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BizComm receives Newman Fellowship
Posted by: Chip Rouse
Congratulations to Business Communication junior Paul Farrell, recipient of the Newman Civic Fellowship as a representative of Stevenson University.
In the words of Stevenson president Dr. Elliot Hirshman, "Paul Farrell, a junior Business Communication student at Stevenson University, embodies the ethic of service and civic engagement as a student-leader on campus. As President of Campus Crusade for Christ, a global Christian non-profit, Farrell has planned and provided guidance for over 20 events for the Stevenson community and beyond, often addressing issues such as homelessness in Baltimore. Farrell who is actively involved in the Male Initiative of Leadership and Excellence (M.I.L.E.) at Stevenson has facilitated multiple events that served the community, such as feeding the hungry, protecting the environment, assisting in the creation of athletic facilities, and reaching and supporting urban youth. Farrell is a humble leader who is involved because he truly wants to serve others. Service has become an integral component of his college career, and he often leads by example. Farrell is sincere in every aspect of his life, which allows him to represent Stevenson with professionalism and excellence, while also enriching the lives of the people that surround him."
The Newman Civic Fellowship "recognizes and supports community-committed students who have demonstrated an investment in finding solutions for challenges facing communities throughout the country," according to the Fellowship's website. It's a one-year experience for honored students to gain access to in-person and virtual learning opportunities, networking events, and mentoring.
Congratulations, Paul! More information is available here. (Photo from campuscompact.org)
Keywords: experiential learning, student life
BizComm running for SGA top spot
Business Communication major Lauren Novsak is running for the office of SGA President at Stevenson. Over the past three years, Lauren has served as the School of Design senator, a sophomore class representative, and currently is the Director of Public Relations and Alumni Outreach for the SGA.
Lauren is also involved in ‘47 House, Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society, National Residence Hall Honorary, and is the president of Mission: I’m Home. Lauren has also been a student assistant in the Office of Student Engagement.Lauren is running for the office on a ticket with Noah Connor, a business administration major.
The department is proud of Lauren's commitment to community and leadership!
Keywords: careers, experiential learning
BizComm faculty member to offer fashion advice
Professor Stephanie Verni of the department of Business Communication will be a featured speaker at the "Women of Stevenson" career conference to be held on Sunday, March 4, from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. in Rockland.
Verni will present five sessions focused on "Building A Professional Wardrobe" and will offer wardrobe consulting tips for students. Since she is an EIS-Certified fashion consultant, the communication professor will talk about colors, neutral wardrobes, investment pieces, and will suggest 25 fashion tips. She will offer a handout that suggests nine basic pieces students can purchase to start a business-professional wardrobe, and how those nine pieces can create 36 outfits.
Keywords: careers, experiential learning, faculty
Such a positive message from FB!
Found this terrific positive message on Facebook courtesy of one of our Business communication faculty members who also happens to be an alum of SU. Maya Shipley Tyler offers a healthy dose of motivation to readers -- and is equally motivational to the students at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School where she works!
Keywords: alumni, careers, faculty
Alum travels to Egypt
Business Communication alum Nicholas Farano ’12 was selected among seven Americans to participate in the Professional Fellow Program Outbound Exchange in Egypt from Feb 10-21. He sent this photo during his travels. Grateful to Hands Across the Nile Development Services, Inc., for Nick's amazing experience. (Photo courtesy of Nick Farano)
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The Family Business Podcast
How and When to start Succession Planning
Succession Planning is a complex process, there are many moving parts to it and lots to consider. This can put a lot of people off starting the process or leaving them not knowing how or when to start. In this episode I share some tips on how to get started. 1 - Start Early 2 - Separate out the different elements of succession 3 - Look at the role of Family Governance 4 - Keep an open mind 5 - Have open and honest conversations I also cover when to get started and without wanting to ruin the surprise, the answer is NOW! Work With Russ If what I have spoken about in the show resonates and you want to discuss how I can help you and your family business drop me an email: russ@familybusinesspartnership.com or head over to www.familybusinesspartnership.com Sign up to the Newsletter You can get podcasts, videos and blogs delivered directly to your inbox by signing up to the newsletter. Head over to www.fambizpodcast.com and sign up now
A Family Business Story
On this weeks show I am joined by Dominic Rubino. Dominic is a business coach now but has historically owned and worked in a Family Business. In this episode of the show we look at what we can learn from Dom's experience of working in a relatively informal business and governance structure with his cousin. We also explore how money can be destructive and what happens when you experience rapid growth in the early stages of the business. We look at the need for governance and 'professionalisation' and the impact on businesses of not having this in place. You can find out more about Dom and his work by heading over to: https://profittoolbelt.com/ Work With Russ If what I have spoken about in the show resonates and you want to discuss how I can help you and your family business drop me an email: russ@familybusinesspartnership.com or head over to www.familybusinesspartnership.com Sign up to the Newsletter You can get podcasts, videos and blogs delivered directly to your inbox by signing up to the newsletter. Head over to www.fambizpodcast.com and sign up now
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The Sellers Journey
One third of businesses that go to market to sell actually conclude successfully!We look at some of the common emotional barriers to these transactions and what we can do to help avoid them.If you are a professional adviser to family business owners this is a must listen episode as Denise shares her experience of helping sellers to overcome these barriers.We look at the emotional aspects of selling or passing your business on to the next generation and ask the question:What does work provide for you?As a business owner no-one prepares you for letting go of your business, the role you play in it and the emotional wellbeing that it provides.You can find out more about the work that Denise does by heading tohttps://deniselogan.com/Work With Russ If what I have spoken about in the show resonates and you want to discuss how I can help you and your family business drop me an email: russ@familybusinesspartnership.com or head over to www.familybusinesspartnership.comSign up to the Newsletter You can get podcasts, videos and blogs delivered directly to your inbox by signing up to the newsletter. Head over to www.fambizpodcast.com and sign up now
Top 5 regrets of the Dying
With a title like that there is a danger that this post could be viewed as quite morbid, but please read on, the aim of this is to inspire and provoke some thoughts rather than depress.For those familiar with the ‘Top 5 regrets of the dying’ hopefully this will be a useful reminder, for those unfamiliar with them, please allow me to introduce you to them.Bronnie Ware spent many years as a palliative care nurse and in 2009 she wrote an article called Regrets of the Dying. Bronnie grew close to those that she cared for and had honest discussions with them about life, death and regret. She documented these regrets as a way of highlighting that when we are faced with our own mortality and we are reflecting on our lives, looking back rather than forward, there are many things that we wish we could have told our younger selves. You can learn more about the book that followed here.In summary the top 5 regrets are listed below;I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.I wish I hadn't worked so hard.I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.I wish that I had let myself be happier.I am going to discuss each of these regrets in the context of family business, drawing on my own experience as a human being, but also as a family business adviser and what we can learn from the regrets of others in the hope that we can avoid these in our own lives.Work With Russ If what I have spoken about in the show resonates and you want to discuss how I can help you and your family business drop me an email: russ@familybusinesspartnership.com or head over to www.familybusinesspartnership.com Sign up to the Newsletter You can get podcasts, videos and blogs delivered directly to your inbox by signing up to the newsletter. Head over to www.fambizpodcast.com and sign up now
Should you gift your family business?
Should you gift your family business to the next generation?Should you leave the business to your children in your will?Or, should the next generation be asked to buy the family business at full market value?When do you start the discussions about these topics and how do you avoid them becoming argumentative and potentially damaging to your family?We cover this and a whole lot more in this thought provoking episode of the podcast. You can find out more about Tom and his book at: www.everyfamilysbusiness.com You can connect with him on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomdeansphd/
Navigating Philanthropy
On this episode I am joined by Peter Vogel. Peter is Professor of Family Business and Entrepreneurship, Director of the Global Family Business Centre at IMD Business School in Switzerland and the co-author of the book The Family Philanthropy Navigator. We discuss how philanthropy has evolved throughout history and look at the latest trends in this fascinating area. We talk about how you as a family would decide on the types of philanthropic activity you want to pursue and where to start when looking to begin your giving journey. We also explore the wider benefits to your family enterprise of having a structured approach to your philanthropic activities. You can buy the book by visiting this web page: https://www.imd.org/family-philanthropy-navigator/book/You can find out more about Peter here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vogelpeter/You can email him: peter.vogel@imd.org
What is a Family Investment Company?
Sometimes the right thing to do with a family owned business is to sell it. If that liquidity event provides sufficient wealth and financial independence for the owners of that business, they may want to look at ways of passing that wealth on to future generations in a tax efficient way that also allows them to retain control over those assets. One vehicle for doing this is a Family Investment Company. In this episode of the show I discuss these businesses with Helen Clarke from Law firm Irwin Mitchell. We look at what circumstances these can be suitable and the process to go through to set one up. We look at how a FIC can help retain control of assets, educate the next generation and become a generational planning tool. We also look at some of the 'what-ifs' and pitfalls to avoid along with covering the importance of family governance and robust legal structures. You can find out more about Helen and her work with Irwin Mitchell, here: https://www.irwinmitchell.com/our-people/helen-clarke https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenclarkeimpw/
Barriers to Succession
Succession Planning is complex and whilst there are financial and technical complexities there are also emotional complexities that can get in the way of succession planning. In this episode I explore those and look at some of the common issues I come across in the work that I do. We look at whether now is the right time to start succession planning if you haven't already and I share some tips on how you might want to do this. I also share my views on the different perspectives that are at play across generations that might be creating barriers to progress. I also introduce you to 'Collections' and my brand new shiny newsletter! You can find out more about my business by heading over to www.familybusinesspartnership.com You can find collections and newsletter sign up at www.fambizpodcast.com/episodes
Life outside the Family Business
Debbie Ekins has recently decided to pursue a career away from her family business. This wasn't an easy decision or one that she made quickly. In this episode I talk to Debbie about her experience, the emotional rollercoaster she experienced whilst deciding what she wanted to do and how she told her parents that she didn't want to take over the family business. Debbie shares her story and there are a huge number of lessons that can be taken from it. You can find out more about Debbie here: www.debbieekins.comOn Linked In here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahekins/and Instagram Here https://www.instagram.com/debbie_does_things/
SPECIAL EPISODE - COVID 19 Update from The IFB
We last spoke with Fiona back in March as we entered the first lockdown here in the UK. Since then a lot has changed and so Fiona joins us again to provide further insights into the work that she and the Institute for Family Business are doing on behalf of family businesses here in the UK. We look at the impact that COVID has had and some of the innovation that has been seen from the UK's family businesses. We discuss what policies the IFB are lobbying Government about, specifically linked to COVID and away from COVID. We also look at some of the key findings from the 2020 State of the Nation report including an increase in female leadership amongst family businesses. We look at the fact that family businesses tend not to access all of the support that is available and the impact that may be having on their finances and attitudes to taking on debt. We also cover the importance of applying for Research and Development credits Find out more about the TEDx event here: https://www.ifb.org.uk/events/tedxinstituteforfamilybusiness/You can read the State of the Nation report here: https://www.ifb.org.uk/media/4303/the-state-of-the-nation-2020-web.pdfThere is additional COVID-19 guidance for family businesses herehttps://www.ifb.org.uk/resources/for-owners/covid-19-guidance-for-businesses/You can find the IFB on Twitter: @IFB_UKand their website is www.ifb.org.uk
Succession Planning Considerations
On this show I am joined by Mike Kane from Turcan Connell. Mike is a corporate lawyer and works with family businesses to help them with their succession planning. In this chat we cover what considerations you might want to think over before starting the process of succession planning. We cover the aspects of an MBO, a dynastic succession and alternatives such as full sale and a sale to an employee owned trust. You can find out more about Mike here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-kane-a9017125/and more about Turcan Connell here: https://www.turcanconnell.com/
The Arbikie Distillery Story
Arbikie Estate is a family-owned working farm in Scotland. This episode looks at the innovative and collaborative way that this family have been creating new products, including a carbon positive gin and vodka product. We hear about the history of the family and how the current owners returned to the business having initially pursued careers away from it. Iain Stirling describes how the collaboration happened and what others can learn from the opportunities that exist. We also discuss the impact of COVID and Brexit on the business and how they are approaching their working operations as a result. We explore the power of asking for help and being vulnerable and reaching out to your network. You can find out more about the business by heading to www.arbikie.com
Family Offices and COVID-19
Bobby Stover is America's Family Office Leader at EY. He joins us on the show this week to discuss the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has presented to family offices and how these are being tackled. We look at how some are adapting in different ways to others. What will the coming months and years mean for how family offices operate?How are different generations dealing with the current situation?Alongside these challenges we also discuss how best we can keep staff within a family office engaged as well as family members who may have already been struggling with feeling an attachment to the family office. What different ways can be explored to help with communication at a time when we are working more remotely. You can find out more about Bobby here: https://www.ey.com/en_us/people/robert-a-stover You can email him at bobby.stover@ey.com
How to be Up in Down Times
We have spoken already on the show about the importance of looking after our wellbeing during the current COVID pandemic, and this is something that my guest this weeks feels very passionately about.Friend of the show, Mitzi Perdue joins me on this episode to talk about some of the tips she and her co-authors have shared in their book - How to be Up in Down Times. We hear about the importance of self care, the subjects to avoid talking about and negative impacts of stress. We also have a surprise phone in moment from Mark Victor Hansen himself! Mitzi also shares her passion for the fight against human trafficking and how we can all get involved in this fight. LINKS: https://mitziperdue.com/https://www.winthisfight.org/https://www.amazon.com/How-UP-Down-Times-Tips/dp/B087S82GWR
Successful Transitions in a Family Business
On this episode I am joined by Dr. Jim Grubman who is an internationally recognised consultant, speaker, and educator in the multidisciplinary field of family wealth psychology. He works with affluent families and their advisors to understand how wealth and life can be integrated successfully.On this episode we cover many different topics. We look at how different generations have reacted to recent events and experiences. We explore the role of governance and discuss what 'good governance' looks like and what it does for families in business. We explore the 'resilience' and what that really means during this current crisis. Many families are finding out what areas they have done well in and where they need to learn when it comes to both governance and succession (or transition) planning. We also look at the important role that advisers play in working with families during these transitions and the elements that make up the 'Generative Alliance' that can help family businesses to thrive. You can find out more about Jim here: www.jamesgrubman.comYou can connect with him on Linked In here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-grubman-80b4289/And on Twitter here: @JimGrubman Resources mentioned on the episode include this article on the Tharawat Magazine site: https://www-tharawat--magazine-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.tharawat-magazine.com/sustain/forged-in-fire-family-resiliency-in-crises/amp/
Engaging the next generation
On this weeks show I am joined by Guillermo Salazar as we discuss what family businesses can be doing to help prepare their next generation given that we are living in turbulent times. We look at the different types of mindset that people are adopting during the COVID-19 pandemic and how this impacts your family business. In addition Guillermo talks us through a case study of a family that he has worked with to help them prepare their next generation to be owners of the business. About Guillermo SalazarExpert on corporate governance, and the strategic planning of succession and family patrimony. He has served as advisor for numerous business families on their protocols, generational transition, alignment of family vision and values for decision-making, and conflict resolution. Author of the books “Family Businesses: Tools for the Management of Love and Money” and “Handbook for the Family Business”. Lecturer and educator in the field of the family business in Latin America. Fellow member of the Family Firm Institute (FFI) in Boston, USA. Recipient in 2015 of the International Achievement Award of the Family Firm Institute.Twitter: @GuillermoExaudiFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/guillermo.salazar.navaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillermosalazarWebsite: exaudionline.com
Re-inventing the Family Business after the pandemic
On this episode I speak with Dennis Jaffe.For over 40 years, Dennis has been one of the leading architects of the field of family enterprise consulting. As both an organisational consultant and clinical psychologist, he helps multi-generational families to develop governance practices that build the capability of next generation leadership and ensure ongoing capability of financial organisations and family offices to serve their family clients.We draw on Dennis' expertise and experience in this episode to look at how you re-invent your family business after the pandemic.We look at what other family businesses have done through previous crises and in particular those that Dennis has studied for his book 'Borrowed from your Grandchildren'.This looks at family businesses that have survived for more than 100 years and explores the common characteristics of these firms.In a wide ranging conversation we cover:What families can be doing nowReviewing why you are in business togetherThe roles each generation can playHow to build resilienceYou can find out more about Dennis and his work by heading to www.dennisjaffe.comYou can find his Linked In profile here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennis-jaffe-a686286/
Branding and Strategy beyond COVID
As we emerge from this crisis there is an opportunity to ensure continued success for your family business. Choosing the right strategy will be the difference between doing this in a way that is aligned to your values as a family, and coming across in a genuine way, compared to appearing as tone deaf and icky.Jeremy Miller is a the Founder of Sticky Branding a branding and strategy agency based in Toronto, Canada.Jeremy works with family businesses to help them to grow their brands. He used these techniques to grow his own family business before deciding to sell the business to focus on what he was passionate about.In this episode we discuss branding, strategy and give practical and real examples of businesses who are positioning themselves to thrive in an 'After-COVID' world.We also discuss succession and the role that the next generation can play in the future strategy of the business.You can find out more about Jeremy here: www.stickybranding.comIf you would like to email Jeremy for his 'Green Shoots Worksheet' you can do so here: jeremy@stickybranding.com
Virtual Global Family Business Conference
Tsitsi Mutendi and Nike Anani are the co-founders of African Family Firms and they have arranged a virtual conference for family businesses with speakers from all over the World. Given that travel is restricted and gatherings are forbidden it may not seem the best time to be hosting a global conference. However, through the use of technology, determination and a global community of speakers and advisers Tsitsi and Nike have planned an incredible month of live and pre-recorded talks from leading experts all over the world. Throughout the month of April we will hear from speakers all over the world with guidance and advice on how to weather the current storm and come out the other side in as good a position as possible. You can find out more about the conference here: www.africanfamilyfirms.org You can connect with Tsitsi here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsitsi-mutendi-57a791a/You can connect with Nike here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikeanani/
Reasons to be Hopeful
We are living in unprecedented times where we are fearful for our families health, that of our own and the prospects for our businesses. It can be easy to become overwhelmed by the situation and so I offer some reasons to be hopeful in this episode.Many of the businesses that I am speaking to now are aware of and accessing the support available to them from Government and so are now finding that they have started to look at what they need to do within their businesses and within the environment they find themselves in now.In this episode I discuss some of the reasons that I am hopeful and optimistic and share some tips on how to spend any additional time that you may have as a result of the Government guidance to stay home and save lives.The link to the podcast website is www.fambizpodcast.com
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“We do what is best for the patients and make it work”
By Brenda Johnson (The Alley) | July 1, 2009
I first met Dr. Joseph Grayden in the fall of 1977 at a meeting with the MN Health Department of Health to talk about a new dental program he developed at Community University Health Care Center (CUHCC) for Native American adolescents who were facing oral health disparities.
He began his dental career just two years earlier, as Dental Director of (CUHCC) under the Clinic leadership of a progressive pediatrician, Jean Smelker, MD , cutting his professional teeth on developing clinical programs to address lack of access to prevention and treatment of oral disease among Native American children in the Phillips Neighborhood of Minneapolis. I have had the privilege of knowing Joe for most of his career at CUHCC as his patient, employee and, like all of his patients, I call him a friend. Thirty two years later, when he announced his retirement from CUHCC and the University of Minnesota, I interviewed Joe and others about Joe for the Phillips Neighborhood paper, The Alley.
The Alley Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 of a two part series about the 34 year tenure of dentist Joe Grayden at the Community University Health Care Center 2001 Bloomington Avenue. The June 2009 issue of The Alley featured testimonials by colleagues and friends of Joe. Part 2 is an interview with Joe giving an anecdotal chronology of Joe’s career. This in-depth personal history confronted by many fluctuating issues of local health care management in the, situated at this local Phillips Community clinic, also portrays the complexities of state and national health provision of health care. Part 1 can be found online here.
The stories from colleagues, past dental students, a clinic director, and patients, in Part 1, shared common themes: Joe can fix anything (and usually had to at CUHCC Dental Clinic); he became their personal friend; he is an extraordinary dentist; he tenaciously advocated to provide the care needed to his patients; he demanded and delivered quality; he introduced dental students to the complex lives of underserved people and their care needs.
The quote that is the title of this article is from Jean Smelker. “Jean’s [Smelker] philosophy became the Dental Clinic’s guiding principle and focused my efforts as an educator, clinician, and Dental Director to implement it into the daily care delivered at the Clinic.”
–Dr. Joe Grayden
Question: What influenced you to begin your dental career at CUHCC?
Joe: When I was a dental student I volunteered at the Gospel Mission in St. Paul treating underserved patients. It was scary at first, but very revealing and left an impression. I was enlisted in the Navy but was on inactive duty. When the Vietnam War ended there were too many enlisted dentists and I was scheduled to go to a remote area of Japan. The Navy wanted to decrease the number of dentists and I saw an ad for the Dental Director position at CUHCC—a one dentist show!
CUHCC was a good place to start. My first boss (Jean Smelker, MD,) helped form my professional philosophy and the mission I had as Dental Director at CUHCC over the years. [Joe said Dr. Smelker’s told him,] “We have to provide not just the ‘community standard of care’ but because we are part of the University of Minnesota, we have to provide a higher level of care than the ‘community standard.’” “We do what is best for the patients and make it work.” Jean’s philosophy became the Dental Clinic’s guiding principle and focused my efforts as an educator, clinician, and Dental Director to implement it into the daily care delivered at the Clinic.
Question: Will you share your history and some of the stories beginning with the early days at CUHCC?
Joe: I started working at CUHCC in 1975 as the Dental Director. CUHCC was receiving Federal funding called C&YC (Children and Youth) Project grants that came directly to the Clinic to treat children within the specific geographical boundary of Phillips Neighborhood. You couldn’t be a patient if you didn’t live in Phillips. The funding came directly to CUHCC and we knew what funding was available. However, because of the funding source, services [medical, mental health and dental] were only available to treat Native American children and youth.
It wasn’t always easy work. We were a community clinic and resources were scarce and the dental needs were great. My biggest goal after the first week working with children from birth to three years of age with early childhood caries [rampant tooth decay] was to find nitrous oxide [also known as laughing gas to patients.] We didn’t have any money for equipment. There was an unused anesthesia machine from the Korean War (still in the box) located in a storage room at the Hospital. I took it home over the weekend and cut off the anesthesia part, leaving only nitrous oxide component. I used it for the next five years. I had to improvise because we were always strapped for money.
[Joe’s colleagues tell other stories of him patching together equipment and maintaining dental equipment throughout his career at CUHCC. Jean Smelker said, “Joe is very handy, even outside of the mouth. Back then we had slow hand piece drills. He was always fixing the old equipment as well as his motorcycles and cars!” Many friends and co-workers remember his living room displaying the latest motorcycle part that he was repairing or painting.]
Between 1975 and 1977, our child patient’s parents and other adults in the Neighborhood organized and influenced the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinics to develop a prepaid insurance policy that covered care at CUHCC for outpatient services and The University of Minnesota Hospital for inpatient care. Prepaid plans were pretty new at that time. Because of the new funding source I developed the adult dental program that year.
Many of our patients, particularly early on, were Urban Indians. We learned a lot from patients, and we became involved in the community and their lives. They became friends. We were included in their sweat lodges, funerals and birthday parties.
Then by 1977 there was a mix of adults and children at CUHCC and the ethnicity was becoming more diverse as different refugee groups came to Minneapolis. Initially, our largest patient group was Native Americans and around 1975-1976 the Southeast Asian immigrants and refugees came to the Clinic.
Before we built the new clinic where we are now, CUHCC was located in an old three story building without accessible bathrooms or stairs. Everyone chipped in to carry wheel chairs up steps. We had a younger population then so we didn’t have many handicapped patients. CUHCC was a nice place to work. There was a social and professional togetherness and we worked across professional lines to treat patients. We went out to lunch together, had a softball team, and partied together on week-ends. We were single and young and love our work. [Several people interviewed for this story remarked about Joe and the Medical Director lifting patients in wheel chairs up the steep stairway into the clinic, or up another flight of stairs to the third floor bathroom.]
Early on I had a part-time private dental practice in New Hope working Wednesday evenings and Saturdays. I could treat all ages in my own practice. When the Hospital allowed me to rent space at CUHCC for my private patients on evenings and Saturdays, I stopped going to New Hope. After a few years, when CUHCC was part of the University Hospital, they required that all patients (CUHCC’s and my private patients) become part of CUHCC for legal reasons. My private patients could then make appointments during CUHCC’s normal hours. It turned out to be good for the staff as well as the patients. Having a mix of patients from all walks of life and income, kept the staff on a different keel because they were providing high quality care that people of all levels of society would expect. Our philosophy in dental was “no matter who you were [patients] we wanted you to be waiting in the waiting room with people who were poor but whom also came because of the quality of care.
Question: Tell me about your academic relationship with the University and your experience training dental students in the clinic at CUHCC.
Joe: Early on I was a staff member at CUHCC and then had a faculty appointment at University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital and was part of the grand rounds– which was unusual for a dentist at that time. Then I had an appointment in the Pediatric Dental Residency Program with Dr. Kurt King, a Pedodontist who took really good care of children. We [CUHCC Dental] referred children who needed care under general anesthesia to that Clinic. We closely collaborated on our patients’ care.
In 1977 we began to train dental students at CUHCC. My first senior dental student had finished his clinical requirements early at the School of Dentistry and was waiting to take the dental boards. Back then we accepted one student at a time. Many of our dental student trainees became very successful dentists.
In 1978 I became a faculty member in the School of Dentistry spending 50% time teaching clinical dentistry in the Operative Department and 50% time at CUHCC. The amount of time I spent at the School of Dentistry changed a little during the years. Now I am teaching at the School of Dentistry one half day a week.
During the 1980’s if someone was interested in pre-dental school, they could sign up for ‘work-study’ and spend time helping out in the Clinic. One kid, Younas Safa was from Iran. He came here after the Shaw was overthrown. He enrolled in pre-dental classes at the University and every other late afternoon he spent time as my assistant. He is now an Endodontist at USC Dental School (CA.) Another pre-dental student spent afternoons watching extractions and root canals and decided to become a nurse instead of a dentist.
I feel best about the people (students) who came through the work study program, who were interested in dentistry and became happy successful dentists. The dental students rotating through CUHCC had the opportunity to have their eyes opened to real life circumstances. Early on they worked with populations of Native Americans and Vietnamese who were financially depressed and had other things going on in their lives that you wouldn’t understand without treating them and interacting with them on a personal level.” Many other groups of immigrant refugees also came to CUHCC over the years. I think we began seeing Somali patients around 1993.
Question: How did you marry your philosophy of care with training future dentists, while working with such limited resources treating increasing numbers of patients with complex needs?
Joe: The whole clinic firmly believed in minimizing invasive services and there was a focus on prevention. The motto was to, ‘Do as much as you could to prevent disease, and when you couldn’t prevent, treat with the least invasive services.’ Dental Residents [dentists in graduate training programs] received training in minimum invasive dentistry. Being in an area where patients had little money for care, and the Clinic had little money we had to be very careful with our treatment plans. We were challenged to come up with options that were more affordable and of high quality.
Question: Can you give me an example of your early preventive orientation?
Joe: CUHCC was a public health clinic that was able to have an active dental hygiene department. We initially had two dental hygienists. At other public health clinics at that time, patients could come in once a year for teeth cleaning appointments. At CUHCC, patients who needed four appointments a year to maintain the health of their gums were scheduled with a hygiene hygienist. The hygienists were treating periodontal patients [those with gum disease] to maintain their teeth rather than having the dentists extract teeth. The clinic also performed root canals and restored teeth to function rather than extracting them. We were ‘doing what was best for the patients and making it work—our mission.’
Question: When I interview Dr. Jean Smelker, among the many compliments and early stories, told me about your finger problem. I think it is a good example of the holistic nature of services and the camaraderie at CUHCC. Will you share the story?
Joe: Jean Smelker was a very holistic kind of physician. She is very bright and ahead of her time in many ways. She was big with hypnosis. I had a wart on my finger that bothered me when I practiced dentistry. I had been treating it [wart] over a long period of time at a dermatology clinic. They tried cutting it off, then burning it, then freezing it and I still couldn’t get rid of it. Jean hypnotized me and taught me self hypnosis; within a week it was gone. When Jean was at CUHCC, medical care was good.”
Question: What else do you remember about the early days at CUHCC?
Joe: In 1991, physicians and dentists at CUHCC collaborated in patient care. John Raines, an Internal Medicine doctor made house rounds with patients that were too ill or bedridden. I went with him on house rounds and would go to homes of bedridden patients to provide dental care using portable equipment.
Question: What other changes did you experience at CUHCC over the 34 years you were Dental Director?
Joe: I have mentioned a few changes but there were several transitions that effected who we could see as patients, and the effort needed to get resources to provide high quality care to the ever increasing number of people with complex care needs. Funding sources sometimes defined who we could treat as in the example of the C&Y grants. When they became Block Grants, we had to compete with the rest of the State and there was a pecking order to get the funding. We weren’t always at the top of the order.
Also, who we reported to at the University made a difference too. People like Russ Farrell (1970’s and 1980’s) who was CUHCC’s link to UMN when we were linked to the Academic Health Center (AHC), was passionate about the mission and saw to it that we were supported.
We are always scrambling to write grants to patch together funding. Other changes occurred when additional groups of refugees immigrated to Minnesota, many having years of unmet treatment needs, the care requirements became much more complex. Over time, our staff became more diverse reflecting the patient groups giving us a better opportunity to learn about different cultures and their health-related circumstances.
The University of Minnesota Hospital was required to provide charity care so if we ran over budget, sometimes they had to absorb some of the losses. Mostly when we ran short of money, we cut positions. After Jean Smelker left CUHCC, Amos Deinard became Clinic Director and the the Minnesota Medical Foundation helped CUHCC seek money for the new Clinic which was built in 1991.
When The University of Minnesota Hospital merged with Fairview Hospital, CUHCC’s affiliation ended along with their financial support from the Hospital. CUHCC stayed with the University and we moved back under the administrative umbrella of the Academic Health Center (AHC). Although we no longer had the support of the Hospital, we increasingly saw more patients with complex needs, so there was a lot of effort at CUHCC to hustle funding through multiple grants. We became a Federally Qualified Health Care Center look-alike which meant that we received Federal money to treat Medicaid eligible patients. Later around 2001, when the Clinic became a full FQHC clinic there were additional monies that helped to pay for some of the costs of treating uninsured patients. This grant source required that we meet additional federal guidelines.
Both Joe and Dr. Smelker talked about the importance of key people at the University of Minnesota early in CUHCC’s history who supported CUHCC’s mission. According to Dr. Smelker, Lyle French, VP of the Health Sciences was committed to the concept of ‘communiversity’ and was instrumental in keeping the University in the community as a public service. They both talked about the importance of Russ Farrell, an administrator in the Academic Health Center who was administratively responsible for CUHCC. Joe said of Russ: “There were positive feelings about the importance of oral health from the very top to the bottom of the organization [University of Minnesota. That has not always the case. Russ was always coming to CUHCC and his involvement was historically important for CUHCC.”
Thank you, Joe, for your friendship, the high quality and caring service to patients at CUHCC, preparing future dentists to spare teeth, and for shaping CUHCC’s Dental Clinic as a true ‘communiversity.’
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Tesla Model Y 7-seat config: Front-facing third row suggested by in-car icon
By Joey Klender
Tesla has all but confirmed that the Model Y’s 7-seat configuration will have a forward-facing third row. Some speculation suggested that the electric automaker was considering a rear-facing third row, returning to the once-equipped jump seats in the Model S flagship sedan.
It appears that Tesla has been leaving breadcrumbs for enthusiasts to find that may confirm the Model Y’s third-row orientation. Tesla owner and content creator Brian Jenkins of i1Tesla spotted a graphic of the Model Y’s 7-seated third-row while driving with his trunk open.
“I was driving with the trunk open,” Jenkins told Teslarati. “Once the beeping stopped, the warning went away, showing the 3rd row. It is the icon on the screen.”
Teslarati was able to confirm the graphic that appears on the center touchscreen, which showed the third-row seats. It appears that the seats will fold upright and will be forward-facing, but that’s not the biggest piece of evidence that points to front-facing rear row seating.
Tesla Model Y 7-Seat Folded 3rd Row Rear Seats (Photo: Teslarati)
Tesla Model Y Trunk Cargo Rear Hatch (Photo: Teslarati)
In fact, Tesla has an animation of the Model Y’s interior on its website that shows a normal, forward-facing third row. The rear row’s seatbelts are angled so that they would not interfere with the passengers who occupy those seats, and the base of the seating shows an area for the buckles to come through. If the seats were rear-facing, this seatbelt buckle opening would be on the opposite side.
Credit: Tesla
Speculation regarding the orientation of the Model Y’s third-row began when initial photographs of the third row showed small legroom spaces for passengers who would sit in this row. It seemed impossible that a fully-grown adult would be able to occupy these seats comfortably, and it would likely be left for smaller passengers.
Fuel was only added to the fire when veteran teardown expert Sandy Munro got his hands on a Model Y for a video series. Evidence in the Y’s initial designs hinted to Munro that the third row of seats would be rear-facing. “We can’t see anything that says that we’re going to be putting front-facing seats,” Munro said. “But, we sure can see where it could be a potential there for rear-facing seats.”
Credit: Munro Live | YouTube
Tesla has used rear-facing third-row seats before. The Model S had rear-facing jump seats, and CEO Elon Musk even used them for his kids during a cross country road trip.
Nobody knows for sure which way the third row will face, but evidence from Tesla seems to all but confirm the automaker’s intentions moving forward. The 7-seat variant was set to begin deliveries this month after Musk stated production had begun on the variant in late November. However, no deliveries have taken place up to this point, and Sales Representatives told Teslarati that they expect the car to arrive in January 2021.
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Net Neutrality Special Edition
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from the reverse-the-reversal dept
Thu, Jan 18th 2018 6:30am — Karl Bode
A Congressional effort to reverse the FCC's attack on net neutrality needs just one vote to move forward, but still faces a very steep uphill climb toward success. Fifty senators have endorsed a legislative measure to use the Congressional Review Act to reverse the FCC's repeal of the rules. The CRA can be used to reverse any regulatory action with a majority vote in Congress, provided the vote occurs within 60 days of the regulatory action in question. With 49 Democrats and one Republican (Maine's Susan Collins) now supporting the effort, it needs just one Republican vote to forward, notes Senator Ed Markey:
"Momentum is building,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) told reporters at a Boston press conference on Tuesday. "There will be a vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate to restore net neutrality as the law of the land,” Markey said. Under the Congressional Review Act it takes just 30 votes to bring a resolution to a vote and there would be a “price to pay” for lawmakers to side with the FCC. “Access to a free and open internet is and should be a 21st right—net neutrality forms the foundation of both our democracy and our economy."
The chance of this gambit's success have been consistently and routinely over-hyped by the well intentioned. Should the effort pass the Senate it still needs to secure floor time and win a vote in the House, where lawmakers like Marsha Blackburn have pretty routinely made protecting AT&T, Verizon and Comcast revenues their very top priority. Pennsylvania Representative Mike Doyle issued a statement listing the supporters currently signed on in the House, though that support remains well short of the threshold needed to run the gauntlet of ISP-beholden lawmakers there:
"We’ve made good progress so far in getting Members to sign on as original cosponsors of our bill to restore Net Neutrality, and I will continue to seek additional cosponsors in the weeks ahead,” Congressman Doyle said today in releasing the list of names. “There’s overwhelming public support for preserving Net Neutrality, so it’s no surprise that there’s strong support in Congress as well. I’m confident that if there’s enough public pressure, Congress will overturn the FCC’s order killing net neutrality."
Unlike the Senate, there's no rule that lets a minority of members force a vote, meaning even getting floor time could prove problematic. House supporters could use a discharge petition to bring a vote, but it would require a majority of members (218) to force a vote on the issue. Given this is the same House where members of both parties consistently trip over themselves to give sloppy kisses to AT&T, Verizon and Comcast, this could prove a tall order. Expectations should be in line with this reality.
If the effort gets through the House it would still need the signature of President Donald Trump. Activists I've talked to hope that should it get past Congress, Trump's tendency to bend whichever way the "populist" wind is blowing could get him to sign off on the proposal. But giving such a notable middle finger to his own FCC would be uncharacteristic given all the ISP money being spent on gutting all meaningful state and federal oversight of incumbent ISPs, and there will be plenty of well-funded pressure to ensure that doesn't happen.
While success here has long odds (though this shouldn't discourage you from contacting your lawmaker anyway), the gambit does have the practical purpose of forcing AT&T, Verizon and Comcast's lackeys in both houses to put their disdain for the public down on the public record. That's going to prove particularly useful during the looming midterms, where net neutrality is very quickly becoming a wedge issue. That's especially true among Millennial voters, who seem to have a more innate understanding of why letting Comcast run amok isn't a particularly great idea.
The entire effort again highlights the stupidity of viewing net neutrality through a partisan lens. Despite a healthy, competitive internet being in everybody's best interest, ISPs have spent fifteen years successfully framing net neutrality as a partisan issue to help sow dissent and stall progress on meaningful rules. Survey after survey however have indicated that the concept has broad, bipartisan support among the public at large. Anger at being ignored will drive voter turnout, and lawmakers (as well as Ajit Pai, whose post-FCC political ambitions couldn't be clearer) are going to figure that out the hard way.
All of that said, there's still plenty of ways to bring net neutrality back to the table should this effort fail. While it will take a while, the looming lawsuits have a solid chance at reversing the FCC's repeal given the FCC's numerous procedural and ethical missteps. A massive shakeup in Congress could also finally drive support for a real net neutrality law down the road, provided ISPs aren't successful in passing their own, entirely bogus legislation first.
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Whichever Republican votes yes next will be banned for life from executive telecom positions, speaking tours, or campaign contributions.
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BBC seeking wider HD Freeview roll-out
By Patrick Goss 22 October 2008
Ofcom confident that London et al will get HD by 2009
BBC HD - coming soon to Freeview?
The BBC has asked Ofcom to start a consultation into whether Freeview HD can be brought to major television regions like London much faster than the current projected date of 2012.
Currently only the television regions that had been switched over to a fully digital service by 2009, like Granada, would be able to receive the DVB-T2 signals that enable HD programmes to be broadcast.
However, Ofcom has launched an investigation into whether an interim analogue solution can be found – meaning that much more of the UK would be able to start watching HD programming in 2009 if they have the relevant DVB-T2 decoding box.
"In July this year legislation came into force which empowers Ofcom to implement that roadmap; that is, to upgrade Multiplex B (operated by BBC Free to View Limited), and to enable the launch of three HD services on the multiplex," explains Ofcom.
Many UK viewers
"The launch is expected to commence with the Granada television region in late 2009, with rollout thereafter following the DSO timetable which completes in 2012.
"However, this means that some parts of the UK will not have access to the new Multiplex B services for potentially up to three years after they first launch."
Ofcom had already noted that an interim solution may be possible, and it was the BBC that requested that this option be explored.
"…the BBC requested that we consider temporarily assigning frequencies to enable a launch of the new Multiplex B services in some key areas ahead of DSO.
"This could materially increase the proportion of the UK's population that has access to the new services between 2009 and completion of DSO in 2012."
Confident stance
Although a consultation will now take place from Ofcom – the communications watchdog has already pointed out that the advantages of an early interim solution could far outweigh the costs.
Aside from the obvious benefits to the consumer of having access to HD television, Ofcom points out that a wider audience may well persuade more manufacturers to produce DVB-T2 enabled boxes and begin to bring the price down.
"Our analysis, informed by discussions with the BBC, other broadcasters and stakeholders, suggests the benefits to citizens and consumers of assigning frequencies to enable early launch are significant. The benefits, mainly to consumers, relate to early access to the new Multiplex B services sooner and to increased competition between receiver providers (potentially leading to a wider range of receiver product at lower prices).
"There are also likely to be producer benefits, to equipment manufacturers and to broadcasters although our analysis has not focused on these."
Ofcom's early indications are that they will rubber stamp the BBC's request – unless someone finds a serious flaw in its reasoning.
"We believe the benefits are likely to outweigh the costs associated with this policy including spectrum opportunity costs which we believe are low due to the circumstances of the frequencies in question.
"We are minded therefore to assign frequencies to enable the early launch of the new Multiplex B services ahead of DSO [Digital Switch Over], subject to availability."
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Marshall Stanmore 2
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Samsung SM-T520 Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 inch
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Partitions are everywhere.
Cockroach Labs
Data exists in a time and a place. We are using an increasing amount of applications that are run on data that is both time-stamped and location-stamped. With the rise of Internet of Things (IoT) devices now being deployed, both data types now come to the fore.
If we’re logging into a dashboard console that allows us to look at the data recorded by an only occasionally-connected wind turbine or some other piece of industrial civil engineering, then knowing the time that any particular piece of data was created is important.
If our data estate spans a large number of turbines (or bridge sensors, or traffic monitors, or ruggedized safety devices carried by humans etc.) that are spread out over a wide geographic area, then location-aware data is of particular importance, because the source of data itself is an additional factor in terms of how important it is.
… and then came cloud computing
These core facts are compounded if we consider the way cloud computing is developing on a global scale, resulting in us putting ‘instances’ of cloud functionality in different datacenters around the planet. Once again we’re faced with even more time- and location-dependent data separation, all of which creates latency i.e. a time lag between us asking for data (or, more often, our applications and databases making that request) and when we’re actually able to get it.
So what do modern cloud-native software application development and data science professionals do about this challenge? The problem is, as these software engineering professionals attempt to grapple with the manual workarounds used to extend their applications to new geographies, they often create performance issues along the way.
A key technique used by cloud computing data architects to handle modern data access and management predicaments is data partitioning. The promise and core technology proposition here centers around the suggestion that partitioning data by location allows global organizations to tackle latency issues caused by distributed data.
VP of product marketing at database management systems company Cockroach Labs is Jim Walker. Reminding us that IT latency is directly linked to the ‘experience’ that the end user has with products or services, Walker says that organizations today must be able to ingest, analyze and act on data in real-time to provide the optimal user experience.
“The 100ms (milliseconds) Rule, coined by Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, refers to the human threshold of latency where interactions feel instantaneous. Above 100ms we humans start to send a time lag. To put that into perspective, information traveling from one side of the world to the other adds about 250ms of latency and that’s only if it moved on the most direct path. Unfortunately, data doesn’t travel in a straight line, so the distance between your servers and web users matters,” said Walker.
Data hops, skips & jumps around the planet
But distance isn’t the only challenge. The speed light can travel from New York to San Francisco in 14ms (in a vacuum), but data doesn’t travel in a vacuum. It travels through multiple different network devices and these ‘hops and skips’ also add latency – information that travels 100 miles but makes five hops will have more latency than a request that travels 2500 miles with only two hops. This means location is equally important in order to optimize how the data travels.
Due to these truisms, Cockroach Labs’ Walker insists that location needs to be the new driving and deciding vector by which we think about databases for modern applications and developers.
“As we move towards a more digitally savvy and instantaneous world, we need to shift away from a logical data model mindset to one that also recognizes the importance of the physical component – where you want to operate and where users will be. This becomes even more important when you factor in challenges of data privacy. Data needs to be closer to the user so that we can get it to them faster and meet the 100ms rule,” said Walker.
The ability to attach distributed data at the row-level to a geographical location, known as geo-partitioning, was developed by Google to meet latency requirements in globally dispersed environments. Walker says that this delivers a level of automation that allows the data team to decide where the data should physically reside while giving the administrator options to modify these requirements in production.
He notes that latency can be reduced by minimizing the distance between where queries are issued and where the data to satisfy those queries resides. We ‘simply’ alter a configuration and the database physically moves the data to where it needs to be. This means as an organization expands its business into new geographies, it need not necessarily incur downtime.
“Data needs to automatically adapt to traffic patterns to reduce latency and needs to have high availability so that if one datacenter goes offline, there would be no lag in service as the data is stored in a secondary nearby data center that can quickly respond. Oftentimes, the distances involved in global deployments means developers must always make a tradeoff between availability and latency. However, partitioning by location in the database enables developers to build high available and low latency applications. It seems like a luxury now, but when applications are expected to perform and automate at light speed, this will become a necessity,” reinforced Cockroach Lab’s Walker.
Latency responsibility for the 5G road ahead
It is important to note that providing experiences at light speed isn’t just about the speed of automation; it’s about being able to manage and control automation.
With the rise of 5G speeds, our notion of what real-time computing is going to mean could change to a far more light speed version of system performance. The speed at which our data can access the application layer and the speed at which our application later can access data is going to become even more of a pressing issue than it already is.
When it comes to hotels, houses and homesteads, it’s definitely still location, location, location — but in the world of carefully configurated data architectures able to span globally dispersed deployment requirements, it’s more a question of location, location, partition.
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The Weirdest Things That Happen When You’re Pregnant
The Cut on Tuesdays
A weekly podcast from the Cut and Gimlet Media, with host Molly Fischer.
Illustration: Jeanne Verdoux
What does it actually feel like to be pregnant? Stretch marks, kicks — theoretically, at least, you’re prepared for these things to happen, even if you can’t quite imagine how. But there are plenty of things you aren’t prepared for at all. For example: You are probably not prepared to smell like a sandwich.
This one came to us from Angela Garbes, author of Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy.
ANGELA: One of my best friends told me how, in her pregnancy, she developed this really specific BO that she called, like, an Italian sub. She was like, “It was like a combination of, like, raw onion and, like, vinegar.”
And we heard from other anonymous listeners and friends about the things you don’t expect when you’re expecting:
“The most surprising thing that happened to me when I was pregnant was that I realized I had two extra nipples.”
“Both times I was pregnant, my butt went flat.”
“I grew extremely long eyebrow hairs. Like, they would dip down into my eyes. Like, one stray hair kind of clinging over the top of my glasses.”
“I got a varicose vein on my clitoris.”
“The shape of my cornea actually changed. I wear contacts and they just felt like they were scratching my eyeballs. And so I went to my optometrist and told him, and I mentioned that I was pregnant. And he immediately said, like, ‘Oh. Yeah, your eyes have completely changed shape.’”
“After 12 years of working in front of a computer, my first pregnancy gave me carpal tunnel syndrome. What the fuck?”
Lots of them told us that pregnancy was a time of extreme horniness.
“So, I’m a woman in my 50s now, but I’ve raised two girls, and I remember quite distinctly during both pregnancies how surprised I was by how horny I was all the time … I never have wanted it that much in my life, ever.”
“Just like walking around could get me close to orgasm.”
“I grew up in a really Evangelical culture where I was often told that men think about sex every seven seconds and I always found that to be doubtable as I became an adult. but then when I was pregnant, I started to feel like maybe I understand that.”
To hear more stories about the unexpected realities of pregnancy — from people like Rukmini Callimachi and many more — click above, and subscribe wherever you listen.
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Depardieu: ‘I drink 14 bottles of wine a day’
15th September, 2014 by Lucy Shaw
French actor Gerard Depardieu has admitted that he drinks up to 14 bottles of wine a day, and that he often starts drinking before 10am.
As reported by The Mirror, in an interview with So Film, the 65-year-old actor made the shocking revelation: “When I’m bored, I drink. Apart from compulsory moments of abstinence. After bypass surgery, and also because of cholesterol and stuff, I have to be careful.
“I’m not going to die. Not now. I still have energy. But if ever I start drinking I can’t drink like a normal person. I can absorb 12, 13, 14 bottles per day,” he said.
Going into further detail, Depardieu, known for starring in Cyrano de Bergerac, Jean de Florette and The Man in the Iron Mask, said he begins his drinking sessions at home with Champagne and red wine “before 10am”.
Depardieu also admitted to killing two lions in Africa
“Then pastis, maybe half a bottle. Then food, accompanied by two bottles of wine. In the afternoon, Champagne, beer, and more pastis at around 5pm, to finish off the bottle. Later on vodka and/or whisky,” he said.
“But I’m never totally drunk, just a little pissed. All you need is a 10-minute nap and voila, a slurp of rose wine and I feel as fresh as a daisy,” he added.
The actor, who lives in Russia and recently announced plans to make a “bio vodka” from spring water, told So Film that he drinks for the euphoria it gives him.
“What I like in being drunk is the moment when you’re alive and enthusiastic. Full stop. But when you have been there 10, 15, 20 times, 30 times, then you start losing track. There’s more to life than being drunk,” he said.
“You cannot possibly get drunk over a Grand Cru. It’s like eating nouvelle cuisine, I don’t like it. The wine I produce is not for keeping. It’s the wine you want when meeting friends for a game of cards,” he added.
The actor admitted that his doctor was “worried” about his consumption habits. He also told So Film he shot two lions in Africa. “I killed two lions once, and I understand why the lion is the king of the jungle. In legitimate self-defence.
“Imagine you’re driving and your engine breaks down. You got out, and in your way are these animals. So you shoot, just to scare them. They don’t move. I wasn’t there for hunting. I was in Africa for Africa,” he said.
Depardieu renounced his French citizenship in 2012 following President Francois Hollande’s proposals to impose a 75% tax on the countries wealthiest.
In addition to a bio vodka, he plans to open restaurants in St Petersburg and Saransk, the town where his Russian residency was officially recognised.
In 1997, Depardieu founded the Brasserie Des Sources brewery with acting friends Miou Miou, Renaud and Claude Berri. The beer launched in the UK in 2012. He also has a winery, Château de Tigne in Anjou in the Loire.
6 Responses to “Depardieu: ‘I drink 14 bottles of wine a day’”
Smart Betty says:
That explains a lot.
Jim Bourne says:
Why stop at 13 bottles of wine. Such an unlucky number. Far wiser to consume one more bottle.
Martin Banks says:
… bang goes my own guilty conscience 🙂
chris janson says:
what..only 14 ? He’s a baby.
Is this interview a joke?
Es broma, ¿no? Está fatal este hombre…
Senpai says:
This story has always made me laugh…Gerard probably is already drunk like a hobo by his 3rd wine bottle in the morning (that’s almost 2,5 liters of 13 degree wine..) amd by hs first glass of pastis (30 degrees) he passes out and dreams the rest….then wakes up “feeling like a daisy” still drunk and passes out after drinking maybe a liter of vodka/whiskey. The total, by all means, being 2,5 liters of 13* + 0,5 liters of 30* and finally 1 liter of 40* sums up to 4 liter of booze with an average of 28-32* in 1 day is more than enough to keep even a solid alcoholic slumbered and slurring on the pavement for hours.
There is no way a human being can ingest 8-10 liters of alcoholic drinks, some of which hard liquor, in 12-13 hoirs witnour collasping and falling into an ammonic coma.
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The Oaks Stud
Darci Brahma
Battle lost but war far from over for Catalyst
While rugged Queenslander Alligator Blood may have taken out the first skirmish with classy New Zealand contender Catalyst, Kiwi trainer Clayton Chipperfield is confident his star can still win the war when the pair clash again in the Gr.1 Australian Guineas (1600m) in a fortnight.
In an enthralling length-of-the-straight battle, which more than lived up to the pre-race hype, Alligator Blood withstood the ominous challenge from Catalyst by the barest of margins in Saturday’s Gr.3 CS Hayes Stakes (1400m) at Flemington.
Chipperfield took the defeat on the chin, happy to get confirmation that the Darci Brahma gelding has what it takes to measure up to the best three-year-olds across the Tasman.
“What a race it was and although the defeat has a sting in it, we left the course on Saturday night with a big smile on our faces,” Chipperfield said.
“That race was all about finding out of he could match it with those top ones and I think we got the answer we were looking for.”
While he was happy to judge the run through his own eyes it was the feedback that he received from jockey James McDonald that has really put a spring in Chipperfield’s step.
“James came back in and was glowing in his praise for the horse,” he said.
“The first thing he said was that he was looking for the 1600m and would be an even better horse when he gets over that distance.
“He also felt he would be better with a sit where he could hook out and use his sprint to best effect.
“The way he jumped caught us a little bit by surprise and in the small field it dictated how he was positioned. It took his finishing burst out of play a little, but in a bigger field he should be able to find a position rather than doing the donkey work outside the speed.
“James gave me all that feedback after the race and even took the time to ring me again later that night which I really appreciated. He is gutted he has commitments in Sydney which means he can’t ride him next time as he is very very keen to stick with him.”
Chipperfield spent time on Sunday morning with his charge before flying home to New Zealand and was delighted with Catalyst’s powers of recovery after such a tough run.
“I had expected he might be a little knackered and off his feed but all he left on Saturday night was about two handfuls,” he said.
“He ate all his hay and drank ninety per cent of his water so I couldn’t be happier.
“We put him out in his paddock this morning (Sunday) and he was a pretty happy chappy, full of himself and showing no signs of any muscle soreness or anything like that.
“He will have a trot up on Monday and some light work before he gets serious in the week leading into the Australian Guineas which is his next target.”
While caught up in the moment on raceday Chipperfield was chuckling later in the evening as he took in all the messages of support he received after the race.
“We were cheering pretty hard in the run home and so it seems were plenty of others,” he said.
“Someone even messaged me they thought we got beaten because there were so many kiwis on him, he couldn’t carry them all.
“It’s amazing the support he does have and we hope that will continue as we are proud kiwis and want to do everyone proud.”
For racing fans, frustrated by the speedy retirement of boom colts due to lucrative stud deals, the clash of the two outstanding geldings does much to whet the appetite for future encounters, hopefully over seasons to come.
Bring on round two. – NZ Racing Desk
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Weekly Outlook: Corn
15 November 2006, at 2:54pm
URBANA - A change to the trend of higher corn prices would not be expected until there is some evidence of a slowdown in consumption, said a University of Illinois Extension marketing specialist.
"Soybean prices will likely continue to follow corn prices," said Darrel Good. Good's comments came as he reviewed the USDA's November forecasts for the size of the 2006 corn and soybeans crops which were smaller than expected. For corn, the smaller crop and high prices are expected to reduce feed and residual use to a three-year low and to limit the year-over-year increase in exports.
Good noted that the size of the 2006 U.S. corn crop is now forecast at 10.475 billion bushels, 160 million bushels below the October forecast and 369 million below the September forecast. The U.S. average yield is forecast at 151.3 bushels, 3.4 bushels below the September forecast.
"The largest reductions in yield and production forecasts came in Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa," said Good. "The U.S. crop is expected to be 367 million bushels smaller than the 2005 crop and 1.062 billion smaller than the record crop of 2004."
The USDA's World Outlook Board reduced the 2006-07 marketing year forecast of domestic feed and residual use of corn by 50 million bushels. The forecast of 6.05 billion is 86 million below use of last year. The forecast of marketing year exports was also reduced by 50 million bushels.
"The forecast of 2.2 billion is 53 million bushels above exports of a year ago and would be the largest in 11 years," said Good. "Chinese corn exports are projected at 157 million bushels, about 10 million more than exported last year. The Chinese corn crop is estimated at 5.59 billion bushels, about 105 million larger than the 2005 crop, but the increase is expected to be consumed domestically."
As of Nov. 9, the USDA reported cumulative U.S. corn exports for the current marketing year at 430 million bushels, 19 percent above the total of a year ago.
"Last year, exports startled slowly and then accelerated at the beginning of January 2006," said Good.
For the week ended Nov. 2, the USDA reported new export sales of 76 million bushels, with total unshipped sales as of that date standing at 455 million bushels, compared to 288 million on the same date last year. At 885 million bushels, shipments plus outstanding sales account for 41 percent of the USDA's export projection for the year.
With the world wheat crop about 1.18 billion bushels (5.2 percent) smaller than the 2005 crop and world wheat consumption expected to drop by 300 million bushels (1.4 percent), the export demand for U.S. corn is expected to remain very strong over the next several months, Good said.
"The USDA's Dec. 1 Grain Stocks report, to be released on Jan. 12, will provide the first measure of the rate of domestic feed and residual use of corn," said Good. "Large numbers of livestock being fed suggest a high rate of feed and residual use during the first quarter of the marketing year."
The USDA projects corn inventories at the end of the current marketing year at 935 million bushels, or 7.9 percent, of projected consumption. Based on the relationship between stocks and price in the relatively strong demand period of 1989-90 through 1997-98, a stocks-to-use ratio of 7.9 percent would suggest a 2006-07 marketing year average farm price of about $2.77.
"The USDA projects an average price between $2.80 and $3.20," said Good. "At the close of trade on Nov. 10, the futures market implied an average farm price near $3.25. The relatively high futures prices likely reflect a number of factors.
"Fundamental strength likely stems from expectations that the January corn production estimate will be smaller than the November forecast, lack of evidence that corn consumption has slowed in line with USDA projections, and the need to encourage a large increase in U.S. corn acreage in 2007."
The expectation of a smaller production estimate in January likely stems from the modest tendency for the direction of change in January to follow that of November. That relationship, however, is weaker than the relationship in November and October. In addition, changes in January historically have reflected the inclusion of administrative acreage data. That acreage data are now reflected in the October production forecast.
"In the cast of the U.S. average yield forecast, there have been six years since 1975 in which the forecast declined in October and again in November," said Good. "In those six years, the January estimate exceeded the November forecast twice and was smaller four times."
The U.S. soybean crop is now forecast at a record 3.204 billion bushels, 15 million larger than the October forecast, 141 million larger than the 2005 crop, and 80 million larger than the previous record crop of 2004. The U.S. average yield is foecast at 43 bushels, equal to the record of last year.
The projection of the domestic crush during the current marketing year was increased by five million bushels, to a total of 1.78 billion. Year-ending stocks are projected at 565 million bushels, or 18.3 percent of projected consumption.
"Historical relationships between stocks and average farm price point to a 2006-07 average farm price near $5.45 with a stocks-to-use ratio of 18.3 percent," said Good. "The USDA projects the average price in a range of $5.40 to $6.40 and closing futures prices on Nov. 10 implied an average farm price near $6.25.
"The relatively high price of soybeans is most likely explained by the need for the soybean market to protect its 2007 acreage turf as corn prices move higher. In addition, soybean meal prices are supported by higher corn prices and soybean oil prices are being supported by expectations of rapidly expanding biodiesel production."
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Jordan Edwards’ Family Releases Statement: ‘Jordan’s Brothers Lost Their Best Friend’
Kirsten West Savali
Jordan Edwards (Mesquite, Texas, Independent School District)
The family of Jordan Edwards, the 15-year-old fatally shot Saturday night by a Balch Springs, Texas, police officer wielding a rifle, have released a statement to The Root via their attorney, S. Lee Merritt.
Read the Edwards family’s full statement below:
We would first like to thank everyone for their kind words, thoughts, prayers, and condolences as we mourn the tremendous loss our family and community has suffered. We know that so many of you share in our loss. At this time, we ask that you please be respectful of our family, and allow us the opportunity and space to grieve. This entire ordeal has been inescapable.
Jordan was a loving child, with a humble and sharing spirit. The bond that he shared with his family, particularly his siblings, was indescribable. Not only have Jordan’s brothers lost their best friend; they witnessed firsthand his violent, senseless murder. Their young lives will forever be altered. No one, let alone young children, should witness such horrific, unexplainable violence. While our family attempts to cope with our loss, we ask that at this time the community please refrain from protests and marches in Jordan’s and our family’s name, as we prepare for his funeral. We do not support nor do we condone any violence or threats made against the Balch Springs Police Department or any other law enforcement agencies.
What we desire, only second to having our beloved Jordan back, is JUSTICE FOR JORDAN.
With All of Our Love,
Texas High School Football Team Mourns Loss of Jordan Edwards, 15-Year-Old Killed by Police
Monday morning was meant to be the first day of spring football practice at Mesquite (Texas) High…
As previously reported by The Root, during a news conference Monday afternoon, Balch Springs, Texas, Police Chief Jonathan Haber retracted his earlier statement that the car in which Jordan was traveling Saturday night was “backing down the street toward officers in an aggressive manner.”
Jordan Edwards Killing: Police Chief, on His Claim That Vehicle Was Backing Toward Officers Aggressi...
Updated Monday, May 1, 2017, 7:06 p.m. EDT: Balch Springs, Texas, Police Chief Jonathan Haber has…
Haber claims that he “misspoke” and that the vehicle, which was being driven by Jordan’s 16-year-old brother, was moving away from police officers when one of the officers, whose identity is still being protected, opened fire.
“After reviewing the video, I don’t believe that [the fatal shooting] met our core values,” Haber said.
The Dallas County Medical Examiners Office has ruled Jordan’s death a homicide, which does not mean that criminal charges will be filed.
The officer responsible for Jordan’s death is currently on administrative leave.
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Thanks for the updates as the story develops. I want Justice for Jordan, too. Let justice be swift, please.
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Liberals set stage for election
By Susan DelacourtOttawa Bureau
Tue., Sept. 1, 2009timer5 min. read
SUDBURY – The Liberals will no longer help prop up Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government, paving the way for a fall election if the other opposition parties also vote no confidence in the Conservatives.
"Mr. Harper, your time is up," Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff said in a speech to troops today. "The Liberal party cannot support this government any further."
The declaration today by Ignatieff, greeted by cheers from his MPs at their retreat in Sudbury, sets events in motion for a fall election campaign.
Liberal MP Bob Rae said the party will present a motion of non-confidence at "the first available opportunity," which comes the first week of October.
However, the Liberals may not have to wait that long. The government could introduce a ways-and-means motion – to implement some aspects of last January's budget, including the popular home renovation tax credit – as soon as Parliament resumes Sept. 14.
A spokesman for Government House Leader Jay Hill said no date has yet been set but the motion will be introduced "early in the fall sitting."
That would be an automatic confidence vote and Ignatieff's spokeswoman, Jill Fairbrother, said the Liberals would vote against it. She hastened to add that, if elected, a Liberal government would quickly reinstate budget measures like the renovation tax break.
Harper scorned the prospect of another election, saying it could "screw up" Canada's economic recovery from recession.
But the minority Conservative government could yet survive thanks to an unlikely ally – the NDP now says it may prop up Harper if he's willing to work with them.
New Democrat MP Thomas Mulcair said, "What I'm saying is: the last thing Canadians want is a fourth general election in five years and we'd better have a bloody good reason for forcing a fourth general election in five years.
"So if Mr. Harper goes about being provocative as he has been in the past, going after key things that Canadians hold dearly like women's rights and the environment, then we'll throw him out of office because he'll have provoked it.
"If, on the other hand, Stephen Harper comes into Parliament with a willingness to work in the public interest, then we're going to take it on a case-by-case basis. Our caucus will decide."
During a Calgary radio interview, Harper said there are signs of an "early and strong recovery" in Canada, and that an election campaign is the "one risk" he worries about right now.
"The one thing that could screw this all up is political instability," Harper told radio host Dave Rutherford.
He went on to slam the possibility of the Liberal party joining forces with the other two Opposition parties to defeat his government, just one year after the last election, and conjured up the menace of "bad things" happening to the country if an election were to occur now.
"We have a couple of parties in parliament, the Bloc Quebecois in particular, the NDP as well, that vote for an election every day of the week, every time. They've got nothing to do other than to fight election campaigns and there is a risk that at some point in the future, as we saw last year, that one of the major parties will try and appease those parties and do bad things to this country as a way of trying to get into office. And I hope that doesn't happen.
Harper later cooled his tone, but was no less adamant an election would invite "political instability" which would threaten the country's economic interests.
"We had an election in this country less than a year ago. And I'll say again, I haven't met a single Canadian who's saying they want to see an election right now. I just don't find that. I think Canadians have been pretty clear. They want parliament to focus on the economy. That is what the government will be doing in the fall session," Harper said..
In his speech to caucus, Ignatieff began laying out the themes Canadians can expect to hear repeatedly throughout an election campaign.
He said the country is being presented with a stark choice between "two sets of values, two visions for Canada" – in effect, writing off the NDP and Bloc as irrelevant.
"We can choose a small Canada, a diminished, mean and petty country, a Canada that lets down its citizens at home and fails them abroad, a Canada that's absent on the world stage. That's Stephen Harper's Canada," he asserted.
"Or we can choose a big Canada, a Canada that is generous and open, a Canada that inspires, that leads the world by example, that makes us all proud."
Ignatieff said his goal is to make Canada "the smartest, healthiest, greenest, most open-minded country there is" by 2017 – the 150th anniversary of Confederation.
Ignatieff has so far supplied next to no detail about what a Liberal government would do. But he did disclose one nugget Tuesday. He said he'd introduce legislation making it illegal for the government to "pick and choose which citizens it protects" when they run into trouble abroad.
"This is at the heart of what every Liberal believes . . . A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian."
Many Liberal MPs aren't eager for an election this fall, having gotten cold feet over the summer as a Liberal lead in opinion polls evaporated.
One MP who heard a briefing Tuesday by party pollster Michael Marzolini, said the numbers for August gave the Tories a three-point lead nationally.
But combined numbers for July and August had the Liberals leading in the key battlegrounds of Ontario and Quebec, as well as in Atlantic Canada.
In Quebec, the Liberals were said to be ahead of even the Bloc, with the Tories trailing far behind. The Liberals also led in the vote-rich Toronto region.
Under the arrangement worked out last June by Harper and Ignatieff, Liberals will get their first chance to defeat the Conservative government somewhere between Oct. 1 and Oct. 9, and if not then, several more chances present themselves through subsequent weeks.
With files from Tonda MacCharles and The Canadian Press
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Ipswich 3 Coventry 2: Bent double boosts Royle
Kevin Dunn at Portman Road
Bent scored twice and Kuqi got the winner, but for long periods, Coventry, under the caretaker managership of Adrian Heath, matched the leaders and were unfortunate to leave without a point.
Ipswich manager Joe Royle praised Coventry’s performance and suggested Heath should be given the job permanently. Heath himself urged the Coventry board to make a decision quickly. “Whoever gets the job — and if it’s not me, that’s fine — will need to bring in new players” he said.
Heath could not have asked for more effort from his team, who took the lead after only 12 minutes. Full-back Dean Leacock played a neat ball through to Stern John, who beat the offside trap, rounded Kelvin Davis in the Ipswich goal and finished coolly.
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Rampant Wales prove their confidence was justified
The scoreline suggests a rout; the narrative of the match was less conclusive
Andrew Longmore
Sunday February 24 2008, 12.00am, The Sunday Times
The scoreline suggests a rout; the narrative of the match was less conclusive. Yet Wales should still take enormous credit from a second-half performance which, with a liberal sprinkling of help from their opponents, confirmed a priceless ability to strike from any angle and every distance and continued the rollocking progress towards a Grand Slam which had looked unlikely when the 2008 RBS Six Nations began. The only question is when to begin the celebrations - now or after the trip to Dublin and a visit from the French? In victory or defeat, establishing a sense of perspective is never easy in these parts.
Not for the first time in this strange tournament, the view depended on which way you held the telescope. A first
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The law’s delay
Professor Canter has done the cause of justice a great service
Friday February 29 2008, 11.56pm, The Times
Sir, Professor Canter’s belated but welcome decision to admit that the suicide note was in all probability a document written by Eddie Gilfoyle’s wife was courageous but the only proper thing to do (“Hope for prisoner as expert recants on wife’s suicide letter”, Feb 25).
His sister, Sue, and her husband Paul Caddick had contacted me some years ago and sought my help to prove his innocence. From their determination to clear Gilfoyle’s name, I recognised a genuine belief that Gilfoyle was the victim of a huge miscarriage of justice. Being cautious, I visited him in prison and after seeing him also felt there had been a huge miscarriage of justice.
While I was heading the Complaints and Discipline Department in Merseyside in
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Rochelle Sharpe Lohrasbe
Rochelle holds a PhD in Child and Youth Care (UVIC). Beginning with a career in forensic psychiatric nursing, she has 30 years of clinical experience in the areas of post-traumatic stress, attachment trauma and developmental wounding.
In her private clinical practice Rochelle sees both children and adults who have experienced abuse, neglect and other traumatic experiences such as vehicle accidents, natural disasters, bullying, chronic degradation and so forth.
Rochelle is an EMDRIA-approved consultant in EMDR, facilitates for the DNMS Institute, and recently joined the faculty of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. She has presented at EMDR and Trauma and Dissociation conferences in Canada and abroad.
What Led to the Specialization of Trauma?
From her dream to working with Jane Goodall, to then actually working in a forensic psychiatric facility, Rochelle shares her winding, untraditional path to her work with individuals who’ve been traumatized.
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Rochelle shares the story of working with a woman and not really having the skills to help this client move through her trauma experience. I’m the one that has the answers and I’m the one that’s supposed to fix this?!
Rochelle’s Why
Like many people who end up in this work, I come with my own experience. And I think that allows me to relate a lot to my clients and their experiences. A lot of my why comes from my realization that if I could help one person then that could have a ripple effect in their lives.
Rochelle’s Advice
Be persistent. Have grit. Stick to it. Don’t settle for rote answers from the system, even from the experts.
Rochelle’s Go-To Books
Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology), by Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton, Clare Pain
Treating the Trauma Survivor: An Essential Guide to Trauma-Informed Care, by Carrie Clark, Catherine C. Classen, Anne Fourt, Maithili Shetty
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Rochelle’s email: [email protected]
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Kendal Buddhists celebrate 25 years of faith
By Rachel Kitchen
BUDDHISTS in Kendal are celebrating 25 years of practising their faith together.
Members of the Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada) gathered for a retreat at the town's Fellside Centre to mark the milestone.
"We hope the next 25 years will be as wonderful, beneficial and peaceful as the first," secretary Jacquetta Gomes told the Gazette.
"We are very grateful to everyone who has supported us. We find it helpful to practise with people we have been in contact with for over 20 years but are also very happy when new people join us."
Theravada is the oldest school of Buddhism, explained Jacquetta. Its name means 'doctrine of the elders' and it is practised in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.
The silver anniversary retreat was led by two Buddhist monks, Venerable Udunuwara Indarathana and Venerable Pidiville Piyatissa, who often teaches at the Kendal group and is head of a monastery in Manchester.
As Jacquetta explained, a 'beautiful' sentence on Buddhist traditions was sent by Lama Yeshe Rinpoche, abbot and retreat master of Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Scotland. The words were read out at the celebration.
Over the years, many senior monks and spiritual advisors have enriched the Kendal group, including visits by a cave-dwelling monk from Sri Lanka, and the gift of a collection of books from a senior Thai monk, Ajahn Pannyavaddho Thera.
Group secretary Jacquetta, the world's first acknowledged female Buddhist fire chaplain, co-authored the book Introducing Buddhism, which has been published in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, the UK and the USA.
Writings by Kendal members have also featured in the The Chinese Buddhist Encyclopaedia and The Buddhist elibrary and journals, and in spring 2016 an article was published in the internationally respected, New York-based Buddhist journal Tricycle.
The Kendal group has good relations with Kendal Town Council, said Jacquetta, and members have taken part in interfaith activities and attended the enthronement of the Bishop of Carlisle, the Rt Rev James Newcome, in 2009.
It is represented on South Lakeland Community Flood Recovery and South Lakeland Equality and Diversity Partnership, and close links are enjoyed with other small Cumbrian Buddhist groups, especially in Keswick. For Buddhists who cannot attend meetings because of family commitments, meditation is held at home from 7-9pm on the four monthly moon days.
To find out more, visit http://buddhistgroupofkendal.co.uk
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Montunas
3 Montunas Bags At Net-A-Porter That Are Giving New Life To The Acrylic Purse Trend
By Kelsey Stewart
Discovering an under-the-radar brand sparks a sense of joy for most fashion lovers, especially when it's one that's as beautiful as it is unique — which is exactly why Montunas and its new purses at Net-A-Porter should be on your radar. The pieces are a mixture of cool materials and trendy details, and they're undoubtedly going to be seen on the arms of It-girls everywhere in no time.
Officially launched in 2017, London-based brand Montunas was founded by former model Elke Ruge, and is now run with the help of her two daughters, Amanda and Elena Hawila. The brand, which means "women from the mountains," draws its inspiration from Ruge's native country of Costa Rica. And while it's not exactly "new," per se, it's clearly picking up steam — and the fact that its new products are landing on Net-A-Porter is further proof of its popularity with the fashion crowd.
Of course, its momentum may also have something to do with the fact that acrylic is having a major moment in 2019. Yes, it made its way into jewelry and home decor, but it was in purses that it really shined. Spring 2019's new arrivals were filled with pieces from brands like Cult Gaia and Valet Studio that Instagram still can't get enough of, which essentially provided the perfect opportunity for Montunas to burst onto the scene. So if you've considered yourself a fan of this trendy material, you're going to want to add its latest arrivals to your closet, stat.
The newest pieces from the brand on the luxury retailer's site are nothing short of Insta-worthy, thanks to their pearlescent sheen and feminine details. Of course, it doesn't hurt that each one is inspired by a planter, which just adds another picture-ready element to each piece. The bags are breathing new life into the popular bag trend, and there's no doubt you'll want to get on board with these new arrivals. Ahead, the latest styles from Montunas to hit Net-A-Porter that deserve a spot in your summer bag collection immediately.
The Stelis
Structured and timeless, box bags have been in the fashion scene for decades. This particular version comes with a detachable silk-satin pouch inside, and is made from a marbled acrylic that's reminiscent of this season's pearl trend.
Stelis Acrylic and Silk-Satin Tote
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The Trellis Lirio
This new purse is made with ivory acetate panels for an elegant take on the plant pot-inspired style. This piece features a linen pouch inside to secure your belongings, and is finished off with a sweet blush pink tassel rope.
Trellis Lirio Rope-Trimmed Acetate and Linen Tote
The Guaria
Created with marbled acetate, the Guaria bag from Montunas' "Orchid" collection will be a sweet addition to any spring look. The purse features printed scarf handles for functionality (and style, obviously), and inside is a removable organza pouch to fashionably store your personal possessions.
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‘Final Fantasy VII’ Characters 3D Printed Straight from the Game
By Jill Scharr 15 August 2013
Digital artist Joaquin Baldwin ripped the character models from the original PC version of 'Final Fantasy VII' and 3D printed them.
These 3D printed models were based directly on the original character models from 'Final Fantasy VII.'
Here comes Cloud-based 3D printing!
Cloud Strife, that is — the main character of the classic video game "Final Fantasy VII."
Digital artist and "Final Fantasy" fan Joaquin Baldwin has 3D printed the characters from the beloved game based directly on their original, blocky low-polygon appearance.
Baldwin ripped the characters' 3D models from the 1998 PC version of the game using software called Biturn and Unmass.
That doesn't mean it was easy, however. After exporting the models, Baldwin had to convert them to a modern file format, then fix up any holes or glitches and reposition them so they would stand up straight when printed. Further, each character model had to be manually retextured and recolored.
Finally, Baldwin hollowed the models out so they would be cheaper to print. "It's a long and tedious process," he told us. "I only did it as a labor of love since I'm a huge fan of the game."
Of course, Baldwin was making money on the printed products. On his Shapeways page, alongside his original 3D printed designs, Baldwin sold the models for between $14 (for character Yuffie Kisaragi) and $32 (for the Chocobo).
The model's pricing is determined by its volume, Baldwin explained. "So you will see that most of the female characters are cheaper because they are a bit smaller,” even with the character Tifa's large breasts, Baldwin said.
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Square Enix, the company that owns the "Final Fantasy" brand, wasn't pleased that Baldwin was selling their intellectual property. Baldwin received a takedown notice from Square Enix and took the models down today.
"All orders that haven't been printed will be refunded, and I can't print any of them anymore," Baldwin told us. "It was a good ride while it lasted."
This appears to be the first time someone has ported a model from a video game into 3D printer-compatible software and printed it. Obviously the process isn't seamless, but demand for Baldwin's models has been tremendous. "I didn't expect it to go so wildly viral," Baldwin told us.
Square Enix doesn't sell any toy versions of these iconic characters as they appeared in the original game.
That's because there are other, more robust versions of the characters. For one, the character models from the battles in "Final Fantasy VII" are a bit higher-resolution — and the ones in the prerendered cut scenes are even more so. Plus, the characters have since been redesigned in more recent media such as the digitally animated movie "Advent Children" and the video games "Dirge of Cerberus" and "Crisis Core," so the action figures Square Enix sells are based on these models.
The original game's outdated graphics are part of the reason why so many fans have been clamoring for a "Final Fantasy VII" remake for years.
But Baldwin thinks the old character models still have a certain nostalgic charm. "If I wanted the normal-proportion version, I would buy the official action figures, which are already very cool; there's no need to remake them."
These models, on the other hand, have something that the realistic versions lack: They're cute.
"They have huge heads, and they are extremely abstracted. They are simple, like a Hello Kitty or a Pokémon, they have a different type of appeal. They are also nostalgic, [in that] they remind us of the way the game was, more than the way the characters look today with all the new graphics. Just like an 8-bit Mario gives you that happy feeling."
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xerxces 14 August 2013 23:54
All there is to say is "Nice", lol
cozmium 15 August 2013 00:45
"Baldwin hollowed the models out so they would be cheaper to print. "It's a long and tedious process," he told us." - He lied. They are exceptionally low poly, and most if not all 3D packages have some sort of boolean subtract function so all you would have to do is rezise it in another layer and subtract from the original. Voila: a hollow model in >10 seconds.
I obviously meant "<" - thanks for making your pages here editable Toms. While i'm here again though, it was pretty bold to try and sell them when obviously they are one of the most famous IPs of SE.
nevilence 15 August 2013 01:47
I would of forked out for each one of them if they were still for sale, best game ever ><
chicofehr 15 August 2013 03:55
did he upload the models so we can print our own when we can afford a 3D printer?
kyuuketsuki 15 August 2013 06:45
That's actually really awesome. Wish I'd caught wind of this before he was served the inevitable take-down notice. Hopefully Square-Enix will note the demand for these and make some official ones.
lpedraja2002 15 August 2013 13:59
Man, if these 3D printers ever become commercially available for the general public, the toy industry will take a huge hit. Everyone would just start to print their favorite video game or cartoon characters. As long as we don't sell them it should be legal, right?
shadowfamicom 15 August 2013 14:15
Good work with extracting and preparing the old models for printing. I am surprised he did it himself and didn't just got to some of the many websites that posts video game 3D models. On a side note.... I still cannot get into FFVII... after FF6 (FF3 in the states) I didn't really enjoy a Final Fantasy game for a long time. I rather watch a black and white made for TV movie, in Russian on a 12 inch TV with bad reception then try to sit through FF7 again. I still say a big reason why the FF7's fanbase is so fanatical because for most of them it was their first RPG. Give me Chrono Trigger or Dragon Quest (insert number) over FF7 any day.
monkeycmonkeydu 15 August 2013 14:50
It wasn't everyone's first RPG, it was quite a revolutionary game when it came out... The first several Final Fantasy games were amazing on NES and SNES, but they were fundamentally different... I actually bought that game BEFORE I bought a playstation to play it on, that is how much I wanted to play this game... Guess how many times I have done that since - zilch. For their first attempt at converting a 2d series to a 3d story and world they did a fantastic job, the variety and immersion of the world has been matched by few games since then, first time through I think I logged about 130 hours and still had a few things left I could have done. The music was exponentially more engaging than the previous games, and the wide range of characters meant something for everyone. I think people who dismiss this game out of hand never truly considered what a masterpiece it was for game design both at the time and still to this day.
inerax 15 August 2013 16:02
He should put the files on the pirate bay lol. Let people with 3D printers go nuts.
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FCC Net Neutrality Proposal Might Allow 'Fast Lanes'
By Jill Scharr 15 May 2014
Net neutrality at risk? The FCC today voted for a proposal that, if it became law, might not block ISPs from creating Internet 'fast lanes.'
The new proposal just passed today (May 15) would prohibit Internet service providers from blocking traffic outright or slowing it to a crawl, but it's vague about the creation of "fast lanes" privileging certain types of content for companies willing to pay for it. This proposal isn't final; United States citizens will have 120 days to comment on the decision, and the FCC will take a final vote in July 15. In fact, the FCC hasn't even released the full text of the proposal, just a summary.
At stake is the question of whether Internet service providers (ISPs) like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T should be able to privilege certain types of Internet content (such as Netflix or Facebook) with higher speeds, or whether the US government should step in and ensure that all Internet content gets equal access to an Internet provider's network.
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The proposal “tentatively concludes that priority service offered exclusively by a broadband provider to an affiliate should be considered illegal until proven otherwise,” according to the FCC’s own statement.
However, some experts say this is not enough to ensure net neutrality, as it does not explicitly forbid ISPs from letting content providers pay for "fast lanes," or the privilege of their content appearing faster than other types of content on customers' devices.
The FCC's proposal does, however, include a no-blocking rule, which would prohibit ISPs from blocking any kind of legal Internet content outright.
The proposal also seeks to increase transparency by requiring ISPs to give “timely notice” of any new practices, and to disclose “information on the nature of congestion that impacts consumers’ use of online services.” Wheeler referred to it as the "rat-out rule," as it would inform citizens of practices that hurt their service.
Citizens would then be able to take their concerns to a newly created ombudsperson, a role also created in the proposal, who would “act as a watchdog on behalf of consumers and start-ups and small businesses.” Nothing that the FCC has released or that Wheeler or commissioners said in the meeting indicates what legal authority the ombudsperson would have.
Additionally, the FCC’s proposal seeks to establish an "enforceable legal standard of commercially reasonable practices" to ensure an open Internet. The proposal does not elaborate on what "commercially unreasonable" means, but FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler gave some examples during the meeting, including an ISP slowing access to its network.
Before the vote, Wheeler voiced strong opposition to Internet “fast lanes.” "There is one Internet," Wheeler said. "Not a fast Internet, not a slow Internet. One Internet."
"Nothing in this proposal authorizes paid prioritization," he added. "The potential for there to be some kind of fast lane has many people concerned...I will work to see that does not happen."
The proposal does not call for reclassifying ISPs as "common carriers," a group that the FCC is allowed to regulate under Title II of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Wheeler said the FCC is open to this suggestion, however.
The FCC's three democratic commissioners, Jessica Rosenworcel, Mignon Clyburn and Tom Wheeler, voted for the proposal.The two Republican commissioners, Ajit Pai and Michael O'Rielly, dissented.
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atavax 15 May 2014 17:44
where are they looking at comments for it?
there needs to be common carriers now. Any policies are meaningless without it. There has been stagnation in the US with internet. The only progress is in how ISPs can take more money from the consumer.
no fast lanes. How can we progress if speed limits are based on what is commonly used today? For example, how are we going to transition from streaming 1080p to 4k resolutions if commercially 1080p would be the norm; and anyone that tries to stream 4k will be punished.
neon neophyte 15 May 2014 18:54
this is what happens when a cable company lobbyist is appointed as head chairman of the fcc. no conflict of interest there! /s
Osmin 15 May 2014 18:59
It is so easy nowadays to buy a Republican and a little harder to buy a Democrat to out-right reject the proposals. If you don't pay enough, Democrats will just reword the legislation so it has no bite or effect. They will just promise that everything will be alright.
ubercake 15 May 2014 19:13
If the big ISPs are determined to charge more for premium content, by golly they'll be sure to pay the right politicians to get their way. If they don't succeed initially, it's only a matter of time. It's called corporate-funded "democracy".
Tom Wheeler is Chairman of the FCC, a position that is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Prior to working at the FCC, Wheeler worked as a venture capitalist and lobbyist for the cable and wireless industry, with positions including President of the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) and CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) (Quote from Wikipedia). How much did the Cable and Cellular companies give to the Democratic Party for such a powerful position to rule upon itself? At least the Supreme Court made it easier for individual wealthy people to buy elections that also appoint regulatory positions. Now individuals can donate unlimited money for campaign contributions because it was unfair that a non-living entity (Businesses) could donate unlimited money. This is the new America we live in, where the majority have no voice to control the corruption in politics. Who's keeping Big Oil Companies, Pharmaceutical Companies, Telecommunication Companies, and Wall Street (To name a few) from price manipulations?
velocityg4 15 May 2014 19:30
I guess you didn't read the whole article. The three Democrats voted YES on this the two Republicans voted NO. So the Democrates are all for these fast lanes. Whether the Republicans are for net neutrality or different fast lane wording that is essentially the same is unknown.
How were Republicans bought?
wildkitten 15 May 2014 20:06
I'm not understanding what is the problem with fast lanes. If ISP's are barred from blocking or slowing content, than what is wrong with some content being faster? Sounds like to me those who oppose fast lanes want all things equally slow.
It was like the debate recently about how some content providers are considering paying the cell carriers to pay for data themselves so they don't go against data caps. That could only benefit the consumer yet some people railed against that.
skit75 15 May 2014 21:00
@wildkitten
Because it creates an unfair market for start-ups who depend on the internet for a portion of their product. One example, Netflix. Nobody knows the details of the deal but essentially they have purchased premium/guaranteed access to the fastest networks for their subscribers. A start-up won't have the capitol to play in this arena. The ISPs don't have to slow down other non-premium traffic. Neglect of those "lanes" will do it for them.
There is a business class internet being created that will appear drastically different in ten years from what we know as the internet, today. So much of this "framework" is open to interpretation for corporate legal teams to dissect. It is not a mistake, it is by design. We need a surrogate for the little guy in this debate. I have sickening feeling the letter/phone brigade hitting congressman/woman and senators will not be enough. Money talks and the ISPs have tons of it.
How can we honestly debate the proposal for 120 days when it doesn't exist? There is only a framework/guidelines. At least Wheeler will have job waiting for him at the end of this as that door revolves around and around. The last FCC chairman was just as much a tool as this guy and yes, I know who appointed him.
gm0n3y 15 May 2014 21:02
ISPs should simply forward packets to their destination. No preferential treatment, no reading packet data.
I hear this said all the time but it is one of the poorest analogies out there. The only content providers who would even want to deliver content faster are those like Netflix or ESPN or something similar. If a startup wanted to compete with Netflix, they would need so many billions of dollars to get the content to be able to compete that the purchase of a fast lane would be a drop in the bucket.
So please stop acting like not being able to pay for a fast lane is what is going to hold a company back, because it isn't.
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Beneath troubled waters
By Black Red Devil, July 28, 2019 in Middle-East
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... man isn't fit to live if he hasn't found something worth dying for...
Just as supporters of Palestinians have to swallow the humiliation of what happens to obsessed, warmongering Arabs who prefer killing Jews to having a decent life, even for their children. The cycle will continue until they give up their demand for the Jews to be gone from the land. That just isn't going to happen.
There are wild individuals in every group of people. Even among Jehova's witnesses
My point was that Hamas has nothing to do with the fact that Israel should be giving fair amount of money to Palestinian social services. Money from gas which is exploited from areas which belong to Gaza. Such thing is not even considered by Israeli officials.
Generally, and it is off topic now - 1947 UN plan is starting legal point and i am not really sure why did Palestinians adopt (widely) demand for state under 1967 borders. But since Palestinians are wiling to accept 1967 borders i can not argue because it's their decision.
That kinda contradicts the notion that Palestinians want Jews to be gone. I believe that you imply that they want them to be gone from ME completely and for Israel to cease to exist?
They want them to be gone from areas which Israel occupies, at least officially. Since Israel has not even considered to offer hand to people in Gaza i understand Hamas's resistance to adopt different doctrine.
2 hours ago, RoofGardener said:
Well, SOME fields - rather small ones, but fields nontheless
3 hours ago, Sir Smoke aLot said:
Those are their words, not mine. The media doesn't cover this so there are precious few examples that anyone here would find "acceptable" but the fact exists regardless their denial. What they did in Gaza proves what they will do from any new piece of land they are given. They will take it and strengthen it and renew their attacks. It has been their pattern and there is no reason to expect anything else from them. I believe they will sign on to a treaty and take the land and concessions it provides then they will renew their attacks. I also believe that not one of their supporters here will condemn them when they do so.
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3 hours ago, and then said:
I believe they will sign on to a treaty and take the land and concessions it provides then they will renew their attacks.
No way out for Israel. Israel can shut down the UN, thanks to the US. But they cannot shut down a billion angry Muslims
Black Red Devil 4,061
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As long as the Hamas and the PA BOTH control territory from which death is dealt against Israelis, they BOTH matter in the discussion. What good is it to come to an agreement with a next-door neighbor who wants to kill you, when his brother on the other side is going to continue to try? I can say the same thing about "international law". Those agreements were decided by the UN, I assume? A body that is comprised of a majority of nations that are hell-bent on removing Israel (of any size) from the world map?
I wouldn't be too critical about the UN and international law if I was you. The only reason why Israel isn't submerged under sanctions is because of how the UN adopts international law through Resolutions and Vetoing privileges by the few. Also, there are 195 countries that adhere to the UN, are you saying the majority (lets say 100) are hell bent on removing Israel? Only 31 countries do not recognise the State of Israel which means 164 do. Somehow your claim doesn't sound statistically right or maybe you might want to reword it and say 'the majority of nations are hell-bent on getting Israel to stop suppressing another nation'.
As for Hamas, if ever (which I doubt) Israel and the PA sit down and discuss a peace process and how to move forward, Hamas will just get pushed aside lose power and probably become another small terrorist group who finds satisfaction in killing innocent victims.
31 minutes ago, Earl.Of.Trumps said:
So, what do you think SHOULD happen?
22 minutes ago, Black Red Devil said:
Hamas will just get pushed aside lose power and probably become another small terrorist group who finds satisfaction in killing innocent victims.
They are funded by Iran and they aren't going to disappear. If Israel makes a deal with the PA that doesn't include the cooperation of Hamas, they will be surrendering territory and they will still be subjected to attacks by Hamas. How long do you think they'll accept that?
They'll be surrendering territory that isn't theirs anyway but this won't happen because the Zionists have no intention in giving away territory which basically makes all discussions in regards fruitless. Only when Likud gets removed from power and a moderate Party takes hold of the Knesset may we see some peace attempt. Until then......
Edited August 1, 2019 by Black Red Devil
What I think should happen never will. Israel should go back to the 1946 borders of the original UN partition. You remember the one that had something called "Mandated Palestine"? Israel signed that, you know.
5 hours ago, Black Red Devil said:
They'll be surrendering territory that isn't theirs anyway but this won't happen because the Zionists have no intention in giving away territory which basically makes all discussions in regards fruitless. Only when Likud gets removed from power and a moderate Party takes hold of the Knesset may we see some peace attempt. Until then...…
even with a moderate in power, whenever they start to remove "Settlers" from a given locale in occupied Palestine, the crap hits the fan
2 hours ago, Earl.Of.Trumps said:
And if that happens and the Palestinians do the same thing they did when Gaza was vacated to them? What then?
That didn't stop Sharon from forcibly removing them. History is pretty clear about how grateful the Palestinians were for that concession.
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Ummm.. are we still talking about Gaza ? Israel DID surrender that, remember ? And things where going well there until HAMAS staged a post-election coup and took physical control of it.
The situation is complicated by the fact that HAMAS won the popular palestinian vote, but was rejected by both the PA and the International Community. That was back in 2006. Once HAMAS took control of Gaza, there where - of course - no further elections.
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1 minute ago, RoofGardener said:
The situation is complicated by the fact that HAMAS won the popular palestinian vote, but was rejected by both the PA and the International Community.
Ys I remember that, - go now have an election, ah sorry not the answer we wanted, go and do it again.
14 hours ago, and then said:
What they did in Gaza proves what they will do from any new piece of land they are given.
We are talking about economical aspect of occupation here man. But let's be real, you can not defend Israeli policy over prophecy about what Hamas might do in future lol
Occupying power has certain obligations and is required by law to act like responsible entity.
Whatever Hamas does is not the reason for destruction of environment in West Bank, where there is no Hamas!
Similar problems are at both pieces of Palestinian claimed land so do you blame PA for situation in West Bank? They are mostly collaborators for God's sake and civilians still do not have their human rights respected.
They are funded by Iran and they aren't going to disappear.
You fail to understand that Arabian Spring has placed Hamas in very uncomfortable and isolated position when it comes to foreign connections and assistance. Especially the reason was the fall of so called muslim brotherhood, situation in Qatar (major sponsor for decades, which doesn't support Hamas directly anymore)...
Another reason for Hamas's lack of foreign support is their dumb decision to vocally support uprising against Assad in Syria and identify with some groups of rebels. Those moves have lead to Hamas being unheard and isolated.
In such situation, over the years, now people in Gaza have only one choice... To protest, die and hope that their voice will be heard because they are not heard, anywhere. There is large reason why Iran has either stopped or moved support from Hamas to some other figures within Palestinian factions.
In most recent UN Human Rights report man responsible for investigation wrote about how Israel prevented him of going directly at the sites in occupied areas and in Gaza so everything he made was based on works of other UN workers, local journalists, independent research etc.
This would be reason enough for me to take arms and fight for better future.
Israel does not only exploit Palestinian resources, land and future for it's own benefit, contrary to it's obligations as occupying power but it also use Palestinian land as garbage pile, for recycling and landfill.
PDF document, B'Tselem. 2017. LINK
From the PDF :
[edit]i just hate quotations since it tends to mess up my posts. Within this spoiler we have part from report in first 3 rows of text, rest is my overlook about it - most important to notice is that there is no Hamas in West Bank jet they suffer greatly. Who do you blame there i wonder?
Power disparities between populations are among the chief factors that determine who will have better access to resources, and who will suffer from greater exposure to waste and hazardous materials.1 The more developed a country is – the combined result of a number of factors, including economic growth, globalization and urbanization – the more resources it consumes and the more waste it generates per capita.
Like other countries, Israel has a waste treatment system. Internal objections to local treatment plants, combined with the high costs associated with stringent environmental regulation and international restrictions on waste export, have encouraged Israel to seek sacrifice zones,4 where waste treatment facilities could be placed.
''Sacrifice zones'' - term by which this is explained.
Fun fact : this is happening in West Bank.
We should compare what benefit does peaceful resistance in West Bank have so that we might be able to find argument in favor of peaceful resistance. In West Bank, natural resources could amount up to 2 billion $ annually, just from Dead Sea. If agriculture sector was in good shape that would also be of benefit to Palestinian people and might in return make better image of Israel in minds of occupied people.
Agriculture sector suffers also from Israeli selective spraying, LINK.
There are numerous other examples of how this occupation is destroying any prospect for peaceful future and is destroying security for both people.
Right now we have de facto annexation in West Bank, not occupation and UN turns blind eye to that fact.
So let me ask you where is Hamas to blame in West Bank? Who do you blame now in order to defame them so that Israel, again, remains to be the good guy regardless of it's atrocities?
So instead of making excuses ''look he is terrorist do not listen to him'' you should admit what occupation is doing to the population and to their future.
Edited August 2, 2019 by Sir Smoke aLot
Yeah especially those ones with the top hats, beards and curly sideburns.
The thing that gives Hamas recognition by the Palestinians is their role as freedom fighters against the oppressive and unlawful conduct of Israel. With a two state solution they would have to change their manifesto or go underground as terrorists and I doubt they would last long if they chose to adopt the second option.
There may be some truth in that. However, it's kinda irrelevant in the context of this thread. I was reffering to HAMS because we where talking about underwater oil/gas fields, and hence 'territorial waters'. The PA doesn't HAVE any "territorial waters" in practice, because it lost its Mediterranean coastline to HAMAS control.
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Hmm... very true. However, I really can't see HAMAS accepting a two-state solution. It would require a truly radical re-writing of their constitution. To the extent that they would lose their identity, and become just another part of the PA, along with FATAH and all the others. Palestinians would probably not vote for them any more.
Not that they bother with elections over there. (None in Gaza since 2006, and none in the West Bank since.. umm... 2009 ??)
But let's be real, you can not defend Israeli policy over prophecy about what Hamas might do in future lol
Gaza proves what they do once they've received a concession. There isn't anything funny about what they did and continue to do. They have been very consistent in their behavior and there is no reason to expect them to change. They've made it quite clear that they have no interest in peace or anything except removing Israel from the map of the M.E. Israel doesn't need me to defend it. They can do that just fine.
15 hours ago, Earl.Of.Trumps said:
Closer to 1.8 Billion, I believe ? Fortunately those 1.8 billion muslims are utterly powerless. They present neither a military or economic threat to Israel. Most of them couldn't point to Israel on a map.
Not even on a map of Israel !
Gaza proves what they do once they've received a concession.
Since West Bank is devastated by occupation policies and they do not have armed resistance it is only logical to assume that Hamas was disappointed with status quo and tries to do something different. That is one of the rights which occupied population has and since Hamas is belonging to one of parties in this conflict those rights also apply to Hamas.
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Israel doesn't need me to defend it. They can do that just fine.
Tell that to International Criminal Court
There may be some truth in that.
It is all truth. I will find time to list every obligation which is required by occupying state to comply with.
However, it's kinda irrelevant in the context of this thread.
That is most relevant to this thread since economical aspect and safety of occupied people fall under occupying force's obligations. Occupier is only temporary administer of the land, has no right over it and should focus all of their power to return occupied areas to the administration and sovereignty of occupied people. In Israel case this is permanent occupation and de facto annexation.
I was reffering to HAMS because we where talking about underwater oil/gas fields, and hence 'territorial waters'. The PA doesn't HAVE any "territorial waters" in practice, because it lost its Mediterranean coastline to HAMAS control.
Territorial waters law is applied to any nation which has access to sea. Even if that access is enclosed in a way that peninsula is blocking 'sight' to open sea - in that case nation which controls peninsula is required to provide access to open sea to the other nation.
In case of Gaza situation is quite clear and there is nothing which can deny them right to enjoy access to the sea either for fishing, exploit of resources or any other way of administering the region.
In 1947 West Bank (Palestinian part) had clear access to the sea too but since then Israel has annexed a lot of land and such move is not recognized by world nations. Regardless, Palestinians are willing to settle for 1967 borders which will effectively prevent them of any access to the coast in West Bank and also will make it legally impossible to play part in Gas fields at that place. Picture for reference :
I am not sure what PA has to do with this subject of Gas fields and water resources in general since i was clearly talking about different policies in West Bank. Dead Sea is another topic and Palestinians are forbidden to use their naturally acquired right on it. Actually, Israel, as occupying power, is required to assist them in economical development of industry needed for access to Dead sea resources.
1 hour ago, RoofGardener said:
OIC is thousand times stronger than tiny Israel and to compare Israel to any stronger Muslim country would be nonsense.
There is constant division among Muslim politic leadership and as such Muslim world can not make consensus over many issues.
Anyhow this is not about who has bigger toys because Israel, on world scene is existing only because US support and as such is guaranteed protection both in Arab League and in United Nations. In operation ''Protective Edge'' majority of Arab League has condemned Hamas and was not vocal against Israeli war crimes.
That is very narrow minded opinion and also we have to understand that, for example Iran, they have position that ''anything which Palestinians decide is OK with Iran''. If Iran was wild rogue state Israel would not exist since Iran has capability to erase them using only conventional weapons. IT could 'at least' make irreparable damage to Israeli infrastructure. Keep in mind that we are talking about country smaller than Belgium and Netherlands, blocked by sea from one side and by ''enemies'' from the other.
Manpower and geography are essential in warfare. Israeli power in that regard is very low.
All that said we can understand now that this is political issue and as such Muslims were always content and restrained from taking harsher measures against Israel. So far we had only Jordan (until 1950's), Egypt (untill 1970's), Syria and Lebanon who had fight with Israel.
Every single one of mentioned Muslim majority countries had it's territory annexed by Israel. Lebanon (Sheba farms, parts of Golan), Syria (Golan), Egypt (almost lost Sinai, 15 years of Israeli occupation) and Jordan is out of the picture for long time.
That hardly constitutes ''Muslim world'' or 1.8 billion Muslims out of which many are closely affiliated with Zionists.
Ummm... no.. you are wrong.
The majority of the IOC countries are basket cases that can barely feed their own population, let alone make military threats beyond their borders. (many can't make military threats beyond their capital cities)
Consider the three largest Muslim countries... Indonesia, Pakistan and India.
The have absolutely ZERO ability to threaten Israel, either militarily or economically.
the US didn't give meaningfull support during the existential battle for Israels existence in 1948. Nor did they do so in 1967. The DID give significant support in 1973, but ONLY to offset the MASSIVE military support that the Soviet Union gave to Syria and Egypt. There where so many Soviet heavy-lift aircraft in the air during 1973 that you could have walked from Damascus to Moscow just by stepping on their wings
That is very narrow minded opinion and also we have to understand that, for example Iran, they have position that ''anything which Palestinians decide is OK with Iran''. If Iran was wild rogue state Israel would not exist since Iran has capability to erase them using only conventional weapons.
No they couldn't .. they couldn't even INCONVENIENCE Israel with their "conventional weapons", let alone "erase" them. If Iran attacked Israel with their missile systems, then Israel could "(a) destroy the bulk of their missiles in mid-flight, and (b) wreck havoc on Iranian Missile Launch Sites, to say nothing of Ports, Infrastructure (bridges, rail networks etc), and political buildings (including their Parliament).
Just because we don't discuss Israeli medium-range rockets, doesn't mean they don't exist
Wake up, Sir Smoke a Lot
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Facebook Is Being Sued by 20,000 Israelis for Inciting Palestinian Terror
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook is being sued by 20,000 Israelis in New York for "facilitating and encouraging" Palestinian attackers — by connecting inciters with would-be assailants.
by Harriet Salem
October 27, 2015, 6:35pm
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More than 20,000 Israelis are suing Facebook for "facilitating and encouraging" violence against Jews by allowing Palestinian users to post and share how-to videos on stabbing attacks, as well as violent memes and videos glorifying killers as martyrs.
Filed in New York State Supreme Court in Brooklyn on Monday, the lawsuit follows a month of deadly violence in which 11 Israelis have been killed and more than 70 injured in a series of stabbing, shooting and vehicular attacks by Palestinians.
The social media giant founded by billionaire Mark Zuckerberg — a Jewish entrepreneur born in White Plains, NY — has some 1.44 billion active users and has become one of the most popular ways for young Palestinians, many disillusioned by their own news outlets, to access and share information.
'One of the men who shot my father put up his philosophy and will on his Facebook page'
Increasingly, however, the platform has also become a means for Palestinian users to connect with one another and share their anger against Israel, including with gruesome memes and infographics; acts which the lawsuit claims are tantamount to incitement by Facebook.
According to Israel's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) around one-third of Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem are Facebook users. Among the most popular Palestinian Facebook news sites are the Quds News Network, with 3.7 million followers and believed to be affiliated with the Islamic Jihad militant group, and Shehab News Network, which is believed to be affiliated with Hamas and has 4.2 million followers.
Related: Why Is Hamas Calling for Intifada in the West Bank, But Not in Gaza?
Both are accused by Israel of whipping up the current spate of violence with fiery cartoons praising knife attacks and videos with misleading commentaries. This includes one that showed a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who was run over after carrying out a knife attack — the caption said he was shot by settlers and made no mention of him stabbing someone.
"We are seeing a situation in which Osama Bin Laden meets [Facebook founder] Mark Zuckerberg," Prime Minister Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed last week, prior to the lawsuit being filed. "The incitement on the social networks is what is causing the wave of terror."
But the case filed on Monday by Shurat HaDin, a Jewish legal rights institution, is not just about what is being posted by individuals or news sites but connections that are being made via the platform.
According to the complaint, Facebook not only doesn't remove the material but also, via algorithms, links up like-minded people who share common groups or hashtags such as "Stab" and "Knife Intifada," effectively acting as a "broker or match-maker" between inciters and potential attackers by recommending groups, events or friends.
By facilitating such connections the lawsuit alleges that Facebook can no longer been seen as a "neutral platform" but rather "is introducing the people who scream 'fire' in a crowded theater to arsonists."
'These are things that are not acceptable anywhere in the world. If they were printed on the front page of the "New York Times" or "Washington Post" those papers would immediately be closed down'
"You can find tens of thousands of videos and images on Facebook encouraging people to carry out terror attacks against Jews. You can find the terrorists themselves before they go out to stab posting on Facebook about their acts." Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, president of Shurat HaDin, told VICE News.
"Then you'll find thousands of posts endorsing their acts, glorifying it, and encouraging others to follow them. This cycle of incitement has inflamed the situation and the only way to stop it is for Facebook to get people and shut it down."
Zooming in on specific examples of the kind of material being shared on Facebook, the 112-page dossier lodged with the Brooklyn court includes actual examples of material being posted by users. Among the screenshots included in the file is an anatomical diagram of the most deadly places to knife someone, a video showing how to most effectively stab a soldier and grab their weapon, and a meme with a Facebook "like" logo stabbing through a Star of David.
Other "status posts" noted in the complaint include one calling on would-be attackers to dip their knives in poison and another telling people to check vehicles passing by for Jews and attack them.
Related: Israel's Prime Minister Is Accused of Stirring Holocaust Denial
On Tuesday Micah Lakin Avni, a lead plaintiff in the case, told reporters that he wanted Facebook, and other social media outlets such as YouTube and Twitter, to take responsibility for the death of his father who was repeatedly stabbed then shot during an attack by Palestinian assailants on a Jerusalem bus earlier this month.
Richard Lakin, a 76 year-old retired elementary school principle who taught mixed Jewish-Arab classes, was one of three people killed in the assault by two Palestinians, one of whom posted on Facebook that he was about to become a "martyr" shortly before carrying out the attack.
"One of the men who shot my father put up his philosophy and will on his Facebook page… [there were] already hundreds of tweets [about it] before the event even happened," Avni told VICE News.
'You can take a video down from YouTube in seven minutes, but seven minutes is a lifetime on YouTube'
"Facebook and Twitter have become more powerful today, perhaps, than the [UN] secretary-general, the prime minister of Israel and the president of the United States. There's a social responsibility to stop this rampant incitement… These are things that are not acceptable anywhere in the world. If they were printed on the front page of the New York Times or Washington Post those papers would immediately be closed down, but when they're drawn out on Facebook by children in East Jerusalem it becomes acceptable, and this has incited a terrible war here."
According to legal team behind the lawsuit, Facebook, and other social media platforms, have previously been granted "blanket immunity" in the US where the legal system treat it as a "bulletin board with no liability on it as a publisher of posts," but this cases seeks to establish a new precedent.
Related: In Photos: Riding Along With Medics on the Frontline of Clashes in the West Bank
"Facebook has never been sued by 20,000 people before," said Darshan-Leitner. "We say that the posts that people are putting on Facebook today are outlawed and are not protected. It's speech that causes imminent danger and therefore do not enjoy the First Amendment protection. Facebook has a moral obligation and legal obligation — you can't let bloody attacks go on in the streets of Jerusalem and hide behind an immunity clause without taking action to reduce the violence."
But while the lawsuit — which Zuckerberg's Facebook have 20 to 30 days to answer — is entering unknown legal territory, the lawyers behind it say they have already seen "real results." Among them is discreet shift in the company's policy, with posts being reported by users for incitement now reportedly being taken down "within hours."
Social media experts, however, warn that pulling down pages is unlikely to tackle the real issues. "This isn't a problem unique to Palestinians, social media is borderless — you can post something in Damascus, Raqqa, Gaza, or the West Bank and it spreads in seconds, so we're in an age where you can't bury ideas," Orit Perlov a research fellow at INSS told VICE News.
"You can take down a page, 10 pages and find you have a hundred more. You can take a video down from YouTube in seven minutes, but seven minutes is a lifetime on YouTube."
A case in point is that Facebook has previously removed Shehab News after a campaign by an Israeli Students Union to have the page taken down for anti-Semitic content, only to have it later re-emerge on the platform under another guise.
The legal team at Shurat HaDin remain undeterred, however. "We won't stop here," Darshan-Leitner told VICE News. "After we're done with Facebook we'll go after Twitter and YouTube as well."
Facebook did not respond to a request for comment from VICE News.
Follow Harriet Salem on Twitter: @HarrietSalem
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Hillary Clinton Rejects Jason Segel’s Casting Suggestion, Remains Coolest Person on the Planet
Earlier this month, we noted Hillary Clinton’s sudden surge in coolness after the Secretary of State spent a night dancing and drinking beer at a bar in Colombia, where she was attending an international summit. (President Obama, who attended the same summit but was not pictured in blurry bar photos the next day, we theorized, had faked an illness so that he could catch up on Mad Men and aimless Wikipedia searches in his hotel room.) But just how is Hillary Clinton accelerating her awesomeness this week? By coolly rejecting tenuous casting offers for popular prime-time television shows.
On last night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Jason Segel appeared to promote his new comedy The Five-Year Engagement. But before discussing the movie, the comedic actor excitedly dove into an anecdote about how, according to Segel, the stateswoman recently got in touch with him to turn down a role that she was never officially offered on his CBS sitcom, How I Met Your Mother.
“Every time I’m on the red carpet and [reporter ask me], ‘Who is the mother going to be?’ I always say Hillary Clinton, just as a joke. And then I got a letter in the mail that was like, ‘I appreciate your request but I must say that I am very busy doing politics. If the opportunity ever arise, I would be happy to do something together. —Hillary Clinton.’ [Laughing.] I got a rejection letter from Hillary Clinton.”
That’s right. If you make a snide joke about casting Hillary Clinton on the red carpet, she will allegedly locate her coolest stationery, find your address, and personally reject your fake casting offer. (Not to mention create an entertaining anecdote that topic-bombs the late-night-talk-show segment you were supposed to dedicate to your upcoming movie.) Point: Hillary Clinton. At this rate, Clinton will either inspire her own Chuck Norris–style satirical factoids, start quoting Tupac Shakur on Capitol Hill, or spur her own Ryan Gosling–style meme, which she will respond to in the coolest fashion possible. Oh wait.
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First Annual Walla Walla Valley Wine Month Shifts Focus to Celebrate and Support Local Wine Industry
With unforeseen challenges presented for the inaugural year, the Walla Walla Valley Wine Alliance and its members are still claiming the month of April with a redesigned celebration of the Walla Walla Valley!
WALLA WALLA, Wash. (March 31, 2020) – Tomorrow, the Walla Walla Valley Wine Alliance (WWVWA) is kicking off the first annual Walla Walla Valley Wine Month. Focus will be on supporting the small businesses that make up the wine industry in the Walla Walla Valley.
The WWVWA announced the creation of Walla Walla Valley Wine Month in January 2020. Since that announcement, the outbreak of the novel coronavirus has altered plans for this year, but not for the long haul. In place of the myriad of wine-centric events that the Walla Walla Valley usually sees with the arrival of spring, local wineries are redesigning their celebrations. The Walla Walla Valley remains open for business virtually, and ready to share and celebrate its history, wines and community.
“Walla Walla Valley Wine Month is a great opportunity to remotely talk about, learn about and taste Walla Walla Valley Wine,” says Robert Hansen, Executive Director of the Walla Walla Valley Wine Alliance. “As spring arrives in the Valley, and we’re faced with the reality that it isn’t accompanied with an abundance of tourism like usual, we believe now more than ever, that declaring April as a month to share the unique qualities of the Walla Walla Valley is the right thing to do.”
Utilizing the hashtag #WallaWallaValleyWineMonth, the WWVWA will run a social media campaign throughout the month sharing information about the wine region along with new resources created to support wine consumption at home. On WallaWallaWine.com, an online buying guide allows those interested in Walla Walla Valley Wine to find wineries, view wine promotions and shipping discounts, and go directly to online shops to place their orders. An events calendar of virtual experiences allows wine enthusiasts to tune into virtual tastings, live happy hours and more. These new resources allow for an unprecedented opportunity to explore and access Walla Walla Valley Wine from the comfort of home.
“We’re grateful to enter this new landscape equipped with technology at our fingertips. Walla Walla Valley wineries are adapting and creating new ways to connect with wine lovers over a virtual glass of wine,” says Hansen. “While nothing truly compares to the comprehensive wine country experience that the Walla Walla Valley offers, enjoying the wines at home and tuning into online discussions can certainly emulate it, while providing consumers with a unique way to pass the time.”
In addition to sharing resources on how to buy wine at home, the WWVWA plans to share perspectives from members of the wine community, revisit the history of the Walla Walla Valley, discuss aspects of terroir and showcase the beauty of wine country.
“People can celebrate alongside us by opening up a treasured Walla Walla Valley bottle from their cellar, ordering the first of this year’s rosé releases or finding new wineries to try,” says Mary Derby, WWVWA Marketing Committee Chair and founder and winemaker of DAMA Wines. “This month will be a celebration of all of the wonderful aspects that make up Walla Walla Valley Wine, but we hope that it will also be a time to connect with one another, and look ahead to a time when we can connect in person, in Washington wine country once again.”
Go online to WallaWallaWine.com to learn more.
About the Walla Walla Valley Wine Alliance
The Walla Walla Valley Wine Alliance is a nonprofit wine industry membership organization whose primary mission is the marketing of the Walla Walla Valley’s American Viticultural Area (AVA). The Wine Alliance functions as the leading informational resource for consumers, media and trade interested in learning more about the Valley’s wine industry.
Liz Knapke
Communications & Marketing Director, Walla Walla Valley Wine Alliance
liz@wallawallawine.com | (509) 526-3117 office
Shelby Pryor
Communications & Marketing Coordinator, Walla Walla Valley Wine Alliance
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Michael Light
Michael Light is a San Francisco-based photographer focused on the environment and how contemporary American
culture relates to it. He has exhibited globally, and his work has been collected by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
The Getty Research Institute, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, and the Victoria & Albert
Museum in London, among others.
For the last fifteen years, Light has aerially photographed over settled and unsettled areas of American space,
pursuing themes of mapping, vertigo, human impact on the land, and various aspects of geologic time and the sublime. A
private pilot and Guggenheim Fellow in photography, he is currently working on an extended aerial survey of the arid Western
states. Radius Books published the first of a multi-volume series of this work, Bingham Mine/Garfield Stack, in 2009. The
second, LA Day/LA Night, was released in 2011. The third, Lake Las Vegas/Black Mountain, was published in 2015. The fourth,
Lake Lahontan/Lake Bonneville, was released in September 2019.
Light is also known for his globally published archival works. His first, FULL MOON (1999), used lunar geological
survey imagery made by the Apollo astronauts to show the moon both as a sublime desert and an embattled point of first
human contact. 100 SUNS (2003), focused on the politics and landscape meanings of military photographs of U.S. atmospheric
nuclear detonations from 1945 to 1962.
2015 PDN Photo Annual Book Winner, New York
2007 Artadia Award, Fund for Art and Dialogue, New York
2007 John Simon Memorial Foundation Guggenheim Fellow; Photography
2004 “100 SUNS: Honorable Mention Best Edited Historical Book,” ICP Golden Light Awards, New York
2001 "FULL MOON: Special Commendation, 2000 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Awards," London
2019 “Michael Light: Gardiner’s Island and Amagansett,” The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
2019 “Michael Light: Full Moon,” Danziger Gallery, New York, NY
2019 “GLOW: Michael Light’s Views of L.A.,” Los Angeles Public Library
2019 “Great Basin Autoglyphs and Pleistoseas,” Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 “Michael Light: Sidereal Rift,” San Francisco Airport Terminal Three, San Francisco
2017 “Planetary Landscape,” Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2016 “Sidereal Rift,” Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica
2013 “Some Dry Space,” James Danziger Gallery, New York
2012 “Private Frontiers,” Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 “Two Sublimes, Idaho” Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica
2011 “Some Dry Space: An Inhabited West,” Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2010 “Architecture of Subtraction," Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2010 "InterMountain," Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica
2009 “100 Suns,” Yours Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
2009 "New Work," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
2008 “Some Dry Space: An Inhabited West,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
2008 “Bookworks and Photographs,” Galerie Michael Wiesehoefer, Cologne
2008 “100 Suns,” Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington
2008 “100 Suns,” Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee
2007 “Edge Of The West,” Galerie Luc Bellier, Paris
2007 “Los Angeles 07.27.05,” Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica
2007 “Bookworks,” Hosfelt Gallery, New York
2007 “Near Planet,” Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
2006 “100 Suns,” Hosfelt Gallery, New York
2006 “Full Moon,” Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden
2005 “Hover,” Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
2005 “Arid Flows: Los Angeles and Its Deserts,” Natural History Museum of LA County, CA
2005 “100 Suns: For Robert, Ernest & Edward’s Berkeley, 1945-1962”, University of California, Berkeley
2004 “100 Suns,” Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2004 “Silence and the Big Blast,” Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
2004 “100 Suns,” Auditorium Arte, Rome
2004 “100 Suns,” Frehrking + Wiesehofer Gallery, Cologne
2004 “Some Dry Space,” Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica
2003 “100 Suns,” Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
2001 Metropolitan Transit Authority/Arts For Transit, Grand Central Station, New York
2000 "Full Moon," Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2000 "Full Moon" American Museum of Natural History, New York
1999 "Full Moon," Hayward Gallery, London
1999 "Full Moon," Huis Marseille/Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
1999 "Full Moon," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1995 "Blue Fall," Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
1995 “Ranch & Oblivion,” Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
2020 “Abstraction: New Acquisitions,” Denver Art Museum, CO
2020 “Fotobokfestival Oslo 2020,” Oslo, Norway
2020 “Civilization, Photography, Now,” Auckland Art Gallery/Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand
2019 “The Stories They Tell: 100 Years of Photography,” Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2019 “The Observable Universe: Visualizing the Cosmos in Art,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
2019 “The Moon,” Geelong Gallery, Geelong/Melbourne, Australia
2019 “Survols: Aerial Photography of Cities,” Talinn, Estonia
2019 “Moon,” FOMU Foto Museum, Antwerp, Holland
2019 “Moonlight,” Hasselblad Foundation, Sweden
2019 “The Final Frontier,” Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, CA
2019 “Dear Leader,” Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
2019 “Vantage Points: Bartos, Diergarten, Light,” The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
2019 “Civilization: The Way We Live Now,” Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2018 “MONUMENTality,” Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
2018 “Survols: Aerial Photography of Cities,” CAUE 92 Gallery, Nanterre, France
2018 “Civilization: The Way We Live Now,” National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Seoul Korea
2018 “Anthropocenic: Art About The Natural World In The Human Era,” Bates College Museum of Art, Maine
2018 “Cosmic Wonders: The Moon, The Stars and The Space Between,” Bolinas Museum, CA
2018 “High: Photography From Above,” Atlas Gallery, London
2018 “Class Reunion: Works from the Wilhelm Schurmann Collection,” Museum of Modern Art/MUMOK, Vienna
2018 “Frankenstein’s Birthday Party,” Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 “Nuclear Legacy,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2016 “Boundless: A California Invitational,” Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2016 “Indestructible Wonder,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2016 “Wild West: Plains to the Pacific,” Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
2016 “Aerial Imagery in Print, 1860 to Today,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2016 “Explode Everyday: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder,” MassMOCA, North Adams, MA
2016 “California and the West,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
2016 “Into the Night: Contemporary Art and the Nocturne Tradition,” Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2015 “Camera Atomica,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada
2015 “TAHOE: A Visual History,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2015 “Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time, and Beauty,” Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
2014 “They Used to Call it the Moon,” BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2014 “Road Trip: Photography of the American West,” LACMA/Musee des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux, France
2014 “Driving L.A.,” Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2014 “Creation and Erasure: Art of the Bingham Canyon Mine,” Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
2013 “Cosmopolitan,” Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
2013 “In All Cases: A Collection Selection,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2013 “From Above: Aerial Photography from the Center for Creative Photography,” Tucson, AZ
2013 “Landmark: The Fields of Photography,” Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
2013 “Overdrive: Los Angeles Constructs the Future,” The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2013 “30x: Three Decades,” Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2012 “Flight and the Artistic Imagination,” Compton Verney House, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
2012 “Wonderland,” International FotoFestival Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2011 “The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2011 “Aftershocks,” UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
2011 “Skydreamers,” Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA
2010 “The More Things Change,“ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2010 “Developed and Undeveloped: Photographic Landscapes,” De Young Museum, San Francisco
2010 “Le Festival Images,” Vevey, Switzerland
2010 “Re-Imagining the West,” Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ
2010 “State of Mind: A California Invitational,” Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2010 “The Future Lasts Forever: An Autobiography of the Bay Area,” SF Camerawork, San Francisco
2010 “The View From Here,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2009 “The Moon,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2009 "The Moon," Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
2009 "Lives of the Hudson," Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2008 “Atomic Afterimage,” Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2008 “This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs,” Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
2008 “Picturing Modernity: The Photography Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
2008 “Controverses,” Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
2007 “PEEP: The Kerry Stokes Collection”, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia
2007 “Landscapes of War,” San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2007 “I’ll Never Really See: Contemporary Photography from the V&A,” Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2007 “Re-SITE-ing the West: Contemporary Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” LACMA, CA
2006 “City Limits,” University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, CA
2006 “To The Human Future: Escape From The Dark Side,” Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
2005 “Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy,” ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2005 “Nuclear Realities: Images of the Bomb,” Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
2005 “Techno-Sublime,” Colorado University Art Museum, UC Boulder, Colorado
2005 “Les Grands Spectacles: 120 Years of Art and Mass Culture,” Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2004 “Wirklich Wahr! Realitatsversprechen von Fotografien,” Ruhrlandmuseum, Essen, Germany
2004 “Kurzdavordanach,” Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, Germany
2004 “Building the Unthinkable,” apexart, New York
2004 “The Nuclear West,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV (traveling)
2003 “The New Sublime,” Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2002 “Deep Space: Sensation and Immersion,” Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
2001 "Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen," Getty Museum, Los Angeles
2001 "The World From Here," Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2001 "Space Odyssey," Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
2000 "Deep Distance," Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
2000 "The Desert," Fondation Cartier pour L’Art Contemporaine, Paris
1999 "Cosmos: From Romanticism to the Avant-garde," The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The Lunar Module Antares at Fra Mauro; Photographed by Alan Shepard, Apollo 14,, 1971
50.8 x 50.8 cm color coupler print $1,500.00
20-Mile-Wide Crater Timocharis, 62 Miles Altitude; Photographed by Alfred Worden, Apollo 15, July 26-August 7, 1971, 1971
100.3 x 100.3 cm Framed: 104 x 104 cm c-print $3,000.00
Aldrin's boot print, Apollo 11, 1969/1999
61 x 61 cm color coupler print $1,500.00
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What you need to know about South East London
South East London covers the boroughs of Greenwich, Lewisham, Bexley, Bromley, and Southwark, and contains a diverse mix of commercial and residential areas, many of which are under construction and redevelopment as the city expands. The mixture of historical and artistic influences in this area make it a centre of culture and tourism characterised by Victoran cobbled streets that run from London Bridge to Rotherhithe, with a portion of London's most popular tourist spots along the way, including Tower Bridge, the Tate Modern, and the Design Museum. Well known shopping locations in South east London include the Old Spitalfields market, Brick Lane for boutiques and public houses, and the Columbia Road flower market. Aside from the attractions museums and parks, much of Southeast London is built on close knit family orientated communities and some of the best places to live in south east London for families include Greenwich, which has plenty of green space for children to play in and nature walks by the river, and Herne Hill which offers residential areas filled with family sized properties and is home to Brockwell Park and Brockwell Lido.
What are the different ways to dispose of waste in South East London?
Due to the large amount of commercial enterprises in this area of the city there are some waste management companies in south east London that operate exclusively for businesses providing companies with free wheelie bins and regular collections that include clinical hazardous and sanitary waste. Rubbish tips in south east London are mainly run by the local authorities with just a few industrial waste management facilities located in the area offering muck away and grab hire on construction sites. The integrated waste management facility in Southwark, which is operated by Veolia is on the same site as the local authority household reuse and recycling centre at 43 Devon Street off Old Kent Road, and serves residents from the named borough. Rubbish removal for residential properties and house clearance services are mostly available through waste management organisations covering the whole of London and the surrounding areas, although there are a few independent companies nearby, the best of which has their own materials recovery facility for recycling and processing refuse.
Where are the nearest recycling centres in South East London
South East London covers 16 recycling and waste disposal facilities run by the local authorities of Bexley Bromley Lewisham Southwark and Greenwich. Thames Road Depot, and Foots Cray Reuse & Recycling Centre in Bexley handle household, industrial, and commercial waste, and guides for where to recycle materials and where to locate recycling banks are available on the London borough of Bexley website. Waldo Road Reuse and Recycling Centre in Bromley manages paper, bottles, cans, batteries, white goods, metals and textiles. Churchfields Road reuse and recycling centre also in Bromley accepts a wide range of materials including hazardous waste like paint fluorescent tubes used engine oil and chemicals, which are notoriously difficult to dispose of. The recycling centre in SE28 in the London borough of Greenwich has an onsite rubbish tip for non-recyclable waste as well as accepting hard plastics such as toys and garden furniture as does the Landmann Way recycling centre in Lewisham, which also accepts old mattresses at the site.
What rubbish collection services are available in South East London?
Mattress Collection & Disposal by London Councils costs at an average of £28. In Bexley, it costs more at £36 while Southwark, Bromley, and Greenwich residents are charged £18, £12 and £10 respectively. Lewisham residents receive free mattress collection and disposal services from their local authority. Sofa Collection costs an average of £22 among these 5 boroughs.
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How is the local authority in South East London handling your waste?
Each borough in South East London works independently to manage waste, and this is a strategy that could be greatly improved by pooling resources. More can be achieved for the environment and in terms of improving living standards for people in south east London by working collaboratively, and councils are beginning to develop some joint plans and strategies going forward.
The key waste management figures for South East London's Council's are as follows:
· Per person spend £44
As these figures show, much more can be achieved from joined up council services and initiatives to improve outcomes for the environment throughout the south east London area. The overall plan for waste management in London states that by 2030, 65% of the municipal waste will be recycled in the capital. However, south east London boroughs are carrying out some notable reuse and recycling projects independently, such as Greenwich council’s initiative for the repair and resale of bicycles to fundraise for the Greenwich and Bexley community Hospice.
What are the plans for a greener future in South East London?
South East London’s environmental strategy has grown around a sense of collaboration between communities who are actively engaged with their local borough councils, and boroughs with predominantly residential populations are focused on improving access from all residents to bring waste disposal in line with government guidelines and meet targets for reuse and recycling in this area of the city.
Major plans for a greener future in south east London can be found in the south east London waste technical paper which is available for download from the relevant council websites. This paper outlines current development plans, future plans for waste, and the municipal waste management strategy for each south east London borough.
There are also several very committed non-governmental organisations and charities working towards a greener future in south east London and the surrounding areas. For example, The London Community Resource Network (LCRN) is a charity that hosts many projects and services to promote environmental awareness and sustainability throughout the capital including areas of south east London. For example, the real nappies for London campaign hosted by the London community resource centre works with residents in Bexley to educate parents and guardians in the use of non-disposable nappies. The LCRN also include information on their website about clothing repair events, their initiative for the refurbishment and redistribution of unwanted wooden furniture and white goods, and offer eco auditing for local businesses.
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WBEZ’s Chicago And Illinois News Roundup: Oct. 25, 2019
By Nereida Moreno
Oct. 25, 2019, 12:30 p.m. CT
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WBEZ City Hall reporter Claudia Morell, Chicago Tribune City Hall reporter John Byrne, and Daily Line managing editor and City Hall reporter Heather Cherone join this week's Friday News Roundup. Jason Marck / WBEZ
It was a big week in Chicago.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot delivered her first budget address where she laid out her plans to fill the city’s $838 million budget gap with a mix of spending cuts and new revenue.
Chicago’s police union — the Fraternal Order of Police — issued a vote of no confidence in Police Supt. Eddie Johnson after he said he would skip an event featuring President Donald Trump scheduled for Oct. 28.
Meanwhile, the strike of 32,000 Chicago Public Schools teachers and support staff continues as the teachers union and the city failed to reach an agreement at the bargaining table.
Reset breaks down those three stories and more with a panel of City Hall reporters.
GUESTS: Claudia Morell, WBEZ City Hall reporter
Heather Cherone, City Hall reporter and managing editor at The Daily Line
John Byrne, Chicago Tribune City Hall reporter
All Eyes On Chicago’s Top Cop Eddie Johnson
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The $1 Billion Question: What Can CPS Afford For The Teachers Contract?
Mayor Lightfoot Takes Listener Questions On 2020 Budget, Teachers Strike
Chicago’s 2020 Budget In 3 Charts
Aldermen React To Mayor Lightfoot’s 2020 Budget Proposal
What You Need To Know About Chicago’s Budget Hearings
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Despite federal ban, renters still being evicted amid virus
by: Michael Casey, Associated Press
FILE – Housing activists erect a sign in front of Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s house, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, in Swampscott, Mass. Renters are still being evicted during the coronavirus pandemic despite a federal order that is supposed to keep them in their homes. The nationwide eviction ban went into effect Sept. 4 and was supposed to replace many state and local bans that had expired. But tenant advocates said there are still people unaware of the directive implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that broadly prevents evictions for nonpayment of rent through the end of 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, file)
BOSTON (AP) — Renters are still being evicted during the coronavirus pandemic despite a federal order that is supposed to keep them in their homes.
The nationwide eviction ban went into effect Sept. 4 and was supposed to replace many state and local bans that had expired.
But tenant advocates say there are still people unaware of the directive implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The order broadly prevents evictions for nonpayment of rent through the end of 2020.
Other tenants are falling victim to CDC guidance that allows landlords to file for eviction or come up with other reasons to evict someone.
DENVER (KDVR) -- A ten-day string of palindromes, a date that reads the same forward as backward, begins on Wednesday.
(WFXR) - Amtrak continues to announce changes to its travel plans ahead of Wednesday's Inauguration Day.
Earlier this weekend, Amtrak said it was canceling service Tuesday and Wednesday to and from numerous stations in Virginia, south of Washington, D.C.
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The Vegan Inquisition
Why are you vegan?
How could you stop eating CHEESE?!
How do you know if something is vegan?
But nobody can TRULY be 100% vegan, right?
Do vegans hate/judge non-vegans?
Is it more expensive to be vegan?
Is it only feasible to be a vegan if you live in a big city?
To be vegan, do you have to be TOTALLY vegan?
How do I deal with my vegan friend / family member / partner?
What if I agree with you, but I don't think that I could ever actually do it?
Thought Experiment / Moral Dilemma Questions
If we're superior to animals, don't we have a right to eat them?
Isn't it human nature to eat meat?
What if vegetables feel pain, too?
What about poor people and the developing world, who need to eat meat for survival?
Isn't veganism just a rich/white/yuppie fad?
If you were trapped on a deserted island, would you eat meat?
Is breast milk vegan?
If you had a baby/dog/cat, would you force it to be vegan?
Do you kill mosquitoes/ticks/ants?
Why do vegans eat fake meat, if they claim that they don't want to eat meat?
Isn't veganism just anthropomorphism run amok?
If everybody went vegan, wouldn't farm animals take over the planet?
What's the matter with [...]? Questions
What's the matter with "humane" meat?
What's the matter with milk?
What's the matter with eggs?
Isn't hunting important for population control?
What's the matter with leather?
What's the matter with zoos?
What about sustainably raised fish?
What's the matter with wool?
What's the matter with honey?
What's the matter with silk?
Why are some things considered un-vegan, even if they don't have animal-derived ingredients?
Food & Nutrition Questions
Where do you get your... [protein, calcium, iron, B12, etc.]?
What do you eat? Just lettuce?
Can I be vegan and [gluten-free, allergic, diabetic, etc.]?
How do you deal with meat cravings?
What do you do about events and family traditions, like holidays, cookouts, and potlucks?
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Disclaimer: This issue is a very polarizing topic in the vegan community. I’m going to talk about my feelings and experiences here, but keep in mind that other vegans may feel very differently.
Free-range & organic: the rise of “happywashing”
Have you heard about ‘greenwashing’? It’s an unfortunate phenomenon that has arisen as a result of consumers trying to make more eco-friendly choices.
I needed to look closer.
In a nutshell: as people become more concerned about reducing their negative impact on the environment, many companies have responded by introducing products or policies that are marketed as being more eco-friendly. Well-meaning consumers who are trying to make responsible choices support these eco options, and the companies profit. While this seems like a good way for everyday consumers to bring about positive change, there’s a big hiccup: in many cases, the marketing of a business’s eco-friendliness is misleading or grossly overstated, and the company is simply manipulating our good intentions to make more money — ‘greenwashing’ their products or services. It’s frustrating when a company leverages someone’s heartfelt concern in order to get more money from them, but it’s extremely frustrating when that company isn’t even helping in the way that it claimed to be. It sucks to be manipulated, but it really sucks to be manipulated in a way that undermines the values you’re trying to live by.
Likewise, now that people are becoming more concerned about the welfare of farmed animals, companies are marketing animal products that are supposedly more humane — a phenomenon that I refer to as “happywashing.”
Before I stopped buying animal products, I was a poster child for the effectiveness of happywashing. I would painstakingly research the source of my eggs and yogurt. Did you know that most AOC-certified French cheeses have strict rules about the goats being allowed to roam free, and how much sunlight they should get? I still remember the text on the tub of one particular yogurt I would buy, which described how the farmers at this small Massachusetts dairy farm would often give their cows a good scratch behind the ears. Awwww! The thought of that made me feel so warm and fuzzy, and I enthusiastically purchased only this ‘happy’ yogurt instead of that other ‘sad’ mass-produced yogurt. If it didn’t say “free-range” and “organic” on the label, I wouldn’t touch it.
How many times have we heard that “happy cows come from California,” or seen joyous, laughing cows on the products we buy? There’s a reason companies do this. They know that we don’t want animals to suffer, and they want to reassure us that we aren’t contributing to suffering. I gladly played along with this for a long time, because the last thing I wanted to think was that I had been hurting animals.
Deep down somewhere, I had an inkling that things didn’t add up. If these cows and chickens were so happy, then why did some people morally oppose dairy and eggs? After desperately trying to squash down these concerns for a long time, I finally bit the bullet and decided to look into it. I was devastated to learn that by buying eggs and dairy all these years (even ‘happy’ ones), I had been directly contributing to practices that I opposed. Damn it. I had been hoodwinked and happywashed.
No way! The stuff I buy is happiness-certified.
Happywashing depends on us believing the following: “Sure, the animal product from that other source is horrible and inhumane. But this one that I’ve chosen to buy is suffering-free — it says so right here on the packaging!”
If there weren’t a ‘happy’ or ‘humane’ alternative, people might seriously rethink using animal products altogether. After all, we’ve learned how terrible things are at huge cattle feedlots, and in those big chicken houses where daylight is never let in. If that were our only option, it would be a lot harder to continue supporting this treatment of other beings. But now that companies are offering us ‘humane’ options, we don’t have to rethink using animal products — we can just use these happy animal products, right?
Well, clearly the companies that make animal products would be very glad for you to come to this conclusion, rather than choosing to no longer support their industry. There is a lot of money to be made (or, at least not lost) in convincing people who are concerned about animal welfare that it’s still ‘ok’ to consume animal products.
Many companies and grocery stores now include specific labeling on items to indicate how ‘humane’ the animal product is, such as Whole Foods’ 1-5 rating system. A lot of concerned people rely on these labels to make food choices, because they don’t want the animals behind these products to be treated badly. It’s great that people want to make a better choice, but the sad truth is that these ratings and labels are very misleading. Free-range does not mean what you think it means (more info here, but beware that there are some sad visuals). And no cow could ever be happy about the things that are necessary in order to produce cheese, even if that cow is grass-fed and organic.
Rescued turkey getting some hugs
I’ve seen the reality behind the advertising firsthand. Near me is a big chicken “processing” plant, where truckloads of chickens are delivered every day to be slaughtered. If you go on the company’s website, what do you see? Cute pictures of chickens frolicking in green grass. But if you head down to the processing plant, what do you see?
I’ve seen hundreds (maybe even thousands) of chickens sitting out on the hot asphalt, crammed into big cage crates stacked ten-high, waiting to be loaded into the plant’s loading dock. On one particularly sweltering Tennessee summer day, I saw chickens who had been out on the asphalt for at least an hour. Many were already lying dead in the bottom of their cages, while their remaining flockmates frantically tried to escape. They were bloody, panting, and terrified. It’s life-changing to directly witness mass suffering on this scale, and it took a long time before I could recompose myself enough to drive home. F%#@ you, chicken company with your green grass pictures, for tricking people into supporting this.
We’re right to care, and these companies are wrong for tricking us. They know that we’re worried about the fate of these animals, and they’re using that concern to manipulate us into continuing to give them money. F that.
That’s terrible. But, seriously, the farm I buy from is awesome.
It’s certainly true that some animals are treated better than others, and that some small farms really do go out of their way to be extra respectful of animals’ comfort and well-being.
Maybe you’ve personally visited the farm that you purchase your animal products from, and it’s an idyllic setting where the animals appear to be having a great time. While this is certainly preferable to purchasing animal products that come from places where the animals are wallowing in pain and squalor, there are still inherent elements of the practice of farming animals that should give people who are concerned about animal welfare serious pause.
For instance: really bad things happen to every single momma milk cow, and to every single baby boy born to an egg-laying hen, no matter how beautiful and peaceful the farm appears. (If you’d prefer to hear these concerns straight from the farmer’s mouth, check out the story of why this farmer made the decision to turn her ‘humane’ goat farm into an animal sanctuary and education center.)
And just in general, many people take issue with breeding animals solely for the purpose of killing them at a young age, even if they’re treated really well while they’re alive. Cows raised for beef are typically killed at 1-2 years old, even though at sanctuaries they live to be 20+ years old — which sure makes the moral distinction between killing “baby” cows for veal and killing one-year-old cows for beef seem like splitting hairs.
If a dog breeder told you “Yes, I do slaughter all my puppies at one year old. But they have such a fabulous life up until then! They’re free to play in the yard, and they eat great food. We love our dogs and treat them really well.” … I think most people would have a hard time agreeing with that definition of treating the animals “well,” and wouldn’t want to support this breeder.
So are vegans against humane meat?
A lot of people are understandably upset about the disingenuous and manipulative forces behind the evolution of ‘humane’ animal products as a concept. Many activists also worry that if people think they have a ‘humane’ option, they’ll be lulled into complacency and will be less likely to stop using animal products.
While I understand these concerns, I’m one of those vegans who is sad about the myth of humane meat, but loves humane meat eaters. Here’s why.
HOORAY! You care!!
You care!
The fact that the demand for humane meat is growing is a sign that people care more about the well-being of their fellow creatures. I believe that this is, hands-down, a positive thing that should be celebrated. Period.
You eat less meat!
When folks commit to only eating humane meat, they automatically eat less meat, because humane meat is more expensive and harder to find. I’m an “every-little-bit-er,” in the sense that I believe every bit counts. If people’s overall meat consumption goes down because they’re sticking to ‘humane’ meat, that means fewer animals are being raised for slaughter. That’s good news, not bad news.
It’s a slippery slope!
Typically, people choose to only eat humane meat because they’re concerned about animals’ well-being. They’re also making a choice that means they’ll have to retool some of their eating and cooking habits to accommodate their ethical choice.
I’ve found that this profile — people who are concerned about animal welfare and are making conscious decisions about how to vote with their dollars — means that somebody will be more likely to eat less meat (or even transition to a veg lifestyle) down the road. And that makes sense: they’ve already decided to learn more about the practices behind their food, and they’ve already proven to themselves that they have the power to make better choices.
The majority of vegans I know today followed the path of: eat whatever —> humane meat —> vegetarian —> vegan. Some vegans lash out at people who are eating humane meat and dabbling in making more conscious food decisions. To me that makes zero sense. We should be those people’s cheering squad, not their detractors.
Thank you, humane meat eaters
If you’re one of those folks out there who only eats humane meat: thank you. You’re part of the solution.
But. I hope the concerns that led you to make the change to humane meat will also lead you to investigate whether this will be your stopping point, or if there are further changes that would help your actions better align with your values.
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I mean, at the start I had all this important input, and I was even taking all these fashion design courses so that I could really live up to the title Deputy Creative Director.
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And lastly, Stephen B. Silverman, who's currently a Special Assistant and has been the Acting Cabinet Secretary, will, with the appointment now of a Cabinet Secretary, will be formerly named Deputy Cabinet Secretary, and with the title Deputy Assistant to the President for Cabinet Affairs.
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry
Stephen B. Silverman, currently a Special Assistant to the President and acting Cabinet Secretary, will resume his role as Deputy Cabinet Secretary, with the title Deputy Assistant to the President for Cabinet Affairs.
Panetta Announces White House Appointments
When I was negotiating a move on the Hill, I requested that the title of Deputy Chief of Staff be added to my already branded Communications Director tag in the new office.
Kristofer Eisenla: Are You an Apple or Banana?
Reversing four decades of tradition, Kelly last week appointed the civilian, Arnold Wechsler, to head the Personnel Bureau, with the title of Deputy Commissioner.
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Alex Perera
Deputy Director, Energy
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Alex Perera is Deputy Director of WRI's Energy Program. Joining WRI in 2007, Alex has over 20 years of experience in energy policy, finance, and corporate energy strategy. Prior to joining WRI, he helped found a company called Bigbelly Solar, a renewable energy company with a mission of developing innovative new solar energy products that are helping reduce transportation related emissions. Alex has worked at the Natural Resources Defense Council, where he participated on New York Governor Pataki's Greenhouse Gas Task Force. He also served on two advisory committees that invested in over $7 million in renewable energy R&D projects in New York. Alex was a Financial Analyst at the investment bank Bear, Stearns and Co. Inc. where he helped to structure over $1 billion in municipal financing in the utility sector. He has served as the Program Director for the New York Energy Efficiency Council, an organization that represented Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) in New York State electric deregulation proceedings.
Alex has an MBA from F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College, and a BA from Boston University in Environmental Science, Economics, and French. He has written and co-authored numerous publications on corporate strategy and renewable energy. He is a watercolor painter and lives in Bethesda, MD with his wife and two children.
Vietnam: An Up-and-Coming Clean Energy Leader?
by Alex Perera - February 01, 2018
Vietnam's businesses and government could chart an unprecedented shift toward towards clean energy for Southeast Asia — if they can first address some key barriers.
New Clean Energy Buying Option in China: Green Electricity Certificates
by Miao Hong, Alex Perera and Min Yuan - October 24, 2017
Businesses and other organizations in China have a new option for buying renewable energy, thanks to a voluntary trading platform for Green Electricity Certificates.
5 Emerging Trends for Corporate Buyers of Renewable Energy
by Letha Tawney, Alex Perera, Priya Barua, Celina Bonugli and Daniel Melling - September 29, 2017
Renewable energy buying programs have made big strides, but new approaches and more outreach are needed to bring additional buyers into the fold.
6 Issues to Watch at the Clean Energy Ministerial
by Daniel Melling, Alex Perera and Debbie Weyl - June 05, 2017
Representatives from countries accounting for 90 percent of the world’s clean energy investment and 75 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions will gather in Beijing this week for the 8th Clean Energy Ministerial. Will they advance renewable energy and efficiency, or will the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement set the talks back?
Southeast Asia's Clean Energy Economy Blazes Ahead
by Alex Perera - May 09, 2017
Asia's growing manufacturing, industry and services sectors are increasing demand for electricity in Southeast Asia, which too often results in more power plant pollution and a rise in climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions. Fortunately, regional leaders are blazing ahead with clean energy.
Corporate Renewable Energy Buyers Can Support National Climate Plans
by Alex Perera - December 11, 2015
Large, private sector energy customers wanting to buy more renewable energy are already driving change in electricity markets by scaling up clean power delivered through the grid. More renewables in countries’ power grids will accelerate progress toward emissions-reduction targets put forth in Paris.
Solar Eclipse in Europe Shows Grid Operators Can Be Successful with Renewables
by Alex Perera and Colin McCormick - March 31, 2015
A rare solar eclipse earlier this month threatened electricity blackouts in renewable energy-heavy Europe. When operators kept the lights on, they proved that the grid is ready for a clean energy future.
New Solar Policy Gives Boost to India’s Energy Market
by Tara Parthasarathy and Alex Perera - December 18, 2014
Last month India pledged to increase national solar generation capacity to 100 gigawatts (GW) by 2022, but connecting solar projects to the country’s grid has been difficult in the past and could limit progress toward the new goal. Fortunately, an innovative decision by the Indian state of Karnataka may show how to solve the problem.
As Cities Grow, So Should their Energy Efficiency
by Jennifer Layke and Alex Perera - October 02, 2014
Buildings account for more than one-third of all final energy consumption and half of global electricity use. While rapid urban development demands new infrastructure, there is a cost-effective solution for reducing buildings’ environmental impacts—energy efficiency.
4 Lessons on Environmental Sustainability that Every Corporation Should Learn
by Alex Perera - April 04, 2013
This is the last of a five-part blog series, Aligning Profit and Environmental Sustainability. Each installment has explored key ingredients to help businesses overcome barriers that prevent them from integrating environmental sustainability into their everyday operations. Read the entire series.
Aligning Profit and Environmental Sustainability
Stories from Industry
Many large companies have established sustainability goals and targets, and it is becoming increasingly common for these goals to address significant environmental challenges like climate change.
by Alex Perera, Samantha Putt del Pino and Barbara Oliveira - February 2013
Topics: Energy, WRI's Center for Sustainable Business
Geography: United States
Communicating the "Financeability" of Energy Efficiency Projects (EEPs)
Guide to Data Needs for Financing EEPs in China
The purpose of this guide (Guide) is to help industrial companies (Hosts) finance energy efficiency projects (EEPs) at their facilities as defined in Annex C of this document. The Guide is designed to help Hosts know what information is required of them by financing entities (Financiers) to
by Xiaoyu Shi, Alex Perera and Thomas K. Dreesen - January 2013
Topics: Climate, WRI's Center for Sustainable Business
Geography: China
sSWOT
A Sustainability SWOT
In partnership with companies in WRI’s Next Practice Collaborative, through workshops, road tests, and interviews with dozens of companies and sustainability experts, WRI has put a new twist on the familiar SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)
by Eliot Metzger, Samantha Putt del Pino, Sally Prowitt, Jenna Goodward and Alex Perera - December 2012
Topics: WRI's Center for Sustainable Business
Is the Fit Right? Considering Technological Maturity in Designing Renewable Energy Policy
Recent studies suggest that the United States can greatly expand its deployment of renewable energy resources beyond current levels. This would reduce emissions of harmful pollutants and enhance energy security by diversifying the nation’s domestic energy supply.
by Jenna Goodward, Alex Perera, Nicholas Bianco and Christina Heshmatpour - August 2011
Best Practices Guide to Collaborative Solar Procurement
Solar photovoltaics (PV) is a commercially proven technology and, in markets with incentives, can compete with traditional fossil fuel-based power. Wider adoption and decreases in manufacturing costs are driving down the cost of solar electricity. As the industry grows and
by Jenna Goodward, Alex Perera, Chris Lau, Rachel Massaro, Benjamin Foster and Caroline Judy - April 2011
Corporate GPM Guide 9
Diversifying Corporate Energy Purchasing With Wind Power
Wind power is the fastest-growing form of renewable electricity and constitutes a substantial portion of green power products in the United States. Corporate energy buyers can incorporate wind into energy portfolios in a variety of ways: through utility-offered green
by Jennifer Layke, Alex Perera and Kevin Porter - February 2008
National Renewable Electricity Standard Design Features
A RES, also called a renewable portfolio standard (RPS), requires electricity suppliers to obtain a minimum percentage of their power from eligible renewable energy sources by a certain date. To date, a patchwork of 25 states and the District of Columbia have implemented renewable electricity
by Alex Perera, Craig Hanson and Robert Heilmayr - December 2007
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Clean Energy, Energy Access, Special Clean Power Council for Customers & Utilities (CPC), Clean Energy Investment Accelerator, Global Climate Action Summit
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Marital Status: Unrevealed.
Base Of Operations: Tōkyō, Japan.
The fourth Tiger Mask is the first to come close to the original’s level of skill in unarmed combat and also matches his superhuman speed.
He does not have the same ability to duplicate the natural traits of animals.
The young man who would be the fourth to take the role of Tiger Mask was an orphan. He was taken in by the first Tiger Mask and trained in martial arts.
When the criminal Tiger Mask III was captured, the young man (at that point in his late teens) put on a duplicate of his teacher’s mask. He adopted the role in an attempt to reclaim the honor of the name.
He has conducted a long-running war against the northern Japanese gang, Kaientai DX (Deluxe). His allies were The Great Sasuke (a one-time ally of Jushin Liger) and the warrior monk Jinsei Shinzaki. Shinzaki was a reformed employee of the Great Muta and, unknown to any but Shinzaki himself, an early student of Tiger Mask Sayama.
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Tiger Mask IV is shy and quiet, but jumps into action quickly. He lacks the pure ego that drove so his predecessors.
He may have received supplemental training from Richard Dragon. He might even have undergone some of the same experiences that Robin III (Tim Drake) did during his early training.
Tiger Mask IV
Int: 05 Wil: 07 Min: 06 Occupation: Adventurer
Superspeed: 08
Superspeed can be used to perform multiple dice actions.
Acrobatics: 10, Charisma: 04, Martial Artist: 10, Military Science: 05, Thief: 10, Weaponry (melee, exotic): 08
Tiger King (High).
Secret Identity, Uncertainty.
By Andrew Lee.
Source of Character: Professional Wrestling.
A Japanese import wrestling DVD (region 2)
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Mill Woods Town Centre
Housing Market Report for November 2019
Current Mill Woods Town Centre MLS® stats indicate an average house price of $187,500 and 5 new listings in the last 56 days. As of today, Mill Woods Town Centre housing data shows median days on market for a home is 41 days.
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Mill Woods Town Centre Housing Prices
Current (Sep 18 - Nov 13)
Past (Aug 21 - Oct 16)
Avg sold price
Monthly change
Quarterly change
Yearly change
Average price not what you expected? Here's why.
The change in average home price is affected by two factors:
The proportions of home types sold has changed. This means that the mix of homes sold has shifted from a majority of higher-priced homes to a majority of lower-priced homes, or vice versa.
Assuming the mix of homes is relatively stable, all homes are being sold for more or less than the last period.
For example, if the average price decreased from last year, all homes sold this year were either sold for less and/or the majority of them were budget-friendly condos, rather than expensive single-family homes.
How we calculate our stats
Sales Volume by Property Type
# Beds
Sep 18 - Nov 13
2 Bd n/a n/a n/a n/a
All n/a n/a n/a n/a
Studio n/a n/a n/a n/a
1 Bd n/a n/a $168K $98K
2 Bd $188K -8% $164K n/a $204K
All $188K +6% $164K $168K $177K
Note: +/- change calculated year-over-year
Mill Woods Town Centre Housing Inventory
homes sold 1
selling to listing price ratio
Number of Sales and Inventory
# of Beds
New Listings Sep 18 - Nov 13
Sold Listings Sep 18 - Nov 13
Sale to List
2 Bd 0 0 0 n/a n/a
All 0 0 0 n/a n/a
Studio 0 0 0 n/a n/a
1 Bd 2 -33% 0 -100% 4 -50% n/a n/a
2 Bd 3 -63% 2 -33% 7 -36% n/a n/a
All 5 -55% 2 -50% 11 -42% n/a n/a
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Zolo's real estate market trends gives you a real-time look at the Mill Woods Town Centre housing market. If you're wondering about your neighbourhood's average house price, housing inventory, or how long a home stays on the market for, all this has now been broken down for you. This report's home price data examines sales history between November 21 - January 16 and includes percent changes from the same 56-day period in 2020. Along with all these real estate statistics is a ranking of every neighbourhood in the Edmonton area based on their home sold price, price growth, days on market, and turnover. This way, you get to see the Mill Woods Town Centre housing market on a larger scale, and how it measures against other neighbourhoods in the city. All this data is intended to give you a thorough understanding of both the local Mill Woods Town Centre and the Edmonton area, so that ultimately, you'll be able to make a well-informed decision about where you'd like to live. To see the difference between this neighbourhood and the city of Edmonton, take a look at Edmonton's trends page. In addition to our market report, consider referencing other MLS® stats, like the MLS® Home Price Index, to get a better view of the market.
Numbers are based on firm contract dates, not when the transaction is reported or when the contract closes.
A contract is firm when both the home seller and buyer agree to the transaction, however this may not be reported in a timely fashion. Therefore, transaction reported dates are when the agent submits the sale to their local board. A contract is closed when the transaction actually occurs and the buyers move into the house. Normally, contracts close about 6-8 weeks after a contract is firm, which means the data you're seeing is reported in real-time.
Data is reported in 4 or 8 week periods.
28 and 56 day periods are used because some months have more weekends than others. This ensures that each period has the same amount of days and weekends so that a like-for-like comparison can be made.
What does pro-rated data mean?
Based on historical reporting, it can take up to four weeks or more for transactions to be reported. This means that approximately 30% of home transactions that occured within this period have yet to be included in this report. Because of this, this period's numbers are considered "pro-rated."
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7 edition of Let"s Go Europe 2002 found in the catalog.
Let"s Go Europe 2002
by Jasha Hoffman
Published December 14, 2001 by Let"s Go Publications .
Europe - General,
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Contributions Harriett Green (Editor)
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I can't imagine budget travel without Let's Go by my side/5(21). History. The first Let's Go guide was a page mimeographed pamphlet put together by year-old Harvard freshman Oliver Koppell and handed out on student charter flights to Europe. InLet's Go launched its website,while publishing 22 titles and a new line of mini map guides.
Let's Go announced a new print publisher, Avalon Travel, upon the expiration of its contract with. This book is the perfect base guide if you are travelling in Europe. If you are doing mostly Western Europe (Italy, France, Spain, Britain, Netherlands, etc.) I would recomment Let's Go Western Europe.
It is a little more in depth and it still has the main northern and Eastern Europe cities like Budapest, Prague, Helinsky, Copenhaguen, s: Let It Go: My Extraordinary Story - From Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist by Dame Stephanie Shirley CH and Richard Askwith | 4 Apr out of 5 stars LGE Travel - Lets Go Europe, Singapore.
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Yale Archaeological XRF ExoLab
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X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry is a prevalent means of non-destructive elemental analysis in archaeology, the earth and environmental sciences, cultural heritage and museum studies, and other fields. A few universities have specialized “archaeological XRF laboratories” outfitted with a benchtop XRF spectrometer, vacuum pump or gas tanks, desktop computers, and support equipment in a dedicated space.
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The Yale Archaeological XRF ExoLab (YAXX) is not a laboratory in the traditional sense. That is, our XRF instruments are not restricted to a particular room on campus. Instead, we use portable XRF instruments that can analyze artifacts or other objects in our Archaeomaterials Suite or Clean Lab, across campus at the Peabody Museum or Yale University Art Gallery, on a mountainside, or in an archaeological field house on the opposite side of the world.
We can work outside (“exo-”) the lab – hence, an “exolab.”
This eliminates shipping or exporting artifacts, soils, and other specimens to a distant analytical facility, and it improves collaborations with our colleagues around the world, enabling us to integrate chemical analysis into projects in new and innovative ways.
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YAXX was founded in 2017 thanks to generous awards from the Anthropology Department and the Offices of the Vice Provost for Research, Dean of Science, and Dean of Social Science.
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IDC’s First Global StorageSphere Forecast Sees Installed Base of Storage Capacity More Than Doubling by 2023
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/IDCStorageSphere?src=hash” target=”_blank”gt;#IDCStorageSpherelt;/agt;–In its inaugural Global
StorageSphere forecast, International Data Corporation (IDC)
estimates that the installed base of storage capacity worldwide will
more than double over the 2018-2023 forecast period, growing to 11.7
zettabytes (ZB) in 2023.
IDC’s Global StorageSphere measures the size of the worldwide installed
base of storage capacity across six types of storage media, and how much
of the storage capacity is utilized or available each year. The
installed base of storage capacity is a cumulative metric: it is
equivalent to the amount of new storage capacity deployed over the span
of several years minus the systems or storage devices that either fail
or are retired or decommissioned each year. The Global StorageSphere is
a product of IDC’s Global
DataSphere program, which measures how much new data is created
and/or replicated each year.
“The Global StorageSphere is large and diverse, encompassing many
different storage technologies, and growing rapidly,” said John
Rydning, research vice president at IDC. “Within the Global
StorageSphere, enterprises, especially cloud providers, are increasingly
being relied upon to store and manage the world’s repository of data.”
Key findings from the Global StorageSphere forecast include the
Only 1-2% of the data created or replicated each year is saved or
stored for any period of time; the rest is either immediately analyzed
or delivered for consumption and is never saved to be accessed again.
Yet suppliers added more than 700 exabytes (EB) of storage capacity
across all storage media types to the worldwide installed base in
2018, generating over $88 billion in revenue.
The installed base of storage capacity being managed by enterprises is
outpacing that of storage capacity managed by consumers, largely
because consumers increasingly rely on enterprises, especially cloud
offerings, to manage their data. By 2023, IDC estimates that
enterprises will be responsible for managing more than three quarters
of the installed base of storage capacity.
The installed base of storage capacity is expanding across all
regions, yet it is growing faster in regions where cloud datacenters
already exist or are expanding. The installed base of storage capacity
is largest in the Asia/Pacific region and will expand to 39.5% of the
Global StorageSphere in 2023.
The IDC report, Worldwide
Global StorageSphere Forecast, 2019-2023: Meaningful Shifts in How and
Where Data is Stored (IDC #US44780519), measures the size of the
installed base of storage capacity and how much of the storage is
utilized or available each year in the Global StorageSphere. The
installed base of storage capacity is forecast by the following
segments: storage media type, system applications (e.g., PCs, mobile
phones, servers, etc.), region, consumer/enterprise, and cloud/non-cloud.
International Data Corporation (IDC) is the
premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and
events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer
technology markets. With more than 1,100 analysts worldwide, IDC offers
global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry
opportunities and trends in over 110 countries. IDC’s analysis and
insight helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment
community to make fact-based technology decisions and to achieve their
key business objectives. Founded in 1964, IDC is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG),
the world’s leading media, data and marketing services company that
activates and engages the most influential technology buyers. To learn
more about IDC, please visit www.idc.com.
Follow IDC on Twitter at @IDC
and LinkedIn.
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21.06.1944 790th Bomb Squadron (H) B-24H 42-52497 ‘Osage Express’ 1st.Lt. Edwin M. Helton
Operation: Workshops at Genshagen (Mission #428), Berlin, Germany
Date: 21st June 1944 (Wednesday)
Unit: 467th Bombardment Group (H), 790th Bombardment Squadron (H), 2nd Air Division, 8th Air Force
Type: B-24H Osage Express
Serial No: 42-52497
Code: Q2:J
Location: NE shore of the Müritz See, Germany
Base: Rackheath (Station #145), Norfolk, England
Pilot: 1st.Lt. Edwin M. Helton O-687592 AAF Age 21. Survived (1)
Co-Pilot: 2nd.Lt. Maurice E. Nelson O-699712 AAF Age 20. Survived (1)
Navigator: -
Bombardier: 2nd.Lt. Richard Julius Ludka Jr. O-694919 AAF Age 32. Survived (1)
Radio/Op: T/Sgt. Frank Borchick 13171042 AAF Age 21. Survived (1)
Engineer: T/Sgt. Warren Clarence Rankin* 35575827 AAF Age 21. Survived (1)
Top Turret: *
Ball Turret: S/Sgt. Thomas A. Gensert 35766187 AAF Age 27. Survived (1)
Right Waist: S/Sgt. Stanley E. Brzezowski 32862091 AAF Age 20. Survived (1)
Left Waist: S/Sgt. Charles L. Knowles Jr. 18189980 AAF Age 35. Survived (1)
Tail: S/Sgt. Carmine Margiasso 12037871 AAF Age 21. Survived (1)
* T/Sgt. Warren Clarence Rankin was also the Top Turret Gunner.
The B-24 had 10 crew positions. Crew complements evolved during the war and generally comprised 9 personnel who were typically, but not always, Pilot, Co-Pilot, Bombardier, Navigator, Flight Engineer/Top Turret Gunner, Radio Operator/Waist Gunner, Nose Gunner, Ball Turret Gunner, Waist Gunner, Tail Gunner.
Original Helton Crew #55 at Wendover, Utah. L to R standing: Thomas A. Gensert, Robert M. Clark, Ernest E. Booth, Frank Borchick, Stanley E. Brzezowski, Charles L. Knowles. L to R Bottom: Richard J. Ludka, Richard B. Hirsch, Maurice E. Nelson, Edwin M. Helton. (credit: 467th BG (H) Association)
[Ranks unknown] Robert M. Clark, Ernest E. Booth and Richard B. Hirsch were allocated to unknown crew/crews of the 467th BG and have not been listed as PoW/KiA.
On the morning of the 21st June 1944 at 04:43 hours B-24H Osage Express took off along with 33 other aircraft from Rackheath on a mission to bomb the Daimler-Benz Motor Works at Genshagen on the outskirts of Berlin.
After-action interrogations of the returning crews reported that the Osage Express was last seen in the Berlin area at approximately 1005 hours with one engine on fire and another engine’s propeller feathered but descending under control. Although no parachutes were seen it was later established that all nine crew members had been rescued from the waters of the Müritz See (lake) by a boat of the Kriegsmarine commanded by a Leutnant (2nd.Lt.) Philipp, stationed in the area. It has not been possible to determine whether they were aboard the aircraft in a successful emergency landing or they had all parachuted into the lake before the aircraft crashed.
Seized German documents reported that the aircraft came down at about 10:48 hours near the eastern bank of the shallow lake opposite to the village of Klink, which is located on the western side of the lake, some 74 miles NNW from Berlin.
(1) The trial of Major War Criminals at Nuremburg brought to the court’s notice the shooting of 15 crew members of two B-24 Liberators brought down on the 21st June 1944 in the district of Mecklenburg. This subsequently led to a General Military Government court being convened at Dachau in Germany during the period 20th February to the 31st March 1947. A number of German civilians, including a Friedrich Hildebrandt, were charged on four counts, that on or about 21st June and the 1st September 1944 they wilfully, deliberately and wrongfully encouraged, aided, abetted and participated in the killing of a number of unknown members of the Allied air forces, who were unarmed and surrendered PoWs in the custody of the German Reich.
Hildebrandt was a Farmer and a Gauleiter (Regional Nazi party leader), Reichsstatthalter (Regional governor) and defence Commissar of Gau (Administrative division) Mecklenburg. The court heard that Hildebrandt had issued direct orders to the other accused that all enemy flyers who landed in Gau Mecklenburg were to be immediately captured and killed. The trial documentation recorded that seven (possibly nine) unknown members of the Allied air forces were killed in the vicinity of Klink in the district of Waren.
Analysis of a German telegram, found in the files of the Headquarters of the 11th Luftgaukommando, from the Rechlin Airfield Commander’s office, dated the 26th June 1944 suggested that after their rescue from the lake the nine airmen were passed into custody of the Waren Schutzpolizei (Uniformed Police) after which, only 1st.Lt. Helton and 2nd.Lt. Ludka Jr. were handed over to a Untersturmführer and Kriminalkommissar (Lt. junior grade in the Schutzstaffel (SS) and criminal detective) Erich Stempel and probably transported to the Sicherheitspolizeischule (Security Police School) at Drögen near Fürstenberg. Drögen is about 30 miles SE of the aircraft’s crash location. It is likely that the two airmen were killed at or near this location by unknown members of the SS and/or the Gestapo.
The telegram also indicated that the remaining seven members of the crew were to be transported to the Rechlin airbase which was located at the southern end of the Müritz See.
Research conducted by Bernd Kasten, the head of the City Archives in Schwerin, concluded that the seven airmen were shot and killed in the woods near Poppentin by Hauptmann der Polizei (Police Capt.) Kuhr, Polizeimeister (Police Sgt.) Jürss, Hilfspolizist (Auxiliary policeman) Brüggmann, SA-Sturmführer (2nd.Lt.) Schippmann from Waren and Ortsgruppenleiter (Local Nazi group leader) Gross from Eldenburg. No evidence has been found that any of these individuals were held to account for the murders.
One of the accused told the court that Hildebrandt had ordered that all reports of the killings were to be kept secret, no information was to be given to any authorities and that all reports of the deaths were to be recorded as “shot while trying to escape”. German documents containing the details of the nine crew members from the Osage Express show this as the reason given for each of their deaths.
The court found Hildebrandt not guilty of the charge of being involved in the killing of the nine unknown members of the Allied air forces in the vicinity of Klink. However, he was found guilty on two of the other three charges and sentenced to death by hanging. After a review of the case the sentence was confirmed, and Hildebrandt was hanged on the 29th November 1948. The court did not find any of the accused guilty of the murders of the nine airmen from the Osage Express.
German documents recorded that 1st.Lt. Helton and 2nd.Lt. Ludka Jr. were allegedly interred in a cemetery at Drögen near Fürstenberg on the 21st June 1944. After hostilities had ceased, several investigations were carried out by personnel of the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) which established that no such cemetery existed, furthermore no records of their burial in the surrounding communities could be found. The investigators came to the reasonable conclusion that 1st.Lt. Helton and 2nd.Lt. Ludka Jr. were shot and buried within the restricted area in the forests surrounding the Sicherheitspolizeischule. After the school was abandoned in April 1945 and occupied by units of the Soviet 20th Guard Tank Army the area remained restricted until the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. As a consequence, at the time of writing of this report the status of 1st.Lt. Helton and 2nd.Lt. Ludka Jr. is recorded as ‘Missing in Action’ on the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency database.
The same documents recorded that the remaining seven crew members of the Osage Express were interred in a mass grave at the Municipal cemetery in Poppentin, in the district of Waren, on the 21st June 1944. Poppentin is on the opposite bank of the Müritz See and about 5 miles WSW of the aircraft’s crash location. The remains of the seven airmen were disinterred on the 18th September 1946 by AGRC personnel and identified as the seven named crew members of the Osage Express. It was also established that they had each been shot consistent with being executed.
Flowering cherry trees, walls of the missing and the mourning woman statue at Netherlands American Cemetery (credit: ABMC and Fields of Honor)
1st.Lt. Edwin M. Helton. Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters. Remembered on the Wall of the Missing at the Netherlands American cemetery, Margraten. Born on the 6th November 1922. Son to H.l. and Ida L. Helton and husband to Margie L. (née Colvin) Helton of Ralston, Oklahoma, USA.
(left) 2nd.Lt. Maurice E. Nelson. Repatriated and interred at the Fort Bliss National cemetery in Section B, Site 295, El Paso in Texas on the 18th August 1949. Born on the 14th January 1924. Son to Mr. Edward M. Nelson of Madison, Wisconsin, USA. (credit: Robert Burns).
(right) 2nd.Lt. Richard J. Ludka Jr. DFC, Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters. Remembered on the Wall of the Missing at the Cambridge American cemetery in England. Born on 30th January 1920 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Husband to Mrs. Betty J. Ludka Jr. of Chicago, Illinois, USA. (credit: ABMC).
T/Sgt. Frank Borchick. Air Medal with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart. Interred at the Lorraine American cemetery in Plot C, Row 13, Grave 89, St. Avold, France. Born on 9th December 1923 in Bunola, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. . Son to Mrs. Esther Borchick of Pennsylvania, USA.
(left) T/Sgt. Warren Clarence Rankin. Repatriated and interred at the Kankakee Memorial Gardens and Chapel Mausoleum, Kankakee, Illinois, USA. Born on the 14th June 1923 in Kankakee County, Illinois. Son to Mr. Ethel B. Rankin of Michigan City, Indiana, USA. (credit: Pat Phelps-FindAGrave).
(right) S/Sgt. Thomas A. Gensert. DFC, Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart. Interred at the Lorraine American cemetery in Plot D, Row 9, Grave 14, St. Avold in France. Born in 1917. Son to Mrs. Rose F. Genset of Cleveland, Ohio, USA. (Courtesy of Sean D. Conway who was sent this image by Thomas Moore a relative of Thomas A. Gensert)
(left) S/Sgt. Stanley E. Brzezowski. Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart. Interred at the Lorraine American cemetery in Plot K, Row 26, Grave 25, St. Avold in France. Born in 1924 in New Jersey. Son to Joseph and Mary A. (née Buczek) Brzezowski of Paterson, New Jersey, USA. (credit: dshom-Ancestry.com).
S/Sgt. Charles L. Knowles Jr. DFC, Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart. Interred at the Lorraine American cemetery in Plot D, Row 47, Grave 26, St. Avold in France. Born 11th March 1910 in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas. Son Charles Latham and Betty Clyde (nêe Peabody) Knowles, of Raymondville, Texas, USA.
S/Sgt. Carmine Margiasso. Air Medal, Purple Heart. Interred in the Lorraine American cemetery in Plot E, Row 5, Grave 32, St. Avold in France. Born in 1923. Son to Mrs. Assunta Margiasso of Westwood, New Jersey, USA.
Researched by Ralph Snape for Aircrew Remembered and dedicated to the relatives of this crew with thanks to Traugott Vitz for his work on the ‘VitzArchive’, for his valued research and advice in compiling this report. Thanks also to Andy Wilkinson from the 467th BG(H) Association for his valued assistance. Thanks to Linda Aksamit, the niece of Margie L. Colvin who was the wife to 1st.Lt. Helton, for the correction to her Aunt's maiden name. Thanks to Sean D. Conway for the image of the marker for S/Sgt. Gensert.
RS & TV 22.07.2020 - Addition of marker for S/Sgt. Thomas A. Gensert
RS 11.07.2018 - Initial upload
RS 15.08.2018 - Detail update regarding the identity of the rescuing Naval unit
RS 01.11.2018 - Editorial amendments
RS 06.01.2020 - Corrections
RS & TV 11.05.2020 - Additional information added
Acknowledgments: Sources used by us in compiling Archive Reports include: Bill Chorley - 'Bomber Command Losses Vols. 1-9, plus ongoing revisions', Dr. Theo E.W. Boiten and Mr. Roderick J. Mackenzie - 'Nightfighter War Diaries Vols. 1 and 2', Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt - 'Bomber Command War Diaries', Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Tom Kracker - Kracker Luftwaffe Archives, Michel Beckers, Major Fred Paradie (RCAF) and MWO François Dutil (RCAF) - Paradie Archive (on this site), Jean Schadskaje, Major Jack O'Connor USAF (Retd.), Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak, Waldemar Wójcik and Józef Zieliński - 'Ku Czci Połeglyçh Lotnikow 1939-1945', Anna Krzystek, Tadeusz Krzystek - 'Polskie Siły Powietrzne w Wielkiej Brytanii', Franek Grabowski, Norman L.R. Franks 'Fighter Command Losses', Aircrew Remembered Databases and our own archives. We are grateful for the support and encouragement of CWGC, UK Imperial War Museum, Australian War Memorial, Australian National Archives, New Zealand National Archives, UK National Archives and Fold3 and countless dedicated friends and researchers across the world.
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Ádám Modor’s bequest offers insights into a chapter of samizdat publishing in the 1980s: the history of the Katalizátor Iroda. The collection presents the various stages in the history of the publisher and represents samizdat publishing as a (counter-)cultural act, as well as a document of the trajectories of a samizdat publisher.
Budapest Pinty utca 22, Hungary 1121
Inheritance of Ádám Modor
Provenance and cultural activities
Ádám Modor’s bequest consists of personal and official (formal) documents concerning the democratic opposition and the samizdat publication of periodicals and books in the 1980s. The material of the collection bears witness to the events of several decades. More than just the life and professional career of Modor, it sheds light on the history of Katalizátor Iroda from its foundation to its end in 1995, and the years after the political transition, when the office was transformed from being an important institution of distribution of samizdat to a publishing company with legal activity. Materials linked to the cultural opposition are mostly from the 1980s, yet personal correspondence, notes, and stories also refer to the earlier stage of the age of Kádár, whereas the documents of Modor’s research, interviews, and newspaper articles are related to the decades after the political transition. Thus, the collection was created over the course of several decades and reflects a subjective narrative of the period and the stories of various groups.
One part of the collection can be dated to the mid-1980s, including materials, manuscripts, and drafts connected to the publication of prohibited samizdat, as well as a few leaflets and prints of the Polish political Solidarnosc. Most of them are typed manuscripts that were to be published by Katalizátor. This material includes Quo Vadis Romania, a Romanian-language manuscript by Sándor Tóth (who wrote using the pseudonym Béla Ábel) and its translation, a copy of Jelentés Erdélyből (Report from Transylvania) form 1987, as well as Esperanto texts by Sándor Szathmári and the manuscript of A Tao virágai (The Flowers of Tao) by László Tábori. There are also several samizdat publications (AB Hírmondó, Demokrata, principally issues of periodicals) and a set of books, biographies, and photos in the collection. The 1980s section of the collection includes Modor’s own literary, historical, and political writings such as A mi utcánk (Our street), Küzdelem a szarral (Strife with the shit), Helyzetünk 1985-ben (Our situation in 1956), and the uncertainly dated Ő – Önéletrajzi regény (He – a biographical novel). As a special item within the collection, a typewriting machine is also stored which was used to reproduce a number of samizdat works.
Later, after the political transition, the collection expanded with the addition of further documents. Ádám Modor collected a lot of photocopied documents from the Historical Office (Történeti Hivatal) which were mostly related to the 1980s. In some cases, they were about him and his role in samizdat publication, and he wanted to keep these document for academic work. Although not originating before 1990 yet in their content closely related to that period, the various types of sources (documents, recordings, interviews) concerning the movies produced together with film director János Gulyás also constitute an important part of the collection. In this part of the collection, much material is related to the “foot soldier” participants in samizdat-making. The texts collected just before 2000 (e.g. an interview with politician László Kövér, a commemorative volume, articles by jailed Romanian bishop Áron Márton) all reflect the preliminary processing for historical analysis. Modor continued collecting specific types of documentation for Katalizátor Iroda even after the political transition and the end of Katalizátor, including the proceedings of a 1992 meeting in the Merlin Theater in Budapest and an unknown manuscript written in pencil. Moreover, he added a large number of newspaper articles to the collection.
The collection was established by Ádám Modor and was developed from the 1980s up to his death in 2009. His intention was probably to document the period and to create a set of a wide range of sources for historical analysis. In the 2000s, Modor was considering founding a website (called The XX-Files) on the 1980s, but he never did. Some of the materials in the bequest were lost, and some were seized by the police in 1988 (probably a manuscript by political prisoner Béla Szász). Some was given as a present by Modor in 2008. The collection is located at various sites, including Pinty Street in Budapest and the flats of various members of the family. The collection has not been made public so far. However, a few of the documents have been used for the purpose of an exhibition on Plot 301 (in the New Public Cemetery, Budapest, where people executed for their alleged participation on the 1956 Revolution are buried) by János Balassa és Ádám Bálint.
Description of content
The documents stored in the collection of Ádám Modor can be dated to the period between 1980 and 2009. They represent a large range, both in terms of the ways in which they were written and their contents. Among the items produced before 1990, there is a collection of samizdat (primarily AB Hírmondó, Beszélő, Demokrata, which were samizdat periodicals). It also contains a set of books published as samizdat (some 30 items). The latter includes some of the own publications of Katalizátor Iroda (eg. Halottaink 1956, which is about the history of Plot 301) as well as the texts of other publishers such as Minden kényszer nélkül [Without any Pressure] by Béla Szász, Állati Gazdaság [Animal State Farm] by Béla Nóvé (the translation of Animal Farm by Georg Orwell), and a number of published and unpublished manuscripts of Katalizátor Iroda. A collection of movies and audio recordings is also included, with interview material (with Béla Nóvé, Tibor Pákh) for movies produced together with János Gulyás and research interviews as key items. A further significant part of the collection consists of personal notes, diaries, short stories, research outlines, applications, and copies of archive documents (of relevance to his research) of Ádám Modor. A script by István Szőcs for a movie about 1848 revolutionary Prime Minister Lajos Batthyány is also worth mentioning. The printing machine with which the publications of Katalizátor Iroda and a few issues of Beszélő were printed is also part of the collection.
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manuscripts (ego-documents, diaries, notes, letters, drafts, etc.): 10-99
publications (books, newspapers, articles, press clippings): 100-499
video recordings (including oral history recordings): 10-99
voice recordings (including oral history recordings): 10-99
Operator(s)
Modor, Bálint
Owner(s)
Geographical scope of recent operation
democratic opposition
independent journalism
samizdat and tamizdat
Founder(s)
Modor, Ádám
Date of founding
Place of founding
Budapest Pinty utca 22, Hungary
Creator(s) of content
Hetényi, Zsuzsa
Kurdi, Zoltán
Márton, Áron
Nóvé, Béla
Collector(s)
Important events in the history of the collection
Foundation of Katalizátor Iroda
Publication of book Bulgakov, Mihail. Kutyaszív [Heart of A Dog], 1986.
Halottaink [Our Dead], 1987. Book
Bulgakov, Mihail. Heart of a Dog, 1986. Book
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Káli, Anita
Modor, Bálint, interview by Káli, Anita , September 24, 2018. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection
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Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 8. October 2008 by Administrator 8. February 2014
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2007/4/2/18923/15941
By Erich Moncada,
Posted on Mon Apr 2nd, 2007 at 06:09:23 PM EST
An American corporation is in charge of monitoring all types of communications in the country.
On March 5, “El Centro” (1) newspaper exposed information about a contract given by the U.S. State Department to Verint Technology Incorporated, a New York-based company, to spy on communications in Mexico.
Verint Technology, according to its Web site (2), “is a leading provider of analytic software solutions for communications interception, digital video security and surveillance.” Its CEO, Dan Bodner, a former senior Israeli army officer, was under investigation by U.S. authorities for an alleged phone monitoring technology monopoly.(3)
On Feb. 23, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) awarded a US$2,963,438 contract bid (S-INLEC-07-M-0002) to Vernit thru the Federal Business Opportunities Web site (4).
The notice (5) states:
“The U.S. Department of State, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs intends to … purchase of Communications Intercept Systems to include installation, technical support and training on-site in Mexico.”
Solicitation No. 01 (Dec. 19, 2005) explains how the U.S. government aimed to obtain a system to “timely receipt, processing, analysis, and storage of intercepted communications from the national telephonic and other communications service providers in Mexico.”
It requested some delicate features, like real-time and off-line playback, call storing of all phone calls for at least 25,000 hours, installation of 30 monitoring stations and cell phone location and tracking devices.
The document describes the procurement was undertaken to “establish a lawful interception solution” and aid U.S. and Mexican security agencies with “the capability to intercept, analyze, and use intercepted information from all types of communications systems operating in Mexico (to) help deter, prevent, and mitigate acts of major federal crimes in Mexico that include narcotics trafficking and terrorism.”
Amendment 01 (Feb. 1, 2006) furthers about the project’s management. Mexico’s Federal Investigation Agency (AFI) will directly operate the system, aided by a Narcotics Affair Section (NAS) representative from the US Embassy in Mexico and the contractor.(6)
Authoritarian Proposals
On March 10, Mexican President Felipe Calderon proposed to Congress a constitutional reform (7) to increase detentions, search warrants, unlawful entries and wire tapping without judge authorization.
Calderon argued federal police have the need to search private property in “cases of flagrancy”; while the Federal Public Ministry requires “immediately” intrusion of private communications because “when there’s a request to judiciary authorities the investigation turns more difficult or impossible to do.”
The president assured the initiative concedes judges faculties to review wire tapings or search warrants after being executed.
Another troubling aspect of this new law is that evidence gathered without court’s supervision could became full proof. In current Mexican and U.S. legal systems, an exclusionary rule applies to dissuade prosecutors from using illegally collected or analyzed evidence in trial when in violation of constitutional principles.
To date, neither U.S. nor Mexican officials have confirmed or denied the existence of the spy program contract.
Links in English:
(1) “FBI Office Spies on Mexicans”
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp”ID=%7B3B7C173 8-40AB-4123-98EC-2BB56DA04867%7D)&language=EN
(2) Verint Technologies
http://www.verint.com/
(3) “Software maker Witness Systems to be acquired by Verint in $950 million deal”
http://callcenterinfo.tmcnet.com/news/2007/02/14/2337773.htm
(4) Federal Business Opportunities. “58—Communications Intercept System Mexico”
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=452c714167df2a77ab69e8e51925be42
(5) Federal Business Opportunities. “58—Communications Intercept System”
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=1be92e46c2e7a4db688e9b6aebb0e0f1&tab=core&_cview=1
(6) Federal Business Opportunities. “58—Communications Intercept System Solicitation 01”
http://www.fbo.gov/spg/State/INL/INL-RM-MS/S%2DINL EC%2D06%2DR%2D4042/Attachments.html
(7) “Mexico’s Calderon pushes criminal law overhaul”
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VISL Week 12 Results & Upcoming Schedule
Week 12 results for VISL Division 1 – Another win for Lakehill gets them out of the bottom spot and confuses the bottom 4 situation a little bit more.
Cowichan still undefeated and at the top.
Saanich Fusion FC Maude Hunter’s Div 1 1
Bays United Liquor Plus 1 1
Saanich Fusion FC Maude Hunter’s Div 1
Goals: Leo Falzon
Bays United Liquor Plus 1
Goals: Kurt Macaulay
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VI Wave 0
Cowichan FC 3
VI Wave defaulted to Cowichan FC
Lakehill FC 2
Vic West FC 1
Lakehill FC
Goals: Hans Bresser, Kean de Vries
Vic West FC
Goals: Derek De Groot
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Gorge FC 3
Nanaimo United FC 1
Gorge FC
Goals: Morgan Johnston, Cam Stokes (2)
Nanaimo United FC
Goals: Paddy Greig
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Comox Valley United 4
Westcastle United 3
Westcastle United
Goals: Own Goal, Jordan French, Jon Shah
Comox Valley United
Goals: Tom Butcher, Kyle Bate, Graeme McNeill, Grayson Chalifoux
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Next week’s games:
07:30 PM Vic West FC 1 @ Cowichan FC 1 Ladysmith Turf
08:00 PM Gorge FC 1 @ Bays United Liquor Plus 1 UVic Turf Field
04:00 PM Comox Valley United 1 @ VI Wave 1 PISE
07:00 PM Lakehill FC 1 @ Nanaimo United FC 1 Merle Logan Turf
07:30 PM Saanich Fusion FC Maude Hunter’s Div 1 @ Westcastle United 1 Westhills Stadium
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Board index » RPG » Osgiliath (Help and Ideas) » ~ The Dúnedain Calander ~
Post subject: ~ The Dúnedain Calander ~
Hanasian
Dunedain Ranger of Arnor
Joined: 02 January 2007
Location: The Lakeshore of Annúminas
I'm posting this here as an aid should one wish to use the names of months in their Tolkien RP.
The Dúnedain Calander
Yestarë:
'First-day', the name used in the Elves' calendars, and those derived from them, for the first day of the year. The actual date of Yestarë varied from calendar to calendar; according to the Reckoning of Rivendell, it fell on modern 28 March, while in the calendars of the Númenóreans and their descendants, its modern equivalent would be 22 December.
Narvinyë:
The first month in the calendars of the Men of Middle-earth, approximately equivalent to modern January (though in fact running from modern 23 December to 21 January). Its name means 'new year' (or, literally, 'new sun').
Nénimë:
The second month in the calendars of the Men of Middle-earth, approximately equivalent to modern February (though in fact running from modern 22 January to 20 February).
Súlimë
The third month of the year, according to the Stewards' Reckoning of Gondor, lying between Nénimë and the feast-day of Tuilérë. On a modern calendar, Súlimë ran between 21 February and 22 March.
Víressë:
The fourth month of the year, according to the Stewards' Reckoning of Gondor, following the spring feast-day of Tuilérë. On a modern calendar, Víressë ran between 24 March and 22 April.
Lótessë:
The fifth month of the year, according to the Stewards' Reckoning of Gondor, following Víressë. On a modern calendar, Lótessë ran between 23 April and 22 May.
Nárië:
The sixth month of the year, according to the Stewards' Reckoning of Gondor, following Lótessë, and preceding Loëndë, the feast of Midsummer. On a modern calendar, Nárië ran between 23 May and 21 June.
Loëndë:
Also known, especially by the Hobbits, as Midyear's Day, Loëndë was the day that fell in the middle of the year and was an important feature in many of the calendars of Middle-earth. On a modern calendar, Midyear's Day would be 22 June.
Cermië:
The seventh month of the year, according to the Stewards' Reckoning of Gondor, following Loëndë, and preceding Urimë. On a modern calendar, Cermië ran between 23 June and 22 July, in a normal year.
Urimë:
The eighth month of the year, according to the Stewards' Reckoning of Gondor, following Cermië, and preceding Yavannië. On a modern calendar, Urimë ran between 23 July and 21 August, in a normal year.
*Yavannië:
The ninth month of the year, according to the Stewards' Reckoning of Gondor, following Urimë, and preceding the autumn feast of Yáviérë. On a modern calendar, Yavannië ran between 22 August and 20 September, in a normal year.
*Ivanneth:
The ninth month of the year, according to the Dunedain of the North, following Urimë, and preceding the autumn feast of Yáviérë. On a modern calendar, Ivanneth ran between 22 August and 20 September in a normal year.
*Yáviérë:
The harvest feast-day of the Stewards' Reckoning of Gondor, lying between the months of Yavannië and Narquelië. On a modern calendar, Yáviérë would have fallen on 21 September.
Narquelië:
The tenth month of the year, according to the Stewards' Reckoning of Gondor, following the harvest feast of Yáviérë, and preceding Hísimë. On a modern calendar, Narquelië ran between 22 September and 21 October.
Hísimë:
The eleventh month of the year, according to the Stewards' Reckoning of Gondor, following Narquelië, and preceding the last month, Ringarë. On a modern calendar, Hísimë would run between 22 October and 20 November.
*Girithron:
The Sindarin name for the twelfth month of the year, according to the calendars of Men, following Hithui or Hísimë. On a modern calendar, Girithron ran between 21 November and 20 December. Likely used by the Northern Dunedain.
*Ringarë:
The last month in the calendars of the Men of Middle-earth (likely used by the Southern Dunedain), approximately equivalent to modern December (though in fact running from modern 21 November to 20 December).
Mettarë
The last day of the year; to the Elves, whose calendar started in spring, this was modern 27 March, but to the Dúnedain in Middle-earth, Mettarë fell in winter, on modern 21 December.
*The harvest feast day of Yáviérë was according to the Stewards Reckoning of Gondor, but its unknown whether the Dúnedain of the north celebrated this day. It is assumed it was.
Dunedain Ranger of the North
Annalist, Physician, & Historian
of The Black Company of the Dúnedain,
The Free Company of Arnor
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In light of this situation, all 2021 NFIP Adjuster Claims Presentations will be held via webinar.
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From the September 30, 2020 Press Release
"Columbia, S.C. – Monday, Governor Henry McMaster signed the South Carolina Private Flood Insurance Act into law (S. 882). This Act aims to foster innovative flood insurance coverage in South Carolina, allowing insurers the ability to test products in the market and offer consumers greater choice for flood insurance coverage. "
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From the Press Release.
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The information below is from the FEMA Daily Ops Briefing issued 10/06 @ 8:30 am
Situation: : Of the over 7 million acres burned, the National Watch Center continues to track 11 active fires that have burned nearly 2 million acres from the West Coast to the Rocky Mountains. Mandatory evacuations continue throughout the impacted regions. No reported unmet needs.
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From the Monday, September 21, 2020 Press Release
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"Colorado State University hurricane researchers have increased their forecast and now predict an extremely active Atlantic hurricane season in 2020, citing very warm sea surface temperatures and very low wind shear in the tropical Atlantic as primary factors. Tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures averaged over the past month are at their fourth-highest levels since 1982, trailing only the very active Atlantic hurricane seasons of 2005, 2010 and 2017. Warmer-than-normal sea surface temperatures provide more fuel for tropical cyclone formation and intensification. They are also associated with a more unstable atmosphere as well as moister air, both of which favor organized thunderstorm activity that is necessary for...
Yellow alert for economic losses. Some damage is possible and the impact should be relatively localized. Estimated economic losses are less than 1% of GDP of the United States. Past events with this alert level have required a local or regional level response.
NOAA updated 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook
August 6, 2020 - Atmospheric and oceanic conditions are primed to fuel storm development in the Atlantic, leading to what could be an “extremely active” season, according to forecasters with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service. Today, the agency released its annual August update to the Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook, initially issued in May.
M 7.8 - 105 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska
PAGER - GREEN ShakeMap - VII DYFI? - VIII Time2020-07-22 06:12:44 UTC2020-07-22 06:12:44 UTC at epicenterLocation55.030°N 158.522°WDepth28.00 km (17.40 mi)
Busy Atlantic hurricane season predicted for 2020
From the NOAA Forecast;
"May 21, 2020An above-normal 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is expected, according to forecasters with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service. The outlook predicts a 60% chance of an above-normal season, a 30% chance of a near-normal season and only a 10% chance of a below-normal season. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30.
WORLEY CLAIMS SERVICES ANNOUNCES NAME CHANGE TO ALACRITY SOLUTIONS TO REFLECT STRATEGIC GROWTH AND INNOVATION
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Commissioner Lara Orders Insurance Data on Business Interruption Coverage to Assist California Small Businesses
From the Press Release
"Commissioner Lara called on the insurance industry to assist small businesses facing layoffs and lost income due to business closures and government actions to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Insurance company responses to the data call are due by April 9, 2020, and will help the Department understand the number and scope of commercial business interruption type coverages in effect and the approximate number of policies that exclude viruses such as COVID-19. This data will help inform state policymakers on solutions to protect businesses.
EXTENDED RANGE FORECAST OF ATLANTIC SEASONAL HURRICANE ACTIVITY AND LANDFALL STRIKE PROBABILITY FOR 2020
We anticipate that the 2020 Atlantic basin hurricane season will have above-normal activity. Current warm neutral ENSO conditions appear likely to transition to cool neutral ENSO or potentially even weak La Niña conditions by this summer/fall. Sea surface temperatures averaged across the tropical Atlantic are somewhat above normal. Our Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation index is below its long-term average; however, most of the tropical Atlantic is warmer than normal. We anticipate an above-average probability for major hurricanes making landfall along the continental United States coastline and in the Caribbean. As is the case with all hurricane seasons, coastal residents are reminded that it only takes one...
Texas Department of Insurance Commissioner’s Bulletin # B-0008-20
The below is from the bulletin.
To: All TDI-regulated carriers, agents, adjusters, and licensees
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On March 13, 2020, Governor Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Governor authorized the use of all available state and local government resources necessary to cope with the disaster.
TDI expects carriers to work with their policyholders as they prepare for and respond to the spread of COVID-19. Carriers should look to the Governor’s ongoing declarations related to COVID-19 for guidance on how long to extend relief.
M 5.2 - 15km W of Petrolia, CA
PAGER - GREEN ShakeMap - VI DYFI? - VI Time2020-03-18 22:08:20 UTC2020-03-18 14:08:20 -08:00 at epicenterLocation40.348°N 124.456°WDepth28.61 km (17.78 mi)
M 5.7 - 6km NNE of Magna, Utah
PAGER - YELLOW ShakeMap - VIII DYFI? - VITime2020-03-18 13:09:31 UTC2020-03-18 06:09:31 -07:00 at epicenterLocation40.751°N 112.078°WDepth11.70 km (7.27 mi)
TWIA Policy Changes effective 1/2020
All new and renewal TWIA policies with an effective date on or after January 1, 2020 will include updated coverages, terms, and conditions. Many of the changes are a result of recent revisions to the Texas Insurance Code by the Texas Legislature.
"The above is from the TWIA website"
1/19/2021 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
2021 NFIP Adjuster Claims Presentation Webinar - Tue Jan 19
Webinar Opens: 8:30 AM Central Time
Start Time: 9:00 AM Central Time
Lunch Break: 30 Minutes
End Time: 3:30 PM Central Time
Flood adjusters seeking to maintain or obtain a Flood Control Number (FCN) must attend an NFIP Adjuster Claims Presentation each calendar year.
Please register for one presentation only.*
2021 NFIP Adjuster Claims Presentation Webinar - Thu Jan 21
Wind 2021- Virtual Sessions
The Educational and Networking Conference for Property Insurance Claims Professionals
The annual Windstorm Insurance Conference (WIND) is a three-day conference for the property insurance claims industry. Our mission is to provide professional development, training, certifications, and networking opportunities to bring together defense and policyholder representatives to better connect, learn, and engage for the betterment of our industry and consumers.
(the above is from their website)
(2/1/2021 - 2/4/2021)
2021 NFIP Adjuster Claims Presentation Webinar - Tue Feb 2
(2/2/2021 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM)
2021 NFIP Adjuster Claims Presentation Webinar - Thu Feb 4
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Globalive Technology Acquires Call Option to Purchase Globalive Capital Control Position in Flexiti Financial
Flexiti Financial is a leading fintech private label credit card issuer that has grown its consumer credit to over $300 million in less than three years with a compound monthly growth rate of 30%
Flexiti Financial's monthly revenue has crossed over $3 million, with new loan originations passing $20 million per month
Globalive Technology's proprietary commercialization process for AI and blockchain will optimize security and financial performance of portfolio
Globalive Technology will license the AI and blockchain software solution to financial services firms globally
TORONTO, June 21, 2018 /CNW/ - Globalive Technology (TSX-V: LIVE), an artificial intelligence and blockchain technology commercialization firm, has acquired a call right from and amended a put right previously granted to Globalive Capital ("GC") over its control position in Flexiti Financial ("Flexiti"), a leading fintech company and private label credit card issuer in Canada. Globalive Technology's independent directors Kingsley Ward, Managing Partner of VRG Capital and Jason Theofilos, Co-Founder of Mundo led the transaction on behalf of Globalive Technology.
Globalive Technology has previously announced a technology joint venture agreement with Flexiti. Under this agreement Globalive Technology expects https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/globalive-technology-and-flexiti-financial-form-joint-venture-to-create-artificial-intelligence-and-blockchain-software-for-consumer-loans-market-685651661.html to leverage Flexiti's $300 million loan portfolio, 1.1 million customers and related historical loan data to build AI and blockchain platforms to optimize consumer financing at the point-of-sale.
"Securing this option to acquire a control position in Flexiti is an important step forward for the development of our AI and blockchain platforms," said Anthony Lacavera, Globalive Technology's Founder and CEO. "Flexiti is a leading fintech company and an incredible growth story, having grown from zero to $300 million in originations on their private label credit card platform in only three years. Its substantial ecosystem of customers and merchants will be key as we build out our software."
Flexiti recently acquired TD Financing Services' Canadian private label credit card portfolio, on which more than 2 million transactions valued at more than $3 billion have been facilitated. The Flexiti portfolio is currently generating over $20 million of new originations per month.
Once this platform is operational at scale, Globalive Technology intends to license the technology to global fintech companies. This will allow Globalive Technology to participate in revenue growth and cost savings created by the blockchain-based platform.
GC holds a controlling stake in both Globalive Technology and Flexiti.
Under the terms of the call right, Globalive Technology can require GC to sell its ownership and control position in Flexiti in exchange for 13.33 million Globalive Technology shares. The put right has been amended to increase the price payable to GC from 3.33 million shares of Globalive Technology to 5 million shares. The exercise of the call right and the consummation of this transaction would be subject to similar conditions as those applicable to the put right, including the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSXV") and satisfying any conditions the TSXV might impose. In addition, the call right is subject to there being no material adverse change in the business of Globalive Technology. There can be no assurance that either the put or the call will be exercised or if exercised, that TSXV approval will be obtained.
For more information relating to the exercise of the put option, subject to amendments noted in this press release, readers should refer to the description of the original Put/ROFR Agreement as set out in the Filing Statement filed by Globalive Technology on May 29, 2018 and available on its SEDAR page at www.sedar.com.
About Globalive Technology Inc.
Globalive Technology is a next generation software company and venture partner that is developing and investing in innovative solutions to disrupt traditional industries using AI, IoT and blockchain technology. The company forms partnerships with leading high growth companies to co-develop artificial intelligence and blockchain technology stacks. It is controlled by Globalive Capital Inc. which has founded and co-founded 12 businesses over the past 20 years with 6 successful exits ranging from $10M to $1.3B USD. It has also made over 100 venture investments and has over 45 technology companies in its portfolio. For more information, visit www.globalivetech.com.
For press and media inquiries:
Tanya Sardana
Communications Officer, Globalive Technology
Media@globalivetech.com
For investor inquiries:
Laura Welsh
Renmark Financial Communications
InvestorRelations@globalivetech.com
Forward-Looking Statements:
This news release contains forward-looking statements relating to Globalive Technology ("GT") or GC exercising either the put option or call right, satisfaction of conditions should either the put or call be exercised, continued growth in Flexiti's customer base, GT leveraging certain aspects of Flexiti's business, benefits of its software for merchants, the joint venture building blockchain infrastructure for various applications, the ability of the joint venture to strengthen Flexiti's competitive advantage, GT's intention to license the technology to others and the resulting participation in revenue growth and cost savings. Such forward-looking statements are identified by terms such as "will", "intends" and similar expressions. All statements other than statements of historical fact, included in this release, including those noted above are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from GT's expectations include factors that could make it undesirable for either of the put or call to be exercised, the TSXV not approving the exercise of the put or call, or imposing conditions to such approval that either cannot be satisfied or that GT or GC, as applicable, would not want to satisfy, software not functioning as expected, competitors in the space, third parties not using the software or licensing the technology as expected, economic conditions making the technology or licenses not as attractive as expected and other risks as set out in the Filing Statement available on its SEDAR page at www.sedar.com.
The reader is cautioned that assumptions used in the preparation of any forward-looking information may prove to be incorrect. Events or circumstances may cause actual results to differ materially from those predicted, as a result of numerous known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of GT. As a result, GT cannot guarantee that any of the forward looking statements contained in this press release will occur as disclosed herein or at all. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking information.
Such information, although considered reasonable by management at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect and actual results may differ materially from those anticipated. Forward-looking statements contained in this news release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date of this news release and GT will only update or revise publicly the included forward-looking statements as expressly required by Canadian securities law."
Financial information regarding Flexiti is based on unaudited numbers, based on estimates prepared by management of Flexiti from internal accounting and records and provided to GT. Although GT has no knowledge that would indicate that any statement contained herein concerning Flexiti and its business is untrue or otherwise misleading, GT does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy of any such information and GT has not independently confirmed this information.
SOURCE Globalive Technology
Company Codes: TorontoVE:LIVE
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FERMOR FAMILY HISTORY
My name is Sheila Fermor Clarkson
and as a member of the Guild of One-Name Studies
I research the name of FERMOR worldwide.
There is speculation that the origin of FERMOR is from the French fermier or farmer, or from the Old English fermor - collector of land taxes.
To date, although we have traced Fermors in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, South America and the United States of America, the majority still live in Kent and Sussex where some of the earliest records of the name FERMOR were found.
We held our first Fermor Family Reunion in 1994 at Sir Henry Fermor School, Crowborough, East Sussex at the kind invitation of the then Head Teacher, Mr Graham Johnson, to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the founding of the school by Sir Henry Fermor in 1744. We marked the occasion by planting a tree at the school which is shown below on the right of the group photograph taken at our second Reunion in 1997. In 2000 we celebrated the Millennium with our third Reunion.
The Fermor coat of arms, for which my husband Ron did the art work,
is that of Henry Fermor of Welches, Sussex who, on 4 May 1725, was created a Baronet by King George I.
To the best of my knowledge the family to whom the arms were granted became extinct with the Baronetcy on 26 October 1784.
Our second Fermor Family Reunion held on 19 July 1997
at Sir Henry Fermor School, Crowborough, East Sussex.
(Photograph by courtesy of the Kent and Sussex Courier - permission applied for)
If you would like more information on our Fermor Family History
Books with Fermor interest
1000 Years of Fermor/Farmer Families
Our First Fermor Family Reunion (1994) published March 2018
Christmas Letter 2019
Count William Fermor 1701-1771
Fermor Cricket XI - 1908-1964
Fermors in Australia from 1855
Fermor Wedding Photographs
Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Tregellas Tapestry - Lady Jane Killigrew (née Fermor)
Fermors/Farmers/Farmars of Tusmore and Easton Neston with early links to Ireland and USA
* Updated information - March 2020
please e-mail: sfclarkson4@gmail.com
Links to Fermor websites
Guide to St James Church, Somerton, Oxfordshire - www.somertonoxon.co.uk
John Fermor - www.valencehouse.co.za
Paul Fermor - www.dealpentecostal.co.uk
Philip Fermor - www.fermor.me.uk
This book, published in March 2018, is compiled of letters, documents, maps and photographs relating to our first Fermor family reunion. It was held at Sir Henry Fermor School, Crowborough, East Sussex at the kind invitation of Headteacher, Mr Graham Johnson as part of the school's 250th Anniversary. Fermors from Cornwall to Cape Town joined in the celebration of a truly happy and memorable day.
Frank Fermor played for the 1908 Fermor XI (seated middle row, third from left) shown on the cover of the recently published Fermor cricket book on the right. He is seen above with his fiancée May Chambers shortly before they married in 1916. His WW1 experiences are recorded at the Guild of One-Name Studies/Stories at http://ww1.one-name.org
This book is dedicated to the memory of the late Laurence Beversham Fermor who spent a life time researching our Fermor family history. By recording as much as possible about each player, together with photographs and family trees, I hope some our of history will be preserved for posterity and that the book will revive happy memories for those players of the 1960s.
This book, now available in paperback, is proving to be a refreshingly honest biography of the larger-than-life Paddy Leigh Fermor. Having almost finished
it, I am eager to read his latest book The Broken Road edited by Artemis Cooper and Colin Thubron. It completes the trilogy, concluding his walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople.
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'Boden are One Direct Kilmacud Crokes All Ireland Sevens Champions
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Ballyboden St Enda’s became the first ever Dublin winners of the Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland Senior Hurling Sevens at Glenalbyn on Saturday.
To make it even more historic they beat fellow Dublin southside rivals, Cuala, in the decider 4-13 to 3-11.
Boden had knocked out the host club in the quarter-final before accounting for Tipperary’s Moycarkey by 2-13 to 1-07 in the semi-final.
After beating Portroe in their quarter-final, Cuala produced a superb display to overwhelm another Tipperary side, Mullinahone, by 6-13 to 3-3, in the semi-final. Earlier, Mullinahone had defeated Thurles Sarsfields in a game which pitted Tipp stars Eoin Kelly and Lar Corbett against each other.
Despite the poor weather conditions the 41st Annual One Direct Kilmacud Crokes All Ireland Hurling Sevens Competition produced its usual quota of thrilling games and spectacular scores.
Over 60 Teams representing the 4 provinces took part in the Senior Cup, Shield and U13 competitions.
The first ball was thrown in at 10am and the action commenced at five separate Stillorgan venues at a fantastic pace. The tempo never let up throughout the Senior group games as teams from Tipp and Dublin dominated, culminating in the competitions first all Dublin final between Ballybodan St Enda’s and Cuala.
With both teams boasting a hefty representation of inter county stars ‘Boden edged the first half 2-5 to 1-5, with Conal Keaney bagging Boden’s two and Mark Schutte replying for Cuala. The second half started at a frenetic pace with with four goals in four minutes through John Sheanon and Mark Schutte (Cuala) and Niall McMorrow(2). Boden withstood a late Cuala rally, including a pointed semi penalty by David Treacy, to triumph on a scoreline of 4-13 to 3-11.
In the Semi Finals Ballyboden defeated Moycarkey Borris 2-13 to 1-07, while Cuala got the better of an Eoin Kelly led Mullinahone 6-13 to 3-03 to ensure one hurling all-Ireland in 2013 would return to the Capital. Both Dublin teams showed impressive touch and fitness to reach the final. It was fitting that Keaney was awarded player of the tournament following arguably his best year ever on the hurling field.
The beaten quarter finalists were Thurles Sarsfields, Kilmacud Crokes, Templederry Kenyons and Portroe.
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The Education Reporter
A place to learn from and contribute to education reporting, particularly JK-12 education, in Canada and within the province of Ontario.
What I've been reading
Ontario FDK
Municipal councils and school boards
In this post-Community Schools Alliance age, there've been a few stories popping up in hotly contested school closure country where reports are near finalized or reviews well underway. Municipalities are now asking for a stronger voice at the table (er, that would be the review tables many are already present at) and asking boards to stop or slow down to wait for them to get their act together and contribute.
Niagara-on-the-Lake is one example, where town councillors continue their efforts to reverse a District School Board of Niagara decision to close Niagara District Secondary School if it doesn't find another 100 students before the end of October. The coverage has been consistent in the Niagara Region newspapers between the Advance, the Standard and the Review.
Simcoe County is another-- Warden Tony Guergis' recent meeting with Simcoe County District School Board trustees along with the recent decision to postpone any high school closures. With only one review underway -- an elementary one -- Clearview Township council is now getting hot under the collar and writing letters to fire off to various points, as reported in this Stayner Sun piece.
Council passed a motion Monday night, moved by Deputy Mayor Alicia Savage and seconded by Ward 7 councillor Shawn Davidson, asking the board to disband the committee.
Savage, who sits on the committee, known as ARC E, put forward the motion after growing frustrated with the board for its handling of the ARC and related issues, such as the board’s capital planning process.
The motion, which will be forwarded to board officials and Ontario Minister of Education Kathleen Wynne, received the unanimous support of council.
The township, in its motion, states that ARC E should be disbanded and that accommodation issues should not be dealt with until the board’s capital plan has been updated, which will determine what schools are to be improved.
Having looked at the agenda for the review committee's Sept. 22 meeting (minutes aren't up), I can also see why council is confused over whether the new provincial guidelines apply. What I would hope the committee learned is that they don't. Even if the board had revised its accommodation review policies to be compliant, the ministry already stated the new rules don't apply to any review struck before today (Sept. 30). This ARC "E" had its first meeting in June.
The request vis-a-vis the capital plan is one I can't speak to as I've not taken the time to read whatever capital plan the SCDSB has, though previous coverage and posts here suggest it wasn't a strong one given dollars haven't flowed as board staff members predicted and trustees expected.
If the committee isn't disbanded -- and given recent decisions, who knows whether it will be -- council is perhaps still taking a better approach. It realizes what's at stake (as I'm sure it always did), but should now realize its role and step up. Don't complain, as it appears to here, of being left out of the loop-- work to make sure you're in the loop and start sharpening your pencils. Come to review committee meetings with feasible solutions that work for the municipalities, the school board and students.
Writing letters shouldn't be the start of building a file full of excuses for feeling left out and unable to contribute to the process.
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Labels: accommodation reviews, in the news, schools alliance
Blizzard's take on implementing Pascal
This Christina Blizzard column caught my eye-- ran in the TorSun over the weekend and will likely get picked up by a wide variety of Ontario papers this week as it gets tossed on editorial pages for local papers to run. Blizzard is Sun Media's designated Queen's Park columnist, who rarely writes about education. Given Minister Kathleen Wynne's assertions that some details about the first year of implementation of the Pascal report on early learning will be released in the coming weeks, it became Blizzard's column of the day.
Let's face it, kids at that age can only take in so much learning. It isn't necessary to have a teacher in the classroom the whole day.
Pascal's plan makes sense. Why pay a teacher's salary for a full day when kids of that age are more likely to spend most of the day glueing pasta to paper or making monsters out of Play-Doh? Why pay teachers to be babysitters?
The problem is, the government owes the teacher unions -- big time. They contributed huge amounts of money to Liberals in the last election.
I think Wynne's dilemma speaks to a bigger problem. I believe it is a conflict of interest for public sector unions to contribute to election coffers. Essentially, they're giving money to their employer. Is it any wonder the government constantly caves in to their salary demands?
In this case, they are trying to influence public policy. It is simply wrong for a union to have a disproportionate say on how a program will be delivered. It is wrong for them to influence how taxpayers' money will be spent.
She makes a point, one that I'm hesitant to agree with. Despite the coalition of federations that pumped mucho dollars into election ads to elect and re-elect McGuinty, Wynne and the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario are not what I would call bosom buddies. ETFO members have already seen that in their smaller retro cheques and lower salary increases after their latest contracts compared to their peers teaching high school and working in French and Catholic schools. The move towards salary parity amongst teachers is gone, at least until the next round of negotiations. ETFO bit the hand that fed it in negotiations and its play for full-day kindergarten is, in my eyes, a thinly veiled attempt at doing nothing more than increase the number of school staff members paying it dues. For their own sake, I hope ETFO members don't abandon this government and toss their support behind another party-- it could have disastrous results as it did in 1995.
I do object, however to Blizzard's characterization that Pascal's recommended model of full-day learning is nothing but a daylong babysitting service. She must have missed the part in Pascal's report and other early learning reports pointing to the importance of learning through play such as crafting things out of Play-Doh and glueing macaroni to things. She also gives opposition leader Tim Hudak his space to promote his perspective on early learning-- which given he was one of the leadership contestants to come out against Pascal in his campaign is only telling.
Blizzard's best point? This one:
Here's what I hope won't happen.
I don't want to see high-powered parents putting pressure on trustees and school boards to get full-day kindergarten in up-market schools.
The neediest schools -- where parents can't pay for decent daycare -- should be the priority for this program.
Labels: curricula, FDK, in the news, money
EQAO and conflicts
This one has bubbled up over the past few days, starting with a CBC report earlier this week pointing to Education Quality and Accountability Office board member Lorna Earl's work as an educational consultant. TorSun's Michelle Mandel Moira MacDonald writes about this today, pointing out how political and federation foes will try and use this alleged conflict of interest in a vain attempt to kill the agency's current testing practices.
But whether Lorna Earl has been in conflict with her private and public roles or not, watch out for those who will use this to show why province-wide testing should be canned.
They will latch on to this, especially as it seems critics such as the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario are getting nowhere telling parents, many of whom support it, that this kind of testing is bad.
When people don't agree with you, you can always try death by character assassination. Hammering away at the integrity of the testing agency -- the Education Quality and Accountability Office -- might be worth a shot.
Is teaching people how to use test data the same as giving them short-cuts to boost their marks? Could Earl have picked up special knowledge at EQAO that could help her at work? Should public sector boards not be allowed to recruit potential directors with expertise in the same field because of conflict of interest worries? These are questions the commissioner might ask.
Even if there's something there, I suspect it's not what (NDP education critic Rosario) Marchese is driving at. If Earl were using her connections to help Ontario boards "get the numbers up" it's hardly worked.
Grade 3 reading results are listless while Grade 6 results still fall short of government improvement promises. But discouraging news, like concerns about conflicts, is no reason to chuck the test. And Earl likely counsels the same.
I agree with what Mandel MacDonald is saying here. The critics of Earl's status on the board and continued work with her consulting company appear to show a basic lack of understanding of corporate governance. Boards don't usually do the nitty gritty work, they hire staff accountable to them to do this, of which EQAO has them. A conflict here would be if she still worked for EQAO in test development and then ran over to her consulting firm's offices with the confidential tests and data and then sold them to school boards across the province. Or, if she worked for EQAO and was on the board at the same time.
Or if she was using EQAO dollars to funnel test development and analysis work to her contracting firm without tenders or any similar scrutiny, a la eHealth or OLG.
Mandel MacDonald's right on the money on calling out the agency's opponents on how they're going to try and use this situation to their advantage. She's also hit the nail right on the head with her final graph included above on results.
Labels: governance, in the news, transparency and accountability
Bluewater update No. 11
The more aggressive part of myself as a journalist has been extremely envious of my counterparts in Owen Sound / Bruce and Grey counties over the shenanigans that have taken place at the Bluewater District School Board this past year. Kudos to the Sun Times, particularly Maria Canton, for its ongoing coverage of the issues happening in that district.
Two updates posted last week, which as usual the folks over at MendEd had up far earlier than I. Both come out of the board's first trustee meeting of the new school year held last week. My fav of the two is Maria's on the exchange between the chamber of commerce member who called out the two superintendents on plagiarizing and the board chair.
(Peter) Ferguson, the Kimberley architect who pursued plagiarism allegations against two superintendents all the way to the Ontario College of Teachers, was only a minute into his public presentation when Yenssen, chair of the board of trustees for the Bluewater District School Board, ruled he was out of order and demanded he cease speaking.
The two then exchanged heated words back and forth about who was out of order before Yenssen abruptly called an emergency 20-minute recess.
"The board has to govern under the Education Act and our own bylaws. In the past we've accepted delegations that dealt with personnel matters, but after seeking legal advice we will not allow any delegation to speak about personnel matters again," said Yenssen afterwards.
"In the board's view the plagiarism issue is over and we've dealt with it and we'd like to move forward with developing a policy on plagiarism."
But Ferguson maintains his presentation at the BWDSB's first meeting of the new school year was one based on collaborating with the trustees and that he doesn't want "heads to roll"
That article was published alongside another outlining the presentation from Geoff Williams, one of the ministry appointed "Mr. Fix-its" that have been in the board since their appointment by Kathleen Wynne earlier this year.
"The most important thing to realize is that there are ways out of the situation in which they (the BWDSB) find themselves in now, they need to be responsible for the actions that will move them forward and that's clearly the most important thing," said Williams, who was dispatched to Chesley last spring to help the BWDSB work through its then self-described crisis.
"It is possible for them to move forward and build better relations and if they start acting on some of these recommendations, as well as recommendations that they get from other sources, they can position themselves well, but it will take some time."
Immediate changes the board can take, according to Williams, are ones that are already underway or have been fulfilled, such as the Monday launch of the online satisfaction surveys and the hiring of a communications officer.
The changes that will produce long-term improvements in the system, however, will likely only be put in place in time for the next election in November 2010.
I haven't read Williams' report to trustees, but from the commentary at MendEd and elsewhere they appear to be a set of common-sense recommendations many feel the board should have adopted a long time ago.
Stats are an education story
The Tuesday release from Statistics Canada of the latest update on live births and the changes in the Canadian fertility rate actually holds important information for K-12 education in this country. I've reproduced a chart below, embedded from GoogleDocs, showing the percentage change specific to Ontario for live births from 2002-07. It's below the graph I created, however StatsCan's own national table is also here.
It's an education story because it helps explain declining enrolment and the gentle, slow rebound from its impact that is going to start to happen within the next 10 years. For the last decade (many boards' enrolments peaked in 1999-2000), all but five GTA-area boards have been facing declining enrolment-- meaning more students are graduating from high school that are coming into the school system from the bottom end in JK, SK or Grade 1. This demographic situation is tied to all sorts of reasons, but mostly because the children of baby boomers (the baby boom echo) are leaving schools and the GenX'ers and GenY'ers (like me) aren't having the same number of children. In my own defence, it's hard to have kids when you're single.
When those boom-echo kids start having kids -- which is starting to happen -- then the school populations will rebound with the boom-echo's echo. However echos are always smaller than the ones that preceded them.
Quick aside, the five GTA-area boards whose populations are still growing owe that to immigration and migration, as populations shift into their districts from elsewhere.
Long story short: an uptick in the fertility rate two years ago in 2007 in Ontario means the school-age population should see the same uptick starting in two years when these parents start sending their kids to JK. That uptick should become quite obvious in three to four years as those bambinis start Grade 1.
I only wish the data StatsCan provided for free included a breakdown by census tracts (large urban neighbourhoods) or dissemination areas (smaller communities), so we could see where these children are being born. School board and municipal demographers have access to this info however.
H/T to Rob at Cancrime, whose tweet earlier this week inspired this post.
Labels: miscellany, not in the news
Postponement in Simcoe County
Catching up to a few things today, including a series of developments on the northwest Simcoe County accommodation review and the Simcoe County District School Board's decision on the outcome for five high schools.
Readers here will be familiar with this review, involving schools in Midland, Penetanguishene, Elmvale, Stayner and Collingwood. Earlier this week, SCDSB voted to postpone any further consideration on any of the recommendations from either the review committee (it recommended a status quo, have your cake and eat it too solution) or its senior staff members.
The happiness may be only temporary. Trustees can revisit the issue in the future.
(trustee Brad) Saunders said the matter may be best dealt with by the next board of trustees, which will be elected next year.
"Given our division on this issue, it's the only way to go," he said.
Trustee (Donna) Armstrong disagreed.
"Postponing indefinitely is like putting our heads in the sand," she said, adding the decision does nothing to achieve much-needed renovations at EDHS (Elmvale), which is aging and overcrowded.
In the meantime, Tony Guergis and Anita Dubeau, the mayors of Springwater Township and Penetanguishene respectively, both said the decision gives their municipalities the chance to show that they are growth communities, and that their high schools should stay open.
One of the biggest stumbling blocks last night behind closing any high schools was the lack of provincial funding to build new ones.
Trustees have tried to point their finger at the province, blaming it for not making funding available to the board for either solution. I find these statements do more to show the failure of the board's staff members and trustees to dot their i's and cross their t's on their own capital planning documents. There are other boards in the province that have managed tens of millions in capital construction projects coming out of their first round of reviews (or not even) and SCDSB's cry of poverty lets it off the hook way too easily.
As to Guergis and Dubeau? Pardon the vernacular, but if it hasn't already been at several points in the past two years, now it's time for these mayors (and the others) to piss or get off the pot. Talk about what your municipalities can do and can show is cheap. Open your wallets and come to the board with genuine offers for partnership that will improve the physical spaces your community's students are learning in and meet your objectives. If this is a 'smart' moratorium on the closure of several schools as Guergis was requesting in his executive role on the Community Schools Alliance, now he's gotten one. What's he actually going to do with it?
The Examiner followed up its coverage with an editorial Friday, flawed in showing its writer(s) couldn't see past the dollars at play here.
Because the lack of provincial funding seems to be the over-riding reason why there's been, at least, a stay of execution for high schools in Elmvale, Midland, Penetanguishene, Collingwood and Stayner.
And after numerous meetings, this ARC recommended last May a five-school option to keep all five schools open -- including a replacement school in Elmvale.
But school board staff instead presented a three-school solution: keeping CCI and MSS open and building a new high school in either Elmvale or Wasaga Beach.
It was this action which trustees have decided to postpone indefinitely.
This isn't necessarily a victory for those opposed to school closures. It's just a battle won, not the war.
Trustees will eventually have to make a decision on these schools, although there are already indications that it might be the next board of trustees, not this one (there are municipal elections in 2010).
The problem with school closures is that trustees seem to look at the issue with dollar signs in mind. They have a budget to meet, as deficits are forbidden.
But students and parents look at it from an emotional point of view. They don't want to lose their school. Students get displaced, relationships are affected, not only with other students, but with teachers, as well.
Again, the Examiner is simply joining the board in looking for an easy scapegoat. It does ask, later in the editorial, why there doesn't appear to be funding available. If it scratched the surface, it might be able to answer that question. Passing off trustees' inability to pull the trigger and fire off any decision in this review as due to a lack of money shirks them of the responsibility they have to all of their high school students in northwest Simcoe County. A responsibility to have those students learning in the best possible spaces in the best possible places.
The next board of trustees will be no better prepared to settle this question than this group is. However maybe, just maybe, they won't be afraid to make that decision.
Labels: accommodation reviews, in the news, pearls of wisdom, schools alliance
G&M on full-day kindergarten
Adam Radwanski's piece in Monday's Globe and Mail touched on the options at the McGuinty government's feet when it comes to implementing full-day kindergarten in Ontario. The first phase of this implementation is set for September 2010, about a year before the next provincial election campaign begins in the fall of 2011. From the piece:
At some point, the government will need to ramp up its spending commitment, or else some of today's toddlers may have children of their own before their schools have been expanded. But for future generations, a gradual phase-in may prove a blessing, since there is a strong element of trial-by-error to all this. Over the next few years, officials will be taking notes on everything from cost containment to curriculum to the allocation of human resources, and attempting to learn from their mistakes - of which, given the scramble to be ready for next year, there will probably be a good number.
Equally uncertain, until the phase-in has begun, will be the ripple effects. A particular concern among government officials is what effect full-day learning will have on private daycare services. If most of the four- and five-year-olds in an area are pulled out, will some of those centres be forced out of business, leaving children three and under stranded?
Ontario is entering uncharted territory with early childhood plans that will likely prove more ambitious than any that Canada has yet seen at a provincewide level. The slow pace won't thrill parents of children who will be too old to take advantage of the new services by the time they reach their areas. But over the next few years, Mr. McGuinty's government will be learning as much from its new education programs as the children enrolled in them.
He hits the nail on the head with some of his comments in regards to how this whole thing is going to be rolled out. While there was general commitment to fully implement Pascal's recommendations, the dollars being allocated will push that into the middle or end of the next decade, providing the government of the day remains supportive.
The impression I got from Pascal earlier this year was that he's OK with a staged, careful and possibly 'messy' implementation of his recommendations. Trial and error, etc., and constant re-evaluation will ensure the end goal remains in sight and can be reached eventually. It's more important to get it right than to rush towards it just to say it's been done.
H/T to Malkin over at the SQE blog.
Labels: curricula, FDK, governance, in the news, money
Niagara launches PFLCs
The Standard's Tiffany Mayer (recent recipient of a farm writers' award-- kudos from a former ag reporter) had this posted Monday in regards to the District School Board of Niagara's first Parent and Family Literacy Centre. PFLCs have been around for a while in Toronto, and the Ministry of Education has been expanding the concept across the province in stages. My district opened four of them in the last school year.
The Lincoln Centennial Parenting and Family Literacy Centre is one of four centres the District School Board of Niagara opened throughout the region this school year.
The purpose is to give children from infancy to six years old a head start in learning through play in a “real, feel good type of place,” said Wendy Faragalli, manager/co-ordinator of the centres.
There are also resources and a lending library for parents, stocked with books in different languages to cater to Niagara’s diverse population.
Faragalli said such centres have existed in Toronto for the past 20 years. A $372,000 grant from the Ministry of Education enabled to concept to spread to Niagara.
“We always talk about parents as partners” Faragalli said. “The DSBN has always said that we’re partners in education. Here’s our chance to do that.”
Not only do children learn colours, shapes, numbers and have access to activities they wouldn’t at home, they get used to school long before their first official day, thanks to some of the more structured activities, such as a reading circle.
The centres were also mentioned as a best practice in the Pascal report earlier this year, an example of community early years use in a school setting that provides resources to families of young children that assist in their development. Together with the hubs described in his report and full-day learning these help build a continuum of early years education and resources. They also help with school readiness, and often the more prepared a child is for that first day of JK, the better their chances of doing well in later assessments.
Labels: curricula, in the news, miscellany
EQAO bulletin
In earlier posts, I've referred to the Education Quality and Accountability Office getting better at putting out information to demystify what it does. I received the latest example of this earlier today, the agency's online newsletter. There are some very agency things in this edition, such as messages from EQAO staff, etc.
However, there is also a "how would you score this" portion that I found fascinating.
It then provides the rubrick that would have been used by the markers to assess this open-response answer and assign it the relevant code. Each code also contains an example of an open response from the same section of the assessment that was scored at that level. For example, this fellow/gal likely wouldn't earn top marks (given the errors in conventions and some awkward sentences).
So, how would you score this?
Labels: curricula, transparency and accountability
Bluewater update #10
Owen Sound Sun Times posted this Saturday on things that are coming to some conclusion at the Bluewater District School Board. The meetings have been held, now there is going to be a wider opportunity for more public input through phone surveys.
“I think if the (BWDSB) can work through some of the recommendations they will be well on the way to putting things right,” said (consultant Geoff) Williams.
“But my report is only one source of recommendations to them. They also have to be listening carefully to the material that comes to them in various other forms . . . and using everything to move forward effectively.”
Williams focused largely on practices and policies at the BWDSB that could be done differently, including holding bi-monthly evening meetings instead of monthly daytime meetings.
He also suggests the director of education’s performance review should be done on an ongoing basis and not as an annual event. Director Mary Anne Alton has yet to have her performance review for this year.
Readers here and over at MendEd will remember this story started almost at this point last year-- although didn't publicly erupt until the local MP's critical letter of the board was published in the Sun Times at the beginning of the year. So far, it's been revealed superintendents at the board plagiarized something they co-authored, parents felt left out of a decision to change intermediate instruction away from a rotary system and other similar complaints against the board of trustees and its most senior staff members. It's led to the resignation of one trustee who was chair at the turn of the year, along with the appointment of two "fix-it" consultants and the involvement of Peggy Sattler, a Thames Valley District School Board London trustee and past-chair who works for a communications consulting and research company.
With all the angst over the public-interest regulations in Bill 177 and the already royal-assented Bill 78, the thought occurred to me as I typed away here that there's nothing in those controversial measures permitting provincial takeover of a board where there are concerns such as the ones raised at BDSB.
Labels: governance, in the news, pearls of wisdom, transparency and accountability
Minutiae update
Just a brief update-- the blog hit its 3,000th visit over the past day.
It's now receiving an average of about 1,000 visits a month, approximately 30 a day, with over 300 unique visitors in the last month alone. Individual page views are a hair over 5,000. For those who weren't already aware, I use both Google Analytics and Sitemeter to track site visits, solely for information purposes.
Thanks for stopping by folks. This is far better than I anticipated when this project began back in March.
Labels: minutiae
NDSS coverage, cont'd, again #3
A Thursday story in the Niagara Advance speaks about a discussion at a Niagara-on-the-Lake committee-of-the-whole meeting this week regarding Niagara District Secondary School.
This is the sort of discussion that perhaps should have come forward earlier, but in this renewed age of municipal-school board loving and the Community Schools Alliance, kudos are deserved for it happening at all.
At Monday’s committee of the whole meeting, Councillor Gary Zalepa Jr. took a different approach from ideas thrown around before.
Instead of seeing the addition of programs to the school to attract students, he said he would like to see something be taken away: a “moth-balled” wing.
The Virgil wing of Niagara District Secondary School (NDSS) has been closed and condemned for many years now and he said council should consider partnering with the District School Board of Niagara (DSBN) to lease out that wing to the Town.
“Our administrative offices are bursting at the seams and town officials are working in such crammed spaces that this could definitely be an opportunity to take advantage of that empty space.”
This is exactly the kind of sharing of vacant school space encouraged in the draft policy -- one that school boards and municipalities can create now should the will exist on all sides to do so. The one thing it doesn't speak to however is how this addresses the enrolment at the school. With approximately 250 students, leasing shuttered space doesn't address this challenge, which is part of what prompted the review in the first place.
For a council that voted to screw the board on its preferred location for a new Virgil school (OMB hearing pending) however, it's a promising step.
Labels: in the news, schools alliance
Busing headaches -- updated
This Welland Tribute article published earlier this week hit very, very close to home. I worked with a local family earlier this year on this exact concern, where the mother was saying the exact same things. Her choice was to enroll her children in a Catholic school, and then in the French immersion program. Her bus time was ridiculously over the board maximum-ride policy.
This fall, I received a few more e-mails from the family indicating the situation hadn't been resolved. Anyway-- in the Welland piece, the issue is minimum busing distances, where the family has actually switched schools (and boards) in order to qualify for busing.
The Catholic board and District School Board of Niagara have a shared bus system and harmonized transportation policies. The cutoff for busing for children in grades 1 to 8 is 1.6 kilometres.
(Tammy) Mott said she believes the distance is too far for her children to walk and she is unable to accompany or drive them to school because of her job.
"I'm a single working mom. I'd have to quit my job."
Her home, near the intersection of Princess and Goderich Sts., is close to the Peace Bridge and the QEW. The route the children would have to take to school sees a lot of traffic and would require her girls to cross some streets without a crossing guard along the way.
The newspaper followed up its coverage with an editorial 'brick' Friday, criticizing the board's decision not to allow an exemption to its 1.8-kilometre busing distance.
The distance itself struck me as odd-- some consortia and boards stagger distances based on age (so a five-year-old doesn't have to walk two kilometres) and have policies to take safety into account. I'm aware of several local schools here where busing is provided so elementary students aren't walking across busy roadways or railway tracks.
What are others hearing about busing in this school year? All boards had to reduce transportation spending by one per cent for this year, and consortia are also coming into place. Any other horror stories out there I haven't come across?
The paper updated this story Saturday with some video and information gathered before the mother here pulled her kids and switched them to the public school so they would qualify for busing.
Family and Children's Services of Niagara agrees with mom and supported her position the distance was too far for her daughters to walk.
"Given the proximity of the school and ages of your children, it is not a suitable plan to have the children walk unsupervized," a child protection worker at FACS wrote in response to Mott's email.
"As a parent, it is your obligation to make arrangements for your children's transportation to and from school. Please contact us to confirm the plans in which you make for your children's transportation."
Mott spins that to mean her kids deserve busing, but I think all F&CS is saying is that it's too far to walk, period. Well, that's not what they're saying.
Labels: in the news, money
A different take on EQAO
I spent a good chunk of time this afternoon doing some different data analysis on board-level results released by the Education Quality and Accountability Office. Going back to an earlier post, I wanted to see the Level 2 results, and the change over the five-year period included in the multi-page board reports. This also included a look at the change in Level 3 and 4, "provincial standard" results. The page is embedded below, and linked here.
The chart doesn't publish well embedded as you can see, but the link will take you to the sheet as a webpage over at GoogleDocs.
As I started doing the analysis, it ended up showing in these three boards — the Thames Valley District School Board, the London Catholic District School Board and the Conseil scolaire des écoles Catholiques du Sud-Ouest — there isn't any significant movement from level to level. Up to a four per cent swing in Level 2 results, but you have to go back and look at Level 1 and Level 3/4 to see where the resulting gain or loss comes from.
I didn't end up doing much with this for my print article on the results given how 'all over the map' this chart is. The attempt, however, was to try and show Level 2 — equivalent to about a 'C' grade — results and how they might change over time. Change at this level is one other way of showing whether a board's particular efforts are leading to any improvements.
If I come back to this, I'll post more.
Labels: miscellany, not in the news, pearls of wisdom
Not the status quo in the Haliburton Highlands
Bancroft This Week ran a story today showing the recommendations of a review of elementary schools, with a recommendation two schools remain open but change organization. One would become an early years / primary division school (JK-3) with the other handling the two communities' junior and intermediate panel students (Gr.4-8).
Their only rules were that they couldn’t keep the status quo, they couldn’t build a new school and they couldn’t move the school board’s boundaries.
In order to increase the number of students – making double, not triple grades – Wilberforce students who would have previously gone to J.D. Hodgson Elementary School in Haliburton for Grades 7 and 8 would stay in Highlands East.
“What that means is that you can have double grades and no more than double grades all the way to Grade 8,” (outgoing Trilliam Lakelands DSB dir of ed Kathy) Verduyn said.
In the end, the three possible scenarios the PARC had to choose from were to use both schools with a different composition, keep Wilberforce open or keep Cardiff open.
The committee made its decision by secret ballot, originally arriving at four votes for both schools while the other four votes were undisclosed.
Trustees will face the presentation on this recommended option later this year, with a vote on the matter likely early in the new year. Yet another example of how communities have responded to the challenge of accepting recommendations that do not include the status quo, recognizing the need to change their schools' setup for program, organization and staffing benefits.
Labels: accommodation reviews, in the news
We're up and reviewing
Two from the Sault Star today on the Algoma District School Board's first meeting of the year, where trustees both struck a new review committee and reviewed preliminary enrolment counts for the 2009-10 school year.
From the review article:
"It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone involved," said Mario Turco, director of education, at the conclusion of the meeting.
"We have been in informal discussions with the school communities about this possibility for about a year now and (Tuesday) we approved going from an informal process to a formal process with meetings, reports and an eventual recommendation."
All schools being analyzed are victims of declining enrollment (sic), he said, and declining enrollment results in fewer programming options.
Manitou Park will be reviewed toward possible closure, and its students accommodated in nearby existing schools for September, 2010.
Schools in Iron Bridge and Spanish will be reviewed for possible closure or a possible change in accommodation status, such as becoming JK through Grade 3 or JK through Grade 6, and its Grade 7 and Grade 8 populations having the option of attending a nearby high school for September, 2010.
Should Iron Bridge be closed, states a report to trustees, parents would have the option of registering their children in Thessalon or Blind River and if Spanish closes, the option could be Blind River or Elliot Lake.
This first review article could be a key one for the Star. Given the geography involved, I would be highly surprised if the paper is able to follow this review committee through its various meetings, likely only returning to cover its final meeting, recommendation and trustee-level presentations and vote. However, spelling out the initial recommendations is important-- particularly under the spirit of guidelines that ask boards to come to the table with everything on the table.
Running this article at the same time as another discussing an increase in enrolment from initial projections could cause confusion and lead to those who've misunderstood the overall picture quoting from this to ask why reviews are needed in the first place. Key part--
(Superintendent Azima) Vezina attributed the surge to the 1,219-student kindergarten population which was an increase of 169 students over projections, including 150 additional JK students and 19 additional SK.
Eight half-day JK classes have been added.
"We continue to experience declining enrollment but at least now it is a slower rate than in recent years," said Mario Turco, director of education, at the conclusion of the meeting.
What's missing from the piece is what the overall decline is. The projected enrolment was lower than actual, but how many fewer students does the board actually have in this preliminary count versus the 2008-09 school year? That information is needed to put this increase above projected enrolment into the proper context. The ADSB is still a declining enrolment board.
Alliance exec to meet with Simcoe County board
The Barrie Examiner had this Wednesday on a pending meeting between Simcoe County Warden Tony Guergis, Springwater Township mayor (home to Elmvale DSS) and Community Schools Alliance executive member, and the Simcoe County District School Board.
The SCDSB was unable, after several lengthy meetings in June, to reach a decision on the fate of five high schools in northwest Simcoe County that had been part of an almost two-year review. The communities in Midland, Penetanguishene, Elmvale, Stayner and Collingwood await the vote on the fate of secondary school education in a huge swath of the county, hopefully at the end of this month.
In the meantime, Guergis will meet with the board of trustees. From the article:
"With the board of trustees, this will be our first actual discussion about this," said Diane Firman, chairwoman of the Simcoe County District School Board. "This alliance is new to us, (but) our goal is to find the best strategy to help every kid and our municipalities, as well. I think we're on the right path."
Trustees approved a motion in June, accepting Guergis' offer to join forces to meet with Wynne to discuss funding levels for the local school board, which are among the lowest per capita in the province.
Guergis called the funding levels "ridiculous," particularly in a rapidly growing area such as Simcoe County, which covers an area the size of Prince Edward Island.
"This is a fast-growing region with lots of issues," he said. "But our taxes are subsidizing other jurisdictions. Are we getting bang for our buck?"
Firman said board funding levels are below average, but the figures aren't that far out of whack.
"Those numbers are certainly something our staff has been looking into," Firman said. "The difference is not huge, not gazillions of dollars."
Both Guergis and Firman say the public school board and local municipalities have a good working relationship, but the warden wants to see it strengthened.
"There are lots of places they're seeing school boards won't even talk to (municipalities), so we have a good rapport," he said.
Firman said she believes the public school board has a positive relationship with local towns and townships, and the two cities.
"We want to continue that," Firman said, adding the Simcoe County school board's relationship with local municipalities is "absolutely different" than some of the others in the province, which are decidedly strained.
This is the second such meeting I'm aware of, with an August meeting of Middlesex County attended by Thames Valley District School Board director of education Bill Tucker. So here's what I'm curious about-- what did Simcoe County, or its lower-tier municipalities of Midland, Penetanguishene, Springwater Township, Collingwood and Clearview Township bring to the review other than their participation and criticism? Did they offer to partner with the board, cough up some capital dollars for renovations or leases, etc.? Or did they sit at the table and join the chorus of boos without adding anything to the discussion or the options?
If Guergis' meeting is going to be productive, he should be coming to the table not only with the Alliance's list of desired outcomes, but with something tangible to offer trustees that his municipalities are prepared to do in partnership. Otherwise, all we get is hot air that does nothing to change the realities that led to the northwest Simcoe review in the first place.
Alliance says thanks
Just a quick post— the Community Schools Alliance sent a letter recently to those municipalities who endorsed its summertime resolution to become members. The letter is over on my GoogleDocs. From the letter, authored by Southwest Middlesex Mayor Doug Reycraft:
We took this message directly to Education Minister Wynne during a recent meeting and in response to our concerns, the Minister provided us with a draft policy entitled “Encouraging Facility Partnerships”. While this policy is an important first step in addressing some of our concerns, it falls short of addressing our collective goal of protecting this vital component of our public infrastructure.
As a result, we need your help to encourage the Minister to implement a “smart moratorium” on disputed school closures by passing the attached resolution if you have not already done so.
The goal of the “smart moratorium” is to provide time for the Ministry, school boards and municipalities to work together to develop policies addressing issues such as planning for declining enrolments, a mutually agreed upon Accommodation Review Committee (ARC) process, a review of funding to rural and small community schools and establishing a working relationship between municipalities and school boards that is transparent and accountable.
The letter then provides a link to the alliance's website, where it has posted its Aug. 17 presentation, in addition to the cover letter and draft policy. See previous posts on those documents and the meeting here, here and here.
Here's what I'm waiting for:
A list of municipalities who've signed on and passed the alliance's resolution
The alliance's response to the draft policy, posted on its website
Details, details, details-- how does it see a redrafted accommodation review process that is 'more inclusive' of municipal wishes? How could a municipality's role change in the review process beyond what it may already be in many existing reviews? Etc.
This fall will see the creation of more reviews— how do alliance members intend to participate and proceed?
I doubt I'll ever get a response here, given the alliance frequently reads posts here and forwards them on to others but hasn't replied on the record to posts. Within my newspaper coverage my opportunity to do alliance stories isn't as broad as it may be elsewhere, given municipalities have accepted the disputed school closures here will go ahead regardless of anything they or the alliance might achieve. We're also at least a few months away from any review that would include a municipality that has become a CSA member.
Labels: accommodation reviews, not in the news, schools alliance
Safe schools?
The start of the new school year has brought with it a series of incidents in and around schools that prompt one to ask why these incidents are happening. What might be leading to this spike in violence in and near schools?
With the start of classes last week, several students were injured in a stabbing at Sir George Ross Secondary School in London. A man is stabbed outside a school in Toronto. This week, two students stabbed behind Bloor Collegiate Institute. Again in London, a school lockdown is initiated at Westminster Secondary School after reports of someone wandering the property with a handgun are received. Even today, reports are received of a man wandering through a Brampton elementary school with a shotgun.
The incidents prompt responses from the constabulary that schools are safe.
"Our schools are safe," (London Police) Chief Murray Faulkner said yesterday.
"But we have to keep in mind that schools are a reflection of a our society and we are seeing more and younger people involved in violence than ever before," Faulkner said. "It's not like the old days when two people have a disagreement and fight and maybe even become friends afterwards. Now there's a group mentality that kicks in where all the friends get involved. That then heightens the violence and the chance for more severe injuries."
The LPS is one of many that has school-based community resource officers, whose appearance in and of itself has drawn coverage and concern over the safety of schools, and in the linked example, whether their presence is the most appropriate option.
Are these incidents coincidental? Or are the symptomatic of a changing demographic? Or are school-based incidents simply being reported more frequently in the media than in the past?
Labels: in the news, school safety
Quick, create 100 more high school students!
News from the Standard posted Friday showing Niagara District Secondary School is still 100 pupils short of a 350-pupil goal set by trustees in the spring of 2008. If the goal isn't met by the Oct. 31 Ministry of Education count date, the original motion called for NDSS to close at the end of this school year.
The goal is business as usual.
“Obviously, we’re working towards that end,” Cockburn said. “We want the kids to have an extremely good year and the staff likewise. Everybody’s energized.”
Meanwhile, supporters are trying to come up with ways to give the school a reprieve.
Lord Mayor Gary Burroughs said he’s trying to meet with the director of the school board and chair of the board to introduce the town’s new CAO and find out what they have to say about NDSS.
He said he wants an extension to the Oct. 31 dealine.
The decision by District School Board of Niagara was a unique one when it came down just over 18 months ago. The community presented all of its rationale for why NDSS is a superior learning environment and could be even better with more students if the community and the school had a chance to do some real recruiting and boost enrolment. In the midst of covering my own review of a 250-pupil high school in a single-school rural community (far more rural and not at all as touristy as NOTL) where advocates had devised a boundary solution that would temporarily alleviate low enrolment, I advocated for similar flexibility in a column published in the early summer of 2008. No one listened to it on the local board, but 16 months later, I'm not that offended given the outcomes in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
NDSS supporters were given that chance-- but the school's enrolment has been hovering around the 250 mark for the 2008-09 and, but by the looks of it, 2009-10 school years. Below the target and the number some in the community said quite confidently they'd reach.
Burroughs told the Standard in 2008 the community would have no problem raising $100,000 a year to give entry scholarships to Grade 9 students-- I don't know if this actually happened, someone please enlighten me. Service clubs pledged their support. An IB program is coming to the school (it may be too late, as the school might close before the first IB credit starts) and even football was seen as a saviour. Friday's article speaks of a team itself too short on players to even compete.
From the same 2008 article, note the following prescient comment:
St. Catharines trustee Dalton Clark wasn't happy with the outcome. Demanding a certain level of enrolment puts the onus on the community, when it is the board's job to make tough decisions, he said. This decision means trustees "don't have to be the bad guys tonight.
"We can all walk away tonight with the crowd cheering us, but what are we putting on that community?"
So, here the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake now lies, with NDSS' enrolment being pretty darn near where its projections said it would be. The petition did nothing, the Community Schools Alliance and its 'smart' moratorium, even with two NOTL civic politicians on the executive committee, hasn't changed NDSS' fate. Not even screwing the school board out of a preferred site for a new Virgil school -- OMB hearing pending -- has changed anything about this outcome whose date is circled on the calendar. There still aren't enough students to meet the 350 target and erase 'last day of classes, ever' off the NDSS June 2010 calendar.
The community has failed in its efforts.
Could they do it with more time? I don't have an answer to that question.
It's one trustees will face this fall, likely, and it will be interesting to see how many remember Clark's words from 2008. Also interesting whether the result -- an extension, if granted -- would produce any different result, or just extend into some unknown future time the same arguments that are happening today.
Maybe someone will be able to turn up that recipe to instantly bake up some 14- to 18-year-olds. A dash of lethargy, a pinch of vanity, a smidgen of youthful exuberance... I know I had that formula around here somewhere. Where did I put it?
Good for some thought-provoking chuckles
This 'Canada Free Press' piece authored by a Manitoban social studies teacher caught the eye on a news alert earlier this week. I think the attempt here is to discredit the work of the government here based on the recent release of EQAO results.
The author criticizes the results, without any explanation as to what the EQAO provincial standard is -- see previous post here for more on that problem. Then, goes on to say:
Even more disappointing was the inadequate response from Kathleen Wynne, Ontario’s education minister. In an interview with the Canadian Press, Wynne acknowledged reason for concern. However, she went on to note the Ontario government has measures in place to address the situation. That includes reduced class sizes, more money for math and literacy coaches, and expanded availability of full-day kindergarten. Unfortunately, none of these measures are likely to result in better test scores for students.
He then picks apart each item.
There is indeed research that speaks to smaller class sizes and fuels the debate as to whether or not this is an effective way of improving how much students are able to learn. There were a few quiet proponents of this research when the Primary Class Size initiative was being implemented in the last six years, but most were school board officials who were struggling with the caps on its implementation. I've not seen a parent or student quoted in any media complaining about the class-size reduction.
His critique of coaches is these are redundant in schools that function well. However, not every school does and a coach approach is a way to ensure that officially, a teacher is designated to take on that role. It's also provided additional professional development to these teachers that many may not have had previously or through experience. In schools where that wasn't happening, the coaches make a huge difference.
Lastly, he points to those countries where full-day early childhood learning hasn't produced measurable improvements in student achievement. OK, fine, but it neglects the research conducted by Dr. Fraser Mustard and others since showing early learning does indeed have a significant impact on the development of our youngest citizens, along with its impact on society.
I think politics has again interfered with what could have been a much more rational examination of Wynne's statement and the government's policies.
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Circular loving
A link to my recently published column touching on several summertime posts and comments here on this blog. The column was written prior to the start of my nine-day hiatus Aug. 31 and focuses more on the early posts and discussions on the Community Schools Alliance.
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Bill 177 / provincial interest consultations
This bubbled up again while on hiatus and earlier this week, a short work week where we were short-staffed, so the ability to give this space some lovin' was compromised. Nonetheless, the media coverage of Bill 177 and the associated public interest regulation consultation which closed Aug. 31 has drawn commentary across the province.
Moira MacDonald wrote about the bill and the regulation consultation at the beginning of the month. The Ottawa Citizen came in a few days later, nicely timed with the start of Ottawa boards' second week of classes, with an article outlining Ottawa-Carleton District School Board chair Lynn Scott's concerns.
From the Citizen piece:
The new regulations will dovetail with Bill 177, introduced quietly last May and expected to get second reading this month.
Observers fear the changes would limit flexibility in the school system and threaten local democracy.
"The whole thing is troubling to many of us," said Lynn Scott, chairwoman of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and a 15-year veteran trustee.
"There are so many aspects of student success that are beyond a board's control. If funding is not sufficient to do certain things, whose fault is that?" she said.
From MacDonald:
Officially, Bill 177 is supposed to clear up the job descriptions for trustees, school boards and set student achievement as school boards' focus. But what the bill really means won't be known until the Liberals release its related regulations -- after the bill passes.
That big unknown is what's making the education sector squeamish.
Thanks to the discussion paper, they already know it will mean the government stepping in and taking over school boards that show "persistent problems relating to student achievement, effective stewardship, and good governance."
Real consequences for poor student achievement? You can see why trustees would be outraged.
School board feedback on the paper was due back to the province yesterday -- one reason boards are mad. They felt the province pulled a fast one by giving them only two months to consult on something with potentially dire consequences for themselves.
Both seem to forget one important facet of the regulation situation. Back in the spring of 2006, then-minister Gerard Kennedy laid the foundation for Bill 177 in Bill 78. It was seen through to Royal Assent by Sandra Pupatello, but this bill was the Liberals' first omnibus tweaking of the Education Act. Attention at the time was easily focused on the amendments Bill 78 made regarding trustee honoraria and student-trustee roles. It also included the New Teacher Induction Program, replacing the much-hated teacher recertification intro'd by the previous Tory government. However, it included a number of clauses allowing the government to set regulations on student achievement.
The Liberals just haven't set those regulations yet. Now, with Bill 177 moving through the Legislature, they've issued the provincial interest regulations. Some of these however, already have the legal authority to be implemented by cabinet thanks to Bill 78. This current bill takes the next step permitted by Bill 78 -- we can set standards for boards regarding student achievement, now we're telling you what the consequences might be for not meeting them.
The summertime consultation... yes, trustee associations have a point in their feedback. The Ontario Public School Trustees Association release and submission (which correctly ID these regs as pertaining to both bills) both speak to what could be conspicuous timing on the province's part. The Ontario Catholic School Trustees' Association hasn't posted its submission yet, if it indeed prepared one.
As a concluding comment, I'm not a big fan of legislation through regulation. Regs are easier to put into place as they are implemented by the 'Lieutenant-governor in council,' legislative jargon for the provincial cabinet. As such, they're not subject to the more public airing and debate that naturally happens when legislation is created through bills. So the legislature debates bills giving the government the power to then create and set the actual rules at the cabinet table.
Works great when cabinet's priorities are aligned with broad public opinion. Doesn't work so well when the cabinet's wishes run contrary to what people want or what actually works best.
Bluewater update #9
It's been a while since there was one of these, but some interesting information has come out in the past few days. First, Owen Sound reported a few days ago the Bluewater District School Board would take no further action against two staff members -- Alana Murray and Jean Stephenson -- despite a ruling from the Ontario College of Teachers' disciplinary committee.
Copies of the college's decisions previously obtained by The Sun Times said superintendent Alana Murray was to be admonished in writing by the college for "failing to acknowledge or attribute where the information was obtained to support an article associated with her that was published in the Nov. 2008 issue of Make it Your Business," a local chamber of commerce publication.
Superintendent Jean Stephenson, credited as co-author of the article, was to receive a caution in writing from the college "to exercise good judgment in all circumstances and is reminded that teachers are significant role models in our society."
The college said it was up to the board to decide if either woman should have stepped down.
This was followed up in the paper with a piece with the reaction of the original complainant, Peter Ferguson, who, no surprise, is disgusted the board is not disciplining its superintendents in any meaningful way.
According to board chairwoman Jennifer Yenssen, the trustees decided not to pursue any further action based on legal advice and the fact that the college didn’t recommend the matters go before a disciplinary committee.
“The college could have taken further action if they deemed it necessary, but they didn’t,” said Yenssen.
“Basically we interpret what happened to them as a warning. We now want to move forward realizing that plagiarism is a very serious issue.”
Yenssen added the trustees consider the college ruling to be a “dismissal” because it didn’t go before a disciplinary committee, despite the fact that both Murray and Stephenson were admonished and cautioned, respectively.
The trustees will now begin the process of developing a board-wide plagiarism policy that will also apply to Bluewater staff members. Currently, each school has a individual plagiarism policy that applies to students.
This has, again no surprise, drawn suitable reaction from the online community over at MendEd. It also provides another snapshot of the reasons why this board is in a quagmire -- having seen one trustee chair resign, a pair of fix-its appointed by the Ministry of Education, two mediated public sessions, the hiring of a communications officer and a report pending on Sept. 22. From how the board handled rotary instruction in the intermediate grades to this latest peek at staff members' inappropriate behaviour, the public's view into this board keeps getting better.
Especially since, apparently, the director of education and trustees at the BDSB believe it's OK to have their senior administrators -- supervisors and mentors to principals and those who set the tone for professional practice and instruction in all the board's schools -- plagiarize the work of others. In Bruce and Grey counties' public schools, employees are allowed to lie and pass off another's property as their own, and receive nothing more than a slap on the wrist and a wagging finger saying "you should have known better, don't do it again."
Ramping up from a refreshing nine-day hiatus, where I withdrew from posting here but was keeping an eye on various news alerts, etc.
For many across the province, this is the second week of classes. For the rest, today is the first day. First-day coverage is always an interesting read, though I delighted in reading the headlines noting absenteeism from those schools with a pre-Labour Day weekend start was relatively low. Simply another change that people dealt with.
Noted with interest today a series the London Free Press has started on the cost of school, speaking to all the little extras that families chip in for throughout the regular school year. I'm envious of the idea, which I won't replicate given our mutual coverage area, however-- I will note there has been some previous local reporting on school spending in Owen Sound this summer, here and here.
The first Free Press article is here and reporter Kelly Pedro is looking for a family she can follow throughout the school year, chronicling its school spending. Obviously, a family within the Freeps' coverage area (preferably London), which includes Oxford, Elgin, Middlesex, Perth, Huron and even a bit of Bruce counties.
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'Un-mappable' Great Barrier Reef finally mapped in 3D
From EOMap
German and Australian scientists launched a set of groundbreaking, high resolution, shallow water topography maps for the entire Great Barrier Reef.
These world-first digital maps of the coral reefs, using satellite derived depth (bathymetry) techniques, are a critical step towards identifying, managing and essentially preserving and protecting what lies within the waters of this global icon.
Project partner, Dr Robin Beaman of James Cook University, says the product is different to anything else available, as until this product, nearly half of the shallow water reef area on the Great Barrier Reef had not been mapped using modern digital surveys.
Dr Robin Beaman says the data provides a complete picture of the world's largest coral reef ecosystem.
"It's like a terrain map," he said.
"Google Earth is a good example, but in the ocean it's much harder to do.
"We use satellite images to look into the sea floor to about a 30-metre depth.
"Digital data is what's really critical in this day and age."
Dr Beaman says the data could provide policy makers and researchers with vital information needed to combat threats to the reef.
This includes measuring the impact of rising sea levels and helping to measure water quality and ocean currents.
A major study released in October 2012 found coral cover had been halved since the mid-1980s due to cyclones, bleaching and the crown of thorns starfish.
While these coral reefs are the most ecologically significant, they are also the most difficult to map due to being either too remote or because of their shallow nature, which makes them navigationally dangerous.
Instead of relying on traditional surveying vessels or aircraft to map the many 'un-mappable' areas of the reef, Germany-based aquatic remote-sensing company EOMAP used space-borne satellites to overcome these hurdles.
The result is the largest project of its kind ever conducted in Australia, and possibly the entire world. The 3D water depth maps have a 30m horizontal resolution over approximately 350,000 km2 of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and Torres Strait, providing not only more detailed individual reef data, but also a complete picture of Earth's largest coral reef ecosystem.
"This information is regarded as essential for any government or company involved with managing the reef environment," states Professor Stuart Phinn, University of Queensland, another partner on the project.
The EOMAP product will aid the 'big picture' assessments of the Great Barrier Reef including water quality modeling, measuring responses to both man-made and natural impacts, such as sediment transportation and tropical cyclones, and helping to predict the likely impacts of climate change effects, such as sea level rise and increased tropical cyclone frequency.
It will also help target priority areas for more detailed data collection, for example with the vast improvements this promises to ocean current modeling, scientists can model crown of thorn starfish larval trajectories to where they are next likely to inhabit the Great Barrier Reef.
"There is often a disconnect between research and industry, where researchers generally look at changes on individual reefs and habitats," comments Dr Nathan Quadros from the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, also a partner on the project.
"But industry want the overall picture of the reef -- this product brings the two together."
All of the mapped areas, no matter how small, are available for purchase by anyone via the EOMAP website.
A coarser product (500m spatial resolution) is also available, free of charge, together with sample data of the high resolution products.
Looking ahead, EOMAP has already demonstrated the viability of the next generation product: a 2m resolution version using DigitalGlobe's Worldview-2 satellite.
"Based on our trials, this promises to be an even more astounding product," says Dr Magnus Wettle, Senior Scientist at EOMAP.
"To be honest, I'd like to see the Australian Government partner with us on this, our next endeavor, so that it would belong to Australia as a national resource," he said.
"Having said that, our priority is to make it happen, so we have to be prepared to be pragmatic."
EOMAP last week received an award from Copernicus (the European Commission remote sensing peak body) for its work on making affordable aquatic remote sensing products for industry and the public sector.
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Working in Games
Interesting article over on the BBC about how even in games, you have to work for money. It’s a good article, if only because it has the line:
“It just seems ironic that our key leisure activity is so fixated with toil and earning, albeit through killing and stealing.”
I never really thought about this before, really. Most games do have some sort of earn/spend activity going on and it’s often fairly essential to the gameplay. Now there’s two ways of thinking of this — both intriguing. Either the game designers were so entrenched in the real world that they couldn’t conceive of a different set of dynamics (even when doing things earns you new weapons, armour, etc, there’s still a earn/receive dynamic), or they used this familiar set of rules to make the gameplay more intuitive to those playing. After all we all earn and spend money to some extent, even the gamers who hardly ever see the light of day.
So what is it? Great use of intuitive design or blind conformance to the rules of the world we live in? Does it matter?
Posted by Meri @ 4:31 PM on June 28, 2004
3 Responses to “Working in Games”
if by “earn/recieve” you mean “challenge/reward”, then thats somewhat essential to a game and one of the prime balances to get right. If you were constantly handed rewards in a game for sitting around picking your nose, then the rewards lose value and the game becomes dull. If you’re forever overcoming challenge after challenge without even a higher score to reward you, the game becomes unfun.
If, however, you were more pointing to how a lot of games incorporate money in one form or another, I think the advantage of that is it gives the player a more analogue choice. Rather than overcoming a challenge and being given a fixed reward (like a new attack), you can give them a large wad of currency and let them choose their own reward. This allows players to feel more unique, more in control and to appreciate *their* reward more.
If you were referring to how games make you toil and sweat blood for that reward, then thats good or bad, depending on how you like it. I liked Diablo immensely… until I realised it was 4 in the morning and I’d just spent the last week obtaining a slightly higher statted imaginary sword. That sort of game uses something closer to currency following a simple equation: Time = Money * Skill, where Skill is a variable very very slightly greater than 1.
I like my skill as a gamer to count for something, so unless that illusion can be maintained I don’t want to play Diablo-esque games. Some people don’t care for that though, and the sheer speed at which success in these things is accrued for their efforts (when compared to real life) is reward enough. Also, the fact that while life is unfair with lucky gits like me and talented people like you in it, a Diablo-esque game levels the playing field for everyone. An escape from real life that follows the same rules.
July 2nd, 2004 at 6:28 AM
The challenge/reward paradigm is of course essential to the entertainment value of the game. What I was discussing was much more the area of actual currency and the ubiquity of this in games, when it is very much a real world concept.
I appreciate what you are saying about the analogue choice, but it does make me wonder if games are doing this just because it is the only thing they can think of or if it is very clever use of intuitive design.
Can you think of examples where there isn’t arbitrary earn currency to buy & progress?
Elly Says:
July 2nd, 2004 at 2:57 PM
A lot of the first person shooter types (Half-Life, Doom, Quake, some of the Star-Wars games, etc etc) don’t have a currency as such. You have to get to the next stage in the game to get such and such a weapon upgrade or find the key to a particular door or whatever, but those are more plot elements than currency elements.
The same goes for a lot of puzzle style games (pretty much anything from the Kings Quest series or similar) where you collect the right objects in the right order as part of the plot but nothing more.
I think anyone who’s played most forms or role-playing game can join Tony in the ranks of people who played for hours solidly to upgrade a weapon or character so it does 2% more damage…. I know I have and I think that it’s part of what makes that style of game either highly addictive or totally unplayable.
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by Ed Beakley
1. The Pilot’s Story: Bruce Kallsen VA-115
[This is from the book THERE I WAS … Sea Stories from the U. S. Naval Academy Class of 1965, and e-mail exchange bewteen Bruce and myself .]
It was the 24th of October, 1972, and I and my Bombardier/Navigator (B/N), “Bix”, were returning to the USS MIDWAY in our A-6 aircraft from a night low-level bombing mission over North Vietnam. Life was as good as it could be under the circumstances – we’d flown a noncombat flight earlier in the day, a maintenance check flight which required 15 minutes of system functional checks, and then allowed two hours of acrobatic play amongst the clouds, while waiting for our recovery time on the aircraft carrier. We both commented it had been the most enjoyable flight of the cruise to date. In addition, Bix was to leave the ship the next morning on two weeks of well-deserved leave. This was Bix’s first combat cruise, my third, and we genuinely liked each other and enjoyed flying together. Bix was a quiet, well-built, and likeable individual who somehow played a decent guitar though hampered with pudgy wrestler-type fingers. He was an exceptional B/N and good friend. My own leave date was only a few days away. But this was to be a night recovery unlike any other, before or since.
Upon contacting the ship, we informed them we had two “hung” 500-pound bombs, ordnance we had tried in vain to drop. It was the ship’s call as to whether we brought the ordnance aboard upon landing, or jettisoned it at sea. The disadvantage to jettisoning was that it required jettisoning the Multiple Ejector Rack (MER) as well. The MER was a $5,000 piece of equipment that transformed a single wing station into one capable of carrying up to six bombs, and MERs were in short supply. Complicating the matter: the bombs were hung on station 5, farthest outboard on the wing. Their combined weight and moment arm put the aircraft right at the limit of maximum asymmetric load for an arrested landing. Since naval aviators as a group are quick to volunteer in difficult situations, decisions such as this were left to the ship/airwing/squadron representative, and were based upon the circumstances and individual pilot’s prior landing performance. The powers that be directed that we bring the bombs aboard.
The landing was further complicated by additional factors: There was no natural wind, so the aircraft carrier would have to create the wind over the deck through its own speed through the water. Since the landing area was angled 13 degrees to the left of centerline, this meant there would be a crosswind coming from the starboard side. Additionally, it was a dark, moonless night, with no discernible horizon, the bane of the naval aviator. Maintaining wings level on final approach would be a challenge. Also, the aircraft had been approved in the previous year for increased “maximum weight” arrested landings. The new limit was 36,000 pounds, vice the 33,500 pounds previously authorized. Our predicted landing weight was 200 pounds under the new maximum. Finally, the flight deck was “heaving,” slowly rising and falling with the swells of the sea. All night carrier landings are difficult, but this one would be especially tricky.
Night Carrier Landing: 3/4 of a mile “Call the ball”
Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world. They must be or there wouldn’t be any of them alive.
The approach to the ship was normal, and at 3/4 mile, Bix called the “ball,” indicating we had acquired the “meatball” landing aid and were commencing our visual approach. Nearing the midpoint of the approach, the ball went high, the LSO (Landing Signal Officer) called me high and I had already made the correction he was calling for to put us back on the optimum glide slope. Another “you’re high” call was made, and I corrected again. At the time I thought the second call was also from the LSO, but it turned out Bix had made it, something he had never previously done. The touchdown brought with it the immediate realization that things were not normal….WE HAD CRASHED!!
Unknown to us at the time, the starboard axle had sheared upon contact with the flight deck, and it was now an uncontrolled missile careening up the flight deck. The stub of the starboard landing gear was dragging on the flight deck, causing a pronounced right-wing-down orientation. My reaction was the normal for all arrested landings; I applied full power in the event the aircraft failed to engage the arresting wire. Unfortunately, the starboard stub caught the arresting wire, the cross-deck cable normally snagged by the tailhook. As the wire minimally slowed our forward progress, the aircraft tilted far over to the left, threatening to roll inverted. Flashes of being upside down under a burning aircraft crossed my mind, but as quickly as the crash had occurred, the wire slid down the length of the landing gear, and released its hold on our badly crippled conveyance. The aircraft fell back to a right-wing-down attitude as I continued my efforts to power the aircraft off the angled deck. It was apparent we were going too slowly to have adequate flying speed if we left the flight deck, but I felt we could get the aircraft off the deck and then eject. Unfortunately, the laws of physics demanded otherwise.
As the right landing gear stub continued in a howling screech to drag up the flight deck, it caused the trajectory of the aircraft to slowly arc to the right, out of the landing area, and into the pack of aircraft at the front of the flight deck. Immediately in our path was the F-4 just landed by our Air Wing Commander (CAG), with CAG climbing out of the cockpit. Undeterred I continued at full throttle, with the aim of shoving the F-4 off the flight deck, following it, and ejecting. Again physics intervened, and the result was the dismembering of the left wing and tail of my aircraft, and a forward displacement of the F-4, breaking CAG’s leg rather severely. By this time it was apparent our aircraft couldn’t leave the flight deck, so I shut down the engines to decrease the velocity and severity of our imminent impact.
During this chaotic ride, as my aircraft drifted out of the landing area, we entered the area of the flight deck occupied by previously landed aircraft and the personnel attending to them. The reactions of individuals confronted with my uncontrolled aircraft ran the gamut, from frozen disbelief as I ran them over to instinctive leaping to the side, apparently warned only by the sound of my screeching landing gear, or perhaps the abnormal vibration of its contact with the flight deck.
As all of this was happening, my awareness was rapidly closing down – initially I was concerned with the entire flight deck, the aircraft and personnel thereon, then I focused upon just my aircraft and the F-4 I hit, and finally I concentrated on just where my portion of the cockpit would come to rest. Undoubtedly, Bix was reacting in like fashion: the next events that caught my attention were two bright flashes to my right. I looked to the right expecting to see the bombs exploding; instead, I was shocked and angered by what I DIDN’T see … Bix was gone!! I couldn’t immediately grasp that he had ejected, and wondered how the heck he’d gotten out of this hellish ride. I have since been reminded that anger is the most common manifestation of fear, and it’s safe to say fear was riding that cockpit with me. Bix had obviously seen that his portion of the aircraft was going to impact a parked A-7 rather severely, he would undoubtedly be seriously injured, if not killed outright, and he decided to eject from the aircraft, although we were outside the then-limits of the ejection seat. Conversely, my little portion of the cockpit appeared headed for an opening between two aircraft, and it appeared survivable. I chose to ride it out. Our separate and individual decisions could easily have been reversed.
The aircraft came to a jarring halt as it struck the parked A-7s, crashing my remaining wingtip through the canopy of an A-7, leaving a furrow in the helmet of the squadron commander, who was unstrapping, having just parked his aircraft. He barely had the room to duck out of the wingtip’s path. In contacting the parked aircraft, the cockpit accordioned around me, squeezing the console between my legs together, and puncturing and confining my left leg. My first thought was to jettison the canopy, but pulling the jettison handle had no effect; it was no longer attached to the activating apparatus. Failing this, I pulled my ditching handle, which would release me from the ejection seat, but this left me attached to the seat pan upon which I sat and the survival gear it contained, a very cumbersome configuration for climbing out of and over aircraft in reduced visibility. Hurrying my efforts were the reflections of my tail aflame from the spilling hydraulic fluid and fuel. Finally, I unstrapped in the normal fashion, grabbed my left leg with both hands, jerked it from its confinement, and crawled out the hole left in the canopy by Bix’s unannounced departure.
In the meantime, the crash and rescue truck (every carrier had one after the ENTERPRISE fire of 1969, which I had observed from the air) had fallen in behind me as my aircraft careened up the flight deck with flames trailing from my broken fuselage. The brave crashcrew had the fire entirely quenched within 90 seconds, a testimony to their skill and courage.
Current-day CV Crash and rescue
Crawling over the A-7 and down into the catwalk, I hurried back to the island as the firetruck pulled up behind my aircraft spraying fire retardant foam. My main concern was to be sure the powers that be were aware Bix had ejected, apparently over the side, and a search must be commenced. I hurried to the island, down the ladder and into our wardroom. As our duty officer caught sight of me, the blood drained from his face, and he turned white as a ghost. He had assumed I was killed, and couldn’t believe his eyes. I urged him to report Bix’s situation, and sat for a few minutes collecting myself. As the adrenalin rush eased, my legs slowly began jumping uncontrollably, and a squadron mate accompanied me as I walked down to Sick Bay to attend to my injured leg.
Sick Bay was a bedlam of activity as the surgeons triaged the accident victims upon their arrival, seeing to the needs first of the most seriously injured. These were individuals with lacerations and broken bones caused by careening aircraft or their severed parts. One man had been refueling an aircraft as it was struck, breaking the fueling hose connection and immersing him in a spray of jet fuel, much of which he ingested, later succumbing to its poisonous effects. With a relatively minor wound, I was one of the last treated, having been given a Valium to calm me as I had witnessed the carnage. CAG was lying there with his broken leg, awaiting his turn at treatment. I took the occasion to apologize to him for the damage caused. He looked at me with a large smile, and said no apology was necessary. His injury was his ticket home and out of the war.
An extensive search was conducted for Bix, but he was never found, apparently having been pulled underwater by his parachute, a common occurrence in those days if one was unlucky enough to not free oneself from the parachute immediately upon water entry. Four other sailors were killed that evening by careening aircraft parts or fuel ingestion. I suffered a puncture wound and surprising muscle soreness from the exertion expended; but I was incredibly lucky. I sent a Red Cross telegram to my wife to let her know of my injury, and wellbeing; unfortunately, the ship had informed her I had injured my right leg, so when I reported my left was hurt, she assumed I was so traumatized that I couldn’t tell right from left. After ten days of recuperation, I started flying again, delaying my leave until after I had proven I would be able to continue flying from the carrier.
The aftermath: As with all aircraft accidents, an investigation followed to determine the cause. Also as in most accidents, more than one thing contributed to the mishap. Primary cause was the starboard crosswind was outside acceptable limits, and I should never have been allowed to land under those conditions. The crosswind contributed to the aircraft touching down in a right wing down attitude, causing the right axle to bear the major load from my asymmetrical bomb load. Additionally, the flight deck was coming up as I touched down, adding to the extreme nature of the event. Jettisoning the bombs and the $5,000 MER would have been very good choices in retrospect. Contributing also was the fact that my approach was not optimum; I received a “Fair” grade for the approach, equivalent to a B in academic terms, or perhaps a B-. A perfect pass might have prevented the accident, but the consensus was that, given all other factors, and primarily the extreme crosswind, the approach was probably impossible to be made in a safe manner …. little consolation for the deaths of five shipmates.
Night landings on an aircraft carrier were always extremely challenging, but prior to this mishap, they were sometimes fun and exhilarating, especially on moonlit nights. After this night, however, night carrier landings held a new dread, which never entirely left me.
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2. Anthrax & 330,000 deaths???
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II. [Part 3] Methodology – To the 'Ace' Level
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2. Adaptive Leader Methodology (ALM)
3. The Leader-Team Exercise
III. Crime and Fourth Generation Warfare – a really bad "intersection"
3. Champs (and a Bear) In the Middle
4. Survival on her own terms: Midway’s Magic
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Will Gingrich Bring White Supremacy Back to the White House?
Posted on January 25, 2012 by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Put “President” in front of Newt Gingrich and there’s an even chance “white supremacy” could be put in front of his presidential moniker. The suddenly surging Gingrich upped his racially loaded pandering scorecard with the resurface of a handwritten first draft of a series of talks he prepared in 1993 a couple of years before his ascendancy to House Speaker for his prescription for “renewing American civilization”. Gingrich initially scrawled that while Asians, and presumably whites, understood how to build businesses and acquire wealth, Latinos were sorely lacking in wealth and business acumen and blacks were even more hopelessly ignorant of what it took to succeed in the business world. Gingrich cited no figures, studies, or research to document his blatant falsehood. But he really didn’t need to for two reasons. By the time a member of Gingrich’s staff typed up the notes and prepared the speech for delivery at the National Review Institute, the racially inflammatory digs had been scrubbed out. By the time he delivered the talks they appeared to be racially neutered and came off as just Gingrich pontificating on the his stock tout of free enterprise, personal strength and values, American resolve, and America’s alleged technological superiority.
The other reason Gingrich’s racial pandering passed under the public radar scope is that the GOP had long refined the art of racial code speak. So Gingrich simply entitled his talks “the five pillars of American civilization.” It was understood that talk of values, strength, enterprise, and technology punctuated with the caption “American civilization” was a not so subtle way of boasting of the alleged paramount role of whites in building American civilization and the alleged drain on building American civilization by Latinos, and especially blacks.
Gingrich’s “American civilization” talks were more than bigoted, historically skewed pretensions of original thought and scholarship. They were talked up and more importantly acted out in House Speaker Gingrich’s full throated attack on welfare, entitlements, and supposed runaway big government spending, all allegedly by Democrats. The dots from these themes connected directly back to the notion that blacks and Latinos were economic ignoramuses and chronic feeders at the government trough and that they had utterly failed to pull themselves up through business and entrepreneurship. The conclusion was inescapable that blacks and Latinos were dragging the government into a hopeless sinkhole of poverty and spending waste and this in turn put the free enterprise system in grave danger. Gingrich struck gold in those themes at the time. And at the height of his congressional power was able to bring government to a near screeching halt and whipsaw President Clinton into pecking even harder at reining in welfare, health care and education spending, and at times out GOPing the GOP in his talk of the Democrats taking the lead in taking the burden of government off the backs of the white middle class, and not placating minorities.
We fast forward nearly two decades and Gingrich hasn’t missed a beat. He reached back and recycled some of the old coded racially front-loaded themes with his attacks on welfare and food stamps. And despite his profuse denials that tossing these terms out had anything to do with race, he knew full well that the stereotypes are so deeply ingrained in the popular mind that the prototypical welfare and food stamp grifter is poor, black, and female that it isn’t necessary as two decades earlier to put black or Latino in front of the words. The mere mention of welfare and food stamps instantly pricks the emotional hot buttons of millions of Americans who consider these programs prime examples of the Democrats and President Obama’s government giveaway to minorities.
One could cite fact after fact that the majority of food stamp and welfare recipients are white, and that the food stamp rolls increased more under President George W. Bush than Obama. But these are facts and they seldom get in the way of stereotypes. There is absolutely no danger that the press and much of the public will tar former President Bush with the label “the food stamp president.”
There’s as yet no solid evidence that Gingrich’s presidential resurrection from what was thought to be an entombed candidacy and his even more dramatic surge to the top in the South Carolina primary and his bolt to the front in some polls in the upcoming Florida primary can be attributed to his crude play of the race card. But given the dump Obama at all cost rabid fanaticism of many ultra-conservatives, Tea Party leaders and followers, and plain, old school bigots, racial pandering can’t be discounted as a factor in the headwind apparently gaining force behind Gingrich’s presidential bid.
If that’s the case, Gingrich will keep recycling and spewing out the shop worn racial code themes as the pathway to the GOP presidential nomination. If that’s so, white supremacy would surely be on that same pathway back to the White House.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. He is a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton Show on American Urban Radio Network. He is the author of How Obama Governed: The Year of Crisis and Challenge. He is an associate editor of New America Media. He is host of the weekly Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour heard weekly on the nationally network broadcast Hutchinson Newsmaker Network.
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Jane Austen vs. the Hoochie Mamas
Posted on January 23, 2012 by Gail-Tzipporah Saunders
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The Trauma of Turning 40
Posted on January 22, 2012 by Jonathan Dobrer
I kept waiting for the trauma of turning forty to kick in. I’ve been waiting with curiosity now for 27 years and it, like a Trojan Horse in a computer, is finally doing its job of delivering a sense of mortality to the door of my soul. Forty, when I reached it, did not seem old or even middle aged. Yes, it had a zero, but it was no big deal. I enjoyed all the jokes about when Mozart was my age he’d already been dead for 5 years. Forty was just a good time for a party. I handled forty with joy, grace and equanimity.
So, why, you may well wonder, is it hitting me so hard right now? Do I feel particularly aged and decrepit? Has my step lost its spring? Has my memory noticeably deteriorated? The answers are: “No. No. And I don’t remember.” While I’ve had my share of medical issues and aches and pains, they don’t make me feel old. Most of them started in my youth and came from sports. So when my back is killing me and I feel the scars and holes from three back surgeries, I feel young and remember when it all started so many years ago on the football field at Beverly High when my teammate tackled me and broke my coccyx.)
I think the only medical procedures that promoted my sense of age were my two cataract surgeries. Before I had them, I could gaze in the mirror each morning and through the blurred and hazy filter of my cataracts see, or rather not see, my real face. Clearing my vision was great for seeing colors and reading in less light than previously required. But it also removed the plausible deniability of my aging process. I’m not at all sure that Bobby Burns was right and “what a giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us!”
The actual cause of my feeling the years passing so swiftly bye is that my son, Adam, is turning forty on the 28th. I can handle being forty but my son? How is this possible? He was born yesterday. I remember so clearly my first glimpse of him as he was pulled kicking and screaming into the light–breach and sunny-side up. He mooned me! Only the next day I saw him take his first hesitant step. The day after he acted out his first pun when I asked him to bring me a pear and he brought me two–a pair of pears. His smile indicated he knew just what he was doing at the age of four! Only moments later at age nine, while we were on sabbatical and living in France, did I listen with feelings of great pride, mixed with horror, as I heard him cursing in fluent French as he played Flipper (Pin Ball) in the local caf with the local kids.
Maybe a week went bye when I watched him with undiluted pride direct his high school choral group. Seemingly the next day he went off to the university, got his own apartment then returned to France for his junior year–perfecting his remarkable language abilities, inherited from his mother. One of my first, and most popular, essays chronicled my vicarious enjoyment of his French adventure by seeing what he was doing and where he was travelling, not from his letters but from the credit card bills.
Only seconds later he graduated the university, went back to France, came home–well not to my home but to California–met the spectacular Su-Yun Paik, got married and produced two remarkable and perfect granddaughters, Roxie and Iris. Yeah, I know he believes he had daughters but my cohort all understand he had granddaughters. And grand they certainly are.
I think the passage of time hit me when Adam was telling me how busy he was: commuting to his job (a job too technical for me to understand), coming home, helping with cooking and the girls and then going off to band practice and returning home late before having to get up early. Hearing myself cautioning that he needed to take care of himself because he wasn’t as young as he once was shocked me that this might apply also to me.
My forty was child’s play, while his forty cues the musical score: Sunrise Sunset
Is this the little boy at play? I don’t remember growing older, when did they? Sunrise sunset, swiftly fly the years.
Swiftly indeed, beautifully in fact and as it should be. Happy Birthday!
2012 Jonathan Dobrer
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President’s State of the Union Speech Will be Under Fire–Again
Before President Obama uttered a word of his second State of the Union Speech last January, he heard the loud chorus of criticism, attacks, denunciations, and just plain boos from the usual suspects. That is GOP officials, Tea Party leaders and followers, and the pack of professional Obama loathers, the right wing bloggers, talk show hosts and websites. This year won’t be any different. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels will give the official GOP response. He’ll hammer Obama on the usual GOP hit points that Obama and the Democrats, are guilty of alleged rampant government spending and waste, imposing crushing taxes and regulations that supposedly hamper business, and for a rudderless, dead-end policy on jobs and the economy. There’s even a plan this time for Herman Cain, that’s right the virtually forgotten and disgraced Herman Cain, to give the Tea Party rebuttal to the president’s address.
Though Obama wisely hasn’t dropped a hint of what he’ll say in his Third State of the Union Address, it doesn’t much matter. The reasons for the pre and post speech attacks are the same. The State of the Union speech is in effect a sort of de facto report card on the past accomplishments, and the present and future planned initiatives of a presidential administration and the president’s vision for the country.
The stakes, though, are much higher this year than last. It’s an election year, and Obama’s popularity approval ratings have wildly see sawed back and forth between a plus and a minus. And with jobs and the economy being the GOP’s stock hit issue on Obama and with a majority of Americans preoccupied with the economy, his speech is both an economic and political campaign referendum on what and how Obama will deal with both issues in 2012 and if reelected for the next four years. But it’s the reelection issue that looms largest in the hawk like watch from Obama’s GOP opponents on his State of the Union speech.
The State of the Union Address is every president’s time to shine. GOP and Democratic presidents have always been keenly aware that their Democratic and Republican opponents know that State of the Union Addresses boost the stature, prestige, and power of the presidency, and usually bumps up the president’s approval rating by a point or two. They also know that the opposition’s response to the speech is feeble, pale, and little watched or counted by Americans. One can only imagine how dismal the ratings will be on Cain’s “rebuttal” to Obama.
The history of the State of the Union speech underscores the power to shape policy and bolster the president’s image. President James Monroe announced the Monroe Doctrine in 1823. In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln flatly called for the end of slavery in the rebellious states. This was the prelude to the Emancipation Proclamation he issued a year later. Woodrow Wilson warned of the dangers of impending war in 1913. Franklin Roosevelt outlined the famed Four Freedoms in 1941. Lyndon Johnson unveiled the outlines of his Great Society program to fight poverty in 1965. Bill Clinton unveiled his health care reform plan in 1993. George Bush in his State of the Union speeches in 2002 and 2003 prepped the nation for the Iraq invasion. Presidents quickly latched onto the media to give their State of the Union speech more exposure and political wallop. Calvin Coolidge gave the first radio broadcast in 1923. Truman gave the first televised broadcast in 1947.
Obama almost certainly will survey his administration’s foreign policy, war on terrorism, immigration reform, and health care accomplishments. But it’s the thorny problem of jobs and the economy that’s still the prime issue. No matter what Obama says about it, whether he restates his repeated calls for more investment in infrastructure projects, an end to Bush’s tax cuts for the rich and more spending on education, technology and green energy projects. Or, he goes big as some clamor for him to do, and propose sweeping overhauls in the tax code and massive new job spending projects, the GOP knives will dig hard into his political flesh and belittle his accomplishments and blast away at his proposals.
GOP leaders will do as they’ve done in his prior two State of the Union addresses and loudly shout that he’s giving a partisan State of the Union speech that’s tantamount to a reelection campaign stump speech that does nothing to allay the fears and worries of Americans about the country’s economic malaise. But that’s just GOP attack talk that rams even more politics into the State of the Union address. The days of a differential, somber and respectful listen to the president’s State of the Union address are a thing of a nostalgic bygone past. Obama’s state of the union speech will be no different than his other two. It will be under intense fire again.
The Virtuosity of Newt Gingrich
You have to admire the virtuosity of Newt’s debate performances, particularly last night. He feigned outrage at John King’s question about Mrs. Gingrich II’s allegations of wanting an “open marriage.” But it had to be asked, and Newt knew it. It could have hovered in the air while all waited and the tension built or it could lead off and give Newt the chance to hit it out of the park. Thus did King give the headline, the sound bite and the debate to Newt.
Newt did predictably what he has done systematically and that is attack the question, its formulation, importance, the questioner and the “elite media.” He actually owes King a thank you note for this gift. Beating up the media for a politician is as challenging as the high school football team mugging the audio visual squad. We’re sitting ducks–even when aiding the candidate by pitching a slow ball over the plate in the form of an inevitable question.
The factual irony of the timing of the question is quite rich. ABC, which had done the interview with Mrs. Gingrich II, was going to put the interview on hold till after Saturday’s election, but could not after Matt Drudge, of the Drudge Report, broke the story and put it into the headlines and public discussion. Matt Drudge, it must be noted, is not a part of the so-called “liberal elite media,” but a conservative muckraker.
While there is no case for honoring Newt’s virtue, his virtuosity in verbal Ju-Jitsu is astonishingly good and entertaining. His instinct for the jugular and his willingness to go for the somewhat lower testicular, make for great anticipation and viewing. He is quick, incisive and immensely entertaining. His grandiosity, lack of discipline and race baiting make it impossible for me to seriously consider him for the presidency, but his intelligence is obvious. So, while there is much I dislike about Newt, on the subject of debates, you really have to hand it to Newt. And John King did.
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Firearms, hand grenades and public housing
Posted By On June 16, 2010 @ 7:06 pm In Governor's Office,Legislature,State Government | 4 Comments
Legislation aimed at allowing firearms in public housing continues to draw criticism and confusion.
In March, Rep. John Atkins and Sen. Joe Booth filed legislation they said was intended to get the state in line with the U.S. Constitution and allow firearms in public housing. The National Rifle Association has filed a lawsuit seeking to eliminate the prohibition on guns in state public housing.
Gov. Jack Markell came out strongly against the bill, saying as it would written it would undo nearly all prohibitions on guns and allow weapons in day cares and on school buses.
The bill sponsors claimed letting guns onto public playgrounds was never their intention.
So today, Atkins presented an amended version of the bill that specifics "public housing authorities." (Read it here. [1]) The bills was released from committee with little discussion and is now eligible for a vote on the House floor.
But Markell's administration still isn't happy with the bill.
When first asked why Markell would veto it in its current form, his spokesman Brian Selander said the legislation simply authorized "arms" and would allow explosives and grenades into public housing.
But state law already bans [2] the possession of explosive weapons.
About 30 minutes later, Selander retracted his comments.
When asked why oppose the bill if illegal guns wouldn't be permitted, Selander explained in an e-mail that the legislation would affect "not just public housing."
"The bill as written would stop any public body from prohibiting firearms, including semi-automatic weapons, in places like common areas, playgrounds and community centers," he wrote.
But the legislation states the prohibition on gun regulations applies to "dwellings" and "transporting" to said dwellings.
"Sure – going directly off the bill," Selander responded when asked about the dwelling specification. "The bill as written is still too broad. As written, it still prevents housing authorities from putting in place any prohibitions on arms, including semi-automatic weapons, from common areas like playgrounds, day care centers and community areas in public housing. The bill needs to give authorities specific authorization to prohibit firearms in those areas."
URL to article: http://blogs.delawareonline.com/dialoguedelaware/2010/06/16/firearms-hand-grenades-and-public-housing/
[1] Read it here.: http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/7d9d12462288129f852568a500018e7d/eeb8cbe512243bfc852577190070cc81?OpenDocument
[2] state law already bans: http://delcode.delaware.gov/title11/c005/sc07/index.shtml#1338
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Our Partners. Blackpool | United Kingdom. The 2020 British Open and Junior Dance Festivals have now been rescheduled for 2021. 'Possessor Uncut' conquers Sitges 2020 and Paco Plaza recieves the Career Méliès Award. Double Golden Members’ Memories. 1,024 Followers, 1 Following, 35 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Blackpool Dance Festival (@blackpooldancefestivalofficial). Tune in to dunk!radio. Reveja a Grande Final do Festival da Canção 2020. sortuj według. TM + © 2020 Vimeo, Inc. Street Art. Part pro camp part vacation. The Blackpool Dance Festival is the world's foremost annual festival with a history dating back over 96 years which held in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, England since 1920. Tune in to dunk!radio. Dance event in Blackpool, United Kingdom by Live Blackpool on Saturday, May 16 2020. If you would like to transfer your admission tickets to the new dates please email: [email protected] 7:00 - 8:00pm. The second Blackpool Dance Festival has been officially launched in Shanghai with the announcement of a new headline sponsor also revealed following a visit to the region by Michael Williams, Managing Director of Blackpool Entertainment Company Limited (BECL), operators of the Blackpool Winter Gardens and Blackpool Dance Festival. Everything you wanted to know about competitive dance world and dancesport. Blackpool Dance Festival 2019 Angleterre - Blackpool. 2011 Blackpool Dance Festival Pro Latin - Cha Cha Final. Blackpool Dance Festival Tickets. První ročník proběhl v roce 2011, v minulém roce účast přesáhla 5500 lidí. Blackpool Illuminations 2020 Switch On - with Visit Fylde Coast. Blackpool Dance Festival has an incredible history for over than 80 years, and each year the level, which couples demonstrate of the dance floor raise with unstoppable speed. Fact Philippine Daily Life. 2011 Blackpool Dance Festival Pro Latin - Rumba Final. Results, photos, galleries and information about couples and dance competitions Dance competition Results from Blackpool Dance Festival 2019 - Senior Ballroom 24. You may also like. The Blackpool Dance Festival is the world's foremost annual festival with a history dating back over 97 years which held in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, England since 1920. Tue, Jul 28 UTC+01 at Winter Gardens Blackpool. 36th english riviera international festival: blackpool dance festival 2018: 2018 starlight cup: blackpool pro-am festival 2018: blackpool teacher student festival 2018: ndo nk 2018 oldenzaal: glitterball classic 2018: taiwan college championship: east of ireland awards day 2018: 3e debutanten wedstrijd: singapore dance championships 2018. Финалисты Junior Blackpool Dance Festival 2015, Juvenile Jive Финалисты Junior Blackpool Dance Festival 2015, Junior (U14) Ballroom Финалисты Junior Blackpool Dance Festival 2015, Junior (U16) VWaltz. 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The first Blackpool Dance Festival was held in 1920 in the magnificent Empress Ballroom in the Winter Gardens where it is still held to this day, always on the last week of May each year. 07 August 2020. Announcement updates: line up & benefits. Every year, the most important international artists representing many musical genres (hip hop, rock, pop, electronica & more) come to Gdynia to perform. 2019 Dutch Open Dance Festival & Congress 04-10 Nov 2019. Blackpool Dance Festival, Blackpool. 3 days full of workshops, shows, competitions and parties. While we wish we could have been dancing til dawn on the farm with you, this weekend has Who says you can't have fun while changing the world? We don't just want to be the best festival. Because it’s Blackpool Dance Festival Time!!! E very year, hundreds of couples from all over the world are coming to one place for one purpose: To compete at one of the oldest and most prestigious dancesport competitions in the world – Blackpool Dance Festival. We hope you will enjoy the fantastic online programme that has been created. Dance Billboard ⋅ Links, World Dance Links ⋅ blackpool ⋅ No comments. Now including all Hay Festival Digital events with interactive Q&As from the world's greatest writers and thinkers. Blackpool Dance Festivals Rimandato. Organized by professionals, the Blackpool Dance Festival attracts more than 3. Kick start your 2020 festival season with us as we return. The Junior Blackpool Dance Festival The Blackpool Junior Dance Festival has been running since 1947 with young dancers from all over the World visiting Blackpool to compete. The European Dance Championships in association with the DPA and WDC AL is now from 15th to 17th Oct (original dates 10-12 Apr) The Blackpool Junior Dance Festival is now from 31st Aug to 4th Sep (original dates 16-19 Apr) Blackpool Dance Festival is now from 25th Aug to 6th Sep (original dates 16-29 May) Read more on official Blackpool website. Back in 1981 when the legendary Wigan Casino All Nighter closed it’s doors for the last time, as a resident DJ there , I could only have dreamed that my vision to bring this magical music to so many thousands of Northern Soul fans at the most famous dance venue in the world back in 2006 would eventually become a reality. POOL 20 presents a selection of fascinating dance film productions from all over the world, making the event a platform for creative minds in the fields of POOL 20 präsentiert eine Auswahl faszinierender Tanzfilmproduktionen aus aller Welt und ist eine Plattform für Kreativschaffende aus Tanz, Film sowie. Blackpool Online Festival of Dance - Monday 26th October Session 2. Blackpool's Biggest & Best Show Night Out - Viva Blackpool! Enjoy a great meal, an amazing show featuring dazzling showgirls laugh out loud comedians, tributes and touring concerts we guarantee spectacular nights out. Blackpool, blackpool dance festival Aug 22, 2020. com BLACKPOOL DANCE FESTIVAL OFFICE: Tel: +44 (0)1253 625252 Fax: +44 (0)1253 299347 The Winter Gardens Blackpool Lancashire FY1 1HW England [email protected] 31/05/2018 BLACKPOOL 2018 Results Senior Over50 Latin:. Strictly Come Dancing: Blackpool special cancelled for 2020. Blackpool Education Competition Consortium 어제 오전 2:11 · Good morning - The details for Sunday session 20 will follow Early Saturday afternoon and for session 21 early Saturday evening - Log in for Under 8 under 10 Under 12 for session 20 will be 08. Nataraj Dance Stage. Regulations of the National Film Schools Competition 01. May Blackpool Dance Festival. Blackpool Tower Ballroom. World Architecture Festival and awards is the world's largest, live, inclusive and interactive global architectural awards programme and festival. A digital dance festival is to replace an annual event at one of the country's best known ballrooms. Nationwide Medallist of the Year Ballroom & Latin Finals 2020. Save these fantastic moments with you in a professional quality and bright colors!. Get all the latest PierJam Blackpool: Part One 2020 info now. It is a multiple-stage. This May would have marked the 100th year of Blackpool Dance Festival, however with the current COVID-19 pandemic this has now been postponed until 25 August - 6 September 2020. The 8-day Blackpool Dance Festival is the world's first and most famous annual ballroom dance competition of international significance, held in the Empress Ballroom at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, England since 1920. In 2013, the May festival – one of five major Ballroom Dancing events held each year at the Winter Gardens – attracted a massive 2,923 entries from 60 countries. There is a Blackpool Dance Festival at the Winter Gardens 23 to 30 May. This competition is a part of May Blackpool Dance Festival. If you would like to transfer your admission tickets to the new dates please email: [email protected] Buy festival tickets, check out the latest lineup, news, information, event details and more today. Get all the information about the festival!. Blackpool Dance Festival 2017 Engeland - Blackpool donderdag 25 mei 2017 This competition is a part of May Blackpool Dance Festival. Bea World Festival - The International Festival of Events and Live Communication - is the essential meeting place and networking event for the international event community. A modern music festival of epic proportions in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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The Last of Freemount's blacksmiths was Johnny Crowley who had a forge for many years at Walshe's Cross. His first forge was set up on site which is now part of Community Centre car park.
It was during the War years that the forge became indispensable, especially to the farming community. Johnny would shoe horses, make and repair gates and repair all types of machinery often working late into the night.
The quality of his craftsmanship was renowned throughout north Cork. Johnny Shod his last horse in 1975 when the forge closed forever.
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Of Beautiful Women and Other Disturbing Issues
Sunil K Poolani
The Ugliness of the Indian Male and Other Propositions
Mukul Kesavan
Rs 295; Pages 302
It’s an unpardonable mistake from my part. Not having read Mukul Kesavan much, earlier. Part of the reason being his columns and his occasional writings (I missed reading his three earlier books: Looking through Glass, Secular Common Sense and Men in White) that used to appear mainly in the still-venerable Calcutta-based Telegraph rather than the Bombay rags that are only interested in showing Sania Mirza’s bare thighs than carrying pieces by Kesavan who, in one of the essays in the book under review, observes: “Sometimes [Sania] gets fed up with the attention she gets and asks to be left alone, to be given the room to be just an eighteen-year-old.”
For the uninitiated, which is unlikely if you are a reader of this magazine, Kesavan, who presently lives in Delhi, teaches “history, reads fiction, and has a particular interest in cinema, cricket, and politics”. Predictably, this collection of essays, which had appeared in publications like the Telegraph and Outlook among others, mainly touches on these topics.
But the main toast of the collection is the first section, ‘Looking’, arguably the best, save some of his travel writings and two on the media. In ‘Cine Qua Non’ he makes a valid point when he says the fundamental difference between (Hollywood) films and ours is that in Hollywood it’s all right for both heroes and heroines to be good-looking. His ‘find’ of ugliness of the Indian man does not stop there. In the title essay he makes a hilarious statement. “[The Indian male] uses [the index finger and the thumb] to adjust himself in public… You’ll never see women doing this, only men. It’s an important route to ugliness.”
Why is that, men, including me, are ugly? I believe men try to be macho and think they can get away doing dirty, offending mannerisms in public since they have the authority to preside over their women: in life, sex, family matters… They like to flash ornaments (think Bappi Lahiri, who wears more jewellery than his wife) and how much ever neatly they dress they wear the thick bands of rotting pink threads on till they discolour and fall off.
In another piece, the author is in awe of Konkana Sen, the actor, who “represents within Indian cinema the prospect of properly pan-Indian actors who have the intelligence, the linguistic ability, and the mimetic genius to plausibly inhabit the skins of characters from parts of India that are not their own.” He analyses two of her films, Omkara and Mr and Mrs Iyer, to drive this point home. Rightfully so. Never thought of it, though.
One has to admit that Kesavan has this uncanny gift of vividly narrating an issue threadbare, without being nasty, though highly subjective at times, with the aid of his experience as a historian, and with a Biblical simplicity. This is highly appreciated when he writes on politics and religion, where a minor casualness can kill the whole credibility of the writing.
One of the best pieces in the volume is ‘The Men of Madras’. Though he is unabashedly in admiration with the city and its people (he was visiting the city after twenty-two years, mind you) he thinks it is another country, cut off from the ineptitude and lethargy of say the cities of Bihar or Uttar Pradesh. He likes the food, he likes the people in Madras, he looks around the city in wonder, and when he goes back home, with a full stomach and an happiness-brimming mind, what he fears is that will one day the South secede from the subcontinent, for subsidising the laid-back BIMARU states.
One of the brilliant observations he makes is, “Sitting in a plane where the world isn’t north or south but simply below, it becomes clear that geography isn’t a subject, it’s a conspiracy. Mercator’s maps are a plot; they pump Europe up to the size of a continent and shrink India to the size of France… Why should England be North and Sri Lanka South?” Any objection? Not at all.
Travelling interests us all, so does travel writing, and Kesavan has a good section devoted to just that. Though I did not particularly like the piece ‘Antiquities of Egypt’ where he travels with Amitav Ghosh to see the hidden mysteries of that ancient land, another one, ‘Bathing in Istanbul’ is like a dream come true. Reading it we are virtually taken to a swift journey through the lovely, ancient capital city of Turkey, describing the richness of it; ruing, though, by drawing parallels, how badly India maintains its national heritages and monuments.
Another exotic piece is a junket to Australia he undertakes where he finds time to visit the most famous aboriginal place, the great red monolith Uluru. “The guides knew very little about Uluru… because it was what the Anangu considered a male site and their lore about it was kept secret from outsiders and even uninitiated aborigines.” What if he learnt anything, it is “the idiot’s introduction to geological time”.
The section on ‘Reading’ has, regretfully, ponderous essays: one on ‘Fiction and History’ (which does not reach a point); ‘History and Whimsy’ which unnecessarily praises Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown which to me, and several others, is an utterly boring joke; and ‘The Jews of Georgette Heyer’ (meanders). But there are two magnificent essays in this section: one on, why when American papers like to go local, Indian papers like to go national; and the second one on how the Net has changed the newspaper reading habits but people in the West prefer to read columns which are not Web-exclusive.
Then comes the vitally important section of the volume: ‘Politics’. In ‘My Emergency’ he talks about his personal experience and his father’s meeting with Maneka Gandhi. “She was the editor of Surya India, an Emergency rag, now deservedly dead… No one wanted any attention from that family: not from the mother, the son, or even his wife.” But the meeting turned out to be (a)harmless chat about libraries.
In another essay he argues South Asia will begin to make collective sense when India’s neighbours are remade by the idea that made India, while in another he emphasises that “the scale of American virtue — its extraordinary freedom, its myriad careers open to talent, its appetite for improvement — is usually invoked to put America’s failings into context”.
Talking about the Iraqi crisis he rightly points out that “the Iraqis need time and a common enemy so they can dissolve the politics of identity in the vague consolations of anti-colonialism”. It is not gibberish, but a cruel testimony of today’s multi-polar world. You may disagree with this stand in ‘The Defence of the West’, though: “To single out Muslims for special attention is fine because religious profiling is not the same as racial profiling… Liberals shouldn’t make the stupid mistake of equating Muslims with dark-skinned Third Worlders.” How righteous this argument is, is open to discussion.
In ‘Veiled Insinuations’ he touches upon a delicate issue: “The burqa [in the traditional families’] view was viewed as an enabling garment, a form of insurance that allowed anxious conservative parents to send their daughters out into the world.” This is a topical issue, now, since the French President wants to ban that piece of cloth in his country. Kesavan, it looks like, is particularly concerned about this issue because he teaches at Jamia Millia Islamia, founded and nurtured by Muslims.
An essential essay in this impressive volume is ‘A New History of Indian Nationalism’ where his skills as a historian come to play. While lucidly analysing the role of Muslims in the Freedom Struggle, he cleverly sums up thus: “One of the mistakes the Congress made in the 1930s and the 1940s was to imagine that its good intentions in the matter of pluralism and secularism were enough to make it representative of all India.” This argument is becoming more and more important to be addressed at in today’s polity of perniciousness and religious intolerance.
In ‘How Pluralism Goes Bad’ he says Sardar Patel was venerated for his work of territorial consolidation because it addressed this anxiety at a time when the young nation seemed fragile. The problem, he discovers, is that the history of republican India is the history of a state which, when pushed, will recognise every sort of identity — linguistic, tribal, even religious — for the sake of pluralist equilibrium and political peace. This assessment may not find many takers from across the political spectrum, but I have to admit it that it is true.
The biggest article in this volume is ‘Secular Common Sense’, which was earlier published as a pamphlet by Penguin. Since this essay is a book by itself and it will take another long review to explain it, it is succinct to put that what Kesavan likes us to believe is: “In India today, secularism often appears to be a form of Hindu chivalry… Muslims are seen as victims of Partition and the prejudices that it institutionalised.” To substantiate this view, he lucidly examines the history of India, the Congress’ appeasement of the minorities, the Muslim point of view, the despicable act of the Babri Masjid demolition, the rise of the Hindutva, Dalit issues and even the Kashmir imbroglio. Well written.
Some of the interesting essays, according to this reviewer, are the ones on cinema. Particularly likable is ‘Urdu, Awadh, and the Tawaif: The Islamic Roots of Hindi Cinema’. Kesavan enlightens us that it is ironic but true that Hindi cinema is the last stronghold of Urdu in independent India, its last haven in a sea of linguistic bigotry. “It is appropriate that this is because the Hindi film has been fashioned out of the rhetorical and demotic resources of Urdu.” Agreeable, if you ponder over it.
In ‘Patriotism at the Pictures’, though Kesavan lays emphasis on the film Gadar saying it has the implications of communal conflict carefully sorted out, and the film “was so scrupulous in crossing the T’s and dotting its sectarian I’s is a tribute to the bred-in-the-bone pluralism of Bombay cinema,” I beg to disagree, find it naïve and also think the film was anything but a contrived attempt at pseudo-patriotism and a cheap attempt to rake in revenues.
Now I have to confess. This is a very difficult book to review — as in it covers several issues that are sometimes grave and other times frivolous (interesting, mostly, though), is a collection of essays culled out from several years of Kesavan’s writing and can even grapple with you due to a broader canvas. A smorgasbord, this collection is a reviewer’s nightmare but a reader’s delight. Particularly if you read it in several attempts: an essay a day.
Apart from sentences in one essay getting repeated in another, and some bit of typographical and grammatical errors, this is a volume you will always cherish: due to the mastery and beauty over the prose, the historical veracity in analysing facts and figures and, most importantly, the intellectual honesty.
A must read.
Hard bound, soft touch
There are books in hard cover, when most of them appear first in print. Then there are those paperbacks to cater to a ‘lesser’-audience that piggyback on the ‘hard’ part’s success. Then there is a class called coffee table books that target a discerning audience, to a cherished class, who treats them something like decorated showcase items. So, now, here we talk about the latter category of books that you would like to keep them on your table, when your kith and kin come home and savour brewed coffee. Test (taste?) ten:
New Delhi: Making of a Capital
Malvika Singh & Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Rs 1,975; Pages 240
A veritable visual celebration of and a treatise to a city most South Indians love to hate. The authors (Mukherjee: a renowned historian and an eminent journalist; Singh: a known journalist-publisher) are the perfect pair to give a ringside view of the city’s chequered past. Savour that with the visual research by the inevitable Pramod Kapoor.
Kishore Kumar: Method in Madness
Derek Bose
Rupa & Co
An impeccable movie writer analyses the mad genius of Hindi cinema: singer, actor, filmmaker, music composer, lyricist. But Kishore was also a miser, madman and troublemaker. Who was he then? This book attempts to provide an answer with a well-rounded picture of his personality and rare and lively pictures to supplement the text.
Islamic Art: The Past and Modern
Nuzhat Kazmi
Islamic art, not many Hindutva elements may agree though, has taken from other cultural traditions and has also given to different social structures and visual languages of the world. This invaluable book looks at the artistic output of the Islamic civilisation from the time of its inception to its interpretations in the contemporary world.
Occupying Silence
Devashish Makhija
Gallery Kanishka
Rs 495; Pages 40
This is a rich collection of full-colour plates of graphic-verse pieces, interspersed with miniature vignettes of a life of creative confusion. The works provide an insight into an observant mind, which skilfully dissect the experiences, laying bare the other side of real vision. Makhija’s are daily occurrences in our common world viewed with a completely different perspective.
Royal Enfield: The Legend Rides On
Price not mentioned; Pages 162
The Bullet is a legend and when it completes 50 years, it is a matter of celebration. The book meanders through many a highway and byway, while trying to answer pictorially why is it so loved by so many people globally: starting with the early days of the Enfield’s birth, at the Redditch Works, England, to the Enfield factory in Chennai, where it is assembled even today.
Coimbatore: The Emerging Indian Cosmopolis
Pictures: Stalin Ramesh and K Marudhachalam
Text: Shobhana Kumar
Esscom, Esslingen Coimbatore Association
A great effort to present Coimbatore as an emerging metropolis. The photographs are awesome, so is the writing. It is a clever and effective mix of the ancient and the present in vivid details: from the Perur temple that dates back to the Chola period to today’s shopping centres, restaurants, theme parks… The book, a guide to a visitor, will make the city-dwellers proud.
Sikkim: The Hidden Fruitful Valley
Parvin Singh & Yishey Doma
Prakash Books
Rs 1,295; Pages 90
Sikkim is a land of mystery and enviable charm. Any book on Sikkim will transport you to a land of bliss. The text by Yishey Doma supports rich photographs by Parvin Singh, a photographer who spent many years documenting life, customs, people and the beautiful landscapes of this tiny state of India. A virtual photography journey you will always cherish.
Sahyadris: India’s Western Ghats — A Vanishing Heritage
Santosh Kadur & Kamal Bawa
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
US $50; Pages 240
The Sahyadris are home to the most intact rainforests in peninsular India. Myriad species of flora and fauna live here, many of which are found nowhere else on earth, and countless of which are still being discovered. This book takes you to one of the last great places on earth: a place to be cherished, a wild heritage to be preserved for generations to come.
Tipu’s Tiger
Susan Stronge
This eye-catching book narrates the tiger’s travels from India to elsewhere, explaining how it has inspired artists and authors, and frightened or entertained the public since its first appearance in England. It also discusses the intriguing meanings of the many tiger motifs on Tipu’s personal commissions, from his jewelled golden throne and idiosyncratic weapons to the emblematic wooden semi-automaton.
The Indians: Interesting Aspects
Sumant Batra
Tara Press
When there is a plethora of books on India (ahem!), this comes as a whiff of fresh air: a humble attempt to showcase the extraordinary spirit of the Indians and a few interesting facets culled out from the daily lives of peoples this great country. A journey through rural villages and small towns which are preserving houses of civilisation, customs and traditions.
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Florida Lawmaker Invokes Hitler In Meltdown Over Her Proposed Kratom Ban
Kratom is a herb made from the leaves of Mitragyna species, a Southeast Asian tree related to coffee. It contains alkaloids that appear to activate opioid receptors in the brain and reduce pain. Although most opioids have sedative qualities, low to moderate doses of kratom serve as a mild stimulant. Kratom supporters tout these characteristics in claims that the herb can treat anxiety, depression and opioid addiction. Initial studies on kratom suggest it has the low potential for acute harm and possible therapeutic applications. Users acknowledge that kratom can lead to withdrawal or dependence after regular use, though they say these side effects pale in comparison to those associated with prescription opioids or heroin.
The science on kratom isn’t settled, however. And, as a largely unregulated dietary supplement, it hasn’t been subject to rigorous clinical tests that would define medicinal properties or risks.
Last year, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, citing concerns over the lack of regulation and isolated reports of harm to users, announced plans to make kratom a Schedule I controlled substance ― a category of drugs with the highest potential for abuse and no accepted medical purpose. The agency later backed down and awaits Food and Drug Administration guidance in determining how to proceed.
Jacobs, who has unsuccessfully introduced similar legislation in years past, told FloridaPolitics.com that kratom is a “scourge on society” that has led to deaths in the state. There don’t appear to be records of any deaths solely attributable to kratom in Florida ― or anywhere, for that matter. A 2016 report from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement found that kratom “does not currently constitute a significant risk to the safety and welfare of Florida residents.”
Like many kratom users, Ash was once addicted to opioids, which she’d been prescribed for pain stemming from Lyme disease and its complications. She now uses kratom regularly and said it gives her energy and pain relief, without the side effects of narcotic painkillers.
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Reviews of Mando Diao, The Films, The Love Me Nots
Posted: June 9, 2007 by Joanie in Reviews
Wanted to write about a couple great shows I saw in May. Surprisingly good, which is always nice after seeing so much mediocrity. First was Mando Diao from Sweden at TT’s with openers Pop Levi, whose CD I thought was okay, and some band called The Films. What a pleasant surprise The Films were, melodic but had enough balls to keep my attention. I assumed they were from another country but Charleston, SC doesn’t count. Next was the bummer of Pop Levi who was such a priss and so full of himself, I just wasn’t having it. I’d hate to be the roadie for that band. I’d seen MD a couple years ago on a weeknight and actually stuck it out til the end cuz they were worth it. As they were this recent time, those guys really put everything into it (as Conan said when they played his show shortly after). Their songs sound way better live than recorded, need to revisit the most recent CD since opening track “Welcome Home Luc Robitaille” was a great way to stat the show. Sheepdog, which was the first single I heard from them, is still a standout of the set. I decided they should do “We Ain’t Got Nothing Yet” by the Blues Magoos. They do no covers as far as I know and this would be perfect for them. Someone let them know.
The week after, the Love Me Nots from Phoenix played at the Middle East and these guys and girls have got that revamped 60’s thing down. The guys look great in their skinny cut suits and the gals look perfect in their black and white shifts and go-go boots. But most importantly, their songs are awesome and they’re great live. Singer was a great front person rocking her Farfisa around. Set was paced well, almost every song from their CD (In Black and White) rocks, as do the couple new ones in the set, and they were really nice people. Hopefully we’ll get them to do a live set next time they come to town.
Thanks to Eric Law for the photos.
Playlist – 6/8/07 – Tim
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Barbican Podcast – Interview with J. Doyne Farmer
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Plesiosaur palaeoart: thoughts for artists
Jurassic plesiosauroid Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus with a controversially dipped left hindfin. Nothing like a little drama to start a blog post.
Among the first animals to feature prominently in palaeoart were plesiosaurs, those four-flippered marine sauropterygians that need no introduction to anyone who's reading a blog focused on prehistoric life. Some plesiosaur depictions are among the most spectacular palaeoart of all: their arcing spinal columns, toothy faces and the moodiness intrinsic to seascapes are wonderful ingredients for palaeoartists to play with, leading to two centuries of plesiosaurs as dependably gripping art subjects.
Despite their popularity among artists, the theory we apply to our plesiosaur reconstructions has not been significantly 'modernised' in the way that it has for other prehistoric species, most obviously Mesozoic dinosaurs, pterosaurs or fossil mammals. A number of authors and artists have produced solid foundations for the reconstruction of the latter animals - libraries of skeletal references, assessments of gait and stance, heightened awareness of common soft-tissues, etc. - and their life appearances are now more uniformly reconstructed and prone to fewer obvious errors. This has yet to happen for plesiosaurs, however. Modern skeletal reconstructions are few, references for muscle layout and soft-tissue data are fewer, and discussions over aspects of their life appearance are rare.
I was recently commissioned to produce two studies of two Early Jurassic plesiosaurs - one of the plesiosauroid Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus (above) and another of the pliosaurid Attenborosaurus conybeari (below). I cannot claim any expertise in plesiosaur science, but when reviewing art-relevant literature on these animals it struck me that many familiar elements of plesiosaur palaeoart oppose our soft-tissue data, modern muscle studies and flipper arthrology, as well as the generalities of vertebrate anatomy. I'm sure others have noticed these issues before me, but their prevalence in contemporary plesiosaur art suggests they are not as widely known as they could be. In the interests of stirring conversation on restoring plesiosaurs, I thought I'd share my findings and thoughts here.
Flipper shape and motion
One of the ‘classic’ elements of plesiosaur reconstruction is their distinctive flipper shape: a tight, oar-like profile which hugs the contours of the fin skeletons. However, both muscle studies and soft-tissue data indicate that their limb morphology was quite different to the underlying osteology, and our 'oar-like' depictions are problematic.
Firstly, reconstructions of plesiosaur forelimb musculature show that they were likely powerfully muscled around the shoulders, especially ventrally. Reconstructions of plesiosaur forelimb musculature have been around for almost 100 years and several alternative ideas on the exact configuration are available. They vary from sparingly muscled reconstructions where those massive, plate-like pectoral elements are left mostly free of muscle anchorage (e.g. Carpenter et al. 2010), to models where the entire girdle is swathed in huge muscle attachment sites (Araújo and Correia 2015). The latter seems to reflect the most phylogenetically-informed hypothesis (using data from lizards, crocs and turtles, which seems sensible given on-going uncertainty about plesiosaur ancestry) and - from a purely intuitive perspective - an extensively muscled limb girdle seems more likely than a lightly muscled one. Why develop those huge coracoids if they aren't going to anchor anything?
If the more extensive models of pectoral musculature are correct, we need to consider how the proximal regions of plesiosaur forelimbs would have looked like in life. One key consequence is that, once we link all the pectoral muscles to their insertions on the limb and body, the 'shaft' of the 'oar-shaped' flipper disappears: muscles running along the anterior and posterior region of the humerus fill the pinched, concave regions so that the proximal region is almost as thick as the bony paddle. Much of the proximal humerus becomes buried in muscle dorsally and ventrally too, to the extent that we might imagine the shoulder region was quite bulky in life.
Summary diagrams of plesiosaur pectoral musculature based on Araújo and Correia (2015), with some of my own input on the body outlines (middle and right). Left shows a schematic plesiosaur skeleton (based on Rhomaleosaurus) and a 'traditional' soft-tissue outline, traced from Araújo and Correia (2015). Middle shows the superficial dorsal pectoral musculature predicted by their study - note that it embiggens the pinched proximal region of the flipper by bulking out the anterior and posterior humeral regions. Right shows how data from plesiosaur soft-tissues - see below - changes the flipper shape even further.
In this respect their limb anatomy might look more similar to that of modern tetrapod swimmers – such as whales, seals and turtles – than we typically reconstruct it. We might draw particular comparison to pinnipeds, where a noticeable bulge can be seen at the junction between the forelimb and the torso. The size of plesiosaur pelvic girdles probably indicate a similar muscular condition for the hindlimb and we might assume that they weren't slender-necked, 'oar-shaped' fins either.
Holotype specimen of Seeleysaurus guilelmiimperatoris. Note soft-tissue outlines behind the right forelimb and tail. If you'd like to see these tissues in person, you're too late - the body outlines of this specimen were painted over years ago. Bummer. From Dames (1895).
But these are not the only tissues which distort the outline of the flippers. Fossils of plesiosaur body outlines are very rare, but three specimens (the holotypes of Seeleyosaurus, Hydrorion and Mauriciosaurus - see Dames 1895, von Huene 1923 and Frey et al. 2017) preserve soft-tissues that considerably augment their flipper shape. All three show deep wedges of soft-tissues tapering along the back of the fin skeleton to the flipper tip, with Mauriciosaurus showing tissues - though their shape isn't entirely clear - also present behind the proximal limb regions. There is sufficient consistency across these specimens to suggest expanded paddle tissues were common, and maybe even widespread, in plesiosaurs and, for artists, augmenting our plesiosaur flipper skeletons with these trailing edge tissues should be our standard approach to their restoration.
Hydrorion brachypterygius and its soft-tissue forelimb impressions (the dark, grainy textures behind the fins). From von Huene (1923).
Moving on, artists might also want to note that ideas about highly restricted motion of plesiosaur flippers are being revised. Traditionally, authors such as Carpenter et al. (2010) have argued for limited motion at both the shoulder and hip limb joints, resulting in what I like to call the 'sinking rowing boat' pose: depictions of plesiosaurs with limbs projecting just a little off the horizontal, regardless of what they're up to. Restricted fore- and aft motion seems likely given the elongate shape of limb girdle joints, but whether the vertical movement of the limbs was restricted to tight arcs - perhaps as shallow as a 54° total range - is being challenged (e.g. Liu et al. 2015). Plesiosaur limb girdles were evidently highly cartilaginous in life and estimating their joint motion challenging - most of the information we desire to determine some sense of joint mobility is long gone. But if we assume they had more than the slimmest covering of cartilage in the girdle limb joints - which seems sensible, given the huge size of the girdle joints and their poor match for the limb bone shape - we can assume wide arcs of motion to both limb sets before disarticulation. The exact range of movement remains an open question - unpublished studies hint at even greater motion than other 'wide arc' research, such as Liu et al. (2015) (thanks to Darren Naish for advance word on this) - but artists should not feel confined to the 'rowing boat' pose that we've seen plesiosaurs depicted in for decades. With my artist hat on, I find this very welcome news. Plesiosaurs with limbs perpetually stuck out sideways can look a little static even in the hands of great artists, and their limited poseability has not made them the most interesting subjects to reconstruct. Wider arcs of motion allow plesiosaurs to be depicted in more complex and dynamic poses, and to convey a greater range of behaviours - pirouetting around corners with dipped fins, beating their flippers to attain high speeds, dropping their limbs because they're being lazy... all sorts of stuff. Well done, science, you've made at least one artist a happy person.
Aspects of the neck
My experience with the mass-economising, lightweight long necks of terrestrial or volant tetrapods means the extensively developed vertebrae of longer necked plesiosaurs are of great personal interest. Freed of the constraints of mass reduction, their numerous neck vertebrae are short, highly developed elements with long, robust processes - the exact opposite of the long, simplified structures I'm used to dealing with. Assuming plesiosaur necks were constructed like those of other amniotes (below), they likely anchored powerful muscles along their lengths. In particular, their neural spines are very tall and we can assume they bore enhanced musculature associated with lifting and turning the neck - useful features for long necked animals living in a dense fluid medium. Myological reconstructions suggest that the axial column would bear muscles connecting to the pectoral girdle, producing a deep set of tissues at the neck-torso junction (Araújo and Correia 2015, see pectoral myology diagram above). Artists should equip these animals with chunky, powerful 'reptilian' necks rather than svelte, bird-like variants. I do wonder if thick muscles along the neck might have impacted their neck mobility somewhat - another reason to assume long-necked plesiosaurs were only capable of bending their necks into simple curves (e.g. Zammit et al. 2008).
Amniote neck muscle groups and functionality, modelled by the American alligator Alligator mississippiensis. If the same basic rules apply to plesiosaurs, we should expect many species to have huge muscles and very powerful necks. Diagram concept and muscle layout after Snively and Russell (2007).
The neck/skull articulation of plesiosaurs is also of interest. In many taxa, including Plesiosaurus itself, the posterior face of the skull is displaced anteriorly to the jaw joints. This condition is not unique to plesiosaurs, also being found in some other reptiles including living crocodylians. This 'staggering' of the posterior skull margins might minimise any obvious topographic demarcation between head and neck tissues (the head/neck junction is less obvious in crocodylians than it is in many birds and mammals, for instance) as as well as complicate motion at the head-neck joint. The anteriormost cervical vertebrae and their articulation with the skull would be buried by bone laterally and throat tissues (including muscles and hyoid cartilages) ventrally, and we have to wonder if this envelope of material would limit how far the skull could pivot on the neck. The analogous condition in modern crocodylians seems to bear out this prediction, so perhaps we should not be restoring plesioaurs with mammal- or bird-like cocked heads.
Trunk shape - cross section and lateral profile
Plesiosaurs are often restored with a generic, 'barrel-shaped’ trunks. This is appropriate for some taxa, but not all. It must be said that plesiosaur torso shape is an area of on-going research. I recently spoke with a number of plesiosaur experts on this matter and found aspects like rib and gastralia articulation, the vertical position of the pectoral girdle and so on were somewhat contentious (thanks to Richard Forrest, Aubrey Roberts and Mark Evans for their thoughts). The crux of the issue is that, unlike some reptiles (such as birds or pterosaurs), plesiosaur torso skeletons don't slot neatly together in a single, incontrovertible manner, as is evident to anyone who's seen more than one plesiosaur mount in a museum. Understanding their torsos requires precise appreciation of their vertebral rib articulations, knowing their rib and gastralia curvature in three dimensions, and the benefit of fully articulated fossils for reference. This is quite a list of requirements, and one that is only currently met by a fraction of plesiosaur taxa.
Despite this, detailed reconstruction attempts provide reason to think not all plesiosaurs had tubby, barrel-shaped torsos. Close inspection of vertebral rib articulations and the shape of three-dimensionally preserved plesiosaur torso skeletons allowed O’Keefe et al. (2011) to reconstruct some cryptoclidids with tall, barrel-shaped bodies, and others with dorsoventrally compressed ones (below). In some genera, like Tatanectes, this is augmented further by almost flat dorsal ribs. It is difficult to gauge torso cross sectional shapes from just looking at a typical, half-prepared and flattened plesiosaur fossil, but artists should be mindful that not all species will have circular torso sections. Given how important torso shapes are to a reconstruction, we should check research literature carefully to make the most informed call we can on this aspect of restoring their life appearance.
Cryptoclidid torsos in cross section, with (over conservative) soft-tissue outlines. Modified from O'Keefe et al. (2011).
It is not only the cross section of plesiosaur trunks which are of artistic interest. Neural spine height is not always consistent along the dorsal column, with genera like Attenborosaurus having much taller vertebrae towards the anterior end of the torso. I don't think we know much about the torso cross section of this animal yet, but its vertebral proportions alone imply a proportionally deep shoulder region and a ‘tear-drop’ profile in lateral aspect. This may have been translated into soft-tissue depth in life: deep neural spines over the shoulder might betray a well developed m. latissimus dorsi, a forelimb elevator muscle that could be beneficially augmented for a swimming animal. Interestingly, Attenborosaurus has larger forelimbs than hindlimbs, and it's not entirely daft to wonder if its big shoulder vertebrae and their possible role in beefing out the shoulder muscles reflect forelimb-dominated swimming (see Liu et al. 2015). That's a discussion for another day, of course: the take home for artists here is to pay attention to those trunk vertebrae, and think about how they might influence the long-axis trunk symmetry.
Attenborosaurus conybeari, Jurassic equivalent of those top-heavy gym users who forget about working their legs.
And finally... so long, shrink-wrapping
A recurrent theme in this post has been the idea of plesiosaur skeletons being deeply buried in soft-tissues of varying kinds. One of the most amazing plesiosaur fossils known to date, recently described from Cretaceous deposits of Mexico (Frey and Stinnesbeck 2014; Frey et al. 2017), clearly vindicates this theory. This specimen is the holotype of Mauriciosaurus fernandezi, which preserves a near-continuous body outline to give us an unprecedented glimpse of its life appearance. Much of the soft-tissue includes belly and lateral body wall skin impressions (tiny, 12 x 2 mm rectangular scales arranged in rows along the animal), but even more surprising is how much soft-tissue there is: by gum, this was a tubby creature, particularly around the tail. Even the thinnest regions of the outline are a good 50 mm wide, and some parts are considerably deeper. Frey et al. (2017) ascribe much of this depth to fatty, subdermal adipose tissue, including the caudal mass. Many living reptiles have extensive fat deposits around their tails (as discussed for prehistoric animals in this post) and it would not be surprising if plesiosaurs used this adaptation to streamline their shape. As noted by Frey et al. (2017), the preserved torso shape is not dissimilar to those of highly pelagic turtles or penguins.
Line drawing of Mauriciosaurus fernandezi holotype, redrawn from Frey et al. (2017). This specimen is extra special for reminding us of the finest Queen song of all time.
Whether these plump tails were the case for all plesiosaurs remains to be seen. Frey et al. (2017) note that the caudal vertebrae of Mauriciosaurus has small processes for muscle attachment, and may have been weakly muscled in life. This might be predicted, as a tail encased inside a deep cone of fat is unlikely to have been capable of much movement even if it was strongly muscled (although, that said, some living marine mammals are very flexible despite their deep fatty tissues). However, other plesiosaurs - including, for easy reference, the Hydrorion depicted above - do have large caudal sites for muscle attachment - might they have moved their tails about more freely? Given the compelling evidence for caudal fins or rudders in several plesiosaur species (Dames 1895; Wilhem 2010; Smith 2013 - check out Brian Switek's post if you need a quick primer) it might make sense for some species to maintain mobile tails to aid steering. We should note that the partially preserved tail tissues of Seeleyosaurus are not as chunky as those of Mauriciosaurus: they're thick, sure, but not obviously part of a wide, wedge-shaped mass, perhaps suggesting a more easily moved structure. Hopefully, more plesiosaur soft-tissues will turn up soon to give us more insight on this matter.
As a final point on the Mauriciosaurus fossil, we can now add plesiosaurs to the list of fossil taxa with specimens directly opposing 'shrink-wrapping' palaeoartistic conventions. It joins fossils of dinosaurs (Mesozoic and beyond), pterosaurs, mammals, early archosauromorphs and many others in suggesting the soft-tissues of long extinct creatures were no less extensive than those of modern species. As with living taxa, their skeletons were mostly placed well inside their bodies, not just under the surface of a thin skin. There's no doubt that soft-tissue depth is going to vary across animal bodies and between species, but it's increasingly difficult to defend reconstructions where bodies tightly hug skeletal contours, where facial tissues are sucked into every skull cavity, and where the depth of fats and integuments are not factored into the restorative process. 'Shrink-wrapping' is one of the few aspects of palaeoart that is testable against fossil data, and it is not winning out.
And that's that, then
I'm sure there's a lot more we could say on restoring plesiosaurs, but this is where we'll have to leave this discussion for now - hopefully this post helps fill the deficit of detailed discussion on plesiosaur life appearance. I must admit that these recent efforts at restoring plesiosaurs have given me a newfound interest in the group, and I wouldn't be surprised if artwork these chaps and their relatives turn up around here soon.
Next time: sharks vs. pterosaurs - who will win? (Spoiler: not the pterosaurs)
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Scientists: please pay more attention to palaeoart
A few years ago I wrote about how the 21st century is a terrific interval for palaeoart because of the wealth of information, discussion of palaeoart theory and diversity of talent we presently enjoy. Never before has so much data on this topic been available to practitioners of the trade, to scientists and historians, or to curious members of the public. The increase in palaeoart talent, a movement of artists exploring the outer regions of palaeoart science and artistry, and hints of wider interest in art of fossil animals are all traceable to these recent developments.
Any palaeoartist you speak to will tell you that there are honed practises and processes that should be applied when executing a palaeoart study. Several decades worth of influential artwork and writing by the likes of Knight, Hallett, Paul, Antón, Conway et al. and others send a unified message: reconstructions of fossil animals should be produced through close study of animal anatomy, both fossil and modern. They demonstrate that palaeoartworks must pass some basic, almost objective tests to be considered scientifically credible, successful examples of the medium.
The proportions of the subject should be accurate to those indicated by its fossil remains
The skeleton of the subject should fit within the restored soft-tissue volume
Depicted poses should conform to predictions of joint motion
The soft-tissue volume should - at minimum - be informed by predictions of muscle bulk derived from fossil remains as well as relevant data from modern, related species
Soft-tissues restoration should be informed where possible by fossil data, or else via robust predictive techniques, such as phylogenetic bracketing
These points are not controversial. I'm sure any number of modern palaeoartists would list these as their baseline, entry level requirements for bona fide, scientifically-credible palaeoartwork. Further considerations of posing, composition and behaviour become more subjective and debatable - ideas of what we think 'looks right' or is 'most likely' in these areas are influenced by personal preferences, artistic styles and intent of the artwork. Successful palaeoartists can have contrasting ideas about these latter points, and that's fine: so long as our work remains within the realms of scientific plausibility, we are free to experiment and develop unique styles. But at the core of any palaeoartwork must be a reconstruction of a species that conforms to those fundamental aspects listed above.
Although it feels like we live in an enlightened age for palaeoart, some artworks associated with the very people who should be sticklers for scientific precision and reconstruction plausibility fall well short of the most elementary aspects of fossil animal reconstruction. These are not reconstructions for TV shows or films, where creative forces override scientific input. They are not illustrations for books where an overworked generalist illustrator is given a few hours to render an animal they'd not heard of until that morning. These are artworks produced for papers and press releases where scientists - researching palaeontologists with direct access to fossil material and technical literature - have every opportunity to guide and shape the artistic process. And these works are sometimes so scientifically awful that they're almost insulting to those of us who strive to produce credible prehistoric imagery, being critically flawed at the most basic level.
The level of failure in some artworks (not linked to here out of politeness) is sufficient to question whether those involved knew anything about reconstructing anatomy or if they really cared about the artwork at all. And yes, I think we do have to look at the scientists and researchers as being ultimately responsible here. These are artworks produced directly under their control to be associated with their work, and without pressure from publishers or media producers to be fantastic, weird or sensational. Scientists made the decision to produce these palaeoartworks, chose the artist to execute it, chose the level of input to have during its production, and signed off the final product.
In these artworks, even errors which scientists can objectively veto (such as proportions and bone articulations, elements of form such as skull or tooth shape, well-studied soft-tissue anatomies like feathers arrangements on dinosaur wings) are ignored. The result is that these pieces perpetuate errors that were realised as problematic years ago: under-muscled, 'shrink-wrapped' animals; 'bunny handed' theropods; feathered maniraptorans with three free fingers extending from their wings; ichthyosaurs with visible giant eyes; pterosaurs with enormous torsos and so on. The worst offenders show no grasp of basic aspects of animal anatomy, fossil or modern, with outlandish ideas of muscle distribution or proportions which are falsified by the most cursory glance at reference material. It is no exaggeration to say that some recent scientist-led palaeoartworks would not look out of place if produced in the 1830s.
And we - educators, scientists, palaeoartists - should feel ticked off about this. Scientist-led palaeoart should be the best there is: carefully-executed, evidence-led syntheses of research conclusions in compelling artworks. It should convey to people how the subject appeared and behaved based on both new, cutting-edge research and the best of the science which preceded it. There is no reason not to take the same attitude to our palaeoart that we do to the rest of our studies. It is frowned upon to take half-measure approaches to descriptions, statistical analyses or cladistic methodology, so why is palaeoart exempt? Making crass, basic errors in animal reconstruction is no different to executing a flawed study or analysis. Both ignore data, advice and theory documented in palaeontological literature, and both show little regard for the techniques developed by pioneers of the process. Moreover, when they make it to publication, both imply that half-baked approaches are worthy of equal consideration to more carefully executed examples. Scientists will know the feeling of frustration when work directly relevant to a paper is not cited: lousy palaeoart is guilty of ignoring the theory and development of an entire field.
A baffling aspect to this problem is that scientists routinely seek expertise lacking on research teams. Need a fossil prepared but lack the skulls? Seek assistance from a preparator. Need to crunch some stats but not sure how? Contact a colleague with statistical expertise. What we don't do with our science is assume our intuition and instincts about a topic are enough to guide us alone: we defer to those with the training, specific knowledge and experience to do the jobs we can't. And we would never employ an equally inexperienced individual and guide them through a process we lack all experience of ourselves.
But this is exactly what we do with palaeoartistry. Executing a palaeoart study requires a grasp of anatomy (and not just bones!), an ability to reconstruct/interpret fossil remains, a healthy grasp of living animal form, and an ability to translate all this into an artistic creation. These are not skills that everyone has, or that even all palaeontologists have. There are numerous specialisms in palaeontology, and not all of them are associated with the expertise ideal for consulting on palaeoartworks. Fossil bones do not exude a radiation which means those who work with them automatically know everything about palaeoart methods and theory. And yet it seems some scientists think it does, resulting in ill-founded advice for naive artists and approval of poor, flawed work. I am not the first person to raise this point (it has been mentioned in palaeoart literature since the 1980s), but it seems to fall on deaf ears.
Some readers may be wondering if this matters - so what if we have the odd wobbly looking reconstruction every now and then? Consider these points. Firstly, if scientists are so relaxed about palaeoart that they have no regard for even getting fundamental aspects correct, then what, really, is the point of the art in the first place? What can art of that quality really add to our field? It can't be held up as an accurate representation of the animal itself, and knowledgeable educators will avoid it or abandon it the moment a superior alternative becomes available (which, given the popularity of palaeoart online, is normally a couple of days after a new discovery. Indeed, awful PR palaeoart normally spurs more alternative versions, and with faster turnaround times). Badly produced palaeoart is basically destined to be ignored by those in the know, reflects poorly on those involved in its production, and ends up being an embarrassing aspect of the publication.
Secondly, scientist-led palaeoart is often the basis for derivative artwork, whether it's good or bad. Whereas people might expect prehistoric animals seen in film and TV to be embellished and enhanced, scientist-endorsed artwork carries the weight of expert approval. For non-specialist illustrators, they're an obvious source of information and errors are carried over into next generation work. Scientists need to realise that the half-lives of palaeoart are often much longer than any press articles or even scientific papers: they have long-lasting impacts on public perception and even inform scientific hypotheses. Darren Naish recently wrote more about these issues at length here.
Thirdly, there are scores of competent palaeoartists awaiting opportunities to work with scientists, and their prior knowledge of reconstruction processes and anatomy would fill knowledge gaps in some teams. Not only do these individuals have the skills needed to understand a fossil specimen and technical paper, and are thus able to produce credible artwork without constant academic input, but their experience means they can converse with scientists at (or close to) a technical level. This allows for detailed conversations about the specifics of the reconstruction and development of new ideas and insights into the life appearance of the subject organism. Experienced palaeoartists are more than just people who make pretty pictures: they're peers and colleagues of scientists, and able to augment research when given the opportunity.
Lastly, it is widely known that the palaeoart industry has a problem maintaining employment for even its most talented individuals, and in this context hiring non-specialists, especially if the research team is not palaeoart savvy, is ludicrous - why not hire the right people for the job? There are many early-career palaeoartists available if tight budgets are a concern, as well as numerous veterans who can offer highly polished art and rapid turnaround times if time is tight. Finding these people is as easy as opening modern palaeoart books, asking colleagues for recommendations or even a Google search. The wealth of easily-accessed palaeoart talent makes it inexcusable not to bring specialist artists on board for palaeoart projects.
And 'inexcusable' sums up my feeling on this topic pretty well. The fact that many scientist-led artworks are really amazing shows that high quality palaeoart of this nature is achievable if scientists care enough about its production. But the availability of palaeoart-relevant information, the growing body of literature on palaeoart theory, the willingness and accessibility of talented artists, and the demands of modern scientific standards make academically-driven, scientifically-rotten palaeoart inexcusable in the modern day. I'm not arguing that scientist-led palaeoart has to be perfect. I'm not arguing that scientist-led palaeoart has to conform to specific conventions of style, or to constrained ideas of life appearance. But I am arguing that scientist-led palaeoart should look like someone gave a damn about the final product.
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Framers fail: Voting is a basic right but it’s not guaranteed in Constitution
From today’s USA Today:
The Founders unwisely gave states control of the vote. The upshot is we’re headed for separate democracies: restrictive red ones, expansive blue ones.
In 1835, William Fogg, an African American citizen of Pennsylvania, filed America’s first voting rights lawsuit. He charged that election officials had violated the state’s color-blind constitution by barring him from voting because he looked black. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected Fogg’s claim in 1837 by writing black people out of American democracy. The court ignored the state constitution and found that “no coloured race was party to our social compact,” and that Pennsylvania should not “raise this depressed race to the level of the white one.”
A year later, Pennsylvania adopted a new constitution which followed the trend in most nineteenth century states by excluding people of color from the ballot. In 1800, only five of 16 states mandated “white only” voting. By 1860, 28 of 33 states, accounting for about 97 percent of the nation’s free black population, had adopted such racially restrictive suffrage. All states denied women from the franchise. Backers of voting by white men only claimed without evidence that racial and gender exclusion guarded against voter fraud by preventing unscrupulous politicians from buying the votes of allegedly dependent women and ignorant blacks.
Fogg and other excluded voters had no recourse to the federal courts because the framer’s great mistake was their failure to include a right to vote in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. Instead they defaulted voting rights to the individual states. Later generations of lawmakers compounded this mistake by negatively framing amendments on voting rights, stipulating that states cannot deny the franchise on account of race, sex, or age of 18 years and older.
Lacking a constitutional guarantee, the vote has been embattled throughout American history. Voting rights have both expanded and contracted over time, with no guarantee of universal access to the ballot.
The right to vote remains imperiled today. Players in the struggle for the vote have changed over time, but the arguments remain familiar, and the stakes remain high. Primarily in Republican red states, politicians have rolled out the old charge of voter fraud. Today’s allegations focus not on vote-buying but on such charges as voter impersonation at the polls, repeat voting in more than one state, and voting by non-citizens.
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Update (3/15/19) This site is inactive, please see
Clopas' main website at www.clopas.net for the latest on Scott Adams
Update (12/08/17) Clopas
The Inheritance is no longer available for purchase as of 7/27/17.
Anyone who purchased the original will get the new revised version when it releases as a free download. Lots of changes, fine tuning and effort is going into the rewrite.
For now though, the rewrite is on hold. We are concentrating on a totally new game Escape the Gloomer an Epic Adventure of Redwall
More information at Clopas.net on Facebook
Update (11/06/17) GameChurch Podcast Interview
I was interviewed by GameChurch during the Christian Game Developers Conference
In anticipation of additional platforms and a total fine-tuning of the game, the Digital version of The Inheritance is reduced to $9.95. The boxed versions will not be replenished when the current inventory (handful left) runs out. Note all users with emails on file will receive free updated digital versions when this occurs.
This will not occur probably until sometime in the fall as I plan to spend a lot of time beta testing and retuning before the rerelease.
Update (3/31/16) David Taylor Podcast on Adventureland
A great podcast on my first classic game Adventureland. The first 30 seconds is a digital voice and is NOT indicative of the rest of the feature. Feel free to skip that if you find it annoying. Other than that little nit I found this very enjoyable. Sprite Castle 027: Adventureland
Update (3/24/13) Full Feature in the Platteville Journal
Throughout the years, I’ve gotten a lot of letters from folks all around the world who’ve played my games. Each person has shared a bit of their story, giving a glimpse into ways that I’ve impacted their lives. You never know what is going to touch someone, and I find these stories incredibly inspiring.
I also find their present-day adventures intriguing. In this new age of instant communication, friends become fans, games become teachers, and then we all become next door neighbors. Enjoy this first installment of a new monthly feature that shares the stories of these connected lives.
Adventurer of the Month: Rusty
Rusty Trimble is a writer of both illustrated children's books and adult novels of the noir genre. He is currently working on a children’s book based on Scott Adams’ Pirate Cove. Read the introduction and Chapter 1 here.
Rusty has completed nine books for children based around his son Andrew who stars in each story. His first adult novel, The Hitmen Narratives, is a series of short stories revolving around one of the most evil of professions, the professional killer.
As the father of an Autistic child, he hopes the sales of his books will provide funding to raise money to seek research and treatment for children with Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorder. To that end, 50% of all profits from any book are pledged to like causes.
----READ THE FULL FEATURE HERE---
Last month, I sat down with Steve Prestegard, editor of the Platteville Journal. What I thought was going to be a short announcement about my new game turned into the entire front page of the SouthWest section. Here’s an excerpt from the article:
The Inheritance of Scott Adams
The computer gaming pioneer is back with the text game “The Inheritance.”
By day, Scott Adams is a senior programmer for AVISTA in Platteville, where he has worked since the late 1980s. On his off hours, Scott Adams is one of the pioneers of computer gaming, dating back to when computers had entire kilobytes of memory and when the Internet was known only to the Defense Department and a few computer geeks.
Adams didn’t realize he was considered a gaming pioneer until the advent of the Internet and email, when he started getting emails about the impact of his early work.
Adams is back in gaming with the release of “The Inheritance,” which he describes as “interactive fiction,” or “a text adventure game with sound effects. So it’s a reading and thinking game. You’re put into an environment; you tell me what to do.
“If you play the game for a half-hour — set the timer — and if you can get up and not think about it, it’s not for you. The game is going to continue to make you think about what you want to do next.”
Read the rest of the article here.
Update (2/14/13) The Inheritance is now available!!
The Inheritance click HERE!
Update (12/5/12) The Inheritance Preorder and demo page now live!
The Inheritance Preorder and Demos click HERE!
Update (7/7/12) The Inheritance Facebook page
I have setup a Facebook page for my new game The Inheritance. Please click Like on the page!
I am currently using it keep me focused on writing the game. So if I don’t post updates there feel free to nag me!
http://www.facebook.com/The.Inheritance.Scott.Adams.Adventure
Update (11/30/10) New Interviews and Interesting Link!
Note the interesting link added just over to the right. This is not a paid advertisement but something I heard about and thought worth sharing!
Also the links page has a new set of interviews at Matt Chat:
Update (3/12/09) New Interview
The links page has a new interview at Programmers Heaven: Are Games More Fun Now?
Update (10/20/09) FREE CHRONIC LYME RESOURCE CD
The Free Lyme Resource Cd has a new home at Lyme-Resource.
Update (07/03/09) Interesting reviews of my classic games
A fun walk down memory lane as a blogger replays my 12 classic adventures.
Here’s the link to the start, the rest can be found in the index there … Announcing the Great Scott Project
My wife has been battling Chronic Lyme Disease for 2 years now. She has improved greatly with limited antibiotic usage.
I host an alternative support group on Yahoo groups. I also have a computer CD of all the things I have learned about Lyme disease that I will send out free postpaid to anyone who desires a copy in the US/Canada. Email me a mailing address if you would like one.
Also if you have or know someone diagnosed with FMS, ALS, CFS you might want to start doing some reading!
Added the Windows PDA version of my classic games to download section. Conversion done by Stephen Wood!
Adventurecon Cancelled
The promoter has cancelled the expo.
Adventurecon renamed to Adventure Gaming Expo
With the change of the name is a new website: Adventure Gaming Expo Folks try and sign up early, this will help out the sponsor make sure this is a big success!
Update (03/285/08)
Adventurecon
I would love to meet folks in person! I will be at this year's Adventurecon as a special guest. It is in Atlantic city during labor day weekend. Just a heads up if anyone cares to attend!
LOTR vs. EQ2 and me
I am going to be playing Lord of the Rings Online allot less and Everquest 2 more. Folks have asked me why. I have related it a few times but figured I would post it here.
There are 3 main areas that the game LOTR is currently annoying me:
1) No mentoring. Friends that are 5+ levels apart have a hard time playing together without trivializing the experience for one another.
2) Auction House. As a seller it is a big pain in the end to have to constantly relist your items that don't sell. Especially if you are out in the field and get the items back in the mail and there is no AH nearby.
3) Guild controls. The guild system and its controls are very primitive compared to EQ2. Only 4 levels of membership and very little control over much about each level's rights.
There are tons of little things too that I miss all the time from EQ2. Auto -face target, group invis, group evacuation, pressing WWWWWW while in chat mode and having it go out in chat, no HQ quests.
There is allot I like about LOTR (graphics are still awesome as is the LOTR storyline) and since I have lifetime accounts I am by no means quitting.
I will see how the game develops over the years. Just for now I will be playing EQ2 allot more and LOTR a lot less!
To all my EQ2 guildmates, sorry for my divided loyalties the last few months, but at least LOTR has made me appreciate EQ2 all the more!
Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Microcomputer Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution
I’ve been reading this great book (Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Microcomputer Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution) about the rise of the TRS-80 and the people that made it happen. I highly recommend it to anyone who lived during the era of the TRS-80 or are curious about how one the linchpins of the computer revolution came about! You can order it directly from www.microcomputerpioneers.com or search for it at your favorite online bookseller: “Priming the Pump”
Have you tried Lord of the Rings Online? It is really very true to the source materials and a load of fun. For example in the books no one ever died and was resurrected (No Gandalf doesn't count and did he really die anyway?) So they don't have a health bar or healers. Insted you have Morale, which gets so low you will want to retreat from battle and there are minstrels who can sing a rousing song and boost your Morale! You get the idea!
Right now LOTR Online is the number one PC game in the US and Europe and for very good reason. They actually had a marvelously clean launch and already have the first content (free) update announced for June 2007. They have an incredible epic story line that puts you in to the story of LOTR and something on the order of 5,000 side quests to keep you interested if that is not enough.
I am playing on the Landroval server and have a branch of my EQ2 Vindicators guild there. I love the quests in the game and the lore and am actually playing my char more role-play.
AdventureCon Update!
The dates for the convention have been postponed now till 2008!
The dates for the convention have been changed to August 28th and 29th! Hope to see you there!
ADVENTURECON !
!!! Hello, Adventurer !!!
We are proud to announce that the legendary Scott Adams is a confirmed guest at AdventureCon.
In case you didn't know, Scott Adams is a true pioneer in the adventure game world. He was the first man to bring adventure games to home computers through his company Adventure International. All told, he has written over 15 adventure games for various platforms. I can go on and on about everything he's done from groundbreaking work to comic book crossovers to movie adaptations.
Instead, I direct you to the official Scott Adams site at http://www.msadams.com
Here's an excellent Adventure International tribute site:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/Adventure_International.html
And finally, Malinche hosts an online version of Scott Adams' Adventureland:
http://www.malinche.net/demos/adventureland.html
We also have the official dates for AdventureCon - July 24th and July 25th.
We will be offering special "play and stay" packages for adventurers who register early. At this point it looks like we'll have 75 such packages available and AdventureCon mailing list subscribers will get the first shot at these specials. These packages will save you money on your hotel room at the Mirage and on your AdventureCon show tickets.
Malinche Entertainment Corp., 1070H Route 34 PMB 190, Matawan, NJ 07747, USA
As many of you know I enjoy playing computer games. For the last 15 months I have been playing Everquest2 with a large number of good friends.
Vindicators (www.vindicators.org) the guild I run in Everquest2 now numbers 450+ characters with well over 100+ real people behind the avatars. We are one of the largest and oldest guilds in the game.
The guild itself recently turned level 30 and bought the best residence in the game at Number 2 Bayle Court in South Qeynos across from the magical tower.
Our members all worked long and hard on acquiring the city status and the items needed for our crafters to build the items in this house. Then our own Khal Minister of Events decorated our mansion. Here is a video of the guild house. I hope you enjoy it!
http://strike9.com/file.ashx?path=/seren/guided+tour_0001.WMV
We will be having an open house in the game on March 5, 2006. Here is a link about the festivities leading up to the grand opening
http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=104&message.id=32471&jump=true
If anyone is interested in playing with us you might want to try the free trial of EQ2 and see if it something you like or not. http://www.trialoftheisle.com/ We are on the Antonia Bayle server which is role-play and non-PVP.
I was interviewed on Aggrome about my activities in Everquest 2.
I added a link to Counterspy on the right column. I use it and recommend it. Note that I do get a percentage of sales from that link.
Java script playable version added to links page.
Note Vindicators on EverQuest2 is now the largest guild on the most populous server. Always room for a few more friends!
Adventure International Tribute site add to links page
A new Atari 8 bit site has been added to links page
Vindicators on the Antonia Bayle server is now alive and well and looking for new friends. Everquest 2 is turning out to be allot of fun!
Everquest 2 is launching Nov 8. I will be heading up a role player friendly guild there and invite all of you to join us. If interested please join the EverQuest yahoo group which you can find on my links page
I was interviewed on Mobhunter about my activities in Everquest. I also made a movie of my 5 character hydra and how I do it.
I was invited into the Everquest 2 beta last week and have been playing my sneaky, backstabbing little ratonga scout and having a blast. I plan to play good chars in retail so I selected the evil char during beta. The NDA prevents me at present from saying anymore. But if you search the web you will find more information on the major fan sites.
I have the game preordered and hope to see you all when it launches. Highly recommended.
Added a Hint Sheet Decoder spreadsheets, done by Danni Segal, to the downloads section.
I am still playing City of Heroes. Currently main character is Flame Lock but I also play Great Scott on and off. Also playing Everquest while I wait for EQ2 to come out.
Added a number of excellent solution spreadsheets, done by Dr. Ramu Rmanathan, to the downloads
Update (5/2/04)
City of Heroes super-group Vindicators of Virtue is now active.
Did a little more work on the Inheritance, at this rate I should be done in about 5 years!
Currently playing City of Heroes This a great fun MOG. My character is Great Scott defending Paragon City on the Virtue server. If you play CoH be sure and send me a tell or in game email. I am thinking of starting a Super Group called Vindicators when I reach level 10 (currently 8)
Good review thread here.
Modified the download pages to indicate the Windows versions of all the games work on Windows XP also.
Another teaser for the interview http://www.moonradio.co.uk/moonradio_new/screenplay.htm and http://www.moonradio.co.uk/moonradio_new/current_artist.php and the handout being given at the show.
I am being interviewed on the web Sunday 29th February, 2.45pm GMT (that is 8:45 am central, 9:45 am eastern)
www.moonradio.co.uk
Click on the link in the middle (Play With Your Mind) to get the details.
If interested, you can attend via the web chat room.
Never say never when it comes to EverQuest. After not playing for 3 months I have reactivated EQ again.
Read about my first night back here here.
I am still involved in SWG and also playing Neverwinter Nights.
I have cancelled all my EQ accounts as of December. I won't say it is permanent because you just never know! But at this point I would be really surprised if I ever return. Star Wars Galaxy (SWG) is one reason I quit Everquest. I also have played FFXI for awhile and currently have some open accounts there.
I am still playing and enjoying SWG. I now have 5 main characters on Chilastra. Mave, Maven, Maveni, Ardor and M'Scott Adams. Note that M'Scott is my guild holder and I do not play him much. The MaveX trio are played together as a hydra and Ardor is my artisan.
I did NOT get much work done on "The Inheritance" this December as I had hoped. Too much time spent with family, vacationing and playing games.
I have been accepted into the Wish MOG beta. It is a very interesting next generation MOG. I will be keeping a Beta Journal which will be archived here: http://www.msadams.com/wishbeta.htm
Currently playing Star Wars Galaxy (SWG) on the Chilastra server as Mave and Maven. I am attempting to get a PA established. Having a blast there. I suspect I will return to Everquest someday but at the moment the force is strong...
The work on “The Inheritance" has been going slow but in December I expect to be getting back to it.
Back in Everquest again, you can read all about it here.
I have been working on my next game “The Inheritance" and so far the introduction room and puzzles are completed. I am starting work on the next chapter.
Also some minor updates to the FAQ page.
I am trying out Everquest on the Play Station 2. For me it is a much more casual game then the PC version and I can play for short periods of time easily. Read my first impressions here.
I have quit Everquest you can read my farewell here.
A big thank-you to Mickey Crocker for designing and implementing this new web site.
Visitors please let me know if you find any problems. As you may have seen, I am currently using a redirector from the original site to bring you here.
As side note, I am still playing Everquest on The Tribunal server. I play a hydra of 5 characters: Maev, Maeg, Maee, Maex and Maek. There is also has an opt-in email list you can join.
The new game is now tentatively titled “The Inheritance:
SAGA Bible Adventure #1”
The following was sent to the email lists…
Merry Christmas to all on my email lists!!!!
Some interesting news, today I started work on my next Adventure game.
It is totally written from scratch and is not a remake of any of my old adventures. It will use the same engine as Return To Pirate Island 2 and will have sound but no graphics.
The tentative name at this point is Bible Mansion. It will be based on the old testament of the bible and will require the use of same to play the game.
For those of you who know the power of prayer and feel so inclined would greatly appreciate all your prayers on this project.
I will be forming a beta team for it some time in 2003. I will send out an email to all asking for volunteers when I am ready.
Happy Adventuring.
Upate (12/13/02)
There are now graphic versions of the classic games available; On the links page check out the Atari section and many thanks to Carlos Ruiz for the instruction text. BTW Note I am not longer playing Neocron but am still as always in Everquest!
Scott Adams Latest Game!
Scott Adams Bible Adventure #1
Announcing the first new Scott Adams Adventure game in over 15 years:
Return to Pirate’s Island 2
World's first homebrew 16 bit Computer and Game
Return To Pirate's Island 2
RTPI 2 Testimonials
RTPI 2 Order Form
Scott Adams Mailing Lists
© Copyright 2003, Scott Adams
Website designed by Mickey Crocker
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The meeting commences at 6.30pm. If members of the public are
not interested in any business recommended to be considered in
Closed Session or there is no such business, Council will ordinarily
commence consideration of all other business at 7pm.
Dear Councillors
Notice is given of the Ordinary Council Meeting, to be held in the Council Chambers, 48 Longueville Road Lane Cove on Monday 21 September 2015 commencing at 6:30pm. The business to be transacted at the meeting is included in this business paper.
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Ordinary Council 21 September 2015
ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO COUNTRY
NOTICE OF WEBCASTING OF MEETING
MATTERS RECOMMENDED BY THE GENERAL MANAGER TO BE CONSIDERED IN CLOSED COMMITTEE
Confidential Items
1. Senior Staff Contracts
It is recommended that the Council close so much of the meeting to the public as provided for under Section 10A(2) (a) of the Local Government Act, 1993, on the grounds that the matter will involve the discussion of personnel matters concerning a particular individual; it further being considered that discussion of the matter in open meeting would be, on balance, contrary to public interest by reason of the foregoing.
2. Notice of Motion - General Manager's Performance Review for 2014/15
It is recommended that the Council close so much of the meeting to the public as provided for under Section 10A(2) (a) of the Local Government Act, 1993, on the grounds that the matter will involve the discussion of personnel matters concerning a particular individual; it further being considered that discussion of the matter in open meeting would be, on balance, contrary to public interest by reason of the foregoing and as the report contains personal information about the performance of a staff member.
Members of the public may address the Council Meeting on any issue for 3 minutes.
3. ORDINARY COUNCIL MEETING - 17 AUGUST 2015
Mayoral Minutes
4. Save our Councils Coalition
5. Capacity of Sydney Buses
Notices of Motion
6. Joint Regional Authority Steering Committee
7. Reform of Private Certifiers
8. LG NSW 2015 Finance Summit
9. Feasibility Analysis of Proposed Redevelopment of Rosenthal Carpark Site
10. Planning Proposal 1 Sirius Rd - Deferred Report
11. Planning Proposal - Nicholson / Christie Streets, St Leonards - Deferred Report
12. Proposed Review of Ward Boundaries
13. Procedures for Election of Mayor and Deputy Mayor and Councillor Representation on Council Committees for 2015-16
14. Review of Community Representatives on Council's Advisory Committees
15. Annual Financial Statements for 2014/2015 - Referral for Audit
16. Request for Closure of Rothwell Crescent, Lane Cove
17. August 2015 Traffic Committee
18. NSROC Tender 13/15 for Road Surfacing, Patching and Associated Works
19. Waste Collection & Recycling Contract Extension
Officer Reports for Information
20. NSROC Regional Waste Disposal Contract
21. Community Wellbeing Survey 2015
22. Council Snapshot
Ordinary Council Meeting 21 September 2015
Save our Councils Coalition
Subject: Save our Councils Coalition
Division: Lane Cove Council
Author(s): Councillor David Brooks-Horn
Save Our Councils Coalition (SOCC) is a coalition of community groups, residents, councillors and Mayors from across the political spectrum and across the State that was launched on 11 June 2015.
SOCC’s aims are:-
• To keep our local councils local;
• To ensure that the NSW State Government keeps its promise of “No forced amalgamations”; and
• To ensure that where a merger is proposed, a valid referendum be held of all electors in each affected local government area.
SOCC is seeking support from NSW Councils in pursuing these aims and would be grateful if Lane Cove Council could consider giving support.
Apart from community groups and residents, support is sought from individual councillors, Mayors and councils and others who believe in the above aims. In addition to Council’s other efforts to prevent amalgamations, I believe Council should support the group.
SOCC is non-party political. It is however receiving strong support from members of all political parties who share the above beliefs.
That:-
1. Council endorses the Save Our Councils Coalition campaign to:-
a. Keep our local councils local;
b. Ensure that the NSW State Government keeps its promise of “No forced amalgamations”;
c. Ensure that where a merger is proposed, a valid referendum be held of all electors in each affected local government area; and
2. In light of recent media reports, Council actively pursues a community expression of concern about the threat of forced amalgamations.
Councillor David Brooks-Horn
There are no supporting documents for this report.
Capacity of Sydney Buses
Subject: Capacity of Sydney Buses
I am increasingly concerned about the lack of capacity on Sydney Buses passing through Lane Cove and the inability of these services to transport passengers from Lane Cove, as by this stage of their route many buses are already full and will not stop to collect additional passengers.
Inadequate service capacity results in overcrowding, especially on peak hour services, and excessive wait times for Lane Cove residents. I recommend that Council write to the NSW Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, the Hon. Andrew James Constance MP to request an audit of the capacity of current bus services upon reaching Lane Cove and the investigation of additional services / routes or larger buses that can provide increased capacity and deliver adequate public transportation services to the residents of Lane Cove.
That Council write to the NSW Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, the Hon. Andrew James Constance MP to request that:-
1. An audit of the capacity of current bus services upon reaching Lane Cove be undertaken; and
2. That the provision of additional services / routes, larger buses that can provide increased capacity and any other options that can result in the delivery of adequate public transportation services to the residents of Lane Cove be investigated.
Joint Regional Authority Steering Committee
Subject: Joint Regional Authority Steering Committee
Author(s): Councillor Scott Bennison
Councillors would be aware that our Mayor, Councillor David Brooks-Horn in conjunction with the Mayors of Hunters Hill and Ryde, signed a Memorandum of Understanding that outlined their commitment to form a Joint Regional Authority (JRA) as a superior alternative to forced amalgamations.
Councillors would also be aware that Lane Cove Council was instrumental in obtaining the services of Professor Percy Allan and Brian Dollery to assist Lane Cove, Hunters Hill and Ryde Councils in critiquing the recommendations of the panel and developing an alternative for our region.
Lane Cove Council has had meetings with the Minister for Local Government the Hon. Paul Toole and IPART (in conjunction with delegates from Ryde and Hunters Hill) to present our superior alternative. It is also important to note that our local member the Hon. Anthony Roberts also supports our alternative.
In order to enact the intentions of the MOU we need to be active in pushing forward with the reforms agreed to under the MOU. To that end and as recommended by Professor Percy Alan, the councils should form a steering committee to demonstrate that we are committed to the JRA and also to adequately plan for an efficient move into a JRA model.
1) A JRA Steering Committee be established;
2) The General Manager develop a terms of reference in consultation with Ryde and Hunters Hill Councils and bring back to Council for final approval that should include but not be limited to:-
a) promotion and development of the JRA model,
b) recommendations from IPART and/or the Minister for Local Government;
c) Recommendations from Upper house Inquiry; and
d) Other matters that the General Manager deems necessary.
3) Council invite two Councillor representatives and the General Manager from Ryde and Hunters Hill Councils to be on the steering committee pursuant to the MOU;
4) Councillors David-Brooks-Horn and Scott Bennison and the General Manager be Lane Cove Council’s representative on the Steering Committee;
5) The General Manager request the services of Professor Percy Allan to be a member of the Steering Committee and be given delegated authority to determine his remuneration;
6) The General Manager be given delegated authority to engage other professionals as and when required;
7) The General Manager include in the monthly report any meetings of the Committee, decisions made and any costs for the period,
8) Until such time that a decision is made by the State government as to the acceptance of the our JRA, that the activities of the Steering Committee be limited to the planning phase; and
9) Prior to any actions or implementation of the JRA a report come to Council for approval.
Councillor Scott Bennison
Reform of Private Certifiers
Subject: Reform of Private Certifiers
An employee and a client that is also a resident of Lane Cove recently approached me and advised that his former private certifier provided him with an Interim Occupation Certificate, however this firm has since been deregistered and the new firm will now not provide him with a Final Occupation Certificate, notwithstanding that he former gave him written assurance that the new firm would continue to provide services to him.
The problem of Private Certifiers creating ‘Phoenix’ companies is that when they are deregistered, it is not only unethical, but also leaves their former clients in a position where they may not be able to get a final works certified as no other Private Certifier will touch the work of other certifiers particularly if they have been deregistered.
Furthermore, Councillors would also be aware a large local development where the developer has gone into administration with the site apparently having in excess of 3,000 defects. The cost of any future works to remedy the defect will no doubt be borne by unit owners via special levies that only increased the asset cost.
Council has complained before to the State Government and it these examples are further evidence of the need to change, but thus far the State Government has not be willing to improve the governance in these matters.
If the State government wants to roll out its Metropolitan Strategic Master Plan then they seriously need to address these deficiencies with private certifiers.
An alternative to the current engagement process for Private Certifiers, would be for the certification responsibility to return to councils, but councils would be required to form panels of private certifiers to deliver the actual certification service. This would be a similar process to Green Slips where prices could be submitted from a variety of certifiers, the certifier is awarded the contract, but Council retains overarching control of the process.
That the General Manager request a meeting with the Minister for Planning to seek:-
a) Changes to the method of selection of Private Certifiers, whereby respective councils have a pool of Certifiers that residents can utilise, with council retaining overarching control of the process;
b) Greater regulatory authority for councils to intervene and issue instructions to certifiers and issue penalties for non compliance; and
c) Change the legislation to protect against ‘Phoenix’ operators and ensure that former clients of the ‘Phoenix’ operator are required to complete all required certifications and/or works.
LG NSW 2015 Finance Summit
Subject: LG NSW 2015 Finance Summit
The General Manager and I attended the Conference held on 27 and 28 August, however due to illness I was unable to attend all sessions. There were a broad range of speakers, the full program is attached and I am happy to circulate the notes on any particular session if a Councillor request. Below are some key points:-
LGNSW has done some research regarding Council Rates between the States. The graph below shows just how far in front NSW already is from an efficiency point of view. With by far the lowest Rates per capita.
LGNZ spoke of the focus they have had on building a partnership with the Central Government, and in particular they highlighted their ten point plan, which includes a call for the removal of rating exemptions such as Government Land, Schools, churches etc. This is seen as farer as it removes cross subsidisation.
The idea was floated of sharing revenues uniformly across councils to fix the city v country imbalance in terms of revenue. This issue has been previously raised in terms of city councils giving up the Federal Government Financial Assistance Grants (it equates to about 6% of Lane Cove’s Rates). The modeling presented indicated to fix the imbalance, Rates in the city would need to increase 21%, with the funds distributed to country councils. This would fix the issue without State assistance.
The remaining presentations highlighted cost control initiatives, KPIs, asset management improvements, developer agreements as a revenue sources, and setting long term financial goals. These are all areas where I believe Lane Cove is already well advanced, evidenced by being one of only 5 councils that already meets the State Government’s Fit for the Future Financial ratios.
Local Government NSW Finance Summit 2015 Program
Feasibility Analysis of Proposed Redevelopment of Rosenthal Carpark Site
Subject: Feasibility Analysis of Proposed Redevelopment of Rosenthal Carpark Site
Division: Corporate Services Division
Author(s): Craig Dalli
The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the feasibility analysis for the redevelopment of the Rosenthal Carpark site in Lane Cove Village. This report recommends that Council adopt the feasibility analysis for the project and proceed with the project as outlined in the report, including entering into conditional Agreements for Lease (AFL’s) with the preferred retailers and proceed with the delivery of the project as outlined in the report.
Council’s adopted Major Projects Strategic Management Plan 2007-2016 includes the redevelopment of the Rosenthal Carpark site. The redevelopment involves the following three (3) components:-
1. Below Grade Retail - approx 5,400m2;
2. Below Grade Carpark with up to 500 car spaces; and
3. Above Ground Public Domain – a proposed Park and ‘Town Square’ of approximately 6,750m2 in size; (including a further 1000m2 of ancillary retail i.e. cafes and amenities facilities).
Council has adopted the following objectives for the site in its redevelopment:-
· Creation of an outdoor public domain space on top of the proposed Rosenthal Carpark redevelopment;
· Encourage a mix of uses (e.g. cafes, amenities, outdoor recreation) on this site;
· Integrate the precinct with retail areas to the east and south;
· Improve and enhance the public domain and outdoor public amenity of Lane Cove;
· Redevelop the site for community uses;
· Provide for a possible multi-storey building at the northern end of the site;
· Provide space for major retailers (below the public domain – this area is not part of the design ideas competition); and
· Target a 500 public car park spaces (below the public domain, this area is not part of the design ideas competition).
To meet these objectives Council adopted the following design principles, following consultation in 2013:-
· Cultural – Ownership, Self Expression, Community Events, and Welcoming;
· Social - Attractive to All, Social Spaces, Peaceful Places, Places for Youth, and Places for Children;
· Environmental - Green Space,-Climate Comfort, Use of Level Changes, Hierarchy of Users, and Interactive Edges; and
· Economic - Village Connections, Built Form, Types of Business, Future Development, and Evening Economy.
To further develop the public domain component, a design ideas competition was conducted in late 2014 to translate the design principles developed through the consultation process into concepts that the community could consider, which were on display for in excess of 6 months in the Plaza.
Council’s consultation on the public domain components of the project have been extensive and Council has a clear indication of the community’s preferences going forward to the detailed design stage. In adopting the design ideas competition outcomes, Council resolved that a consolidated image of the outcomes be developed, and this has now been completed, and is shown below:-
Feasibility Analysis
To assist in assessing the feasibility of the project, quantity Surveyors WT Partnership were engaged to determine the cost of the project based on the endorsed schematic retail and car park designs and the public domain design ideas proposal submitted by Arcadia Landscapes for the public domain. As a result it is estimated that the cost of the project will be in the range of $60m - $75m depending on final design and inclusions, staging, timing and contingencies. The cost is exclusive of finance and internal costs.
In terms of funding the project, a funding plan has been formulated based on a combination of equity contribution, leasing, asset sales and debt as follows:-
Funds committed for public domain component from Council’s S.94 funds
Sale of land at 314 Burns Bay Road
Council property to be sold late 2015, with sales proceeds expected by end of 2016
Little Lane Car Park Redevelopment
Project proceeds, part guaranteed and part linked to overall return to developer, with sales proceeds expected by end of 2016
Parking Rates
Allocation from the special parking rates income levied on commercial properties in the village for parking facilities
Friedlander Place Stratum
Proceeds from the proposed sale of the below ground stratum under the public plaza in St Leonards
Supported in principle by the Commonwealth Bank – see below for more details
To protect Council’s commercial interests in the 314 Burns Bay Road, Little Lane and Friedlander Place projects, the anticipated proceeds from these projects and/or sales will remain confidential, with details provided in the confidential information circulated separately to Councillors.
Following the Council decision to progress the feasibility analysis, a final opportunity was provided to retailers to submit financial offers that would enhance the feasibility of the project and minimise financial risks for Council. Retailers were invited to submit fresh commercial terms on the basis of prepayment of significant up front rental payments based on a minimum rental, as well as being provided the option of purchasing upfront the retail stratum whilst providing a buy back option to Council. To create a competitive situation between retailers in the process, both a three (3) tenancy mix and a two (2) tenancy mix were offered to the retailers to bid on. The outcomes of that process were analysed by CBRE, with details provided in the confidential information circulated separately to Councillors. CBRE concluded that the offers are strong enough to achieve Council’s objectives and recommended that Council accept the offers should it wish to proceed with the project.
Council has achieved a debt free status for more than 11 years. In terms of this project debt is essential to fill the funding void, and can be considered ‘good debt’ in that the project itself produces cash flows which will pay off the debt without any burden on Council’s existing budgets, and therefore at no direct cost to the community.
In relation to the quantum of debt, up to $31.5 million maybe required, which given the commercial terms offered by the retailers can be paid off within 8 years. Prior to the last commercial terms offers being received, debt repayment was projected at 13 years. It is pointed out that the debt servicing ratio would remain at less than the permitted 20% of operational revenue, the standard set by the Office of Local Government performance measurement ratios.
Way Forward
As a result, of the significant commercial interest and offers for the retail components as well as the fact the project is de-risked by debt being underwritten by retailers, it is recommended that Council support and adopt the feasibility analysis and progress with the project through initially entering into conditional Agreements for Lease (AFL’s) with the two (2) preferred retailers for the below grade retail space of 5,400m². Conditions of the AFL’s will be subject to respective Board approvals being obtained by the retailers, a Capital Expenditure Review being accepted by the Office of Local Government for Council to proceed and cover issues such as agreement on design, key milestones and terms of the lease. At this stage the identity of the retailers cannot be publicly disclosed for commercial and confidentiality reasons at this stage at their request. Upon Board approvals being obtained a joint statement will be issued by the three parties.
Subject to Council agreeing to adopt the feasibility analysis and proceed with the project, the following process and timeframe is proposed for progressing with the delivery of the Project:-
· Capital Expenditure Review, Office of Local Government - Council is required to submit a Capital Expenditure Review proposal to the Office of Local Government for this project given its significant cost. The purpose of the review is to ensure Council’s evaluation of the project is consistent and rigorous, the merits of the project can be compared and resources are allocated on an informed basis. The business case required with the submission is circulated separately to Councillors on a confidential basis;
· Engage Project Manager – External project managers will be engaged to assist in defining the deliverables for the design and construction procurement process and ultimately supervise the construction process;
· Invite Expressions of Interest (EOI) for Design and Construction – The EOI would seek contractors for the design and construction of the development based on the project deliverables;
· Stage 1 Development Application – an application will be lodged which will address building use , the building shape and volume, height, and entry/exit points for vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists. The consent authority shall be the JRPP. This will be followed once the design and construction contract is let by a detailed Development Application/s.
· Relocation of Ausgrid Substation - the existing sub-station located midway on Birdwood Lane must be relocated from the site to allow the development works to proceed. Investigations and negotiations with Ausgrid have commenced;
· Surrounding Traffic Network Modifications – In 2007 Maunsel AECOM undertook a Traffic and Master Plan for the Lane Cove Town Centre and Business Park Traffic and Parking Strategy Study that highlighted the latent demand for additional parking in the Lane Cove Village. Council has developed responses to these issues, and it is apparent that notwithstanding the proposed improvements to parking, it is necessary to address the traffic issues along the Burns Bay Rd/Rosenthal Ave/Longueville route, which sees through traffic travelling through the village commercial precinct. In tandem with this project, it is proposed to develop a ”Bypass” option for the village, which would involve reconfiguration of the eastern end of Finlayson Street to Cox’s Lane and Cox’s Lane itself, with better connectivity to Epping Road.
· Road Boundary Adjustment - Achieving the optimal / preferred layout of retail tenancies within the development whilst maintaining long term flexibility will require minor public road boundary adjustments to the Rosenthal Ave and Birdwood Lane. Included as AT-1 are details of the extent of these adjustments, broadly described as:-
a. Dedicate as public road 97 m2 from Lot 28 DP 10155;
b. Close public road involving 485 m2 approximately 3.6m wide along the Rosenthal Ave frontage. The remaining road width is approximately 16m; and
c. Close public road involving 40 m2 triangular in shape at the corner of Rosenthal Lane and Birdwood Lane. As the need for this section of closure is located below natural surface, it will be stratum subdivided to be limited in height to include the retail, similar to the stratum subdivision along Little Lane included in the Little Lane Car Park redevelopment.
Under current procedures, Council under authorisation from the Minister will conduct the administrative components of the process, with final approval determined by Crown Lands.
On closure, the closed road lots will vest in Council and will then be amalgamated with the other lots constituting the car park development site.
· Project Timeline – The project timetable allows for the staged development of the project over a 4 year timeframe with works scheduled to commence in January 2017. The project is intended to be constructed in two stages so that some parking will be available throughout the construction process. Half of the existing surface carpark will remain available for use while the basement carpark and building structure closest to Lane Cove Plaza (the south end) is constructed. Then the first half of the new basement carpark is opened to the public, while the second half of the project is built (north end) .
The project timetable and key milestones are as follows:
o Dec 2015 Project Manager appointed
o August 2016 Design +Construct Contractor appointed
o January 2017 Construction commences
o November 2019 Project completion
Delivery Procurement Method
It is proposed that Council deliver the project by acting as developer for the entire development, start to finish, accepting all commercial risks but mitigating most design and cost risk utilising a Design and Construct Lump Sum Contract (D and C).
By acting as developer Council will take responsibility for all outcomes associated with the development, including preliminary design, approvals, cost/ revenue, construction, marketing, leasing and finance. This procurement method allows Council to be 100% in control and responsible for the outcome of the development, conversely, accepting all associated revenue risks but mitigating design risks as appropriate. Council previously when looking to develop this site engaged St Hilliers to act as Developer and Builder, resulting in a loss of control of the project, which ultimately led to Council cancelling the contract. With such a critical site, maintaining full control is important.
In terms of procurement there are three common standard types of contract that may utilised by Council. The first mentioned is now rarely used due to its inherent and excessive upfront design costs.
· Traditional Contract;
· Design and Construct Contract (D and C); and
· Design and Construct Contract with Guaranteed Maximum Price (D and C GMP).
It is recommended that Council adopt the Design and Construct – Guaranteed Maximum Price procurement method as this type of arrangement offers the lowest risk approach to mitigate risk and provide the most cost effective outcome project.
GMP is an in essence a modified D and C contract. The purpose of the GMP is to provide the Council and the Contractor the opportunity to work together and explore alternative design and pricing opportunities. The Client receives a Guaranteed Maximum Price and the Contractor is incentivised to reduce cost under the contract via a share of savings arrangement.
· Risk Management Plan
In terms of risk, a procurement risk analysis has been undertaken to identify the recommended procurement method to deliver outcomes desired by Council in the project.
A risk matrix which is at AT-2 provides a review of the major risk types utilising the abovementioned preferred type of delivery procurement method. The risk is identified and clarified and mitigating solutions suggested. Whilst the risk matrix does not address all possible risks it focuses on the more common risks encountered.
· Probity Plan
A Probity Plan has been developed for the project in consultation with HWL Ebsworth Lawyers and Risk Reward Probity Advisors. The Probity Plan which is at AT-3 outlines a transparent and accountable decision making structure for all elements of the project including the EOI for the major retailers and associated negotiations, dealings with Ausgrid obtaining development consent for the redevelopment of the land and the tender and procurement process for the design, construction and delivery of the project.
· Probity Advisors
It is noted that Mr Bill Rock of Risk Reward has been appointed as the Probity Advisor for the project, with relevant functions outlined in the Probity Plan. To date the Probity Advisor has been present at key meetings with the major retailers and will be actively engaged in the procurement and delivery process.
· Project Teams
Council in September 2013, appointed the Rosenthal Car Park Working Party with the objective to assist Council in the planning, consultation and design for the redevelopment of the site. At an operational level, a Project Team has been established with relevant Council Officers and appropriate consultants including property and retail legal and design specialists, to oversee the planning and delivery of the project.
· Reporting to Council
Progress on the delivery of the progress will continue to be reported to Council on a monthly basis with the Snapshot in addition to any individual reports on key issues such as endorsement of designs, commercial arrangements, and consideration of EOIs and tendering.
Council has reached a significant milestone in the planning and feasibility analysis of one of the most exciting projects in Lane Cove’s history. The development provides an opportunity to not only meet the demand for additional car parking in the Village, it also presents an opportunity for creation of a vibrant urban public domain, enhancement of the retail mix and an integrated public space with links to retail areas to the south and east. Ultimately, the project will provide long term social, community ,economic and sustainability benefits for the Lane Cove community.
The independent review by CBRE concludes that the base case feasibility of the project is financially sustainable with project income servicing the debt within a relatively short period i.e. within 8 years, depending on Council’s initial equity investment in the project, if all free cash flow is used to repay principal. Thus the project will also provide a significant long term income source for the community.
It is acknowledged that given the core objectives for the project requiring significant community facilities being provided as part of the development, such as approximately 6500m2 of public domain and the amount of car spaces proposed (in addition to the number required by the DCP), the project would not be attractive to the private sector and therefore Council will need to act as Developer. Council’s track record in delivering major infrastructure projects over the last 10 years, combined with the proposed use of specialist Project Managers, means the risks associated with the project can be managed.
It is recommended that Council approve progressing with the delivery of the project as outlined in the report and enter into conditional AFL’s with the preferred retailers.
That Council:-
1. Enter into conditional Agreements for Lease with the preferred retailers as identified in the confidential attachments, with the General Manager to be delegated authority to negotiate and finalise the final form of the AFL’s;
2. Proceed with further actions to progress the delivery of the project as outlined in the report;
3. Submit a Capital Expenditure Review to the Office of Local Government incorporating the confidential Business Plan for the Project;
4. Make application to the Department of Primary Industries – Lands for the closure of part of Rosenthal Avenue road reserve as outlined in the report and illustrated in AT-1;
5. Adopt the Risk Management Plan for the Project as at AT-2;
6. Adopt the Probity Plan for the Project at AT-3 of the Report;
7. Receive a further report for the construction of a ”Bypass” option for the village, which would involve reconfiguration of the eastern end of Finlayson Street to Cox’s Lane and Cox’s Lane itself, with better connectivity to Epping Road;
8. Proceed to lodge a Stage 1 Development Application for the project; and
9. Receive a monthly progress report on the delivery of the project and individual reports on significant issues as required.
Craig Dalli
Executive Manager - Corporate Services
Corporate Services Division
Plan Illustrating Proposed Public Road adjustments - Rosenthal Avenue and Birdwood Lane
Risk Management Plan - Rosenthal Car Park Redevelopment
Rosenthal Redevelopment Project - Probity Plan
Available Electronically
Planning Proposal 1 Sirius Rd - Deferred Report
Subject: Planning Proposal 1 Sirius Rd - Deferred Report
Author(s): Terry Tredrea
A report was considered by Council on 20 April 2015 relating to Planning Proposal 21 - 1 Sirius Road, located in the Lane Cove West Industrial Area. The report (AT-1) is available electronically and on Council’s website. The proposal seeks to:-
(i) Rezone the majority of 1 Sirius from IN2 Light Industrial to B4 Mixed Use, predominantly for residential apartments, with three bushland areas rezoned to RE1 Public Recreation (as distinct from E2 Environmental Conservation);
(ii) Increase the height from 18 metres to up to 56 metres; and
(iii) Increase the floor space ratio from FSR 1.1:1 to 2.5:1.
Council deferred its determination of the matter, in order to permit the applicant to make a presentation at a Councilor workshop.
This report considers the issues discussed at the Workshop. In conclusion, it confirms the recommendation that the planning proposal not be supported, on the grounds stated in the April report, and in particular the importance of retaining industrial lands to meet the needs of the growing residential population.
A report was provided for Council be Hansen Yuncken, consultants, with concept designs indicating that the site is feasible for light industrial development,
Furthermore, it is recommended that Council not pre-empt the Department of Planning & Environment’s current regional planning processes, which include investigation of the potential of employment lands in the North Region, the preparation of new District (subregional) Plans and the establishment of the new Greater Sydney Commission, as announced on 8 September.
Council resolved on 20 April as follows:-
"1. The matter be referred to a Councillor workshop and further relevant information be provided including environmental impacts such as site contamination, air pollution and bushland impacts; and
2. The proponent be invited to address Council".
On 10 August, the applicant presented their proposal and supporting information to the Councillor Workshop.
Council received a letter on 2 September 2015 from the applicant, Statewide Planning. The letter requested that Council defer determination of the matter to October, to enable updated material to be provided in relation to the Metropolitan Strategy 2014 and other matters. A copy of the letter is attached at AT-2.
A response by Council, dated 9 September 2015, advised that deferral of the report was not supported, as the Department’s 90-day period for determination of a planning proposals had already been exceeded, and the opportunity to comment on the Metropolitan Strategy had been provided at the August workshop. A copy of the response is attached at AT-3.
Regional Planning by the NSW Government
The State Government last week announced imminent legislation for the structure of the proposed Greater Sydney Commission and the future publication of new District Plans for Sydney’s subregions. In preparation for these, it is understood that the Department of Planning & Environment has been investigating the potential of employment lands, including the Lane Cove West Industrial Area.
It is considered premature to rezone a substantial area within the Lane Cove Industrial Area in the interim pending the Department’s release of plans for the subregion.
Councillor Workshop
The issues discussed in the applicant’s presentation to the Workshop on 10 August are shown attached at AT-4 (available electronically). Staff responses, are summarised below. These issues are dealt with in further detail in the report of 20 April.
1. The site is not strategically important Industrial zoned land.
Staff response: The site is identified by the Department of Planning as a “key industrial Precinct”. Lane Cove West is to be “protected” as being “of strategic importance”. Council has received no indication from the Department that this will change under the Metropolitan Strategy.
2. The site typography (a steep, north-west-facing saddle) is “unsuitable for industrial development”.
Staff response: There is an existing DA approval for an Industrial use of the site. The independent industrial design by Hansen Yuncken (AT-5) shows the site physically suitable for light industrial use. This study, dated 25 May 2015, was undertaken by consultants for Council and provides concept diagrams of a potential industrial design providing:-
· FSR 0.7:1 (below the permissible FSR 1:1)
· Total floor area: 27,805m2.
· Height: 3 levels.
This study indicates that the proponent’s key submission, that industrial development is not supported, is not the case. Further, as advised by Council’s Traffic Section, vehicles suitable for light industrial uses would be able to access the site (see earlier report).
3. There is low demand for industrial land in the inner north subregion.
Staff response: There is a current undersupply of serviced undeveloped IN2 sites (see AT-1).
4. The saltmarsh community to the north of the site is not endangered.
Staff response: This appears to be contradicted by their consultant’s findings that the coastal saltmarsh to the north of the Site is an endangered community and was observed to be intact.
5. The proposed development provides 277 jobs
Staff response: The Hansen Yunken IN2 design provides over 340 jobs.
6. The proposal provides “visual... connections to the river”.
Staff response: Apartment blocks of up to 18 storeys would dominate the skyline from most vantage points, including Lane Cove National Park and others in the Ryde area.
7. A second entry/exit is proposed to the south, possibly north.
Staff response: However, the alternative exits are not feasible due to topography, impact on Council owned bushland or being across neighbouring private property.
8. The introduction of residents will improve environmental rehabilitation.
Staff response: Rehabilitation will be required in any future use.
9. Matters of concern from a resident regarding air quality from the adjacent Lane Cove Tunnel stack have been addressed.
Staff response: The proponent has provided a response to resident concerns, from Jacobs consultants, relating to a CAMM Report on the Lane Cove Tunnel Ventilation Stacks. These issues would require independent expert review at a subsequent stage if rezoning proceeded as the conclusions are not consistent with staff’s understaffing of air quality issues arising from the presence of the stack.
10. The site is considered suitable for residential development.
Staff response: Notwithstanding the high visual and landscape quality, the site is considered to be of relatively low residential amenity, it is isolated in terms of proximity to community and medical facilities, shops and bus services, and bush fire hazard.
The application by Statewide Planning to rezone 1 Sirius Road to from IN2 Light Industrial to B4 Mixed Use/ RE1 Public Recreation, and the applicant's request to further defer the matter to October, are not supported for the reasons that:-
(i) The retention of employment lands, comprising approximately 7% of the Lane Cove Industrial Area, is important to balance the substantial residential growth in the subregion and supports the objectives of the Metropolitan Strategy 2014.
(ii) An independent study for Council by consultancy Hansen Yuncken has demonstrated that light industrial development, suitable for high tech uses, is feasible on this site, and the site can accommodate industrial vehicles, so that the statement that the site is topographically unsuited to light industry is rejected.
(iii) Rezoning to permit predominantly residential land uses would pre-empt the NSW Department of Planning & Environment's release of subregional/ district plans, and the results of its recent investigations into the potential of employment lands regionally, following the imminent establishment of the Greater Sydney Commission announced in early September.
(iv) Proposed public benefits of rezoning bushland pockets and foreshore access across the site, such as for a boating facility/ café or other uses, could potentially be provided with an industrial redevelopment with incentives in scale. Such a proposal, to be located on Council/ Crown land, would require detailed investigation, and so it should not be assumed that it would follow a rezoning.
The applicant’s request to defer the matter to enable further assessment against Metropolitan Strategy 2014 cannot be supported in view of: the review of information provided, the current state of flux regarding the regional strategic planning and the requirement for Council to determine proposals within 90 days, and that the extension given from April to August was adequate for such considerations.
1. Council not support Planning Proposal 21 to rezone 1 Sirius Rd from IN2 Light Industrial to B4 Mixed Usefor the following reasons:-
(i) The proposal is inconsistent with State and Council strategic planning documents;
(ii) Rezoning to permit predominantly residential land uses would pre-empt the NSW Department of Planning & Environment's release of subregional/ district plans, and the results of its recent investigations into the potential of employment lands regionally
(iii) The site is a valuable local contribution to the Global Economic Corridor and a residential use would reduce “employment land” in the area;
(iv) Rezoning to permit residential use would compromise future IN2 uses in the precinct, with likely landuse conflicts with industrial neighbours;
(v) An independent study for Council by consultancy Hansen Yuncken has demonstrated that light industrial development, suitable for high tech uses, is feasible on this site, and the site can accommodate industrial vehicles;
(vi) Residential development is not needed to meet Council’s housing targets;
(vii) It is not near a commercial/retail centre or community facilities;
(viii) The site is not near public transport (900m walk through industrial precinct);
(ix) Only one entry/egress is possible, which is a risk to emergency vehicles, under Rural Fire Service policies;
(x) Commercial (B4) use of the site would not provide more employment than IN2;
(xi) The impact on air quality from the adjacent Lane Cove Tunnel stack;
(xii) Environmental conflicts exist between remnant bushland and proposed work; and
(xiii) The proposed residential buildings would be visually intrusive and out of scale with surrounding development.
2. The applicant be advised of Council’s decision.
Council Report of 20 April 2015
Letter from Statewide - Requesting Deferral to October - Received 2 September 2015
Response to Statewide - Request for Deferral Received 2 September
Statewide Presetntation to Councillor Workshop 10 August 2015
Hansen Yuncken 4 - Level Industrial Concept Design - 1 Sirius Road
Planning Proposal - Nicholson / Christie Streets, St Leonards - Deferred Report
Subject: Planning Proposal - Nicholson / Christie Streets, St Leonards - Deferred Report
Author(s): Stephanie Bashford
A report was considered by Council on 21 August 2015 relating to Planning Proposal 23: 46-50 Nicholson St/ 59-67 Christie St, St Leonards (attached at AT-1). The proposal seeks to:-
(i) Rezone the site from B3 Commercial Core to B4 Mixed Use;
(ii) Increase the height from 25 metres to 187 metres (57 storeys over underground parking); and
(iii) Increase the floor space ratio from 4.5:1 to 17:1 (the concept plan provides FSR 17.2).
Council deferred its determination of the matter, in order to provide the applicant with an opportunity to meet with Council to discuss the proposal.
There has, however, been no new information from the proponent and although arrangements were undertaken on more than one occasion no meeting was held.
A letter was received on 31 August 2015 requesting Council to defer determination of the matter again, to enable the applicant to make changes to the proposal, including:-
· Increasing the commercial floor space to the currently permissible “GFA of 4.5:1”, up from 2.3:1 in the proposal (no net loss of commercial floor space);
· “Anticipating” a reduction in height (to an unspecified level);
· Increasing the parking supply to be consistent with RMS rates;
· Removing parking from the above-ground podium levels to basement level; and
· That they anticipated that “finalisation of an amended proposal would take approximately four weeks”.
Council responded by letter of 9 September advising that:-
· The item was not deferred by Council to accommodate the proponent to make changes to the scheme, which could be considered a new Proposal; and
· Council was required to determine proposals within a 90-day timeframe, and the report would consequently be put to the September meeting.
It is recommended that Council not pre-empt the Department of Planning and Environment’s current regional planning processes, which include investigation of the potential of retail / commercial uses in the North Region, the preparation of new District (subregional) Plans and the establishment of the new Greater Sydney Commission, as announced on 8 September 2015.
This report confirms the recommendation that the planning proposal not be supported.
Council resolved on 17 August 2015 “That the matter be deferred, at the request of the applicant, to the Ordinary Council Meeting of 21 September 2015”.
Councillors are directed to the Report of 17 August 2015 (attached at AT-1) which provides the assessment of the proposal, and correspondence between Council and Jemalong (attached at AT-2 to AT-4).
Consideration of Planning Proposal 23 was deferred to enable the proponent to discuss the matter with Council. However, no meeting has been held despite attempts by staff to arrange a meeting. A request was subsequently received to allow a significantly amended design to be submitted, which is considered to be a new proposal.
Consequently, there is no change to the recommendation made in the report to Council of 17 August 2015 that the proposal should not be supported, on the grounds that it would be out of scale with surrounding development, would significantly alter the balance between employment and residential floor space without providing any public benefit of substance, and may thus pre-empt the State planning processes currently underway under the Greater Sydney Commission and imminent subregional plans.
1. Council not support Planning Proposal 23 to rezone 46-50 Nicholson St/ 59-67 Christie St, St Leonards from B3 Commercial Core to B4 Mixed Use for the following reasons:-
(i) The planning proposal does not form part of Council’s mixed use targeted economic stimulus program endorsed by the State Government;
(ii) It is inconsistent with the Department’s objectives in the Metropolitan Strategy for employment growth in the St Leonards Strategic Centre;
(iii) The built form would constitute an overdevelopment of the site, be out of scale with surrounding and proposed developments, including recent planning proposals providing significant public benefits; extend shadowing to beyond River Road and provide only half of the parking spaces required under the DCP and SEPP 65; and
(iv) The site received FSR and height uplifts in the 2010 LEP from FSR 2:1 to 4.5:1 and from the current 2-4 storeys up to 25 metres i.e. around double the current scale. It is noted that the site was purchased since the introduction of those controls. The application proposes to provide only 5,288m2 commercial floor space (FSR 2.3:1) rather than the 10,250m2 of capacity under the current controls, but without substantive public benefits in return for this under-supply of commercial floor space; and
REPORT Planning Proposal 23: Nicholson / Christie Streets - 17 August 2015
Responses to Jemalong Letters of 17 & 31 August - Dated 24 August & 9 September 2015
Jemalong Letter to Lane Cove Council 31 August 2015
Proposed Review of Ward Boundaries
Subject: Proposed Review of Ward Boundaries
The NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) have advised Councils that any proposals to alter ward boundaries and/or change ward boundary names must be finalised and submitted to the NSWEC by 14 December 2015. As there currently is a variation of more than 10% of electors in West Ward over Central Ward and the variation is expected to grow with the anticipated increase in residents and electors between now and the September 2016 Elections as a result of the significant number of units due for completion, Council is required to review its ward boundaries. This report provides options for Council’s consideration with it noted that the community must be consulted on any proposed changes to ward boundaries, prior to Council determining its new ward boundaries.
In preparation for the 2016 Local Government Elections scheduled for Saturday, 10 September 2016 the NSWEC has reminded Council to consider the need to review ward boundaries and/or change ward boundary names.
Under Section 211 of the Local Government Act 1993 (“The Act”), councils are required to review their wards and alter them if “the number of electors in one ward in its area differs by more than 10% from the number of electors in any other ward in its area”. Council last considered this matter in March 2006 and altered its ward boundaries to ensure the variation in wards was less than 10%.
Information supplied by the NSWEC shows the enrolments in respect of the Lane Cove Council wards have gradually increased as a result of the significant development activity in the area, with the number of electors in West Ward as at 27 August 2015 now exceeding the number of Electors in Central Ward by 10.53% as illustrated in the following table:-
Number of Electors
Council is therefore required to review its ward boundaries to overcome the 10% variance in the number of electors between wards. In reviewing the ward boundaries consideration also needs to be given to anticipated growth in population/number of electors between now and the closing of the rolls forty (40) days prior to the Elections. In view of the fact that approximately 1200 units are due for completion between now and the end of July 2016, the variation will increase even further given the majority of development activity is located in West Ward i.e. 150 Epping Road 367 units, 316-322 Burns Bay Road 268 units and the recently completed 214 units at 7-15 Centennial Ave and 92-96 Gordon Crescent. It is therefore projected that as at 31 July 2016, enrolments will be as follows based on existing ward boundaries:-
In developing options for the review of ward boundaries, a three (3) ward option, as at AT-1, has been developed which has minimal changes to the existing boundaries witht hte new and existing units in the Burns Bay Precinct being moved from West Ward to Central Ward and all of the Village area being contained within East Ward. A further option consisting of nine (9) wards is also presented for Council’s consideration as at AT-2. In developing this option a focus was placed on communities of interest being located within individual wards where practicable. Alternatively, Council may wish to consider abolishing all Wards in which case a constitutional referendum and subsequent Ministers approval will be required. The anticipated number of electors per ward for each of the two (2) options is illustrated in the following table:
Max Variation
Prior to adopting revised ward boundaries, Council is required to place the preferred option(s) on exhibition for 28 days allowing 42 days for public submissions. The Australian Statistician and NSWEC must also be consulted to ensure consistency with the new Statistical Areas Level 1 (SA1s) which have replaced Census Collection Districts (CCD’s). Additionally, the NSWEC requests councils align where possible ward boundaries with State and Federal Electoral boundaries and SA1s.
The consultation is designed to seek the community views on Council’s proposed changes to the Ward Boundaries, and will take place for a period 6 weeks. Comments received will be considered on the suitability of the proposed boundaries, having regard to the Council’s obligation to have Wards, in terms of the number of electors, within a 10% range of each other as required by the Local Government Act.
Level of Participation
Form of Participation
Lane Cove Community
Key Message givers e.g. Residents Associations
Proposed Medium
Advertisement and
Notification Letters
Public Exhibition,
Website Exhibition
Indicative Timing
September to November 2015
1. The information be noted;
2. Council place on public exhibition the options for new Ward Boundaries in accordance with the consultation strategy outlined in the report; and
3. Following the consultation period, the outcomes be reported back to Council for determination of new Ward Boundaries.
Ward Boundaries - Option 1
Procedures for Election of Mayor and Deputy Mayor and Councillor Representation on Council Committees for 2015-16
Subject: Procedures for Election of Mayor and Deputy Mayor and Councillor Representation on Council Committees for 2015-16
Author(s): Kirsty Beram
The purpose of this report is to outline the procedures for election of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor and to appoint Councillor representatives on Advisory and External Committees for the next 12 months.
Election of Mayor and Deputy Mayor
Councillors have previously been provided nomination forms for the position of Mayor and Deputy Mayor for the next 12 months. Clause 3(2) of Schedule 7 of the Regulation provides that if more than one Councillor is nominated, the Council is to resolve whether the election is to proceed by preferential ballot, by ordinary ballot (secret ballot) or by open voting (show of hands).
Councillor Representation on Committees
Council currently operates various advisory Committees, and participates in other external Committees to provide a forum for discussion of broad, local and regional issues among council representatives, local agencies and community members.
Councillors should also note the following procedures apply to Committees:-
· The Mayor is an ex-officio member of all Internal Advisory Committees and has the right to give notice of business for the Agenda, move and second recommendations and vote on matters;
· All Councillors can attend Internal Advisory Committees, however non-members of the Committee cannot; give notice of business for the Agenda, move and second recommendations or vote on matters ; and
· All Councillor representatives on Internal Advisory Committees may arrange an alternate Councillor to attend as required.
Councillors represent Council on a number of Advisory and External Committees, a list of these Committees, their purpose, current representation and meeting frequency is shown below:-
Aboriginal Advisory Committee
This Committee was formed on 18 February 2013 to increase knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal culture, to foster positive relationships between Council and Aboriginal people and provide advice to Council regarding aboriginal education, health, tourism, employment, culture and customs. The Meetings are held monthly on the 4th Monday in the Training Room at 7.15pm.
Current Representation: Councillors Bennison and Karpin and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Age Friendly Advisory Committee
Council at its meeting of 21 July 2014 resolved to establish an Age-Friendly Advisory Committee to provide advice and assistance to Council on the implementation of the Age Friendly Action Plan including prioritisation and awareness of strategies and initiatives. The Committee meets at least bi-monthly.
Current Representation: Councillors Hutchens, Cheong and Karpin, with Councillor Palmer as alternate.
Bushland Management Advisory Committee
Commenced in the 1980’s to discuss bushland management issues and monitor implementation of Bushland Plan of Management. This Committee which provides advice and recommendations on bushland management within Lane Cove, includes 3 Community Representatives and 3 Representatives of the Lane Cove Bushland and Conservation Society. The Committee meets monthly on a Wednesday at 6:00pm in the Committee Room.
Current Representation: Councillor Strassberg and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Cameraygal Festival Committee
Formed in 1991 to formulate, plan, develop and promote activities within Lane Cove. The Committee meets from February to August and also in October on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 6pm in the Committee Room. The role of the Committee is to organise the Festival and provide advice and recommendations to the General Manager on the Festival.
Current Representation: Councillor Bennison and Councillor Palmer with Councillor Strassberg as an alternate and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Carisbrook Advisory Committee
Carisbrook is the oldest surviving house in its area, purchased by Council in 1969. The House and Gardens are managed and maintained by Council, and the Lane Cove Historical Society manages the furnishing and showing of the House. This Committee assists in setting the direction for Carisbrook House and will meet every 6 weeks on Wednesdays at 9.30am in the Human Services Committee Room. The role of the Committee is to provide advice and recommendations on Carisbrook House.
Current Representation: Councillor Hutchens and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Centrehouse Management Committee
Centrehouse is a not-for-profit community art and leisure centre offering leisure learning for the community, including various courses for children to adults and facilities for hire. The Management Committee meets on the 1st Wednesday of each month at Centrehouse at 5.30pm. As this is an external Committee, the role of the Committee is governed by Centrehouse.
Current Representation: Councillors Brent and Gold.
Council Selection Committee
This Committee considers nominations and provides recommendations to the General Manager for Council's Citizenship Awards, Australia Day Awards, community appointments to Councils advisory Committees, tenders, grants, and other awards as required and will meet when required. The Meetings are held as required during Council Workshops on 2nd Monday of the month.
Current Representation: All Councillors and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Internal Audit Committee
Formed in 2009 to provide independent assurance and assistance to Council on risk management, control, governance, and external accountability responsibilities. The DLG Guidelines recommend that the Mayor not be the Councillor representative on this Committee. There are (2) two independent representatives on the Committee with one of them being the Chair of the Committee. The Committee meets quarterly in the Cobra Room at 2.30pm on a Wednesday. The role of the Committee is to provide advice and recommendations to the General Manager on business functions and processes subjected to an internal audit.
Current Representation: Councillor Karpin and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Joint Regional Planning Panel (JRPP)
The JRPP determines development applications for the following types of development:-
· Development with a Capital Investment Value (CIV) over $20 million;
· Development with a CIV over $5 million which is:-
o council related;
o lodged by or on behalf of the Crown (State of NSW);
o private infrastructure and community facilities; or
o eco-tourist facilities.
· Extractive industries, waste facilities and marinas that are designated development;
· Certain coastal subdivisions;
· Development with a CIV between $10 million and $20 million which are referred to the regional panel by the applicant after 120 days; and
· Crown development applications (with a CIV under $5 million) referred to the regional panel by the applicant or local council after 70 days from lodgement as undetermined, including where recommended conditions are in dispute.
Two (2) Council representatives are appointed by each council that is situated in a part of the State for which a Regional Panel is established. At least one (1) Council representative is required to have expertise in one (1) or more of the following areas: planning, architecture, heritage, the environment, urban design, land economics, traffic and transport, law, engineering or tourism. As this is an external Committee, the role of the Committee is governed by the NSW State Government.
Current Representation: Councillor Bennison and Manager - Strategic Planning Stephanie Bashford with Councillor Gold as an alternate.
Kindy Cove Management Advisory Committee
This Committee provides advice to the Management of the Long Day Care Centre, from a parent and community perspective. The Committee will meet on the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 7.00pm, usually at Kindy Cove. The role of the Committee is to provide advice and recommendations on the operation of Kindy Cove.
Current Representation: Councillor Brent and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Lane Cove Access Committee
The Committee's objectives are to increase and promote general awareness of access, mobility and safety issues in the community. The Committee meets on the last Wednesday of every second month at 10am. The Committee includes five (5) representatives of access related service providers and up to five (5) community representatives. The role of the Committee is to provide advice and recommendations to the General Manager on access issues.
Current Representation: Councillors Karpin and Palmer and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Lane Cove and North Side Community Services Board of Directors
Founded in 1961 to provide health and community services to people in need and was initially based at Council but became independent from Council in 1962. Community Aid is an incorporated association which provides direct services to the elderly, disabled and their carers in Lane Cove. The Board meets on the 2nd Thursday of every second month at 7:30am at the Community Aid Centre. As this is an external committee, the role of the Committee is governed by Lane Cove and North Side Community Services.
Current Representation: Councillors Brooks-Horn and Hutchens.
Lane Cove Bicycle Advisory Committee
Formed in 1995 to provide advice on bicycle facilities. The Committee provided significant input into the development of the Lane Cove Bicycle Plan. This Committee meets quarterly to consider the provision of bicycle facilities in accordance with the Bicycle Plan in the Committee Room at 6pm. The role of the Committee is to provide advice and recommendations on bicycle issues.
Current Representation: Councillor Gold and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Lane Cove Cultural Advisory Committee
This Committee assists in the formulation of cultural planning strategies and initiatives. The Committee meets quarterly on a Wednesday at 6pm in the Training Room. The role of the Committee is to provide advice and recommendations to the General Manager on cultural issues.
Current Representation: Councillors Brent, Cheong and Hutchens and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Lane Cove Historical Society
The Society meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 2.30pm and provides a forum for the promotion and discussion of history in Lane Cove. As this is an external Committee the role of the Committee is governed by the Lane Cove Historical Society.
Current Representation: Councillor Palmer.
Lane Cove Occasional Child Care Centre
This Committee considers management issues of the Child Care Centre. The Committee meets on the 4th Monday of each month at 7.30pm in the Centre. The role of the Committee is to provide advice to the Management of the Occasional Child Care Centre.
Current Representation: Councillor Brent.
Lane Cove Public Art Advisory Committee
Formed on 1 November 2010 to provide Council with expert advice, critique, and comment on the ongoing development, guidance, and implementation of the Lane Cove Council Public Art Policy in relation to each Council or developer-based project including public art commissions. This Committee meets when public art projects arise. The role of the Committee is to provide advice and recommendations to the General Manager on public art issues.
Current Representation: Councillors Bennison, Brent, Hutchens and Cheong and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Lane Cove Recreation Precinct Liaison Advisory Committee
With the proposed development of the site progressing, the Committee discusses issues with the current tenants and other stakeholders that will affect them during the time of development and assist with the design of the new club house. This Committee meets quarterly on a Tuesday at 6pm. The role of the Committee is to provide advice and recommendations on the proposed development.
Current Representation: Councillors Brooks-Horn, Cheong and Karpin and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Lane Cove Retirement Units Association Ltd Board
Council purchased land in Central Avenue in 1966 for the development of units and transferred the land to the Association in 1994. The Association, a company limited by Guarantee, seeks to provide suitable accommodation for aged persons capable of independent living, and manages the land and buildings at Pottery Gardens to this end. The Board meets six times a year on a Tuesday at 6.45pm. As this is an external Committee the role of the Committee is governed by the Lane Cove Retirement Units Association, whose constitution provides for two (2) Councillor representatives.
Current Representation: Councillors Hutchens and Karpin.
Marjorie Propsting Memorial Library Consultative Forum
Established in 1988 to provide advice and recommendations to the General Manager on matters affecting Library services at the Marjorie Propsting Memorial Library. The Committee includes the General Manager's representative, a representative of the Greenwich Library staff, up to 3 representatives of the Greenwich Community Association, 1 representative of the Greenwich Kindergarten, 1 representative of the Greenwich Senior Citizens’ Association, and 1 East Ward Councillor and will meet twice a year in the Greenwich Library on a Tuesday at 4pm.
Metro Pool/United Independent Pools Boards
Established in 1990, Metro Pool is made up of nine (9) Councils which self insure against Public Liability and Professional Indemnity claims and purchase excess layers of insurance. United Independent Pools (UIP) is a joint partnership of 19 councils established in 2005 to manage first party losses including property, motor vehicle and crime cover. The Boards comprise an Elected Representative and the General Managers of each Council and has the responsibility of ratifying decisions made by the Management Committee and ensuring the ongoing viability of the Pools. The Boards meet quarterly on a Wednesday at 10am at a host council. . As this is an external Committee, the role of the Boards are governed by Metrol Pool/UIP
Current Representation: Councillor Karpin with Councillor Strassberg as an alternate and the General Manager and/or their nominee.
Mowbray Precinct Working Party
This Committee was formed on 3 December 2012 to liaise with Council on issues relating to the precinct’s transition during the current and future development of properties and infrastructure in the Mowbray Precinct. However, this Committee is not to be engaged in strategic planning issues such as rezonings. This Committee meets quarterly on a Tuesday at 6:00pm in the Committee Room. The role of the Committee is to provide advice and recommendations to the General Manager on the Mowbray Precinct.
Current Representation: All West Ward Councillors and appropriate staff as appointed by the General Manager.
Northern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils - (NSROC)
Established in 1989, NSROC is a voluntary group of seven (7) Northern Sydney Councils who have joined together as a service organisation to support the needs and further the interests of the communities represented by member Councils. Main activities are policy advocacy for the region, professional development of staff and shared procurement. The Board of the organisation meets quarterly at 6:00pm on the second Thursday of February, May, September and November at a rotating venue between member Councils. As this is an external Committee, the role of the Board is governed by the constitution of NSROC, which is an incorporated association. The Mayor’s alternate must be the person acting as Mayor at the time, the Deputy Mayor ordinarily.
Current Representation: Councillor Brooks-Horn (Mayor) and Councillor Bennison with Councillors Hutchens, Cheong and Karpin as alternates.
NSW Metropolitan Public Libraries Association (Inc.)
The NSW Metropolitan Public Libraries Association (NSW MPLA) is the peak body that represents the interests and development of public libraries in metropolitan New South Wales.
The Association was established to ensure resource sharing programs, and for exchanging ideas. The Association meets quarterly on a Friday at alternate venues. As this is an external Committee, the role of the Association is governed by the constitution of the NSW MPLA.
Current Representation: Councillor Karpin with Councillor Palmer as an alternate and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Publications Editorial Task Force
This Committee provides advice to the General Manager on the draft Quarterly Newsletter to the community and any other relevant publications. The Committee meets on an as required basis in the Committee Room in the Civic Centre at 6pm prior to Council Meetings.
Current Representation: Councillors Bennison, Brent and Hutchens and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Rosenthal Car Park Working Party
Formed in September 2013, with the objective to assist Council in the planning, consultation and design for the redevelopment of the Rosenthal Avenue Car Park site. The working party meets as and when required.
Current Representation: Councillors Brooks-Horn, Bennison, Cheong, Hutchens and Strassberg and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Shell Consultative Committee
Established in 1993 to provide a forum to discuss environmental and community issues, this Committee was convened by Shell Australia to provide advice on the operation of the Refinery at Gore Bay. The Gore Bay Terminal has been acquired by Viva Energy who now operate the facility. Although they continue to hold ‘Community Information Evenings’ twice per year, a formal consultative Committee no longer exists.
Current Representation: All East Ward Councillors and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Shorelink Committee
The Shorelink Library Network was established in 1983 when five participating councils signed a Deed of Agreement. This Committee discusses the Shorelink Library Network and comprises a Councillor and Manager – Library Services from Lane Cove, Manly, Mosman, North Sydney and Willoughby Councils. This Committee meets 10:00am every 3rd Tuesday of each month at Council. As this is an external Committee, the role of the Committee is governed by Shorelink.
Current Representation: Councillor Karpin with Councillor Palmer as an alternate, Manager – Library Services and other appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Sustainability Advisory Committee
Established in 2005 to provide advice and recommendations to the General Manager on the formulation, prioritisation and implementation of strategies and initiatives to achieve sustainability as primarily set out in the Sustainability Action Plan. The Committee meets five times a year on a Wednesday at 6pm, in the Council Chambers.
Current Representation: Councillors Cheong, Gold and Strassberg and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Traffic Committee
The Lane Cove Traffic Committee is established under a Constitution developed and managed by Roads and Maritime Services (RMS). Its core functions are to enact NSW Government road and traffic regulations at a local level and to ensure adequate safety measures are in place. The Committee includes representatives from RMS, Sydney Buses, North Shore Police LAC and the Local Member of Parliament (or nominee). The Committee meets in the Committee Room at 10:00am on the third Tuesday of each month.
Current Representation: Councillor Karpin with Councillor Cheong as an alternate and appropriate staff as determined by the General Manager.
Willoughby / Ryde / Hunters Hill / Lane Cove District Bushfire Committee
This Committee was established to meet the requirements of the Rural Fires Act in minimising the impact of bushfires on the community. Its functions include approving priorities and locations for hazard reduction works. Representatives are from the four (4) Councils, National Parks and Wildlife Service, NSW Police Service, TollAust and NSW Fire Brigades. The Committee meets quarterly at the Lane Cove Fire Station, Artarmon at 10am on a Thursday. As this is an external Committee, the role of the Committee is governed by the NSW Fire Brigades.
Current Representation: Councillor Palmer and staff as determined by the General Manager.
1. Council conduct the Election for Mayor and Deputy Mayor for the next 12 months;
2. If two or more nominations are received for Mayor or Deputy Mayor, Council resolve whether the election is to proceed by preferential ballot, by ordinary ballot or by open voting;
3. Council determine Councillor representation on Advisory and External Committees for 2015-16, with it being noted that the Mayor is an ex-officio on all Council Advisory Committees;
4. It be noted that any available Councillor may attend Internal Advisory Committees;
5. Council authorise all Councillor representatives on Internal Advisory Committees to arrange an alternate as required; and
6. Advisory Committee Charters be amended where necessary to reflect Councillor Representation.
Review of Community Representatives on Council's Advisory Committees
Subject: Review of Community Representatives on Council's Advisory Committees
The purpose of this report is to undertake the annual review of community representation on Council’s Advisory Committees. This report recommends that Council review the current representation, determine whether to advertise the current vacancies on the committees and if any other changes are required.
During the current Council term, Council has made several resolutions to accept nominations received from members of the community to be community representatives on Council’s Advisory Committees. Council also resolved on 19 November 2012 to review these appointments annually. The current community representation on Council’s Advisory Committees and any vacancies on these committees are detailed as follows:-
This Committee’s charter allows for seven (7) community representatives. The community representatives on the Committee are:-
Susan Loane, Russell Webber, Don Murchinson, Maggie Burke, Gavin Imhof, Josh Blake and Peter Mayall.
Vacancies - Nil
This Committee’s charter allows for four (4) community representatives. The community representatives on the Committee are:-
Ruth Neuman, Lynne McLoughlin, Gaye White and Frances Vissel.
In addition to the four (4) community representatives appointed by Council from public nominations, the Charter also allows for three (3) members of the Lane Cove Bushland & Conservation Society appointed by a formal resolution of that Society.
It is recommended that the Charter be amended as outlined in AT-1 to allow for one (1) additional member, being a Bushcare Representative from a Lane Cove Bushcare group. Bushcare groups are very active in Lane Cove and a representative can offer an additional perspective and valuable specialised Bushcare insight.
This Committee’s charter allows for up to 12 community representatives and the Committee currently has 9. The community representatives on the Committee are:-
Sarah Balzer, Marie James, Shideh Modabber, James Shevlin, Natalie Ahmat, Shirin Kanji, Pat Madson, Paul McGregor and Lyndall McNally.
Vacancies – Three (3)
This Committee’s charter allows for 12 community representatives and the Committee currently has nine (9). The community representatives on the Committee are:-
Chrissie Lloyd, Graham Ball, Bill McLaughlin, Kathy Elton, Anthony Nolan, Emily Patterson, Kay Freedman, Jonghee (Jo) Kim and Trent Gardiner.
This Committee’s charter allows for five (5) community representatives, one (1) alternate community representative and one (1) youth representative or six (6) community representatives and one (1) alternate community representative in the event that a youth representative cannot be appointed. The Committee currently has no youth representative. The community representatives on the Committee are:-
Jane Blackmore, Paul McGregor, Erin Cini, Anthony Melinz, Bronwyn Winley and Emma James.
Vacancies – Nil
This committee’s charter allows for up to five (5) community representatives. The four (4) current community representatives on the committee are:-
Anthony Melinz, Kay Freedman, John Baxter and Peter Tiffin.
Vacancies – one (1)
This Committee’s charter allows for seven (7) community representatives and the committee currently has four (4). The community representatives on the Committee are:-
Bridget Kennedy, Melissa McElhone, Jayne Whitford and Rhonda Pryor.
It is noted that since its establishment in 2012 this committee has not yet met.
There are currently seven (7) community representatives on the working party being:-
Guy Hallowes, Deborah Hill, Ann Proudfoot, Mark Joyner, Kylie Bryden-Smith, Frances Vissel, and Elizabeth McDougal.
Council, when forming the Working Party, acknowledged that once the unit developments started to be occupied it would be appropriate to include representation from people living in the units. It is recommended that Council call for new expressions of interest from the public for membership to the Mowbray Precinct Working Party.
This Committee’s charter allows for four (4) community representatives with two (2) having an interest in sports to be accommodated at the facility and (2) having an interest in town planning, urban design and/or architecture. The Committee currently has two (2) representatives with an interest in sport to be accommodated at the facility. The community representatives on the Committee are:-
Ted Merewether and Andrew Zbik.
Vacancies – Two (2)
It is noted that since its establishment in 2012, this Committee has not yet met s the project has be deferred pending further progress on the 266 Longueville Road project.
This Committee’s charter allows for eight (8) community representatives. The community representatives on the Committee are:-
Margret Campbell, Natalie Ahmat, Michelle Dickson and Kaleb Taylor.
Attendance at Committee Meetings
The review of community representation on Council’s Advisory Committees revealed that some community representatives have missed several meetings since September 2014. Council’s Code of Meeting Practice states that members of a committee cease to become a member where they miss three (3) consecutive meetings without giving acceptable reasons. On 16 September 2013, Council resolved to also include an attendance provision for all Advisory Committees that allows for the removal of community representatives who do not attend at least 50% of the total number of meetings during a Council year (from September to August), without giving acceptable reasons.
It is recommended that Council review the membership of any community representatives of an Advisory Committee where they have missed three (3) consecutive meetings without giving acceptable reasons to Council or miss 50% of the total number of meetings during a Council year.
1. Review the current community representation on Council’s Advisory Committees;
2. Determine whether to advertise the current vacancies on the Advisory Committees;
3. Review the membership of community representatives of an Advisory Committee where they have missed three consecutive meetings or miss 50% of the total number of meetings during a Council year, without giving acceptable reasons;
4. Adopt the amended Bushland Management Advisory Committee Charter which allows for an additional Bushcare Representative Committee Member; and
5. Thank the representative of the Mowbray Precinct Working Party for their contribution and call for new expressions of interest from the public for membership to the Mowbray Precinct Working Party
Bushland Management Advisory Committee Charter Amended September 2015
Annual Financial Statements for 2014/2015 - Referral for Audit
Subject: Annual Financial Statements for 2014/2015 - Referral for Audit
Council's Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2015 are presented for referral to external Audit. A statement is required in respect of the accounts from Council and Management in relation to the accuracy of the accounts. It is recommended that Council sign the statement and refer the accounts for Audit.
Council's Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2015 have been prepared and are ready to proceed for external Audit. The general purpose financial statements, special purpose financial statements and special schedules are required to be audited by 31 October 2015 following the financial year end. In accordance with Section 413(2)(c) of the Local Government Act, Council is required to include with the Annual Financial Statements a "Statement by Councillors and Management" signed under resolution of Council, by the Mayor, one other Councillor, the General Manager and the Responsible Accounting Officer, which will allow Council's external Auditor to complete the Audit. A similar "Statement by Councillors and Management" is also required for the Special Purpose Financial Statements.
Following the Audit, the Annual Financial Reports will then be presented to Council in November, with the Auditors Report. In order for Council's Annual Financial Statements for 2014/2015 to go forward for Audit the following resolution of Council is now required and the Statements to be signed by Councillors and Management are attached.
1. In respect to Council's General Purpose Financial Reports the following statement which is shown at AT-1 be provided for signature by the Mayor, one other Councillor, the General Manager and the Responsible Accounting Officer:-
GENERAL PURPOSE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2015
Statement by Councillors and Management made pursuant to section 413 (2)(C) of the Local Government Act 1993 (as amended).
The attached General Purpose Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2015, have been drawn up in accordance with the:-
· Local Government Act 1993 (as amended) and the Regulations made thereunder;
· Australian Accounting Standards and professional pronouncements; and
· Local Government Code of Accounting Practice and Financial Reporting.
To the best of our knowledge and belief, this Report:-
· presents fairly the Council's operating result and financial position for the year; and
· accords with Council’s accounting and other records.
We are not aware of matter that would render this Report false or misleading in any way.
The General Purpose Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2015 are shown at AT-2, and will be available electronically from Friday 18 September 2015.
2. In respect to Council's Special Purpose Financial Reports, the following statement be provided for signature by the Mayor, one other Councillor, the General Manager and the Responsible Accounting Officer:-
SPECIAL PURPOSE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2015
Statement by Councillors and Management made pursuant to the Local Government Code of Accounting Practice and Financial Reporting.
The attached Special Purpose Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2015, have been drawn up in accordance with:-
· NSW Government Policy Statement "Application of National Competition Policy to Local Government";
· Office of Local Government guidelines "Pricing & Costing for Council Businesses: Guide to Competitive Neutrality"; and
· The Local Government Code of Accounting Practice and Financial Reporting.
To the best of our knowledge and belief, these Reports:-
· present fairly the Council's operating result and financial position for each of Council’s declared Business Activities for the year; and
· accord with Council’s Accounting and other records.
We are not aware of any matter that is false or misleading in any way.
3. Council's Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2015 be referred for audit by Council’s external Auditors.
Statement by Councillors and Management
Available Electronically from Friday 18 September 2015
Request for Closure of Rothwell Crescent, Lane Cove
Subject: Request for Closure of Rothwell Crescent, Lane Cove
Division: Open Space and Urban Services Division
Author(s): Abdullah Uddin
This report outlines the outcome of the traffic survey undertaken in response to Council’s resolution of 15 June 2015. Based on the traffic data, closure of Rothwell Crescent is not recommended at this stage however Council will investigate various traffic and pedestrian safety issues along Rothwell Crescent, especially at Little Street intersection, and refer this to Local Traffic Committee for consideration.
The subject matter was last considered at Council’s Ordinary meeting dated 15 June 2015 where it was resolved, in part, that:-
1. The traffic operation in Rothwell Crescent, Lane Cove to remain unchanged;
2. Should the development application at 27-43 Little Street be approved, the matter be referred back to Council to reconsider the resident petition.
On 21 August 2015, Sydney East Joint Regional Planning Panel (JRPP) approved the development at 27-43 Little Street which comprises demolition of existing 10 residential dwellings and construction of 94 residential units with154 car parking spaces. Subsequently, Council arranged tube and intersection counts in Rothwell Crescent. This report compares the traffic count data undertaken in February and September 2015.
In February 2015, a tube traffic count was undertaken outside 15 Rothwell Crescent. Further traffic counts were undertaken in September 2015 (non-school holiday period) outside numbers 3 and 19 Rothwell Crescent. A comparison of the traffic count data is illustrated in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Comparison of traffic count data in Rothwell Crescent
The key findings are as follows:-
· In February, the bidirectional Average Annual Daily Traffic (AADT) in Rothwell Crescent were recorded 191 vehicles where in September counts the traffic volumes were recorded 180 and 184 vehicles respectively. These volumes are well below the RMS Environmental goal (2,000 vehicle/ day typically) in local residential streets. Therefore, the street has significant spare capacity to accommodate additional traffic;
· There is no noticeable change of speed between February and September counts. The recorded 85th percentile speed were well below the posted speed limit of 50km/h; and
· Heavy vehicles were generally below 5% of the daily traffic which is acceptable for a local residential street.
In addition to tube count, intersection counts were undertaken at Rothwell Crescent and Little & Dorritt Street intersections on Tuesday, 18 August 2015. The count data are illustrated in the following figures.
Figure 2: Dorritt St/ Rothwell Cr Intersection Count
Figure 3: Little St/ Rothwell Cr Intersection Count
The above figures show that:-
· At Dorritt Street / Rothwell Crescent intersection, there were only 23 and 20 turning vehicular movements during the am and pm peak periods respectively;
· At Little Street / Rothwell Crescent intersection, there were only 24 and 23 turning vehicular movements during the am and pm peak periods respectively.
The above traffic volumes are very low and do not warrant the closure of Rothwell Crescent. Further, no crash has been recorded in Rothwell Crescent in the RMS crash data base between the periods July 2009 – June 2014.
It should be noted that although Rothwell Crescent is a Council controlled Local Road, for any partial or full road closure, a Traffic Management Plan (TMP) will need to be submitted to RMS for approval. Based on the above analysis, as there is no justification to close Rothwell Crescent, the proposal is unlikely to be supported by RMS. Therefore, it is recommended to retain the status quo of Rothwell Crescent. If necessary, further counts can be undertaken in the future following the full operation of 27-43 Little Street development.
Council representatives met with the local residents on 11 September 2015 where various traffic and pedestrian safety issues were discussed. In the meeting it was acknowledged that full or partial closure of Rothwell Crescent at Little Street intersection would not proceed at present time, however, Council will investigate various traffic and pedestrian safety issues along Rothwell Crescent, especially at Little Street intersection.
Based on the existing traffic data, any full or partial closure of Rothwell Crescent is not supported at the present stage. However, further traffic surveys can be undertaken should it deem necessary in the future where necessary.
1. The traffic operation in Rothwell Crescent, Lane Cove to remain unchanged at the present time;
2. Council investigate traffic safety issues in Rothwell Crescent outlined by residents; and
3. The head petitioner be advised of the Council’s decision.
Martin Terescenko
Manager Assets
August 2015 Traffic Committee
Subject: August 2015 Traffic Committee
Author(s): Sashika Young
The Lane Cove Traffic Committee Meeting was held on Tuesday, 18 August 2015. The Agenda is included as AT-1. The Traffic Committee recommendations are shown in the Minutes of the Meeting, included as AT-2.
That Council adopt the recommendations of the Lane Cove Traffic Committee meeting held on Tuesday 18 August 2015.
AGENDA - Traffic Committee - August 2015
MINUTES - Traffic Committee - August 2015
NSROC Tender 13/15 for Road Surfacing, Patching and Associated Works
Subject: NSROC Tender 13/15 for Road Surfacing, Patching and Associated Works
Author(s): Martin Terescenko
Tenders were invited by NSROC on behalf of member councils for Road Surfacing, Patching and Associated Works. This report recommends accepting the tenders from A & J Paving, Boral Asphalt, Downer EDI Works Pty Ltd, J & M Schembri Pty Ltd, Roadworx Surfacing Pty Ltd and Stateline Asphalt Pty Ltd who have satisfied the selection criteria and have the most cost effective pricing structures.
NSROC tender 13/15 was issued to the market in May 2015. The contract is for the supply of asphaltic concrete surfacing and associated works to the NSROC Member Councils for a 2 year period. To enable a thorough and detailed investigation on market conditions for asphalt contractors, the tender document requests prices for supply; supply and delivery; supply, delivery and laying of various grades and quantities of asphaltic concrete.
As part of the selection and evaluation process the tenders were evaluated on the following criteria:-
· Compliance with the contractual and technical conditions of the Tender
· Compliance with relevant Government Policies
· Compliance with Australian Standards
· Performance standards eg. Delivery, quality
· Competitive pricing structure
· Capacity to supply the specific requirements of each Council
· Service Levels
· Suitability of Quality Systems
· Ability to invoice on a Project Basis at the end of the month during which the project is completed
Thirteen tenders were received by the participating council’s and all met the selection criteria. The tenderers submitted a variety of rates for a large number of asphaltic concrete products and services.
Mill and Re-Sheet
Over the last tender period Council has been mainly using Downer EDI Works Pty Ltd for the Mill and Re-sheet program as they have been the most cost effective. However, due to increased competition in the market this year Council is proposing to choose two tenderers for Mill and Re-sheet works. Both tenderers have competitive rates and should the main contractor be unavailable or unable to carry out asphalt works when required Council has the option of a backup. The following table shows the ranking of prices to mill and re-sheet typical sections of roadway.
Tenderer
Cost to Mill & Re-sheet 1000m2 of 40mm thick AC10
Cost to Mill & Re-sheet 1000m2 of 100mm thick AC10 and AC20
Avijohn Contracting Pty Ltd
Bernipave Pty Ltd (not working)
Bitupave Ltd t/as NSW Boral Asphalt
Equally Preferred
CW Concrete Pty Ltd
D & M Excavations
Downer EDI Works Pty Ltd
J & M Schembri Pty Ltd
Kizan Pty Ltd t/as A & J Paving
Ozpave Aust Pty Ltd (blank)
Roadworx Surfacing Pty Ltd
SRS Road Services Pty Ltd
State Asphalt Services Pty Ltd
Stateline Asphalt Pty Ltd
It is recommended that the tenders from Boral Asphalt and Downer EDI Works be accepted.
Heavy Patching
Heavy patching is generally undertaken on small patches of roadway where there are localised failures or for restoration of an area damaged by a Utility Authority. The table below shows the ranking of prices to undertake heavy patching in two common scenarios.
20m2 of 50mm Deep Heavy Patch
100m2 of 100mm Deep Heavy Patch at Night
It is recommended that the tenders from A & J Paving, J & M Schembri Pty Ltd, Roadworx Surfacing Pty Ltd and Stateline Asphalt Pty Ltd be accepted.
Contractor Safety Management System
Council uses BNG Conserve for our contractor safety management to ensure that all our contractors are up to date with their insurance policies, licences and Work, Health and Safety (WHS) requirements. Therefore, the conditions of contract will require these contractors to have their policies, licences and WHS requirements assessed and approved by BNG Conserve.
Request for Changes to General Conditions of Contract
Boral Asphalt has requested that an amendment be made to the General Conditions of Contract (AS2124-1992) issued with the tender. Council has sought legal advice from its panel solicitor Schmidt-Liermann Pty Ltd which has been provided separately to Councillors. The legal advice recommends that Council not agree to this amendment.
This report recommends Council accept the tenders from the following companies as they met the selection criteria and had the most cost effective pricing structure; A & J Paving, Boral Asphalt, Downer EDI Works Pty Ltd, J & M Schembri Pty Ltd, Roadworx Surfacing Pty Ltd and Stateline Asphalt Pty Ltd.
A confidential memorandum has been circulated separately to Councillors detailing the prices submitted by each tenderer, details of the reference checks undertaken of the recommended tenderers and providing the legal advice on the requested change to the conditions of contract.
1. Accept the tenders from A & J Paving, Downer EDI Works Pty Ltd, J & M Schembri Pty Ltd, Roadworx Surfacing Pty Ltd and Stateline Asphalt Pty Ltd for Road Surfacing, Patching and Associated Works for two (2) years subject to these contractors having their policies, licences and WHS requirements assessed and approved with BNG Conserve.
2. Accept the tender from Boral Asphalt for Road Surfacing, Patching and Associated Works for two (2) years subject to them having their policies, licences and WHS requirements assessed and approved with BNG Conserve and Boral Asphalt accepting that Council will only enter into an agreement with the original conditions of contract.
3. Authorise the General Manager to enter into contracts with these companies.
Acting Executive Manager – Open Space and Urban Services
Waste Collection & Recycling Contract Extension
Subject: Waste Collection & Recycling Contract Extension
Author(s): David Wilson
Council’s Waste Collection and Recycling Contract (from here on referred to as the Contract) with United Resource Management Pty Ltd (URM) concludes on 1 October 2015, the purpose of this report is to seek Council’s resolution for an extension of the current contract under the special circumstances reasons of the Tendering Provisions pursuant to Section 55 of the Local Government Act, 1993.
The contract that concludes on 1 October 2015, has a provision for a three (3) year extension and this was activated in 2012 when Council resolved to extend the term of the contract to allow for the NSROC Regional Waste Disposal Tender to be investigated.
Since 2012, significant changes have occurred in the waste management area, with the NSROC Disposal Contract negotiations and in particular the NSW Government’s Fit for the Future review, has resulted in Council actively considering regional collaborations of its major contracts and services, to demonstrate effectiveness and efficiency. As such it is considered that the prudent course of action for council would be to enter into a 12 month contract extension with URM to continue with the current waste collection and recycling service options.
Council is currently exploring a regional waste collection service with Ryde and Hunters Hill Councils as part of its Joint Regional Authority proposal, the contract extension would allow Council to continue to provide waste collection services without disruption to our community, whilst also investigating longer term regional waste service options.
Council has consulted with URM regarding a 12 month extension, and they have confirmed that these arrangements are acceptable, subject to pricing being at tendered rates plus Consumer Price Index (CPI) increases and any legislative changes.
This report seeks Council approval for the extension of the existing contract, for a period of one (1) year (with a three (3) month exit notice clause) to allow for Council to investigate the transition to a regional waste collection and recycling service with Ryde City and Hunters Hill Councils.
The provision of domestic waste services is a basic function of Local Government and is critical to the general health and amenity of our residents.
The Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2007 (WARR Act) requires Council to meet a target of 70% diversion of waste from landfill by 2022.
The four (4) key waste avoidance and resource recovery goals and targets are:-
1. Preventing and avoiding waste;
2. Increasing recovery and use of secondary materials;
3. Reducing toxicity in products and materials; and
4. Reducing litter and illegal dumping.
Currently, Council is diverting up to 50% of waste collected away from landfill, which is comparable with NSROC Councils and better than the majority of Sydney Metropolitan Councils.
To enable Council to meet the State Government target of 70%, Council is continually investigating ways to reduce the amount and type of waste being directed to landfill. This, in part, has been achieved by the introduction of the green organics bins in 2014, and as a result of the NSROC Waste Disposal Contract that was signed in August 2015, will see long term investment in new technology and waste management infrastructure, to allow Council to achieve the 70% target.
The ten (10) plus five (5) year contract was awarded to Veolia Environmental Services Pty Ltd. The contract will enable Council to maximise diversion rates, minimise environmental footprints and investigate economically viable regional solutions through engaging a large specialised organisation to develop an end to end process plant for the regions’ waste.
Due to the extended negotiations with the NSROC Regional Waste Disposal Tender, this has impacted on the timing for this stage of the review of waste collection and recycling services, and has resulted in minimal time being available to enter into a detailed review of the services available, and to prepare a tender for waste collection and disposal services.
A summary of the services provided in our current contract includes the following:-
· Collection of 80L red domestic waste bin from single residential premises;
· Collection of 120L yellow domestic mixed containers recycling bin;
· Collection of 120L blue domestic paper recycling bin;
· Collection of 240L garden organics bin
· Collection of 240L waste , recycling and organics bins from Multi Unit Dwellings;
· Collection and Disposal of Council Domestic Household Cleanup;
· Collection and disposal of 240L park , street, special event and Plaza - waste bins;
· Collection and disposal of 240L commercial recycling/ waste bins#;
· Provide runner service for households with infirmed persons;
· Transport of domestic waste collected to SITA Artarmon Transfer Station;
· Transport of garden organic waste collected to SITA Ryde Transfer Station;
· Transport of paper/ mixed containers collected to Visy at Smithfield;
· Transport of household-clean up waste collected to SITA Artarmon Transfer Station.
# Service provided by URM and paid for as a commercial service by the business/land owner.
To enable Council to proceed with this process and be in an informed position in a period where a number of unknown factors are currently present, Council would benefit from remaining with our existing collection contractor (URM) until a detailed cost benefit analysis on a JRA waste collection and recycling service can be completed. Hunters Hill Council have advised Council of its interest in exploring a joint collection contract with the Lane Cove and Ryde council’s pursuant to the JRA.
Legal Position
As Council’s Waste Collection and Recycling Contract has no provision for extension to the contract beyond the current 3 year extension. Legal advice was sought in relation to the question of whether Council was compelled to advertise an open tender for the provision of these services or was there an opportunity to extend the existing contract as a result of the proposed JRA waste collection service and the provisions of Section 55 of the Local Government Act 1993 that apply to exceptional circumstances, such as those that are currently part of the State Government’s review of Local Government in NSW.
Council has previously been advised in regard to the extension of our waste contracts of the following provisions of the Local Government Act ,1993 that allows for the extension of contracts, where special circumstances exist:-
Section 55(3) of the Local Government Act exempts certain contracts from the requirement of tendering imposed by section 55(1). Where relevant, section 55(3) provides:
55(3) This section does not apply to the following contracts:
(i) a contract where, because of extenuating circumstances, remoteness of locality or the unavailability of competitive or reliable tenders, a council decides by resolution (which states the reasons for the decision) that a satisfactory result would not be achieved by inviting tenders.
Clearly the extenuating circumstances exemption would apply to Council’s current contract situation with URM, and allow for this extension of the current contract to proceed without the need for a Tender.
Financial Implications
The one (1) year extension of the contract would continue at the current rates subject to CPI annual increases. This is the basis on which Council’s 2015/16 Budget was prepared.
Overall, the extension of the contract would have no adverse financial impact on Council, as the proposal from URM confirms for 1 year, the rates received by Council in 2012 and by doing so, provides Council with price and service security rather than having a scenario where price fluctuations could adversely impact on Council’s budgetary position.
If Council resolves that an extension not be granted, Council would need to go to tender without delay to ensure that a waste disposal contract is in place by April 2016.
If a 12 month extension of the current contract is not supported and URM decide not to continue with their services to council, an interim contract would need to be arranged with an alternate contractor. Given the nature of the waste industry, it is likely that the contract charges would be at a significantly higher rate, due to the potential short term nature of the arrangement.
Taking into account collection and recycling rates for a short term contract would most likely be higher, Council would be required to revisit the approved 2015/16 Budget to address any waste disposal rate increases that may result from new contractual arrangements with a new service provider.
Waste Collection and Recycling Contract Options;
The two (2) options available to Council in the current environment are:-
1. A contract extension for one (1) year, with a three (3) month exit clause, would allow Council to explore regional collection options, undertake a measured transmission to a new provider and further coordination with the commencement of the NSROC Regional Disposal Contract.
2. Disregard the potential for a regional waste collection and recycling initiative and proceed to tender for a two (2) or five (5) year time frame for the Waste Collection and Recycling Services. This option would mean Council would miss out on the potential cost benefits of a combined contract with Ryde and Hunters Hill, and likely economies of scale associated with a larger regional service.
Considering current timing, the feedback from previous community consultation, NSROC strategy and the financial implications, an extension to the current contract for one (1) year would enable Council to thoroughly investigate regional and shared service provisions for waste collection and recycling services.
URM has been responsive and performed well over the last 10 years of the contract and have fulfilled their contract obligations and demonstrated their ability to be responsive in meeting the needs of our community and to work with Council in improving our waste and recycling services.
Council’s annual customer service survey shows that the community rate our waste services very highly. As such, a measured approach is recommended at this time of change, as the proposed one (1) year contract extension would enable a well thought through assessment of the waste collection and recycling services that are available in the market.
A one (1) year extension on the current contract would align Council with the commencement of the NSROC Regional Disposal Contract that commences on 1 December 2015, and allow for transitional changes resulting from a possible change to the disposal location to be evaluated.
Note: Waste is currently tipped at Artarmon Transfer Station before being transported to Eastern Creek for land filling. Veolia will receive our waste at Clyde from 1 December 2015 and this will be transported to Woodlawn by train for processing.
It is recommended that a contract extension for the URM Waste Collection and Recycling Contract for one (1) year (with a three (3) month notice of termination clause) be endorsed for the following reasons:-
1. Due to the limited time frames to prepare a tender and the circumstances surrounding the recently approved NSROC Waste Disposal Contract, the review of local government in NSW (Fit for the Future) a 12 month extension of the URM contract is considered the most cost effective and practical solution to meet the waste collection and recycling needs of the community, pursuant to the provisions of Section 55(3) of the Local Government Act, 1993.
2. In consideration of Council’s service obligations and the need to provide a proficient and responsive waste disposal service that is in keeping with Council’s budget forecasts and the knowledge that URM are an ongoing concern and can fulfil their contract obligations.
3. URM have been responsive and has performed well over the last 19 years of the contract and have fulfilled their obligations of the contract and demonstrated their ability to meet the needs of both Council and our community in collecting of waste and recyclable materials.
4 The past community survey provided residents with the opportunity to provide direct feedback on our waste services. 82% of respondents ranked their overall satisfaction level as being satisfied or very satisfied, with this result being a reflection of the combined work of Council and URM.
1. Council exercises its power under Section 55(3) of the Local Government Act not to call for a new waste tender given the extenuating circumstances identified in the report;
2. The General Manager be delegated the authority to negotiate and sign contract extension agreements with United Resource Management (URM) Pty Ltd, in accordance with the current Waste Collection and Recycling Contract for one (1) year until 1 October 2016, with an exit clause included that allows Council to terminate the contract extension, subject to three (3) months notice being given to the contractor;
3. United Resource Management (URM) Pty Ltd be notified of Council’s decision in this matter; and
4. Authority be granted to the Mayor and General Manager to execute the contract documentation under Council’s Common Seal.
NSROC Regional Waste Disposal Contract
Subject: NSROC Regional Waste Disposal Contract
The NSROC Regional Waste Disposal Tender that has been developed negotiated and evaluated over the past 4 years. After an extensive and thorough review of the three tenders received, Veolia Environmental Services have been awarded the contract for the disposal of putrescible (red bin) waste and kerbside bulky waste from December 2015.
Waste disposal is a very important issue facing all Councils as they plan for future population growth and the decreasing availability of disposal sites in and around Metropolitan Sydney.
In 2011 NSROC member Councils agreed to investigate the opportunities for a regional waste disposal strategy. During this period of review, all NSROC member Councils were invited to participate and be involved, but in recent times Hornsby and North Sydney Councils resolved to withdraw their participation in the regional project. The robustness of the tender system and the contractual arrangements entered into, does allow for additional Councils to join or rejoin in the contract.
Lane Cove Council has consistently supported the regional approach to waste management as it seeks to provide the most efficient and effective solutions to regional waste issues.
Lane Cove, Ryde, Willoughby, Ku-ring-gai and Hunters Hill Councils have joined forces in response to this challenge and negotiated a ten-year regional waste disposal contract that will deliver annual savings of up to $2 million and result in over 280,000 tonnes of waste being diverted from landfill and converted into compost and fuel, using the latest mechanical biological treatment (MBT) technology.
The regional contract will be managed under an agreement between the five participating Councils and waste provider Veolia Environmental Services (Veolia) . The joint agreement demonstrated the power of Councils working together for the benefit of the region and sets a benchmark for other Councils to follow in terms of cooperation and innovative outcomes
This new contract represents a big win for the community and environment as it will deliver substantial annual savings over the course of the ten-year contract and the community will receive better value for every tonne of material processed, and by removing duplication of administration costs.
The new waste contract will be phased in over the NSROC region from December 2015 and will deliver a raft of benefits, including:-
· Annual savings up to $2 million through efficiencies;
· Better value for every tonne of material recycled;
· Reduced procurement costs of each member Council;
· Cuts to ‘red tape’ through a single point of management between member Councils and the company;
· Securing the Councils’ NSW EPA 2022 target of 70% of total municipal waste diverted from landfill;
· Driving investment in new technology that converts ‘red bin’ and clean up waste into a compost-like substance used in mine site rehabilitation and refuse-derived fuel products used in cement manufacturing; and
· Facilitating construction of two new waste processing facilities by Veolia securing waste resource recovery for up to 15 years.
The development of the contract was the result of a rigorous strategic planning and a complex tender process that was reviewed by NSROC’s legal counsel and procurement administrator. The main objective of this process was to ultimately achieve better waste outcomes for the region, through expanded waste processing, better value for money and cost effective waste disposal services for the 360,000 residents that reside in the five participating Local Government Areas.
Overall the new contract is a strategic approach to waste management, not just locally, but regionally and secures a cost effective solution to residents of Lane Cove for the next decade. In addition the new technologies employed by Veolia look to a sustainable future with a potential of over 80% recovery from Council collected waste when fully operational in 10-15 years time.
Veolia have confirmed that the NSROC Regional Waste Disposal Contract worth $200 million contract signalled an investment in new technology and jobs. Veolia has approvals in place for immediate investment in mechanical biological treatment and energy from waste product with the construction of new waste facilities at their Woodlawn waste treatment facility (former gold / copper mine) in the Southern Tablelands of NSW.
The new waste facilities will process 33,000 tonnes of waste from ‘red bin’ and similar sources each year from mid-2017 and around 9,000 tonnes of clean up waste per annum from 2018.When fully operational both facilities will deliver over 80% resource recovery from waste, in years 3 (MSW) and 4 (Clean Up) of the contract term.
At a time when it is being suggested that Councils cannot work together, NSROC estimates that the contract will deliver in the order of $2 million dollars per annum in savings on current market prices for the comparable services, once the contract is fully operational and providing both disposal and processing services, for the five communities involved.
Community Wellbeing Survey 2015
Subject: Community Wellbeing Survey 2015
Division: Human Services Division
Author(s): Carol Sinclair
At the meeting of 21 July 2014 Council considered a Report regarding the development of a Community Wellbeing Survey to increase Council’s knowledge and awareness of current trends and issues in the area and to track changes in attitudes over time. The Report discussed the requirements under the Integrated Planning and Reporting Framework for Council to develop ways of measuring and understanding community wellbeing; reporting against community visions or aspirations and; the requirement for Councils to consider community concerns that may not directly relate to Councils’ responsibilities or be under its controls or influence. The first Community Wellbeing Survey was conducted in June 2015 and this Report provides feedback to Council on the results of the Survey. It is intended that the Survey be conducted again in two (2) years.
Council employed the consultancy services of the University of Technology: Centre for Local Government (UTS:CLG) to work with staff to develop a set of indicators and measures of community wellbeing informed by the social issues aligned to Council’s Strategic Plan (CSG).
The consultancy also developed the Wellbeing Survey, consisting of 33 questions (many with additional questions within them) and 10 demographic questions. Answers were often on a scale, for example from Often, Sometimes, Infrequently and Never or, Very Important, Somewhat Important, Neither Important or Unimportant, Somewhat Unimportant and Very Unimportant. Respondents were also asked to tick boxes or circle the answers that best fitted their opinions. In some cases they were asked open ended questions and provided with the space to record their answer.
The Survey, an invitation letter from the Mayor and a reply paid envelope were sent to 3,000 randomly selected rate paying households in the Lane Cove LGA and an on-line survey was used to reach younger residents and people who are renting. Responses were received from 763 residents, which is considered to be a large sample, Council typically surveys 300 people for deliberative polls.
A feedback report has been prepared by UTS:CLG and is attached at AT-1. It shows the findings of the survey. It is intended that the initial survey be the baseline for all future surveys. It is not intended to always ask as many questions as the initial survey, but the initial survey results will allow for ongoing comparisons.
Council continues to liaise with the consultant to prepare a supplementary report showing a comparison of the findings from other Councils who have conducted similar surveys. This will be provided at the December Council meeting. The Report in December will also breakdown the survey into clear indicators such as community connectedness; quality of life; civic engagement, community diversity, personal health and wellbeing and community safety. The December Report will also include info graphics to promote the results both on the website and in Council’s newsletters.
Some general findings are listed below:-
Community Connectedness
· 58.2% of people were satisfied or very satisfied with the opportunities for community interaction through participation in clubs, groups or organisations in the local area with just over half of residents participating often in a least one community activity.
· 97.2 % of respondents said they would help if a neighbour calls for assistance and 92.5% said feel they can call on their neighbours for help or assistance.
· Over half of respondents (54.7%) volunteered in the last 12 months
· The majority of respondents (54.3%) think that the quality of life in Lane Cove has remained steady over the past few years. However, the remainder are equally split between those who think quality of life has been declining (22.6%) and those who think it has been improving (23.0%).
· Proximity to the city (72.1%) and access to public transport (62.8%) were given as the top two reasons for living in Lane Cove.
· Just over half of respondents agree (40.8%) or strongly agree (11.9%) that there are enough opportunities to attend arts and related cultural activities.
· Half of respondents (50%) believe that new development fits extremely poorly or poorly with the character of Lane Cove. Only 24.6% of respondents are positive, answering ‘well’ or ‘extremely well’.
· 59.2% of respondents have lived in the area for 15 years or more and almost half of the survey respondents (47.7%) have been living at their current address for 15 years or more.
· Three-quarters of respondents (76.1%) are concerned or very concerned about environmental sustainability.
· Just over half of respondents (56.0%) reported having been engaged in at least one civic activity over the past year.
· Just over half of respondents strongly agree (9.2%) or agree (48.6%) that residents have opportunities to participate in planning and having a say about Lane Cove.
· In terms of being suitable for a diverse population mix, respondents think that Lane Cove is much more suitable for young children, families and seniors than for teenagers and singles
Personal Health and Wellbeing
· People were satisfied with the opportunities in Lane Cove to engage in sport and recreation and three-quarters of respondents had participated in sport and recreation over the last 12 months
· With regard to healthy behaviours only 3.25% of people said they smoked and 94.6% said they ate healthily the day before the survey was taken
· While a quarter of respondents are regular users of Lane Cove’s bushland tracks, bushland tracks are considered very important (54.7%) or somewhat important (26.9%) to a majority of respondents.
· The most common relationship to Lane Cove’s waterways is to look at them (40.9%) closely followed by walking along them (36.3%). Waterways are regarded as very important (56.5%) or important (24.8%) to the majority of respondents.
· Respondents’ perceptions of their personal safety is very high during the day, 96.9% and 64.9% of respondents reported they felt safe walking around the area at night.
The survey also captured information about the respondents views on the social and welfare services they are unable to access locally, the areas where people feel less safe and where it is difficult to walk around and the roads or intersections where there are safety concerns. Interesting demographic data including ages of respondents and ethnicity was also collected. Council staff and the consultants are working through this data.
The Community Wellbeing Survey Report has provided Council with a baseline assessment of a number of variables that combine to give an overall assessment of the level of well-being in the community. It provides some guidance for areas that Council can work on to try and improve the feeling of wellbeing for its residents and forms the basis for comparison when the second survey is conducted in two (2) years time.
Jane Gornall
Executive Manager - Human Services
Human Services Division
Report on the Lane Cove Community Wellbeing Survey 2015
Council Snapshot
Subject: Council Snapshot
Division: General Managers Unit
Author(s): Craig Wrightson
Attached for the information of Councillors is a review of Council’s recent activities, entitled Council Snapshot. This report provides a summary of the operations of each Division.
Council Snapshot - September 2015
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Challenges: Add technology to a campus library's group collaboration spaces to align with Seneca's digital learning goals
Solution: Two NEC Display Solutions 65-inch E651-T interactive touchscreen displays.
Result: Popular learning spaces that allow students to connect online, work collaboratively on group projects, and interact with a screen hands-on.
Higher education facilities know that learning doesn't just happen in the classroom; it happens before and after school, in small study groups or alone, in dorms, homes, libraries and coffee shops. Every student has different preferences for how to learn, and a college's job is to give them the tools they need to succeed – including collaboration technologies that facilitate group learning.
With several principles in place to guide its digital learning strategy, Seneca in Ontario has implemented technology all over its multiple campuses – yet the Newnham library's two group study spaces lacked anything to support collaboration beyond a whiteboard. It was time for an upgrade.
Seneca is one of the largest of Ontario's 24 colleges, with several campuses in Toronto, York Region and Peterborough, catering to all types of academic and experiential learning. Four of its campuses offer libraries.
Seneca's Newnham Campus library manages 692,941 student, faculty, staff and community users annually. Its group study spaces accommodate 26,385 visitors each year.
"The library is designed specifically to support student learning, and students identify it as a place that is dedicated and conducive to learning, studying and collaborating – not just a place to go for books and resources," said Michelle Gravelle, Manager, Library User Services at Seneca's Library Resource Centre.
The library offers three types of study spaces: silent, quiet and collaborative. Students can reserve the collaborative spaces for specific times and dates to work on group assignments or use for informal study groups.
There are nine bookable collaboration rooms at Newnham Campus. Seven rooms have standard monitors, so students can plug their own laptops into the screens, which were installed when campus ITS moved to a BYOD policy. Until recently, the other two spaces – the ones situated within the library itself, unlike the other seven in the campus Learning Commons – acked technology, offering students only whiteboards for their collaborative work. But that was not in line with Seneca's digital learning goals.
A Focus on Digital Learning
In 2018, Seneca created a Digital Learning Strategy for the coming three years. Derived from the University of South Australia's paper "Developing a Digital Learning Strategy," Seneca's backgrounder focuses on designing for student engagement, designing for flexibility, designing for assessment, and designing for employability and pathways to other credentials.
The Digital Learning Strategy's four goals are to
Ensure that the technological infrastructure at Seneca is adaptive, robust, sustainable and current
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"One of our key initiatives over the past couple of years has been improving student experience to boost engagement," added Alvin Shum, Director, Service Delivery, ITS at Seneca.
To align the Newnham Campus library's two group learning spaces with these goals, Seneca
installed two NEC Display Solutions 65-inch E651-T interactive touchscreen displays.
"We have a great partnership with NEC," Shum said. "They've been providing us with AV technology such as projectors and displays for years."
The touchscreen aspect was especially important, Gravelle added.
"The collaborative aspect means students will be able to access and work on a document or group project together in a room at the same time, which will be an enhancement," she said. "It's inspiring to see students work in a group like that."
Shum agreed that the touchscreens were a major step forward.
"Other displays around campus aren't touch-enabled, and incorporating them was part of the effort to take learning to the next level," he said. "Students can use their finger or the stylus that comes with the screen to manipulate data and mark up projects in a collaborative setting, versus students trying to email each other copies with no version control."
The Upgraded Rooms
The new touchscreen displays were installed in August 2018 and have proved highly popular, with hundreds of bookings in the first month of the school year. The monitors allow students to connect online, work collaboratively on group projects and interact with the screen.
"These rooms are in high demand," Shum said. "You see the touchscreen being plugged into one laptop, with four or five students gathered around the screen, engaged in project and school work. We hope this leads to more student success, and we believe this kind of digital learning is one way we will move forward and differentiate ourselves from other postsecondary institutions."
Student feedback has been highly positive as well. For instance, a group of five Bachelor of Early Childhood Education students booked the same room three days in a row for their group collaboration project.
"The screens are great! My program is mainly group projects, so [they] work well for collaboration, sharing articles and making sure the group is all on the same page," said a student from a group of International Business Management.
Gravelle believes the touchscreens will lend themselves nicely to the ways the students previously used the rooms.
"I used to see a group of engineering or accounting students who would use the glass windows looking out onto the corridor to write mathematical formulas," Gravelle said. "Now I see students using the touchscreen and stylus in a similar fashion."
With Seneca's two newest buildings – Magna Hall at King Campus, which opened in the fall of 2018, and the Centre for Innovation Technology and Entrepreneurship (CITE), which opened in January at Newnham Campus – there are many opportunities for additional technology enhancements.
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Overseas student ID cards begin
Overseas students will need to have biometric identity cards
The fingerprinting of overseas students for biometric identity cards has begun for those extending their visas.
It is the first phase of tighter visa restrictions which will eventually affect more than 300,000 people applying to study in the UK each year.
The tougher rules are intended to prevent the abuse of student visas as a way of gaining entry to the UK.
However universities will be watching carefully for any impact on what has become a lucrative source of revenue.
Students already at UK universities will not have to be fingerprinted, unless their visas need to be renewed, but future applicants from outside the European Union will all need to have such biometric identity cards.
There are universities and courses in which a majority of students are from overseas - with the higher fees becoming an increasingly important part of university income.
Sensitive to fears of deterring such valuable recruits, Universities UK has complained that there are only six fingerprinting centres around the UK which will have to be used by overseas students.
About one in seven students applying to university are from overseas - with concentrations in particular universities or courses.
The London School of Economics has 66% of students from overseas, London Metropolitan has 25%, Cambridge has 22% and King's College London has 19%.
Daniel Sheldon of the London School of Economics' student union said there was confusion among students about how the visa rules were to be introduced.
The students' union is to debate the new regulations this week - and he says there will be concerns both about singling out overseas students and wider opposition to the principle of identity cards.
From next year, universities will also be expected to monitor whether students are really attending courses.
But Sally Hunt, head of the University and College Union, says staff do not want to enter the "spying game".
The changing rules for overseas students are part of a "clamp down on bogus students", announced by the Home Office, which will see colleges having to hold a licence from the UK Border Agency.
There have been widespread concerns that bogus colleges have been providing a means of falsely entering the country - allowing people to claim student visas without really studying for any qualifications.
Almost 300 bogus colleges have been uncovered in the past three years.
The Home Office expects 50,000 to 60,000 students to be affected in the first phase between now and March.
Last year, there were 313,000 applications for student visas - of which 217,000 were issued. Existing students won't be affected unless they want to extend their visa.
From next March, overseas students will need to be sponsored by a college or university holding a licence from the UK Border Agency.
From next autumn, there will be a further tightening of the rules, in which universities and colleges will use a "sponsor management system" to inform the UK Border Agency if students are failing to attend courses.
Some of your comments:
As a student who was seriously thinking about going to the UK for university, I am simply appalled by this. I believe this program will simply bring more trouble than it is worth onto individual universities while taking biometric information from people whom are most likely not trying to break the system.
The British government is punishing everyone in order to get to the minority. Instead, they could do better research on the fake universities or use another less encroaching system than the one they plan on using.
Just as I do not hand my own biometric information to my own government in the United States, this ID card in Britain has permanently put me off studying there because I will not willingly hand over information such as that; it is a violation of my privacy and being an overseas student is no reason for such a violation.
Nathan, Michigan, USA
Nathan, whatever the rights and wrongs of this move (and with an American girlfriend who came over here initially as a student, I sympathise with you!)- you should be aware of what the US government requires of all visiting foreigners before you get too upset... I hope you do still come despite this discouragement.
Matt, Oxford, UK
I'm an American pursuing a PhD in the UK and scrambled to avoid getting this biometric card. I find it repulsive that this government requires us to pay three times what a home student pays in fees, but insists on treating us like criminals. Incidentally, the US may be wrong to collect biometric data on visitors, I agree -however, the US government seems to avoid the problems that the UK government can't avoid; namely, losing vast amounts of sensitive data.
Gavin, Sheffield, UK
I have seen too many overseas students abuse student visas as a way of gaining entry to the UK and strongly believe some changes need to be made especially for the security control. Not too sure about how biometric ID card will contribute to that though!
Richard Chen, Manchester UK
This sends a clear message to foreign students. The message is: "Don't come to the UK, we will treat you like criminals".
Graham, Dundee
There are also plans to bring in the first waves of biometric ID cards for foreign nationals getting married. I plan to marry my American girlfriend next year and start our lives together here, which should be one of the happiest things we ever do in life - and now we'll have to do so knowing that my future wife's fingerprints and retinal scans will be held somewhere on a government database. At what price freedom, at what price 'security'?
Lee Hyde, London, UK
As a current university student I found it embarassing enough that I had to report to a local police station to register. My tuition fees alone are in excess of 10k per annum, is it too much to the authorities to treat us with a little more respect and allow students to update their records on campus instead?
Sebastian, Edinburgh
As a university administrator I am delighted at the tightening of the procedures. I cannot see this being a deterrent to people committed to academic study. It will restrict economic migrants masquerading as students, people gaining entry to the UK with acceptance letters never to be seen in class or the significant minority of overseas student to whom I am obliged to provide supportive paperwork to who are along for the ride only, using their status to work in a developed country. I feel bad about providing papers for students I know are breaking their student visa privileges. Now I will feel better, helping the genuine students from all over the world who honour us with their presence.
Anon University Admin Officer, Loughborough
Good move.There are lots of so called students in london area in these bogus colleges waiting to complete 10yrs to get a Permanent residence status. All work illegally and don't attend classes except to fill fake attendance sheets. Stop them getting PR after 10yrs and the problem will go away on its own.
sam tom, aberystwyth
I think this is grossly wrong. I can't iamgine giving away my identity just because I want to go to school. If I need to work and live here, what then will I have to give - my life? I see the governemnt over-stepping their bounds and making UK education a distant thing for foreign students. The long-term impact will be felt by all and sundry. I can assure the government that this will lead to a very drastic drop in the rating of UK education all around the world
Michael, Birmingham
I just completed a Masters at Edinburgh University. It was an amazing year and I'm much richer for the experience, while the university is much richer for my overseas tuition. I loved Scotland. Thank goodness I was not required to supply fingerprints, etc. or I would never have come to the UK to study. For now, I've returned to the US, where we have the hopeful promise of Barack Obama's administration to look forward to. How interesting to find out that Bush's policies of eroding civil liberties will live on in Great Britain. Why not just call them "Patriot Cards"?
Ben, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
I am an International student from Saudi Arabia and I fully support this move. I believe that every country has the right to protect its economey and to control immigration levels. However, as my Visa will expire soon, I wonder if new visas can still be issued by mail under the old system or do new changes mean that from now on only premium service will be available?
Grami, Newcastle
It's already so hard for people from my country to get admission, then to get visas, and now they've added to the long procedures by introducing this. I don't know how we are supposed to cope with all this on top of the unfavourable interest rate and rising tuition fees!
S, Pakistan
The bigger picture is that this is the first step towards introduction of biometric ID cards for everyone. Foreign students are nothing other than a testing ground for the role out of this technology. The Church has lost its control over the population and The State needs something new to keep us all in line. Orwell was right he just got the date wrong by 30 years.
George Taylor, Edinburgh
The government's obsession with ID cards is incomprehensible. Numerous reports (including one from the LSE) have shown it is an insanely expensive scheme that will have none of the claimed benefits, penalising the innocent whilst the "guilty" ignore it.
I'd rather they spent the billions of pounds they're pouring down the sink into ID cards on something that might have a real effect on our society. How about doing something more to reduce the number of children growing up under the poverty line, or providing more resources to hospitals, schools or police on the beat?
A total waste of money, let alone a massive invasion of our privacy.
Owen Blacker, London, GB
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Danielle Burr (left) welcomes special guest Jean Case (right) to discuss the lessons and principles from her new book, Be Fearless.
Drawing on her experience as a female tech veteran at AOL to her current work as CEO of the Case Foundation and chairman of National Geographic, Jean brought to life the key principles outlined in her book for living a “fearless” life. Be Fearless
Jean spoke about her successes — as well as her failures — and how she responded to and utilized the experiences of both throughout her career.
Jean and her husband, Steve, founded the Case Foundation in 1997 to “invest in people and ideas that can change the world.”
Following the discussion, the audience asked questions during a Q&A and Jean signed copies of her book.
Guests included: Uber’s Susan Hendrick, Charles Rivkin, Steve Case, Heather Podesta, Kathleen Biden, Margaret Talev, David Chavern, Jon Decker, Niki Christoff, Susan Goldberg, Anita McBride, Dan Meyers, Gail MacKinnon, Kathy O’Hearn, Patrick Steel, Kevin Cirilli, Ryan Williams, Robyn Bash, Connie Partoyan, Peter O’Toole and Geoff Burr.
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“They were a ‘high-tech’ shoe at the time”: Tennis legend Stan Smith on his iconic Adidas sneaker
Image courtesy of Images courtesy of Rizzoli.
Ann Binlot quizzes Stan Smith on the 50-year rise of the minimal white shoes Adidas initially named after tennis player Robert Haillet.
The iconic, minimal white Adidas tennis shoe known as the Stan Smith had a different name when the brand birthed it in 1965. The sneaker was initially called the Adidas Robert Haillet, after the French tennis player. But after he retired, Adidas decided that the shoe needed an active tennis pro for its namesake, so in 1971 the brand renamed it the Adidas Stan Smith, after the former no. 1 tennis player and two-time Grand Slam singles champ. Smith retired in 1985, but over three decades later, the sneaker with his name lives on. Celine designer Phoebe Philo first walked out on the runway wearing them for her fall/winter 2011 show’s finale with black trousers and a black turtleneck. The fashion world took note, and in 2014, Raf Simons unveiled his reinterpretation of the sneaker. Since the shoe first came out, the Adidas Stan Smith has seen a Kermit the Frog edition, a Star Wars version, and even a Pharrell Williams collaboration. This fall, Rizzoli released Stan Smith: Some People Think I’m a Shoe, which takes a look at the rise of the Adidas Stan Smith, from its beginnings to its most recent iterations, through archival photos of Stan Smith the tennis player, to photos of several Stan Smith limited edition styles. Document’s Ann Binlot quizzed the tennis player on putting his name on a sneaker initially named after Haillet, how it felt on the court, and what he thinks of fashion’s obsession with Adidas Stan Smiths.
Ann Binlot—Tell me about how Adidas came to name a shoe after you. How did you feel about filling Robert Haillet’s shoes?
Stan Smith—My name became affiliated with the shoe when Adidas was looking for a stronger presence in the US marketplace. The Haillet name was already on it and it had my photo and his name for a couple of years and then just my name and photo. I got to know Robert and he was very nice about the relationship even though they took his name off the shoe. He was a great player as well.
Ann—Performance-wise, how was it playing on the court with them on?
Stan—They were a ‘high-tech’ shoe at the time. They had more support than canvas, breathed better because of the holes, lasted longer, and actually were a bit stylish even then.
Ann—How did you influence the current design?
Stan—The current design is almost the same as 50 years ago as you can see in the book. The only change I suggested was to put a loop in the tongue to keep it from moving to the side and making the heel tab higher to protect the Achilles tendon.
Images courtesy of Images courtesy of Rizzoli.
Ann—When do you realize that the fashion world was starting to embrace the sneaker? How did you feel about that?
Stan—It was the start of a trend of people wearing sportswear on the street and my shoe was simple, clean, comfortable, and could go with any outfit, so it was something anybody could wear. You started seeing people like Phoebe Philo wearing it as well as many other ‘influencers,’ which took it into the fashion world.
Ann—The shoe has since had a number of makeovers, from Raf Simons’s version to the Pharrell collaboration. What is it like seeing the sneaker reimagined, over and over again?
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“The shoe is like a blank canvas on which to paint or create.”
Ann—What’s next for you?
Stan—I am excited about the future of the shoe. Society has been gravitating towards tennis shoes more each year. The company has done a fantastic job with collaborations with “influencers” in fashion, entertainment, sports, and street culture. Personally, my company Stan Smith Events is helping corporations host their guests at major sporting events in tennis, rugby, Olympics, and partnership meetings. I also have a year-round Smith Stearns Tennis Academy at Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina for young players between 12 to 18. I enjoy working with them. I’m the president of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, where we induct the top players in the world after they have been retired from the tour for more than five years. And of course, I am helping Adidas promote the shoe and now the book, Stan Smith: Some People Think I’m a Shoe, which is about the history of the shoe and also my life.
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For a full recap of today’s game, check out AlbuquerqueBaseball.com later this evening.
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Martha’s Vineyard Tribal Casino Dispute to Be Settled by Federal Judge
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A judge that is federal expected to stay the dispute between your state of Massachusetts therefore the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) on if the latter could introduce a casino on Martha’s Vineyard, an island considered to be frequented by wealthy visitors.
The Aquinnah Wampanoags explained that they are a federally recognized tribe with 485 acres of land in the town of Aquinnah, meaning that underneath the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, they could run a gambling place. It appears that other federal authorities have additionally supported their claim.
The tribe desires to find its gambling facility into the building of the community that is tribal, which has never been completed. The new casino is to feature electronic gambling devices. The Aquinnah Wampanoags wish to provide with their customers high-stakes bingo-style games that resemble slot that is traditional games at casinos. The venue that is tribal but, will never feature dining table games, such as for instance roulette, blackjack, or craps.
Back in 2013, the state, along side Aquinnah and a community that is local, filed case up against the tribe. In accordance with Massachusetts, the Aquinnah Wampanoags’ directly to establish a gambling center had been forfeited in 1983, as soon as the tribe reached an understanding aided by the continuing state for the land in Aquinnah, under which it absolutely was become subjected to regional and state laws. And people statutory guidelines seem to prohibit the supply of ‘bingo and other games of opportunity’ during the settlement land.
The 2 involved events claimed that they would like for the judge to base the decision regarding the arguments provided in the place of using the matter to trial. A hearing is planned for 12 in Boston august.
In accordance with Buddy Vanderhoop, person in the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe, the debate has divided tribal members as well. Those who live on the Martha’s Vineyard island objected to your plan for the establishment associated with the gambling hall. Mainland members of this tribe, but, supported the theory.
The majority of the tribe’s 1,200 people live in New Bedford and other Southeastern Massachusetts towns. Mr. Vanderhoop commented which he plus the sleep of the Aquinnah Wampanoags whom survive the island are outnumbered by people who live on the mainland.
Aquinnah Town Selectwoman Julianne Vanderhoop, who’s additionally a tribe member, noticed that a gambling center would not be best for that part of the city, as parking, traffic, and a great many other dilemmas would undoubtedly arise.
Last year, Massachusetts legislators approved the establishment of three fully-fledged gambling enterprises and one slot parlor in the territory of this state. Back then, former Gov. Deval Patrick also negotiated a gambling agreement with the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe for a casino in Taunton. Nonetheless, no agreement that is such negotiated aided by the Aquinnah Wampanoags.
The Massachusetts that is current Governor Baker, and Attorney General Maura Healey haven’t commented in the matter since they took office in January 2015.
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Mark Bergman, spokesman for Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, announced on Friday that the legislator would be to sign into legislation a bill which may demand the state’s two federally recognized tribes to develop a process that is multi-step the launch of a new jointly operated casino.
The bill was to be finalized on but according to Mr. Bergman, it was not ready friday.
The Mohegan and the Mashantucket Pequot tribes would have to prepare a request for proposals from municipalities that are interested in hosting a casino which would compete gambling venues in neighboring states, particularly Massachusetts’ MGM Springfield under the proposed legislation.
Early in the day this year, tribal chiefs announced that the property is likely to be located along Interstate 91 within the north-central component of Connecticut.
The chairmen for the two tribes released a statement that is joint Friday, expressing their gratitude to your state General Assembly and Gov. Malloy for moving a bill that will protect Connecticut jobs. Additionally they pointed out that the tribes would prepare a request for proposition next couple of weeks, working with the Attorney General’s office to make sure that these are typically after closely the laws.
State Sen. Tim Larson (D-East Hartford), one of many keen supporters of this bill, recently commented that when finalized into law, it would require the Mohegan as well as the Mashantucket Pequot tribes to month-to-month report on the casino project to their progress.
Moreover, once an understanding between your tribes plus the host community is reached, it might need to be reviewed by the Connecticut Attorney General to ensure it does not violate the state’s existing cope with the Mohegans plus the Mashantucket Pequots. Under the present compact, the tribes are to add 25% of their video slot revenue to the state.
The possible new casino could not start doors before regulations is amended so as to permit casino gambling. In addition, the task needs to be viewed by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Quite expectedly, the bill’s passage met some strong opposition. As an example, Sen. John Kissel (R-Enfield) said it was a pity that Gov. Malloy would sign the proposed legislation. Based on Sen. Kissel, residents of north-central Connecticut don’t want a casino to be opened there. He additionally said that whether or not a venue that is new doors, the state is unlikely to regain the gambling income it received when provided your competition from neighboring states.
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Evolution Gaming Launches Live Studio at Casino de Spa
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MGM Resorts Sells Two Reno-Based Casinos
Gambling operator MGM Resorts International announced on Tuesday it would offer two hotel that is reno-based casino properties to Eldorado Resorts. The latter gaming company is to shop for a 50% share into the alleged Silver Legacy Resort plus the whole Circus Circus Reno Hotel & Casino.
While the two operators wrote in a statement that is joint Eldorado Resorts would spend $72.5 million in money and an additional $60-million outstanding under a credit center of Silver Legacy. In reality, the gaming company already holds a 50% stake in the hotel and casino resort slot pokies lightning link.
Eldorado Resorts is about to finance its purchase that is latest with cash on hand and future financing and capital market transactions. After the acquisition deal is completed, the organization will be responsible for an overall total of 7 facilities in 5 various states (Louisiana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia that is west).
Gary Carano, ceo of Eldorado Resorts, stated into the Tuesday declaration that the purchase of those two properties offers their company the opportunity to grow that is further expand its operations. Mr. Carano also remarked that the deal is in keeping with Eldorado Resorts’ ‘strategy to improve shareholder value’ by means of economically and strategically attractive acquisitions that are new.
The administrator added that once the deal is completed, their company would acquire three properties in Reno at a time when the town’s casino industry is recovering and attracting brand new investors.
This is the time that is third the past several months that MGM Resorts has made a decision to offer casino properties, obtained when its predecessor MGM Mirage purchased the Mandalay Resort Group back in 2005. One other two casino facilities are Gold Strike Hotel & Gambling in Jean, Nevada and Railroad Pass in Henderson, Nevada.
Dan D’Arrigo, Executive Vice President of MGM Resorts, commented that they are pleased with the transaction, as Eldorado Resorts shares the core that is same along with his own business.
Despite offering properties in Nevada, MGM Resorts is to expand its operations in Massachusetts and Maryland. The major gambling operator is currently building an $800-million integrated casino resort in Springfield, Massachusetts and a $1.3-billion one in National Harbor, Maryland. The very first project is to be completed in 2018 and also the latter in 2016.
The deal between MGM Resorts and Eldorado Resorts needs regulatory approval. Year it is to be closed by the end of this calendar.
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CT Angiography for the Detection of Cerebral Vasospasm in Patients with Acute Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Glenn B. Anderson, Rob Ashforth, David E. Steinke and J. Max Findlay
American Journal of Neuroradiology June 2000, 21 (6) 1011-1015;
Glenn B. Anderson
Rob Ashforth
David E. Steinke
J. Max Findlay
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is the standard of reference for detecting cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). CT angiography (CTA) is a relatively recent method for depicting the intracranial arterial vasculature. The purpose of this study was to compare CTA and DSA in the detection and quantification of cerebral vasospasm.
METHODS: Seventeen patients with SAH underwent initial CTA with or without DSA and follow-up CTA and DSA. The follow-up CTA and DSA studies were performed within 24 hours of each other and 5 to 10 days after SAH. Maximum intensity projection images were produced for each CTA. Six arterial locations were examined for spasm: the suprasellar internal carotid artery (ICA), the M1 and M2 segments of the middle cerebral artery, the A1 and A2 segments of the anterior cerebral artery, and the basilar artery. Vasospasm was categorized as none, mild (<30% luminal reduction), moderate (30% to 50% reduction), or severe (>50% reduction).
RESULTS: The overall correlation between CTA and DSA was 0.757, but was better for proximal than distal locations (0.88–1.00 versus 0.152–0.446). Agreement between CTA and DSA was greater for no spasm (92%) and severe spasm (100%) than for mild (57%) or moderate (64%) spasm. CTA was highly accurate for no spasm or severe spasm in proximal locations (96%, and 100%, respectively); it was less accurate (90% and 95%, respectively) for mild or moderate spasm in these locations. For distal locations, the accuracy for absent, mild, moderate, or severe spasm was 78%, 81%, 94%, and 100%, respectively.
CONCLUSION: CTA is highly sensitive, specific, and accurate in detecting no spasm or severe cerebral vasospasm in proximal arterial locations; it is less accurate for detecting mild and moderate spasm in distal locations.
Vasospasm is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in patients who survive subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) (1). As many as 50% of these patients may incur some degree of cerebral vasospasm (2). Vasospasm typically occurs 7 to 10 days after hemorrhage, and its prompt diagnosis is required to initiate appropriate therapy to avoid ischemic insults. The current standard of reference for detecting vasospasm is digital subtraction angiography (DSA). DSA provides accurate depiction of the intracranial vessels and the aneurysm-clip complex; however, it carries a total complication rate of approximately 5% and a permanent stroke rate of approximately 0.5% to 1% (3–7). Transcranial Doppler sonography is a noninvasive method for detecting vasospasm that has been shown to have a high sensitivity and specificity as compared with DSA (8, 9); however, its operator dependence and difficulty in accurately detecting vasospasm at sites other than the proximal middle cerebral artery (MCA) limit its use to a screening method only, with definitive diagnosis made by DSA.
CT angiography (CTA) does not carry the neurologic risks of DSA. Moreover, it is less expensive and quicker than DSA and has been shown to depict the intracranial vasculature well in the setting of SAH (10–15). The possibility arises, then, that CTA may be able to replace the more invasive DSA in the definitive diagnosis of cerebral vasospasm. The purpose of this study was to compare CTA with DSA in its ability to accurately detect cerebral vasospasm in patients with SAH.
In this prospective study, CTA was initially performed in patients in whom SAH had been diagnosed on plain CT studies. Subsequently, between day 5 and day 10 after hemorrhage, the patients underwent DSA and repeat CTA within 24 hours of each other. CTA was performed before DSA, as therapeutic intervention may have been necessary during the DSA examination. The initial and delayed CTA studies were performed in the same manner. An initial test bolus (20 mL) of contrast material was infused at a rate of 3 mL/s via an antecubital 20-gauge intravenous catheter. After a 10-second delay, 25 nonhelical axial cuts were taken every 1 second at the level of the sella turcica. A time to maximal intensity (HU) graph was made on the scanner, and a scan delay time for the CTA was taken at the time of maximal luminal enhancement (of the internal carotid artery [ICA]). The formal CTA examination consisted of 120 mL of contrast agent infused at a rate of 3 mL/s via the antecubital intravenous catheter. Helical scanning, which began after the appropriate scan delay as calculated in the test infusion, was performed from the craniocervical junction to 30 mm above the floor of the sella turcica. The pitch was 1.4, with 280 to 320 mA and 200 kHz. The 1-mm source axial images were reconstructed to 0.5-mm axial images, and the reconstructed images were then transferred to a computer workstation for 3D reconstruction. Maximum intensity projection (MIP) images were produced by initially removing bone via a thresholding technique and then manually editing the images to remove any remaining bone of the skull base. All MIP reconstructions were performed by the same experienced investigator. The MIP images were acquired every 30° while rotating through 180° in two planes. The DSA studies were performed using the transfemoral Seldinger technique, and anteroposterior, lateral, and lateral oblique views were obtained.
The CTA and DSA examinations were reviewed by separate investigators. The initial and delayed CTA examinations were reviewed for presence of spasm by comparing corresponding vessel diameter on the initial and follow-up studies. These results were then compared with findings on the corresponding DSA image. A total of six arterial locations were examined. Arteries were divided into proximal (suprasellar ICA, M1 segment of the MCA, A1 segment of the anterior cerebral artery, and basilar artery) and distal (A2 and M2 segments) locations. Using calipers and a finely calibrated ruler, the investigators categorized the degree of vasospasm as none, mild (<30% luminal narrowing), moderate (30% to 50% luminal narrowing), and severe (>50% luminal narrowing).
The CTA and DSA examinations were compared using Spearman correlation coefficient for sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy. Predictive values were also calculated. A positive predictive value refers to the proportion of positive CTA results that were truly positive (on DSA studies). Similarly, a negative predictive value refers to the proportion of negative CTA results that were truly negative (on DSA studies). Statistical significance was calculated using Fisher's exact test.
All patients gave informed consent to enter the study, and ethical approval was granted by the institution.
Seventeen patients were studied. The overall agreement between CTA and DSA for all locations and degrees of vasospasm was 86% (Table 1), with a correlation coefficient of 0.757 (P < .001). The vast majority of arteries in this series had no spasm while a few had severe spasm (131 versus 7). The best agreement and correlation between CTA and DSA by location occurred in the more proximal sites; that is, the ICA, A1 (Fig 1), M1 (Fig 2), and basilar (Fig 3) arteries (Table 1). The distal arterial locations (A2 and M2) had a poorer overall degree of correlation. At all locations, agreement between CTA and DSA was greater for no spasm or for severe spasm; detection of mild or moderate spasm by CTA was poorer (Table 1). CTA tended to exaggerate the degree of spasm at the proximal locations and to equally over- and underrate spasm at the distal sites. In general, most discrepancies between CTA and DSA were in detecting mild and moderate degrees of spasm.
Agreement between CTA and DSA by location and degree of spasm
56-year-old woman with SAH.
A, Preoperative MIP image from a CTA study shows an anterior communicating artery aneurysm (arrow).
B, Postoperative CTA shows clipping of the aneurysm and narrowing of the anterior cerebral artery (arrows), consistent with vasospasm.
C, DSA, anteroposterior view, confirms vasospasm involving the A1 segment of the anterior cerebral artery (arrows).
A, Preoperative CTA, anteroposterior view, shows a left MCA aneurysm (arrow).
B, Postoperative CTA shows the clipped aneurysm and narrowing of the first segments of the left ipsilateral anterior (curved arrow) and middle cerebral (straight arrow) arteries.
C, DSA, anteroposterior view, verifies vasospasm of the left anterior and middle cerebral arteries ipsilateral to the aneurysmal rupture (arrows).
28-year-old man with an aneurysmal SAH.
A, Preoperative CTA, MIP image, reveals a posterior communicating artery aneurysm (arrow).
B, Postoperative CTA shows severe basilar artery spasm (open arrow) and carotid artery occlusion (solid arrow).
C, DSA, lateral view, confirms basilar artery vasospasm (arrow).
D, DSA, lateral oblique view, verifies supraclinoid ICA occlusion (arrow).
Table 2 displays various statistical parameters comparing CTA with DSA for each degree of spasm in all locations. CTA is highly sensitive and accurate in detecting no or severe spasm; it is much less sensitive in depicting mild or moderate spasm, although it remains quite specific.
Detection of vasospasm by CTA as compared with DSA for all arterial locations
On initial examination of the data (Table 1), CTA was found to correlate with DSA to a greater degree for the proximal arterial locations (r = .921 versus .348 for distal locations, P < .001). Tables 3 and 4 show various statistics for proximal versus distal sites. Comparing Table 3 with Table 2, CTA is more sensitive and accurate for proximal than for distal locations. CTA is highly sensitive, specific, and accurate for depicting no spasm or severe spasm; however, sensitivity and accuracy are poorer for depicting mild and moderate degrees of spasm (Table 3). CTA showed a high degree of positive predictability for detecting no spasm or severe spasm, meaning that when CTA findings suggest no or severe spasm, there is a high probability that a DSA examination will disclose similar results.
Detection of vasospasm by CTA for proximal arterial locations
In examining the data for distal arteries (A2 and M2), we found generally poorer results than for the proximal locations (Table 4). CTA was still perfect for detecting severe spasm, but was moderately sensitive and poorly specific for depicting no spasm and was very insensitive for detecting mild and moderate spasm.
Detection of vasospasm by CTA for distal arterial locations
In this series, 15 (9%) of 172 arteries were not visible at follow-up CTA (Table 1). One third of these were at the A1 segment, whereas the ICA and the M2 segment had roughly a third each. In every case in which the artery was not adequately visualized for measurement, the reason could be attributed to an aneurysm clip artifact. At our institution, titanium clips are not routinely used, therefore a considerable number of clip artifacts occur on CTA studies. These artifacts typically extend 4 to 5 mm around the clip, making assessment of the aneurysm remnant/clip complex impossible, and obscuring any arteries within this range.
Cerebral vasospasm if undetected and untreated can cause significant morbidity in patients with SAH. Most institutions routinely perform DSA 7 to 10 days after SAH in order to detect vasospasm. To date, DSA has been the mainstay for assessing spasm; however, transcranial Doppler sonography is a noninvasive method that has been widely used. This tool has been shown to be 84% to 85% sensitive and 89% to 98% specific in detecting spasm at the proximal MCA location (8, 9, 16). Transcranial Doppler sonography can be used on a daily basis with minimal cost and risk to the patient; however, its operator dependence and limited application to the whole intracerebral vasculature limits its effectiveness in making a definitive diagnosis. This is reserved for DSA.
CTA is a minimally invasive technique previously proved to accurately depict the intracranial vasculature in the setting of SAH (13–15, 17). Because CTA is less costly and involves less risk to the patient than DSA, and displays the intracerebral vessels well, it may be considered as a replacement for DSA in the definitive diagnosis of spasm. To date, little has been reported about the applicability of CTA in detecting vasospasm after SAH. In one initial study involving two patients, the authors reported similar rates of depiction of spasm between CTA and DSA; however, no objective measurements were made (18).
Since that initial study, a few articles have appeared in which CTA was reported to have accurately depicted spasm in patients after SAH. Zouaoui et al (15), in their series of 120 patients with SAH, found vasospasm on CTA examinations in five patients. Similarly, Velthuis et al (19) reported three cases of vasospasm on CTA examinations in their series of 80 patients. A study by Van Loon et al (20), in which CTA was performed in 11 patients postoperatively, found three cases of vasospasm. However, because none of these studies initially set out to examine the utility of CTA in detecting vasospasm, no formal objective measurements were made. Takagi et al (21) compared CTA with DSA in seven patients with spasm on an initial CTA examination and found severe spasm (>75% luminal reduction) in five patients and moderate spasm (50% to 75% reduction) in two patients. All seven of these cases of spasm would have been graded as severe by the classification scheme used in the present series, making their detection rate by CTA the same as ours, or 100%. These authors did not objectively assess findings of absent spasm or spasm of less than 50% luminal reduction, as we did in this series.
CTA is potentially an ideally suited method for assessing patients with SAH for vasospasm. Typically, these patients will require a plain CT study of the head, at which time CTA can be added without the additional time, expense, and expertise required for DSA. For CTA to be considered a replacement for DSA in this capacity, its accuracy must be substantiated, which is what we tried to accomplish in this study. We, like Takagi et al (21), found CTA to be perfect in detecting severe spasm (>50% luminal reduction) and to be highly sensitive and accurate in detecting normal vessels in the absence of spasm. Vasospasm was best detected in proximal arterial locations (ICA, A1, M1, and basilar arteries) and when categorized as either absent or severe. Mild or moderate spasm (1% to 50% luminal reduction) was less well detected, especially in distal locations (A2 and M2).
In several of our cases an artery or an aneurysm-clip complex could not be assessed owing to aneurysm clip artifacts. Thus, the presence or absence of spasm could not be determined by CTA. These are important disadvantages of CTA, since the presence of an aneurysm remnant may require further treatment. The use of titanium clips greatly reduces the extent of artifacts (20), but their cost presently limits their routine use.
We found CTA to be highly accurate in detecting either no spasm or severe vasospasm in proximal arterial location, as compared with DSA. Aneurysm clip artifacts remain a problem, and the importance of this limitation must be understood and addressed if CTA is to replace DSA in the routine postoperative care of patients with SAH.
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Active Hemorrhage into a Postresection Cavity Detected by Neuro-CT Angiography
Role of Multisection CT Angiography in the Evaluation of Vertebrobasilar Vasospasm in Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
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Movie Recommendation: Embrace of the Serpent
Go watch the astounding Embrace of the Serpent—on the big screen if you can!
The movie has been widely hailed for its mesmerizing black and white cinematography and two-journey mythic narrative structure, both of which prove to be apt vehicles for its central theme: conflict between worlds and spiritualities and how to know worlds and how to use this knowledge. It depicts colonialism-propelled changes in and destruction of biodiversity along the Amazon river, which were accompanied by profound human and cultural losses—the decimation of entire communities and knowledges.
What I appreciated even before I went to watch Embrace of the Serpent was how it was filmed in ways that were consonant with sacred indigenous worldviews the movie juxtaposes against the destructive impulses of western logic. Director Ciro Guerra talks about inviting the indigenous communities to participate, and asking permission from the jungle to do the film. They did not just show the living spirit of the jungle as a presence in the movie, they honored that spirit in its very making!
...And the shoot, apparently, was unprecedented in its being protected from the kind of mishaps that usually affect other crews filming in the Amazon. Such are the ways of the spirits.
Photo: Liliana Merizalde
What also struck me in the movie was the myth of the "chullachaqi": that an empty and hollow look-alike of a person may be walking around like a ghost. Karamatake the shaman's idea that forgetting the old knowledge and ways of our ancestors and of nature turns us into chullachaqis, recalled the cry of the Asur Adivasi poet Sushma Asur:
"Now that we have no language
Now that we have no culture
How do we call upon you
With which ritual technology do we remember you"
(Here is my full translation of this amazing poem.)
This cry is a cry in each of our hearts. Our hearts in modernity are crying out for connection and remembering: that we may remember who are; remember our souls; re-member all parts of our selves that have been lost or suppressed by the traumas of isolationism and separationism, rationalist and materialist thinking, imperialism, colonialism, oppression, neoliberal capitalism. May we remember our connection to the wholeness of life and to the web of interexistence and the power and resourcefulness this belonging brings to us—and rise!
Mural in Gaza
May we hear the songs of the ancestors. May we sing them knowing that the ancestors wait for us to weave into the songs our unique seeing, voices, healing, heart, earthstar medicine.
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NE 28th Avenue business owners split on bike access and parking, interviews show
November 27, 2013 Michael Andersen (News Editor)
James Lanagen of Beulahland said the neighborhood
would “adapt” if buffered bike lanes replaced on-street
parking, but that he’d rather keep the parking.
(Photos by M.Andersen/BikePortland)
The question of how to make biking better in the NE 28th Avenue area divides employees from their bosses, businesses from their customers, tenants from their landlords and different kinds of bike users from each other.
If there’s one thing this project doesn’t have, it’s consensus — not among the “bike community” (whatever that is) and not among the “business community” (whatever that is).
We know because we asked.
On Tuesday afternoon, I left my bike and helmet at a parking corral and talked to as many business owners as I could in three hours about the options for how to run the “20s Bikeway” through their area. I introduced myself as reporter — I didn’t say who for; only one owner asked — and did my best to get honest opinions from everyone.
I asked whether they needed auto parking outside their business, and whether it was important for the parking to be free. I explained how the narrow street made it impossible to run standard-width bike lanes without either removing two auto parking lanes or one standard travel lane from 28th, and asked if they thought it would be possible to make 28th bike-friendly without bike lanes, or if traffic should move to a side street like 26th or 30th.
NE 28th Avenue on Tuesday, when auto parking
was temporarily removed for an unrelated project.
1) Everyone I talked to knows about the project. Many had heard about it from Jim Kautz, general manager of the neighborhood’s biggest commercial landlord, Bitar Companies, and a vocal foe of parking removal. Others had spoken with Sarah Holliday of Staccato Gelato, who also happened to be one of the owners most firmly opposed to removing all parking. One said he’d seen a city mailing.
2) More than half would rather keep auto parking. For some, parking is more useful for employees than for their customers; in one case, it’s mostly for an unloading zone. Several had simply assumed, upon hearing about the plan, that the city was planning to remove all parking on both sides and seemed to be mentally preparing to deal with that. “If it had to be this street, I would gulp and deal with it,” said Chris Raak of Polliwog, a children’s toy and clothing store who said he feels for environmental reasons that it’s essential to dramatically increase biking in Portland.
3) Most, but not all, think 28th isn’t good for biking. Of the 10 I spoke to, eight were open to giving up some auto parking on 28th to make biking better. Three said their preference was to remove all auto parking and get bike lanes, if that’d make the street better to bike on. “I’d just as soon make it easier for the bicyclists, because I’m always envisioning people getting smeared all over the road,” said Carla Lichter, owner of Zim Zim, a gift shop at SE 28th and Ankeny.
4) Most, but not all, liked the idea of moving the bikeway off 28th. “This street is terrible for biking on,” said Alison Weaver of Meadowlark Preschool.
5) Only one clearly opposed parking meters. “A neighborhood gets busy and you put in meters,” said Jody Mathey of Wooptido hair salon. “It’s not a perfect world, but it makes sense.”
6) Several are frustrated with lax enforcement of time-limited parking on the street. Much of the auto parking on 28th is taken up by people parked for hours or all day, owners said.
7) Many are worried about parking overflow from two nearby apartment projects. More than half the owners mentioned this. “Seven years ago, eight years ago, it would have been fine” to remove parking, said James Lanagen, owner of Beulahland. “With the way that 28th has developed in the last six years, it’s just going to cause more problems with the residential.”
I spoke to nine business owners Tuesday, plus Lichter a few weeks ago by phone. Here’s what they said:
James Lanagen, owner of Beulahland, bar at 118 NE 28th
Would less on-street auto parking affect your business? “If it happens, it happens, and people tend to adapt. My business specifically would be among the least affected. I get a lot of pedestrian traffic. I get a lot of bike traffic.”
If the city doesn’t replace parking with bike lanes, should the city try to make 28th safer for people, or try to reroute bike traffic to a side street? The “huge amount of very large trucks” that use 28th will make the street unpleasant to bike on no matter what, “especially on the weekends with families biking.” “The people who bicycle on this street already know the gambles.”
Alan Rhoades, owner of City States, cafe at 128 NE 28th
Would less on-street auto parking affect your business? “I think most of our customers walk here anyway. But I do like that I have the parking. … I’ll get over $1,000 of groceries, park out front and get people to help unload. … It’s, like, backbreaking work to go around.”
If the city doesn’t replace parking with bike lanes, should the city try to make 28th safer for people, or try to reroute bike traffic to a side street? When he used to bike more, “personally I actually didn’t like these roads. I’d be on 27th, is where I’d be. … I count it as a good thing that bikers go by, but I don’t think it’s that significant. I think pretty much people know we’re here.”
How would parking meters affect your business? Because so many customers walk, this wouldn’t be a big commercial burden, but “I have staff who work eight-hour shifts. … I once as a cook didn’t take a job because there were parking meters. There was nothing I could do.”
Sarah Holliday, owner of Staccato Gelato, 232 NE 28th
Would less on-street auto parking affect your business? “Just about everybody who has a business” would agree that a reasonable solution for the street “for sure is not removing parking” all along the street. “There is no street in Portland that has removed on-street parking in both directions for a bike lane. So it would be an extreme example. …. Losing a few parking spots is not a big deal.”
If the city doesn’t replace parking with bike lanes, should the city try to make 28th safer for people, or try to reroute bike traffic to a side street? She’s strongly in favor of moving most bike traffic off the street, though she thinks some will still use it. “I’m a longtime bike commuter in this area. I’m very glad they’re doing something. … A skinny bike lane can be worse than no bike lane. … It’s not the speed of the traffic. It’s the people pulling in and out. … It’s a combination of parked cars and people just not paying attention.”
Chris Raak, owner of Polliwog, a children’s toys, books and clothes shop at 234 NE 28th
Would less on-street auto parking affect your business? “Losing a lot of parking spaces on this street would be pretty hard for us. Our business is already kind of from the previous century.” But he thinks removing parking might be a good idea anyway. “The first thing we have to do is make it OK and safe and happy for people to ride your bike around. … That has to happen, or we’re all going to hell in a handbasket because of the weather changing. … If it had to be this street, I would gulp and deal with it.”
If the city doesn’t replace parking with bike lanes, should the city try to make 28th safer for people, or try to reroute bike traffic to a side street? “The whole stretch of it from Belmont or Stark — it’s not a good place to ride bikes,” but there are “not many options” for other routes because of the lack of traffic signals. He doesn’t think “traffic calming” works and prefers enforcement. “Speed limits — just enforce ’em. If it is a bike street, especially enforce them. … I don’t think people are going to adjust their behavior until there’s some policing.” He said adding a traffic signal to make the area better for bikes would be good: “If the future costs $100,000, fine.”
How would parking meters affect your business? “I think it’d be good. … There’s 30-minute, 1-hour spots that never get enforced.”
Jody Mathey, owner of Wooptido, a hair salon at 24 NE 28th
Mathey was the only owner who asked me before the interview who I worked for; I told her, but said I was interested in her honest opinion.
Would less on-street auto parking affect your business? “If they would have asked me this two years ago before those big apartments came up, I wouldn’t have cared. … 28th is too busy. If you take the parking away, it’s going to be a nightmare.”
If the city doesn’t replace parking with bike lanes, should the city try to make 28th safer for people, or try to reroute bike traffic to a side street? “Push it over. … Bicycles always win in Portland. They always get their way.”
How would parking meters affect your business? “I think that’s a good idea, actually. A neighborhood gets busy and you put in meters. It’s not a perfect world, but it makes sense.”
Alison Weaver, owner of Meadowlark Preschool, 616 NE 28th
Would less on-street auto parking affect your business? Weaver’s main concern isn’t so much parking as it is parents being able to drop their children off at her front curb. “I don’t know. It’s sometimes hard for parents to get right in front. Parking is already bad enough in this neighborhood. … I would love to be on a street where it’s all bikes, but parking’s always going to be a need.”
If the city doesn’t replace parking with bike lanes, should the city try to make 28th safer for people, or try to reroute bike traffic to a side street? “I don’t own a car, so I’m a big bike commuter person. … This street is terrible for biking on. It’s terrible. I got doored.” She likes the idea of sending bikes to side streets, but worries that people might not do it if the route zigzags too much.
Tony Edgeston, owner of Crossfit Stumptown, 535 NE 28th
What effect would less auto parking have on your business? “I’ll tell you right now, our members don’t like it. But me personally, because I sit at this desk all day and see the street, I’m for it.” Edgeston, whose visitors use both on street parking and a small on-site parking lot when they arrive by car, said he regularly sees crashes and near-misses as cars and trucks try (and fail) to make it between the stoplights at Glisan and Sandy. He said replacing parking with bike lanes would increase safety. “I think it’s a great idea.”
If the city doesn’t replace parking with bike lanes, should the city try to make 28th safer for people, or try to reroute bike traffic to a side street? “It’s unsafe the way it is right now,” Edgeston said. But he’s dubious that people on bikes would actually turn off the street, even if the official route went elsewhere.
Chantal Angot, owner of Tapalaya, a restaurant at 28 NE 28th
What effect would less auto parking have on your business? “Honestly, I’m a cyclist. I totally understand the need for a north-south cycling route. But I feel pretty comfortable cycling on 28th, because the cars can’t go that fast anyway. … We need our parking here too.”
If the city doesn’t replace parking with bike lanes, should the city try to make 28th safer for people, or try to reroute bike traffic to a side street? Angot leaned toward improving 28th and worried that bikes couldn’t actually be lured away from it. She was intrigued by the idea of one-way auto traffic on 28th, with bike lanes and auto parking on both sides.
How would parking meters affect your business? “My first reaction is that it’d be bad. I wish we had an employee parking lot.”
These business owners don’t speak for residents of the neighborhood, of course, or for freight customers like the Coca-Cola bottling plant across the street from several of them. And they certainly don’t speak for the many thousands of people who live elsewhere in the region and use 28th Avenue. Nor do they speak for their own employees.
“It is a bike route,” said Mark Simmons, a Beulahland employee. “Cars can — how you say — go to 33rd.”
Simmons’s job title, he said: dishwasher.
— Learn more about the 20s Bikeway Project in our archives.
20s bikeway project, Front Page, Parking
Portland transportation isn’t ‘stagnating’ after all, city director says
After another fatality on Barbur Blvd, ODOT tweet hits a nerve
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British Executions
Arthur Norcott
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 1 Jan 1629
Crime Location:
Execution Place: unknown
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng11.htm
ARTHUR NORCOTT AND MARY NORCOTT, HIS MOTHER
Executed in 1629 for the Murder of the former's Wife after the Test of touching the Body
THE following relation was found among the papers of Sir John Maynard, an eminent lawyer, and formerly one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal of England. We think proper to give it in his own words.
The case, or rather history of a case, that happened in the county of Hertford, I thought good to report here, though it happened in the fourth year of King Charles I., that the memory of it may not be lost, by miscarriage of my papers, or otherwise. I wrote the evidence that was given, which I and many others did hear; and I wrote it exactly according to what was deposed at the trial, at the bar of the King's Bench —- viz.
Joan Norcott, wife of Arthur Norcott, being murdered, the question was, How came she by her death? The coroner's inquest, on view of the body, and depositions of Mary Norcott, John Okeman, and Agnes his wife, inclined to find Joan Norcott felo-de-se, they informed the coroner and jury that she was found dead in her bed, the knife sticking in the floor, and her throat cut. That the night before, she went to bed with her child, her husband being absent; and that no other person, after such time as she was gone to bed, came into the house. That the examinants, lying in the outer room, must needs have seen or known if any stranger had come in.
The jury, upon these evidences, gave up their verdict to the coroner that she was felo-de-se. But afterwards, upon rumour among the neighbourhood, and their observation, divers circumstances, which manifested that she did not, nor, according to those circumstances, could not possibly, murder herself, the jury, whose verdict was not yet drawn up in form by the coroner, desired the coroner that the body, which was buried, might be taken out of the grave, which the coroner assented to. So that thirty days after her death she was taken up in the presence of the jury and a great number of people; whereupon the jury changed their verdict. The persons, being tried at Hertford Assizes, were acquitted; but so much against the evidence, that judge Harvey let fall his opinion that it were better an appeal were brought than so foul a murder escape unpunished. Whereupon, Pascha 4 Car., they were tried on the appeal which was brought by the young child against his father, grandmother, aunt and her husband, Okeman; and because the evidence was so strange, I took exact and particular notice, and it was as follows: —-
After the matters above mentioned were related, an ancient and grave person, minister of the parish where the fact was committed (being sworn to give evidence according to custom), deposed that the body being taken out of the grave thirty days after the party's death, and lying on the grass, and the four defendants pressed, they were required each to touch the dead body. Okeman's wife fell on her knees and prayed God to show some token of her innocency, or to that purpose; her very words I have forgot. The appellees did touch the dead body, which was before of a livid and carrion colour (that was the verbal expression in terminis of the witness), whereupon the brow of the dead began to have a dew, or gentle sweat, arise on it, which increased by degrees, till the sweat ran down by drops on her face. The brow changed to a lively colour, and the dead opened one of her eyes and shut it again; and this opening of the eye was done three several times. She likewise thrust out the ring - or wedding-finger three times, and pulled it in again, and the finger dropped blood from it on the grass.
Sir Nicholas Hyde, Lord Chief justice, seeming to doubt the evidence, asked the witness: "Who saw this besides you?"
WITNESS: I cannot swear what others saw; but, my Lord, I do believe the whole company saw it; and if it had been thought a doubt, proof would have been made of it, and many would have attested with me.
Then the witness, observing some admiration in the auditors, spake further:
"My Lord, I am minister of the parish, and have long known all the parties, but never had any occasion of displeasure against any of them, nor anything to do with them, or they with me, but as I was their minister. The thing was wonderful to me, but I have no interest in the matter; only as I am called upon to testify the truth, I have done it."
This witness was a very reverend person, as I guessed, about seventy years of age; his testimony was delivered gravely and temperately, but to the great admiration of all the auditory; whereupon, applying himself to the Lord Chief justice, he said further:
"My Lord, my brother here present is minister of the next parish adjacent, and I am assured he saw all done that I have affirmed."
Here that person was also sworn to give evidence, and deposed the same in every point —- viz. the sweating of the brow, the change of the colour, the opening of the eye, the thrice moving of the finger and drawing it in again. Only the first witness added that he himself dipped his finger in the blood which came from the dead body, to examine it, and he swore that he believed it was blood.
I conferred afterwards with Sir Edward Powel, barrister-at-law, and others, who all concurred in the observation; and for myself, if I were upon my oath, I can testify that these depositions, especially the first witness, are truly reported in substance.
The other evidence was given against the prisoners —- viz. the grandmother of the plaintiff, and against Okeman and his wife —- that they confessed that they lay in the next room to the dead person that night, and that none came into the house till they found her dead in the morning. Therefore, if she did not murder herself, they must be the murderers.
To prove that she did not murder herself it was further deposed:
Firstly, that she lay in a composed manner in her bed, the bed-clothes nothing at all disturbed, and her child by her in bed.
Secondly, that her neck was broken, and she could not possibly break her neck in the bed if she first cut her throat, nor contra.
Thirdly, that there was no blood in the bed, saving a tincture of blood on the bolster whereon her head lay, but no substance of blood at all.
Fourthly, that from the bed's head there was a stream of blood on the floor, which ran along till it ponded in the bending of the floor in a very great quantity; and that there was also another stream of blood on the floor at the bed's foot, which ponded also on the floor, to another great quantity, but no continuance or communication of blood, at either of these two places, from one to the other, neither upon the bed; so that she bled in. two places severally. And it was deposed, that upon turning up the mat of the bed, there were found clots of congealed blood in the straw of the mat underneath.
Fifthly, that the bloody knife was found in the morning sticking in the floor, at a good distance from the bed; and that the point of the knife, as it stuck, was towards the bed, and the haft from the bed.
Lastly, that there was the print of a thumb and four fingers of a left hand.
Sir Nicholas Hyde, Lord Chief justice, said to the witness: "How can you know the print of a left hand from the print of a right in such a case?
WITNESS: My Lord, it is hard to describe; but if it please that honourable judge to put his left hand upon your left hand , you cannot possibly place your own right hand in the same posture. This was tried and approved.
The prisoners had now time to make their defence, but gave no evidence to any purpose; whereupon the jury departed out of the court; and returning, acquitted Okeman and found the other three guilty; who being severally demanded what they could say why judgment should not be pronounced, they only cried out after one another: "I did not do it, I did not do it."
Judgment was given, and the grandmother and the husband executed; but the aunt, being with child, had the privilege to be spared execution.
I inquired if they confessed anything at the gallows, but could not hear that they did.
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