AAU team since sixth grade (where Fenwick head coach Dave Power used to be their head coach) and have continued to develop their chemistry on the court. They give Friar nation a reason to be optimistic when the team returns to action next fall.
"Not only do we have a lot of talent coming back, but the majority of that talent are all going to be juniors," said Erin Power. "Not only next year, but long term it is definitely exciting. Especially when you have two sophomores, who were the bulk of your production all year, are coming back and will only get better as the years go on."
Fenwick finishes its season 27-9. They averaged 51.7 points per game while only surrendering 42.3 points per game to their opponents.
ICYMI: Fenwick stifles Westinghouse; will play Simeon in super-sectional
ICYMI: Fenwick beats Trinity 38-28 in crosstown matchup
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What a wonderful, inspirational story! Sad for the loss but happy for the amazing Fenwick girls b-ball team. Hope they enjoy the off season and look forward to the next one -- I know I am!
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Home Dredging USA: Plaquemines Port Development Plan Moves Forward
USA: Plaquemines Port Development Plan Moves Forward
A major milestone in implementing the Plaquemines Port Harbor and Terminal District’s master plan took place Friday with the port closing on the purchase of 550 acres just south of Myrtle Grove.
The property includes nearly 1.5 miles of prime Mississippi River frontage in an area where industrial expansions are already underway. The closing was attended by Executive Director Maynard J. “Sandy” Sanders, and four members of the Port Commission including Port Chairman Dr. Stuart Guey, Jr. and Vice-Chairman Keith Hinkley, and Commisioners Anthony Buras and Jeff Edgecombe.
“I believe purchasing this property, and more importantly, aggressively looking for the right partners in developing port projects, helps solidify the economic future of our parish. Port projects bring good paying jobs for our residents, commerce for parish businesses and tax revenue for our government agencies,” Guey said.
Guey’s perspective stretches over 30 years having served on the Council from 1982 to 1985 before returning to the council in 2010. “Every governing authority since I first served on the council had a desire to develop a port but various obstacles prevented that until today. We had to put away our egos and allow humility to come to the forefront. In 2011 and 2012 we reorganized the governance and organizational structure. In August 2013 we hired an Executive Director and on December 6, 2013 the Port acquired this prime piece of property- all due to the vision that Port development was the next economic engine for Plaquemines Parish.”
Sander’s said this opens the path for facilities similar to ones currently lining the Mississippi River and offers opportunities for many more. “We may see coal terminals or refinery operations but it could be warehousing, manufacturing, containers or types of facilities we haven’t even imagined because we will now be competing in the global market where innovation is moving at a staggering pace.”
Sanders credited the port governing authority with laying the groundwork over the past 2 years. “Acquiring land and developing additional rail access to greatly improve the presence of the port was my top priority. While it seems like things are moving very fast, I have to give credit to the port commission for completing a master plan and basically having a road map ready for me,” Sanders said.
The property was purchased from the Bank of Paris at a cost of $9.5 million with the port successfully negotiating the sale down from an $11.5 million asking price. It is the last remaining tract of the 26 mile stretch commonly referred to as Citrus Lands which the bank owned. This vast track, was once considered the site of the Millennium Port, envisioned to be a large-scale container port operated by the State of Louisiana.
Owning property ideally suited for port development will be a game-changer according to Sanders. “Most ports have combined operations of collecting tariffs for security and operations and also own land which is developed, leased or co-developed with tenants. This acquisition makes our port more complete. We will continue to provide port security and administration and also be a developer. In my short time here, I’ve had conversations with people from around the world with interest in the Plaquemines Port. Being able to tell then we own this property will turn some of those conversations into projects.”
Buras served as Port Chairman for 2 years prior to Guey and was instrumental in separating the Port from Parish Government. “Separating the port so it could stand on its own was a recommendation of the consultants we hired, and that, along with hiring an executive director with port experience, proved to be the best moves we could have made. Being a lifelong resident and always hearing talk of developing a port, it’s gratifying to be a part of acquiring property and seeing we are finally fulfilling the dreams of many.”
While the Plaquemines Port is just now becoming a port which will develop property, its impact is known being the14th busiest port in the United States in terms of tonnage. In 2011, the most recent records available, Plaquemines Port Harbor & Terminal District moved over 53 million tons of cargo to points worldwide.
The acquisition of port property has been widely supported by current officials and the business community but Guey cautioned that continued support is critical. “It is imperative that current and future elected officials continue to keep the public advised of this most important endeavor. We need to continue to communicate and expand the vision, focus on continued support and never let the vision get blurred. This is just the beginning of a long awaited development.”
Press Release, December 17, 2013
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City Clerk Violates Election Law, Twice.
Posted on February 22, 2014 by Rick Clark
So says the California Fourth District Court of Appeals (Kathleen E. O’Leary, Presiding Justice, William F. Rylaarsdam, Associate Justice and Richard D. Fybel, Associate Justice) in their ruling published on Friday, 02/21/14. Though twice given an opportunity to correct an error in filing of ballot arguments, Brea’s City Clerk, under instruction from the City Attorney, secretly ordered the ballot signatories changed, which violates election law.
Coincidentally, one of the ballot issues, Measure T, sought to promote greater transparency in government.
Follow the money.
What could have been handled in a moment, with a simple phone call or email, at no cost to the city, turned into a debacle that has drug on for almost a year and a half!
Last September, when the City of Brea made a motion to dismiss the appeal, the Orange County Register quoted then Mayor Pro Tem Murdock who claimed, “This is a very sad waste of taxpayer money, the hypocrisy is sad.”
This from the guy who called the suit frivolous, moot even, though the City Attorney said it was “triable” and the Appeals Court’s final decision proved the original complaint was anything but frivolous.
This from the guy who failed to disclose his leadership of the Breans Against Measures T & U PAC, was found guilty and sanctioned/fined $2,000 by the FPPC.
This from the guy who represents himself as an attorney yet tries to excuse his FPPC fine by stating, “The law is esoteric and broad.”
This from the guy hanging his shingle all over town, desperately trying to get a law practice off the ground.
This from the guy who thought it was okay to give himself a raise then fought to keep the issue off of the agenda for over six months.
This from the guy who thinks it’s okay to spend several thousand taxpayer dollars to join his buddies on an all expenses paid vacation to South Korea and Japan.
This from the guy who has no clue how the City really spends it’s money or if it does so wisely (remember his gross inaccuracies regarding Brea Fest finances?)
This from the guy who’s first public act upon taking office was to suggest reducing the time allowed for citizens to address the council during Matters From The Audience from five minutes to three.
Brea Matters reported on this in detail – “Legal Fees Or Legal Fiasco?” In simple terms, here’s how the finances settle out. The City of Brea has spent almost $200,000 in legal fees with Jim Markman’s firm Richards, Watson & Gershon, authorized by City Manager Tim O’Donnell, to mitigate a complaint that could have originally been handled for nothing.
Zip. Nada. Not a penny.
Who really violates election law?
In all fairness, City Clerk Cheryl Balz works in an oppressive environment and doesn’t enjoy the autonomy afforded most of her peers. Council should have been in charge, choosing how to respond to the notice of error and deciding whether the threat of litigation outweighed the city’s embarrassment for the violation of election law. Certainly they wouldn’t have allowed it to occur twice!
Contact any member of council. Ask them if they were consulted on any of this, if they’ve seen and reviewed the many payments made to Richards, Watson & Gershon over the last year and a half.
Ask any of them if they’ve were given an opportunity to clarify costs, challenge expenses let alone approve them. I’ll bet the answer is, “No, I’m shocked!” They should have been in charge and they weren’t.
That’s not the half of it!
Actually, it is. The decision also allows the appellant to recover costs, so you can just about double that figure. This arrogant disregard for election law, what I believe was incontrovertibly a vindictive effort to publicly discredit a legitimate candidate for Council, will cost Brea taxpayers in the neighborhood of $400,000.
But, it’s not just about money.
Not only did the City Clerk violate election law by modifying the signatories, “the city clerk further violated the Elections Code by failing to make those changes publicly available.” (G047591 – (Super. Ct. No. 30-2012-00585496). If you care as much as we do, you can read the full decision here Appeals Court Opinion.
Twice warned, twice ignored, these actions have now established precedent statewide. The City could launch one more challenge in the courts. If you’ve read the Court of Appeals opinion you’ll realize there is no wiggle room left. Council must not allow O’Donnell and Markman to again commit such a hubristic act. If they do, a wholesale recall would be the only sensible action left Brea voters.
Every city clerk across the entire state will no longer be free to play loose and easy with election law. Come Monday morning, you can bet correspondence on this will be colossal.
Why such a big deal?
Because issues like this are tied to current elections and violations can easily elude detection as the transgression occurs outside of the public view and the election will have occurred before a meaningful review can be made.
It’s like a child stealing cookies when no one is looking, eating the evidence before they’re found out, betting that the missing cookies will likely not be discovered until well after dessert.
In this case, their best friend caught them in the act, suggested they put the cookies back before getting in big trouble and their choice was to arrogantly disregard the warning, believing they were too smart to get busted.
In this case it was fortuitous that the proponents of Measures T & U, because they were part of the statement and rebuttal process, were in a position to make early discovery.
The city claimed the clerk was merely correcting a typo to reflect the intent of Council, however the court determined that the city provided no evidence to prove the city clerk had any awareness of Council’s intent. In fact, if the Council, for the most part, had little or no knowledge of what was really unfolding… what intent could they possibly have had?
So, what the hell did we spend nearly $200,000 on? Excuse me, $400,000.
The court clearly states that even had they found the complaint to be moot, which they didn’t, the issues raised were of broad importance and capable of recurring. Even though the election was already behind us, the court denied the city’s appeal to dismiss.
A good start would be to take a long hard look at the incumbents and candidates in the upcoming election. The impostors posing as knowledgeable fiscal conservatives should be outed and removed from consideration.
Next, we should drive home the point to Council to start making smarter choices that keep us out of harms way, out of the courtroom.
If this Madrona nonsense lands us in court, and it seems inevitable it will, I hope O’Donnell, Markman and the City Council all hold the appellants, Bev Perry and Glenn Parker (candidate in 2014?), as accountable for causing major legal expense to the city as they did Mr. Vargas… who has been fully exonerated as far as we’re concerned.
Vargas 1 – Brea 0
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HB Fuller introduces water-based adhesives featuring UV fluorescing agent
6 November 2014 (Last Updated November 6th, 2014 18:30)
HB Fuller has introduced two new water-based adhesives to allow corrugators to achieve zero defects in production lines.
The Ipacoll PWC 3107 I UV and Ipacoll WD 3930 adhesives feature a UV fluorescing agent.
"Demand to achieve zero-defect production continues to increase, as customers want high-quality products at competitive prices."
The UV indicator can work with Valco Melton’s ClearVision camera inspection systems.
The Ipacoll PWC 3107 I UV can be used for typical nozzle or jet applications, while the WD 3930 is designed for wheel-in-pot systems.
The company says that the adhesives provide versatile and strong adhesion to a range of typical case and carton materials.
HB Fuller business director Stuart Jenkinson said: "Demand to achieve zero-defect production continues to increase, as customers want high-quality products at competitive prices.
"High-tech equipment to eliminate manual processes is important, but adhesives play a fundamental role in delivering enhanced production, and meeting the changing demands of end-users. With the launch of these exciting products, manufacturers can simply set their machine to run and have confidence that it will continue without interruption from adhesive-related issues.
"Furthermore, the formulation of these adhesives has been closely tied to optimising performance with the camera detection system, which is vital to maximising the effect of this quality control technology."
HB Fuller generated revenues of about $2.05bn in 2013. The company specialises in manufacturing adhesives, sealants and other specialty chemical products.
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Alveston Gloucestershire Family History Guide
14 February 2020 Updated on 14 February 2020 Gloucestershire
Alveston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.
Other places in the parish include: the hamlet of Earthcott and part of the hamlet of Rudgway, Grovesend, Urcat and Grovening.
Parish church: St Helen (Note: Kellys Directories give the name of the church as St Andrew)
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist, Primitive Methodists and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.
Parishes adjacent to Alveston
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1840
A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833
Birth Marriage and Death Records
Grave Indexes
Migration and Naturalisation Records
Probate and Court Records
Alveston Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1863
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Olveston
Alveston, a parish in Thornbury district, Gloucester; 1¾ mile S of Thornbury, 2½ E of the Bristol and Wales railway, and 6 WNW of Yate r. station. It has a post office under Bristol; and contains the hamlets of Grovening and Urcat. Acres, 2,518. Real property, £5,384. Pop., 841. Houses, 188. The property is much subdivided. Vestiges of Roman camps occur on Oldbury-hill and Castle-hill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £250. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The church is ancient. There are two Methodist chapels, a national school, and charities £6.
Alveston, 2 miles S.W. Thornbury. P. 841
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
Alveston, a parish partly in the upper and partly in the lower division of the hund. of Langley and Swineshead, union of Thornbury, Gloucestershire; 9 miles north by east of Bristol; on the post-road to Thornbury. It includes the hamlets of Grovening and Urcot. Living, a curacy annexed to Olveston, in the archd. of Gloucester and dio. of Gloucester and Bristol. There are two daily and Sunday schools here, with about 90 scholars. In this parish there are vestiges of two Roman camps, the one on the top of Oldbury-hill, near the Severn, the other on Castle-hill. Pop., in 1801, 412; in 1831, 800. Houses 137. Acres 2,470. A. P. £4,173. Poor rates, in 1837, £237.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1840.
Alveston, co. Gloucester.
P. T. Thornbury (116) 3 m. S b E. Pop. 657.
A parish, partly in the upper and partly in the lower division of the hundred of Langley and Swineshead. The living is a vicarage in the archdeaconry of Gloucester and diocese of Bristol, annexed to that of Olveston. This parish contains the vestiges of two Roman camps, the one on the top of a hill, called Oldbury, near the Severn, the other called Castle-hill, in both which places various relics of antiquity have been discovered.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. I; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.
England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008
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Alveston is a parish and village, with the hamlet of Earthcott and part of the hamlet of Rudgway, 7 miles west-south-west from Wickwar, 6 north-west from Yate station, 8 north-west from Chipping Sodbury, 1 south east from Thornbury, 10 north from Bristol, 24 south from Gloucester, and 117 from London, in Lower Langley and Swineshead hundred, Thornbury uuion and county court district, West Gloucestershire, Bristol deanery and arch deaconry, and Gloucester and Bristol bishopric. It is situated on the Gloucester and Bristol road. The church of St. Andrew is an ancient stone building in the Gothic style ; it has a nave, chancel, south porch, and square embattled tower with 3 bells. The living is a perpetual curacy, tithe rent-charge £322 yearly, with 24 acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol; the Rev. John Rawes, B.A., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, is the incumbent. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel here. There is a National school for boys and girls, supported by weekly payments and voluntary subscriptions. Coral limestone abounds in the neighbourhood, and supplies the lower level with large quantities of lime, which is much prized. The soil is light loamy; the subsoil is in some parts limestone; in others, clay. The Rev. James Jarvis Peach is lord of the manor, and Alexander George Fullerton, Esq., is chief landowner. There are charities of £5 19s. yearly value. The population in 1801 was 841, and the number of acres 2,518.
Dodgmoor and Shillars Lane are places here.
Parish Clerk, Mark Ann.
Alveston.
Brown William, esq. Grovesend house
Bush Edward, esq
Bush Thomas, esq. The Loans
Cullimer William, esq. The Rookery
Honnywill William Henry, esq
Rawes Rev. John, B.A. [incumbent], Alveston green
Ann Mark & Joseph, tilers, plasterers, painters & paperhangers
Ann Mary (Miss), shopkeeper
Ann Robert, stonemason
Biddle Daniel, carpenter & wheelwright
Biddle Robert, farmer
Doward Esther (Mrs.), Ship inn
Gunter Chas. carpenter & wheelwright
Gunter John, farmer
Gunter William, farmer, Street farm
Hayward Richard, farmer, Shillars lane
Hopkins Edward, coach builder, carpenter, wheelwright & undertaker
Jones William, farmer, Conygre farm
Keedwell Thomas, farmer
Libert William, classical, mathematical & commercial academy, Alveston ho
Luce Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Grovesend
Martin Hugh, farmer & timber dealer
Matthews William, shoemaker
Pearce Charles, farmer
Stephens William, beer retailer
Stevens William, blacksmith
Williams John, carpenter & wheelwright
Young Henry, farmer, Church farm
Earthcott.
Eacott John & Philip, farmers
Gunter Edwin, farmer
Matthews Robert, farmer
Meredith Edward, farmer
Savery William, John & Mark, agricultural implement manufacturers
Stinchcomb Wm. carpenter & wheelwrght
Young Mary (Mrs.), farmer
Post Office.— Mark Ann, postmaster. Mails arrive at 9.30 a.m.; dispatched 4.30 p.m. Second arrival 7 p.m.; dispatched 8.30 next morning. The nearest money order office is at Thornbury
National School, Miss Mary Anne Gray, mistress
Rudgway.
Angel George, beer retailer
Biddle Edwrd. timber mercht. & postmastr
Martin George, blacksmith
Milliner James, shopkeeper
Smith George, shopkeeper
Post Office. — Edward Biddle, postmaster. Mails arrive at 8.30 a.m.; dispatched at 4.45 p.m. Second arrival at 6.45 p.m.; dispatched at 9 next morning.
Carriers (from Thornbury through Alveston to Bristol) : —
Baylis, tuesday, thursday & Saturday ; Wilson, monday, Wednesday & friday
Conveyance. — Putley’s & White’s omnibuses from Thornbury to Bristol, daily.
Source: Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and the City of Bristol, Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., Old Boswell Court, St. Clement’s, Strand, London. 1863.
Alveston is a parish and village with the hamlet of Earthcott and part of the hamlet of Rudgway, 5 miles west-south-west from Wickwar, and 5 north-west from Yate station, 8 north-west from Chipping Sodbury, 1 south-east from Thornbury, 10 north from Bristol, 24 south from Gloucester, and 117 from London, in Lower Langley and Swineshead Hundred, Thornbury Union, West Gloucestershire, Bristol archdeaconry, and Gloucester and Bristol bishopric. It is situated on the Gloucester and Bristol road. The church of St. Andrew is an ancient stone building, in the Gothic style. It has nave, chancel, and south porch, square embattled tower, and 3 bells. The living is a perpetual curacy, value £322 yearly, with 26 acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol; the Rev. John Rawes, B.A., is the incumbent. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel here; the Wesleyans have a chapel at Earthcott. There is a National school for boys and girls, partly supported by the weekly payments of the children and partly by voluntary subscriptions. Coral limestone abounds in the neighbourhood, and supplies the lower level with large quantities of lime which is much prized. The soil is light loamy; the subsoil is in some parts limestone, in others silex. Jamus Jarvis Peach, Esq., is lord of the manor, and Alexander George Fullerton, Esq., is chief landowner. There are charities of £6 2s. 2d. yearly value. The population, in 1851, was 847, and the number of acres, 2,518.
Grovesend House is the seat of William Brown, Esq.; the Rookery, of William Cullimer, Esq.; Ridgeway or Rudgeway, Street, Church, and Coneygre or Coneygore, are the names of farms. Forty Acres is half a mile north; Freesewood, half a mile north-west; Stroud Common, 1 mile south-west, Wolfridge, 1 mile south-west; Lower Hazel, 1 mile north; Green Hill, half a mile west; Dodgmoor, 2 miles north-east; Shillar’s Lane and Owl’s Nest, 2 miles north-east.
Baker Captain James Vashon, R.N.
Ann Robert & Thomas, stonemsns. & bldrs
Ann Mark, painter
Bush Edward, farmer
Cary William, farmer, Church farm
Doward Edward, ‘Ship’
Hopkins George, coachbuilder, carpenter & wheelwright
Helstone Thos, brdng. Schl. Alveston ho
Luce Job, Farmer, Grovesend farm
White John, beer retailer
Post Office. – Mark Ann, postmaster. Mails arrive ¼ to 10 a.m.; dispatched ½ past 4. Second arrival, 7 p.m.’ dispatched ¼ to 9 next morning. The nearest money order office is at Thornbury.
Earthcott
Bush Thomas, farmer
Meridith Mark, farmer
Savery Wm. agricultural implement manufacturer
Stinchcomb James, carpenter & wheelwright
Rudgway
Angel George, beer retailer & shopkpr
Biddle Edward, beer retailer
Hockley – , shopkeeper
Edward Biddle, postmaster. Mails arrive, ½ past 9 a.m.; dispatched ¼ to 5. Second arrival, ¼ to 7 p.m.; dispatched, 9 next morning.
(from Thornbury through Alveston to Bristol): –
Baylis, Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday
Sly, Monday, Wednesday & Friday
Greenman, Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday
Omnibus – Putley’s, from Thornbury to Bristol, Monday, Tuesday & Saturday.
Source: Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire with Bath and Bristol. Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., 19, 20 & 21, Old Boswell Court, St. Clement’s, Strand, London. 1856.
County: Gloucestershire
Civil Registration District: Thornbury
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Bristol (Episcopal Consistory)
Diocese: Pre 1836 – Gloucester, Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol
Rural Deanery: Bristol
Poor Law Union: Thornbury
Hundred: Langley and Swinehead
County Court District: Thornbury
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not of longing (2019) for soprano and contrabass
I love vocal music that straddles the line between abstract musical object and concrete linguistic meaning. For me, writing for voice allows an opportunity to fragment and deconstruct a text like a musical motif, and to build narrative meaning out of musical phrases as if they are sentences. In not of longing, I set a tiny fragment from the last sentence of Maggie Nelson’s genre-defying book “Bluets”, an achingly beautiful set of poetic “propositions” that meditate on loss and the color blue. “Bluets” closes with the sentence “When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light,” and I adapted the second half of this line into many different splintered forms throughout the piece. The pairing of soprano and double bass might seem unwieldy, but I was actually intrigued by the seamless blend between the sounds of the voice and bass: throughout the piece, you’ll hear the bass imitating vocal sounds and the soprano mimicking string effects like ricochet and tremolo. The piece builds from sounds, into syllables, into words, into full sentences, before it retreats back into unintelligibility.
not of longing was commissioned by soprano Anika Kildegaard and bassist Will Yager for their duo LIGAMENT, and was premiered as part of their 2019-20 season.
LIGAMENT performs not of longing at Pinwheel Arts in February 2020
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Founded in 2002, the Conflict Alert and Prevention Centre (CENAP) is a non-partisan NGO which analyses and mitigates conflict in Burundi. It promotes sustainable development through research into conflict, facilitating dialogue, and conflict resolution. CENAP works closely with other local, regional, and international peacebuilding organisations. It has carried out various projects and appointed five local correspondents across Burundi to monitor local conflicts.
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The initiative started with training for the CENAP team. CENAP then began to organise focus groups, interviews, and group meetings to collect the views of approximately 2,700 Burundians from various backgrounds. They involved local authorities, civil society organisations, women, young people, the police and army, refugees and IDPs, religious leaders, students, and demobilised soldiers in focus groups. Experts and key political players were also interviewed one-to-one.
After this first stage, CENAP convened a large forum of 100 people which was representative of Burundi’s various socio-economic groups. This national forum then set out to select the key peacebuilding priorities on which further research should focus. The CENAP team facilitated this process, developing consensus-based solutions to these priority issues.
In 2009, the CENAP team started a second phase based on a participatory approach to find consensual solutions adapted to a Burundian context to the identified challenges (illegal circulation of weapons; poverty and unemployment; attitudes during elections; and justice and reconciliation). Dialogue groups have been created in communes and provinces to connect the four task-forces and grassroots community. These solutions will be presented at a National Forum for final validation and prioritisation at the end of the year.
The CENAP team is coordinating the work of the four task-forces which gather various expertises according to the theme.
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So far, the focus group discussions have demonstrated people’s enthusiasm for dialogue. Many groups felt that the problems which originally led to the war are unresolved. In the Bugendana commune (Gitega province), participants said: ‘If politicians do not make up their minds, another war is possible.’ In Kamenge (Bujumbura), one participant commented: "If this kind of dialogue had been initiated in the 1970s, the 1993 war would have never happened."
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The foreign minister of the Weimar Republic, Gustav Stresemann (1879- 1929), was honored with the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1926: Together with his French colleague Aristide Briand, he was acknowleged for his reconciliatory work between the nations after World War I. Besides his impressive political career, Stresemann also became famous for the creation of a new kind of suit that was still sufficiently formal for official presentations and yet comfortable enough for his work at the office. Stresemann liked to wear suits with thin stripes, and, as life sometimes goes, a legend developed … and suddenly, people called the striped fountain pens from Pelikan -- that were just then starting their global tour of success around the world -- by the name of "Stresemann“.
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In awe of Aaron Nola and his evolution
By Tim Malcolm
Tuesday night in Philadelphia, Aaron Nola struck out 12 San Francisco Giants hitters. He also allowed just four hits – one double and three singles – and walked nobody. He was sharp. He was hard to beat. He finished the evening with a 3-1 lead, which eventually became a 4-2 victory and his fifth personal win of the season.
Here are Nola’s numbers after Tuesday’s performance:
8 G, 52.2 IP, 5-1, 2.05 ERA, 47 K, 11 BB
While they look fantastic, those numbers don’t necessarily tell the story of Aaron Nola in 2018. Of course, basic counting statistics and foundation indicators like ERA are almost never enough. We now can investigate how much contact a pitcher’s pitch generates, and what typically happens when one of his pitches gets put into play. We now can find the spin rate of his breaking pitch, then use that to figure out why his strikeout rate is higher than in the past. Or, to step back, we can find his strikeout rate. These kinds of tools weren’t readily available (as in, you needed a calculator and a formula and time) 20 years ago, but here we are, and the tools help us tell a more layered story.
The story of Aaron Nola in 2018 starts with a premature evacuation from opening day and a second start that wasn’t ideal for fans, either. Then he struck out just two Braves in a hard-luck loss, and fans started to wonder why he wasn’t striking out a lot of hitters. Maybe it’s because the Braves just don’t strike out, but we didn’t see that – instead we saw 15 strikeouts in 24.1 innings and scratched our heads. Meanwhile Nick Pivetta and Vince Velasquez were whiffing everyone in existence early on.
But Pivetta and Velasquez slowed down and regressed, and Nola started striking out more batters. He’s now striking out 23.9 percent of them, which is close to his career average (24.8 percent). But with that, he’s also walking fewer batters than usual (5.6 percent as opposed to a 6.4 percent average). And it seems, at least over the last month, as if he’s improved there; in his first three starts he walked eight batters, but since (five starts), he’s only walked three.
Batters are making contact at the same rate as before (75.7 percent) but Nola is getting more swinging strikes (11.9 percent).
The big reason all of this is looking better: the changeup.
We know Nola carries an elite-level curveball and two semi-average fastballs (a four-seamer and two-seamer). He also used to carry a below-average changeup, which he threw sparingly (typically less than 10 percent of the time). Last year it morphed into an average changeup, and he threw it a little more (about 15 percent of the time).
This year the changeup is arguably his best pitch. And he is suddenly throwing it a lot. Since the April 21 game against Pittsburgh, Nola has thrown his changeup more than 20 percent of the time. In his start against Miami on May 2, he threw it nearly 30 percent of time, exactly as much as his four-seam fastball. Last night he threw the change 22.9 percent of the time to 26.6 percent for the curve and 38.5 percent for the fastball.
The two-seamer (or sinker) has been the victim of this changeup renaissance. Once Nola’s preferred pitch (2016 to early 2017), the two-seamer is now being thrown about 15 percent of the time.
Nola would get whiffs with the changeup in the past, but it was also susceptible of being hit (.319 BAA, .428 SLG before 2018). In essence, it was his riskiest pitch. Now the changeup has a .209 BAA and .209 SLG, with all nine hits against the pitch being singles. And he’s getting whiffs on the pitch 24.2 percent of the time, far higher than any of his other pitches.
There’s a recent adage in the baseball community that statistics can’t be truly scrutinized until Mike Trout is atop the WAR leaderboard. Well, Trout has 3.3 WAR at Baseball Reference, leading that list, and he has 2.9 WAR at Fangraphs, leading that list. So I suppose we can start taking the numbers seriously.
Fangraphs has Nola, with his improved changeup and fuller arsenal, ranked seventh among all pitchers with 1.7 fWAR. The names above him are: Gerrit Cole, Max Scherzer, Luis Severino, Justin Verlander, Jacob deGrom and Rick Porcello. These are all very good pitchers.
According to Baseball Reference, Nola has 2.4 rWAR. Here are the pitchers above him:
Okay, let me rephrase that: Here are the players above him: Mike Trout, Mookie Betts.
We’re seeing evolution in real time. Typically young pitchers have to morph from “throwers” to “pitchers,” and typically that means adding a third pitch or fourth pitch that rounds out their arsenal. We met Cole Hamels (the last great homegrown Phillies starter) as a fastball-changeup pitcher with a working and bad curveball. After getting by for a while with that arsenal, he realized he had to evolve. He grew into a “pitcher” by adding a cutter, which turned him into a top-level performer. Then he dialed back the fastball and added a sinker. Then the curveball got better and he threw that more, sometimes more than the changeup. Today’s Hamels is far different from the guy we saw in 2007. He evolved.
Aaron Nola, I guess, was fastball and curveball with a bad changeup. Essentially the changeup for Nola is the cutter for Hamels. It’s getting better. He’s using it more. It’s making him more complete.
Hamels was 26 when this happened. Aaron Nola is 24.
Also, Aaron Nola is, according to some metrics, the best pitcher in baseball in 2018. He is 24.
(Stats via Brooks Baseball)
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Video: Memorial Day Weekend Drunks At Conch House Marina in St Augustine, FL.
People will think of nothing but amusement. The wicked will give themselves over to all kinds of sin. Our Lady of La Salette 19 Sept. 1846 (Published by Mélanie 1879)
Be not emulous of evildoers: nor envy them that work iniquity.
Thou didst play abroad in the street, and in the Kings privy chamber, & sentence of death was given against thee. The only begotten Son of God heard it, and he went forth, putting off his Diadem, clothed in sackcloth, wearing a Crown of thorns upon his head, barefooted, bleeding, weeping, & crying out that his poor servant was condemned. Thou seest him come forth, thou askest the cause, & hearest it. What wilt thou do? wilt thou still play, and contemn his tears? or rather wilt thou not follow him, and weep with him, and esteem the greatness of thy danger by the consideration of the remedy? Fr. Francois Coster 1616
MARIA OF THE CROSS,
Victim of Jesus nee MELANIE CALVAT,
Shepherdess of La Salette
"I protest highly against a different text, which people may dare publish after my death. I protest once more against the very false statements of all those who dare say and write First that I embroidered the Secret; second, against those who state that the Queen Mother did not say to transmit the Secret to all her people." Melanie
American-Chinese socialite, 34, who rubbed shoulders with Hillary Clinton 'jumps to her death naked from her Hong Kong penthouse while holding five-month-old daughter' An American-Chinese socialite has reportedly died in Hong Kong after plunging from her penthouse naked while carrying her five-month-old daughter in her arms. Luo Lili, 34, who had rubbed shoulders with the likes of Hillary Clinton and Rita Ora, reportedly jumped to her death with her baby after suffering post-natal depression, according to multiple reports from local media. As the only daughter of a real estate tycoon mother who owns multiple luxury development projects in China, Ms Luo appeared to have lived a lavish life, studying and travelling around the world from a young age. On Wednesday, the Hong Kong police found the bodies of a 34-year-old woman and her five-month-old daughter at the bottom of an apartment block, according to an official statement. No notes were found at the scene, said the police,
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Best Friend Commits Suicide: In Memory Of Jarom Hadley Nathaniel Rihari. Haka 'Tau Ka Tau'.......
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But understand this: there will be terrifying times in the last days.People will be self-centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious, callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power. Reject them. (2 Timothy 3.1-5) “The true faith to the Lord having been forgotten, each individual will want to be on his own and be superior to people of same identity, they will abolish civil rights as well as ecclesiastical, all order and all justice would be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension would be seen without love for country or family. Our Lady of La Salette 19 Sept. 1846 (Published by Mélanie 1879) God will allow the old serpent to cause divisions among those who reign in every society and in every family. Physical and
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Daniel's Second Beast BEAR = SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter Purge + Parler Has Been Shut Down
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"he had a perfect heart, a perfect soul, a riotously outrageous and relentless sense of humor, and a dazzling radiant mind"...and yet he kills himself...... Godless Democrats.. 'Please forgive me. My illness won today': Congressman Jamie Raskin reveals the 'farewell note' his depressed 25-year-old son left before his New Year's Eve death U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Sarah Bloom Raskin released a new statement about the passing of their son, Tommy, 25, on Monday afternoon. 'Tommy Raskin had a perfect heart, a perfect soul, a riotously outrageous and relentless sense of humor, and a dazzling radiant mind,' the statement on Medium read. The parents went in-depth about the life of their son, whose New Year's Eve death was announced on Thursday. While no official cause of death has been given, the statement did reference that Tommy had battled depression. The statement concluded, 'He left us this farewell n
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DOE PAGES Journal Article: Evaluating the Implications of Climate Projections on Heat Hardiness Zones for Green Infrastructure Planning
Title: Evaluating the Implications of Climate Projections on Heat Hardiness Zones for Green Infrastructure Planning
Background: Green Infrastructure (GI) is widely being promoted as an adaptation strategy for urban flooding. Like urban flooding, tree species could be impacted by future climatic conditions. However, there have been limited studies on the implications of future climate on GI planning, mostly due to the lack of climate data at higher spatial resolutions. Objective: Here in this paper, we analyze the implications of climate projections on heat hardiness zones since this could impact the GI landscape in the coming years. This is an extension of our earlier work on evaluating impacts of climate projections on plant hardiness zones. Method: Using downscaled daily temperature data from ten Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) climate models for the historical (1980-2005) and projected (2025-2050) periods, we analyzed future heat hardiness zones in the watershed bounding Knox County, TN. We analyzed the implications of these outputs for the current list of suggested native and non-native tree species selected for GI in the study area. Results: All the models suggest that a considerable part of the study area will move into the next warmer heat zone. While most trees remain suitable for GI, several are at the limit of their ideal heat zones.more » Conclusion: The insights from this study will help to guide the selection and placement of GI across the study area. Specifically, it should help green infrastructure planners design better mitigation and adaptation strategies to achieve higher returns on investments as more cities are now investing in GI projects.« less
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Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Computational Sciences and Engineering Division
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Environmental Sciences Division
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, United States
USDOE
Sustainability and Disaster Risk Management
Journal Volume: 01; Journal ID: ISSN 2542-6141
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; green infrastructure; climate projection; adaptation; plant hardiness zones; urban planning; urban flooding
Sylvester, Linda, Omitaomu, Olufemi A., Parish, Esther S., and Bhaduri, Budhendra L. Evaluating the Implications of Climate Projections on Heat Hardiness Zones for Green Infrastructure Planning. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.2174/2542614101666181113093548.
Sylvester, Linda, Omitaomu, Olufemi A., Parish, Esther S., & Bhaduri, Budhendra L. Evaluating the Implications of Climate Projections on Heat Hardiness Zones for Green Infrastructure Planning. United States. doi:10.2174/2542614101666181113093548.
Sylvester, Linda, Omitaomu, Olufemi A., Parish, Esther S., and Bhaduri, Budhendra L. Tue . "Evaluating the Implications of Climate Projections on Heat Hardiness Zones for Green Infrastructure Planning". United States. doi:10.2174/2542614101666181113093548. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1488700.
title = {Evaluating the Implications of Climate Projections on Heat Hardiness Zones for Green Infrastructure Planning},
author = {Sylvester, Linda and Omitaomu, Olufemi A. and Parish, Esther S. and Bhaduri, Budhendra L.},
abstractNote = {Background: Green Infrastructure (GI) is widely being promoted as an adaptation strategy for urban flooding. Like urban flooding, tree species could be impacted by future climatic conditions. However, there have been limited studies on the implications of future climate on GI planning, mostly due to the lack of climate data at higher spatial resolutions. Objective: Here in this paper, we analyze the implications of climate projections on heat hardiness zones since this could impact the GI landscape in the coming years. This is an extension of our earlier work on evaluating impacts of climate projections on plant hardiness zones. Method: Using downscaled daily temperature data from ten Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) climate models for the historical (1980-2005) and projected (2025-2050) periods, we analyzed future heat hardiness zones in the watershed bounding Knox County, TN. We analyzed the implications of these outputs for the current list of suggested native and non-native tree species selected for GI in the study area. Results: All the models suggest that a considerable part of the study area will move into the next warmer heat zone. While most trees remain suitable for GI, several are at the limit of their ideal heat zones. Conclusion: The insights from this study will help to guide the selection and placement of GI across the study area. Specifically, it should help green infrastructure planners design better mitigation and adaptation strategies to achieve higher returns on investments as more cities are now investing in GI projects.},
doi = {10.2174/2542614101666181113093548},
journal = {Sustainability and Disaster Risk Management},
DOI: 10.2174/2542614101666181113093548
Planning green infrastructure placement based on projected precipitation data
Journal Article Omitaomu, Olufemi A. ; Kotikot, Susan M. ; Parish, Esther S. - Journal of Environmental Management
Continued urbanization has led to tremendous changes on the landscape. These changes have exacerbated the effects of extreme climatic events such as flooding because of constrained water infiltration and increased surface flow. Typical runoff control measures involve sophisticated gray infrastructure that guide excess surface flow into storage and disposal sites. In a dynamic climate system, these measures are not sustainable since they cannot be easily modified to accommodate large volumes of runoff. Green Infrastructure (GI) is an adaptable technique that can be used to minimize runoff, in addition to offering an array of additional benefits (urban heat regulation, aesthetics, improvedmore » air quality etc.). Strategic placement of GI is key to achieving maximum utility. While physical site characteristics play a major role in determining suitable GI placement sites, knowledge of future precipitation patterns is crucial to ensure successful flood mitigation. Here, suitable GI sites within the city of Knoxville, Tennessee, were determined based on potential impact of an extreme flood event as indicated by site characteristics. Then, the relative potential likelihood of a flood event was determined based on projected precipitation data and knowledge of existing flood zones. By combining potential impact with likelihood information, low, medium, and high priority GI implementation sites were established. Results indicate that high priority sites are in the central parts of the city with priority decreasing outward. The GI prioritization scheme presented here, offers valuable guidance to city planners and policy makers who wish to exploit the GI approach for flood mitigation.« less
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111718
Final Report: Phase II Nevada Water Resources Data, Modeling, and Visualization (DMV) Center
Technical Report Jackman, Thomas ; Minor, Timothy ; Pohll, Gregory
Water is unquestionably a critical resource throughout the United States. In the semi-arid west -- an area stressed by increase in human population and sprawl of the built environment -- water is the most important limiting resource. Crucially, science must understand factors that affect availability and distribution of water. To sustain growing consumptive demand, science needs to translate understanding into reliable and robust predictions of availability under weather conditions that could be average but might be extreme. These predictions are needed to support current and long-term planning. Similar to the role of weather forecast and climate prediction, water prediction overmore » short and long temporal scales can contribute to resource strategy, governmental policy and municipal infrastructure decisions, which are arguably tied to the natural variability and unnatural change to climate. Change in seasonal and annual temperature, precipitation, snowmelt, and runoff affect the distribution of water over large temporal and spatial scales, which impact the risk of flooding and the groundwater recharge. Anthropogenic influences and impacts increase the complexity and urgency of the challenge. The goal of this project has been to develop a decision support framework of data acquisition, digital modeling, and 3D visualization. This integrated framework consists of tools for compiling, discovering and projecting our understanding of processes that control the availability and distribution of water. The framework is intended to support the analysis of the complex interactions between processes that affect water supply, from controlled availability to either scarcity or deluge. The developed framework enables DRI to promote excellence in water resource management, particularly within the Lake Tahoe basin. In principle, this framework could be replicated for other watersheds throughout the United States. Phase II of this project builds upon the research conducted during Phase I, in which the hydrologic framework was investigated and the development initiated. Phase II concentrates on practical implementation of the earlier work but emphasizes applications to the hydrology of the Lake Tahoe basin. Phase 1 efforts have been refined and extended by creating a toolset for geographic information systems (GIS) that is usable for disparate types of geospatial and geo-referenced data. The toolset is intended to serve multiple users for a variety of applications. The web portal for internet access to hydrologic and remotely sensed product data, prototyped in Phase I, has been significantly enhanced. The portal provides high performance access to LANDSAT-derived data using techniques developed during the course of the project. The portal is interactive, and supports the geo-referenced display of hydrologic information derived from remotely sensed data, such as various vegetative indices used to calculate water consumption. The platform can serve both internal and external constituencies using inter-operating infrastructure that spans both sides of the DRI firewall. The platform is intended grow its supported data assets and to serve as a template for replication to other geographic areas. An unanticipated development during the project was the use of ArcGIS software on a new computer system, called the IBM PureSytems, and the parallel use of the systems for faster, more efficient image processing. Additional data, independent of the portal, was collected within the Sagehen basin and provides detailed information regarding the processes that control hydrologic responses within mountain watersheds. The newly collected data include elevation, evapotranspiration, energy balance and remotely sensed snow-pack data. A Lake Tahoe basin hydrologic model has been developed, in part to help predict the hydrologic impacts of climate change. The model couples both the surface and subsurface hydrology, with the two components having been independently calibrated. Results from the coupled simulations involving both surface water and groundwater processes show that it is possible to fairly accurately simulate lake effects and water budget variables over a wide range of dry and wet cycles in the historical record. The Lake Tahoe basin is representative of the hydrology, topography and climate throughout the Sierra Nevada Range, and the entire model development is prototypical of the efforts required to replicate the decision support framework to other locales. The Lake Tahoe model in particular, could allow water managers to evaluate more accurately components of the water budget (ET, runoff, groundwater, etc) and to answer important questions regarding water resources in northern Nevada. This report discusses the geographic scale and the hydrologic complexity of the calibrated model developed as part of this project, as well as simulation results for historical and future climate projects To enable human-driven data exploration and discovery, de novo software for a globalized rendering module that extends the capability of our evolving custom visualization engine from Phase I (called SMEngine) has been developed. The new rendering component, called Horizon, supports terrain rendering capable of displaying and interrogating both remotely sensed and modeled data. The development of Horizon necessitated adaptation of the visualization engine to allow extensible integration of components such as the global rendering module and support for associated features. The resulting software is general in its GIS capability, but a specific Lake Tahoe visualization application suitable for immersive decision support in the DRIVE6 virtual reality facility has been developed. During the development, various features to enhance the value of the visualization experience were explored, including the use of hyperspectral image overlays. An over-arching goal of the visualization aspect of the project has been to develop and demonstrate the CAVE (CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment) as a practical tool for hydrologic research.« less
Analyzing the Implications of Climate Data on Plant Hardiness Zones for Green Infrastructure Planning: Case Study of Knoxville, Tennessee and Surrounding Region
Technical Report Sylvester, Linda M. ; Omitaomu, Olufemi A. ; Parish, Esther S.
Downscaled climate data for Knoxville, Tennessee and the surrounding region were used to investigate future changing Plant Hardiness Zones due to climate change. The methodology used is the same as the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), well-known for their creation of the standard Plant Hardiness Zone map used by gardeners and planners. USDA data were calculated from observed daily data for 1976–2005. The modeled climate data for the past is daily data from 1980-2005 and the future data is projected for 2025–2050. The average of all the modeled annual extreme minimums for each time period of interest was calculated. Eachmore » 1 km raster cell was placed into zone categories based on temperature, using the same criteria and categories of the USDA. The individual models vary between suggesting little change to the Plant Hardiness Zones to suggesting Knoxville moves into the next two Hardiness Zones. But overall, the models suggest moving into the next warmer Zone. USDA currently has the Knoxville area categorized as Zone 7a. None of the Zones calculated from the climate data models placed Knoxville in Zone 7a for the similar time period. The models placed Knoxville in a cooler Hardiness Zone and projected the area to increase to Zone 7. The modeled temperature data appears to be slightly cooler than the actual temperature data and this may explain the zone discrepancy. However, overall Knoxville is projected to increase to the next warmer Zone. As the modeled data has Knoxville, overall, moving from Zone 6 to Zone 7, it can be inferred that Knoxville, Tennessee may increase from their current Zone 7 to Zone 8.« less
Managing Climate Risk. Integrating Adaptation into World Bank Group Operations
Miscellaneous Van Aalst, M
Climate change is already taking place, and further changes are inevitable. Developing countries, and particularly the poorest people in these countries, are most at risk. The impacts result not only from gradual changes in temperature and sea level but also, in particular, from increased climate variability and extremes, including more intense floods, droughts, and storms. These changes are already having major impacts on the economic performance of developing countries and on the lives and livelihoods of millions of poor people around the world. Climate change thus directly affects the World Bank Group's mission of eradicating poverty. It also puts atmore » risk many projects in a wide range of sectors, including infrastructure, agriculture, human health, water resources, and environment. The risks include physical threats to the investments, potential underperformance, and the possibility that projects will indirectly contribute to rising vulnerability by, for example, triggering investment and settlement in high-risk areas. The way to address these concerns is not to separate climate change adaptation from other priorities but to integrate comprehensive climate risk management into development planning, programs, and projects. While there is a great need to heighten awareness of climate risk in Bank work, a large body of experience on climate risk management is already available, in analytical work, in country dialogues, and in a growing number of investment projects. This operational experience highlights the general ingredients for successful integration of climate risk management into the mainstream development agenda: getting the right sectoral departments and senior policy makers involved; incorporating risk management into economic planning; engaging a wide range of nongovernmental actors (businesses, nongovernmental organizations, communities, and so on); giving attention to regulatory issues; and choosing strategies that will pay off immediately under current climate conditions. There are several ways in which the World Bank Group can continue helping its clients better manage climate risks to poverty reduction and sustainable development: Integrating climate risk management into the project cycle, by adopting early risk identification (for instance by applying a quick and simple risk-screening tool) and following up throughout the design process if necessary. Integrating climate risk management into country and sector dialogues, especially in countries and sectors that are particularly vulnerable. Enhancing internal support for and coordination of climate risk management by, for example, expanding analytical work and capacity for cross-support by the Global Climate Change Team and the Hazard Management Unit of the World Bank and by actively developing climate risk management activities within regional departments. Supporting the establishment of proper financing mechanisms for adaptation, using, for example, the Investment Framework for Clean Energy and Development. New funding mechanisms created under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and being made operational by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), as well as the Kyoto Protocol, should be used to leverage maximum adaptation results within the Bank's broad range of development activities and investments. By enhancing climate risk management, the World Bank Group will be able to address the growing risks from climate change and, at the same time, make current development investments more resilient to climate variability and extreme weather events. In that way, climate risk management will not only guard the Bank's investments in a changing climate but will also improve the impact of development efforts right now.« less
The SURE House (Solar Decathlon 2015)
Technical Report Nastasi, John ; May, Edwin
Coastal towns and cities across the Northeastern US, with their high population density, aged utility infrastructure, and unique geography, are increasingly vulnerable to climate change related storm events. In October 2012 superstorm Sandy highlighted the fragility of our current coastal building types and made clear the need for a new model of design and construction which works to understand and mitigate these weaknesses. Dramatic changes in public policy, championed by both The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) are driving the rebuilding of these shore communities, often resulting in costly renovations, un-sustainable neighborhood configurationsmore » and in direct conflict with concurrent government policies such as The American with Disabilities Act (ADA). The SURE HOUSE demonstrates a series of new design solutions to these conflicting public policies and environmental imperatives. At Stevens Institute of Technology, the 2015 Solar Decathlon started with the challenge: Can we design a home for coastal New Jersey that dramatically reduces its energy use while protecting itself from the realities of a changing, more extreme climate? The SURE HOUSE merges the iconic 20th century shore home with 21st century building science. Utilizing innovative renewable energy technologies, a ‘Passive House’ level building envelope, and rugged glass-fiber-composite materials to flood-proof the home, the SURE HOUSE is a high-performance, net-zero-energy home, armored against extreme weather, designed for the contemporary lifestyle of the Jersey Shore and other vulnerable coastal communities. SUSTAINABLE At Stevens, we recognize that energy use in the home and workplace is directly connected to the growing problem of climate change. Reducing our energy consumption by designing higher performing, compact homes that are both functional, comfortable and desirable is the first critical step towards a modern, sustainable architecture for New Jersey and beyond. This is what informed the architectural design of the house. Configured about a compact form, thickly insulated and air-sealed walls eliminate thermal bridging and minimize energy losses while advanced glazing brings in free solar heat during the winter months. As a result of these passive design strategies, the SURE HOUSE has a greatly reduced carbon footprint requiring 91% less energy than a typical New Jersey home. Photovoltaic (PV) arrays on both the rooftop and operable shutters easily provide energy in excess of the home’s modest demands. The Stevens team considers a truly sustainable home in the era of climate change, one that prioritizes low energy use, and integrates right-sized renewable generation to supply the home’s needs. Low consumption, low production. RESILIENT In October of 2012, Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc along the east coast of the US. In New Jersey alone there was an estimated 29.4 billion dollars in damages, 346,000 homes affected, and almost two and a half million people left without power, in some cases for over 10 days. Recovery from this storm and associated flooding is ongoing to this day, as many New Jersey homeowners grapple with the large costs of rebuilding and struggle to adapt to complicated new home building regulations. Damage from this storm to Hoboken, the home of the Stevens Institute of Technology’s campus, and to the New Jersey shore was extensive and many students on the SURE HOUSE team were directly affected by this historic event. The Stevens design team recognizes that in a world of more frequent and stronger storms, the ability to absorb and adapt to change is more important than ever. Successfully weathering the next storm and its aftermath is one of the primary goals in the design of the SURE HOUSE prototype. The SURE HOUSE introduces unique ‘dry flood-proofing’ methods to residential construction. Innovative wall and floor flood-proofing, utilizing durable composite sheathing materials adapted from the boating industry, were developed by the student team to render the SURE House’s building envelope flood proof up to the FEMA AE 6/7 Zone (+ 6/7 feet of water above sea-level). Designed and fabricated utilizing glass-fiber composite materials, the custom storm shutter system serves to protect the large glazed openings of the home from both air-borne debris impact and water infiltration during a storm event while also providing deterrence from the vandalism that often occurs in the aftermath of a calamitous event. During extended power outages, a ‘resilient’ solar array is capable of supplying critical amounts of energy and hot water to the home, without the use of battery storage or grid infrastructure. PV Description AC GRID-TIED PV SYSTEM The SURE HOUSE solar system consists of two distinct arrays, the grid-tied rooftop array which produces AC Powerand the shutter-mounted array which converts DC power generated by the modules directly into usable heat for the domestic hot water (DHW). The roof-mounted AC grid-tied array is comprised of three strings, two 11 module strings connected to an SMA SB 5000TL-US-223 inverter and a single 10 module string equipped and an SMA SB 3000TL-US-22 central inverter. All modules for the rooftop AC array are LG MonoX 2804 watt solar panels, chosen for their durability and efficiency. Inverter sizing and string size are optimized to the electrical characteristics of the chosen PV modules and the desired energy production, see Appendix 5B. The SURE HOUSE is projected to produce 12,353 kWh per year to meet 6,157 kWh per year of estimated consumption. Solar modules for the two AC grid-tied sub arrays are mounted on the main roof surface of the SURE HOUSE with a 10 degree tilt angle using a partially-ballasted polyethylene roof mounting system made by Renusol, which is particularly suited to the corrosive salt air of a coastal environment. This method was chosen for its installation simplicity and to limit detrimental roof penetrations. The 10 degree tilt optimizes the energy generated per roof area at a lower price, see Appendix 5A, and ensures that there is minimal wind uplift. DC SOLAR ELECTRIC DOMESTIC HOT WATER The SURE HOUSE’s approach to sustainable and resilient domestic hot water (DHW) consists of a unique, custom engineered DC solar electric hot water system. Employing the use of Advanced Energy’s DC electric PV heater (DCPVH)5 to heat domestic water well beyond the draw temperature, the SURE HOUSE is able to obtain a remarkably high solar fraction of 75% or more. The custom modified 80 gallon Vaughn DHW tank acts as a large solar ‘battery’ that stores heat energy in the form of hot water at almost 150 degrees, harvesting energy when the sun is out for use later in the day or overnight. The system, which uses electricity rather than heated fluid, is distinct from traditional ‘solar thermal’ systems by eliminating the dangers and associated maintenance issues of fluid based systems. By forgoing the use of external fluid loops, overheated solar collectors and pipes are not an issue for the SURE HOUSE system which never needs any yearly or seasonal flushing. In weather conditions where the integrated DCPVH unit cannot produce enough hot water via solar energy alone, the Vaughn hot water tank comes factory made with an AC powered 2.6 COP heat pump and a AC heating coil that serve as back-up heating elements. The DCPVH is powered by a DC array consisting of 10 custom-made Solbian by PVilion 180 watt, monocrystalline, flexible solar modules6. The Solbian modules are directly mounted to the top half of the operable storm shutters on the south façade of the SURE HOUSE. The SURE HOUSE team worked closely with PVillion, a PV system designer specializing in flexible architectural photovoltaics, to design an adhesive system that works with the glass-fiber storm shutter surface in a reliable manner over an extended period. Because this system operates in DC-only mode and never connects to the municipal power grid, the system can continue to create hot water safely and effectively even during grid disruption events. This hot water, and the energy stored within it, could be used for a range of activities including washing and cooking to more elaborate hydronic heating systems as desired. See Appendix 6 for system engineering, sizing and modeling.« less
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Want native wildlife? Don’t be too tidy
By Annalisa Michalski
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If you own a good-sized piece of land, Bob Glennon might suggest an unconventional New Year's resolution: Let it get a little messy during growing season.
"People are managing land more intensely than before," said Glennon, private lands biologist for Natural Resources Conservation Service. "Even the farmers now tend to be neat freaks, won't allow the edges to grow up into anything but turfgrass."
He said small swaths of land – think of the border area between farmed and forested property, or even roadside ditches – used to be natural places for small game to take cover. The modern habit of tidying those areas adds up to habitat loss.
The bobwhite quail is one species that has declined significantly in the past three decades, mostly due to land loss – and the quail's particular needs for wide, varied area.
"That's one of the misconceptions, that small game means small space," Glennon said.
For bobwhite quail, different times require different covers: native grasses and wildflowers for nesting, annual weeds for raising young and a thicker, denser growth for escape, Glennon said. Areas where longleaf pine is being actively restored tend to offer all three.
"The best marriage in the world is quail and longleaf pine," Glennon said. "It's not just a tree, it's an ecosystem."
As an example, Glennon cited Sussex County's Piney Grove Preserve. The restoration area was selected by The Nature Conservancy as an ideal habitat of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. Replanted in longleaf pine, the land is managed through periodic burning to clear away dense undergrowth that would otherwise shade out the very slow-growing longleaf seedlings.
"They're burning about every third year," Glennon said, which keeps the land "suitable for woodpeckers."
Those woodpeckers were the target species, but the same conditions – a year or two of undisturbed brush growth, followed by a heavy clearing to thin it back – have also invited bobwhite quail to call the Piney Grove area home.
Glennon explained that bobwhite quail have always benefitted from management, but the means has changed over the years. He said historically, it was natural fire sparked by lightning strikes that periodically swept through dense forest and thinned it, producing ideal conditions for species like bobwhite quail. As Europeans took up large tracts of land, cutting and replanting of loblolly and longleaf pine forest was achieved by commercial logging practices.
It's no coincidence, then, that longleaf restoration projects so often happen on large tracts of land that are or once were owned by logging companies. Glennon said that's less common further east, where even land-heavy properties like farms total less than a few hundred acres – and so, bobwhite quail are also less common here.
"Most farmers in southeastern Virginia value their cropland too much to dedicate it to quail habitat," Glennon said.
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But look in the right places, and the birds can be found locally. At Lone Star Lakes Park in Suffolk, for example, an active longleaf pine restoration project helps account for regular spottings of bobwhite quail.
It's not for everyone, but private landowners offer promise to the return of bobwhite quail populations. Farmers who hunt are great candidates for private land projects, Glennon said, because they already understand and appreciate what makes good small game habitat: messy edges.
They're not as well-known as the big projects, Glennon said, but there are several longleaf-quail success stories on privately owned lands, two of them not far from Piney Grove Preserve.
"Surveys don't include (private) property, and I always hear more birds there than anywhere else," Glennon said.
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Home / Press Releases / NEC Ships MT50 Projector
NEC Technologies Ships New Generation of MT50 Series Full-Featured Portable Projectors: Superior Choice for Conference Room and Classroom Use
Increased Brightness, Outstanding Data and Video Performance, Monitor And Audio Out Connections Allow Users to "Rule the Room"
ITASCA, Ill., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- NEC Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: NIPNY) has made conference room and classroom projection possibilities abundant with the availability of the MultiSync(R) MT50(TM) Series projectors. A refined version of the company's award-winning line of portable projectors, the MT850(TM), MT1050(TM) and MT1055(TM) provide big projector power in a portable package, thus carrying on their legacy as the "superior choice for conference room and classroom projectors."
"The MultiSync MT50 Series has been optimized to enable users to deliver dynamic, captivating presentations with exceptional data and video quality, while allowing practical applications, such as the hook-up of an external monitor," said Don Fasick, product marketing manager for the Visual Systems Division at NEC Technologies. "Whether it is for fixed or portable usage in a college lecture hall, corporate conference room, center for worship or government training facility, the MT50 Series projectors have all the power and versatility needed for presentation success. When combined with NEC Technologies' longstanding reputation for quality and top-notch service and support programs, the MT50 Series is the well-rounded portable projector choice."
Full-Featured, Exclusive Technologies
The LCD-based MultiSync MT1050 and MT1055 projectors offer XGA native resolution and a powerful 2100 and 2600 ANSI lumens of brightness respectively, allowing for uncompromising use even in locations where the lights are on and the shades are up. The MT850 supplies SVGA resolution and 1700 ANSI lumens of brightness. All three projectors incorporate a host of exclusive features that "outshine" the competition:
Presenters will benefit from VORTEX Technology(TM), the industry's first complete four-part display enhancement system designed to change the way the world views projected images. The new technology provides data and graphic displays with superior uniformity, color and contrast, and video displays with greater depth, detail, brighter whites and more realistic colors. This translates to the exchange of information that is more eye-catching and memorable.
The MT50 Series projectors contain both monitor and audio out connectors, which are critical to users, such as professors and facilitators, who typically rely upon PCs instead of laptops. The projectors offer broad computer compatibility and are also DTV and HDTV capable so product obsolescence is not an issue.
The new projectors include many of the same advanced features that earned the MT projector line its award-winning reputation. The built-in Presentation Viewer enables users to download presentations directly from their laptops. Not only does this lighten the load by allowing the laptop to be left at home, but it saves time during set-up since it eliminates the need to wait for long computer boot times.
The projectors also make use of NEC Technologies' exclusive AutoSense(TM) technology, which automatically synchronizes and adjusts the projector to optimize incoming computer and video signals. By eliminating the need for time-consuming manual adjustments, AutoSense technology allows the MultiSync MT Series projectors to provide near-perfect images while delivering maximum presentation effectiveness. Additionally, Advanced AccuBlend(TM) Intelligent Pixel Blending Technology provides detailed and focused non-native resolution source display.
The MT50 Series projectors also employ NEC Technologies' exclusive Eco-Mode(TM) feature, which enables users to select reduced light output, thus increasing lamp life while decreasing projector noise. The new projectors also incorporate a user-customized menu system that allows users to hide certain menu functions, preventing less knowledgeable users from tampering with those projector settings.
Complete Service and Support Program
The MultiSync MT850, MT1050 and MT1055 are backed by NEC Technologies' complete InstaCare(R), InstaCare Xpress(SM) and TravelCare(SM) warranty programs that exceed the level of service and support today's professionals have come to expect from their presentation solutions provider. Two years of limited parts and labor and InstaCare coverage comes standard with each projector, giving users the assurance of replacement in one business day with delivery to and from the customer in both the United States and Canada, or repair and return service in three business days. When time matters most, InstaCare Xpress provides customers with a "next available flight" replacement option (fee-based). Finally, TravelCare allows any MultiSync MT850, MT1050 or MT1055 customer to receive warranty service on their projector when traveling internationally, regardless of where the projector was originally purchased.
The MT Series will be available through the NEC Technologies nationwide network of both professional AV and PC channel partners. List prices for the projectors are $7,395 for the MT850, $9,995 for the MT1050 and $12,995 for the MT1055. For more information about the MultiSync MT850, MT1050 and MT1055, please call 1-877-NEC-EDIT or visit the NEC Technologies website at http://www.nectech.com or MT50 Series microsite at http://www.nectech.com.
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HomeUEFA Champions League 2019-2020Di Maria scores twice as PSG humiliates Real Madrid with a 3-0 goal
Di Maria scores twice as PSG humiliates Real Madrid with a 3-0 goal
ProSoccer24 September 19, 2019
PSG striker "Angel Di Maria" scored twice against his former club as Paris Saint-Germain humiliate Spanish giant with a 3-0 thriller without the presence of Neymar and Kylian Mbappe on Wednesday night to get off to the perfect start in their latest bid for Champions League success.
Di Maria scored past Real goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois to put PSG ahead in the 14th minute at the Parc des Princes stadium. The Argentine, who played for Real for four years and won the Champions League with them in 2014 before making a move to Manchester United before transferring to the French club side Paris Saint Germain.
But it was Di Maria second goal just after the half-hour mark that really lit up this encounter. He gave Courtois no chance with a shot on his left foot from 20 yards out that arrowed into the corner.
Thomas Meunier further increased the score-line at the dying minutes but it was Di Maria who had created most of the chances for his side, stepping up in the absences of the injured Kylian Mbappe and Edinson Cavani as well as the suspended Neymar Jr.
So far, PSG remain unbeaten at home in the Champions League group stage since 2004 and they are topping Group A. Their next fixture will be an away game against Galatasaray who drew 0-0 in Belgium with Club brugge on Wednesday.
While Real madrid still remain far from convincing since Zinedine Zidane's return to the club for a second spell as coach and the 13-time European Cup winners have won only twice in five outings so far this season.
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For business leaders, Twitter proving a powerful communications tool
December 14, 2015 by Gabey Goh
CEOs are increasingly seeing the value of communicating directly about business announcements, crisis comms and personal thoughts, says senior Twitter exec
Nola Weinstein
More business leaders are taking to Twitter as a communications platform for engaging directly with stakeholders, employees, consumers and the general public.
In an interview with PRWeek Asia, head of executive engagement at Twitter Nola Weinstein, said that at last count, the platform had 288,000 chief executive officers with more coming on board.
Notable Asia Pacific-based CEOs currently on Twitter include:
Anand Mahindra, Chairman and Managing Director, Mahindra Group (@anandmahindra)
Tony Fernandes, Group CEO, AirAsia (@tonyfernandes)
Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO, Rakuten (@hmikitani)
Andrew Penn, CEO, Telstra (@andy_penn)
"We’re seeing more interest from executives," she added. "And it’s interesting to see how the same way politicians, athletes and actors have used Twitter to have a presence and engage with their fans, business leaders are doing the same as well."
Weinstein said that despite some concerns from curious executives about whether anyone would be interested in what they had to say, the fact remains that millions of people consume business news and content.
"And millions follow business leaders," she added. "What better way than to hear from them directly?"
Weinstein shared that on a personal note she was especially excited when the chief executive of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi, joined Twitter.
"As one of 23 female CEOs in the Fortune 500, having that access to what she’s reading and what informs her thinking," she added. "That’s valuable to me."
What I’m reading: "Unfinished Business" by @SlaughterAM and "The Silo Effect" by @gilliantett. Must reads!
— Indra Nooyi (@IndraNooyi) November 25, 2015
Taking ownership of the conversation
Weinstein said that the platform becomes even more important as a communications tool when companies find themselves embroiled in crisis scenarios.
"I’d say that’s one of the best reasons for executives to join Twitter," she added. "When there’s conversations happening without you, joining is one way for you to assert your voice."
By becoming the source, executives are able to properly broadcast to the world, the actions or position being taken by the company to handle the situation.
Weinstein pointed to a study done by BRANDfog around CEOs on social media platforms.
The 2014 edition study found that more than two-thirds of US and UK respondents agree that social media has become an essential aspect of PR and communications strategy for C-Suite executives.
Weinstein said that breaking company news on Twitter is also effective for executives, with the opportunity for that single tweet to be embedded and shared across multiple news articles.
"One tweet is more efficient than doing 700 interviews and the quote you provide will be different in tone, brevity and authenticity than a comment in a press release," she added.
In Asia, a notable example would be how AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes used Twitter to brief the media and the airline’s customer base, when flight 8501 crashed in Indonesia on 28 December 2014.
I am touched by the massive show of support especially from my fellow airlines. This is my worse nightmare. But there is no stopping.
— Tony Fernandes (@tonyfernandes) December 28, 2014
The staff in Indonesia have been brave, strong, committed and doing 150 percent for all our guests. My pride for them is enormous.
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Weinstein said having business leaders on social media "humanises the brand", with an active presence enabling them to become the "embodiment of the company’s values and ideals".
She added that common concerns raised by executives centre around security, such as protecting accounts from being hacked and ensuring that there are no apps auto-tweeting on their behalf.
"Also, if you are an executive in a certain position, for example of a publicly-listed company, then it’s best to check with legal and communications teams that what you’re sharing is in compliance," Weinstein said.
She clarified that it is not about have legal or communications people checking every tweet but to ensure that the company’s "overarching principles" are in place.
"If you’re in a system that’s not agile, that doesn’t allow you to engage on Twitter in the now, then that’s stifling, not authentic and not best use case for the platform," she added. "It is about sharing your passions and point of view on matters. It doesn’t have to be perfect."
Weinstein said that executives, before going on the platform, should inform their communications team so that they are aware and can monitor conversations.
"It’s smart practice to be disciplined and purposeful in the way you use Twitter," she added. "And it’s always good to do a ‘gut check’ with someone from the communications team if unsure about a particular tweet."
The role of the communications team then, is to help establish parameters and guidelines in advance to aid their chief executive.
"It’s also not good to be overly controlling of the messages being sent out by your executive, because as a communications asset you’re missing out on a big opportunity to build rapport and engagement," she added.
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Volume 105 - Number 2 - Summer 1990
Jesse Jackson's 1984 Presidential Campaign: Challenge and Change in American Politics, Ronald Walters and Lucius J. Barker
Reviewed by Charles V. Hamilton
Challenging the Civil Rights Establishment: Profiles of a New Black Vanguard, Joseph G. Conti and Brad Stetson Reviewed by Charles V. Hamilton
The Dual Agenda of African American Organizations since the New Deal: Social Welfare Policies and Civil Rights, Dona Cooper Hamilton and Charles V. Hamilton
Racial Formation in the United States from the 1960s to the 1980s, Michael Omi and Howard Winant Reviewed by Charles V. Hamilton
Social Policy and the Welfare of Black Americans: From Rights to Resources, Charles V. Hamilton
America in Search of Itself: The Making of the Presidents 1956-1980, Theodore H. White and Scott Armstrong
The Patron-Recipient Relationship and Minority Politics in New York City, Charles V. Hamilton
Voter Registration Drives and Turnout: A Report on the Harlem Electorate, Charles V. Hamilton
CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968, August Meier and Elliott Rudwick
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Psychic, Astrology, Tarot
Cathryn's Profile
I take great joy in using my tools and skills to help guide others. Life can have many ups and downs and during the most challenging times we all need support. My readings will provide clarity about the situation around you as we'll as a sense of empowerment. I will never tell you what I think you want to hear, just what I feel and see in a clear and caring manner.
How are you typical of your star sign?
As a Capricorn, I am conscientious, dedicated, honest and sincere. I always try to do my best in any circumstance, for myself and others around me and these are the attributes I bring into my readings.
When did you first become aware of your gift?
I was always sensitive as a young child. By the age of 5 I knew when I was being lied to or when something was being withheld from me. When I was 8 I was living with my aunt, uncle and cousins. My 18 month old cousin was hyperactive and very difficult to settle down for his afternoon nap. I would allow him to fall asleep by placing the palms of my hands in a certain pattern on his face. It was not until a few years ago when I studied Reiki that I realised that I was practicing Reiki on him although at the time I had never come across the concept. When I was 11 I saw a ghost in broad daylight in the house we lived in and I could hear malicious voices in a specific area of the landing on the 2nd floor. It was not until much later that I found out that the house had a disturbing history. I've also had many dreams that have come true and for quite a number of years kept a dream diary that described the dream and the way people looked. One of these dreams was meeting someone of my own age who was very mature and was teaching me many things. In the dream when he left, I asked when he would return and he said in 15 years time. I did meet him in 15 years in real life and he transformed me.
I'm of mixed origin and the culture of my non-English side is rich in esoteric practice such as astrology, coffee reading, card reading and magic. My aunt has been reading coffee and playing cards for 40 years and is noted for her accuracy. Being surrounded with all this it was natural for me to gravitate to astrology and tarot. I received my first astrology book when I was 9 and was fascinated. I went on to read many more books going in depth into the subject and then in my early twenties studied it at the Faculty of Astrological Studies. My understanding of tarot has also been self-taught from an early age too, in studying the images of the cards, then their meanings and the different spreads through books. Tarot is a very useful too.l that can provide clear answers where there are clear questions. I use different spreads depending on the specific question at hand.
Every reading is special when answers are given that answer the reader's question, providing calm and focus and then for the events to unfold accordingly. One case comes to mind - this was where a lady wanted to have a general reading. The first thing that came up was that there was a reliable, steady man that was all she could wish for but that there was an obstruction and the only way to deal with this was to employ an element of give and take. She then mentioned that she was involved in an off relationship with a divorced man who was focusing on his daughter and their relationship which was why their relationship was at the status it was. She wanted to know if he would move forward in a more committed fashion over the next 6 months. I employed both the tarot and astrology. I had to be honest and say that it would not take place over the next six months but more in about 8 months. At that point there would be a far greater bond between them. She returned and confirmed that this indeed happened and a further four months later they were engaged to be married.
I studied astrology through the London Faculty of Astrological Studies although by the time I entered I was already self-taught to quite some depth. My understanding and interpretation of the tarot is self-taught through reading books and applying myself to the subject.
It's important that you should have a clear idea of what you want to ask and the questions you wish to ask. It is also important to have an open mind. The information that is being given to you may or may not be what you wish to hear and it should not be the reason or the only reason through which a particular course of action is taken - the information is there for guidance, the final choice is yours.
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I was shown the big picture and my small problem made more sense and could understand where I stand in my life. The reading was truly an eye opener. Highly recommended. Thank you
Hi Cathryn, I feel terribly sorry that we've got cut off in our conversation cos I really wanted to complete the chart reading. I do hope that I can catch up with you again soon to complete that reading. and I just want to take this opportunities to say Big Thank you for your patience in talking me through my emotional problem! And not complaining about me kept repeatedly mentioned about my ex! I am really truly appreciated for your GREAT HELP and support. You've been a very good reader for me!!! Hope to talk to you again next time!
Thank you for a lovely uplifting reading when I needed urgent clarification.Straight to the point, putting my mind at rest.Thank you.i will be calling back again x
Really really insightful reader... had to extend so much information x Thank You! x
She is one of my absolute favourite readers, everything she predicted came thru, from the guy I like not going to contact or respond to me, (even tho all the other psychics said he will) that change in management would mean I would leave my job and find another. Probably going to remine single for most of this yr. absolutely love her honesty never sugarcoats, xxx
She is one of my absolute favourite readers, everything she predicted came thru, from the guy I like not going to contact or respond to me, (even tho all the other psychics said he will) that change in management would mean I would leave my job and find another. Probably going to remine single for most of this yr.
Cathryn’s feeling of my situation is spot on. She uses tarot cards combined with astrology to give insightful readings. Her birth chart and progress chart reading is informative. I feel a sense of clarity and more positive after the reading. Thank you Cathryn!
Fantastic, accurate reading of my situation and predictions that ring true and fit with current circumstances. I enjoyed the conversation and Cathryn is very calm and easy to talk to
Fantastic Reading especially with leading onto the birth charts and the planets and what is going to be coming in. Thank you for the help and advice. You must read with Kathryn - 24.6.18 - R
Thank you Cathryn, that was a very insightful reading.
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Police: About
The Randolph Township Police Department prides itself on delivering professional police services to township residents and the public at large. The department views community involvement as a top priority and its members consistently demonstrate this commitment.
Headed by Chief David Stokoe, the department is currently staffed by thirty-six full-time sworn officers and six civilian employees.
Departmental functions for the organization are divided among three main areas of service—administrative, patrol and investigative.
This division, overseen by Lt. Jeffrey Gomez, directs the department’s specialty and administrative functions, such as agency accreditation, matters relating to traffic safety functions including traffic surveys, all matters relating to community service functions, and the records bureau.
In terms of traffic safety, officers are specially trained in the areas of traffic calming and accident investigation. The unit is equipped with sophisticated equipment which allows staff to investigate serious motor vehicle collisions and monitor roadways where complaints have been made about speeding and unsafe conditions. For the latter, information derived from these activities is then used in making recommendations to the New Jersey Department of Transportation and the township council regarding traffic regulation changes.
The records bureau handles all recording and administrative functions of the department. Records personnel assist the public in obtaining police reports, firearms registration, alarm registration and temporary handicapped parking placards. The records bureau also keeps track of all police officer training.
This division constitutes the “front line” of the department, administering enforcement and other services provided on a daily basis. The division is responsible for the following services:
24-hour response to the initial investigation of crimes and incidents
traffic enforcement and control
initial accident investigation
community policing and crime prevention functions
coordination of special events
Lt. Keith Donovan oversees four patrol squads assigned to geographic districts. In total, approximately twenty-five officers and supervisors staff this division.
Investigations/Detective Division
This division, overseen by Det. Lt. Will Harzula, encompasses the detective bureau.
The department’s detective bureau is responsible for conducting investigations into major incidents and assisting the patrol division with follow-up investigations and interviews. The bureau is staffed by a sergeant and three detectives, one of whom is also responsible for juvenile matters. Detectives conduct criminal investigations, surveillance operations, coordinate evidence collection, assist with prisoner processing, and handle prisoner transports.
Section: Police
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All Ords sends mixed messages
Nick Bendel-04/09/2017- 2 min read
Depending on how you look at it, the stock market has either been doing well, doing nothing or doing poorly.
It all depends on your relationship with the All Ordinaries, which ended August at 5776.30.
If you’ve been in the market for one year or five years, you’d be satisfied with your returns, which have been 4.5 per cent and 33.1 per cent, respectively.
However, the All Ordinaries has done nothing for those who have been invested for one month (0 per cent), three months (0.3 per cent) or six months (0.3 per cent).
Interestingly, even though the returns for one-year and five-year investors have been good, the market has barely moved for three-year investors (2.7 per cent). In fact, when adjusted for inflation, three-year investors have actually gone backwards.
The big losers are those who invested 10 years ago, before the GFC. Since then, the All Ordinaries has lost 7.6 per cent in value.
Close at 31 August 2017
Change over the past 1 month 0%
Change over the past 3 months 0.3%
Change over the past 1 year 4.5%
Change over the past 3 years 2.7%
Change over the past 5 years 33.1%
Change over the past 10 years -7.6%
The All Ordinaries is an index made up of the share prices for 500 of the largest companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. It peaked at 6873.20 on 1 November 2007.
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Paul Krugman: 'Right-wing crazies' and Trump don't care if 'hundreds of thousands' workers rush back to work and die
Tom Boggioni
Trump Reno crowd via Darron Birgenheier on Flickr
According to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, Donald Trump is being aided by the "right-wing crazies" who support him as he attempts to rush workers back to work even though public health experts say it could result in hundreds of thousands of more deaths from the coronavirus pandemic.
As Krugman notes in his New York Times column, they know it is still dangerous for workers to return, but they don't care because the president and anti-lockdown activists have their own agendas.
"As far as I can tell, most epidemiologists are horrified by America’s rush to reopen the economy, to abandon much of the social distancing that has helped contain Covid-19," Krugman wrote before adding, "... if the experts are right again, premature opening could lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths — and backfire even in economic terms, as a second wave of infections forces us back into lockdown."
Asking where the push is coming from, Krugman answered his own question by pointing the finger at the president who has riled up his base.
"Some of it comes from right-wing crazies. Only a small minority of Americans believes that freedom includes the right to endanger other people’s lives (which is what congregating in large groups in the midst of a pandemic does); that wearing a mask is un-American, or unmanly, or something; that Covid-19 is a hoax perpetrated by liberals. But that minority has huge influence within the Republican Party," Krugman explained. "Some of it comes from Donald Trump’s obsession with the stock market. His initial refusal to do anything to prepare for the pandemic reportedly reflected concern that any acknowledgment of the threat would “spook the market.” And the push to reopen may similarly reflect a belief that going back to normal life would be good for the market, even if it kills many people."
To get his point across he added a sarcastic, "Let’s die for the Dow!"
According to the economist, workers would be better off staying at home and collecting unemployment rather than being the source -- and victims-- of a second wave of COVID-19 infections that would only prolong the pain.
"Unemployment assistance, after a troubled start, is doing a lot to help American workers. And credit should go to Democrats, who insisted that this aid be a part of the package," he wrote before adding that it's not workers who are "clamoring" to go back to their jobs, knowing it could endanger their health and the health of their families.
Writing, "Job losses have been concentrated among lower-paid workers; but polling suggests that the demand for faster opening is coming largely from high-income Republicans," Krugman added, "Suppose, after all, that the epidemiologists are right, and that premature reopening leads to a second wave of infections. What we’ll need in that case is a second lockdown. But all indications are that Republicans are totally opposed to extending benefits."
"What they want, instead, is legislation that would protect businesses from liability if their employees get sick," he explained before bluntly stating, "That is, they want to force Americans to go to work even if it kills them."
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According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the last days of Donald Trump's tenure as president have found him still looking for any chance of remaining in office as demoralized staffers look forward to Inauguration Day bringing the era to a close.
The Journal notes that the president has asked for information on the Republicans in the House who voted for his impeachment last week and whether they are susceptible to being primaried in 2022 while still fuming about his election loss.
As regarding the ongoing articles of impeachment passed by the House, Trump is still searching for attorneys to defend him if it comes to a trial after White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and attorneys who represented him during his last impeachment have let it be known they won't take part.
Reporting that, "... one of his close allies say his handling of his election loss has created an entirely avoidable crisis that will overshadow his accomplishments in office and complicate his future business and political aims," the Journal also noted, "advisers describe the president as sullen and regretful about the events of the last week, though he says he is not responsible for prompting them. Many of his aides say they are ready to turn the page."
According to one aide close to the president, they just want it to be over.
"It's complete shellshock," they explained. "People are praying for the inauguration to come and to get Trump the hell out of there."
The Journal went on to add, "In private, the president has continued to pursue which pardons he can grant in his final days in office, calling advisers to ask for suggestions. The White House is expected to release dozens of pardons in the days before he leaves office, aides say. Aides say they don't know if some of the most controversial pardons—including for Mr. Giuliani, for the president's children, and for the president himself—will be among them."
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Internet explodes as Trump meets With ‘My Pillow guy’ whose notes reportedly mention ‘Insurrection Act’ and ‘martial law’
The internet exploded late Friday afternoon when a highly-respected Washington Post photographer captured on camera notes held by Mike Lindell, the founder and CEO of My Pillow, one of the top advertisers on Fox News and a close confidant of President Donald Trump.
@MyPillowUSA CEO Michael Lindell shows off his notes before going into the West Wing at the White House on Friday, Jan 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. pic.twitter.com/AY6AyJNSyE
— Jabin Botsford (@jabinbotsford) January 15, 2021
Lindell, according to the White House press pool, "was spotted outside the West Wing at 3 pm. He was on his cell phone at one point as he waited outside. The Marine let him inside at 3:05 pm."
<p>There is always a Marine stationed outside the Oval Office when the President is inside the Oval Office, but not when the President is not there.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> Mike Lindell, CEO of My Pillow, is seen leaving the White House. <a href="https://t.co/uuaBzXYHr2">pic.twitter.com/uuaBzXYHr2</a><br/> — The Hill (@thehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1350184234649067522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2021</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>The notes appear to mention "martial law," a suggestion to move a dangerous Trump loyalist to the CIA as acting Director, the “Insurrection Act," and something about “foreign interference in the election," as <a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mypillow-ceo-spotted-bringing-notes-to-wh-that-appear-to-reference-martial-law-installing-new-cia-director" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Talking Points Memo</a> reported.</p><p>Understandably, the Internet lit up like a Christmas tree, but with countless rumors, jokes, and concern.</p><p>All those aside, the question really is, would President Trump, who has less than five days left in office, actually fire the head of the CIA, and why? What would he hope to accomplish, do, or get away with if Gina Haspel were gone?</p><p>The other question of course is why would Trump listen to Lindell, a far right conspiracy theorist and religious extremist, but that question is unanswerable.</p><p>Here's what some are saying.</p><p>CNN analyst, attorney, and former FBI Special Agent:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> I think the FBI might need to have a chat with My Pillow guy<br/> — Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) <a href="https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1350200292361580545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2021</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>CNN White House correspondent:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> On Mike Lindell's notes:<br/> “…TAKEN IMMEDIATELY TO SAVE THE…CONSTITUTION" Names Sidney Powell and Kurt Olsen Says Kash Patel should be moved to “CIA Acting…" <a href="https://t.co/F1Y8FItd2U">https://t.co/F1Y8FItd2U</a> — Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) <a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1350196418103881728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2021</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>Public advocacy firm:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> Why on god's green earth is the My Pillow guy at the White House with a document that references the Insurrection Act? <a href="https://t.co/qrsPYe0akZ">https://t.co/qrsPYe0akZ</a><br/> — Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/1350208637440937985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2021</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>Media Matters Senior Fellow:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> It looks like the My Pillow guy was urging the president to use the "Insurrection Act now as a result of the attack" and then "martial law if necessary." <a href="https://t.co/lttekVSJBu">https://t.co/lttekVSJBu</a><br/> — Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1350195958265557000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2021</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> To sum up: Fox's top advertiser, the linchpin of the network's primetime commercial breaks, was at the White House urging the president to do a self-coup to stay in power.<br/> — Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1350201545032392705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2021</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>Religion News Service national reporter:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> Note: This is almost *word for word* the conspiracy theory that has been floated in evangelical circles for days.<br/> The theories (falsely) alleged that this had already happened, but it looks like the My Pillow Guy/Michael Lindell heard them. <a href="https://t.co/GngsjrLAs7">https://t.co/GngsjrLAs7</a> — Jack Jenkins (@jackmjenkins) <a href="https://twitter.com/jackmjenkins/status/1350196549222092802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2021</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>Research director at CREW:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"> WaPo photographer got a close-up of the My Pillow guy's notes.<br/> Hard to read. Seems to push for using "martial law if necessary." References Sidney Powell and, I think, an attorney at the NSA ("Fort Mead" sic). Advocates for Trump to "move Kash Patel to acting CIA" <a href="https://t.co/xU0tz3YDo7">pic.twitter.com/xU0tz3YDo7</a> — Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertMaguire_/status/1350192879487111170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2021</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>Economist and professor:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> Assume the pillow guy will be arrested for conspiracy and sedition soon <a href="https://t.co/6Xt2Zf7KvQ">https://t.co/6Xt2Zf7KvQ</a><br/> — Danny Blanchflower PhD DLitt (*2) DSc CBE (@D_Blanchflower) <a href="https://twitter.com/D_Blanchflower/status/1350205844206612480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2021</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>NBC News Reporter, "dystopia beat":</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Reminder that the MyPillow guy shared an 8kun document that openly called for war at 3:40 a.m. the day before the insurrection. <a href="https://t.co/x4p6sHz5jh">https://t.co/x4p6sHz5jh</a> <a href="https://t.co/el0cF76EES">pic.twitter.com/el0cF76EES</a><br/>— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) <a href="https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1350174043371167747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
Pelosi tasks general with security review after US Capitol riot
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that retired general Russel Honore, who coordinated the Hurricane Katrina response, will oversee an immediate security review at the US Capitol following last week's deadly riot by a pro-Trump mob.
She also said there was "strong interest" in Congress for a 9/11-style investigation of the unprecedented attack on the Capitol that has been described as an insurrection, and which led to the swift second impeachment Wednesday of President Donald Trump.
<p>"Justice is called for," she said.</p><p>But Pelosi declined to reveal when she will send the article of impeachment -- for "incitement of insurrection" -- over to the Senate, a process that would trigger a trial of the president.</p><p>"You'll be the first to know when we announce that we're going over there," she told reporters.</p><p>Five people died in the violent unrest generated by Trump's supporters, whom he urged to march on Congress and "fight like hell" to save the country and stop President-elect Joe Biden from taking office on January 20.</p><p>"We must subject this whole complex to scrutiny in light of what happened, and the fact that the inauguration is coming," the top Democrat told reporters, referring to Biden's upcoming swearing-in on the steps of the very Capitol where rioters fought with police and plotted to kill lawmakers.</p><p>"To that end, I have asked retired lieutenant general Russel Honore to lead an immediate review of security infrastructure, interagency processes, and command and control," Pelosi said.</p><p>She described Honore as "a respected leader with experience dealing with crises," including the military relief response along the Gulf Coast when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005.</p><p>The 80-year-old speaker said that while the entire Congress remained passionate in its reaction to the deadly Capitol violence, "we must be very dispassionate in how we make decisions to go forward for security, security, security."</p><p>A handful of conservative House Republicans loyal to Trump are under scrutiny for their role in potentially coordinating with hardline activists who helped plan the action on the Capitol.</p><p>"If in fact it is found that members of Congress were accomplices to this insurrection, if they aided and abetted the crime," Pelosi said, "there may have to be actions taken beyond the Congress in terms of prosecution."</p><p>The inspectors-general of various federal departments, including Homeland Security, Justice and Defense, also announced their own internal investigations Friday to assess their preparations and response to the January 6 violence. </p><p>They will seek to determine what information was available before the riot, how it was circulated among the various federal law enforcement agencies, and their reactions on the day, they said in statements, adding that they will coordinate their investigations. </p><p>Law enforcement has come under heavy criticism since the attack by Trump supporters, who were able to easily enter the building and create chaos for several hours before being dislodged.</p><p>Questions focus on the existence of information that the FBI did not circulate to its partners, and the slowness with which the Pentagon deployed National Guard soldiers. </p>
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Library events keep young readers engaged
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by Diane Rogers
Sixteen-year-old Caitlin Pupich helped to set up chairs for 2-year-old Nathaniel Sutton’s first-ever puppet show at the CVIC Hall on June 25.
Caitlin, Nathaniel, and his brother, 5-year-old Matthew, joined more than 140 other young readers, parents and grandparents for the latest event in the Douglas County Public Library’s summer reading program: “I Dig Dinosaurs,” performed by Portland’s Dragon Theater Puppets.
Although the three young readers’ literary tastes are all over the map–Caitlin is devoted to author Suzanne Collins of “The Hunger Games” trilogy, while Matthew likes to chill with “Ralph and the Motorcycle,” and Nathaniel can’t get enough of board books. They also enjoy the special, value-added programs the library sponsors.
“Nathaniel saw the magic show a couple of weeks ago, and he is so excited to see today’s show,” mom Amy Sutton said.
Across the aisle, Caitlin’s mother was just as enthusiastic about the library’s offerings. “We moved here in 1997, and one of the first things we did was get library cards,” Leona Pupich added. “We go there all the time.”
At a time when libraries nationwide are looking for creative ways to move into the digital age while preserving the value of the printed page, staffers at the Minden branch are constantly fine-tuning the library’s contributions to the community.
“To serve a community such as ours, we need to strike a balance between providing traditional print materials and adding new technologies for patrons who are more comfortable with media like tablets, e-readers, or laptops,” says collection development librarian Luise Davis.
That means keeping Leona Pupich’s preferences in mind (“I check out the mp3 devices all the time”), as well as Amy Sutton’s (“I haven’t figured out e-books yet, but I’m going to look into them”).
E-books or hardbound classics, magic or dinosaurs, it’s all about encouraging reading.
“All of our programs are connected with reading, and at each program the performers will highlight some related books,” youth services specialist Kathy Echavarria said. When magician Larry Wilson launched this year’s summer reading program on June 11, for example, his show was bookended by a sale of new titles from Usborne Books.
More than 100 excited readers then captured the CVIC floor right in front of the stage —“best seats in the house,” youth services specialist Maria Pearson promised — and watched closely as Wilson performed tricks with colorful handkerchiefs, hollow eggs, magic dust and a box of crayons.
The following week, Full Circle Compost’s farmer-owner Craig Witt drew a chorus of “Ewwwwwws” when he introduced his “Composting Worms on Tour” at James Lee Memorial Park. Worm tunnels and worm wine were the topics of the instructive morning on June 18, and every young reader left with a free book: “Wonderful Worms,” by Linda Glaser.
On June 25, as some 70 children waited for the start of “I Dig Dinosaurs” by Dragon Theater Puppets, the library’s Echavarria invited readers to step up to the microphone and tell about their favorite books of the summer. “Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins, the “Whatever After” series by Sarah Mlynowski, and the “Captain Underpants” series were three crowd pleasers.
As puppeteer Jason Ropp prepared to step behind his curtain, he held up a final handful of dinosaur books and encouraged youngsters to check them out at the library. His Shawnry Connery archaeologist character then led a frantic hunt through the millennia, with appearances by Albert Einstein, Abe Lincoln, Pocahontas, a bright green triceratops and a cuddly T-Rex, among others.
In the coming weeks, the summer reading program will sponsor an encore performance of Farmer Craig’s worm program at the Zephyr Cove branch on July 11, and magical stories at Mormon Station State Historic Park on July 17. The grand finale? Can you hop like a kangaroo?
For details about July events, visit http://www.douglas.lib.nv.us, or call 782-9841.
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Epic Austrian Original Kaiserschmarrn (1 Person Recipe)
By Corinne Vail / 26 September 20
We first encountered Kaiserschmarrn after a day of exploring the salt mines and visiting the quaint village of Hallstatt. We were looking for a rustic Tyrolian restaurant and stumbled into what seemed a kitschy, over-the-top mountain lodge. You know the type, snow shoes, old wooden skis, a wide assortment of antique kitchenware, and a roaring fire in a soot-stained, stone fireplace.
I can’t even remember the meal, I’m sure it was delicious, but when the kaiserschmarrn came out and was placed on the table, I was won over. This had to be the best restaurant for miles around. The mixture of fluffy pancake and caramelized sugar, paired with a homemade applesauce was heaven on a plate. We like kaiserschmarrn so much, we’ve even added it to our list of foods you need to eat in Germany.
One of the best Austrian and German desserts – Kaiserschmarrn.
The Original Kaiserschmarrn
I’m not really sure about the origins of kaiserschmarrn, but given the literal translation (kaiser = emperor and schmarrn = mess) I can hazard some guesses. Of course, the internet is full of theories and stories; however, most point squarely at Kaiser Franz Joseph I as the emperor in question.
I like to imagine the Austrian emperor sitting at his splendid dinner table, demanding something different from his cooks, a new dessert. Maybe something like those fluffy American pancakes everybody was raving about. However, the distraught chef down in the kitchen just couldn’t manage to flip his pancakes without destroying them.
In frustration, the chief cook angrily chopped up the pancakes, dusted them with powder sugar, added a spoonful of plum jam to the plate, and exclaimed, “take away this emperor’s mess!” And the original kaiserschmarrn was born.
What is Kaiserschmarrn?
Kaiserschmarrn is a fluffy pancake that has been chopped up into bitesize pieces. Then it is caramelized with some sugar and butter, and served up hot with rum raisins, apple sauce, plum jam, ice cream, or whipped cream.
Single serving of Kaiserschmarrn served with applesauce and whipped cream.
Traditionally this is brought to the table in one rustic pan to be shared among the table guests. But I have also seen it served on a plate in a more individual fashion. Either way, you can control the sweetness by using the jam or sauces, bite by bite. My favorite method, however, is to mix it all together and then just dig in.
Kaiserschmarrn Ingredients
This simple, tasty dish only has a few ingredients. Egg, milk, and flour make the basic batter then it’s sweetened with a little sugar and lightly flavored with vanilla. The original kaiserschmarrn recipe we learned living in Bavaria includes spiced rum raisins, and that really kicks it up a notch.
Our recipe makes four servings, but there are times when I like to make just a single serving for myself, or a kaiserschmarrn for two. So we came up with this basic ratio so now we could make kaiserschmarrn for one, two, three or more. Just follow the ratio for the number of servings needed, and choose an appropriate sized frying pan.
Kaiserschmarrn 1 person Serving
2 tablespoons sugar (divided)
3 tablespoons butter (divided)
Optional: 1 tablespoon rum-soaked raisins(1 tablespoon rum + 1 tablespoon raisins soaked together for about 30 minutes)
Start by making the basic pancake mixing the egg, milk, flour, salt, vanilla, the rum raisins (go ahead and give it a try) and half the sugar until smooth. Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a frying pan on medium heat, add the batter, and cover the pan. After about three minutes the pancake should be a nice brown on the bottom so flip it over and continue to fry for 3 more minutes covered.
The last step is the most fun. Chop up the pancake in the pan using a spatula (don’t use a metal utensil on a nonstick pan). Throw in the remaining butter, and sprinkle on the rest of the sugar and then toss the whole mess about in the pan for another three minutes to caramelize the sugar. Take it off the heat and eat it right out of the pan!
To make a larger batch just multiply the ingredient quantity by the number of servings you need. Use an 8″ pan for one serving, 10″ for two or three, and a 12″ for a four serving kaiserschmarrn.
After that first kaiserschmarrn in Austria, we were happy to discover this dish can be found throughout the Alps. We’ve enjoyed it in other Austrian towns and villages, of course, but we’ve also found it on the menu in Germany and Switzerland. Luckily, you don’t have to travel to Europe to try this amazing dessert. Follow our recipe and make it for yourself!
Austrian Original Kaiserschmarrn
This is the perfect recipe for kaiserschmarrn. You can try with or without rum raisins. Either way, it's yummy!
1/2 cup sugar (divided)
3/4 cup butter (divided)
Optional: 1/2 cup rum-soaked raisins
1/4 cup spiced rum
1/4 cup raisins soaked together for about 30 minutes)
Whisk the eggs, flour, milk, salt, vanilla and half the sugar (1/4 cup) in a large bowl until smooth.
Melt 1/2 cup the butter in 12 inch non-stick frying pan on medium heat.
When the pan is hot add the batter, cover the pan, and continue cooking for about three minutes.
After three minutes, lift the lid and check for browning underneath the pancake. Once it has browned, flip the pancake, cover the pan and continue cooking about three minutes.
Remove the lid, and test for doneness. The pancake should be browned on both sides.
Using the edge sides of two spatulas, chop the pancake in the pan into large bite-sized strips, add the remaining butter and sugar and toss the kaiserschmarrn in the hot pan to melt the butter and caramelize the sugar (this takes about three minutes).
Remove from the heat, dust with powdered sugar and serve warm.
Pro tip: If the pancake is too large to flip easily, cut it in half or fourths and flip the smaller pieces individually.
Optional: Add rum raisins to the batter before pouring into the pan.
Try serving your kaiserschmarrn with a variety of toppings. I love it with applesauce, whipped cream, or even cranberry jelly!
© Jim Vail
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I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on. Votes: 20
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children. Votes: 19
Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought. Votes: 17
American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd graduated. Votes: 16
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems. Votes: 14
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. Votes: 14
I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. Votes: 12
Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions. Votes: 11
My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters. Votes: 10
I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical. Votes: 10
People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections. Votes: 10
My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal. Votes: 9
I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life. Your innocent understanding of the world moves towards something messier and more complicated, and once it does you can never go back. Votes: 9
I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well. Votes: 9
The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me. Votes: 9
It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all. Votes: 8
I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege. Votes: 8
Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world. Votes: 8
Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history. Votes: 7
I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift. Votes: 6
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. Votes: 5
Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work. Votes: 4
Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters. Votes: 4
War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace. - Baba Votes: 4
I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples of what they view as Western mistreatment of women, or even worse, justify the oppression of women on the basis of notions derived from Sharia law. Votes: 2
He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor Votes: 1
With snow came the kites, once the rulers of Kabul's winter skies, now timid trespassers in territory claimed by streaking rockets and fighter jets. Votes: 0
Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand Votes: 0
Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency. Votes: 0
Marriage can wait, education cannot. Votes: 0
But the fact is, I looked at my life and realized I already had what people sought in marriage. Votes: 0
War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba" Votes: 0
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime..." Votes: 0
She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed." Votes: 0
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls." Votes: 0
I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become." Votes: 0
And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing." Votes: 0
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. Votes: 0
In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create. Votes: 0
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir Votes: 0
And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good. Votes: 0
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir Votes: 0
it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it. Votes: 0
I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride. Votes: 0
I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise. Votes: 0
War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba Votes: 0
Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In Afghanistan I work, in America I work. Thank you very much, Mrs. Dobbins, but I don't like it free money."...Baba walked out of the welfare office like a man cured of a tumor. Votes: 0
He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives. Votes: 0
If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head Votes: 0
A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope. Votes: 0
It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Votes: 0
I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on. Votes: 0
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. Votes: 0
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious. Votes: 0
She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you. Votes: 0
The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly empowered and entrenched. They live in mansions, they have jobs in the government, and they're incredibly powerful. In Kabul, people don't want to speak about it too publicly, because these people are essentially like Tony Soprano. Votes: 0
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks. Votes: 0
I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home Votes: 0
She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor. Votes: 0
She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you. Votes: 0
All good things in life are fragile and easily lost Votes: 0
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. Votes: 0
We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born... Votes: 0
He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner. Votes: 0
Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed. Votes: 0
Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck. Votes: 0
hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon. Votes: 0
After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Votes: 0
I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that. Votes: 0
Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies. Votes: 0
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. Votes: 0
Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul. Votes: 0
Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful. Votes: 0
In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity. Votes: 0
Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile. Votes: 0
Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Votes: 0
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. Votes: 0
If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar. Votes: 0
A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you. Votes: 0
Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you. Votes: 0
I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive. Votes: 0
Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries. Votes: 0
And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing. Votes: 0
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. Votes: 0
I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night. Votes: 0
Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult. Votes: 0
Writing for me is largely about rewriting. Votes: 0
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls. Votes: 0
Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not. Votes: 0
Um zu schreien, musst du atmen. Votes: 0
He had a frozen, wide-eyed look to his face, I remember, the way some old people do, like they are perpetually startled by the monstrous surprise that is old age. Votes: 0
She thought of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lowly villager, an unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable accident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. Votes: 0
They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him. Votes: 0
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him. Votes: 0
you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you. Votes: 0
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. Votes: 0
she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back.She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. Votes: 0
I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write. Votes: 0
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons. Votes: 0
James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too? Votes: 0
Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it. Votes: 0
Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand... Votes: 0
A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it. Votes: 0
Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food. Votes: 0
What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits. Votes: 0
When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. Votes: 0
and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last. Votes: 0
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. Votes: 0
The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little. Votes: 0
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold. Votes: 0
I will follow you to the ends of the world. Votes: 0
She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns. Votes: 0
I know that in the end, God will forgive me. He will forgive your father, me, and you too. I hope you can do the same. Forgive your father if you can. Forgive me if you wish. But most important, forgive yourself. Votes: 0
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. Votes: 0
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath. Votes: 0
I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away. Votes: 0
Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun. Votes: 0
The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one. Votes: 0
Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. Votes: 0
There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth. Votes: 0
For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda. Votes: 0
Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly. Votes: 0
A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated... Votes: 0
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime... Votes: 0
Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away. Votes: 0
Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one. Votes: 0
I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader. Votes: 0
You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you. Votes: 0
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors. Votes: 0
When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that. Votes: 0
I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. Votes: 0
I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is almost a cliche now to wonder why this living legend is not more widely read. Votes: 0
Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings. Votes: 0
I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films. Votes: 0
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. Votes: 0
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. Votes: 0
The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime. Votes: 0
All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends. Votes: 0
You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen - it becomes distorted, and it's been diminished. Votes: 0
I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting. Votes: 0
A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched. Votes: 0
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way. Votes: 0
Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up. Votes: 0
My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write. Votes: 0
I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S. Votes: 0
[Barack Obama] is sending more troops [to Afghanistan], but they have also realized that we are not going to win that war through guns and tanks. We have to engage the neighbors, and it is good that there is a non-military strategy in addition to a military strategy. It is, at least, encouraging. Whether it will work or not, the jury is still put. Votes: 0
[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me. Votes: 0
[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music. Votes: 0
A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything. Votes: 0
A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through. Votes: 0
A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer. Votes: 0
A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream. Votes: 0
A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later. Votes: 0
A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver Votes: 0
âI know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance. Votes: 0
about clichés. Avoid them like the plague. Votes: 0
Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval. Votes: 0
After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases. Votes: 0
Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks. Votes: 0
All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman. Votes: 0
All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari. Votes: 0
America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins. Votes: 0
and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan. Votes: 0
And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab. Votes: 0
And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when. Votes: 0
As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling. Votes: 0
At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken. Votes: 0
At least, it is encouraging to me that President [Barack] Obama has put Afghanistan front and center in this broader so-called War on terror, and that he is taking a different approach to Afghanistan. Votes: 0
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. Votes: 0
At the door , she made him promise to go without goodbyes .She closed the door on him . Laila leaned her back against it , shaking against his pounding fists , one arm gripping her belly and a hand across her mouth , as he spoke throughout the door and promised that he would come back for her . She stood there until he tired , until he gave up , and then she listened to his uneven footsteps until they faded , until all was quiet , save for the gunfire cracking in the hills and her own heart thudding in her belly , her eyes , her bones . Votes: 0
At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem. Votes: 0
At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the arabic words made as they rolled off his tongue . He said they comforted him , eased his heart . "They'll comfort you too . Mrariam jo , " he said . "You can summon then in your time of your need , and they won't fail you . God's words will never betray you , my girl . (pg.17) Votes: 0
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly. Votes: 0
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason. Votes: 0
Blood is a powerful thing Votes: 0
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. Votes: 0
But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man. Votes: 0
But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand. Votes: 0
But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldnât want it that way. âWhatâs the sense?â she would say with a smile both innocent and wise. âWhat good is it, Laila jo?â And so Laila has resigned herself to moving on. For her own sake, for Tariqâs, for her childrenâs. And for Mariam, who still visits Laila in her dreams, who is never more than a breath or two below her consciousness. Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows thatâs all she can do. That and hope. Votes: 0
But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her Votes: 0
But then it passed, as all things do. Votes: 0
But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think. Votes: 0
By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living. Votes: 0
Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly. Votes: 0
Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant. Votes: 0
Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything. Votes: 0
Equally important is the lack of cultivable land for farmers, a profound problem when you take into account that Afghanistan has always largely been an agricultural country, and that even before the wars destroyed lands and irrigation canals, only 5 per cent of the land was cultivable. Votes: 0
Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her. Votes: 0
Fabio Celon did send me pages as he progressed, both in black and white and some color samples as well. It was really exciting to see the sketches and to see the story [The Kite Runner] shaping up visually. Votes: 0
For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. Votes: 0
For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose. Votes: 0
For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to live in peaceful anonymity for decades, that the history of the Afghans in the twentieth century has been largely pacific and harmonious. Votes: 0
For you, a thousand times over Votes: 0
Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me. Votes: 0
Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said. Votes: 0
Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 âand all that followedâ was already laid in those first words. Votes: 0
He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips. Votes: 0
He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time. Votes: 0
He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity. Votes: 0
Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila. Votes: 0
Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And Votes: 0
How many more people right now feel connected to Mumbai because of Slumdog Millionaire, or suddenly are interested in the plight of orphans on Mumbai after seeing that film? The same thing with the Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Votes: 0
I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel. Votes: 0
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but itâs wrong what they say about the past, Iâve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years. Votes: 0
I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but also the many struggles, conflicts, and emotional highs and lows of Amir's journey [from the The Kite Runner ] . Votes: 0
I brought Hassanâs son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty Votes: 0
I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for girls. Many of the women in my extended family and in our circle of friends were professionals. In those days, women were a vital part of the economy in Kabul. They worked as lawyers, physicians, college professors, etc., which makes the tragedy of how they were treated by the Taliban that much more painful. Votes: 0
I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture. Votes: 0
I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played with my brother and cousins. Votes: 0
I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become. Votes: 0
I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me. Votes: 0
I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in. Votes: 0
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head. Votes: 0
I experienced Kabul with my brother the way Amir and Hassan do: long school days in the summer, kite fighting in the winter time, westerns with John Wayne at Cinema Park, big parties at our house in Wazir Akbar Khan, picnics in Paghman. Votes: 0
I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation. Votes: 0
I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into. Votes: 0
I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night. Votes: 0
I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. But stories have a will of their own, and this one turned out to be this dark tale about betrayal, loss, regret. The short story which was about 25 pages long sat around for a couple of years. Votes: 0
I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans. Votes: 0
I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write. Votes: 0
I guess some stories do not need telling. Votes: 0
I have been a fan of comic books since childhood. Votes: 0
I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about refugees, focusing more and more on the situation with Afghan refugees. Votes: 0
I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart Votes: 0
I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine. Votes: 0
I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes. Votes: 0
I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, a thief. And I would have told, except that a part of me was glad. Glad that this would all be over with soon. Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again. Votes: 0
I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didnât. Votes: 0
I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But i didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lip. I ran Votes: 0
I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland. Votes: 0
I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped for. The two major issues in Afghanistan are a lack of security outside Kabul (particularly in the south and east) and the powerful warlords ruling over the provinces with little or no allegiance to the central government. The other rapidly rising concern is the narcotic trade which, if not dealt with, may turn Afghanistan into another Bolivia or Colombia. Votes: 0
I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great Votes: 0
I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be. Votes: 0
I started a foundation, called The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The mission has been to help the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan. So the focus has been on women, children, and homeless refugees, most of whom are in fact women and children. Votes: 0
I think he loved us equally, but differently. Votes: 0
I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood. Votes: 0
I think the changes that have happened, there have been come positive, but by and large, you have to say the changes have been negative. The situation has reached a fairly critical stage in Afghanistan. Votes: 0
I think the scale of the conflict [in Afghanistan] has dramatically changed in 2003. You're now facing a much more motivated, well-supported enemy. I don't see any quick end to this thing. Votes: 0
I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that youâd live to be a hundred years old. I didnât know. I didnât know that you were ashamed of me. Votes: 0
i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin. Votes: 0
I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID. Votes: 0
I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history. Votes: 0
I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions. Votes: 0
I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people. Votes: 0
I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read people whose work is in the same vein as yours and those whose genre is totally different. You've heard of chain-smokers. Writers, especially beginners, need to be chain-readers. And lastly, write every day. Write about things that get under your skin and keep you up at night. Votes: 0
Iâll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and Iâll have one of my fits. Youâll see, Iâll swallow my tongue and die. Donât leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. Iâll die if you go. Votes: 0
Iâm all you have in this world Mariam, and when Iâm gone youâll have nothing. You ARE nothing! Votes: 0
If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside. Votes: 0
If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community. Votes: 0
If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school. Votes: 0
If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing. Votes: 0
If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork. Votes: 0
If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding and empathy, and hopefully, something has been illuminated for you. And I tink that's what happendd for a lot of readers with my novels. Votes: 0
If you were the poor, suffering was your currency. Votes: 0
I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being. Votes: 0
In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that year, I was not done with my book, and had to in effect resign from work. I did. I never went back. Votes: 0
In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban and the restrictions they were imposing on the Afghan people, most notably women.At some point in the story, there was a casual reference to them having banned the game of kite fighting. This detail struck a personal chord with me, as I had grown up in Kabul flying kite with my friends. Votes: 0
In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality. Votes: 0
In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story. Votes: 0
In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all. Votes: 0
In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things. Votes: 0
Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again. Votes: 0
it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place. Votes: 0
It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey. Votes: 0
It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative. Votes: 0
It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names. Votes: 0
It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir Votes: 0
It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself. Votes: 0
It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know? Votes: 0
It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under. Votes: 0
It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want. Votes: 0
It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner]. Votes: 0
It's literally just been formed. It's a 501 C3, non-profit charitable foundation called, unsurprisingly, the Khalled Hosseini Foundation. The aim is to help refugees and aim vulnerable women and children. Votes: 0
It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out. Votes: 0
It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection. Votes: 0
It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good. Votes: 0
Jâaurais dû être plus gentilleâI should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that. Votes: 0
Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was also an influx of western culture, art, and literature in the '60s and '70s. Votes: 0
Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows thatâs all she can do. That and hope. Votes: 0
Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her. Votes: 0
Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, endâ¦crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads). Votes: 0
Life is a train, get on board. Votes: 0
Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own. Votes: 0
Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us. Votes: 0
Michael Bealmear is a philanthropist, and he has become interested in the issue of refugees, and he proposed that we do an event in his community, where we could dedicate an entire evening focused on the global refugee crisis, focused primarily on Afghanistan. Votes: 0
Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly in the skies. Votes: 0
Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.â âYes it was.â Idris doesnât say that the real culture shock has been in coming back. Votes: 0
My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going back. But when we saw those Soviet tanks rolling into Afghanistan, the prospect for return looked very dim. Few of us, I have to say, envisioned that nearly a quarter century of bloodletting would follow. Votes: 0
My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to. Votes: 0
My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing. Votes: 0
Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile. Never mind any of those things. Because history isn't easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing. Votes: 0
No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about. Votes: 0
No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can live with, and Parwana thinks she knows the answer. She has lived with secrets all her life. Votes: 0
Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything Votes: 0
Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him. Votes: 0
Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country. Votes: 0
Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. Votes: 0
On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts. Votes: 0
One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples. Votes: 0
Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. But your airways ignore you. They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you're breaithing through a drinking straw. Your mouth closes and your lips purse and all you can manage is a croak. Your hands wriggle and shake. Somewhere a dam has cracked open and a flood of cold sweat spills, drenches your body. You want to scream. You would if you could. Cut you have to breathe to scream. Panic. Votes: 0
People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine. Votes: 0
People learned to live with the most unimaginable things. Votes: 0
People talk about apathy, especially in developed countries. We're kind of lulled into these tranquil lives, and we are pursuing our own thing and there is so much suffering on a mass scale around the world that you kind of become fatalistic. You might think suffering is inevitable, you kind of lose your sense of moral urgency. But there is always something you can do for someone in the world. Votes: 0
Peopleâ¦shouldnât be allowed to have new children if theyâd already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasnât fair. Votes: 0
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone. Votes: 0
President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his people. But I think he had too much of a tendency to want to rule by listening to all voices at all times. Votes: 0
Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not know much, or at times, they're quite frank, they didn't care much about Afghanistan. But they pay attention more after reading these novels, and at times it has triggered this humaitarian spirt: some have donated money or at time times, people have joined humatiarian organizations that work in Afghanistan. Votes: 0
Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it. Votes: 0
Sad stories make good books Votes: 0
she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didnât breathe, God would grant her another day Votes: 0
She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not. Votes: 0
She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me. Votes: 0
She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups. Votes: 0
She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all . Votes: 0
She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed. Votes: 0
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. Votes: 0
some stories don't need telling Votes: 0
sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor. Votes: 0
Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child. Votes: 0
Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said. "I'd kill with it for you, Laila. Votes: 0
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms. Votes: 0
That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep. Votes: 0
The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be forbidden from holding office in the future government. And finally, NATO agreed to expand the peacekeeping forces to troubled areas outside of Kabul. Votes: 0
The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are homeless, living out in the open or in makeshift homes. This is an area of urgent need as Afghanistan's natural elements are quite harsh, with very hot summers, and freezing winters. Votes: 0
The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to. Votes: 0
The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts. Votes: 0
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts. Votes: 0
The film [Kite Runner] was not as big a hit in the United States as it was worldwide, I think it may have been swallowed up by all the other movies it had to go up against. Votes: 0
The finger cut, to save the hand. Votes: 0
The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio and I did exchange an e-mail or two, but it was my intention to step out of the way and let his artistic instincts take over. Votes: 0
The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip. Votes: 0
The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story. Votes: 0
the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion Votes: 0
The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck. Votes: 0
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read. Votes: 0
The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined. Votes: 0
The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction. Votes: 0
The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a pebble in my shoe, a voice that I just can't get rid of, and I've got to see it through. Votes: 0
The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but those who have and who try to explain it to the rest of us are offering us a precious gift: a part of their soul that's been scorched in the flames of Hell. It's a little like trying to describe music to the deaf or color to the blind ... to make the irrational somewhat sensible, which is always confusing and frustrating, and ultimately futile. Votes: 0
Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere. Votes: 0
There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in northern Afghanistan and we have already begun doing so. Votes: 0
There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative. Votes: 0
There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood. Votes: 0
There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world. Votes: 0
There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc. Votes: 0
there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is. Votes: 0
There is a way to be good again... Votes: 0
There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in that world as I wrote the book [The Kite Runner] and to see the final page of that manuscript whir out of the printer was a very special feeling indeed. Votes: 0
There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it. Votes: 0
There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight. Votes: 0
these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them. Votes: 0
They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. Votes: 0
They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under. Votes: 0
Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film. Votes: 0
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself. Votes: 0
Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it. Votes: 0
Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her. Votes: 0
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. Votes: 0
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. Votes: 0
Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's? After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis. Votes: 0
We [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] support and fund projects that bring jobs, healthcare, and education to women and children. In addition, we award scholarships to women pursuing higher education in Afghanistan. Votes: 0
We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area. Votes: 0
What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable. Votes: 0
What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived? A seed of hope? A ticket purchased to ferry you from the dark? A patch for that hole you carried in your heart? If so, then I wasn't enough. I wasn't nearly enough. I was no balm to your pain, only another dead end, another burden, and you must have seen that early on. You must have realized it. But what could you do? You couldn't go down to the pawnshop and sell me. Votes: 0
When I was in Afghanistan in 2007, I went from village to village where refugees had returned, and they were living out in the open under tents, sometimes completely exposed to the environment. And they were homeless, which meant they would lose children in the winter to the cold and in the summers in the extreme heat. It's extremely humiliating for them to be homeless, culturally it's very shameful. Votes: 0
When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of widows and orphans and people who had been physically and emotionally damaged; every 10-year-old kid on the street knew how to dismantle a Kalashnikov in under a minute. I would flip through math textbooks intended for third grade, fourth grade, and they would include word problems such as, "If you have 100 grenades and 20 mujahideen, how many grenades per mujahideen do you get?" War has infiltrated every facet of life. Votes: 0
When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color. Votes: 0
When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Votes: 0
Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one. Votes: 0
Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price? Votes: 0
yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism Votes: 0
You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me. Votes: 0
You can not stop you from being who you are. Votes: 0
You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila swooned inside. She tried to read his face but was met by a look that was indecipherable: the cheerful, cretinous grin at odds with the narrow, half desperate look in his eyes. A clever look, calculated to fall precisely at the midpoint between mockery and sincerity Votes: 0
You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be done [for refugees], the most difficult thing is that first step that decision to do something. Votes: 0
You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next. Votes: 0
You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has been losing its popular legitimacy. You have a corrupt police force, not to mention homelessness, joblessness. The problems are huge. Votes: 0
You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP. Votes: 0
You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state. Votes: 0
You say their stories, it is gift they give you. Votes: 0
You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does. Votes: 0
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel. Votes: 0
Youâre not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years. Votes: 0
You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it. Votes: 0
Zindagi migzara (life goes on) Votes: 0
People say that eyes are windows to the soul. Votes: 0
cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour. Votes: 0
True redemption is...when guilt leads to good. Votes: 0
If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting. Votes: 0
I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse. Votes: 0
The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder. Votes: 0
Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it. Votes: 0
The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them. Votes: 0
For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I'm in a unique position to speak on behalf of Afghanistan on certain issues that I feel are important, particularly the issue of Afghan refugees. Votes: 0
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RACQ Media
Next gen Qlders given a helping hand
From Ayr to Southport and out to Ingham, RACQ’s Community and Education team has helped more than 31,600 students be safer and smarter this school year.
RACQ’s Head of Community and Education, David Contarini said while the year hadn’t been without its challenges, the team had been able to deliver a range of pedestrian and driver safety, and financial literacy programs to Queensland school kids.
“We normally see at least 30,000 students each year, and even with the five week pause due to COVID-19, we were still able to see 14,026 regional students and 17,590 in south east Queensland,” Mr Contarini said.
“Across 128 schools, we delivered programs which improved their understanding of how to be a safe pedestrian, passenger or road user and how to make choices with their money that help them achieve their goals.”
Mr Contarini said regional schools were a priority for the Club with 95 schools visited outside the south east corner.
“We’ve travelled all over Queensland to make sure as many students as possible are prepared for what they may face in the future,” he said.
“This included a school with just five students at Mutarnee State School and remote locations such as Prospect Creek and Duaringa.
“As Queensland’s oldest motoring club, we have a responsibility to help the next generation be safe on our roads. Our team is so proud to do what we do to shape a brighter future for these kids.”
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Distraction at the bowser causing petrol pain for Qlders
Trust your gut and hang up
Aussies name RACQ Bank as one of the most trusted
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Maxx Crosby voted Pepsi Rookie of the Week - Week 11
Oakland Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby has been voted the PEPSI NFL ROOKIE OF THE WEEK for Week 11, the NFL announced today.
Fans voted for one of five players on NFL.com/rookies to determine the PEPSI NFL ROOKIE OF THE WEEK.
After the regular season, five players will be nominated for Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Year honors. Fans can vote for the winner on NFL.com/rookies throughout the month of January.
This is Pepsi's 18th year as the official soft drink sponsor of the NFL and the 17th year that Pepsi will present the NFL Rookie of the Week and NFL Rookie of the Year award.
Raiders sign Kyle Sloter to Reserve/Future contract
The Las Vegas Raiders have signed QB Kyle Sloter to a Reserve/Future contract, the club announced Friday.
The Best of the Rest: Looking back on the Raiders' 2020 season
Raiders.com writers Levi Edwards and Kyle Martin give out their player of the year awards from the 2020 NFL season for the Silver and Black.
Los Números del 2020
Repaso de la Temporada Inaugural en Las Vegas
Gus Bradley is intent on gearing up his new Raiders defense for a 'fast, physical' impact
Newly minted defensive coordinator Gus Bradley expressed his excitement to come to Las Vegas and bolster the defensive line of the Silver and Black.
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HS2 construction consortium formed to bid for contracts
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Three major UK and European construction companies have combined to form a joint venture to bid for work on HS2, with Royal Assent expected to give the go-ahead in 2016.
Laing O’Rourke Group, FCC Construcción and Murphy will seek contracts for the construction of Phase 1 of the line between London and Birmingham as LFM.
The tendering process for £900m of enabling works on HS2 began recently, with work packages covering the North, Central and South areas of HS2 Phase 1. The new consortium will apply a “lean, value-added strategy” towards the bid framework. Laing O’Rourke and Murphy will initially target the enabling works contracts on the project, while FCC Construcción will join the team to compete for the main Tier 1 packages later in the year.
The joint venture combines experience in delivering major rail projects as well as global expertise in tunnelling and station development and delivery. Each partner has a record in key areas such as engineering innovation, including off-site manufacturing, sustainability, employment, training and skills development.
Laing O’Rourke High Speed Rail Project Director Nadia Savage, speaking on behalf of LFM said: “LFM combines international best practice high speed rail experience with offsite manufacturing expertise and a UK-based directly employed workforce. Our lean and staged strategy will add value where and when it’s needed, providing a cost conscious, shaped and positive approach to meet the client’s needs precisely.
“We will engage with the supply chain to establish a robust, sustainable network of suppliers to achieve the UK Government’s and HS2 Ltd’s aim of ensuring that SMEs are afforded the chance to secure 60% of the works, while providing opportunities for a future generation of construction professionals.”
Author: Paul Prentice
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zakloxray - 01/05/2015 08:45
Im fully against the HS2 trainline, I think its a waste of money and it will ruin the countryside. Their are no benefits from building a trainline that reaches major locations 20 minutes faster. And I must point out that the older train lines will lose population, if they lose population they lose money. Building a 50 billion pound project will seriously damage the econamy.
HS2 eastern leg vital to Northern Powerhouse Rail - Wood
£13 billion bill for Northern Powerhouse Rail if HS2 eastern leg is not built, warns Transport for the North's Tim Wood
HS2 London tunnel contracts awarded
Tunnelling in London for HS2 due to start in 2022
HS2 full construction to herald huge UK jobs boost
"HS2 will fire up economic growth and help to rebalance opportunity across this country for years to come" - Boris Johnson
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A Novel Antiinflammatory Role for the Short-Chain Fatty Acids in Human...
A Novel Antiinflammatory Role for the Short-Chain Fatty Acids in Human Labor
Chiara Voltolini
Sharon Battersby
Sophie L Etherington
Felice Petraglia
Jane E Norman
Henry N Jabbour
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https://doi.org/10.1210/en.2011-1457
Human parturition is an inflammatory process that can be activated prematurely by pathological stimuli. This study investigated the expression of G protein-coupled receptors GPR43 and GPR41 receptors in human uteroplacental tissues and the role of short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) in modulating inflammatory pathways in fetal membranes. Expression of GPR43 and GPR41 was investigated in uteroplacental tissues collected from women delivering at term or preterm after ethical approval and patient informed consent. The effect of SCFA on expression of inflammatory genes was assessed in amnion explants after culture with a mimetic of infection (lipopolysaccharide, LPS). Sodium propionate effect on LPS-induced neutrophil chemotaxis was evaluated by transwell assay. GPR43 and GPR41 mRNA expression was higher in myometrium and fetal membranes collected from women after the onset of labor. GPR43 protein expression localized to immune cells and vascular endothelium in the myometrium and epithelium of fetal membranes. Treatment with LPS significantly increased mRNA expression of GPR43 and inflammatory genes. Cotreatment with LPS and sodium propionate decreased LPS-induced expression of inflammatory genes including IL-6, IL-8, cyclooxygenase-2, IL-1α, intercellular adhesion molecule-1, and platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 but not IL-1β or lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1. Sodium propionate reduced LPS-induced neutrophil chemotaxis and protein secretion of the neutrophil chemoattractant IL-8. Finally, fetal membrane expression of GPR43 was significantly higher in women delivering preterm with evidence of infection. GPR43-SCFA interactions may represent novel pathways that regulate inflammatory processes involved in human labor. Suppression of inflammatory pathways by SCFA may be therapeutically beneficial for pregnant women at risk of pathogen-induced preterm delivery.
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Tomahawk – V-Twin Garage Indian Scout
First a bit about the stock Scout. Stylistically it has the look of a vintage bike. Indian wanted to pay homage to the bikes history which unfortunately translates to huge fenders, a massive tank and somewhat excessive proportions. Juxtaposed against this is a water cooled v-twin engine that looks more like something from KTM than an American classic. Despite its design, the bike weighs less than the Sportster and that water-cooled twin has a fair whack more grunt.
“Many of us had visions of what we thought the Scout should be,” says Abraham “classic, steel chassis, air cooled vintage styled motor, ect.. but if you were Indian, a progressive company that had a huge focus on racing in its heyday, what would your bikes look like today?”
As you can imagine with a competition revolving around a bike like the Scout there were plenty of fat wheeled, ape handlebar wearing choppers in the final lineup. V-Twin Garage, however, took a more performance focused route opting to transform the “entry level” Scout into a lean, drag styled beast they call “Tomahawk”.
The transformation began with the removal of as much excess as possible. Beneath the bodywork of the Scout is a cast alloy modular frame with a double spine backbone. To help slim the bike’s proportions, the backbone struts were unbolted and replaced with a single spine before the original tank was cut in half and narrowed. Up front, a new slimmer fender was fabricated and at the rear, a tyre hugging seat/cowl unit was pieced together.
Ignoring the presence of the Scouts huge cast frame is near impossible so it received a coat of slimming gloss black after being sanded smooth. To help create the drag bike look they were after the rear end was hardtailed using Biltwell struts and Roland Sands clip-ons installed in place of the wide factory handlebars. These changes all resulted is a clean line that flows from the top clamp right back to the centre of the rear wheel. It’s the kind of design consideration that separates a good build from a great one.
Dress up parts are aplenty on the Tomahawk and to name just a few are the Alen Ness milled wheels, internal throttle assembly, RSD grips and rear sprocket and LED all in one taillight. There’s also a Motoscope Mini speedo from Motogadget mounted beside the Joker Machine air cleaner.
It is, of course, not enough to simply look fast, so the Tomahawk was given a few upgrades to ensure it would outperform its former self. A carefully selected 2-into-1 exhaust system from Vance & Hines was bolted to the engine and fueling suitably remapped. Stopping power has been improved with the fitment of a Beringer brake set up and the footpegs relocated for a more aggressive riding position.
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Most impressively the entire Tomahawk build took place in only 4 weeks with everything aside from the seat upholstery being completed in-house by Mr Abraham and his staff. The bike is also 100% street legal in his home country. Sure it’s not your typicalcafe racer, but it possesses all the qualities that we look for in a build. Lean, striking and don’t forget, fast.
V-TWIN GARAGE
Photography by Alain Sauquet
After a recent stint on a new Indian Scout, I was curious to see if any workshops were customising Indian’s “mid-size” cruiser. The Scout is Indian’s equivalent to Harley’s Sportster and has a history spanning back to the early 1900’s. Compared to the Sportster though it’s rare to see one that’s been given an extensive custom overhaul. Last year, in a bid to start popularising the relatively new water-cooled Scout (it’s only been around since 2015), Indian Motorcycles ran a global dealership competition called ‘Project Scout’ with some rather interesting results. This bike by Charly Abraham and his French dealership V-Twin Garage may not have ended up with a place on the winner’s podium, but it was certainly my pick of the bunch.
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Rio ballerinas struggle amid Brazil's financial crisis
By Maria Clara C Pestre
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro’s opulent Municipal Theatre has gone quiet this year as months of unpaid wages emptied its calendar of major works and pushed many ballerinas and opera singers into poverty.
The gold and marble theater located in Rio’s historic downtown had celebrated the wealth of the city when it was built at the turn of the 20th century. But now, dancers’ dwindling performance schedules and their ragged ballet slippers reveal just how far Rio has fallen.
“It’s gotten to the point that, it’s funny to say, I don’t even have money for a bus ticket. I could pay my basic bills and feed myself or I could pay for the bus,” said dancer Bruno Fernandes, a member of the Municipal Theatre Ballet Corps.
The 33-year-old now pedals to training on a borrowed bike, but three crashes in hectic Rio traffic have left him with an inflamed hip that he fears could shorten his career.
Salaries have been delayed intermittently since 2015 as Rio’s finances began to falter from a deep recession and the cost of hosting the 2016 Olympic Games. But dancers and singers say the crisis now is unprecedented in the theater’s history.
Fernandes is among a group of theater staff who have not received salaries since November, including an obligatory year-end bonus for 2017 that Brazilians count on.
The theater is funded by the Rio state government, which said it is working to correct the situation.
“The delay is not the result of a lack of importance the administration places on the theater, but a lack of available cash resources,” Rio state’s finance agency told Reuters in a statement. “The salaries will be paid as fast as possible in accordance with resources available.”
Rio state’s massive deficit this year led to cut backs in essential services like policing, causing the national government to send in the army to quell violence at times, and prompting a federal rescue plan announced in September to help stabilize the state’s finances.
A first installment of a 2.9 billion-reais (655 million pounds)loan allowed the state government on Wednesday to pay Municipal Theatre workers their unpaid 2016 year-end bonuses as well as October salaries. Another installment expected to be released in January will go toward November salaries, the state finance agency said.
In the meantime, many performers have taken up odd jobs. One dancer has even sold off some furniture, started driving a mototaxi and teaching lessons in a makeshift home studio with his cat looking on.
Another performer has done the same.
“I teach singing, I apply Reiki (Japanese alternative medicine), I have a small shop in my house, I organize events,” said Monica Maciel, a singer for the theater since 1999. “I do it all, everything I can.”
Dozens of dancers continue to attend exacting rehearsals and refine their craft with each leap and pirouette. But they say insufficient sleep as they work multiple jobs and lack of money for expenses like ballet pointer shoes, physical therapy and nutrition regimens is taking its toll.
Girls in pink tutus still attend lessons despite the poor prospects on display for a career ballerina.
The slow artistic starvation can be as much of strain as poor finances. In the past year, the theater put on a cantata and an opera with volunteers, but none of its traditional ballet performances.
“For an artist, to not be on the stage, to not put your work on stage is a thing that will kill us little by little,” said Deborah Ribeiro, the theater’s lead solo ballerina.
Related photo essay at reut.rs/2kVbGVn
Reporting by Maria Clara Pestre; Writing by Jake Spring; editing by Diane Craft
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