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DLD Does Idols
Idols South Africa Season 8 has arrived and for the eighth time Don’t Look Down will handle the massive digital and social output of this hugely popular M-Net and Mzansi Magic reality show.
DLD was instrumental in the launch of the first digital presence for the South African version of the Idols format more than a decade ago, and has since handled online content for every season. Over the years DLD has expanded the digital possibilities of the show by extending both content creation and audience interaction to the growing platforms of Twitter and Facebook.
DLD’s current Idols project kicked off with the publication of audition dates (in four key locations: Sandton, Durban, Cape Town and Soweto) on the already-existing Idols ‘site and by drumming up buzz on the official Idols South Africa Facebook page (a community that DLD grew to over 25 000 during 2011) and Twitter feed (which is also followed by around 22 000 people).
This helped result in one of the biggest turnouts in Idols history in Johannesburg on Saturday 4 February and in Durban on Saturday 11 February. On these vibrant and vocal audition days, a Don’t Look Down team trawled the long queues to shoot interviews (about what people had chosen to wear and why), promotion for the upcoming auditions and a quirky challenge to sing both Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” and Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind”, which resulted in hilarious clips in which people hummed (or just guessed at!) the song’s tricky lyrics.
These clips were edited at DLD and uploaded to the Idols site along with wraps of the day’s events. The company also updated both Facebook and Twitter live on audition days, posting pictures and generally enhancing excitement levels. It is a formula which has delivered results and is to be repeated during the remaining legs of the tour.
In the run-up to the transmission of the eighth season, DLD will, on behalf of its client DSTV Online, liaise with M-Net, Mzansi Magic, and production company [*sic] Entertainment to implement a comprehensive online offering that will feature a few twists to the traditional format.
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This station at 18 Shelton Road (Route110) serves as the headquarters of the Monroe Volunteer Fire Department.The first floor features 6 apparatus bays, offices, a communications room,members' room, and storage areas. The second floor consists of a meeting hall, kitchen, and the chief's office. Currently it houses Engine/Rescue203, Engine/Tanker 205, Utility 214, Squad 230, and Chief Car 251.
Station 1 History
The department was founded in 1923 but for its first 25 years, it occupied two different small buildings near the town green. One was the former carriage house of St. Peter's Church.As more trucks were added to the fleet, more space was needed.
In 1947, the cornerstone was laid for the Route 110 fire station at 18Shelton Road. The land was bought from Mrs. Hurd (Hurd Ave. runs along one side of the fire station). Much of the money to buy the land came from the annual carnival and the building was mortgaged for around $5,000. The location was picked because it was centrally located (at this point, the other only fire station in town was Stepney Station 1 on lower Main St),it had ample parking, room for expansion, and room to host social events and fund raisers. Many of the volunteers themselves helped to construct the building and it was completed quite quickly by 1948. Given it was just after WWII, there were a lot of material and labor shortages.The Fire Chief at the time was Ray Michel and the Fire Company President was Andrew Bardugone. William Renz led the building committee. In five years, the mortgage was paid off using proceeds from fund raisers.
The original building was a two-story, 3 bay, 40x70 ft building. The upstairs featured a meeting hall and a kitchen was located on the ground floor.At the time, the building was praised as being as one of the finest firehouses in Connecticut. There was a dedication ceremony and open house in 1948,at which time the original charter members that founded the fire department were presented with their 25-year life membership badges. That tradition still continues today.
By the 1960's an addition was necessary because several fire trucks had to be parked outside. In the winter months, the trucks carrying water would have to be drained so the water didn't freeze. That meant that before getting to a fire, the trucks would have to stop and fill up their water tanks. At that time, there were very few hydrants in town, so the trucks had to head to ponds and draft water into their tanks.
By 1965, Station 1 took its modern day shape by adding on 3 additional apparatus bays to the existing 3 bays. Today, the outside and layout of the building remains essentially the same with the exception that the upstairs hall was renovated in the early 1990s, and the building and grounds received some upgrades in 1998, in preparation for the 75th anniversary parade and celebration. In 2011, some interior renovations were made to the members' room and kitchen.
This station at 54 Jockey Hollow Road features 6 bays (3 front facing and 3 rear facing), an office/members' room, a training room, kitchen, and engineers' room. Currently it houses Quint 200, Squad 231, and Engine 202. The remainder of the station is occupied by Monroe EMS.
A formal proposal for a second fire station in the Monroe district was first presented by the Fire Department to the Town of Monroe in 1969. Although everyone seemed to agree that a second station was necessary to serve the growing population and nearby school campus, agreeing on a site would prove to be very problematic. Based on the recommendation from an insurance rating agency, the new station would need to be located near Fan Hill Road and Jockey Hollow Road. The Department received support from the community by showing that many fire calls were received from this area, and that Fawn Hollow School and Chalk Hill School would receive improved protection,including improved response times and a new fire hydrant.
By 1980, the Department, led by President Al Michel, narrowed the selection of potential sites to four. The primary choice was town owned property on Fan Hill Rd adjacent to the Fawn Hollow School Playground. The other three sites were two on Jockey Hollow Rd and one on Chalk Hill Rd. Volunteer firefighters cleared much of the wooded area to build the station and helped with many aspects of the construction. In 1983, the station was completed at 54 Jockey Hollow Road and was paid for by the Town of Monroe. A dedication ceremony and open house was held, featuring music by the Chalk Hill School band.
An addition was built in 2001 to add bedrooms to accommodate Monroe EMS.Since then, the building has been a shared facility between the fire department and EMS
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Two defensemen and a goaltender guard their goal. The referee's raised arm indicates that he intends to call a penalty.
A player taking a backhand shot
Ice hockey one of the more physical sports, is one of the four major professional sports, and is represented by the National Hockey League (NHL) at its highest level. The sport itself is played on numerous levels, including men and women's NCAA hockey, men and women's national hockey league, etc. What arose as a pastime in Canada has become popular in almost all parts of the world, especially the colder areas, where hockey can be played outdoors on ice. In fact, Canadian hockey comprises of six teams of the NHL, and the number of Canadian players in comparison to Americans is approximately four to one.
The sport's popularity in the U.S. is concentrated in certain regions, notably the Northeast, the Midwest, and Alaska. This concentration helps to make ice hockey the least watched major sport in the United States, though it is by far the most watched sport in Canada. Nonetheless, in certain major U.S. cities like Buffalo, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Chicago, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Tampa Bay, Denver, San Jose, and Columbus it commands popularity levels similar to and occasionally exceeding basketball for winter sports fans.
1.1 Foundation of the modern game
1.2 The professional era
2 Equipment
5 Officials
7 Periods and overtime
8 Women's ice hockey
8.1 History of women's ice hockey
8.2 Women's ice hockey today
9 Sledge hockey
10 International competition and Hockey Leagues
10.1 National Hockey League (NHL)
10.2 International Hockey League (IHL)
10.3 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF)
11 Other Pro Leagues
12 Previous Hockey Leagues (Folded/Merged)
13 Terminology
14 Hockey expressions
15 Number of registered players by country
While there are 72 total members of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, and the United States have finished in most of the coveted first, second, and third places at IIHF World Championships. Those seven nations have also captured 162 of 177 medals awarded at 59 non-Olympic IIHF World Championships, and all medals since 1954. Likewise, all nine Olympic and 27 IIHF World Women Championships medals have gone to one of those seven countries. Also deserving an honorable mention is Switzerland, which has won two men's bronze medals at the Olympics and finished at least third seven times at the World Championships. Switzerland also maintains one of the oldest and top-rated ice hockey leagues (the Swiss Nationalliga) outside of the NHL.
Dutch burghers playing a game that looks much like ice hockey.
Games between teams hitting an object with curved sticks have been played throughout history; 4000 year-old drawings at the Beni-Hasen tombs in Egypt depict a sport resembling field hockey.[1] The 1527 Galway Statutes in Ireland made reference to "the horlinge of the litill balle with hockie stickes or staves."[2] The etymology of the word hockey is uncertain. It may derive from the Old French word hoquet, shepherd's crook, or from the Middle Dutch word hokkie, meaning shack or doghouse, which in popular use meant goal. Many of these games were developed for fields, though where conditions allowed they were also played on ice. Seventeenth-century Dutch paintings show townsfolk playing a hockey-like game on a frozen canal.
European immigrants brought various versions of hockey-like games to North America, such as the Scottish sport of shinty, the closely-related Irish sport of hurling, and versions of field hockey played in England. Where necessary these seem to have been adapted for icy conditions; for example, a colonial Williamsburg newspaper records hockey being played in a snow storm in Virginia. Both English- and French-speaking Canadians played hockey on frozen rivers, lakes, and ponds using cheese cutters strapped to their boots, and early paintings show "shinney," an early form of hockey with no standard rules, being played in Nova Scotia. Author Thomas Chandler Haliburton included in a work of fiction a story about boys from King's College School in Windsor, Nova Scotia, playing "hurley on the ice" when he was a student there around 1800 (Ed. Note: Haliburton was born in 1796).[3] To this day, "Shinny" (derived from Shinty) is a popular Canadian term for an informal type of hockey, either on ice or as street hockey. These early games may have also absorbed the physically aggressive aspects of what the Mi'kmaq Aboriginal First Nation in Nova Scotia called dehuntshigwa'es (lacrosse).
In 1825 Sir John Franklin wrote that "The game of hockey played on the ice was the morning sport" while on Great Bear Lake during one of his Arctic expeditions. In 1843 a British Army officer in Kingston, Ontario, wrote "Began to skate this year, improved quickly and had great fun at hockey on the ice."[4] A Boston Evening Gazette article from 1859 makes reference to an early game of hockey on ice occurring in Halifax in that year. The first game to use a "puck-like" object rather than a ball took place in 1860 on Kingston Harbour, involving mostly Crimean War veterans [5]
Based on Haliburton's writings, there have been claims that modern ice hockey originated in Windsor, Nova Scotia, and was named after an individual, as in 'Colonel Hockey's game'.[6] Proponents of this theory claim that the surname Hockey exists in the district surrounding Windsor. In 1943, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association declared Kingston the birthplace of hockey, based on a recorded 1886 game played between students of Queen's University and the Royal Military College of Canada.
The Society for International Hockey Research has had an "origins of hockey" committee studying this debate since 2001 and they defined hockey as "a game played on an ice rink in which two opposing teams of skaters, using curved sticks, try to drive a small disc, ball or block into or through the opposite goals."
The committee found evidence of stick and ball games played on ice on skates in Europe in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, and viewed these activities as being more indicative of a hockey-like game than Haliburton’s reference.
They found no evidence in the Windsor position of a connection from whatever form of hockey might have been played at Long Pond to the game played elsewhere and to modern hockey. The committee viewed as conjecture the assertion that King’s schoolboys introduced the game to Halifax. They noted that the assertion that hockey was not played outside Nova Scotia until 1865 overlooks diary evidence of shinny and hockey being played at Kingston in the 1840s.
The committee concluded that Dr. Vaughan and the Windsor Hockey Heritage Society had not offered credible evidence that Windsor, Nova Scotia, is the birthplace of hockey.
The committee offered no opinion on the birth date or birthplace of hockey, but took note of a game at Montreal’s Victoria Skating Rink on March 3, 1875. This is the earliest eyewitness account known to the committee of a specific game of hockey in a specific place at a specific time, and with a recorded score, between two identified teams.
The word hockey is believed to have several derivations, the most common one being from an old French word "hoquet," which means curved stick, or more specifically "shepherd s crook." In Germanic languages, there is a very old root word "hok" or "hak," which means a bent or curved piece of wood or metal.
According to the Society for International Hockey Research, the word puck is derived from the Scottish and Gaelic word "puc" or the Irish word "poc," meaning to poke, punch or deliver a blow. This definition is explained in a book published in 1910 entitled "English as we Speak it in Ireland" by P.W. Joyce. It defines the word puck as "… The blow given by a hurler to the ball with his caman or hurley is always called a puck."
Foundation of the modern game
Ice hockey at McGill University, Montreal, 1901.
The foundation of the modern game centered on Montreal, Quebec. On March 3, 1875, the first organized indoor game was played at Montreal's Victoria Rink by James Creighton and several McGill University students. In 1877, several McGill students, including Creighton, Henry Joseph, Richard F. Smith, W. F. Robertson, and W. L. Murray codified seven ice hockey rules. The first ice hockey club, McGill University Hockey Club, was founded in 1877.[7]
The game became so popular that the first "world championship" of ice hockey was featured in Montreal's annual Winter Carnival in 1883 and the McGill team captured the "Carnival Cup." In 1885, A. P. Low introduced the game to Ottawa. Although undocumented, it is believed that during the same year, the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club was formed to play the first Ice Hockey Varsity Match against traditional rival Cambridge in St. Moritz, Switzerland. This match was won by the Oxford Dark Blues, 6-0.[8][9] The first photographs and team lists date from 1895.[10] This continues to be the oldest hockey rivalry in history.
The original Stanley Cup, in the Hockey Hall of Fame vault.
In 1888, the new Governor General of Canada, Lord Stanley of Preston, whose sons and daughter became hockey enthusiasts, attended the Montreal Winter Carnival tournament and was impressed with the hockey spectacle. In 1892, recognizing that there was no recognition for the best team, Lord Stanley purchased a decorative bowl for use as a trophy. The Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, which later became more famously known as the Stanley Cup, was first awarded in 1893 to the champion amateur team in Canada, Montreal AAA. It continues to be awarded today to the National Hockey League's championship team.[11]
By 1893, there were almost a hundred teams in Montreal alone, and leagues throughout Canada. Winnipeg hockey players had incorporated cricket pads to better protect the goaltender's legs. They also introduced the "scoop" shot, later known as the wrist shot.
Ottawa Hockey Club "Silver Seven," the Champion of the Stanley Cup in 1905
1893 also saw the first ice hockey matches in the U.S., at Yale University and Johns Hopkins University.[12] The U.S. Amateur Hockey League was founded in New York City in 1896, and the first professional team, the Portage Lakers was formed in 1903 in Houghton, Michigan (although there had been individual professionals in Canada before this).
The five sons of Lord Stanley were instrumental in bringing ice hockey to Europe, beating a court team (which included both the future Edward VII and George V) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had been founded. The Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace was founded in 1908 to govern international competitions, and the first European championships were won by Great Britain in 1910. In the mid-20th century, the Ligue became the International Ice Hockey Federation.[13]
The professional era
Ice hockey in Europe; Oxford University vs. Switzerland, 1922. Future Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson is at right front.
Professional ice hockey has existed since after World War I. From the first professional ice hockey league based out of Michigan in the United States, it quickly grew into Canada and in many other countries, including Switzerland, Ukraine, Great Britain and Austria.
Ice hockey tends to be a dangerous sport. Protective equipment is highly recommended and is enforced in all competitive situations. This usually includes a helmet, shoulder pads, elbow pads, mouth guard, protective gloves, heavily padded shorts, a 'jock' athletic protector, shin pads/chest protector and a neck guard.
While the general characteristics of the game are the same wherever it is played, the exact rules depend on the particular code of play being used. The two most important codes are those of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF)[14] and of the North American National Hockey League (NHL).[15] North American amateur hockey codes, such as those of Hockey Canada and USA Hockey, tend to be a hybrid of the NHL and IIHF codes, while professional rules generally follow those of the NHL.
Typical layout of an ice hockey rink surface
Ice hockey is played on a hockey rink. During normal play, there are six players per side on the ice at any time, each of whom is on ice skates. There are five players and one goaltender per side. The objective of the game is to score goals by shooting a hard vulcanized rubber disc, the puck, into the opponent's goal net, which is placed at the opposite end of the rink. The players may control the puck using a long stick with a blade that is commonly curved at one end. Players may also redirect the puck with any part of their bodies, subject to certain restrictions. Players can angle their feet so the puck can redirect into the net, but there can be no kicking motion. Players may not intentionally bat the puck into the net with their hands or with a high stick (above the shoulder).
Hockey is an "offside" game, meaning that forward passes are allowed, unlike in rugby. Before the 1930s hockey was an onside game, meaning that only backward passes were allowed. The period of the onside game was the golden age of stick-handling, which was of prime importance in moving the game forward. With the arrival of offside rules, the forward pass transformed hockey into a truly team sport, where individual heroics diminished in importance relative to team play, which could now be coordinated over the entire surface of the ice as opposed to merely rearward players.[16]
The other five players are typically divided into three forwards and two defensemen. The forward positions consist of a center and two wingers: a left wing and a right wing. Forwards often play together as units or lines, with the same three forwards generally playing together. The defensemen usually stay together as a pair, but may change less frequently than the forwards. A substitution of an entire unit at once is called a line change. Teams typically employ alternate sets of forward lines and defensive pairings when shorthanded or on a power play. Substitutions are permitted at any time during the course of the game, although during a stoppage of play the home team is permitted the final change. When players are substituted during play, it is called changing on the fly. A new NHL rule added in the 2005-2006 season prevents a team from changing their line after they ice the puck.
The boards surrounding the ice help keep the puck in play (they can also be used as tools to play the puck), and play often proceeds for minutes without interruption. When play is stopped, it is restarted with a faceoff. There are two major rules of play in ice hockey that limit the movement of the puck: offsides and icing.
Under IIHF rules, each team may carry a maximum of 20 players and two goaltenders on their roster. NHL rules restrict the total number of players per game to 18 plus two goaltenders.
Altercations often occur near the goal after a stoppage of play, since defensive players are extremely concerned with protecting their goaltender. All rulebooks call for penalties if an offensive player interferes with a goaltender's ability to defend the goal.
For most penalties, the offending player is sent to the penalty box and his team has to play without him and with one less skater for a period of time. Most penalties last for two minutes unless a major penalty has been assessed. This gives the other team what is popularly termed a power play.
A two-minute minor penalty is often called for lesser infractions such as tripping, elbowing, roughing, high-sticking, too many players on the ice, illegal equipment, charging (leaping into an opponent or body-checking him after taking more than two strides), holding, interference, delay of game, hooking, or cross-checking. In the 2005-06 NHL season, a minor is also assessed for diving, where a player embellishes a hook or trip. More egregious fouls of this type may be penalized by a four-minute double-minor penalty, particularly those which (inadvertently) cause injury to the victimized player. These penalties end either when the time runs out or the other team scores on the power play. In the case of a goal scored during the first two minutes of a double-minor, the penalty clock is set down to two minutes upon a score (effectively expiring the first minor). Five-minute major penalties are called for especially violent instances of most minor infractions that result in intentional injury to an opponent, as well as for fighting. Major penalties are always served in full; they do not terminate on a goal scored by the other team. The foul of 'boarding', defined as "check[ing] an opponent in such a manner that causes the opponent to be thrown violently in the boards" by the NHL Rulebook is penalized either by a minor or major penalty at the discretion of the referee, based on the violence of the hit. A minor or major penalty for "Boarding" is also often assessed when a player checks an opponent from behind and into the boards.
Some varieties of penalties do not always require the offending team to play a man short. Five-minute major penalties in the NHL usually result from fighting. In the case of two players being assessed five-minute fighting majors, they both serve five minutes without their team incurring a loss of player (both teams still have a full complement of players on the ice). This differs with two players from opposing sides getting minor penalties, at the same time or at any intersecting moment, resulting from more common infractions. In that case, both teams will have only four skating players (not counting the goaltender) until one or both penalties expire (if one expires before the other, the opposing team gets a power play for the remainder); this applies regardless of current pending penalties, though in the NHL, a team always has at least three skaters on the ice. Ten-minute misconduct penalties are served in full by the penalized player, but his team may immediately substitute another player on the ice unless a minor or major penalty is assessed in conjunction with the misconduct (a two-and-ten or five-and-ten). In that case, the team designates another player to serve the minor or major; both players go to the penalty box, but only the designee may not be replaced, and he is released upon the expiration of the two or five minutes, at which point the ten-minute misconduct begins. In addition, game misconducts are assessed for deliberate intent to inflict severe injury on an opponent (at the officials' discretion), or for a major penalty for a stick infraction or repeated major penalties. The offending player is ejected from the game and must immediately leave the playing surface (he does not sit in the penalty box); meanwhile, if a minor or major is assessed in addition, a designated player must serve out that segment of the penalty in the box (similar to the above-mentioned "two-and-ten").
A player who is tripped, or illegally obstructed in some way, by an opponent on a breakaway—when there are no defenders except the goaltender between him and the opponent's goal—is awarded a penalty shot, an attempt to score without opposition from any defenders except the goaltender. A penalty shot is also awarded for a defender other than the goaltender covering the puck in the goal crease, a goaltender intentionally displacing his own goal posts during a breakaway in order to avoid a goal, a defender intentionally displacing his own goal posts when there is less than two minutes to play in regulation time or at any point during overtime (goalposts are not anchored to prevent serious injury), or a player or coach intentionally throwing a stick or other object at the puck or the puck carrier and the throwing action disrupts a shot or pass play.
An ice hockey referee is responsible for assessing most penalties during a game.
Officials also stop play for puck movement violations, such as using one's hands to pass the puck in the offensive end, but no players are penalized for these offenses. The sole exceptions are deliberately falling on or gathering the puck to the body, carrying the puck in the hand, and shooting the puck out of play in one's defensive zone (all penalized two minutes for delay of game). In the NHL, there is an area behind the goal line that goaltenders are not allowed to play the puck. Doing so also results in a delay of game minor.
A new penalty in the NHL applies to the goalies. The goalies now are unable to play the puck in the "corners" of the rink near their own net. This will result in a two-minute penalty against the goalie's team. (Goalies do not serve penalties; someone from their team is designated to serve the penalty for them.) The area immediately behind the net is the only area behind the net in which the goalie can play the puck.
An additional rule that is not a penalty in the new NHL is the two line offside passes. There are no more two-line offside pass whistles blown. Now players are able to pass to teammates who are more than the blue and center ice red line away.
The NHL has taken steps to speed the game of hockey up and create a game of finesse, which is different from the past where hockey was a game of hits, fights, and penalties. Today's game of hockey is a stricter called game which in-turn provides more protection to the players and allows for more goals to be scored.
There are many infractions for which a player may be assessed a penalty. The governing body for United States amateur hockey has implemented many new rules to reduce the number stick-on-body occurrences, as well as other detrimental and illegal facets of the game ("Zero Tolerance").
In men's hockey, but not in women's, a player may use his hip or shoulder to hit another player if the player has the puck or is the last to have touched it. (In the NHL, you can hit an opposing player only for a brief moment after he loses control of the puck—usually less than 3 seconds—without incurring a penalty.) This use of the hip and shoulder is called body checking. Not all physical contact is legal; in particular, hits from behind and most types of forceful stick-on-body contact are illegal.
A typical game of ice hockey has two to four officials on the ice, charged with enforcing the rules of the game. There are typically two linesmen who are responsible only for calling offside and icing violations, and one or two referees, who call goals and all other penalties. Linesmen can, however, report to the referee(s) that a penalty more severe than a two-minute minor penalty should be assessed against an offending player. On-ice officials are assisted by off-ice officials who act as goal judges, time keepers, and official scorers.
Officials are selected by the league for which they work. Amateur hockey leagues use guidelines established by national organizing bodies as a basis for choosing their officiating staffs. In North America, the national organizing bodies Hockey Canada and USA Hockey approve officials according to their experience level as well as their ability to pass rules knowledge and skating ability tests. Hockey Canada has officiating levels I through VI. USA Hockey has officiating levels 1 through 4.
Winning the faceoff can be the key to some strategies. A game between Saginaw and Plymouth's Ontario Hockey League teams.
An important defensive tactic is checking–attempting to take the puck from an opponent or to remove the opponent from play. Forechecking is checking in the other team's zone; backchecking is checking while the other team is advancing down the ice toward one's own goal. These terms usually are applied to checking by forwards. Stick checking, sweep checking, and poke checking are legal uses of the stick to obtain possession of the puck. Body checking is using one's shoulder or hip to strike an opponent who has the puck or who is the last to have touched it (within a short period of time after possession; usually less than three seconds). Often the term checking is used to refer to body checking, with its true definition generally only propagated among fans of the game.
Offensive tactics include improving a team's position on the ice by advancing the puck out of one's zone towards the opponent's zone, progressively by gaining lines, first your own blue line, then the red line and finally the opponent's blue line. Offensive tactics are designed ultimately to score a goal by taking a shot. When a player purposely directs the puck towards the opponent's goal, he or she is said to shoot the puck.
Peter Bondra of the Atlanta Thrashers shoots the puck and scores behind Roberto Luongo of the Florida Panthers
A deflection is a shot which redirects a shot or a pass towards the goal from another player, by allowing the puck to strike the stick and carom towards the goal. A one-timer is a shot which is struck directly off a pass, without receiving the pass and shooting in two separate actions. A deke (short for decoy) is a feint with the body and/or stick to fool a defender or the goalie. Headmanning the puck is the tactic of rapidly passing to the player farthest down the ice.
A team that is losing by one or two goals in the last few minutes of play may elect to pull the goalie; that is, removing the goaltender and replacing him or her with an extra attacker on the ice in the hope of gaining enough advantage to score a goal. However, this tactic is extremely risky, and sometimes leads to the opposing team extending their lead by scoring a goal in the empty net.
Although it is officially prohibited in the rules, at the professional level in North America fights are sometimes used to affect morale of the teams, with aggressors hoping to demoralize the opposing players while exciting their own, as well as settling personal scores. Both players in an altercation receive five-minute major penalties for fighting. The player deemed to be the "instigator" of an NHL fight, if one is determined to exist, is penalized an additional two minutes for instigating, plus a ten-minute misconduct penalty. If there is no instigator, both players stay in the penalty box for five minutes, and neither team lose skaters. This so-called instigator rule is highly controversial in NHL hockey: many coaches, sportswriters, players and fans feel it prevents players from effectively policing the objectionable behavior of their peers, which is often cleverly hidden from referees. They point to less extreme on-ice violence during the era before the rule was introduced. Toronto Maple Leafs owner Conn Smythe famously observed that "If you can't beat 'em in the alley you can't beat 'em on the ice."[17]
A fight during the game between the Ottawa Senators and the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs.
The Neutral zone trap:
The trap is designed to isolate the puck carrier in the neutral zone preventing him from entering the offensive zone. In youth hockey development of the neutral zone trap often begins with the left wing lock. In this tactic the left wing plays in the normal position of the left defense men while in the offensive zone. The left defenseman then moves to the center. The center and right wing chase the puck. When the opposing team gains control of the puck, the defensemen and the left wing pull out and set a two man trap along the boards. The left or right wing available, backs up the trap while the center and right wing pursuit and try to get in front of the play further blocking the offensive attack.
Periods and overtime
A game consists of three periods of twenty minutes each, the clock running only when the puck is in play. The teams change ends for the second period, again for the third period, and again at the start of each overtime played. Recreational leagues and children's leagues often play shorter games, generally with three shorter periods of play.
Various procedures are used if a game is tied. In tournament play, as well as in the NHL playoffs, North Americans favor sudden death overtime, in which the teams continue to play 20 minute periods until a goal is scored. Up until the 1999-2000 season regular season NHL games were settled with a single 5 minute sudden death period with 5 players (plus a goalie) per side, with the winner awarded 2 points in the standings and the loser 0 points. In the event of a tie (if the OT was scoreless), each team was awarded 1 point. From 1999-2000 until 2003-04 the National Hockey League decided ties by playing a single five-minute sudden death overtime period with each team having 4 players (plus a goalie) per side to "open-up" the game. In the event of a tie, each team would still receive 1 point in the standings but in the event of a victory the winning team would be awarded 2 points in the standings and the losing team 1 point. The only exception to this rule is if a team opts to pull their goalie in exchange for an extra skater during overtime and is subsequently scored upon (an 'Empty Net' goal), in which case the losing team receives no points for the overtime loss. International play and several North American professional leagues, including the NHL (in the regular season), now use an overtime period followed by a penalty shootout. If the score remains tied after an extra overtime period, the subsequent shootout consists of three players from each team taking penalty shots. After these six total shots, the team with the most goals is awarded the victory. If the score is still tied, the shootout then proceeds to a sudden death (actually sudden victory) format. Regardless of the number of goals scored during the shootout by either team, the final score recorded will award the winning team one more goal than the score at the end of regulation time. In the NHL if a game is decided by a shootout the winning team is awarded 2 points in the standings and the losing team is awarded 1. Ties no longer occur in the NHL. Also, no statistics in the shootout count-no goals are awarded to players who score in the shootout, and goalkeepers are not credited with saves or goals against. Therefore, it is possible for a goalie to lose a game in which he gets a shutout.
Women playing hockey at Rideau Hall circa 1890 (earliest known image of women's hockey)
History of women's ice hockey
Lord Stanley of Preston's daughter, Lady Isobel Stanley, was a pioneer in the women's game and is one of the first females to be photographed using puck and stick (around 1890) on the natural ice rink at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. By the early 1900s, women's teams were common throughout most of the Canadian provinces, the long skirts they were still required to wear giving them a goal-tending advantage. On February 11, 1891, one of the earliest newspaper accounts of a game between women appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, and McGill University's women's hockey team debuted in 1894.[18]
Women's ice hockey today
Ice hockey is one of the fastest growing women's sports in the world, with the number of participants increasing 400 percent in the last ten years.[19] While there are not as many organized leagues for women as there are for men, there exist leagues of all levels, including the National Women's Hockey League, Western Women's Hockey League, and various European leagues; as well as university teams, national and Olympic teams, and recreational teams. There have been nine IIHF World Women Championships.[20]
A girls ice hockey team in 1921
Women's ice hockey was added as a medal sport at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. The United States won gold, Canada won silver and Finland won bronze.[21]
The chief difference between women's and men's ice hockey is that bodychecking is not allowed in women's ice hockey. After the 1990 Women's World Championship, bodychecking was eliminated because female players in many countries do not have the size and mass seen in North American players. There are many who feel that the relative lack of physical play is a detriment to its popularity among the mainstream hockey public, while others feel its absence leads to a faster game more reliant on skating and puck-handling skills. In current IIHF women's competition, bodychecking is either a minor or major penalty, decided at the referee's discretion.[22]
In addition, players in women's competition are required to wear protective full-face masks.[22]
One woman, Manon Rhéaume, appeared as a goaltender for the Tampa Bay Lightning in preseason games against the St. Louis Blues and the Boston Bruins, and in 2003 Hayley Wickenheiser played with the Kirkkonummi Salamat in the Finnish men's Suomi-sarja league. Several women have competed in North American minor leagues, including goaltenders Charline Labonté, Kelly Dyer, Erin Whitten, Manon Rhéaume, and defenceman Angela Ruggiero.
Sledge hockey is a form of ice hockey designed for players with physical disabilities affecting their lower bodies. Players sit on double-bladed sledges and use two sticks; each stick has a blade at one end and small picks at the other. Players use the sticks to pass, stickhandle and shoot the puck, and to propel their sledges. The rules are very similar to IIHF ice hockey rules.[23]
Canada is a recognized international leader in the development of the sport, and of equipment for players. Much of the equipment for the sport was first developed in Canada, such as sledge hockey sticks laminated with fiberglass, as well as aluminum shafts with hand carved insert blades and special aluminum sledges with regulation skate blades.
The sport of hockey, like in many other sports, has fallen prey to a myriad of mergers, and leagues folding and expanding routinely.
International competition and Hockey Leagues
Sweden vs Latvia in Ice Hockey World Championships 2005
The annual men's Ice Hockey World Championships are highly regarded by Europeans, but they are less important to North Americans because they coincide with the Stanley Cup playoffs. Consequently, Canada, the United States, and other countries with large numbers of NHL players have not always been able to field their best possible teams because many of their top players are playing for the Stanley Cup. Furthermore, for many years professionals were barred from play. Now that many Europeans play in the NHL, the world championships no longer represent all of the world's top players.
Hockey has been played at the Winter Olympics since 1924 (and at the summer games in 1920). Canada won six of the first seven gold medals. The United States won their first gold medal in 1960. The USSR won all but two Olympic ice hockey gold medals from 1956 to 1988 and won a final time as the Unified Team at the 1992 Albertville Olympics. Since all players in the communist system were "amateurs," the USSR's elite national team was the best the country had to offer, while the best Americans, Swedes, Finns, and Canadians were professionals and thus barred from Olympic competition. Nonetheless, U.S. amateur college players defeated the heavily favored Soviet squad on the way to winning the gold medal at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. This "Miracle on Ice" launched a surge of newfound popularity for a game about which many Americans had not cared much.
The 1972 Summit Series and 1974 Summit Series, established Canada and the USSR as a major international ice hockey rivalry. It was followed by five Canada Cup tournaments, where the best players from every hockey nation could play, and two exhibition series, the 1979 Challenge Cup and Rendez-vous '87 where the best players from the NHL played the USSR. The Canada Cup tournament later became the World Cup of Hockey, played in 1996 and 2004. The United States won in 1996 and Canada won in 2004. Since 1998, NHL professionals have played in the Olympics, giving the best players in the world more opportunities to face off.
There have been nine women's world championships, beginning in 1990.[20] Women's hockey has been played at the Olympics since 1998.[21] The 2006 Winter Olympic final between Canada and Sweden marked the first women's world championship or Olympic final that did not involve both Canada and the United States.
National Hockey League (NHL)
The NHL is the most prestigious, top-tier league in hockey. Until 1904, hockey was strictly played as a leisure sport, as professional hockey leagues loomed beyond the horizon. The International Pro Hockey League changed that, but did not leave any lasting impact, collapsing a mere three years later (1907). However, the IPHL paved the way for the National Hockey Association in 1910. The Pacific Coast League followed, and set up a competitive series between the two leagues. The winner claimed his right to the coveted cup of Lord Stanley (future inference to the Stanley Cup). World War I threw the entire hockey establishment into disarray, and the men running the NHA decided to suspend operations. Following the war, the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association formed the National Hockey League, starting with only five teams: the Montreal Canadiens, the Montreal Wanderers, the Ottawa Senators, the Quebec Bulldogs, and the Toronto Arenas. The league's first game was held Dec. 19, 1917. The clubs played a 22-game schedule and, picking up on a rule change instituted by the old NHA, dropped the rover and employed only six players on a side. Toronto finished that first season on top, and in March 1918 met the Pacific Coast League champion Vancouver Millionaires for the Stanley Cup. Toronto won, three games to two. Eventually the PCL folded, and at the start of the 1926 season, the NHL, which at that point had ten teams, divided into two divisions and took control of the Stanley Cup.
International Hockey League (IHL)
The International Hockey League has appeared in numerous forms throughout history, the most recent being the one created in 2007. However, the IHL first was created in 1904 by Jack 'Doc' Gibson, a dentist who played hockey throughout Ontario before settling in Houghton, Michigan. The IPHL was a five team circuit which included Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Calumet, Michigan and Houghton. At that time, the duration of the hockey season was only two months because the teams played on natural ice. As a result of these natural circumstances, the hockey league failed to muster up anything consistent until later.
The IHL was resurrected for a period of seven years and flourished until it merged with the Canadian Hockey League, and became known as the International American Hockey League.
The IHL was formed in December 1945 and initially consisted of four cross-border teams in Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. In 1947, a team from Toledo, Ohio joined the league, and the following year the IHL expanded significantly, with teams in four additional U.S. cities. Starting in the late 1960s, the IHL's quality of play significantly upgraded until by the mid-1970s, it was on par with the American Hockey League (AHL), the longtime top feeder league for the National Hockey League. The IHL and the NHL were on competitive levels towards the middle of the 1990s, when the NHL experienced a lock-out shortened season. However, in 2001, the IHL collapsed, and six of its teams in the league became expansion teams with the American Hockey League.
The International Hockey League (IHL) is a professional ice hockey league with teams in the United States. The league is headquartered in Rochester, Michigan and stemmed from a minor-league association named the Colonial Hockey League.
International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF)
The International Ice Hockey Federation was created in 1908 as a means of forming a foundation and unification of hockey players all over the world. When hockey first became relevant as a sport in 1875, a set of rules were created, and the modern day NHL and international hockey rules have evolved from that.
1. A face-off in the center shall start the game in the beginning and after a goal. For this purpose, the puck (ball) shall be placed between two players.
2. Once a player touched (hit) the ball (puck), anybody who was near the opponent’s goal line at the time the puck was touched shall not be allowed to take part in the game. Players must always be on the same side as the puck.
3. The puck (ball) may be stopped but must not be carried. Players are not allowed to carry their sticks above the height of their shoulders. Attacking from behind, holding the collar, treading or kicking is forbidden.
It all began with a congregation of the "Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace" (LIHG). This congregation included France, Bohemia, Great Britain, Switzerland, and Belgium. In late January of 1909, the second congress of the federation took place in Chamonix. On that occasion, the LIHG established its own playing and competition rules and decided to organize annual European championships starting from the following year. The LIHG, in the Post-World-War era, saw Walter Brown as the president of the Federation, and an adoption of the English name, International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). After a series of tumultuous relationships, revolts, and sheer chaos, order was somewhat restored in the decades of the 1980s and 1990s. The number of IIHF member associations increased gradually and ultimately topped the magic mark of "50" countries. In the 2007 IIHF tournaments, there will be a wide array of championships at stake: the IIHF World Championships, IIHF WORLD WOMEN CHAMPIONSHIPS, IIHF WORLD U20 CHAMPIONSHIPS, IIHF WORLD U18 CHAMPIONSHIPS, and the IIHF CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS.
Other Pro Leagues
American Hockey League (AHL)
Central Hockey League (CHL)
East Coast Hockey League (ECHL)
United Hockey League (UHL)
Souther Professional Hockey League (SPHL)
South East Hockey League (SPHL)
Federal Hockey League (FHL)
National Women's Hockey League (NWHL)
Previous Hockey Leagues (Folded/Merged)
International Hockey League (Turner Cup Winners)
West Coast Hockey League (Taylor Cup Winners)
Western Professional Hockey League (President's Cup Winners)
Atlantic Coast Hockey League
Assist:
the pass or passes which immediately precede a successful scoring attempt; a maximum of two assists are credited for one goal.
Attacking zone:
the area between the opponents’ blue line and their goal.
backcheck:
an attempt by a player, on his way back to his defensive zone, to regain the puck from the opposition by checking or harassing an opponent who has the puck.
backhand shot:
a shot or pass made with the stick from the left side by a right-handed player or from the right side by a left-handed player.
Behind the net:
the area of ice behind the goal cage is legal territory.
blue lines:
two blue, 12-inch wide lines running parallel across the ice, each 60 feet from the goal; they divide the rink into three zones called the attacking, defending and neutral (or center) zones; defending blue line is the line closer to a player’s own net; attacking blue line is the one farther from his net; used in determining offsides.
boarding or board-checking:
a minor penalty which occurs when a player uses any method (body checking, elbowing or tripping) to throw an opponent violently into the boards; if an injury is caused, it becomes a major penalty.
boards or board wall:
a wooden or fiberglass wall 3 1/2 to 4 feet high which surrounds the rink to keep the puck and players from accidentally leaving the rink and injuring spectators; all rinks have shatterproof glass that rises above the boards to provide additional protection.
body check:
when a hockey player bumps or slams into an opponent with either his hip or shoulder (the only legal moves) to block his progress or throw him off-balance; it is only allowed against an opponent in control of the puck or against the last player to control it.
break:
a chance to start a rush when the opposing forwards are caught out of position.
breakaway:
a fast break in which an attacker with the puck skates in alone on the goalie, having gotten past or clear of the defensemen, trapping the opponents behind the play.
butt-ending:
a major penalty which occurs when a player jabs an opponent with the shaft of his hockey stick.
center or center forward:
the center player in the forward line who usually leads his team’s attack when they are trying to score a goal; he takes part in most of the face-offs; he controls the puck and tries to score or pass it to a teammate who is in a better position to score a goal.
center face-off circle:
a circle, measuring 30 feet in diameter, at the center of the ice where the puck is dropped in a face-off to start the game and to restart the game after a goal has been scored.
center ice:
the area between the two blue lines, also called the neutral zone.
centering pass:
a pass from an attacking player towards the middle of the ice to a teammate with a better angle at the goal.
center line:
a red, 12-inch wide line across the ice midway between the two goals.
charging:
a minor penalty which occurs when a player makes a deliberate move of more than two steps when body checking an opponent; if serious injury is caused or blood is drawn it becomes a major penalty.
check or checking:
any contact initiated by a defending player against an opponent to get the puck away from him or slow him down; there are two main types of checks: stick check and body check; these are only allowed against a player in control of the puck or against the last player to control it immediately after he gives it up; checking after too many steps or strides becomes charging.
clearing the puck:
getting the puck out of one’s own defensive zone.
clearing the zone:
when a defending player sends the puck out of the opponent's attacking zone, all the attacking players must leave or clear the zone to avoid being called offsides when the puck reenters the zone.
crease lines:
the red lines that form the semi-circular area with a 6-foot radius in front of the goal called the goal crease.
cross bar:
the horizontal bar that connects the top of the two goalposts.
cross-checking:
a minor penalty which occurs when a player holds his stick in both hands and drives the shaft into an opponent; a stick check where a player has both hands on the stick and no part of the stick on the ice; if serious injury is caused or blood is drawn it becomes a major penalty and a game misconduct.
dead puck:
a puck that flies out of the rink or that a player has caught in his hand.
defensemen:
two players who make up a team’s defensive unit usually stationed in or near their defensive zone to help the goalie guard against attack; sometimes they lead an attack. The left defenseman covers the left half of the rink, the right defenseman plays to the right, but they can skate into each other’s territory.
defensive line:
consists of two defensemen.
defensive zone:
the zone or area nearest a team’s goal (the goal they are defending).
delayed penalty:
a penalty against a team that has only 4 players on the ice, assessed only when one of its players gets out of the penalty box.
delayed whistle or delayed call:
when an official raises his arm but does not blow his whistle, waiting to see the outcome of a play before calling a penalty; this is done so as not to penalize the non-offending team by stopping its momentum.
delay of game: a minor penalty imposed on any player who purposely delays the game in any way, such as shooting or batting the puck outside the playing area or displacing the goalpost from its normal position.
double minor:
a type of minor penalty given for certain accidental infractions that result in an injury to another player or for certain deliberate attempts to injure an opponent that are unsuccessful; penalty time of 4 minutes is served, double the time of a normal minor penalty.
drop pass:
when a player simply leaves the puck behind for a teammate following him to pick up.
elbowing:
a minor penalty which occurs when a player strikes his opponent with an elbow to impede his progress.
endboards:
the boards at each end of the rink.
face-off:
the method of starting play; the dropping of the puck by the official between the sticks of two opposing players standing one stick length apart with stick blades flat on the ice; used to begin each period or to resume play when it has stopped for other reasons.
face-off circles and spots:
the various circular spots on the ice where an official and two players will hold a face-off to begin or to resume the action of the game; there is one blue face-off circle and four red face-off spots located in the neutral zone; two red face-off circles are found at each end of the ice.
flat pass:
when a player passes the puck to a teammate along the surface of the ice.
forecheck:
to check or harass an opponent who has the puck in his defensive zone and keep the opponents in their end of the rink while trying to regain control of the puck; usually done by the forwards.
forward line or attacking line:
consists of two wings (right and left) and a center; these three players play nearer the opponent’s goal and are responsible for most of the scoring.
freeze the puck:
to hold the puck against the boards with the skate or stick in order to stop play briefly or gain a face-off.
full strength:
when a team has its full complement of 6 players on the ice.
get the jump:
to move fast and thereby get a good start on the opponents.
provides one point; scored when a puck goes between the goalposts from the stick of an attacking player and entirely crosses the red line between the goalposts; also the informal term used to refer to the area made of the goalposts and the net guarded by the goalie and into which a puck must enter to score a point.
goal cage:
a 6 foot wide by 4 foot high tubular steel frame consisting of a cross bar and two goalposts to which a net is attached.
goal crease:
a semi-circular area with a 6 foot radius in front of the opening of the goal; denotes the playing area of the goaltender within which attacking players must not obstruct his movement or vision.
goal line:
the two-inch red line between the goalposts that stretches in both directions to the sideboards.
goalkeeper, goalie or goaltender:
the heavily padded player who guards the goal; prevents opponents from scoring by stopping the puck any way he can.
goalposts:
the metal bars that frame the area to which the net is attached which rests on the center of the goal line and between which a puck must pass to score a goal.
hat trick:
three or more goals scored by a player in one game.
high-sticking:
a minor penalty which occurs when a player carries his stick above the normal height of his opponent’s shoulders and hits or menaces the opponent with it; if injury is caused it becomes a major penalty; if a referee determines that the raising of the stick was unintentional and no contact occurred, it is considered a team infraction, and a face-off is held in the offender's defensive zone.
holding:
a minor penalty which occurs when a player grabs and holds onto an opponent (or his stick) with his hands or arms to impede the opponent’s progress.
holding the puck:
See falling on the puck.
hook check:
a sweep of the stick low to the ice to take the puck from an opponent’s stick.
hooking:
a minor penalty which occurs when a player attempts to impede the progress of another player by hooking any part of the opponent’s body with the blade of his stick; an illegal use of one’s stick.
icing:
a violation which occurs when the team in possession of the puck shoots it from behind the red center line across the opponent’s goal line into the end of the rink (but not into the goal) and a member of the opposing team touches it first; results in a face-off in the offender’s defensive zone; a shorthanded team cannot be called for icing.
interference:
a penalty in hockey called when a player attempts to impede the motion of another player not in possession of the puck.
line change:
the entire forward line and/or defensive line will be replaced at once, which puts players on the ice who work well together.
linesmen:
the two officials on the ice, one toward each end of the rink, responsible for infractions of the rules concerning off-side plays at the blue lines or center line and for any icing violations; they conduct most of the face-offs, sometimes advise the referee concerning penalties, and separate players who are fighting; they wear black pants and an official league sweater, and are on skates.
major penalty:
a type of individual penalty called for more serious infractions of the rules; of 5 minutes in duration whether or not the non-penalized team scores.
minor penalty:
a type of penalty lasting two minutes; if the non-penalized team scores a power play goal during this time, the penalty ends immediately.
neutral zone:
the area between the blue lines.
offside:
a violation which occurs when both skates of an attacking player cross the opponent’s blue line before the puck is passed or carried into the attacking zone; also called when a player passes the puck from his defending zone to a teammate across the red center line (two-line pass); this is one of the most common calls made in a hockey game and results in a face-off.
offside pass:
See two-line pass.
open ice:
that part of the ice that is free of opponents.
overtime loss:
the result for a team that loses a game in overtime that was tied after regulation; this category was created starting with the 1999-2000 season and is worth one point in the standings.
passout:
a pass by an attacking player from behind his opponent’s net or goal line to a teammate in front of the net.
penalty box:
an area with a bench just off the ice, behind the sideboards outside the playing area where penalized players serve their penalty time.
penalty killer:
a player expert at backchecking and keeping or gaining control of a loose puck under difficult circumstances who is trained to break up a power play when his team is shorthanded.
penalty shot:
a free shot awarded a player who was illegally interfered with, preventing him from a clear scoring opportunity; the shot is taken with only the goalie guarding against it.
poke check:
a quick jab or thrust to the puck or opponent’s stick to knock the puck away from him.
power play:
an attack by a team at full strength against a team playing one man (or two men) shorthanded because of a penalty (or penalties) which resulted in a player on the opposing team receiving penalty-box time.
puck:
a black, vulcanized rubber disc, one-inch thick and three inches in diameter, weighing between 5 1/2 and 6 ounces used to play hockey; they are frozen to prevent excessive bouncing and changed throughout the game; can travel up to 120 miles per hour on a slap shot.
pulling the goalie:
taking the goalkeeper off the ice and replacing him with a forward; leaves the goal unguarded so is only used as a last minute attempt to score.
ragging:
retaining the puck by clever stickhandling; often used by a shorthanded team to kill time.
rebound:
a puck that bounces off the goalie’s body or equipment.
red line:
the line that divides the length of the ice surface in half.
referee’s crease:
a semi-circular area, with a 10-foot radius, marked in red on the ice in front of the timekeepers’ bench into which players may not follow a referee.
rockered blades:
used by professional ice hockey skaters; the gentle curve in a very sharp blade of an ice skate produced by rounding the toe and heel of the blade to make it easier for hockey players to turn quickly.
roughing:
a minor penalty which occurs when a fight between players is more of a pushing and shoving match; a less severe penalty than fighting.
an individual or combined attack by a team in possession of the puck.
the act of a goalie in blocking or stopping a shot.
scramble:
several players from both sides close together battling for possession of the puck.
a shot on goal that the goalie cannot see because it was taken from behind one or more players from either team standing in front of the net.
shooting angle:
the angle determined by the position of the shooting player in relation to the goal at the moment he shoots the puck.
shorthanded:
a team with one or more players off the ice in the penalty box when the opponent has its full complement of six players; also a power play for the other team.
shot on goal (SOG):
a scoring attempt that would enter the goal if not stopped by a goalie: results in either a goal or a save.
sideboards:
the boards along the sides of the rink.
slap shot:
a shot in which the player raises his stick in a backswing, with his strong hand held low on the shaft and his other hand on the end as a pivot. Then as the stick comes down toward the puck, the player leans into the stick to put all his power behind the shot and add velocity to the puck; achieves an extremely high speed (up to 120 miles per hour) but is less accurate than a wrist shot.
slashing:
a minor penalty which occurs when a player swings his stick hard at an opponent, whether or not contact is made; if injury is caused it becomes a major penalty and a game misconduct.
slow whistle:
when an official waits to blow his whistle because of a delayed offside or delayed penalty call.
spearing:
a major penalty which occurs when a player illegally jabs, or even just attempts to jab, the point of his stick blade into another player’s body; one of the most serious infractions a player can commit; results in an automatic game misconduct.
stickhandling:
moving the puck along the ice with the stick blade.
sweep check:
a check made by a player with one hand on the stick, and one knee so low it is practically on the ice, with the shaft and blade of the stick flat on the ice to take the puck away from an opponent.
third-man-in rule:
the third man in a fight gets a game misconduct penalty and is out of the game for its duration; created to discourage players from jumping into a fight, even if they are only trying to break it up.
a player who follows his teammate on the attack seemingly out of the action but actually in a position to receive a backward or drop pass.
tripping:
a minor penalty which occurs when a player places his stick or a part of his body under or around the feet or legs of an opponent causing him to lose his balance; will also be called if a player kicks an opponent’s skates out from under him, or uses a knee or leg to cause his opponent to fall.
two-line pass:
a type of offside violation occurring when a player passes the puck from his defending zone to a teammate across the red center line, play is stopped for a face-off; also known as an offside pass.
under-led pass:
a pass behind or to one side of a teammate, making it difficult for him to control the puck.
waffle pad:
a large rectangular pad attached to the front of the goalie’s stick hand.
wash out:
a goal that is ruled invalid by the referee or the waving off of an infraction by the linesmen.
three areas made up by the two blue lines; the attacking zone is the area farthest from the goal a player is defending; the neutral zone is the central area; the defending zone is the area where a player’s goal is (the goal where his team’s goalie is stationed)
Hockey expressions
Chirping - trash talking
Mucking it up - popular term for getting physical on the ice, going into the corners after the puck
Between the pipes or in the cell - in goal
Up on the roof - a shot that comes high towards the goal
Cement Head or CH - a fighter or goon
Gong Show - one that is terrible at hockey
Top Shelf - A goal that enters the net in either of the top corners
Bender - one who skates on the inside of his edge and ankle bends in.
Duster - one who is on the team but never plays
Grinder - a player who works hard and is physical
Bush Leaguer - anyone who doesn't play to his or her ability.
Siv - A goalie who lets in goals like its his job.
Euro - Anyone who plays non-physical.
Ankle Breaker - A move in which a forward forces a defense-man to trip over his own ankles.
"Boys, this aint a throw away game in Rochester!" - comment from the movie "Miracle" which implies don't take this team lightly.
Number of registered players by country
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Canada 543,390 1.64%
United States 435,737 0.15%
Czech Republic 83,589 0.82%
Russia 77,202 0.05%
Sweden 67,747 0.75%
Finland 62,886 1.2%
Germany 30,344 0.04%
Switzerland 25,106 0.33%
Japan 20,540 0.02%
France 15,621 0.02%
Slovakia 9,402 0.17%
Austria 9,007 0.1%
Italy 7,258 0.01%
Norway 6,356 0.14%
Latvia 4,836 0.21%
Denmark 4,255 0.08%
Kazakhstan 2,931 0.02%
Belarus 2,930 0.03%
Ukraine 2,238 0.01%
Slovenia 980 0.05%
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Dreher chosen as Akron's Outstanding Teacher of the Year
JoAnne Busing, Akron News-Reporter
Every year, an anonymous group of donors provide $500 to an Outstanding Teacher in Akron. The process of choosing the teacher of the year and the donors themselves will never be known. For the 2017-2018 school year, Mrs. Peggy Dreher has been chosen Outstanding Teacher of the Year. Dreher is a native of Akron and graduated from Akron High School. She received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) with a degree in English and an emphasis in Elementary Education, and later returned to UNC for her Master's degree in Special Education. She and her husband, Wayne, have four children, and it was important to her to be a stay at home mom while her children were young, so she did not begin teaching in the Akron School District until 2004. Before that, she would substitute if needed. When Dreher began teaching in Akron in 2004, she was a part-time elementary Music teacher. In 2007, she became a full-time teacher, initially as Music/Kindergarten and later as a Music/Intervention teacher. In 2011, she became the full-time Special Education teacher. As the high needs population continued to grow in the district, administration asked Dreher to build a program for these students so they would not have to be taken out of district for their education. With her work and that of the paraprofessionals who work with her, she has built the program for high needs students in the school. They teach students with intellectual disabilities, Autism, behavior needs and extensive learning needs.
Some of these students remain in her classroom for years, and she will see many of them graduate. "I always said I would never get my Master's and I would never teach Special Education. God has a great sense of humor. Now, I love what I do and can't imagine doing anything else," Dreher said. When asked what her thoughts were when she learned she had been chosen Outstanding Teacher, Dreher said, "My first words were, 'I don't do it alone.' Without the many paraprofessionals who help me and who have a heart for our students, the program would not be as successful as it is. I was very surprised and honored to be chosen. It takes a lot of work to build and run this program to be as successful as it is, and without the dedication of the paraprofessionals and the support of the administration and board, we wouldn't have the program we do." The teacher chosen receives $500, as mentioned earlier. The teacher receives $250 for their own use and $250 for the classroom. When asked if she had any ideas what she will buy with the money for the classroom, Dreher said, "We have been talking about it, but the paraprofessionals and I have not decided yet. We are leaning toward technology or something for life skills, but nothing is definite yet. I want to thank the donors for their support of education in our school district." Congratulations to Peggy Dreher for being chosen as Outstanding Teacher of the Year.
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Tennis - 23. March 2019.
SERENA POWERS PAST PETERSON IN THREE SETS
This time last year, while making one of her first appearances on tour since the birth of her daughter in September 2017, Serena Williams was stunned by now-World No. 1 Naomi Osaka in the first round of the Miami Open presented by Itaú. In a quick and decisive match, Williams suffered her earliest exit at the Miami Open in her career — having reached at least the fourth round each time before.
This year, she was determined not to relive that moment in an otherwise illustrious career at her home tournament. Despite being broken three times and a sloppy performance in the second set, the 37-year-old took her game to the next level when the moment called for it, beating back her less-experienced opponent, Rebecca Peterson, for a 6-3, 1-6, 6-1 victory.
Williams acknowledged her shaky play, saying, "What was a little frustrating today is I know I can play so much better, but I just wasn't able to produce it today.
"But that's the beauty of fighting, getting through the matches where you're not playing your best, then coming out the next time and just doing better."
Williams raced out to a 40-0 lead in her opening service game before Peterson battled back to break the 23-time Grand Slam champion. However, the veteran shook off the slow start to break back immediately and ultimately took the first set 6-3. The Swede Peterson swung the match in her favor in the second, using some incredible long rallies to frustrate and tire Williams. The set began to slip away from the former World No. 1, with Peterson eventually taking it 6-1.
During the changeover, the winner of eight Miami Open singles titles regrouped and jumped on the 23-year-old’s second serve to give herself two break points early on in the third. Peterson would double-fault to give Williams the early break and all the momentum she would need to carry the third set 6-1 and with it, the match.
Asked what went through her head following the second set that allowed her to play so dominantly in the third, Williams said, "I could not lose this match... At that point it was irresponsible to be playing the way I was playing in the second set.
"That determination — 'I cannot lose this match,' just really kicked in. 'What do I need to do to win this match?'"
The 10th-seeded Williams will now face No. 18 Wang Qiang in the third round.
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Home Articles Articles by others English Articlesen Friedberg, Joan: "Tracing the past through the present in the Florina & Lake Prespa Region", 14th International Congress on Dance Research, Aridaia, Greece, 13-17/9, 2000.
Joan Friedberg
Tracing the past through the present in the Florina & Lake Prespa region.
Friedberg, Joan: "Tracing the past through the present in the Florina & Lake Prespa Region", 14th International Congress on Dance Research, Aridaia, Greece, 13-17/9, 2000.
Florina's traditional dances are known, remembered, and documented for the past 50 years, although much of the documentation available refers to dances exhibited by performing groups and does not provide a record of participatory dances as danced in the villages. When we try to trace them further back in time, the picture gets blurrier.
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, large upheavals resulted in dramatic shifts in the people who inhabited the Florina region. Because of these massive population shifts, local research into the dance traditions of the region is unlikely to give us a complete picture. However, by looking at both neighboring and diaspora communities, we can begin to reconstruct a dance culture as it existed at a specific time and place. This dance culture today not only crosses nearby political borders but also transnational boundaries across the globe [1]. This analysis reveals two contrasting trends: the survival of one dance and the endangerment of another.
Tracing the past
Florina is a picturesque town in Northern Greece, only 17 kilometers from the border with the former Yugoslavia. During Ottoman times, the primary "silk" trade route ran through Monastir (Bitola), 33 kilometers to the north, thus bypassing Florina, which was not much larger than a village, known then by its Slavic name of Lerin. Mostly Slavs inhabited the surrounding villages, but there were also Turkish, Vlach and Albanian villages [2]. Old photographs show that there were three or more mosques with minarets in Florina, that were still standing in 1917. This region remained under the Tourokratia (Ottoman rule) until 1913, when the Treaty of Lausanne designated it part of the "new lands" of the modern Greek nation.
After the exchange of populations beginning in 1923, as new refugees from the Black Sea were settling in the Florina region, a building boom began in the town. Between the early 1920s and 1930, many two and three-story buildings in the Neoclassical and Art Deco styles were constructed in Florina. The mosques and their minarets came tumbling down, and the main Greek Orthodox cathedral in the center of Florina went up.
In the zeal of their new nation-building, the liberated Greek communities of the Florina region began the task of building new schools and embarking on new education programs, which included the "reconstruction" of its dances [3}. During the 1950s, the organization Aristotelis developed programs for teaching, promoting, and performing dance and music of the region [4]. We are indebted to a few local residents, whose devout interest in their regions' traditions has resulted in documentation of the dances of Florina, in particular Vasilios Papachristos and Pavlos Koufis, who have each published historical records. We are also indebted to Simos Constandinou, who has taught Florina dances, particularly those of his native village of Alona, on an international scale. Finally, lesser known is Vangeli Mitrou, who has documented on video many weddings and dance events for several years.
A new generation of Greek scholars is now active in this arena as well. Yiannis Manos is focusing his Ph.D. research study on the difference between the dances danced by local performing groups and the dances danced by villagers in the Florina area. An ethnomusicologist from Edessa, Theodora Gourani, has embarked on Ph.D. research into the brass band music of the Florina region [5].
When we try to go further back in time to understand the dance traditions here, the record thins out and finally leads to a vacuum, foretold when one passes deserted old buildings of former inhabitants of Florina and sees their weathered shutters open to dark and vacant living quarters cherished only in old memories.
Due to the radical shifts of populations in this region during the course of many turbulent years, the music and dances witnessed at today's weddings and panegyria in and around Florina do not necessarily reflect the dance traditions that existed in the past. In addition, although villages can be differentiated by majority ethnic populations, based on primary language spoken, these differentiations have now become blurred due to acculturation, emigration, settlement of refugees and intermarriage.
During the period of the Tourkokratia, a dance culture developed in the regions surrounding LakePrespa until, in 1913, it was divided by newly drawn national boundaries. Through video documentation from recent sources, in addition to a collection of audio recordings, we can trace the evidence of a specific and distinctive dance, the Berace, and reconstruct its distribution in geographical space and time, creating an isochor, for that dance.
The term isochor is adapted from a concept developed in the study of linguistics and provides a model that is useful for the study of dance distribution across ethnic, national, and even transnational boundaries. The concept, termed an isogloss, scientifically distinguishes finite boundaries of distribution of a particular language dialect through a survey of the word usage in a region [6].
We can theorize that an isochor for the dance Berace extends in a path we can follow from villages near the town of Ohrid, southward along the shores of the two lakes and onward to Florina and villages south of Florina. In this context, I define the dance Berace, with its various names (Bairatse, Berance, Gerondikos, Camce) as being danced in three or more measures to a slow 12/4 meter, increasing in tempo as the dance progresses. A somewhat parallel and more extensive isochor exists for the 2-measure Berace. This isochor refers only to the dance as a participatory village dance and does not include its many incarnations in presentational contexts.
Dance attrition: In search of the Berace
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, American ethnomusicologist Robert Leibman lived in Yugoslavia in the LakePrespa region while working on a Fulbright scholarship. He observed the 3-measure dance Berace and later taught this dance in the U.S. He also released an LP entitled Traditional Tosk (Southern Albanians) Songs and Dances from the Lake Prespa Area. According to Leibman, in the village of Pestani (on Lake Ohrid), they do a three-measure Berace that they call Camce, in which the leader may improvise by adding additional pairs of in-place crossing measures [7].
In 1993, in hopes of finding this dance on the Greek side of the frontier, I traveled to the village of Psarades, on LakePrespa's southern shore, where I found instead mostly Pontian and Vlach dances. This wasn't too surprising because many frontier villages in Greek Macedonia had been settled by ethnic Greek refugees after 1923 in order to provide a more secure border. I found no trace of a Berace in Psarades, for reasons that later became obvious. In the last days of the Civil War, in a final effort to push the Communists out of Northern Greece, the British Royal Air Force bombed Psarades, formerly called Nivitza, and other frontier villages, causing the inhabitants to flee [8]. The villagers were forced to leave material valuables behind, but they took their traditions with them.
Eyewitnesses from these villages are still bitter when they remember it. George Saracil, now living in Toronto, Canada and has a strong Slavic-Macedonian ethnic affiliation, is from the village of German (Ayios Germanos), a frontier village near LakePrespa. Another man, now living in California but originally from the village of Ljubojno, just north of the frontier, still dances the Berance on occasion, in a highly improvised style in which he adds extra, in-place crossing figures to the dance. Had the dance Berace disappeared altogether from Florina along with the former villagers from the LakePrespa area?
Also in the early 1970s, Simos Constandinou, a native of the Florina village of Alona and a former dancer with the group Tanec, came to the U.S. and taught various dances, including the Gerondikos. He has since taught this dance internationally and at dance camps, such as Mazoxi, in Crete. Youth dance performing groups in the diaspora, having seen videos of this dance, occasionally decide to add it to their repertoire, but they cannot find a good quality recording. One reason for this is quite simple: the music is not called Gerondikos. The music is Bairatse (Greek), Berace (Albanian) or Berance (Slavic).
The Hellenized name "Gerondikos" was not known in Florina until recent decades. Pavlos Koufis, of Florina, provides us with the old Slavic name "Starskoto Oro" (the old men's dance) with a photograph of the dance from 1954, where it is also captioned "O Xoros Ton Geronton" [9].
In addition to the change of the name of the dance in Florina, the dance itself seems to be dying from attrition. The reason for this may be an obvious one: the Dance of the Old Men does not appear because there are not many old men who dance it. Though the Gerondikos continues to be a part of the repertoire of performing groups, and is danced by Florina's own Aristotelis group, it has nearly disappeared as a participatory dance. After visiting Florina in 1993 and 1995 and attending two weddings and numerous panegyria, and after viewing half a dozen videos of panegyria shot by other visitors, I had never witnessed anyone dance the Gerondikos.
Then in August 1999, at a panegyri in the village of Kato Ydroussa (formerly Dolno Kotori), toward the end of the evening, at about 1:00 a.m., the band began to play Bairatse, and a middle-aged man got up and began to dance a very expressive, highly improvised Gerondikos. The music and dance began in a very slow 12/4 rhythm, gradually increasing in tempo toward a 12/8 by the end of the dance.
Finally, I could confirm that the 3-measure dance known as Berace (among ethnic Albanians) and Berance (in the Republic of Macedonia) is nearly identical to the Gerondikos of Florina. The primary difference between the two versions is that they begin at different points, on different musical measures.
Young people today seem to favor the popular Pousteno (Levendikos, Litos) that in essence has the same step-pattern as the Gerondikos but begins up-tempo and travels, while the Gerondikos is inclined to be danced almost in place, at least in the beginning of the dance. The Levendikos' lively tempo and grounded footwork leaves less opportunity for improvisation.
Diaspora communities: A living link to the past?
An entirely different type of historical inquiry can be made by viewing a single video of a meeting of Slavic-speaking decata begalci (or detsa begaltsi) that is child refugees from Florina, Edessa and Kukush (now Kilkis). Some of this community is descended from former inhabitants of Kukush who fled in 1913 during the Second Balkan War and never returned. Most were among as many as 30,000 children who were removed from Lerin (Florina) and other parts of Northwestern Greece by the Communists or fled between 1946 and 1949, during the Civil War [10]. This video, of a dinner-dance exhibition, with general dancing following, was produced by George Saracil's Horizon-Macedonian Videos in Toronto, Canada.
More than 60,000 citizens and refugees from Greece who were of non-Greek ethnic origin or who asserted a Macedonian ethnicity had their citizenship revoked under Articles 19 (since repealed) and 20 of the Greek Citizenship Code, and many were not permitted to re-enter the country. Because these child refugees never returned to their villages in Northern Greece, they represent distinct points in time (1946 to 1949) in which, from that point onward, their dance traditions developed independently from those in Florina and Northern Greece. In anthropological terms, we can compare these two communities to determine whether their independent development, in terms of dance culture, has diverged or has developed along parallel lines from that period to the present.
In viewing this video, it appears that both the dance repertoire and the dance movements are a close parallel to those I've witnessed in recent years (1993-1999) in several Florina villages. It is interesting to note that, as in Florina today, they sometimes dance the Greek Kalamatianos, instead of the Pravoto/Lesnoto or the Roma dance, Cocek, favored in the Republic of Macedonia, to popular Slavic-Macedonian songs in 7/8 [11]. Both the 4-measure Greek Kalamatianos of Florina and the 3-measure Pravoto in the Republic of Macedonia are locally known by the name Za Raka (hand-hold dance). At times the choice of dance may be determined by the tempo of the music; nevertheless, the frequent choice of Kalamatianos in this diaspora community may be significant. It leads us to conclude that Slavic-speaking Floriniotes and other Western Macedonian communities have long had a Greek dance consciousness while having a Slavic-Macedonian music consciousness.
This dichotomy exists in Florina today among those residents who still speak the Slavic-Macedonian language, of whom there are many. It should not be surprising to anyone to find Slavic-Macedonian songs in Florina, since songs require words, and people naturally respond to songs with lyrics in their native language. Evidence exists in similar situations of "music remaining an emblem of ethnicity when other domains cannot" [12]. What is surprising is to find the survival of the Panhellenic dance Kalamatianos among a refugee community in Canada, in which I suspect - though most individuals view themselves nationally as Greeks - they do not identify themselves as ethnically Greek. On this dinner-dance video, we can observe most of the community dancing the steps of the Kalamatianos to popular Slavic-Macedonian songs such as "Makedonsko Devojce," just as they do in Florina.
So what we have, apparently, is a transnational isochor, a somewhat distinct boundary in which a particular dance remains intact in diaspora communities even after half a century of separation from their homeland. Other dance observers have informed me that this isochor extends to their communities as well. For example, in the Detroit area, Slavic-speaking refugees who identify themselves as Macedonians from the Florina village of Buf (renamed Akritas) almost always dance the Kalamatianos to Slavic Macedonian tunes in 7/8.
As a point of contrast, we can look at another Slavic-Macedonian diaspora dance community of people who have emigrated primarily from Bitola, just north of the Greek frontier. At numerous dinner dances at St. Mary's Macedonian Orthodox Church in Whittier, California, I have observed that the Greek Kalamatianos is danced only on rare occasions when an outside band is hired, and then only once during the event, usually to the Turkish tune popular in Greece, "Nina Nai Nai."
The survival of the traditional Greek Kalamatianos dance in Slavic-Macedonian diaspora communities from Northern Greece raises the interesting question of just how long ago did these communities become culturally hellenized to the extent that they adopted what might be considered the Greek national dance?
During the Ottoman era, Slavic communities in the Florina region were governed by a more traditional lifestyle than that of today. The common social structure of the time was the zadruga, a large, extended, communal family that lived under one roof. Unlike the Greeks of today, they followed the old Julian Calendar, and their most important holiday was their slava, celebrated on their family's saint's day [13]. From old traveler's descriptions, we can imagine what those celebrations might have been like. For example, this "Turkish Slavonian" festival at a monastery in August, 1844 [14]:
A green glade that ran up to the foot of the hill was covered with the preparations for the approaching festivities. Wood was splitting, fires lighting, fifty or sixty sheep were spitted, pyramids of bread... In the evening we went out, and the countless fires, lighting up the lofty oaks, had a most pleasing effect. The sheep were by this time cut up and lying in fragments, around which the supper parties were seated cross-legged. Other peasants danced slowly, in a circle, to the drone of the somniferous Servian bagpipe.
In another account, a folklore history of the Florina village of Zelevo (Andartiko), by one of its native sons now living in Canada, the author describes life in the village before 1912:
On important holy days like Easter Sunday, St. Lazarus, Palm Sunday etc. the young people gathered together and danced the horo - a chain dance in the village square [15].
This account also mentions a bagpiper who played for wedding processions.
In 1870, the BulgarianExarchateChurch began to recruit followers in the Florina region, and by the 1880s the tug of war between the Bulgarian Exarchate and the Greek Patriarchate Churches, that would eventually precipitate the interminable Macedonian question and the Balkan Wars, had begun. Here is a later traveler's description from the Florina/Kastoria area in 1896 [16]:
In a dry river bed the village of Baskouri is shaded by a number of acorn trees. Horses and donkeys are on the threshing floors. The villagers rush to meet us and ask questions. They understand Greek with difficulty and speak only Slavic, but they declare themselves to be Greek and apologize for not being any more enlightened. They call for their kids who leave their classroom to interpret. The priest and the school teacher show up too, and their complains are the same as the ones at Dihem: the insecurity of the mountain... the Albanian brigands... the Exarchate priests.
We can theorize that the partial Hellenization of the dance repertoire occurred at least 50 years ago and, more likely, beginning in 1913 with the incorporation of the new lands into the Greek nation [17]. Karakasidou suggests that "an unconscious process of enculturation" of these Slavic communities into a Greek national identity began only after 1913 [18].
The dance Berace, accompanied by a particular musical meter, style and specific melodies, developed during the late Ottoman era in the region surrounding Lakes Ohrid and Prespa. It is variously interpreted by dancers as a 2-measure and as a 3-measure dance, sometimes improvised to include additional measures. The 3-measure Berace seems to be disappearing from the participatory repertoire in Florina by attrition and survives in Greece primarily as a performing group dance under its new name, Gerondikos. It can be considered an endangered dance.
The standard Greek Kalamatianos, known by the name Za Raka (hand-hold), still the most popular dance of Florina, continues to thrive even among diaspora communities with a separate ethnic identity. This implies that this dance is embedded in the collective consciousness of the region. We can't know for certain when it became a traditional dance in Florina. It could have entered the repertoire in some villages as a partial Hellenization of the region began to occur at the end of the 19th century. However, it is more likely its appearance can be associated with Greek hegemony that began in 1912, and that, by the time of the Civil War, this dance had become a part of the standard participatory repertoire.
1. Danforth, Loring M., The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World, PrincetonUniversity Press, Princeton, NJ, 1995.
2. Lithoxoou, Dimitri, in Koufis, Pavlos, Laografika Alona-Armensko Florinas, Athens, 1994, pg. 57-61
3. Manos, Ioannis, "Ekpaidevtiki anatasi tis perioxis Florinas meta tin apelevtherosi," Aristotelis, Florina, 217 / 1993.
4. Papachristou, Vasilis, Xorevtikes Drasthriotites Tou Nomou Florinas, Prespes, 1994.
5. Private communications with Ioannis Manos and Theodora Gourani.
6. This term was suggested to me by an American linguist, Andrew Carnie.
7. Private communication with Robert Leibman.
8. Pettifer, James, "The Last Village in Greece: 'Nivitza,' 'Psarades' and Miss Edith Durham: a note." Publication of the South Slav Research & Study Centre, Vol. 18, #1-2, 1997.
9. Koufis, pg. 188
10. Karakasidou, Anastasia N., "Politicizing Culture: Negating Ethnic Identity in Greek Macedonia." Journal of Modern Greek Studies vol. 11, 1993, pg. 1-28. Also Koliopoulos, John S., "Identity and Numbers of Greece's Slav Macedonians." In Ourselves and Others: The Development of a Greek Macedonian Cultural Identity Since 1912, Berg, Oxford, New York, 1997, pg. 53.
11. Friedberg, Joan, "Cultural Change in Traditional Dances in Florina, Greece, A Pilot Study," 11th International Conference on Dance Research, Dance Around the Mediterranean, I.O.F.A./D.O.L.T., Athens, Greece, July 1997.
12. Nettl, Bruno, "Relating the present to the past: thoughts on the study of musical change and culture change in ethnomusicology," Music & Anthropology, No. 1. (Online journal).
13. Karakasidou, Anastasia N., "Women of the Family, Women of the Nation: National Enculturation among Slav-speakers in North-west Greece." In Ourselves and Others: The Development of a Greek Macedonian Cultural Identity Since 1912, Berg, Oxford, New York, 1997.
14. Clark, Edson L., Turkey, Peter Fenelon Collier, New York, 1878.
15. Tomev, Foto, Short History of Zhelevo Village, Macedonia, Zhelevo Brotherhood, Toronto, Canada, nd.
16. Bernard, Victor, Turkey and Hellenism: Trekking through Macedonia, Trohalia, Athens, 1987, pg. 364.
17. Petrides, Ted, "Greek Folk Dance and Change, " Folk Dance Research, I.O.F.A Proceedings, 1988. According to Petrides, the Kalamatianos "functioned as the focal point of cultural and national identification with free 'mother' Greece." He also asserts that school teaching programs introduced the dance into areas where it was not previously
danced.
18. Karakasidou, 1997.
Falirea, Grigori: Hrisodaktyloi: Paradosiaki Orchistra me Halkina Pnevsta Makedonias, Afsi Falirea 420, 1998. CD
Friedberg, Joan: Florina. Yesterday and today, Demotika Productions, Los Angeles, 1998. CD
Leibman, Robert Henry, Traditional Tosk Songs and Dances from the LakePrespa Area, Selo, n.d. LP.
Van der Zwan, Dick & Dimitropoulos, Vasilis: Western Macedonia, Choros, 1985. LP.
Vuylsteke, Herman C.: Yougoslavie 2, Radio France, Paris, 1981. LP
Joan Friedberg performed with Greek dance companies in Los Angeles from 1972 to 1978. She has been a musician (llautë, çifteli, laouto) and singer with the Drita Albanian Folk Ensemble since 1983 and with Los Angeles Greek bands Paradosi and Sto Horio. She traveled for three months in the Balkans and Turkey in 1982, observing dance events in the Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria and in Greece. She has made five trips to Greece, the last three in 1993, 1995, and 1999, focusing on the Florina region. She has published several articles about Greek folklore and served as contributing editor of The International Greek Folklore Society's Laografia from May 1995 to February 1996.
Map of the Berace Isochor
The line on the map represents an approximate isochor for the dance Berace, based upon either an eyewitness "sighting" of the dance in these villages, a witness of the dance in the diaspora being danced by an individual from one of these villages, or field recordings made in the village. The isochor is not a direct parallel to the exact meaning of an isogloss in linguistics, since we cannot know for certain that the Berace is not danced in other villages. It is also possible that the isochor continues in a circle connecting Kastoria villages with villages in Albania, extending around the lakes region, but there is no available research to establish the dance's occurrence in these areas.
There is also some overlap between the different varieties of the Berace. The 2-measure Berace is danced in Flambouro, Florina and in Krani. A women's 2-measure Berace is danced in Velesta, but was also danced in villages of Kostur (Kastoria), as evidenced by refugees from this region now living in Yugoslavia.
The 3-measure Berace is danced in Pestani, Resen and Ljubojno, as well as in villages of Florina. Though we have only sparse data, the map serves to illustrate the pattern of distribution for this dance.
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Voting Reform: An interview with Amisha Ghadiali
Make sure you vote in the UK Referendum on May 5th - Here is why I am saying Yes to Fairer Votes.
Written by Silent City
Yes to Fairer Votes Vice-Chair Amisha Ghadiali wearing Ada Zanditon. Illustration by Sam Parr
On May 5th 2011, this the United Kingdom will be asked – in the first referendum since 1975 – to vote on the following question:
“At present, price the UK uses the ‘first past the post’ system to elect MPs to the House of Commons. Should the ‘alternative vote’ system be used instead?”
The referendum on the Alternative Vote is the first time in our lifetimes that the citizens of the UK have been able to have a say in how we elect MP’s to the House of Commons.
Currently, viagra 100mg this historical moment to discuss voting reform – amongst a broader analysis on the current state of Britain’s democracy – is being lost amidst (speculated) Coalition tensions and fear mongering on the cost of moving from FPTP to AV. Whilst to some, AV may be “a miserable little compromise” that fails to push voting reform far enough, by voting Yes! on the 5th May we, the citizens of the UK, can register our disquiet with the current system (FPTP) and enable the discussion on voting reform to stay at the forefront of the political agenda.
To find out more about what the Alternative Vote is compared to the current system of “First Past The Post” Amelia’s Magazine interviewed one of the Yes Campaign’s Vice-Chair’s: Jewellery Designer, Ethical Fashion Campaigner and Founder of Think Act Vote – Amisha Ghadiali.
Photography by Anna Gordon
What is a referendum?
A referendum is when we are asked to vote, not in an election, but on a single issue. Many of us would like to see more of these on a variety of issues. However they are not that common, the last UK-wide referendum was in 1975 asking the question “Do you think the UK should stay in the European Community (Common Market)?”
What is the Alternative Vote?
The Alternative Vote is a voting system, it means that instead of putting one X on our ballot paper, we rank our candidates in order of preference. You can rank all the candidates, or just one, it’s totally up to you. What this means is that if there are three candidates that you would be happy to represent you, you can communicate this. Or if your first choice is a smaller party, that under the current system would have little chance to getting in, you can vote for them, but also somebody from one of the main parties, without having to vote tactically.
The person who wins the seats needs to have the majority of the vote, so what they do is count the votes. If nobody has 50% of the vote, they eliminate the candidate that comes last, and add their second preferences to the remaining candidates. This repeats until somebody has over 50% of the vote. It means that no votes are wasted.
What are the benefits to AV compared to FPTP?
The current system FPTP means that who ever gets the most votes wins. This sounds fair but what it means in reality is that 2 out of 3 MPs in our parliament have less then 50% of the vote. This means that most of us are represented by people most of us voted against.
The Alternative Vote will mean that MPs will have to be voted for by the majority in their constituency, and so will have to work harder to make sure that they are listening to all of their constituents and representing all of their views, rather then pandering to their core voter support which many of them do.
How are the ‘winners’ in FPTP Elections often opposed to by the majority of voters?
Because the candidate who gets the most votes wins, it doesn’t matter how much of the vote they got. For example some have as little as 32% of the vote in their constituency, meaning that over two thirds of their consistency didn’t vote for them.
Why are you voting Yes to AV?
I think that the Alternative Vote will make our democracy more honest, make all of our votes count, make our MPs have to work harder to gain wider support in their constituencies, make our MPs more accountable to us and make our experience of voting simpler. We will still have our one local MP, but will have more of a say on who that is.
The way that we vote is how we take part in our democracy, and so having more of a say in this part of the process is vital to making ours a fairer politics.
I believe that voting yes in this referendum is the most important vote that we have ever been asked to cast.
AV – A Historical Perspective
Why do you believe this is the most important vote we have ever been asked to cast?
I have taken part in two general elections where I know that my vote didn’t make any difference to the result. Although voting in both general and local elections is an important part of our citizenship, this is us voting on the future of our democracy. It’s the first referendum that I have ever taken part in. It’s not about party politics and politicians but about how we take part in politics and have our views represented. What could be more important than that? After all they do work for us.
What is your role within the Yes campaign?
I am a Vice-Chair of the campaign. When I thought about it over Christmas, I realised how passionately I felt about this referendum, and contacted the campaign asking if I could help. They invited me to be a Vice-Chair along with other supporters including Eddie Izzard, Martin Bell and Greg Dyke. It means that we campaign and speak out about the issues to the media and at events, and as I have discovered in the pub too!
Yes to AV illustration by Mike Harman
What are your thoughts on how both the Yes to AV and No to AV campaigns have been run?
To be honest, I have found the whole debate in the media really depressing. The focal point often is about how it is going to affect the politicians, but this is not about them, it’s about us and our experience voting. It’s about our future, not about the present.
Of course, I am a supporter of the Yes Campaign, but feel that I would have been deeply disappointed in the No Campaign tactics even if I supported FPTP. Their campaign messages are built on actual lies, and I can’t believe that people are spending millions of pounds spreading lies, rather then on creating an honest open debate about the two systems. There has been so much ‘mud slinging’ which I find shocking, because I thought our politics was better than that.
Their three arguments are that it is expensive, it will give extremist parties (ie the BNP) more power and that it is too complicated for us to understand. None of these things are actually true. They have said it will cost £250 million which is the cost of the referendum whatever the result and the cost of counting machines that we are not getting. They have said that it will encourage the BNP, when the BNP are supporting a No vote, as they know the current system works better for them. And the idea that it is too complicated is frankly insulting. We can all count to three!
The Yes campaign has had to respond to a lot of the allegations that have been made, using time when we would have preferred to talk about relevant issues. I am really enjoying the energy of the Yes campaign, it has brought together a group of passionate, committed people from a variety of backgrounds. The local groups that have been running phone banks and doing local actions are really energetic and inspiring.
Why do you think the Conservatives, headed by David Cameron are campaigning against AV, though Cameron himself won the party leadership through AV?
It’s baffling isn’t it. I find it shocking that he is saying that AV is a bad system when it gave him his job. If the Conservative Party leadership deserves AV, then so should we. It is a system that is used a lot in Westminster, not just for leadership contests but also other votes such as how MPs join select committees. I think it is because this change breaks down the tribalism of the Conservatives vs Labour Party, which has served the conservative party well. I thought Cameron was more progressive, but seeing him campaign on this, my personal view is that Cameron doesn’t actually want us to have more say, he is happy with the system as it is, as it works for him.
Will AV tackle the culture of tactical voting and ‘safe seats’? Thus uprooting the current system of members of parliament being parachuted intp safe constituencies?
Yes it will. There is a website called Voter Power, where you can find out what your vote is worth with AV compared to FPTP. From their analysis AV will reduce the number of very safe seats by 60, and increase the number of very marginal seats by 44. So this will make a big difference.
Safe seats are definitely a problem in our current system, as is the fact that political parties openly target the marginal seats only. In the last election the votes of only 1.6% of the electorate in 111 of these marginal seats decided the result. This is something that we have to change.
There will be no need for tactical voting. You can vote with your real preferences, and don’t have to think about voting ‘against’ people.
Why do you think the number of people who vote at each General Election is falling? What needs to change within our political system that will encourage people to use their vote?
I think that there are many reasons why voting turnout is falling, a lack of trust in politicians, declining numbers of political party membership, the number of safe seats held by MPs, feeling that votes don’t count, as just a few. I think that people need to feel more connected to politics, and feel that their voice is really heard through voting. I think the Alternative Vote will help solve these issues. It will not solve all the ills of politics in this country, but it is a small change we can and should make for the better.
In the media there have been mutterings on both the reduction of the number of MP’s and the redrawing of constituency boundaries, what effect will this decision have on politics and what is it relation to the referendum on the alternative vote?
So it has nothing to do with the referendum. This happened earlier in the year, it was part of the same bill that the referendum was on when it went through parliament, and was not something that we had a say on. This has happened, and will take effect at the next general election. There are going to be 50 less MPs which means that some of the current boundaries will be re-drawn and made bigger. The idea is that it keeps the cost of politics down. It has been quite controversial as they are dividing some traditional boundaries and local areas. At the same time Cameron has appointed 117 new peers in the House of Lords since last May, which is actually putting the cost of politics up despite cutting the number of MPs.
Any website or article recommendations for those interested in finding out more about the referendum?
Yes to Fairer Votes
Elegance Rebellion
If you get the X Factor you’ll get AV – Johann Hari
You can join the campaign on Facebook and Twitter too!
Written by Silent City on Wednesday April 27th, 2011 1:45 pm
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I promise to move on to other issues on Thursday, but needed to address a few more issues on text topics and the whole “Ecclesiastical Text” movement. Looked at 1 John 3:1 and the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) and again asked serious questions of the fundamental assertions of this movement.
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At the Noda South West Awards, held in Plymouth on March 16th, APS were awarded the Councillor's Cup for A Midsummer Night's Dream. This cup is awarded to the production that, in the Councillor's opinion, was the most outstanding South West production of 2018, taking into account the acting, set, costumes, music, lighting, props, mood, tone, and interpretation, irrespective of size, budget, category or location.
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Amateur Players of Sherborne (APS) are one of the oldest groups in the area. Since the group was founded in 1934, we have presented over 160 shows and have received a number of awards. We are now based in the Sherborne Studio Theatre.
In June 2019 at the Sherborne Studio Theatre followed by one performance at the Shaftesbury Fringe, we presented The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), an irreverent romp through the plays of The Bard.
Formerly a chapel (known as 'The Tin Tabernacle'), Sherborne Studio Theatre has been converted into a cosy, intimate setting with a stage, green room and an auditorium that can accommodate an audience of around 40-50 people.
You are very welcome to become a member of APS, whether you want to act, work back stage or just enjoy our company. If you would like to get involved in staging a play or just enjoy an entertaining night out, we will be delighted to hear from you.
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More funds to help cancer children
More funds to help cancer children /news/576931
Riyadh: Md Rasooldeen
Princess Adela bint Abdullah signed an agreement with The Clinics Medical Center in Riyadh on behalf of SANAD Children’s Cancer Charity on Saturday for financial assistance for the care of children afflicted with terminal cancer.
Ayman S. Halawani, chief executive officer of The Clinics Medical Center, signed the agreement on behalf of his organization.
Following the signing ceremony, the princess said that the accord is an agreement for SANAD to avail itself of financial assistance from organizations in the private sector to help children suffering from terminal cancer.
“Private sector organizations have a greater role to play in helping social service organizations to facilitate the implementation of their programs,” she said, pointing out that SANAD has plans to extend its services to a larger area in the health sector to help more cancer patients.
Talking to newsmen after the signing ceremony, Halawani said the agreement would not only look after the interests of patients, but also their parents and families. “Patients will be allowed to take clinical treatment from this facility, while counseling services will be offered to the members of the patients' family.
Located on the capital's Tahlia Street, The Riyadh Clinics is the first of a chain of medical centers. “We provide a variety of medical and health services grouped under one roof in our state-of-the-art facility. We believe that the full spectrum of comprehensive medical services, the convenience and reliability we bring to our patients have been the keys to the success and excellent performance of our medical center,” he said.
The agreement, he said, is part of the company’s commitment to community services. “We hope to extend our services to other areas in the coming years,” Halawani said.
Consultant Medical Director Tariq Al-Shenafi said the Clinics hopes to extend its services to other major cities in the Kingdom and eventually to cover the Gulf region.
He said: “Our strategy is to continue developing opportunities for the expansion of medical care, medical equipment, techniques and treatments that enable facilities, the latest medical equipment and cutting edge medical techniques and treatments.
“Our concept relies on a holistic set of complementary medical services grouped under one roof; medical procedures and services across radiology, laboratory, dermatology, cosmetics, ob-gyn, general surgery, physiotherapy, wellness, nutrition, and dentistry, in addition to a wide range of medical consultations provided by our physicians across several specialties.
“Our first center also provides certain specialized services for women revolving around lifestyle, wellness, and beauty, relying on proven medical procedures.”
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Where We Are Going Today: Cloud 9
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Cloud 9 has rapidly gained popularity in Jeddah
This is one of the most appropriately named cafes in Jeddah, because its coffee takes you to Cloud 9.
Cloud 9 has rapidly gained popularity in Jeddah, becoming the center of attention in events like the Gamers Con and XJED. The cafe itself is extremely cozy and is commonly defined as a place with good vibes and music, making it the best place for friends to spend time together.
For coffee they have trained baristas who add their own twists on the coffee, such as their salted caramel coffee, served with the rim of the cup coated in salt and caramel to add an extra punch of flavor.
They also serve amazing savory dishes such as their Fattoush Salad, Pronto Pasta. For people seeking healthier options, they have sweeter snacks such as granola with fruits.
And there is even more to the place than its amazing food and coffee — they also serve iced tea, making the cafe ideal for everyone who wants to have a fun time.
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Bahamas Government Puts Abuse of Cubans on Back Burner
Friday 20th, September 2013 / 11:11 Published by News Editor
The government has yet to appoint the retired Court of Appeal justice and the other person who will lead the final investigation into the alleged abuse of Cuban detainees at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre, The Nassau Guardian confirmed.
The reported abuse allegedly happened nearly four months ago and there is widespread interest in a report being completed and publicized.
Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Hubert Chipman said yesterday it appears the government is dragging its feet in the matter.
“We need to be talking about how we are going to correct what happened at the detention center, not still asking where the report is,” Chipman said.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell has directed all inquiries concerning the probe to the Ministry of National Security.
One government official, who was not authorized to speak, said yesterday that the government was still in the process of confirming the retired Court of Appeal Justice to head the investigation.
Mitchell told reporters last month that a cleric, who the government had also engaged, was unable to take part in the probe as initially planned.
Miami-based protest group Democracy Movement also hit out at the government over the delay yesterday.
Ramon Sanchez, a spokesman for Democracy Movement, said: “If we knew that they were releasing the report it wouldn’t be so bad.”
On August 15, Mitchell told reporters that he hoped to have the completed report in little more than a month.
“We are in the process of settling the terms of reference of the review of the investigation, which we expect within a week,” he said at the time.
“We are hoping within 30 days of the review being settled, which should be sometime this week, we should have a report.”
On Monday, Minister of National Security Dr. Bernard Nottage told reporters that he has not made an announcement on the allegations or the report because he had yet to receive all of the “bits and pieces” he needs about the issue.
Prime Minister Perry Christie said last month that he has no problem releasing the report.
He said the only thing that would make him hesitate in doing so is if its release would violate people’s rights.
Chipman said he found it strange that the government’s team of investigators will not have the alleged victims available to them.
“When you conduct this investigation, who are you going to interview to get the Cuban side?” he asked.
“There is nothing else you can ask these people because they aren’t here. They were repatriated. The people who were allegedly beaten are not here.
“Where are you going to get your information from, the defence force and immigration officers?”
A disciplinary hearing into the alleged abuse was also postponed, and there is no indication when it will take place, according to attorney Wayne Munroe, who represents one of the defence force marines accused of the beatings.
Sanchez said yesterday that the government is creating too much uncertainty over the issue.
“Our concern is if we don’t pursue this issue, it will go to sleep,” he said.
“That means that these people will still hang around and abuse other people.”
The group has staged multiple protests against The Bahamas in the wake of the allegations.
According to one of the marines interviewed as part of the initial investigation by the defence force, Cuban detainees were severely beaten at the detention center for almost two hours after they attempted to escape on May 20, and one even appeared to have temporarily lost consciousness as a result of the abuse.
Randy Rodriguez, a former detainee who was granted asylum by the United States, said he was “mercilessly” kicked on the floor by guards, pepper sprayed and doused with water.
Nottage is expected to hold a press conference at the Ministry of National Security this morning to discuss the recommendations made at a recent public meeting on crime, “among other pertinent issues”.
It is unclear if he will give an update on the government’s investigations into the alleged abuse.
via The Nassau Guardian.
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Siege of Petersburg Resources > Other Postwar Publications > Clark's North Carolina Regiments > CLARK NC: Reams Station. 25…
CLARK NC: Reams Station. 25 August, 1864
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Editor’s Note: The following excerpt comes from Walter Clark’s five volume Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-’65, published in 1901. The reference work provides mini regimental histories written mostly by men representing each unit, with gaps filled in by editor Clark. These histories often provide a surprising amount of detail on the Siege of Petersburg.
This particular entry is from Volume 5, which contained reminiscences of specific battles, and is the only entry on Petersburg in the entire volume.
REAMS STATION
25 AUGUST. 1864.
By MAJOR CHAS. M. STEDMAN, Forty-Fourth Regiment, N[orth]. C[arolina]. T[roops].
Upon the investment of Petersburg, the possession of the Weldon road became of manifest importance, as it was Lee’s main line of communication with the South, whence he drew his men and supplies. On 18 August, 1864, General G. K. Warren, with the Fifth Corps of Grant’s Army and Kautz’s Division of Cavalry, occupied the line of the Weldon road at a point six miles from Petersburg. An attempt was made to dislodge them from this position on the 21st, but the effort failed. Emboldened by Warren’s success, Hancock was ordered from Deep Bottom to Reams Station, ten miles from Petersburg. He arrived there on the 22d, and promptly commenced the destruction of the railroad track. His infantry force consisted of Gibbon’s and Miles’ Divisions, and in the afternoon of the 25th, he was reinforced by the division of Orlando B. Wil[l]cox, which however, arrived too late to be of any substantial service to him. Gregg’s Division of cavalry, with an additional brigade, commanded by Spear, was with him and abundant artillery.
On the 22d Gregg was assailed by Wade Hampton with one of his cavalry divisions, and a sharp contest ensued. General Hampton from the battle field of the 22d, sent a note to General R. E. Lee, suggesting an immediate attack with infantry; that great commander realizing that a great opportunity was offered to strike Hancock a heavy blow, directed Lieutenant-General A. P. Hill to advance against him as promptly as possible. General Hill left his camp near Petersburg on the night of the 24th, and marching south, halted near Armstrong’s Mill, about eight miles from Petersburg.
On the morning of the 25th he advanced to Monk’s Neck bridge, three miles from Reams Station, and awaited advices from Hampton. The Confederate force actually present at Reams Station consisted of Cooke’s and MacRae’s Brigades, of Heth’s Division; Lane’s, Scales’ and McGowan’s Brigades, of Wilcox’s Division; Anderson’s Brigade of Longstreet’s Corps; two brigades of Mahone’s Division; Butler’s and W. H. F. Lee’s Divisions of Cavalry and a portion of Pegram’s Battalion of artillery. General Hampton, commanding cavalry, marched at daylight on the morning of the 25th, and drove the Federal cavalry before him at all points. Both of his divisions united at Malone’s Crossing, about two and a half miles from Reams Station, having moved against the enemy by different routes. Here Hampton was attacked by a portion of Hancock’s infantry, when he dismounted his entire force and a spirited fight was in progress when the columns of A. P. Hill appeared in sight, with the purpose of attacking Hancock’s force from the front. Hancock’s infantry, who were expecting an attack from Hill, had entrenched themselves strongly on the west side of the railroad and a short distance from it. Hill ordered the first assault about 2 o’clock in the afternoon. The assaulting column consisted of Anderson’s Georgia Brigade and Scales’ North Carolina Brigade. These two brigades, after a severe conflict in which both fought well, were repulsed. The second assault was made about 5 o’clock in the afternoon by the three North Carolina Brigades of Lane, Cooke and MacRae, from left to right, in the order named. These troops had become famous throughout the entire army for their fighting qualities. How could it be otherwise with such brigade commanders? On this day General Conner, of South Carolina, was commanding Lane’s Brigade, as General Lane had been severely wounded at Cold Harbor.
In front of Lane and Cooke the enemy had felled trees, sharpening the limbs and making it very difficult to get through them. MacRae had an open field between him and the enemy’s breastworks, and for this reason, as the other two brigades would be necessarily retarded by the abatis, which was exceedingly formidable where Lane’s men had to pass, they were ordered to advance somewhat sooner tha[n] MacRae’s men. MacRae’s line of battle was in the edge of a pine thicket about three hundred yards from the breastworks to be assaulted. Walking along the line MacRae told the men that he knew they would go over the works, and that he wished them to do so without firing a gun. “All right, General, we will go there,” was the answer which came from all. The men were in high spirits, jesting and laughing, and ready to move on an instant’s notice. In the meanwhile Lane’s and Cooke’s Brigades advancing were received by a heavy fire of both musketry and artillery. As the fire became more violent, especially in front of Lane, MacRae, prompted by that great and magnanimous spirit which ever characterized him, and realizing that the crisis of the conflict was at hand, said to Captain Louis G. Young, his Adjutant-General, “I shall wait no longer for orders. Lane is drawing the entire fire of the enemy; give the order to advance at once.” Hitherto his brigade had received but slight attention from the enemy, the greater portion of their fire having been directed against Lane’s and Cooke’s Brigades. But warned of the danger which threatened them, by the loud cheers from MacRae’s Brigade, as it emerged from its covering of pines and advanced to the assault, they opened a tremendous fire of small arms, with a converging fire of artillery along MacRae’s whole front. It was all in vain. MacRae’s men in a line almost as straight and unbroken as they presented when on parade, without firing a gun, threw themselves forward at a double-quick, and mounting the entrenchments, precipitated themselves among the enemy’s infantry on the other side, who seemed to be dazed by the vehemence of the attack, and made a very feeble resistance after their works were reached. Lane’s and Cooke’s men, stimulated by the shouts of MacRae’s Brigade on their right, redoubled their exertions and advancing with great rapidity through the fallen timber, were close under the works when MacRae struck them. In fact, portions of the three brigades crossed the embankment together, and the glory of the victory belongs equally to them all. Nor were our cavalry idle spectators of the fight. As soon as it was evident to General Hampton that Hill’s infantry had commenced the second assault with the three North Carolina Brigades, he ordered his entire force, which had been dismounted, to attack the enemy in flank and rear. This was done most gallantly and successfully. General Rufus Barringer, of North Carolina, commanded W. H. F. Lee’s Division with marked skill and gallantry, whilst Colonel W. H. Cheek, of Warren county, led Barringer’s Brigade with his accustomed dash. The cavalry vied with the infantry in their headlong assault upon the enemy’s lines. The Nineteenth North Carolina (2 Cav.) under General W. P. Roberts, of Gates County, carried the first line of rifle-pits on the right, and the cavalry all swept over the main line. Their works stormed in front, their lines carried in flank and rear, the enemy’s infantry gave way at all points and abandoned the field in confusion and without any appearance of order. In truth, the Federal infantry did not show the determination which had generally marked the conduct of Hancock’s Corps. Not so with the Federal artillery. It was fought to the last with unflinching courage. Some minutes before the second assault was made, General MacRae had ordered Lieutenant W. E. Kyle, with the sharpshooters, to concentrate his fire upon the Federal batteries. Many men and horses rapidly fell under the deadly fire of these intrepid marksmen. Yet still the artillerists who were left, stood by their guns. When MacRae’s Brigade crossed the embankment, a battery which was on his right front as lie advanced, wheeled to a right angle with its original position, and opened a fire of grape and canister at close quarters, enfilading the Confederate lines; General MacRae immediately ordered this battery to be taken. Although entirely abandoned by its infantry support, it continued a rapid fire upon the attacking column until the guns were reached. Some of the gunners even then refused to surrender and were taken by sheer physical force. They were animated in their gallant conduct by the example of their commanding officer. On horse back, he was a conspicuous target, and his voice could be distinctly heard encouraging his men. Struck with admiration by his bravery, every effort was made by General MacRae, Captain W. P. Oldham, Captain Robert Bingham, and one or two others who were among the first to reach the guns, to save the life of this manly opponent. Unfortunately he was struck by a ball which came from the extreme flank, as all firing had ceased in front of him and he fell from his horse mortally wounded, not more lamented by his own men than by those who combatted him. This battery, when captured, was at once turned upon the retreating columns of the enemy. It was manned by a few of MacRae’s sharpshooters, all of whom were trained in artillery practice. They were aided by Captain Oldham, Lieutenant Kyle and others, not now remembered. Captain Oldham sighted one of the guns repeatedly, and when he saw the effect of his accurate aim upon the disordered masses in front, was so jubilant that General MaeRae, with his usual quiet humor, remarked, ”Oldham thinks he is at a ball in Petersburg.”
After the capture of the breastworks, General McGowan’s Brigade was sent in on the right. That generous hearted old hero declined to make any official report of the conduct of his brigade, giving as a reason therefor, that he “supposed he was only sent in to help the North Carolinians in the pursuit, and gather up the spoils of war which had been captured by them.” His unselfish example was well worthy of imitation. Mahone’s old brigade subsequently advanced over the same field, but the hard fighting was over.
The Federal loss in this battle was between six hundred and seven hundred killed and wounded, two thousand one hundred and fifty prisoners, three thousand one hundred stand of small arms, twelve stand of colors, nine guns and caissons. Among the prisoners captured was General Walker, of Hancock’s staff, who surrendered to Lieutenant Kyle. Kyle here, as elsewhere, was in the very front of the assaulting column.
The Confederate loss was small, and fell principally upon Lane’s Brigade. In the second and final assault it was about five hundred in killed and wounded. The result of this brilliant engagement was hailed with great rejoicing throughout the South, and shed a declining lustre upon the Confederate battle flag, upon which the sun of victory was about to go down forever. General R. E. Lee publicly and repeatedly stated that not only North Carolina, but the whole Confederacy, owed a debt of gratitude to Lane’s, Cooke’s and MacRae’s Brigades which could never be repaid. He also wrote to Governor Vance expressing his high appreciation of their services. From his letter I make this extract:
“HEADQUARTERS ARMY NORTHERN VIRGINIA,
“His Excellency Z. B. Vance,
Governor of North Carolina, Raleigh:
“I have frequently been called upon to mention the services of North Carolina soldiers in this army, but their gallantry and conduct were never more deserving of admiration than in the engagement at Reams Station on the 25th ultimo.
“The brigades of Generals Cooke, MacRae and Lane, the last under the temporary command of General Conner, advanced through a thick abatis of felled trees, under a heavy fire of musketry and artillery, and carried the enemy’s works with a steady courage that elicited the warm commendation of their corps and division commanders, and the admiration of the army.
“On the same occasion the brigade of General Barringer bore a conspicuous part in the operations of the cavalry, which were no less distinguished for boldness and efficiency than those of the infantry.
“If the men who remain in North Carolina share the spirit of those they have sent to the field, as I doubt not they do, her defence may securely be trusted to their hands.
“I am, with great respect,
“Your obedient servant,
R. E. Lee,
The regiments from North Carolina engaged in this battle again illustrated those high qualities which will perpetuate the name and fame of the Confederate soldier in the years to come. Unshaken by the fall of Vicksburg and the disaster at Gettysburg, undismayed amidst the general gloom which was settling upon the fortunes of the South, they exhibited the same enthusiasm and valor which had marked their conduct upon every field where they stood for the honor, glory and renown of their State.
Charles M. Stedman.
Greensboro, N. C..
25 August, 1901.1
Clark, Walter. Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-’65, Volume 5 (Nash Brothers: 1901), pp. 206-212 ↩
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Turning a Woodland into a Creative Hub in the Outdoor City
Andrew Vickers on how he left his career as a dry stone waller and bought a woodland to create his very own outdoor art gallery.
I've always had a love of stone. I set myself up as a dry stone waller when I was 16, but soon got bored of its repetitiveness. I didn't like how I was building all these walls, yet no one knew who made them. So one night, I decided to carve a face in stone and sculpt it into one of the walls to make my mark.
I just knew I wanted to do something where I could be creative and let my feelings be known, so I started to edge towards a career in sculpting. I had to continue dry stone walling for a bit, but now I am a full time sculptor and have named my gallery Stoneface Creative after that night.
I've always wanted to own a woodland and ever since I started sculpting full time, I actively looked for places to buy. About four years ago, when I was shopping in one of the local stores, I just asked the women who owned Storrs Woods before me if she would sell it, and she said yes!! It's crazy but that's how I got to own my own woodland.
I'm from Dunworth in Sheffield, which is only half a mile away from Storrs Woods, so I've known this woodland for a long time and played here as a child. I love that on the hillside you can see more trees than houses. Having the venue in a valley means I'm just surrounded by trees and water all day and the connection to my childhood and family means it's a particularly special place for me.
I’m an outdoors person in general; even when it's snowing I still carve outside. I just think; why would you choose to shut yourself in a box-like studio when you could be surrounded by nature? It's the best place to work; it's so quiet and protected by trees. The nature of the valley, how it is enclosed, sheltered and protected, provides me with so much inspiration for my sculptures, I feel like I'm at one with nature. I suppose my art is a way of making interventions, introducing forms to coexist with natural beauty. The venue also makes me want to do all the things that are natural, like cooking outdoors.
Little by little I have been working on the woodland. Everything here has been made by me, from the sculptures to the walls and flooring. Things are going well and I have a variety of customers. People tend to know about me through word of mouth, but after I went on the TV show Posh Pawn the floodgates really opened. I even have rock stars and TV personalities, including Rick Allen from Def Leppard come to buy my work!
My customers say they like the originality of my work, and of course, the location. I don't copy anything; I feed on people's emotion and create it. I wouldn't, for example, carve a person or their dog; everything comes from my emotion and expression. I suppose art has become my communication, a diary of my life through expression. You only need to come to the woodland and you'll see; I've left my mark everywhere!
I have lots of plans for the future. I rent land across the road where I plan to renovate a stone barn there and turn it into a gallery with fully glassed walls so that you can see all around you when you're inside. With this, I want to start exhibiting my own work as well as showing work from guest artists each month. I also hope to build my own water wheel to create electricity so that the place becomes fully sustainable! Other plans include running event days for children, adults and people with disabilities where they can learn to sculpt, look around the woodland and the sculptures, and then make pizzas in our outdoor pizza oven.
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Remembering F-117 Nighthawk’s last mission
(U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Master Sgt. Kim Frey)
WASHINGTON — It’s been 10 years since the F-117 Nighthawk retired, an aircraft so secret Nevada folklore labeled it a UFO.
The Nighthawk pilots were known by the call sign “Bandit,” each earning their number with their first solo flight. Some of the maintainers were also given a call sign, said Wayne Paddock, a former F-117 maintainer currently stationed at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.
“The people who maintained the coatings on the aircraft radar absorbent material were classified as material application and repair specialists. MARS morphed into Martians,” Paddock said “MARS was a shred out from the structural repair/corrosion control career field.”
The technology for the F-117 was developed in the 1970s as a capability for attacking high value targets without being detected by enemy radar. It had up to 5,000 pounds of assorted internal stores, two engines and could travel up to 684 mph.
“It was the first airplane designed and built as a low-observable, stable and therefore precise platform,” said Yancy Mailes, director of the history and museums program for Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, and a former F-117 maintainer.
“It was the marriage of the GBU-27 to the F-117 that had a laser designator in its nose that made it such a precise, deadly platform,” Mailes said. “It was best demonstrated during Operation Desert Storm when pilots snuck into Iraq and dropped weapons down the elevator shaft of a central communications building in Iraq.”
The first Nighthawk flew June 18, 1981, and the original F-117A unit, the 4450th Tactical Group (renamed the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing in October 1989), achieved initial operating capability in October 1983. The Nighthawk originally saw combat during Operation Just Cause in 1989, when two F-117s from the 37th TFW attacked military targets in Panama. The aircraft was also in action during Operation Desert Shield.
Retired Col. Jack Forsythe, remembers being excited when he initially flew a Nighthawk while stationed at Holloman AFB in 1995.
“It was a unique experience,” he said. “It’s probably the same feeling that a lot of our (single seat) F-22 (Raptor) and F-35 (Lightning II) pilots feel today.”
After 25 years of service, the Nighthawk retired April 22, 2008. Forsythe led the four-ship formation to Palmdale, California, where Lockheed Martin staff said their farewells.
“We lowered the bomb doors of each aircraft and people signed their names to the doors,” Forsythe said. “It was really just kind of neat; they had designed it, built it and maintained it for these 25 years, so it really hit home – the industry and Air Force partnership that made the Nighthawk great. I think the four of us were just really struck by that and have some really great memories of that flight.”
The American flag was painted on the entire underside of his F-117 by the maintainers to help celebrate American airpower.
“I think we all recognized that this was something historic,” he said. “We retired an airplane that people still reference today. We really understood that so it was a sentimental flight to say the least. It was a great weapon system, very stable and easy to fly. It’s still a memorable experience.”
From left to right, retired Col. Jack Forsythe, Lt. Col. Mark Dinkard, 49th Operations Group Deputy, Lt. Col. Todd Flesch, 8th Fighter Squadron commander, Lt. Col. Ken Tatum, 9th Fighter Squadron commander, after retiring the last four F-117As to Tonopah Air Force Base, Nevada April 22, 2008.
(U.S. Air Force Photo by SSgt Jason Colbert)
Four F-117A Nighthawk’s perform one last flyover at the Sunset Stealth retirement cerermony at Holloman AFB, N.M., 21 April 2008. The F-117A flew under the flag of the 49th Fighter Wing at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico from 1992 to its retirement in 2008.
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Africa’s risks grow with climate change
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18 March 2014 ~ Addressing more than 700 delegates last week at the Climate Reality Project in Johannesburg, South Africa, chairman Al Gore said it’s time for governments and business to shake off lethargy towards climate change.
Highlighting the fact that Africa experiences more than half the world’s wildfires, Gore said research shows that a 1% Celsius average increase in the global temperature can result in a 600 percent increase in the land area burned by fires.
Higher temperatures also contribute to the ability for fires to spread. Southern Africa is projected to experience intense droughts this century, increasing in intensity to catastrophic levels towards the end of the century.
Oceans are warmer, Mr Gore said, and the evaporation from these warmer oceans causes greater rainfall in some areas and the heat evaporates moisture from the ground soil, which is creating worsening droughts.
He added that catastrophic weather events and water and food shortages are set to increase. Governments and businesses need to contribute to addressing these risks by reducing pollution and by implementing alternative energy resources, such as wind and solar technology.
A one percent Celsius increase in the projected mean temperature was found to decrease wheat yields by nearly 21 percent, influenced by global warming pollution. “Between 2006 and 2010 a climate-related drought destroyed 60% of farms in Syria. In 2010, 80% of cattle were killed by the drought. The Syrian minister of agriculture was quoted saying that the political consequences of the drought were beyond the government’s capacity to deal with it.”
One million people in Syria fled the farms and homes due to the drought, which was more than the government could cope with. By 2040 Africa will have a greater population than China or India. South Africa already faces severe water shortages. By 2030, South Africa’s water demand will exceed supply by 17%, he said.
Mr Gore noted that the use of alternate energy is growing. There are now 79 nations worldwide where solar power is less expensive than electricity. By 2020, this should increase to 82%. “South Africa is the most attractive solar market in the world,” Mr Gore said. Alternate energy is starting to take off with many solar and wind farms now operational in the Western and Northern Cape.
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5 Reasons Demi Lovato And Selena Gomez Will Never Be Close Again
It’s always sad to see a tight friendship fall apart, but as we travel down our own life paths, not everyone who we meet along the way will stick by your side forever.
In the case of Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez, the two were as close as best friends can be. They broke into the business at the same time, have had equal amounts of success, and were able to break away from their former Disney personas.
Unfortunately time and change wasn’t on the side of their friendship. As they got older, Selena was absorbed into the world of dating the biggest pop star on the planet and being Taylor Swift‘s #1 “squad” member. Demi faced her inner demons and went to rehab, retired from partying, and chooses to avoid the spotlight when she’s not working.
They’ve followed and unfollowed each other on social media, had sweet public meetings, and tried to rekindle the magic of their friendship heyday, but it’s never recovered. Here are 5 reasons why the former besties are dunzo for good.
1. Demi doesn’t like Taylor Swift.
There’s no law that says you can’t be friends with one person, but not like their other friends, but in this case, Taylor kinda swooped in and stole Selena away from Demi, and has never made any move to try and get the pair back together or include Demi in any kind of hang.
2. Kim Kardashian-West is a close friend of Demi’s.
Kim leaked the call Taylor had with Kanye West approving of her name being used in his song “Famous” on Snapchat. Demi made it clear she supported the decision by liking a Twitter users tweets saying, “I love Kim Kardashian.” Selena was one of the first to jump to Taylor’s defense dividing their friendship into opposite camps.
3. They haven’t been spotted together in so long we don’t remember the last time we saw them doing normal friend stuff.
If both girls were committed to keeping their friendship going, they’d def make the effort to try and get together at least once every few months for a lunch or casual hang. But the pair has kept their face-time limited to award shows and events. Even then, they don’t sit next to each other, talk, or take photos together.
4. Selena hangs with a super Hollywood crowd and Demi doesn’t.
We’re always pretty in touch with who, what, when, and where Selena is chillin’, and it’s usually with another famous young Hollywood face, but Demi has a non-famous group of friends she hangs with and the word “squad” isn’t included.
5. They’re schedules are too much to stay tight.
Once a friendship is as fractured as theirs, it’s hard to get back to a really good place with each other without spending a lot of face time together. Unfortunately, Sel and Dem have demanding schedules that doesn’t allow them the kind of one-on-one time needed to get them back to the bond they once shared.
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Feminism and freedom of expression at upcoming performance arts festival
Temporada Alta runs from October 5 to December 10 in the northern town of Girona
04 September 2018 01:30 PM
Diversity in perspective is at the center of the 27th edition of the renowned performing arts festival Temporada Alta in the northern town of Girona, which aims to project "100 different views on social and personal themes."
The event's objective for 2018 was explained by the festival director Salvador Sunyer at a press conference on September 3 with various cultural authorities in attendance.
Among the themes to be tackled is freedom of expression, feminism, limits of the press and union protests in the more social side of the spectrum—all issues that have come up in the last year in Catalonia.
Sunyer, however, specified that the goal is not to treat the issues like a "political manifesto," but rather that the performances are to offer opportunity and analysis "from a distance" and with perspective.
Additionally, the festival includes creations which speak of personal issues like death (in the piece 'Requiem for L'), or even the relationship between humans and robots (tackled in a piece called 'Uncanny Valley').
Temporada Alta is set to include 98 shows, 58 of which are written by Catalans, while around twenty are international from 12 different countries.
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Promotional image of 'Requiem pur L' to be seen at Temporada Alta (September 3 published by Temporada Alta)
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CNBC Africa’s interview with Hadiza Bello Usman, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority and discussed the countries Maritime space.
Let’s talk about the much publicised dispute between the NPA and INTELS, we understand it has been resolved, tell us about that.
One of the issues we’ve had with the INTELS is the non-compliance to TSA, as you are aware, the Nigerian Government instituted the Treasury Single account which is the one account that all revenues needs to be paid into. The INTELS collects revenues on behalf of the Nigerian Ports Authority and had refused to comply to the TSA and kept retaining those revenues in their coffers. We insisted that they must comply, as no company is above the laws of the country and we went through the whole process. We issued a notice of termination to the INTELS for which they apologised and they are now complying fully to the TSA.
So was that the turning point? The apology that came from the INTELS? From the documents I read and following this story, it looked as if the INTELS was digging its heels and insisting on its position and it looked like this was going to end in the high court
The INTELS understood that they couldn’t violate the laws of the land and they complied. I think it is important for all entities operating in an environment to adhere to the rules and regulations. What we seek to ensure is that we have a level playing field and you must apply to the regulations. At no point was the Nigerian Ports Authority not going to remit their portion of the revenues. All other third party agreements that we had in the Nigerian Ports Authority have a similar structure so why should the INTELS feel that it can operate outside of the law. The other companies are complying, why can’t you comply?
The contract that was terminated, has it been restored?
We are now in the process of recalling the notice of termination, but we have a few financial issues we need to resolve. Within the period of 2017, INTELS collected revenues on our behalf and did not remit any monies. So we have an outstanding of 48 million dollars that has not been paid by INTELS for the period of 12 months which represents 30 per cent of the revenues we generated on that service. We believe these are monies that are meant for Nigerians and those monies need to be given to us to remit to the TSA account.
So what is the response of the INTELS on those monies and have they said, yes we understand and agree and we will pay?
They have agreed that they will pay but my point is that you pay now. If you look at the relationship, if we had a TSA account, this would not arise. The monies would come to our coffers and we would pay them but because the monies were going to their coffers, they chose to retain the monies. How can you have a situation where a private company sits on your revenues and refuses to remit those monies to you and refuses to comply to the treasury single account? If we had the TSA in place, we would not be in a situation where INTELs have 48 million dollars of government revenues in their coffers for 12 months and they refuse to pay. I have also made the INTELS understand that we are going to charge them for interest on that money for the period it has been with them.
Obviously that is a lot more than 48 million dollars.48 million dollars plus interest for the period the monies have been with them .So what is happening now? Is it that they cannot pay now and are asking for an extended or to pay in tranches? You see these are monies that have been generated so you have no reason to say you cannot pay. You provided a service and you were paid for it, so the monies were collected by you .
Are they saying they cannot pay now and want to pay later?
Well, they are just behaving like INTELS and trying just not to pay by being silent about it. The letters that we have written are being silenced and they are just saying nothing. We’ve written to them, we’ve notified them, we’ve held discussions with them and told them that you must pay these monies. INTELS have been silent and evasive on giving a confirmed position on it
What action would you take if this continues?
This week we are communicating to the INTELS to the extent that if they don’t remit these monies to us, we would not withdraw the notice of termination.
So have you given them a deadline?
Yes, we have given them a deadline on payments that they need to make and if they don’t, the notice of termination will stand. It’s a violation of the contract of agreement if you refuse to remit the monies that are meant for an agency of the government. I haven’t put the date on issuing it but I’m giving the INTELS ls a possible two weeks window to provide that payment following which the notice of termination will not be withdrawn. I just want to add that all procedure have been done, all manners of communications have been made to INTELS to remit those monies
So you can say you have given them amble time?
Ample time and ample notice. I keep saying that these are monies that were generated so it’s not as if I’m asking you to pay for something with your money, these are revenues that you collected for a service on behalf of the NPA. You cannot even say that you do not have the monies.
Now, let’s talk about the blue economy. So much has been said. There is more flesh to the talk that Africa should develop its blue economy but for Nigeria, how are we planning to tap into our blue economy? Is there a vision or blue print?
There is an ongoing discussion on developing a policy on the blue economy, we believe that it’s an integral part of the Nigerian economy development. The NPA is putting in place and deploying infrastructure to enable the blue economy thrives, while concurrently, the ministry of transportation is working on concluding the policy as it were. We believe that providing an enabling environment, just to speak again about the Egina where we took out a monopoly. If you were aware, there was indeed a monopoly in oil and gas cargos where particular cargos are meant or designated for certain locations. And upon the removal of this monopoly by this administration, we were able to liberalise the sector and permit for an Egina, for example to berth in the Lagos harbour.
This is what we seek to do to expand our blue economy to provide a level playing field that allows every player to choose and operate in the manner that suits them, having proper recognition for the statutory roles of the agencies that govern them and operate in the maritime industry.
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Election Means South African Operators Must Play a Waiting Game on Spectrum
Wei Shi, Intelligence Content Manager, Telecoms.com & Site Editor, Connecting Africa, 5/2/2019
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South African operators may not expect to get new spectrum any time soon.
The country's telecom minister has decided to wait for the outcome of the upcoming parliamentary elections before issuing the policy directive on the allocation of unassigned high-demand frequencies. The spokesperson for Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, South Africa's Minister of Communications, Telecommunications and Postal Services, told the local media outlet Tech Central that "the minister deems it necessary to hold the policy direction on unassigned high-demand spectrum in abeyance for consideration in the sixth administration."
Although the actual awarding of radio frequencies is handled by the country's telecom regulator, ICASA, it can only do so with a government policy in place. Earlier Ndabeni-Abrahams promised the new policy would be published by the end of April.
Mobile operators including MTN and Vodacom have been actively lobbying for earlier release of new frequencies. Some of them have tested out innovative, unofficial measures to access more spectrum. The lack of spectrum has also been identified as one of the key factors driving South Africa's mobile data price to the highest level on the continent. According to the report by Tech Central, South Africa has not awarded new radio spectrum to telecom operators for 14 years.
There are two additional factors that may further delay new spectrum being made available to the operators. One is the outcome of the election. The South Africans go to the polling stations on May 8. The latest polls suggest the ruling ANC party, from which Ndabeni-Abrahams comes, is losing votes. Though it will most likely keep the majority, the new parliament may be more fragmented, and there is the possibility of a more radical cabinet reshuffle. As a result Ndabeni-Abrahams may not return as telecom minister. In that case it will take her replacement additional time to get the policy-making process back on track.
Another factor is the clearing of the high-demand lower-band frequency on the 700MHz and 800MHz the mobile operators have coveted. South Africa has been going through the transition from analogue to digital TV broadcasting (adopting DVB-T2) which should have been completed by the end of 2013, according to the plan announced at the beginning of 2011 by the late Radhakrishna Padayachie, one of Ndabeni-Abrahams's predecessors as telecom minister. But that process is still ongoing.
The government and the regulator have been at odds recently. On April 29, ICASA accused the government of withholding its operation funding, which the regulator attributed to a dispute with the government over 5G spectrum licensing. ICASA lodged a suit. The next day Ndabeni-Abrahams announced the funding was released.
— Wei Shi, Site Editor, Connecting Africa
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In 2016 the Premier League rebranded, ditching a corporate sponsor for the first time in its history.
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When Punishment Was a New and Remarkable Thing: Medieval Anglo-Saxon Responses to Crime
August 31, 2014 Staci Strobl
Crimcast caught up with Dr. Jay Paul Gates (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) to discuss his and co-editor Dr. Nicole Marafioti's (Trinity University) edited volume Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England (2014, Boydell & Brewer). In the Middle Ages, Anglo-Saxon authorities often punished lawbreakers with harsh corporal penalties, such as execution, mutilation, and imprisonment. Despite their severity, however, these penalties were not arbitrary exercises of power. Rather, they were informed by nuanced philosophies of punishment which sought to resolve conflict, keep the peace, and enforce Christian morality. The ten essays in this volume engage legal, literary, historical, and archaeological evidence to investigate the role of punishment in Anglo-Saxon society.
What prompted your interest in Anglo-Saxon punishment and how did this volume come about?
Our interest in the topic of capital and corporal punishment grew out of basic questions concerning how the Anglo-Saxons – who inhabited and ruled England from the fifth century through the eleventh – thought about bodies in a legal context and how the body came to carry and convey meaning. We both love Wulfstan, that quirky eleventh-century Archbishop of York. His assertion that mutilation was a merciful alternative to execution—that the law must be concerned with the soul rather than the body—kept nagging us for attention. From here, we found contributors whose interests coalesced around Anglo-Saxon England. Yet the essays in the volume go well beyond the limits of England and the Anglo-Saxon period. Early Germanic and ‘barbarian’ law provide foundations; Mosaic, Irish, and Frisian law offer sources and analogues; and post- Conquest views of Anglo-Saxon England and Anglo-Saxon history show that the Anglo-Saxons continued to have relevance and meaning well beyond 1066.
One of the most interesting ideas to come out of the volume is that the Anglo-Saxons, at least initially, didn’t have much of a concept of punishment. There were systems of law, compensation, and vengeance, but these were all concerned with the maintenance of social order and stability rather than with the desire to punish unacceptable behavior. And when we came to think about it, the very concept of punishment itself seemed odd. After all, what does it do? For example, if Nicole lops off my arm, I am far better off if she pays me compensation for it than if she is punished. I might even forego compensation to get the satisfaction of vengeance. But punishment would leave me seeming weak and certainly unsatisfied: knowing she is in prison or doing back-breaking labor on a chain-gang is not going to satisfy me the way retaliation would. I’d also be short both an arm and a cash payment.
So, how did notions of punishment develop in Anglo-Saxon societies?
Punishment seems to have developed under the influence of two major forces, the systematization of ecclesiastical penance and the centralization of royal authority. Christian responses to wrongdoing were surprisingly consistent with secular ideas of compensation. The penance known as “sick-maintenance,” for instance, required a perpetrator to do his victim’s work for him until he recovered—regardless of whether the injury was intentional or accidental. This was certainly good for social stability (the injury is compensated, the attacker shows he’s sorry, and no one needs to take vengeance), but there was also a real incentive to perform penance because it was good for the soul. The centralization of royal power also aimed to discourage vengeance and socially destabilizing actions. In fact, the earliest Anglo-Saxon punishments were designed to give people a chance to cool off and accept compensation in place of vengeance. Punishment becomes a new and remarkable thing, and kings only gradually assumed the right and responsibility of fixing other people’s injuries. It was only toward the end of the Anglo-Saxon period that kings claimed the authority to act on the body of a subject—a development that would have an important impact on post-Conquest English law.
Jay Paul Gates, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
What ideas about punishment described in the volume appear to be persisting into modern Anglo-Saxon-influenced societies?
The first point to note is that Anglo-American law, at least through the twentieth century, was very much influenced by the laws penned by Archbishop Wulfstan in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. They were first taken up by the Danish conqueror king, Cnut, and then by the Normans after the 1066 Conquest. In those early laws we see a real tension between the need for the threat of punishment as a means of deterrence and penitential punishment as a means of rehabilitating the criminal, except in the most extreme cases. Such attitudes toward the role of punishment in the criminal justice system seem still to be hotly debated. Similarly, the restrictions on felons in modern American law, even after they have served their sentences, recalls the Anglo-Saxon notion of the guilty as being permanently marked, whether through the elimination of their legal status (oath-worthiness) or through mutilation. However, what seems to have slipped into the background in the modern discussion, and which is very much worth foregrounding again, is the medieval concern not just with punishing the perpetrator but making whole the victim.
What can this volume, grounded in the humanities, teach social scientists and criminologists about approaching studies of contemporary punishment?
As we hear the modern debate, there are three main functions of punishment: deterrence, vengeance, and rehabilitation. To the medieval mind, I don’t know that there was quite so great a distance between these functions as there is for us, and it is perhaps worth returning to the mutually supporting roles of these functions in modern discussions. An example of this may come in the form of compensation laws and “sick-maintenance.” These two related legal categories are fundamentally concerned with how to make whole a victim. That is, after one person wounded another, he had to pay compensation for the injury to the victim (the compensation tariffs of Anglo-Saxon law remain the foundation for workers’ compensation tables) and then do the work that the injured person was unable to do until he had healed sufficiently. Certainly there is a sense of vengeance enacted on the man who must do the work of the person he injured—it must be a slight to one’s honor and sense of self to serve someone whom he had wanted badly enough to attack. Yet there is a process for the injured party to see his attacker work for his benefit and make good the injury. Through such a process there is a real possibility of the cooling of tempers, of reconciliation between the two parties, and of rehabilitating the public peace that was broken as well. Something like this has been tried in the restorative justice after the genocidal violence in Rwanda. But perhaps looking to the medieval understandings of punishment would bring punishment and restorative justice into more regular discourse within less extraordinary criminal justice processes.
What avenues of future research will this volume open?
At least one suggestion has been that the idea of crime might need to be re-thought. After all, if penance is concerned with sin and if vengeance and compensation are concerned with injury, what defines crime? What makes crime its own category of wrong and how might it be punished?
Additionally, there is a focus on men in this volume, simply because so many of our sources represent injury as a predominantly masculine concern. However, it is also important to consider women’s roles in punishment. How involved were women in imposing or mitigating punishment? How were they punished for offenses they committed, and what exactly were those offenses? Although evidence for female misconduct is more elusive, there is valuable work to be done in this area.
Contributors to the volume include Valerie Allen, Jo Buckberry, Daniela Fruscione, Jay Paul Gates, Stefan Jurasinski, Nicole Marafioti, Daniel O'Gorman, Lisi Oliver, Andrew Rabin, and Daniel Thomas.
tags medieval, England, Anglo-Saxons, punishment, penance, death penalty, international, Europe, deterrence, rehabilitation, retribution, vengeance, books, scholarship, religion, restorative justice
A Christmas Carol at the Merchant’s House Museum
December 19, 2013 Nickie Phillips
Demetra M. Pappas, JD, MSc, PhD, Crimcast correspondent
In a time of economic inequality, the plight of the Cratchit family seems particularly poignant in New York City.
For some, the holiday season is about parties; for others, it is about the seasonal performances. Given that I would not have made a clever criminal, I will admit to having been known to enjoy both. That said, this particular year, I have been performance focused, since my new knee, only two months old after total knee replacement, has not been deemed suitable for partying. (Actually, I quipped to a friend that my knee was probably suited to such occasions, but I had the sort of concern about brushes with others walking while drinking that I usually reserve to New Year's Eve drivers-- no judgment, just a healthy fear of testing the fall-abilities of the “knew knee,” I say self-deprecatingly.)
A unique opportunity presents at the Merchant’s House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (between Bowery and Lafayette), 212-777-1089, in association with Summoners Ensemble Theatre. John Kevin Jones offers a tour de force one man performance of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The Director’s Note, by Dr. Rhonda Dodd, explains that Jones was in the midst of developing a five actor version of the Dickens work during 2011, when he decided to try this version, motivated by Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots (about which I have previously written about for Crimcast). So it was that Jones took what Dickens did in 1843 and sought to create an abbreviated version of the play that would match Dickens’ comment on social and economic inequality.
Jones succeeds in this effort tremendously. First, he physically inhabits each character as he represents them, going from full ghostly wingspan to (pun admittedly intended) tiny Tiny Tim. He voices Scrooge’s trembling fear, joyous rediscovery of life, and likewise gives full voice and physicality to Dickens’ female characters, as well.
Second, the play itself is designed for one hour, with 15-minute segments that a lawyer dealing with billable hours would appreciate (roughly Spirit One/Christmas Past, Spirit Two/Christmas Present, Spirit Three/Christmas Future, with background and conclusion getting equal shares of the remaining quarter). Several lawyers in the audience commented on this as I (also a lawyer) chimed in as to how remarkable it was.
Third, the selection of the Merchant’s House Museum as the location is quite simply inspired. All that the edifice needed (and now has) was a bit of holiday décor (PS on the ground floor, there is a case of vintage stockings and the like, not to be missed on the way in or out). It is a lovely museum and the front and back rooms provide a perfect setting opportunity (in which folding chairs, which Jones quips are “vintage golden chairs,” as he introduces the performance), are set among the furniture and space of hardware merchant Seabury Treadwell, who purchased the building in 1835, just one year after Dickens authored A Christmas Carol.
An additional – and terrific – feature is that Jones himself mingles and chats with audience members as they are leaving the museum. He told several of us that according to legend (and perhaps even fact), during the writing of the original version (and Jones adapted this version from Dickens’ original touring version, while reintroducing a scene from the original novella), Dickens would wander the streets of London weeping over piece as he planned and re-edited it. This humanizing authorial angst, combined with activism on behalf of the laboring poor, especially children (which he saw first hand, after his family lost its money and debtors prison resulted for his father, mother and youngest siblings), makes the plight of the Cratchit family even more accessible.
Jones has chiseled and set a jewel of a play at a jewel of a museum.
Crimcast correspondent Demetra Pappas was named the 2012 SGA Faculty Member of the Year at St. Francis College, for her work in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. Her recent book, Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in America: The Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Debate (Greenwood Press, 2012) is a 100-year study of US and UK doctors prosecuted for medical euthanasia/assisted suicide and role of media) and was recently nominated for the 2014 International Qualitative Inquiry Book Prize and was nominated and short listed for the British Society of Criminology 2013 Criminology Book Prize. In addition to her work on end-of-life issues, she writes about anti-stalking mechanisms, pedagogical methodology, visual sociology and pens work on travel (including what has become known as CSI Demetra travel pieces), theater and the arts, dining and culinary books, and historical/cultural sights.
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Picture of the Day: The King in India
A clergyman carries a monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament during a procession on the Feast of Christ the King on 25 November in Ahmedabad, India. The feast of Christ the King is celebrated the Sunday prior to the beginning of Advent. (photo: CNS/Amit Dave, Reuters)
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Tensions are mounting between Ukraine and Russia after Russia fired on and seized three Ukrainian naval vessels. (video: Sky News/YouTube)
Tensions escalate between Russia and Ukraine; Ukraine to vote on declaring martial law (BBC) Russia has fired on and seized three Ukrainian naval vessels off the Crimean Peninsula in a major escalation of tensions between the two countries. Two gunboats and a tug were captured by Russian forces. A number of Ukrainian crew members were injured. Each country blames the other for the incident. On Monday Ukrainian MPs are due to vote on declaring martial law…
Pope recalls Ukraine famine (Vatican News) Following the Angelus prayer on Sunday, Pope Francis remembered the man-made famine that struck Ukraine in 1932-1933 and the anniversary of the event which occurred on Saturday. Pope Francis called it “a terrible famine instigated by the Soviet regime which caused millions of people to die…”
Reports say dozens injured in toxic gas attack on Aleppo (CNN) Around 100 people were injured in toxic gas attack on the government-controlled city of Aleppo Saturday, according to Syrian state media and a British-based human rights group. It’s not clear who carried out the attack, but Syria’s state news agency quoted a local commander as blaming ‘terrorist groups,’ while Russia accused militants of firing mortar rounds containing chlorine on the city’s northwestern districts…
Franciscan custos calls attention to Holy Land Christians (CNS) Some Christians would consider it a blessing to live in the land where Jesus Christ was born and lived. But for some Christians who live with the daily reality and not the romanticism of the land where the faith originated, living as a religious minority in a place of conflict — often tied to religion — it is considered more of a “misfortune,” said the Rev. Francesco Patton, the head of the Holy Land Franciscans, also known as the custos, during a 7 November event in Washington…
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Catholic Leaders in Lebanon Issue Plea for Peace
Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan and Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai, patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church, chat during the Assembly of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops of Lebanon meeting in Bkerke, Lebanon.
(photo: CNS photo/courtesy Mychel Akl for the Maronite patriarchate)
Lebanon’s Catholic religious leaders appealed to the international community to stop the wars in the Middle East and to bring about a comprehensive and just peace.
In a statement following its 12 — 16 November annual meeting, the Assembly of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops of Lebanon urged Catholics “to endure the grace of God in the hope of rebuilding their homelands with their Muslim brothers in equal and responsible citizenship.”
The prelates expressed their “anguish at the continuation of the wars in the Middle East, which continue to destabilize the peace, wreak havoc, destroy and displace citizens.” Reiterating their condemnation “of violence in all its forms,” they called for constructive dialogue among officials.
The patriarchs and bishops appealed to “the international community and concerned states” to stop wars in the region and “to bring about a comprehensive and just peace and to work seriously for the return of displaced persons, refugees, abductees and deportees to their countries, homes and properties.”
Lebanon continues to host more than 1 million Syrian refugees.
In their statement, the church leaders affirmed the principles that have been proclaimed by Pope Francis regarding the Middle East: that peace is a condition for Christians to remain in their homelands; that there is no Middle East without Christians, who are a factor of equilibrium and stability in it; and that citizens have the duty to defend the rights of individuals and minorities.
Turning with urgency to the continuing impasse in forming Lebanon’s government more than five months after parliamentary elections, the prelates said it is unacceptable that the government still does not exist.
They urged all the political parties concerned to facilitate the formation of the government, “today before tomorrow.” They pointed to “the loss of mutual trust, the absence of internal unity and the tyranny of private interests, as well as external interference” as reasons for the deadlock.
They applauded “with all the Lebanese -- at home and abroad -- the historic reconciliation” of two rival Maronite Catholic political leaders after more than four decades of enmity. Samir Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces political party, and Suleiman Frangieh Jr., head of the Marada party, have been foes since the early days of Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war.
Their formal reconciliation took place on 14 November under the patronage of Cardinal Bechara Rai at Bkerke, Maronite patriarch. The two Maronite leaders signed a document confirming their “joint will to turn the page of the past and move on toward new horizons” in their relations “at the human, social, political and national levels for the years to come.”
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Pope Francis eats lunch with poor people as he marks World Day of the Poor at the Vatican on 18 November. Some 1,500 people joined the pope for lunch in Paul VI hall. (photo: CNS/Paul Haring)
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Vatican urges Christians and Sikhs to ‘promote a culture of tenderness’ (Vatican News) The Vatican is urging Christians and Sikhs to join hands to ”promote a ‘culture of tenderness’ for the wellbeing of every human being and for the welfare of the entire created world!” The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) made the call in its message on the occasion of Sri Guru Nanak Prakash Diwas, or Guru Nanak Jayanti, the birthday of Guru Nanak, the first guru and founder of the Sikh religion. A national holiday in India, it will be celebrated on 23 November this year...
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Picture of the Day: A Surprise in the Square
Pope Francis greets a woman religious as he makes a surprise visit to a free health clinic for the needy in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on 16 November. The clinic was open for a week in advance of the 18 November observance of World Day for the Poor.
(photo: CNS/Junno Arocho Esteves)
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Pope Francis addresses the Order of the Holy Sepulchre with an icon of "Our Lady Help of Persecuted Christians" nearby. He blessed the icon after his meeting with members of the order.
(photo: Vatican Media)
Pope meets with Indian children’s rights activist (Vatican News) Pope Francis on Friday received in private audience Indian children’s rights activist, Kailash Sathyarthi, who shared the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan. Founder of the “Bachpan Bachao Andolan”, or the Save Childhood Movement, and other initiatives against child labor and the abuse and exploitation of children, the 64-year old former electrical engineer and teacher has been honored with numerous recognitions both in India and abroad…
Pope to Holy Sepulchre: ’Root charitable works in prayer’ (Vatican News) Pope Francis took the opportunity to highlight “the dramatic situation of Christians who are persecuted and killed in ever-greater numbers.” He also called attention to a type of “white martyrdom, like, for example, that type which occurs in democratic countries when religious freedom is limited…”
Christian city in Syria grapples with decision to back the government (The Los Angeles Times) Only reluctantly had Mhardeh, a predominantly Christian city of 23,000 people, sided with the government in the war. But it was a choice that put the once-sleepy suburban city on the front lines and isolated it from its neighbors — predominantly Sunni Muslims, who make up the majority in Syria. Now, as the prospects of peace in the country improve, residents here are grappling with how they can again share a future with those who had become enemies on the battlefield…
Teen pregnancies are top threat to women’s health in India (UCANews.com) Teenage pregnancies and the culture of taking a child bride are both still rampant in India. UNICEF estimates 27 percent Indian women wed before they reach the age of 18, and at least seven percent are married by 15. The U.N. agency released a report in April showing that over 20 percent of the world’s adolescent population lives, and that the country has the highest rate of child marriages in South Asia…
Ethiopia unleashes changes over Africa and the Middle East (African News Agency) Ethiopia’s new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, has unleashed a wave of breath-taking change since taking power in April, not just in the continent’s second most populous nation but across a swathe of east Africa and the Gulf. The transformation is so rapid and startling that it has been compared to Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika reforms in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, a comparison that does not seem exaggerated given the stasis it has replaced…
Order of Malta joins pope to mark World Day of the Poor (Vatican News) Pope Francis has invited everyone to mark the World Day of the Poor to be celebrated on Sunday, 18 November. Speaking to the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Angelus, the Pope said that, for the occasion, a “First Aid Station” will be set up in the Square, where those in need will be able to receive medical care. Among the many organizations making sure the Day does not pass unnoticed is the Sovereign Order of Malta, whose core mission is to uphold human dignity and care for people in need…
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CNEWA Connections: Looking East
by Elias D. Mallon, S.A., Ph.D.
Pope Francis exchanges gifts with Catholicos Gewargis III, patriarch of the Church of the East, left, during a private audience on 9 November at the Vatican.
(photo: CNS/Gregorio Borgia, pool via Reuters)
Shortly after the Ascension of Jesus, his followers moved out into the world beyond Jerusalem. Jerusalem was, in a sense, at the center of the known world. Situated at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea, Jerusalem could look to the west and see the Roman Empire and its deeply rooted Greek culture; looking to the east, it would see the whole Asian continent. With Peter and Paul, Christianity moved westward, took root and grew. That is one reason why, when most modern Christians think of Christianity, they think specifically of Western Christianity. The truth, however, is that Christianity also moved eastward and entered a world very different from that of Europe and the Mediterranean.
From that, a different type of Christianity evolved, separated from and often unknown to Christians of the West.
One of the places CNEWA works, of course, is the Middle East; there, one can find some of the most ancient Eastern churches, which date back to the times of the apostles. CNEWA works with all of them. One of these churches is the Church of the East. It is sometimes known as the Assyrian Church of the East and, less accurately, the Nestorian Church.
The Church in the East flourished in the Persian Empire. Since the Persian and Roman Empires were almost constantly at war, Eastern Christians had little contact with their co-religionists in the West. But the achievements of these Eastern Churches were remarkable — and to many Christians in the West, perhaps, largely unknown. There were Assyrian Christian churches in China 1,000 years before the arrival of Francis Xavier. When Charlemagne was crowned by the pope on Christmas Day 800, there was already an Assyrian metropolitan (archbishop) in Tibet!
The first five centuries of Christianity saw a great deal of conflict between Christians over the nature of Christ and salvation. This led to bitter and, at times, violent conflicts between Christians. The Emperor in Byzantium enforced — often violently — the “orthodox” position throughout the empire, although many Christians resisted it.
To some extent, the Church of the East was involved in these controversies. The high (or low) point of the conflict was in the bitter exchanges between Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople and Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria in Egypt. However, politics and geography ended up being more important than theology; and the Church of the East went its own way.
It has a famous school of theology in Nisibis in modern day Turkey, which produced many theologians. These scholars, working in Syriac, a Semitic language, developed their own theology simply outside the context and controversies of Western Christianity.
As a result, the Church of the East has an ancient theology about the nature of Christ that was developed in a Syriac — and not Greek-speaking — world. Although Assyrian Christians were uncomfortable with some of the theological expressions of Western Christianity — such as the title theotokos, “God-bearer,” for Mary — for the most part, their Christology developed independently and without much interaction with the West.
With the advent of the ecumenical movement and with increasing familiarity with the Eastern churches, the Catholic Church began a dialogue with the Church of the East. Accustomed to Byzantine, Protestant and other western theologies, the Catholic Church encountered a very different theological framework in the Church of the East. With great courage and openness, the two churches dealt with their very different attempts to articulate the nature of Christ.
After long and deep dialogue, the Catholic Church and the Church of the East produced a “Common Christological Declaration” on 11 November 1994. The statement declared: “Whatever our Christological divergences have been, we experience ourselves united today in the confession of the same faith n the Son of God who became man so that we might become children of God by his grace.”
While the agreement may not have caused great excitement in the ecumenical world, it was and remains a profound moment in the history of the ecumenical movement and the history of Christian theology. It was, however, an important sign that catholicity is not the same as uniformity. The agreement recognized that there can be different ways of looking at and expressing some very important things — such as the nature of the Incarnation.
It also made clear that those differences need not be a cause for division — to say nothing of hatred and violence.
Nearly 25 years later, it stands as a sign of hope.
Related: Profile of The Church of the East
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Picture of the Day: Shalom
by Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service
Pope Francis bids farewell to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin following a private audience at the Vatican on 15 November. (photo: CNS/Paul Haring)
Pope Francis welcomed Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to the Vatican on 15 November for a private discussion that included the importance of building greater trust between Israelis and Palestinians.
During their 35-minute meeting, they spoke about the importance of mutual trust in negotiations “so as to reach an accord respecting the legitimate aspirations of both peoples,” the Vatican said in a statement.
“The hope was expressed that suitable agreements may be reached” also between Israeli authorities and local Catholic communities “in relation to some issues of common interest,” it said, adding that the Holy See and the State of Israel would soon celebrate the 25th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations.
Aided by interpreters, the pope and president spoke about “the political and social situation in the region, marked by different conflicts and the consequent humanitarian crises. In this context, the parties highlighted the importance of dialogue between the various religious communities in order to guarantee peaceful coexistence and stability,” the statement said.
“Mention was made of the importance of building greater mutual trust in view of the resumption of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians so as to reach an accord respecting the legitimate aspirations of both peoples, and of the Jerusalem question, in its religious and human dimension for Jews, Christians and Muslims, as well as the importance of safeguarding its identity and vocation as City of Peace.”
Exchanging gifts, Rivlin gave Pope Francis a small bas relief replicating the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.
According to pool reporters, the president told the pope that the image showed how one could divide the various parts of the city, but also unite it in new ways. The walled Old City is divided into the Jewish quarter, the Armenian quarter, the Christian quarter and the Muslim quarter.
“Jerusalem has been a holy city for the three monotheistic religions for centuries. For the Jewish people, Jerusalem has been the spiritual center since the days of the First Temple over 3,000 years ago, but it is also a microcosm of our ability to live together,” the president tweeted later, adding a photo of the two of them speaking during the gift exchange.
The Vatican consistently has called for a special status for Jerusalem, particularly its Old City, in order to protect and guarantee access to the holy sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
During the meeting, Pope Francis gave Rivlin a large medallion, which the pope described as representing wheat being able to grow in the desert. Pool reporters said the pope told the president he hoped this desert would be transformed from a desert of animosity into a land of friendship.
The Jerusalem Post reported that Rivlin thanked the pope for supporting the fight against anti-Semitism.
“Your absolute condemnation of acts of anti-Semitism and your definition of such acts as anti-Christian are a significant step in the ongoing fight to stamp it out,” Rivlin said.
Members of Rivlin’s entourage said they also talked about the controversy between Jerusalem’s city government and the Catholic Church concerning city property taxes.
In early February, the Jerusalem Municipality announced it would begin collecting $186.4 million in property taxes from some 887 church-owned properties that were not houses of prayer. Since then, the Israeli government set up a negotiating team to resolve the dispute.
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In this image from September, Palestinians run from tear gas fired by Israeli troops during a protest along a beach in the Gaza Strip. Violence has escalated in Gaza, leading to fears of another war. (photo: CNS/Mohammed Salem, Reuters)
Deadly legacy of ISIS continues to shape lives in Iraq (The Guardian) Devices Isis produced on a semi-industrial basis to lay in large barrier minefields are scattered throughout northern and western Iraq, from Mosul — the site of the group’s last stand — to al-Qaim on the Syrian border, where the group is still fighting, contributing to the displacement of an estimated 1.7 million Iraqis. The issue is not unique to Iraq. Similar homemade mines have been encountered from Afghanistan to Syria and Yemen — an escalating threat that has recently pushed global efforts to reduce land mine casualties into a sharp reverse…
After the worst violence in years, things could get even worse in Gaza (Vox) The conditions that lead to consistent Israel-Gaza skirmishes — like the Israeli blockade, which affects thousands of Palestinians on a daily basis, or Hamas’s control of Gaza — still exist. It’s why there will likely be more small outbreaks of violence that could potentially grow into bigger ones. One main reason for that is that experts say the decades-long peace process, meant to settle longstanding divisions between Israelis and Palestinians, is basically defunct…
India struggles with malnutrition and food waste (UCANews.com) More than 130 countries, including India, are debating how to overcome the adverse effects of climate change, migration and poverty to achieve zero hunger. The second of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by all United Nations member states, is to achieve zero hunger by 2030. It aims to make sure that all people, especially children and the more vulnerable, have access to sufficient nutritious food all year round. Is it possible for India to achieve that target by 2030?…
How the lights came back in Kerala’s ravaged homes (Indian Link) The devastating flood in Kerala left 2.56 million homes without electricity. How the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) restored power in under a fortnight by mobilizing every human resource at hand — including retired staff and volunteers — and doing away with red tape and questions of hierarchy, could be a model for every disaster-stricken state. The KSEB called its plan Mission Reconnect…
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Picture of the Day: Taxi?
In this image from 13 November, taxi drivers in Amman, Jordan, stage a protest against drivers from private hiring services. (photo: CNS/Andre Pain, EPA)
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International Migrants Day 2013 : Maghnia, life at a crossroads
Source : Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN)
Copenhagen, 18/12 2013 – On the occasion of the International Migrants Day, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) is launching its report : “Maghnia : Crossing the Uncrossable Border” highlighting the deplorable situation of Sub-Saharan migrants at the Algeria-Moroccan border.
A year ago to the day, the EMHRN had already expressed its concern over the conditions of migrants and refugees at the border.
The report published today is the outcome of two fact-finding missions undertaken in November 2012 and June 2013 to Maghnia, an Algerian town bordering Morocco, and highlights the inhumane conditions faced by its migrant and refugee population.
Deportations to and from Morocco – carried out illegally – are a frequent phenomenon, and continue to also target vulnerable groups such as pregnant women and unaccompanied minors. During deportations, migrants face several violations of their rights, including robberies, beatings, and other abuses. For refugees, UNHCR’s absence from the area and limited access to the country beyond Algiers, as well the lack of effective asylum system in Algeria, despite being signatory to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the 1967 Protocol and the 1969 African Union Refugee Convention, bars them from accessing international protection.
According to the findings, migrants and refugees suffer from desperate conditions including malnutrition, chronic diseases and injuries sustained during deportations and border operations, with limited or no access to medical care. While work opportunities exist, migrants are susceptible to abuses and exploitation by employers, without any legal protection. This, despite that Algeria is signatory of the International Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Their Families. There are no civil society organisations present in Maghnia, further exacerbating the vulnerabilities of these populations.
While Maghnia has been one of the main migratory transit points in North Africa through which thousands have passed in the past decade to reach Morocco, the report highlights the fact that a growing number of migrants and refugees are now finding themselves ‘stranded’ at this crossroad. The increased externalization of European border control – which may soon include a readmission agreement between the EU and Morocco – is not only effectively barring access to protection for those who would be entitled to it, but also enhancing the vulnerability of migrants and refugees and encouraging practices and policies which undermine their rights.
The conditions at the Algerian-Moroccan border constitute but one example of how migrants and refugees see their rights violated every day in the Euro-Med region. In this context, it is the responsibility of Moroccan and Algerian authorities to establish structures and legislation that are in accordance with international conventions, as well as that of the European Union and its Member states to contribute to the respect for human rights in the Maghreb region and to ensure that cooperation agreements do not encourage nor tolerate violations of migrant and refugee rights at its borders.
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Happy Birthday, John Lithgow!
Today, John Lithgow turns 68! Born John Arthur Lithgow on October 19, 1945 in Rochester, New York, USA, son of a retired actress and a father who was both a theatrical producer and director, he moved frequently as a child while his father founded and managed local and college theaters and Shakespeare festivals throughout the midwest of the United States. Read more after the jump!
Not until he was 16, and his father became head of the McCarter Theater in Princeton New Jersey, did the family settle down. But for John, the theater was still not a career. He won a scholarship to Harvard University, where he finally caught the acting bug (as well as found a wife). Harvard was followed by a Fulbright scholarship to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Returning from London, his rigorous dramatic training stood him in good stead, and a distinguished career on Broadway gave him one Tony award for "The Changing Room", a second nomination in 1985 for "Requiem for a Heavyweight", and a third in 1988 for "M. Butterfly". But with critical acclaim came personal confusion, and in the mid '70s he and his wife divorced. He entered therapy, and in 1982 his life started in a new direction, the movies - he received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Roberta Muldoon in The World According to Garp (1982). A second Oscar nomination followed for Terms of Endearment (1983), and he met a UCLA economics professor who became his second wife. As the decade of the '90s came around he found that he was spending too much time on location, and another career move brought him to television in the hugely successful series "3rd Rock from the Sun" (1996). This production also played a role in bringing him back together with the son from his first marriage, Ian Lithgow, who has a regular role in the series as a dim-witted student. In 2009 he played the role of Arthur Mitchell on Dexter and he was one of the best villains ever. For Trinity's role he won an Emmy Award in 2010. Happy Birthday Mr. Lithgow!
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heard weekdays 2p-7p on WQUE Q93-
Wild Wayne is also the creator of Industry Influence, a monthly event for hip hop artists focusing on education, networking, and showcasing their talkents. Joining forces again with Sess 4-5, Industry Influence has had 48 networking events, complete with entertainment attorneys, publishing companies, representatives from the Grammy’s and Jazz Fest, distribution companies, web designers, artists, and more all with the intent of connecting artists to industry professionals.
“We also have achievement awards that we give out at Industry Influence. We’ve given one to Mystikal, Juvenile, BG, Mia X, Ms. Tee, and PNC, all folks who have been instrumental in the foundation of hip hop here. My latest achievement is my television show, which is a spin off of the conference. We do clips from the conference like an industry tip of the week. We also have a portion called Celebrate Your Success. This is really a big achievement because we can potentially reach over a million people.” - Wild Wayne
Wayne also hosts a weekly talk show on Q93 called Real Talk with fellow New Orleanian and public speaker Eddie Francis every Saturday from 7am-9am. “As a listener, you are empowered to speak your mind without penalty” on topics ranging from AIDS in the black community to education in New Orleans.
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The Holy Land as Jesus Knew It
An overview of the political, cultural, religious, social, and economic, background to the world of the gospels based on archaeological, historical, and textual studies. The Holy Land as Jesus Knew It Its People, Customs, and Religion by David K. O’Rourke ISBN 0-89243-182-2 Liquori Publications One Liquori Drive Liquori, Missouri 63057 (314) 464-2500...
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How America’s First Settlers Invented Chattel Slavery
From New England and Virginia to New Spain and the current Southwest, North America’s founding householders, English and Spanish alike, took the limited European practice of coerced labor and transformed it into a brutal slavery unlike any that had existed in Europe. This story traces the system of language and logic, religion and society, that allowed the settlers to see both Native Americans and Africans as “others” who merited no human s...
Demons by Definition
From the Albigensian Crusade to the wartime incarceration of the Japanese Americans, we see how idealists use language and metaphor to justify the dehumanization of groups they have defined into dissent. Demons by Definition Social Idealism, Religious Nationalism, and the Demonizing of Dissent BERKELEY INSIGHTS INLINGUISTICS AND SENIOTICS (35) by David K. O’Rourke ISBN 0-8204-3928-2 Peter Lang Publishing www.peterlangusa.com...
The Story of an Accidental Outsider
This is a look back into years as diverse as the structured privileges of Yale and Paris in the 1950s, to the chaos of Berkeley in the 1960s and 70s from the singular vantage point of contemporary life in the former Soviet Union. It is a personal view, a story, of a life that still surprises by the extent to which privilege can set the stage for creativity. The Story of an Accidental Outsider Making Sense of Forty Years as a Pries...
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From New England and Virginia to New Spain and the current Southwest, North America’s founding householders, English and Spanish alike, took the limited European practice of coerced labor and transformed it into a brutal slavery unlike any that had existed in Europe. This story traces the system of language and logic, religion and society, that allowed the settlers to see both Native Americans and Africans as “others” who merited ...
From the Albigensian Crusade to the wartime incarceration of the Japanese Americans, we see how idealists use language and metaphor to justify the dehumanization of groups they have defined into dissent. Demons by Definition Social Idealism, Religious Nationalism, and the Demonizing of Dissent BERKELEY INSIGHTS INLINGUISTICS AND SENIOTICS (35) by David K. O’Rourke ISBN 0-8204-3928-2 Peter Lang Publishing www.peterlan...
This is a look back into years as diverse as the structured privileges of Yale and Paris in the 1950s, to the chaos of Berkeley in the 1960s and 70s from the singular vantage point of contemporary life in the former Soviet Union. It is a personal view, a story, of a life that still surprises by the extent to which privilege can set the stage for creativity. The Story of an Accidental Outsider Making Sense of Forty Years ...
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I’m fighting a cold for quite some time now, and while I stayed in bed of course all the work started to pile up. Lots of things to do right now which is why there is not so much happening apart from new pages. I’d love to do some illustrations or sketches to show you, but there simply is no time. At least I finished the skribble for page 400 lately. At least SOMETHING is happening. A little while ago I set up a little competition. Of course that’s not forgotten, and all of you who were taking part in it, are still on of course.
Ready, Steady, Go was a famous English TV show in the Sixties, that always played the latest hits and would present the hottest bands in the studio. But just as important was the crowd of the shows, whose choice of fashion always turned out to become the blueprint for the kids for their shopping trips to Carnaby Street or their visit at their bespoke tailor.
Well, I have another tea now. Hope you all have a great sunny weekend. Cheers.
Bill Cosby – Lil Ole Man (Uptight – everything is alright)
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The Limits of Oppo in 2010
CQ/Roll Call reports:
For most of the election cycle, Democratic strategists were optimistic they could hold the House because of their arsenal of opposition research. But Democratic attacks failed to bring down enough Republican challengers to keep the majority.
Democrats thought GOP challengers were simply too flawed to be acceptable alternatives to voters who wanted change. But as Republicans learned in 2006 and 2008, the messenger and the audience matter just as much, if not more, than the message when it comes to political attacks.
“If you were in a red district, nothing worked,” according to one veteran Democratic strategist, reluctantly recalling the most recent elections.
Good campaign or not, the nature of the district appears to be the best indicator of whether an attack will stick in a national election.
In Pennsylvania’s 10th district, former U.S. Attorney Tom Marino struggled to raise money and was hounded by Democrats and the media for his connection to a convicted felon.
But the Republican was running in a district that McCain won by 9 points and had the luxury of a cheap media market where the NRCC could come in heavy with TV advertising. Marino defeated Rep. Christopher Carney by 10 points, even though his negatives were higher than the Democratic Congressman’s.
Democrats lost the House, but they don’t think the conversation is over. Case in point: A judge delayed a hearing that was scheduled for next week about Scott’s divorce records, an issue Democrats have tried to keep on the radar screen for reporters.
“For the most part, voters did not take a close look at the Republicans they elected — and in turn, there are numerous new Members with long records of reckless positions and questionable behavior that we will be able to exploit over the next two years,” said Jon Vogel, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
A blast from the past. On September 10, 2006, Jim VandeHei and Chris Cillizza reported in The Washington Post:
Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable financial war chest over the final 60 days of the campaign attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates over personal issues and local controversies, GOP officials said.
The National Republican Congressional Committee, which this year dispatched a half-dozen operatives to comb through tax, court and other records looking for damaging information on Democratic candidates, plans to spend more than 90 percent of its $50 million-plus advertising budget on what officials described as negative ads.
The hope is that a vigorous effort to "define" opponents, in the parlance of GOP operatives, can help Republicans shift the midterm debate away from Iraq and limit losses this fall. The first round of attacks includes an ad that labeled a Democratic candidate in Wisconsin "Dr. Millionaire" and noted that he has sued 80 patients.
Labels: 2010 election, government, opposition research, political science, Politics
CA: Republican Gloom
Michael Blood writes at AP:
Republicans are relishing the coming of a new day on Capitol Hill. But across the country in California, the party of Nixon and Reagan is drifting toward obscurity.
The latest sign of imperiled health: In a year Republicans notched big victories in Congress, governor's offices and statehouses around the nation, California Democrats made a clean sweep of eight statewide contests on Nov. 2. Democrats padded their majority in the Legislature, where the party controls both chambers and no congressional seats changed parties.
"They know who we are and they don't like us," former state Republican Party Chairman Duf Sundheim says bluntly. "The brand of the Republican Party in California is tarnished."
It's been said the future happens first in California, and the state hit a little-noticed milestone this month that will have implications in voting booths for years to come. For the first time, Hispanics account for more than half the students in the state's public schools. They will be tomorrow's voters.
"I'm not sure Republicans have hit bottom yet in California," said former state lawmaker Jim Brulte, an influential GOP party fixture.
Part of the problem is simple math. Both major parties have been losing registration as more voters choose to align with no party at all, but Republican registration has withered to about 31 percent, giving Democrats, at 44 percent, a 2.2 million-voter advantage. Independents about one in five voters also lean Democratic in the state.
For a Republican "the crossover vote that you need is almost unreachable," says Allan Hoffenblum, publisher of the California Target Book, an analysis of legislative and congressional races. Hoffenblum says the GOP maintains strongholds in inland regions, but Democrats dominate the populous coast.
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Filling Gaps in the White House Website, Part 57
Barbara Walters interviewed the president on November 23 for broadcast on November 26. His emphasis shifted through the interview. At one point, he portrayed himself as a multitasker:
BARBARA WALTERS: Mr. President, there are some folks who say that you squandered your political capital with the healthcare plan when you should have been focusing on jobs.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: This notion that somehow you can only do one thing at once is simply not true. I mean, the fact is is that we stabilized the financial system…we turned an economy that was contracting to one that was growing. We have added a million jobs over the last year to the economy. And I am absolutely confident that when we fully implemented healthcare, and we started to see those costs go down and we have seen people who don't have health insurance get health insurance, and we have seen families who have health insurance more secure and they are not being jerked around by arbitrary rules from their insurance companies, that that's gonna be a lasting legacy that I am extraordinarily proud of. And there is no contradiction between that and improving our economy.
But at another point, he said the first two years were all about a focus on the economy:
BARBARA WALTERS: Because you took what you called a shellacking, will you make specific changes in your policies…
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Yeah.
BARBARA WALTERS: …or your personal, your personality I guess is what I am getting at. What were the changes?
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: First of all, I think that -- no matter what happened in the election -- the first two years were all about saving the economy from a crisis, and we have done that. The economy has now stabilized. …We have gotten the economy to grow again, our focus now has to be on issues like education, issues like investing in research and development, issues like infrastructure development…. So my hope is is that new Republican leadership -- those who are coming in -- that they welcome the opportunity to work together…with me and other Democrats…to focus on solving the country's problems instead of focusing on politics. And, and I am confident that we are gonna be able to do that.
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American Crossroads TV Spending
The Los Angeles Times reports:
Also on the Republican side was Crossroads Media, a media-placement firm that took in close to $40 million in ad buys for clients that included American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, advocacy groups cofounded earlier this year by Republican strategist Karl Rove.
Patti Heck, president of Crossroads Media, said the firm took in more than the approximately $40 million that was disclosed in federal campaign finance reports, but she declined to specify how much.
In the end, though, "it was the television stations that benefited the most," Heck said. "I would say they were the real winners."
Heck said her firm — founded in 2001 by conservative activist Michael Dubke — is not affiliated with the other two Crossroads groups. She dismissed the similar names as coincidental. However, Carl Forti, political director at American Crossroads, worked with Dubke to form another firm, the Black Rock Group. Crossroads Media and the Black Rock Group share the same Alexandria, Va., address, according to their websites.
Heck said that in the final days of the elections, stations attempted to raise ad rates because airtime was so scarce.
"At the end, when everyone was buying, it just got insane," she said. "At times, we said, 'We're not paying it' and went to cable or something else. It gets offensive after a while."
Labels: 2010 election, American Crossroads, Campaign Finance, government, political science, Politics, television
Rubio's Religion
The New York Times reports:
Marco Rubio, the charismatic senator-elect from Florida, is in many ways similar to other Cuban-American politicians from his home state: conservative, Republican and a “practicing and devout Roman Catholic,” in the words of his spokesman, one who “regularly attends Catholic Mass” and “was baptized, confirmed and married in the Roman Catholic Church.”
But while Mr. Rubio, 39, presented himself on his Florida Statehouse Web site and in interviews as a Roman Catholic, bloggers and journalists have noted since his election that he regularly worships at an evangelical megachurch whose theology is plainly at odds with Catholic teaching.
At one time, Rubio might have been an outlier, and his religious practices could have been a big liability. But he is doing something quite common, as the Pew Forum reported last year:
One-third of Americans (35%) say they regularly (9%) or occasionally (26%) attend religious services at more than one place, and most of these (24% of the public overall) indicate that they sometimes attend religious services of a faith different from their own. Aside from when they are traveling and special events like weddings and funerals, three-in-ten Protestants attend services outside their own denomination, and one-fifth of Catholics say they sometimes attend non-Catholic services.
Labels: government, Marco Rubio, political science, Politics, Religion
Hispanics and Republicans
Steve Harmon writes in The Contra Costa Times:
"No doubt illegal immigration is a major roadblock for us," said Tom Del Beccaro, the vice chairman of the state GOP who is expected to take over the party chairmanship in elections next year. "But we need to work with Latinos on issues like education and jobs. Do we need to deal with immigration head-on? Yes. We still believe it's an issue of national security, economics and government reform.
"But as long as we stay focused on the most difficult aspect of it, we can't make progress," he added. "We can't make this so it's targeted at one particular group. We have to explain the broader context."
Republicans will have to stop mirroring their more conservative brethren around the country, said Kevin Spillane, a Republican consultant who helped run GOP attorney general candidate Steve Cooley's campaign. Cooley conceded the race Wednesday to San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris; the long-undecided race was the sole holdout from the Nov. 2 election, and the announcement officially gave Democrats a sweep of all statewide offices.
"One of the challenges facing Republicans is that California is more moderate than the rest of the country," Spillane said. "We need to establish an identity that's different than the national identity."
Nationally, a different picture emerges. From a news release:
The Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, a leading voice on Latinos, today noted that the final exit polls on Election Day show that the GOP did better with Latino voters than many believed.
Final exit polls show that Latinos favored Democrats over Republicans in House races by a 60 to 38 percent margin in the midterm elections, compared to a 68 to 29 margin in 2008. This represents a 9 percent increase in Latino support for Republicans and an overall improvement of 17 points from the margin of difference House Democrats enjoyed in the previous election.
"Contrary to the post-election liberal spin that Democrats dominated the Latino vote, the final numbers show that the GOP made significant gains with Latinos," said Alfonso Aguilar, Executive Director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles.
Hispanic vote for GOP House candidates:
2010...38%
Labels: 2010 election, California, government, Hispanic, political science, Politics, Public Opinion
Fight to the Finnish
Only Michael Barone would know how Finnish Americans vote:
The Finnish vote. Around 100 years ago, Finnish immigrants flocked to the mines and woods of the country around Lake Superior, where the topography and weather must have seemed familiar. They've been a mostly Democratic, sometimes even radical, voting bloc ever since. No more, it seems. Going into the election, the three most Finnish districts, Michigan 1, Wisconsin 7 and Minnesota 8, all fronting on Lake Superior, were represented by two Democratic committee chairmen and the chairman of an Energy and Commerce subcommittee, with a total of 95 years of seniority.
Wisconsin's David Obey and Michigan's Bart Stupak both chose to retire, and were replaced by Republicans who had started running before their announcements. Minnesota's James Oberstar was upset by retired Northwest Airlines pilot and stay-at-home dad Chip Cravaack.
So here's a new rule for the political scientists: As go the Finns, so goes America.
Labels: 2010 election, Finnish Americans, government, Politics
The Majority in Mississippi blog reports:
Generally when we see elections that result in major shifts in power, we will subsequently see party-switching not long after. Although he waited about a year after Republicans won control of Congress in 1994, former Rep. Mike Parker changed parties in the old Fourth District. Parker wasn’t the only one.
We are seeing similar stories this year, on the state level so far.
- In Georgia (here and here), where Republicans expanded their majority in both houses on November 2, five Democrats- mainly from rural Georgia (once a stronghold of conservative Democrats) have switched parties to give the GOP a near supermajority in the state House.
- In Alabama, where Republicans recently won a majority in both houses for the first time since Reconstruction, four Democrats switched parties yesterday to join the Republican majority.
- And in Louisiana, a state Representative has changed parties in a move that will give the GOP a majority in the state House for the first time in modern history.
We have seen three Democrats change parties in the Mississippi House since their last election in 2007. If Republicans were to win a number of seats in the body next year, I wouldn’t be shocked to see some party-switchers shortly after.
In South Dakota, the Daily Republic reported on 11-19:
The South Dakota Republican Party announced Thursday that District 17 state senator-elect Eldon Nygaard, of Vermillion, has switched his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican.
The switch bumps the Republican advantage in the Senate to 30-5
Labels: 2010 election, government, party switchers, Politics
Polls on 2010: Conservatives and the Eroding D Base
Ruy Teixeira argues that there has been no swing to the right among registered voters.
Jay Cost says that a higher percentage of voters called themselves conservatives in 2010 than ever before, and that these conservatives were more likely than ever to vote Republican:
Third Way reports:
In a new post-election survey, Third Way and Lincoln Park Strategies polled 1,000 Obama voters who abandoned Democrats in 2010, either by staying home (the “droppers”) or by voting Republican (the “switchers”). This report paints a portrait of these droppers and switchers—the voters that Democrats will need to win again in 2012. Our key findings:
•Droppers are more than the base. One in 3 droppers is conservative, 40% are Independents, and they are split about whether Obama should have done more or did too much.
•For switchers, it’s not just the economy. The economy matters but switchers also overwhelmingly think Democrats are more liberal that they are. Two in three say “too much government spending” was a major reason for their vote.
•Republicans won a chance, not a mandate. Only 20% of switchers say that a major reason for their vote was that “Republicans had better ideas,” and nearly half say Republicans are more conservative than they are.
FULL TEXT OF REPORT HERE.
Labels: 2010 election, government, political science, Politics, Public Opinion
The GOP's Throwaway Senate Seats
Politico reports that Sharron Angle threw away a potential GOP Senate pickup in Nevada:
It’s widely recognized that in the marquee 2010 Senate race, Majority Leader Harry Reid ran a nearly flawless, textbook campaign, an operation so extraordinary that it enabled him to defy an almost certain political death.
It turns out he got some inadvertent inside help. Interviews with Nevada and Washington Republicans familiar with the campaign of Reid’s GOP opponent, Sharron Angle, describe a not-ready-for-prime-time effort that was equally astonishing — a model of dysfunction that was as bad as Reid’s campaign was good.
“In the 20 years that I’ve been involved politically, I’ve never had the misfortune of working with such sheer, utter incompetence. Too much is at stake in these political campaigns — people like [Angle manager Terry] Campbell don’t need to be anywhere near them,” said Chris LaCivita, who served as political director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee this fall and worked directly with the Angle campaign. “If they were filming a sequel to the movie 'Dumb and Dumber,' Terry Campbell would have a feature role.”
Every Republican who worked with the campaign and was interviewed for this story recalled how both of Campbell’s voice mail boxes were consistently full and he would often not answer e-mails for days at a time — no matter if he was in his self-described “Command Center” in his Missouri home or on the road with Angle in Nevada.
In one instance of his haphazard engagement, Campbell called the National Republican Senatorial Committee to inquire if it had heard anything about the president coming to the state and attacking Angle — two days after President Barack Obama visited Nevada to campaign for Reid in July, according to the accounts of three GOP operatives familiar with the conversation.
Stuart Rothenberg writes of Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell:
I’ve often wondered how people with no credentials can promote themselves, whether in the business world or in the political sphere, but I’ve never seen such an absurd case as O’Donnell.
O’Donnell’s background was such that it’s hard to believe anything but the most fly-by-night business would hire her. And, in fact, she didn’t seem to have a job when she began her third run for Senate. Yet Delaware Republican primary voters handed her the nomination, ignoring questions about her character and judgment.
So, while O’Donnell’s candidacy was an example of sheer gall, it’s those Delaware voters who cared only about her positions on the issues and mindless outsider rhetoric who deserve the “absurd” label.
Labels: 2010 election, government, political science, Politics
Palin People
Robert Draper writes in The New York Times Magazine:
It’s a curious feature of Palin World that none of its charter members knew her before 2008. (Her two longtime Alaska aides, Kris Perry and Meghan Stapleton, left amicably but wearied by the demands involved with working for an overnight celebrity.) [Attorney Thomas] Van Flein met Palin in the summer of 2008, recruited by Todd Palin to give legal advice on the Troopergate controversy. He now divides his time between his Anchorage legal practice and his position as one of Palin’s four lieutenants. The others are Andrew Davis, the political director who resides in Sacramento; Tim Crawford, the group’s elder statesman at 58, whose political experience extends back to Goldwater and who in early 2009 was forced out as the R.N.C.’s interim finance director, by which time John Coale had already recruited him to be the treasurer of SarahPAC; and Palin’s 36-year-old Los Angeles-based cybermessenger, Rebecca Mansour. Palin’s broader circle also includes Jason Recher and Doug McMarlin, who handle her travel logistics from, respectively, New Orleans and Columbus, Ohio; Pam Pryor, who works with Crawford at SarahPAC as the liaison to the evangelical and Christian community; and Randy Scheunemann, a prominent neoconservative and former McCain foreign-policy adviser. Crawford, Pryor, Scheunemann and two occasional speechwriters, Chriss Winston and Lindsay Hayes, all live in or around Washington. Among the D.C. consultants, however, only Crawford interacts with Palin on a regular basis. More than once in our discussions, Van Flein referred to “those people who are of the Beltway and those who aren’t” — a binary worldview to which Palin obviously adheres. (Press reports variously name Fred Malek; Bill Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard; and Kim Daniels, a conservative lawyer, as key advisers, when in fact Daniels has not worked for Palin for several months and Malek and Kristol are seldom in contact with her. “It’s nearly every single day we learn a lesson about a person who claims to speak for us or work for us,” Palin told me. “Seems 9 times out of 10, Todd and I look at each other and say, ‘Who is this speaking for us?’ ”)
Labels: 2010 election, 2012 campaign, government, Palin, Politics
Public Knowledge after the Midterm
Despite a problematic question about government spending, a new survey from the Pew Research Center casts light on what the public knows about the results of the midterm:
The public sees the big picture when it comes to the changing balance of power in Washington. Fully 75% say that the Republican Party is generally regarded as doing best in this month's midterm elections.
Far fewer are familiar with the specifics relating to the GOP's victories. Fewer than half (46%) know that the Republicans will have a majority only in the House of Representatives when the new Congress convenes in January, while 38% can identify John Boehner as the incoming House speaker.
Labels: 2010 election, government, Politics, Public Opinion
Greenberg and Carville on the Results
Politico reports:
"The White House had the best and the brightest, but they, what would Bush say, misunderestimated, whatever the word is,” said Democratic consultant James Carville Thursday at a breakfast with reporters held by the Christian Science Monitor.
Pollster Stan Greenberg said Obama downplayed “an almost Depression-like economic crisis,” by inaccurately projecting the magnitude of job losses. “They predicated everything on the jobs coming back from March. They’re still in the middle of this crisis. This is a total misframing of this moment. Some of it’s policy ... a lot of it is giving the people in this crisis a sense of what the scale of it is, and what has to be done to get out of it,” he said.
Carville, who helped mastermind Clinton’s 1992 run for the presidency, said the failure of the White House to tailor a more populist economic message likely cost Democrats at least two dozen House seats
At Democracy Corps, Greenberg and Carville analyze the election and particularly point to independents:
The independents were an immense problem in 2010. Indeed, the Democrats’ support among independents dropped from an 18-point Democratic advantage in 2006, to 8 points in 2008, and turning Republican by a painfully familiar 18 points in 2010. We have to get inde-pendents back to at least even where it had been before 2006. With our current broad base, we can have big elections in that realm, though obviously more is better.
Part of the problem lies in the character of the off-year electorate. The independents were more male, white, and senior than in 2006 and 2008. A presidential electorate will address some of the problem.
But much more important is the proportion of independents who called themselves con-servatives. That was up from 34 to 42 percent. And while some of that may have been due to Tea Party activism and the determination of conservatives to oppose Obama, that process began in the fall of the 2008 election. There has been a conservative reaction against the government’s response to the crisis from the beginning, even before Obama took office. From the outset of Obama’s presidency, there has been a steady rise in the number who call themselves conserva-tive and in the standing of the N.R.A. (but not pro-life groups).
Labels: 2010 election, government, independents, Politics, Public Opinion
The Midterm: A Look Back
The Backdrop
Reliance on unreliable voters. From the 2008 exit poll:
..............................................Obama.....McCain
First-time voters (11%) ..........69%..........30%
Returning voters (89%).........50%..........47%
Bad News in 2009 and 2010
Obama approval
Obama and the issues
The parties and the issues
Bye, bye Blue Dogs
The exits
The exits: note party and ethnicity
The very unhappy near future
Labels: 2010 election, California, government, Politics
Dems: Tea Party Helped GOP
At Politico, Jonathan Martin reports:
Democratic consultants and operatives who worked on the 2010 campaign think the tea party movement served as more of an energy force for Republicans than a divisive factor that split the GOP, according to an informal survey being released today.
Sixty-four percent of Democratic professionals said the tea party “energized the Republican base and was one reason for Republican gains” while just 36 percent thought it “splintered the party
Similarly, the respondents indicated that they thought hitting their GOP opponents on issues related to outsourcing jobs and trade was more effective (44 percent) than attacking them for ties to the tea party and extremism (23 percent).
Those surveyed also were confident that President Barack Obama would win reelection in 2012 if he faces either Sarah Palin or Mike Huckabee, but indicated that they ultimately thought the GOP would nominate an establishment candidate rather than a tea party favorite.
The poll was conducted by the Democratic polling firm Global Strategy Group. The data are from 132 individuals who served as staffers and consultants for 2010 candidates and party committees. The firm sent an e-mail questionnaire to the operatives — using a list culled from party consultants around the country — just over a week after Election Day. While the survey is not scientific, it offers a window on the private thinking of Democratic professionals in the days since the election.
THE SURVEY RELEASE IS HERE.
Labels: 2010 election, government, Politics, tea party
How Big Was the Election?
At Politico, Jessica Collins writes:
Republicans have already gained as many as 60 seats in Congress, but when GOP gains are looked at on a state-by-state basis, the bloody picture for Democrats nationwide becomes even more gruesome. Several state legislatures made historic transitions to Republican hands — some for the first time since the 19th century — and nearly an entire generation of state Democrats saw its ranks obliterated. Here is POLITICO’s look at states that saw the political landscape change dramatically.
• Alabama’s most monumental shift came in the state Legislature, in which Republicans gained control of both the House and the Senate for the first time since 1874. State Rep. Robert Bentley’s win kept the governor’s mansion in GOP hands, and Republicans picked up a net of seven seats in the Senate and 19 seats in the House. In the state’s most contested U.S. House seat, Martha Roby defeated freshman Democratic Rep. Bobby Bright.
• Wisconsin was painted red as Ron Johnson defeated Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold, Republican Scott Walker won the open governor’s race and two House seats flipped: Republican Sean Duffy won the seat of retiring Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey, and roofing contractor Reid Ribble defeated Democratic Rep. Steve Kagen. But perhaps the Republicans’ most historic victory was gaining control of the state Assembly and the Senate — marking the first time the GOP has had total control of the state government since 1998 and the first time one party won control of both houses on the same day since 1938.
• Indiana’s congressional delegation saw a Democratic slaughter that gives the GOP a 2-1 edge. Rep. Baron Hill lost to Republican Todd Young, and Democratic Rep. Brad Ellsworth not only suffered a landslide loss to Republican Dan Coats in the Senate race; his congressional seat flipped to the GOP as well. Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly was able to hold on — but barely. Republicans won full control of the Legislature, as well, gaining control of the House and expanding their margin in the Senate for their biggest gains in more than 25 years.
• Ohio Republicans aren’t just happy that one of their own is poised to become the next speaker of the House; they also defeated an incumbent governor for just the third time in state history and handily held onto their open U.S. Senate seat. Five congressional Democrats went down in flames, giving the GOP a 13-5 edge in the Buckeye State’s D.C. delegation. In the state House, Republicans gained at least 12 seats and added two seats in the state Senate, giving them their largest majority there since 1967.
Labels: 2010 election, government, Politics
The Gentry Collins Letter
At National Journal, Cameron Joseph and Reid Wilson report:
Republican National Committee political director Gentry Collins offered an abrupt resignation Tuesday, coupled with a stinging rebuke of Chairman Michael Steele and the committee's fundraising efforts in the midterm elections.
In a five-page letter to Steele and members of the RNC's executive committee, Collins said the party's lackluster fundraising effort contributed just a fraction of the amount of money to state parties that it had in previous cycles. That financial downturn, Collins said, prevented Republicans from capitalizing on an historic wave election and allowed Democrats to hold on in key races.
Collins' public rebuke of Steele's tenure is the latest indication that there are serious divisions within the RNC and that Steele, who is seeking a second term, will face a tough battle to hang on to the job.
At Politico, Jonathan Martin summarizes:
The short version of the RNC's 2010 troubles as described by Collins: The committee couldn’t afford to run an independent expenditure ad campaign on behalf of their candidates, didn’t fund a paid voter turnout operation for Senate and gubernatorial races, left its vaunted 72-Hour turnout program effectively unfunded, offered only a fraction of the direct-to-candidate financial contributions they made four years ago and dramatically scaled back its support of state parties.
FULL TEXT OF LETTER HERE. The money quotes:
"The RNC in this cycle raised far less money than normal and spent a far higher percentage of those fewer dollars to raise what it did."
"Regrettably, too much of the nearly 30-cents-on-the-dollar not spent on fundraising was spent on things other than winning elections."
Labels: 2010 election, Campaign Finance, government, Politics, Republican National Committee
Midterm Meaning: Elites v. General Public
At Politico, Andy Barr writes of a Politico poll showing Washington elites and the general population with different views about the message of the midterm:
The starkest contrast came in the divergent interpretations of the Nov. 2 elections. Washingtonians involved in the policymaking or political process have a great degree of certainty in their interpretation of the election results—61 percent think voters sent a message of “disapproval of Washington D.C. as a whole.”“Disapproval of Barack Obama” and “disapproval of congressional Democrats” tied for a distant second, with each garnering 14 percent.
The general population, however, was less sure. Just 36 percent think the election results reflected disapproval of Washington. And 22 percent, a higher percentage than among D.C. elites, viewed Obama disapproval as the message.
A fifth of the general population—21 percent—said they didn’t know what message voters were sending. Only 6 percent of D.C. elites admitted the same.
Another point of departure: optimism about the direction of government in the wake of the midterm elections. Thirty-six percent of the general population polled said they are more hopeful about the direction following the elections, compared with 29 percent who said they are less hopeful.
Among D.C. elites, the numbers are flipped—56 percent say they are less hopeful, and 29 percent say they are more hopeful.
Incoming, Infighting
Contrary to the myth of right-wing unity, Republicans and conservatives have long had to deal with factionalism in their ranks. Indeed, the incoming members are Congress are facing it even before they take the oath. Chad Pergram reports:
"Indoctrinated" was probably not the best word to use around the Tea Party Patriots (TPP) on Sunday.
The group excoriated the newcomers for attending a meet-and-greet at the Capitol Hill Club organized by a handful of freshmen and the Claremont Institute instead of their own event at the Ronald Reagan Building downtown. And that was to say nothing of a third forum, also at the Reagan Building, conducted by the Constitutional Congress. The Constitutional Congress brought over retiring Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) and Sens. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) to chat with the freshmen about their legislative priorities. DeMint challenged the newbies not to just be "rhetorical gadflies" but to work on "real legislation."
A wise Congressman told me years ago that they don't do a lot in Congress. But when they do it, they do it all at once. Which was exactly what unfolded Sunday afternoon when all three events spilled into one another, to say nothing of the formal orientation session running all day at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel.
In a memo distributed to its members, the TPP took exception to the freshmen ducking their conclave.
"Don't Let them Steal OUR New Members of Congress," thundered a TPP memo obtained by FOX. "They are apparently trying to make sure that instead of sitting with grassroots tea party leaders from around the country, the lobbyists and consultants can sink their claws into the freshmen and begin to ‘teach them' the ways of DC."
Molly Hooper reports that the TPP may not have won new friends:
Competing freshmen lawmaker orientation events over the weekend prompted the Tea Party leaders recently to encourage their followers to bombard newly elected GOP House members with the message that they must attend a Tea Party-sponsored event for local organizers instead of a separate orientation offered at the same time by the conservative Claremont Institute.
But incoming members say they never received an invitation to participate in the Tea Party Patriots event held in the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.
"Nobody received any type of (invitation), it was just 'this is what's happening, please don't go here,' but I'm a big boy and I can choose where I need to go and where I need to be," incoming Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) said in an interview on Sunday afternoon before heading into a meeting at the Capitol Hill Club, a Republican unofficial headquarters in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, with members of his freshmen class.
"I didn't know it was happening until I started getting inundated with emails and (messages) filling up my voicemail," West's colleague told The Hill.
One irate incoming member told The Hill that the Tea Party tactic to release personal contact information of the new class was "extremely counterproductive and, in all honesty, an incredible violation of privacy."
It is worth remembering that the tea party movement itself has factions. From a November 3 report in The Daily Caller:
Leaders of the Tea Party Patriots organization declared Tuesday’s election results “a victory for liberty,” but blamed a rival Tea Party organization for Senate losses in Nevada and Delaware, saying the group shouldn’t have intervened in those elections by making endorsements in the primary.
The two organizations have a history of feuding over how involved national groups should be in elections. The Tea Party Patriots organization does not endorse candidates, while the California-based Tea Party Express endorsed numerous candidates this cycle.
Labels: government, House of Representatives, Politics, Republican, tea party
Receding Blue?
Jonathan Martin writes in Politico:
Midterm elections are notoriously flawed indicators for subsequent presidential races. And in an era of political fluidity, when an agitated electorate is quick to register its discontent, much can change over the span of two years.
But overwhelming Republican gains this year, combined with Obama’s descent in the polls and an economy that is lagging badly in critical electoral battlegrounds such as Florida, suggests a return to a national election measured in political inches in which the two candidates vie for advantage on the familiar terrain of Hamilton County, Ohio, and along Florida’s I-4 corridor.
“The map does look a lot like 2004,” said longtime Democratic strategist Jim Jordan, likening the coming presidential race to the clash between President George W. Bush and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry. “It does feel like back to the future. We’re going back to political equilibrium.”
Democratic consultant Paul Begala noted that of the eight states that went from red to blue between 2004 and 2008 on the presidential level, Democrats won either the governor’s race or a Senate race in just two of them — Nevada and Colorado — during the past two years. Combined, those two are likely to deliver just 15 electoral votes in 2012.
“If Obama holds the Kerry states and carries only the states in which Democrats prevailed in 2010, he loses,” Begala said.
AP reports:
It's impossible to predict a presidential election based on midterm results. That's even truer considering that 131.2 million people voted in 2008, when Obama was elected, compared with 87 million this month, based on an AP tally of official and unofficial results. The slow-moving economic recovery could speed up, lifting Obama and the Democrats.
November's exit-poll responses provide enough hints that Obama could be in serious trouble if he doesn't shore up his support in crucial areas.
"I'm not going to lie to you, I'm frustrated and I blamed him for some of the bad shape this country's in. We're struggling," said Earlene Durham, 32, of St. Louis, sounding like other independents who backed Obama in 2008. "But then I thought, 'Well, he's trying the best he can.' The only thing we can do is wait and see what he does in the next two years. Gotta give the man a chance."
Exit-poll questionnaires vary state to state, but on several issues that dominated the campaign this year, cross-state analyses are possible.
His job performance rating was more negative than positive among voters in states such as Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Obama won them all in 2008. In Indiana, where Obama was the first Democrat to win the state since 1964, just 37 percent approved.
Labels: 2010 election, 2012 campaign, electoral college, government, Politics, Public Opinion
The Crazy Card and other Democratic Tactics
At Slate, David Weigel identifies four reasons why incumbent DemocratcMichael Bennet won the Colorado Senate race (h/t Alyssa Roberts):
He successfully portrayed GOP candidate Ken Buck as crazy.
A competitive primary honed his campaign skills.
The state GOP melted down with a disastrous gubernatorial candidate.
Hispanic turnout was robust.
Weigel concludes:
So Bennet found four winning strategies in his come-from-behind win. Only one of them—the crazy card—is likely to help all Democrats in 2012. Another, the Hispanic vote, can only help in places where the Democrats have enough potential Hispanic support to make a difference. Bennet's win may have been the most impressive Democratic upset of the cycle. But good luck to the Democrats who want to clone it.
Labels: 2010 election, Colorado, government, Politics
American Crossroads, Crossroads GPS, and the IRS
Jeanne Cummings reports at Politico:
In the 2010 midterms, Crossroads GPS and the American Action Network talked proudly of their political clout, spending millions across the country to buy TV ads to defeat Democrats and grabbing credit for helping Republicans retake the House.
But now the two groups and others like them are changing their tune, saying that intervening in political campaigns really isn’t their primary mission.
Why the backtracking? Both groups now are under pressure to spend more noncampaign dollars than campaign dollars or risk running afoul of Internal Revenue Service rules that limit certain types of political activity.
The new GOP spending, which will be backed by millions more from anonymous donors, represents Round Two in the rise of the Republican outside groups seeking a permanent presence on the political scene.
Labels: American Crossroads, Campaign Finance, government, IRS, Politics
2010 in Context
At Boston Review, Eric McGhee, Brendan Nyhan, and John Sides note that the outside spending was more balanced than media reports suggested:
The average independent expenditure for Democratic candidates (either for that candidate or against his or her opponent) was about $240,000. The average for Republican candidates was about $225,000. Even if we restrict the analysis to candidates receiving at least a million dollars in outside spending, the average for Republicans was about $1.6 million and for Democrats about $1.8 million.
Moreover, the money was going into races that were already saturating the airwaves with advertisements, making it hard to overwhelm the opposition. The median amount of money raised by Democrats who faced more than $50,000 in independent spending was $1.7 million. The same number for Republican candidates was $1.3 million. This wasn’t David vs. Goliath. It was two Goliaths, beating each other to a pulp.
However, these conclusions come with two important caveats. First, we could not measure spending by the IRS organizations because it is not possible to link their spending to specific races. Second, we did not separate outside spending by parties from outside spending by other groups. The Republican Party was outspent by the Democratic Party in this election cycle, while the outside groups probably were tilted toward Republicans and helped make up the difference. But since our analysis only slightly under-predicts the actual number of seats won by the Republicans, fully accounting for both of these factors would affect a handful of seats at most—important, but hardly a game changer.
AEI reports:
Republicans gained more than sixty seats in the House of Representatives and six Senate seats. They picked up six governorships and hundreds of seats at the state legislative level. They won control of nineteen state legislative chambers and took the majority in both houses in at least five states. How do the 2010 results compare to the results of other midterm elections? The charts here, created by John Fortier and Jennifer Marsico, look at seat gains for the party out of power in the House, the Senate, governor’s mansions, and state legislatures. They constructed a “power ranking,” based on the average of their rankings in those four categories. Using this system, the 2010 elections rank as the sixth most significant midterm elections since 1914—a high ranking, although not as high as the impressive House results alone. For comparison purposes, they have also included data in each category for 1994 when Republicans took back the House after 40 years in the minority and for 2006 when the Democrats made sizable gains.
Labels: 2010 election, Campaign Finance, government, midterm election, Politics
Andy Barr reports at Politico:
Former first lady Nancy Reagan announced plans Thursday to invite the leading Republican contenders to the first debate of the presidential primary season, to be held at her late husband’s presidential library and co-hosted by POLITICO and NBC News.
The debate, sponsored by the Reagan Presidential Foundation, will be held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif., during the spring of 2011. NBC News will serve as the television partner for the debate while POLITICO is the online content partner.
Nate Silver writes:
Based on the objective indicators — which is to say, the polls — you have four clear front-runners: Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich. Each has comfortably over 80 percent name recognition among Republicans, and they are about 10 points ahead of any other candidates in trial heats that have tested various combinations of the candidates against one another. Each is also pretty well liked among Republicans. All have strong television presences and the makings of a campaign infrastructure. They all have pretty distinct brands. Three of the four — Ms. Palin (Tea Party conservatives), Mr. Huckabee (southern and religious conservatives) and Mr. Romney (moderates and fiscal conservatives) — have fairly natural constituencies within the Republican base. Mr. Gingrich, whose demographics probably overlap to some extent with Ms. Palin’s, is perhaps the exception.
Posted by Pitney at 11:55 AM
Labels: 2012 campaign, government, Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Palin, Politics, Romney
Public Reactions to the Midterm
The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press reports:
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Nov. 4-7 among 1,255 adults, finds 48% saying they are happy that the Republican Party won control of the House while 34% are unhappy. Four years ago, 60% said they were happy the Democrats won full control of Congress, compared with just 24% who were unhappy. That mirrored the public’s reaction in December 1994 to the GOP winning control of Congress for the first time in 40 years (57% happy vs. 31% unhappy).
In the current survey, 52% of those who said they voted in the Nov. 2 election were happy with the outcome compared with 42% of non-voters. Still, more voters in 2006 – 60% – said they were happy with the Democrats’ victory.
The public has a mixed reaction to the Republican policies and plans for the future: 41% approve, while nearly as many (37%) disapprove. Approval is somewhat greater among voters (45%) than among non-voters (35%). But on balance, both the general public and voters express less positive views of the GOP’s policies than they did of the Democrats’ proposals after the 2006 election.
President Obama’s approval rating stands at 44%; an identical percentage disapproves of his job performance.
Roughly a third of Democrats (34%) say they would like to see other Democratic candidates challenge Obama for the party’s nomination in 2012. In December 1994, far more Democrats (66%) supported a primary challenge to President Clinton.
Just 16% of registered voters who attend religious services at least once a month say election information was available at their place of worship, down from 25% after the 2006 midterms.
The GOP continues to be seen as a leaderless party: 51% say they don’t know who leads the Republican Party while 14% volunteer that no one does. More now see John Boehner as the leader of the GOP (10%) than did so in September (4%).
There is no clear front-runner for the 2012 Republican nomination for president: Sarah Palin (15%), Mike Huckabee (15%), and Mitt Romney (13%) all receive about the same levels of support.
The Facts of 2010
Peter Wehner writes:
Republicans picked up more House seats than in any election since 1938. Republicans now control the most House seats, and Democrats now have the smallest number of House seats, since 1946.
Fifty incumbent Democratic congressmen were defeated, while only two incumbent House Republicans lost.
Independents comprised 28 percent of the electorate and supported Republican congressional candidates by a margin of 56 to 38 percent. That represents a 36-point turnaround from the last midterm election, in 2006, when independents supported Democratic congressional candidates by 57 to 39 percent. In addition, independents trust Republicans to do a better job than Democrats by a margin of 23 points on jobs and employment, 23 points on the economy, 27 points on government spending, and 31 points on taxes.
Democrats hold a majority of the congressional delegation in only three states — Iowa, New Mexico, and Vermont — that don’t directly touch an ocean. Republicans similarly routed Democrats in gubernatorial races across the Midwest and the border states, from Ohio and Tennessee to Wisconsin and Iowa.
Republicans picked up 680 seats in state legislatures, the most in the modern era. In the 1994 GOP wave, Republicans picked up 472 seats. The previous record was in the post-Watergate election of 1974, when Democrats picked up 628 seats. The GOP gained majorities in at least 19 state house chambers. They now have unified control — meaning both chambers — of 26 state legislatures. And across the country, Republicans now control 55 chambers, Democrats have 38, and two are tied. (The Nebraska legislature is unicameral.)
Republicans have not enjoyed this much power in state capitals since the 1920s.
Voters who identified as ideologically conservative accounted for 41 percent of the turnout, an increase from the 34 percent figure in 2008 and the highest level recorded for any election since 1976.
James Ceaser writes:
Facts speak for themselves.
The Democratic Party under Barack Obama in 2010 suffered the greatest defeat for a newly elected president in a midterm since the Republican Party under Warren Gamaliel Harding in 1922. Democrats, at this writing, dropped 61 seats in the House of Representatives, where they will now be in the minority, and 6 seats in the Senate, where they will continue to hold a slight edge. The Democratic defeat was historic by other measures as well--in House seats lost in a congressional election (the most since 1948), and in House seats lost in any midterm (the most since 1938). But it is the performance of a president's party following his first election that is the relevant point of comparison today
Labels: 2010 election, government, midterm election, Obama, Politics
Independents in 2010
Resurgent Republic reports on a joint poll with Democracy Corps:
2010 was a nationalized referendum on President Obama and Democratic control of Congress, not just a series of choices between two candidates. Which party would control Congress was a factor in deciding a Congressional vote for 61 percent of 2010 voters, including 74 percent of Republicans, 57 percent of Democrats, and 51 percent of Independents. Among voters who supported the Republican candidate, 44 percent say their vote was a vote for the particular Republican candidate, 34 percent say it was a vote to provide a check on the agenda of President Obama and Democrats, and 14 percent say it was a vote against the Democrat. A plurality (43 percent) of Independent voters who voted Republican said their vote was driven by a desire to provide a check on President Obama and the Democrats, versus 30 percent who voted for the Republican candidate and 19 percent who voted against the Democratic candidate.
Among voters who supported the Democratic candidate, 43 percent say it was a vote to support the agenda of President Obama and Democrats, 43 percent say it was a vote for the particular Democratic candidate, and 10 percent say it was a vote against the Republican. Among Independents who voted Democrat, 46 percent voted for the Democratic candidate, 31 percent voted to support the agenda of President Obama and the Democrats, and 17 percent voted against the Republican.
American Crossroads: Adding It Up
Mother Jones reports:
By the time voters went to the polls last week, outside groups had spent more than $454 million to influence campaigns. But there's little evidence that all that spending benefited Republicans much more than Democrats, as the final tallies on spending were actually pretty close.
A total of $197.4 million was spent backing Republican candidates, while groups spent $181.1 million for Democrats, according to Federal Election Commission data compiled by the Sunlight Foundation.
Eliza Newlin Carney writes at National Journal:
The Crossroads groups pulled in more than $71 million, organizers say – far beyond its original $50 million target -- but reported only $38.7 million in independent campaign expenditures. Even accounting for some overhead, that still leaves potentially tens of millions leftover for pending policy fights over taxes, health care and climate issues, not to mention the 2012 presidential race.
“We’re already focusing very intently on the government-expanding agenda of President Obama and the Democratic Congress,” said American Crossroads president and CEO Steven Law at a post-election briefing.
Law called the assault on secret corporate money by President Obama and congressional Democrats “a real strategic mistake.” Democratic attacks on the Citizens United ruling and on conservative outside money “at best made them look seriously out of touch, and at worst made them look like politicians,” Law said.
Labels: 2010 election, American Crossroads, Campaign Finance, government, Politics
In a "60 Minutes" interview with Steve Kroft (part 1 here and part 2 here), the president addressed the midterm:
I think, first and foremost, it was a referendum on the economy. And the party in power was held responsible for an economy that is still underperforming and where a lot of folks are still hurting. I mean, we've got 9.6 percent unemployment. We've got higher than that underemployment. A lot of folks who would like to be working full time can't work full time. Families are struggling paying the bills. People have seen their home values decline all across the country. In some cases, so that they're under water. Their house is worth less than the cost of their mortgage.
And so, people I think expect that we would have made more progress than we have on the economic front. And I think that was uppermost on people's minds.
I do think that what was also true was that there are a lot of folks in this country who voted for me, hoping that we were gonna be able to get Washington to work again. And what they've seen over the last two years is a lot of partisan bickering. A lot of the same chronic problems that we've seen in Washington over the last several decades now. And that frustrated them. And I think they rightly said, "Okay, President Obama, you said you were gonna do something about this. We haven't seen enough change in Washington." And so in both those instances, I think people rightly said, "You're the President, you committed and promised that we would see changes. We haven't seen as many changes as we'd like. And we're gonna hold you accountable for it."
The economy did hurt the Democrats, but it did not account for the size of their defeat. In 1982, unemployment was even worse than it is today (10.4 percent in October, on its way to a high of 10.8 percent in November). The president's party -- the Republicans in 1982 -- suffered a net loss of 14 percent of their House seats. In 2010, that percentage would work out to 36 seats -- not enough for a shift in control. Instead, Democrats dropped more than 60 seats.
Labels: 2010 election, government, Obama, Politics
American Crossroads, Meg, and Money
The Wall Street Journal reports:
A Wall Street Journal analysis of campaign spending shows that Republican groups prevailed in nearly 75% of the House races in which they significantly out-spent Democratic organizations.
The analysis also shows that Republicans won 53 House seats in races where the Republican groups spent at least $200,000 more than rival Democratic organizations. Republicans, though, lost 20 races where they heavily outspent Democratic groups.
Among Republican groups, the two advised by Mr. Rove—American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS—spent a total of $71 million on the election, making them the top supporters of Republicans this election.
Mr. Rove's groups, which were founded earlier this year, surpassed the election-spending of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation's leading business lobby.
The Chamber said earlier this year that it planned to spend $75 million on the elections. Instead it spent about $50 million. Officials said they fell short partly because Mr. Rove's groups siphoned off some donations it expected to receive.
But there are limits to the power of money:
Republican Meg Whitman, the former eBay Inc. chief executive, spent $140 million of her own cash in a bid to be California's governor, equivalent to about $45 a vote. She lost by 12 points to Democratic Attorney General Jerry Brown.
"Money can't turn Democrats into Republicans," said Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for Ms. Whitman's campaign.
Labels: 2010 election, American Crossroads, Campaign Finance, government, Politics, Whitman
American Crossroads: Putting Non-Party Money in Perspective
The Center for Responsive Politics says:
The 2010 midterm elections will be remembered for spawning a new breed of political animal -- the "super PAC," officially known as "independent expenditure-only committees," which are legally allowed to raise unlimited amounts of money from individuals, corporations and unions to expressly advocate for or against federal candidates.
These groups helped propel numerous candidates to success on Election Night, and conservative super PACs helped Republicans nearly gain control of the U.S. Senate, research by the Center for Responsive Politics shows.
And one super PAC stood tall above all others.
American Crossroads -- the conservative outfit associated with GOP operatives Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie, Carl Forti and Stephen Law, and fueled by corporations and billionaires -- accounted for one-third of all spending by super PACs this election, the Center's research indicates. And American Crossroads itself nearly spent as much as all liberal-aligned super PACs combined.
The Campaign Finance Institute puts outside money in perspective:
The Campaign Finance Institute today released its first post-election tables on money in the 2010 House and Senate elections. Independent expenditures and electioneering communications by non-party groups grew to $280 million through Election Day, an increase of 130% from 2008. Independent spending by the national political parties fell 20% to $182 million.
Party and non-party spending to help competitive Democrats and Republicans was about equal across the parties. As a result, neither set of expenditures could be said to have tipped the electoral balance.
This is a change from 2008, when Democrats showed a substantial advantage in party spending. Democratic party committees still had an advantage over Republican party committees in 2010, but a narrower one than in 2008. The change stemmed from a decline among the Democratic committees. This cannot be attributed to the growth of pro-Republican non-party spending. (Table 1 shows party and non-party spending over time; table 2 shows the non-party organizations spending the most money in 2010).
Of course, 2010 was a national “wave” election. In other circumstances, such as may prevail in 2012, the importance of non-party money could change.
Yesterday, Mike Allen reported:
House Republican Leader Boehner today will release a new leadership document, "Pillars of a New Majority," a compilation of the five major speeches he delivered between June and October, as Republicans ramped up efforts to take the majority in the House. Boehner, in the "Foreword": "History will record 2010 as the year in which the American people reasserted control of their government, and the supremacy of the people over politicians and political parties was re-established. Born from this movement was a new majority in the U.S. House of Representatives -- a majority humbler than its predecessors, determined to rebuild trust and eager to do the will of the people. ... It's my hope that these five speeches -- some delivered as the Pledge [to America] was being conceived and written, and others delivered after its launch -- lend further context to our governing agenda ... President Obama must decide whether he will heed the will of the people and work with us to address their concerns, or continue on a path the people have rejected. If he joins us in listening to the people and acknowledges their demand for smaller, more accountable government, much can be achieved." 44-page PDF http://bit.ly/dBonpQ
--Also today, Boehner is expected to send a letter to GOP members and members-elect, asking for the honor of their votes to become Speaker-elect.
--"Pillars" is "Dedicated to the memory of Paula T. Nowakowski (1964-2010), my former Chief of Staff. A great American patriot, warrior for freedom, brilliant strategist, and beloved friend.
Politico also featured a rare analysis that actually gets the GOP's factional disputes and Boehner's skill at managing them:
John Boehner has no plans — or capacity — to rule the House like Nancy Pelosi did. It’s neither his style to centralize power in the speaker’s office like she did nor his strength to win his way through brute force or fear.
But make no mistake: Boehner will assume control of the House with his own elaborate plan for running the GOP on his terms. The plan includes fiercely loyal allies placed strategically throughout the House and his potential enemies placed right where he can better control them, according to Republicans close to Boehner.
Look no further than the emerging leadership team to see this dynamic at work.
Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, is likely to get tapped to run the Republican Study Committee, a hotbed for restless conservatives who view Boehner with some skepticism. Boehner paid a last-minute visit to Jordan’s district last weekend, part of his two-year-long nurturing of the young talent. There is no place in the Republican Conference that presents a bigger long-term threat to Boehner than the RSC.
Labels: Boehner, government, House of Representatives, Politics, Republican
American Crossroads Batting Average
At Mother Jones, Andy Kroll calculates win/loss ratios and concludes:
So there you have it. The US Chamber of Commerce and the Karl Rove-launched Crossroads GPS led the way, with .800 and .700 averages, respectively, in making the most of their (mostly) attack dollars. The labor group SEIU, meanwhile, finished last, albeit in an incredibly GOP-friendly election year. (Unlike the Chamber or many other outside groups, unions such as the SEIU do have to disclose most of their donors.) Most of these groups' funds, as you can tell, were focused on US Senate races around the country. And while the aforementioned conservative groups had plenty of success knocking off Democrats east of the Mississippi, their cash had far less influence out west, where Democratic incumbents Harry Reid, Michael Bennet, Barbara Boxer, and (probably) Patty Murray swatted away their challengers to eke out narrow wins on Election Day.
Labels: 2010 election, American Crossroads, Campaign Finance
American Crossroads & GOP Planning
Jim Rutenberg & Jeff Zeleny write in The New York Times:
The PowerPoint slides presented to House Republicans in January 2009 seemed incongruously optimistic at a time when the very word “hope” belonged to the newly ascendant Democrats and their incoming president, Barack Obama.
“If the goal of the majority is to govern, what is the purpose of the minority?” one slide asked.
“The purpose of the minority,” came the answer, “is to become the majority.”
At that Republican retreat in January 2009, gathering inside a historic inn in Annapolis, Md., the group — led by Representatives John A. Boehner of Ohio, the Republican leader, and Eric Cantor of Virginia, the whip — did not tolerate the hand-wringing that consumed so many Republicans that dark winter.
Instead, they walked through a by-the-numbers picture of Democratic vulnerability that had been lost in the excitement over Mr. Obama’s election. Some 83 Democrats held seats in districts that once supported President George W. Bush; more than two dozen won their last elections by wafer-thin margins, according to a Republican document provided to The New York Times.
In their quest to reach a majority, the Republican leaders imposed tough party discipline, warning incumbents that the party would no longer act as a “welfare state” for those who were lax fund-raisers. They began an aggressive recruiting effort for top-flight candidates in districts that seemed to be virtually owned by some of the longest-serving Democrats in the House. And they were keenly aware of the anti-establishment mood, rarely engaging with Tea Party challengers, as Senate leaders did, fearful that any efforts to influence primary races could backfire.
They also tried to push Democrats into retirement, using what was described in the presentation as “guerilla tactics” like chasing Democratic members down with video cameras and pressing them to explain votes or positions. (One target, Representative Bob Etheridge of North Carolina, had to apologize for manhandling one of his inquisitors in a clip memorialized on YouTube. Only this week did Republican strategists acknowledge they were behind the episode.)
“I remember people laughing at me back when they thought Republicans were a lot like dinosaurs,” Representative Pete Sessions, the Texan who leads the National Republican Congressional Committee, said in an interview. “Our mission statement was to retire Nancy Pelosi. That was the whole mission statement.”
And while the White House was keenly aware that Mr. Rove and others were out looking for unlimited corporate cash to help them take on Democrats, a report by one of the main groups he helped start, American Crossroads provided more false reassurance. Filed in June, it showed a paltry monthly fund-raising total of $200.
At the time, it seemed the group had collected far less than the $52 million it vowed to raise. That figure, officials with the group now say, was something of a confident bluff — they hoped they could hit the mark, but were by no means certain. The number was the invention of Jim Dyke, a former Republican Party strategist who was on the American Crossroads board and believed the group needed to send a signal that it intended to have a major impact.
“We needed to raise a good bit of money to be credible,” Mr. Dyke said. “So when I thought about ‘credible,’ I figured raising and spending what at the time would have been the same amount of money as the unions was credible.” (Labor unions ultimately spent much more than that on behalf of Democrats.)
In truth, the group had early commitments of $30 million, but its chief executive overseeing day-to-day operations, Steven Law, said in an interview that he was not initially sure all of those would materialize.
On a fund-raising trip with Mr. Rove through Tennessee and Texas, Mr. Law found donors expressing hesitation, telling him, “Other groups have a track record, you don’t.”
Crossroads had yet to get involved in a race and now needed an opportunity to show it could have an impact.
It found one, he said, in Sharron Angle, the Tea Party candidate in Nevada who unexpectedly won the Republican primary for the seat held by Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader. Ms. Angle had emerged as the nominee virtually broke, and the rest of the Republican establishment was shunning her, worried that some of her extreme statements — suggesting, for example, that rape victims should make “lemonade” out of unwanted pregnancies — made her a weak candidate.
Within days, American Crossroads flooded the state with anti-Reid ads. Donors noticed. “It was like turning on a light switch,” Mr. Law said.
Labels: 2010 election, 2012 campaign, American Crossroads, government, Politics, Republican
CA: Why Whitman Lost
At Capitol Alert, Amy Chance writes:
Adam Mendelsohn, who served as a political consultant to Whitman from February '08 to January '09, said Wednesday he never saw a rationale for her run that voters would understand.
"If you're going to take somebody who's an outsider who has no civic experience at all.....you have to create a really compelling reason for people to vote that person into office," he said. "My personal experience with the campaign often felt like they were approaching it like a marketing project rather than a political campaign."
That approach extended to the campaign's discomfort with the political press corps, he said.
"It was always very difficult to determine what she was comfortable doing and what she was not comfortable doing," Mendelsohn said. "She and her adviser, Henry Gomez, were very, very protective of where they put her and what she was doing. I think she was so over-managed and so over-advised, that she became intimidated by the media. I think they spent more time thinking about everything she could say wrong rather than what she could say correctly."
At the Los Angeles Times, Cathleen Decker writes:
Latinos were more likely than other voters to say it was the governor's race that impelled them to vote, and they sided more than 2 to 1 with Democrat Jerry Brown over Meg Whitman, the Republican whose campaign had been embroiled in a controversy over illegal immigration. Once at the polls, they voted for other Democrats as well.
Holding their coastal strength, Democrats ran away with their big counties. Brown carried Los Angeles County, home to 25% of the state's voters, by 31 points, giving him almost 60% of his lead. Republican candidates, including Whitman, did better than Democrats in their traditional interior California strongholds. But the strong Republican counties tend to be heavier on acreage than voters.
Democratic successes in the midst of 2010's national Republican renaissance marked a sharp turnabout from how the state behaved during the last major Republican year, in 1994. That year, as Republicans took back Congress, they won in California as well, picking up five of seven statewide offices, including the governorship, and adding legislative seats. This time, Democrats picked up a legislative seat despite Republican gains nationally, and were waiting for uncounted ballots to see whether they lost a congressional seat or two.
The difference between then and now rests on the changes in the California electorate. Those changes also explain the gulf that now exists between California and the nation. California in 1994 was more white and proportionately less Democratic than it is today, thus more similar to the country today. Nationally, non-whites made up only 22% of the Tuesday electorate; in California they made up 38%. Latinos nationally represented 8% of the national electorate, just shy of a third of their power in California. The California and national exit polls were conducted by Edison Research for a consortium of news organizations, including television news networks and the Associated Press.
Tellingly, Latinos in California had a far more negative view of the GOP than other voters — almost 3 in 4 had an unfavorable impression, to 22% favorable. Among all California voters the view of Republicans was negative, but at a closer 61% negative and 32% positive. Latinos had a strongly positive view of Democrats, 58% to 37%, whereas all voters were closely split, 49% to 45%.
"The brand name is still a tremendous liability," said Allan Hoffenblum, a former Republican consultant who runs a nonpartisan election-tracking publication. "People of color are just turned off by the Republican Party."
Jack Chang and David Siders write at the Sacramento Bee:
Brown himself said Wednesday that he benefited from having no major primary opposition. Whitman, on the other hand, fought a bruising and expensive primary battle against Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner.
"Those two right there sets the stage," Brown said. "And then thirdly, there's more Democrats than Republicans, and we have a somewhat mildly liberal-leaning decline to state voters."
The 72-year-old former governor added, "And then, of course, you have my sparkling personality."
Timm Herdt writes at the Ventura County Star:
Typically an unknown candidate will take a get-to-know-me tour around the state, talking to any news organization that could help introduce him or her to voters.
A year ago, Whitman could have gone from Chico to San Bernardino doing exactly that, subjecting herself to scores of interviews. Undoubtedly, she would have slipped up in a few, but she would have had plenty of time to recover and the practice would have served her well.
Instead, she gave one coming-out interview — with the Los Angeles Times, the state’s largest news organization — and made a few gaffes. She then retreated.
When it came time in the fall to participate in her first televised debate and to personally appeal to newspaper editorial boards for their endorsements, she was unskilled at answering questions and uncomfortably robotic.
Labels: 2010 election, California, government, Jerry Brown, Latino, Politics, Whitman
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Mike Doughty Plays Soul Coughing’s "Ruby Vroom" 25 Year Anniversary Tour
Mike Doughty
The Ghost of Mr. Oberon
Doors: 7 PM / Show: 8 PM
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DOORS: 7:00 PM // SHOW: 8:00 PM
Mike Doughty, the singer, songwriter, producer, author and founder of seminal 90’s band Soul Coughing will be playing their debut LP Ruby Vroom in full across the U.S. in 2019.
Doughty will be joined on these dates by a full band. While they will be performing Ruby Vroom in its entirety, in the original sequence, what the audience experiences will be different each night. “When I was looking for something to do between album cycles I decided to tour Irresistible Bliss in full” explains Doughty. “It was incredibly fun forcing myself to work within that structure. The decisions you make when putting together a set list are different from the ones you make when sequencing a record. This is like performing a single, hour-long piece of music.”
Rather than an exact replication of the studio recording, Doughty plans to use a variety of cues and hand signals to adjust the performance in real time. “Live we turn into a musical super-organism. We’re basically doing a real-time remix of the record at each show” tells Doughty. “It won’t not be a note-for-note performance. I’m very proud of the record we made; it’s the sonic embodiment of lower Manhattan in the early 1990’s. Yet there’s a whole other version of this record that lives in my head. I’m extremely excited to see how it evolves night after night.”
Doughty has released 11 solo albums in the 21st Century, including Haughty Melodic and Stellar Motel, and a memoir, The Book of Drugs (he’s currently writing a second one). He makes electro tracks under the names UUL and Dubious Luxury; his opera Revelation was staged in conjunction with WNYC; he’s currently writing songs with Wayne Kramer from the MC5. He recently posted his 100th weekly new song for his Patreon subscribers. And, finally, he has three improvised-music bands in Memphis, where he lives: Moticos, Baby Men, and Spooky Party.
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The Fed Hits the Brakes: No Rate Hikes Projected in 2019
At its meeting on March 20, 2019, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) maintained the benchmark federal funds rate at the target range of 2.25% to 2.50% that was set in December 2018. This in itself was not surprising. But other communications signaled a definite hiatus in the Fed’s policy of raising interest rates and tightening the money supply.1
The FOMC has raised the funds rate nine times since December 2015, with four increases in 2018 alone. As recently as September 2018, the committee projected three more increases in 2019. That dropped to two projected increases at the December meeting. But the March projections suggest that there may be no rate increases in 2019 at all.2
The FOMC also indicated that it would slow its program of reducing excess reserves of Treasuries and other government securities that were built up during and after the recession in a policy known as quantitative easing. The reduction program will stop after September 2019 unless conditions change, reflecting the Fed’s belief that there is no need for further tightening of the money supply.3
The strongest communication to come out of the March meeting may be the unusually direct comments from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. “We don’t see data coming in that suggest we should move in either direction,” he said. “They suggest that we should remain patient and let the situation clarify itself over time....It may be some time before the outlook for jobs and inflation calls clearly for a change in policy.”4
Dual Mandate
Powell’s reference to jobs and inflation reflects the Federal Reserve’s dual mandate to foster maximum employment and price stability. The FOMC sets monetary policy in accordance with the mandate, using two primary tools: the federal funds rate and the monetary supply.
The federal funds rate is the interest rate at which banks lend funds to each other overnight to maintain legally required reserves. The funds rate serves as a benchmark for many short-term rates set by banks, including the prime rate, which in turn influences consumer rates such as auto loans and credit-card rates. It can also influence longer-term rates.
Theoretically, lowering interest rates and increasing the money supply will stimulate the economy, which is why the Fed took these measures during the recession and extended them through the long, slow recovery. (The federal funds rate was near zero for eight years, from December 2007 to December 2015.)
On the other hand, raising rates and tightening the money supply are intended to slow the economy, primarily to control inflation. In theory, a strong economy with low unemployment should put workers in a position to demand higher wages, and higher wages allow businesses to raise prices on their products, which allows them to expand and pay higher wages.
A moderate level of wage and price inflation is considered integral to a healthy economy, and the Fed has set a goal of 2% annual inflation as optimal for economic growth. However, despite a strong labor market, wages and the broader economy have not grown as quickly as expected, and inflation has generally remained below the 2% target. Thus, raising rates has been more of a preventive measure and return to historical norms than a response to an overheated economy or runaway inflation.
The shift from further rate increases suggests that the Fed believes there is little to fear regarding high inflation. In fact, Powell said that the greater danger is low global inflation, calling it “one of the major challenges of our time.”5 While the Fed has raised rates steadily over the last three years — providing flexibility to drop rates if necessary — central banks in other countries have been slow to act due to sluggish economies and low inflation. Some have kept their benchmark rates below 0%, creating a risk of asset “bubbles” and placing them in a difficult position in the event of an economic downturn.6
Market Reactions
The stock market rose moderately after the FOMC announcement, but stocks still closed with a small loss for the day. The market generally applauds lower interest rates, but investors continue to be jittery about the potential for global economic weakness. In the longer term, stable interest rates at current levels may be good for stocks, which began to rally on January 4, 2019 — when Powell first preached “patience” — and gained more than 15% through March 20.7
The reaction in the bond market was stronger. The prospect of lower rates for an extended period — along with the Fed's decision to keep more Treasuries in its portfolio — made current yields more appealing. Investors rushed to buy Treasury securities and other bonds, driving prices up and yields down. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.52%, the lowest level in 15 months and just seven basis points (0.07%) above the yield on the three-month T-bill — nearing a “yield curve inversion” considered by some economists to predict a recession. Two days later, on March 22, the curve inverted for the first time since 2007, with demand for longer-term bonds driven by soft global growth.8
Although pessimists have feared a new recession for years, Powell emphasized that the U.S. economy is “in a good place,” and the official FOMC policy statement pointed to “sustained expansion of economic activity” in its expectations for future economic direction.9–10 A potential pause in rate hikes this year does reflect some concern about economic growth, but it also suggests that the Fed believes the current level is a neutral rate where further movement up or down could have a negative effect. This is not necessarily cause for concern. It may just mean that the Fed is doing its job.
The return and principal value of stocks and bonds fluctuate with market conditions. Shares, when sold, and bonds redeemed prior to maturity may be worth more or less than their original cost. U.S. Treasuries are guaranteed by the U.S. government as to the timely payment of principal and interest.
1–3, 10) Federal Reserve, 2018–2019
4–5, 9) Bloomberg, March 20, 2019
6) The Wall Street Journal, March 21, 2019
7) The New York Times, January 4, 2019; March 20, 2019
8) MarketWatch, March 20 and 22, 2019
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Causes/Risk Factors
Dementia Causes/Risk Factors
Dementia Causes
HDL Cholesterol & Dementia
Stress & Dementia
Dementia Risk Factors
Blood Pressure & Dementia
Dietary Fats & Dementia
Information about High Stress Levels and Dementia Risk
Johns Hopkins researchers have linked high levels of the stress hormone cortisol with poor cognitive performance in older individuals. Researchers examined the stress-cognitive function connection as part of the ongoing Baltimore Memory Study.
For this study, they gave 20 standard cognitive tests to 967 participants (average age 61) while measuring cortisol levels in their saliva. The tests provided information on cognitive abilities such as information processing speed, language skills, and verbal memory and learning.
Saliva samples were collected before, during, and after the individuals underwent the cognitive tests and again at the end of the study. The researchers found that as cortisol levels rose, cognitive performance declined in a manner comparable to what is seen with aging.
For example, the cortisol-related decline in language skills was similar to what would be expected from someone who had aged nearly six years. A possible explanation for the cortisol connection is that chronic stress leads to malfunctions in the brain pathway that both regulates cortisol production and influences the health of brain cells. This could result in a greater degree of wear-and-tear on the brain. However, it could also be that the more tired one gets over time, the worse one performs on these tests.
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Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT)
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If you are a concerned staff member, family member or fellow student, please click here to make a referral. In the case of an emergency please call 911.
Fresno State is concerned about the health and safety of our students, faculty and staff. We are committed to providing an environment where individuals are free to learn, teach, and work uninhibited by threats of intimidation or harm. To this end, the University has enhanced the Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT). BIT is responsible for assessing reports of troubling behavior on the part of students, faculty, or staff, and implementing interventions that are in the best interest of the university and the individual. By collaborating as a team, we strive to effectively balance the rights of individuals with the security of groups.
BIT is comprised of three sub-groups/teams of members from across the university whose purpose is to support students, faculty, and staff who may have a concern about another member of the Fresno State community. BIT consists of three response teams: Campus Assessment, Response, & Evaluation (CARE) team focusing on students in distress or of concern, Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Response Team (SART) focusing on sexual assault and relationship violence, and the Threat Assessment & Risk Prediction (TARP) team focusing on issues related to faculty or staff and/or campus threat. The BIT teams will serve as a resource to faculty, staff, administration, and students providing assistance with intervention plans, resources, training and education.
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2-7 Clerkenwell Green, EC1R 0DE
This business centre provides an extraordinary business environment offering over 18,000 sq ft of space. It is a serviced office and the facilities include conference rooms and a boardroom which can seat up to 12 delegates. Office suites are available from 100 to 4,000 sq ft. Flexible and scalable terms are available which begin at just one month. Single monthly fees are inclusive of rent, rates, heating and lighting.
The nearby tube stations are Farringdon, Barbican and Chancery Lane with nearby National Rail stations being Liverpool Street, Old Street and Moorgate. A range of shops, restaurants and other useful amenities surrounds the centre.
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Treasured Dreams
Now available in kindle Unlimited
Sometimes the enemy is closer than you think…
Relic hunter, Archer Mahoney, uncovers a clue to a vast missing treasure stolen during World War II. Plagued by bizarre clues, endless dead-ends, and deadly adversaries, Archer and his crew dodge deadly traps as they race across the globe to solve a puzzle that’s decades in the making. Trouble is, he’s not the only one hunting the riches.
Archer’s fiancé, Rosalina, discovers a devastating family secret that shatters her world to pieces. But her life spirals further into hell when she’s kidnapped my a madman who’s not only determined to get his hands on his treasure, he’s out for revenge. . . and there’s still so many on his hit list.
With Rosalina’s life in the balance, it's become very, very personal.
Treasured Dreams is the third book in the Treasure Hunters series. It’s a pulse-pounding mystery packed with historical intrigue, suspense, a touch of humor and steamy romance.
Here are some of my photos that inspired this series.
Machu Picchu, the Incan Citadel in Mexico was finally ticked off my bucket list in 2015.
My mum, sister and I climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 2014. What a wonderful experience.
Research at the Amberley Air Base was loads of fun.
Soaring over Ipanema in Rio 2013, was one of my favourite thrill rides.
Flying a helicopter over Las Vegas was another bucket item tick for me in 2015.
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Anisul Huq, M.P
Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs
Anisul Huq was born on 30 March 1956 to Advocate Serajul Huq, a reputed lawyer and former Member of Parliament, and Mrs. Jahanara Huq. Advocate Serajul Huq was a founding member of the Awami Muslim League and was a close associate and confidant of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Advocate Serajul Huq was a prominent organiser of the Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971 and was one of the first person to cross over to India to seek assistance from the Indian Government against the genocide committed by the Pakistani Army. The late Mr. Serajul Huq was a legendary lawyer of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and in 1973 was appointed the chief prosecutor for the crimes perpetrated during the 1971 war. Subsequently in 1996 he was appointed the chief prosecutor in the Bangabandhu murder case and in the jail killing case where four leaders of the country was brutally killed in the Dhaka Central Jail in 1975. Mrs. Jahanara Huq is a distinguished freedom fighter and a former educationist.
Anisul Huq completed his O-Levels under the Cambridge University from the prestigious St. Joseph High School, Dhaka. Thereafter, he completed the Advanced Level (A-Level) through the British Council. On completion of the A-level he undertook BA (Hons) in English Literature from Dhaka University. He also completed his Masters in English Literature from the same university and secured a position in the merit list. Thereafter, Anisul Huq completed his LL.B from Dhaka University and stood first in the merit list and completed his LL.M from King’s College, University of London.
Anisul Huq was enrolled as a lawyer in the Dhaka District Court in November 1985 and in the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in November 1987. In 2001, he was enrolled in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh as a lawyer and became a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in 2010.
On his father’s death, Anisul Huq became the Chief Special Prosecutor for both the Bangabandhu Murder Case and the Jail Killing case. It was under his counsel that Bangabandhu Murder case was finally completed and a judgment was delivered by the apex court of this country. Anisul Huq was also the Chief Counsel and Special Prosecutor for the Anti-Corruption Commission, Bangladesh. Anisul Huq was also the Chief Prosecutor for the Peelkhana Carnage Case which relates to the mutiny of the Bangladesh Rifles in 2009. This case was also completed successfully under his leadership.
The late Advocate Serajul Huq and his son Anisul Huq, both Senior Advocates of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, acted as counsel for most of the important, leading and sensitive criminal cases of the country during the 1980-2014 period.
In the general elections held on 5 January 2014, Anisul Huq was elected as a Member of Parliament from Brahmanbaria-4 (Kasba-Akhaura) Constituency as a candidate of Bangladesh awami league. which also houses the ancestral home of Anisul Huq. He took oath as a Member of Parliament on 9 January 2014. Thereafter, he was inducted in the cabinet as a Minister on 12 January 2014 and was allocated the portfolio of Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.
Anisul Huq was married to Nur Amtullah Rina Huq on 18 December 1987 and became a widower on 2 January 1991.
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Let voice of Dogras be heard in Parliament: Ch Lal Singh
KATHUA: In his election campaign at Basohli, Ch Lal Singh has appealed the people of Jammu province to establish that the time has come to show the strength of Dogras.
"People of Jammu who are struggling for the CBI inquiry for the last one year have now shown the strength. Let this time the voice of the Dogras be heard in the Parliament," he said, while addressing an impressive gathering.
"The people of Kashmir are voting for their own leaders on the Kashmiri centric agenda and those elected leaders are also working for only Kashmiri people but this is for the first time that Dogra candidate on the Dogra Swabhimaan Sangathan is contesting the elections on both the seats of Jammu," he said and appealed people of both the constituencies that Jammu should vote for the Dogra candidate so that discrimination against the region can be highlighted in the Parliament.
Lal Singh reiterated that DSS will strive for implementation of its Vision Document from the day one in the Parliament. He further said that J&K is the integral part of India only because of Jammu and any attempt to demean the people of Jammu can be counterproductive. "The people of Jammu have been labeled as pro rapists and pro criminals by the pseudo nationalist leaders of the Kashmir and the Government at the Center is continuously providing the support to these leaders and their supporters.
On the other hand, the people of Jammu province, who always stood for nation and sacrificed everything to maintain its sovereignty, have been marginalized. All the attempts have been made to destabilize the rich heritage and culture of Dogras by the Kashmiri centric leaders," he said.
Dr Hari Dutt Shishu also addressed the gathering and pledged that all those forces trying to sabotage the cause of Jammu, shall be exposed and DSS shall made them to lick dust in the coming election of Parliament. He further said that the forthcoming election is going to be a litmus test for all the Dogras of Jammu and DSS shall have a landslide victory on both constituencies of Parliament.
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Jay's Movie Blog
I see a lot of movies, and have an opinion on most of 'em.
Noir Nights at the Paramount Center
Their "Noir Nights" series doesn't quite bring ArtsEmerson's first year of operation to a close, but I'll hopefully be out of town when they pop up again for another weekend "mini-festival" in July, so it's a good enough place for me to look back. I'm not certain if it can be called a complete success, but I've been fairly impressed. The Bright Screening Room is a small but enjoyable place to see a film, although one caveat applies: While it's generally good advice to sit a little bit closer to the back when a movie is projected digitally than from film, that's doubly true here; my first experience with The Azemichi Road was tremendously disappointing because of this. It's a relatively short, wide room, so it's easy to get off-center fast if you like sitting close to the front.
This particular series was pretty great, though. Five of the six films advertised are not available on home video in the U.S. (Beyond a Reasonable Doubt got a Warner Archives release in May; Amazon's got an entry in their streaming store for Alias Nick Beal, but it is apparently not available right now), but all were presented on excellent-looking prints, whether archival or restoration. Admittedly, the reason why these movies aren't available on video is that they're not quite essentials; they are, in general, competently made but flawed in some way that kept them from becoming classics. Most are still worth watching - even the one stinker of the batch, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, is Fritz Lang directing Joan Fontaine, so it's at least interesting as part of a catalog - but they aren't things you need to have on your shelf.
It's nice to see them cleaned up and looking so nice, though. It was even a perfectly rainy, miserable evening for the opening night screening of Cry of the City (bad enough that I begged co-workers for a ride into town rather than wait for the bus). After all, clear skies don't make for proper noir.
* * * (out of four)
Seen 9 June 2011 in the Paramount Theater's Bright Screening Room (Noir Nights)
Cry of the City offers up traditional heroes and anti-heroes, making for a decent if unremarkable film noir, and if that's all it had, it's current unavailability on home video would just be unfortunate. Its last act is pretty clever, though - director Robert Siodmak and his fellow filmmakers know how to use a sledgehammer with finesse.
Marty Rome (Richard Conte) is going to the chair; he killed a cop in his latest robbery. Lt. Candella (Victor Mature) grew up in the same Italian-American neighborhood and is watching him like a hawk, and with good reason - corrupt attorney W.A. Niles (Berry Kroeger) wants him to take the fall for one of his clients, and though Rome initially says no dice, he thinks again when he escapes from prison and sees in the payoff the possibility of starting a new life with his sweet girlfriend Teena (Debra Paget). Thing turn sideways on him, though, and even though his little brother Tony (Tommy Cook) and old flame Brenda (Shelley Winters) will help him out, he's got to move faster than some crooks a lot meaner than him, the relentless pursuit of Candella and the police, and the bullet wound he sustained during that last robbery.
Siodmak and screenwriter Richard Murphy start the movie where they do for a reason - rather than being engaged in a shoot-out, Marty is being rushed through the hospital, preyed upon by an opportunistic lawyer; it's not hard to muster up a little sympathy for him then, especially once we see the angelic Teena at his bedside. Conte milks that initial good impression for all it's worth, but he also needs it, because he plays Marty like a shark, a carnivore always moving forward. He's got an easy charm and charisma, but there's always a sneer ready to come out when he thinks he's got the best of someone.
Full review at EFC.
So Evil My Love
Seen 10 June 2011 in the Paramount Theater's Bright Screening Room (Noir Nights)
Ray Milland had several distinct phases to his career, and as the title may suggest, So Evil My Love comes toward the start of his villain years. It's a role that suits him, and while this particular heel is not quite so well-remembered as his turn in Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, the film is an enjoyably pulpy bit of gaslight crime.
The film opens with Olivia Harwood (Ann Todd) returning home to London via steamship, a widow who's missionary husband died of malaria in Jamaica. Some on the ship are suffering from the malady as well, including Mark Bellis (Milland), an artist ahead of his time who supplants his meager sales with crime. Though Olivia initially denies the attraction, she agrees to ask her school friend Susan (Geraldine Fitzgerald) for money when Mark is tapped out, his eyes really light up when he learns about some indiscreet letters Susan had written Olivia which the latter had saved - the sort Susan's domineering husband Henry (Raymond Huntley) would rather not come out.
These sorts of plans seldom come off without a hitch, of course, and writers Ronald Millar and Leonard Spigelgass (working from a novel by Joseph Shearing) throw all manner of obstacles in Olivia's and Mark's way. Indeed, one can look at the way Mark Bellis's schemes go sideways over the course of the movie and wind up wondering if maybe he wouldn't be better off getting into the forgery game like his partner-in-crime Jarvis (Leo G. Carroll) suggests, even if respect for the work is apparently the one scruple he has. So Evil My Love doesn't play like a bumbling-criminal movie, though - director Lewis Allen and the writers always make sure that one plan leads into another. Maybe Bellis doesn't plan it this way, but he's ready to seize new opportunities as they come.
Alias Nick Beal
* * ¾ (out of four)
At one point in Alias Nick Beal, a man actually says "I'd sell my soul", followed moments later by the entrance of the demonic title character; all that's missing is the thunderclap. Sure, there were sixty fewer years of general snarkiness and tired screenplays when the movie was released, but it's a good bet that moments like that had whiskers on them even back then.
The frustrated man in that example is Joseph Foster (Thomas Mitchell), an honest district attorney trying to put a gangster away for good; the man who walks through the door is Nicholas Beal (Ray Milland), who would seem to be to slick and prosperous to meet people in a dockside bar. That's where he does his business, though, not just to offer Foster his chance at some incriminating ledgers but to recruit Donna Allen (Audrey Totter), a lady of the night that he dresses up as an heiress. After all, this conviction wll make Foster the front-runner in the upcoming governor's race, and if Beal's going to have a man inside the governor's mansion, it can't hurt to have a woman inside Foster's campaign.
Ray Milland is billed first, being in the title role and all, but the movie is really about third-billed Mitchell's character (Totter is listed second). Sight-unseen, that probably says more about the relative popularity of the three main cast members at the time: Milland was a star, Totter a familiar-enough face who never quite broke through to the A-list, and Mitchell a reliable character actor. That about describes their performances, too. Milland steals what scenes aren't straight-up handed to him with his slick demeanor; there's an assured but impersonal sense of malice to Nick. He doesn't lose his temper, but occasionally sets it aside when a little intimidation may wind up useful. Audrey Totter was a professional bad girl, and she's got all the tricks down for Donna - a brassy sense of self-reliance, even when she's taking Nick's largesse; enjoying her taste of the good life but still letting her coarser nature peek through; and realizing that she may not be the greatest person in the world, but that she's working with a monster. And Thomas Mitchell doesn't make a mis-step as Foster; he keeps the saintly attorney grounded at the start and manages the descent into corruption quite believably.
* * ¼ (out of four)
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most people, when one or the other is mentioned, don't really associate Ginger Rogers and film noir. Surprisingly, Tight Spot doesn't show them as terribly incompatible, but even if Rogers does play a better tough dame than one might expect, she's doing it in the middle of a thoroughly mediocre story that leads to a groan-worthy last scene.
Sherry Conley (Rogers) used to be a model, but she sports a prison jumpsuit these days, at least until she's called to the warden's office and then spirited off to a hotel by matron Mrs. Willoughby (Katherine Anderson) and detective Vince Striker (Brian Keith). There, she meets with district attorney Lloyd Hallett (Edward G. Robinson), who asks her about a trip she took on a man's yacht some years ago. Her testimony could be the key to revoking the citizenship of mobster Benjamin Costain (Lorne Greene), but Sherry's no dummy - even without having seen the first scene of the movie, she knows how guys like Costain deal with potential witnesses, and while she doesn't mind ordering some room service, she'd like to go back to her nice, safe cell.
And for a while, that's how things stand - Sherry, Vince, and Mrs. Willoughby in a hotel suite, with Hallett occasionally showing up to implore Sherry to consider her civic duty while Sherry shoots back with questions about what the law has ever done for her. There's a false alarm or two in regards to Sherry's safety, some painful comic relief in the form of a telethon playing on TV, and some token "opposites attract" banter between Sherry and Vince that would play a lot better if the two did more than just look nice and bark at each other. Things pick up in the last act, when things of real consequence start happening, but before that, there's a lot of time when the most tension comes from just what dish Sherry will indulge in for supper.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
* ¾ (out of four)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt was Fritz Lang's last American movie, and while I doubt that it, individually, was what soured him on Hollywood enough to send him back to Europe, it's not the triumphant note a master should leave on, but a ludicrous thing that trades away its chance to make a point for an absurd plot.
The film opens with a man being brought to the electric chair, a sight that makes quite the impression on writer Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews). He was sent to witness the event by his former employer, newspaper editor Austin Spencer (Sidney Blackmer), who has been using his editorial page to crusade against the death penalty, especially when applied on the basis of circumstantial evidence. He hatches a plan, which could form the basis of Garrett's next book: Frame Garrett for an unsolved murder, and then, after sentencing, reveal how they did it. It's the big city, so one naturally turns up - a burlesque dancer found strangled at the side of the road - and they put their plan in motion. Of course, they keep Tom's fiancée - and Austin's daughter - Susan (Joan Fontaine) in the dark about it so that her reactions will be genuine. How could such a plan fail?
Well, obviously, in any number of ways, since it's idiotic. Even ignoring some of the dated elements of the script, such as how Austin thinks the courts should rely more on eyewitness testimony (which has since been found to be far less reliable than the circumstantial evidence railed against), it is only able to succeed because apparently this city's police force doesn't secure its crime scenes at all and doesn't do any real detective work until the apparent perpetrator has made the absurd claim that he framed himself after his case has been sent to the jury. It's a stupid premise with plot holes that one could drive a truck through - and that's before taking into consideration just how convenient it is that the cop investigating the case is Susan's ex-boyfriend.
The Dark Mirror
For a movie whose entire plot is driven by deliberately created ambiguity, The Dark Mirror springs an unusually small number of surprises on the audience without fair warning. It's maybe not quite the thriller it could be because of that, instead opting to flesh out some of the bits thrillers leave out or negate in order to get one more shock. It's an approach that works surprisingly well, even if the style does seem a little dated sixty-five years later.
A doctor has been murdered in his own home, but a some good detective work by Lt. Stevenson (Thomas Mitchell) quickly identifies the likely perpetrator - his girlfriend Teresa Collins (Olivia de Havilland), who works at the newsstand in the man's office building. Two eyewitnesses identify her, but several other eyewitnesses place her at a Central Park concert around the estimated time of death. Stevenson is baffled, at least until he stops by Teresa's apartment and meets her sister Ruth - more specifically, her identical twin sister. The pair refuse to clear up just which of them was actually at the concert, leaving the police without a case. Not wanting to believe there is a such thing as a perfect murder, Stevenson asks Scott Elliott (Lew Ayres), a colleague of the murdered man who has published several papers on the psychology of twins, to talk with the Collins sisters and see if finding the answer is possible, even if it can't be used in court.
Playing twins is a tough gig, and when you consider just how dated performances from this era can seem to modern eyes used to a more naturalistic, less theatrical style, the quality of Olivia de Havilland's performances becomes all the more remarkable. Though the filmmakers helpfully tag the two characters (with letter broaches and necklaces that say "Terry" and "Ruth"), the audience is able to tell the two apart with relatively ease quickly enough. There's a cool confidence to Terry and a sweetness to Ruth that's reflected in their body language, but de Havilland doesn't exaggerate these traits; the ladies are similar enough in manner that one could easily see people being confused despite their individuality.
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A spring training quiz for baseball fans
Published March 30,2018
"There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow. The 2 o'clock bus will be for those of you who need a little extra work. The empty bus will leave at 5 o'clock."
-- Dave Bristol, Milwaukee Brewers manager, 1972
WASHINGTON -- Everyone needs extra work to prepare for the season. So, name the player or players who:
1) Is the fourth (the others are Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays) with a career .300 average, 500 home runs and 100 stolen bases.
2) Played in the most wins.
3) Was the last to get 3,000 hits without winning a batting title.
4) Got 30 homers and 100 RBIs in a season for five different teams.
5) Struck out three times in a game just once in 13 seasons.
6) Hit .461 at home but .286 on the road.
7) Was the last person to enter September batting over .400.
8) Led his league in hits for three different teams.
9) Hit .408 in a season but lost the batting title.
10) Hit at least 40 doubles in 10 seasons.
11) Was the first 40-year-old with a 100-RBI season.
12) Is the most recent to win consecutive MVP awards.
13) Had the most career homers (399) without a 30-homer season.
14) Has the highest career batting average among players with at least 300 homers.
15) Is the only non-Yankee with 500 home runs and three championships.
16) Are the four right-handed hitters to lead the major leagues in hitting at least three times.
17) Are the two pitchers to have 300 more strikeouts than walks (not counting intentional walks) in a season.
18) Was the only batter to average 200 hits per season in his first 14 seasons.
19) Holds the career record for doubles.
20) Were the three pairs of rookies of the year who were later enshrined in Cooperstown.
21) Holds the record for most four-strikeout games.
22) Struck out in a record 37 consecutive games in a single season.
23) Was the first to win three MVP awards.
24) Are the two third basemen with 500 home runs.
25) Was the first to get 3,000 hits in the 20th century.
26) Had 999 walks with three starts to go in his career and did not reach 1,000.
27) Were the only two to bat cleanup in a World Series at age 20.
28) Led his league in RBIs in 2014 while batting second.
29) Although not in the Hall of Fame until 2017, reached base more than Jeff Bagwell, Roberto Clemente and Tony Gwynn and had five seasons with at least 30 doubles and 70 stolen bases (Ty Cobb had only three).
30) Was the only player with at least 100 triples, 150 homers and 600 stolen bases.
31) Was the only 300-game winner between the world wars.
32) Threw a no-hitter with no walks and 17 strikeouts.
33) Scored the most World Series runs.
34) Was the first White Sox player to be MVP.
35) Won 25 or more games three times in the 1960s but never won a Cy Young award.
36) Won the most ERA titles.
37) Is the only catcher to win three batting titles.
38) Led his league in batting average his first two seasons.
39) Had three seasons with 40 or more homers and fewer strikeouts than homers.
40) Was the Hall of Famer who hit into a record four triple plays.
Bonus question: What manager said, "Our phenoms aren't phenomenating."
1) Albert Pujols
2) Pete Rose
3) Derek Jeter
4) Gary Sheffield
5) Joe DiMaggio
6) Larry Walker (1999, for the Rockies, of course)
7) George Brett (.407 in 1980)
8) Paul Molitor (Brewers, Blue Jays, Twins)
9) Shoeless Joe Jackson in 1911, when Ty Cobb hit his .420
10) Tris Speaker
11) Dave Winfield (Toronto, 1992)
12) Miguel Cabrera
13) Al Kaline
14) Rogers Hornsby (.358)
15) David Ortiz
16) Rogers Hornsby (four times), Napoleon Lajoie (four times), Roberto Clemente, Miguel Cabrera
17) Sandy Koufax (382/71 in 1965), Randy Johnson (372/71 in 2001)
18) Ichiro Suzuki
19) Tris Speaker (792)
20) Luis Aparicio and Frank Robinson (1956), Tom Seaver and Rod Carew (1967), Andre Dawson and Eddie Murray (1977)
21) Ryan Howard
22) Aaron Judge
23) Jimmie Foxx (1932, 1933, 1938)
24) Eddie Mathews, Mike Schmidt
25) Honus Wagner
26) Greg Maddux
27) Cobb and Cabrera
28) Mike Trout
29) Tim Raines
31) Lefty Grove
32) Max Scherzer
33) Mickey Mantle (42)
34) Nellie Fox (1959)
35) Juan Marichal
37) Joe Mauer
38) Tony Oliva
39) Ted Kluszewski
40) Brooks Robinson
Bonus answer: Angels manager Lefty Phillips, 1971.
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It Takes More Than Pressure
to Improve Failing High Schools
by Pedro A. Noguera
Pedro Noguera. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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Whats at Stake in the Use of High Stakes Exams
Small Schools to the Rescue?
Getting to the Heart of the Matter: The Need to Transform School Cultures
I recently visited a failing high School in Miami. Actually, it might be called a double failure because in 2003 the school received a FF rating from the state because the majority of its students had received failing scores on the FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test) for two consecutive years. I visited just before it was scheduled to take the state exam again and when I asked the school principal what would happen if the school received another failing score he replied We already know that we will fail the exam because two thirds of our students dont speak English, they just arrived in the country from Haiti. We will fail again and then we will be a FFF school. The state is supposed to take over FFF schools but Im not worrying about that.
When I asked why he wasnt worried he elaborated, Im not worried because Im leaving this job. Im tired of being humiliated. We work hard here -- the faculty is dedicated and gives its all, and the kids are great. They try their best and we have very few behavior problems. They just cant be expected to pass an exam in a language they dont understand. The worst thing about this is the state doesnt have any suggestions for what we should do differently. Theyre just applying the pressure and Im fed up with it.
Florida is not alone in pursuing this type of approach to helping struggling schools. The drive to establish higher academic standards through the use of standardized tests has swept the country, and since the adoption of the federal No Child Left behind (NCLB) law, students in all fifty states are now required to take exams in 4th and 8th grades as a means of insuring school accountability. Some states such as Florida, New York, Texas and Massachusetts, have taken NCLB a step further, and require students to pass high stakes exit exams, which are typically taken in the 10th grade, before they are allowed to graduate. If the U.S. Department of Education has its way, high school students throughout the nation will eventually be required to pass exit exams before they are allowed to graduate. As a result of this prospect, considerable attention has now focused upon high schools and the need to insure that they will be able to meet this new academic challenge.
Schools like the one I visited in Miami provide a clear picture of the limitations of this approach to school improvement. Even with the threat of state intervention hanging over their heads there was little reason to believe that it would find ways to escape the FFF rating. This was not because the staff was lazy or ambivalent about raising the achievement of its students or because the students themselves were unable to learn. In fact, all evidence suggested the opposite. Teachers and administrators at the school were making a concerted effort to meet student needs -- offering extra test preparation classes after school, providing intensive English language instruction, and doing what they could to keep students, many of whom had failed the exam twice already, from becoming discouraged and dropping out. The principal, who told me that he would be leaving the school and the profession at the end of the year because he was tired of being beaten down, was described by everyone I interviewed as dedicated, hard working and committed. However, despite their best efforts, the school had not found a way to provide its students with the language skills needed in time to pass an exam in English. This was not merely a matter of working hard. Research on language acquisition shows that many English language learners require several years to read and write at the high school level and master academic English (Rosaldo and Flores 1997).
Does a policy that has the unintended effect of driving away good teachers and administrators, and denying students who have not been prepared the opportunity to earn a high school diploma and have a chance to enroll in college make sense? Is the state of Florida, or for that matter Texas or any other state that adopts a similar policy, better off by imposing such tough standards?
In 2002 after Massachusetts implemented its first high stakes exam, the consequences of raising standards and increasing accountability before any serious effort was made to improve struggling schools became painfully evident. Over five thousand students who met all of the requirements for graduation but failed the state exam were denied diplomas. Ironically, most state leaders and major media outlets viewed the results as a victory, a sign that the state was finally getting tough with failing schools. However, a closer look at the students who failed suggests that perhaps the reason why so many public officials could be satisfied with such dismal results is because the students who failed were in effect considered expendable. One third of the students who failed the MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment of Students) were identified as learning disabled and in need of Special Education. Another third were students who the state identified as English Language Learners because they had not yet mastered academic English. Finally, the remaining third were students who came from schools that the state knew before hand were so poor that the vast majority of their students would not pass the exam, in part because they lacked teachers who were qualified to teach core subjects particularly in math. The overwhelming majority of the students who failed were poor and minority. How could their failure be regarded as a policy victory?
What makes this strategy particularly questionable is the fact that the record of state takeovers of failing schools and districts is abysmal. In districts such as Compton, CA, Roosevelt, NY, Trenton, NJ, Lawrence, MA, and many others, there is no evidence that state control has led to improvement. Past failure associated with policy measure should serve to remind us that state governments possess no expertise or special remedies for school success that they have been withholding. Without a serious effort to address the underlying causes of school failure, even extreme measures will not produce the higher achievement and better schools that policy makers and the general public seek.
While few can argue against the goal of increasing student achievement, it is not unreasonable to question whether raising standards and increasing school accountability, are enough to improve struggling schools. This is not because there is necessarily anything wrong with doing either, but there is a faulty assumption underlying this approach that is occasionally expressed but more often implied: that schools fail because the staff is lazy and unmotivated, and that what they need to raise achievement is pressure, threats and even public humiliation. What is particularly disturbing about this approach is that it ignores so many of the obvious things that we know are essential to raising achievement and creating better schools -- recruiting skilled teachers, reducing class size, providing students with academic support through tutoring during and after school (Newman 1992).
While the need for change is clear -- too many students are dropping out and leaving school unprepared for either college or work -- high schools have proven to be especially difficult to improve. Part of the reason for this is that high schools are steeped in tradition, and these traditions that most affect how they are organized, how instruction is delivered, and how students are treated, are difficult to change (Noguera 2004). Missing from the present policy debate is a well thought out approach to tackle these issues, and until such an approach is developed, it is unlikely that we will see widespread improvement, regardless of how much pressure is applied.
At the present, the most common approach to high school reform is the effort to alter the structure of large comprehensive high schools so that students are assigned to small learning communities instead (Clinchy 2000). With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Carnegie Foundation and most significantly the Gates Foundation, which has invested nearly one billion dollars into this effort already, large urban school districts throughout the United States have embarked on an effort to transform the American high school by converting them into small learning communities. In New York City alone, over one hundred million dollars has been allocated in the last three years for the development of new small learning communities. Similar efforts are now underway in Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Boston, and Houston.
The thinking behind this reform is that if schools are smaller, students will benefit from a more personalized learning experience where they are known well by their teachers. The assumption is that by improving teacher student relationships and decreasing the degree of anonymity in schools, student achievement will increase. While there is some research available supporting this approach to school improvement (Fine 2002; Wasley 1998), most of this research is based either upon broad comparisons of student graduation rates and test scores, or qualitative data obtained from individual schools. There is surprisingly relatively little research showing how or why small schools may be more effective, and very little guidance available for educators who are leading these types of change efforts on how to carry out these types of reforms.
Anyone familiar with the way schools work understands that the theory underlying the small school movement is fairly weak. Just because the size of a school is reduced it does not necessarily mean that relations between adults and students will improve. Moreover, even if relationships between students and teachers improve it does not guarantee that there will be an improvement in student achievement. The biggest challenge facing high schools is how to reduce the boredom and alienation that is prevalent among students (Steinberg 1996). This is not an argument against small schools but it does suggest unless more is done to improve teaching and learning there is little reason to believe that making schools smaller will make them better.
Current data from New York City shows that the new small schools have an attendance rate of 89% compared to 80% at traditional high schools (NY Times 8/8/05). There is also anecdotal evidence that relationships between students and teachers are better at smaller schools, and that schools themselves are safer and more orderly. There is good reason to give these reforms the time needed to show results, rather than moving quickly to abandon this effort. However, the question before educators and policy makers is how much time will be needed to show results with the pressures associated with NCLB already hanging over us?
The clearest evidence that more is needed to improve student outcomes is the large number of poorly performing small schools that are already in existence. Throughout the country, many school districts already operate a number of small high schools, either for special populations -- at risk students, or students enrolled in vocational programs, but few of these serve as models of school reform. Understanding why such schools have not succeeded in meeting student needs should be at least one of the questions asked before too much money or effort is invested in sweeping, costly reforms.
Missing from most of the most popular approaches to school reform are well-developed strategies for changing the culture of schools. By culture I am referring to the attitudes, beliefs, norms, and sense of mission that underlie the character of a school. School culture relates to the climate or atmosphere under which teaching and learning occur, and it is also about the nature and quality of relationships between adults and students within a school. Yale psychologist, Seymour Sarason, argued many years ago that school reform efforts were bound to fail if they ignored culture and only focused upon altering structure or curriculum (1971). Other researchers on school reform have come to similar conclusions (Perry, et.al. 2003; Wagner 1998). In addition to relationships, school culture also pertains to the mission of a school; the explicit and implicit message students receive about the purpose of education. Such a message is important for countering the distractions that may discourage students from taking school seriously (Steinberg 1996), the racial stereotypes that may undermine their confidence to succeed (Steele 1997), and the need to develop identities that enable students to see themselves as intellectuals (Noguera 2004).
Many reformers shy away from focusing on school culture because the concept seems too ambiguous. Unlike school structure which is concrete and tangible, it can be difficult to measure progress when one is attempting to transform a schools culture. Changing a course schedule, re-organizing a grade configuration, or devising a new approach to assigning students to clusters within a school, all lead to clear, identifiable changes in a school. Getting teachers to display greater interest in their students, to modify their approach to teaching so that they become more effective at meeting the learning needs of students, and getting students to take their education more seriously, is harder to achieve and bring about. However, administrators who ignore the need to bring about such changes run the risk of engaging in reforms that produce superficial change at best but that do not result in a significant and sustained improvement in the academic outcomes of students.
No Child Left Behind has succeeded in getting schools to focus more intently on the need to improve student achievement. By requiring schools and districts to report test scores and disaggregate the results by various recognized subgroups, the law has also succeeded in making districts accountable for the performance of their neediest students. Only the most cynical critics can argue against the merits of these aspects of the law. However, for schools like the one I visited in Miami, with a long-term record of poor performance, at least as measured by standardized test scores, more than just pressure will be needed to help them to improve.
We must keep in mind that there are a large number of failing schools throughout the nation. By some estimates, they make up nearly a third of the high schools in the United States and they disproportionately serve the poorest and most vulnerable students (Cuban and Tyack 1995). Such schools need more than just pressure to improve, they need a total change in culture and they need real help.
Pedro A. Noguera is a professor at New York Universitys Steinhardt School of Education.
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SIMON J. O'NEILL,
JAMES R. DUNHAM and EVELYN L. DUNHAM,
1. The statute of repose, K.S.A. 60-513(b), provides that in no event shall an action be commenced more than 10 years beyond the time of the act giving rise to the cause of action.
2. The statute of repose operates as a general grant of immunity against claims arising more than 10 years after the defendant's actions and abolishes a cause of action even if it has not yet accrued.
3. The statute of repose bars the claim in this personal injury action where the plaintiff sued the owners of an apartment building for not installing a handrail next to a set of steps in one of the apartments. The facts of this case reveal that when the owners purchased the building in 1990, there was no handrail in the apartment, and the owners did not install a handrail after their purchase. The plaintiff was injured in a 2004 fall down the stairs.
4. Under Kansas law, a plaintiff has a claim for negligence per se if he or she can demonstrate the following: (1) a violation of a statute, ordinance, or regulation, and (2) the violation must be the cause of the damages resulting therefrom. In addition, a plaintiff must also prove that an individual right of action for injury arising out of the violation was intended by the legislature.
5. The determination of whether a private cause of action exists under a statute is a question of law analyzed under a two-part test. First, the party must show that the statute was designed to protect a specific group of people rather than to protect the general public. Second, the court must review legislative history in order to determine whether a private right of action was intended. The building ordinances applicable in this case are designed to protect the public and do not create a specific duty to any group of individuals. Therefore, there can be no negligence per se claim created by these codes.
6. The Landlord Tenant Act in K.S.A. 58-2553 (a) (1), (2), and (3) imposes three duties upon all residential landlords in Kansas. Those duties are:
Comply with the requirements of applicable building and housing codes materially affecting health and safety.
Exercise reasonable care in maintenance of the common areas.
Maintain in good and safe working order and condition all electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning appliances including elevators supplied or required to be supplied by such landlord.
Appeal from Riley District Court; DAVID L. STUTZMAN, judge. Opinion filed March 20, 2009. Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded with directions.
William J. Pauzauskie, of Pauzauskie Law Office, of Topeka, for appellant.
J. Steven Pigg and Vincent M. Cox, of Fisher, Patterson, Sayler & Smith, L.L.P., of Topeka, for appellees.
Before HILL, P.J., MALONE and CAPLINGER, JJ.
HILL, J.: Through enactment of the statute of repose, the Kansas Legislature has granted immunity to defendants for claims made 10 years after a defendant's acts or omissions give rise to a cause of action. Here, the defendants bought an apartment building in Manhattan in 1990. The plaintiff fell down a set of stairs in one of the apartments and broke his leg in 2004; he claims a handrail could have prevented his fall and has sued the owners for personal injuries because they failed to install a handrail. No handrail was installed on those stairs in the apartment when they purchased the place, and the defendants have not installed one since their purchase. Because 14 years have elapsed since they purchased the building and failed to install a handrail, the statute of repose bars the plaintiff's negligence claim for personal injury arising from that failure. The negligence per se claims of the plaintiff arising from any alleged breach of the Code of Ordinances for the City of Manhattan have no merit as the code does not grant a private cause of action. However, because the Kansas Residential Landlord Tenant Act establishes a duty for every residential landlord to comply with the requirements of applicable building codes materially affecting safety, we remand the case for the district court to determine if the landlords had knowledge, actual or imputed, of the requirement to install a handrail and if the plaintiff was on the premises with the consent of the tenants. We must affirm the district court's grant of summary judgment in part and reverse and remand with directions.
We give a brief background of the case.
James and Evelyn Dunham, the defendants, bought an apartment building at 718 Kearney in Manhattan in December 1990. The building has two apartments: apartment 1 is upstairs and apartment 2 is downstairs. Apartment 2 has a 5 x 3 1/2 foot landing inside the apartment, not in a common area, with five steps descending from the landing into the apartment. The parties agree that apartment 2 had no handrail when the Dunhams bought the building and that they have not installed one.
Simon J. O'Neill, the plaintiff, attended a party in apartment 2 on the night of July 23, 2004. He was neither a tenant nor was he invited to the party. In his deposition, the plaintiff testified that while he was trying to get another beer, someone bumped him while he was on the landing and he then fell down the stairs and suffered a broken leg.
Seeking damages for his personal injuries, O'Neill sued the Dunhams, making several contentions in his petition, all centering on the lack of a handrail. He asserted the defendants had failed to exercise reasonable care by keeping the property without handrails. O'Neill also contended the defendants failed to exercise ordinary care and maintain the property in a safe condition by failing to install handrails. He also alleged the defendants negligently failed to install handrails on the staircase in direct violation of section 306.1 of the International Property Maintenance Code of 2003 as adopted in section 8-176 of the Code of Ordinances for the City of Manhattan, Kansas. That code calls for a handrail on at least one side for any set of stairs that has more than four risers. He sought damages for past and future medical expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering, and disabilities.
The district court closed the case by granting summary judgment to the defendants based on the statute of repose. The defendants argued the plaintiff's claims were barred by K.S.A. 60-513(b) and the plaintiff did not have a negligence per se claim because the Manhattan Code does not provide a private right of action. Without considering the merits of any of the plaintiff's negligence per se arguments, the district court granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment.
Specifically, the court found that if the defendants had been negligent, they were negligent in failing to install a handrail, and such negligence would have occurred 13 1/2 years before plaintiff's fall and injury. The district court likened the case to Klose v. Wood Valley Racquet Club, Inc., 267 Kan. 164, 975 P.2d 1218 (1999), and found that the plaintiff's claims were barred by the 10-year statute of repose in K.S.A. 60-513(b). O'Neill appeals that judgment.
Where there is no factual dispute, as in this case, appellate review of an order regarding summary judgment is de novo. Cooke v. Gillespie, 285 Kan. 748, 754, 176 P.3d 144 (2008). We will therefore look at the matter without limitation.
We make some observations on the statute of repose.
It is seldom helpful to consider a statute out of context, and this principle applies to the statute of repose because the legislature has intended the rule to be read in conjunction with the statute of limitations. The two statutes, when read together, express the public policy of Kansas concerning when claims for personal injury can be pursued in court. Under K.S.A. 60-513(a), an "action for injury to the rights of another, not arising on contract" must be brought within 2 years. Such actions are deemed to have accrued when "the act giving rise to the cause of action first causes substantial injury." K.S.A. 60-513(b). But K.S.A. 60-513(b) provides that "in no event shall an action be commenced more than 10 years beyond the time of the act giving rise to the cause of action." These two laws set out clear limits on claims: the statute of limitations eliminates stale claims, and the statute of repose provides immunity for claims.
Our Supreme Court has addressed these distinctions.
"'A statute of limitations extinguishes the right to prosecute an accrued cause of action after a period of time. It cuts off the remedy. It is remedial and procedural. A statute of repose limits the time during which a cause of action can arise and usually runs from an act of a defendant. It abolishes the cause of action after the passage of time even though the cause of action may not have yet accrued. It is substantive. [Citations omitted.]'" See v. Hartley, 257 Kan. 813, 818, 896 P.2d 1049 (1995).
The rule is clear. The statute of repose operates as a general grant of immunity against claims arising more than 10 years after the defendant's actions and abolishes a cause of action even if it has not yet accrued. Harding v. K.C. Wall Products, Inc., 250 Kan. 655, 663, 831 P.2d 958 (1992); Four Seasons Apts. v. AAA Glass Service, Inc., 37 Kan. App. 2d 248, 251, 152 P.3d 101 (2007).
We apply the rule of repose to the facts of this case.
The defendants concede that apartment 2 had no handrail from 1990 until July 2004, the date of plaintiff's injury. They also admitted in their depositions it was their responsibility, not the tenant's, to install and maintain a handrail on the stairs of apartment 2 according to the language in the rental agreement as well as the Code of Ordinances of the City of Manhattan, Kansas. The code requires every flight of stairs with more than four risers to have a handrail on one side of the stairs. Manhattan Code secs. 8-176 to 8-178; International Property Maintenance Code of 2003 secs. 106, 306.
Fundamentally, in order to determine if the statute of repose is applicable, a court must decide when an act that gives rise to a cause of action happens. The logic used by the district court here is straightforward. The first time the Dunhams could have installed a handrail was the day after they bought the building. They failed to act, and if that failure is considered to be negligence, then it happened 14 years before the plaintiff fell down the stairs. The court used Klose v. Wood Valley Racquet Club, Inc., 267 Kan. 164, 975 P.2d 1218 (1999), as its guide. In Klose, a child was injured during a tennis tournament when he ran into a concrete wall next to his court at the defendant's racquet club. The plaintiff brought personal injury claims against the club, arguing the wall was placed too closely to the court under United States Tennis Association rules. Our Supreme Court held the claims were barred by the statute of repose in K.S.A. 60-513(b) because more than 10 years had lapsed between the wall's construction in 1974 and plaintiff's 1994 injury. 267 Kan. 165, 172-74.
In relying on Klose, the court said:
"This case is more similar to Klose than Dobson. In Klose, the plaintiff collided with a concrete wall, as in this case Plaintiff fell on stairs. In Klose, the alleged negligence was not that the defendants owned a structure with a concrete wall, but that they placed the tennis court too near that wall, as in this case the alleged negligence is not that Defendants' apartment contained these stairs, but that they failed to install a handrail for them. As in Klose, the act giving rise to the cause of action occurred well outside the limit set by the statute of repose, and the cause of action is, therefore, barred."
The plaintiff urges us to reject the trial court's analogy to Klose for the first time on appeal, contending instead the analysis in Dunn v. U.S.D. 367, 30 Kan. App. 2d 215, 40 P.3d 315 (2002), is more appropriate. In Dunn, two schoolboys were injured when a glass plate in a school's hallway door broke, cutting them both severely. They sued the school district, alleging various claims of negligence, failure to replace the plate glass with safety glass, and failure to warn about the plate glass. The school district raised the affirmative defense of the statute of repose, arguing that the students' claims were barred because more than 10 years had passed between the door's installation in the late 1960's and the 1995 injuries.
Actually Dunn offers the plaintiff scant help. The Dunn panel decided the controversy based upon the school district's "breaches of duties other than failure to replace the plate glass with safety glass" and assumed without deciding that the school district could not "be held liable for any design or planning defect that led to the installation of the plate glass." Dunn, 30 Kan. App. 2d at 217-18. That language does not support the plaintiff.
Furthermore, other panels of this court have followed the Klose court's analysis and defined the defendant's wrongful act as the date of negligent installation, construction, or demolition. See Kerns v. G.A.C., Inc., 255 Kan. 264, 875 P.2d 949 (1994) (holding that plaintiff's negligence claims were barred by statute of repose because more than 10 years lapsed between installation of fence in 1968-1969 and plaintiff's 1990 injury); Dobson v. Larkin Homes, Inc., 251 Kan. 50, 832 P.2d 345 (1992) (finding that plaintiff's claims against builder for negligence and insurer for wrongful refusal to pay on loss claim were barred by statute of repose because more than 10 years elapsed between construction of home in 1972 and plaintiff's claim in 1990); Admire Bank & Trust v. City of Emporia, 250 Kan. 688, 690-700, 820 P.2d 578 (1992) (holding that Admire Bank's property damage claim against City of Emporia was barred by statute of repose because City's wrongful act of negligent demolition of party wall in 1970 occurred more than 10 years before bank's purchase of property in 1990); Four Seasons, 37 Kan. App. 2d at 250-51 (holding that defendant's wrongful act under K.S.A. 60-513[b] occurred during the defendant's 1993 installation of new doors on plaintiff's apartment building; therefore, plaintiff was deprived of remedy by statute of repose before it discovered that doors did not adhere to building code requirements in 2005); Dobson v. Larkin Homes, Inc., 251 Kan. 50, 832 P.2d 345 (1992) (finding that plaintiff's claims against builder for negligence and insurer for wrongful refusal to pay on loss claim were barred by statute of repose because more than 10 years elapsed between construction of home in 1972 and plaintiff's claim in 1990).
Here, it is clear that the plaintiff's claims are barred by the statute of repose in K.S.A. 60-513(b). The record does not provide evidence of when apartment 2 was constructed, but the defendants purchased the apartment in 1990. From 1990 to the date of plaintiff's injury in 2004, apartment 2 remained without a handrail. We conclude 14 years passed between the defendant's wrongful act of failing to install the required handrail and plaintiff's 2004 injury. We hold his claim is barred by law.
The plaintiff urges this court to find defense counsel in violation of Kansas Rule of Professional Conduct 3.3(a)(2) (2008 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 531) for failing to cite Dunn at the trial court level, especially in light of the fact that counsel's firm represented the school district in Dunn. While it is true that Rule 3.3(a)(2) states an advocate has a duty to disclose directly adverse authority from the controlling jurisdiction, Dunn, as we have previously pointed out, does not control this issue. We make no finding of any professional misconduct by defense counsel not mentioning the case.
We examine the negligence per se claims.
We must point out that whether a private cause of action for negligence per se exists under a statute is a question of law over which this court exercises unlimited review. Nora H. Ringler Revocable Family Trust v. Meyer Land and Cattle Co., 25 Kan. App. 2d 122, 126, 958 P.2d 1162 (1998). We will therefore address the issue.
Under Kansas law, a plaintiff has a claim for negligence per se if he or she can demonstrate the following: "'(1) a violation of a statute, ordinance, or regulation, and (2) the violation must be the cause of the damages resulting therefrom.'" Pullen v. West, 278 Kan. 183, 194, 92 P.3d 584 (2004). In addition, a plaintiff must also prove "'that an individual right of action for injury arising out of the violation was intended by the legislature. [Citation omitted.]'" 278 Kan. at 194. The determination of whether a private cause of action exists under a statute is a question of law analyzed under a two-part test. First, "the party must show that the statute was designed to protect a specific group of people rather than to protect the general public. Second, the court must review legislative history in order to determine whether a private right of action was intended. [Citations omitted.]" 278 Kan. at 194; Ringler, 25 Kan. App. 2d at 126. If the plaintiff can prove that a statute, ordinance, or regulation was enacted to protect a specific group of people, he or she must prove that he or she is a member of the protected class. See Schlobohm v. United Parcel Service, Inc., 248 Kan. 122, 127, 804 P.2d 978 (1991).
Article VIII, section 8-176 of the Manhattan Code adopts the International Property Maintenance Code "for the purpose of establishing standards for the protection of the public health, safety and welfare, in all existing structures within the corporate city limits of the City of Manhattan." Most relevant to plaintiff's allegations of negligence is section 306.1, which provides: "Every exterior and interior flight of stairs having more than four risers shall have a handrail on one side of the stair."
The intent of both codes is to ensure public health, safety, and welfare insofar as they are affected by the continued occupancy and maintenance of structures and premises. Under section 1-7 of the Manhattan Code, whenever the code or city ordinances prescribe that "an act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor . . . the violation of any such provision of this Code or any such ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding $500.00 or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months." Section 106.4 of the International Code contains similar language regarding punishment of violations, providing that "[a]ny person who shall violate a provision of this code . . . shall be prosecuted within the limits provided by state or local laws." In addition to criminal penalties, section 106.5 of the International Code permits a legal officer to institute an "appropriate action to restrain, correct or abate a violation, or to prevent illegal occupancy of a building, structure or premises, or to stop an illegal act, conduct, business or utilization of the building, structure, or premises." Importantly, both the International Code and the Manhattan Code are silent about any civil remedies.
With this analysis of the relevant provisions of both codes, it becomes clear that plaintiff has no private negligence per se action. The purpose of their enactment is to protect the public health, safety, and welfare of the residents of Manhattan. This leads to the conclusion that the ordinances are designed to protect the public and do not create a specific duty to any group of individuals. See Kansas State Bank & Tr. Co. v. Specialized Transportation Services, Inc., 249 Kan. 348, 819 P.2d 587 (1991); Schlobohm, 248 Kan. at 126-27; Estate of Pemberton v. John's Sports Center, Inc., 35 Kan. App. 2d 809, 818, 135 P.3d 174 (2006). We hold there was no negligence per se claim created by the city code or the International Code.
The Kansas Residential Landlord Tenant Act presents a problem for summary judgment.
In his response to the defendant's motion for summary judgment and in the pretrial order, the plaintiff maintained that the Kansas Residential Landlord Tenant Act, by requiring the defendants to comply with all building codes, obliged the defendants to install a handrail. The plaintiff suggests that since the building code was adopted by Manhattan in 1998, the defendants' failure to comply with the code must have occurred sometime after that but in any event well within 10 years of the accident in 2004. Therefore, the plaintiff reasons, the statute of repose has no effect on this cause of action.
In response, the defendants contend the plaintiff's petition made no allegations about the Kansas Residential Landlord Tenant Act and the matter is not properly before us. Second, in their view, the Act provides no relief for nontenants or uninvited strangers and since the plaintiff, clearly not a tenant, was merely an uninvited person at a party, the Kansas Residential Landlord Tenant Act offers him no cause of action against the defendants. Because the plaintiff brought up this issue in response to the summary judgment motion and in the pretrial order, we hold that the matter is properly before us and consider the argument.
In order to sort this out, it is beneficial to review the law that gave rise to the plaintiff's argument. In 1975, our Supreme Court in Borders v. Roseberry, 216 Kan 486, 488, 532 P.2d 1366 (1975), instructed on the law of premises liability. Basically, the tenant was responsible to keep the leasehold reasonably safe:
"Traditionally the law in this country has placed upon the lessee as the person in possession of the land the burden of maintaining the premises in a reasonably safe condition to protect persons who come upon the land. It is the tenant as possessor who, at least initially, has the burden of maintaining the premises in good repair. [Citations omitted.] . . . When land is leased to a tenant, the law of property regards the lease as equivalent to a sale of the premises for the term. The lessee acquires an estate in the land, and becomes for the time being the owner and occupier, subject to all of the responsibilities of one in possession, both to those who enter onto the land and to those outside of its boundaries." 216 Kan. at 488.
With that background, the Borders court acknowledged that rules change with the times and recognized six exceptions to the common-law rule of tenant liability and landlord nonliability arising from a defective condition existing at the time of the lease. They are:
Undisclosed dangerous conditions known to lessor and unknown to lessee.
Conditions dangerous to persons outside of the premises.
Premises leased for admission of the public.
Parts of land retained in lessor's control which lessee is entitled to use.
Where lessor contracts to repair.
Negligence by lessor in making repairs. 216 Kan. at 488-93.
Exception five recognized by the Borders court, where the landlord agrees in the lease to make repairs, served as the basis for a panel of our court to conclude the three duties of a landlord, found in the Kansas Residential Landlord Tenant Act, must be incorporated into residential leases in Kansas. See Jackson v. Wood, 11 Kan. App. 2d 478, 483, 726 P.2d 796 (1986). In Jackson, the district court granted summary judgment to a landlord after finding he had no duty to a social guest of one of his tenants. The guest had died from inhalation of carbon monoxide emitted by a poorly maintained heater in one of the landlord's rental units. The heirs appealed the district court's grant of summary judgment, and this court reversed and remanded. 11 Kan. App. 2d 478.
The Jackson court ruled the Kansas Residential Landlord Tenant Act in K.S.A. 58-2553(a) (1), (2), and (3) imposes three duties upon all residential landlords in Kansas. Those duties are:
Maintain in good and safe working order and condition all electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heating, ventilating and air-conditioning appliances including elevators supplied or required to be supplied by such landlord. See 11 Kan. App. 2d at 481.
These three duties have been described as "duties which cannot be delegated to a tenant" in State v. Mwaura, 4 Kan. App. 2d 738, 741, 610 P.2d 662 (1980).
In the Jackson panel's view, because the landlord had the duty under K.S.A. 58-2553(a)(3) to maintain the heater in his apartment in good and safe working order, it was irrelevant that the woman who died was a guest, but the panel by remaining silent did not extend the duty to trespassers. The court was very specific about the holding when it reversed the summary judgment and remanded the case:
"Accordingly we hold that if the landlord knew or reasonably should have known of a defective condition in the heating stove or ventilation, then the landlord owed a duty of reasonable care to repair so as to maintain the heating stove and ventilation in good and safe working order and condition. We further hold that duty is owed not only to the tenant but to others on the premises with the consent of the tenant." (Emphasis added.) Jackson, 11 Kan. App. 2d at 483-84.
In an action for nonpayment of rent and possession of the premises, not a tort claim, a panel of this court dealt with building code violations in Joe v. Spangler, 6 Kan. App. 2d 630, 631 P.2d 1243 (1981). In Spangler, a housing inspector sent notice to the landlords of violations of the Kansas City, Kansas, Housing Code for exposed wiring, improper ventilation of the bathroom, and uncovered electrical outlets. The tenants, who were the defendants in the case, made a counterclaim for damages arising from the landlords' breach of duties arising from K.S.A. 58-2553(a)(1), (2), and (3). The trial court found that the landlords had violated the Kansas City code but not the Kansas Residential Landlord Tenant Act. This court reversed saying:
"The evidence showed and the trial court found that there were 'defects in and on the premises that constituted violations of the building and housing code of the City of Kansas City, Kansas.' This finding would compel a conclusion that the landlord breached his duty under the statute unless the violated provisions did not materially affect health and safety.
". . . Therefore, under these circumstances, we must conclude as a matter of law that the conditions found to exist on plaintiff's property materially affected the health and safety of the tenants and violated the landlord's duty under K.S.A. 58-2553(a)(1)." Spangler, 6 Kan. App. 2d at 632.
When Jackson and Spangler are read together, it is clear that both courts recognized that it was important to determine whether a landlord knew or should have known of a violation of the applicable building code. In Jackson, the panel remanded the case to the district court to make such a determination. In Spangler, the trial court had already found as true the facts that the building inspector had sent notice to the landlord who therefore had knowledge of the violation of the building codes. We think this comports with traditional views of fairness in cases arising from premises liability.
These principles, when applied to this case, lead us to conclude that we do not have enough information to affirm summary judgment on this point. Although not necessarily controlling here, the facts reveal that the Dunhams, in their lease with the three young men who rented apartment 2, agreed to make all necessary repairs, alterations, and improvements to the dwelling unit with reasonable promptness at the landlord's expense. The ruling in Jackson impels us to incorporate into this lease the three duties of a landlord found in K.S.A. 58-2553(a)(1), (2), and (3) and apply those duties to the Dunhams. In other words those three duties were owed by the Dunhams to the tenants and to all on the premises who were there with the consent of the tenants.
We hold that K.S.A. 58-2553(a)(1) requires residential landlords to comply with the requirements of applicable building and housing codes materially affecting health and safety. This means the statute of repose does not negate any claim arising from a violation of one of the duties imposed by the Kansas Residential Landlord Tenant Act in this case since only 6 or fewer years had passed from the adoption of the building code and O'Neill's fall.
Therefore, we must remand this case for the district court to find the facts. First, the court must determine if the landlords, the Dunhams, knew or had reason to know of a violation of the applicable building and housing codes that materially affected health and safety. Second, the court must determine whether the lack of a handrail materially affect the safety of all in the apartment who were there with the consent of the tenants. And, finally, the court must determine if O'Neill was present on the premises with the consent of the tenants of apartment 2. If the answer is yes to all three questions, then the Dunhams owed O'Neill a duty of care and are liable. If the answer to any is no, then there can be no liability under this theory.
Since we are remanding this case we will not review the plaintiff's claim of error that the district court failed to grant his motion for reconsideration.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded with directions.
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PHILIP O'MALLEY,
Appellant/Cross-Appellees,
RONALD L. FRAZIER and KATHRYN A. FRAZIER,
Appellees/Cross-Appellants.
In an appeal that raises the question of whether a conditional payment can be made on a promissory note barred by the statute of limitations and revive the obligation to pay the principal amount but not the interest thereon, we hold: (1) The makers, at all times prior to and at the time partial payment on the time-barred note was made, affirmatively stated their intention was to pay only the principal and not the past due interest thereon, (2) acknowledgment of an existing liability under K.S.A. 60- 520(a) must be distinct, unequivocal, and without qualification, (3) a part payment accompanied by a qualified acknowledgment of liability by comakers of a time-barred promissory note may limit the liability only to the principal amount of such note, and (4) the part payment of the principal of a time-barred promissory note was qualified and limited to principal only and was not an acknowledgment of any obligation to make payment of the past due interest on the note.
Review of the judgment of the Court of Appeals in 29 Kan. App. 2d ___, 34 P.3d 478 (2001 ). Appeal from Crawford district court; NELSON E. TOBUREN, judge. Judgment of the Court of Appeals reversing the district court is reversed. Judgment of the district court is affirmed. Opinion filed July 12, 2002.
Kevin F. Mitchelson, of Wheeler & Mitchelson, Chartered, of Pittsburg, argued the cause, and John H. Mitchelson, Darron C. Farha, and Jason P. Wiske, of the same firm were with him on the briefs for appellants/cross-appellees.
Mark S. Gunnison, of Payne & Jones, Chartered, of Overland Park, argued the cause, and Robin E. Scully, II, of the same firm, was with him on the briefs for appellees/cross-appellants.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
LARSON, J.: This appeal raises the question of whether a conditional payment can be made on a promissory note barred by the statue of limitations and revive the obligation to pay the principal amount but not the interest thereon.
When the makers delivered a partial payment on the principal of a time-barred promissory note, they indicated an intent to repay the balance of the principal only. The payee sued to collect the remaining principal and interest on the note. The makers defended by asserting the statute of limitations. On cross-motions for summary judgment, the district court revived the principal by applying the provisions of K.S.A. 60-520(a) but not the outstanding interest. The parties cross-appealed. The Court of Appeals held that under K.S.A. 60-520(a), the makers' part payment revived the entire promissory note, both principal and interest. O'Malley v. Frazier, 29 Kan. App.2d ___, 34 P.3d 478 (2001). We granted the makers' petition for review.
Although both parties suggest there were controverted facts, any disputed facts, however resolved, would not affect the judgment and do not present a genuine issue of material fact. See Bergstrom v. Noah, 266 Kan. 847, 872, 974 P.2d 531 (1999). The trial court found the following facts to be undisputed, which we set forth along with the proceedings and rulings in the trial court and the Court of Appeals, prior to our consideration of this appeal.
On May 24, 1984, Kathryn and Ronald Frazier entered into a promissory note with Philip O'Malley in the amount of $27,000 at 14% interest, due in full in 90 days. The Fraziers did not repay the note according to its terms; however, they did make interest payments from time to time until September 9, 1987.
Ronald Frazier had conversations with O'Malley in which he always expressed his intent to repay, when he could, the $27,000 principal amount of the debt. Frazier never indicated an intent to pay any interest. O'Malley admitted in a deposition that Ronald Frazier always said: "I'm going to pay you the principal, but I can't pay you the interest."
On January 24, 2000, almost 13 years after their last payment, Ronald Frazier delivered a $5,000 check to O'Malley. The check was written and signed by Kathryn Frazier. When Ronald Frazier delivered the check, he stated to O'Malley that he would try to raise the money and try to pay the balance of the principal at some time in the future.
A few months later, Ronald Frazier offered to pay O'Malley the remaining $22,000 in exchange for a release acknowledging no further obligation on the debt. O'Malley refused and initiated this action.
It is undisputed that by the time the Fraziers paid the $5,000 to O'Malley, the applicable limitation period for any action upon any agreement, contract, or promise in writing had expired. K.S.A. 60-511. It is also undisputed that O'Malley sued the Fraziers within 5 years of the $5,000 payment.
Our appeal centers on the interpretation of K.S.A. 60-520(a), which states:
"(a) Effect. In any case founded on contract, when any part of the principal or interest shall have been paid, or an acknowledgment of an existing liability, debt or claim, or any promise to pay the same, shall have been made, an action may be brought in such case within the period prescribed for the same, after such payment, acknowledgment or promise; but such acknowledgment or promise must be in writing, signed by the party to be charged thereby."
The trial court concluded that the Fraziers' part payment on the promissory note was an acknowledgment of a present existing obligation to pay the principal of the note, but they had consistently denied any intention or obligation to pay interest. The court granted summary judgment to O'Malley as to the remaining principal of $22,000, but granted summary judgment to the Fraziers in ruling that no interest prior to the date of the judgment was owing. O'Malley appealed and the Fraziers' cross-appealed.
The Court of Appeals reversed that portion of the district court's decision granting summary judgment to the Fraziers and held their part payment revived both the principal and interest on the promissory note. The Court of Appeals reasoned:
"Under the plain language of the statute, part payment by the debtor will toll the statute of limitations. Any of the three means mentioned in the statute--payment, acknowledgment, or promise--starts anew the period of limitations which would have been applicable had an action been brought on the original debt or claim. See Morton v. Leslie, 150 Kan. 213, 215, 92 P.2d 90 (1939) (citing G.S. 1935, 60-312, the predecessor of K.S.A. 60-520[a]). The statute provides no means for reviving one part of the debt and not another. When the statute is clear, it must be applied without judicial construction. Kilner v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 252 Kan. 675, 682, 847 P.2d 1292 (1993).
"The district court, in support of its decision, cited Golden Rule Oil Co. v. Liebst, 153 Kan. 123, 109 P.2d 95 (1941). In Golden Rule, the court refused to revive the note by relying on the identical predecessor to K.S.A. 60-520. However, the critical distinction between the facts in Golden Rule and the instant case was that the debtor in Golden Rule did not make a part payment on the debt.
"The Golden Rule court was scrutinizing the text of letters written by the debtor to see if they operated as an 'acknowledgment' in removing the limitations bar. 153 Kan. at 124. Part payment does not require such scrutiny as it speaks for itself. See Fisher v. Pendleton, 184 Kan. 322, 336 P.2d 472 (1959); accord Hustead v. Bendix Corp., 233 Kan. 870, 666 P.2d 1175 (1983).
"In Hustead, the court made it clear that part payment and acknowledgment are distinct means to revive a time-barred claim under K.S.A. 60-520. The court pointed out that pursuant to K.S.A. 60-520, a part payment is an executed acknowledgment that requires no writing to establish it and has the effect of tolling the statute of limitations. 233 Kan. at 877." 29 Kan. App. 2d ___, ___, 34 P.3d 478 (2001).
Our review of the interpretation of K.S.A. 60-520(a) is plenary. See Hamilton v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 263 Kan. 875, 879, 953 P.2d 1027 (1998).
"It is a fundamental rule of statutory construction, to which all other rules are subordinate, that the intent of the legislature governs if that intent can be ascertained. [Citation omitted.] The legislature is presumed to have expressed its intent through the language of the statutory scheme it enacted. . . . [W]hen a statute is plain and unambiguous, the appellate courts will not speculate as to the legislative intent behind it and will not read such a statute so as to add something not readily found in the statute. [Citation omitted.]" In re Marriage of Killman, 264 Kan. 33, 42-43, 955 P.2d 1228 (1998).
The language of K.S.A. 60-520(a) concerning lifting the limitations bar after a part payment provides little guidance as to the legislative intent to be applied in this situation. The statute states that when any part of the principal or interest shall have been paid, an action may be brought in such case within the period prescribed for the same. Clearly this is an alternative form of acknowledgment of the debt, but the statute does not indicate whether the payor can qualify or limit the effect of the part payment with the resulting revival of some portion of the debt and not another. We do not have the means of ascertaining legislative intent when this language has remained virtually unchanged since becoming territory law in 1858. See Terr. L. 1858, ch. 11 § 24; G.S. 1868, ch. 80, § 24; G.S. 1949, 60-312; and L. 1963, ch. 303, 60-520.
In the long history of judicial interpretation of this language, we have not located a set of facts precisely on point where a debtor acknowledged the obligation to pay only the principal of a debt when making a part payment. However, there is a common thread of general rules that run throughout the cases. Typical of the type of language used by this court are the prouncements in Elmore v. Fanning, 85 Kan. 501, 504, 117 Pac. 1019 (1911), where it was held that when a comaker delivers a payment to the payee of his comaker's money and as agent for his comaker, it does not extend the statute of limitations as to himself. The Elmore opinion stated:
"A payment, to toll the statute, must be made under such circumstances as to amount to an acknowledgment of an existing liability. (Shanks v. Louthan, 79 Kan. 363, 365, 99 Pac. 613.) Such acknowledgment must be distinct, unequivocal, and without qualification (Durban v. Knowles, 66 Kan. 397, 71 Pac. 829), and it must be made by the obligor against whom the statute is sought to be tolled, or by someone at his direction (Good v. Ehrlich, 67 Kan. 94, 72 Pac. 545)." 85 Kan. at 504.
The requirement that the acknowledgment must be without doubt or misunderstanding is repeated in another historical authority in this state, Dassler's Kansas Civil Code, Annot. ch. 4, § 120 (2d ed. 1931), which states:
"Section 23 of the Civil Code [forerunner of our current statute] provides that in any case founded on contract, when any part of the principal or interest shall have been paid, an action may be brought in such case within the period prescribed for the same after payment. The payment to avoid the bar of the statute must be made under such circumstances as to amount to an acknowledgment of an existing liability. Such acknowledgment must be distinct, unequivocal and without qualification, and it must be made by the obligor against whom the statute is sought to be tolled, or by some one at his direction."
This general rule is repeated in the annotations and legal encyclopedias. See Annot. 10 A.L.R. 4th 932; 51 Am Jur. 2d, Limitation of Action § 347; 54 C.J.S., Limitations of Actions § 265.
These statements suggest that a payment made with qualification will not toll the statute of limitations. Does this mean oral statements accompanying a part payment can acknowledge the principal portion of the debt and disavow the interest? The Court of Appeals' negative answer to this question was based in part on statements in Hustead v. Bendix Corp., 233 Kan. 870, 666 P.2d 1175 (1983).
Hustead involved an action brought by the plaintiffs to recover damages for personal injuries suffered in an airplane crash. The insurer representing the defendants admitted liability to the plaintiffs and agreed to pay plaintiffs' damages. The insurer made several payments to the plaintiffs, but at some point, refused to make further payments. The plaintiffs brought an action to recover their remaining damages on the theories of negligence, strict liability in tort, and breach of implied warranty. Defendants raised the statute of limitations. The district court granted summary judgment to the defendants on that basis. 233 Kan. at 872.
On appeal, one contention of the plaintiffs was that their claimed breach of warranty was founded on contract and, thus, the insurer's partial payment on their damage claim came within the provisions of K.S.A. 60-520. In response to this argument, this court stated:
"In their briefs, the defendants contend that K.S.A. 60-520 is not applicable because an acknowledgment which will remove the bar of the statute of limitations must be distinct, unequivocal, and without qualification, and nothing less than a direct admission of a present existing liability is sufficient, citing Bowen v. Westerhaus, 224 Kan. 42, [578 P.2d 1102 (1978)]. In this regard, we believe that counsel for defendants have overlooked the rationale of Fisher v. Pendleton, 184 Kan. 322, 336 P.2d 472 (1959), which holds that a part payment is an executed acknowledgment which speaks for itself and requires no writing to establish it. Although in Fisher the question of the tolling of the statute of limitations by part payment involved G.S. 1949, 60-312, we believe that the logic of that case applies also to K.S.A. 60-520. The requirement of a written acknowledgment or promise in K.S.A. 60-520 pertains only to situations involving acknowledgment of an existing liability or a promise to pay the same. A part payment speaks for itself, and, when a part payment is made in a contract case, the provisions of K.S.A. 60-520 come into play, having the effect of tolling the statute of limitations." 233 Kan. at 877.
This language was not central to the result the court reached, for we reversed the district court because the factual circumstances had not been fully developed by discovery. Also involved in Hustead were the provisions of K.S.A. 40-275 relating to advance payment of damages, and our opinion stated: "The applicability of K.S.A. 60- 520 and 40-275 are issues still to be determined by the trial court, and we make no final determination of those issues on this appeal." 233 Kan. at 878. We do not rely on Hustead to the extent the Court of Appeals did. Hustead differs greatly from our case factually, did not rely on K.S.A. 60-520(a) as to its holding, and did not involve a part payment conditionally made.
We do return to a case relied upon in Hustead, Fisher v. Pendleton, 184 Kan. 322, 336 P.2d 472 (1959), where the issue was whether the statute of limitations could be tolled against a joint maker of a promissory note when part payment was made with that maker's knowledge and acquiescence. In analyzing the issue, the Fisher opinion referred to a similar issue in Gorrill v. Goff, 148 Kan. 765, 84 P.2d 953 (1938). In Gorrill, a credit endorsement was made by the payee of the note, but without the knowledge or consent of the maker. When informed of the credit, the maker failed to raise any objection or protest against the endorsement. The court found the maker had orally ratified the payment and held the maker was bound by such ratification as though he had originally made the payment under circumstances amounting to an acknowledgment of the debt. If one can orally ratify an obligation they should also be able to orally limit the effect of a partial payment.
The court in Gorrill held that ratification of a payment was not the kind of acknowledgment that must be in writing. The Fisher opinion quoted the following from Gorrill:
"'From this statute it is apparent three things may toll the statute of limitations. One is a payment. The others are acknowledgment of the debt in writing or a promise in writing to pay the debt, each signed by the party to be charged thereby. A payment obviously may be made otherwise than in writing. A payment, like any other act, may be ratified.'" 184 Kan. at 328 (quoting Gorrill, 148 Kan. at 769).
Still referring to ratification of a payment in Gorrill, the Fisher court continued:
"The court there recognized payment to be an executed acknowledgment which speaks for itself and requires no writing to establish it. The principle upon which part payment takes a case out of the statute is that the party paying intended by such payment to acknowledge and admit the greater debt to be due, and from which the trier of the facts would be warranted in finding an implied promise to pay the balance. (Good v. Ehrlich, supra; and Pessemier v. Zeller, 144 Kan. 726, 62 P.2d 882, 107 A.L.R. 1523.)" 184 Kan. at 328.
Both Fisher and Gorrill appear to uphold an oral acknowledgment of a debt where it is accompanied by a part payment. However, both Gorrill and Fisher involved part payments made without qualification. We do not disagree with the statement of the law in these cases, nor with the Court of Appeals' statement in this case that part payment speaks for itself. However, we only interpret this to mean that a payment requires no writing as do the other forms of acknowledgment or promise. It is only in that sense the payment speaks for itself. It does not mean that a part payment conditionally made is denied the condition which accompanies the payment.
Ronald Frazier's statements to O'Malley that he intended to pay the principal sometime in the future could never toll the statute of limitations without a writing under the statute. However, when Ronald Frazier delivered the $5,000 check to O'Malley and indicated he would, or would try, to pay the balance of the principal in the near future, the payment spoke for itself, but only as to the principal obligation under the promissory note.
If Ronald Frazier had delivered the $5,000 check to O'Malley without qualification or condition, we believe the entire debt would have been revived under the statute. However, K.S.A. 60-520(a) does not prevent a payor from acknowledging a portion of the debt or acknowledging an obligation to pay principal while disavowing any obligation to pay interest. There is no language in K.S.A. 60-520 stating what liability is revived.
In Miller v. McDowell, 69 Kan. 453, 77 Pac. 101 (1904), it was contended that the statute of limitation barred an action attempting to charge one-half of a debt against the estate of John McDowell. There was evidence that before his death, John McDowell went to the bank and stated that he was liable for one-half the debt in issue and that he desired to pay his proportion of the interest, which he did. Addressing the statute of limitation issue, this court stated:
"Of course, an oral admission of a debtor of his liability will not toll the statute, but payment made to the agent of the creditor to be applied on the debt, accompanied by a statement by the person making it that he is liable for one-half of it, is sufficient acknowledgment of his liability to toll the statute as to him." (Emphasis added.) 69 Kan. at 456.
Immediately following the above quote, the Miller opinion recites the wording of § 4452 of the General Statutes of 1901, which is substantially the same as K.S.A. 60-520(a). The part payment accompanied by a qualified acknowledgment of liability was recognized in Miller as it should be as to the Fraziers' part payment and conditional statements limiting the liability only to the principal of the note.
Part payment of a debt is a voluntary acknowledgment which implies a new promise to pay the debt. "Such part payment may be qualified and limited as a new promise may be." 54 C.J.S., Limitations of Actions § 264.
The Fraziers' part payment of principal was an unequivocal acknowledgment that additional amounts of principal were due. A promise to pay the remaining principal is all that could be inferred. At all times, Ronald Frazier indicated he could not and would not pay the interest. The payment/promise was limited to the principal. The Fraziers, by their actions, did not lose the protection of the statute of limitations on the interest portion of the promissory note.
Although our analysis by necessity relates to the statutory language of K.S.A. 60- 520(a), we also believe the public policy announced in Huntingdon Finance Corp. v. Newton Artisian, 442 Pa. Super. 406, 411, 659 P.2d 1052 (1995), concerning the common-law acknowledgment doctrine is relevant to our decision.
The Pennsylvania court stated:
"The acknowledgment doctrine serves a very useful purpose to both parties in that the creditor receives payment on a debt that would otherwise be unenforceable and the debtor satisfies a moral obligation to make payments pursuant to a contract where no legal obligation exists, thereby bolstering the credibility of its business. To accept appellant's position [that a payment of principal should also revive interest], debtors would be discouraged from acknowledging debts because of the corresponding interest payments, which in some instances could exceed the principal. The four-year statute of limitation serves to protect individuals from suffering the continuing anxiety over the possibility of the commencement of an action against them in the future. Because this acknowledgment doctrine removes the protection of the statute of limitations, the acknowledgment must be patently clear and distinct and free from ambiguity." 442 Pa. Super. at 411.
There is a valid public policy to encourage debtors to make payments on obligations that are due but the collection of which is barred by a limitations period.
Under the undisputed facts as found by the trial court, the Fraziers at all times expressed their inability and unwillingness to repay the interest on the time-barred promissory note. The payment which was offered was qualified and limited to principal only and was not an acknowledgment of the obligation to make any payment of the past due interest thereon. The result reached by the trial court, based on the particular facts of this case, was correct.
We reverse the Court of Appeals and affirm the district court.
DAVIS, J., dissenting:
I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion and would affirm the decision of the Court of Appeals for the reasons stated in that opinion. "A part payment speaks for itself, and, when a part payment is made in a contract case, the provisions of K.S.A. 60- 520 come into play, having the effect of tolling the statute of limitations." Hustead v. Bendix Corp., 233 Kan. 870, Syl. ¶ 4, 666 P.2d 1175 (1983). No longer in Kansas will a "payment speak for itself" in a contract case. According to the majority opinion, part payment by a debtor means what the debtor says at the time payment is made and ultimately will mean what a trial court says it means based upon parol evidence.
K.S.A. 60-520 provides the two methods by which one may revive a debt based on contract: first, by partial payment, and second, by acknowledgment or promise. In my opinion, this new principle adopted by the majority opinion would render the partial payment provisions of K.S.A. 60-520(a) meaningless.
The majority opinion distinguishes Hustead on the facts, noting that the opinion differs greatly from the present case factually and did not rely on K.S.A. 60-520(a) as to its holding and, further, did not involve a part payment conditionally made. While all this is true, Hustead, upon remand, was providing direction to the lower court and was responding to the defendants' argument that the payment was not of a character required to be a partial payment under the statute. We stated in Hustead that part payments are not to be held to the same standards as written acknowledgments and promises. The only requirement to toll the limitation period is that the payment be made on the contract. 233 Kan. at 877.
The provisions of K.S.A. 60-520(a) expressly provide that "when any part of the principal or interest shall have been paid," the entire debt is revived. The statute provides no means to differentiate between interest and principal, and where a "distinct and unequivocal payment on any part of the debt" is made, the entire debt becomes due. K.S.A. 60-520 as well as earlier legislation in this area sought to avoid parol evidence in the control of revival of debts by its requirement that both acknowledgments and promises be made in writing to have any effect. A partial payment also needs little parol evidence to prove its existence and can normally be shown, as in the present case, by a check or other negotiable instrument. The majority opinion, however, invites parol evidence from the debtor in order to determine whether partial payment revived the whole debt or just a portion of the debt.
The majority looks to Huntingdon Finance Corp. v. Newton Artesian, 442 Pa. Super. 406, 659 P.2d 1052 (1995), concluding that a valid public policy exists to encourage debtors to make payment on obligations that are due, but the collection of which is barred by limitation. I would submit that the logic of the Huntingdon decision and the premise of that opinion is not sound. While the majority concludes and Huntingdon agrees, that abolishing the power of debtors to qualify their payments would result in no reasonable debtor making any payment whatsoever on ancient debts, their conclusion is built on the presumption that the debtors have such thorough knowledge of the law as to understand the effect of a partial payment. If the debtors were so well schooled, certainly they would also understand the importance and effect of obtaining a release or effecting a novation prior to the making of a partial payment.
While it may seem more equitable and fair to permit a debtor to avoid interest that in some cases can greatly exceed the principal, this is not necessarily the case. Interest is a product of the time value of money and risks taken by the lender. To allow a debtor to avoid paying years of interest and just pay the principal amount on the debt, is to severely deprive the creditor of the time value of his or her money. This is compounded by the fact that it results in a windfall to the debtor, who is permitted to hold the creditor's money for several years only to have to return the exact dollar amount.
Finally, neither K.S.A. 60-520(a) nor any of the Kansas cases cited in the majority opinion provide authority for separation of principal and interest. The original agreement between the parties certainly did not contemplate a separation of interest and principal. Yet, under the majority opinion, the debtor is able to modify the original agreement, unilaterally, by qualifying his or her payment and expressing an intent which is again contrary to the original agreement. Why permit unilateral modification by the debtor of a debt created through the agreement of debtor and creditor? It is enough that the debtor remains in control because the entire debt is uncollectible. The debtor may work out with the creditor a partial payment with a release signed or novation. The debt was created by contract; let it be amended by contract. Hustead follows K.S.A. 60-520(a) and maintains the sanctity of the contract by not allowing the debtor to unilaterally amend the original agreement of the parties.
For the above reasons, I would affirm the Court of Appeals and reverse the district court.
SIX, J., joins in the foregoing dissent.
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A May graduate from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, Jewel Haji was honored with the Student of Inspiration award from “Ms. JD,” a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to the success of aspiring and early career women lawyers.
“Being named the ‘Ms. JD’ Student of Inspiration is something that still leaves me speechless—something I never imagined being considered for, let alone earning,” Haji says. “I’m so honored to represent women who speak up and work hard to make an impact in society.
“When people earn awards, it’s a call for action—not only does it mean being recognized for past efforts, but also a push to keep doing more. I plan to always work towards advancing the position of women and other underrepresented groups in the legal community and to advocate for social justice.”
Other kudos include induction into Alpha Sigma Nu, a Jesuit honor society of students who are in the top 15 percent of their class and excel in scholarship, loyalty, and service, and induction into the Justice Frank Murphy Honor Society for being in the top 10 percent of her class while making contributions by way of involvement in Law Review and Student Bar Association.
An alumna of Grand Valley State University, where serving as a Student Senator sparked her interest in a law career, Haji enjoyed interning as an investigative analyst at the Office of the Inspector General in Grand Rapids.
After undergrad, she worked as a paralegal at The Lobb Law Firm in Huntington Woods before starting law school.
A participant in the Wolverine Bar Judicial Externship Program, a program for students of ethnic minorities, she spent part of her summer after 1L interning for Judge Terrence G. Berg in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, then clerked at Sommers Schwartz in Southfield.
In early 2018, she worked as a student attorney during the inaugural semester of the Federal Pro Se Legal Assistance Clinic in Detroit, and later wrote an article about the clinic’s work.
After her 2L year, Haji spent three months as a summer associate at Honigman in Detroit, where she attended court proceedings, sat in on mediations, assisted attorneys in preparing for depositions and other hearings, while engaging in extensive research and writing assignments.
“My time at Honigman was rewarding in many ways and challenged me to be the best version of myself possible,” she says. “Above all, I was able to build lasting relationships with people I look up to in the profession. The firm is filled with talent. The mentor-friendly atmosphere and encouraging culture make it a place I’m grateful to be part of and I look forward to joining the litigation department.”
Haji threw herself into law school activities, serving as the Wayne Region liaison for the Women’s Law Caucus, 1L class president and 3L class vice president, executive secretary for the Student Bar Association, and student ambassador. She crowned her membership in Law Review by serving as Editor-in-Chief in her final year.
“This was a true gift,” she says. “The opportunity to help advance the publication and work towards exciting new goals was a law school experience second to none. It was an honor to play a role in hosting the annual Symposium on the topic of Women and the Law, where such relevant dialogue took place. Law Review has a special place in my heart and I’m so happy to see it prosper.”
As a teaching assistant for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Torts, and Applied Legal Theory and Analysis I, Haji discovered a passion for assisting others.
“Helping students understand difficult topics was enjoyable because knowledge is one of the most powerful tools we can have, and is something no one can take from us,” she says. “It’s also something we have the ability to share with others. Being a teaching assistant meant working with people and watching the learning process take place. There are few things I value more than learning, which made it a very gratifying experience I hope to have again.”
Along with a few colleagues, Haji started a Street Law program, where law students visit schools to present on legal topics and serve as mentors to high school students.
She also helped commission the portrait of alumna and Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Denise K. Langford Morris on International Women’s Day, the first portrait of a woman to hang in the halls at Detroit Mercy Law. Painted by Detroit artist Henry Heading, the portrait was a gift from Law Review, Black Law Students Association (BLSA), Women’s Law Caucus and the Student Bar Association.
“I dream of seeing more portraits of women in the future,” Haji says.
She makes time for her involvement in local bar associations, including The Detroit Bar Association, Women Lawyers Association of Michigan, and Oakland County Bar Association. In May, she was named WLAM-Wayne Member of the Month.
A Madison Heights native and graduate of Lamphere High School, Haji is the youngest of five children of Chaldean immigrants and the first in her family to attend law school. When not busy with law-related activities, she spends much of her time with family and friends.
“My family is why I am where I am today,” she says. “My parents, three older brothers, and older sister have supported me in ways I cannot describe. They are not only the reason I’ve achieved my goals, but the reason I even set the goals. I strive to forever make them proud.”
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Help Wanted: Laboratory Workers
Douglas Beigel
Originally published in the Baltimore Sun on April 22, 2014
The country is facing a shortage of qualified lab technicians and technologists
A health care crisis is quietly unfolding in our nation’s laboratories. This crisis has developed largely off the public’s radar screen. If not resolved, it can adversely impact the lives of every American. The crisis in question: alarming shortages within the laboratory workforce.
Lab testing has an estimated impact on over 70 percent of medical decisions. That percentage will grow as baby boomers retire and preventive coverage — including screening tests performed by labs — increases as part of federal health care reform.
But according to an annual survey performed by the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), laboratory professions are seeing an average vacancy rate of 5 to 6 percent, depending on the department. Federal statistics also document the shortage. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), more than 40,000 current lab jobs are vacant in the United States.
The size of projected shortages is even more daunting. According to the most recent BLS study in 2012, 7,100 new jobs in medical- and clinical-laboratory technology will be created annually by 2022. In addition, the current workforce is expected to have a replacement rate of 26 percent, totaling an additional 8,500 jobs needed annually for the 10-year period. Although these figures indicate a need for approximately 15,600 new laboratory professionals annually, educational programs are producing only about 8,200 graduates per year.
As the previous replacement rate indicates, the current lab workforce is aging. Baby boomers in laboratory positions have been delaying retirement due to economic uncertainties, but many departments reported anticipated retirements in the next 24 months. Among the hardest hit will be the immunology and chemistry/toxicology departments with 10 percent of employees anticipating retirement.
Maryland — home of Johns Hopkins Medicine, the University of Maryland Medical System and the National Institutes of Health — is not immune to these pressures. Washington D.C. and Baltimore are ranked the ninth and 10th metropolitan areas with the highest level of medical and clinical laboratory technicians, respectively.
Fortunately, the state’s educational system has responded. For example, many schools, including the University of Maryland, Baltimore, offer a robust menu of scholarships for aspiring lab students. But the lab workforce shortage is a problem which neither government nor academia can solve by themselves. The lab community itself needs to step up.
In 2013, COLA, which accredits many of these labs, responded to the crisis locally through an endowment of $25,000 to support Howard County Community College’s newly created medical-technician program. By sponsoring curricula, COLA hopes to attract more students to the profession and to create awareness of the importance of quality lab practices in the delivery of safe, effective health care. In addition, COLA has been participating in local STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) programs to introduce younger children to careers in medical- and clinical-laboratory technology.
Our goal is to create a sustainable recruitment and education model that can be duplicated across the country.
I strongly encourage each hospital, research or physician-owned lab, along with manufacturers of laboratory products, to launch its own workforce development initiatives. It is time for the lab community to apply its energies, creativity and proven problem-solving skills toward addressing an issue which concerns everyone.
The good news is that we have a compelling story to tell. US News and World Report chose “clinical laboratory technicians” as one of the best health care careers of 2013. The national average salary for such technicians is $37,240, according to BLS, and $58,640 for clinical laboratory technologists.
Maryland is already a leader in the area of health care. Growing the lab workforce is another opportunity to demonstrate that leadership. We can do that through establishing mentoring relationships, funding scholarships and by engaging each other and soliciting ideas.
Most importantly, we can do that by simply spreading the word that laboratory careers are lucrative, stimulating, and they make a positive difference in the lives of others.
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As the Chief Executive Officer at COLA, Mr. Beigel leads a dynamic team responsible for helping nearly 8,000 laboratories across the country fulfill their accreditation obligations under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) of 1988. He has received numerous awards including the “Edwards Medal” from The American Society for Quality (ASQ) in recognition of his leadership and contributions to the field of quality methodology and The “Award of Excellence in Finance and Administration” from the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) which honors extraordinary efforts to solve intricate problems through creative technology applications. Mr. Beigel is a member of ASAE, the American Association of Medical Society Executives (AAMSE), and Sigma Iota Epsilon. A resident of Howard County, Maryland for over 30 years, Mr. Beigel is active in the community, serving on the Board of Trustees for both the Howard Hospital Foundation and the Howard County Police Foundation. In addition, he also serves as a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Howard County and the Howard County Leadership program. He received his MA from Loyola College and an MBA from the Merrick School of Business at the University of Baltimore.
Update: The Lab’s Critical Role In Healthcare
Adding New Staff to an Old Team
Irwin Rothenberg MBA, MS, MLS(ASCP)
In addition to all of the insightful reasons already stated, lab testing matters because the results obtained are often instrumental in furthering medical research toward more effective prevention, treatment and cures for diseases, and metabolic disorders.
Irwin RothenbergWashington DC
“Through blinded treatment, the patient can get better, if he/she is lucky enough, otherwise; leads to the worst condition as patient history and symptoms can tell us only the tip of the iceberg.” Lab is the key for quality heath care and treatment.
Derese TeferaEthiopia
It save lives; improves community health.
PERLA SIMMONSNew Jersey
As a family physician for 15 years and lab director of our high complexity medical laboratory, the availability of labs given and interpreted to my patients at the time of the visit has been unique, incredible, satisfying as a physician. I continue to love my profession as well as continuing to learn from my patients as well as being satisfied on a daily basis that I helped out many people on a daily basis. Lab testing is rewarding on many levels!
Joel Ang MDDupont Circle, Washington DC
Laboratory testing is a pivotal decision making point for supporting diagnoses and associated therapies for safe and effective patient care.
Sherrie GrahamKansas
It matters to me because its very important to know your conditions.
Kendra K
The dynamic of lab science is always changing and if you want to stay on top of the profession you must keep abreast of those changes.
Jennifer McclainBoston, MA
It touches the heart & life of a patient. Quality results mean quality treatment and in turn quality life for patients.
Nael m. soudiJordan
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Memphis Charged With Violations
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The Memphis men's basketball program has been charged by the NCAA with major violations during the 2007-08 season under former coach John Calipari. Reigning NBA Rookie of the Year Derrick Rose is at the center of alleged violations at Memphis.
I think it's time to end the sham that is NCAA basketball once and for all. To begin with, the NBA's age restriction is ridiculous, and probably unconstitutional. Moreover, it seriously compromises the integrity of the NCAA. When you're 18-years-old, you're old enough to join the armed services, go overseas, and fight in a war, at great risk to your life and health. If you're an 18-year-old computer prodigy, there's nothing preventing Google or Microsoft from hiring you right out of high school. But if you're 18 and extremely gifted in basketball, you can't compete for a spot on an NBA roster. Well, how's that fair? So you have these kids who come to college for no other purpose but to get old enough to qualify for the NBA. And it's a joke to think these "one-and-done" kids have any interest in getting an education. To call them student-athletes is the greatest of oxymorons. They already know how they're going to try to make a living. They've poured their lives into developing their basketball skills. What's going on these days is making a mockery of college basketball. The NCAA should fine itself, and the NBA, not the teams, players, and coaches just trying to make the best of the screwed-up system they've been sentenced to.
The Memphis men's basketball program has been charged by the NCAA with major violations during the 2007-08 season under former coach John Calipari. Reigning NBA Rookie of the Year Derrick Rose is at the center of alleged violations at Memphis...."
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LeBron James' game-winning shot has historic impact
(SportsIllustrated.com)
He sprinted away from the basket out past the three-point line to catch the inbounds pass at the height of his leap. LeBron James landed with the ball as if upon a diving board that shot him back up high. He was looking at the basket with his chin near his right shoulder and the goal like a needle's orange eye slim and small and 25 feet away.
I'm not sure about the history-angle, but then again, if you replay it over and over and over again, it will effectively becomes "historic" by sheer brute force. If LeBron leads the Cavs to a championship this season, they will look back to this shot as a pivotal moment. We'll have to wait to see how things play out before we call it historic.
He sprinted away from the basket out past the three-point line to catch the inbounds pass at the height of his leap. LeBron James landed with the ball as if upon a diving board that shot him back up high. He was looking at the basket with his chin near hi..."
« Thursday « May 14, 2009
Seeing Pink, Branding Pink
Screenshot from MLB.com Web site of breast cancer promotion landing page
So it turns out that my Scarlet Letter rebranding dream for Major League Baseball (MLB) isn't so far-fetched after all. Just this past Sunday, in honor of Mother's Day, MLB teamed up with one of their sponsors, Susan G. Komen for the Cure to help in the fight against Breast Cancer.
And pink was the color of the day.
MLB logo is pink
In the manly sport of hardball, where there ain't no crying' no less.
Some players sported pink arm bands, and uniforms were patched with pink ribbons. One player, Houston Astros third baseman Lance Berkman, used a pink limited-edition bat from the Louisville Slugger Company. For fans, there were mascots wearing pink, contests and giveaways to win pink hats, pink T-shirts, and even more pink limited-edition bats.
But most-telling from a branding perspective for MLB, the brand that I've already argued is in need of a rebranding, is that they took their logo...and turned it pink! As longtime San Francisco sports talk radio host Gary Radnich often says, "Who does that? Who has time?" I'd love to see the brand guidelines which drove that decision. (Aside, if you visit the page captured in the screenshot above, you'll see three different MLB logos on the page, it's branding run amuck.) Is there a pink exception for the logo? What if someone wants to use it in fuchsia? Lime green? Burnt umber? Sure, some uses of the logo may call for adjustments, for example in the black-and-white enviroment of a traditional newspaper, the MLB logo can't appear in full color, but pink?
The breast cancer awareness promotion is a highly-worthwhile community-building activity for MLB. It's great that baseball is involved in raising lots of money that will ultimately save lives. But if you take the very symbol that represents your organization and alter it just to fit one promotion, what does that say about how you're managing brand? There's this key concept at the heart of branding called consistency.
And if you can go pink, then why not scarlet?
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Rebrand Major League Baseball, now!
Courtesy of shgmom56 (flickr)
Last week, in the midst of the swine flu outbreak, I blogged that the virus was not a branding problem for the pork producing industry, but that it was a public relations nightmare. I've since been gently reminded by one of the many erudite minds in the world of branding at my company that inasmuch as the flu had a name - swine - which touched on the industry, it was indeed an "image" problem, which is certainly a branding issue. On reflection, I do agree, but I still maintain that rebranding - i.e. like slapping a new logo and tagline onto your business - in reaction to one adverse situation is not really the right approach.
Today, just to show you that I can wield the stick from both sides of the plate, I want to propose that there is an American, albeit increasingly international, entity that is sorely in need of a rebranding: Major League Baseball. Rebrand thyself, please, because you've losing touch with your customers.
Yesterday's news of Los Angeles Dodger Manny Ramirez testing positive for banned substances, and today's news, the return of New York Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez ("A-Rod"), puts a corrosive spotlight on the League. Ramirez, is arguably the most feared right-handed offensive player in the League, and A-Rod was the one guy who was supposed to be baseball's last great hope, but who'll now be remembered as the poster child for the so-called Steroid Era. Some of us, when we were growing up, aspired to become heros like our favorite baseball stars. We didn't know their lives off the field, but on the field, they performed magic. Today's magic, apparently, comes with the assist of a syringe, and substances with names like "boli," "the clear" and "the cream."
I think the purity of the game is irreparably damaged already because of what some of the players did. But as stewards of the brand, the League has also taken some shaky steps down the basepath too; it tries to present the game as the national pasttime, when those days are long gone. Kids in America aren't playing baseball as much as they're playing basketball and football. There are very few baseball players who have the same name and face recognition as NFL stars like Tom Brady, or NBA heros like LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. And when they do have household name recognition, like A-Rod, or Manny Ramirez, or Barry Bonds, those names are inextricably linked to cheating and steroids.
If you watch the sports news on TV these days, whenever they get to the baseball highlights, you see oceans of empty seats at ballparks across the League. In the crummy economy we're suffering through right now, ticket prices aren't just too high for average working people - if they're lucky to be working - they're obscene. This is supposed to be the people's game. The Yankees, my team, who just moved into a brand new, billion-dollar stadium, which has problems keeping opposing teams' fly balls from leaving the park, cut the prices on some of their prime seats by 50%, so now, for the dirt cheap price of about $1200, you can enjoy a game in the sweet seats. This isn't America's pasttime anymore. It may be America's past.
Baseball has all the signs of an industry sorely in need of a rebranding:
Reputation tarnished, check
Image problems abound, check (my learning from the 'swine flu' branding thing)
Undergoing major changes, check (the Steroid Era literally rewrote MLB record books, erasing the accomplishments of past players who did it the 'right' way)
Facing declining sales, check (look at all the empty seats in MLB ballparks)
Getting outpaced by competitors, check (baseball trails NFL and NBA in popularity, and if keeps things up NHL may surpass it too)
Brand doesn't really stand for anything, check (I say Major League Baseball! You say...what?)
Failing to adapt to fit the times, check (kids aren't playing baseball because the game isn't as cool as football or basketball, and without young fans, what's the future hold?)
In a word: baseball is becoming less relevant.
I love baseball. I love the strategic parts of it. I love the entertainment aspects of it. If it were up to me, as part of this mythic rebranding, I'd insist that since the League can't seem to effectively police this steroid problem, that it simply embrace the blemish. When I go to the ballpark and see some of these sluggers hit monster home runs, I really don't care if they were puffed on steroids when they did it. But I would like to know which players are clean and which players are juiced. So I propose a "Scarlet Letter" for baseball players as part of the rebranding. If a player tests positive for steroids, don't kick him out of baseball, don't suspend him, brand him as a steroid user. Make him wear a garish, prominent mark on his uniform or hat that identifies him as having been caught cheating. That way fans will be able to tell, at a glance, what and who they're really watching. And parents can tell their children: don't be like that guy. And we can still play ball. And don't worry about the players, Manny Ramirez cheated, allegedly, and he's going to lose $7 million in salary...but he's guaranteed another $38 million in his contract: who said cheating doesn't pay off?
Now, while this proposal may seem silly - well, it actually is silly - consider what's going on in Major League Baseball right now: they're presenting us a fair sporting contest, where every day it seems that some of the biggest names in the game are being exposed as cheaters, and they're asking us to believe that their product isn't tainted. Dare I say, the integrity of the sport is in question.
At least, if you rebrand this game as costumed, physical entertainment, and not as pure competitive sport, customers will know what they're getting, like the fans of pro wrestling do.
I still think that an "A-bomb for A-Rod" - that's what the Yankee broadcaster John Stirling says when Rodriguez hits a big home run - is a spectacular thing to behold. I just don't believe that Major League Baseball's brand promise lives up to what they're delivering.
Rebrand the game to reflect the reality.
Pandemics, branding, and casting pearls before swine (flu)
Image courtesy of wwarby on flickr
I just read on AdAge.com, here, that the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) was pushing for a "re-branding" in reaction to the growing swine flu pandemic. As guardians of the pork industry - not the pork barrel industry, mind you - they want the flu referred to by its technical name: "H1N1 Virus." And this is all making me a little sick.
No, I'm not coming down with the H1NI virus flu myself. It's this misuse of branding concepts that's making me queasy. I'm not sure if AdAge or the NPPC is at fault here, but I see this happen time and time again whenever bad news comes down the pipe: let's rebrand.
It's true, the pork industry has a perception problem on their hands, because people hear the word "swine," see pigs in their mind, and then mistakenly think, "I better lay off on the ham sandwiches and carnitas burritos today." You can't get swine flu from eating cooked pork. But yes, this perception problem may result in significant sales losses for the pork industry. Developing a media response to this problem is all fine and good, but we're not talking about branding here. We're talking about public relations. What's make me nauseous is this snowballing notion in the business world that a "re-branding" is a silver bullet that can solve problems of the moment. It's not. Branding is strategic, not tactical, long-term, not short-term. Branding is not an airbrush that you take out and spray over your blemishes.
Your brand is supposed to stand for something. I personally think it should be timeless. The brand should be at the heart of everything you do. In bad or troubling times - like global pandemics or stupid ex-employees doing dumbass things on their shift and posting those exploits on YouTube - your brand should be the hedge that protects the equity and reputation you've earned over a long-period of interaction within your market and with your customers.
When I see brands, organizations, people reacting to bad current events in the world with, "Well, we have to re-brand..." I think they're simply not understanding what it is a brand can do. At the end of the day, you can only solve two basic problems with branding: 1) you can tell your customers how you're different than all of your competitors; and 2) you can tell your customers why you're better. That's it. When you really need it, there people who can tell you more about what branding really is, in all its intricacy.
Pork is competing with beef, chicken, fish, and other food products. Realistically, all a "re-branding" could do right now is reposition the little piggies within this food sector.
The swine flu isn't a branding problem for the pork industry. It's a public relations nightmare. To address it, the pork industry needs a public relations solution. Now, part of that PR solution certainly can be buttressed by the brand strategy already in place, which I think is tied to that "Pork, the other white meat..." tagline, but the solution to swine flu for porkers is not branding.
First, understand the problem. Then use the right tools.
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E-letter No. 186: December 2018
By Nicholas Ribush
Welcome to LYWA’s 186th eletter. We’ve been sending these out to our friends and supporters for nearly sixteen years! Our eletters tell the story of everything we’ve accomplished together over the years, and you can read them all on our website. Each year we add over 2,000 new subscribers and we now have over 10,000 active recipients each month! We are very grateful for your support that has allowed us to benefit so many all over the world for more than 20 years.
To date we have raised $33,000 toward this year's target of $50,000. Thank you so much to those of you who have donated so far! If you haven't donated, please consider helping us meet our goal. Please read on to get a comprehensive overview of what we do.
LAMA YESHE WISDOM ARCHIVE 2018 YEAR END APPEAL
For more than twenty years we have excelled at fulfilling our twin missions of preserving the precious teachings of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche and making these teachings available to all. In this way we offer the Dharma, with its message of love, compassion and equanimity, to interested students and seekers the world over.
As Rinpoche explained this August at Kurukulla Center in Boston:
When the teachings materialize in a book they can go very far; they can go all over the world and reach people everywhere. Can you imagine? The benefits are really unbelievable. Of course, we can’t travel that much but books can go everywhere. So this is one of the great activities of the FPMT. Through books we awaken people’s minds from the deep sleep of ignorance.
LYWA materializes teachings not just in books but also on our website, in multimedia presentations, in audio books and ebooks. In these myriad ways we reach people in every corner of the world, helping them cultivate wisdom and peace in their minds so that they in turn can benefit as many beings as possible.
The Archive’s book Publishing Activities
Over the past five years we have published more than twenty new print books, ebooks, audio books and print-on-demand titles, including Sun of Devotion: Stream of Blessings, Abiding in the Retreat, two ebooks drawn from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings at Kopan courses and fully revised editions of Teachings from Tibet and Teachings from the Vajrasattva Retreat.
Next year we will publish Lama Yeshe’s biography, Big Love: The Life and Teachings of Lama Yeshe. The design phase of the book is nearly complete and we are planning on printing it early 2019. Following that we will publish Lamrim Year, a book of daily contemplations drawn from the teachings of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche following the lamrim outline.
Over the past five years we have also reprinted more than 100,000 copies of our existing titles, bringing the number of Archive books in print to over 800,000. Furthermore, there are many tens of thousands of LYWA titles printed in languages other than English as well as reprints commissioned and printed by other FPMT centers.
The Archive’s E-Publishing Activities
Our website remains the most complete source of all published transcripts from the Archive, with thousands of teachings freely available, all categorized, tagged, and fully searchable. Each month, the average number of unique visitors to our website tops 100,000.
Two years ago we launched a companion website, Teachings from Tibet, based upon the teachings in the LYWA publication of the same name. In addition to a selection of teachings from Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, this site features teachings from some of the most revered Tibetan teachers of our time.
Each year, 11,000 copies of our ebooks are downloaded from our online ebook vendors. Many thousands of website visitors also download pdfs of our free titles or read them online. And Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Online Advice book continues to grow with, on average, ten new advices posted to our website each month, bringing the total number of entries in the Online Advice Book to more than 2,000. Here are this month's new additions:
Tara Practice and Prayers While Flying: A flight attendant had requested a prayer. Rinpoche recommended Tara practice and explained a visualization and prayers for the safety and happiness of others.
The Center is of Utmost Importance: Rinpoche wrote to thank a benefactor and advised that helping the center is helping all sentient beings.
Prayers for Child’s Return: Advice for a student who had asked about regaining care of a child after a divorce.
Practices to Benefit a Cat: Advice on how to care for a cat which was twenty-one years old and very sick. Rinpoche suggested various mantras and circumambulation of holy objects with the cat.
Multimedia and Social Media
As our online audience has grown we have steadily increased our digital offerings to meet the demand. Our library of multimedia presentations—which complements transcripts with audio, video and images—has blossomed accordingly. We now have more than twenty multimedia titles freely available, including Life, Death and After Death, Freedom Through Understanding, Bodhisattva Attitude and Guru Puja is the Heart Practice.
The Archive maintains a vibrant social media community, sending out Dharma gems daily to the nearly 135,000 followers on Facebook and 15,000 more followers on other social media sites such as Twitter and Instagram.
Since we revamped our podcast two years ago, 46,000 audio episodes have been downloaded from our podcast page and website. And in recent years we have released sixty-five new videos on our YouTube channel to over 1,200 subscribers. In 2017, we had 130,000 views of videos on our YouTube. View our most recent uncovering of a precious Archive relic: Lama Yeshe teaching on death, bardo and rebirth at Manjushri Institute in England in 1982.
Video of Lama Yeshe on Death, Bardo and Rebirth
In this teaching, Lama gives an extensive explanation of how we move through the death process, including advice on how to remain healthy while alive. Lama also answers questions from the audience.
The Archive’s Reach is Extending
We can all rejoice that the efforts we have made together to offer the Dharma around the world have been so successful. Each month more than sixty new people contact the Archive to either order materials, make a donation or both. And our Membership program also continues to grow: we’ve added 130 new members donating $1,000 or more since 2014. Our members have free access to ebook and print versions of every book published of Lama Yeshe’s and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings, including those published by Wisdom Publications.
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WATCH: Mink Jet! - Billy Mink Visits the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum
This next adventure in Billy Mink's "Maritime Mink" web series finds him in the cockpit of CF-104 Starfighter airplane, at the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum in Halifax. He hops around all the amazing aircraft, exploring the history of flight, and Atlantic Canada's aviation heritage. With the help of Dr. N and Fulgur, Billy learns about the physics of flight, and what makes an aircraft actually fly. Bobby Racoon throws a paper airplane at him, escaping with another branch of the Secret Wreath. Nemo orders Billy to pursue him in the Silver Dart, and the adventure continues.
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Rough week for the Lady Grizz, but tourney ahead
December 19, 2013 ChronicleAdmin Sports Comments Off on Rough week for the Lady Grizz, but tourney ahead
The Lady Grizz fought hard in an away game on Friday, Dec. 13, against the Tongue River Lady Eagles, but fell short with a loss of 40-33. Coach Eric Honeyman said he was pleased to see them play hard and thought they held up well against the top-ranked team, but he feels they still need to work on reducing their turnovers and on scoring off rebounds.
Mikaela Hocker put in one of her best performances of the season this weekend against Wind River’s Lady Cougars at a game held at RMHS on Saturday afternoon.
Patti Carpenter photo
“I thought the girls played really well against Tongue River,” he said. “They are always a well-respected team in 2A. The girls were playing right in there with them until around the three-minute mark. At that point, Tongue River ran a couple of plays where they scored some 3s and we just couldn’t fight back from that. We just could not get any closer from that point on.”
Honeyman noted that the team’s shooting average was only 26 percent, which he thought hurt their chances of winning. He said they would be working on that in practice.
“Our shooting has been our Achille’s heel,” he said. “We shot 26 percent from the floor and that hurt us. That’s just not quite enough to win most games, especially against a tough team like Tongue River.”
Shauna Loman was the leading scorer with 12, Hannah Winland had 8 and freshman Marissa Arnold had 6.
Honeyman said he thought the team was also a little weak on their rebounds with more than half of the 29 rebounds the team scored grabbed by one player, Kelly Vezain.
“Kelly had 15 rebounds. She played pretty well on the rebounding side but it’s still our biggest weakness right now,” explained Honeyman. “We just can’t seem to get all the girls on the same page getting as many rebounds as possible. That and turnovers is what’s really killing us this season.”
The girls played Wind River at home the following day, falling to the Lady Cougars 62-50 for essentially the same reasons.
“Wind River was another game we lost in turnovers and rebounding,” said Honeyman. “We just couldn’t seem to rebound and the other team was more aggressive. We only scored 7 and 8 points in two quarters, and in the other two quarters we scored 15 and 20. We just can’t play like that anymore. We have to do better than that if we want to win games.”
Honeyman noted 31 turnovers in the game.
Hannah Winland was the top scorer with 18 points, dazzling local fans with five 3s in a row in the last quarter of the game.
“Hannah gave us 18 points after hitting those five 3s in a row,” said Honeyman. “I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed something like that. That was really exciting.”
He also noted significant contributions from three players in particular.
“Marissa Arnold comes off the bench and plays hard for us and she’s really efficient,” said Honeyman. “Sarah Jones has been our most consistent player so far this year.
“We’re just starting to get Mikaela Hocker going again. The Wind River game was the best game she’s played all year. She had 8 points after going to the free-throw line nine times. She set the tone. I thought she played the best game she played all year.”
Hocker was the second highest scorer with 9 points.
Honeyman noted the tough resolve of the Lady Cougars to come back with a win after losing to the Lady Grizz the week before.
“They wanted to dominate us and they weren’t holding anything back,” said Honeyman.
The girls will take on Ten Sleep at 5:30 at the Rocky Mountain High School gymnasium on Thursday. The game marks the beginning of the Big Horn Basin Classic, which will continue in Lovell all day Friday and Saturday.
“We need to cut our errors on the rebounding, to see our turnovers decrease and put four quarters together,” said Honeyman. “Once we do that, we’ll start winning some games.”
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P resident Obama today held in-depth consultations with the Prime Minister of Japan on the global economic crisis and other areas for bilateral cooperation. The President underscored his firm commitment to the U.S.-Japan Alliance and called for continued progress in modernizing the Alliance by implementing the joint-realignment initiative.
The two leaders agreed to work closely and urgently, as the world’s leading economies, to stimulate demand at home and abroad, to help other countries respond to the global crisis, to unfreeze credit markets, and to seek concrete results from the April London Economic Summit and through the G-8. They agreed fully on the need to resist protectionism.
W ith respect to regional issues, they pledged to work closely through the Six-Party process to verifiably eliminate North Korea’s nuclear program and to deal with the problem of North Korea’s missiles, as well as other matters including Japan’s abducted citizens.
Noting the importance of stabilizing Afghanistan, President Obama expressed appreciation for Japan’s extensive contributions to date and strongly welcomed Japan’s intention to play a greater role in assisting Afghanistan as well as Pakistan to improve security and economic development.
The two leaders both saw climate change as a priority for both nations and discussed ways of working together, including in an effort to assist developing nations. They pledged to build on the strong record of joint research and development on clean energy technology. # # #
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Bush and Protesters Must Have Equal Access
November 11, 2003 - Martin Hoscik@martinhoscik
The security of visiting Heads of State is always a troublesome issue. The planned visit by President Bush is no exception. Mr Bush heads an administration which waged war on another country, supported at home but opposed by many of America’s traditional allies.
London was the scene of some of the largest demonstrations in Europe, the pictures of which were broadcast around the world. It is unthinkable that Bush would be unaware of views of the anti-war movement.
It is natural that the US security forces wish to be involved in the protection of their President. It is wrong of Jeremy Corbyn, MP for Islington North and a Stop the War to talk of an “invasion of our capital by the Americans”. Longstanding arrangements will be in place covering such matters and there are reciprocal arrangements for when the British Prime Minister visits Washington.
The security arrangements for Mr Bush’s visit must reflect, and be equal in scale, to those imposed on US citizens during Mr Blair’s visits. President Bush is a guest of our nation. As hosts we have an obligation to ensure the safety of all our guests. No-one’s cause would be furthered by an attempt, successful or otherwise, on the life of the President.
However, Democracy was one of Mr Bush & Mr Blair’s reasons for removing Saddam and Democracy requires that UK citizens opposed to the actions endorsed by their Government be allowed to make their protests. Such protests should, in the best traditions of our City, be peaceful, well managed and properly policed.
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Inmates Prison Criminal Justice Mental Health Therapy Counseling Mental Illness Non-traditional Interventions Alternative Treatment
Non-Traditional Therapies in Forensic Populations: Benefits of Human-Animal Interaction, Art Therapy, and Meditation-Based Interventions
By A. M. Foerschner
Prisonization
Human-Animal Interaction with Forensic Populations
Art Therapy with Forensic Populations
Meditation-Based Interventions with Forensic Populations
Discussion and Concluding Remarks
Keywords:Inmates Prison Criminal Justice Mental Health Therapy Counseling Mental Illness Non-traditional Interventions Alternative Treatment
Unique challenges are present in therapy when working with mentally ill offenders in a correctional setting. In order to encourage effective therapeutic change, hurdles such as strong resistance to therapy by inmates, complex etiologies of illness, and limited resources must be overcome in addition the usual challenges of treating individuals who have psychological issues. The present paper explores how non-traditional therapies, including human-animal interaction, art therapy, and meditation-based interventions have shown great effectiveness in treating mental illnesses common in the forensic population as well as how these three modalities work to mitigate some of the difficulties presented by the aforementioned unique challenges that are not easily accommodated by conventional modalities.
Estimates from midyear 2005 revealed that more than half of all individuals in United States jails and prisons present with a mental health problem, defined as either 1) a recent history, or 2) one or more recent symptoms of a mental illness. This statistic represents, specifically, 64% of jail inmates and 56% and 45% of State and Federal prisoners, respectively (James & Glaze, 2006). The most prevalent mental health issues in offender populations are mood and anxiety disorders, substance abuse and dependence, and psychoses. Other illnesses like Antisocial Personality Disorder present in the offender population to lesser degrees as well as miscellaneous symptoms of illnesses that manifest with decreased severity but still significantly impair healthy functioning, such as aggression and social withdrawal (Dettbarn, 2012; James & Glaze, 2006). Additionally, “prisonization” is a concerning set of behaviors widespread among offenders that can impede treatment and reintegration to the general public upon release and, so, must be addressed in effective therapeutic settings (Carr et al., 2006; Dettbarn, 2012).
Effectively treating mentally ill, incarcerated offenders poses a unique challenge to the practitioner. Incarcerated individuals tend to be resistant to treatment for fear that admitting that they need assistance is equivalent to an admission of weakness. The environment of jails and prisons is dangerous to even the healthiest offender. Mentally ill offenders face an increased vulnerability to manipulation and abuse by other inmates and even by correctional staff members, both of whom have been shown to regard mentally ill inmates as devalued human beings. Openly identifying as mentally ill or simply seeking out assistance is a risky prospect that many offenders would rather avoid by, instead, focusing on crafting a tough and intimidating persona in order to avoid potential assaults (Cloyes, 2007).
Additionally, offenders, like non-offenders, each present with unique manifestations of illnesses that can be attributed to any number and combination of physiological and environmental influences. Treatment of offenders while incarcerated is further complicated by the myriad, unknown motivations behind criminal behavior and strict limitations of the setting (Goodman, Walton, Orme-Johnson, & Boyer, 2003). Considering the circumstances under which the effective practitioner must work – resistant clients, complex etiologies of illness, and limited therapeutic resources -- it is wise to explore the treatment outcomes as applied to forensic populations of non-traditional therapies such as human-animal interaction, art therapy, and meditation-based interventions and how these treatments work to mitigate some of the difficulties that are not easily accommodated by conventional modalities.
Due to limitations, the present paper will include cursory overviews of only mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders as well as prisonization for the benefit of the reader. It will not fail to include when applicable, though, findings of significant treatment outcomes of the three featured treatment modalities on symptoms of psychoses and Antisocial Personality Disorder, symptoms of which closely resemble those of prisonization. Additionally, it is important to note that, while many inmates do not meet the criteria for diagnosis of a mental disorder, mere presentation of certain symptoms of disorders can still cause significant individual distress, institutional disturbance, and obstruction of effective therapeutic change (Carr et al., 2006; James & Glaze, 2006).
DSM-IV-TR Description of Mood Disorders
Also known as Affective Disorders, Mood Disorders present with a main feature of disturbance in mood and include Major Depressive, Dysthymic, Bipolar I and II, and Cyclothymic Disorders. Disorders “Not Otherwise Specified” is also included in addition to Substance-Induced and disorders caused by a General Medical Condition. Mood disorders are diagnosed by symptoms that occur within episodes. Depressive Episodes present with either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure and the following symptoms: unintentional significant weight loss or gain, or decrease or increase in appetite; insomnia or hypersomnia; agitation or retardation of movement; fatigue or loss of energy; excessive or incongruous guilt or feelings of worthlessness; cognitive impairment that manifests as difficulty in concentration or decision-making; and rumination about death or suicide or actual suicide attempt(s).
Manic Episodes present with a period of irritability, elevation, or expansiveness of mood that is unusual and continual and is accompanied by the following symptoms: grandiosity or inflated self-esteem; diminished need for sleep; loquaciousness or pressured speech; racing thoughts; distractibility; increased activity, either motoric or goal-directed; and over-involvement in harmful, hedonistic activities, such as sexual recklessness or imprudent investments. To meet the criteria of an Episode, depressive and manic symptoms must persist for specific periods of time and be of a sufficient severity to negatively affect occupational or social functioning. Presentation of depressive and manic symptom of lesser severity may qualify for a diagnosis of Dysthymia or Cyclothymia, respectively (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2000).
Mood Disorders in Forensic Populations
Symptoms of affective disorders have been reported by up to 55% of inmates in the correctional system, with insomnia or hypersomnia and persistent anger or irritability the most commonly experienced, closely followed by psychomotor agitation or retardation, feelings of worthlessness or persistent guilt, and persistent sad, numb, or empty mood. Attempted suicide has been reported in 13% of both jail inmates and State prisoners and 6% of Federal prisoners. While these statistics are highly accurate, it is important to note that the abovementioned results (and those attributed to James & Glaze, 2006 cited later in the present paper), due to the enormous scope of the surveys, do not exclude symptoms that manifested as a result of substance use, medical condition, or bereavement, and so may, in actuality, be lower by an unidentified amount (James & Glaze, 2006).
DSM-IV-TR Description of Anxiety Disorders
The main feature of anxiety disorders is excessive worry that causes significant impairment in social or occupational functioning or disturbance to the individual’s normal routine. Anxiety disorders include Phobias, Obsessive-Compulsive and Panic Disorders, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, among others. Of the most relevance to the present paper are Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is characterized by persistent worry and apprehensive expectation that an individual finds difficult to control. GAD is accompanied by the following symptoms: agitation or feeling on edge; fatigue; impairment in concentration; irritability; muscular tension; and disturbance in sleep. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) develops as a result of exposure to an extreme stressor in which an individual was threatened (or witnessed another who was threatened) with death, grave injury, or violation of physical integrity to which the sufferer responded with horror, powerful fear, or helplessness. The initiating event is continually re-experienced in a way that causes severe distress via intrusive recollections, nightmares about the event, hallucinations or flashbacks, and intense psychological and physiological reactivity to cues that represent the event. The individual also goes to lengths to avoid stimuli associated with the stressor as well as exhibits psychological numbing, evidenced by a restriction of affect, feeling detached from others, and reduced interest in important activities. Additional symptoms include persistent, heightened arousal characterized by sleep disturbance, angry outbursts or irritability, distractibility, hypervigilance, and a greater startle response (APA, 2000).
GAD and PTSD in Forensic Populations
Social stressors such as lack of education, unemployment, and inadequate housing are ubiquitous in the offender population (James & Glaze, 2006) and have a high correlation with criminal behavior (Goodman, Walton, Orme-Johnson, & Boyer, 2003). An insufficient ability to effectively deal with stress, which is typical of those who engage in criminal behavior, leads to increased overall anxiety, a defining feature of GAD. Deprivation and dangerousness inherent in the correctional environment intensify the symptoms (Samuelson, Carmody, Kabat-Zinn, and & Bratt, 2007). Exposure to and participation in more serious forms of criminal activity both before and during incarceration, such as gang activity and homicide, can lead to symptoms of PTSD, an illness that has been found to have higher rates of lifetime and current suffering in offender populations as compared to the general public (Simpson et al, 2007).Continued on Next Page »
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A. M. Foerschner graduated in 2015 with a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology from Pacific University in Hillsboro, OR.
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2. The unusual air pollution levels we're experiencing here in the UK.
We've all heard of Noah. He was a man, fictional or not, who faced a huge challenge when the God warned him of an epic flood. Realising the bigger picture, Noah took some on a whole lot of work and made some tough decisions, leading the way to save his family and neighbours, not to mention the animals who came onto his arc "two-by-two".
Now, I treat Bible stories with a pinch of salt. I believe they are picture stories constructed to teach us life lessons. Noah's story is of someone who was strong enough to take on a huge challenge and who ended up saving the 'world'. (I say 'world' because I think the flood in question didn't affect the whole world, but a localised area. It may have seemed like the whole planet to Noah's folk though!)
Hazy Northamptonshire
And what about air pollution? Why is this on my mind (and on the news)?
Air pollution has been a hot topic in the UK this week. These unusual levels of pollution are much more than the normal home-grown pollution a country like ours creates on a daily basis, and the emissions we import via European winds. This situation has been exacerbated this week by Saharan winds blowing particularly strong and effectively dropping part of the African desert into our atmosphere. Many people (mainly those with allergies, asthma, and the elderly) have had their health affected, but even on the smallest level, Brits are noticing the impact. Cars are filthy with a layer of the dirt, and visibility has been reduced due to the dust in the air. Take a look at how hazy Northamptonshire looked yesterday afternoon. These fields are normally a green and pleasant vista, but are now fogged in air pollutants. It's not the resolution of the photo - this really is smog.
I find it a bit scary that this might be the future of our air quality...
Air pollution is one of the biggest environmental issues our planet is facing, and has been facing, since the introduction of industry, transport and development. And it isn't only the UK which is having problems. Only 1% of China’s 560 million city residents breathe air that is considered safe by the European Union. And, this severe air pollution problem, which has led to cancer becoming China’s leading cause of death, is no longer affecting the Chinese people alone - it's spreading globally.
So what does the advent of a new blockbuster and increased air pollution have in common?
The story of Noah and his arc was a tale of foreseen disaster and preparing for the 'hit'. Noah was successful in saving humans and wildlife from the threat of extreme flood waters through planning, the support of his family, their understanding of the issue, and faith in his mission.
You've probably worked out my point already: The situation Noah found himself in can be applied to tackling environmental issues - case in point, air pollution. Clean air is getting harder and harder to find as the years go on, and WE KNOW something has to be done. We know there's a problem, but it seems we're sitting by and letting it get worse.
Like many environmentalists and scientists, Noah had his skeptics, but eventually everyone saw what was coming and pulled together. Sure, in this instance, all they did was jump on an arc when the hard work had already been done, but the point is made. When we all accept there is a problem and a serious threat to our environment, we can make a difference and fend off disaster.
Question: Have you given some thought on how you can reduce the amount of air pollution you're creating?
I dearly hope that enough can be said and done in the next months and years to help the powers that be recognise finally that if we lose our planet, we lose everything.
Working together, like Noah and his family, we as mere inhabitants of this Earth can overcome the issues of air pollution. Technology is out there which can help. Campaign groups have huge support for combating the problem. Ideas are forthcoming from our great minds. There's certainly enough evidence to say something should be done!
CAUTION! We can't stop at solving air pollution. It's no secret that we humans have been causing damage to the planet for years.
The world's population is 7.2 billion, many of whom are intent on living unsustainable lives.
Humans caused this.
An area of rainforest the size of England, Scotland and Wales combined is being lost every year.
538 million tonnes of waste is dumped globally every year.
African elephants will become extinct in 10 years time. In fact, 1 in 4 mammals is at risk of extinction.
We have borrowed time on disappearing land as sea levels rise - a result of climate change.
It's not easy to find out who originally said this, but it makes a brilliant point, one of my favourite quotes ever.
Get the picture? We're destroying our own home, one leap at a time. And this is just the start. Treehugger has more if you want more gut wrenching facts about how human activities are damaging the planet.
Like the story of Noah, I believe not all hope is lost. I believe with hard work, some investment and education, and some serious political barriers being broken, we can leave this planet in a better state than how we found it.
If the metaphorical flood comes, it won't be just the third world who suffers. It won't be a problem for descendants we will never meet. It is real; it is now.
We're all in this together - just like the animals and humans on Noah's arc.
I hope you enjoyed this post. If it's made you think, please share it on Twitter, Facebook or send someone an email with a link in it. Last week's post on bacon was a little bit informal, but I couldn't be more serious about the issue I've written about today.
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“Can She Do It?”: Massachusetts Debates a Woman’s Right to Vote Now Open
Commemorating 100 years since Massachusetts ratified the 19th Amendment, a new exhibition at the MHS explores the activism and debate around women’s suffrage in Massachusetts. Featuring dynamic imagery from the collection of the MHS, “Can She Do It?” Massachusetts Debates a Woman’s Right to Vote illustrates the passion on each side of the suffrage question. The exhibition is open through 21 September 2019, Monday and Wednesday through Saturday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and Tuesday from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
“Can She Do It?” on display in the exhibition galleries at the MHS
For over a century, Americans debated whether women should vote. The materials on display demonstrate the arguments made by suffragists and their opponents. While women at the polls may seem unremarkable today, these contentious campaigns formed the foundations for modern debates about gender and politics.
“Can She Do It?” display cases
Winning the right to vote required more than just passing legislation. Suffragists needed to convince the public to accept new gender roles for women. Anti-suffragists held firm that women should focus on family. They argued that politics would threaten their feminine virtues, damage the family, and ultimately destroy American society. Cartoons suggested that women would abandon their homes and families to cast ballots. In 1895, Massachusetts men and women founded the nation’s first anti-suffrage organization and led campaigns against the suffragists. Visitors are able to see examples of propaganda such as Home!
Home! Engraving, Boston: Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women, [1915].
The engraving depicts a father returning home to find that his wife left children and domestic chores to him, counter to the era’s gender norms. Anti-suffragists printed pictures that of idealized American women who preferred fashion to politics. An anti-suffrage calendar from 1916 that shows a woman in pink with a floral muff and hat and holding a pink rose, a symbol of the anti-suffrage movement, is on display.
After a century of such criticisms, in the 1890s, suffragists argued that female voters would actually improve American life. They contended that women would clean up corrupt politics and favor initiatives to support families. Through their visual campaign materials, they demonstrated that woman could remain feminine, run households, and cast ballots. Not only would female voters continue to care for their families, they would do it better. One example on display is Double the Power of the Home, a broadside by local artist Blanche Ames that depicts a white middle-class mother at home with her children. According to the suffragists, this type of woman would cast a “good vote” in favor of her family.
The exhibition highlights racial divisions among the suffragists. After being excluded from prominent white organizations, Bostonian Josephine Ruffin organized the first national organization of black women, the National Association of Colored Women. Viewers will encounter portraits of black leaders as well as political cartoons that illustrate these tensions.
As the debate continued into the 20th century, British suffragists and labor activists inspired American suffragists to organize parades and pickets to attract attention. In 1915, about 15,000 suffragists marched in a “Victory Parade” in Boston. Suffrage supporters sported yellow roses or sashes while opponents displayed pink and red roses. A broadsheet with instructions for marchers participating in the 16 October 1915 parade is on display along with a scrapbook containing photos from the parade. Eleven states had granted women the ballot and suffragists hoped Massachusetts would be next. The referendum failed. Only 133,000 men voted for the measure, while almost 325,000 voted to defeat it.
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Victory Parade: Instructions for Marchers, Broadsheet, [Boston, 1915].
Firmly against parading in the streets, anti-suffrage propaganda caricatured suffragists as wild, masculine creatures who attacked dominant gender norms. Political cartoonist Nelson Harding exemplified this caricaturization in Ruthless Rhymes of Martial Militants. The cover of his booklet of humorous rhymes featuring a wide-eyed woman who has abandoned her axe in favor of a torch for the next demonstration is on display.
On June 25, 1919, Massachusetts ratified the Nineteenth Amendment which prohibited states from barring voters based on sex. The final state ratified the measure the following year and many women voted in the 1920 presidential election. Yet, not all women were guaranteed the right to vote. For example, literary tests, poll taxes, and violence prevented black men and women from voting. On August 6, 1965, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law prohibiting racial discrimination in voting.
Debates over access to the polls continue today, and Americans continue to advocate for social justice. In 2017, the Women’s March, which developed a platform that included a range of women’s rights, became the largest protest in the nation’s history. Items from the Women’s March including posters and a pussy hat are on display. Social movements and public protests continue to evolve, but the ballot remains an essential expression of political power.
A series of videos highlighting materials from the collection of the MHS are available to view in an interactive display. The videos were created by students at the Wentworth Institute of Technology. Allison Lange, their professor and the exhibition curator, developed this project as part of her class curriculum. The assignment prompted students to craft a three- to four-minute video about the debate over women’s rights in Massachusetts.
Interactive display showcasing videos created by Wentworth Institute of Technology students
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David Choe is from Los Angeles of Korean decent, and considered one of the most creative talents of his generation. His fine art works are exhibited in galleries internationally, and he works in disciplines such as photography, writing, illustration and graphic design aswell as street art and graffiti. Choe has been commissioned for several high-profiled clients, including Jay-Z, Linkin Park, then senator Barack Obama, and more infamously, Facebook's headquarters. His influences are comic books, gothic art, impressionism and the surreal, to mention just a few. His characteristic figure, the bucktoothed whale has been with him since he was a teenager.
Mixing techniques, Choe’s style is one of a kind. Dirty style. The process may seem dirty and chaotic, but beauty almost always emerges from the mess. His style is raw and grimy, impulsive and energetic. Desire and degradation are frequent themes in his works. Refinement and vulgarity, brutally true and unreal at the same time – it’s all possible in Choe`s art. David Choe himself might consider graffiti as something separated from his own work, but everything he does is deeply rooted in graffiti culture. For Choe graffiti is “destructive, anarchist, political, spiritual, and mostly just fun.” . Freedom of speech appears in graffiti as words and pictures. Choe says he makes art because he has no other choice. He can’t imagine life without art, it saved him from death or more likely, becoming a hardened criminal. Mostly, the art is the way David Choe lives his life, how he experiences and consciously creates every day and ultimately, how he shares it with us.
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Sanofi, others tackle diabetes burden in Nigeria
Experts in endocrinologists amongst others in the management of diabetes around the world will tomorrow converge in Lagos for the second edition of the Diabetes Summit of a global biopharmaceutical healthcare company focused on human health, Sanofi.
The Sanofi Diabetes Summit billed to hold at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos debuted in 2017 had in attendance public and private healthcare practitioners and other stakeholders from Cameroun, Ghana and Nigeria.
Diabetes is a chronic disease affecting millions of people in sub-Sahara Africa. In Nigeria, its rising prevalence is a public health concern. Many people remain undiagnosed while many diagnosed do not achieve proper control. Effective management of diabetes is a full continuum of care requiring proper education and close collaboration among healthcare practitioners, the patient and other caregivers.
Briefing journalists in Lagos on the programme, the General Manager of Sanofi-Aventis Nigeria Ltd, Pharm Folake Odediran, said the Summit was designed to support the efforts of stakeholders to curb the menace of diabetes in the country.
“Our desire is to empower life. Our purpose is to understand the health care needs of the people in places where we serve and to help solve them. What Sanofi is doing with the diabetes Summit is to support the efforts of the stakeholders.
“Our expectation is that the Summit provides an opportunity for health care practitioners to rub minds together. We also have the expectation that the Summit provides an opportunity for varying stakeholders in the management of this chronic condition to come together to chat a way forward regarding how to curb this menace and to reduce both its morbidity and mortality,”she said.
Explaining the objectives of the Summit, Medical Director, Sanofi-Aventis Nigeria Ltd, Dr. Philip Ikeme explained that the theme for this year’s Summit “personalizing Diabetes Care” was in line with the International Diabetes Federation’s World Diabetes Day which emphasizes the role of the family in diabetes care. What we aim to achieve in the Summit is to bring the family together in the care of the patient.”
He noted that Sub-Sahara Africa has the fastest growing rate of diabetes with Nigeria, having a prevalence rate between 3 to 5 percent.
“We also have the growing number of patients who do not have overt diabetes – people who are known to have impaired glucose tolerance – so if you look at the numbers, the thinking is that we have about 1.7 million diabetics in Nigeria…if you look at the number of people with impaired glucose tolerance the number will go much higher so you are looking at the number of over 7 million which means that the number of people who have the potential to become diabetic is huge.
“We also have a huge burden of people who are not diagnosed as much as we know there are a significant number of people who are diabetic.”
He explained that effective control and management of diabetes requires the empowerment of the general public, policy makers, healthcare practitioners, patients and all support groups. The health sector has many players and effective collaboration is critical to achieving our common goals.
“That is why we are bringing everyone together to share best practices and seek innovative ways for continually improving disease management,” Ikeme said.
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For New 1,000-Student Pasadena Private School, Back to School Time is Build a School Time
Demolition makes way for new buildings in May of 2019 on new EF Academy Campus. Courtesy photo
[Updated] Pasadena is pocked with private schools currently regrouping, recalibrating and spit-shining their institutions for returning students after summer. New arrival Education First EF Academy is engaged in a like process, only larger, and sort of starting from scratch, at least in Pasadena.
Shawna Marino, EF Academy vice president, said the academy expects to break ground at the end of the summer or early fall with an eye on its long-term plan to open shop in September 2020.
“We started the public planning and development process with the City of Pasadena in April 2018,” she said. “We’ve been working very closely with the City, the Planning Department and our community members to design and develop what we hope is the best possible reuse of the former William Carey International University campus.”
Demolition of former William Carey University's Alyward Dorm making way for new student housing. Courtesy photo
The private international boarding school closed on the property formerly known as the William Carey International University, at 1539 E Howard Street, in March, applied for the permits to renovate, and is on its way to building the campus and recruiting 1,000 students.
The school started a conditional use permit process and finished that in February to get permission to preserve and enhance the campus with a number of renovation plans for existing buildings as well as rebuilding the student dormitory.
“The focus of the design commission process has been the building of the new student dormitory, which is a 130,000-square foot, two- and three-story community of student housing, rooms and student service space,” Marino said.
The new dorm replaces Aylward Dormitory, which was demolished. After assessing the prospects of renovation, it was deemed more cost-effective to build a new dorm from scratch.
A view from the so-called Alyward Pad towards some of the remaining campus buildings as construction continues on the new EF Academy. Courtesy photo
On June 11 the academy received the go-ahead from the Pasadena Design Commission for the design and replacement of the dormitory.
“It’s being designed by Gensler and we received final design approval,” Marino said.”We’re working with the planning and building departments now on all the appropriate approvals required to get through the construction process.”
The academy demolished the old dorm building and obtained a grading permit in April and has been working through “earthwork” on site, prepping for the start of construction this summer.
“We’ve really appreciated and valued the feedback we’ve received from the Pasadena Design Commission and City staff throughout this whole process,” Marino said. “They’ve made this a better project and a better design and we are absolutely thrilled with the final product.”
Marino said the dorm will house 690 students total.
“Although it is considered one project, it is laid out in four community buildings with student residential rooms, which creates a really nice home-away-from-home feel for our students,” she said.
Marino said the school is actively recruiting students and expects a strong response, especially from its other locations in Thornwood, N.Y., and Oxford and Tobay, England.
The EF Academy was founded by Bertil Hult in Sweden around 1965. He emigrated to Santa Barbara and opened a school there in 1983.
But the process revolves around students. And many of EF’s current students have expressed interest in attending school in California.
“EF Academy has been eyeing a West Coast campus for a few years,” she said. “We’ve, we’ve been searching for the right location for a number of years. So there’s been a bit of a buzz within the international education community now for probably the last five years.
“I think there are students already enrolled in our other campuses who are very excited about the prospect of attending high school in Pasadena,” she said. “And the EF Academy admissions process is opening for Fall 2020 at the end of this summer. So I know that the academy team is going to be working on both American students and international student recruitment.
Marino said the group looks forward to working hand in hand with the City.
“Well, we’ve been working through it since April of last year of 2018. So it will be almost two and a half years when we open. We’re very excited about being in Pasadena. We love the City of Pasadena and we are confident that it’s going to be an excellent partnership for many, many years to come between EF and the City.”
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The Age of The Universe
Most astronomers would agree that the age of the Universe - the time elapsed since the "Big Bang" - is one of the "holy grails of cosmology". Despite great efforts during recent years, the various estimates of this basic number have resulted in rather diverse values. Current cosmological models which are used to derive the age of the Universe have to make a number of theoretical assumptions, and these assumptions are not very well supported by the incomplete available observational data. At present, a value in the range of 10-16 billion years is considered most likely.
But now, an international team of astronomers has used the European Southern Observatory’s “Very Large Telescope” (VLT) and its efficient spectrograph to perform a unique measurement that paves the way for a new and more accurate determination of the age of the Universe. They measured for the first time the amount of the radioactive isotope Uranium-238 in a star that was born when the Milky Way was still forming. It is the first measurement ever of uranium outside the Solar System. This method works in a way similar to the well-known Carbon-14 dating in archaeology, but over much longer time scales. So how exactly does it work? Well, first we have to understand a little bit about how stars form and how they age.
Stellar Evolution
While hydrogen, helium and lithium were produced during the Big Bang, all heavier elements result from nuclear reactions in the interiors of stars. For details of exactly how this happens, you can read the relevant sections on stellar evolution on this web site. The main message is that when stars die, heavy-element enriched matter is dispersed into surrounding space and eventually becomes incorporated in the next generations of stars. In fact, the gold in the ring on your finger was produced in an exploding star and deposited in the interstellar cloud from which the Sun and its planets were later formed. Thus, the older a star is, the lower is generally its content of heavy elements like iron and other metals. Measurements have shown that very old stars that are members of large agglomerations known as globular clusters are normally quite "metal-poor"- their metal-content ranges down to about 1/200 of that of the Sun, in which these metals constitute only 2% of the total mass, the rest being still in the form of hydrogen and helium. This is because it is believed that the globular clusters formed early in the life of the Universe.
Scientists have been searching for even older stars for a long time, and after decades of mostly fruitless efforts, a large spectral survey by American astronomer Timothy C. Beers and his collaborators has recently uncovered hundreds of stars with much lower metal content than even the globular clusters, in some cases only 1/10,000 of the solar value. It is evident that these extremely metal-poor stars must have formed during the very infancy of the Milky Way. These particular stars exhibit a great variety of element abundances that may ultimately throw more light on the processes at work during this early period. As a step in this direction, an international team of astronomers decided to study these stars in much more detail. In 2000 and 2001 they were awarded observing time on the VLT and used its very efficient high-dispersion spectrograph to carry out their observations. Not unexpectedly, a lot of new information has been obtained. Which takes us back to the use of Uranium-238 as a clock.
Cosmic Time Clock
It is possible to make a fundamental determination of the age of a star, provided it contains a suitably long-lived radioactive isotope. The use of this procedure depends on the measurement of the abundance of the radioactive isotope, as compared to a stable one. As was said at the beginning, this technique is analogous to the Carbon-14 dating method that has been so successful in archaeology over time spans of up to a few tens of thousands of years. In astronomy, however, this technique must obviously be applied to vastly longer time scales. For the method to work well, the right choice of radioactive isotope is very critical. Contrary to stable elements that formed at the same time, the abundance of a radioactive (unstable) isotope decreases all the time. The faster the decay, the less there will be left of the radioactive isotope after a certain time, the greater will be the abundance difference when compared to a stable isotope, and the more accurate is the resulting age. Yet, for the clock to remain useful, the radioactive element must not decay too fast - there must still be enough left of it to allow an accurate measurement, even after several billion years.
This leaves only two possible isotopes we can use for astronomical measurements, Thorium-232, with a half-life of 14.05 billion years and Uranium-238, with a half-life of 4.47 billion years. Several age determinations have been made by means of the Thorium-232 isotope. Its strongest spectral line is measurable with current telescopes in a handful of comparatively bright stars, including the Sun. However, the decay is really too slow to provide sufficiently accurate time measurements. It takes around 47 billion years for this isotope to decay by a factor of 10, and with a typical measuring uncertainty of 25%, the resulting age uncertainty is about 4-5 billion years, or approx. one third of the age of the Universe! This slow-moving clock runs forever, but is hard to read accurately! The faster decay of Uranium-238 would make it a much more precise cosmic clock. However, because uranium is the rarest of all normal elements, its spectral lines in stars are always very weak, and if visible at all they normally drown entirely in a vast ocean of stronger spectral lines from more abundant elements. Nevertheless, this is exactly where the low abundance of heavier elements in very old stars comes to the rescue. In the stars that were studied by the team using the VLT, which typically contain 1,000 times less of the common elements than the Sun, the predominance of the maze of atomic and molecular lines in the spectrum is greatly reduced. The lines of rare elements like uranium therefore stand a real chance of being measurable.
So the astronomers using the VLT became very excited when they examined the spectrum of the 12th-magnitude star CS 31082-001. It showed what is probably the richest spectrum of rare, heavy elements ever seen. In particular, the faint lines of these elements were unusually free of interference from the lines of the iron-group elements and from molecular lines (of CH and CN), which are often quite numerous, even in such low-metallicity stars. While only one or at most two thorium lines have ever been measured in any other stars, no less than 14 thorium lines are seen in the spectrum of CS 31082-001. Best of all, the long sought-after line of singly ionized uranium is clearly detected at its rest wavelength of 389.59 nm in the near-ultraviolet region of the spectrum. Not surprisingly, the uranium line is still quite weak. After all, uranium is the rarest of elements to begin with and it has further decayed by a factor of eight since this star was born. But using the resolving power and light-gathering capability of the VLT, in combination with the UV spectrograph, , the uranium line can be measured with very good accuracy despite its faintness.
The results of this work have produced a most likely age for CS 31082-001 of 12.5 billion years. Estimates of the age of the Universe using different techniques range from 11 to 16 million years, the Universe is older than CS 31082-001, hence it must be older than 12.5 billion years. So how accurate is this measurement, and how much faith can we place in the numbers?
Limits of Error
Well, because of the faster decay rate of Uranium-238 and the highly accurate spectroscopic measurement which is now possible, the age uncertainty for the stellar observation is only ± 1.5 bn years. Of more concern is the lack of sufficiently detailed knowledge regarding the way Uranium-238 decays and also uncertainties in the available laboratory data for uranium by which chemical abundances are calculated using measured line strengths. The errors inherent in both these fundamental understandings of the way U-238 behaves are greater than those associated with the stellar measurement. Work is now underway at laboratories in France and Sweden to improve this basic data, so that the overall measurement error can be reduced. In the meantime, the astronomical team is trying to find other stars like CS 31082-001. There may not be many, but if the uranium line can be seen and measured in more spectra, it will also become possible to judge whether those very old stars, as surmised, are all of about the same age, i.e. that of our Milky Way galaxy.
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What has the EU done for You, lately?
As everyone knows, the EU has been tremendously successful in achieving its geopolitical goals 1) peacefully contain the dominant continental power, Germany, and 2) save Eastern Europe from the collapse of the USSR (just look at the former Soviet republics to see what would have happened otherwise). But these achievements have the drawback of being deeply dull, and even worse, about things that didn't even happen. What has the EU done for You, lately?
As we have all heard, the EU project is in trouble, constitutionally constipated; monetarily challenged; and full of prickly national sovereignty (except Belgium which achieves binationalist prickliness). Strangely enough, despite the official gloom the three central components of the EU project - economic, political, and social unification, - are still making progress, just not in the ways you might expect.
At the economic level we have apparent dis-unification, as collective illusions about the Euro unravel. Our economies are working at different speeds, and, it has become clear, under rather different institutional arrangements. But step back from the big economic news of the day and things look quite different. Trade between EU countries, facilitated by some explicit harmonisation of standards and procedures, often in the direction of deregulation, and an increased general sense of trust, is higher than ever. The effect of this can be seen most strikingly in the amazing success of airline deregulation - the rise of the budget airline. These have made it possible for nearly every European to visit another EU country as a consumption choice, rather than as a threat to their job. It is now almost possible to commute to work in a far-off city (though that doesn't much please environmentalists).
At the political level, the formal structures are clearly failing. Half the EU governments themselves openly declare that have no interest in the 'ever closer union' as a political project; most Europeans find pan-European institutions baffling or ridiculous (the European Council is not the same as the Council of the European Union or the Council of Europe?); and even the EU parliament has an enormous democratic deficit. And yet, I think we are more and more beginning to feel like European citizens (even if that identity is still a distant second to our national identity). Again, this has hardly been the result of higher level institutions, but rather of a combination of citizen-level rights and programmes. We have acquired various citizenship-type rights valid across the EU, such as the right to move and work abroad (which gives EU citizens uniform and extensive rights in other countries that can often be greater than their own nationals have!). When people make political claims it has an effect on their sense of their political agency – as they assume the identity of a person with the right to have rights i.e. a European citizen.
Nevertheless, such rights are still relatively insignificant since only 3% of the EU's population currently live in another EU country (and many of those are retirees in monolingual colonies along the Spanish coast). Apart from anything else, Europe's language barriers are significant - internal mobility is never going to be like it is in America. But there is another EU programme that may be having a far more significant effect: The Erasmus Exchange Programme. This gives grants to support university students (3 million so far; several hundred thousand per year!) to study in another EU country for 3 months or more.
The academic benefits of the Erasmus programme are probably rather modest, but the students certainly come out of it feeling more European. They get to live their European rights, rather than thinking of them in the abstract like most people do. They get to live in a community with students from other nationalities, including other exchange students, They speak to each other in the international language of young Europe, English, and build lasting friendships and romantic partnerships across borders. In the words of one student, prominently displayed on the Erasmus website of the European Commission,"I realised that the experience made a whole new person of me and that I would never look at the world and Europe, my home, as I did before."
Although a relatively small proportion of the EU's university student population, Erasmians may have an outsize influence on the EU's future both because they are themselves members of the socio-economic group that will be running Europe's major private and public institutions in 20 years time, and because their presence also stimulates the host country students they meet to consider their European identity.
Finally, social unification. A pan-European culture would complement and support the EU's political unification. But it is a little difficult to get anywhere on this without agreeing on a European language (of course this should be and will be English, but even then it would only be a shared second language). There is consumed culture: the high streets of European cities are increasingly indistinguishable in terms of the brands and retail chains on offer. But this kind of homogenisation is somehow dissatisfying as the basis for an ambitious European project - it doesn't make you feel European (or inspire much feeling at all). Fortunately there is at least one pan-European cultural experience that is absolutely European and absolutely a success: The Eurovision Song Contest. This feast of kitsch brings together all the nations of the EU who want to compete (and everyone else within the European Broadcasting Union). They can decide on their own style, and language (usually English), and then show off their charms to an audience of upwards of 100 million TV viewers! Eurovision has become a source of endless fascination, and even serious academic enquiry. A certain European taste seems to have appeared, and shifted to the East over time: Western European countries compete ironically (with hilariously camp costumes); as you go East they start taking it all very seriously (power ballads).
Obviously the EU does not really come down to cheap flights, a student-exchange programme, and an international song context. There is much more going on than that. These are just slightly quirky examples, though not insignificant for all that. What they show is that much of the EU's successes are taking place outside the formal political and bureaucratic sphere, which is a good thing considering the current sclerosis and collapse of morale in Brussels these days. In fact all of them have the additional feature of exceeding the EU's official borders (e.g. Morocco, Israel, and Azerbaijan are in Eurovision; Turkey and Ukraine in Erasmus) although the EU is certainly at their core and is what made each of them possible. There is an outward-facing optimism about the European project supported by the quiet emergence of a European identity in the lives of ordinary people that is quite different from the current navel-gazing official EU gloom.
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Ignaty Dyakov has an MPhil in Linguistics and a Diploma in Business Studies from St Petersburg State University, Russia. He also has an MA in Economics from University College London. In addition, he has also completed the Association for Project Management Professional Qualification (APMP).
Ignaty has been trained and worked as a business development manager both in Russia and the UK, and has won the prestigious award of Young Manager Organizer in the area of Education, Research and High Tech in 2005. He has been teaching for more than 10 years at both school and University level, as well as privately. He has co-founded Periplus Education, a British online tuition agency, with which, in 2011, he won the Shell LiveWire ‘Grand Ideas’ award given to acknowledge the most innovative ideas submitted by young entrepreneurs.
He is married and enjoys travelling, playing chess and golf, and cooking.
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Harlem Quartet featured in a mini-documentary by the Village Voice!
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"You know, let's face it. When you think of classical music, it's not really an African American face that comes to mind," says Melissa White, a violinist and founding member of the Harlem Quartet.
But in a genre historically dominated by Europeans, the quartet is doing its part to change all that.
Founded by the Sphinx Organization in 2008, the Grammy-winning group was created to advance diversity in classical music, while engaging new audiences with a varied repertoire that includes works by minority composers.
Combined, African Americans and Latinos account for less than 4 percent of musicians in American symphonies.
"Diversity in classical music is a very positive ideal, because for so many years, in this country, that ideal was a homogenous thought. By bringing in different cultural values and viewpoints, they are bringing an American ideal of melting pot to the stage," says Moses Bernard Philips, a professor of ethnomusicology at CUNY's Medgar Evers College.
After a few personnel changes over the years, the quartet became even more diverse. Matthew Zelkind, a Jewish cellist from Salt Lake City, and Jaime Amador, a viola player from San Juan, Puerto Rico, joined the group in 2012.
Despite the quartet's talent, it hasn't always been received well.
"We had important mentors that would tell us, 'I don't think you will work in the European market.' We knew that meant, not only [was he] talking about the quality of our playing, but just the image," explains Ilmar Gavilan, a Cuban violinist and founding member.
To accommodate these audiences, the Harlem Quartet has started performances with jazz repertoire and sneaked in classical pieces to show that it can perform a variety of music.
"The Harlem Quartet projects a phenotype that when people see what is happening or when they see who is performing, they begin to change their attitude about what that group is and what they're capable of doing," says Philips.
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25 Best PewDiePie Quotes From The YouTube Sensation
December 21, 2015 By Quotes for Bros
When you have over 41 million subscribers on YouTube you’re a pretty big deal. PewDiePie also known as Felix Kjellberg is a YouTube gamer who has amassed an impressive social media following after uploading countless gaming tutorials and other funny videos. We decided to compile 25 Best PewDiePie Quotes From The YouTube Sensation for fans and those who might be unfamiliar with him.
According to The Squander, PewDiePie has an estimated net worth of 12 million, not too bad for a guy who records YouTube videos for a living right? Kjellberg is one of the many YouTube personalities who continue to show that YouTube can be incredibly profitable. Other YouTube stars like Roman Atwood who has over 7 million subscribers are taking advantage of the platform but none of them have enjoyed quote the amount of success and longevity as that of PewDiePie.
PewDiePie is known for his crazy personality, zero filter reactions to games and humility towards his fans and supporters. Because PewDiePie has been so successful in his career, he will be the star of his own live Horror gameshow Scare PewDiePie, which will air on YouTube Red as one of their original series. Prior to the announcement there was speculation that he might be working or appearing on The Walking Dead however, Kjellberg made the announcement in a big reveal that he has been keeping a secret for some time.
25 Best PewDiePie Quotes From The YouTube Sensation is a compilation of some of his best phrases along with statements addressing his success and some of the rumors surrounding his paychecks. You can check them all out below.
“It’s 2015. Why is wrapping gifts still this hard?”
“Don’t be a salad, be the best damn broccoli you could ever be.”
“Ohhhhhh! That’s how we roll in PewDiePie town, B***h! Come here, lady!”
“When I started my YouTube channel in 2010, I never imagined that one day it would be the most subscribed channel in the world and that I would be a part of such a great community.”
“Random acts of kindness is the worst thing like f**k off honestly.”
“It’s not called being gay, it’s called being fabulous!”
“Did he just turn into razor blades?”
“Everyone has played video games at some point these days, and video games are fun.”
“Everyday is a new fresh start. To go straight back to bed.”
“This dog. Is possibly the dumbest dog in the world. I’ve had him for 2 years since today He’s been my boo ever since.”
“Don’t you dare die on me,Bob! I’ll freakin’ kill you if you die!”
“I’m just so very lucky to be able to do what I do for a living, and giving back is a way for me to express my gratitude. I’m so lucky to be in a position to help people, and that’s appealing to me.”
“Do you ever just add things you’ve already done to your to-do list, then cross them over right away to feel more productive? Me neither.”
“Yellow is evil, so don’t drink your piss.”
“With my channel, and what people associate with Internet, most people think it goes viral, you become this huge thing super quick. I never had an explosion or a huge thing. It’s just been something that has progressively been growing. It’s been building.”
“i wish i could just be one of those that tweet some random bs but still for no reason get insane amount of rts. that would b so fkn sweet”
“If you ain’t flap before you ain’t flap before.”
“In the very few interviews I’ve made, it doesn’t matter how long we’ve talked to each other, the headline is still just about my paycheck.”
“When people say cringe, I cringe.”
“Dropping the news to my parents that I was skipping my ‘dream education’ at Chalmers to sit at home recording videos while playing video games was not easy.”
“If someone hates your guts, feed it to them if someone loves your guts, they’re probably a zombie.”
“I’m so central to YouTube now, and that puts me in the spotlight and raises a lot of questions like, ‘Why is he so big?'”
“Speaking in pirate voice is NOT cool and offensive to real pirates! Not all pirates talk like that. You’re better than that, be responsible.”
“I just want to connect with you bros. That’s all I care about, because you bros’ support really means everything to me.”
“I wish I had a booty, smooth like smoothie. Poodie booty smoothie.”
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BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER
aoppenheimer@MiamiHerald.com
Mexico's big hope: get 5 million U.S. retirees
MEXICO CITY — Mexico is silently working on proposals aimed at drawing millions of U.S. retirees to this country, which could eventually lead to the most ambitious U.S.-Mexican project since the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement.
President Felipe Calderón is likely to propose the first steps toward expanding U.S. retirement benefits and medical tourism to Mexico when he goes to Washington on an official visit May 19, according to well-placed officials here. If not then, he will raise the issue later this year, they say.
“It’s one of the pillars of our plans to trigger economic and social well-being in both countries,” Mexico’s ambassador to the United States Arturo Sarukhan told me. “We will be seeking to increasingly discuss this issue in coming months and years.”
Calderón brought it up during a U.S.-Canada-Mexico summit in Guadalajara in August last year, but President Barack Obama asked him to shelve the idea until he was able to pass healthcare reform, another official told me.
Now that Congress has passed healthcare reform, Calderón is preparing to charge ahead.
A GROWING MARKET
There are already an estimated 1 million Americans living in Mexico. And according to Mexican government estimates based on U.S. Census figures, that number is likely to soar to 5 million by 2025 as the U.S. population grows older and more Americans look for sunny, cheaper places to retire.
The U.S. Census projects that the number of U.S. retirees will soar from 40 million now to nearly 90 million by 2050. Already, 5 million American retirees live abroad, of whom 2.2 million are in the Western Hemisphere — mostly in Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Brazil. Another 1.5 million live in Europe and 850,000 in Asia.
The key to luring more U.S. medical tourists and retirees to Mexico and other Latin American countries will be getting hospitals in the region to be certified by the U.S. Joint International Commission, which establishes that they meet U.S. hospitals’ standards. There are already eight Mexican hospitals certified by the JIC and several others awaiting certification.
According to Mexican government estimates, healthcare costs in Mexico are about 70 percent lower than in the United States. And from my own experience, those estimates are right: As I reported at the time, when I was hospitalized in Mexico two years ago for an emergency operation, my hospital bill was indeed about 70 percent lower than what it would have been in Miami.
So what will Calderón specifically propose to Obama? Most likely, the Mexican president will suggest starting with a low-profile agreement that would allow the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration to pay for Medicare benefits to U.S. retirees in Mexico. Under current rules, Medicare only covers healthcare services in the United States.
IT JUST MAKES SENSE
My opinion: Mexico and much of Latin America are bound to become growing U.S. retirement and medical tourism destinations, much like Spain has become a permanent living place for Germans, Britons and Northern Europeans.
You won’t read much about it now because neither Calderón nor Obama will emphasize it publicly while the drug-related violence in northern Mexico is making big headlines, and while the political wounds from the recent U.S. healthcare debate are still open in Washington, D.C.
But I’m increasingly convinced that, as the violence in Mexico subsides and the healthcare debate becomes a distant memory in Washington, medical benefits’ deals will become a top U.S.-Latin American priority. Just as free-trade agreements were the big thing of the 1990s, healthcare agreements will be the big deal of the coming decade.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Calderón and Obama take the first baby steps toward a U.S.-Mexico healthcare agreement by finding a way to pay for Medicare benefits for U.S. expatriates in Mexico, or getting U.S. states to allow similar payments. Then, most likely after the 2012 presidential election in both countries, the two would start negotiating a more ambitious deal.
Demography, geography and economics are pointing in that direction. With the U.S. population getting older, a record U.S. budget deficit, rising U.S. healthcare costs, and Mexico and other Latin American countries badly needing more tourism and investments, this should be a win-win for everybody.
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Health-care challenged Californians flocking to Mexico
Posted by admin in Foreigners in Mexico, mexico real estate
The pharmacy business in Tijuana is still booming, despite crackdowns by the state to weed out illegitimate operators. - John Gibbins / Union-Tribune
By Keith Darcé, Union-Tribune Staff Writer
TIJUANA — About 1 million adult Californians seek health care in Mexico each year – and that figure is likely growing as the recession expands the ranks of the uninsured who are drawn to cheaper care south of the border, said the lead researcher of the first major report on the topic released Tuesday.
These people live from the Bay Area to San Diego County. Most come to Mexico for prescription drugs and dental care, and a smaller number go for surgeries. Beyond finances, other factors prompting individuals to head south include language and cultural barriers.
Living within 15 miles of the border also greatly increases the likelihood of someone obtaining health services in Mexico.
Angela Tapia, 45, of San Ysidro crosses the border several times each year to see her gynecologist. She also had back surgery in Tijuana a decade ago.
“It’s cheaper to go there,” said Tapia, who doesn’t have health insurance. “When you go to those doctors, they give you time, they ask a lot of questions and they care about you.”
Roughly half of the cross-border patients are Mexican immigrants, a statistic that might challenge the popular notion of Mexicans burdening California’s hospitals and clinics by receiving all of their health care on this side of the border, said UCLA public health professor Steven Wallace, lead author of the new report.
“What this helps document is that (some) immigrants are facing barriers to receiving care in the United States, and they are turning to Mexico for that care,” said Wallace, who also serves as associate director of UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research. “And it’s not just immigrants facing barriers here.”
Approximately half a million U.S. citizens living in California also seek health services in Mexico, Wallace and his UCLA colleagues found.
Altogether, about 4 percent of adult Californians traveled to Mexico for some type of medical care.
Wallace’s study was published Tuesday in Medical Care, a journal for the American Public Health Association.
He and his fellow researchers based their analysis on data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey, which questioned more than 55,000 random households across the state.
The wide-ranging survey, conducted once every two years, is funded by a coalition of agencies and groups including the state Department of Public Health, the National Cancer Institute and the California Endowment. Those done since 2001 have not asked about accessing health care south of the border.
Wallace’s group was the first to delve deeply into the statistics on medical treatment in Mexico. Previous research relied on anecdotal accounts or small localized populations.
The cross-border trend likely will intensify as the number of Mexican immigrants living in California increases and the recession costs more people their jobs and health insurance coverage, Wallace said.
Between 2001 and 2007, the population of Mexican immigrants in California grew by 756,000 to 4.6 million, according to the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C.
“The numbers that are bad in this study have only gotten worse,” said Margaret Laws, director of the California HealthCare Foundation’s Innovations for the Underserved program. “Under the current climate, they will continue to get worse.”
The UCLA researchers found that more than 13 percent of Mexican immigrants traveled to Mexico for care, with the largest number visiting dentists.
Such patients make up the diverse range of U.S. residents who visit the Bartell Dental Clinic on Avenida Revolucion in the heart of Tijuana’s tourist district, said Dr. William Bartell Jr.
“Probably 95 percent of my clientele are self-employed or their jobs don’t provide any dental insurance,” he said.
The clinic, which has a Web site that targets Americans, sees about 10 patients a day – nearly all from north of the border. That’s enough to keep three full-time and several part-time dentists busy, Bartell said.
Mexican immigrants who lived in California for less than 15 years were less likely to cross the border for care than those who had been in the country longer, the UCLA report said. Many shorter-term immigrants are undocumented, so they face risks every time they leave the United States and try to return.
Among all other Californians, the top health-related reason for going to Mexico was to purchase prescription drugs.
Much attention has been given to doctors performing cosmetic and weight-loss surgeries on Americans in Mexican cities such as Tijuana. But Wallace found that only 7 percent of the 464,000 non-Latino Californians who sought treatment across the border went there for medical procedures, including surgeries and treatments for serious illnesses like cancer.
Health insurers offering relatively low-cost coverage plans that allow Southern Californians to receive care on both sides of the border should be encouraged by the study’s findings, Wallace said.
In fact, several of the largest players in the cross-border insurance market have recorded steady growth in recent years.
Membership in Health Net’s U.S-Mexico plan has reached 40,000, up from 23,700 in late 2007, said Brad Kiefer, a spokesman for the health maintenance organization.
Sistemas Medicos Nacionales S.A., the only Mexican HMO licensed to operate in California, now has about 21,000 members in San Diego and Imperial counties, said Christina Suggett, the company’s chief operating officer.
Staff writer Sandra Dibble contributed to this report.
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One Journalist’s View By Linda Ellerbee
Posted by admin in Foreigners in Mexico, mexico real estate, Rosarito real estate
Sometimes I’ve been called a maverick because I don’t always agree with my colleagues, but then, only dead fish swim with the stream all the time. The stream here is Mexico.
You would have to be living on another planet to avoid hearing how dangerous Mexico has become, and, yes, it’s true drug wars have escalated violence in Mexico , causing collateral damage, a phrase I hate. Collateral damage is a cheap way of saying that innocent people, some of them tourists, have been robbed, hurt or killed.
But that’s not the whole story. Neither is this. This is my story.
I’m a journalist who lives in New York City , but has spent considerable time in Mexico , specifically Puerto Vallarta , for the last four years. I’m in Vallarta now. And despite what I’m getting from the U.S. media, the 24-hour news networks in particular, I feel as safe here as I do at home in New York , possibly safer. I walk the streets of my Vallarta neighborhood alone day or night. And I don’t live in a gated community, or any other All-Gringo neighborhood. I live in Mexico . Among Mexicans. I go where I want (which does not happen to include bars where prostitution and drugs are the basic products), and take no more precautions than I would at home in New York; which is to say I don’t wave money around, I don’t act the Ugly American, I do keep my eyes open, I’m aware of my surroundings, and I try not to behave like a fool.
I’ve not always been successful at that last one. One evening a friend left the house I was renting in Vallarta at that time, and, unbeknownst to me, did not slam the automatically-locking door on her way out. Sure enough, less than an hour later a stranger did come into my house. A burglar? Robber? Kidnapper? Killer? Drug lord?
No, it was a local police officer, the “beat cop” for our neighborhood, who, on seeing my unlatched door, entered to make sure everything (including me) was okay. He insisted on walking with me around the house, opening closets, looking behind doors and, yes, even under beds, to be certain no one else had wandered in, and that nothing was missing. He was polite, smart and kind, but before he left, he lectured me on having not checked to see that my friend had locked the door behind her. In other words, he told me to use my common sense.
Do bad things happen here? Of course they do. Bad things happen everywhere, but the murder rate here is much lower than, say, New Orleans, and if there are bars on many of the ground floor windows of houses here, well, the same is true where I live, in Greenwich Village, which is considered a swell neighborhood — house prices start at about $4 million (including the bars on the ground floor windows).
There are good reasons thousands of people from the United States are moving to Mexico every month, and it’s not just the lower cost of living, a hefty tax break and less snow to shovel. Mexico is a beautiful country, a special place. The climate varies, but is plentifully mild, the culture is ancient and revered, the young are loved unconditionally, the old are respected, and I have yet to hear anyone mention Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, or Madonna’s attempt to adopt a second African child, even though, with such a late start, she cannot possibly begin to keep up with Anglelina Jolie.
And then there are the people. Generalization is risky, but— in general — Mexicans are warm, friendly, generous and welcoming. If you smile at them, they smile back. If you greet a passing stranger on the street, they greet you back. If you try to speak even a little Spanish, they tend to treat you as though you were fluent. Or at least not an idiot. I have had taxi drivers track me down after leaving my wallet or cell phone in their cab. I have had someone run out of a store to catch me because I have overpaid by twenty cents. I have been introduced to and come to love a people who celebrate a day dedicated to the dead as a recognition of the cycles of birth and death and birth — and the 15th birthday of a girl, an important rite in becoming a woman — with the same joy.
Too much of the noise you’re hearing about how dangerous it is to come to Mexico is just that — noise. But the media love noise, and too many journalists currently making it don’t live here. Some have never even been here. They just like to be photographed at night, standing near a spotlighted border crossing, pointing across the line to some imaginary country from hell. It looks good on TV.
Another thing. The U.S. media tend to lump all of Mexico into one big bad bowl. Talking about drug violence in Mexico without naming a state or city where this is taking place is rather like looking at the horror of Katrina and saying, “Damn. Did you know the U.S. is under water?” or reporting on the shootings at Columbine or the bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma City by saying that kids all over the U.S. are shooting their classmates and all the grownups are blowing up buildings. The recent rise in violence in Mexico has mostly occurred in a few states, and especially along the border. It is real, but it does not describe an entire country.
It would be nice if we could put what’s going on in Mexico in perspective, geographically and emotionally. It would be nice if we could remember that, as has been noted more than once, these drug wars wouldn’t be going on if people in the United States didn’t want the drugs, or if other people in the United States weren’t selling Mexican drug lords the guns. Most of all, it would be nice if more people in the United States actually came to this part of America ( Mexico is also America , you will recall) to see for themselves what a fine place Mexico really is, and how good a vacation (or a life) here can be.
So come on down and get to know your southern neighbors. I think you’ll like it here. Especially the people. ***
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Steven L. Ritt has been employed by Westbury Bank since 2017 and is currently serving as Senior Vice President – General Counsel. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Ritt was in private practice for 34 years, most recently as a Partner at Michael Best & Friedriech LLP, where he practiced for the last 25 years in their Milwaukee and Madison offices. Mr. Ritt has both his bachelor’s degree in Economics and History as well as his law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a member of the City of Oconomowoc Planning Commission, is past President of the Board of Directors and current member of the Ronald McDonald House of Madison Investment Committee and its Capital Campaign Committee for the expansion for the House, and also is the Bank’s representative to Downtown Madison, Inc. His responsibilities include legal, compliance, regulatory, and corporate governance matters affecting the Bank and the Holding company.
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Terry Wendorff is the President of Sno-Way International, Inc., a manufacturer of snow and ice control equipment, where he has served since 1993. From 1980 to 1993, he served as operations manager for Simone Engineering, Inc., a multi-state distributor of valves, instruments and controls. Mr. Wendorff is a board member of the Boys and Girls Club of Washington County, and is a former board member of the Washington County Economic Development Corporation, and a member and past president of the Kettle Moraine Lions Club and of the Harford Area Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Wendorff was selected to serve as a director because his experience managing and overseeing a business provides perspective with respect to general business operations and experience reviewing financial statements.
Rondi Rohr-Dralle
Rondi Rohr-Dralle is a certified public accountant, and holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Wisconsin. Before retiring at the end of 2015, she had served as the Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Development at Rockwell Automation, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a NYSE-listed provider of industrial automation power, control and information solutions to manufacturers in a variety of businesses. Ms. Rohr-Dralle had been employed with Rockwell Automation, Inc. since 1999 and, in addition to her most recent position, had served as Vice President of Corporate Development and Group Vice President of Finance. From 1981 to 1999, she held a variety of senior and executive financial positions at Applied Power Inc. (the predecessor corporation to Actuant Corporation), including vice president of finance, treasurer and investment controller. Ms. Rohr-Dralle also was employed for three years at the accounting firm of Touche Ross (the predecessor to Deloitte) as an auditor. Ms. Rohr-Dralle was selected to serve as a director because her extensive management, financial and strategic experience at a publicly held company provides a unique perspective with respect to the preparation and review of our financial statements, the supervision of our independent auditors and the review and oversight of our financial controls and procedures, as well as the development of our strategic, management and growth initiatives and our public company reporting and compliance.
David G. Jorgensen
David Jorgensen has been employed by VJS Construction Services Inc. and VJS Development Group Inc., construction and development firms (collectively, "VJS") since 1992 and currently has a 40% ownership position in VJS. In his roles with VJS, he has been involved in all aspects of construction management and development including educational, retail, residential, condominium, mixed-use and design-build projects. Mr. Jorgensen holds a degree in Construction Administration from the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Jorgensen was selected to serve as a director because of his extensive experience in the construction industry and his knowledge of the real estate lending markets.
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Donald J. Murn is an equity partner with Axley Attorneys in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Mr. Murn focuses his practice on general business and corporate matters including drafting banking issues (complex foreclosure actions and security issues), reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, corporate real estate transactions and litigation, matters involving public utilities, and telecommunications as it relates to condemnation. Mr. Murn holds a Juris Doctorate from Marquette University and a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in History and Communications. Mr. Murn has practiced law for more than 30 years, and was recently named a Leader in the Law by the Wisconsin Law Journal. Mr. Murn, has served on the Board of review for the City of New Berlin, the Plan Commission for the Town of Genesee and as the President of the Genesee-Wales Fire Commission in Wisconsin overseeing approval and construction of the Wales-Genesee fire station. Mr. Murn has personal development experience as a general contractor and in developing both residential and commercial real estate. Mr. Murn was selected to serve on the Board because of his understanding of complex commercial and real estate loan transactions and his experience with understanding underwriting principles.
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Subject: SuperHeavy, Mick Jagger, Don't Come Around Here No More, Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Collection: 1952 Births, Brit Award Winners, British Synthpop New Wave Musicians, English Expatriates in the United States, English Guitarists, English Male Singers, English New Wave Musicians, English Songwriters, Ivor Novello Award Winners, Living People, People Educated at Bede Grammar School for Boys, People from Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, Squatters
Stewart live performing with Stevie Nicks in 2011
David Allan Stewart
(1952-09-09) 9 September 1952
Sunderland, England
Pop rock, synthpop, new wave, folk
Singer-songwriter, musician, record producer
Guitar, vocals, bass guitar, sitar, piano, organ, synthesizer
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David Allan "Dave" Stewart (born 9 September 1952) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for his work with Eurythmics.[2] He is usually credited as David A. Stewart, to avoid confusion with other musicians named Dave Stewart. He won Best British Producer at the 1986, 1987 and 1990 Brit Awards.[3]
Eurythmics 2
Post-Eurythmics 3
Other projects 4
Writer and producer 4.1
Film, television and soundtrack work 4.2
Musical theatre 4.3
Record label 4.4
Platinum Weird 4.5
Publishing 4.6
Studio albums 6.1
Stewart was born in Sunderland, England,[4] in 1952. Whilst still in his teens, he secured a record deal as part of folk-rock band Longdancer. Despite being signed to Elton John's record label, The Rocket Record Company, they did not achieve commercial success. He also collaborated with Brian Harrison to produce an EP on the Sunderland Multicord label (label number MULT-SH-1, producer Ken McKenzie), recording two songs (Girl and Green She Said) from a school musical production written by teacher Dick Bradshaw, one traditional number (A Blacksmith Courted Me) and a song written by Dave and Brian (Deep December). After leaving Wearside Stewart then spent several years living in squats in London. In late 1976, he was introduced to Annie Lennox by Paul Jacobs. Soon, Stewart and Lennox became romantically involved. By 1977, the pair had teamed up with Sunderland musician Peet Coombes, releasing a single on Logo Records as The Catch. The band then developed into The Tourists who enjoyed modest success, including a hit in 1979 with a cover of the Dusty Springfield hit "I Only Want to Be with You".
The Tourists split up in 1980, as did Stewart and Lennox, though the pair continued to work together. They formed a new musical project named Eurythmics. After a string of hit singles and albums, the duo split in 1990, but reunited in 1999 for the album Peace and another world tour. Lennox and Stewart worked together again in 2005, recording two new tracks for the greatest hits package Ultimate Collection, released to coincide with Eurythmics' 25th anniversary.
Post-Eurythmics
When Eurythmics dissolved in 1990, Stewart moved to France and immediately released an album with his new band The Spiritual Cowboys. The song "Party Town" was featured in the 1990 film Flatliners. A second album followed in 1991. Both albums were Gold in France, where Stewart concentrated his efforts.
In 1992, Stewart collaborated with singer Terry Hall (formerly of The Specials, The Fun Boy Three and The Colourfield) on the project Vegas. The duo released one self-titled album but this was commercially unsuccessful, though one of the singles from the album ("Possessed") made the UK Top 40.
In 1993, Stewart appeared in an Apple Inc. advertisement for the Power Macintosh in which he riffed on the word "power". He also had a small cameo as a computer hacker in the 1995 film Hackers.
In 1994, Stewart released a solo album, Greetings from the Gutter. The album was not a commercial success, though Stewart scored a minor UK hit with the single "Heart Of Stone" which reached number 36. He then released another album, Sly-Fi, first on the internet.
In 1997, Stewart released an album Come Alive with the actress and singer Rhona Mitra. In 1999, he produced a second album, Female Icon.
In November 2002, Stewart worked with former South African president series of concerts in the fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
In 2007, Stewart announced on his MySpace page that he would be playing live concerts showcasing his entire career. According to the announcement, he was to be accompanied by various guest musicians as well as a 30 piece orchestra. Additionally, Stewart has stated that for the first time in many years, he has been writing new songs on his guitar, although he had no plans at that time for a new solo album.
On 21 March 2007, Stewart unveiled an initiative called "Greenpeace Works", which he labelled as a "think tank" to dream up ways celebrities and Greenpeace can work together on green issues.[5]
On the project, The Dave Stewart Songbook, he wrote a large coffee table size book full of stories and photographs and also re-recorded 21 hit songs which have been co-written or co-produced by him during the past decades and were originally released by artists such as Jon Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Bob Geldof, Shakespears Sister, No Doubt, Bryan Ferry, Tom Petty and Eurythmics. Also included is the song "American Prayer" written by Stewart with Bono of U2, for which Dave Stewart shot a video clip in support of the campaign of US presidential candidate Barack Obama, featuring various film and music stars, which premiered on YouTube on 23 August 2008. Stewart also released a new solo track, Let's Do It Again, in 2008. In July 2010, Stewart recorded his first solo album of new material since 1998's Sly-Fi. Entitled The Blackbird Diaries, it was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, and includes duets with Stevie Nicks, Martina McBride, Colbie Caillat and The Secret Sisters. Stewart has made a film of the making of the album and also filmed a live concert in Nashville at The Belcourt Theatre on 9 December 2010.
In May 2011 it was announced that Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones had formed a new supergroup called Super Heavy which includes Dave Stewart, Joss Stone, Damian Marley, and A.R. Rahman.[6]
In May 2012 it was announced that Stewart would be playing four UK shows in September 2012 to support the release of his new album The Ringmaster General.[7]
In 2013, Stewart released "Lucky Numbers" which was recorded on a boat in the South Pacific for 12 days [8]
Writer and producer
Stewart produced or co-produced all of Eurythmics' albums and, once the band became established, he also became a producer of other artists. In 1985, as well as producing Eurythmics' hit album Be Yourself Tonight, Stewart co-produced the album Southern Accents for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, as well as co-writing several songs for the album including the hit "Don't Come Around Here No More". The same year, Stewart also produced the debut solo album by Feargal Sharkey, which included the UK number one hit "A Good Heart". Due to these accomplishments, Stewart won "Best Producer" at the 1986 BRIT Awards in London.
Stewart would go on to write and produce for a variety of other artists throughout the years. In 1986, he collaborated with Bob Geldof on tracks for his debut solo album Deep in the Heart of Nowhere. Working together, the duo named themselves "The Brothers of Doom".
Stewart also co-wrote and co-produced several tracks for Mick Jagger's 1987 album Primitive Cool.
Along with his then-wife, Siobhan Fahey, he co-wrote the Shakespears Sister hit single "Stay" (under the pseudonym "Jean Guiot"), as well as several other tracks for their second and third albums.
In 1996, Stewart produced the debut album by Alisha's Attic, Alisha Rules the World.
In 1997, Stewart co-produced the album Destination Anywhere for Jon Bon Jovi, as well as co-writing several tracks.
Stewart collaborated with Bryan Ferry on his 2002 album Frantic, co-writing several tracks and co-producing one of them.
He also co-wrote "Friend or Foe" for the Russian pop duo t.A.T.u., which is on their 2005 album Dangerous and Moving.
In 2008, Stewart was brought in by Ringo Starr to produce his album Liverpool 8, after Starr dismissed the album's original producer, Mark Hudson. Hudson's work on some tracks earned both Stewart and Hudson credits as co-producers (along with Starr himself).
In 2010, Stewart announced on his Twitter account he was co-writing and producing the new studio album by Stevie Nicks. The album, entitled In Your Dreams, was co-produced by Glen Ballard and released in May 2011.
On 24 February 2011, Stewart tweeted that he had just produced a new album by Joss Stone, stating that they also wrote 10 songs together.[9]
On 10 October 2011, Stewart released a new song called "Leap of faith" in collaboration with Greek singer Anna Vissi. The official clip of the song was released in Anna's fan club YouTube channel.[10] Two days later, the Stewart produced Fire EP for artist Orianthi was released as an iTunes download.
He has worked occasionally with American ska-punk band No Doubt, co-writing "Underneath It All" for their 2001 release Rock Steady and "Sparkle" for their 2012 release Push and Shove.
Film, television and soundtrack work
Though he co-wrote the theme song for the 1986 comedy Ruthless People with Mick Jagger and Daryl Hall, Stewart took a greater involvement in the film industry in 1989 by writing and producing the soundtrack Lily Was Here for the Dutch film De Kassière. The single, also called Lily Was Here and featuring saxophone player Candy Dulfer, topped the Dutch charts for five weeks. The single also reached the UK Top 10 and peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1990.
Though he had previously directed music videos, he made his feature film directorial debut in 2000 with Honest, a black comedy set in Swinging London in the late 1960s featuring three members of the British girl group All Saints.
Stewart also performed the song Everybody, All Over The World (Join The Celebration) for the 2004 remake of the film Around the World in 80 Days.
Stewart, in conjunction with his brother John J. Stewart of Oil Factory Productions, and in collaboration with music critic and author Robert Palmer and documentary filmmaker Robert Mugge made a documentary dealing with Delta Blues music. Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads, released in 1991, was filmed in Memphis, Tennessee and various north Mississippi counties. Palmer narrated.[11]
Stewart was the main interviewer for the HBO series Off the Record, which is a show that highlights songwriting and features prominent musicians. The pilot aired on HBO on 24 November 2006 and featured Bono and The Edge from U2.
He collaborated with Mick Jagger to record songs which appear on the soundtrack to the movie Alfie, released in 2004. The soundtrack includes the critically acclaimed song "Old Habits Die Hard", which won a Golden Globe award for Best Original Song from a Motion Picture.
In 2010 the song Love Lives, originally from the 2009 EP Let’s Do It Again, is included in the soundtrack of the movie Repo Men.[12]
In 2012, together with Rosemary Reed, Stewart was the executive co-producer of Living The Life series on Sky Arts. He also recorded an exclusive soundtrack for the new episodes.[13]
Stewart is the co-creator and executive producer of the 2012 ABC sitcom Malibu Country starring Reba McEntire.
Stewart wrote the musical Barbarella, based on the 1968 film, which premiered in Vienna on 11 March 2004. Stewart wrote music and lyrics (with Glen Ballard) for Ghost the Musical, which opened at the Piccadilly Theatre in London's West End in June 2011.
Though most of Stewart's own music (specifically with Eurythmics) was released via the RCA/BMG label, he also formed his own record label in the 1980s called Anxious Records. The label has included a roster of artists such as Terry Hall, Londonbeat, Chris Braide and Curve vocalist Toni Halliday.
In 2006, Stewart resurrected Platinum Weird, a band he allegedly formed in the early 1970s in London with singer Erin Grace, but which was in reality created in 2004.[14][15] According to the fictional account, Erin was moody and mysterious, and disappeared shortly before the band's eponymous album was due to be released in 1974. Platinum Weird features noted songwriter Kara DioGuardi on vocals and the band has re-recorded some of the fictional original band's songs and some new ones as well for an upcoming album. The album was produced by John Shanks.
In July 2006, VH1 premiered a mockumentary entitled Rock Legends – Platinum Weird, an examination of the band’s unusual story, complete with cameo appearances from such rock legends as Mick Jagger, Annie Lennox, Ringo Starr, and Elton John, all reminiscing about the former band’s short-lived heyday and their impressions of the mysterious Erin Grace. The album was further promoted by a series of bogus World Wide Web fan sites, some of which are registered by the New Media Department of Interscope Records and hosted on the same server as interscope.com,[16][17][18] and related false documents for the "lost" group.
Much of the Platinum Weird story line is apparently identical to an earlier promotion by the unrelated band Unicorn.[19][20]
Stewart co-created the comic books Walk-In (2006) and Zombie Broadway (2008), both published by Virgin Comics.
In 2010, The Business Playground: Where Creativity and Commerce Collide, by Stewart and co-author Mark Simmons, was published.[21] A book on the importance of creativity in business, it was published in the UK by Pearson PLC and in the United States by Peachpit. In November 2011, Simmons and Stewart released a multimedia iPad app called Creativity based upon The Business Playground. Stewart will be working on music for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 with Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams, Johnny Marr and Michael Einziger.[22]
Previously married from 1973 to 1977,[23] Stewart married former Bananarama member Siobhan Fahey (who later formed Shakespears Sister) in 1987. The couple have two children (Sam and Django) but divorced in 1996. On 4 August 2001, Stewart married Dutch photographer Anoushka Fisz with whom he has two daughters, Kaya and Indya.
In 2004, Stewart and Fisz relocated to Hollywood so Stewart could concentrate on his soundtrack work.
1989 Lily Was Here David A. Stewart (featuring Candy Dulfer). Soundtrack, featuring the hit single Lily Was Here. Also features Annie Lennox on vocals for a new arrangement of the Eurythmics1984 hit Here Comes The Rain Again.
1990 Dave Stewart and the Spiritual Cowboys
1991 Honest (Dave Stewart and the Spiritual Cowboys)
1994 Greetings from the Gutter
1998 Sly-Fi
2008 The Dave Stewart Songbook Vol. 1
2011 The Blackbird Diaries
2012 The Ringmaster General
2013 Lucky Numbers[24] Guest stars on the album including Martina McBride, Karen Elson, Vanessa Amorosi, Holly Quin-Ankrah, Laura Michelle Kelly and Ann Marie Calhoun.
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^ Harris, Will. "Dave Stewart interview, Platinum Weird, Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Kara DioGuardi". Bullz-eye.com. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
^ "1986 Brit Awards - Winners". Brits.co.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2014
^ Harris, Will (10 October 2006). "A chat with Dave Stewart". bullz-eye.com. Retrieved 12 October 2007.
^ Greene, Andy (20 May 2011). "Mick Jagger Forms Supergroup with Dave Stewart, Joss Stone and Damian Marley".
^ DaveStewart.com (17 May 2012). "Dave Stewart to Celebrate September Release of The Ringmaster General with Four UK shows". Retrieved 25 May 2012.
^ Hardy, Tony. "Album Review: Lucky Numbers". Consequence of Sound.
^ "Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
^ "Anna Vissi ft Dave Stewart - Leap of Faith (Official HD Video Clip)". YouTube. 24 November 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
^ Deep Blues at the Internet Movie Database
^ "Love Lives is on Repo Men OST". Retrieved 24 October 2014.
^ "Soundtrack". Living the Life. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
^ "Platinum Weirdo Dave Stewart Is Having Acid Flashbacks". psychoPEDIA Daily News. 5 July 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2006.
^ Lee, Chris (5 June 2006). "Fact or fiction? It can get a bit Weird". Los Angeles Times. p. E1. Retrieved 5 June 2006.
^ weirdos.info WHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on 6 September 2006
^ weirdshit.biz WHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on 6 September 2006
^ platinumweirdos.com WHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on 6 September 2006
^ "Platinum Weird – Plagiarism?". Popdirt. 10 July 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2006.
^ "Unicorn's Cosmic Storyteller Home Page". Unicorn. Retrieved 10 July 2006.
^ "Business Playground: Where Creativity and Commerce Collide, The (Voices That Matter) (9780321720580): Dave Stewart, Mark Simmons: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
^ "'"Marc Webb, Hans Zimmer Form Supergroup for 'Amazing Spider-Man 2. The Hollywood Reporter. 31 October 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
^ "Fearless Innovator". SuperiorPics.com. 2007. Retrieved 12 October 2007.
^ "AllMusic: Lucky Numbers - Dave Stewart". AllMusic. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
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Apple iPad Mini Likely to Debut in Early November
October 17, 2012 by Ed Hardy Reads (1,922)
Now that the day Apple is going to announce its smaller tablet is known, industry watchers are pointing out when the the iPad Mini will likely hit store shelves.
Yesterday, Apple invited members of the press to an event scheduled for Oct. 23. This is widely expected to be the debut of the company’s first 8-inch tablet.
If so, then the launch of this device will quite likely be on Nov. 2 — the company has a habit of introducing its products on the Friday of the week following their announcement.
Apple will almost certainly start taking pre-orders for the iPad Mini sometime between its unveiling and its launch.
More about the iPad Mini
According to a series of unconfirmed reports that have came out over the last few months, Apple’s miniature tablet will have a 7.85 inch touchscreen — smaller than the 9.8-inch one on the company’s previous models. It will allegedly have a 1024 x 768 resolution, the same as the first- and second-generation iPads.
Naturally, the iPad Mini will debut running Apple iOS 6, giving it Siri support. It will reportedly have both front and rear-facing cameras and dual stereo speakers.
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03-04-13 - Paul Y. Engineering Shareholders Approve Company Name Change to “Louis XIII Holdings Ltd.”
The Board of Directors of Paul Y. Engineering Group Limited (“the Company”, “Paul Y.” or “PYE”; stock code 0577.HK), today announced that the Company’s shareholders have approved a change in the Company’s name to “Louis XIII Holdings Limited”, as well as the adoption of “ 路易十三集團有限公司” as its new Chinese name in place of “保華建業集團有限公司”. A further announcement will be issued when this change in company name becomes effective.
The Board has undertaken the name change as part of its corporate strategy to align the Company’s name with its new core business of developing, constructing and managing an eminently exclusive hotel and entertainment destination in Macau’s Cotai Strip, called “Louis XIII”. This venture, which features Paris’ most prestigious Michelin 3-star restaurant L’Ambroisie as well as a by-invitation only “Atelier” offering a unique and ultra high-end shopping experience, will specifically target wealthy guests who demand true and uncompromising luxury.
“The Louis XIII name strongly reflects the Company’s new business focus and direction, developing the world’s first-ever, ultra-exclusive luxury lifestyle hotel. The new name, and related branding, will build better visibility for the business by aligning our corporate image with our operating activities. The Louis XIII name captures the essence of the unprecedented, uber-luxury experience we are offering wealthy guests that is not available anywhere else in the world,” said Mr. Stephen Hung, Chairman of Louis XIII Holdings Limited / Paul Y. Engineering Group Limited.
In recognition of the tradition, the Group’s construction and civil engineering business will continue to operate using the ‘Paul Y.’ brand.
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Wellness brands no longer have the option of being politically neutral
On election night 2016, my friends and I were at a bar in Manhattan where a man ran in screaming. “FAGS! YOU’RE ALL FAGS!” he shouted at us before fleeing, reducing a woman wearing festive patriotic garb to tears. I soon hailed a cab home, not just because I felt unsafe, but because I felt unwell, like I had just come down with the flu while someone pummeled my stomach and broke my heart at the same time. When it emerged that 53% of white women had voted for Donald Trump, I started to feel paranoid about the people around me (I live in one of the most politically conservative neighborhoods in Manhattan). I wanted to know who I could trust, and I wanted them to know that I had their backs, too. I also found myself wanting to support people, corporations, and organizations that promoted values I believed in—especially if they were women-led. So I resolved to take better care of myself and, like many others, have spent the year since trying to find balance between social activism and self-care.
The Wikipedia page for “self-care” is long, in part because self-care is whatever you need to do to nurture your well-being. That could mean making an açaí smoothie bowl after running 5K in the morning, but it could also mean ordering takeout, turning off your phone, and binge-watching Netflix all night (this latter option being less Instagrammable). Often though, lifestyle gurus and influencers characterize self-care as an act of self-indulgence and conspicuous consumption, a sort of “go-ahead, you deserve it” mentality, where “it” is $100 yoga leggings or a pedicure in millennial pink. In that sense, self-care is often framed as mutually exclusive from activism: It’s what you do when you need a breather from being politically engaged, versus a facet of that engagement.
In 2017, that line—between the small activities in our daily lives and the larger aims of our political personas—feels in need of blurring. As Audre Lorde—a self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet”—is oft-quoted as saying: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
“When it comes to the Women’s March and women’s rights—you don’t like women’s rights? Seriously, fuck you. I don’t want you as a customer. I don’t want you as a follower.”
That’s Katia Pryce, founder of DanceBody, a fitness brand that conducts in-person classes in New York and Miami, and streams those classes online to thousands of customers around the US. In the past year, DanceBody has used its social media accounts to post about politically charged topics like Elizabeth Warren’s “nevertheless, she persisted” meme.
Not without consequence. “Some of my clients have told me that they don’t want politics involved with their fitness,” says Pryce, who says she got heat from some customers for posting a video of Barack Obama dancing. Pryce says she’s careful not to post about specific political parties anymore, but still finds creative ways to make a point. For example, DanceBody recently shared a Malcolm X quotation as workout inspiration.
To be sure, alienating advertisers or consumers is a very real concern from brands and bloggers hoping to take a political stand. But again, in 2017 it shouldn’t be—especially if, for example, wellness brands are preaching good health while the federal government tries to strip health care from millions of Americans.
In the interest of taking care of myself while staying involved with the world, I, a woman of color and first-generation American, have been gravitating toward wellness and self-care brands like Pryce’s, that take a political stance. Likewise, I’ve been unfollowing—on Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter—brands, blogs, and “influencers” that hashtag #selfcare and #selflove without taking a stance, or without mentioning the effects of the political climate on one’s health.
I’m not the only women who has done this, of course. In May, Georgetown University professor C. Christine Fair complained to her gym after discovering that neo-Nazi Richard Spencer was a member; his membership was later revoked. “As a white woman, I find his membership at this gym to be unacceptable,” Fair wrote on her Tumblr. “I found his membership at this gym to be an unfair burden upon the women and people of color–and white male allies of the same.”
Since we’re forced to be vulnerable at the gym, it’s fair to expect to have a say when the people in our vicinity threaten our very existence. Another of my favorite examples: The owner of Washington DC-area cult fitness studio Solidcore posted on Facebook about asking Ivanka Trump for a meeting after finding out that Trump had taken one of her classes under an alias.
“A traffic dip would be worth it in order to have an active voice politically and stand up for what we believe in,” says Joanna Goddard, founder of lifestyle blog Cup of Jo. “At the same time, we engage new readers who do want to talk about politics in big and small ways—so, our traffic has actually continued to increase.” In the past year, Jo has published a series of politically engaged stories under topics such as relationships and motherhood. In the wake of the election, when I was desperate to read about self-care and political activism (and tired of wellness blogs claiming to be politically neutral in the face of a very real threat), I became a loyal reader of her blog and newsletters.
At the end of the day, supporting women and minorities (or companies that support them) can come down to a series of small, strategic decisions: what you put in your closet, your medicine cabinet, your laundry machine, your refrigerator. These decisions are a way to make your presence and values known, and to fill your daily routine with your values.
You don’t have to attend rallies every weekend—not everyone is physically or mentally capable of the emotional labor required for public demonstrations, and not everyone can take time and energy away from priority responsibilities (like work or family). But to not take a political stance is a political stance, because millions of lives are at stake when you’re silent. For individuals whose personhood is threatened by the current administration, it’s hard to not feel like self-care and self-love are innately political.
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Complex Systems Problems in the War of Ideas
By Steven R. Corman
To say that terrorism is a complex problem is a truism. Usually, someone who says this normally means that the problem is hard to understand and address. But to a natural or social scientist, "complex" has a special meaning that comes from complex systems theory. There are many definitions of complex systems, but I prefer this simple one: "we have taken a 'complex system' to be one whose properties are not fully explained by an understanding of its component parts."[1] This means that we cannot understand terrorism through our usual method of breaking a problem into bits and studying them because the interaction between the bits has emergent properties that have important effects on the functioning of the system as a whole.
For a couple of years now, my colleagues and I have been applying complex systems ideas to problems of U.S. strategic communication in the so-called "war of ideas". This essay reviews two cuts on that issue involving assumptions about the communication process and principles for finding the right message(s). It concludes with two general recommendations for a more realistic and effective approach to strategic communication.
View of Communication
Complex systems ideas are relevant to the government's overall conception of the communication process. They currently employ a linear view dating back to the 1950s, which assumes that communication is set of transformations that move a message from sender to receiver. It draws heavily on a model of telephone systems developed by Bell Labs engineer Claude Shannon. [2] Shannon's model has the following components: a source inputs a message (e.g. talks)into a transmitter (the telephone), which encodes a signal that is transmitted over a channel. The signal, which may be affected along the way by noise, makes its way to the receiver (the other telephone) where it is decoded into a message (e.g. heard) by the receiver or destination.
A formal model of human-to-human communication based on Shannon's ideas was developed in the late 1950s [3]. We call this the message influence model [4]. It has since become a basis for the conventional wisdom of political campaigns, business domains of public relations and marketing, and government/military domains of public diplomacy, public affairs, information operations, and international broadcasting. It assumes that communication is a one-way process consisting of transmission of a message through a modular system directly analogous to the telephone system described above. As long as fidelity is maintained—i.e. noise does not degrade the message and the components don't distort it or fail—the message will reach the destination exactly as it was intended by the source. Accordingly, controlled repetition (for reliability) and optimization of the individual system components are viewed as the key to success.
It is easy to find evidence of this model in operation in the statements and language of government agencies and officials. It is common to hear high raking officials speak or sending "signals" or "messages" to foreign governments. In 2003, the Bush Administration created the White House Office of Global Communications with a mission to "ensure consistency in messages" by "disseminat[ing] accurate and timely information". [5] The 9/11 Commission said the government "must do more to communicate its message". [6] Former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Karen Hughes, was well known for her insistence on "message discipline" and instituted a regular dispatch to U.S. embassies called The Echo Chamber that contained talking points for use in contacts with foreign publics and media. [7]
The problem with the message influence model of communication is that it's wrong. When we're taking about human systems, rather than telephone systems, the transmitter and receiver are people, and the source and destination are their minds. Communication is not as simple as transferring my thoughts to your mind through my mouth and your ears. Complex processes of expression and interpretation mediate our interaction. They are affected not just by the traits and experiences of the people involved, but also by the contexts they find themselves in at the time of communication. For example, "freedom" might mean one thing to an American (freedom to do things), but another to a Middle Easterner (freedom from corrupting influences).
Much more to the point of complex systems, a critical flaw of the old message influence model is that it treats the elements as independent bits that we can break down and optimize. Theorist Niklas Luhmann [8] rejected this idea, believing instead that communication is a property of a complex system in which participants interpret one-another's actions and make attributions about the thoughts, motivations, and intentions behind them. The complexity arises because of a double contingency. Given two communicators, A and B,
The success of A's behavior depends not only on external conditions, but on what B does and thinks.
But what B does and thinks is influenced by A's behavior as well as B's expectations, interpretations, and attributions with respect to A.
This means there are no independent transmitters and receivers transferring independent meanings back and forth, as the old model would have it. Instead communication is an emergent property of the interaction of A and B.
This thinking leads to a new perspective that we call the pragmatic complexity model [4] It views communication as a process of dialog rather than message transmission, and it carries a very different set of assumptions. For instance, it assumes that success—in the sense of causing some predictable result—is not the default outcome of communication. On the contrary, it's likely that messages will be interpreted in ways that one doesn't expect and doesn't want. Communication systems also have inertia (another emergent property) that causes them to interpret messages to fit pre-existing expectations. In that case, the repetition-for-reliability principle of the old message influence model is exactly the wrong way to bring about change.
Finding the Right Message(s)
The second way complex systems thinking is important in strategic communication has to do with the search for the right message(s). The old model of communication carries over to a belief in a straightforward search process. We addressed this issue in another recent paper [9] that applies Stuart Kauffman's rugged landscape model. [10] Think of a landscape as an array of possible communication solutions. A solution is a combination of features like message, communicator, medium, audience, timing, etc. Each solution has a particular quality or fitness level, represented by the height of its point on the landscape (see Figure 1) [11]. On a simple landscape there is one peak, with a best solution at the top surrounded by solutions with diminishing levels of fitness. But on a rugged landscape there are multiple peaks of varying fitness.
The two landscapes have radically different requirements for finding the right message. Simple landscapes are modular in the sense that there is limited interaction between their parts. To find the optimal solution you can optimize the parts, one at a time, making adjustments that move you in an uphill direction (i.e. improve fitness), because uphill always leads to the optimal solution.
Rugged landscapes, in contrast, are integral. Their parts are tightly coupled, meaning that you can't change one thing without affecting everything else. Here incremental improvement in performance is not enough because it might lead you to the top of a suboptimal peak. Depending on where you start, you might actually have to move downhill for a time in order to reach the optimal peak. Rather than systematic search, on a rugged landscape you need experimentation based on random variation, a more evolutiotary approach.
Just as the U.S. government believes in the simple message influence model of communication, it also believes the search for the right message takes place on a simple landscape. The U.S. National Strategy for Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication (NSPDSC) [12] released last year provides a good example. It assumes the best message has already been found and sets it out in a set of broad talking points that promote American values and strategic objectives. Most of the document talks about how to optimize various aspects of delivering the message, such as coordination between agencies involved, making use of better spokespeople, and so on.
But in fact, the landscape of U.S. Strategic Communication is a rugged one because of the tight coupling of elements of the system. Multiple agencies have responsibility for strategic communication and sometimes work at cross purposes. Some spokespeople are better suited for some audiences than others. Messages intended for one audience "leak" to other audiences creating mixed messages. Audiences, even as conceived in the NSPDSC, are not independent: "Girls," one of its target audiences, are also "youth," another of its target audiences. These are but a few examples of interdependencies in the system that make the search landscape rugged.
Specific recommendations associated with the pragmatic complexity model and the rugged landscape approach are outlined in our full white papers.[4], [9] But there are two underlying themes in these recommendations that I discuss here. First, both of the outdated approaches described above carry assumptions that strategic communication can best be optimized through control. In the message influence model, this is achieved by having a restricted message and hammering on it using repetition. In the simple landscape approach, control is achieved by using methodical trial and error search, making incremental improvements in the message by optimizing one variable at a time.
For the reasons discussed above, these approaches are unrealistic and actually lead to sub-optimal outcomes on our "war of ideas". So the first order of business is for the U.S. to let go of the idea that it can control the strategic communication system. Accepting the complexity in the system, rather than fighting it, opens up new possibilities for action. For example, if they abandon the idea that they can tightly control which audiences receive which messages, they can start thinking about how they might exploit interaction between the different audiences. Just as Wall Street traders accept the complexity of the markets and profit by effectively "going with the flow", strategic communicators can accept the complexity of the system and use it to their advantage.
Second, whereas both of the outdated approaches described above emphasize small incremental changes and assessment, the complex system view requires an approach more like evolutionary experimentation. For instance, an important implication of the pragmatic complexity view of communication is that communication systems often become "stuck" in a pattern where all messages are assimilated to a standard interpretation—much like the current situation where U.S. messages damage its credibility, if they have any effect at all. This situation requires a disruption that will kick the system out of its inertia and cause it to reorganize in a new configuration that might be more favorable to the U.S.
On a rugged landscape, controlled searches never take you far from where you start, which is most likely a spot on the floor or a minor peak. To find the optimal message(s) you need to search many different spots on the landscape by changing multiple variables at once in a random variation pattern. Such a strategy makes it much more likely that you will find the optimal peak, or at least get close to it.
To change the strategic communication game the United States should abandon control-oriented methods that were cutting-edge in the Eisenhower Administration. It should let go of the idea that it can break down communication system into bits and optimize them, embracing more modern approaches that view communication as an emergent feature of a complex system. In doing so, it can exploit the opportunities presented by complexity and use more realistic methods for changing the game and finding the best plays.
About the Author: Steven R. Corman is a Professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication and Director of its Consortium for Strategic Communication.
[1] R. Gallagher and T. Appenzeller, 'Introduction', Science, Vol. 284 No. 5711, 1999, p. 79.
[2] Shannon, C. and Weaver, W. (1949). The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
[3] Berlo, D.K. (1960). The Process of Communication: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
[4] Corman, S. R., Trethewey, A., & Goodall, B. (2007, April). A 21st Century Model for Communication in the Global War of Ideas: From Simplistic Influence to Pragmatic Complexity. Report No. 0701. Consortium for Strategic Communication, Arizona State University. Available online: http://comops.org/publications/CSC_report_0701-pragmatic_complexity.pdf.
[5] The White House (2003, January 24). Establishing the Office of Global Communications. Executive order 13282, Office of Policy Coordination and International Relations.
[6] Kean, T.H., et al. (2004). The 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 376-377.
[7] Phil Taylor, Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds, UK. http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/vp01.cfm?outfit=pmt&folder=2053&paper=2438
[8] For the English translations see Luhmann, N. (1995). Social Systems. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. (Originally published 1984). For an easier to read introduction, see Chapter 16 of Münch, R. (1994). Sociological theory: From the 1850s to present. London: Burnham, Inc.
[9] Corman, S. R. & Dooley, K.J. (2008, January). Strategic Communication on a Rugged Landscape: Principles for Finding the Right Message. Report No. 0801, Consortium for Strategic Communication, Arizona State University. Available online: http://comops.org/article/121.pdf
[10] Kauffman, S. A., 1993. Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[11] Adapted from http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/01/02/on-fitness-landscapes by Koen Crolla. Used by permission.
[12] http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/87427.pdf
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The Coral Castle: Masonic Mystery in the Sunshine State
Architecture, Freemasonry, Museum, USA
Just a little way outside of Homestead, Florida, there stands an enigma. The Coral Castle is a decorative park built from over 1,000 tons of megalithic coral rock; dense blocks which from 1923 until 1951 were quarried, carved and stacked to form towers, beds and tables, rocking chairs, sundials and bizarre astrological figures.
As a folly, it is singularly unique – but what makes it stranger still is the fact that the Coral Castle was built by one man alone, using no more than hand tools as he fashioned a palace over the course of 28 years of solitary labour.
Numerous explanations have been offered for this seemingly impossible task – from pulleys and magnetism, to witchcraft and extraterrestrial intervention – but behind it all lies a profound science of geometry, a technique of mass manipulation which the architect himself claimed to have inherited from the builders of King Solomon’s Temple and the pyramids of Egypt before that.
The Great Architect & His Sweet Sixteen
The castle and its surrounding gardens were built by Edward Leedskalnin (1887–1951), a stonemason from Riga, Latvia. At the age of 26 Leedskalnin was jilted by his fiancée, one sixteen-year-old Agnes Skuvst, who broke off their engagement just the day before the wedding.
Leedskalnin was heartbroken and he set out on a quest to build a monument worthy of celebrating his lost love – or so people inferred, from conversations with this notoriously vague eccentric. When asked what he was doing, Leedskalnin would claim that he was building a tribute to his ‘Sweet Sixteen.’
The girl was real, according to a Latvian account – though actually named Hermīne Lūsis – but Leedskalnin’s own writings would later suggest at other motives behind the project. In his pamphlet A Book in Every Home, he later hinted that Sweet Sixteen was more a reference to an ideal, than a reality.
Edward Leedskalnin left Latvia soon after… with one investigator suggesting that he was fleeing the Tsar’s secret police, following his own involvement in the armed uprising of 1905. Whatever the reason, Leedskalnin ended up in North America where he worked for a time on lumber mills across Canada, in California and in Texas.
When he was later diagnosed with tuberculosis, Leedskalnin decided that the Florida climate might improve his condition. Some accounts claimed that he was spontaneously healed, and Leedskalnin himself credited the cure to magnetism – a subject with which he was becoming increasingly fascinated.
Leedskalnin settled in Florida City in 1918, and began work on what he called his ‘Rock Gate Park’ sometime around 1923. Using only hand tools, he quarried huge blocks of coral rock before cutting them to shape and arranging them into position. Later, in 1936, Leedskalnin moved to Homestead where he purchased a plot of 10 acres and spent the next three years relocating, a distance of some 10 miles, using a friend’s tractor to transport each of his coral structures.
Leedskalnin was known to be a very private person, and his methods were a closely guarded secret. In 28 years he refused to allow anyone to watch him work – carving the stones by night, while a series of lookout posts along the castle walls provided an extra defence against prying eyes. Measuring only five feet in height, and weighing just 100 pounds, he slowly built his fortress from the inside out using blocks that weighed an average of 14 tons a piece.
By the 1940s Leedskalnin, who lived in a room inside the single castle tower, had opened the park up to paying visitors. He installed a bell, and carved a sign into rock by the entrance that read, ‘Adm. 10c Drop Below’. He took a great pride in showing off his creation, but when asked about his methods Leedskalnin would always dismiss the question with something like, “It’s not difficult if you know how.”
Edward Leedskalnin died in the winter of 1951, aged 64. He closed the castle with a sign that read, ‘Going to the Hospital,’ then took a bus into Miami. He wouldn’t return – first suffering a stroke, before later dying in the hospital from a kidney infection.
Leedskalnin’s Rock Gate Park was left to his closest living relative, a nephew in Michigan. The nephew only kept hold of the folly for a short while though, before selling it to a family from Illinois. It was during the handover that a set of instructions were discovered pointing the way to Leedskalnin’s life savings: $3,500 in hundred dollar bills, accrued from tour fees plus the sale of books and land.
In time the Rock Park Gate would be renamed ‘Coral Castle’, and its last change of hands saw it sold to the Coral Castle, Inc. in 1981 for a sum of $175,000. Three years later the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and it has been managed as a tourist attraction ever since.
A Tour of Rock Gate Park
Pulling up into a parking space beside the Coral Castle, it wasn’t hard to see how Edward Leedskalnin managed to maintain an air of mystery about his work. The place was a fortress – high walls of pinkish-grey coral rearing up on all sides, while the square shape of a tower, complete with battlements, peered out over the top.
By the time we’d passed the turnstile however, through the wall and into the ornate gardens beyond, it was clear that the place had been dressed up somewhat since Leedskalnin’s day. There was a gift shop built into one of the outer structures, while a patio inside the castle walls had been decked with a cluster of chairs and tables arranged beneath a large awning to form a café. Beside that, a life-size black and white print of the architect stood cable-tied to a post, inviting us to join a tour of his domain.
We found our guide – or rather, he found us – floating about what ought to have been the ‘nine-ton gate’; except on this occasion the gateway was bare, the gate itself having been removed, the guide explained, for repairs.
“An eight-foot chunk of rock, weighing nine short tons,” the guide was saying. “Fitted in place so perfectly that you can barely see the cracks around it… but this gate was so well designed, that a child could turn it with just a push of their finger. Imagine that!”
And of course, imagining it was all we could do for now. The gate stopped working in 1986, and it took six men and a 45-ton crane to remove the block and reveal the trick itself: Leedskalnin had drilled a hole down the centre of the slab, inserting a metal shaft which sat in the bearings of an old truck. The parts were replaced, and for a time it worked again… until seizing up again in 2005. Now, in 2014, it had once again stopped working.
By the time a small group had gathered, the guide began his tour around the park.
Walking us through the wonders of the Rock Gate Park, he led us first to the ‘telescope’: smooth holes drilled through two nearby blocks and set with crosshairs to focus on the North Star. We saw a barbecue built from old truck parts, a heart-shaped ‘lovers’ table’, a bathtub, two beds and an obelisk – all hand carved out of coral.
Leedskalnin had built a total of twenty-five rocking chairs too, each one formed from a single piece of coral and set with smooth, curving tracks beneath to allow for a gentle rocking motion. One of these – apparently, his favourite – was positioned up high, offering a panoramic view over the park.
We were shown a sundial next, with markings that could be used to deduce the time of day, the season of the year. Another table nearby, meanwhile, had been carved into the shape of Florida state.
Many of the features, our guide informed us, had been designed as an imaginary home for the family that Edward Leedskalnin never had. His twin chairs, twin beds, and heart-shaped table were intended for himself and his Sweet Sixteen; other features included a water well dug into the centre of the park, as well as a sound-cancelling ‘punishment room’ for use in disciplining mischievous children.
The building blocks of the Coral Castle were mostly sourced close to the site, harvested from a sedimentary layer of oolitic limestone which can be found just beneath the topsoil throughout large areas of southern Florida. The blocks were then shaped, and stacked together without the aid of mortar – their weight alone serving to hold the structures in place.
Seeing these blocks up close, touching them, really brought home the incredible feat of engineering that had been involved in the 28 years of construction.
The walls alone, 8 foot high by 4 foot thick, were said to weigh 58 tons per section. Each block around the park weighed an average of 15 short tons, and as much as 30 tons for the larger items – while some of the taller monoliths measured anything up to 25 foot in height.
“Do we have any freemasons in this group?” our guide asked in his Southern drawl, as he rounded the corner of an ornate pool set with a six-pointed coral star.
Up until this point I had sensed a certain symbology about the park; a proliferation of pentagrams and the six-pointed Seal of Solomon, combined with prolific astrological themes. From the Polaris telescope on the north wall, to the throne, placed symbolically in the east – and surrounded by carved-coral figures of the planetary bodies – up until now the Coral Castle had felt very much like the blueprint of an otherworldly temple. When our guide revealed that Edward Leedskalnin had indeed been a committed freemason, pointing out details such as the stars, the throne, the set square carved atop an obelisk, the hidden workings of the park suddenly began to fall into place.
It was perfect, of course, that this architect and stone mason was himself a student of freemasonry; a system which purports to teach ancient mysticism through the allegorical study of the tools and techniques of stone masons. There are those who claim that freemasonry’s secrets date back to the architects of King Solomon’s Temple – secrets which had originated in Egypt and supposedly been instrumental in the construction of the great pyramids themselves.
The official website of the Coral Castle states, “if anyone ever questioned Ed about how he moved the blocks of coral, Ed would only reply that he understood the laws of weight and leverage well.” Meanwhile, another source quotes him as saying he had “discovered the secrets of the pyramids”.
My imagination went into overload as I started to join the dots.
Our tour rounded up with a look at Leedskalnin’s own living quarters: inside the two-storey castle tower that stands in the corner of his park. Here a flight of stone steps led up and into the architect’s chamber, a simple wood-floored room that looked out over his creation from on high. Our guide showed us the hanging chair in which Leedskalnin had slept, as well as a selection of tools – saws, scythes and chisels – used in fashioning the features of the Rock Gate Park.
Perhaps most interesting of all these relics, however, was the crude device lurking in one corner of the mason’s quarters which was identified as a ‘magnetic flywheel’ – a mechanism which, as I’d later discover, some contemporary theorists believe Leedskalnin used to bend the laws of physical reality as we know them.
The Secrets of the Pyramids
The most remarkable thing about the Coral Castle is that to this day nobody knows exactly how Ed Leedskalnin did it. In 1986 it took six men and a crane to repair the nine-ton gate; and yet this single man, and a small man at that, had been able to stack 14-ton slabs unaided. While many of the theories floating around may sound somewhat far-fetched, the castle nevertheless stands today as evidence to Leedskalnin’s ingenious design.
Some of the more outlandish theories – supernatural powers, alien technology – are further fuelled by an account from several local teenagers who claimed to have spied on Ed working, and witnessed coral blocks floating into the air “like hydrogen balloons.”
It is known that Leedskalnin used little more than hand tools in his work, although he did sometimes make reference to a device he referred to as his “perpetual motion holder.” In his 1945 pamphlet on Magnetic Current (available for free download here), Leedskalnin hypothesised that gravity was an illusion masking the true nature of magnetic attraction between all objects. In his own words;
[Because] the magnet can be shifted and concentrated… you can see that the metal is not the real magnet. The real magnet is the substance that is circulating in the metal. Each particle in the substance is an individual magnet by itself, and [contains] both North and South Pole individual magnets. They are so small they can pass through anything. In fact they can pass through metal easier than through the air. They are in constant motion… running one kind of magnets {sic} against the other kind, and if guided in the right channels they possess perpetual power.
Developing this idea, the documentary series Extreme Mysteries offered one possible solution to the puzzle. It suggested that Leedskalnin had found a way to reverse the magnetic pole within individual objects – causing them to be repelled, rather than attracted, by the earth itself.
This process, they explained, might have been achieved using a system of flywheels, radio transmitters, relay boxes and charged electrical coils wrapped around the blocks. I won’t explain the full workings of the theory here, but if you’re interested I suggest you watch the video for yourself.
The theory would answer the supposed eye-witness reports of levitating blocks, while the reports of neighbours, who had allegedly heard Leedskalnin ‘singing’ to his coral, might be explained then as the sound of high frequency radio transmissions. One theorist interviewed in the program suggested that Ed’s ‘punishment chamber’ with its sound-cancelling walls had been designed to test such noise emitting devices.
Others have speculated that an answer to the riddle might be found in Ed Leedskalnin’s own writings. During his life he produced and sold five pamphlets: three on the subject of magnetism; one, titled Mineral, Vegetable and Animal Life, detailing his thoughts on biological processes; and the third pamphlet, A Book in Every Home. This final volume was broken down to cover the topics of his Sweet Sixteen, plus commentary on Leedskalnin’s Domestic and Political views.
In these pamphlets, pages were often left blank with an invitation for the reader to make their own notes. Some have seen this as indicative of a code or cipher in the text itself; an idea that finds support in the cryptic nature of Leedskalnin’s writing, which features suggestive lines such as: “This writing is lined up so when you read it you look East.”
Even Leedskalnin’s stated inspiration – his Sweet Sixteen – has been brought to question by those investigating his work. One Jon De’Pew has speculated that the title is not a reference to any lost love, but rather its significance can be found in sacred geometry; after all, in his own writing Leedskalnin had described the words as more of a theme, an ‘ideal’, than a physical, human reality.
I rather liked this idea, so I did some research of my own into the sacred and esoteric connotations of the number 16.
I found that in many numerological studies of Biblical scripture, the number 16 has been associated with themes of ‘love’. There are 16 names given for God in the Old Testament, for example, which expressly signify His love for the children of Israel. Meanwhile, when Paul writes his first letter to the Corinthian church he lists 16 distinct qualities to God’s love.
Entertaining the notion of some more occult significance, perhaps a connection could be drawn to the tarot – where the sixteenth card in the Major Arcana appears as ‘The Tower’. Physical similarities between standard depictions of the tarot tower, and Leedskalnin’s own tower – his home, his workshop and oratory – are interesting to note; though it’s hard to see why someone so fixated on construction and function would be drawn towards a symbol with connotations of chaos and downfall.
Using the system of magic squares, meanwhile, a square formed with the first 16 numbers is associated with the planet Jupiter – which itself features as one of the carved bodies around Leedskalnin’s throne. Meanwhile, until very recently (and certainly in Leedskalnin’s time) it was believed that the planet Jupiter had 16 satellites.
Such associations feel increasingly desperate however, and as fun as it is to speculate numerological correlations for the great architect’s Sweet Sixteen, ultimately, we’re never likely to know what exactly the man himself had in mind.
But then, of course, there are the rationalists… such as the arch spoilsport John Martin. In 2012 Martin released a book titled, Coral Castle Construction: How One Man Created a Megalithic Wonder, which sets out to debunk all of the myths surrounding the Coral Castle and explain how Edward Leedskalnin was able to move all 1,100 tons of coral into place using only fundamental engineering principles.
Whatever the truth of the matter, whatever technique was employed and regardless of the significance of Leedskalnin’s own pseudo-scientific and esoteric ramblings, one thing is for certain; the motto he carved into stone above the entrance to the Coral Castle all those 60 years ago, is as true today as it was back then.
“You will be seeing unusual accomplishment,” it reads.
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La Rundel*
Ben 7:49 am | February 4, 2015
If your in Melbourne again, check out La rondel mental asylum
Thanks Ben, and yes – I know Larundel well! Here’s my post on it… Larundel Hospital: An Abandoned Mental Asylum in Melbourne
Darmon Richter 10:28 am | February 5, 2015
Its great to see you come to the US as well!! I really enjoy reading your blogs. There are some amazing places out there.
Jenn Nelson 4:23 pm | January 7, 2015
There certainly are! I’ve got a few more US posts to come, too – including an abandoned missile site down in the Florida Keys. Thanks for commenting, I’m glad to hear that you’ve been enjoying the blog.
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Chris McClarney's New Album 'Breakthrough' Releases June 15
Chris McClarney ,
Capitol Christian Music Group announces Jesus Culture artist Chris McClarney will debut his sophomore live album, titled Breakthrough, on June 15. The album announcement follows the release of the project's anthemic first single and live music video, "Hallelujah For The Cross," which was introduced the week of Easter. With a digital pre-order campaign officially kicking off today, both the album's title song and "Hallelujah For The Cross" are instant grat tracks. A new live video for "Breakthrough" also debuts today, which can be viewed below. Additional live videos and instant grat downloads with all pre-orders will become available leading up to the June release.
Breakthrough, the follow-up to McClarney's critically-acclaimed 2015 debut with Capitol CMG and Jesus Culture Everything And Nothing Less, was recorded live in Sacramento, CA at Jesus Culture Church. "Breakthrough is a collection of songs I hope people hear to help them overcome obstacles," McClarney shares. "Whatever is keeping them from finding joy and peace, I hope this album helps guide listeners to put their trust in God alone, that hope is in Him no matter the circumstance.
"I wanted to write songs that people can sing if they are going through a loss, divorce, a cancer diagnosis," he continues." And I also wanted songs that celebrate how good God is."
McClarney is best-known for penning such songs as "My One My All," "Yes And Amen," and “Your Love Never Fails,” which has become one of the most popular songs in America’s churches as reported in the TOP 25 of CCLI, and a No. 1 song on the Billboard Christian chart.
Along with appearing at conferences and youth camps, further tour plans are underway this year for Chris McClarney along with Jesus Culture, touring around the U.S. as well as South Africa.
BREAKTHROUGH song listing:
1. Hallelujah For The Cross
2. Crazy Love
3. At The Mention
4. Over And Over
5. I'm Listening (feat. Hollyn)
6. Breakthrough
7. Worth It All
8. Hiding Place
9. Love That Saves
10. You Reign
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Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard: The Truth Behind ‘The Social Network’
As the movie The Social Network rolls toward theaters, Rebecca O’Brien writes about Zuckerberg’s reputation around Harvard, his fraternity nickname, and why Facebook was such a hit.
Rebecca Davis O'Brien
Facebook creator and mastermind Mark Zuckerberg. Credit: Rick Wilking / Reuters
As the movie The Social Network rolls toward theaters, Rebecca O’Brien writes about Zuckerberg’s reputation around Harvard, his fraternity nickname, and why Facebook was such a hit. Plus, View Our Complete Coverage of The Social Network
Hollywood biopics are often the inverse of political autobiographies: heavy on sex and drugs, light on weighty questions of morality and leadership. If the script leaked online and the trailers are any indication, the new movie The Social Network, which purports to tell the story of Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook, will play like a conversation between Hamlet and Joe Francis, as secretly recorded by Richard Nixon. It is paranoid, sleazy, and grim.
“The whole notion of Mark as either an evil genius or as a deeply status-obsessed person doesn’t ring true to me at all,” says one of Zuckerberg’s former classmates.
As the film tells it, during the winter of 2004, Zuckerberg, a curmudgeonly, craven genius, bristling against authority and embittered by the culture of wealth and privilege that excludes him, creates a social network to impress vapid women and the callow preppies of Harvard’s exclusive, all-male final clubs. The film’s Zuckerberg, as played by Jesse Eisenberg, hates Harvard students, disdains fraternities, and answers to nobody. Zuckerberg, with a kind of mad scientist’s zeal, seeks popularity, profit, and revenge. In the words of the film’s ubiquitous ad campaign, he is “Poet. Prophet. Billionaire.”
That completely misses the point. Zuckerberg is, indisputably, a savant. He has also, by most accounts, broken agreements and rules. After talking to one of Facebook’s co-founders and students who were at Harvard when Zuckerberg and I were classmates, there’s one outstanding question about the creator and CEO of the 500 million-member website that today is valued at somewhere between $24 billion and $32 billion. Zuckerberg was an antiauthoritarian who, through some combination of outmaneuvering, technical wizardry, and intuition, became the guy in charge. But can we trust the antiauthoritarian once he becomes the authority?
Back before he was a household name, before thefacebook.com, Mark Zuckerberg was a dorm room name, especially in Kirkland House, where he and I lived as sophomores. I often saw Mark and his friends sitting around a table in the dining hall, lingering over plates of popcorn chicken and cups of soda.
There are always a handful of kids at Harvard who are notorious before arriving on campus, and Mark was among them. As a student at Phillips Exeter Academy, Mark had created an adaptive music player (think iTunes Genius), prompting Microsoft to offer him a few million dollars and a job, which he turned down to go to college. This, we thought, was cool and rebellious.
“The whole notion of Mark as either an evil genius or as a deeply status-obsessed person doesn't ring true to me at all,” says one of Mark’s classmates at both Exeter and Harvard, who knew Mark in high school through several classes and extracurricular activities. “He always struck me as kind of oddly comfortable in his own skin.”
“The whole anti-authority thing,” he continues, “rings true with me. He took a certain amount of enjoyment out of not necessarily breaking rules, but just pointing out that people who have responsibility for things are kind of stupid. I think he did enjoy kind of demonstrating his own superiority by skirting things.” At Exeter, for example, Zuckerberg kept finding ways to evade firewalls and sites that were blocked.
“It was this mundane, competitive narcissism,” the Exeter classmate says. “Kind of believing that the rules you're expected to live by are just not really legitimate.”
When Zuckerberg came to Harvard in the fall of 2002, he joined a fraternity, one of those “lame” organizations that The Social Network so crudely mocks. To his friends at AEPi—one of Harvard’s fraternities, reputationally Jewish—during freshman year, Mark (or “Zuck”) was known by his frat name “Slayer.” In his capacity as AEPi’s Exchequer, I’ve been told by fellow AEPi pledges, Zuckerberg systematically hunted down dues. Later, once Zuckerberg left Harvard, he would return for career recruiting events, and stop by AEPi parties with a supply of booze. This hardly seems like the kind of guy who would found a website to impress or get even with people in final clubs.
Mark gained campus notoriety in November 2003, when he created Facemash. The idea behind Facemash was simple: a website on which you could compare the attractiveness of two Harvard students, voting with the click of a mouse. The site, which was open to the world and which used official Harvard headshots, went viral over email lists, nabbing 22,000 votes from over 450 people.
Clicking through Facemash filled one with that particular kind of Internet-induced ickiness, combining the titillation of an anonymous chatroom with the meanness of an old-fashioned slam book. It was callow, it was distasteful, and it was a lot of fun.
Facemash managed to offend a lot of people, including Harvard University, seeing as Facemash violated all sorts of usage, privacy, and property codes. Mark was hauled before the Ad Board, Harvard College’s administrative board, and rumor had it around Kirkland House that he was almost thrown out of school.
Facemash exposed a few of Harvard’s vulnerabilities—or, perhaps I should say, Harvard’s openings. First, Harvard was simply too sprawling to provide the kind of meaningful online community that students wanted. Second, college students were anxious about their image on the Internet. Finally, there was an unmet demand for an online “register” of some sort, a place where students could see each other not just in their official Harvard representations (those improbably persistent, unflattering freshmen ID photos) but exert control over the expression of their protean self-development.
In the wake of Facemash, the Harvard Crimson editorial board published a piece entitled “Put Online a Happy Face,” urging the school to create a campus-wide facebook. This had been a refrain across the school in recent months.
“I actually didn't think that Harvard was the kind of place where it really mattered what final club you were in,” says Mark’s acquaintance from Exeter and Harvard, drawing contrast to the film’s script, which portrays final club members as revered Olympian gods. “But Harvard was competitive enough that how many friends you had generated weird competition. That was much more reflective of the kind of social economy at Harvard.”
This context is critical to understanding Zuckerberg’s MO when he launched Facebook, in February 2004. Chris Hughes—Zuckerberg’s Harvard roommate and later Facebook’s communications czar—and I had “friended” the old-fashioned way: We were French A conversation partners. Hughes explained to me in a recent interview that Facebook was “one in a series of really simple ideas that came out of H-33 [their dorm room] in Kirkland House.” First, CourseMatch, which allowed students to see what classes other students were taking, then Facemash, then Facebook.
“In general, in our room, we were always talking about what people were doing on the Web, what people needed to do to make their lives work better,” Hughes said. “Mark was the coder of the group, and also really the driving force behind a lot of the brainstorming and conversation.”
In creating Facebook, then, Zuckerberg had hit on the school’s weakness. Harvard does a lot of things. It churns students through lectures and labs. It launches curricular reviews and stem-cell initiatives; it raises money, and buys up property (or at least, it used to). But Harvard could not manufacture community. Facebook could.
Thefacebook.com was the logical successor to Friendster, MySpace, and various blogging sites that had taken off in recent months. “None of them had really figured out how to make people feel comfortable sharing information in a trusted, controlled environment,” Hughes told me. “It has been one of Facebook's defining features.”
“The story about how we got started in Facebook is not particularly exciting,” Hughes added. “From what I’ve heard, the movie has turned it into a story of sex, a story of bad ambition, thrown in some drugs and scandal, and that is what sells movies, but unfortunately the reality was a lot more boring than that.”
Indeed. If only our lives at Harvard were actually as scandalous as Aaron Sorkin imagined; if only final club parties were actually that fun; if only Harvard women were so buxom.
The first article on thefacebook.com in the Crimson (for which I was a writer) was written in early February 2004 by Alan Tabak, one of the paper’s student-life reporters. He picked up the story from the “dayslot,” a hodgepodge of random topics disseminated by an editor. “I was not assigned the story directly,” Tabak wrote to me last week. “A sure sign that thefacebook.com in its infancy was not considered a big deal.”
In the article, Mark himself shrugged off his own site. “[Thefacebook.com] is basically the same thing on a different scale. It’s not very novel.” Zuckerberg exhibited a typically cavalier, insurgent attitude—and a recklessness with words: “I think it’s kind of silly that it would take the university a couple of years to get around to [building a facebook],” he said. “I can do it better than they can, and I can do it in a week.”
“At the time that I wrote the article,” Tabak remembered, “it really did seem as if thefacebook was nothing more than a remedy for the fact that Harvard College did not have an accessible online facebook. I reported Mark's assurances that thefacebook would never be used for profit and probably would not even be expanded beyond Harvard.”
Tabak noted that when he started researching the first article, thefacebook had about 400 users—“I was user 424 when I registered in order to research the story,” he said—but by the time he was finished with the piece only a few hours later, membership had climbed past 600.
About a week later, Tabak wrote a second article about thefacebook.com. By now, the site had over 4,000 members, including—according to Zuckerberg—about 55 percent of Harvard undergraduates. To put that into perspective, only 3,077 undergrads voted for Undergraduate Council president the past December, less than half the student body.
Thefacebook.com had an anti-authority, subversive edge to it that appealed to people. Not only was it filling a need that the school wasn’t filling, but there was the vague sense that we weren’t supposed to have this information. Facebook was small and nimble, grassroots. It was exclusive (only Harvard email addresses could be members), but within this safe space, Facebook was wide open.
Chris Hughes says Mark’s post-Facemash status might have contributed to the local success of Facebook, but says that the keys to the global phenomenon were built into the platform from the start. “I think a lot of Facebook’s success had to do with building a network that was engineered for people to connect with people they were already friends with. To share with those people in a relatively closed environment. It was about enabling those connections, not with making new friends.”
Professor Benedict H. Gross, who was dean of Harvard College from 2003 until 2007, the time period in which Facebook transformed the school, expressed admiration for Zuckerberg, and says he now sends good undergraduates from the Math Department out to work with Zuckerberg in Palo Alto. “I was immediately impressed with his talents, and I’ve been even more impressed by the way that Facebook has transformed social life.”
The Social Network deals with the founding of Facebook in the context of an early controversy: Just after thefacebook.com launched, three Harvard seniors accused Mark of stealing their idea for a site called Harvard Connection (later ConnectU), which Mark, they alleged, was supposed to help them build.
Evidence certainly seems to support that Mark had made promises to Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (super-jocks and members of a final club), and their business partner Divya Narendra, but never followed through, choosing instead to launch thefacebook.com.
This suit was settled out of court, and might have been left behind years ago, were it not for a few more disturbing stories about Mark’s character, evidence of abuse of power that has surfaced in recent months.
In March 2010, the website Business Insider ran a story—surprisingly under-circulated—in which sources (Business Insider got access to instant messages and emails, and conducted “more than a dozen” interviews) claim that Mark Zuckerberg, anxious about an upcoming article on the ConnectU scandal, hacked into the email accounts of two Crimson reporters, using login data he found by applying failed thefacebook.com passwords to Harvard email accounts. Later that summer, Business Insider sources show him hacking into ConnectU founders’ email addresses, forming fake Facebook profiles, and tinkering with the ConnectU site.
Business Insider also has an instant-message exchange that supposedly took place between Zuckerberg and a friend in February 2004, in which Mark boasts about all the private information he’s gleaned as Facebook czar, and calls the Harvard students that trust him “dumb fucks.” (A Facebook spokesperson told Business Insider: “We’re not going to debate the disgruntled litigants and anonymous sources who seek to rewrite Facebook’s early history or embarrass Mark Zuckerberg with dated allegations.”)
It’s amazing, I’ve often reflected to my friends, how “dumb” we all were, not just for what we put on Facebook, but what we wrote in emails, in instant messages. (Just ask Mark Zuckerberg.) None of us really knew to have our guards up about this kind of stuff. There was a kind of playfulness about it. In the words of a friend of mine, a fellow Crimson reporter: “We had no idea.”
It wasn’t just that we had no idea. We were excited. Putting up our own information, making us accessible, speaking for ourselves, seemed the right and daring thing to do.
Now, all this “freedom” seems restrictive, terrifying. As I consider the manifold stories about Zuckerberg that have come to light, I am reminded of the recent controversies over WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Now these two men, both renegade computer geeks with a strong sense of self-righteousness and an antiauthoritarian streak, find themselves in the harsh spotlight that they once shed on the Establishment. Its adherence to the facts aside, The Social Network raises some critical questions: Should we care if Mark Zuckerberg is a genius entrepreneur or creepy opportunist? Is it fair to criticize his character? Does it matter if the CEO of a company founded on a platform of privacy and information sharing has a cavalier attitude toward (some might say a blatant disregard for) rules and personal data?
I spoke to Hughes about some of the privacy problems that Facebook has faced over the years, the so-called Facebook backlash, which began when the site began to sell ads and expand and has continued as people grow nervous about their Internet presence.
"Facebook has had to really be much more thoughtful about its own terms of use and privacy,” Hughes told me. “I don't think that Facebook has ever really disrespected individuals' privacy or ownership over their information."
It is somewhat ironic that Mark, like his company, has been accused of breaching individuals’ privacy. It is also somewhat fitting that his behavior as a college student has tarnished his name. In the Facebook era, this is what we fear most of all.
Rebecca Davis O'Brien is a writer based in New York City. She served as an associate managing editor and columnist at the Harvard Crimson and has written for The New York Times, Parade, and Forbes.com, among other publications. Her first book (working title: The King's English), a memoir of her two years working at a boarding school in Jordan, will be published by Algonquin Books in 2011.
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Remembering They Live
0 0 Tom White Sunday, August 2, 2015
If your childhood was spent watching WWF in the 80’s, it no doubt took a Bulldog off the top rope this weekend, with the news that ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper (the state name of Roderick George Toombs) passed away at the age of 61 due to cardiac arrest. His larger than life persona delighted many a generation of wrestling fans, and if there ever was a Heel (wrestling speak for a bad guy) hall of fame, he would have an entire wing dedicated to him. But we’re not called The Wrestling Bit, so we look to Hot Rod’s massive contribution to the cinematic, and more importantly, pop culture landscape. No, not the music video for The Goonies that he appeared in with a handful of other WWF Superstars, or even cult classic Hell Comes to Frogtown. I am, of course, talking about They Live, John Carpenter’s underrated cult masterpiece.
Released in 1988, They Live was adapted from Ray Nelson’s short story ‘Eight O’Clock in the Morning’ by Carpenter, who used the story’s premise of an everyman who discovers the entire human race is being controlled by alien invaders to make a more politically subversive statement outing Carpenter’s growing distaste at the increasing commercialisation of politics and culture of the 1980’s. From this came the tale of Piper’s Nada, a unemployed drifter seeking work in L.A., who happens upon a special pair of sunglasses that shows him the world in black and white (quite literally), cutting through the falseness of the everyday and showing him the terrible truth: aliens have taken over the planet, and are hiding in plain sight. Billboards hide subliminal messages ordering us to obey and conform, while the wealthy and powerful are actually horrifying, skull faced aliens ruling over all (a fantastic practical effect that admittedly works better in black and white), manipulating people to spend money, breed, and accept the lie they have created. Of course, Nada and his side kick Frank (Keith David) decide to deal with this the only way they know how: by wrecking all sorts of shop.
You would think, considering the amount of times they collaborated together, Kurt Russell would have been a shoe in for the role of Nada, but Carpenter wanted a truly rugged individual for the lead role. Piper was cast after the director saw him at Wrestlemania III, where he trounced Adrian Adonis in a Hair vs. Hair match. This proved to be just one choice that made the film the long lasting success it is, with Piper ad-libbing most of its iconic lines, most notably ‘I have come to chew bubble-gum and kick ass, and I’m all out of bubble-gum’ which came from a list of ideas he had from wrestling promos. David’s casting came about from Carpenter remembering his role in The Thing, with the role of Frank being written specially for him. Really, the movie probably wouldn’t have worked without this leading pair. Nada wasn’t your usual hero and Frank wasn’t your usual sidekick, and with these roles, Piper and David excelled. No more so than in the crown jewell of They Live, the scene everyone talks about, the fight scene.
Oh, that glorious, glorious fight scene. Let me break it down: Nada really wants Frank to put on the sunglasses. Frank doesn’t. That’s all it takes for five minute and twenty second fight scene ensues. They tackle each other. They bite each other. They suplex each other. They even take a break halfway through. One of the most brutal, drag out, and absolutely hilarious brawls in cinema history, it was designed, choreographed, and rehearsed in the back of Crapenter’s production office, a process which took over three weeks. Originally envisioned to last only twenty seconds, Piper and David just went at each other, deciding to fight for real and only faking hits to the face and groin. Carpenter was so impressed that he decided to keep the entire scene intact, and that’s how we got one of the greatest fight scenes in cinema history.
Despite my gushing until now, They Live is by no means a perfect movie, but what works far outweighs what doesn’t, and its legacy has endured to this day. The iconic bubblegum line has being used time and time again, famously as the catchphrase of computer game character Duke Nukem, and the fight scene has being parodied a number of times, most notably the South Park episode Cripple Fight which recreated it shot for shot, and the video game Saints Row IV which reunited Piper and David, in digital form, for a mission which closely followed the plot of They Live. It also served as one of the influences for the hardcore wrestling scenes in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler.
Much like the aliens scheme, They Live is everywhere, worming its way into our everyday lives without us even knowing, and the bona fide cut legend that is Roddy Piper is in a big way responsible for that. For that we salute you, and always promise never to have enough bubblegum.
RIP Sir.
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Irish Indie Film Twice Shy Announces A Fantastic Soundtrack
0 0 Tom White Thursday, June 16, 2016
Twice Shy, a coming of age, independent Irish film that tackles the topical subject of abortion, is delighted to announce that it will feature a host of Irish talent on the soundtrack of the film.
The film’s soundtrack will include a wide range of Irish talent ranging from rising stars such as Gavin James and Molly Sterling, along with beloved bands such as Ash and the Corrs. The filmmakers behind this charming, low budget movie are thrilled by the addition of these big names to the film.
Gavin James is quickly becoming a household name both in Ireland and the US thanks to his remarkable debut album ‘Bitter Pill’. Winner of the Choice Music Award in 2015 and headlining a major show at Dublin’s 3 Arena this coming December, he is quickly on his way to being one Ireland’s biggest exports.
Ash will feature two of their songs from their critically acclaimed album ‘Kablammo’. Going from strength to strength over the last 20 years Ash continue to shine as one of Ireland’s most cherished bands. Molly Sterling made waves in 2015 for being the youngest Irish representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. With an upcoming EP soon to be released, Molly is one to watch as one country's most exciting young artists. The Corrs, off the back of their successful worldwide comeback tour, round off an amazing soundtrack with the inclusion of one of their hit singles from the album ‘White Light’. Finally the film will also feature a moving original score, which was composed and arranged by Patrizio Knight.
Twice Shy is a modern coming of age drama that revolves around a young, unmarried couple who set off on a road trip from Ireland to London as the result of an unplanned pregnancy. The film charts the ups and downs of their relationship by juxtaposing their dramatic journey with flashbacks to happier times in their romance.
The film was directed by Tom Ryan and produced by Fionn Greger. Speaking about the soundtrack, Ryan said “It’s such an amazing coup for us to have such a talented and ecclectic selection of amazing artists to contribute to the soundtrack of our movie. For an indie movie this really is a dream come true.” Greger added, “For a contemporary film you need contemporary music and I feel that we have now found that in the songs that will feature in the film.”
The film stars Shane Murray-Corcoran and Iseult Casey in the lead roles and features support from a stellar cast including Ardal O’ Hanlon (After Hours, Fr. Ted), Pat Shortt (The Guard, Garage), Mary Conroy (Ros na Run) and Paul Ronan (Love / Hate). Soho Square Studios in London are currently finishing the mix of the film in preparation for festival screenings over the coming months.
The Movie Bit: Irish Indie Film Twice Shy Announces A Fantastic Soundtrack
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The 10 Best Krautrock Albums To Own On Vinyl
On April 18th 2017 » By Peter Cauvel
More than 20 years after the end of World War II, German culture hadn’t fully recovered from the Nazi era. The first wave of rock and roll had come and gone, with nothing to show for it. But the hippie movement of the late ‘60s — psychedelic music coupled with political consciousness — sparked a new creativity in the German youth.
Bands like Amon Düül II, formed at a political commune, and Can, inspired by Andy Warhol’s Factory scene, began using their free jazz and avant-garde classical backgrounds to play a new type of psychedelic rock. It has lots of names — Deutsch-Rock (“German rock”), kosmische musik (“cosmic music”), but the one that stuck was coined somewhat sarcastically by the British music press: krautrock.
There’s no magic recipe for krautrock. If there was, it’d be a shitty recipe, because everything came out so differently. But there is one common thread running through all of it: There’s a freedom in all of these albums, an interstellar exploration through music — whether it’s with guitars, drones, or synths — that’s futuristic but completely human (thus, no Kraftwerk on this list, despite their image being the one most associated with krautrock). No matter what the ingredients, these 10 bands always reach that same feeling, even in different forms.
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Can: Tago Mago
Can is probably the most recognizable name on this list, and for good reason. Their influence is all over the music that sprouted in their wake (the Fall, Sonic Youth and Radiohead to name a few). The funky rhythmic jams of sides 1 and 2, powered by Jaki Liebezeit’s powerhouse drumming, give way to avant-garde freakouts on sides 3 and 4.
Tago Mago is all about control. The loose improvised jamming was meticulously pieced together in the editing room (“Halleluhwah” somehow feels concise at over 18 minutes), and the loss of control of the second disc coalesces into prayer-like beauty.
Neu!: Neu!
Drummer Klaus Dinger and guitarist Michael Rother briefly played together in an early incarnation of Kraftwerk, before leaving to form Neu! (The drummer-less void led Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider to start making Kraftwerk music with electronics and a drum machine). “Hallogallo,” the first song of Neu!’s self-titled debut, hits you right away with what became Dinger’s trademark motorik drumbeat: the pulsing kick and snare that mimics the sounds of the highway. Much of the record is powered by the rhythms, and Rother’s atmospheric guitars steer Dinger’s engine to cosmic heights. Wilco basically lifted “Hallogallo” wholesale for their song “Spiders (Kidsmoke),” and the chugging bass engulfed by swirling feedback of “Negativland” definitely gave Sonic Youth a few ideas.
Guru Guru: UFO
If you want some indication of Guru Guru’s sound, look no further than track five of UFO: “Der LSD-Marsch” (“The LSD March”). Their 1970 debut record is essential acid rock — loud, abrasive and oozing with groove. Guru Guru managed to lock onto a ferocity that was only really matched by Jimi Hendrix, but with a more experimental edge that only could have come out of the ‘70s German rock scene. It’s hard to imagine so much sound coming from only three musicians — drummer Mani Neumeier wailing over his crashing cymbals and Uli Trepte’s bass bubbling just below the surface of Ax Genrich’s guitar solos.
Fortunately, Guru Guru wasn’t as short-lived as most of the bands on this list. Neumeier is still going strong with the band, including collaborative work with Japanese psych rockers Acid Mothers Temple, which they’ve christened Acid Mothers Guru Guru.
Cluster: Zuckerzeit
Not all krautrock bands created acid-soaked guitar rock. Cluster made some genre-defining albums without really being “rock” at all. The duo of Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius created a proto-industrial, dark electronic sound on their first two records. So when they brightened it up on their third, they went all the way and playfully titled it Zuckerzeit, or “Sugar time.” Songs like “Caramel” laid a foundation for electropop. Even with drum machines and synths, Cluster pushed past the rigidity that defined their more successful peers in Kraftwerk, making spacier, improvisational electronic music.
Faust: IV
Faust put out four records between 1971 and 1973 (plus a collaboration with avant-garde composer Tony Conrad). All of them are essential, but IV may be the best starting point. Songs like “The Sad Skinhead” and “Jennifer” are more melodic than anything they had done up to that point. Though it’s their most accessible, IV is still Faust. Opener “Krautrock” is a nearly 12-minute drone and feedback rocker, and “Just a Second” features wild electronic noise. Apparently, Faust had no intention of becoming a conventional rock band either. Virgin rejected their fifth album, and the band broke up shortly after.
Amon Düül II: Yeti
The West German political art commune Amon Düül actually spawned two bands of the same name. Although the II in their name might make you think they’re merely a sequel, Amon Düül II eclipses their former communal partners. Their debut Phallus Dei is one of the first krautrock records, along with Can’s Monster Movie. But their follow up, 1970’s Yeti, has a slight edge. The massive double album is split between compositions (disc 1) and improvisations (disc 2), but both sets feature some of the best progressive psychedelic rock ever recorded. Even as they became a somewhat successful band, Amon Düül II held fast to their origins, with all the band members living together.
Harmonia: Musik von Harmonia
In 1971, Cluster’s Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius moved to the countryside of Forst, Germany. When Neu!’s Michael Rother visited to jam, something clicked. “This sounds romantic — it was like love at first sight,” he said in a press release for the Harmonia vinyl reissues. “I left Dusseldorf and Neu! behind and moved to Forst.”
Cluster’s pastoral relocation and their work with Rother sparked a change in their own music, moving away from the noise of their earlier work for Zuckerzeit. And Harmonia also changed Rother. In an interview with The New Yorker in 2016, he said he had “left behind the idea of being a guitar hero,” opting to focus on “one note, one guitar string” instead. You can hear his guitar’s steady roar beneath the jumping synths of “Watussi” and its slow rumble in the ambient “Sehr Kosmisch.”
After hearing Musik von Harmonia, Brian Eno called Harmonia “the world’s most important rock band.” (The trio eventually even recorded with Eno, later released as Tracks and Traces.)
Agitation Free: 2nd
If you made a list of the greatest jam bands of the ‘70s, you’d probably say Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers Band and Agitation Free. Well, probably not the last one, but if you’ve heard Agitation Free’s forgotten classic 2nd, you might. The bluesy guitar interplay that defined these American bands is definitely there, but there’s something wholly unique about Agitation Free. Lutz Ulbrich and Stefan Diez’s soaring guitars convey a sense of pure freedom. The dueling guitars of “Laila” swirl around play off each other before coming together on the melody, an octave apart, like some cosmic “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed.” The guitars definitely steal the show, but the bass is always right there. Michael Gunther deftly dances with the riffs as easily as Phil Lesh does with the Dead.
La Düsseldorf: Viva
Once Neu! split, Klaus Dinger formed La Düsseldorf — not nearly as well known as his earlier bands, but every bit as influential. David Bowie went as far as to call them “the soundtrack of the ‘80s.” Their self-titled record gave Bowie and Brian Eno a blueprint for their Berlin trilogy, but its follow up, 1978’s Viva, is where La Düsseldorf perfected their sound. Bowie was pretty spot on; Dinger and co. pushed Neu!’s sound firmly into the future. The beautiful atmospheric synths of songs like “Rheinita” and the 20-minute epic closer “Cha Cha 2000” don’t sound spacey or experimental, but a definite precursor for what would come in the next decade.
Tangerine Dream: Alpha Centauri
With over 100 albums to their name (seriously!), Tangerine Dream can be daunting for first timers. By their second LP, the band had abandoned the psychedelic avant-garde rock of most of their peers for deep, atmospheric synthesizers. But nothing lives up to the title “kosmische musik” like TD’s ‘70s records. Alpha Centauri is a transitional record, holding over the flute, organ and drums of their debut but layered within dark, spacey textures. Mid-’70s synth-and-sequencer records like Phaedra and Rubycon make for good entry points to Tangerine Dream, but Alpha Centauri manages to feel like a soundtrack for a black hole while maintaining the organic feel of their original krautrock.
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Thankfulness Russian Folk Tale: The Fisherman and the Golden Fish https://sites.google.com/site/valueslessons
Once upon a time an old man and his wife lived on the shore of the sea. They were poor and lived in an old mud hut. He made a living by fishing, while his wife washed peoples clothes. One day he caught a golden fish in his net. The fish begged him, "Let me go, old man. I will reward you for my freedom by giving you anything you desire."
The fisherman was astonished and frightened because he had never before heard a fish speak. He said kindly to it, "God bless you, Golden Fish. I don't need anything from you," and he let the fish go. (Show Image 1)
The fisherman went home and told his wife the wonderful thing that had happened to him at the shore. But she cursed angrily at him and said, "You are such a fool not to make a wish! (Show Image 2) At least you could have asked for a new wash tub, since ours is broken."
The old man returned to the seashore, where little waves were rushing up onto the sand. He called out to the golden fish. It swam up and asked, "What do you need, old man?" He bowed and replied that his wife cursed at him because she needed a new wash tub. The fish promised to grant his wish.
When the fisherman returned home he saw the new wash tub, and was very thankful for it. But his wife shouted at him, "'You are such a fool! Go back to the fish! Ask for a new house."
The fisherman went back to the sea, where the water and sky had become overcast. He called the fish, who swam up to where he was standing. He apologized and said that his ungrateful wife wanted a new house. The fish promised to fulfil his wish.
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When he returned, he saw a nice new cottage with a gate. He was delighted, but his wife shouted even louder, "You are such a fool! Go back to the fish! I don't want be an ordinary peasant, I want be a noblewoman!"
The poor old fisherman went to the sea. The waves were beginning to rise and beat on the shore, and the sky had become even darker. He called the golden fish, who swam up and asked him what he wanted. He bowed humbly and explained, "Don't be angry, Your Majesty Golden Fish. My wife has gone mad; she wants be a noblewoman."
The fish agreed to grant this wish. (Show Image 4)
And what did he see when he returned home? The hut had become a great house. His wife was wearing an expensive fur jacket and had a headdress of brocade. She had pearl necklaces and gold rings. There were many servants bustling around her. She hit and slapped them. The fisherman said, "Greetings, Milady, I hope you are satisfied now." She didn't deign to answer him, but instead ordered him off to live in the stable.
Several weeks later, the wife commanded her husband to appear before her and instructed him to go to the sea again, saying, "I am still subject to the rule of those above me! I want be queen of all the land!" The old man, frightened, said, "Are you crazy, old woman? You have no knowledge of courtly manners. Everybody will make fun of you." At these words his wife stamped her feet with rage, slapped his face, and ordered him to obey.
The old man trudged down to the seashore. The waves were crashing onto the shore, the sky and sea had become almost black. He called the golden fish.
When it swam to the shore, he bowed humbly and said that his wife now wanted to be queen of all the land. The fish comforted him and sent him home.
When the fisherman arrived, he found a great palace, inside which his wife was seated on a throne.
Lords and other noblemen were her servants. Around her stood menacing guards.
The old man was terrified, but approached the queen and said, "Greetings, Your Majesty. I hope you are happy now." She did not even look at him, and her guards drove him out.
Several weeks later the queen sent for the old fisherman and again ordered him to go to the sea, this time to ask the golden fish to become her servant and make her Empress of Land and Sea. The fisherman was so terrified of her that he did not even protest. He submissively plodded back to the sea.
A terrible storm was raging there, with lightning, thunder, and giant waves crashing against the shore. The old man yelled as loud as he could and the fish rose out of the waves. He explained to her what his wife wanted now. This time the golden fish did not reply, but turned and swam away out to sea.
After waiting a long time in vain for any answer, the fisherman returned home, where he found his old mud hut, and his poor old wife with a broken wash tub in front of her. And he was very thankful.
1. What did the fish give to the fisherman and his wife that they were grateful for? (The fisherman was grateful for the new wash bowl and the new cottage. His wife wasn't grateful for anything.)
2. How did the wife's attitude to her husband change as the story went on? Why? (She got bossier, prouder, more demanding and more violent as she gained more wealth and power)
3. Who do you think the golden fish was? What makes you think this? (Perhaps a sea king. Because it had magic power and the sea reflected its moods)
4. What is the best way to stop becoming proud if you become rich, famous or powerful? (Keep an attitude of thankfulness, give to others in need.)
5. How do you think the fisherman's wife may have changed once she was back in the old cottage again? (Stayed angry and bitter at what she'd lost, or become humbler, wiser and more thankful for what little she had; it's her choice.)
Optional Colouring In A picture of the fisherman and the golden fish is found at: http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/magical-gold-fish-old-fisher-14555769.jpg
Print out the images or make a powerpoint presentation with them, to help your students to visualise the story.
1. http://www.duotales.com/skazki/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/GoldFish.png2.http://luntiki.ru/uploads/images/3/4/d/b/3/e37a97e372.jpg
3 http://luntiki.ru/uploads/images/e/7/7/3/3/fa4da10095.jpg
4 http://galeri7.uludagsozluk.com/228/balik-ve-balikci-hakkinda-bir-masal_394408_m.jpg
5 https://www.pinterest.nz/OnceUponABlog/fisherman-his-wife/?lp=true
6. http://s017.radikal.ru/i417/1301/48/dde3f8821fef.jpg
7 http://900igr.net/datai/literatura/Skazki-Pushkina/0017-010-Pochemu-baba-ostalas-u-razbitogo-koryta.jpg
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Lives: London, UK
Jordan says his first experience in business was at the age of six, selling his family’s litter of kittens in the playground. He describes himself as optimistic, charismatic and calm under pressure, though he thinks he can also be unforgiving and finds it difficult to ask for help. He enjoys going to technology events and recording his own podcasts and is passionate about encouraging young people to start their own businesses.
He says: “I’ve worked in third-world countries and first-world countries. I know what it’s like to struggle to feed kids and I know what it’s like to fly in a private jet.”
Jason Leech
Occupation: Historian and Property Entrepreneur
Born in Athens, Jason says he has never been ‘formally employed’, instead remaining self-employed and a student throughout his career to date. His hobbies include gardening and croquet and he lists his passions as knowledge and language. He cites himself as a devotee of Question Time and says that the brands he has the most respect for are John Lewis/Waitrose and American Express, as they stand for quality and high-standard customer service.
He says: “Some people might come to this process with a game plan. I just feel my effortless superiority will take me all the way.”
Occupation: Company Director
Lives: Cardiff, UK
Alex says his greatest strengths lie in design and calculations and he describes himself as passionate, hardworking and determined. He began his working life as a housekeeper in a hotel and started his first company at 19. He is inspired in business by brands such as Tom Ford and figures such as James Caan, and enjoys playing the guitar and sport shooting in his spare time.
He says: “I’m an old head on young shoulders. I believe that I’m the new breed of businessman that this process requires.”
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Uzma describes herself as confident, creative and spiritual, though says she can lack patience. She has set up a non-profit organisation to help women reach out to one another in times of need and lists being nominated for an Asian Women of Achievement Awards as one of her greatest business achievements. She says the brand she is most inspired by is MAC, because they have created a product that most women think they can’t live without.
She says: “If I believe in something, I will go to the end to make sure it’s done.”
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Lives: Bristol, UK
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She says: “I don’t have a multi-million pound business but what I do have is the raw talent, the drive and the competitive streak.”
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Lives: Wigan, UK
Rebecca would describe herself as authentic, generous and adventurous, though says she can be very impatient. Now working in medical sales, her first job was in a Post Office shop. She lists Alex Polizzi and Mary Portas as business figures that inspire her because they are willing to take on any challenge.
She says: “I’m a pretty tough person. I don’t let people walk all over me in life or in business. And if somebody crosses me, it’s game over.”
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Occupation: Recruitment Manager
Lives: Rickmansworth, UK
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She says: “When it comes to business, I am the complete package and when it comes to sales, I’m the best.”
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Lives: St Albans, UK
Mother-of-one Luisa describes herself as confident, logical and outspoken and cites her greatest business achievement to be the ability to create new jobs through the success of her businesses. She lists her favourite business brands as Christian Louboutin and Virgin Atlantic for their strong brand identities. Her first job was as a Saturday girl in an estate agent and she now owns her own cupcake shop, baking website and electronics business.
She says: “I have the energy of a Duracell bunny, sex appeal of Jessica Rabbit, and a brain like Einstein.”
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Born in Northern Ireland, Leah now lives in London and is kept busy by her work as a practising doctor. She is passionate about medicine and health and says her friends would describe her as caring, kind and professional, though she can be too ambitious.
She says: “I’m very hard working and feel I can bring youth, vibrancy, enthusiasm and a touch of class to any business I’m part of.”
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She says: “I’m half machine. I can process things at a speed that is out of this world!”
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2012-13 UC San Diego Athletes of the Week
By UCSD
Release: Sep 05, 2011
2012-13 Athlete of the Week Winners
UCSD competed at the IRA Championships this past week, sending Varsity 8 and JV 8 boats to take on the nation's best. The V8 was comprised of coxswain Sean Dougherty (pictured), Zach Antunes, Zack Attaran, Mark Bennett, John Buda, Scott Kennedy, Brendan Stainfield, Forrest Sundquist and Kyle Wilson. The JV 8 crew was coxswain Kasey Benjamin, Austin Dahlenburg, Tom Forter, Erik Goebel, Jason Heinien, Daniel Mahan, Jack Maxson, Kendall Pick and Chris Weir. It was UCSD's third-ever trip to the IRAs.
UCSD's Varsity 8 crew placed third overall at the NCAA Division II Championships in Indianapolis. Rowing for the Tritons were coxswain Catherine Sheffler (pictured), Alyssa Dixon-Word, Claire Duesdieker, Kelsey Henck, Shruti Kamath, Kelly Peterson, Michelle Robbins, Rachel Schneiderman and Ashley Travaglione. The Tritons were third in Friday's heat race and won Saturday's repechage to advance to the grand final, where they placed behind powerhouses Nova Southeastern and Barry.
Nash Howe - Track & Field
Howe became a first-time All-American with a seventh-place finish in the javelin in his NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships debut Saturday. The sophomore, who had won his first conference title back on May 4, produced an effort of 214’11” on his fifth of six throws. His 202’11” on the second of three preliminary attempts earlier had advanced him through in eighth to earn three more chances. Howe took advantage in becoming the only competitor to improve his standing with those three extra tosses.
Sabrina Pimentel - Track & Field
Pimentel improved four spots from her No. 13 seeding and placed ninth in the 800 meters in her second straight NCAA Championships appearance Saturday in Pueblo, Colo. She first went 2:11.46 for third in the third and final heat on Friday evening, good enough for the eighth-fastest among nine finals qualifiers. She then posted a 2:13.35 mark in that final the next night, narrowly missing out on a second All-America distinction for the sophomore's young career.
Rajeev Herekar - Tennis
Herekar's singles win last Wednesday clinched No. 14 UCSD's come-from-behind 5-3 victory over Southern Indiana in the round of 16 at the NCAA Championships in Arizona. Against Santiago Lopez in the third spot, Herekar dropped the first set, 6-3, but battled for 7-5 and 6-4 wins in the next two to give the Tritons the deciding fifth point. UCSD was down 3-0 after being swept in doubles play, but won five consecutive singles match-ups to earn the win. It was the Tritons' 12th trip to the NCAA postseason in the last 13 years.
Sarah Lizotte - Water Polo
Lizotte scored a team-high nine goals at the NCAA Championship Tournament to lead the Tritons to a program-best sixth place finish. The junior utility came away with five goals in UCSD's victory over Pomona-Pitzer Saturday. She posted a hat trick in Sunday’s overtime finalé against No. 10 Princeton and opened the tourney with a goal against No. 6 Hawai’i Friday. Lizotte collected All-Tournament Second Team honors. She completed her junior campaign with a team-best 92 goals, bringing her career total to 229.
Howe won the javelin at the CCAA Championships Saturday with a personal-record throw of 221'4". The sophomore clinched an NCAA Championships debut in Pueblo, Colo., at the end of the month, as the distance marked UCSD's first automatic qualifier. Howe's closest competitor was senior teammate Kiley Libuit at 189'1". The distance improved his second-place standing in the program's all-time record book, still behind only his older brother, Nick, and now within 10 feet (231'3"). UCSD placed third for a third season in a row.
Kristin Sato - Track & Field
Sato was named the CCAA Freshman of the Year as she helped UCSD to a second-place finish at the league championships Saturday, winning the triple jump with a mark of 39’5.25”. She also took third in the long jump with a distance of 17’9.5”. Sato also ran the third leg of the fourth-place 4x100 relay (48.20). The native of Milpitas was part of 21 points toward the Tritons’ team total. Sato is UCSD’s second straight CCAA Freshman of the Year on the women’s side, following Sabrina Pimentel in 2012.
Clayton Yamaguchi - Golf
A true freshman, Yamaguchi was UCSD's top golfer at last week's CCAA Championships at Hunter Ranch in Paso Robles. He posted a three-round total of 211, five-under par, to finish third in a field of 40 competitors. The Los Angeles native shot a three-under 69 in the opening round, an even-par 72 in round two and a two-under 70 in the closing round. It was the highest finish for any Triton this season. UCSD qualified for the NCAA Championships and will take part in the South Central/West Regional May 6-8 in Washington State.
Melissa Bartow - Water Polo
Bartow, the Tritons' primary two-meter player, scored five goals in UCSD’s 10-8 victory over rival Loyola Marymount in Sunday's Western Water Polo Association championship game. The junior from Walnut Creek also posted five goals in a 14-1 win against Cal State San Bernardino and added another two in the team's 14-6 victory over Colorado State. Bartow collected Tournament Most Valuable Player honors for her performance. UCSD earned the league's automatic bid into the NCAA Championships.
Scott Zeman - Baseball
Zeman saved both of UCSD's wins during a four-game series split at then-third-ranked league leader Chico State over the weekend. He got a strikeout with a runner at third to end the eighth and set the top of the Wildcat lineup down in order in the ninth in Friday night's series-opening 7-5 victory. Zeman then retired four of the five batters he faced, two on strikes, to close out Saturday's seven-inning doubleheader nightcap, a 3-1 Triton win. The right-hander now has a team-leading four saves on the year.
Lizotte posted two goals, four assists and four steals in UCSD's 15-4 victory over Cal State San Bernardino Friday as the Tritons finished the Western Water Polo Association regular season with an undefeated 7-0 record. The junior utility player added another goal and two steals against San Diego State in the 12th Annual Harper Cup. Lizotte, who was named the WWPA Player of the Year Monday, has scored three or more goals on 14 different occasions and has totaled 78 so far this season.
Leah Gonzales - Water Polo
Gonzales, a junior, was instrumental in UCSD's 9-8 comeback win over Cal State East Bay in Sunday's title game of the CCAA Championship Invitational. The utility player scored five goals, including three straight in the third quarter to tie the game at 5-5. Gonzales gave UCSD its first lead with her fifth and final goal in the fourth quarter. The Tritons conclude regular-season play this week, hosting Cal State San Bernardino Friday and playing in the 12th Annual Harper Cup Saturday at San Diego State.
Tara Vanooteghem - Tennis
Vanooteghem won every match she competed in to propel UCSD to a 3-0 week. In the No. 5 spot, she defeated singles opponents from Point Loma Nazarene and Sonoma State. She moved up to the No. 4 slot at Cal State Stanislaus and won in straight sets, dropping just a single game. Paired with Melinda Chu, Vanooteghem won all three No. 3 doubles matches as well. The junior has won nine consecutive singles matches. Overall this season, she is 18-2 in singles play and 13-6 in doubles match-ups.
Max Jiganti - Tennis
Junior Max Jiganti was victorious in all four of his singles matches last week, extending his win streak to six. Playing in the number two spot for the Tritons, he defeated opponents from No. 13 Grand Canyon, BYU-Hawaii, No. 12 Fresno Pacific and Sonoma State. Jiganti earned all four wins in straight sets. He also teamed up with Kona Luu to win three of the duo's four doubles matches at No. 2 last week. Overall this season, Jiganti is 12-5 in singles matches and 14-4 in doubles play.
Varsity 4+ Crew
UCSD won the grand final of the Collegiate DII/III/Club Varsity 4+ race Sunday at the prestigious 40th San Diego Crew Classic on Mission Bay. The crew of junior coxswain Catherine Sheffler (pictured), sophomore Mary Elizabeth Bilder, freshman Shruti Kamath, junior Olivia Knizek and sophomore Rachel Schneiderman beat second-place Central Oklahoma by almost six seconds. The Tritons also placed first in Saturday's Varsity 4+ prelim, earning them the preferred lane one in Sunday's grand final.
Carl Eberts - Volleyball
Eberts, a fifth-year senior outside hitter, became just the fifth player in UCSD program history Sunday evening to reach the 1,000-kill mark. The Huntington Beach product's second of back-to-back kills in the decisive fifth set gave him 1,000 for his career and the Tritons a temporary 6-4 lead in a match they would ultimately drop at second-ranked defending national champion UC Irvine. Eberts finished with a team-high 12 kills and now has 1,002 with four home contests left to play for the tri-captain.
Taylor Sepulveda - Softball
Sepulveda was instrumental in helping UCSD to four home wins over San Francisco State, the team's first series sweep of the season. The sophomore outfielder batted .545 (6-for-11), had an RBI in each game and stole five bases against the Gators. In the third game of the series, a 4-3 extra-inning win, she had three hits, scored a run, drove in another and swiped three bags. Her ninth-inning RBI single tied the game and she eventually came around to score, ending the contest in walk-off fashion.
Adam Campbell-Kruger - Fencing
The sophomore epeeist was one of two Tritons that competed at the NCAA Championships last week in San Antonio, Texas. Campbell-Kruger won six bouts, recording victories against fencers from Air Force, Columbia, Harvard, Notre Dame and Yale. He also picked up a 5-1 win against his Triton teammate, Luc Ginestet. Campbell-Kruger, who hails from Boulder, Colo., totaled 68 touches scored over two days of competition. He placed 23rd overall.
Luc Ginestet - Fencing
Along with Adam Campbell-Kruger, the junior epeeist represented UC San Diego at the NCAA Championships last week in San Antonio, Texas. Ginestet won four bouts over two days of competition, earning victories against fencers from Brown, Columbia, Penn and St. John's. The Los Gatos native came away with 64 touches scored and placed 24th. It was the second-straight season that UCSD qualified a pair of Tritons for the NCAA Fencing Championships.
Troy Cruz - Baseball
Cruz, a true freshman and San Diego native, earned the first win of his college career in his first start to clinch a 3-1 series victory over 28th-ranked and first-place Cal State L.A. on Saturday. In the seven-inning doubleheader nightcap in La Jolla, Cruz combined with three teammates on the 4-0 shutout of the Golden Eagles, allowing just three hits and one walk while striking out four over 5.0 frames. The two-way standout walked four times and scored three runs in a 10-2 win in Saturday's first game and hit .364 (4-for-11) for the series.
Courtney Miller - Water Polo
Freshman goalie Courtney Miller helped lead No. 17 UCSD to its second straight 4-0 week, totaling 38 saves at the Aztec Invitational. The Honolulu native had 11 stops in the final game of the tournament, a 7-4 victory over Bucknell. She also hit double digits Sunday morning with 12 blocks against No. 11 Indiana and 10 saves in a 7-6 comeback win over No. 13 Cal State Northridge. Miller leads the Western Water Polo Association with 181 saves on the year.
Dane Stassi - Swimming
Stassi swam to his first national title in the 200 butterfly at last week's NCAA Division II Championships in Birmingham, Ala., as just a sophomore. Trailing at the halfway mark, Stassi exploded over the final 100 yards and won going away by over two full seconds, breaking his own school record in 1:45.12. The Irvine native also placed seventh in the 100 fly and swam the fly leg of the 200 and 400 medley relays, both of which finished eighth. He is now a five-time All-American for his career.
Anji Shakya - Swimming
Shakya captained the Triton women to a fifth straight third-place trophy at the NCAA Championships. The junior earned All-America distinction in six of the seven events she competed in, breaking her own school record (1:47.95) in winning the 200 freestyle for her first individual national title. Shakya was also second in the 500 free and third in the 100 free. In addition to her individual accolades, the now-13-time All-American anchored the 400 and 800 free relays to third-place finishes and the 200 free relay to a fourth-place showing.
Justin Brue - Basketball
Brue posted his second and third consecutive double-doubles this past week. Against Sonoma State Thursday, the senior forward had 11 points and a game-high 11 rebounds. The next night, he totaled 18 points and another 11 rebounds vs. San Francisco State, becoming UCSD's Division II career rebounding leader. Brue now has 550 career boards, surpassing Shane Poppen, who amassed 544 between 2005 and 2009. The 11 rebounds also tied a single game career-high for Brue.
Alexis Wieseler - Water Polo
Wieseler scored a career-high seven goals to lead the 17th-ranked Tritons to an 11-10 victory over conference foe Loyola Marymount on Friday. The win kept UCSD undefeated in WWPA play at 3-0. As the primary two-meter defender, Wieseler returned to the pool Sunday and scored a team-high three goals against No. 7 UC Irvine, adding two field blocks on defense. Wieseler is now second on the team with 25 goals. The Tritons play in the Claremont Convergence tourney this Friday and Saturday.
Zach Nagengast - Track & Field
Nagengast was one of five individual winners for UCSD at the Rossi Relays in Claremont Saturday. The senior won the discus (161'5") while placing third in the hammer (181'8"). Both marks were provisional NCAA qualifiers. His hammer distance was a lifetime personal best (previously 173'7"). He ranks sixth and seventh, respectively, in those events all-time at UCSD. Nagengast won both the discus (153'10") and hammer (167'10") while finishing second in the shot put (49'4.25") at the UCSD Triangular on Feb. 16.
Kyra Scott - Tennis
Kyra Scott posted three total wins over two matches last week. She started by pairing with Melissa Breisacher at No. 1 doubles to record an 8-1 victory over Dixie State's Joy Naigeon and Paige Nisson. The freshman followed up with a 6-0, 6-0 blanking of Nisson at No. 2 singles. Against Division I Cal State Fullerton, she again played in the No. 2 singles spot and dispatched Monica Rodriguez in straight sets, 6-2 and 6-1. So far this season, Scott has registered a perfect 5-0 record in singles play for the 32nd-ranked Tritons.
Ryan Goodbrand - Baseball
Goodbrand had a third straight near-flawless outing in Friday's conference opener at home against Cal State Stanislaus, a 4-0 victory for the No. 21 Tritons. He tossed 7.0 scoreless frames to extend his shutout streak to 18.0 innings, allowing just three singles and two walks while striking out a career-high 11. Goodbrand had two strikeouts in each of the first two innings, three in the third, and two more in the seventh, including the last batter he faced on the evening. He improved to 3-0 in 2013 and 14-0 for his Triton career.
Shakya was named the MVP as the top female point-scorer at the PCSC Championships, leading No. 3 UCSD to a fifth straight league crown. The co-captain won three individual events, achieving two meet records and breaking two school records. Shakya won the 200 free, 500 free and 200 back while also anchoring the first-place 800 free relay. Her time in the 500 free (4:48.19) broke a 20-year-old meet record and lowered her own school mark. Her 200 free time (1:48.24) is a meet record and school record.
Richard Seigel - Baseball
Seigel led No. 21 UCSD to a series win at Grand Canyon over the weekend. The senior first baseman tripled to drive in two runs and then scored in a three-run eighth that was vital to a 10-5 victory Friday. In an 8-7 triumph the next night, his two-run home run tied the game at 4-4 and ignited a six-run eighth. For the series, Seigel hit .556 and slugged 1.111 with an on-base percentage of .733, scoring four runs with five RBI, six walks against just one strikeout, and two steals.
Munira Gesner - Fencing
Junior sabreur Munira Gesner won gold at Sunday's Intercollegiate Fencing Conference of Southern California Individual Championships. The sabre squad captain, Gesner defeated two-time champion Holly Moore, a senior from Arizona State, by a score of 15-13. It was just the second time a Triton had topped Moore during her career. In pool competition earlier in the day, UCSD freshman Isabelle Pinard downed Moore in a five-touch bout. The Tritons swept the men's and women's titles Sunday.
Colin Porter - Basketball
The senior recorded his first career double-double in Friday's 69-62 victory at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Porter dropped in 12 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, both career-highs for the San Diego native out of Torrey Pines High School. He was 5-for-7 from the field and also added an assist and a block. Six of his rebounds came on the offensive end. The next night, Porter had eight points and a team-best nine rebounds in a 50-34 win at Cal State L.A. He also had an assist and a steal against the Golden Eagles.
Kayla Hensel - Softball
The sophomore right-handed pitcher earned three wins over four home games against Western Oregon this past week, two as the starter and one in a relief role. In Saturday's final contest of the series, Hensel tossed a complete game shutout, leading the Tritons to a 7-0 win. She scattered four hits and struck out three. In the day's first game, she threw 1.1 scoreless relief innings as UCSD won 10-8. On Friday, Hensel started game two and struck out four in six innings of work as the Tritons downed the Wolves 6-2.
Keric Moore - Fencing
Junior foilist Keric Moore went undefeated this past Saturday at Main Gym, winning all nine of his bouts to help lead UCSD to resounding victories over Intercollegiate Fencing Conference of Southern California rivals Arizona State (24-3), Caltech (25-2) and UC Irvine (24-3). Moore gave up just five total touches - zero against UC Irvine, two to Caltech and three versus Arizona State. The Tritons are next in action at the Northwestern Invitational on Feb. 2-3, where they will take on several nationally-ranked squads.
Lizotte helped the Tritons go 3-1 in their opening weekend of play at the UC Santa Barbara Winter Invitational, scoring 13 goals with five assists and five steals. The junior utility player scored a game-high six goals, two assists and two steals in an 11-6 victory over conference opponent Sonoma State to open the second day of play. On the first day of action, Lizotte netted three goals in a 16-8 win against Santa Clara and then added four more in a 13-6 loss to No. 17 Cal State Northridge.
Drew Dyer - Basketball
Freshman forward Drew Dyer had a career night Saturday as UCSD posted a 69-60 league victory at Cal State East Bay. Dyer poured in a career-best 30 points, making good on 12 of 15 shots from the field. The Aurora, Colo., native drained all six of his three-point attempts and also chipped in with seven rebounds, two assists, a block and a steal. The night before, Dyer grabbed a game co-high eight rebounds to go along with seven points, two blocks and a steal in a 63-58 Triton win at Cal State Monterey Bay.
Anji Shakya won two individual events and also led off the fastest 200 free relay (1:36.87) in the third-ranked Tritons' home win over Cal Baptist (183-103) Saturday. The team co-captain raced 58.09 to capture the 100 back before timing 2:06.68 in the 200 to complete her backstroke double. In between, she sprinted 24.17 to touch second in the 50 free, .05 seconds behind senior teammate Amber Tan. With a 7-2 record, UCSD will complete its dual-meet schedule against Division I foes Cal Poly and the University of San Diego.
McKennan Bertsch - Basketball
The sophomore forward averaged 13.0 points and 3.5 rebounds and made 72.2% (13-for-18) of her shots from the field over a pair of CCAA victories this past week. In a 71-65 win against ninth-ranked and undefeated Chico State at home Friday, Bertsch totaled 12 points on 6-for-10 shooting. She also added three rebounds and a pair of steals. The next night at RIMAC Arena, the Santa Rosa native drained 7-of-8 shots for a career-high 14 points in an 87-60 drubbing of Cal State Stanislaus. She also had four boards and a steal.
Beth Dong - Swimming
Dong continued her impressive performances as third-ranked UCSD swept three home dual meets over the weekend. The senior co-captain was one of three Triton women to finish first in a pair of races (200 back, 400 IM) while also anchoring the fastest 800 free relay against No. 4 Incarnate Word on Friday. Then, against a pair of Division I opponents in CSU Bakersfield and LMU on Saturday, Dong was a triple-winner in the 1000 free, 200 fly and 200 IM, anchoring a victorious 400 free relay for good measure.
Vaun Lennon - Volleyball
The junior outside hitter represented the Tritons on the All-Tournament Team as UCSD took three straight top-seven opponents to five sets en route to a best-ever fourth-place showing at the annual UC Santa Barbara Asics Invitational. Following a come-from-behind victory over No. 5 Lewis, Lennon put down 12 kills in a 3-2 defeat to No. 6 UCLA. He compiled 16 kills and seven digs in another 3-2 loss to No. 7 Long Beach State in Saturday's third-place match. The Tritons host No. 9 USC Thursday at 7 p.m.
Emily Osga - Basketball
Senior guard Emily Osga netted the 1,000th point of her career Saturday as she scored a season- and game-high 23 points in a 71-54 victory at league opponent Humboldt State. The total was just two points shy of her career best. The San Diego native was 9-for-14 from the floor, which included three three-pointers. Osga also added seven rebounds and five assists, which were both season- and game-highs as well. The Tritons host Chico State this Friday and Cal State Stanislaus Saturday. Both games tip at 5:30 p.m.
Tyler McGrath - Basketball
A senior guard, Tyler McGrath scored a game-high 19 points in Sunday's contest against league opponent Cal State San Bernardino at RIMAC Arena. He was 6-for-14 from the floor, three of those shots coming from long range. McGrath drained four of five free throws and added four rebounds and a steal in 25 minutes of play. The Camarillo native leads the league in free throw percentage (86.2) and is sixth in scoring (16.7 points/game).
Daisy Feder - Basketball
Senior guard Daisy Feder continued her dominating play with 15 points and 13 rebounds in Sunday's convincing 57-34 victory over Cal State San Bernardino at RIMAC Arena. Both totals were game highs while the 13 rebounds established a new career high. She also added three assists and a pair of steals in the game. Feder currently leads the California Collegiate Athletic Association and ranks sixth in the nation in scoring. She also leads the league and is 10th nationally in three pointers per game.
The senior guard recorded game-highs with 28 points and nine rebounds in a tough 66-62 loss at CCAA opponent Cal State San Bernardino Sunday afternoon. Feder was 9-for-19 from the floor, which included four three-pointers. She made six of seven free throws and also chipped in with four assists. Feder has totaled at least 14 points in all 10 games this season. She leads the CCAA and ranks sixth nationally in scoring, averaging 21.8 points per game.
Dana Webster - Basketball
Sophomore center Dana Webster put together a solid all-around game in Sunday's 66-62 loss at Cal State San Bernardino. She totaled eight points, seven rebounds and a block in just 23 minutes of play off the bench. Webster nailed four of her six shots from the floor, good for a .667 shooting percentage. The Los Gatos native currently leads the Tritons in blocks. UCSD is off until Sunday, December 30th when it looks to even the season series against Cal State San Bernardino at RIMAC Arena (6 p.m.).
Cassie Callahan - Soccer
Cassie Callahan scored the opener 28 seconds into the second half and then set up what proved to be the game-winner to lead UCSD past Grand Valley State, 2-1, and into the NCAA Division II championship game. The Tritons were edged late by No. 2 West Florida, 1-0, in Saturday's final for their second national runner-up placement in the past three years. Callahan was one of four Tritons selected to the All-Tournament Team, completing her sophomore season as UCSD's leader in goals (10), assists (8) and points (28).
Daisy Feder was key in getting UCSD off to a 2-0 start in CCAA play. In a 70-49 victory over Cal State L.A., Feder totaled 21 points on 6-for-9 shooting. The senior guard made all seven of her free throw attempts and also added two rebounds, two steals and an assist. The next night, Feder had 25 points in a 74-66 win vs. Cal State Dominguez Hills. She tied a career-best with nine field goals, five of those coming from behind the three-point arc. She was also tabbed the CCAA Player of the Week for her efforts.
Justin Brue scored a career-high 24 points in UCSD's CCAA opener at Cal State San Bernardino Saturday night. The senior forward was 12-for-16 from the floor, also establishing a new career-best in field goals made. For the third consecutive game, Brue led the Tritons with nine rebounds while adding a pair of assists in 34 minutes played. Through four games, Brue leads UCSD in rebounding, averaging 8.0 per game, and is second in scoring with 14.5 points per game. He's made all 10 of his free throw shots thus far.
Erin Dautremont - Basketball
Erin Dautremont recorded UCSD's first double-double of the season Saturday against the University of Tampa, scoring 20 points and pulling down 10 rebounds. Both of those totals were season-highs while the 10 boards matched her career-best. She made 10 of 19 shots and added an assist. The night before, the junior forward collected 13 points, three rebounds and an assist against Azusa Pacific. Dautremont was named to the UCSD Thanksgiving Classic All-Tournament Team for her efforts.
Dane Stassi - Swimming and Diving
Dane Stassi continued a stellar start to his sophomore campaign by setting school records in both butterfly distances while winning the 200 at the annual Arena Invitational in Long Beach over the weekend. He touched first in the 200 on the final night in 1:45.65, an automatic qualifier for the NCAA Championships. Stassi's prelim time of 48.13 in the 100 also broke the school mark, before placing fifth in 48.30 at night. He helped UCSD to a third-place finish among eight other competing teams, all from Division I.
Kelcie Brodsky - Soccer
Kelcie Brodsky made three saves, including back-to-back stops in the seventh and eighth rounds, to lead fifth-ranked UCSD to a 6-5 victory in Sunday's penalty-kick tiebreaker with Colorado Mines in the NCAA Quarterfinals in Denver. The true freshman had made six saves in achieving her ninth collegiate shutout through 110 minutes of scoreless soccer leading up to the kicks. Brodsky's efforts helped the Tritons advance to the NCAA Semifinals in Evans, Ga., Nov. 29-Dec. 1.
Senior guard Tyler McGrath poured in a career-high 33 points to lead the Tritons to their first win of the season Saturday, an 83-74 victory over Fresno Pacific at the Dixie State Classic in Utah. McGrath was 10-for-17 from the field with four three-pointers. The Camarillo native drained all nine of his free throw attempts and rounded out a complete game with six rebounds and four assists in 34 minutes of play. His free throw and assist totals matched his previous career-highs.
Jessica Wi - Soccer
Wi scored the dramatic game-winner at the 103:17 mark of double overtime to give UCSD a 2-1 victory over Seattle Pacific Saturday and advance the fifth-ranked Tritons to the NCAA Championship Third Round. With less than seven minutes remaining before penalty kicks would decide matters, Hayley Johnson's corner kick eventually landed at the feet of Wi, who knocked her shot off the inside of the near post and into the far netting for her fourth goal of the year. The Tritons take on Western Washington Friday in Denver.
Joe Dietrich - Water Polo
Dietrich led the Tritons with five goals, nearly doubling his season total, in a pair of WWPA victories this past week. In an 11-8 win over UC Davis, he dished out an early assist and tacked on two goals. Against Santa Clara, the sophomore led the offense with three goals in an 11-6 victory. The Tritons have won seven straight conference games and stand at 12-2 heading into the WWPA Championship Tournament Nov. 16-18. UCSD hosts its final match this Thursday, Nov. 8 as UC Irvine visits Canyonview pool at 6 p.m.
Gabi Hernandez - Soccer
Hernandez scored critical goals in both games this past weekend to lead the 13th-ranked Tritons to their record eighth CCAA championship. The Altadena native produced the 87th-minute winner in Friday's 2-1 semifinal victory against Cal State Stanislaus. In Sunday's final against Sonoma State, Hernandez opened the scoring 24 seconds into the second half, and later converted on her opportunity during the decisive penalty-kick tiebreaker. The senior tri-captain thus earned Tournament MVP honors.
Josh Stiling - Water Polo
After nearly a month away from competition, Stiling returned this past week in a big way, totaling nine goals over two WWPA victories. In a 16-5 win over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps at Canyonview Pool, the junior driver scored three goals and added a field block. The next day against Pomona-Pitzer, Stiling found the net six times in UCSD's 12-3 rout. He also had three steals and a field block. The Tritons have won four of their last five contests and play their final regular season road matches this week.
Izzy Pozurama - Soccer
Pozurama scored a pair of game-winning goals for the Tritons this past week. She nabbed a double-overtime decider to complete the comeback as UCSD turned a 2-0 halftime deficit into a 3-2 win at Cal State East Bay Friday. The sophomore then put in a rebound to open the scoring midway through the first half of a 2-0 win at Cal State Monterey Bay Sunday. Pozurama shares the team lead with eight goals, which have all come over the past seven games. She has accounted for the game-winning scores in four of those contests.
Brian Donohoe - Water Polo
Donohoe helped lead the 11th-ranked Tritons to two key WWPA wins this past week. The senior utility player scored twice in a 10-9 victory over No. 13 Air Force at Canyonview. He then matched his single-game season-high by tossing in three goals in a 7-4 win over ninth-ranked rival LMU on the road. The Upland native also tallied a pair of goals in a loss at No. 2 UCLA, bringing his season total to 18. UCSD hosts a pair of matches this week with Claremont on Oct. 26 (6 p.m.) and Pomona-Pitzer on Oct. 27 (11 a.m.).
Marie Diaz - Cross Country
A true freshman, Diaz was UCSD's top finisher at Saturday's California Collegiate Athletic Association Cross Country Championships, placing ninth overall among a field of 99 runners. She posted a time of 22:22.0 on the 6k North Campus Course in La Jolla and was named the CCAA Freshman of the Year for her efforts. A native of San Leandro, Diaz and the rest of the 30th-ranked Tritons will next be in action at the NCAA West Regionals in Hawaii on Saturday, Nov. 3.
Pozurama scored three of the 25th-ranked Tritons' four goals in a pair of divisional victories over the weekend. The sophomore forward tallied the lone strike of a 1-0 home win over Cal State L.A. Friday night. She then recorded a pair of goals in a 3-1 decision at Cal State Dominguez Hills Sunday as UCSD inched closer to an 11th CCAA South Division crown and 13th consecutive CCAA Championship berth. All four of Pozurama's goals this season have come over the past three matches, all Triton wins.
Sara McCutchan - Volleyball
Over three matches last week, McCutchan averaged 4.5 points, 3.3 kills and 1.7 blocks per set while attacking at .345. The sophomore middle blocker set new career-highs with 21 kills, 10 blocks and 27.5 points in a road loss at league-leading Cal State San Bernardino Wednesday. All three totals were match-highs. She followed that with eight kills, four blocks and 11 points in a sweep over Cal State Monterey Bay and 10 kills, two aces, six blocks and 15.5 points in a four-set victory against Cal State East Bay.
Tanner Collins - Cross Country
Collins dominated the men's 8k at the 20th Annual Triton Classic Saturday, winning the race in 26:15.0. The sophomore led the field of 158 competitors at every mile marker, beating out Division I runners from Cal State Northridge, LMU and UC Irvine as well as CCAA opponents out of Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State Monterey Bay. Collins led the Tritons to a first-place team finish, the second straight year that UCSD has won the event. He was also named the CCAA Runner of the Week for his performance.
Hayley Johnson - Soccer
A senior defender, Johnson guided the 17th-ranked Tritons to an undefeated 1-0-1 weekend away from home. The Santa Rosa native first contributed to a shutout by playing all 110 minutes of a scoreless draw at No. 13 Sonoma State on Friday. On Sunday, Johnson struck twice, both from free kicks, to give UCSD leads of 1-0 and 2-1 during a 4-1 rout of Humboldt State. The latter goal, coming in the 57th minute, was her fourth this season and first of the game-winning variety.
Evan Walker - Soccer
A senior forward, Walker scored a pair of game-winning goals to lead UCSD to a 2-0 weekend of CCAA play. In Friday's 1-0 victory over Cal State Dominguez Hills, he struck at the 21:38 mark with a header off an assist from Alex Portela. Two days later, Walker again scored the first goal of the game, finding the net just 12 minutes into the match against Cal State San Bernardino. The Tritons went on to blank the Coyotes, 2-0, to improve to 6-2-2 on the season. Walker's two goals and four points lead the team.
Danielle Dahle - Volleyball
The freshman outside hitter posted a .397 attack percentage and averaged 4.0 kills, 3.4 digs and 4.6 points per set in two CCAA wins. In a huge upset over No. 18 Chico State, Dahle registered a team-high 14 kills and completed her fifth double-double of the year by adding a match-best 15 digs. She hit .440, had four blocks and led all players with 17.5 points. The next night, Dahle produced a match-high 14 kills while hitting .364 in a sweep of Cal State Stanislaus. She also had nine digs in the victory.
Scott Acton - Cross Country
The freshman was instrumental in leading UC San Diego to a win at the inaugural Lancer Invite, hosted by Cal Baptist Saturday. He finished the 8k race in a time of 25:33, placing third overall in a field of 28 runners. Acton was the first of five consecutive Tritons to cross the finish line in a 13-second stretch. UCSD won the event, 20-41, over CBU. Acton, a native of Lancaster, will next be in action at the Triton Classic Cross Country Invitational, hosted by UCSD on Saturday, Oct. 6.
Lizzy Andrews - Volleyball
The junior outside hitter had a breakthrough week in two conference match-ups on the road. On Saturday in a dominating sweep at Humboldt State, Andrews had a career- and team-high 12 kills and completed her first ever double-double by adding 10 digs. She posted a stellar .522 attack percentage with no errors in 23 attempts and also chipped in with two aces and two blocks. Two nights prior, Andrews finished with seven kills, five digs, two blocks and a service ace in a 3-1 victory at Cal Poly Pomona.
The junior driver scored 11 goals over the weekend to lead the Tritons to a 2-2 record at the Norcal Invitational hosted by Stanford. Stiling recorded a hat trick against top Western Water Polo Association opponents Air Force, LMU and UC Davis. The Beaverton, Oregon, native brought his season goal total to 15, a team high, after just two weeks of action. Stiling is on pace to set a new personal single seson best, currently set at 36 goals scored during the Tritons' 2011 campaign.
The sophomore midfielder scored in double overtime to lead UCSD to a 1-0 victory over Cal State San Bernardino on the road Sunday. Callahan's goal came at the 100:49 mark and was assisted by Alexa Enlow. The win upped the Tritons' record to an unblemished 5-0-0 and allowed them to take sole possession of first place in the CCAA South Division. It was the Coronado native's fourth goal of the season, which leads the team and is the fourth-best total among all conference players.
Adam Zernik - Soccer
The senior midfielder scored the lone goal of the game Friday to lead UCSD to a 1-0 league victory over San Francisco State at Triton Soccer Field. Zernik found the back of the net on a free kick at the 83:08 mark in the second half. From 17 yards out, his shot made its way through the wall and into the right side of the Gators' cage, ultimately giving UCSD the win in its first CCAA contest of the season. It was the Palo Alto native's inaugural goal of the year and the fourth of his career.
The senior forward struck for a pair of goals in UCSD's 3-0 win over CCAA opponent San Francisco State this past Friday at Triton Soccer Field. The first came at the 19:19 mark when she headed in a perfect corner kick feed from Hayley Johnson. At 60:49 of the second half, Hernandez put UCSD up 2-0 when a left-footed shot from the top-right of the box found its way into the lower left-hand corner of the SFSU net. The Altadena native has a team-best three goals so far this season.
Kellen Levy - Cross Country
Junior harrier Kellen Levy started the 2012 season on a high note, placing first in the men's four-mile race at UCSD's home opener meet on Friday in La Jolla. Levy's time of 21:39.2 topped the field and helped lead the Tritons (18 points) to a commanding win over Point Loma Nazarene (54 points) and Long Beach City College (68 points). Levy paced a field that saw five UCSD runners finish in the top six and 14 in the top 15.
True freshman Danielle Dahle turned in several outstanding performances this past weekend at the Grand Canyon University Invitational in Phoenix. The outside hitter had back-to-back double-doubles in her first two collegiate matches, posting 18 kills and 17 digs in a win over Western New Mexico and 15 kills and 15 digs in a loss vs. Grand Canyon. The La Mesa native added another nine kills and 12 digs in a victory against Colorado-Colorado Springs. Dahle was named to the All-Tournament Team for her efforts.
2011-12 Athletes of the Week Recipients
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Martina McBride - Eleven | UnRated Magazine Review:
Eleven [ Republic Nashville Records ] Purchase Music at Amazon.com
By Jackie Lee King
A life well lived is contained within these tracks on Martina McBride's new CD titled "Eleven". She is strong, sassy, and bold with her pitch perfect voice that carries you though a myriad of experience. Martina sets the tone for the CD with the track, "One Night." This is going to be her big opener on tour and it only gets better from this point. The plucky wild angel is back and is ready to love. The song is a wide-open celebration of getting to where you want to be. If you have one night, then make the best of it.
The first single " I'm Gonna Love You Though it," brings solidarity to everyone that has been touched by breast cancer. Its gentile strength gives hope to family and friends that surround a cancer victim, but in the end, she ceases to be that victim though her husbands eyes. It is a strong testament for survivors around the world.
Now, when Martina chooses to do a cover song, she does it with such magnitude that it just sings. She pairs up with Pat Monahan of Train to sing "Marry Me." When you hear the two voices mix it's a match made in heaven. The song's original gentile softness is enriched with Martina's exquisite voice. This is what hopeless romantics yearn for.
The two songs, "You Can Get Your Lovin' Right Here," and "What cha Gonna do" have a yin/yang relationship on the CD. Relationships are all about the effort that both individuals put into it. This is why it is important to be earnest in your intentions. Actions really do speak louder than words. In the first song, she sees his efforts and is secure in the knowledge that if he needs loving, that she's got his lovin', "right here." In the later instance, she comes to the realization that just talking about 'what cha gonna do' is no substitute for action. There is no scoreboard in relationships, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't earn points.
She has a sensual sensibility on this CD but that does not mean that she is exempt of the problems of her youth. In the song, "Teenage Daughters," she addresses her own real life daughter's rebellious nature. Martina has a tender heart and reaches out for understanding, but that doesn't always mean that she agrees with her daughter's decisions. Mothers and daughters have always gone though a difficult patch, but there is mutual love that is unspoken--well because it's embarrassing mom.
With "Eleven" she's feisty, frisky, and full of love to give. You can almost see her dancin' between the music and lyrics. Martina has a smile on her face and a sway in her walk. This is a masterfully crafted CD in that it has a social conscious and knows when to celebrative. The sass is back and it's waggin--damn the cougars, full steam ahead.
Eleven - Track List
Always Be This Way
I'm Gonna Love You Through It
Broken Umbrella
You Can Get Your Lovin' Right Here
Whatcha Gonna Do
Teenage Daughters
When You Love a Sinner
Long Distance Lullaby
Marina McBride
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Fr. Adam Rick, Rector
Fr. Adam has been the pastor at Holy Trinity Parish since August 2016. Previously, he served from 2013-2016 as the planting pastor of Christ Church Anglican in Wayne, Pennsylvania and from 2012-2013 as an assistant priest at Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church in Danvers, MA. He received his master’s degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton, MA and his Th.M. in early church history from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA. Fr. Adam believes in the power of Jesus Christ to transform lives through classical and dynamic worship, faithful prayer, diligent study of Scripture, and relational discipleship. He loves classical music, so it’s a good thing he married Katherine, a classical pianist, though he’s a little bummed she gets to be called “doctor” before he does.
Dr. Katherine Rick, Minister of Music
Katherine grew up in a very musical family. She got her start in music in northeastern Siberia, where her parents were missionaries. As a classically trained pianist and organist, she won prizes in international competitions in seven countries and appeared in venues such as the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. She received her M.M. and D.M.A. from the Peabody Conservatory, and has been in music ministry for ten years. Katherine has a keen interest in the intersection of worship and music performed at the highest levels. As a true Anglophile, Katherine enjoys at least three cups of tea a day.
Mrs. Casey Gregg, Choirmaster
Casey Gregg grew up in a home heavily influenced by choral music, and her best childhood memories are of family singing, involvement in church worship, and observing her parents’ talented leadership in collegiate choral music. As a student of Hillsdale College, she supplemented her formal study in English with a number of musical pursuits, and after graduating in 2012, she went on to teach junior high and high school music at a school in Arizona. Casey and her husband Jon returned to Hillsdale in the fall of 2015, and Casey became the Choirmaster of Holy Trinity in addition to working for the College in several capacities. Casey and Jon are joyfully expecting their first child, a daughter, in November, 2016.
Mr. Steven Flick, Organist
Steven Flick came to Holy Trinity Parish in 2014 having previously served as organist and music director within various denominations within mid-Michigan. He is an Anglican at heart. His educational background includes a BA degree in Music from Spring Arbor College with additional major studies in organ at Albion College. Even now with subsequent interest in organ performance, Mr. Flick is continuing his organ studies at a post-graduate level – currently studying with the head of the organ department at WMU in Kalamazoo. Steven is a member of the American Guild of Organists (AGO), and in promoting interest in the organ, will often perform organ recitals for the public. For leisure, he enjoys riding his Harley motorcycle.
Senior warden - Wendy Coykendall
Junior Warden - Blake McAllister
Susan Cervini
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Treasurer - Melinda Kilgore
Secretary to Vestry - Anna Robinson
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After 30 Years, Rabbi Fulfills Promise to Dying Mother
Photos: Avraham Perl
Matthew Jurgens is lifted up in celebration during his belated bar mitzvah. Below: Rabbi Perl and Matthew embrace; Rabbi Perl at Michele Goldman-Jurgens gravesite; and Rabbi Perl assists Matthew in putting on tefillin.
by Dovid Zaklikowski - Mineola, NY
Matthew Jurgens has only a vague memory of his mother that he holds on to “ever so tightly:” playing a card game with her in her hospital bed at the Winthrop University Hospital. Rabbi Anchelle Perl, who met Michelle Goldman-Jurgens on her deathbed, has his own memory of Matthew’s mom, one that has haunted him for close to three decades.
Rabbi Perl, who did not know Michelle, responded to the call by the dying woman’s father. His daughter wanted to see a rabbi. When they met, she asked him to make a promise: that no matter what the future holds, her son, “Matthew will one day become a bar mitzvah.”
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“I had no idea how I would be able to do this,” says the rabbi. “But I made a promise; it came from the heart, to give her that one wish that her only child should have a bar mitzvah.”
Matthew was two years old in 1986 when his mother succumbed. It was a slippery slope from there on. His father, who was not Jewish remarried a Catholic, and although he tried to continue educating his son as a Jew, enrolling him into Hebrew School, the situation seemed to create tension at home. “If you ever feel left out of the family for any reason because of your religion, we can always arrange for you to have a baptism,” his father told him.
Thus, at the tender age of eight, some six years after his mother died, Matthew was baptized. “A Jewish, eight year old boy essentially defecting on his religion,” Jurgens says today. “As unconscious a decision that this may have been, I thought I would be happier this way.”
He began going one day a week for Catholic studies, yet still kept up with the Jewish holidays with his mother’s parents and sister.
At 13 his grandfather died. At the funeral, Rabbi Perl, remembering his promise to the boy’s mom, told Matthew, “You know, we still have to talk about the bar mitzvah for you.”
But the rabbi’s attempts to reach out to Matthew were not welcome by his father and step-mother. “I felt a deep sense of failure, and, over time I thought I’d never be able to fulfill my promise,” the rabbi recalls.
When he was 16, Matthew met the girl who would one day become his wife. Lori, who was Jewish, told him over and over again, “Remember that if your mother is Jewish, then you are Jewish too.” Eight years later the couple married in a traditional Jewish wedding.
When Matthew’s aunt Sharon attended a bat mitzvah that the rabbi performed, he reminded her of the promise he made to her sister. “Here, take his cell number,” she told the rabbi. “He is waiting for your call.”
The rabbi was nervous when he finally made the call. “I did not know what to expect, does he have any interest in Judaism? Will he respond with enthusiasm or with the same indifference I received from his father’s family?” the rabbis wondered.
By now, Matthew was an education consultant, working towards his PhD in education. He was overjoyed, he recalls, to receive the call. “We speak [and] I catch him up on the last, oh’ 29 years or so of my life,” he says. Then Matthew told Perl that “it [was] time for me to fulfill a life-long goal and it’s the chance for a most esteemed rabbi to fulfill his promise.”
Matthew began studying with Perl’s son, Rabbi Dovid, and went through the process of going to the mikvah. “Rabbi Dovid taught me so much more than just how to read Hebrew; he has taken it upon himself to educate me about what it means to be Jewish.”
In early May, Matthew celebrated his bar mitzvah at Chabad of Mineola.
“You’ve never wavered on your promise to my mother that this day would come to fruition and lo and behold, here it is. Thank you for never giving up on me, never giving up on her,” the bar mitzvah at his belated celebration. “Even though I couldn’t say it 29 years ago, thank you for guiding my mother spiritually and emotionally when she needed it most. My grandparents always told me how wonderful and kind you were, but now knowing you in person, I can honestly see how right they were.”
“Today, I climb up to this rung and I share this day with you all, my incredible grandfather and my beautiful mother. I did it. Thank you for leading me here.”
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Medal of Honor Monday: Elmer C. Bigelow
Elmer Charles Bigelow
"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving on board the U.S.S. Fletcher during action against enemy Japanese forces off Corregidor Island in the Philippines, February 14, 1945. Standing topside when an enemy shell struck the Fletcher, Bigelow, acting instantly as the deadly projectile exploded into fragments which penetrated the No. 1 gun magazine and set fire to several powder cases, picked up a pair of fire extinguishers and rushed below in a resolute attempt to quell the raging flames. Refusing to waste the precious time required to don rescue-breathing apparatus, he plunged through the blinding smoke billowing out of the magazine hatch and dropped into the blazing compartment. Despite the acrid, burning powder smoke which seared his lungs with every agonizing breath, he worked rapidly and with instinctive sureness and succeeded in quickly extinguishing the fires and in cooling the cases and bulkheads, thereby preventing further damage to the stricken ship. Although he succumbed to his injuries on the following day, Bigelow, by his dauntless valor, unfaltering skill and prompt action in the critical emergency, had averted a magazine explosion which undoubtedly would have left his ship wallowing at the mercy of the furiously pounding Japanese guns on Corregidor, and his heroic spirit of self-sacrifice in the face of almost certain death enhanced and sustained the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life in the service of his country."
From MM Elmer C. Bigelow's Medal of Honor citation, awarded in 1945.
Thank you for your service and may you be at peace,
Posted by Weird WWII at 12:00 AM
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Adam Levine on Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani: 'They're So in Love it's Disgusting'
By Robyn Collins "They're so in love it's disgusting," Adam Levine said of fellow Voice coaches Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani on The Howard Stern Show, Tuesday, Oct. 31. Related: Blake Shelton Debuts Nostalgic New Song ‘I Lived It’ "I'm so affectionate and gross with my wife, [but] this is a whole other level of vomit," he continued. "They’re so in love. It's really nice." "Because [their relationship] is in the public eye, a lot of people want to have their own bulls--- opinions about it, but I’m, like, there," he said. "I see it every day. I have a pretty unique perspective on it, and it's real, man." Levine says the lovebirds are some of his best friends, but jokes, "I still tell [Blake], 'I can't believe you get to be with Gwen Stefani'…It's just not f---ing right!"
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Charges Against Jussie Smollett Dropped
The bizarre case of Jussie Smollett, the star of Empire who was arrested on charges of filing a false police report, just got even stranger. ABC News reports all charges against the actor have now been dropped. Smollett was previously looking at spending up to three years in prison.
Smollett’s lawyers said in a statement:
Today, all criminal charges against Jussie Smollett were dropped and his record has been wiped clean of the filing of this tragic complaint against him. Jussie was attacked by two people he was unable to identify on January 29th. He was a victim who was vilified and made to appear as a perpetrator as a result of false and inappropriate remarks made to the public causing an inappropriate rush to judgement.
The Cook Count State Attorney’s Office said in a statement:
After reviewing all of the facts and circumstances of the case, including Mr. Smollett’s volunteer service in the community and agreement to forfeit his bond to the City of Chicago, we believe this outcome is a just disposition and appropriate resolution to this case.
This stunning twist does not resolve much of anything that occurred last January, when Smollett was allegedly attacked in Chicago by men in ski masks shouting slurs at him. Smollett went to the hospital, but no one was charged with the crime. Two brothers were arrested and later released in conjunction with the case; they reportedly told police they were paid to carry out the attack. Shortly thereafter, Smollett himself was charged with making false statements.
So what is the truth here? We still don’t know what really happened last January. (TMZ claims the decision not to proceed with the case “is NOT sitting well with Chicago PD.”) The whole sordid drama probably won’t be reflected on Empire, but it would make a hell of a storyline on Law & Order: SVU.
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Source: Charges Against Jussie Smollett Dropped
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Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘No More Tours 2′ Boasts His Best (Solo) Band Ever
Brian Ives
The first time I saw Ozzy Osbourne was in 1986; it was the tour for The Ultimate Sin. His backing band featured guitarist Jake E. Lee, bassist Phil Soussan, drummer Randy Castillo and keyboardist John Sinclair. With all due respect to the Prince of Darkness, it wasn't a great show. At that time, he seemed unsure of his place in heavy music; it seemed like he was trying to compete with the younger pop metal acts like Bon Jovi and Ratt. To make matters worse, the opening band on that show was an up-and-coming group called Metallica, touring for Master of Puppets; Cliff Burton was still alive. They were still an underground band with something to prove and played with rage and fury.
Last night's concert at Northwell Heath Jones Beach Theater in Long Island, New York, more than three decades later, was a much better show. As all of Ozzy's fans know, this is the cheekily-named "No More Tours 2" tour; the name is a reference to the fact that Ozzy's 1991-1992 "No More Tours" tour, which was supposed to be his farewell trek. Since then, of course, Ozzy has released a handful of albums, reunited with Black Sabbath and become a bona fide pop culture icon. He's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (with Sabbath; one could argue he also deserves to be inducted separately for his solo career), and is still enough of a star to show up on the covers of celebrity-obsessed magazines.
So, this time around, Ozzy is confident of his place in history and he isn't promoting a new album. He also happens to have what might be the best band of his solo career (which I say with all due respect to the late Randy Rhoads, who deserves to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ASAP): Bassist Blasko and drummer Tommy Clufetos make up the most powerful rhythm section Ozzy has ever played with, with the exception of Geezer Butler and Bill Ward in Sabbath's early years. (Clufetos played on Sabbath's final tours, and looks and plays like a true Sabbath disciple). Adam Wakeman, who played for Sabbath's tours as well -- albeit behind a curtain -- is a great keyboardist, but since he also plays guitar, he doesn't feel the need to add keyboards to every song (I recall in '86 hearing keyboards shoved into songs that didn't require them). He's an important part of why Ozzy's band sounds as solid as it does.
The return of Zakk Wylde to Ozzy's band made the biggest impact on the show. His energy, enthusiasm and love for the material and Ozzy (who he always refers to as "The Boss") raises everyone's game, and their game was already pretty great; I saw the band in 2010 with Gus G. on guitar; with all due respect, it felt like something was lacking. Wylde's presence adds an intensity to the band; this music is a religion to him (in his spare time outside of playing with Ozzy and his own band, Black Label Society, he also fronts a tribute group, Zakk Sabbath). This was most apparent during an extended jam on the Sabbath classic "War Pigs," when Wylde went into the audience playing an incredibly intense and precise guitar solo while surrounded with fans. He didn't miss a note, even when playing behind his head, and then transitioning into a medley of Ozzy solo tunes, including "Miracle Man," "Crazy Babies," "Desire" and "Perry Mason." That led into Clufetos' drum solo -- a reminder that he's one of the best drummers in metal in 2018.
That extended instrumental segment made a good argument that Wylde, Blasko, Clufetos and Wakeman should play together even after "The Boss" retires. But the highlights of the show were, of course, when Ozzy was on stage. Powerful versions of "Bark at the Moon," "No More Tears," "Mr. Crowley," "Suicide Solution," "I Don't Know," "Crazy Train" and Sabbath's "Fairies Wear Boots" thrilled fans. Even The Ultimate Sin's "Shot in the Dark" sounded better in '18 than it did in '86. While some fans (including this one) may have been disappointed that Ozzy's classic second album, Diary of a Madman, wasn't represented in the setlist, it's churlish to complain that you didn't get every song you wanted from a guy with nearly five decades of music to choose from.
How long will "No More Tours 2" go on for? Will there be a "No More Tours 3?" Who knows. But if you love the man and his music, you'd be wise to catch him one more time on this tour.
"That man taught me everything about what I do," Corey Taylor, wearing a vintage (and maybe bootlegged) Ozzy t-shirt said about Ozzy Osbourne, during Stone Sour's opening set. "I owe him everything." It's not easy to open for an artist of Ozzy's stature; rock band Rival Sons opened for Sabbath on most of their farewell tour and got polite responses from audiences, but didn't threaten to overtake the headliners. It's fair to say that Stone Sour's set lovingly put Ozzy and his band on notice: the audience was already amped up from their ten-song set that featured some of their best songs, including "Knievel Has Landed," "Song #3," "Bother," "Through Glass" and "Fabuless." The theater was full for Stone Sour's set and the fans knew the songs; it was the perfect opening set and the band was clearly stoked to be there. They challenged Ozzy and he -- and his band -- were more than up to the task.
Stone Sour New York September 8 2018
Source: Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘No More Tours 2′ Boasts His Best (Solo) Band Ever
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Mahala
Mahala is an English female name. It could be derived from Hebrew Mahalah, a male Hebrew name which is a variant of Mahlah, a unisex name of uncertain meaning though possibly meaning “weak, sick” or “disease” from Hebrew challah חָלָה (to become sick, to be ill). It could also be a variant of Mahalath, a Hebrew female name meaning “lyre” or…
Lyriel is a modern English name, an elaborated form of Lyre or Lyric, which refers to a type of poetry that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings in a songlike style or form. It comes from Ancient Greek lyrikos via lúra meaning “lyre” which seems to be derived from a pre-Greek origin of uncertain origin. It can even be stretched out to mean…
Lyra, Lira
Lyra (pr. lie-ra or lee-ra) is the name of a constellation in which the brightest star in its constellation is Vega. The name receives its name from Greek mythology, representing the lyre of Orpheus, a legendary poet and musician who could charm anything with his music. The name comes from Ancient Greek lúra meaning “lyre” which seems to be derived from a pre-Greek…
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World Security Council
Bernard White
Chin Han
Donald Li
Arthur Darbinyan
Jenny Agutter
What it is: The World Security Council
Its power: Overseeing S.H.I.E.L.D. might not be a superpower, but it’s pretty damn powerful.
Its story: The World Security Council was formed as a means of maintaining oversight on S.H.I.E.L.D., and is made up of powerful political figures from around the world. They’re first seen in The Avengers, acting as a foil to Nick Fury, and expressing skepticism at his plan to form the group to recover the Tesseract. The council appears later on during the battle of New York, and gave the order to launch a nuclear missile at Manhattan, an order Fury disobeyed, much to the relief of the entire Northeast coast. Its next appearance comes in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, where the members are working with Alexander Pierce on Project Insight. However, Black Widow and Nick Fury reveal Pierce’s plan to at least one member, and Black Widow is sent in disguise as council member Hawley. After Pierce’s plan is exposed, he activates badges on all of the members, killing them, save for Black Widow—and the real councilwoman Hawley.
The World Security Council is mentioned briefly in Captain America: Civil War as part of the plan to begin overseeing the Avengers, but it’s unknown who makes up the council at this point. The group is also referenced in Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., as the main arc in season three involves a former member of the council, Gideon Malick, who belonged to it at the time of The Avengers.
Played by:
Council member Hawley: Jenny Agutter
Council member Yen: Chin Han
Council member Singh: Bernard White
Council member Rockwell: Alan Dale
Council member Malick: Powers Boothe (The Avengers only)
Council Chair Alexander Pierce: Robert Redford
Unnamed council member: Donald Li (The Avengers only)
Unnamed council member: Arthur Darbinyan (The Avengers only)
Currently, the World Security Council is: Hard at work keeping a close eye on the Avengers.
Where will we see it next? The council could pop up anywhere, theoretically, although Earth-based stories are far more likely than, say, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2.
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Wow! I’ve Still Got . . .
June 20, 2010 at 1:40 pm (By Amba)
. . . my Dad!
I originally posted this photo more than 4 years ago!!!!
Danny said,
Your parents are amazing and that top picture is my favorite. It so beautifully evokes a bygone era. Where was it taken, what’s that building in the background? Were you already in Hyde Park then?
amba12 said,
Danny, that’s our house — a row house on 50th Street, facing the block of park then called Farmer’s Green and Farmer’s field.
A said,
I love that top picture too. Quintessence of little girl/daddy mutual adoration.
Ruth Anne said,
The little girl in the top picture looks like a twin of my Pink Girl. But she has a twin who looks nothing like that. Weird?
Congrats on the healthy longevity, but more that you treasure it so much.
“Healthy” mentally and spiritually, which is what counts. My dad has spinal stenosis and scoliosis (arthritis, basically; most people that age have spinal issues), and, despite years of diet and exercise, clogged and narrowed arteries all over his body, a hereditary problem; he takes Plavix, among other things, to keep his blood from clotting. One bypass in the nick of time in 1985, when he was 67, the age both his parents died (he started to have that massive heart attack on the operating table), gave him another quarter century. It only took one because he has nice low normal blood pressure. Somehow he has developed collateral circulation so that despite carotid arteries that are far from great, he has no cognitive impairment at all.
It really is quite miraculous. I describe him as running on love. He lost his younger brother in WWII, and was what he had not wanted to be, the sole survivor of his family of origin. At which point God, whom he doesn’t believe in, said, “Enough.”
William O. B'Livion said,
My father passed away in the mid nineties of a broken heart. He was just short of 64th birthday.
You’ve read Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land”? My father was as out of place in the country of his death, nominally the same country as his birth, as the main character in that novel. He just couldn’t deal with the way the world changed. Then my mom divorced him and he started spiraling. For a couple years I kept expecting the phone to ring and a voice telling me he’d had an accident and ran into a bridge abutment while driving. Then the phone did ring a voice did say that he’d had a heart attack. You expect it, but you don’t expect it /today/.
I still miss him.
You’re incredibly lucky that you still have your parents.
I am incredibly lucky. I know.
Yes, I read and loved Stranger in a Strange Land a very long time ago.
I am 64 now.
Theo.Boehm said,
Thank you, Annie. I always enjoy reminiscences of your father, and, of course, that picture, which has got to be one of the all-time greatest father-daughter photos.
My father, like William’s above, died a broken man, six years younger than I am now. I pray for him every day and hope he is at peace, which he never knew in this life.
But I like to focus on this world, and cherish my own role as a father, and to congratulate all those who are fathers, and those who are fortunate to have had loving relationships with their dads.
Icepick said,
My father was as out of place in the country of his death, nominally the same country as his birth, as the main character in that novel.
I know that feeling well. Nominally I live in the city I was born and raised in. I’ve spent 33 of my 42 years living here, and six of those other nine were spent just a couple of hours away. But I don’t recognize the place at all. There’s too many people, too few trees (yes, that includes the orange groves), and most of the old landmarks are gone. Roads have been rearranged. The language of my youth is increasingly rare and they’ve even torn down the schools I attended.
The hospital building I was born in still exists, but it has been virtually entombed in all the expansions and additions. I mean just to that building itself, I’m not including all the other building that have been added – the power plants and other utility buildings, the parking garages, three new hospitals added to the ‘campus’, etc. My own daughter was born in that complex recently, in one of the new hospitals. I took some pictures of the building before we left for her scrap book. At least forty years from now she won’t have to wonder if the building was torn down or not, she’ll just be able to look in her files and then spend a couple hours trying to find it on satellite images.
I miss my home town. It’s a shame I can’t even visit it these days. The man that invented air conditioning ruined Florida.
david said,
Mom and Dad came up to our ‘burb and watched Gabe (my 14-year-old son) play in a Pony League game. Dad was the only one in the whole place who noticed that, in the 4th inning, our team batted out of order.
The other highlight was me deflecting a foul ball — right into the back of Mom’s head. I think Dad considered that a nice little subversive Father’s Day gift.
One thing the feminists never acknowledged is how much heartbreak and defeat there has been in the lives of men. Survival in society was brutally unforgiving, and for many there was no way to admit weakness or seek help. Those stories surface on Father’s Day — as well as, Victoria (@vbspurs) told me, stories of people who hate their fathers (tragic in itself). Hail to all fathers who are breaking those chains.
Ice, I’m going to find you (when I finish unpacking my books) that passage I’m remembering from James Hillman about how we are mourning places and often don’t even know it (an unacknowledged cause of much American depression — the relentlessness of commercial change, the pace of which we are not built for).
Amba, I look forward to it. I don’t think I could have appreciated it when I was 20. Maybe a little when I was 30. But in my 40s? I’m there, baby!
At some point when I was younger I realized that Thomas Jefferson’s desire for a revolution every 25 years or so had been achieved in the United States. From the founding of our government in 1787 until now I do not think one can find any 25 year stretch in which the country largely looks the same at the end of that period as at the beginning. Unfortunately despite all that tummult in most of our lives the politicians have figured out how to keep a stranglehold on the body politic. It’s amazing to me that many of the people ruling the countryr have been in office since before I was born.
And good luck with finishing the unpacking. We’ve been here seven years and I still have a few boxes loaded up from the last move.
many of the people ruling the country have been in office since before I was born.
Right! LOL! The one thing that NEEDS to change — the faces in Congress — is the one thing that doesn’t!
Dave Schuler said,
If you come to Chicago, I’ll take you to dinner.
E. said,
What a gift to have a picture like that of you and your daddy. Priceless! E.
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Providing Perspective on Pressing Economic Issues Facing Cancer Care—Now and in the Future
By Margot J. Fromer
Following the site-neutrality legislation, reimbursements are now lower for newly acquired sites than they were a year ago.… Physicians will have less independence.
— Lindsay Conway, MSEd
Lindsay Conway, MSEd, Managing Director, The Advisory Board Company, Washington, DC, said that major issues and payment rules this year include bundled payments, average sales price (ASP), and revalued codes. “They will affect your entire cancer service line,” she warned.
Drug reimbursement for medical oncology hospital outpatient departments remains at ASP plus 6%, and the drug-packaging threshold increased from $95 to $100. Reimbursement for drug administration decreased.
In radiation oncology, reimbursement is mixed: Payments for three-dimensional, conformal radiation therapy, intensity-modulated radiation therapy, image-guided radiation therapy, and proton therapy increased, but payment for stereotactic body radiation therapy decreased.
In other hospital outpatient prospective payment system rule changes, reporting the site of service data will be mandatory; lung cancer screening and advanced care planning (which now can be billed separately) will be reimbursed; and reimbursement for external-beam radiotherapy for bone metastases will begin in 2018.
Biosimilars are also at ASP plus 6% of the reference (original) product. Because of the complexity of manufacture, biologics are among the most expensive drugs on the market; for this reason, there is an effort to spur innovation and encourage competition by expediting biosimilars, the first of which (filgrastim-sndz [Zarxio]) was approved in March 2015 and will cost about 15% less than Neupogen. As of mid-2015, there are about 700 oncology-related biosimilars in the pipeline.
For physicians and freestanding clinics, medical oncology reimbursement is holding steady at ASP plus 6%, but drug administration payments are stagnant or decreasing.
In radiation oncology, the relative value unit saw a 2% decrease, but three-dimensional and conformal radiation therapy had moderate increases. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy and image-guided radiation therapy had moderate decreases.
Ms. Conway said that the overall 2016 Medicare Physicians Fee Schedule remained the same for hematology/oncology, radiology, and cardiology but decreased by 2% for radiation oncology. “The Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act, passed December 18, 2015, provides payment stability for some radiation therapy services by freezing reimbursement for 2017–2018 at 2016 rates.”
She also talked about physician practice acquisition. “From a hospital’s perspective, acquiring a physician practice expands the institution’s market reach, increases negotiating leverage with payers and suppliers, and has the potential to improve coordination of care. From the physician perspective, acquisition provides protection from economic uncertainty, and they can avail themselves of increased access to capital, information technology, and staffing,” explained Ms. Conway.
She continued: “There are negatives as well. Following the site-neutrality legislation, reimbursements are now lower for newly acquired sites than they were a year ago. Access to drug discounts may be diminished. Physicians will have less independence.”
Collaboration to Improve Care and Curb Costs
Oncology is in the crosshairs. About 10 years ago, the skyrocketing costs of oncology care began to be noticed and to come under scrutiny, and things haven’t improved since.
— Matthew A. Manning, MD
Matthew A. Manning, MD, a radiation oncologist at Cone Health Cancer Center, Greensboro, North Carolina, talked about locating “hotspotters,” chronically ill, high-cost superutilizers of health-care services.
Health-care costs have risen by 91% between 2000 and 2011, said Dr. Manning, mostly due to the increase in the price of drugs, medical devices, and hospital care. “Oncology is in the crosshairs,” he added. “About 10 years ago, the skyrocketing costs of oncology care began to be noticed and to come under scrutiny, and things haven’t improved since.”
The main culprit is drugs. “Out of the nearly $374 billion that Americans spent on prescriptions in 2014, $32.6 billion (about 9%) went for oncology drugs, and another $11.1 billion was spent on treating the side effects of chemotherapy. And not one oncology drug is in the top 20 most widely prescribed,” revealed Dr. Manning.
Accountable care organizations, which try to deliver high-quality care while spending money wisely, might be able to ameliorate some of these problems, he proposed. “That is, if doctors and hospitals could benefit from saving money, they might start acting like insurance companies, that is, restructuring the delivery of care to reduce redundancy and use data and analytics to identify both intuitive and nonintuitive opportunities to improve care and lower costs.”
This means studying patient populations and identifying hotspotters who represent nearly 50% of all health-care expenditures. They also incur the highest costs (top 5%) and probably receive the worst care. They are spread fairly evenly across cancer types, with no one or two tumor types being predominant, but as one would expect, the higher the cancer stage, the more likely a patient is to occupy a hot spot. A total of 11% of hotspotters die within a year after they are identified as such, and 34% die in the subsequent year. Those who died were twice as likely to have had an emergency room visit.
It would be good to identify hotspotters in advance, for example cancer patients who have three or more comorbidities, especially congestive heart failure, said Dr. Manning. Therefore, oncologists should pick them out early in treatment by keeping track of emergency room visits, trips to other specialists, adverse events that require treatment, and comorbidities.
Hot spotting has become a concern in the wider field of health care and oncology in particular. “Tackling the ‘Hotspotter’ Patient Challenge,” an article by Scott B. Pingree, Director of Strategic Planning, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, appeared in the Harvard Business Review in November 29, 2013.1 It began: “A fascinating business dynamic will unfold as health-care providers in the United States shift from a reimbursement system that has historically paid for procedures performed to one that rewards population health... This means that to a significant degree historic areas of revenue generation will become generators of losses. While it’s common for most businesses to fluctuate in their productivity, a shift of this scale represents a sea change for the health-care sector. The concept is especially applicable to high-cost patients. In the United States, the top 1% of high-cost patients consumes a disproportionate 28% of total health-care costs, and the top 5% consumes more than 50%.”1
Mr. Pingree echoed many of the same things as Dr. Manning and shared the following additional observations1:
Hotspotters visited the health-care system 41 times over a 5-year period, whereas an average patient did so 6 times.
A total of 1% of the patients used 24% of the total amount spent on patient care between 2008 and 2012. A total of 5% consumed 51% of total costs.
High-cost patients mean high rates of turnover. Fewer than 10% of the top 1% of high-cost patients remained in that category the following year, and less than 0.5% remained for 5 consecutive years.
The top 1% had a mortality rate of 26% over 5 years.
A total of 77% of high users of care have at least one chronic condition, 46% have two or more conditions, and 23% have three or more conditions.
Surprisingly, end-of-life care was not a significant cost factor. It accounted for 8% of the total cost of a patient’s care in the past 6 months of life and 12% in the past year.
Site-Neutral Payment
Congress has become interested in the way health-care providers are reimbursed for services to Medicare beneficiaries. Currently, payment rates for hospital outpatient services and physician practices differ; however, recently enacted “site-neutral payment” legislation (also referred to as “site neutrality”) will negate those differences in certain circunmstances. This step will likely result in significant financial consequences to the consolidation of community oncology services.
According to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, hospital outpatient revenue could decrease by $1.44 billion each year as a result of site-neutral payment. Hospitals that have acquired physician practices and have moved the acquired services to the hospital outpatient setting will be the most affected.
Health-care reimbursement has been haphazard for 60 years, and Medicare uses more than a dozen different payment methods.
— Ronald R. Barkley, MS, JD
According to Ronald R. Barkley, MS, JD, President, Cancer Center Business Development Group, Bedford, New Hampshire, everyone will find something to either like or dislike about site-neutral payment. Physicians in private practive tend to support the notion that hospitals will no longer be paid more by Medicare for costly outpatient services that can just as readily be provided in a physician office setting. Hospital administrators, on the other hand, have justified their higher reimbursement rates because hospitals have to meet higher regulatory and accreditation standards, provide more comprehensive services, generate revenue to keep the emergency room open, and care for financially vulnerable and uninsured patients.
The road to site-neutral payment has been a bumpy one, said Mr. Barkley. “Health-care reimbursement methodologies have evolved in a rather haphazard manner for the past 60 years. For example, Medicare deploys more than a dozen different payment methods. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) does recognize that a hospital’s cost structure is higher than that of a physician’s office, but reimbursement for the site-of-service cost differential has resulted in aberrations. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended site-neutral payment as a cost reduction opportunity in its 2013 Report to Congress, and various groups have actively advocated for change since that time.”
On November 2, 2015, Congress passed budget legislation to address these differences in Medicare reimbursement—the Bipartican Budget Act of 2015. Under Section 603 of the Bipartican Budget Act, any hospital outpatient department opened after the statute’s enactment date (November 2, 2015) that is not located on the campus of the hospital (an off-campus location) will no longer be reimbursed by Medicare for services furnished under the hospital outpatient prospective payment system, but will instead be reimbursed according to “other applicable payment systems,” which systems were subsequently clarified to be either the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule or the Medicare Ambulatory Surgery Center Fee Schedule. Dedicated emergency departments are exempt from Section 603.
There are arguments for and against site-neutral payment, said Mr. Barkley. Those on the supportive side include the following: (1) Policies that support higher reimbursement for hospital outpatient departments encourage acquisition of office-based physician practices, which results in higher costs and closing of community-based care settings, further restricting patient access to lower-cost care; and (2) Many services have moved from physicians’ offices to outpatient settings, as physicians are increasingly employed by hospitals. This migration of services to the hospital outpatient setting results in higher spending and beneficiary cost sharing without significant improvement in patient care.
Those who oppose site-neutral payment cite the following: (1) hospital outpatient department and physician office services are not the same—hospitals provide more comprehensive services; (2) hospital facilities have higher operating costs and have to subsidize money-losing hospital services such as 24/7 emergency services; (3) hospital patients have higher levels of acuity, and it costs more to care for sicker (“higher-acuity”) patients; (4) hospitals have become providers of last resort to the uninsured and underinsured who are often turned away from physician offices; and (5) access to care might be compromised because hospitals will not be able to fund new outpatient location operations due to reduced Medicare reimbursement under site-neutral payment policy. ■
Disclosure: Ms. Conway, Mr. Barkley, and Dr. Manning reported no potential conflicts of interest.
1. Pingree SB: Tackling the ‘hotspotter’ patient challenge. Harvard Business Review. November 29, 2013. Available at https://hbr.org/2013/11/tackling-the-hotspotter-patient-challenge/. Accessed March 23, 2016.
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10-year-old boy said he 'liked boys' before his suspicious death
Anthony Avalos died after suffering a head trauma
A 10-year-old boy said he ‘liked boys’ before his suspicious death.
Anthony Avalos died last Thursday after suffering a head trauma in his home in Los Angeles and the LA Times reported that social workers and police were told that the young boy was abused for years before his suspicious death.
The boy’s mother claimed he had fallen and hit his head.
But now in a new development, Brandon Nichols, deputy director of the Department of Child and Family Services said that Anthony “said he liked boys” before his death, but he declined to provide any more details, including who the boy told and when.
Now authorities are investigating whether homophobia played a role in his death.
Investigators believe Anthony suffered physical and emotional abuse, denial of food, general neglect, forced fights between children in the home and forced crouching for long periods of time.
It was also reported that he was allegedly sexually assault back in 2013 by his own grandfather.
Drag Race's newest superstar Yvie Oddly leads Attitude's August issue
'It's taken my family a bit of time' - Yvie Oddly shares her coming out story
A statement on Pride and diversity: 'We must continue to embrace and understand each other - and strive to do better'
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AOSCH
The Association of Ohio State Class Honoraries
The House Cup
The Honoraries
Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Eta Sigma
Romophos
Bucket and Dipper
Mortar Board has a rich national history as an organization honoring senior college students. Its members’ dedication to scholarship, leadership, and service truly set it apart as an honor society. Mortar Board got its start as a national organization in the fall of 1915. Two women, one a member of the already-existing Mortar Board organization at The Ohio State University, and one a member of Phi Sigma Chi at Swarthmore College, noticed that they both wore pins in the similar shape of a mortarboard and realized that their honor societies were very similar, the biggest difference being their names. The name Mortar Board, taken from Ohio State’s honor society, was used in correspondence to prospective chapters following the first national meeting. Mortar Board was originally an honor society for senior college women, the first of its kind. Membership to male students was opened up in 1975, and Mortar Board became an organization to both “emphasize the advancement of the status of women” and to “promote equal opportunities among all people.” In 1985, Mortar Board delegates passed a resolution for a national project to be selected at every national conference. The changes in Mortar Board over the years have reflected the changes in our ever-shifting society. However, amidst everything, Mortar Board had always remained dedicated to the ideals of scholarship, leadership, and service, and strives with each year to promote those ideals on college campuses around the nation.
For more information about Mortar Board, visit their website here.
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ART NORTH NEWS
AMBIT Artist Talks
At the end of May, Sasha Buchanan alerted readers of this Blog to AMBIT, an exhibition of photography showing across two renowned venues. AMBIT celebrates new and diverse approaches to photographic image making in Scotland, and the participating artists deploy diverse approaches, including the everyday in social landscape, performative and object based intersections with photography, alternative processes embracing hybrids between photography and printmaking, and themes from the theatrical and mythical, to those of gender and citizenship. See Sasha’s original post here.
The videos posted recently via YouTube are from Csilla Kozma, Edyta Majewska, Katy Hundertmark, the Highlands-based photographer Iain Sarjeant, and Matthew Arthur Williams – see the videos below. Each short video includes narration from the artist on the thoughts and ideas behind their work.
A contrasting record of contemporary Scotland is offered by Scottish photographer Iain Sarjeant. Whilst being based in the Highlands of Scotland Sarjeant has travelled the length and breadth of the country to create a startling yet understated document of everyday Scotland, documenting common place yet often overlooked landscapes to create a visual record of a nation in flux.
Katy Hundertmark is a German born artist based in Edinburgh. Her photographic practice employs performance as a way of inhabiting the photographic space. In ‘Studies in Gravitation’ Hundertmark revisits the performative potential of photography through a series of photographs that reintroduce the self as performer and capture her attempt of grasping the intangible.
The performative possibilities of photographic images are at the core of Hungarian born Csilla Kozma, whose most recent body of work explores the idiosyncratic nature of the Mordançage process. Kozma’s unique and expressive prints explore the representation of the figure and self through a post-photographic lens, utilising the potentiality of alternative photographic processes to evoke tension and mystery whilst creating her own photographic reality.
Similarly Edyta Majewska turns the camera on herself as she documents the arduous process of applying for British Citizenship. Majewska, a Polish born artist who has been based in Glasgow for over twenty years, turns her experience of being an Eastern European national in Post-Brexit Britain into 'Other White', a moving and immersive photographic installation and a timely record of the precarious and hostile political climate of modern day Britain.
Matthew Arthur Williams’ series ‘In Conflict’ is a collaborative project that stems from a personal quest developed through conversations with friends, family and peers. Williams’ photographs address forms of acceptance and surviving in a British context described as ‘other’.
AMBIT is a partnership between Street Level Photoworks (Glasgow), and Stills (Edinburgh), Scotland’s public venues dedicated to photography. The exhibition will be presented across both venues and is a joint venture aimed at showcasing some of the current tendencies and innovative talent from the photography sector in Scotland.
Saturday 22 June at 3pm
Free and all welcome.
http://www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/event/ambit-artist-talks
Morna Young
Photography, Performing Arts
There’s Salt in Our Blood
There’s a common saying amongst fishing folk that we have “salt in our blood”. I feel that; a transcendent connection of sorts to the sea. As a born and bred fishing quine, I was taught to respect the waters that brought both tragedy and reward. I grew up in Burghead on the Northeast coast. My grandfather Daniel and my father Donnie were both fishermen. Our friends and neighbours were fishermen. The industry dominated our lives – as did the shared knowledge that every voyage could be the last.
Morna Young (photo courtesy Scottish Festivals)
In 1989, a tumultuous time for the industry, my father was swept overboard from the Ardent II and, despite extensive searches, his body was never recovered. This story is not unusual in fishing communities. Men and boats from all around the coast have been lost, every village scarred by these losses. In April, 30 years after my dad’s loss, my play Lost at Sea will commence its world premier tour at Perth before heading to theatres in Dundee, Aberdeen, Greenock, Inverness, Edinburgh and Dumfries.
While inspired by events from my own life, I wanted to create a fictional story that represented the many unheard losses from around the coast. To achieve this, I decided to use ‘real voices’, verbatim text from interviews with fishermen and their families, and to thread this throughout. Though the story itself is imagined and infused with artistic licence, the truth behind it is not. These voices exist all around us. I wanted to pay tribute to all those who have been lost, and all those who have endured loss.
One of my aims in writing the play was to offer an insight into the emotions, culture, traditions, economics and values that bind people to a way of life. I wanted to look beyond the dangers to understand the lure of the sea. Perth Theatre has taken the opportunity to explore these issues through the visual as well as the dramatic arts by staging the first Scottish solo exhibition of photographs by acclaimed American artist, and commercial fisherman, Corey Arnold.
Corey Arnold, 18 Degrees and Hauling. (© Corey Arnold, courtesy Scottish Festivals)
Seeing Corey’s pictures brought visual sense and understanding to the words I have written. The beauty and danger captured in his dramatic images meshed so well with my vision for the play that we selected one of these to be used as the promotional shot for the tour. Corey’s photography evokes the visceral experience of life at sea for fishermen worldwide. It reflects the courage of those who earn their living on the ocean whilst facing immense risk. Moreover, he manages to capture the experience of tremendous joy and fulfilment. It’s complex but clear.
This understanding of clashing emotions comes directly from Corey’s own experiences. He has been harvesting king crab and wild salmon from the stormy waters of the Bering Sea, Alaska since 1995. He too has salt in his blood.
Corey Arnold, Opilio Morning. (© Corey Arnold, courtesy Scottish Festivals)
Fishing remains the most dangerous occupation in the UK with a chance of being killed that’s 50 times greater than for any other job. Corey’s pictures help us understand why. The night and day struggle with ropes and nets, the hauling of tonnes of fish from the deep, the churning machinery. He tells a story of man versus the elements, of life aboard a precarious vessel being pitched about by wind, wave and storm.
Corey’s images would be instantly recognisable to my father, grandfather and all those down the centuries who have been engaged in fishing, as reflective of their moments of hope, fear and triumph. Many of the pictures were captured when Corey managed to persuade crewmates to take over his duties for a few moments during strenuous working winter days of up to 20 hours aboard Rollo, a 107ft Bering Sea crab boat. Others from summers catching salmon from an aluminium skiff near a remote shore called Graveyard Point.
Corey Arnold, Pollockscape. (© Corey Arnold, courtesy Scottish Festivals)
Corey shares the feelings of so many fishermen, having a love-hate relationship with what he calls “the freedom and subsequent entrapment of life crammed into a small fishing boat”. “Life at sea”, he goes on; “has become a valued identity, a source of great pride, and a reminder that the safety and ease of everyday life back home is to be appreciated and devoured”.
Corey Arnold, Ben and King. (© Corey Arnold, courtesy Scottish Festivals)
While Corey and I both create work that reflects the common experience of every generation that has gone to sea, there is also a strong element of social history. Whilst we work in different mediums, we are both capturing expressions of a people and place.
My play spans 40 years and tells the story of a young woman returning home to find out the truth about her father’s death. It addresses times and events that could all too easily slip unrecorded from history. But whilst Corey uses imagery to record these moments in time, my medium focuses on storytelling through authentic language.
Lost at Sea is written in Northeast Scots, a colloquial version of Doric, as spoken in my home community. It is a magnificently expressive version of Scots language, muscular and rich, but seldom heard on stage or screen. Capturing this everyday language was vital for bringing authenticity to the story.
The fishing industry has changed rapidly over the decades. There have been the EU regulations and quotas, the rise of technology, the growth of the oil industry and the decommissioning of many fleets. All have had an impact. Moreover, fishing rights are once again at the top of the political agenda and the decision making around this will continue to resonate in the years to come.
Much of Scotland is within a stone’s throw of a fishing community and Lost at Sea aims to shine a light on these unheard stories from past decades and the present. Showcasing this work alongside Corey’s exhibition feels like a timely and enriching opportunity to fully reflect all facades.
Corey Arnold, Opilio Bed. (© Corey Arnold, courtesy Scottish Festivals)
Corey Arnold | Exhibition dates
Fish-Work: – The first solo exhibition in Scotland of work by Corey Arnold.
Threshold Artspace, Perth Theatre, Friday 1 March - Thursday 27 June.
Lost at Sea by Morna Young | Tour Dates
Perth Theatre, Thursday 25 April - Saturday 4 May
Dundee Rep Theatre, Monday 6 - Tuesday 7 May
His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen, Thursday 9 - Saturday 11 May
Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock, Tuesday 14 May
Eden Court, Inverness, Thursday 16 - Saturday 18 May
Kings Theatre, Edinburgh, Monday 20 - Wednesday 22 May
Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival, Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries, Friday 24 May.
About Morna Young
Morna Young is a playwright, actress and musician from Moray. She was recipient of the 2017 Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship (hosted by Creative Learning, Aberdeen City Council), the New Playwrights Award 2014 (Playwrights' Studio, Scotland), the ‘Tomorrow at Noon’ award for female playwrights 2018 (Jermyn Street Theatre) and she was the 2018 playwright-in-residence for BATS Theatre and Toi Põneke Arts Centre in Wellington, New Zealand. Lost at Sea, her debut play, was initially developed in 2013 with award-winning Stellar Quines Theatre Company resulting in a sold-out rehearsed reading in Lossiemouth. A secondary rehearsed reading took place in London as part of the Finborough Theatre’s ‘Vibrant Festival of New Writing’ in 2015.
Other plays include: Aye, Elvis ('A Play, A Pie and A Pint' and Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe), The Buke of the Howlat (Findhorn Bay Arts), Smite (Jermyn Street Theatre), Netting (‘A Play, A Pie and A Pint' and Scotland-wide tour with Woodend Barn), She of the Sea (Paines Plough 'Come to Where I'm From'), B-Roads (Play Pieces), Never Land (Eden Court) and two short plays for the National Theatre of Scotland's Great Yes, No, Don’t Know Show. Morna has performed extracts of her writing at the Scottish Parliament, The European Author's Festival (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland), National Poetry Month (France) and Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Web: http://www.mornayoung.com
Twitter: @mornayoung
About Corey Arnold
Corey Arnold is a photographer and commercial fisherman by trade. He has worked seasonally as a commercial fisherman in Alaska since 1995, including seven years of crabbing in the Bering Sea aboard the f/v Rollo. Corey now captains a commercial gillnetter, harvesting wild and sustainable Sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska while living seasonally in an abandoned salmon cannery complex called Graveyard Point. His life’s work: Fish-Work is an ongoing photography series documenting the visceral experience of life at sea for commercial fishermen worldwide. He resides in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Web: http://www.coreyfishes.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arni_coraldo/
PHOTOGRAPHIC TOURS: Guided tours with Iliyana Nedkova and members of Perthshire Photographic Society on selected days over coffee and croissant at 11.30am-12.30pm or over wine and olives at 5pm-6.30pm. £5 per person including refreshments. 10% off all limited editions at any tour. Meet at Perth Theatre Cafe. Book in advance with Iliyana Nedkova at inedkova@horsecross.co.uk
PHOTOGRAPHIC EDITIONS FOR SALE: 5 +1 AP limited editions of 18 Degrees and Hauling (2006) by Corey Arnold are available as part of the Horsecross Arts exclusive Collect + Support initiative. £100 each excluding postage and VAT. Sales enquiries Iliyana Nedkova inedkova@horsecross.co.uk
Sasha Buchanan
Narrative Photography with Colin McPherson
Colin McPherson has made a career out of photographic storytelling. His photojournalism has taken him across all five continents, with his work appearing in books, magazines, and journals around the world. He also has a number of longer-term and large projects underway currently, and his most recent images – about life on Easdale island – were shown this year at the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol. He is a member of the Document Scotland photography collective, and is represented by Getty Images.
In the Summer Issue of ART NORTH we will be featuring the work of the Document Scotland. The collective comprises Jeremy Sutton Hibbert, Stephen McLaren, Sophie Gerrard, and McPherson himself. Document Scotland’s exhibition at the Martin Parr Foundation featured long-term documentary bodies of work on the subjects of Glasgow (by Sutton Hibbert), Edinburgh and it’s slave history (by McLaren), The Flow Country (by Gerrard) and McPherson’s own Easdale Island work. Following its outing in Bristol, the exhibition travels to Perth Museum, Dunoon Burgh Hall, and then Inverness for the FLOW photofest.
Easdale island, © Colin McPherson, 2019.
Easdale island, the subject of McPherson’s photographic contribution to the above-mentioned exhibition, lies off Scotland's west coast and is the smallest permanently-inhabited inner Hebridean Island. This summer, it is also the venue for a series of short residential courses designed to reveal the secrets of storytelling through photography. Heading up these courses are McPherson and Adam Lee; the latter a photographer, writer, and educator. The courses that McPherson and Lee are hosting will allow participants to “explore what it takes to weave together individual images into imaginative and eye-catching photographic stories.”
“Using the unique characteristics and landscape of Easdale island,” they say, “participants will be guided and supported with the aim of being able to convey their passion for photographic storytelling in an imaginative and creative way.” The two-day courses are designed for anyone of any level with a curiosity about visual narrative. No previous experience is required, just a curious mind and a working knowledge of your own camera or device. Participants will be accommodated for three nights in two cottages on the island, and catering is provided.
Places on the courses are restricted to a maximum of six participants per course and demand is said to be high. The dates for each are scheduled to take place on:
Saturday 29 June – Tuesday 2 July
Wednesday 3 – Saturday 6 July
Saturday 7 – Tuesday 10 September
Wednesday 11 – Saturday 14 September
For further details, see the course website or contact Colin McPherson on 07831 838717.
For further information on Document Scotland, see the collective’s website, or click through to Twitter and Instagram for @DocuScotland.
Jan Saudek – Consuming Pleasures
What do we know about Czech photographer Jan Saudek? Everything and nothing it seems. A loveable rogue. A victim of circumstance. A born survivor. Saudek wants us to think that he’s all of these things and more – it’s all part of his cultivation of the mystique that has been a feature of his turbulent career since the early-1960s. Maybe he is all of these things, or maybe he’s none. At times it can seem that there are a multitude of Saudeks all vying for their position, and at others he’s invisible; Jan is simply not there. “How many Saudeks are there?” I ask him. and he’s quick to reply; Too many! – though he’s happy that the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs now considers him an important ambassador for the country (a tourist attraction even). “The problem with me is I'm a bad actor,” he points out, and there’s a sense that his position will always remain somewhat ambiguous – the eternal outsider, perhaps. Saudek prefers the term ‘underground’ however, for it is more appropriate to someone who has never been officially recognised by the art establishment in his own country, and clearly it still rankles. But is he an intellectual? “No! Jan Saudek is a primitive!” he shouts, referring to himself in the third person.
Now in his eighties, he claims he has no need of publicity and no need to court favour, too; although he’s clearly one of the Czech Republic’s best exports, he remains – to borrow that well-known phrase – a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Trying to understand the meaning of Jan Saudek requires that you research him like an archaeologist on a dig, picking away at the layers of evidence with a trowel, attempting to separate the myth from the rumour, the truth from the fiction, the apparently bald lies from the conditional half-truths – all of which are delicately layered and, of course, all part of the game. The life of Jan Saudek reads like a work by Franz Kafka, but what does it all mean? Is Jan Saudek misunderstood? “Good question,” he responds, “I’m misunderstood, absolutely! People think they know me but they just consider me as that ‘that dude who shoots fat women’. I make pictures of everything, but the market dictates how I’m seen – it requires special types of women… It’s bad luck, I guess, but it’s better to be recognised as a weirdo then not to be recognised at all.”
Jan Saudek, Dawn No. 1, 1959 (© Jan Saudek, courtesy Taschen)
For the outsider Saudek is not easy to pin down in terms of his whereabouts either – he perpetually comes across as the man who wasn’t there – like Orson Welles in The Third Man, glimpsed in the shadows more than the light – and eventually you come to wonder whether he really exists at all. It sounds odd, I know, but it’s not far from the truth. As he once told his biographer, Daniela Mrázková, he’s been accused of being an agent for the FBI and the CIA, and of residing in numerous cities around Europe when all along he was in Prague. Most alarmingly for him, even his death has been officially announced, only for him to pop up in Prague a few days later! When the Ministry of Culture in the old communist Czechoslovakia was once approached by the Swiss to allow Saudek to attend a panel in Fribourg, in true Kafkaesque fashion, they were told (simply and politely), that there was no such person. More mystique? More Saudek spin? Again, maybe. Who can tell for sure? In the end you always return to the same point; the only thing you have to go on are the photographs, because everything else is a mere rumour. The photographs are true though, because they actually exist… Don’t they?
Jan Saudek, Olga With A Bird Cage, 1978 (© Jan Saudek, courtesy Taschen)
Well yes, and no. Even in his photographs, loathed by many, admired by countless others, Saudek is dissembling and playing with truths. Take his titles for a start: In so many of his prints he handwrites the titles and the dates around their margin like an archivist, but backdates them to the mid-to-late-1800s, or early-1900s in an apparently playful deceit. A print from the negative for On the Road (made in 1964) can appear dated as 1879, or 1886, dependent upon… well… who knows what? In other images his trademark hand colouring and tableauxesque antique scenarios are cunningly arranged to present us with the non-time of history-made-present. These images are obviously not daguerreotypes nor cartes-de-visite, though there’s a strange sense that, as photographs, they would have liked to have been, in another life. The deceit creates distance and asks us to willingly suspend our disbelief while the photographer gets on with his chosen business of, well, photographing what in any other form would be considered scandalous. In some images the full theatre of absurd cruelty is played out with a Sadeian passion that would not be out of place in a film by Pasolini, but Saudek gets away with it because it is rendered as antique and thus removed from ‘reality’ just that little bit further.
Jan Saudek, The Puppet, dated 1901 (sic) (© Jan Saudek, courtesy Taschen)
So, what do we know about Saudek and his life? That is, if it is all such a deceit? What we can be sure of is that most of Saudek’s family on his father’s side were murdered in Theresienstadt concentration camp, while Jan and his twin brother Karel did their best to survive in a work camp on the Polish border. What remained of his family after the war returned to Prague, where Saudek himself began working for a printer. The real impetus to take up photography, however, came after his military service when, in 1963, he saw the exhibition catalogue to Edward Steichen's seminal photography exhibition Family of Man that was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 1955. It was an epiphanal moment for Saudek who felt driven to create a single body of work committed to the expression of the “universality of human emotions” – something he has been pursuing ever since in one way or another. In the mid-1960s, he traveled to the USA where he was further encouraged to continue photography by the curator Hugh Edwards, but it was not until he returned to Prague that the political circumstances following the ‘Prague Spring’ conspired to force him to work in a cellar between those richly textured walls that recur so frequently in his later work.
Here opinion begins to differ on what it was that led Saudek to work in the cellar in the first place, however. The official story is that his clandestine studio practice was largely essential to avoid the attention of the secret police, who were hell-bent on exposing him as a pornographer, a homosexual, of having sex with minors even – and of course, an enemy of the state! The other version is less scandalous, although equally ‘unfortunate’; that on return from the USA he came back to a broken marriage and children who didn’t recognise him, a life in ruins and hard toil in a factory ahead. Whatever truth gets privileged over the other, it is generally accepted that both versions are more or less correct. In fact, he sums it up thus; “For a very long time in Czechoslovakia, we lived in sort of prison behind that huge wall that was the Iron Curtain – we weren’t allowed to be free. But there's also another wall inside many of us, and in me especially. The prison of my anxieties, my fears, and taboos.” It’s a striking feature of so many tales about Saudek from this time, that they concern the advanced state of paranoia that his experiences had brought him to, helped on by what he consistently frames as the envy of other artists and photographers, as well as the wrath of public opinion. These were ugly times, clearly, though they gave rise to those keynote themes of innocence, betrayal and personal freedom that are today so celebrated in his work by those for whom he remains in favour.
Jan Saudek, Untitled, c.1980s (© Jan Saudek – a print that sold at auction for €1,100 in 2016, courtesy Westlicht, Vienna)
It was around this time (the mid 1970s) that the German-born photographer Gisèle Freund gave Saudek a Rolleiflex (“the one she used to photograph Eva Perón” he boasts) and he still uses it to this day I am told, but this is no mere sentimentalism. For many Czech photographers of a certain age, great value is placed upon equipment and materials following the austere years of communism that consumed much of their creative life, simply because equipment and materials were always so scarce. I relate a story to him about my contact with the Czech photographer Pavel Stecha who, during the lead up to the collapse of communism and Czechoslovakia’s ‘Velvet Revolution’ would send me prints in exchange for a roll of 120 or some photographic paper. Smiling, Saudek trades memories; “In the early-70s, I exchanged my prints with a lot of foreigners for photographic material. Especially with Phil Condax from Eastman Co. Those were the days!” The cameras on which those prints were shot are still highly valued by Saudek, too, and still used. “I work with an old Pentacon Six, but times have changed. I’ve worked with a Canon EOS 5D for some time, too.” In the 1980s he shot a great deal on a professional Polaroid camera he tells me, “but it’s all history now.”
Saudek’s first camera had been a Kodak Baby Brownie (given to him in 1949) he says, though he learnt how to use a real medium format camera ten years later when his wife bought him a Czech-made Meopta Flexaret with its sharp lens and ever-reliable shutter. On the box brownie was composed his first picture (now lost, he insists) but it led him to be labeled as utterly kitsch by a visitor to the family home – a criticism that he took to heart and that nearly led him to give up photography after just one shot! Kitsch is a label that still rankles today, but when I make the same accusation he is philosophical; “Kitsch is the right word. I can take it.” He is clearly aware that Kitsch is the cross he has always had to bear from his ‘babe in arms portrait’, Life (1966), that was so easily parodied by poster-shop snappers in the early-1980s (it’s still his most popular image) to the gauche hand-tinting and watercolouring of his own prints from the 1970s and 80s in which he himself so often appears. And there you have it: in which he himself so often appears – the key to unlocking the meaning of Saudek is to look upon his work as primarily autobiographical.
Jan Saudek, Life, 1966. (© Jan Saudek, courtesy Taschen)
Jan Saudek, Destiny Walks Down to the River, Leading Two Innocent Children, 1969, (and a later hand-tinted version) (© Jan Saudek, courtesy Taschen)
Saudek’s photography is autobiographical in a way that few photographers are autobiographical today, creating a sense of aura around himself, and most notably his sexuality, his passion, and his desire. But that’s not to ignore the fact that his photographs are also, in many ways, a direct result of life’s horrors too. Let’s make no mistake about that. During the war (and immediately after it) Saudek saw violence and atrocity for sure. In the work camp as a child he saw atrocity and, he claims, later as well when Czech’s strung up “the innocent” and murdered them in acts of revenge. “In 1943,” he says, “I saw my dearly-loved father beaten on the street by Czech guys for the Star of David that he was made to wear, and I'll never forget it. Of course, I was beaten many times, too – but it's horrible to see how your father is slapped and kicked, innocent and weak, vulnerable and unable to fight back.” It is partly for this reason that Saudek has not been as politically active as some artists in a country once renowned for the activism of its cultural elite. “When the communist regime fell”, he reminds me, “the people on Prague’s Wenceslaw Square came out in force, but some decades ago those same folks swore their fidelity to Stalin, and in 1942, they raised their arms in the Nazi salute.”
Jan Saudek: Which Star Is Mine? c.1975 (© Jan Saudek, courtesy Taschen)
During the course of our conversation, I am constantly uneasy with the reputation of the photographer and many of his photographs too, which following the rise of the #MeToo movement can be easily reconfigured to be read as something they are not. I increasingly feel that when you look at the photographs Saudek has produced over the years, there’s invariably a sense that he is running headlong and fiercely towards physical affection and instant sexual gratification; as though he is trying to use his subject matter as a means to blot out the memories of those depths to which human beings can sometimes descend, or possibly recreate such moments as a cathartic process, but perhaps this is wide of the mark. He certainly wouldn’t be the first artist to connect sex and death in their work, and he’s certainly not the only person to attempt to assuage trauma with physical affection either. When I suggest this might be the case, Saudek thinks for a moment and then sits forward as if to confess: “I think that it's physical love that attracts me… but you're right… sexual intercourse can remind you strongly of death.”
He is alarmingly frank, but with the interview nearing its close, I press him further, aware that he has explicitly addressed violence in his work on many occasions. “Is there anything that you just wouldn’t turn your lens towards and shoot?” I ask him, figuring that I might get to probe the darkness of his psyche, but his reply is now measured and honest; “Anything that shows the loss of human dignity,” he says. “I could not shoot that.” It’s a reply that should perhaps stand as his epitaph one day, preventing him from being as misunderstood in death as he has been in life – and, of course, he is now reaching that age when interviewers have already begun asking him how he would like to be remembered. Instead I try a different route, aware that he is a keen gardener. When he must go, would he prefer it to be behind the camera or in his garden? “If I die”, he says, “perhaps on a bench in the garden would be the best place to leave this beautiful world, don't you think so?”
Camilla Paulsen
Inverness Darkroom
Inverness Darkroom is a new community b/w darkroom space setup in WASPS Inverness Creative Academy. “WASPS have done us proud with a fabulous space,” say Matt Sillars and Rachel Fermi who are behind the project. The thinking behind the initiative is to provide year-round darkroom access for members; regular analogue photography workshops; and, hopefully, become a self-sustaining visual arts space, too. Facilities include six enlarger bays with Durst and LPL enlargers from 35mm to medium and large format negatives, as well as two enlarger bays for specialised enlargers.
Set up as a membership service, members provide their own film and print chemicals, with the Darkroom advising on use of chemicals, film and paper, and where to buy them. For use of these facilities, the annual membership fee is £96 for the first year, paid annually (or in quarterly instalments).
A month-long pass can also be purchased for £40, while members may reserve individual enlarger workstations online, payment being made via PayPal or bank transfer. New member induction will be required for a one-off fee of £10 (waived for those who have taken an Introduction previously) to ensure health and safety and that basic operating procedures are adhered to.
Run by volunteers, all equipment and furnishings have been donated, and membership and workshop fees are the only source of revenue that will fund the space. It’s a big undertaking, but first signs are that is is proving a hugely popular resource for not just
Inverness but the wider area.
As Sillars and Fermi sum it up: “the darkroom is a purpose-built space that will reinvigorate film photography in the Inverness area, introducing beginners to the fun and magic of processing and printing their first images, as well as a resource for more advanced photographers.”
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Powell The Powerhouse
Powell attempts a three during a game with Riverton.
Photo by Pat McDonald
Ty Soutas, Staff Writer
“Horrendous.” An adjective used by head girls basketball coach Rand Rasmussen describing his senior guard, Jilian Powell, and her defensive play.
But he was not talking about the current version of his star player, he was referring to Jilian’s defensive skills as an incoming freshman. According to Jilian’s coaches, her weakness on the defensive end has transformed into one of her greatest strengths.
“I think she’s fixed her weaknesses.” Rasmussen said. “When we first got her, she was horrendous on defense. Horrendous. And now she’s got it.”
Her coach is also a big fan of her performance with the ball in her hands.
“If she’s not the best fundamental shooter I’ve ever had, she’s right up there,” Rasmussen said. “I believe that she’s actually pretty close to the school record to be our top 3 point shooter.”
Jill has proven to be one of the Lady Miner’s most reliable players both offensively and defensively by, in the average game, scoring 11 points, making nearly two assists, grabbing more than three boards, and stealling the ball three times this season.
Not so much a vocal leader, she helps lead her team by example. She is a great team member off the court as well as she has built many lasting friendships while contributing to the program’s success.
“She leads the team by the way she acts on the court,” said Madison Aulai, a starting point guard for the Miners. “When things are going chaotic she always knows how to keep everyone together. She knows her role as a scorer. We are confident in her that she can do her job, and get the job done.”
Other members of the Lady Miners agree.
“Jill and I have been playing together since we were like 11,” said Ashton Henderson. “She has great court vision and she sees things most people don’t see. She takes our team to a whole new level. If she plays well then everyone else plays better because of her.”
Powell has performed very well this season, leading the miners to an semi-final appearance in the state tournament. Jilian is shooting an amazing 46 percent from 3-point land this season. She has been very consistent in each of the contests this season.
One of her most memorable games happened in her sophomore year, according to assistant coach Charron Mason.
“We were playing Taylorsville in a [playoff-determining] region matchup,” Mason said. “We were down two points with 15 seconds remaining, and we had the ball for the final shot. We called timeout to draw up a play.
“The play wasn’t [designed] to go to her but since one of our players got double-teamed, she was left wide open. She hit the 3-pointer to win the game for us. This was a huge turning point for her… In the timeout she knew she was going to hit it. It was a varsity game, so she showed a lot of maturity.”
Once Jill’s high school basketball career as a Bingham Miner comes to a close, she plans on playing at the collegiate level.
“I’m going on to Snow [College], and I’m going with Ashton [Henderson], [Mackenzie] Bruggeman, and maybe Maddie [Aulai-Roe],” Jilian said. “I have a half-basketball half-academic scholarship there.”
Though she will be playing college ball alongside a few of the teammates that she knows so well, she says she will miss being with her team.
“I will always remember just the good times I’ve had hanging out with the team and all of the sleepovers we’ve had. There’s lots of memories that go along with it all,” Jill said. “I’m going to miss playing with the girls. We’ve been playing together forever, so I’m going to miss being with the girls as well as my coaches.”
Jill’s teammates are going to miss her great personality, the excitement, and the playfulness she brings to the team.
“She is hilarious,” Mason said. “One time after our team got off the bus she and her teammate, Madison [Aulai-Roe], started a huge snowball fight. This was probably one of multiple favorite memories of her. It was so hilarious.”
“She’s just an overall good kid,” Rasmussen added. “Dry sense of humor- really really funny- but you have to know her to be able to get her jokes.”
Powell was a huge part of the Miner’s success in February as they made it to the semi-finals of the state playoffs. The Lady Miners lost to Layton by three to a score of 41-38. Jilian led the team in her last game with the Lady Miners with 10 points , three rebounds, and two steals. A great way to end her senior year witht the Lady Miners.
Feature: Tess Blair
Athlete Achievement
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ABC Liquor License Rules
By: Molly Park
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What Do You Need to Open a Liquor Store in Ohio?
Each state has a department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) that regulates liquor stores and restaurants that are licensed to sell adult beverages to consumers. Although each state has its own rules regarding alcohol sales, there are some regulations that apply across the board in areas where alcohol sales are legal.
All stores, restaurants, hotels and other establishments that sell alcohol in any form, whether bottled or by the drink, must have a liquor license from the state. The license must be displayed in a public place as determined by your state's ABC so that customers can see it at all times. Some states require businesses to apply for a new license each year. Businesses that do not adhere to their state's ABC requirements are at risk of losing their license, for example, if they serve liquor to minors.
Sales Tax Permit
In addition to the license issued by the ABC, a business must register for a sales tax permit in order to sell alcoholic beverages in every state except for Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon. These permits can be obtained from the Sales Tax Division of the State Board of Equalization or the comparable department in your state; selling without it may result in misdemeanor charges.
Some states require a site visit before granting an ABC license. In Virginia, this is one of three primary reasons why businesses can be denied a license. If the establishment is found unsuitable based on state laws governing the running of businesses selling liquor, your license can be denied, suspended or even revoked. For example, ABC inspectors in California have the authority to inspect the bar and associated cabinets, safes, kitchen and store room to make sure that they are up to code. Each state has its own standards for site visits that can be found on its ABC website.
Minimum Eligibility
While each state may have a slightly altered form of these rules, there are four minimum requirements for obtaining a liquor license. The grantee must be a U.S. citizen, at least 21 years of age, not be convicted of a felony or a police officer who has the ability to arrest individuals.
California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control: Permits
Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control: Want an ABC License?
New York State Liquor Authority: Frequently Asked Questions
California Department of Alcoholic Beverages: FAQ Enforcement and Violations
Molly Park has been writing professionally since 2009. Her work has been published on Americanchronicle.com and other websites. She holds a Bachelor of Science in political science and a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Park is also a certified yoga teacher.
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How to Become a Licensed Tobacco Dealer
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How to Get a Liquor License in Maryland
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How to Get a Reseller's Tax ID Number
How to Obtain Liquor Licenses in Washington, D.C.
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His teaching methodology focuses on individual and small-group instruction. Boys who need special help receive it individually or in small groups from Rabbi Chazan and several associates, just as all boys are educated individually and in small groups. Thus, no youngster should feel humiliated because he is taken aside for "special" instruction; all boys are taught in this manner. Rabbi Chazan strives to be respectful of individual boys; he observed that discipline in Ukrainian schools was "severe" and "stifling".[17]
All applicants to the yeshiva are screened for intellectual capacity, Hebrew-language skills, and maturity. For those who apply from abroad, Hebrew-language interviews are conducted by Skype. For Chabad boys residing in Ukraine, Rabbi Chazan and his associates interview and observe candidates at Chabad-operated winter camps for boys in Ukraine. Rabbi Chazan noted that most Ukrainian Chabad boys have superior Hebrew-language skills because many of their yeshiva day school teachers are Israelis.
The boys reside and learn in a suburban area in an oddly-designed two-story rental building originally intended as a small country inn accommodating only a few families at any time. Of fairly recent construction, building materials appear somewhat shoddy and flimsy. Capacity of the building is severely limited and may restrict natural growth of the yeshiva. It is planned that the residential yeshiva will move into the structure now used as a dormitory for Beit Chana when Beit Chana moves into its new premises,[18] but several years will be required before all necessary renovations can be completed.
For now, boys enjoy recess periods in a poorly-maintained adjacent outdoor basketball court and a large not-quite-level backyard. They also are taken on excursions to a local indoor swimming pool and certain other recreational venues.
In discussions with several Chabad rabbis whose sons are enrolled in the yeshiva, the writer found enthusiasm about Rabbi Chazan and his teaching colleagues and with the style of learning embraced by the yeshiva. They observed that their sons were learning at appropriate levels, were pleased with the general atmosphere, and were maturing.
7. Under the sponsorship of Tzivos Hashem (Heb., The Army of G_d), a Chabad children’s organization, Rabbi Yossi Glick manages several children’s programs in the city. The best known of these are separate residential facilities for Jewish boys and girls from troubled home situations. Often referred to as “social orphans,” most of the youngsters are from single-parent homes in which the custodial parent is unable to provide adequate childcare due to substance addiction, impoverishment, or other problems. Some parents are imprisoned. A few youngsters were previously cared for by aging grandparents unable to cope with the needs of active, growing children.
Rabbi Yossi Glick, a native of Australia, manages several Chabad children’s programs in Dnipropetrovsk. He also is the business manager of the new residential yeshiva katana.
Photo: the writer (in May 2012).
The total number of youngsters residing in the homes has dropped from 40 boys and 28 girls some years ago to 14 in each during the 2013-2014 school year. The reduced census parallels a general Ukrainian Jewish demographic decline and follows a pattern observed in several Jewish children's residential facilities in other Ukrainian cities. Each of the two Dnipropetrovsk facilities is supervised by young adult counselors, most of whom are only a few years older than their charges and none of whom has relevant education/social work/psychology background. Both homes are guarded by security personnel throughout the day and night.
Rabbi Glick readily acknowledged finance-related shortcomings in management of the homes. The program cannot afford to engage properly-trained staff; those who do serve usually leave after one or two years, thus depriving youngsters of supervision continuity. Further, the program lacks capacity to advise youngsters on post-high school opportunities and usually loses track of residents within a year of their departure from the homes upon graduation from high school at age 17.
Almost all of the residents attend the machon or day yeshiva. Recreational opportunities outside school are severely limited due to lack of funds. Visits to families usually are limited to occasional Sundays; Rabbi Glick has found that longer visits to dysfunctional homes cause psychological/emotional problems for the children that persist upon their return. Further, Rabbi Glick said, such visits may be expensive for the residential programs because parents or other relatives sometimes steal the clothing or shoes that the child is wearing or bringing and then sell these items in a street bazaar. The residential program then must replace the missing apparel.
In general, said Rabbi Glick, financial constraints have forced Tzivos Hashem to curb its assistance programs to all impoverished Jewish children throughout the city, including those living with family members. For example, they no longer distribute food parcels to single-parent families or grandparent-led families.
8. Старший брат, старшая сестра (Older Brother, Older Sister) is an outgrowth of the Dnipropetrovsk Kehilla Project of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston.[19] Adapted from Jewish Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Boston, the Dnipropetrovsk program is completing its Bar Mitzvah year, funded entirely by an allocation from Combined Jewish Philanthropies, the Jewish federation in Boston.
Tanya Kaplunskaya, director of Older Brother, Older Sister, said that the project is well-known in the Dnipropetrovsk Jewish community; she even is approached by people on the street who recommend a particular child in need of an older companion. The current uncertain situation in eastern Ukraine, she continued, generates great stress, even among children; they fear for their own futures and welcome additional attention from a big sister or big brother.
Tanya Kaplunskaya, a psychologist by training, is a member of a family long involved in Dnipropetrovsk Jewish life.
In all, said Ms. Kaplunskaya, the current roster includes 70 pairs. Most of the older brothers and sisters join the program through the Hillel student organization, she stated, and the remainder connect through Jewish Agency young adult programs.[20] Through contacts in the Jewish day school and elsewhere, she learns of children who would benefit from such a relationship. Her background in psychology enables her to evaluate both volunteer older siblings and candidate younger siblings and then make appropriate matches.
Aware that many students and other volunteers in Ukraine lack the resources to plan and carry out the two-person outings that characterize many JBB/BS relationships in the United States, the Dnipropetrovsk program offers a number of large events in which many pairs participate, such as excursions to ice skating arenas and amusement parks. Light refreshments are served at these gatherings, which generally take place once each month and at holidays. Her monthly budget, which covers all event-related expenses, is between $600 and $700. Ms. Kaplunskaya added that many pairs also go on walks and engage in other low-cost activities on their own.
Two little brothers have Down syndrome, said Ms. Kaplunskaya, and a third child is confined to a wheelchair. Although almost all participants, both younger and older siblings, have some Jewish roots, Ms. Kaplunskaya noted, not all are halakhically Jewish.
Ms. Kaplunskaya has led several seminars on child development and psychology for volunteer older siblings and for their parents. She would like to organize a Shabbaton for children, the children's parents, and the volunteer older siblings, but such an undertaking would be very expensive and she sees little likelihood of receiving funding for it. Few participants, she observed, would be able to pay their own expenses and, thus, substantial individual subsidies would be required.
9. A Special Needs Educational Resource Center, located in a wing of the Beit Chana Jewish Women's Pedagogical College,[21] enrolls 60 Jewish children, adolescents, and a few young adults. Some of the children are autistic, said Director Tamara Olshanitskaya, and many others are intellectually impaired or have other disabilities. The number of youngsters with cerebral palsy actually is declining, Ms. Olshanitskaya said, due to better obstetrical care. A few clients have not been diagnosed precisely, Ms. Olshanitskaya continued, but it is clear that these youngsters are severely impaired and unable to attend conventional public schools.
Tamara Olshanitskaya, left has directed the Resource Center since its inception. She has spent considerable time in the United States, where her daughter and grandchildren now reside. Ms. Olshanitskaya said that her own friends in the United States worry about her during the current unrest in eastern Ukraine, but she hopes for the best and "жизнь продолжается" (life continues).
Participants are assigned to one of four groups, depending on age, type of disability, and degree of impairment. Some children are prepared for entrance into public school special education classes, but others are so seriously impaired that public schools are unable to accommodate them. Some private schools exist for disabled youngsters, Ms. Olshanitskaya said, but they generally are very expensive; further, the smaller size and more welcoming atmosphere of the Resource Center is much more comfortable for many families.
The Resource Center premises include eight teaching/therapy spaces in five classrooms of various sizes as well as one sports hall. Additionally, it has an outdoor play area with equipment designed for special needs youngsters. The program offers literacy skills, speech therapy, art and music therapy, physical education, and massage. A psychologist is on staff, and an experienced pediatrician provides basic medical care. The pediatrician, Ms. Olshanitskaya stated, is outstanding; he charges a reduced rate to the Resource Center, but will make house calls at night for his young patients and also intervenes with hospitals when necessary. Mothers trust him, Ms. Olshanitskaya continued, a sentiment that is often missing in Ukrainian medical care. The Jewish Medical Center also provides primary health care to Resource Center youngsters, a service that will expend when the JMC moves into its new premises.[22]
In the above photo at left, youngsters participate in a music class, using tambourines and other basic instruments. Most of the adults in the photo are parents, grandparents, or volunteers. In the above photo at right, a boy receives individual tutoring in basic math and reading. Note his wheelchair, a plastic yard chair in a wheeled frame. Photos: the writer.
Families are referred to the Resource Center by hospitals, clinics, and sanitaria specializing in care of disabled children, stated Ms. Olshanitskaya. Often, she continued, fathers abandon their families at the birth of such youngsters. The demands of special-needs children are such that the mother is unable to work outside the home, thus leaving the mother and child (as well as other family members) in poverty. State pensions provided to the handicapped do not cover even basic expenses, Ms. Olshanitskaya noted. Many of the mothers are severely depressed and worry constantly about the fate of their children if they (the mothers) become ill or die.
Ms. Olshanitskaya arranges some social activities, as well as counseling, for parents and other caregivers. The Jewish Women's Microenterprise Loan Fund and Project Kesher also offer programs to Resource Center mothers.[23]
The Resource Center cannot afford the social workers, psychologists, and special education teachers that it needs. It is very dependent upon volunteer helpers, among them retired teachers, each of whom comes to the Center several days each week to work with individual children. Parents and grandparents of client children also have responsibilities that sometimes extend beyond their own children.
Ms. Olshanitskaya also noted the centrality of a specially-equipped passenger van to the Resource Center. A gift of Combined Jewish Philanthropies, the Jewish federation in Boston, the van is fitted with two lifts that bring wheelchair-bound youngsters into the van and then discharge them efficiently and comfortably. The van transports Resource Center youngsters and their parents between their homes and the Center. The Center could not operate without it, Ms. Olshanitskaya said.
Ms. Olshanitskaya also expressed gratitude for a new activity, an adaptation of the warm home program, initiated for senior adults by the Joint Distribution Committee and subsequently operated by Action for Post-Soviet Jewry.[24] In the Resource Center warm home project, Ms. Olshanitskaya continued, three to five Resource Center young-sters in the same age group, along with their mothers and two to three RC profes-sionals, meet in the home of one of the children. The children and parents know each other from the Center and are comfortable with each other, a key element of the under-taking, Ms. Olshanitskaya said. One professional leads the children in arts and crafts and other informal activities, while another meets with the mothers for adult-level informal Jewish education, psychological counseling, and art projects of their own. The Resource Center provides light refreshments (fruit and cookies) and the hostess mother provides tea.[25] Gifts may be given to participants on their birthdays. Gatherings in children's homes, noted Ms. Olshanitskaya, enable Resource Center professionals to assess conditions in these homes, learn if children have their own space, etc.[26]
[17] Rabbi Chazan mentioned briefly a Chabad residential yeshiva for the same age group near Moscow that some Chabad rabbis refer to as a "boot camp". The rabbis who support Rabbi Chazan have insisted that a different atmosphere prevail in Dnipropetrovsk.
[18] See page 28.
[19] See pages 62-63 for further information about the ties between Dnipropetrovsk and Boston.
[20] For more information about Hillel in Dnipropetrovsk, see pages 23-24; for information about the Jewish Agency, see pages 57-59.
[21] See pages 27-28 for additional information about Beit Chana.
[22] See pages 44-45 for more information about the Jewish Medical Center.
[23] See pages 46-47 and 35 about the Jewish Women's Microenterprise Loan Fund and Project Kesher respectively.
[24] For information on the Action for Post-Soviet Jewry warm home program, see page 41.
[25] If the mother cannot afford to provide tea, the Resource Center will provide it, said Ms. Olshanitskaya.
[26] The Resource Center warm home program is funded by Dr. Judith Wolf of Boston and her family. The Wolf family has been a generous contributor to other aspects of the Resource Center as well.
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