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Okinawa Prefecture
Title: Okinawa Prefecture
Subject: List of airports in Japan, United States Forces Japan, Ishigaki, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, Prefectures of Japan
Collection: Blue Zones, Former Regions and Territories of the United States, Japan–united States Relations, Kyushu Region, Okinawa Prefecture, Prefectures of Japan, Ryukyu Islands
Japanese transcription(s)
Okinawa-ken
Okinawan transcription(s)
• Okinawan
沖縄県（ウチナーチン）
Uchinaa-chin
Symbol of Okinawa Prefecture
Takeshi Onaga
2,271.30 km2 (876.95 sq mi)
Population (October 1, 2013)
622/km2 (1,610/sq mi)
Deego (Erythrina variegata)
Pinus luchuensis (ryūkyūmatsu)
Okinawa woodpecker (Sapheopipo noguchii)
Banana Fish (Caesio diagramma,"Takasago", "Gurukun")
www.pref.okinawa.jp/
History of Ryūkyū
pre–14,000 BC
Early Shell Mound
14,000–300 BC
Middle Shell Mound
300 BC–750 AD
Late Shell Mound
Gusuku
Sanzan
First Shō Dynasty
Second Shō Dynasty
Invasion of Ryūkyū
Ryūkyū Domain
Annexation of Ryūkyū
Taishō
Pre-World War 2
Battle of Okinawa
American Occupation
Koza riot
Kagoshima Prefecture
Ryūkyū Kingdom
Ryūkyū independence movement
Location of Ryukyu Islands
Okinawa Prefecture (Japanese: 沖縄県, Hepburn: Okinawa-ken, Okinawan: ウチナーチン Uchinaa-chin) is the southernmost prefecture of Japan.[1] It comprises hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) long. The Ryukyus extend southwest from Kyūshū (the southwesternmost of Japan's main four islands) to Taiwan. The Okinawa Prefecture encompasses the southern two thirds of that chain. Naha, Okinawa's capital is located in the southern part of Okinawa Island.[2]
1945-1965 1.1
Vietnam War 1965-1972 1.2
2007-present 1.4
Marine Corps Air Station Futenma relocation, 2006-present 1.5
Major islands 2.1
Cities 2.2
Towns and villages 2.3
Town mergers 2.4
Natural Parks 2.5
Fauna 2.6
Flora 2.7
Geology 2.8
Climate 2.9
Demography 3
Language and culture 4
Language 4.1
Religion 4.2
Cultural influences 4.3
Other cultural characteristics 4.4
Karate 4.5
Architecture 4.6
Air transportation 7.1
Highways 7.2
Ports 7.4
United States military installations 8.1
Notable people 9
News 12.1
Photographs 12.2
Culture 12.3
History 12.4
Miscellany 12.5
Peace 12.6
The oldest evidence of human existence on the Ryukyu islands is from Stone Age and was discovered in Naha and Yaese.[3] Some human bone fragments from the Paleolithic era were unearthed, but there is no clear evidence of Paleolithic remains. Japanese Jōmon influences are dominant on the Okinawa Islands, although clay vessels on the Sakishima Islands have a commonality with those in Taiwan.
The first mention of the word Ryukyu was written in the Book of Sui. Okinawa was the Japanese word identifying the islands, first seen in the biography of Jianzhen, written in 779. Agricultural societies begun in the 8th century slowly developed until the 12th century. Since the islands are located at the eastern perimeter of the East China Sea relatively close to Japan, China and South-East Asia, the Ryūkyū Kingdom became a prosperous trading nation. Also during this period, many Gusukus, similar to castles, were constructed. The Ryūkyū Kingdom had a tributary relationship with the Chinese Empire beginning in the 15th century.
In 1609, the Shimazu clan, which controlled the region that is now Kagoshima Prefecture, invaded the Ryūkyū Kingdom. The Ryūkyū Kingdom was obliged to agree to form a tributary relationship with the Satsuma and the Tokugawa shogunate, while maintaining its previous tributary relationship with China; Ryukyuan sovereignty was maintained since complete annexation would have created a conflict with China. The Satsuma clan earned considerable profits from trade with China during a period in which foreign trade was heavily restricted by the shogunate.
A Ryukyuan embassy in Edo.
Although Satsuma maintained strong influence over the islands, the Ryūkyū Kingdom maintained a considerable degree of domestic political freedom for over two hundred years. Four years after the 1868 Meiji Restoration, the Japanese government, through military incursions, officially annexed the kingdom and renamed it Ryukyu han. At the time, the Qing Empire asserted sovereignty over the islands of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, since the Ryūkyū Kingdom was also a tributary nation of China. Ryukyu han became Okinawa Prefecture of Japan in 1879, even though all other hans had become prefectures of Japan in 1872. In 1912, Okinawans first obtained the right to vote for representatives to the national Diet which had been established in 1890.[4]
In 1945 the US Army and Marine Corps invaded Okinawa with 185,000 troops. A third of the civilian population were killed;[5] a quarter of the civilian population were killed during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa alone.[6] The dead, of all nationalities, are commemorated at the Cornerstone of Peace. After the end of World War II in 1945 the Ryukyu independence movement developed, while Okinawa was under United States Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands administration for 27 years. During this "trusteeship rule", the United States established numerous military bases on the Ryukyu islands.
During the Korean War, B-29 Superfortresses flew bombing missions over Korea from Kadena Air Base on Okinawa. The military buildup on the island during the Cold War increased a division between local inhabitants and the American military. Under the 1952 Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan, the United States Forces Japan (USFJ) have maintained a large military presence.
Since 1960, the U.S. and Japan have maintained an agreement that allows the U.S. to secretly bring nuclear weapons into Japanese ports,[7] The Japanese tended to oppose the introduction of nuclear arms into Japanese territory by the government's assertion of Japan's non-nuclear policy and a statement of the Three Non-Nuclear Principles. Most of the weapons were alleged to be stored in ammunition bunkers at Kadena Air Base. Between 1954 and 1972, 19 different types of nuclear weapons were deployed in Okinawa, but with fewer than around 1,000 warheads at any one time.[8]
Vietnam War 1965-1972
Between 1965 and 1972, Okinawa was a key staging point for the United States in its military operations directed towards North Vietnam. Along with Guam, it presented a geographically strategic launch pad for covert bombing missions over Cambodia and Laos.[9] Anti-Vietnam War sentiment became linked politically to the movement for reversion of Okinawa to Japan. In 1965, the US military bases, earlier viewed as paternal post war protection, were increasingly seen as aggressive. The Vietnam War highlighted the differences between the United States and Okinawa, but showed a commonality between the islands and mainland Japan.[10]
As controversy grew regarding the alleged placement of nuclear weapons on Okinawa, fears intensified over the escalation of the Vietnam War. Okinawa was then perceived, by some inside Japan, as a potential target for China, should the communist government feel threatened by the United States.[11] American military secrecy blocked any local reporting on what was actually occurring at bases such as Kadena Air Base. As information leaked out, and images of air strikes were published, the local population began to fear the potential for retaliation.[10]
Political leaders such as Oda Makoto, a major figure in the Beheiren movement (Foundation of Citizens for Peace in Vietnam), believed, that the return of Okinawa to Japan would lead to the removal of U.S forces ending Japan's involvement in Vietnam.[12] In a speech delivered in 1967 Oda was critical of Prime Minister Sato’s unilateral support of America’s War in Vietnam claiming "Realistically we are all guilty of complicity in the Vietnam War".[12] The Beheiren became a more visible anti-war movement on Okinawa as the American involvement in Vietnam intensified. The movement employed tactics ranging from demonstrations, to handing leaflets to soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines directly, warning of the implications for a third World War.[13]
The US military bases on Okinawa became a focal point for anti-Vietnam War sentiment. By 1969, over 50,000 American military personnel were stationed on Okinawa,[14] accustomed to privileges and laws not shared by the indigenous population. The United States Department of Defense began referring to Okinawa as "The Keystone of the Pacific". This slogan was imprinted on local U.S military license plates.[15]
In 1969, chemical weapons leaked from the US storage depot at Chibana in central Okinawa, under the so-called Operation Red Hat. Evacuations of residents took place over a wide area for two months. Even two years later, government investigators found that Okinawans and the environment near the leak were still suffering because of the depot.[16]
In 1972, the U.S. government returned the islands to Japanese administration.[17]
In an 1981 interview with the Mainichi Shimbun, Edwin O. Reischauer, former U.S. ambassador to Japan, said that U.S. naval ships armed with nuclear weapons stopped at Japanese ports on a routine duty, and this was approved by the Japanese government.
The 1995 Okinawa rape incident of a 12-year-old girl by U.S. servicemen triggered large protests in Okinawa. Reports by the local media of accidents and crimes committed by U.S. servicemen have reduced the local population's support for the U.S. military bases. A strong emotional response has emerged from certain incidents. As a result, the media has drawn renewed interest in the Ryukyu independence movement.
Documents declassified in 1997 proved that both tactical and strategic weapons have been maintained in Okinawa.[18][19]
In 1999 and 2002, the Japan Times and the Okinawa Times reported speculation that not all the supposed weapons were removed from Okinawa.[20][21]
On October 25, 2005, after a decade of negotiations, the governments of the US and Japan officially agreed to move Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from its location in the densely populated city of Ginowan to the more northerly and remote Camp Schwab in Nago by building a heliport with a shorter runway, partly on Camp Schwab land and partly running into the sea.[5] The move is partly an attempt to relieve tensions between the people of Okinawa and the Marine Corps.
Okinawa prefecture constitutes 0.6% of Japan's land surface,[5] yet as of 2006, 75% of all USFJ bases were located on Okinawa, and U.S. military bases occupied 18% of the main island.[22]
U.S. military facilities in Okinawa
According to a 2007 Okinawa Times poll, 85% of Okinawans opposed the presence of the U.S. military,[23] because of noise pollution from military drills, the risk of aircraft accidents,[24] environmental degradation,[25] and crowding from the number of personnel there,[26] although 73.4% of Japanese citizens appreciated the mutual security treaty with the U.S. and the presence of the USFJ.[27] In another poll conducted by the Asahi Shimbun in May 2010, 43% of the Okinawan population wanted the complete closure of the U.S. bases, 42% wanted reduction and 11% wanted the maintenance of the status quo.[28]
In early 2008, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice apologized after a series of crimes involving American troops in Japan, including the rape of a young girl of 14 by a Marine on Okinawa. The U.S. military also imposed a temporary 24-hour curfew on military personnel and their families to ease the anger of local residents.[29] Some cited statistics that the crime rate of military personnel is consistently less than that of the general Okinawan population.[30] However, some criticized the statistics as unreliable, since violence against women is under-reported.[31]
Between 1972 and 2009, U.S. servicemen committed 5,634 criminal offenses, including 25 murders, 385 burglaries, 25 arsons, 127 rapes, 306 assaults and 2,827 thefts.[6]
In 2009 a new Japanese government came to power and froze the US forces relocation plan, but in April 2010 indicated their interest in resolving the issue by proposing a modified plan.[32] Okinawan feelings about the U.S. military are complex, and some of the resentment towards the U.S. bases is directed towards the government in Tokyo, perceived as being insensitive to Okinawan needs and using Okinawa to house bases not desired elsewhere in Japan. Okinawa is the poorest prefecture within Japan, and the issue of U.S. bases has become tangled with the sense of colonialist/imperialist treatment of Okinawa by Tokyo.
In 2011, it was reported that the U.S. military —contrary to repeated denials by the Pentagon— had kept tens of thousands of barrels of Agent Orange on the island. The Japanese and American governments have angered some U.S. veterans, who believe they were poisoned by Agent Orange while serving on the island, by characterizing their statements regarding Agent Orange as "dubious", and ignoring their requests for compensation. Reports that more than a third of the barrels developed leaks have led Okinawans to ask for environmental investigations, but as of 2012 both Tokyo and Washington refused such action.[33] Jon Mitchell has reported concern that the U.S. used American Marines as chemical-agent guinea pigs.[34]
A 2012 book, Resistant Islands: Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States, argues that the U.S. presence on Okinawa, which has provoked strong opposition and resistance among the island's inhabitants, is not geared towards defending Japan, but rather to serve as part of an American forward deployment strategy aimed at Southeast Asia and China, the stability of which is not important to Japanese commercial or defense interests.[35]
27,000 personnel, including 15,000 Marines, contingents from the Navy, Army and Air Force, and their 22,000 family members are stationed in Okinawa.[36]
Marine Corps Air Station Futenma relocation, 2006-present
Environmental groups and residents have protested over the construction of part of a runway at Camp Schwab, and from businessmen and politicians around Futenma and Henoko.[5] The legality of the proposed heliport relocation has been questioned as a violation of International Law, including the World Heritage Convention, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.[37][38]
As of 2006, some 8,000 U.S. Marines were removed from the island and relocated to Guam.[39] In November 2008, U.S. Pacific Command Commander Admiral Timothy Keating stated the move to Guam would probably not be completed before 2015.[40]
In 2009 Japan's former foreign minister Katsuya Okada stated that he wanted to review the deployment of U.S. troops in Japan to ease the burden on the people of Okinawa (Associated Press, October 7, 2009) 5,000 of 9,000 Marines will be deployed at Guam and the rest will be deployed at Hawaii and Australia. Japan will pay $3.1 billion cash for the moving and for developing joint training ranges on Guam and on Tinian and Pagan in the U.S.-controlled Northern Mariana Islands.[41][42]
As of 2014 the US still maintains Air Force, Marine, Navy, and Army military installations on the islands. These bases include Kadena Air Base, Camp Foster, Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Camp Hansen, Camp Schwab, Torii Station, Camp Kinser, and Camp Gonsalves. The area of 14 U.S. bases are 233 square kilometres (90 sq mi), occupying 18% of the main island. Okinawa hosts about two-thirds of the 50,000 American forces in Japan. The islands account for less than one percent of total lands in Japan.[22]
Suburbs have grown towards and now surround two historic major bases, Futenma and Kadena. One third (9,852 acres (39.87 km2)) of the land used by the U.S. military is the Marine Corps Northern Training Area in the north of the island.
Major islands
The islands of Okinawa Prefecture
The islands comprising the prefecture are the southern two thirds of the archipelago of the Ryūkyū Islands (琉球諸島, Ryūkyū-shotō). Okinawa's inhabited islands are typically divided into three geographical archipelagos. From northeast to southwest:
Okinawa Islands (沖縄諸島, Okinawa Shotō)
Ie-jima
Kume-jima
Okinawa Island
Kerama Islands
Miyako Islands
Miyako-jima
Yaeyama Islands
Iriomote-jima
Ishigaki Island
Map of Okinawa Prefecture
Eleven cities are located within the Okinawa Prefecture. Okinawan names are in parentheses:
Ginowan (Jinoon)
Ishigaki (Ishigachi)
Itoman (Ichuman)
Miyakojima (Naaku, Myaaku)
Nago (Nagu)
Naha (Naafa) (capital)
Nanjō
Okinawa (Uchinaa) (formerly Koza)
Tomigusuku (Tumigushiku)
Urasoe (Urashii)
Uruma
These are the towns and villages in each district:
Kunigami District (Kunjan)
Ginoza (Jinuja)
Higashi (Agarijima)
Ie (Iijima)
Kin (Chin)
Kunigami (Kunjan)
Motobu (Mutubu)
Nakijin (Nachijin)
Onna (Unna)
Ōgimi (Ujimi)
Miyako District (Naaku, Myaaku)
Nakagami District (Nakajan)
Kadena (Kadina)
Kitanakagusuku
Nakagusuku (Nakagushiku)
Nishihara (Nishibaru)
Yomitan (Yuntan)
Shimajiri District
Haebaru (Feebaru)
Iheya (Ihyaa)
Izena (Ijina)
Kitadaitō (Ufuagarijima)
Kumejima (Kumijima)
Minamidaitō
Tokashiki (Tukashichi)
Tonaki (Tunachi)
Yaese
Yonabaru (Yunabaru)
Zamami (Jamami)
Yaeyama District (Eema, Yaima)
Taketomi (Dakidun, Teedun)
Yonaguni (Yunaguni, Dunan)
Town mergers
Natural Parks
As of March 31, 2008, 19% of the total land area of the prefecture was designated as Natural Parks, namely the Iriomote-Ishigaki National Park; Okinawa Kaigan and Okinawa Senseki Quasi-National Parks; and Irabu, Kumejima, and Tonaki Prefectural Natural Parks.[43]
The dugong is an endangered marine mammal related to the manatee.[44] Iriomote is home to one of the world's rarest and most endangered cat species, the Iriomote cat. The region is also home to at least one endemic pit viper, Trimeresurus elegans. Coral reefs found in this region of Japan provide an environment for a diverse marine fauna. The sea turtles return yearly to the southern islands of Okinawa to lay their eggs. The summer months carry warnings to swimmers regarding venomous jellyfish and other dangerous sea creatures.
Okinawa is a major producer of sugar cane, pineapple, papaya, and other tropical fruit, and the Southeast Botanical Gardens represent tropical plant species.
Arch at an Okinawan Castle ruin.
Shuri Castle, Naha
The island is largely composed of coral, and rainwater filtering through that coral has given the island many caves, which played an important role in the Battle of Okinawa. Gyokusendo[45] is an extensive limestone cave in the southern part of Okinawa's main island.
The island experiences temperatures above 20 °C (68 °F) for most of the year. Okinawa and the many islands that make up the prefecture contains some of the most abundant coral reefs found in the world. Rare blue corals are found off of Ishigaki and Miyako islands as are numerous species throughout the chain.
Okinawa prefecture age pyramid as of October 1, 2003[46]
(per thousands of people)
Okinawa Prefecture age pyramid, divided by sex, as of October 1, 2003
17 80 + 38
Shisa, a cross between a lion and a dog, on a traditional tile roof.
Awamori pots.
Having historically been a separate nation until 1879, Okinawan language and culture differ in many ways from that of mainland Japan.
There remain six Ryukyuan languages which are incomprehensible to Japanese speakers, although they are considered to make up the family of Japonic languages along with Japanese. These languages are in decline as Standard Japanese is being used by the younger generation. They are generally perceived as "dialects" by mainland Japanese and some Okinawans themselves. Standard Japanese is almost always used in formal situations. In informal situations, de facto everyday language among Okinawans under age 60 is Okinawa-accented mainland Japanese ("Okinawan Japanese"), which is often misunderstood as Okinawan language proper. The actual traditional Okinawan language is still used in traditional cultural activities, such as folk music and folk dance. There is a radio news program in the language as well.[47]
Okinawans have traditionally followed Ryukyuan religious beliefs, generally characterized by ancestor worship and the respecting of relationships between the living, the dead, and the gods and spirits of the natural world.
Cultural influences
Okinawan culture bears traces of its various trading partners. One can find Chinese, Thai and Austronesian influences in the island's customs. Perhaps Okinawa's most famous cultural export is karate, probably a product of the close ties with and influence of China on Okinawan culture. Karate is thought to be a synthesis of Chinese kung fu with traditional Okinawan martial arts. A ban on weapons in Okinawa for two long periods after the invasion and forced annexation by Japan during the Meiji Restoration period also very likely contributed to its development. Okinawans' reputation as wily resisters of being influenced by conquerors is depicted in the 1956 Hollywood film, The Teahouse of the August Moon, which takes place immediately after World War II.
Another traditional Okinawan product that owes its existence to Okinawa's trading history is awamori—an Okinawan distilled spirit made from indica rice imported from Thailand.
Other cultural characteristics
Other prominent examples of Okinawan culture include the sanshin—a three-stringed Okinawan instrument, closely related to the Chinese sanxian, and ancestor of the Japanese shamisen, somewhat similar to a banjo. Its body is often bound with snakeskin (from pythons, imported from elsewhere in Asia, rather than from Okinawa's venomous Trimeresurus flavoviridis, which are too small for this purpose). Okinawan culture also features the eisa dance, a traditional drumming dance. A traditional craft, the fabric named bingata, is made in workshops on the main island and elsewhere.
The Okinawan diet consist of low-fat, low-salt foods, such as fish, tofu, and seaweed. Okinawans are known for their longevity. Individuals live longer on this Japanese island than anywhere else in the world. Five times as many Okinawans live to be 100 as in the rest of Japan, and Japanese are already the longest-lived ethnic group globally.[48] As of 2002 there were 34.7 centenarians for every 100,000 inhabitants, which is the highest ratio worldwide.[49]:131–132 Possible explanations are diet, low-stress lifestyle, caring community, activity, and spirituality of the inhabitants of the island.[49]
In recent years, Okinawan literature has been appreciated outside of the Ryūkyū archipelago. Two Okinawan writers have received the Akutagawa Prize: Matayoshi Eiki in 1995 for The Pig's Retribution (豚の報い, Buta no mukui) and Medoruma Shun in 1997 for A Drop of Water (Suiteki). The prize was also won by Okinawans in 1967 by Tatsuhiro Oshiro for Cocktail Party (Kakuteru Pāti) and in 1971 by Mineo Higashi for Okinawan Boy (Okinawa no Shōnen).[50][51]
Karate originated in Okinawa. Over time, it developed into several styles and sub-styles. On Okinawa, the three main styles are considered to be Shorin-Ryu, Gōjū-ryū and Uechi-Ryu. Internationally, the various styles and sub-styles include Matsubayashi Ryu, Wado Ryu, Isshin-Ryu, Shotokan, Shito-Ryu, Shorinjiryu Kenkokan, Shorinjiryu Koshinkai, Shorinji Ryu, and Shuri-ryū.
A traditional Okinawan house
Despite widespread destruction during the war, there are many remains of a unique type of castle or fortress known as gusuku; the most significant are now inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List (Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu).[52] In addition, twenty-one Ryukyuan architectural complexes and thirty-six historic sites have been designated for protection by the national government.[53]
Whereas most homes in Japan are made from wood and allow free-flow of air to combat humidity, typical modern homes in Okinawa are made from concrete with barred windows to protect from flying plant debris and to withstand regular typhoons. Roofs are designed with strong winds in mind, where each tile is cemented on and not merely layered as seen with many homes elsewhere in Japan.
Many roofs also display a statue resembling a lion or dragon, called a shisa, which is said to protect the home from danger. Roofs are typically red in color and are inspired by Chinese design.
The public schools in Okinawa are overseen by the Okinawa Prefectural Board of Education. The agency directly operates several public high schools.[54] The U.S. Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) operates 13 schools total in Okinawa. Seven of these schools are located on Kadena Air Base.
Okinawa has many types of private schools. Some of them are cram schools, also known as juku. Others, such as Nova, solely teach language. People also attend small language schools.
There are 10 colleges/universities in Okinawa, including the University of the Ryukyus, the only national university in the prefecture, and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, a new international research institute. Okinawa's American military bases also host the Asian Division of the University of Maryland University College.
F.C. Ryūkyū (Naha)
Ryukyu Golden Kings (Naha)
Ryukyu Corazon[55] (Naha)
In addition, various baseball teams hold training during the winter in the prefecture as it is the warmest prefecture of Japan with no snow and higher temperatures than other prefectures.
Softbank Hawks
Yokohama BayStars
Yakult Swallows
There are numerous golf courses in the prefecture, and there was formerly a professional tournament called the Okinawa Open.
Aguni Airport
Hateruma Airport
Iejima Airport
New Ishigaki Airport
Kerama Airport
Kita Daito Airport
Kumejima Airport
Minami-Daito Airport
Miyako Airport
Shimojijima Airport
Tarama Airport
Yonaguni Airport
Okinawa Expressway
Naha Airport Expressway
Okinawa Monorail
The major ports of Okinawa include:
Naha Port[56]
Port of Unten[57]
Port of Kinwan[58]
Nakagusukuwan Port[59]
Hirara Port[60]
Port of Ishigaki[61]
The 34 US military installations on Okinawa are financially supported by the U.S. and Japan.[62] The bases provide jobs for Okinawans, both directly and indirectly; In 2011, the U.S. military employed over 9800 Japanese workers in Okinawa.[62] As of 2012 the bases accounted for 4 or 5% of the economy.[63] However, Koji Taira argued in 1997 that because the U.S. bases occupy around 20% of Okinawa's land, they impose a deadweight loss of 15% on the Okinawan economy.[64] The Tokyo government also pays the prefectural government around ¥10 billion per year[62] in compensation for the American presence, including, for instance, rent paid by the Japanese government to the Okinawans on whose land American bases are situated.[65] A 2005 report by the U.S. Forces Japan Okinawa Area Field Office estimated that in 2003 the combined U.S. and Japanese base-related spending contributed $1.9 billion to the local economy.[66]
United States military installations
Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler
Camp Foster
Marine Corps Air Station Futenma
Camp Kinser
Camp Courtney
Camp McTureous
Camp Hansen
Camp Schwab
Camp Gonsalves (Jungle Warfare Training Center)
Kadena Air Base
Camp Lester (Camp Kuwae)[67]
Camp Shields
Naval Facility White Beach
Torii Station
Fort Buckner
Naha Military Port
The Okinawa Convention and Visitors Bureau is exploring the possibility of using facilities on the military bases for large-scale Meetings, incentives, conferencing, exhibitions events.[68]
Chōjun Miyagi founder of Gōjū-ryū, "hard/soft" style of famous Okinawan Karate.
Uechi Kanbun was the founder of Uechi-ryū, one of the primary karate styles of Okinawa.
Mitsuru Ushijima was the Japanese general at the Battle of Okinawa, during the final stages of World War II.
Isamu Chō was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army known for his support of ultranationalist politics and involvement in a number of attempted military and right-wing coup d'états in pre-World War II Japan.
Ota Minoru was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, and the final commander of the Japanese naval forces defending the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa.
Sato Eisaku was a Japanese politician and the 61st, 62nd and 63rd Prime Minister of Japan. While he was premier in 1972, Okinawa was returned to Japan.
Yabu Kentsu was a prominent teacher of Shōrin-ryū karate in Okinawa from the 1910s until the 1930s, and was among the first people to demonstrate karate in Hawaii.
Takuji Iwasaki was a meteorologist, biologist, ethnologist historian.
Matayoshi Eiki Okinawan novel writer, winner of Akutagawa prize
Gackt Japanese pop rock singer-songwriter, actor, author
Namie Amuro Japanese R&B, hip hop and pop singer
Beni Japanese pop and R&B singer
Tamlyn Tomita actress and singer
Rino Nakasone Razalan professional dancer and choreographer.
Yukie Nakama singer, musician and actress
Daichi Miura Japanese pop singer, dancer and choreographer.
Yui Aragaki actress, singer, and model
Hearts Grow Japanese band
Robert Griffin III American football quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner
Dave Roberts, Major League Baseball player
Okinawa Prefectural Assembly
Okinawan Americans
Pechin - Ryukyu (Okinawan) Samurai
People from Okinawa Prefecture
Ryukyuan people
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Betting odds for tonight’s Payback pay-per-view
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There’s no doubt that AJ Styles is WWE World Heavyweight champion material however it doesn’t seem to be happening tonight according to the bookies. Roman Reigns is tipped to keep the title belt at 1/6 while Styles is at a distant 7/2.
The WWE Women’s champion Charlotte is also the favorite to retain the title at 1/3, with Natalya’s odds placed at 9/4. The other title matches see The Miz with 1/2 odds favorite to keep the Intercontinental title over Cesaro at 6/4 and Kalisto also the slight favorite with 4/9 over Ryback at 13/8 for the US title.
In other non-title matches, Ambrose is at 1/7 over Jericho at 4/1, Ziggler is a surprise favorite at 8/13 over Baron Corbin at 6/5, the number one contenders for the Tag Team titles sees Enzo & Cass at 8/11 favorites over The Vaudevillains at 1/1, and Kevin Owens at 8/15 favorite over Sami Zayn at 11/8.
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Several matches have been announced for the upcoming Payback pay-per-view which takes place on May 1 from the Allstate Arena in Chicago, Illinois. Two title matches - in addition to the WWE World Heavyweight title match between Reigns and Styles - were added.…
Bret Hart admits he has no desire to be at Payback
During one of his stops in the United Kingdom, Bret Hart revealed that he has no desire to appear on television at Payback and he’s only doing it because of niece Natalya. “I do it to honor Nattie, I have no desire to be there, no desire to be on TV,” Hart…
Payback 2016 live on the WWE Network and PPV tonight
Live tonight from the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois, WWE presents Payback on the WWE Network and pay-per-view. The full card is as follows: Roman Reigns vs AJ Styles for the WWE World Heavyweight title; The Miz vs Cesaro for the Intercontinental title;…
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What’s Zydeco?
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What is Zydeco?
Back in the early 1600's, French settlers immigrated to Acadia (present-day Nova Scotia, Canada), bringing with them old folk songs of medieval France. In 1755 they were expelled by the British. The Acadian settlers scattered across the world, and many regrouped in Southern Louisiana. Their brutal exile and frontier experience brought themes of death, loneliness, and ill-fated love to their music.
The Spanish governors of early Louisiana offered the Acadians choice land in the prairies of Southwest Louisiana, where most began raising cattle and subsistence crops. As the population of wealthier English-speakers grew, many Acadians retreated into the swamp and marsh areas of the Mississippi River Delta to eke out a living by fishing, logging cypress, and harvesting Spanish Moss (for use in bedding and insulation).
In the 18th century many settled in Louisiana alongside the local Indians, Spanish, French, Anglo-American and African slave peoples living in the area. They became known as Cajuns and their folk music was slowly influenced by the surrounding cultures. Utilising button squeeze-box, fiddle, whistles, triangle, washboard (many of these instruments were home made), and quirky French dialect. Cajun was a unique style of folk music. In the 19th century the German piano accordion was introduced as well as the Spanish guitar and the French Cajun style was also becoming increasingly influenced by black Creole music.
Rhythm n Blues and Soul music were mixed with the style of Cajun in the early 1900s by black Creole musicians and Zydeco was born. There are two instruments vital in creating the modern day zydeco sound: the squeeze-box (accordion) and the frottoir (washboard). Originally, the button accordion was used to play zydeco, but in the late 1940s a man named Clifton Chenier (known today as the grandfather of this music) coined the phrase "zydeco" and strapped on a full sized piano accordion, he sent it into the stratosphere by amplifying the accordion and playing it like a blues guitar out the front of an all electric blues band.
In 1946 Clifton and his brother Cleveland then visited their local metal factory where Clifton with stick in hand proceeded to scratch on the ground the shape of the washboard he wanted the factory worker to bend up for him. Today that instrument goes by many names, rubboard, zipboard or cajun armour are just a few that we have heard but most know it as the Frottoir.
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Woman With Dementia Assaulted While Wearing 'I Have Alzheimer's' Pin
posted by Bill Galluccio - Jul 11, 2019
British authorities are searching for a man who assaulted a 60-year-old woman who has Alzheimer's disease. Joy Watson was enjoying a meal at a roadside cafe when she saw a man allegedly mistreating his dog. Watson approached the man and his wife and told them if they didn't stop, she would call the police.
"I then saw this lady and gentleman. The man had a huge Alsatian. He was having trouble with it as he was pulling and tugging. The man then started kicking it," Watson told the Manchester Evening News. "I asked the lady if she knew him. She said she was his wife. I told her that if he did not stop attacking the dog, I would report him."
They told Watson to mind her own business and continued to put the dog into their car. When Watson informed them that the law required them to have their dog in a restraint, the man punched her in the face.
"He then thumped me, not a push. I think he saw my badge and must have considered me to be a soft touch. I went down and hit my head on the concrete ground. My nose was gushing with blood."
Watson, who was wearing a pin that said "I have Alzheimer’s please be patient" suffered a broken eye socket and bloody nose as a result of the assault. The man and his wife fled in a blue or black sedan. The police are investigating the crime and say the assailant was in his 60s and wearing fawn and brown clothing.
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President Trump threatens mass deportation of millions in country illegally to begin next week
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is threatening to remove millions of people living in the United States illegally ahead of formally announcing his reelection bid .
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement next week will "begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States," Trump said in a pair of tweets Monday night.
"They will be removed as fast as they come in," he wrote.
Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States. They will be removed as fast as they come in. Mexico, using their strong immigration laws, is doing a very good job of stopping people.......
An administration official said the effort would focus on the more than 1 million people who have been issued final deportation orders by federal judges but remain at large in the U.S. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to explain the president's tweets.
Other U.S. officials with knowledge of the preparations have said the operation was not imminent, and that ICE officials were not aware the president would make public sensitive law enforcement plans on Twitter. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
It is unusual for law enforcement agencies to announce raids before they take place. Some in Trump's administration believe that decisive shows of force - like mass arrests - can serve as effective deterrents, sending a message to those considering making the journey to the U.S. that it's not worth coming.
The acting head of ICE Mark Morgan said in an interview with journalists earlier this month that there would be enforcement action coming that would include deporting families, and that it would be done humanely.
Trump has threatened a series of increasingly drastic actions as he has tried to stem the flow of Central American migrants crossing the southern border, which has risen dramatically on his watch. He recently dropped a threat to slap tariffs on Mexico after the country agreed to dispatch its national guard and step-up coordination and enforcement efforts.
A senior Mexican official said Monday that, three weeks ago, about 4,200 migrants were arriving at the U.S. border daily. Now that number has dropped to about 2,600.
Immigration was a central theme of Trump's 2016 campaign and he is expected to hammer it as he tries to fire up his base heading into the 2020 campaign.
Trump will formally launch his re-election bid Tuesday night at a rally in Orlando, Florida - a state that is crucial to his path back to the White House.
Associated Press writers Luis Alonso Lugo and Colleen Long contributed to this report.
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Long Beach exhibit impresses Shatner
LONG BEACH (KABC) Try to forget the sheer size of this convention -- the 50,000 square feet of props and memorabilia. Try to see it through the eyes of an actor, a man in his early 70s who returns to a meticulous recreation of the set that launched his career more than 40 years ago.
"It's a tremendous feeling of nostalgia, and memory of people when they were young," said William Shatner.
No matter what Shatner ever does, he'll always be known best as Captain James T. Kirk, the man in command of the starship Enterprise.
"These little colored pieces of glass, they don't do anything," Shatner says as he fiddles with the controls on the recreation of his captain's chair. "Press it, nothing happens. It's perfect! That's exactly what it didn't do when I first had it."
With time to reflect, Shatner still doesn't have an answer for why a short-lived science fiction series launched five television shows and 10 motion pictures.
"If I had the answer to that, I'd go to Paramount right now and say, 'All right, I'm going to make another Star Trek series.' Nobody knows," said Shatner.
Now there's 'Star Trek The Tour', billed as the largest 'Star Trek' interactive experience ever. It's making its North American debut in Long Beach at the Queen Mary Dome. Organizers spent almost 10 years making this a reality.
"Most of the time we've been working on it, we've been looking at models and pictures and plans and drawings," said John Scher, the tour organizer. "So to see it realized is pretty extraordinary."
As for Shatner, he'll be there to greet fans and talk 'Trek', and maybe shed a little light on why the 'Star Trek' mystique lives on.
"I've had all kinds of strange and interesting characters that go to conventions for their own reasons, not to be caught up in the mystique of 'Star Trek'."
Star Trek The Tour will be at the Queen Mary Dome in Long Beach, California, from Friday, Jan. 18, 2008, to Sunday Feb. 17, 2008. Tickets are on sale at Ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster outlets and the Queen Mary Dome Box Office.
Star Trek The Tour
Adult Tickets are $35 weekend / $30 weekday
Children's Tickets are $17.50 weekend / $16 weekday
Special pricing available for Seniors, Students, and Active Military with ID at Box Office only.
A message from William Shatner
Welcome to Star Trek The Tour. I'm sure you have already discovered, as I have, that this event is truly a unique amalgamation of all the things that made "Star Trek" a phenomenon. My own small contribution to this legendary story has continued to be a source of great pride to me during my career, and although I have been fortunate enough to have many other projects to satisfy the artist in me, I have nevertheless always felt a deep and visceral connection to the show.
But there are reasons why this never-ending story has endured. I have always believed that this special connection to "Star Trek" we all enjoy comes from the positive picture the stories consistently envision. No matter what strange new worlds and new philosophies the crews of the Enterprise face, the solutions they find are always the very best combination of human truth, personal honesty and faith.
I was honored to work with the creator of "Star Trek," Gene Roddenberry, and I am pleased that his legacy continues to grow and evolve. Star Trek The Tour brings us one step closer to the very roots of how this all came to pass. It's a rare chance for us, the fans, to get to know so much more about the process and the many talented men and women that made this all possible. "Star Trek" is now over 40 years old, and to me that's still a kid. Just wait'll you see what happens next.
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Tag: Research Methods and Critics Direction
Research Methods and Critics Direction
Healthcare cost in the US has become an issue of concern among all stakeholders of the healthcare systems. The UnitedState spends more billions on healthcare sector than any other country in the world. In 2008 the expenditure on the health sector was estimated to constitute 30% of the entire government expenditure (Hepburn et al, 2007). Various reasons have been attributed to the rising healthcare cost. The commonly mentioned reasons include; the third party payment system, aging population and increased life expectancy, healthcare technology, large number of uninsured and chronic diseases.The private sector in the US meets 50% of the healthcare expenditure while the government meets 46% of the total expenditure through its various programs (AmericanCollege of Physicians, 2008). These government programs are such as Medicare, Medicaid and Veteran Administration. Out of pocket spending is relatively low in the American healthcare system.
Medical technology is of the highest state in the US (AmericanCollege of Physicians, 2008). The US healthcare sector has invested colossal sums of money in the Research and development of medical and biotechnology technology. Chronic ailments are such as diabetics, cancer, heart problems and high blood pressure among others. The number of people suffering from chronic diseases has been increasing with time. Most of these increases are attributed to change in lifestyles of the American society. Obesity is one ailment that is growing in the list of chronic illness. The healthcare system spends billions of dollars in treating these chronic ailments.Despite these huge spending on healthcare, Americans are not getting better quality healthcare (Jeffery, 2009). The system is costly while the services remain below standard.
For this reason stakeholders in the healthcare industry have been looking for systems that would change this situation. Studies have been conducted and various suggestions have been made on measure that can be used to effectively reduce healthcare cost and raise the quality of services. Increased government role in healthcare, investments in IT that would drive healthcare savings and changing the payment system are some of the commonly mentioned alternatives. Perhaps the most advocated system for curbing increased healthcare cost and low quality healthcare is the performance based healthcare system. There has been push from various stakeholders for the adoption of the pay for performance system of healthcare as panacea to the problems the healthcare system is currently experiencing.
Performance Based Healthcare
Performance based healthcare refers to a healthcare system structure where medical service providers are paid based on performance or outcome rather than processes (Lindenauer et al, 2007). For a long time physicians and healthcare facilities have been paid the same regardless of the quality of healthcare services they provide. The performance based system provides an outcome based measures for healthcare facilities and reimbursement appraisal formulae for health physicians which will determine their pay. Performance based healthcare was viewed as a structure that would see improved effectiveness of healthcare services by focusing on outcomes and rewarding solutions (Afkhami, 2007). This structure of healthcare system targets to fund healthcare projects based on their outcome while ensuring effective utilization of the funds.Performance based healthcare moves away from traditional patterns of controls while budgeting for healthcare to performance measurements and outcome focused patterns. Recent studies have indicated that this new system of healthcare services provision has led to considerable cost containment in healthcare spending. However, there are still some documented challenges that portray some problems in this system of healthcare provision.
Recent Studies on Performance Based Healthcare
Proponents of the performance based healthcare system have argued that this system will bring positive impacts on healthcare in terms of quality and costs. Petersen et al (2006) are some of the proponent of this system of healthcare. Petersen and the group have presented the idea that; introducing financial incentives will make physicians and hospital to improve their service performance. Petersen et al (2006) conducted a study to investigate the impacts this financial incentive would have on the quality and cost aspects of healthcare. In this study, the researchers analyzed previous studies assessing effects of incentives for improved performance on healthcare. Petersen and the group analyzed 17 studies that examined this relationship. These primary sources of data were efficient tools for obtain information to support their argument. However, depending on secondary sources may have introduced some degree of inaccuracy as these sources may have been carrying the writers’ subjected opinions.
The sources also present the situations as at the time the studies were conducted and these situations may have changed at the time Petersen et al were conducting their study. The study by Peterson et al concluded that though there are some negative impacts of introducing incentives in the healthcare system, the positive impacts far outweigh the negative impactsKutzman et al (2011) also conducted a similar study to investigate the impact of incentives on healthcare. The study intended to investigate whether the hospital acquired condition policy would translate to any cost reduction or benefit for the healthcare system. Kutzman et al (2011) conducted 77 semi-structured interviews with hospital leaders, unit nurses in 25 different hospitals. Use of semi-structured interviews was an efficient means to collect data, as it does not limit the subject to fixed and predetermined questions. Use of interview also increased the accuracy of information as the researcher could easily discern whether the respondent is telling the truth due to the direct contact between the researchers and subjects.
Two stage purposive sampling were used to select participants to the study. The first stage was for selecting the hospital establishments where institutional characteristics such as location and size were the deciding criteria. The second stage was used in recruiting subjects who were selected based on their diverse experiences and perspectives. Use of purposive sampling ensured that subjects and establishment with desired characteristics are selected. However, this may have tilted the results as it was the researcher themselves who were deciding on the appropriateness of the participants.Kutzman (2011) study found out that, most subjects felt that the performance based healthcare system had improved operations of healthcare facilities. This is generally in term s of physician’s attitudes and performance, evolution of hospital learning environment and creation of a competitive drive among hospitals. However, nurses expressed concern that the reimbursement system may lead to reduction in the number of nurses when funding to institutions is reduced due to performance as they make up the largest recipient of hospital’s direct funds.
Shifting to the broad concept of Performance based healthcare will in itself alone not automatically translate to reduced cost of healthcare and increased effectiveness and transparency. More specific policies and measures need to be designed and implemented. However, in order to come up with these policies the healthcare system need to analyze its needs and learn from other systems in order to capitalize on their success and avoid their limitations. A study conducted by AmericanCollege of Physicians (ACP) (2008) aimed at developing a policy paper which will provide lessons for the United States healthcare systems. This study examined and described the current situation of the healthcare system in the country. This part of ACP methodology was crucial as by studying the system, ACP was able to understand the system’s strength and weaknesses before embarking on finding ways for improvements.
AmericanCollege of Physicians (2008) then provided a detailed analysis of the healthcare systems of 12 other industrialized countries while providing a comparison with the US system. The last part of ACP methodology was to provide recommendations based on their scrutiny of the healthcare systems of the other countries.The AmericanCollege of physician (2008) utilized secondary sources of data in this study. These source are such as; statistics, previous studies and reports. ACP also made use of the Commonwealth indicator of “high performance” score card that is used to measure performance of different healthcare system in the world.
Secondary sources were the most appropriate and realistic sources to use due to the nature and scope of ACP study which covered 12 countries from different parts of the world. ACP study confirmed that the American healthcare system is the most expensive among the industrialized nations. This is due to the high cost mainly attributed to the payment system, aging baby boomer population and technology. According to the study a minority of the American population generate much of the American healthcare cost. These are the likes of the uninsured and the chronically ill. Lack of a system that would provide coherent measures for taking care of such groups has led to the strain in the American public insurance programs.
The common wealth performance indicator gauges healthcare systems based on 6 categories. These are; Long, healthy and productive lives; quality; access; efficiency; equity; capacity to innovate and improve. Comparison of the United States healthcare performance based on these categories gave the conclusion that the system needs improvements in order to make it effective. Unlike other developed countries, the US system uses more of a volume based payment system rather than an imbursement based system making it less effective. One key lesson provided in this study is that performance measures and active monitoring of performance are key element of healthy healthcare systems. Another limitation of the performance based system in the US that may be contributing to high cost of healthcare is highlighted by Hepburn. According to Hepburn et al (2007) the performance based healthcare system still lacks methodologies for balancing between investment expectations and healthcare performance and accountability goals.
This scenario brings about budgeting challenges as it is difficult to get standard mechanisms for evaluating value and outcome of projects. Public healthcare systems usually differ in terms of structure, management and ways of operation from one jurisdiction to the other. These differences in healthcare systems coupled with the complex nature of performance based healthcare administration has limited the establishment of a common framework for monitoring public health revenue sources and expenditures in various local jurisdiction.Hepburn et al (2007) argues that the public health system lacks concepts, statistics and structures to provide consensus in the ways projects are funded and evaluated in order to ensure efficiency. There need to be structures that will ensure that a link exist between financing and evaluation criteria and more understandable concepts of healthcare such as spreads of diseases and promoting healthy lifestyles. Hepburn et al (2007) conducted a study which aimed at identifying and testing a framework that could provide a basis for performance based budgeting.
Hepburn’s study focused on the state of Georgia public health financial data. This study first involved conducting a review of literature in order to understand approaches commonly used in developing public health budgets. The study also involved holding a focus group with Georgia public health system stakeholders. This focus group was aimed at providing insights into the current budgeting system and to suggest features that would be important in the new structure. Consultations were also held, with the state and national budgeting official, which aimed at getting a better understanding of the challenges of existing budget system and desired objectives for a new budget system.Lack of a common framework for guiding budgeting for health project has various implications among them is failure to identify and reward good performance. Hepburn’s study was geared towards addressing these challenges by providing a clear defined performance budgeting system. This would ensure that; resource allocation meet population needs, efficiency in performance and incorporation of broad category of services.
Besides this, a common framework will also ensure that performance based healthcare is able to curb cost of healthcare as was originally intended. Many stakeholders in the healthcare industry view performance based healthcare as the way forward from the American healthcare system. However, there are few stakeholders who still hold reservations concerning this system of healthcare provision. Some opponent to the performance based healthcare system have argued that the system will widen the gap in terms of healthcare access between the poor and well served while others argue that this system will lead to reduced autonomy of physicians and ethical issues. Larriviere and Bernat (2008) are some of the opponents of the performance based systems. These two have argued that performance based system is negative in a number of ways. One of them is that it reduces the autonomy of physicians. Under the performance based system decision making in healthcare is incentivised.
Larriviere and Bernat (2008) have argued that incentivizing healthcare decision may sacrifice physician autonomy to political and social forces. This system provide motivation for making decision in regard to the alternative that will provide the most incentives rather than the alternative that will translate to improved healthcare. A study conducted by Larriviere and Bernat (2008) indicate that there are physician who have already braced themselves for pay for performance healthcare for personal gains rather for quality improvements. This article presents the fear that a situation may arise where physician will select patients in order to benefit from the incentives thereby having adverse effects on the doctor patient relationship. Another opponent to the performance based healthcare system is Satin (2006). Satin (2006) has argued that this system will make sick people sicker, health facilities in deplorable conditions worse and affect doctor patient relationships. Satin conducted a study in the State of Minnesota to establish how the pay for performance system will affect provision of healthcare.
Satin (2006) used a survey based approach to have citizens provide their feeling about the programs. Satin (2006) did set up an academic healthcare booth in the MinnesotaState fair. Then visitors streaming into the booth were asked to respond to three questions. Satin (2006) choice of methodology was appropriate as holding the academic booth during the fair ensured that the study would receive responds from various backgrounds and locations within the state. Locating the booth in a public place enabled the study to receive a large number of respondents therefore increasing the scope of the study and therefore the accuracy of the representation of his sample. Satin (2006) findings presented various ethic issues concerning the pay for performance healthcare system. These include; widening disparities in terms of healthcare access and quality, reduced doctor-patient relationship and adverse effect on physician conduct as they change their behaviors based on reimbursement.
There are various issues that current researches on performance based healthcare have not covered or have covered sparsely. One of these areas is the development of standard measures for monitoring performance and outcome. As Satin (2006) argues different locations have different needs and experience different circumstances. Therefore, it is difficult to determine a model that will ensure measures for performance do not lead to marginalization of some members of the society but which will also ensure transparency and equity in the way performance is measured.There are also limited studies conducted to examine capacity of healthcare institutions to implement this system. Some hospitals may lack system for providing statistics and data that would be used to measure performance. Studies need to be conducted to suggest ways in which healthcare facilities can fully implement this system. Various negative sentiments have also been expressed against the performance based healthcare system. Satin (2006) has expressed genuine concern about the possibility of the system to propagate unethical behavior among practitioners and to bring more disparity in terms of healthcare access.
Future research should address these concerns and develop measures that would respond to such situations.In summary, performance based healthcare was introduced as means for ensuring healthcare funds are utilized effectively and that the quality of healthcare is improved. Various studies have indicated that this system of healthcare has potential of producing positive impacts on the American healthcare system. However, a few people still have concerns about the negative impacts that this system is likely to have on healthcare. These concerns are genuine and need to be address in order to incorporate every stakeholder into working towards the same vision. There are also a few issues that need to be addressed so that the effectiveness of this system can be improved. Some of these issues include formulating policies to support and regulate the system and also developing a measurement criterion that will ensure fairness and transparency.
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Ancestry of Loyed Ellis Chamberlain of Brockton, Massachusetts
Conspicuous on the roll of the representative lawyers of southeastern Massachusetts appears the name of Loyed Ellis Chamberlain. In no profession is there a career more open to men of talent than in that of the law, and in no field of endeavor is there demanded a more careful preparation, a more perfect appreciation of the absolute ethics of life, or of the underlying principles which form the basis of all human rights and privileges. Unflagging application, intuitive judgment, and a determination to utilize fully the means at hand are the elements which insure personal success and prestige in this
Descendants of Abraham Tappan of Newbury, MA
The Tappan family of Attleboro, while not an old one in this section of the State, has, nevertheless, been resident for half a century in Attleboro, where Ephraim H. Tappan makes his home, and where his sons, Charles H. and William C, the latter now deceased, have been identified with the manufacturing interests of that section, by their great energy, enterprise and progressive spirit making for themselves a name ranking them among the foremost jewelry manufacturers of the State. The Tappan family was planted in America by:
Abraham Toppan (or Tappan), son of William Topham, of Calbridge, in the parish of Coverham, and fourth in descent from Robert Topham, of Linton, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England; he was baptized April 10, 1606. He lived for some time in Yarmouth, County of Norfolk. His wife, whose maiden name was Taylor, was born in 1607, daughter of Elizabeth, who married (second) John Goodale, whom she outlived and from whom she inherited considerable property. Mr. Toppan with his wife, two children and maidservant, in 1637, took passage in the “Mary and Ann” to New England, and there came in the same vessel with them Mrs. Goodale, his mother-in-law. He settled in Newbury, being admitted Oct. 16, 1637, and at different times in the year following several lots were granted to him. He made a number of voyages to Barbadoes, one or more of which were profitable. He died Nov. 5, 1672, aged sixty-six, in the house on “Toppan’s Lane” which he had built about 1670 for his son Jacob. His widow died March 20, 1689, aged eighty-two years. The children of Abraham and Susanna (Taylor) Toppan were:
Lowell Massachusetts Genealogy
Tracing ancestors in Lowell, Massachusetts online and for free has been greatly enhanced by the University of Massachusetts in Lowell which provided digitized version of a large quantity of the Lowell public records. Combined with the cemetery and census records available freely online, you should be able to easily trace your ancestors from the founding of Lowell in 1826 through 1940, the last year of available census records. To add color to the otherwise basic facts of your ancestors existence we provide free access to a wide range of manuscripts on the history of Lowell, it’s manufactures and residents.
Richard Dexter Genealogy, 1642-1904
Being a history of the descendants of Richard Dexter of Malden, Massachusetts, from the notes of John Haven Dexter and original researches. Richard Dexter, who was admitted an inhabitant of Boston (New England), Feb. 28, 1642, came from within ten miles of the town of Slane, Co. Meath, Ireland, and belonged to a branch of that family of Dexter who were descendants of Richard de Excester, the Lord Justice of Ireland. He, with his wife Bridget, and three or more children, fled to England from the great Irish Massacre of the Protestants which commenced Oct. 27, 1641. When Richard Dexter and family left England and by what vessel, we are unable to state, but he could not have remained there long, as we know he was living at Boston prior to Feb. 28, 1642.
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Bushrod W. Hinckley was a lawyer, and for a number of years the only one in town. He was born in Thetford, Vt. He married Sarah F. Wilcox, by whom he had children as follows: Ellen, Francis, Caroline and Hattie. Mr. Hinckley died Dec. 17, 1869; Mrs. Hinckley July 5, 1889.
Contributions of the Old Residents’ Historical Association, Lowell MA
The Lowell Historical Society of Lowell Massachusetts published 6 volumes of “contributions” to the recording of the history of Lowell Massachusetts at the turn of the century. These contributions were continued by the contributions by the Lowell Historical Society. Volume I A Fragment, written in 1843, by Theodore Edson Boott, Kirk, by Theodore Edson Carpet-Weaving and the Lowell Manufacturing Company, by Samuel Fay Dana, Samuel L., Memoir of, by John O. Green Early Recollections of an Old Resident, by Josiah B. French East Chelmsford (now Lowell), Families Living in, in 1802, by Z. E. Stone Green, Benjamin, Biography of, by
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Clough Genealogy of Blue Hill, Maine
The Clough Genealogy of Blue Hill, Maine is a study into the genealogy of two supposed brothers, Asa and Benjamin Clough. Asa Clough was born at Haverhill, Mass., Aug. 25, 1764; died Jan. 2, 1851, in his eighty-seventh year. He married Abigail Pecker, Nov. 27, 1789. She was born at Bradford, Mass., Nov. 27, 1766, and died March 16, 1854, in her eighty-eighth year. They had a family of ten children, as follows: Daniel, Cheever, Sally, John, Asa, Leonard, James, Lydia, Zelotes, and Louisa. Benjamin was born Aug. 15, 1755, married Relief Wyman, March 12, 1788. She was born Sept. 16, 1761, and died March 25, 1819. The date of his death is not recorded. The children of Benjamin, Sr., and Relief (Wyman) Clough were: Moody, Abigail, Hannah, Phebe, Benjamin, Dorias, and Ezra. There was a third brother, John, who travelled from Haverhill Mass. to Blue Hill Maine, however, he is not treated in this genealogy.
Dodge Genealogy of Blue Hill, Maine
Phineas Dodge, head of this family, died at about 80 years of age. He was the son of Elisha and Lydia (Day) Dodge, born Sept. 6, 1813. In his youth he was a sailor, afterwards became a ship carpenter and ended his days as a farmer. The children of Phineas and Harriet Newell (Candage) Dodge were: Justin, Rosina, Adelbert, Clara, mina, Frank, Annah and George.
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Charles Colburn was a sailor in his younger days; he was born in the town of Billerica, Mass., and came to Blue Hill previous to 1829. He married Serena Parker, daughter of Marble and Hannah (Lovejoy) Parker, Oct. 15, 1829. The children of Charles and Serena Colburn were as follows: Hannah, Eliza, Charles and Mary.
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The United Nations refugee agency said it is shocked and saddened at reports that an unknown number of displaced Yemeni civilians have been killed and wounded during an exchange of fire in the strife-torn northern part of the country yesterday.
The victims belong to a group of some 500 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who found shelter in Al Sam camp on the outskirts of Sa’ada city, one of the two remaining camps in the embattled area, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a news release.
Some 150,000 people have been driven from their homes by sporadic fighting between Government forces and Al Houthi rebels in northern Yemen that resumed in mid-August.
According to UNHCR, civilians, including some 35,000 IDPs, in and around the city of Sa’ada remain trapped by the fighting and are unable to reach safer parts of the country.
“They live in dire conditions, facing extreme hardship as food and other commodities are running out and water is available only sporadically,” the agency stated.
The UN has been calling for a ceasefire and the opening of humanitarian corridors in northern Yemen to allow civilians to leave the conflict zone and enable aid workers to deliver much needed assistance to thousands of IDPs.
UNHCR is also calling on Saudi authorities to offer safe shelter and assistance to vulnerable displaced Yemenis who may seek refuge across the border as they flee the heavy fighting.
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MONZA, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 03: Red Bull Racing Team Consultant Dr Helmut Marko talks with McLaren Racing Director Eric Boullier on the grid before the Formula One Grand Prix of Italy at Autodromo di Monza on September 3, 2017 in Monza, Italy. (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images)
McLaren’s partnership with Honda hasn’t exactly yielded positive results in recent years, and the team decided to make a switch to Renault for next season and beyond.
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier said he was concerned before the season that members of his staff would leave after noticing how much the team would struggle for the third straight year with Honda.
“I went to the management, showed them the data and told them that we cannot accept another year like this,” Boullier said via AutoSport.
“We had a tough first year with Honda, we had a tough second year, and had expected progress good enough to get us back to where we belong — but Barcelona showed that we would go backwards and that was absolutely not an option.”
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Honda had made changes to its engine design heading into the 2017 season, but there was still a problem with the oil system. McLaren decided to part ways with Honda, and they will partner with Renault next season.
“I obviously warned them about the consequences of another year of no results, where you keep everybody afloat,” Boullier said.
“We have a new team, which has been reconstructed in the last three years: new people, very good new people — competitive people who used to win – and the danger was we’d lose them.
“The perception of a team is still very much based on drivers, because they are the faces of the team, but for me the real danger was losing those people.”
Fernando Alonso finished the highest of any McLaren Honda driver, and he ended the year 15th in the standings with zero victories.
Boullier is hoping the change to Renault will result in a much better and more competitive season for McLaren for 2017 and beyond.
About the author: Cole Frederick
Cole Frederick is from a small town in Alabama, and he graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in journalism. He loves all sports - especially football and basketball - and quotes The Office frequently.
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In the 15th century, the Age of Discovery began in Europe. The maritime empires of Spain and Portugal led the way by financing naval expeditions across the world’s oceans. Their rediscovery of the New World, the exploration of the West African coast, and their discovery of the ocean route to the East brought great wealth to the two fledgling maritime empires. Coupled with the thirst for exploration was a hunger for gold, so when local legends spoke of Cibola, the seven cities of gold, this would inevitably spur adventurous conquistadors to launch expeditions in search of the elusive cities.
The legend of Cibola, the Seven Cities of Gold, may have had its origins in an earlier legend concerning the fate of Don Rodrigo of Spain when he lost his kingdom to the Muslims in the 8th century A.D. It is said that the king took seven bishops as well as a number of people and sailed to an island called Antilia. On that island, each bishop built a city, whilst the ships and navigational instruments were burnt to prevent the people from returning to Spain.
Map of North America published by Henry Chatelain for the 1720 edition of his seminal Atlas Historique. It includes references to Quivra (Quivira) just west of the Mississippi, and Cibola in New Mexico. Both Quivira and Cibola are among the “Seven Cities of Gold” sought after by early Spanish explorers in the North America. (Wikimedia Commons)
The legend was revived in the 1530s, when four survivors of the ill-fated Narváez expedition managed to return to New Spain. This expedition, which began in 1527, was aimed at the colonization of Florida. In 1528, whilst attempting to sail from Mexico to Florida, the crew was shipwrecked on the coast of Texas. The men who survived were captured by the indigenous people. After four years in captivity, the men managed to escape, and for the next four years wandered across what is today the southern United States. When they finally encountered Spanish soldiers at Sinaloa in modern day Mexico, only four men were left, out of an initial force of 600. Through their years of wandering, the men encountered numerous indigenous tribes, and one of the legends they heard was about seven cities laden with gold, said to be located somewhere in the Sonoran Desert.
According to legend, the seven cities of gold could be found in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona. Photo source: BigStockPhoto
In 1539, the Viceroy of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza, sent one of the survivors, a North African slave named Esteban de Dorantes, and a Franciscan priest, Marcos de Niza, on an expedition to find the Seven Cities. During this expedition, Esteban was reportedly murdered by the Zunis he encountered, whilst Marcos managed to return to Mexico City, where he reported that he saw one of the cities of Cibola from a distance. He did not enter the city, however, as he was afraid that he would suffer the same fate as Esteban.
A painting by Frederic Remington of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado and his army on the march to find Cibola. (Wikimedia Commons)
Believing the priest’s story, the Viceroy decided to commission a larger expedition in the following year, this time under the leadership of the conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado. Hence, in February 1940, Coronado led 350 Spanish soldiers and between 900 and 1300 indigenous allies north in search of the Seven Cities. This expedition, which lasted about two years, was an utter failure. Instead of finding great cities with walls made of gold, Coronado and his men only found modest indigenous villages with walls of adobe mud. As a result, many men, including Coronado himself, became bankrupt when the expedition returned to Mexico City empty handed.
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CAMPSITE / CAR PARK / QUEUES and LED ZEPPELIN’S UK SWANSONG…
July 30, 2018 July 30, 2018 by adamhalevi777, posted in Adam Green, Earls Court May 1975, Knebworth 1979, Led Zeppelin, Rock / Pop Festivals, Rock Music, Uncategorized
A major part of the allure and enduring reputation of the British rock band Led Zeppelin was down to a carefully crafted blanket of privacy and secrecy woven by guitarist Jimmy Page and manager, Peter Grant. Unlike most of their rival bands who used publicity and commercialism to boost their image and their album sales, Page and Grant masterfully strode a counter-intuitive path of obfuscation and opacity in both their dealings with the media, and with the recording company that released their music. And in so doing they succeeded in enhancing the undoubted brilliance of the band’s music with an air of mystique and mystery.
For those too stoned to recall where they were?
Accordingly, the facts and statistics concerning their appearance at Knebworth in the summer of 1979 are hard to pin down. The main dispute was over how many people attended the two concerts? According to official ticket sales around 120,000 turned up for each concert, but unofficial estimates were virtually double that figure stating more than 400,000 people saw the two gigs (over 180,000 the first night and around 220,000 the second).
Japanese were well represented…
All I can say, as one of the bonafide possessors of a ticket for the second concert, was that I witnessed a constant stream of fans breaching the perimeter hedges and boundaries of the Knebworth site throughout the day and then again scaling the fence that contained the concert area itself. The exact figures, like so much else to do with Led Zeppelin became yet another element of the band’s mythology.
My old pal Simon and a sustaining can of Newkie Brown…
What was not mythological however was the fact that Led Zeppelin’s Knebworth appearance turned out to be their final concerts in the UK. Within weeks of the gigs John Bonham, the band’s irreplaceable drummer was dead, signaling the end of one of the most influential ten years of music making of the 20th century.
A fabulous array of old Fords, Hillmans and Vauxhalls …
My own infatuation with Led Zeppelin had begun four years earlier when my brother took me (then, a particularly callow 15-year-old) to see the band at Earls Court. It was my first rock concert of any kind and it proved to be the proverbial life altering event.
Beyond the hordes and note the “Zofo” (Jimmy Page’s rune) painted on the oak tree…
I’ll never forget, when, about six songs into the concert (it took me three or four songs merely to come to terms with the shock of the volume and the novelty of the spectacle) they broke into Trampled Underfoot and for the first time in my life I experienced something which I guess was close to religious ecstasy. Then when this was followed by In My Time of Dying – and somewhat ironically given the theme of the song – I underwent something akin to a spiritual rebirth. My life had changed for ever.
This queue was for programs – I think?
As it happened, Earls Court more or less coincided with my atheist “awakening” and Messrs Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham proved a more than adequate substitution for my previous notions of deity. Not that I ever worshiped them, but they certainly provided me with an often powerful, sometimes lyrical outlet for my youthful passions and sensitivities. My feelings for Page and Plant in particular was a kind of love or adoration which only faded when I began dating girls a year or two later.
Members of our group, including dear old – and since sadly departed – Mick “the Head”, with his famous cap. In his other existence he was a highly skilled engineer working at the Rolls Royce aero-engine plant. I never did find out how he acquired his nick-name, but it had something to do with his time in India…
But, if my adoration of the band members had faded by the time of the Knebworth event, if anything, my appreciation of their music had grown. My only problem was, I hated Knebworth itself; the sights, the sounds, the eternal queuing for absolutely everything, the incredible array of smells (I’ll never forget the peculiar blend of marijuana and faeces that permeated around the latrines) created by so many people in such close proximity.
I don’t think they sold a single piece of fruit the entire day. The burger vans on the other hand…
Basically, I found the entire experience to be overwhelming, from the initial period of weird car-park camping, to the concert itself, which I was too weary, too distant from the stage and probably too sober to truly enjoy.
A group of ticketless fans can be seen about to climb the fence at the right of this picture…
Whereas Earls Court had been intense, personal and a strangely intimate sensation (given I was sharing the space with 20,000 others), Knebworth seemed intangible and dreamlike from the start. My one consolation remains that I was one of the privileged people to witness the final act on home soil of the world’s greatest rock band. Whether or not I was one 120,000 or 220,000 remains a mystery…
Not exactly glamping…
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Terence Chong
Terence Chong is a student ambassador of Adam Smith Center, and a current undergraduate at Yale-NUS College.
The concept of the Other
The concept of the “Other” has existed since the very dawn of human civilisation. Although the specific semantics can vary widely, the concept always involves a sense of exclusion of a group due to a perception of difference in identities, however that “identity” is defined. This divisive concept serves to divide people into two camps: one that embodies the norms of the valued identity, and one that is defined by their differences from the said identity, and is thus susceptible to exclusion and discrimination.
I shall use a historical example to illustrate this concept. During the Colonial age, many European colonisers sought to portray the colonised as barbarians, or savages. A good example would be the Spanish colonisation of the Latin Americas. In order to justify their exploitation of local natives, the Spaniards declared that it was a holy mission of theirs to spread Catholicism amongst the natives. We can see how the “Othering” works here.
In order to instil a positive public perception of their conquests, the Spanish elites pushed the idea that the people they were colonising were different from them in terms of culture, language and religion. It was because these “savages” spoke a range of guttural languages totally foreign to Spanish ears. It was because these “savages” did not wear the supposedly civilised clothing that the Spaniard wore. Therefore, the Spaniards believed all the exploitation that they carried out was all for the sake of “educating” these uncultured natives by teaching them to dress, speak and pray like them.
How politicians divide people for their own political goals
The concept of the “Other” has always been used by political leaders and elites to manipulate the masses, and engender certain opinions and perceptions that they desire people possess. It is used by many as a call of unifying support by appealing to a common identity, or ignite a common hatred and disdain. I argue that it is a potentially dangerous concept that is the antithesis of a fair and just society. It distorts reality for a large number of people, directing unhealthy emotions towards imaginary solutions.
Let me give another concrete example here.
Ever since the successful communist takeover of Cuba in 1959, the dictator Fidel Castro has held the reins of power alongside his brother Raúl, supported by their massive party apparatus. Their stranglehold over the country has led to vast economic stagnation for decades. However, in order to distract the populace and consolidate his grip on power, Castro conjured an image of an enemy that the country faced: America.
America was the “Other” to Castro and Cuba. It was the foreign imperialist enemy. He blamed the problems the country faced on America’s embargo, riling the populace’s hatred for this foreign enemy, when in reality much of the fault lies in the communist’s failed policies. To be sure, America’s embargo did contribute to the woes Cuba faced for the last few decades. It most certainly did in more ways than one.
However, that does not mean that the Castros are absolved of all blame for leading the island nation to ruin. In fact, by uniting the Cuban people against a common enemy, Fidel Castro was able to stay in power with high levels of public support not commonly held for dictators. He managed to outlast many of his Cold War counterparts, becoming the last one standing as a relic of a bygone era even after the ushering in of the 21st century.
How the concept of the “Other” plays out
Now that we understand the power of the concept of the “Other”, we have to be aware of its destabilising presence today. Unfortunately, the concept did not die with the coming of modernisation and globalisation. Of course, we still see many similar narratives resurging in a new wave across the developed countries as discontent resulting from the influx of immigrants grow. We see this in Europe, where far-right parties like Alternative for Germany and Five Star Movement gained a newfound voice amongst the disenfranchised in recent years.
However, I posit that there are other popular forms being touted, that can be perceived as different from traditional narratives of the “Other”. We see this in America today, where party lines are as divided as they have ever been (For more on this, see Justin Amash’s recent defection from the GOP). A cursory glance at various American media outlets that have different political leanings will leave neutral readers with a sense of confusion.
Just by reading news articles by CNN and Fox side by side, we can see how the media portrays the same events in totally different manners. It’s not exactly a relevation that media outlets have their own specific agendas. Media, in whatever form, has always sought to engender certain opinions in their readers since the invention of print. But what is new in this age is the undeniable reach of the media for any average person. In a society so interconnected, it can be jarring to see a society still so divided amongst arbitrary lines of “identities”.
Immigrants. China. The 1%. Inequality. In short, the oppressors against the oppressed. And the list goes on.
For better or for worse, these are examples of terms and concepts arising from the act of “Othering”. I believe that it is impossible to prevent this wave, seeing that it appeals to the fundamental sense of community and belonging the human nature craves. The “Other” has not waned in civilisation’s thousands of years of existence, and it probably will not die off anytime soon.
However, it is still important for us to be very conscious of this concept and try to free our minds from its unyielding shackles. At the very least, we can then try to reconstruct a fresh perception of the world around us, and hopefully pursue the things that really matter to us.
The “Other” has not died. It is seeing its resurgence in this new digital age. But it is up to our individual selves to be aware of its influence over our lives and transcend it.
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10 Best Things to Do with Kids at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
It boasts some of the biggest thrills that Walt Disney World has to offer, and it’s currently under a lot of construction as they get set to open Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. But we’re going to tell you why you shouldn’t skip it, especially if you have little kids.
Here’s our 10 Best Things to Do with kids at Disney’s Hollywood Studios!
I know we’re all kids at heart, especially while at Disney, but for this list, we’re going to concentrate on the little ones. So nearly everything we mention here is going to be accessible to all kids ages.
1. Toy Story Land
Toy Story Land is Awesome! The only complaint I have is that there isn’t more of it. But each of the three attractions is one we could do over and over, and just walking around the land makes you feel like you are the size of a toy!
Toy Story Mania
Even if your kids are too small to do it on their own, they can have a blast helping mom and dad try to score high on the carnival-style 3D games.
Slinky Dog Dash
Even if you aren’t a roller coaster person, we think you’ll love Slinky Dog Dash. The family-friendly coaster’s height requirement is only 38″, which means a lot of 4-year-olds and even some 3-year-olds are tall enough to ride!
Alien Swirling Saucers
We weren’t sure what to make of Alien Swirling Saucers when we first heard about it. But we all loved it once we got on! And while there is a height requirement, it’s only 32″.
Many guests will hit Toy Story Land first thing in the morning, but we also recommend you go back at night!
2. Disney Junior
Kids love Disney Junior, and Disney’s Hollywood Studios is the only park in Walt Disney World that features characters from Disney Jr. shows.
Meet Vampirina, Doc McStuffins, and Fancy Nancy
If your kids are fans of these popular Disney Junior characters, then Disney’s Hollywood Studios is the place to be!
Play N Dine at Hollywood and Vine
Back when our kids were really into the Disney Junior shows and characters, the Play N Dine breakfast quickly became one of our favorite character meals.
Now, the characters are new, and we’re not sure if they do the same songs and dances for the kids that they used to. But, it’s still a great way to meet Vampirina, Doc McStuffins, Sofia the First, and Goofy in his Roadster Racer outfit.
Disney Junior Dance Party!
Another “must do” for Disney Junior fans is the Disney Junior Dance Party! Kids can get their groove on during this interactive show that features appearances from Vampirina, Doc McStuffins, Timon, and Mickey Mouse in his Roadster Racer outfit!
3. Character Meet n’ Greets
It may take some time for your little one to warm up to larger than life characters, especially on a first visit. But once your child gets over their hesitance, you may find you have trouble pulling them away from their favorites. Disney’s Hollywood Studios is great for character meets because there are many here you can’t meet at the other parks.
Here are some of the characters you can only meet at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Green Army Men
Cruz Ramirez
4. Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple
Once only available during Star Wars Weekends, the Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple is now open all year round, training a whole new generation in the ways of the force! Space is very limited and fills up quickly each morning. So be sure to get there early to sign up your young padawans for their chance to battle the sinister Darth Vader or another Star Wars villain!
This is the only experience on our list with an age requirement. The Jedi Training Academy is officially only open to children ages 4-12. They don’t ask for a birth certificate, but they do need to speak to your child when you register to make sure they can answer questions and follow directions. I’m sure a few advanced 3-year-olds and young-looking thirteen-year-olds have wielded lightsabers at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
Their training takes place for all to see, with a special section reserved for parents. PhotoPass photographers are on hand to capture these magical moments, and each child is presented with a certificate upon completion of their training.
Shows are subject to cancellation due to inclement weather. I advise checking the hourly forecast when signing up.
5. MuppetVision 3D
Who doesn’t love the Muppets? Until the new movies came out, our kids only knew the muppets from Walt Disney World, but they still enjoyed what I consider to be the best of all the 3D movies that Disney offers.
There’s just something I love when I see not just my kids, but all the kids in the theater reaching up and trying to touch the 3D objects. The wacky effects and sight gags will have your laughing the whole time. There’s even some classic Muppet humor for the adults too!
6. Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy
KA-CHOW! Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy debuted March 31, 2019, at Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Matt Stroshane, Photographer)
This new show experience invites guests into the world of “Cars” as they become rookie racers and learn the rules of the road from Lightning McQueen, himself.
The experience also has a Cruz Ramirez Meet and Greet located just outside. And there is a Dance Party with DJ held throughout the day.
7. Frozen Sing A Long
Despite many parents’ secret wishes, “Frozen” is still quite popular. While the Frozen Ever After ride can be found in Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios has “For the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration”. It’s like seeing only the song parts of the movie, with live actors filling in the gaps. It’s not as painful as it sounds. I actually enjoyed it, and more importantly, so did the kids.
8. Voyage of the Little Mermaid
What I love about this version of the Little Mermaid is how it combines the live Ariel with the very colorful puppet sea creatures, the animated background, and the little “4D” touches that make you feel more a part of the story. Kids love it because it is so colorful and they know the story and the music.
It’s long enough to offer a good escape from the Florida heat and humidity, but short enough for the kids to sit through it.
9. Beauty and the Beast
With all the great music and characters of the film, this broadway-style stage show is a delight to watch. The theater is outdoors, so there’s no air conditioning, only a canopy to provide shade. But once the show starts you’ll forget all about the heat and be swept up in the magic of Beauty and the Beast! It’s something for the whole family to enjoy!
Arrive early and your child might be picked to play a special part in the show. It’s one of those special “pixie dust” experiences Disney is famous for.
10. Fantasmic! and Fireworks!
Disney’s Hollywood Studios has not one, but two nighttime spectaculars on most days. Provided the kids are not tuckered out and asleep, it’s a great way to end the night.
Fantasmic!
Disney’s Hollywood Studios’ nighttime spectacular Fantasmic! is a must-see. The wait can be tough to endure, since you have to arrive early to get good seats. But if you can handle the wait (bring snacks, light-up toys to keep kids occupied), you’re rewarded with a great show combining live-action with pyrotechnics and water-projections! The grand finale is awesome!!
Wonderful World of Animation
Photo: Disney (David Roark, photographer)
The new “Wonderful World of Animation” show is a nighttime projection show debuting on May 1, 2019. This new experience uses state-of-the-art, projection-mapping technology to take guests on a magical journey through more than 90 years of Disney animation.
Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular
Photo: Disney
This relatively new display combines music, projections, and fireworks with the story of Star Wars to create a thrilling spectacle. While I would normally advise possibly watching the fireworks from a distance, the projections need to be seen up close. If the kids are bothered by loud noises, consider bringing noise-canceling headphones.
So there you have it, our 10 Best Things for Kids at Disney’s Hollywood Studios… for now! We’re eager to see how the openings of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and “Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway” are going to affect this list.
In the meantime, did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments!!
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Deb @ Focused on the Magic says
Thanks! Muppets 3D is still one of my favorite shows and the meet and greets are fantastic!
Donna Kay Anderson says
I can't wait to take Lexi to see all of the Disney Junior activities!! She loves it all.
What a great list! With the exception of the Disney Jr. stuff, we love all these things (never really got into that since we don't have tv).
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TERRY MULCAHY
A passionate supporter of Picnic Racing and the Balnarring community Terry has served on the committee for nigh on 15 years. He has been successful in applying for and winning a number of grants which have improved the facilities at the course for both members and the public alike. Continuing to improve the facilities and make the race day a family friendly experience is Terry’s main focus.
MICHAEL BINNEY
Michael is a stalwart of the Club, a member since 1994, long serving Committee Member and Life Member. A licensed horse trainer, with a great love of horses, he has a vast knowledge of equine affairs. Practical skills gained during his work career are invaluable in maintaining course facilities. With Dave Cave he has assumed responsibility for the preparation of the track for our meetings resulting in great surfaces over the past two seasons. His wife Margaret also provides great support to the Club on race days.
GRAHAM SHERRY
Graham is a practising solicitor and for 28 years was a partner in global law firm Baker & McKenzie. He is currently a director of Vision Super Pty Ltd, Chair of the Western Bulldogs Ethics & Integrity Committee and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation. Previously Graham was a Director of the Western Bulldogs Football Club, the VFL, AFL Appeals Board and Disciplinary Tribunal and Chair of Ames Australia. He continues to hold interests in a number of horse racing syndicates and is a member of the Victoria Racing Club, MCC, Western Bulldogs Football Club, Red Hill Football & Netball Club and National Golf Club. Graham has been a Committee member of the Balnarring Picnic Racing Club since 2012.
PETER SPYKER
A Life Member, Peter has been a member since 1989 and is currently in his seventeenth season as Club President. Over sixteen seasons Peter worked closely with long time Secretary, Neil Heathcote, and Committee members to oversee the development of the Club and its facilities to the entity that is enjoyed today to those enjoyed today by members and patrons. Achieving today’s ambience and facilities has necessitated significant change and development overseen by Peter and are a credit to his efforts over a long period.
LESLEY JONES
KEVIN LEHMANN
Kevin was appointed as Treasurer in July 2016, following 3 years on the Committee & 10 years as a member of the Club. Kevin had accounting & secretarial qualifications (which lapsed on his retirement) & worked in a variety of senior financial roles in the motor vehicle,hospitality & tourism industries. He is a keen race goer & has lived on & visited the Mornington Penninsula for a considerable time before retiring to Dromama 7 years ago.
JOHN ARCHIBALD
DAVE CAVE
A licensed horse trainer and electrician Dave brings a great skill set to the Club. A member since 2001 he has applied his skills for the benefit of the Club. Working closely with Michael Binney he has worked hard to ensure that the course has been in great condition for racing over the past two seasons. Since joining the Committee his involvement in the racing industry has enabled him to provide the Club with feedback that enables it to improve facilities and address concerns raised by other licensed stakeholders.
Recently joining the committee, Stephen completed all of his schooling on the Mornington Peninsula before moving away. In 2016 he moved back to the area with his young family. He believes that his experience and skills gained from being a registered builder running a family construction business and having been involved in racing stables as a stable hand and owner will enable him to contribute towards the continued long term success of the club in the future.
TATE HOPKINSON
Tate is relatively new to the Mornington Peninsula community and is keen to support the club bringing her marketing background to the mix. Tate is a keen race goers and through the family’s breeding business she’s developed a passion for horse racing.
TROY MCCALLUM
BOB WHELAN
Bob is very well known by the racing community on the Mornington Peninsula through his involvement as an employee of the Melbourne Racing Club and with our Committee since 2003. Keenly interested in racing he is a fixture in the mounting yard on race days coordinating the issue of saddlecloths and ensuring that all is organised as riders and other connections prepare for races. His knowledge and experience in performing these tasks and other jobs at working bees in preparation for race meetings are of great assistance to the Club
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Federalist No. 37: Concerning the Difficulties of the Convention in Devising a Proper Form of Government.
From the Daily Advertiser. Friday, January 11, 1788.
To the People of the State of New York:
IN REVIEWING the defects of the existing Confederation, and showing that they cannot be supplied by a government of less energy than that before the public, several of the most important principles of the latter fell of course under consideration. But as the ultimate object of these papers is to determine clearly and fully the merits of this Constitution, and the expediency of adopting it, our plan cannot be complete without taking a more critical and thorough survey of the work of the convention, without examining it on all its sides, comparing it in all its parts, and calculating its probable effects. That this remaining task may be executed under impressions conducive to a just and fair result, some reflections must in this place be indulged, which candor previously suggests.
It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just estimate of their real tendency to advance or obstruct the public good; and that this spirit is more apt to be diminished than promoted, by those occasions which require an unusual exercise of it. To those who have been led by experience to attend to this consideration, it could not appear surprising, that the act of the convention, which recommends so many important changes and innovations, which may be viewed in so many lights and relations, and which touches the springs of so many passions and interests, should find or excite dispositions unfriendly, both on one side and on the other, to a fair discussion and accurate judgment of its merits. In some, it has been too evident from their own publications, that they have scanned the proposed Constitution, not only with a predisposition to censure, but with a predetermination to condemn; as the language held by others betrays an opposite predetermination or bias, which must render their opinions also of little moment in the question. In placing, however, these different characters on a level, with respect to the weight of their opinions, I wish not to insinuate that there may not be a material difference in the purity of their intentions. It is but just to remark in favor of the latter description, that as our situation is universally admitted to be peculiarly critical, and to require indispensably that something should be done for our relief, the predetermined patron of what has been actually done may have taken his bias from the weight of these considerations, as well as from considerations of a sinister nature. The predetermined adversary, on the other hand, can have been governed by no venial motive whatever. The intentions of the first may be upright, as they may on the contrary be culpable. The views of the last cannot be upright, and must be culpable. But the truth is, that these papers are not addressed to persons falling under either of these characters. They solicit the attention of those only, who add to a sincere zeal for the happiness of their country, a temper favorable to a just estimate of the means of promoting it.
Persons of this character will proceed to an examination of the plan submitted by the convention, not only without a disposition to find or to magnify faults; but will see the propriety of reflecting, that a faultless plan was not to be expected. Nor will they barely make allowances for the errors which may be chargeable on the fallibility to which the convention, as a body of men, were liable; but will keep in mind, that they themselves also are but men, and ought not to assume an infallibility in rejudging the fallible opinions of others.
With equal readiness will it be perceived, that besides these inducements to candor, many allowances ought to be made for the difficulties inherent in the very nature of the undertaking referred to the convention.
The novelty of the undertaking immediately strikes us. It has been shown in the course of these papers, that the existing Confederation is founded on principles which are fallacious; that we must consequently change this first foundation, and with it the superstructure resting upon it. It has been shown, that the other confederacies which could be consulted as precedents have been vitiated by the same erroneous principles, and can therefore furnish no other light than that of beacons, which give warning of the course to be shunned, without pointing out that which ought to be pursued. The most that the convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as well as of our own; and to provide a convenient mode of rectifying their own errors, as future experiences may unfold them.
Among the difficulties encountered by the convention, a very important one must have lain in combining the requisite stability and energy in government, with the inviolable attention due to liberty and to the republican form. Without substantially accomplishing this part of their undertaking, they would have very imperfectly fulfilled the object of their appointment, or the expectation of the public; yet that it could not be easily accomplished, will be denied by no one who is unwilling to betray his ignorance of the subject. Energy in government is essential to that security against external and internal danger, and to that prompt and salutary execution of the laws which enter into the very definition of good government. Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society. An irregular and mutable legislation is not more an evil in itself than it is odious to the people; and it may be pronounced with assurance that the people of this country, enlightened as they are with regard to the nature, and interested, as the great body of them are, in the effects of good government, will never be satisfied till some remedy be applied to the vicissitudes and uncertainties which characterize the State administrations. On comparing, however, these valuable ingredients with the vital principles of liberty, we must perceive at once the difficulty of mingling them together in their due proportions. The genius of republican liberty seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people, but that those intrusted with it should be kept in independence on the people, by a short duration of their appointments; and that even during this short period the trust should be placed not in a few, but a number of hands. Stability, on the contrary, requires that the hands in which power is lodged should continue for a length of time the same. A frequent change of men will result from a frequent return of elections; and a frequent change of measures from a frequent change of men: whilst energy in government requires not only a certain duration of power, but the execution of it by a single hand.
How far the convention may have succeeded in this part of their work, will better appear on a more accurate view of it. From the cursory view here taken, it must clearly appear to have been an arduous part.
Not less arduous must have been the task of marking the proper line of partition between the authority of the general and that of the State governments. Every man will be sensible of this difficulty, in proportion as he has been accustomed to contemplate and discriminate objects extensive and complicated in their nature. The faculties of the mind itself have never yet been distinguished and defined, with satisfactory precision, by all the efforts of the most acute and metaphysical philosophers. Sense, perception, judgment, desire, volition, memory, imagination, are found to be separated by such delicate shades and minute gradations that their boundaries have eluded the most subtle investigations, and remain a pregnant source of ingenious disquisition and controversy. The boundaries between the great kingdom of nature, and, still more, between the various provinces, and lesser portions, into which they are subdivided, afford another illustration of the same important truth. The most sagacious and laborious naturalists have never yet succeeded in tracing with certainty the line which separates the district of vegetable life from the neighboring region of unorganized matter, or which marks the termination of the former and the commencement of the animal empire. A still greater obscurity lies in the distinctive characters by which the objects in each of these great departments of nature have been arranged and assorted.
When we pass from the works of nature, in which all the delineations are perfectly accurate, and appear to be otherwise only from the imperfection of the eye which surveys them, to the institutions of man, in which the obscurity arises as well from the object itself as from the organ by which it is contemplated, we must perceive the necessity of moderating still further our expectations and hopes from the efforts of human sagacity. Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three great provinces the legislative, executive, and judiciary; or even the privileges and powers of the different legislative branches. Questions daily occur in the course of practice, which prove the obscurity which reins in these subjects, and which puzzle the greatest adepts in political science.
The experience of ages, with the continued and combined labors of the most enlightened legislatures and jurists, has been equally unsuccessful in delineating the several objects and limits of different codes of laws and different tribunals of justice. The precise extent of the common law, and the statute law, the maritime law, the ecclesiastical law, the law of corporations, and other local laws and customs, remains still to be clearly and finally established in Great Britain, where accuracy in such subjects has been more industriously pursued than in any other part of the world. The jurisdiction of her several courts, general and local, of law, of equity, of admiralty, etc., is not less a source of frequent and intricate discussions, sufficiently denoting the indeterminate limits by which they are respectively circumscribed. All new laws, though penned with the greatest technical skill, and passed on the fullest and most mature deliberation, are considered as more or less obscure and equivocal, until their meaning be liquidated and ascertained by a series of particular discussions and adjudications. Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions of men are conveyed to each other adds a fresh embarrassment. The use of words is to express ideas. Perspicuity, therefore, requires not only that the ideas should be distinctly formed, but that they should be expressed by words distinctly and exclusively appropriate to them. But no language is so copious as to supply words and phrases for every complex idea, or so correct as not to include many equivocally denoting different ideas. Hence it must happen that however accurately objects may be discriminated in themselves, and however accurately the discrimination may be considered, the definition of them may be rendered inaccurate by the inaccuracy of the terms in which it is delivered. And this unavoidable inaccuracy must be greater or less, according to the complexity and novelty of the objects defined. When the Almighty himself condescends to address mankind in their own language, his meaning, luminous as it must be, is rendered dim and doubtful by the cloudy medium through which it is communicated.
Here, then, are three sources of vague and incorrect definitions: indistinctness of the object, imperfection of the organ of conception, inadequateness of the vehicle of ideas. Any one of these must produce a certain degree of obscurity. The convention, in delineating the boundary between the federal and State jurisdictions, must have experienced the full effect of them all.
To the difficulties already mentioned may be added the interfering pretensions of the larger and smaller States. We cannot err in supposing that the former would contend for a participation in the government, fully proportioned to their superior wealth and importance; and that the latter would not be less tenacious of the equality at present enjoyed by them. We may well suppose that neither side would entirely yield to the other, and consequently that the struggle could be terminated only by compromise. It is extremely probable, also, that after the ratio of representation had been adjusted, this very compromise must have produced a fresh struggle between the same parties, to give such a turn to the organization of the government, and to the distribution of its powers, as would increase the importance of the branches, in forming which they had respectively obtained the greatest share of influence. There are features in the Constitution which warrant each of these suppositions; and as far as either of them is well founded, it shows that the convention must have been compelled to sacrifice theoretical propriety to the force of extraneous considerations.
Nor could it have been the large and small States only, which would marshal themselves in opposition to each other on various points. Other combinations, resulting from a difference of local position and policy, must have created additional difficulties. As every State may be divided into different districts, and its citizens into different classes, which give birth to contending interests and local jealousies, so the different parts of the United States are distinguished from each other by a variety of circumstances, which produce a like effect on a larger scale. And although this variety of interests, for reasons sufficiently explained in a former paper, may have a salutary influence on the administration of the government when formed, yet every one must be sensible of the contrary influence, which must have been experienced in the task of forming it.
Would it be wonderful if, under the pressure of all these difficulties, the convention should have been forced into some deviations from that artificial structure and regular symmetry which an abstract view of the subject might lead an ingenious theorist to bestow on a Constitution planned in his closet or in his imagination? The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted, and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as it must have been unexpected. It is impossible for any man of candor to reflect on this circumstance without partaking of the astonishment. It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.
We had occasion, in a former paper, to take notice of the repeated trials which have been unsuccessfully made in the United Netherlands for reforming the baneful and notorious vices of their constitution. The history of almost all the great councils and consultations held among mankind for reconciling their discordant opinions, assuaging their mutual jealousies, and adjusting their respective interests, is a history of factions, contentions, and disappointments, and may be classed among the most dark and degraded pictures which display the infirmities and depravities of the human character. If, in a few scattered instances, a brighter aspect is presented, they serve only as exceptions to admonish us of the general truth; and by their lustre to darken the gloom of the adverse prospect to which they are contrasted. In revolving the causes from which these exceptions result, and applying them to the particular instances before us, we are necessarily led to two important conclusions. The first is, that the convention must have enjoyed, in a very singular degree, an exemption from the pestilential influence of party animosities the disease most incident to deliberative bodies, and most apt to contaminate their proceedings. The second conclusion is that all the deputations composing the convention were satisfactorily accommodated by the final act, or were induced to accede to it by a deep conviction of the necessity of sacrificing private opinions and partial interests to the public good, and by a despair of seeing this necessity diminished by delays or by new experiments.
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Colorado enacts ‘red flag’ law to seize guns from those deemed dangerous, prompting backlash
Gabriel Vance
Colorado became the 15th state on Friday to adopt a “red flag” gun law, allowing firearms to be seized from people determined to pose a danger — just weeks after dozens of county sheriffs had vowed not to enforce the law, with some local leaders establishing what they called Second Amendment “sanctuary counties.”
The law didn’t receive a single Republican vote in the state legislature, and has led to renewed efforts from gun-rights activists to recall Democrats who supported the measure. In a fiery and lengthy statement on Facebook on Friday, Eagle County, Colo., Sheriff James van Beek slammed the law as a well-intentioned but “ludicrous” throwback to the 2002 film “Minority Report,” and outlined a slew of objections from law enforcement.
Van Beek charged that the law treats accused gun owners like “criminals,” discourages individuals from seeking mental health treatment, and ignores the reality that “a disturbed mind will not be deterred by the removal of their guns.”
Noting that cities with strict gun laws still experience high murder rates, van Beek asserted: “By removing guns from someone intent on committing suicide or murder, we still have the danger of someone who may be unbalanced, now, angrier than before, and looking for another means … explosives, poisons, knives, car incidents of mowing down groups of unsuspecting innocent.”
Colorado’s law, approved by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, allows family, household members or law enforcement to petition a court to have guns seized or surrendered based on a showing that someone poses a danger under the “preponderance of the evidence,” a civil standard which means that the defendant is more likely than not to be a threat.
“In other words, there is just over a 50/50 chance of accuracy,” van Beek wrote, noting that someone’s guns could be seized even without a mental health professional making a determination of any kind. “Like the flip of a coin. Couldn’t that apply to just about anything a person does?”
A subsequent court hearing could extend a gun seizure up to 364 days, and gun owners can only retain their guns if they meet a burden of demonstrating by “clear and convincing evidence” — a much higher standard — that they are not in fact a threat. Gun owners, van Beek said, are “guilty until proven innocent” under this framework.
Minority Republicans in the legislature had unsuccessfully tried to shift the burden of proof to the petitioner.
The law’s passage marked a personal victory for first-term Democratic Rep. Tom Sullivan, whose son, Alex, was gunned down in the 2012 Aurora theater massacre that killed 12 people and wounded 70 others. The bill is slated to take effect in January.
“Three hundred and fifty one Fridays since Alex was murdered,” Sullivan began, wearing his son’s leather bomber jacket at the signing ceremony for the bill he sponsored.
“Being the parent of a murdered child, everything is stunted,” Sullivan said, prompting knowing, tearful nods from several other shooting survivors standing behind him. “I am elated, believe me. It just can’t come out because there is just too much work in front of us to get done.”
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, left, speaks as Rep. Tom Sullivan, D-Aurora, looks on before Polis signs a bill to allow Colorado to become the 15th state in the union to adopt a “red flag” gun law allowing firearms to be taken from people who pose a danger during a ceremony Friday, April 12, 2019, in the State Capitol in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Alex Sullivan was celebrating his 27th birthday at the theater. Tom Sullivan, elected to the House in November, has devoted his life since Aurora to counseling survivors of other mass shootings around the country and campaigning for gun control.
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Responding in part to Sullivan’s remarks, van Beek emphasized his own county’s work on establishing partnerships to combat mental illness, which he characterized as a practical solution. The Aurora theater shooter, James Holmes, long suffered from mental illness.
“The Red Flag Law can remind one, of the movie ‘Minority Report’; regulating against what we think someone might do,” van Beek wrote. “It’s like regulating via clairvoyance, but in this case, we actually take away someone’s property and require them to go to court to prove their innocence of a crime that hasn’t been committed, yet they were punished because someone thought they might be thinking about it.”
The sheriff continued: “I find no mental health programs associated with this law. Just a possible overreach of well-meaning citizens, with no infrastructure for addressing the primary intention of the law: mental health as it relates to public safety.”
From left, Tylecia Amos, 14, Shatyra Amos, 15, Michael Walker, 17, and Mykia Walker, 16, carry flowers to lay at a makeshift memorial across the street from the Century Theater parking lot, on Saturday, July 21, 2012 in Aurora, Colo. Twelve people were killed and dozens were injured in the attack early Friday at the packed theater during a showing of the Batman movie, “Dark Knight Rises.” Police have identified the suspected shooter as James Holmes, 24. (AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)
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Van Beek’s post concluded by arguing that Colorado’s law violated the Second Amendment. However, van Beek explicitly stopped short of declaring sanctuary county status, and suggested his office would enforce the law.
“Removing the guns in a constitutionally questionable manner, without notice, denying the accused the ability to defend charges, then requiring medical services that are not available, in order to reinstate private property rights, afterward, is like putting a Band-Aid on the probability of a wound, and not allowing its removal until an injury has occurred,” he wrote. “In other words, the entire process is ludicrous.”
Van Beek added: “I stand with other Sheriffs in opposition to the Red Flag law on constitutional grounds as well as its failure to address the true issues, which are behavioral and mental health. In addition, it places fiscal hardships on county budgets, places law enforcement officials in imminent danger, violates citizen’s rights, and actually works against the mental health concerns that it was originally designed to aid.”
“The entire process is ludicrous.”
— Eagle County, Colo. Sheriff James van Beek
Florida passed its own “extreme risk protection order” law after the 2018 Parkland school massacre. Others with versions of the law include California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington state, as well as Washington, D.C.
“Colorado has endured more than our fair share of tragedies,” Polis said Friday. This law will not prevent every shooting, but it can be used in a targeted way to make sure that those who are suffering from a mental health crisis are able to temporarily have a court order in place that helps make sure they don’t harm themselves or others. Today we may be saving the life of your nephew, your niece, your grandchild.”
Gun rights activists pushed for Polis and some Democrats who supported the legislation to be recalled. Senate President Leroy Garcia, a Democrat, voted against the bill — primarily, observers said, because his predecessor was recalled in 2013 for supporting the state’s last major gun control push.
That 2013 legislation implemented background checks and ammunition magazine limits, following the Aurora and Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. In all, two Democratic lawmakers were recalled and another resigned for supporting those laws.
About half of Colorado’s 64 counties — most in rural areas — passed resolutions opposing the new bill and declared themselves “Second Amendment sanctuaries.”
Opposition from rural sheriffs elicited a warning last month from Democratic Attorney General Phil Weiser, who has said those who won’t enforce the law should resign.
The law is named after Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputy Zackari Parrish III, a 29-year old husband and father who was killed on New Year’s Eve 2017 by a man who had exhibited increasingly erratic behavior.
Parrish’s boss, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock, and Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle attended. Pelle’s son, a Douglas County sheriff’s deputy, was wounded in the shooting that killed Parrish.
Pelle said he was working with Spurlock and other law enforcement chiefs to develop protocols for executing protective orders safely.
Co-sponsor Alec Garnett, a Democrat and the House majority leader, noted that Colorado’s law stands out for providing legal representation for gun owners.
“We have come a long way in this state from Columbine,” Garnett said, referring to the upcoming 20th anniversary of the April 20, 1999, Columbine High School massacre.
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Separately, a prosecutor refused to approve criminal charges Friday against Pittsburgh’s mayor and six City Council members over the passage of firearms restrictions that gun rights advocates say are blatant and deliberate violations of state law.
Seven city residents tried to file private criminal complaints against Democratic Mayor Bill Peduto, who signed the legislation into law this week, and council members who voted to approve the bills. The complaints charge the mayor and council with official oppression and other counts.
Fox News’ Andrew O’Reilly and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Japan marks 69th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing
by AP News | 6th August 2014 | @AP
n this handout picture released by the U.S. Army, the plume of smoke from a mushroom cloud billow, about one hour after the nuclear bomb was detonated above Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. Pic: AP.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan is marking the 69th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and Mayor Kazumi Matsui called on U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders to visit the city to see the scars of the atomic bombing first hand.
About 45,000 people attended Wednesday’s ceremony in Hiroshima’s peace park near the epicenter of the 1945 attack that killed up to 140,000 people. The bombing of Nagasaki three days later killed another 70,000, prompting Japan’s surrender.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that as the sole country to face nuclear attack, Japan has the duty to seek to eliminate nuclear weapons.
The anniversary comes as Japan is divided over Abe’s recent Cabinet decision to allow the country’s military to defend foreign countries and play greater roles overseas.
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The Return of the Past: Postmodernism in British Architecture @ Sir John Soane’s Museum
In the two-room exhibition space at Sir John Soane’s Museum is an interesting show about five key British architects who were central in the rise of the architectural style known as Postmodernism. This review consists of:
An introduction to Sir John Soane’s Museum
A brief explanation of Modernism and Postmodernism
Notes on the exhibition
1. Sir John Soane’s Museum
Sir John Soane’s Museum is a little-known treasure trove of art, architecture and antiquities, in central London.
Google map showing the location of Sir John Soane’s Museum
Just a few minutes’ walk from hectic Holborn tube station, down narrow back alleys, you arrive at big, leafy Lincoln’s Inn Fields and here, on the north side of the square, in the centre of a terrace of sober Georgian houses, is Sir John Soane’s Museum, with its surprisingly grand neo-classical facade.
Facade of Sir John Soane’s Museum. Photo by John Bridges
This unusual facade is because Soane was himself an architect in the neo-classical style, and a great collector of art and antiquaries. To quote from Wikipedia:
Soane (1753-1837) made his living as an architect in the neo-classical style and rose to the top of his profession, becoming professor of architecture at the Royal Academy. His best-known work was the Bank of England (his work there is largely destroyed), a building which had a widespread effect on commercial architecture. He also designed the Dulwich Picture Gallery whose top-lit galleries were a major influence on subsequent art galleries and museums.
At one point Soane owned three adjoining houses in the square, numbers 12, 13 and 14. He spent much time remodelling the facade of number 13 (now the museum), experimenting with internal design and decoration in all three properties, and also experimenting with ways to hang and display his ever-growing collection of paintings, books and antiquities.
The museum was created by an 1833 Act of Parliament which gifted Soane’s huge collections to the nation on the condition that they be displayed as they were during his lifetime, in the old-fashioned ‘cluttered’ style, with rows of paintings one above the other, and statuary and antiquities crammed higgledy-piggledy together.
In the past ten years the Soane Museum has undergone extensive renovation. But although the trustees have bought the house next door (number 14) and carried out extensive work to create a new Research Library, a room devoted to Soane’s huge collection of drawings (9,000) by the architect Robert Adam, an airy shop, offices and a temporary exhibition space – it is still the clutteredness of the hang which really makes an impression – small, tall, top-lit rooms and staircases absolutely crammed with busts, friezes, sculptures, antiquities and paintings all packed cheek by jowl.
The interior of Sir John Soane’s Museum
It’s this combination of intense clutteredness with the open and airy nature of some of the upstairs drawing rooms – and, of course, the value and interest of many of the objects, drawings and paintings – which gives Sir John Soane’s Museum its unique and magical atmosphere.
2. Modernism and Postodernism
To understand Postmodernism, it helps to understand the modernism it was reacting against.
Modernism in literature, art and architecture from, say, the First World War through to some time in the 1970s, took it as axiomatic that there was one and just One, central avant-garde Movement and, if you were serious, you had to belong to It.
This avant-garde – in architecture in particular – was devoted to getting rid of all ornaments, all decorative features – which were condemned as bourgeois luxuries, fripperies, indulgences – and instead designing stark, angular buildings, which emphasised their harsh functionality.
The Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer Le Corbusier was the lead figure in the 1920s and 30s of the idea that a building is no more than ‘a machine for living in’.
Villa Savoye, Poissy, France (1931) designed by Le Corbusier
Architects from the German Bauhaus pioneered designs which reduced buildings to the simplest possible shapes, cubes, square windows. Most were left wing if not active communists and saw themselves as building the architecture of a future society in which everyone was equal and lived in well-designed, functional units which could be mass produced and easily assembled.
After the Second World War the style became international. Not only decoration of any type, but even decorative materials were rejected in the name of the most simple, ‘honest’ building methods of the day.
When the Bauhaus was closed by the Nazis in 1933, a number of its artists and architects fled abroad. The most famous exile was the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe who became head of an architecture school in Chicago. Mies is largely credited with bringing to perfection the principles of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus in a series of soaring steel and glass skyscrapers in ‘the Windy City’.
860–880 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois by Mies van der Rohe
Completely smooth facades made of industrial steel and plate glass are combined with often light and airy atriums or plazas to give a sense of drama, combining the thrusting power of the building with sometimes surprisingly graceful spaces.
He strove toward an architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of unobstructed free-flowing open space. He called his buildings ‘skin and bones’ architecture. (Wikipedia)
An alternative variant of this Modernist style was the unrestrained use of concrete in low-rise buildings. During the 1960s this style became known as Brutalism, possibly a reference to Le Corbusier’s use of the French term béton brut, which means ‘raw concrete’ in French, but the term took off because it accurately described the unflinching, uncompromising, in-your-face look and feel of buildings which were made from slabs of raw concrete.
Prime examples are the Hayward Gallery or the Barbican Centre in London. Indeed, the newly-reopened Hayward Gallery shop stocks a surprising number of books celebrating Brutalism around the world. There’s even a book titled Brutal London with maps so you can go on a pilgrimage around the brutalist buildings of London. Harsh, slabby, heavy, undecorated.
The Barbican Centre, London
It’s difficult to recapture at this distance in time, but Modernism was strongly flavoured by left-wing politics, with the notion that unnecessary ‘decoration’ was a sign of bourgeois, wealthy elitism, and that all right-minded architects were working for a better world, a new socialist, communist, egalitarian world, whose buildings must be characterised by clarity and simplicity and ‘honesty’ to their materials.
Instead of bourgeois mystification, statues of lions or generals, ornate facades and so on, Modernist buildings should emphasise their functionality – the vast frontages of identical windows in Mies skyscrapers, or the open-to-the-elements staircases, walkways and balconies in Brutalist buildings.
Result: Countless 1960s high-rise blocks of flats. New towns. Ring roads. Shopping centres. Square, featureless, concrete slabs.
But as is the way with all fashions, people – that is the architects themselves – eventually got fed up with all this plainness, brutality and po-faced, anti-bourgeois rhetoric.
Sometime in the mid-1970s, the Modernist mindset began to crumble. New architects questioned the need for everything to be grey and joyless, and also the need for there to be only One Dominating Aesthetic, approved by a jury of like-minded straightlaced colleagues.
Why shouldn’t buildings have decorative features? Why did they all have to be made of slate-grey concrete? And why must there only be One Style? Given the possibilities of modern engineering and the wealth of new materials – why not hundreds of styles – why not a different style for every building?
Postmodernist architecture started in America and is often linked with the name of architect Robert Venturi who published a deliberately controversial book Learning from Las Vegas in 1972, which suggested that architects could learn something from the tacky, commercial shops, drive-ins, Dunkin’ Donuts and MacDonalds buildings, the big signs and flashing neon, along the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.
Venturi and others began building deliberately garish, playful new buildings in a range of materials.
In Britain, in 1977 critic and architect Charles Jencks wrote The Language of Postmodern Architecture, a book which brought together examples of a wide range of fanciful and colourful buildings being designed by American architects. The book popularised the term ‘Postmodernism’ to a wider audience, and ultimately led to it spreading out to other disciplines in the humanities.
So postmodernism was a conscious revolt against the Modernist architectural orthodoxy which many felt had become stifling and dull. The new young architects thought that new buildings:
should reintroduce historical references and quotes from other periods
should reference and echo their surroundings, instead of being concrete boxes plonked down willy-nilly
should use a variety of materials instead of just concrete (Brutalism) or steel and glass (Internationalism)
should use colours – shock horror – yes the whole rainbow of colours, not just slate grey
should be funny, witty, ironic and provocative
Suddenly there was no longer One Dominant Orthodox Movement, but the potential for everyone to break free and do their own things.
3. Five postmodernist British architects
This exhibition brings together a range of drawings, sketches, plans, designs, models and images, as well as full-scale replicas, of iconic works by five of the British architects most associated with Postmodernist architecture. The drawings and models are displayed in large wall cabinets and in table-based display cases.
Installation view of Return of the Past. Photo by Gareth Gardner
The five architects are:
Terry Farrell
John Outram
Jeremy Dixon
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Terry Farrell (b.1938)
Farrell is sometimes taken as the pioneer of the new look in Britain. The wall labels explain that postmodernism was, among other things, an end of the utopian, left-wing beliefs of Modernism. Instead of trying to bring about a brave new egalitarian world through buildings, Farrell was one of a number of architects who looked back beyond the concrete wastelands of Modernism, with a view to reconnecting to older styles and, well, having fun.
Why not reference the old architectural motifs of classicism and so on, but done in a new way, with a 1980s aesthetic, the age of shoulder pads and big hairdos, with bright colours and ornamentation?
One of the earliest of the new wave buildings was the TVam headquarters, built next to Camden Lock. It includes unnecessarily bright colours, references a range of older elements, and emphasises its frivolous decorative features. Why not?
TV-am building, Camden (1981–82) by Terry Farrell
In terms of cultural references, there were elements of an Egyptian ziggurat (look at the skyline at the back of this photo) and a Japanese tea garden tucked away at the back. The front of the building sported a modernist metal variation on a traditional archway, complete with massive keystone – but made not of stone but of brightly coloured tubular piping. The whole facade curves gently following the curve of the road it stands on, and is end-stopped by huge cutouts of the letters T V a m. And all done in bright brash colours, unafraid of the grey Style Police.
Traditional Modernists hated it and really hated the set of 11 fibre glass rooftop eggcups dotted along the top of the building. Breakfast TV – hard-boiled eggs – geddit? One of them is in the exhibition!
Critics thought it was all tacky, vulgar, superficial and – worst epithet of all – bourgeois!
One of the fibreglass eggcups from the TV am building by Terry Farrell, photo by the author
Farrell went on to design what is now one of London’s iconic buildings, the new SIS or MI6 building at Vauxhall on the south bank of the River Thames.
Initially it was just going to be another speculative block of offices, it was only some way into the process that he learned the government was interested in buying it. The exhibition includes a fascinating series of preparatory sketches and drawings. Farrell starts from the premise that a number of other London riverfront buildings make big, grand stylistic statements (for example, Somerset House) and then the drawings show him playing with different combinations of cubes and bulges and curved sections, working towards the stepped faced we see today. It’s really interesting to see architectural ‘creativity’ at work.
SIS Building, London by Terry Farrell, completed 1994. Photo by Nigel Young
The exhibition includes models of the building which help you examine the ziggurat-style, stepped detail of the finished building close up, along with one case devoted to the Dr Who, Tardis-style blue entrance doors on the side of the building. The closer you look, the weirder it all gets.
Display case showing models of side entrances into the SIS building by Terry Farrell. Photo by Gareth Gardner
John Outram (b.1934)
Outram emerges as the philosopher and visionary of the group. He built the New House, Wadhurst Park (pictured in the show) but it is the models and big plans of some of his unbuilt projects which really dominate. Here is a large colour drawing for a building planned for 200 Victoria Street in London.
Project for 200 Victoria Street for Rosehaugh- Stanhope Developers (1988-90) Image credit: John Outram
Mad, isn’t it? A long, long way from concrete slabs, in fact it’s difficult to know where to begin in describing the extravagant use of colour and decoration. Most outrageous are the coloured statues of mermaids on the roof, and what appears to be a windmill design off to the top right. The surface seems to be as encrusted with coloured tiling and decorations as an Anglo-Catholic Victorian Church.
And I was tickled to learn that Outram claimed to have invented an entirely new ‘order’ of column, the Robot Order. Anyone interested in columns knows that the ancient Greeks pioneered three ‘orders’ of column – the plain Dorian, the Ionian with a scroll at the top, and the Corinthian which has a capital covered in carved acanthus leaves – which were copied all across Europe from the Renaissance up to the present day.
Three orders of column
In his plan you can see that Outram’s ‘robot order’ is characterised by its squat massiveness (the columns actually contain all the building’s services), but most of all by the way that each column is topped off by a massive pair of turbines, spoofing the Doric order. A good example of the jokey, ha-ha, ironic, insider wittiness which Postmodernist architects now felt free to display in their buildings.
Jeremy Dixon (b.1939)
Dixon is represented by the redevelopment of the Royal Opera House and Covent Garden, which took from 1989 to 2000. There are a number of plans plus two wooden models of the piazza and one of the Opera House itself, with one wall pulled away to give a cutaway, inside view.
Reading about the evolution of Covent Garden the scheme reminds you of probably the most distinguishing feature of architecture as an ‘art’, which is how mightily collaborative it is, and how very restricted by site, location and environment.
I can paint a painting, write a sonnet, take a photograph more or less anywhere. But most architects are hemmed in a) by the space where the building is to go b) by an extraordinarily complicated web of planning regulations and restrictions. And all of that before c) you get to the self-imposed limitations of fashion, what’s in, what’s new etc.
A lot of people stuck their oar into the Covent Garden redevelopment, from the City of Westminster, through the GLC and the government. Only a decade earlier there had been moves to demolish the entire square and build some nice brutalist flats over it. By the time Dixon became involved in the 1980s it was clear that the existing structures were going to be preserved, but how should they be fronted, completed and styled?
Dixon decided the facades would be allowed to change to reflect their immediate surroundings. Thus a new arcade was created at the north-east of the piazza – where it abuts the Opera House – in order to echo, but not copy, the central arcade designed by Inigo Jones back in the 1630s.
Modern but… echoing the old. Certainly not outfacing it with a vast steel skyscraper nor shaming it with Barbican-style bunkers.
Painting of the Royal Opera House project in Covent Garden by Jeremy Dixon and BDP (1986) Painting by Carl Laubin
James Stirling (1926-1992)
A similar problem confronted James Stirling when he was commissioned to design a building for 1 Poultry, opposite the Bank of England. Six huge plans are on display here for the first time (on the far wall in this photo), showing how Stirling sought to ‘relate’ his design to nearby buildings designed by Edward Lutyens and Nicholas Hawksmoor.
Installation view showing the large case of drawings for 1 Poultry, on the wall, and models of the TVam frontage and the SIS building by Terry Farrell on the table. Photo by Gareth Gardner
The firm CZWG is named after four students who studied architecture together in the 1960s – Nicholas Campbell, Rex Wilkinson, Roger Zogolovitch and Piers Gough. Next to Farrell, these guys seem to have come up with the most playful designs.
CZWG Architects, China Wharf, London (1988) Photo by John and Jo Peck
The display case devoted to this building, at China Wharf, contains old photos showing the state of the often derelict Victorian warehouses surrounding the site, and makes the case that the structure ‘echoes and reflects’ its surroundings. Maybe. But, the casual viewer might point out, it also has a dirty great big red concrete stuck onto the front.
The wall label says:
The orange concrete facade echoes adjacent warehouse frontages, whilst making reference to Baroque and Art Nouveau design – all to create a new architectural identity for Docklands.
My Dad told me never to trust anyone who says ‘whilst’.
Another CZWG building facing on the Thames is Cascades. This building had a display case devoted to it which was arguably the most interesting in the exhibition because, alongside contemporary photos and ephemera (for example, an invitation to the opening party), were extracts from magazines and newspapers which were virulently critical of this building and of the Postmodern trend it represented.
Cascades, London (1988) by CZWG Architects. Photo by John and Jo Peck
Cascades was one of the first new-look builds in Canary Wharf, a twenty-story tower which, to quote the wall label:
emerges at its base through references to Victorian warehouses and the ocean liner aesthetic, before reaching a summit that would not appear out of place in Hong Kong… The sloping side gives the building a dynamic shape absent from a more conventional tower, while allowing the penthouse apartments along that side to have south-facing balconies open to the sky…. Cascades showed how high-rise living could be popular and glamorous.
With its sloping side, its tonal variation from dark to light brown, with its semi-circular bulges dotted along the facade, the many round ‘porthole’ windows and the three white ocean liner style piped vents, it couldn’t be further from the grey concrete brutalism of a 1970s tower block.
What’s fascinating is the highly critical article shown alongside the plans, written by architect Stephen Gardiner (1924-2007). Gardiner warms up by making general criticisms of Postmodern architecture, raging against its ‘jazzy vulgarity’, the way it screams out like a TV commercial, is full of cheap dodges and flashy effects, is ‘B-movie architecture’. Then he lets fly at Cascades in particular, finding it:
a grotesque and shapeless 20-story tower block on the Isle of Dogs… a horrifying result of the deregulation of aesthetic controls… an example of visual chaos… a crazy jumble of so-called architectural references … and a heap of different materials… These architects appear to regard a city as a private gallery for their brand of pop-art buildings. But it isn’t: their appearance affects us all, particularly when exposed on the river front. Whatever the situation architects have a very special responsibility to the public…
Go Stevie, go. This article is more or less the only thing in the exhibition which really expresses why the new Postmodernist style was so controversial and on what grounds its critics attacked it.
But all good things come to an end. In 1987 an essay was published in Art in America magazine titled Late Postmodernism: The End of Style? By the late 1980s the first fine careless flush of anti-establishment defiance was played out. Postmodernist buildings continued to be built into the 1990s but younger architects tried to forge new lines of development moving beyond its jokiness and irony.
I suppose architecture can be considered and assessed in three ways:
As plans and designs and drawings and concepts I warm to straight lines and geometric patterns, and also to dinky scale models of buildings with tiny little figures walking by, so I often find architectural designs and models entrancing. That said, insofar as they are drawings, they all look a bit samey, drawn in the same kind of technical way on the same kind of paper with the same kind of formal conventions.
It’s only when they’re built that architects’ plans come alive and can then be considered in two ways.
If you live or work in one – does it work? What’s it like? Does it have the conveniences promised? Or is it badly designed and thought-through, as so many ‘city in the sky’ council flats and tower blocks of the 1960s and 70s were.
What’s it like to walk past? What impact does it have on those who don’t live or work in it, but whose built environment it contributes to? What contribution does it make to the skyline and cityscape?
I am no expert, I am just an averagely educated Londoner, but I think there are now so many buildings like Cascades – the Thames from Battersea to Westminster, and from the City down to Docklands is so lined with quirky jokey blocks of luxury apartments, take the stepped ziggurats and the tower block that bends backwards at Battersea Reach – that most people just accept it as the style of our times.
Battersea Reach, London
I don’t really like any of it. Today I walked through the Covent Garden piazza on the way to Sir John Soane’s Museum and all I can think is that a) it’s a blessing that the bastard planners of the 1970s didn’t knock it down and replace it with concrete flats b) it does the job of being a Tourist Trap, a place where tourists are funneled and blunder around buying over-priced coffee and gewgaws.
But I don’t really like the Royal Opera rebuild or the North arcade. I rather think I dislike it for seeming hollow and… somehow fake.
And I happened to walk through the little atrium of 1 Poultry a month or so ago and it seemed dark and noisily polluted from the two City roads which hem it in. Some kind of rebuilding work was going on, there were pipes across the floor, drilling, entrances to some tacky chain shops like Accessorise or H&M. Horror.
Whenever I’ve been past the TVam building in Camden it’s always seemed to me poky, tacky, narrow, low and constricted. It makes me feel choked and cramped. It is not a happy building.
I don’t think I’ve consciously seen the China Wharf building but there are now so many extraordinary designs of buildings dotted all over the Isle of Dogs that it’s just one more in the wacky show.
Buildings for faceless overlords
My impression is that nobody can stop it now. Quirky, funny, witty, ironic, call it what you will – knowing, arch, self-referential etc, Postmodern architecture is where we are, is the modern look.
The Thames is now lined with ranks of po-mo apartment blocks which come from the same lineage as Cascades.
I appreciate that more recent buildings which have hit the headlines such as the Shard and the Gherkin are not Postmodern in style. If you look it up you discover that the Shard and the Gherkin are examples of ‘neo-Futurism’. Neverthetheless, it feels that the way was paved for this generation of jokey, quirky, steel-and-glass monsters, by the jokey, quirky innovators of Postmodernism.
The net result of all this is the widely shared feeling that modern architecture is commissioned, given planning permission, designed and built by a faceless élite, by our lords and masters, by nameless faceless people who don’t seem to be accountable to anyone except their billionaire oil sheikh or Russian oligarch sponsors – to Brazilian billionaire Joseph Safra who owns the Gherkin or to the Qatari Royal Family who own the Shard.
Modern architecture in this vein is the plaything and fantasy of an international cosmopolitan élite which has nothing to do any more with the concerns and tastes of the powerless populations which they tower over.
Which is why I always laugh out loud whenever I see architects writing about ‘social responsibility’ or ‘working with the community’. Ha! As if. Which is why I always think of the architecture room at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition as ‘the Room of Shame’. Most architecture doesn’t have anything to do with ‘ordinary people’. Maybe it never did.
Postmodernism is a lot better than the concrete misanthropy which preceded it. In terms of architectural history, it opened the floodgates to an enormous diversity of modern buildings whose designers feel free to play and experiment with a wide range of designs, ornamentation, features and materials.
But I don’t think there are any po-mo buildings that I actually like. And in my mind, anyway, the big hair and padded shoulders of TVam associate it with the end of the post-war social democratic consensus and the rise of loads-of-money capitalism, the Thatcherism and Blairism of the 1980s and 90s, which led directly to the steel-and-glass artefacts of the age of terror, the age of relentlessly growing inequality, and the age of a hyper-articulate, cosmopolitan art and architectural élite pandering to the wishes of the international super-rich – the age in which we now find ourselves.
The Return of the Past: Postmodernism in British Architecture is a small but really interesting exhibition. It was useful to be reminded of the names of the architects behind the MI6 building, or 1 Poultry, to be shown that this was Stirling, that was Farrell, and to be introduced to the unbuilt extravaganzas of John Outram.
It was fun.
And, like all good exhibitions, it sets you thinking about its subject – about architecture and the modern built environment, determined to read up more on a subject which, although it affects all of us – the buildings we live and work in and walk by every day – is given surprisingly little coverage in any of the media.
And it’s FREE. Check it out.
The Return of the Past: Postmodernism in British Architecture continues at the Sir John Soane Museum until 27 August 2018
Dezeen guide to Postmodernism in architecture
Article accompanying the 2011 V&A exhibition on Postmodernism which explains what it means in philosophy and literature, as well as the way it came to stand for uninhibited consumer capitalism
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by Simon on July 3, 2018 • Permalink
Posted in Architecture, Exhibition
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The Tories and Blairites Cannot Be Trusted to Defend the NHS from Trump
Last week the orange generalissimo managed to cause massive offence and outrage on his state visit here. And it wasn’t just for merely being present, although that was certainly a major factor in the protests his visit provoked. No, Trump and his spokesman were touting for a trade deal with Britain after Brexit. And he demanded that ‘everything should be on the table’, including healthcare.
Which means the NHS.
MPs from all sides of the House immediately swung into action to condemn the Fascist cheeto’s demands that the NHS should be opened up to private American healthcare companies. There were a string of high profile Tory MPs, including former health secretary Andrew Lansley, loudly denouncing Trump’s demand, and stating that they weren’t going to include the NHS as part of the Brexit deal and were going to defend this most precious of British institutions. Lansley in particular was scathing about Trump’s opposition to the way the NHS controlled drug prices. He was afraid that if Trump has his way, this would be discarded to allow predatory American pharmaceutical companies to charge excessive and unaffordable prices for needed drugs.
He’s absolutely right.
One of the current scandals with the American private, insurance-driven healthcare system is that the drug companies can and do charge whatever they like for their products, which means that these are often beyond the ability of ordinary Americans to afford. I’ve blogged on here about a piece from The Young Turks about how Americans are hoarding drugs or buying those intended for animals from vets because they can’t afford them. And the worst example of a drug company actually raising prices is the case of Martin Shkreli. When he took over one company, he raised the price of an anti-AIDS drug to well over $300 a pill. He said he only wanted rich Americans to be able to use it, not poor Indians. He was rightly massively vilified for his gross racism and profiteering, but continued to defend himself, as he really couldn’t see that he had done anything wrong.
But while it’s heartening to see all these politicians stand up to defend the health service, I don’t believe them. With one exception, of course: Jeremy Corbyn. The Tories and the Blairites simply can’t be trusted to defend the NHS because they haven’t done it up to now. Indeed, they’ve done the exact opposite, all the while denying it.
Remember how Maggie Thatcher loudly declared that the NHS was ‘safe with us’, and she would keep her wretched claws off it. She even put it in her memoirs, denouncing the claims of the Labour party that she was planning to privatise the health service as lies. But she herself was lying. Cabinet minutes released a couple of years ago showed that she very much wanted to privatise the NHS. She was only stopped because of a massive cabinet revolt and the fact that her Personal Private Secretary, Patrick Jenkin, had visited the US and had seen personally what a travesty American private healthcare was.
So she satisfied herself with cutting its budget and trying to encourage Brits to take out private health insurance instead. She was aiming for about 11 per cent of the British population to take out such insurance.
She was followed by John Major, whose health secretary Peter Lilley was, I believe, one of the others who attacked Trump’s demand for a slice of NHS action. But Lilley was responsible for the Private Finance Initiative, under which private firms were to be allowed to bid for NHS contracts and building and running hospitals in partnership with the government. It was deliberately introduced with the intention of opening up the health service to private healthcare companies. And Lilley was advised in his health policies by John Lo Casio of the American private health insurance fraudster, Unum.
Well, the government changed with Labour’s 1997 electoral victory, but the Thatcherite privatisation of the NHS remained on course. Blair was an unashamed Thatcherite, and she had reciprocated his feelings by calling him and New Labour her greatest achievement. Blair also took over Lo Casio and Unum as his advisers on health policy, and continued the stealth privatisation of the NHS. The Community Care Groups of GPs he set up to contract in healthcare services were given the power to purchase it from the private sector and to raise funding privately themselves. The health centres and polyclinics he set up were to be run by private healthcare firms, like Circle Health, BUPA and Beardie Branson’s Virgin Health. NHS contracts, including out of hours services in many regions were privatised and the contracts awarded to private healthcare firms.
And yes, American healthcare firms were among them. Private Eye reported how Blair was surrounded by American public sector contractors, all lobbying for their share of British state business. Like the private American prison company, Wackenhut. And this included private healthcare companies. Blair was particularly impressed by the private American healthcare provider, Keyserpermanente, which he thought provided better value for money than the traditional NHS structure. It doesn’t, but that was ignored, and the American company provided the model for his NHS reforms. His health secretary, Alan Milburn, wanted the NHS to become nothing but a kitemark for services provided by private companies.
And this continued under David Cameron and Tweezer. Despite the loud shouts by Lansley and Jeremy Hunt that they ‘treasure’ the NHS, both of them preferred private healthcare and previously stated that they wanted the NHS effectively abolished and the lines blurred between state and private provision. There’s also a solid block of Tory politicians that would like the NHS sold off completely. Like the Devon Tory MEP, Daniel Hannan, dubbed by Guy Debord’s Cat ‘the Lyin’ King’ because of his gross mendacity. The majority of NHS contracts are being awarded to private healthcare firms, rather than kept in-house, and they have been angling to win the contracts for whole regions. Which brings the complete privatisation of the NHS even closer.
Andrew Lansley’s convoluted Health and Social Care Act of 2012 also enabled its privatisation by removing the obligation of the health secretary to provide healthcare to everyone in the UK, which had been a statutory requirement since the founding of the NHS in 1948. The Tories have also consistently voted to introduce charges for certain NHS services. Mike over at Vox Political has frequently given the voting record of some of the worst Tories, who have not only done this, but also supported other attacks on the poor like cutting welfare services, raising tuition fees and supporting the bedroom tax.
And I don’t trust the Lib Dems either. They went into coalition with the Tories and did absolutely nothing as their partners in government continued to attack the welfare state and the NHS. Indeed some of them, like the former MP for Taunton Dean, strongly supported it.
I have to say that I think that the outrage from the Tories at Trump’s demands is largely hypocritical. They’d very much like to make a deal with Trump, that includes the NHS along with other essential services that should only be run by the state. But, as with the cabinet revolt against Thatcher, they’re afraid that if they agree, they will be voted out in a devastating landslide, possibly never to get back into power.
The only person, who can be trusted to defend the NHS and keep it safe from Trump and the other privatisers, is Jeremy Corbyn.
Don’t trust the Tories. They still want to and are privatising the NHS. Nor the Lib Dems or ‘Centrist’ Labour, who are exactly the same. The only real hope of defending and reviving the NHS is with Corbyn and the victory of a genuine, socialist Labour party at the next election.
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TYT Interviews Director of ‘Medicare For All’ Cartoon
In this short clip, The Young Turks’ Nomiki Konst interviews Josh Fox, the director and creator of a series of political cartoons, Anti-Totalitarian Bedtime Stories. Here they talk about his cartoon promoting Medicare For All. The film stars Susan Sarandon as the Doctor, and Louisa Gomez as the little Girl.
The film is unusual in that its hero is a leech. The leech is having an existential crisis, as he has found out that every other creature except him has a purpose. So he jumps off his log and goes swimming. A little girl enters his pool, and he attaches himself to her chest in order to suck her blood. As leeches do. The little girl’s mother takes her to the hospital, as they can’t get the leech off. The little girl is a haemophiliac, and so there is the danger that she will die from bleeding. The doctor pulls the leech off, but finds that the leech’s saliva contains a coagulant. This coagulant can be used to treat other haemophiliac.
This is what would happen if America got Medicare For All. Not only would people be treated free of charge, but science would advance, and new medicines and procedures would be developed to help the sick. Unlike today’s private, for-profit healthcare system, which is only interested in extracting money from the sick.
Fox states at the outset that it’s popular across the board with both Republicans and Democrats. The only people who don’t like it are the private healthcare companies and their associates.
The video is somewhat fanciful, as leeches’ saliva actually contains the exact opposite: it has an anti-coagulant. Nevertheless, as New Scientist reported back in the 1990s, this is still very important for treating certain conditions.
As for the cartoon’s message, clearly research is done into disease by for-profit healthcare and drug companies, but there is a problem in that some of these are engaged in horrendous price gouging. Like Martin Shkreli, the CEO of one company, who increased the price of one drug so that it cost hundreds of dollars, so that only the rich could afford it. Such price gouging is also a problem with the multinational drug companies on this side of the Atlantic as well, as needs to be tackled.
This is a fascinating little video, and I hope it reaches more Americans and encourages more people to support Medicare For All. America desperately needs it.
Tags:Cartoons, Democrat Party, Drug Companies, Haemophilia, Josh Fox, Leeches, Louisa Gomez, Martin Shkreli, Medicare For All, Multinationals, New Scientist, Nomiki Konst, Price Gouging, Private Healthcare Companies, Republican Party, Susan Sarandon, the Rich, The Young Turks
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind.
“Hawking’s parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity’s future should read.”—NPR
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Forbes • The Guardian • Wired
Stephen Hawking was the most renowned scientist since Einstein, known both for his groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology and for his mischievous sense of humor. He educated millions of readers about the origins of the universe and the nature of black holes, and inspired millions more by defying a terrifying early prognosis of ALS, which originally gave him only two years to live. In later life he could communicate only by using a few facial muscles, but he continued to advance his field and serve as a revered voice on social and humanitarian issues.
Hawking not only unraveled some of the universe’s greatest mysteries but also believed science plays a critical role in fixing problems here on Earth. Now, as we face immense challenges on our planet—including climate change, the threat of nuclear war, and the development of artificial intelligence—he turns his attention to the most urgent issues facing us.
Will humanity survive? Should we colonize space? Does God exist? These are just a few of the questions Hawking addresses in this wide-ranging, passionately argued final book from one of the greatest minds in history.
Featuring a foreword by Eddie Redmayne, who won an Oscar playing Stephen Hawking, an introduction by Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne, and an afterword from Hawking’s daughter, Lucy, Brief Answers to the Big Questions is a brilliant last message to the world.
Praise for Brief Answers to the Big Questions
“[Hawking is] a symbol of the soaring power of the human mind.”—The Washington Post
“Hawking’s final message to readers . . . is a hopeful one.”—CNN
“Brisk, lucid peeks into the future of science and of humanity.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Hawking pulls no punches on subjects like machines taking over, the biggest threat to Earth, and the possibilities of intelligent life in space.”—Quartz
“Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and—where it matters—witty.”—The Guardian
“This beautiful little book is a fitting last twinkle from a new star in the firmament above.”—The Telegraph
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The existence of God, black holes, extraterrestrial life. These are the kinds of big (with a capital B) questions the great physicist Stephen Hawking tackles in his last book. Looking back at 10 scientific and philosophical conundrums that occupied him during his life, Hawking does what he was always so brilliant at doing: he discusses complex subjects in easy-to-understand terms…without dumbing them down. Brief Answers to the Big Questions is a testament to Hawking’s unwavering belief in science as the key to solving humanity’s problems and building a better future. His tone is honest, unsentimental, and ever curious—reflecting the traits we most admired in him.
Random House Publishing Group
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Madoc71c , 01/29/2019
Fantastic book, concise, fascinating and funny.
Expectations are high with a book by the phenomenal Stephen Hawking. But even with High Hopes, this book turns out to be a hilarious (in parts), smart, and deep treatise on the physics and history of the universe, humans and other topics. Enjoy.
Bookreader2018 , 12/05/2018
More Books by Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time
My Brief History
George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt
The Nature of Space and Time
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The more you like someone, the scarier interviewing them becomes. Hilary McKay writes wonderful books. She emails beautifully. I suppose I could simply have invited her round anyway, but why would she want to come? In fact, I don’t know what possessed Hilary to drive all the way from Derbyshire to share her thoughts with me, and with you. But she did.
After giving me some truly gorgeous flowers, Hilary looks round the living room and comments on the paintings, and asks if all the books are going to Scotland (if and when we move).
‘Most of them. Is there anything you’d like?’
We laugh, and Hilary says ‘Where are you getting rid of them to? Libraries?’
‘I don’t think libraries want them. Even Oxfam might bin them.’
‘They might like them for road fill. You don’t know.’
‘Yes, you and your famous road fill… Let’s start with the road fill. You’re so very modest. You’re the only author I know who says “oh, don’t bother reading my books. Let’s put them to use under a motorway.”’
‘Well, you know. They’re written for a purpose, which isn’t necessarily to be read…’
I laugh, ‘Yeah.’
‘… and really, I’m not very fond of them myself.’
‘Why not?’
‘If I read them, I never do re-read them, but if I am forced to read a section, I would always prefer to rewrite it.’
‘Yes.’
‘I don’t think that’s uncommon, actually. They’re quite introverted, which I don’t admire. I can see they’re well written, that’s all.’
‘Hmm, OK. Are you aware how much your peers admire your writing?’
‘I measure admiration in income, and my income is very low. I have a nice, supportive editor. That helps. And people like you help, enormously. That’s about it, really.’
‘Your name is one of the few that comes up when children’s writers talk about who they admire.’
‘That’s nice of them, but I can’t imagine why. And it doesn’t translate into sales.’
‘No, not necessarily.’
‘Not at all, but that’s not an uncommon experience. Newspapers can review a book very kindly, but it makes little difference to me, who has to put apples in the bowl, and send kids to university, as you know.’
‘So do reviews not help at all?’
‘Reviews help a lot,’ Hilary is suddenly transformed into passion, ‘because I wouldn’t write books if people like you didn’t say “that’s OK.” I would just stop. So thank you. I really am grateful. Reviews help my self esteem. I don’t know how they help sales. To be honest, I don’t know what does. Being charismatic and getting yourself out there. I’m not and I don’t, so, you know…
But I do keep doing it, and people keep asking me to do a few more. We are in a deep recession. I was talking to another children’s author last night, and she was saying very similar things. We were being quite honest about what we were earning. She’s a very well thought of author. A very good writer, and she might as well be doing other things.’
‘You’re very nice in your books; you don’t have many horrible characters, and you don’t kill off the parents unnecessarily.’
‘I kill them as fast as possible,’ Hilary says sweetly, ‘or else I make them useless.’
‘Yeah, useless is fine, but you don’t kill so much…’
‘No, not so much. I think in the old days it was easier to kill.’ Hilary’s mobile makes a noise. ‘Oh sorry, that’s me.’
‘There’s much goodness in your books. Why do you keep everything so nice?’
‘It’s a good question, Ann. I think,’ she perks up noticeably, ‘most people are very nice, actually. I’ve met very few villains in my life. I’ve met a few people I don’t like, but most people are extremely nice.’
‘And these are supposed to be real life stories, about real life people. I’ve never come across an evil person. Have you? I write about what people really eat, and where they really live. I write about what people are really like, and in my experience most people are very kind to most people.’
‘Mm.’
‘I do have stupid and arrogant people in my books…’
‘You draw the slightly iffy characters in. Like David.’
‘I loved David! He’s one of my favourites.’
‘Instead of kicking them out, letting something dreadful happen to them.’
‘Oh, that’s a very simplistic thing to do. I don’t think that’s how real life works.’
‘It’s so sweet. The Cassons; they keep collecting people, don’t they?’
‘They would be very boring, just one family and no outsiders, so you have to give them friends or they wouldn’t be normal people. And their friends are going to be a mixture. David was a… he wasn’t really a bully, but he was led into bullying, by someone with a weak nature. There are people like that, and I think a lot of people who are going the wrong way are all too glad to see a way out of it, to be honest.’
‘They want to be given a chance.’
‘Yes, it is a world of second chances. I do believe that very strongly. I’m writing for a very young age group, and I think if I wrote adult books… I would like to write adult books,’ Hilary sighs but sounds quite determined, ‘actually, I might do that, and then you could go darker… I’m not very good at writing people off completely, because it always seems like a “what if?” possibility.’
‘Yes, that’s why I prefer children’s books. You don’t have to be quite as dark as people are in adult books.’
‘Yes!’ She is enthusiastic. ‘I can have a dark book, but you have to remember your children and your friends and family read your books. You have to remember that.’
‘I was thinking that as the eldest of four sisters, does that mean that you are the Cassons?’
‘No, we were more The Exiles.’
‘OK. I’ve only got the second Exiles book, so thought I shall hang on for the first book, before I start.’
‘Yes, hang on for the first one. But really, it was the first book I wrote. It’s very flawed. I haven’t read it for over twenty years.’
‘You have to say that, because whenever we look at what we’ve done ourselves, badly knitted jumper or whatever, it looks dreadful and you do notice your mistakes.’
‘No, no. I remember hauling it together with my lovely editor at the time. It would have been a far worse book if she hadn’t been there. It was a first attempt.’
‘What do you think made them take you on?’
‘I don’t know. I was very lucky. The very first book won the Guardian children’s fiction prize, with Rachel Anderson. Do you know Rachel?’
‘No, I don’t think so.’
‘She wrote Paper Faces, and she won it joint with me. That was a very good start for me. I was lucky. They loved the characters and they liked the jokes. The plot was rubbish and we had to rewrite at least a third of it to make it hang together. I can still see the joins very strongly, you know. And there’s a few untied ends that would annoy me if I read it again.’
‘I missed The Exiles. Back then, I hadn’t started reading children’s books again. I caught up a few years later.’
‘After this interview, can I ask you some questions?’
‘Thank you.’
I laugh. ‘It’s really awful being asked questions.’
‘I know. But at least I won’t record them and write them down.’
‘You seem to have a liking for names beginning with the letter C?’
‘Casson, Cornwallis, you’re right. And Conroy as well! Conroy is an old family name, because I was very stupid when I started writing. My sister said to me “don’t you use me in any of your books,” and I said “no, I won’t,” and she got very cross and said “you didn’t even change my birthday!”’ We laugh at this. ‘That’s how naïve I was. Conroy is my grandparents’ name. I knew a family called the Cassons, and they were a nice family. I just pinched their name. Cornwallis is a good Cornish name.’
‘Yeah, sometimes you like the sound or the look of certain letters and I wondered if you had a fondness for Cs.’
‘I do think I have a fondness for Cs, because I like Catherine spelled with a C, so you’re right.’
‘Mm, Caddy.’
‘That’s true.’
‘You’re not Eve, and you’re not Caddy.’
‘Not at all. No, I’m not any of them.’
‘Would you like to be?’
‘No, I wouldn’t. I would be Bill. I would be always clearing off and leaving them. I can see his point of view all too clearly. I think they must be very irritating to live with.’
‘I checked on your blog, and there hasn’t been all that much happening.’
‘No, I get very bored with them,’ she sighs. ‘They’ve grown up, you see.’
‘I saw that even Buttercup is six.’
‘Yes, he must be because Rose is the same age as my daughter. Three months older.’
‘But Bill has hung around since then?’
‘He does hang around. I don’t think he’s got the guts to go, to be perfectly frank. He’s not a heroic character in any sense.’
‘I’m just surprised he could actually manage to do a few practical things, when he did turn up.’
‘He did, didn’t he?’ Hilary sounds surprised at this. ‘I don’t think he could do it for a long time, though. He’s not a real person.’
‘OK.’
Hilary laughs.
‘There are a lot of sisters here, the Cassons and the Conroys. Are they anything to do with you and your sisters, or the sisterhood you have with your eight university friends?’
‘Yes, probably. I have some very good friends who are like sisters to me, and I have three sisters, so I’m used to female interactions. We do talk to each other a lot, write to each other.’
‘What made you pick something like botany and zoology at university?’
‘It was always my hobby, and my dearest love is natural history and the environment. Nowadays I’d go into environmental sciences; in those days it was biology, botany, zoology, which sounded fine until you got on to dissections and things like that. I came here because I loved it and now I’m cutting it up, you know?’
‘All my friends, all of the eight, were in the arts faculty, and they used to take me to their lectures, so in the end I did English. It was a lot more flexible. The English professor was very kind and I ended up in his tutorial group, and he let me take the exams. So wasn’t I lucky?
I should really have gone and done that [English], but you don’t know when you are 16 or 17. Also my father didn’t like people not studying science. It wasn’t until my fourth sister got to university that he agreed that anybody could do a degree that wasn’t a science degree. He loved books, and he was a very well read person, but he was self-educated and he thought if you wanted to get on, you did sciences and then you did the arts for fun.’
‘Has your degree been useful in what you are doing now?’
‘Now? Yes, it has been very useful. I read a lot of English I wouldn’t have read, very old English. So that was useful. Botany and zoology kept me alive. I work with the local wildlife trust, so I still keep that going. And my first job was in a laboratory.’
‘That’s interesting. I did wonder how come you dreamed of writing, with your science background, but now that you’ve told me about the English I understand.’
‘By third year I was doing more English than the rest. I was basically bunking off, doing the arts. I dropped marine biology when we got to live dissections. They were too tough.’
‘I can sympathise with that.’
‘It’s probably illegal now, because they were on quite big animals. It wasn’t what I wanted to do, so I sort of batted in both courts. I went and did a PGCE and I thought “I don’t want to teach either” and I had to get a job, so I worked in laboratories doing chemistry, which I quite liked. I would still be doing it now if I hadn’t written books. It was useful because I couldn’t have got a lab job without science in my degree, and I couldn’t have written books without doing English. I think I did OK in the end.’
‘I read somewhere that you started writing after you had the children. Was that a “finally! I can do some writing now” moment?’
‘Does it say that? I started before I had the children. We lived in the Lake District, in a remote little village. I was working at the village pub, but I needed more money, and so I talked about it to my friend, and she said “well, you can write letters, so why don’t you write books?” We always wrote a great deal to each other. So I did write a book and that was The Exiles. I think I could have done it for a hobby if I hadn’t had children, and a full time job. Something had to go, so I let the science go, because you can’t let the children go… ‘
‘I just wondered whether the books or the children came first. What did it feel like when you were told you’d won the Whitbread?’
‘What did it feel like? Did they tell me? Oh, I’m mixing it up with something else…’
‘You’ve clearly won too many awards.’
‘Not very many awards at all. Oh, yes, I was pleased. It was on my son’s tenth birthday, and I was annoyed about that, to be honest. I think I got some money as well. They come to your house and they make films of you. Which I found intrusive, and didn’t enjoy. The Smarties was a nice one to win. It’s judged by children, and it was a lovely friendly awards ceremony. And the Guardian was gorgeous to win, because it was people I admired, and it was the first time.
I remember being blown away when I went. It was the 20th year of the prize and they had lots of past winners there. Joan Aiken was there. It was the first time I met her. And who wrote, oh his name has gone out of my head; it was about a highwayman and he rewrote Shakespeare. He’s dead now. Think hard, think hard. He wrote The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris.’
‘I don’t know that one.’
‘Oh, it’s a brilliant book! Leon Garfield!’
‘Oh, right.’
‘He was there and he was very kind to me and made me feel like a real writer. You haven’t read Leon Garfield? You’ve missed a treat. He was one of the world names of children’s writers, he was the Philip Pullman of the time. Absolutely crystalline, beautiful English, and so funny. He was a real shining star. And Joan Aiken took the trouble to talk to me and that meant a lot to me.’
‘I can understand that. To change the subject completely, do you need to do research?’
‘Yes, I do. I have to have everything right. It drives me mad… doesn’t it drive you mad when you find an inaccuracy in a book?’
‘Yes, but I just feel you write about normal life…’
‘But there are still facts in normal life. What was I researching recently? I was writing about a bird, and I had to know when it lays its eggs when they’re young. You have to know it. You have to do it properly.’
‘I agree. I just thought “what is there in your books that needs researching?”’
‘Every fact. I’m not writing fantasy so it has to be true. You have to have the same distance from the house to London that there is in your head, and you have to draw a plan of the house.’
‘Where do the Cassons live?’
‘I’m not sure. It’s north of Nottingham, but it’s not Sheffield. It’s perhaps my nearest big town which is Chesterfield, but larger. The library is the same. There’s a flat roof which I used.’
‘As large as that? Because I’d visualised something a lot smaller.’
‘Had you? I suppose because they only have their own small circuit… It’s a big town with two or three good schools as well as where they go. I always wrote about very nice places. With The Exiles they are in nice places most of the time and I thought “I wonder if you can write about people living an almost magically pleasant life in an ugly place?” If you live in it, there are still beautiful things if you look for them.
It’s like you very seldom meet a boring person, I find. Everybody has at least one interesting thing to tell you. So I deliberately set them somewhere I didn’t like to live myself, to see if things could still be beautiful. That sounds very posy, doesn’t it? A bit pretentious. It was to give myself hope as much as everybody else.’
‘I don’t think it even seems all that unpleasant.’
‘Don’t you? It always seems very gritty and rubbishy.’
‘In my mind it’s sort of neutral, not paradise, but…’
‘It’s not nice in my head. I know the street where they live.’
‘Maybe it’s that the warmth from the people shines through.’
We end up discussing where we live now.
‘I never meant to end up where we are,’ Hilary says. ‘There are some very nice people, and there are some nice places where I live. In fact, it’s very beautiful, in a boring kind of way.’
‘You must have the Peak District outside your door.’
‘Oh yes. You can walk into the most beautiful countryside. But there aren’t any theatres. There isn’t a bookshop. I hate that.’
‘Where is your nearest bookshop?’
‘There’s one at Cromford and one independent bookshop. Mostly second hand bookshops. Small rooms, lined with books. It’s good and it will get you any book, but you really have to know your way around. I am glad to have it, but it could be bigger. Then there’s a Waterstones in Chesterfield. Where’s your nearest bookshop?’
I decide this is as good a point as any to stop the interview, and call for tea to be served. I don’t want to take Hilary up on her suggestion that we go and visit ‘my’ bookshop. It would be so undignified for this kind Whitbread-Guardian prize-Smarties prize winner to be thrown out of a shop selling her books, and all because of the company she keeps.
We take our tea outside and Hilary, who has had no lunch, demolishes my odd, but newly baked scones. The weather is barely of the sitting outside kind, but we put up with it for as long as we can, almost not noticing for all the chatting we do. She pays me the compliment of forgetting the time, which of course means Hilary feels she has to apologise for staying too long.
8 responses to “Hilary McKay – ‘Most people are very nice’”
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jongleuse | September 19, 2013 at 20:58 | Reply
Hilary sounds as completely adorable as her books, Saffy’s Angel being our particular favourite.
Careful! She’ll hear you.
intersectinggeodesics | September 19, 2013 at 23:24 | Reply
I enjoyed reading this so much. Hilary McKay is one of my favourite writers and it always disappoints me how few of her books are regularly stocked on bookshop shelves. The Casson family stories are a wonder and it’s lovely to see someone else acknowledge her talents. Thanks for this!
olderthanieverintendedtobeOlderthanieverintendedtobe | September 20, 2013 at 20:54 | Reply
Wonderful. I love Hilary McKay’s books and she once wrote me a very kind note.
I meant I say but pressed post too soon that she sounds so very nice and kind which was the impression I got when she wrote to me.
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isabelburt | September 22, 2013 at 23:41 | Reply
What a lovely interview – I could almost smell the scones! It gives encouragement, but I’m not sure why – perhaps because Hilary sounds so unpretentious. I think she should try that adult book very soon.
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Roach and Wilkin get a fresh start with Rebels
Posted on September 21, 2018 by Paul Cook Leave a comment
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The Melbourne Rebels have announced a double signing, with former Waratahs Hugh Roach and Brad Wilkin heading to Victoria for the 2019 Super Rugby season.
CEO Baden Stephenson is delighted with the acquisitions.
“Our 2019 playing roster is taking shape, and we’re really pleased to complement our stocks of local talent and proven Wallabies with the injection of young quality people and players like Hugh and Brad. We narrowly missed out on the finals this year, and that has really driven a thorough review process which will see us be better in every aspect in 2019.”
For Roach, it is a chance to reignite his professional career after precious little game time with the Tahs over the last couple of seasons. Still only 26-years-old, the hooker burst onto the scene in his late teens when he gained 11 caps for the Australian Schoolboys side and represented the Aussie Under 20’s team. A stellar first season of Shute Shield rugby with Eastwood earned him the Rookie of the Year award, and he was a pivotal part of the Woodies back-to-back Premiership winning teams of 2014-15.
He debuted for the Waratahs in 2014 as they went on to lift the Super Rugby title, and went on to represent his home state on 40 occasions, while also playing more matches for the now defunct Greater Sydney Rams across four seasons of the NRC.* But he can’t wait to get stuck into his new challenge.
“I’m rapt to be able to call Melbourne home next year. The Rebels are definitely a club on the rise and I want to add real value to the squad,” he explained.
“I feel like this new challenge is the right move for my career, and it will be a great test to join the young and abrasive pack the Rebels are building. I really want to cement my spot as a permanent member of the 23 and I really can’t wait to get started.”
Wilkin is another with an established pedigree as he came through the ranks, having also pulled on the Australian Schoolboys and Aussie Under 20’s jerseys between 2012-2015, as well as being capped for the Aussie Sevens team.
Just 22, the dynamic flanker has been forced to endure a horrific start to his fledgling professional career, with his time with New South Wales severely disrupted by two ACL injuries. But he fought his way back to finally make his Super Rugby debut earlier this year, before going on to play a crucial role in Sydney University’s first Shute Shield title in five seasons just three weeks ago.**
His reward for that courage and determination is another chance to shine at the next level with the Rebels, and to say he is pleased at the opportunity would be an understatement.
“I was stoked to make my Super Rugby debut this year and to win the Shute Shield with Sydney University,” he said. “I want to continue to improve and have huge aspirations of what I want to achieve in Rugby and I have heard great things about the program in Melbourne that makes me want to be a part of it.”
“I’ve had a frustrating couple of years with injury, but I’ve got my body right and I really want to repay the faith the Rebels have put in me with my performances on the park for them over the next two years.”
*To find out a little more about Roach, here’s an article from his time in the NRC last season with the now defunct Greater Sydney Rams.
**You can read about the arduous journey Wilkin and fellow injured Waratah Matt Sandell went on together, here.
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was first published in 1906 after several rejections. In his book, Sinclair brought to light a number of issues affecting the American society during the beginning of the 20th century. The issues range from extreme poverty, corruption that was deeply rooted, a lack of social support from the government, poor living and working conditions among others that form the themes projected by the book. The Main character is an immigrant named Jurgis Rudkus, who moved to the USA together with his wife and extended family to pursue the American dream. The issues portrayed by Sinclair in the book are brought forward by what happens to Jurgis family; the Jungle was the result of a seven week investigation of the Chicago stock yard exposing a multitude abuses that were being mete on the middle class and in particular the immigrants (Van Horn, Schaffer 495-501 & Chastain 438-444).
During that time the society and in particular the government of the USA refuted the existence of such issues as portrayed by Sinclair because the issues were indeed damaging to the greatest capitalist state in the world at that time. The image of the USA was good; business was good despite the suffering of the middle class/ workers in the society. One of the industries highlighted is the meat packing industry in Chicago. After the publication of the book the meat industry in the USA was said to have experienced a drop in foreign sales. Therefore the issues highlighted became the basis of many protests and political campaigns at the time and legislation were put in place due to public demand mainly because of the rotten that had been exposed within the Chicago Stock yard. Upton Sinclair was described as a communist of varying degrees but the issues he highlighted in this book affected the whole society communist or not therefore prompting the then government to take necessary action in order to bring the industry into scrutiny and to improve the various aspects as depicted (Bloom 89-95).
Immigration and the issues affecting immigrants are clearly brought up in this book. To begin with the main character Jurgis and his family are immigrants from Lithuania. In the book it’s said that they came to the USA in pursuit of the good life. They came in America where one can work had and see the benefits of their hard work literally. America to them was therefore the proverbial land of milk and honey; here the family knew they could depend on Jurgis who could be able to work and support the whole family. In America they are promised high wages a good life better tan the one they had in Lithuania. America to them is therefore a land of promise and hope. Here a lot of false hope and naivety can be seen on the part of Jurgis who is described as a naïve but optimistic man who has a high sense of personal integrity. Soon after wards he come face to face to the reality that is the capitalist America. To begin with they make a lot of wrong decisions due to the fact that they are naïve and new to America secondly they end up being conned and all their money gets stolen by unscrupulous Dealers who target such families that have some money but don’t have the experience of the real America. This the author has used to depict the fallacy that is the American dream. The image that America portrays out to the rest of the world is that of hope and stability but the reality is anything but. In the case of Jurgis and his family, they come face to face with all the ills that meet the immigrant who has no means of survival. They even fall pray to the people with the resources and gradually but surely become what has been described and a ‘wage slave’ (Van Horn, Schaffer 495-501). This family therefore ends up being poor and derelict because they are immigrants and poor. Sinclair has clearly brought this to the fore by describing in detail the issues that the Jurgis family goes through due to the fact that they are immigrants. Soon after wards the Lithuanian family that carried itself with high moral standards falls prey to the evils of the society just to make ends meet. The issue of immigration has been of concern in the USA for quite some time; this is quite contradicting considering that America was formed by immigrants from Europe. The lack of a clear government has been blamed for all this issues as Sinclair depicts the rot in the society. In this case it was the society that exploits the immigrants and not the government and the lack therefore of the available resources (Bloom 89-95). Sinclair goes to great lengths to paint a clear picture of this society. He in his book doesn’t attack the American dream but rather blames the lack of morals and the disintegration of the family to show a belief that capitalism and the sense of individualism is wrong and to blame for the problems the immigrants faced at time.
Living and Working Conditions
The second portrayed theme is the living and working conditions. This is directly linked to poverty on a number of levels. To begin with, the plight of the middle class is clearly portrayed by the poor living conditions and the lack of various social amenities. The link to poverty comes in when you look at the working conditions that Jurgis has to endue and the wage that he receives. That is why they are called the wage slaves because they end up doing anything for the little money that they receive. Working conditions can be portrayed but the Chicago Stock yard and the meat plant. The workers are clearly neglected and the authorities can’t do anything about it because they are corrupt to the core; instead of ensuring that the plant is clean and that the workers needs are as per standard they take bribes for themselves. The conditions described are simply bad. Living conditions are support by the presence of public social facilities that are meant to fill the gap created by the emergence of class. Such Amenities include schools and hospitals. To depict the horrible living conditions, Sinclair vividly describes the death of his wife Ona during child birth because he can’t afford taking her to a hospital where she can be taken care of. The death of his wife and later of his son who drowns in mud in the streets clearly breaks Jurgis spirit and he moves away from the city to the rural community in the USA. Here he still faces the same hardships as jobs are hard to find and the immigrants are still exploited (Sinclair, Degrave 60-80).
The theme of sanitation is depicted clearly when Sinclair describes the death of Jurgis’ young son. The sanitation is so bad that a newly born child can literally drown in the mud. This depicts the neglect by the authorities and in effect the leaders further showing the pathetic living conditions that the poor had to face in the USA. They were kept like cattle in the stock yard; exposed to all manner of problems most of which could be solved like the sanitation. Secondly sanitation can be portrayed by the conditions of the stock yard and the meat packing company. In his book Sinclair describes the plant as dirty and neglected; workers could fall into the grinder and they could be canned together with the lard for the market. This issues as portrayed in the book could latter provoke the public leading to unrest and social protest. Eventually the proper legislation would be put in place (Sinclair, Degrave 60-80).
Corruption is the other theme portrayed in the Jungle. The meat packing industry was described as derelict. There was no order and therefore anything went as long as the right people were bribed. In the book, the industry was supposed to slaughter healthy animals and in effected make sausages and other meat products but this was not the case. The sausages were made by a potato product that had no food value at all and the animals were fed whiskey malt that rendered them sickly and unfit to eat. But still the company continued to run despite all this problems within the industry. Sinclair goes further to say that the animals were kept in very bad conditions despite the fact that there was an official who was supposed to over see that the animals were kept in neat conditions. The animals died in transit and this did not stop the industry from processing them. All this depict the deeply rooted corruption such that the officials are not worried about what people eat; it seems that they forgot that they too would eventually have to eat the same products they failed to over see (Carrol 252-270).
In effect the Jungle has tried to show the evils of a capitalist society that has done everything to subject the working class/ middle class to every social evil known to man. Sinclair is described as a communist who tried to influence the society and show the evils of capitalism but the message failed to impact he people at the time accordingly. The Jungle puts into perspective the said society by pointing out the various issues the Jurgis family faced having left the State of Lithuania then a communist state.
In conclusion, the Jungle is an interesting description of the capitalist tendencies of the USA. To do this the Jungle describes the life of an immigrant who comes into the USA in pursuit of the American dream only to find that the dream is false and only applies to the few who are described as rich (owners of the resources). All in all from the jungle we can draw several conclusions that affect us s human beings today. First is the fact that the society is only safe from evils if we all do our part accordingly. That is by ensuring the proper laws are followed to the letter, secondly that we are all responsible for our leadership and consequently for what the leadership provides to us as the society.
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in a former council, between yourself & brother
Ambrose Palmer
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, informing us, that in a council where brother
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presided, according to the office of his appointment, as president of this branch of the church of the Latter-Day-Saints. You, when requested by him to be seated refused to submit to his decision, but spoke disrespectfully of our brother, while acting in his calling, which has occasioned a wound in this conference. It is the decision of this conference that you come before the church (as you are not present to do it at this conference) and make the proper confession required in the Law of the Lord. Why I say, disrespectfully, is because, when you were requested to be seated and desist speaking, you said that you had as much right to speak as he (
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Joseph B. Bosworth
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Dr Eva Duda-Mikulin is an academic with extensive research and lecturing experience. Eva assisted with and/or coordinated a number of qualitative and quantitative research projects within the broad disciplines of social policy and sociology. She previously taught on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Salford.
Until recently, Eva worked as Senior Research Associate at Manchester Metropolitan University. Prior to that she worked as Research Associate for the Welfare Conditionality project at the University of York. Before then, Eva was Research Assistant at Sustainable Housing and Urban Studies Unit at the University of Salford.
Prior to starting her academic career, Eva worked in the voluntary community sector with some of the most disadvantaged communities (e.g. migrants, asylum seekers, refugees). Eva is passionate about working with marginalised communities using participatory methods in order to achieve greater social justice.
PhD in Social Policy - 2015 - University of Salford
MA in Human Rights and Political Science - 2009 - University of Manchester
MA in Sociology - 2008 - University of Zielona Gora
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Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (under contract-2019). EU migrant workers, Brexit and precarity. Polish women’s perspectives from inside the UK. Monograph. Bristol: Policy Press.
Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (2018). Migrant women’s welfare in times of crisis. In T. Fouskas (Ed.) Migrants and Refugees in Times of Crisis. European Public Law Organisation.
Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (2018). Gendered mobilities and precarity post-Brexit. Special Issue of Migration and Development.
Refereed articles:
Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (2017). ‘Should I stay or should I go now?’ Exploring Polish women’s returns “home”. International Migration. Doi: 10.1111/imig.12420.
Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (2014). Interviewing Polish Migrant Women in the United Kingdom and Poland. In SAGE Research Methods Cases. London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications, Ltd. doi: 10.4135/978144627305014529524.
Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (2013). Migration as opportunity? A case study of Polish women: migrants in the UK and returnees in Poland. Problemy Polityki Społecznej (Eng.: Social Policy Issues), 23(4), pp. 105-121.
Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (2013). Citizenship in action? A case study of Polish migrant women moving between Poland and the UK. Culture & Education, 6(99), pp. 205-224.
Research reports:
Ahmed, A., Brown, P., Duda-Mikulin, E., Martin, P. & Scullion, L. (2015). Destination Integration: Third Country Nationals in the North of England. Final report. Salford: University of Salford.
Ahmed, A., Brown, P., Duda-Mikulin, E., Martin, P. & Scullion, L. (2015). Destination Integration: Third Country Nationals in the North of England. Summary report. Salford: University of Salford.
Brown, P., Scullion, L., Ahmed, A., Martin, P. & Duda-Mikulin, E. (2015). Integration Up North Research. Interim Briefing Note. Salford: University of Salford.
Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (2011). The Legacy of Legacy Research Project. From Law into Practice: Making the Equality Act Work. Final research report. Manchester: Oxfam GB.
Scullion, L., Duda-Mikulin, E.A., Temple, B., Griffiths, T., Stawiarski, S. & Stankiewicz, K. (2010). Greater Manchester Mapping Exercise: Exploring the needs and experiences of Central and Eastern European (CEE) Migrants. Manchester: Europia – the Forum for European Migrants.
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Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (2018). “I love the UK but it broke my heart and I will leave”. Speculating about Brexodus. Gender, Place & Culture 25-year anniversary blog series.
Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (2018). Does Brexit mean my exit? A lack of consideration for women migrants in light of post-Brexit-vote uncertainty. The UK Social Policy Association 50-for-50-years blog series.
Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (2017). The diary of a bargaining chip. MetroPolis. Manchester Metropolitan University.
Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (2015). The EU referendum and the UK migration policy. Queries, 8, pp. 50-52.
Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (2012). Passive follower or active decision maker? Female migration. RISE Magazine, May/June, p. 50.
Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (2011). Will welfare changes encourage benefit tourism? Bottomline Magazine, Spring/Summer, p. 8.
Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (2011). Is British flour really so bad? Migrants’ Rights Network, Migration Pulse October.
Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (2011). Why are Polish migrants reluctant to return home? Migrants’ Rights Network, Migration Pulse September.
Duda-Mikulin, E.A. (2011). Homeless A8 nationals – are they better off after May? Migrants’ Rights Network, Migration Pulse July.
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Located along the U.S. 12 Heritage Route (Sauk Trail).
The city reflects a unique balance of past and present, featuring many fine old turn-of-the-twentieth century homes. The village, and later, city of Coldwater enjoyed a booming economy filled with rapid retail development and industry of many types.
Coldwater was originally platted by two of the earliest settlers, Allen Tibbits and Joseph Hanchett. The newly laid out village was originally called Lyons after the New York home of Allen Tibbits. The first Treaty of Chicago establish an Indian Reservation (Mickesawbe) that included all the land that would become village of Coldwater (taken from the Potawatomie name chuck-saw-ya-bish which meant cold running water). The second Treaty of Chicago (1833) traded the land to the settlers and eliminated the presence of the reservation.
The village would become the county seat of the new County of Branch. In 1861 the incorporation transitioned from a village to a city.
The community militia which functioned as a light artillery unit became the 1st Michigan Light Artillery at the commencement of the Civil War. Branch County sent a significant number of its men to the Civil War as part of Infantry, artillery and cavalry units. One of the most well-known of these units was the 1st Michigan Light Artillery, and its Battery A unit which would become known as the Loomis Battery. It was under the command of Coldwaterite, Cyrus Loomis.
Many Victorian Era homes can be seen by touring the city. Some noteworthy buildings would include the Wing House Museum, the Tibbits Opera House and the Masonic Temple which was the former Lewis Art Gallery.
The Tibbits Opera House was built in 1882
The Wing House Museum was built by the Chandler family in 1875
THE LITTLE RIVER RAILROAD Branch County & Branch County Courthouse Site
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Katie Swinton | President
Katharine.Swinton.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kswinton/
Katie graduated from Villanova University with a pep in her step, ready to take on the sports world. She picked up freelance jobs at NBC Sports and MLB Network, and ultimately landed a full time job at ESPN. There, she cut SportsCenter highlights for every sport imaginable, the highlights (pun intended) being Super Bowl 50 and the Kansas-Oklahoma 3 OT game. After two years with ESPN, Katie took her talents to City Year where she planned service days for corporations and community partners in the DC public schools. However, she missed the entertainment industry and decided to pursue an MBA in order to fuse her passion for entertainment and social justice with the goal of landing a content strategy role in new media, television and/or film.
Summer Internship: Business Development, Creative Artists Agency
Steph Danis | VP, Alumni Relations
Stephanie.Danis.2021@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephdanis/
Prior to Marshall, Stephanie worked in event production and operations for experiential marketing campaigns and large-scale music festivals. She has led teams in Festival Production, Artist Relations and Sponsorship across events like SXSW, Desert Trip, and Coachella. Stephanie’s passion for the music industry began as an undergrad after interning at Columbia Records in New York. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor's in English Literature from St.Peter's University in New Jersey. Stephanie decided to pursue her MBA in order to develop quantitative skills and analytical frameworks essential to guiding her transition from an operations role in entertainment to a strategy role across media, entertainment, and technology. When not involved with Marshall activities, Stephanie likes to spend her free time binge-watching television, taking spin classes, and going to concerts.
Current Job: Strategy and Business Development, Revolution Marketing
Rafael Liou | VP, Alumni Relations
Rafael.Liou.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafaliou/
With more than 9 years of experience in the Advertising industry, Rafa is passionate about connecting brands and people. After getting his BS in Social Communications from Universidade Católica do Salvador in Brazil, he worked for local and global Advertising agencies serving clients such as IBM, Nestlé, Chevrolet and PepsiCo by crafting marketing strategies and delivering innovative, creative campaigns. Rafa would like to combine his two biggest passions, Entertainment & Marketing, in the future. He believes that his customer-centric approach and media platforms knowledge will be extremely relevant for companies’ sustainable growth in such a disrupted industry. Rafa is also a professional theater actor, having founded his own independent theater group and participated in four plays in Brazil.
Summer Internship: Brand Marketing, YouTube
Amanda Salvest | VP, Alumni Relations
Amanda.Salvest.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-salvest/
Amanda is a business professional interested in the entertainment industry, specifically international distribution and marketing for film. She has five years of experience in project management and client services at a firm that provides language and technology solutions. This Spring she has been interning for NBCUniversal in their Content Distribution team and will continue to work for them this Summer. She has lived and worked in five countries and is proficient in French, Spanish and Mandarin. Amanda has demonstrated a high-level of cultural sensitivity through her experience coordinating teams of linguists and project managers around the globe. She plans to leverage her background in international management and creative problem solving to pivot into an international marketing role at a studio, distribution company or media service provider after graduation.
Summer Internship: Content Distribution, NBCUniversal
Bridget Kennedy | VP, Community
Bridget.Kennedy.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bridgetakennedy/
Bridget spent the four years prior to business school working for a nonprofit in the entertainment industry where she had the privilege of combining her two favorite things - affecting social change and making television! Bridget worked on many live specials, including Stand Up To Cancer, that aired on over fifty networks. It was then that Bridget realized the power of media to shape our culture and create systemic change, leading her to pursue her MBA. After school, Bridget seeks to move into a strategy role for a network or a studio where she can work to bring new and innovative ideas to the forefront of pop culture. In her free time, Bridget enjoys hiking with her two dogs, traveling, and bingeing TV shows.
Summer Internship: Business Development & Strategic Planning, Paramount Pictures
Ossie Kishlanski | VP, Community
Ossie.Kishlanski.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ossiekishlanski/
Ossie Kishlanski is an entertainment professional with experience both domestically and internationally. Prior to beginning her MBA at USC Marshall, Ossie graduated from the film production program at Chapman University and worked at different production companies, agencies and ultimately, Viacom's subsidiary in Israel, where she focused on international business development. Now at USC, Ossie serves as the VP of Community for BEA, and is excited to spend her summer at the Strategic Planning and Business Development department at Paramount.
Courtney Zhang | VP, Data & Technology
Qian.Zhang.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtney-zhang-marshall-usc/
Courtney is a business development professional specializing in emerging markets in the entertainment industry. Prior to Marshall, she worked in designing and building the largest Universal theme park and resort in China on multiple teams of corporate sponsorship, market research and project management. There, she worked on and completed a complex 13-contract international negotiation, one of the largest theme park deal. She worked on setting up the Sino-American JV structure, building up financial modeling and grew the local team from single digit to over 1,000.
Here at Marshall, Courtney is pursuing a career in the intersection of media and entertainment with a focus on international deals, especially ones related to emerging markets. With her passion in the entertainment industry as well as her growing knowledge in technology and investment, she is also tapping into the world on venture management in the inter-sector of media and technology.
On campus, you’ll find her either in the Courtyard chatting with her fellow Trojans or in meeting rooms working with teammates. Outside of Marshall, you’ll find her in Karaoke bars, in her apartment singing or going on different cultural events. Some of her recent favorite movie/shows: Good Will Hunting, The Age of Spin: Dave Chappelle Live at the Hollywood Palladium, Chef’s Table, Master of None.
Summer Internship: Marketing Strategy, Universal Studios Hollywood
Benjamin Wells | VP, EMBA Relations
Benjamin.Wells.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebenwells/
Benjamin Wells has been a Writer / Producer, Entertainment Marketing Creative at ABC since February 2015. In this position, Wells is responsible for overseeing the production of marketing content for the ABC brand as well as top priority launch campaigns (i.e. Modern Family, The Bachelor Franchise, Roseanne, The Conners, Black-ish, & ABC Funny to name a few). He has been the lead producer on high profile 360-degree marketing campaigns, which resulted in a track record of continuously beating sales projections. Wells is a founding member of the ABC F.I.R.S.T leadership team: A select group of highly driven individuals striving to make ABC Entertainment Marketing more competitive.
Before joining ABC, Wells was a Writer/Producer for CBS Radio. At CBS, he was responsible for the brand image of JACK FM, producing EPK style interviews for Radio.com, and producing promotional B2B recap videos of sales events. Wells wrote thousands of topical and evergreen comedic one-liners weekly for the nationwide imaging of JACK FM, leading to an increase in overall ratings for the station in key demos. He also created video content for KROQ, KTWV, KRTH, KCBS and Radio.com driving web-site views and supporting sales with content to increase add revenue.
In addition to his work in marketing, Wells has worked as an independent producer/actor, playing lead and supporting roles in award winning SAG/ AFTRA signatory projects. He has also produced SAG/AFTRA signatory projects including award winning feature length films and a weekly web-series with millions of impressions.
Wells has an extensive background in improvisational comedy, completing professional programs at the Upright Citizens Brigade and Groundlings.
Wells earned his Bachelor degree from The UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television in 2003 and is currently working on his MBA at The USC Marshall School of Business as part of the Executive MBA class of 2020.
Current Job: Writer / Producer, Entertainment Marketing, ABC Television
Josh Cron | VP, Events
Joshua.Cron.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-cron/
Josh graduated from the University of South Carolina (the other USC) with a degree in Hospitality Management. After brief stints in event management and PR/marketing software sales, he spent the majority of his pre-MBA career as a management consultant in Washington D.C. working for Accenture. At Marshall, Josh has focused on developing the skills, experience, and network necessary to transition into the entertainment industry. In his free time, Josh enjoys playing basketball, seeing live music, and binge-watching shows.
Summer Internship: Deal Analysis, Paramount Pictures
Katelin Stidham | VP, Events
Katelin.Stidham.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/katelinstidham/
Katelin is an experienced leader with a passion for sharing creativity with others. After graduating from the University of Louisville with a degree in Music Education, she taught music for four years, transforming the curriculum across grade levels, directing musicals and orchestral performances, and introducing her young students to the joys of making music. Katelin is focusing her MBA studies on corporate finance and strategy. Katelin enjoys playing her flute, exploring the outdoors, and talking with others about their experiences.
Jay Lehoczky | VP, Finance
Jay.Lehoczky.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-lehoczky/
Jay attended the University of Arkansas, where he majored in International Business with an emphasis in Economics. Upon completion of his undergraduate degree, Jay moved back to his hometown of Kansas City, where he spent the past 4 years working as a consultant for a healthcare technology firm. While at Marshall, Jay is pursuing coursework in Finance and Corporate Strategy. He is actively involved with the Business of Entertainment Association, Marshall Sports Business Organization, and Special Olympics. In his free time, Jay enjoys traveling, photography, and cheering on the Kansas City Chiefs.
Summer Internship: Summer Associate - Investment Management, Goldman Sachs
Stephen Manney | VP, Learning & Development
Stephen.Manney.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenmanney/
Stephen is recognized across the Midwest and Northeast regions of the United States for his on-air contributions as an award-winning local television sports director. Behind the scenes, his creative management made him instrumental in increasing viewership and revenue for several stations across the country. These successes inspired Stephen to drive change on a grander scale while enhancing his skillset at USC Marshall.
With an emphasis on business development and strategy in the television and new media sectors, Stephen’s goal is to help media companies navigate industry change in the increasingly digital era. He has partnered with NFL Media, where his insights and recommendations drive National Football League programming and monetization decisions. He is a massive Michigan sports fan and hopes to live long enough to see the Detroit Lions win the Super Bowl.
Jeff Riecke | VP, Learning & Development
Jeffrey.Riecke.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyriecke/
Jeff attended the University of Michigan for his undergraduate studies, where he received a dual degree in Environmental Studies and Psychology. After graduating he moved to Washington, D.C., where he spent his career to-date creating and scaling digital marketing channels for social impact organizations. Jeff enrolled at Marshall to pursue a career change into the entertainment industry. He’s particularly interested in how the entertainment experience is changing through the advent of disruptive technologies like streaming, AR and VR. New to LA, in his free time Jeff enjoys exploring the city’s live music scene and learning how to surf.
Summer Internship: Product Manager, Discovery Communications
Amy Shen | VP, Marketing
Amy.Shen.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-shen-usc/
Amy graduated from Michigan State University with degrees in marketing and psychology. Prior to pursuing her MBA at Marshall, she spent four years in market research, managing projects for automotive clients to gain insights into their consumers. Amy is pursuing coursework in marketing and entertainment, to ultimately transition into a brand or franchise management role in the entertainment industry. In her free time, Amy enjoys reading, watching movies, traveling, and photography.
Summer Internship: Global Consumer Insights and Consumer Strategy, NBCUniversal
Vivian Fowler | VP, Recuitment
Vivian.Fowler.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivian-fowler/
At her core, Vivian is passionate about understanding the human mind and how we develop as a society. Before arriving at USC Marshall, she worked in the Entertainment and Consumer Goods industries, building both creative and analytical skills in TV production, branding, and media strategy. Throughout her career, Vivian developed the ability to adapt to fast-paced environments and delivered sustainable results under tight time constraints in Argentina, Brazil, Ireland, and the US.
Vivian believes in the power that storytelling has to generate empathy and connect people, and in her free time she tries to be as close to storytelling as she can by watching movies and series, acting, singing, and dancing.
Summer Internship: Strategic Account Specialist, Google
Lisa Swank | VP, Recuitment
Lisa.Swank.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-j-swank/
Lisa is a strategic management professional with experience in both technical engineering and entertainment sectors. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Lisa graduated from Rice University with a degree in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. She worked as a project manager for a multimillion-dollar workstream at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, developing innovative applications and keeping offshore platforms running. Here at Marshall, Lisa is studying coursework in Corporate Finance, Strategy, and the Business of Entertainment Certificate. She is pursuing a career pivot to Strategy & Finance in the Entertainment Industry, with a strong inclination for Theme Parks. From an early age, Lisa has been frequently drawn to theme parks around the world, which started with her frequent trips to Disney World, Six Flags, and Universal Studios growing up. When she is not visiting Disneyland on the weekend, Lisa is unravelling those hard-to-solve puzzles in the business world, practicing yoga, and catching up on the latest movies.
Lloyd Keith | VP, USC Outreach
Frederick.Keith.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederick-keith/
Collecting degrees like Thanos does Infinity Stones, Frederick Lloyd Keith II, Esq. is a man of many names, and even more degrees. Prior to attending USC, Lloyd was an Assistant District Attorney in Houston. He tried over twenty jury trials first chair including a case where his cross examination led the defendant to confess on the stand. Despite confessing to the crime, the defendant refused to admit to ordering the Code Red. Lloyd specialized in financial crimes but also tried aggravated felonies like murder. He has since learned that people become uncomfortable whenever he mentions murders.
Growing up he was an avid actor. At The University of Texas School of Law he was a writer for Assault & Flattery, a musical theater company at the law school that produced Broadway shows written by and starring law students. Even after law school the fire for theater and film remained constant in him. Inspired by USC alum Ryan Coogler, Lloyd decided it was time to pivot careers and come to Hollywood. As the VP of USC Outreach, Lloyd is tasked with bringing together USC students who have that same burning passion for entertainment. He is interested in the emergence of streaming distribution and content creation, and enjoys storytelling, karaoke, and cat memes.
Summer Internship: Senior Program Manager, Amazon
Courtney Poey | VP, Program Outreach
Courtney.Poey.2020@marshall.usc.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtney-poey-76006885/
Courtney is currently pursuing her Master of Science in Social Entrepreneurship with a passion for intertwining entertainment and social impact. Prior to Marshall, Courtney received a BA in Film-TV-Digital Media from TCU (Go Frogs), worked in fundraising and development at the Boys & Girls Clubs, and produced live events for a small event production company in Texas. Her time outside of school since moving to Los Angeles has been spent associate producing an indie feature film and interning with United Talent Agency. Courtney can’t get enough of sunshine, palm trees and coffee, and favorite movies/TV shows of hers include Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Good Place, and Parks & Recreation.
Current Job: Intern, United Talent Agency
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In Memory of Robert Anderson PhD (4 February 1942 to 5 December 2008)
Robert Anderson (Bob) was a Quaker, teacher, writer, a member of Amnesty International, a Theosophist, and supporter of peace movements and disarmament. He believed in the right of everyone to have freedom of speech and religion.
Bob was a Trustee of Physicians and Scientists for Global Responsibility New Zealand, a Charitable Trust (www.psgr.org.nz), and in retirement spent a decade working to meet the public's right to be independently informed on a range of subjects. He was passionate about making this world a better place for the generations to come.
CONNECTED features much of his work. Enquiries contact connectedenquiries@gmail.com
Science : Health : Energy
Is there a connection? Or are they mutually exclusive?
Every particle consists of all other particles – not in the static sense that each of them contains all others – but that they are not separate entities; they are inter-related energy patterns in organized dynamic processes involving one another.
Mundaka Upanishad 111-1-7, 7th to 5th Centuries BC
In the earliest writings, the inter-relatedness, the connectedness of all things was taken as fact. Thousands of years later, researchers have begun to accept this premise and find the early theories are scientifically tenable. Many acknowledge that physics and metaphysics will combine.
David Bohm (1917-94) was a theoretical physicist and viewed the world through this re-emerging paradigm. He challenged conventional understanding, combining a radical view of physics, a deep spiritual understanding, and a profound humanity to redefine physics. Physics, he believed, was not about prediction and control, or mathematical equations; it was about nature and our understanding of it. Bohm envisioned a world of interconnectedness and interdependence, of direct and instantaneous communication, and believed in a world that was meaningful, intelligent and spiritual.
CONNECTED offers research, philosophies, experiences, and much more. These will not spell out answers, but may help amateur researchers add links to their chain of knowledge and arrive at their own conclusions.
Our Universe is a sorry little affair, unless it has something for every age to investigate. Nature does not reveal her mysteries once for all.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, IcI. 4 BC to 65 AD.
General enquiries contact connectedenquiries@gmail.com
Books by Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson Memorial Award
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Presented by Jonathan Kharfen, Brian Meade, and Jonathan Tallman
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Describe the implementation of building design strategies using natural and man-made masonry materials, including limestone, brick, and manufactured stone, employed in the two featured projects.
Define the aesthetic, environmental, structural, and safety benefits of a variety of masonry materials and techniques in contemporary building design.
Explain the basic focus of the overall design and construction process behind the highlighted projects.
Discuss specific goals, challenges, and solutions employed in the design of two featured U.S. projects.
This course is part of the Masonry Academy
This webinar is part of the Masonry Academy
This webinar will explore the innovative masonry design strategies used in two recent U.S. design projects: Museum at Prairiefire and the Glen Ellyn Police Department. These projects epitomize the aesthetic and structural performance benefits of a variety of masonry materials and techniques being used in contemporary structures.
Jonathan Kharfen, AIA, LEED, principal with Boston-based Verner Johnson – Museum Architects & Planners, will present on the Museum at Prairiefire located in Overland Park, Kansas. The state-of-the-art 41,000-square-foot museum, which opened in 2014, has earned several awards and has achieved LEED Silver certification. A work of art in its own right, the fiery design of this dazzling, colorful museum features regionally sourced natural limestone and man-made masonry.
Jonathan Tallman, AIA, GGP, GPCP, senior project manager, and Brian Meade, AIA, LEED AP, principal, both of Dewberry, will present on the Glen Ellyn Police Station project. Jonathan is Dewberry’s regional public safety director in the Midwest, specializing in public safety and health-care architecture; Brian is the firm's national public safety facility segment leader and design director for the Elgin, Illinois, office as well as a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. The project more than doubled the size of the previous facility and was carefully designed with input from the department to meet its needs and above all improve safety. As part of a design-build team, Dewberry designed the new, 29,000-square-foot facility, which features a number of masonry choices.
Photo courtesy of Prairiefire Museum
A native Bostonian, Jonathan Kharfen, Principal AIA, LEED AP, studied classical piano before turning to architecture at age 22. After receiving his Bachelor of Science at MIT and Master of Architecture at Harvard, he has worked most of his career at Verner Johnson. Jonathan’s recent projects include the Museum at Prairiefire in Overland Park, Kansas, and the Monroe Science Center in Monroe, North Carolina.
Brian Meade, Principal AIA, LEED AP, serves as Dewberry’s national public safety facilities market leader and design director for the Elgin, Illinois, office. He has more than 20 years of experience as an innovative designer and planner for more than 40 award-winning civic and public safety projects. Meade holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in architecture from the University of Illinois.
Jonathan Tallman, Associate AIA, GGP, GPCP, is a senior project manager in the Elgin, Illinois, office and Dewberry’s Midwest regional public safety director. He has 16 years of experience designing municipal and health-care projects, with specialized focus on the planning and design of public safety facilities, including police, 911 communication, and fire stations. Tallman holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Kansas.
Echelon is the consolidated brand for all masonry products and services of Oldcastle Architectural including Trenwyth® Architectural Masonry, Artisan Masonry Stone Veneers®, Quik-Brik® Concrete Masonry Units, Amerimix® Bagged Goods and a complete portfolio of Performance Upgrades. As a single source masonry portfolio solution, Echelon delivers consistent, reliable product manufactured locally at more than 170 locations and delivered by an unrivaled logistics network. For more information, call (844) 495-8211 or visit EchelonMasonry.com
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About Us > History >
Wyncote was developed as a wealthy residential neighborhood in the late 1880s. The general borders of the district are Glenview Avenue, the SEPTA railroad line, Webster Avenue and Church Road. The district itself was created in a piecemeal fashion by six different developers as four distinct developments:
Wyncote Village, the Redfield development, the Walt development, and the Tyson development. Lots were subdivided and well-known architects such as Horace Trumbauer and Frank Furness designed many of the residences. The most popular building style was Queen Anne, although Second Empire, Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival styles can also be found in the district. Deed restrictions were written to include minimum building costs, lot sizes, and setbacks. Thus, it was ensured that the area would remain an exclusive suburb. The Wyncote Improvement Association was also established in the 1890s to further this goal. By 1915, most of the lots had been developed.
The district also contains several non-residential buildings. All Hallows Episcopal Church, designed by Frank Furness, built in 1897, and the Calvary Presbyterian Church, built in 1899, were designed in the English Gothic style. The Wyncote-Jenkintown Train Station and waiting room, designed by Horace Trumbauer, are also included in the district because of the railroad’s contribution to the growth of the community.
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Government Interest in Hemp Diversity Signals Strong Future for American Cannabis Industry
CannabisNewsWire (CNW) CannabisNewsWire Release June 13, 2018 June 13, 2018 9 Minutes
CannabisNewsWire Editorial Coverage: Recent U.S. government interest in ensuring industrial hemp supply signals a period of growth for the cannabinoid industry. Marijuana Company of America Inc. (OTC: MCOA) (MCOA Profile) is contributing to this growth through new hemp cultivation projects in both Canada and the U.S., to support its hempSMART subsidiary. Cronos Group Inc. (TSX: CRON) (NASDAQ: CRON) is benefiting from a cross-border venture that gives it access to new scientific advances and has seen its shares reach top exchanges. Canopy Growth Corporation (TSX: WEED) (NYSE: CGC) has secured government licensing needed to become one of Canada’s leading retailers, while acquiring a subsidiary company in Lesotho to cater to an international market. Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX: ACB) (OTCQX: ACBFF) has announced a new range of products that provide medical cannabis with a high concentration of active ingredients. OrganiGram Holdings Inc. (TSX-V: OGI) (OTCQB: OGRMF) has struck a deal for access to advanced extraction technology, while also gaining a license to export its products to Australia.
Senate Signals Support for Cannabis Seedbank
The United States government has a complicated relationship with cannabis. Since the mid-20th Century, it has clamped down on the use of the plant for any purpose, particularly during the “war on drugs” from the 1980s onward. Over the past decade, some states have legalized the farming and sale of the cannabis sativa plant either as medicine, as a recreational drug, or in the form of industrial hemp. But the federal government has remained reticent about shifting its stance.
It seems that perceptions are now changing. The Senate Appropriations Committee, one of the most powerful bodies in government, has acknowledged the growing importance of industrial hemp for American farmers and called for the creation of a hemp seed back. Half a million dollars will be spent ensuring that America has a genetically strong stock of high quality hemp seeds, to support both farmers and researchers.
Building Better Strains
While the committee’s plan to build up seed stocks is intended to support the national interest, some companies are already working on improving industrial hemp growth for reasons of self-interest. Developing a diverse range of strains, each tailored to different purposes, is important for these companies. Industrial hemp is often valued for the quality of its fibres and the medicinal cannabinoids that can be extracted from the plant and implementing better growing techniques can lead to improved crops yields.
Among the companies looking to create more efficient hemp yields is the Marijuana Company of America (MCOA Profile). A company with a diverse portfolio of investments and joint ventures in the cannabis and industrial hemp sectors, MCOA is involved in several projects intended to improve the plants available to producers and consumers.
Together with the Global Hemp Group, MCOA has launched a project to encourage industrial hemp cultivation in New Brunswick. Previous attempts to develop the industry in the region failed twenty years ago, but now the market for the product has grown. The aim is to develop an industrial cluster around the hemp crop, ensuring a market for farmers, consistent job opportunities, and to implement the proper structure to develop Hemp Agro-Industrial Zones, or HAIZ, projects in other areas.
Scientific testing to improve the growing process is an important part of HAIZ. This has been made possible through cooperation with the Canadian government’s Department of Aquaculture Agriculture and Fisheries (DAAF). The department will be contributing fertilizers to the project and carrying out fertility trials on reserved plots of land. Together with soil testing and crop rotation, this will help to develop more fertile organic growing conditions for the hemp.
With legalization of the extraction of cannabinoids from industrial hemp on the horizon, Canada is an important market for cannabinoid-based companies. Recreational use alone is expected to contribute $900 million to the industry, which already serves medical users in Canada. The work in New Brunswick gives MCOA an important foothold in this market.
More Facilities for a Growing Market
The collaboration with GHG is now taking place on both sides of the border, thanks to the establishment of a new industrial hemp project in Scio, Oregon. Once again, the companies are collaborating to create a facility that will push forward techniques in hemp cultivation while providing a steady profit.
The heart of this operation is a 109-acre property in the Willamette Valley, a fertile area with a recent history of successful cannabis cultivation. The site has soil rich in organic matter and established irrigation infrastructure, meaning that it is well set to support a new agricultural project. The use of high yield hemp clones will help to maximise the output of the project.
Multiple approaches to cultivation will feed into the Scio facility’s output. Traditional outdoor cultivation will take place alongside five greenhouses, which will provide over 19,000 square feet of indoor growing space. This will ensure a year-round supply of hemp.
As in New Brunswick, data collection and analysis will play an important part at the farm in Oregon. By checking on the performance of the growing techniques and the quality of the plants, the companies aim to support strains which are rich in cannabidiol (CBD), an active ingredient important in derivative products designed to support well-being.
A Growing Global Industry
The new project comes at a perfect time for MCOA. Demand for CBD is high thanks to the growing global market for cannabinoid-based products. A facility that can provide the companies with a steady supply of high-quality CBD plants will make it easier to take a substantial place in this expanding sector.
One of MCOA’s most important subsidiaries is hempSMART. This company develops and markets hemp-based wellness products that make use of cannabinoids, the active compounds that can be extracted from the hemp plant. HempSMART also aims to educate consumers on the possibilities offered by hemp, possibilities that the U.S. senate has started to acknowledge through its establishment of the new seed bank. Educators and health professionals are among the experts hempSMART has brought into its team, to make it more than just a source of wellness products.
With investments in everything from payment systems to cultivation facility rentals, Marijuana Company of America has built a broad base of innovative cannabis-related products.
More Companies Signal Strong Future
It’s a sign of the health of cannabis industry that MCOA faces competition from a number of companies, both in hemp production and in the wider cannabis market.
Cronos Group, Inc. (TSX: CRON) (NASDAQ: CRON) is one of the highest profile companies in this sector. In February 2018, it became the first pure play cannabis company traded on the Nasdaq, a sign of the interest in cannabis by mainstream investors. A recent upgrade of its shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange reflects the way that cannabis companies are solidifying their position, proving that they are here to stay. A recently announced cross-border venture with MedMen means that Cronos will benefit from scientific advances being made by the Los Angeles company, which prides itself on its research work.
Canopy Growth Corporation (TSX: WEED) (NYSE: CGC) is becoming a leader in the cannabis retail field. Within Canada, it has established itself as a trusted company, being granted one of the first retail licenses in the province of Manitoba. This gives Canopy a strong starting point to sell to customers when recreational cannabis becomes legal in Canada later this year. Further afield, it recently acquired a cannabis company in the Kingdom of Lesotho. This will provide access to an African market largely ignored by western cannabis companies. It will also let the company grow medical cannabis in ideal conditions, with 300 days of sunshine a year, excellent humidity, and great growing conditions for greenhouse grown cannabis.
One of the largest cannabis companies, Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX: ACB) (OTCQX: ACBFF) has recently expanded its activities to cover both the recreational and medical sectors. The company leans heavily on research to improve its sales, with the announcement in late May of a new range of high-THC content cannabis products. It has also made moves to expand its market reach over recent months, with the largest corporate acquisition in the history of the cannabis industry in the form of the purchase of CanniMed, as well as a supplier agreement with Shoppers Drug Mart.
OrganiGram Holdings Inc. (TSX-V: OGI) (OTCQB: OGRMF) is looking beyond the American market. The company has recently been granted a license to export cannabis to Australia. This will introduce OrganiGram’s product to a new territory through a deal with a licensed Australian medical cannabis dealer. Organigram’s success will be further bolstered by a recent deal with TGS Colorado, a company with expertise in extract technology. This will provide Organigram with access to best-in-class technologies, products, and designs with which to make the most of its expanding cultivation base.
Increasing government backing, combined with advances in cultivation and technology, ensures that there’s a healthy future for all varieties of cannabis, from medical marijuana to industrial hemp.
For more information about Marijuana Company of America, please visit Marijuana Company of America (MCOA).
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Category Archives: Environmental Justice
#HearAndHelp, American People, Disability, Diversity is Grand, Environmental Justice, Global Justice, Immigration Justice, LGBTQ, Politics, Poverty and Incarceration, Racial Justice, Veteran's Rights, Women's Rights
Hear And Help
Purple mountains are both real and majestic.
In the past months of shift and upheaval I find my thoughts drawing back to a single word. Vulnerability. So many of our people who were already vulnerable are now even more so. For those of us who have faced vulnerability in our own lives the though of this is overwhelming and can feel like it will stop us in our tracks. In my life it has always been the seemingly simple act of people showing up, listening, and doing what they can to lend a hand that has helped me through difficult times.
I’m telling you this because I need to shake myself out of this immobility, and I’m inviting you to join me. Shortly after election day I asked a few of my compassionate and connected friends to recommend organizations that help people who are especially vulnerable. Between mid November and Christmas I posted links on social media to one organization each day with a brief summary of the work that they do and with the hashtag #HearAndHelp inviting my friends to show up for as many of these groups as they could. The thought behind this is that actively supporting even just one group is infinitely more productive than none. This post will serve as a place to collect this small – in no way complete – group of organizations. I have taken the descriptions from each organizations’ website rather than creating my own. If you are interested in showing up for any of these groups I recommend doing these three things to start:
Follow these organizations on social media.
Donate money if you can.
Show up in person and volunteer.
As you engage, remember that before doing anything else, always, always, always listen.
Please share this post if you want to. There is much work to be done and we need as many people involved as possible. If you have organizations that you would like to add please share them on social media with the #HearAndHelp hashtag, or add them in the comments section.
Racial and Immigration Justice:
Showing Up For Racial Justice moves White people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.
Race Forward advances racial justice through research, media, and practice. Founded in 1981, Race Forward brings systemic analysis and an innovative approach to complex race issues to help people take effective action toward racial equity. Race Forward publishes the daily news site Colorlines and presents Facing Race, the country’s largest multiracial conference on racial justice.
Muslim Legal Fund Of America is a charity that funds legal work and programs to defend Muslims against injustice in American courtrooms, prisons, and communities. Muslim Legal Fund of America is the ONLY national tax-exempt nonprofit legal fund dedicated to defending Muslims’ civil rights and civil liberties in American courtrooms.
National Council of La Raza Since 1968, the National Council of La Raza has remained a trusted, nonpartisan voice for Latinos. This is the community we serve through our research, policy analysis, and state and national advocacy efforts, as well as in our programs work in communities nationwide.
Native American Rights Fund is oldest & largest nonprofit law firm dedicated to asserting & defending the rights of Indian tribes, organizations, and individuals nationwide.
National Immigration Law Center At NILC, we believe that all people who live in the U.S.—regardless of their race, gender, immigration and/or economic status—should have the opportunity to achieve their full potential. Over the years, we’ve been at the forefront of many of the country’s greatest challenges when it comes to immigration issues, and play a major leadership role in addressing the real-life impact of polices that affect the ability of low-income immigrants to prosper and thrive.
Black Lives Matter is a chapter-based national organization working for the validity of Black life. We are working to (re)build the Black liberation movement.
Council on Islamic-American Relations CAIR’s mission is to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
TheDream.US We’re working to help over 4,000 highly motivated DREAMers graduate from college with career-ready degrees. DREAMers are immigrant youth who came to this country at a very young age without documentation. Despite the fact that this is the only country they have ever known––they’ll receive no federal aid to go to college, have limited access to state aid, and often face paying out-of-state tuition.
Mijente Imagine a movement that is not just Pro-Latinx… but pro-Black, pro-woman, pro-queer, pro-poor because our community is all that and more.
MALDEF Founded in 1968, MALDEF is the nation’s leading Latino legal civil rights organization. Often described as the “law firm of the Latino community”, MALDEF promotes social change through advocacy, communications, community education, and litigation in the areas of education, employment, immigrant rights, and political access.
Disability:
Disability Rights Education And Defense Fund is a leading national civil rights law and policy center directed by individuals with disabilities and parents who have children with disabilities.
National Disability Rights Network works to improve the lives of people with disabilities by guarding against abuse; advocating for basic rights; and ensuring accountability in health care, education, employment, housing, transportation, and within the juvenile and criminal justice systems. NDRN is the nonprofit membership organization for the federally mandated Protection and Advocacy (P&A) Systems and the Client Assistance Programs (CAP) for individuals with disabilities. Collectively, the Network is the largest provider of legally based advocacy services to people with disabilities in the United States.
American Association of People with Disabilities is a convener, connector, and catalyst for change, increasing the political and economic power of people with disabilities.
Center for Disability Rights is a not-for-profit, community-based advocacy and service organization for people with all types of disabilities… CDR’s services and advocacy are controlled by people with disabilities. CDR’s Board of Directors and management staff are primarily people who themselves have disabilities. CDR is in the best position to respond to the needs of people with disabilities because CDR is composed of people with disabilities, as well as those without.
National Council on Independent Living advances independent living and the rights of people with disabilities. NCIL envisions a world in which people with disabilities are valued equally and participate fully.
ADAPT is a national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom.
U.S. International Council on Disabilities is a non-profit, membership, constituent-led organization committed to building bridges between American and international disability communities and cultures. Through a wide range of projects and programs, USICD promotes the inclusion of disability perspectives in U.S. foreign policy and aid and provides opportunities for domestic disability rights organizations to interface with their international counterparts.
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network seeks to advance the principles of the disability rights movement with regard to autism. ASAN believes that the goal of autism advocacy should be a world in which Autistic people enjoy the same access, rights, and opportunities as all other citizens. We work to empower Autistic people across the world to take control of our own lives and the future of our common community, and seek to organize the Autistic community to ensure our voices are heard in the national conversation about us. Nothing About Us, Without Us!
LGBTQ:
Lambda Legal Founded in 1973, Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.
Silvia Rivera Law Project works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination or violence.
The Trevor Project Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award®-winning short film TREVOR, the Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24.
National Center for Transgender Equality is the nation’s leading social justice advocacy organization winning life-saving change for transgender people.
National Center for Lesbian Rights has been advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, legislation, policy, and public education since it was founded in 1977.
Transgender Law Center works to change law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.
Southerners On New Ground SONG envisions a sustainable South that embodies the best of its freedom traditions and works towards the transformation of our economic, social, spiritual, and political relationships. We envision a multi-issue southern justice movement that unites us across class, age, race, ability, gender, immigration status, and sexuality; a movement in which LGBTQ people – poor and working class, immigrant, people of color, rural – take our rightful place as leaders shaping our region’s legacy and future. We are committed to restoring a way of being that recognizes our collective humanity and dependence on the Earth.
Environmental Justice:
Natural Resources Defense Council The Natural Resources Defense Council works to safeguard the earth – its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
The Sierra Club Founded by legendary conservationist John Muir in 1892, the Sierra Club is now the nation’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization — with more than two million members and supporters. Our successes range from protecting millions of acres of wilderness to helping pass the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act. More recently, we’ve made history by leading the charge to move away from the dirty fossil fuels that cause climate disruption and toward a clean energy economy.
Poverty and Incarceration:
National Fair Housing Alliance is the voice of fair housing. NFHA works to eliminate housing discrimination and to ensure equal housing opportunity for all people through leadership, education, outreach, membership services, public policy initiatives, advocacy and enforcement.
The Innocence Project founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
Project NIA is an advocacy, organizing, popular education, research, and capacity-building center with the long-term goal of ending youth incarceration. We believe that several simultaneous approaches are necessary in order to develop and sustain community-based alternatives to the system of policing and incarceration. Our mission is to dramatically reduce the reliance on arrest, detention, and incarceration for addressing youth crime and to instead promote the use of restorative and transformative practices, a concept that relies on community-based alternatives.
Women’s Rights:
Planned Parenthood is a trusted health care provider, an informed educator, a passionate advocate, and a global partner helping similar organizations around the world. Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of women, men, and young people worldwide.
EMILY’s List is committed to driving progressive change throughout our country by winning elections that put pro-choice Democratic women into office.
Echoing Ida We publish print and online articles. We conduct workshops and develop communication strategies for social justice organizations. We ensure our media and movements include the voices of Black women and nonbinary folks. By developing writers and removing publishing barriers, Echoing Ida amplifies the critical expertise of Black women and nonbinary folks. Together, we ensure our families and communities thrive.
Veteran’s Rights:
Swords to Plowshares In 1974, Swords to Plowshares started with a single grant and a small location on Valencia Street. Now, over 40 years later with an annual budget of $19 million, we are still doing the same thing we set out to do — heal the wounds of war, restore dignity, hope, and self-sufficiency to all veterans in need, and to prevent and end homelessness and poverty among veterans. From the beginning we’ve accomplished our mission by providing wrap-around services to veterans in our community, and advocating for improved care and services for all veterans. We have been at the forefront of the veterans’ rights movement since 1974, when six Vietnam veterans, frustrated with the inadequate system of care for veterans, founded Swords to Plowshares.
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories, stories with “moral force.” We do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.
Southern Poverty Law Center The SPLC is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality.
The National Lawyers Guild is the nation’s oldest and largest progressive bar association and was the first one in the US to be racially integrated. Our mission is to use law for the people, uniting lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers to function as an effective force in the service of the people by valuing human rights over property interests.
International Rescue Committee The mission of the IRC is to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
Human Rights Watch is a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization made up of roughly 400 staff members around the globe. Its staff consists of human rights professionals including country experts, lawyers, journalists, and academics of diverse backgrounds and nationalities. Established in 1978, Human Rights Watch is known for its accurate fact-finding, impartial reporting, effective use of media, and targeted advocacy, often in partnership with local human rights groups. Each year, Human Rights Watch publishes more than 100 reports and briefings on human rights conditions in some 90 countries, generating extensive coverage in local and international media. With the leverage this brings, Human Rights Watch meets with governments, the United Nations, regional groups like the African Union and the European Union, financial institutions, and corporations to press for changes in policy and practice that promote human rights and justice around the world.
Doctors Without Borders We help people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health care.
This country is big enough for all of us.
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The Crucible at the Old Vic
I've seen lots of gripping productions at the Old Vic since Kevin Spacey took it over, and before. This revival of Arthur Miller's classic play by the South African director Yael Farber may be one of the longest, but it is also one of the finest.
Farber had the Edinburgh Festival Fringe spellbound a couple of years ago with a South African version of Strindberg's Miss Julie, which also ran at RIverside Studios in London. Her version of The Crucible, written 60 years ago, is equally breathtaking. The tension it generates is palpable, and at the end of the preview performance (about 11.15 pm) the audience leapt up for a standing ovation.
The Crucible, a dramatic retelling of the 17th century Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, was Miller's response to Senator Joe McCarthy and the anti-communist witch-hunts of the early 1950s. Miller's dramatic reputation remains higher in Europe than at home in the U.S., where conservatives still see him as a dangerous Red and a naive supporter of Stalin's Soviet Union.
Whatever the playwright's political views, this is a great play, though a wordy one; the buildup of the story is clumsy and the cast list is very long. If was shorter, the play would probably have more professional productions; this is only the second one I have seen, after the RSC's with Iain Glen as Proctor in 2006. I remember being struck when I first saw it by Miller's skill in handling scenes with multiple participants.
This time, the impact is much more visceral. Farber has created a version that, despite the standing ovation, can't be described as audience-friendly. It lasts three hours forty five minutes, and in the Old Vic's temporary 'theatre-in-the-round', the actors tend to look inwards at the centre of the stage rather than communicate with the audience. Farber's approach is to bridge the scenes with ritualistic movement. The first person we see is the Barbados slave Tituba, circling the stage very slowly carrying a pot. There are chairs and tables, but for most of the play the actors seem ill at ease with them, suggesting a pre-modern society. Farber seems to have the gift of making actors believe totally in their roles, and there are some mesmerising performances in this production.
The story of the Salem with-hunts, with its false confessions about consorting with the devil, is totally contemporary. Religious and political fanaticism is stronger today than when Miller wrote it. His link to the activities of McCarthy and his associates is obvious, but there are many other ways in which it works as a contemporary parable. The one that instantly springs to my mind is the Stalinist purges of the Soviet 1930s, whose victims confessed to non-existent plots with Trotsky, with Germany or with British and American imperialism. Salem for me is Moscow in 1937-8 rather than Washington fifteen years later. With or without a confession, the Moscow purge victims were executed or sent into prison or exile. It is worth remembering that McCarthy's HUAC hearings did not kill anyone, though they ruined many Hollywood careers. I don't know what Miller really thought in private about the Moscow trials or about Stalinism, though the answer probably lies somewhere in Professor Christopher Bigsby's biography. His other biographer Martin Gottfried doesn't really get to grips with the question.
The Crucible is a risk for any unsubsidised theatre, because of the daunting size of the cast. The run deserves to sell out. Whatever the reviews say, and I am sure they will be positive, Kevin Spacey's final months at the Old Vic are playing out with a bang.
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An Insight into Israel’s Jurisprudence
The “public’s right to know” is a given in any democracy. But then, Israel is not a true democracy. Imagine this.
Who ever heard of a court hearing involving a plaintiff and a defendant, where no witnesses were called, with the police willingly accepting statements by the defendant about others unchallenged?
Who ever heard of a realtor, the defendant , clearly defying the laws pertaining to real estate agents , without being called to account?
Who ever heard of a questionable forged signature not being examined by an expert, nor having fingerprints checked?
This type of behavior could not occur, had Israel enjoyed a representative democracy. A key item in any democracy concerns its electoral process. Put simply, it has to do with the methods how voters participate in the appointment of the ruling body. The two primary forms of democracy amount to a choice of a parliamentary democracy or a representative democracy. Israel, unlike 20 other democratic western countries, has the former type of democracy. This translates to citizens voting for a list or slate in national elections.
What one is forced to recognize, is that MK’s feel no obligation to citizen’s who cannot vote for them directly. With representative democracy, where voters chose their parliamentary representatives via electoral districts, citizens are able to influence the composition of a party list and enjoy a relationship with members of the national government.
In Israel, efforts at contacting MK’s, invariably result in receiving an acknowledgement without further action or an excuse for participation or no answer at all. Very different from an American contacting his congressman or senator.
Jerusalem Post June 21, 2017 – Eliyahu Kamisher, “State Comptroller: Thousands of Complaints Against Police, Mishandled.” In this Op-Ed, the journalist takes the Justice Ministry to task for failing to properly handle thousands of complaints and to act on them.
Common failures on behalf of the Israeli police and prosecution, which have been reported, include:
[a] No witnesses interviewed.
[b] Ignoring certain unlawful acts by defendant.
[c] Failure to fully check fraudulent documents.
[d] Perjury ignored.
[e]Failure to indict, a common practice.
[f] Ignoring investigation of a trustee.
[g] Assigning, “No criminal culpability”, despite the facts.
[h] Corruption.
The Jerusalem Post of June 1, 2017 reported on “Will Israel re-open case of American Hiker’s death” by Jonah Jeremy Bob. It points to new testimony indicating that the prosecution allegedly ignored evidence in the death of Ariel Newman.” According to the case file obtained by the Post, neither the police nor state prosecutor ever bothered to interview either of the two witnesses before closing the case against Ettinger and other Yeud officials.”
Now, it is an established criteria in law that witnesses are an important constituent of the administration of justice. By giving evidence linked to the charge of an offense, a witness performs a sacred duty by assisting the court to discover the truth. This is the rational why prior to giving evidence he/she either takes an oath in the name of God or makes a solemn affirmation in the matter of the whole truth.
Later in the reported case by the Jerusalem Post on November 27,2017, “Exclusive : Israel to reopen case of American hiker’s death a second time after ‘Post’s exposes”, one reads, about the resistance of police and prosecutor’s refusal to reopen the case, despite not having interviewed any of the witnesses. Only through the efforts of an astute attorney did they finally concede. Regrettably, there are instances, where they absolutely refused to re-open a case.
Thanks to the voluminous research studies by Arye Rattner PhD., Haifa University’s Chair, School of Criminology, the unbelievable becomes understandable. His remarkable, “The Sanctity of Criminal Law: Thoughts and reflections on wrongful conviction in Israel” speaks volumes. His introduction expresses surprise in the number of instances in which the totally innocent were severely punished. While his paper is primarily concerned with wrongful convictions whereby innocent individuals are indicted, the principles would apply equally in cases where the guilty are freed.
However, despite the improvements to the system in 1995, “The criminal law in Israel—-suffers from many deficiencies and from a great unwillingness to admit its own errors to an extent that make some of us wonder about the sanctity of the criminal law.”
Israel presents itself to the world as a democracy, which of course it is when compared to the Arab countries. Jordan is an exception in that it has attempted to create a viable constitution and a government consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. Thus far, it has failed, but did succeed in making revisions.
As for Israel’s assertions, one should not use the lowest standard as a denominator, and feel satisfied. One cannot rely on MK’s since they feel under no obligation to assist a common citizen, whose only right is to vote for a list.
Some references on the inadequacy of Israel’s police, prosecution and appellate division, can be viewed in the brief selection of the following media accounts:
“Haaretz: More Than 90% of Complaints Against Police Not Investigated, Ministry Says”
“Times of Israel: State Prosecutor slams ‘problematic’ police recommendations bill”
“Times of Israel: 9 in 10 complaints against police dismissed, watchdog finds”
“”Arutz7: IDF Prosecutor forged document to prevent soldier’s release”
“972 Mag: Selective prosecution: in Israel not all citizens are created equal”
“Haaretz: Israeli Prosecution Ombudsman Warns That Justified Complaints Against Prosecutors Are On the Rise”
“The Jerusalem Post: Israeli’s level of trust in the judicial system at 17-year low, report finds”
There have been some attempts at securing representative government in Israel. As an example, Kohelet’s “A Detail Proposal for a Feasible Electoral Reform” The proposed reform is aimed at achieving the following overall goals:
[a] To make Members of the Knesset [MKs] more accountable and answerable to their voters;
[b] To improve government stability.
[c] Enabling voters to select candidates on the lists submitted by parties for Knesset elections.
[d] Establishing a mechanism for the formation of multi-party alliances.
In the body of Marc Schulman’s TOI, December 31, 2014 blog on “Corruption in Israel -how it got so bad”, he states the following:
” However, there is one final factor that has caused our political system to turn out to be as corrupt as it has seemingly become. The fact that Israeli politicians are not directly responsible to their voters assures a level of cronyism that guarantees corruption will run rampant——- the only people individual Knesset members have to keep happy are the leaders of their party, or at most the political activists in the party. The same holds true for all other people appointed at the behest of a particular party.”
From a December, 2011 comprehensive study by several qualified authors, “Corruption and Retrospective Democratic Accountability”, we are reminded of the many theories of democracy which stress the concept of accountability. In a representative democracy, voters reward or punish elected officials by extending or ending their political careers. Seeking the long-term reward or reelection, officials avoid the short-term benefits of corruption that would put them at risk of early electoral defeat.
Summing up, the Israeli Ministry of Justice defines itself as “—one of the key administrative ministries of the government of Israel. It alleges its function is to render justice and serve the public in the judicial sphere in accordance with government policy, while protecting the rule of law, human rights and the fundamental values of the State of Israel, as a Jewish and democratic state in which all are equal before the law.”
Really? Apparently, in one case a failure to abide by a somewhat academic law governing an appeal date proved to be more important than the laws governing forgery, perjury and other proscribed laws.
Alex Rose was born in South Africa in 1935 and lived there until departing for the US in 1977 where he spent 26 years. He is an engineering consultant. For 18 years he was employed by Westinghouse until age 60 whereupon he became self-employed. He was also formerly on the Executive of Americans for a Safe Israel and a founding member of CAMERA, New York (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America and today one of the largest media monitoring organizations concerned with accuracy and balanced reporting on Israel). In 2003 he and his wife made Aliyah to Israel and presently reside in Ashkelon.
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Ukrainian Politics is Like a Box of Chocolates…. You Really Never Know What You’re Gonna Get
Lisa JWalters10 May 2019
Written by Michael Cole and Olena Yermakova, – Early Stage Researchers for the UCL SSEES-led FATIGUE project
(This post was first published on 21 April 2019.)
Matryoshka Dolls for Sale on Adrivskiy Uzviz, Kyiv. Even here, customers can choose between Darth Vader, a Babushka in National Costume, ‘a Real Politician’ or a comedy character. Photo Credit – Michael Cole 2018
On May 25th 2014, following the events of Euro Maidan, ‘Chocolate King’ Petro Poroshenko was elected President of Ukraine in the first round of voting. Purely by coincidence, I spent the day visiting the ghost town of Pripyat and the Chernobyl exclusion zone. On the way to our destination we stopped at a service station, which seemed rather busy considering it was at the side of an otherwise deserted highway. The reason for the commotion was a brief visit to use the facilities by another presidential candidate on his way to Kyiv with his death stare firmly set on the main prize. Standing at a urinal next to Darth Vader, leader of the short-lived ‘Internet Party of Ukraine’, was just one of the many times when I realised that every time I start to think I understand, I’m only setting myself up for the next reminder that in Ukraine you really never do know what you’re going to get.
Tags: elections, political parties, poroshenko, Ukraine
Turning left or melting down?
Sean LHanley23 October 2013
Photo: Seán Hanley
Seán Hanley previews the upcoming parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic where several newly formed parties, including the ANO2011 anti-corruption movement led by billionaire Andrej Babiš, have the potential to shake up the country’s ailing political establishment.
Czech voters go to the polls in early parliamentary elections on 25-26 October. The elections follow the collapse, amid personal and political scandal, of the centre-right government of Petr Nečas in June, and the subsequent failure of President Zeman’s handpicked caretaker administration to win a vote of confidence.
At one level the election seems set to deliver a simple and straightforward verdict,: established opposition parties on the left will win, while governing right-wing parties will be heavily rejected by an electorate frustrated with austerity, stagnating living standards and sleaze. The main opposition Czech Social Democrats (ČSSD), most polls have suggested, will emerge as the clear winners with around 25-30 per cent of the vote, although the final polls published before voting have suggested that the party’s support is starting to slide. Meanwhile the hardline Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) is likely to pull in 15-20 per cent.
The polls also point to a defeat of historic proportions for the right-wing parties of the former coalition. The Civic Democrats (ODS) (formerly led by Nečas) have proved surprisingly deft in trying to pull back from the brink: the party picked Miroslava Němcová, one of its few leaders untainted by corruption – and the first woman to head a major Czech party – as the party’s new public face and have run an inventive (and occasionally witty) Twitter-led election campaign.
But voters have remained largely unimpressed and the ODS seems set to see the 20 per cent support it received in the 2010 elections – then its worst ever performance – halved, relegating it to minor party status. Some polls put the ODS as low as 6.5 per cent, close to the 5 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation. The Chart below gives an indication of the latest polling.
ODS’s main centre-right rival TOP09 has, however, failed to capitalise on the troubles of its former coalition partner. Instead, it has waged a pedestrian election campaign and has no prospect of repeating its success in this year’s presidential election, when TOP09 leader Karel Schwarzenberg united a broad swathe of liberal and centre-right voters against the left-wing challenge of Miloš Zeman. Most polls suggest the party will struggle to match the 16 per cent it polled in 2010
Many voters have turned to new parties and extra-parliamentary groupings. Niche parties such as the Greens and Christian Democrats (KDU-ČSL), ‘personal parties’ such as the Civic Rights Party (SPOZ) of President Zeman or the Eurosceptic nationalist ‘Heads Up’ bloc endorsed by Václav Klaus have picked up sufficient support to put them within shouting distance of the five per cent hurdle.
So too has the populist Dawn of Direct Democracy movement of a businessman-turned-politician Tomio Okamura. Okamura, who first came to prominence as a judge on the Czech TV’s version of Dragon’s Den in 2010, has gained profile through his fierce attacks against the political class, socially populist rhetoric and baiting of the Roma minority using his unusual Czecho-Japanese background to deny accusations of racism
The most telling impact, however, has been made by ANO2011 the anti-corruption movement led by the Slovak-born billionaire Andrej Babiš, which has moved in a few weeks from relative obscurity to opinion ratings comfortably in excess of 10 per cent and is now regularly outpolling ODS and TOP09. (more…)
Tags: Andrej Babiš, ANO2011, anti-corruption, Civic Democratic Party, corruption, Czech Republic, elections, Milos Zeman, political parties, populism, Silvio Berlusconi, Tomio Okamura, TOP09, Vaclav Klaus
Alexei Navalny: Could a politically self-made man make it to the Kremlin?
Sean LHanley7 October 2013
Photo: MItya Aleshkovskiy [CC BY-SA-3.0]
The leading anti-Putin blogger and activist Alexei Navalny was recently handed a five-year jail sentence following a widely criticised trial. But his mix of hard-headed anti-corruption politics and internet-based mobilisation may yet pose a challenge to the Kremlin, writes Ekaterina Besedina
On 8 September 2013 Alexei Navalny officially received 27.2% in the Moscow mayoral election, while the incumbent Sergei Sobyanian – one of President Putin’s closest allies – gained 51.2%. This narrow absolute majority meant that the second round run off expected by Navalny supporters was avoided. The Moscow Electoral Commission subsequently declared Sobyanin mayor. Navalny is still trying to challenge the vote in the courts with evidence of voter fraud and ballot stuffing.
The Kremlin had to demonstrate its power and majority support in Russia. This was one of the reasons why the run off did not happen. But Navalny managed to get on the ballot, win a large percentage of votes, and challenge Sobyanin. Despite the a fraud trial still threatening Navalny with five years jail, he has built up a substantial base of support, proving it possible to build a large scale political campaign without access to federal TV channels.
Navalny, a lawyer and high-profile blogger, is the first Russian politician to be created by the internet. His mayoral campaign was based on the internet, social networks and the enthusiasm of supporters. He started gaining popularity two years ago during major opposition protests, becoming a key figure in a growing movement for change that has a potential to challenge the Kremlin and Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. (more…)
Tags: Alexei Navalny, cities, corruption, elections, Moscow, Putin, Rozpil, Sergei Sobyanian, sistema, social media, Vladimir Putin
Whatever happened to Moldova’sTwitter generation?
Sean LHanley16 September 2013
Photo: Kevin Anderson Kevglobal BY-NC-SA 2.0
Young people spearheaded the 2009 Twitter Revolution in Moldova but are now deeply disillusioned with electoral politics. The country’s future direction in Europe may depend on whether they can be re-engaged, argues Ellie Knott .
It commonly assumed that young people in Moldova are politically uninterested, inactive and inert. However they were among the most active during the 2009 Twitter Revolution against the re-election of the Communist Party.
Young people also formed a crucial part of the electorate: 18-29 year olds are the base electorate of the two of the three parties in the previous Alliance for European Integration (AIE), and the recently formed Pro-European Coalition, comprising 43% of Liberal Democrat Party’s (PLDM) votes and 41% of the Liberal Party’s (PL) votes. To hold on to power in next year’s parliamentary elections, for at least two of the three parties in the Pro-European coalition, ensuring that young people vote – and that they vote for them – will be fundamental to their continuing success.
Young people often describe the change of government in 2009, which saw the AIE displace the Communists, as a turning point for Moldovan politics. It inspired them and encouraged them to believe that things would be different. Many concede that since the ‘democratic’ parties took power the situation has improved, particularly in terms of personal and media freedom and Moldova’s progress with EU integration. But this initial positivity has been often dampened. Several interviewees described how they had stopped following the political situation in the media of late because as one put it ‘the more I watched news, the sadder I got’. They often spoke of the ‘drama’ and ‘theatrics’ of Moldovan politics, the constant fighting between politicians and how lying and stealing are running rife. (more…)
Tags: Alliance for European Integration, democracy, elections, Eurasian Union, Moldova, social media, twitter, youth
Losing Riga – losing Latvia?
Sean LHanley3 July 2013
Photo Guillaume Speurt CC-BY-SA 2.0
Licia Cianetti explains the broad appeal of Latvia’s traditionally Russophone Harmony Centre party in Riga– but argues that ‘post-ethnic politics’ may not be just around the corner.
On 1st June the residents of Riga went to the polls to elect a new City Council. The election came after four years under mayor Nils Ušakovs, the first ethnic Russian to lead an administration in the capital. Ušakovs secured another victory for his moderate Russophone ethnic party, Harmony Centre, and kept his post for another term.
That Ušakovs won did not come as a surprise to anybody was politics in Riga; the main question before the elections was not whether Harmony Centre would win but by how much it would win.
Ušakovs was elected mayor of Riga in 2009, when Harmony Centre won 34% of the vote and had entered a coalition with the mainstream Latvian party Latvia’s First Party/Latvian Way (LPP/LC). The unthinkable then became reality: Riga, where a great share of Latvia’s population and wealth is concentrated, came under the control of a Russophone party that – by virtue of being Russophone – had consistently been excluded from power at the national level.
The 2013 municipal election did not mark the end of this ‘anomaly’, but instead entrenched Harmony Centre’s dominant position in Riga. Harmony Centre’s electoral bloc with the local political party Gods kalpot Rigai! (Pround to serve Riga, GKR) won an impressive 58% of the vote, giving them 39 seats of the 60 seats in Riga City Council. Only two other parties made it beyond the 5% threshold: the right-wing nationalist National Alliance (17.8%, 12 seats) and the centre-right Unity (14%, 9 seats), both currently in the Latvian government. Ušakovs’s success in Riga surely will force other parties to reconsider about what to do with Harmony Centre at the state level, whose ongoing exclusion from national power is looking a less and less tenable strategy. (more…)
Tags: cities, elections, Harmony Centre, Latvia, Latvian Way, Latvia’s First Party, Nils Ušakovs, Riga, Sarmīte Ēlerte, urban
Russia: Back to no future
Sean LHanley18 June 2013
Photo: Victorgrigas via Wikimedia Commons
With his regime running out of steam, Vladimir Putin is resorting to the rhetoric of the past and traditional values. Marie Mendras sees little future in it.
The moment of truth for a non-democratic leader is when he needs to revive his fading authority and legitimacy. A snatched electoral victory over a year ago brought Vladimir Putin no new popularity, indeed quite the opposite.
Since his return to the Kremlin, his words and actions have reflected entirely negative emotions, such as fear of his own people, distrust of the elites around him, and a desire to avenge himself on those who have dared oppose him. Much of his energy goes on proving himself right and his critics wrong: he even accuses these of working for foreign powers and endangering national security. Putin has not recovered from the humiliation and scare of last year’s political contest, and is now facing tough economic and social challenges. The choice he has made is to try to restore his authority with a combination of targeted repression, doctrinaire ideology and an increase in control over institutions and companies. This is an unlikely recipe for success.
Weakened legitimacy
Vladimir Putin was re-elected on a controversial vote in March 2012. He could have won his new mandate more honestly, had he accepted the possibility of a second round runoff, but he was determined to win an absolute majority in the first round. He wanted to humiliate the other ‘authorised’ candidates by raising himself high above them, proving that he was the one and only – and a loyal Central Electoral Commission conferred on him a generous 63% of the vote. A year on, all the voters’ associations and NGOs that investigated election fraud are being harassed and some, like the Golos association, might have to close down. Key figures in the movement for free elections are also being prosecuted.
Putin’s election in 2000 and 2004, and Dmitry Medvedev’s election in 2008, were ‘managed’ ballots as well. This time, however, things turned out less manageable than usual. The widespread and vocal public protest of the winter of 2011-12, news of which flew around the country in a few keystrokes, exposed all of the regime’s rottenness and trickery. And the anger of a revitalized civil society was directed at the leader in person, under the ubiquitous slogan: ‘Putin, ukhodi!’ [Putin – out!]. His party fared badly in the parliamentary elections of December 2011, and in Moscow itself its performance was a complete disaster.
Throughout the 2000s, Vladimir Putin built his power and legitimacy on order, rising living standards and Russia’s growing global status. However, he will have more difficulty delivering in all three of these areas in the months and years to come, and he will be held to account for it. (more…)
Tags: Alexei Navalny, Boris Yeltsin, Brezhnev, elections, Medvedev, nationalism, protests, Putin, Russia, Sergei Udaltsov, Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Ryzhkov, Yevgeniya Chirikova
Moldova: An unravelling success story?
Sean LHanley5 June 2013
Photo: Anna Woźniak via Flikr CC BY-SA 2.0
Vlad Filat, until recently Liberal Democrat Prime Minister of Moldova, is locked in a power struggle with Vladimir Plahotniuc, the country’s one and only oligarch. This war of attrition threatens the Eastern Partnership’s ‘success story’ and with it Moldova’s reform project says Andrew Wilson.
Not every policy detail may have been perfect in Moldova since 2009, but at least the narrative seemed right. Eastern Europe’s only ruling Communist Party fell from government. The changeover was mythologised as the ‘Twitter Revolution’ – a precursor of the ‘Arab Spring’ and ‘Moscow Winter’ – although in fact it was a prosaic process of elections and parliamentary arithmetic. The Communists were replaced by the smooth-sounding Alliance for European Integration, which was soon getting rave reviews for its reform efforts from the EU. Tiny Moldova leapfrogged the other five states in the Eastern Partnership and seemed to be first in the queue to sign an Association and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement at the Vilnius summit in November 2013.
By 2013, however, reviews were getting more mixed. Since the beginning of the year, Moldova has plunged into the kind of political infighting reminiscent of Orange Ukraine at its worst. After a previous crisis over the presidency was solved in 2012, it had seemed the current parliament would sit out a full term until the next elections are due in 2014. Today, Moldova has to sort out three simultaneous problems: it has no stable government, new elections are threatened and it is limping toward the November summit. It might collapse over the finishing line or just before; it might have a sudden burst of energy in the finishing strait; or it might fail a last-minute dope test.
So what went wrong? In reality, the three-party Alliance for European Integration was badly designed at birth; more exactly, at its rebirth. The first incarnation of the AEI in 2009-2010 struggled with a minimal majority over the Communists. That majority was improved at new elections in November 2010, but the elections also gave Russia the chance to push hard for an alternative alliance between the Communists and the pivotal Democratic Party (which includes many ex-Communists). Vladimir Putin sent his right-hand man, Sergei Naryshkin, to Chisinau to seal the deal. He didn’t succeed but encouraged the Democrats to secure a high price for not defecting back to the Communists, with the signing of a secret agreement in December 2010, leaked in 2012, to partition not just ministries but also supposedly neutral state institutions and revenue streams among the AEI’s three component parties. (more…)
Tags: Alliance for European Integration, Eastern Partnership, elections, EU, Mihai Ghimpu, Moldova, oligarchs, Sergei Naryshkin, social media, Valeriu Zubco, Vlad Filat, Vladimir Plahotniuc, Vladimir Putin
Presidential elections hold up a mirror to Czech democracy
Sean LHanley11 February 2013
Photo: Juandaev via Wikimedia Commons
Left-wing former Prime Minister Miloš Zeman will be the Czech Republic’s next president after defeating aristocratic foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg in a run-off election on 25-26 January. However, the presidential poll also tells us something more about Czech democracy says Seán Hanley.
The first direct elections of the Czech president offered a refreshing contrast to the back room manoeuvring and political horse-trading that accompanied the election in parliament of presidents Havel and (especially) Klaus. Despite the nastiness of the Zeman campaign and vacuousness of the political marketing around Karel Schwarzenberg, voters were offered a clear choice between personalities and priorities and turned out in large numbers to make it.
Television pictures of voters ranging from ski-suited holiday-makers to prisoners choosing the new head of state send quiet but clear message of a country that takes its democracy seriously and knows how to use it.
But the elections also hold up a more subtle mirror to Czech democracy, showing a political system still defined by patterns laid down in 1990s, which may nevertheless be on the cusp of change.
Some of the lessons of the presidential elections are familiar ones. (more…)
Tags: Czech Republic, elections, Karel Schwarzenberg, Milos Zeman, president
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Opinion: Evolutionism v.s. Creationism
Gabriel Wong, Editor
Filed under Opinion Piece, Science News, Showcase
This article is going to highlight the points of both evolutionism and creationism. Even though this is an opinion article, it is in no way saying you should believe one or the other. That is YOUR decision.
People have wondered for hundreds of years, why are animals the way they are? People have heatedly debated the topic for as long as the question has been around, but there are two ideas that are competing for the top spot. Creationism and Evolutionism are seen as the true way life itself has come to be. The ideas that are going to be shown and explained in this article.
Evolutionism
Evolutionism is a topic mostly introduced by a man named Charles Darwin. Darwin was a man born in Shrewsbury, England on 1809. He set out on the H.M.S Beagle to investigate his theories on specimens living in their natural environment. His journey lasted for 5 years and he shared his findings with the world. His most important theory was the theory of evolution.
The reason evolutionism is correct is because there is no way for a subspecies to get extreme adaptations that are vastly different from the original species. For example, almost all penguins are born to live in cold environments, but there is a species of penguins that live in Africa. Some of their larger colonies live in temperatures of up to 85° fahrenheit. Most of the normal penguin species can live in temperatures of -125°! The amount of evolution required for animals to change their bodies to where they can withstand totally different temperatures. If creationism were to exist, then the African penguin couldn’t be considered a penguin at all because of the vast differences. Another reason is that because creationism says that all animals were born at once, humans lived around the same time as dinosaurs. There is a lot of evidence showing that humans arose thousands of years after.
Why People Think It’s Right
People who support evolutionism say that there is no way any animal with severe adaptation could have just been born like that. They also say that there is a common ancestor that all life stems from and the only way animals could diversify is by evolution. A point is that if all animals were created, than having varying species would be impossible. Adaptations would be impossible as well because animals can’t change the way they live by natural selection. They would theoretically go extinct and there would have to be a new animal made, which is highly unlikely. Despite the doubts you may have on Creationism, they have many well supported points.
This way of thinking is supported by people who believe in religion, for the majority of holy books say that there is a main deity or several deities who made mortal animals. The Bible says that God created all plants and animals that ever existed. Most people who follow any form of christianity follow the idea of creationism.
How creationism works is quite simple. A being created animals and plants, who stayed that way throughout history. This theory is widely supported by religions and people who support it say that if evolution were to be the theory than any base animal would inevitably change, which is not supported by irrefutable evidence. For the theory to be true, there has to be a creator type being or several creator beings that have made the world and worlds beyond. The existence of a creator opens up a whole new can of worms, but for this theory people have to assume there is some sort of god or gods.
Creationist ideas are supported by the Bible, which is one of the most credible sources in the religious world. The ideas of creationism agree with the idea that adaptations are possible, but that instead of animals killing each other to get a “pure” product they are made by a deity into a perfect form. A very important point surrounding creationism is that there is no solid evidence showing how the animals came to be what they are other than creationism itself. An article by The Summit states that “If evolution is true, our natural history museums should contain large quantities of undoubted transitional forms. The evidence for evolution should be obvious, even for the untrained eye to see”. This means that there should be more stages in between the final product and the newer product. Places that store fossils don’t have many transitional forms of animals.
There is solid evidence for both parties to be correct and flawed, but the decision of whether or not one is correct is up to be debated, and people will always think their way is right. After all, if one was known to be right than the argument would be settled. The fact that both opinions have such avid followers keeps both sides as feeling like they could be true instead of being an open-and-shut case.
https://www.aboutdarwin.com/voyage/voyage03.html
https://www.biography.com/people/charles-darwin-9266433
https://www.summit.org/resources/articles/essays/the-scientific-evidence-for-creation/
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Kelly Grimes
Homelessness Prevention Call Center Manager(CC) | Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago
"I envision a Chicago where people can actually have access to the things they need, not just to survive but to live full, thriving lives. I will continue to organize around issues and candidates that will get us closer to ensuring that Chicago is a city for everyone, not just the super wealthy."
Undergraduate Degree: University of Dayton, '09
Fun fact: In May of 2017, I was arrested with 20+ other people in an act of civil disobedience outside of the governor's office in Springfield.
Kelly Grimes grew up in Marion, Ohio. She graduated from The University of Dayton in 2009 with a degree in International Studies and Human Rights. Kelly moved to Chicago in 2009 and participated in Amate House, a volunteer program. Since 2010, she has worked with Catholic Charities at the Homelessness Prevention Call Center. In addition to her role as lead of the Homelessness Prevention Call Center, Kelly also coordinated the implementation of a key component of the Coordinated Entry System here in Chicago.
In 2015, she helped found United Neighbors of the 35th Ward. Since 2015 she has also been a volunteer leader with The People’s Lobby and Reclaim Chicago. Kelly has worked on issue campaigns, including a campaign to increase the minimum wage in Cook County and to bring progressive revenue sources to Illinois. With Reclaim Chicago, Kelly has worked to elect progressives to office and has coordinated electoral operations for Reclaim Chicago on the Northwest side of Chicago. In 2019, she served as chair of the campaign to elect Colin Bird-Martinez’s run as 31st Ward Alderman. Kelly was a Vincentian Fellow at DePaul University where she earned her Master degree in Nonprofit Management in 2018.
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Why do Protestants say: “In Jesus' name. Amen.”, whereas Catholics say: “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.”?
Why do Protestants oftentimes seem to say: "In Jesus' name. Amen.", whereas Catholics generally begin and end prayers saying: "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen."?
Do Protestants object to praying "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.", or, conversely, do Catholics object to praying only "In Jesus' name."?
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What evidence do you have that Protestants do pray in Jesus' name and don't pray in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? I've been a Protestant all my life and have never run across this dichotomy. – Joe Oct 27 '14 at 21:06
I feel like this is a poor question because it puts what may well be typical in too strong terms. You say Catholics generally use the name of all three persons, do you know how often they'll say something else? – curiousdannii Oct 27 '14 at 22:21
My personal sense, being a Protestant, is that this is largely a superficial difference between the cultures of the two denominations. Unless perhaps if you're dealing with Presbyterianism or something, Protestants just usually aren't as formal with church as Catholics. Either side probably wouldn't have any problem at all praying like the other; it's just more to do with tradition and with which one is more "liturgical" than the other. – Panzercrisis Oct 28 '14 at 2:44
Now that being said, it's also said that "there's power in the name 'Jesus'", or alternatively, "there's power in Jesus's name". Each Person of the Trinity stands out, and that includes Jesus; but at least Protestants can have a tendency to focus specifically on Jesus. – Panzercrisis Oct 28 '14 at 2:47
When I was raised as protestant, normally the prayer ended with what would be translated as "in the name of the Lord", which I always assumed was God. Do english-speaking protestants really refer to Jesus? – Amber Oct 28 '14 at 16:00
Protestants do not see that Christ ever instructed his followers to pray (only to baptize) "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit". On the other hand, Christians are repeatedly called to invoke the name of the Lord:
To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ...
(1 Corinthians 1:2a, New International Version)
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you ... so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
(John 15:16, New International Version)
"Let everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord avoid evil."
(2 Timothy 2:19, New International Version)
Thus, there is solid Scriptural evidence that the early Christians directly invoked, and were instructed (directly or indirectly) to directly invoke, the name of the Lord, rather than speaking the names of the Trinity; the only occurrence of the phrase "the name of the Father" refers to the "Great Commission" passage in Matthew:
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ..."
(Matthew 28:19, New International Version)
Jesus, furthermore, is the only one to whom humans need turn in order to approach God. This is pounded into the heads of Christians especially in the Letter to the Hebrews:
... Jesus the mediator of a new covenant ... (Hebrews 12:24)
For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant. (Hebrews 9:15)
And most famously
For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people. (1 Timothy 2:5–6a)
He is not only mediator, but mediator in the sense that the Jewish high priests were mediators between God and the nation of Israel:
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where our forerunner, Jesus, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek. (Hebrews 6:19–20)
(All quotations from the New International Version)
Thus many Protestants, following the example of Scripture, feel that it is far more appropriate to invoke the assistance of God by calling upon the name of Jesus.
I should note that not all Protestants follow this example all the time, or perhaps even much of the time. For example, the website of the United States Conference of Seventh Day Baptists contains a prayer for the sick and shut-in which ends "These things we pray in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." Thus, perhaps the question should be phrased "Why do some Protestants say ..."
Catholics, on the other hand, use "in the name of the Father ..." as part of "the Sign of the Cross"—a sacramental (that is, a sacred activity which resembles a sacrament; see Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraphs 1667–1668). In this sacramental, the Catholic makes the outline of a cross on his body: he touches his forehead as he says "In the name of the Father...", then his chest or stomach, saying "... and of the Son, ...", then each shoulder in turn, saying "... and of the Holy Spirit. Amen."
The Catechism explains:
The Christian begins his day, his prayers, and his activities with the Sign of the Cross: "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen." The baptized person dedicates the day to the glory of God and calls on the Savior’s grace which lets him act in the Spirit as a child of the Father.
This is not done as a Biblical command, but as a reminder of the One who saved us by his death.
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+1: However, you say "... to directly invoke, the name of the Lord, rather than speaking the names of the Trinity...". Technically, the names of the Trinity are invoked, but only Jesus's name is actually spoken in this invocation. – RBarryYoung Oct 28 '14 at 14:49
@RBarryYoung In which invocation? – Matt Gutting Oct 28 '14 at 14:51
Heh, right, I mixed them up. Jesus's name is both invoked and spoken in "In the Name of Jesus...", however, for "In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit...", all three names are invoked, but not actually spoken. – RBarryYoung Oct 28 '14 at 15:00
This doesn't actually answer the Catholic half of the question. It reads like "The Bible says (this), and Protestants follow (this), so by implication what the Catholics do is wrong." – Almo Oct 30 '14 at 19:33
@Almo Good point, I need to address that. – Matt Gutting Oct 30 '14 at 19:42
First, it is valuable in this answer to distinguish between the pious practice of individuals, and small groups of believers, on the one hand, and the official formularies of the larger group, on the other. It may be that among Roman Catholics, there are those who use the full Trinitarian formula to begin and end an individual prayer, and perhaps every prayer they utter. However, in official Roman Catholic usage, the Trinitarian Formula cited is an invocation which begins a larger service, and not the beginning of individual prayers. Individual prayers seem most always to begin with "O God..." (in Latin, Deus) alone or with amplification. By Amplification, I refer to phrases such as "Lord God..." (Dominus Deus), "Lord God Almighty..." (Dominus Deus Omnipotens...). Individual prayers end with "Through Our Lord, Jesus Christ" (*Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum", again, alone or with amplification. Amplification might be (among others), "who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, World without end (in Latin per qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti Deus, per omnia saecula saeculorum). I have available a copy of the Latin service book of the Roman Catholic Church issued in the early 1960's, before Vatican II. I surveyed a sample of the prayers in that book, taking special care to include in the sample prayers where I would expect to see a full Trinitarian salutation or conclusion, and did not find a single example of a prayer starting or ending in that way.
Prayers in official sources (e.g., the 1662 English Book of Common Prayer, and the 1928 US Book of Common Prayer, the Lutheran Book of Worship of the mid-1970's, and the services of the Methodist Hymnal of 1933) showed the same salutations and closings on individual prayers in the services, and showed the use of the full Trinitarian formula quoted in the question only as an invocation, at least in the prayers I sampled.
I would note further, that for most protestants, ending a prayer with "In the Name of Jesus" is exactly the same as using the full "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit", because there is One God, comprised of the three persons of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, so that whether one uses the short form ("In the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ") or the long form, "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" are both saying the same thing, as either is calling on God.
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Protestants believe that Jesus wants them to pray "in Jesus' name" and they would cite the following verses to warrant their belief:
John 14:13-14 ESV Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
John 14:26 ESV But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
It's also never stated in the bible to pray "in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit" which is probably why most Protestants don't pray that way--but with Protestantism you can never speak on everyone's behalf.
This passage ↓ says to baptize others in the name of the FS&HS (and that is how most Protestants baptize).
Matthew 28:18-20 ESV And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
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Although it may be that most Protestants are unaware of the actual reason and do it for silly reasons such as are cited in the other answers ("Protestants just like to say Jesus a lot, etc.") the original reason is obviously John 16:23
Jesus instructs that we pray to the Father in his name. To do otherwise would be like if I told you to go to a particular store and tell them David sent you. And instead you showed up at my house saying "Hi David, you sent me." Uh...no, I didn't. That's what its like praying to the Father in the name of the Father. It makes little sense. Praying in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, is like you aren't actually praying at all, but just reciting a little speech to the congregation.
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Ah, but if you pray in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, you are praying in Jesus' name. And given that Jesus' Hebrew name contains YHWH, or at least YH, and we aren't given a name for the Holy Spirit, praying in Jesus' name is praying in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. But aye, many who do this are probably reciting a formula. – Wlerin Oct 28 '14 at 16:19
Lutherans do pray:
Pastor: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost
Congregation: Amen
during a typical service
just as it says in the online hymnal here: http://www.lutheran-hymnal.com/online/page5.html
Or see an older 1912 source:
¶ The Congregation shall rise, and the Minister, standing at the Altar, shall say:
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
¶ The Congregation shall sing or say:
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In protestant theology, it is only through Jesus' atoning sacrifice that we may enter into the presence of a holy God who is utterly incompatible with sin. We, as sinners, are allowed to pray only because Jesus died for our sins. So to say "in Jesus name" actually means "I know that I can only enter your presence because of Jesus". But of course most Protestants are pretty unaware of the theological connection and use these words out of tradition.
Not a bad answer; but is this your personal opinion, or is it the official doctrine of a certain group of Christians? We're looking for the latter type of answer only. I've downvoted for now, but if you can support your answer by providing references, I'll upvote, since this is a thoughtful answer. – Matt Gutting Oct 29 '14 at 14:30
Mostly because we like to say Jesus a lot. In the good way of course, but obviously the main reason would be that we are only connected to the Father by Jesus and therefore need to pray in His name TO the Father. The Holy Spirit is as we see it empowering us to pray in the first place and again we wouldn't pray in the name of the Holy Spirit. But also we see ourselves as connected to Jesus as the church body.
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So, Protestants do not pray directly to any other Person of the Trinity than the 2nd Person, Jesus? – Geremia Oct 27 '14 at 19:20
@Geremia No, we typically pray TO the Father (like the Lord's Prayer) in the NAME of Jesus. – Narnian Oct 27 '14 at 19:21
@Narnian: You pray the Lord's Prayer, though, right? Do you ever pray something like: "Holy Spirit, I love thee and adore thee…"? – Geremia Oct 27 '14 at 19:23
That sounds like it would be a really weird prayer for a Protestant. They just don't think of the Holy Spirit in those terms. – Matt Gutting Oct 27 '14 at 19:24
@Geremia I personally seldom repeat the Lord's prayer, as I believe it is to be a pattern, not a repetition. I most often pray directly to the Father. I rarely, if ever, address the Holy Spirit directly, except in songs. I do address Jesus personally, but less frequently than the Father. – Narnian Oct 27 '14 at 19:42
I grew up being raised Catholic, not Roman Catholic... Simply Catholic. When Catholics say "In the name of The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit (or "Holy Ghost"), Amen", it's a reference to the Holy Trinity. The Father IS God himself. The Son IS Jesus, who was the embodiment of God. The Holy Spirit (or Holy Ghost, depending on which you prefer to say) is seen as the spirit of God that resides within each of us. IE: All three are God, and God is all three. I hope that makes sense. I know it's a bit weird to say there is one God, yet split him up like that, but the way I understand it, it's a way of saying "God is in all things, God is all, etc". It also goes along with the "Sign of The Trinity" which is the symbol of the cross that is made with the hand as you speak.
As a side note, usually you only SAY all of this for certain prayers or particular services IN THE CHURCH. In my experience it isn't all that common for catholics to say this in personal prayers. Usually a simple "amen" will suffice. Though you will see catholics use the symbol of the Holy Trinity more often. Especially if they are the type to pray at dinner, if they observe the rosary, or observe Christmas with an Advent Wreath.
I grew up with my grandparents, who where both very devout Catholics, and my grandfather was an usher for the church, so I learned a few things. Hopefully some of what I wrote was helpful to you.
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Well, as a protestant (Baptist to be specific, although I consider myself a Christian first, and the particular denomination is just a formality) we pray in Jesus' name because
1 Timothy 2:5-6 NIV For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people.
So we pray to God the Father in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, because He is the reason we have a relationship with God the Father in the first place. The pastor does end his sermons with a benediction, which is a long prayer, and says "In the name of the Father, the name of the Son, and in the name of the Holy Ghost", I don't know why that is, I think I'll research it now that you mention it.
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Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many. And I said to them, “Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their guard posts and some in front of their own homes.” The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no houses had been rebuilt. Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it: ... Christian Canvas Art
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar. The fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm. The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth. Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge. ...
Moses assembled all the congregation of the people of Israel and said to them, “These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do. Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day.” Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “This is the thing that the Lord has commanded. Take from among you a contribution to the Lord. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord's contribution: gold, silver, and bronze; ... Christian Canvas Art
The Orthodox Church of Constantinople, which enjoyed greater stability within the surviving Eastern Empire was key in commissioning imagery there and glorifying Christianity. As a stable Western European society emerged during the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church led the way in terms of art, using its resources to commission paintings and sculptures. Scripture Verse Wall Art
Huram also made the pails, the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of God: the two pillars, the bowls and the two capitals on top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on top of the pillars, and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the pillars.read more.
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words.” So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do. Then the word of the Lord came to me: ... Christian Gifts
King Solomon was king over all Israel, and these were his high officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest; Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests; Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king's friend; ... Christian Gifts
Until the adoption of Christianity by Constantine Christian art derived its style and much of its iconography from popular Roman art, but from this point grand Christian buildings built under imperial patronage brought a need for Christian versions of Roman elite and official art, of which mosaics in churches in Rome are the most prominent surviving examples. Christian art was caught up in, but did not originate, the shift in style from the classical tradition inherited from Ancient Greek art to a less realist and otherworldly hieratic style, the start of gothic art.
King Solomon was king over all Israel, and these were his high officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest; Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests; Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king's friend; ...
What does the Bible say about creativity? The very first verse of Scripture actually describes a creative act as "God created the heavens and the earth." Additionally, from Genesis, the Bible says, "God created man in his own image." This could be interpreted as we are creators just as God created us. We create relationships, art, homes, cities, nations and many more things including inventions even yet to be known! The creative spirit is certainly favored by God and our fellow man. Learn more from the collection of Bible verses about creativity below! Share Your Faith Products
Early Christian art survives from dates near the origins of Christianity. The oldest Christian sculptures are from sarcophagi, dating to the beginning of the 2nd century. The largest groups of Early Christian paintings come from the tombs in the Catacombs of Rome, and show the evolution of the depiction of Jesus, a process not complete until the 6th century, since when the conventional appearance of Jesus in art has remained remarkably consistent. Scripture Verse Wall Art
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Practice Changes to Protect Youth Football Players
By Kelly Dudzik, WGRZ, 03/13/19, 12:00PM CDT
"We said this is a good idea, and this is a way that, you know, football should be going because it does make it safer,"
A Cheektowaga-based youth football association is changing its policies when it comes to full-contact practices. The goal is to protect players from head injuries. "It's as safe as we can make football," Joseph D’Amaro said. D'Amaro is the Cheektowaga Little Loop Athletic Association Chairman and is part of the Niagara Erie Youth Sports Association, Western New York's largest youth football organization, with more than 3,000 kids.
Before bouncing back up recently, the league saw a drop in the number of players participating in football. "About three years ago, Niagara Erie Youth Sports Association, NEYSA, and the President Ray Turpin instituted the USA Football's national practice guidelines. The national practice guidelines allowed teams to practice full contact but restricted us to 90 minutes per week. Before then, it was a free for all," D’Amaro said.
Read the rest at WGRZ
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Items Manuscript extract from The Edinburgh Review, beginning “The conspiracy which established a military government in France called forth several men who have played a rather remarkable part in public life …”
Manuscript extract from The Edinburgh Review, beginning “The conspiracy which established a military government in France called forth several men who have played a rather remarkable part in public life …”, leaf 26 (recto-verso)
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Hubert Thomas Parker scrapbook album
Shelf locator: Pforz BND-MSS (Parker, H. T.)
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2d0eff10-44b6-0135-a93a-1f2d5de037db
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Manuscript extract from The Edinburgh Review, beginning “The conspiracy which established a military government in France called forth several men who have played a rather remarkable part in public life …”" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1820 - 1831. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/63b8b460-44c4-0135-1063-4ddfae572027
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Manuscript extract from The Edinburgh Review, beginning “The conspiracy which established a military government in France called forth several men who have played a rather remarkable part in public life …”" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/63b8b460-44c4-0135-1063-4ddfae572027
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. (1820 - 1831). Manuscript extract from The Edinburgh Review, beginning “The conspiracy which established a military government in France called forth several men who have played a rather remarkable part in public life …” Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/63b8b460-44c4-0135-1063-4ddfae572027
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devopsdays Boston - Location
The Cyclorama at Boston Center for the Arts - 539 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116
The Cyclorama at Boston Center for the Arts is an impressive and historic venue located in the stylish South End neighborhood of Boston. Surrounded by the largest collection of Victorian brownstones in New England and representing the height of urban industrial chic, the Cyclorama offers inspiration and limitless possibilities for all kinds of events.
Featuring a dazzling copper skylight dome atop a round, brick-lined 23,000-square foot space, the Cyclorama can host from 100 to 1000 guests (up to 875 seated).
The elegant simplicity of the building, which was opened in 1884 and is included on the National Register of Historic Places, makes a stunning statement on its own.
Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about it:
The Classical Revival style Victorian building was commissioned by Charles F. Willoughby’s Boston Cyclorama Company to house the Cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg, a 400-by-50 foot cyclorama painting of the Battle of Gettysburg. It was designed by Charles A. Cummings and Willard T. Sears. The central space is a 127’-diameter steel-trussed dome which, when it was built, was the largest dome in the country after the United States Capitol building. Visitors entered through the crenelated archway, proceeded along a dark winding passage, and then ascended a winding staircase to an elevated viewing platform. Skylights lit the scene by day, and it was illuminated by a system of 25 arc lamps by night.[2]
In 1889, a new cyclorama painting Custer’s Last Fight, was installed, but by 1890, the fashion for cycloramas had ended, and the new owner of the building, John Gardner (father-in-law of Isabella Stewart Gardner), converted it to a venue for popular entertainment, including a carousel, roller skating, boxing tournaments (including an 1894 fight of John L. Sullivan), horseback riding, bicycling, and so on.
By 1899, it had become an industrial space, used by the New England Electric Vehicle Company, the Tremont Garage, the Buick Automobile Agency, and Albert Champion Company. Albert Champion is said to have invented the spark plug here before he moved to Flint, Michigan.
When the Boston Flower Exchange bought the building in 1923, it added a new entrance and covered central dome with a skylight. The Flower Exchange occupied the building until 1970.
The BCA is easily accessible by public transportation.
MBTA Orange Line to Back Bay Station
Take the Clarendon Street exit and walk with traffic (Clarendon Street is one-way). Walk approximately 500 yards to Tremont Street. Take a left onto Tremont Street. The BCA is on the first block on the left.
MBTA Green Line to Copley
Continue along Boylston Street with traffic (Boylston Street is one-way). Take a right onto Clarendon Street and walk approximately 750 yards to Tremont Street. Take a left onto Tremont Street. The BCA is on the first block on the left.
MBTA Silver Line SL4 & SL5
Exit at either East Berkeley Street or Union Park. Walk towards Tremont Street by following the direction of traffic on either Berkeley or Union Park. From Berkeley, turn left onto Tremont; from Union Park turn right onto Tremont.
MBTA Bus #43
Bus route 43 travels along Tremont Street between Ruggles, on the Orange line, and Park Street, on the Green and Red lines. Please ask the driver for the proper stop.
On-street parking is very limited in the immediate area.
Atelier 505 Parking Garage
Located under the Calderwood Pavilion. Enter on Warren Ave, at the rear of the building.
Garage @ 100 Clarendon Street
Located on Clarendon Street between Stuart Street and Columbus Ave, just before Back Bay Station. Regular Evening Rate - $ 9 from 5pm until 7am the following morning - Seven days per week – No validation required Special BCA visitor parking rate: $17 All day Saturdays and Sundays – Visit the Calderwood Pavilion Box Office to have your ticket validated
Corner of Shawmut and East Berkeley Streets
Open Lots on Berkeley
There are two open parking lots on Berkeley Street at Columbus Avenue. Open until 10pm.
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Back to the Chain Gang
Maha Yahya
Lebanon is increasingly mistreating its Syrian refugees, even sending some home to face a terrible fate.
In the past few months, Lebanese institutions have intensified coercive actions designed to drive Syrian refugees—of whom 986,942 are registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees—out of the country. It has initiated a campaign against their being hired, engaged in mass evictions, and implemented forced deportations. Mobs have attacked refugees, while former members of the Ahrar al-Sham opposition group have been put on trial for fighting against the Syrian army. The moves are based on a premise that Syria is stable and secure for a refugee return. This is utterly false.
The refugees’ most prominent antagonist is Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, the son in law of Lebanese President Michel Aoun and leader of the Free Patriotic Movement. Consistently, Bassil has blamed the refugees for all of Lebanon’s ills and its economic pain—from the zero percent growth rate to unemployment. In this way he has introduced a sense of urgency into the idea of return as a means of resolving Lebanon’s growing troubles. Bassil has gone so far as to accuse the international community and nongovernmental organizations of conspiring to keep the refugees in Lebanon, in spite of what he claims are suitable conditions in “peaceful” Syria for their return. However, he has ignored reports that returnees have faced mistreatment and worse in Syria—from forced conscription to incarceration to death.
Bassil, who has presidential ambitions, has used the refugee issue to present himself as a defender of Christian rights against the Sunni majority that a permanent resettlement of the Syrians would bring with it. However, while Bassil has led the charge, other Lebanese politicians or groups have also worried about the impact of the refugees on Lebanon’s sectarian balance, actively or quietly asserting claims similar to his. Last year, Hezbollah announced that it would work with the Syrian government to encourage a refugee return.
This attitude has encouraged recurrent racism against the refugees, which might prove difficult to reverse if it is not countered soon. The most menacing repercussions are emerging forms of collective punishment against Syrians. An example of this occurred, notably, on October 13, 2017, when residents of Miziara, a village in northern Lebanon, attacked refugees following the murder of a young woman by a Syrian who was not a refugee. This forced them all to flee the town, although only one Syrian had been involved in the crime.
Only a few weeks ago, mass expulsions also took place in a refugee camp in Deir al-Ahmar in the northern Beqaa Valley. Following a scuffle between refugees and firefighters after three refugee tents had been burned by vigilantes, local officials issued an eviction order obliging 400 Syrians to move elsewhere.
On July 1, 20 shelters in ‘Arsal were demolished by the Lebanese army. In another incident last June, 55,000 refugees were forced to dismantle their shelters in ‘Arsal. According to Save the Children, this left 5,000 families and around 15,000 children without a home.
These evictions are also taking on religious and national overtones. In the absence of a centrally led refugee policy and against a backdrop of increasingly acrimonious public rhetoric, municipalities that had been at the forefront of caring for refugees are taking action. As of 2016, thirteen municipalities have evicted over 3,600 Syrians, while another 42,000 remain at risk of eviction.
The situation has become more alarming since the shift in Beirut after the 2018 elections, when a majority sympathetic to President Bashar al-Assad entered parliament for the first time since 2005. This majority is using the question of return to push for normalization with the Syrian regime, a matter on which there is no consensus in Lebanon. Presenting refugees as a threat to national security broadens Lebanese public support for normalization.
Meanwhile, there is also a divergence of interests between the Syrian regime and its Lebanese allies. While the allies are keen on normalizing with Damascus, they don’t want the regime to block a refugee return indefinitely as a way of maintaining leverage over Lebanon and the international community. For Hezbollah and its partners, the open-ended presence of a large underclass of mainly Sunni refugees, many of them resentful of Hezbollah’s involvement in the Syrian conflict, is not something the party can tolerate.
For many refugees, a return to Syria can be life-threatening. The risk of arbitrary arrest is high. The German Foreign Ministry published a report last December that, rightly, highlighted that no place in Syria was completely safe. The findings showed that males between the ages of eighteen and 42 who returned home had to serve in the military or could be imprisoned for “abandoning their country.”
In November last year, Mo‘in al-Mer‘ebi, a former Lebanese minister of state for the displaced, confirmed that more than 20 refugees who had returned to Syria were killed, while others had enlisted in the army or been kidnapped. In spite of this, deportation from Lebanon remains a constant threat. In April, the Lebanese authorities deported at least sixteen Syrians through Beirut airport. According to Human Rights Watch, they had to sign “voluntary” repatriation forms, although they were terrified of being persecuted in Syria.
Lebanon is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol. However, it is bound to respect the principle of non-refoulement—the practice of not forcibly returning refugees to a country where they might face persecution. The international community, particularly the European Union, can use its economic leverage over Lebanon to address this issue. It can try to persuade the Lebanese government to respect the rights of Syrian refugees before the current atmosphere of hatred reaches an irreversible point, threatening future relations between the neighboring communities.
It was not so long ago that Lebanon went through a devastating war of its own and its population faced the trauma of displacement and exile. It would help for many Lebanese to recall their own past, as they make the life of vulnerable Syrian refugees even more miserable than it already is, while sowing the seeds of future conflict.
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Horrible Bosses
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux move in together
Horrible Bosses, Jennifer Aniston, Justin Theroux August 27, 2011
‘Horrible Bosses’ star Jennifer Aniston has officially moved in with her boyfriend Justin Theroux. The couple were said to be looking to buy a house together, but until they find the perfect house to call their home the couple has decided to rent a place. A source explains; “They decided to rent a house together […]
Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman team up for ‘ID Theft’
Bridesmaids, Horrible Bosses, Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Mike and Molly August 16, 2011
Melissa McCarthy’s acting career is on fire these days with her hit television show ‘Mike and Molly’ and the surprising summer smash ‘Bridesmaids’. Jason Bateman has been nothing to sneeze at either starring in ‘Horrible Bosses’ with Jennifer Aniston and ‘The Change-Up’ with Ryan Reynolds. What do you get when you put these two stars […]
Is a ‘Horrible Bosses’ sequel in the works?
Colin Farrell, Horrible Bosses, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey, Seth Gordon July 27, 2011
The box office hit ‘Horrible Bosses’ has grossed $82.6 million domestically since it opened in theaters on July 8 and it looks like director, Seth Gordon has now been playing around with the idea of making a sequel. When talking about a sequel to ‘Horrible Bosses’ Gordon said; “We’re talking about it.” Seth runs into […]
Jennifer Aniston meets Justin Theroux’s family
Horrible Bosses, Jennifer Aniston, Justin Theroux July 22, 2011
Jennifer Aniston has started to meet some of Justin Theroux’s family and it sounds like they really like her. Shortly after Aniston finished promoting her latest flick ‘Horrible Bosses’ in London, Jennifer and Justin went to Shoreditch House where they met up with Justin’s cousin, Louis Theroux. An insider said that Louis looked like he […]
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IN DEFENSE OF REFORMED CATHOLIC WORSHIP
BOOK IV OF HOOKER'S LAWS: A MODERNIZATION
Richard Hooker’s Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity is one of the great landmarks of Protestant theological literature, and indeed of English literature generally. However, on account of its difficult and archaic style, it is scarcely read today. The time has come to translate it into modern English so that Hooker may teach a new generation of churchmen and Christian leaders about law, reason, Scripture, church, and politics.
In this fourth volume of an ongoing translation project by the Davenant Institute, we present Book IV of Hooker’s Laws, in which Hooker defends the legitimacy of the Church of England’s reformed catholic liturgy. Arguing that Protestants must be guided by a positive vision of the purpose of worship, and not a negative reaction to Roman Catholic practice, Hooker surveys common Puritan objections to traditional liturgy and finds them wanting. Along the way, Hooker considers how Christians should understand the Jewish ceremonial law and what Christians should do when ceremonies cause a weaker brother to stumble. Still as relevant today as when it was penned more than four centuries ago, Book IV of the Laws offers an enduring vision of moderation and respect for the past that remains forthrightly Protestant.
Richard Hooker (1553/4-1600) was the pre-eminent theological writer of the Elizabethan church, and many would say in the entire history of the Church of England.
Bradford Littlejohn (Ph.D, University of Edinburgh), is the President of the Davenant Trust and a leading scholar of Richard Hooker’s thought, having authored Richard Hooker: A Companion to His Life and Work (Cascade, 2015), and The Promise and Peril of Christian Liberty: Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant Political Theology (Eerdmans, 2017).
Brian Marr is an editor and researcher at Canon Press, an alumnus of New Saint Andrews College, and a devoted servant of the liberal arts.
Bradley Belschner is a systems analyst at EMSI, a determined generalist, and an enthusiast of Reformation theology.
MORE FROM RICHARD HOOKER
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CERTIFYING EXAM
EARN ONLINE CEU
PERFUSION INCIDENT REPORTING SYSTEM
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENT
Gus Fabrikas
It is with a heavy heart for me to inform you of the passing of my first Chief and one of our Pioneers of Perfusion. Gus(Constantine) Fabrikis. Gus passed away peacefully in his sleep with his family at his side on Wednesday September 17th 2014.
He was born in Drosato Greece, October 1932, to Anastasios and Tarsi Fabrikis. He graduated from high school in 1950 and then three years later he completed his accounting diploma. He came to Canada in 1956 to marry his wife Soula after corresponding for over two years.
After completing a heart technician program in Toronto, he was hired by Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario where he dedicated his entire career of over 35 years to this new profession. He was one of the first Perfusionists in Ontario to pioneer perfusion for open heart surgery and was respected by everyone in his field for his knowledge and expertise.
Over the years Gus worked alongside with Maurice Martin, and mentored Judy Won, Richard Low, Peter Allen and Steve Ditmore in their perfusion careers and worked with Dr. John Coles , Dr. Martin Goldbach, Dr. ML Myers , Dr. Byung Moon and Dr John Lee.
He was very involved in the Greek Community and the church volunteering for over 35 years as a treasurer and Vice President for the church and treasurer and President for AHEPA. He was also a volunteer treasurer for the London District Youth Soccer Association and for the Olympians of the Western Ontario Soccer Association for approximately 20 years. A bursary has been created in his name to assist young children to be able to participate in the sport.
Gus is survived by his wife of 58 years Soula, his three children and their spouses Taso and Lorraine Fabrikis, Helen and Michael Mandal and Jim and Aristea Fabrikis and his seven grandchildren, Dean and Erika Fabrikis, Stephanie and Rebecca Mandal, and Costa, Tiana and Yianni Fabrikis. He is also survived by his four siblings Evanthia, Afrodite, Hercules and Pagona whom are all in Greece.
Gus is will always be remembered by the Team by the London Health Science Centre for his contributions to this profession.
Passing of an Era.
Peter Allen CPC CCP
Online CEU Points
Certifying Exam Info
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Journalist who investigated CIA and Cuban exiles found dead
Campaign News | Saturday, 8 January 2005
Gary Webb, who revealed CIA drug trafficking, shot twice in face
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD-Special for Granma International-
LIKE no other journalist before him, he exposed the CIA’s evil schemes in the drug world and revealed to the US public how the country’s black neighborhoods were inundated with crack as part of drug trafficking designed to supply the Nicaraguan Contras with money and weapons.
He denounced narco-terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and his accomplices who were involved in that criminal transaction. And he ended up being shot in his home with two bullets in his face. A suicide, reported the judicial authorities.
US reporters are in mourning. Gary Webb, who was discovered dead on Friday, December 10, in his Carmichael home in California, was for many a model of professionalism and integrity. He was 49 years of age.
In August, 1996, when he worked at the San José Mercury News, Webb disclosed how the CIA sold tons of crack in Los Angeles neighborhoods and afterwards used the money from this trafficking to finance the operations of the Nicaraguan Contras who were then trying to overthrow Nicaragua’s Sandinista government.
His revelations were published in all the Knight-Ridder papers. All of them? except the Miami Herald, the paper that has ties with the Cuban-American drug-trafficking terrorist mafia.
His investigation, impressive for its seriousness and scope, caused a national stir.
In their book Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, journalists from the well known web site Counterpunch.com, detailed how Webb was the victim of a veritable campaign aimed at destroying his reputation.
The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times distinguished themselves in this dirty work.
“The attack on Gary Webb and his series in the San Jose Mercury News remains one of the most venomous and factually inane assaults on a professional journalist’s competence in living memory. In the mainstream press he found virtually no defenders, and those who dared to stand up for him themselves became the object of virulent abuse and misrepresentation.”
Webb resigned from San José Mercury News in 1997. You could no longer read his work in any well known newspaper.
In 1990 Webb was among a group of reporters selected for the Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious in the world of US journalism, for a work on the Loma Prieta earthquake, but according to his relatives, he never recovered from the scandal caused by his series denouncing the CIA.
In 1999 he defended his famous investigation by publishing a book entitled Dark Alliance: the CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, which made a strong impact.
POSADA, DRUG TRAFFICKER
Among the most interesting revelations is the case of Luis Posada Carriles.
In Dark Alliance, relying on some of the CIA’s declassified documents, Webb revealed how in January 1974 the CIA rejected Posada’s request for “a Venezuelan passport” for one of his buddies because, the author wrote in all seriousness, “a control agent could not be allowed to get involved in drug trafficking.”
That same year, the CIA was advised by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) that Posada was exchanging arms for cocaine with a person “involved in political assassinations, “ a reference to Félix Rodriguez Mendigutia, a CIA agent who ordered the assassination of Che.
As a secret element of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the CIA organized Operation 40, in which Posada and dozens of Cuban Americans participated together with hired assassins from the Italian-American mafia.
Operation 40’s network was used for terrorist activities against Cuba until 1970 when one of its planes crashed in southern California with a huge quantity of heroin and cocaine on board. This same year, the FBI arrested 150 suspects in the “biggest anti-drug operation in the history of the federal police.”
At that time Attorney General John Mitchell indicated that the network controlled 30% of the country’s heroin trade and 70 to 80% of cocaine sales. But he did not mention the fact that several of those arrested belonged to the gang of Juan Restoy, a former Batista politician, distinguished “alumni” of Operation 40 with ties to the Havana capo Santos Traficante.
Two of the Restoy’s most entrusted hired assassins were?Ignacio and Guillermo Novo, “members” of the Cuban Nationalist Movement, a terrorist group with cells in Miami and Union City, New Jersey. These two assassins, who served four years in prison with Posada in Panama, recently returned to the United States with the blessings of the CIA and the FBI office in Miami.
In June 1976 Guillermo Novo and Posada participated in forming the terrorist organization CORU, whose ranks were comprised of the likes of Félix Rodriguez, Frank Castro and other criminals involved in drug trafficking operations authorized by the Reagan administration in support of the Nicaraguan Contras, which Gary Webb had covered.
In 1983, Frank Castro was accused of importing 500 tons of marijuana “then, as if by magic, the charge disappeared following his establishment of a Contras training camp in 1983.” Fortunately, Rodriguez left George Bush’s father’s office, which had appreciated his ”talent.” And Posada, illegally pardoned by the former president of Panama, Mireya Moscoso, has preferred “to disappear” with the “protections” that were left to him.
After the assassination of the Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier, the Novo brothers were hired as "public relations officers" with the Cuban-American National Foundation, while the life-appointed ”chairman” of that organization, Jorge Mas Canosa, paid $26,000 for the “release” of Posada when he was imprisoned in Venezuela following an explosion on board a Cubana passenger airline, which killed 73 people.
THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY IS OUTRAGED
Webb’s series in the San José Mercury News explains in detail how the CIA network sold tons of cocaine to criminal gangs and demonstrates how the White House’s anti-communist fanaticism was so fervent that it was willing to engage in the propagation of the most hideous drug epidemic of modern times.
The African-American community in the United States was shocked by the news disseminated by Webb’s articles.
His role in disclosing the CIA’s sinister plot made Webb a very famous figure in the black community.
When the House of Representatives finally agreed to take up the issue, after a report was issued by the CIA inspector general concerning drug trafficking by the agency, Porter Goss, who had directed the Intelligence Committee since the previous year, decided at a preliminary hearing that the allegations were “false.”
Goss, a former CIA agent who in 1972 participated in operations at the JM/WAVE base in Miami including terrorist operations against Cuba, ended up being named director of the CIA by George W. Bush.
Ricky Ross, one of Gary Webb’s most reliable sources, spoke with him a few days before his death. Webb told him that he had seen some men examining the pipes outside his house, and that it was evident that they were not thieves but “government people.” He added that he had received death threats and was routinely followed.
It was known that Gary Webb was working on a new investigation on the same subject concerning the CIA and drug trafficking.
On December 10, Webb’s corpse was discovered in his home in Carmichael. Two bullets from a Caliber .38 revolver had destroyed his face.
Coroner Robert Lyons was the judicial official who carried out the investigation into Webb’s death. He quickly announced his conclusion: Gary Webb committed suicide.
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Fidel's speech to the march against terrorism
Campaign News | Wednesday, 18 May 2005
Cuban leader calls for the arrest of Posada Carriles
Havana, May 17 -President Fidel Castro headed a march of over a million Cubans on Tuesday morning to protest against terrorism and demand the arrest of the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who is seeking asylum in the United States.
Wearing his traditional green fatigues, the leader of the Cuban revolution addressed the participants in a brief speech. He stated: "This is not a march in opposition to the people of the United States. As we have said before and as we say again today, this is a march in opposition to terrorism, in favor of our people’s life and peace and that of our sister US people in whose ethical values we trust."
The participants in the march filed past the offices of the US Interests Section in Havana to reject the hostile Bush administration policy against the island.
Below we reproduce Fidel's speech in full.
Key address by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, president of the Republic of Cuba, at the opening of the great combative people’s march to oppose terrorism. May 17, 2005
Fellow Cubans:
For 137 years, from October 10, 1868 until today, the Cuban people has been fighting for its independence, first against Spanish colonialism and then against the imperialist, expansionist policies of US governments.
During that period, we achieved full political sovereignty for the first time on January 1, 1959 when, after sweeping away the bloody tyranny imposed from abroad, the Cuban people began governing the nation. Since then, this noble and heroic people have not failed one single day to defend its right to development, justice, peace and liberty.
Because of this fair and unremitting aspiration, our people have been subject to the longest economic war in history and to a pervasive, ferocious campaign of terrorism which has lasted more than 45 years.
One of the first and bloodiest of such acts was the bombing of the ship La Coubre in the Havana harbor killing 101 people and wounding hundreds more.
The April 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion by a military force, organized, trained and equipped by the US government, was preceded by a surprise, treacherous air strike dealt by US bombers, with the Cuban air force insignia painted on them. The invading troops were brought to Cuba escorted, guarded and accompanied by US naval and air units and troops, which would wait for the mercenaries to establish a beachhead and then, with the complicity of the OAS, support a provisional government that did not even have the time to take off from a Florida airport.
Similarly, from the very first years of our triumph, armed groups were spread throughout the length and breadth of our land killing farmers, workers, teachers and literacy teachers, burning houses and destroying agricultural and industrial facilities. Acts of sabotage with white phosphorous and explosives were carried out against our country’s population and economy. Our ports, merchant and fishing ships were subject to constant attacks. Diplomatic legations and personnel abroad were the targets of attacks with explosives and fire arms.
Diplomats were killed, vanished or maimed. Passenger planes were blown up before they took off or in midair like the Barbados airliner on October 6, 1976, full of passengers whose remains lie beyond recovery on the bottom of the sea, hundreds of meters deep.
More than once, diseases affecting the life of human beings or that of domestic animals and plants necessary to provide food for the people were introduced into our country.
These acts were devised by US governments and their special services, and perpetrated by individuals trained by these.
The most up-to-date and dramatic conception of terrorism involving sophisticated techniques and high powered explosives was created and developed by US governments to destroy our revolution. Such terrorism has continued unrelenting, both inside and outside Cuba, for more than four decades.
Orlando Bosch and Posada Carriles, the most bloodthirsty exponents of the imperialists terrorism against our country, committed dozens of atrocious acts in numerous countries of this hemisphere, including the territory of the United States. Thousands of Cubans either lost their lives or were maimed as a result of these cowardly, loathsome acts.
The same US agencies and services which trained Cuban-born terrorists also carefully trained, as is common knowledge, those who organized the brutal attack on New York’s Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 in which some thousands of Americans lost their lives.
Posada Carriles, together with Orlando Bosch, -who was then the boss of the CORU, a CIA-created organization- was not only involved in destroying the Cubana airliner but for many years since then has organized dozens of attempts to assassinate the Cuban Revolution’s top leadership and was behind the numerous bombs that exploded in Cuban tourist hotels.
Meanwhile, Orlando Bosch, apparently a fugitive from US authorities, worked in conjunction with Augusto Pinochet's repressive forces to kidnap and murder well-known Chileans like Carlos Prats and Orlando Letelier, and to arrange the disappearance of numerous anti-fascist fighters in Chile as well as the kidnapping and death of Cuban diplomats. From his prison in Venezuela, he ordered his hired assassins to execute terrorist plans.
Such sinister characters always took orders from US governments and their special services; however, they have been illegally relieved of all charges and punishment. That is the case of the pardon granted to Orlando Bosch by President George Bush, sr. Likewise, the current US President has tolerated the presence of Posada Carriles on US soil for weeks in what constitutes a flagrant violation of that country’s own laws by those with the highest responsibility for protecting the US people from terrorist attacks.
All of Posada Carriles terrorist activities, including the bombs in Havana hotels and the assassination plans, were financed by US governments through the notoriously famous Cuban American National Foundation, from the time of its inception by Reagan and Bush in 1981. Never have people behaved with so much dishonesty and hypocrisy.
This is not a march against the people of the United States. As we have said before, and we insist here today, this is a march against terrorism and in favor of our people’s life and peace as well as that of our American brothers and sisters in whose ethical values we trust.
Down with terrorism!
Down with Nazi doctrines and methods!
Down with genocide!
Long live solidarity, fraternity and peace among the peoples!
Long live truth!
Let’s go forward, brave defenders of noble ideas, despising fear and the enormous power of the adversary, despising dangers; humanity yearns for justice!
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LGBTQ Authenticity at Work - 5:43
with Erin Uritus of Out and Equal Workplace Advocates
https://comcastnewsmakers.com/Videos/2018/5/31/LGBTQ-Authenticity-at-Work
In 2017, the American Psychological Association reported that social isolation and loneliness are major health threats that will continue to grow. This impacts the LGBTQ community, especially for those who are closeted or restrain their authentic identity in the workplace. As more Americans continue to identify as LGBTQ, how can the business world adapt?
Erin Uritus, CEO of Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, discusses the need for businesses to foster a culture of authenticity and belonging for all employees.
Hosted by: Paul Lisnek Produced by: National Newsmakers Team
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Lisnek: Younger Americans significantly outpace older generations in identifying as LGBTQ. As new generations come of age, enter the workforce, how can businesses prepare for this diverse influx? Hi. Welcome to Comcast Newsmakers. I´m Paul Lisnek, and with me to discuss how workplaces of all kinds can navigate this culture shift is Erin Uritus. She´s the Chief Executive Officer of Out & Equal Workplace Advocates. Erin, so good to see you.
Uritus: So nice to be here. Thanks for having me.
Lisnek: I want to start in an interesting place with you because I am certain for our viewers, too, to use words like "diversity," "inclusion" -- We know those words, but your organization is really concentrating on another important concept of belongingness. Talk to me about that.
Uritus: Yeah. Thank you. So we´ve been around 21 years, and we´ve been with companies on this continuum. So, diversity is pretty easy. You can walk out on the street and grab a man, a woman of color, a disabled person, a millennial, a veteran, and you have diversity. Inclusion takes it a step further, but inclusion is really top down or inside out from the company, what it does for its diverse workforce. So, it lives in H.R. policies, in diversity handbooks, but what we´re really talking about now is belonging. Belonging is a model of interdependence, and it´s what employees do for each other when the company is not watching.
Lisnek: And feeling like you belong is so critical, but I know Harvard Business Review has done a lot of work on the concept of loneliness at work. It´s a juxtaposition from belonging, isn´t it?
Uritus: That´s right. So, HBR has published several articles on loneliness, and it is being noted now as a national health epidemic, which is -- It´s really interesting, but it´s a concept, and when we´re talking about it out with our stakeholders, it´s really resonating, and so loneliness, interestingly, does not -- There´s no correlation between social connection and loneliness, meaning that you can be by yourself and not feel lonely. You can be in a room full of people and feel very lonely. So, it´s not really about the people that you are around. It´s about the quality of those relationships, and you being able to be out and your authentic self with those people.
Lisnek: Erin, I know there´s a study, some controversy to it, that says perhaps even a majority of young people identify outside of being straight, part of the LGBTQ community. Talk to me about that.
Uritus: That´s right. We heard the same one. There´s a study by GLAAD and Harris Poll that indicates maybe even as high as 52% identify as either not straight or somewhere under our umbrella, and no matter what the statistics are, we´ve heard from both young people coming up and also from the companies that this is real in the workplace, that there is an evolution in not only sexual orientation, but gender identity and expression, and it´s in the workplace, and so as millennials come up, companies really want to make sure, again, that their diversity investment is protected, and that not only the company is keeping up with that, but that their employee-resource groups are also inclusive to the entire community.
Lisnek: You also are the perfect person to ask, as you have lived all over. I mean, you lived in Africa and the Middle East, France, everywhere, so talk to me about the global nature, the multinational nature of the importance of these concepts of belongingness and inclusion. It´s not just an American thing.
Uritus: That´s right. In fact, so, we did start mostly surveying Fortune 500 companies based in the United States, so what we´ve seen, which is really exciting, is a trend in CEOs and leadership caring deeply about protecting their investment in diversity and inclusion work, so if they have achieved a perfect score in the Equality Index for their domestic efforts, they really want to make sure that their employees overseas, especially as they migrate employees, they may work in the United States, but move over to Singapore or other countries. The companies really want to make sure that they achieve an inclusive culture, and that their brand is about inclusivity worldwide, that that does not deviate depending on where the employee sits.
Lisnek: Just briefly -- Social-media platforms tell us a lot about CEO´s priorities and all that. Young people, of course, certainly see that on social media. How critical is the view from the top?
Uritus: Oh, it´s really critical, and what we´ve been noticing, and everybody who watches the news notice now, is that there is a trend in CEO and executive activism, so if you´re watching, you know, post Parkland when a lot of CEOs, like Edward Stack stood up from Dick´s Sporting Goods, and we´ve got Mark Benny off at Salesforce or Larry Fink with BlackRock. These are CEOs that are standing up for values and from an intersectional perspective, even when it might not necessarily look like it affects their bottom line because they care about the values, inclusive values, and what they´ve invested in already, and they want to make sure that the world knows it.
Lisnek: Erin, we´ll continue to watch your work around the country, around the globe. Erin Uritus is the CEO of Out & Equal Workplace Advocates. Thank you for joining me, and thank you for joining us, as well. If you want more great conversations with leaders in your community around the country, all you got to do -- Go to comcastnewsmakers.com. I´m Paul Lisnek. Bye-bye.
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Informal social support and older persons' psychological well-being in Hong Kong
David Rosser PHILLIPSFollow
Oi Ling SIU, Lingnan University, Hong KongFollow
Anthony G. O. YEH
Kevin H. C. CHENGFollow
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology
This paper focuses on the importance and the effectiveness of various types of informal support for older persons’ psychological well-being. It examines the effects of objective measures of informal support (such as size of social networks and frequency of contact) and subjective measures (such as satisfaction with the support received) on psychological well-being of older occupants in different household circumstances (i.e.,living alone, with spouse or relatives, in old urban areas or new towns, in private or public housing). Data were collected from face-to-face interviews with a sample of 518 older persons (224 males, 294 females) aged 60 and over, systematically drawn from a GIS-derived framework of housing districts in old urban areas and new towns in Hong Kong. The results show that both objective and subjective measures of informal support were related to older persons’ psychological well-being, but subjective measures of informal support (specifically satisfaction with support received from family members) were found to be more important predictors of psychological well-being. Furthermore, the effects of size of social network on psychological well-being were stronger for older persons who lived alone than for those who lived with a spouse or relatives. The results also show that persons who lived in the old urban areas received more support than did their counterparts in the new towns and older persons who lived in public housing received more objective informal support than those who lived in private housing. The implications of the findings for policy towards older persons in Hong Kong and similar Asia-Pacific societies are discussed.
Copyright © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007
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Phillips, D. R., Siu, O. L., Yeh, A. G. O., & Cheng, K. H. C. (2008). Informal social support and older persons' psychological well-being in Hong Kong. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 23(1), 39-55. doi: 10.1007/s10823-007-9056-0
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Former federal energy exec joins GAMCO Investors
GAMCO Investors Inc. has named John G. Vonglis, the former chief financial officer at the U.S. Department of Energy, as senior adviser to Mario J. Gabelli, chairman and CEO of the Rye firm.
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Vonglis came to the Energy Department in December 2017 and was also chief risk officer and acting director of the department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency. From 2002 to 2009, he served at the U.S. Department of Defense as director of management initiatives for the under secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness and later as the first chief management officer of the U.S. Air Force.
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Dana Benningfield
Press / Bust
Theater Notes: Hollywood or ‘Bust’
Published in the Asbury Park Press 9/03/04
Film projects are a wrap at NJ Rep
By TOM CHESEK
While Labor Day weekend is traditionally something of a siesta for most area stages, the actors, directors, playwrights, producers and tech types who make up the quasi-official stock company at New Jersey Repertory have been laboring overtime to preserve some of their very special stuff on the much-maligned (by theater-snob types) medium of celluloid.
A close look at the actor bios in any of the NJ Rep mainstage or script-in-hand productions is enough to show that there’s no real ‘anti-cellulite’ snobbery in effect among these working actors of the tri-state area — and any longtime NJ Rep subscriber who also happens to follow the NYC-based “Law & Order” franchise on TV has surely been able to place a few familiar faces among the shows’ grand parade of suspects, witnesses and victims.
Currently in post-production — having gone before the lens in mid-July — the independent short film “Bust” is an ambitious little feature with a marked NJ Rep pedigree. The capsule crime drama was scripted by one of the most familiar faces in the Long Branch-based troupe — Dana Benningfield, who also co-stars as a Russian prostitute. The actress — seen most recently on the stage of NJ Rep’s Lumia Theatre as a young mom tempted into an extramarital affair in Mike Folie’s sweetly sour comedy “Lemonade” — has never let her leading-lady good looks interfere with her choices as an accomplished character player (“North Fork”) or as a promising new director. She appears in her own tale with a lead actor who undoubtedly rings a few bells with TV watchers: Dan Lauria, the dad from the old “Wonder Years” series — here in the somewhat uncharacteristic role of a “tough-as-nails detective investigating a mob-related murder.”
The cast under the direction of Maplewood native Duncan M. Rogers also features Rep regular Philip Lynch, an actor who’s lit up the Lumia with some stellar work in both leads (“The Adjustment”) and slightly surreal support (“Spain”). This linchpin of the NJ Rep family co-starred in the company’s very first mainstage offering, and appeared alongside director Rogers in the troupe’s inaugural script-in-hand reading, to boot. Rogers, meanwhile, has busied himself as an indie filmmaker; having completed a couple of short features — “The Able’s House is Green” and “The Reader,” the latter starring Tony winner Elizabeth Franz.
New Jersey Repertory Company members Philip Lynch and Dana Benningfield are featured in a scene from ‘Bust,’ one of several short film projects now in the works from NJ Rep regulars.
Long Branch residents who get an opportunity to view the finished film (plans are in effect to submit the work to several film festivals, and even to pitch it as a possible TV pilot) might spot yet another familiar face in a cameo — city police Sergeant Frank Rizzuto, who served the production as a Law Enforcement Consultant. He’s joined by several other community businesses and entities — including the Long Branch Arts Council, Siperstein’s, Amy’s Omelette House, Casey Jones Restaurant, Wilson’s Ice Cream, Island Grille and Attilio’s — who lent a helping hand to the homegrown opus.
Also pitching in on the project were a number of NJ Rep stalwarts — from production manager Rose Riccardi to craft services coordinator Lina Moccia — who have been integral members of the extended family headed by company founders Gabor and SuzAnne Barabas. This clannish vibe was perhaps never more apparent than in “My Rifle, My Pony and Me,” a three-day festival of short works (all of them built around the theme of the American Cowboy) presented last winter as the first in the troupe’s projected series of Theatre Brut productions — with the Brut-al weather failing to stop this sold-out showcase from assembling a virtual ‘Who’s Who’ of regional creative and performing talent; a homecoming for practically everyone who ever made a contribution to this still-young company’s already formidable legacy. The only thing this observer disliked about “My Rifle” was that all of the playlets were presented exactly one time only, ostensibly never to be seen again — until now. With the formation of NJ Rep Film Brut Production Company, director Eric Stannard is getting underway with plans to film several of the cowboy-inspired one-acts for posterity. While the segments have yet to be cast or even selected, there’s been mention made of two pieces that originally involved the talents of Dana Benningfield: the Folie monologue “There’s a 200 Foot Cowboy in Istanbul” (in which she starred as a disillusioned but sadly seductive tobacco company exec) and Dickie Nessinger’s ‘Harvest Moon,’ which she directed as a gently hilarious tall-tale slice of magical realism.
New Jersey Repertory inaugurates its new season this October with a production of Lee (“A Walk in the Woods”) Blessing’s sociopolitical satire “Whores.”
L.B. police sergeant a rookie on the film set
Coaching actors on set turns into film debut for L.B. cop
BY CHRISTINE VARNO
Staff Writer
Long Branch Police Officer Sgt. Frank Rizzuto (r), acts in a scene in the short film “Bust” with Dan Lauria (l), who played the father in the television show, “The Wonder Years.”
LONG BRANCH — When he’s not protecting the streets of Long Branch, Sgt. Frank Rizzuto can soon be seen fighting crime on the big screen.
Rizzuto, 34, who has been with the city police department for eight years, will be making his first-ever cameo appearance in “Bust,” a short film that wrapped up shooting in Long Branch recently.
“Bust” is a production by Sandbox Partners, in association with Freshwater Films and the New Jersey Repertory Co. in Long Branch.
Rizzuto isn’t the only rookie involved in the film. “Bust” will be the first film produced by the NJ Rep, a company that focuses on producing new works by contemporary playwrights.
“Film is something that the rep company is hoping to do more of,” explained Dana Benningfield, a member of the company who wrote and starred in “Bust.” “Theater is temporary. It is the magic of theater and the frustration of theater. It is not long lasting.”
NJ Rep was established in 1997, staged its first full production in 1999 and is ready to start something new, according to Suzanne Barabas, the artistic director for the company.
“Since we are planning on going into films, we thought ‘Bust’ would be a worthwhile project to get into,” Barabas said. “It is going to be an artistic film. I am anxious to see it.”
Not as anxious as the local star, Rizzuto, who did not know he was going to be in the film until the day before filming.
The film takes place in an interrogation room in a police department where a mob-related murder is being invested. It turns out to be a bust gone wrong.
Rizzuto was asked by Diane Munoz, the director of marketing with the company, to bring his police background to the set and show the actors how to play the part of a real cop. He said he showed them how to wear their ID badges, their holsters and their identification on the belts.
When the actor, scheduled to play the part of a cop assisting in an arrest, was unable to be present the day of shooting, Rizzuto was asked to step up.
“I said ‘No problem,’ ” Rizzuto said. “I had no lines and just walked across the set. It was great.”
He said the experience has given him a new respect for actors.
“It took a day to shoot the same scene from different angles that would probably be a minute of the movie,” Rizzuto said. “It was very interesting.”
He said the research done for the film was impeccable and the set was dead on, down to broken old printers in the corner of the interrogation room.
“My job started off as advisement,” Rizzuto said. “When they asked me to be in the movie, I was able to add authenticity to it.”
“He was incredibly helpful,” Benningfield said. “He was perfect. He was the real thing. It’s nice to say in the credits, Frank Rizzuto as himself.”
Benningfield stars in the film along with Philip Lynch, also a member of the company, and Dan Lauria, who is known for his role as the father on the television show “Wonder Years.”
The film was directed by Duncan M. Rogers, a member of the company since its inception who starred in the first reading at the company, “Horrors of Doctor Moreau” with Lynch in 1998.
Plans are to submit the film to festivals and possibly develop it into a future television pilot, according to Barabas who said she would like to see it screened at the company’s film festival planned for the fall.
NJ Rep is putting together a festival of shorts and feature-length films, under the direction of Eric Stannard, head of the company’s film division, according to Barabas.
The film, which was produced on a budget of $16,000, is currently being edited, according to Benningfield, who said it will be about 10 minutes long and should be completed by the fall.
She said she is happy with the performances delivered during the making of the film.
“I don’t think this is the start of a great career for me,” Rizzuto said, “unless this takes off as a big series. Then maybe they’ll call me back as a good luck charm.”
dana@danabenningfield.com
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CMA Fest, Cole Swindell, Country Music, Performance - June 11, 2018
CMA Fest Peformance: Cole Swindell | “Breakup In The End”
Cole Swindell made a brief appearance at Nissian Stadium during this year’s CMA Fest where he performed his latest single “Breakup In The End”. Besides his hit single “You Ain’t Worth The Whiskey”, he keeps a tight lock on the details of his love life, but states he can be a “runner” in relationships and his own personal experiences made it easy for him to relate to this heartfelt ballad.
His highly anticipated third album titled All Of It will be released on August 17th. The debut single and video from the album also titled “All Of It” will debut on Friday, August 10th. No surprise here, but I am ecstatic about the new album and video. After all, Cole doesn’t have a record breaking SEVEN consecutive number one singles, FIVE platinum singles, one platinum album, one gold album and over one BILLION on demand streams for nothing! ;)
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Welcoming the WorldWide Telescope to the Open Source .NET Universe
At the .NET Foundation we strive to put code into the hands of those who use it, in an effort to create an innovative and exciting community. Today we’re excited to announce that we are doing just that in welcoming the WorldWide Telescope to the exciting universe of open source .NET.
I did my undergraduate degree in physics at a time when the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was a new thing. I remember very well my amazement when I could load up one of about 100 CD-ROM’s from the Digitized Sky Survey to get access to observations from the Palomar Observatory and then later the HST, and compare them with my own results to track changes in the night sky. CD-ROM’s were a new thing back then too, but I wrote some VB code to capture data out of the JPEG images in the Sky Survey and compare it with my own images from the CCD in the back of the telescope on the roof of the University of Durham Physics department.
Fast forward to 2008 and Microsoft Research moved Robert Scoble to tears and wowed the auidence at TED when it released the WorldWide Telescope, giving the public access to exactly the same type of raw astronomical data through an easy-to-use interface. The WorldWide Telescope application is great because it puts an incredible visualization engine together with some of the most interesting scientific data in the world into the hands of anyone. You can just explore the pretty pictures and zoom in as if you are seeing the universe on some of the best telescopes in the world – but you can also do real science with the same interface. Astronomers and educators using WorldWide Telescope have come to appreciate and beauty and power of tooling that enables such rich data exploration – truly setting that data free.
Today, I am thrilled to announce that the .NET Foundation is working together with Microsoft Research and the WorldWide Telescope project team to set the application itself free. The code, written in .NET, is now available as an open source application under the MIT License on GitHub. We are very keen to help the team develop in the open and now that WorldWide Telescope is open source, any individual or organization will be able to adapt and extend the functionality of the application and services to meet their research or educational needs. Not only can they contribute those changes back to the wider community through a pull request, but they’ll allow others to build on their research and development. Extensions to the software will continuously enhance astronomical research, formal and informal learning, and public outreach, while also leveraging the power of the .NET ecosystem.
The WorldWide Telescope represents a new community coming to the Foundation. It’s also great that we now have representation within the foundation from a project that is a complex system that building on-top of the .NET Framework with both a desktop client, as well as extensive server based infrastructure. The WorldWide Telescope is an important tool and I’m glad the .NET Foundation can be of help as it begins its journey as an open source application with committers from inside and outside of Microsoft. We’re thrilled to welcome the community of astronomers using and contributing to the WorldWide Telescope into the exciting universe of open source .NET.
You can read more about the WorldWide Telescope on the website and more about the move to open source on the Microsoft Research Connections blog. The WorldWide Telescope team also have a very cool video on YouTube showing the power of the WorldWide Telescope in action where you can also find a wealth of videos from the community.
Martin Woodward
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The original finding aid described this as: Description: STS-79 Mission specialist Carl Walz (in his LES) is photographed at his seat on the flight deck. Subject Terms: ASTRONAUTS, FLIGHT DECK, ONBOARD ACTIVITIES, STS-79, ATLANTIS (ORBITER) Date Taken: 11/5/1996 Categories: Crew Activities Interior_Exterior: Interior Ground_Orbit: On-orbit Original: Film - 35MM CN Preservation File Format: TIFF
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. 2/17/1973. STS079-366-017 - STS-079 - STS-79 crewmembers in orange launch and entry suits on the flight deck. 1981-04-12/2011-07-21. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://catalog.archives.gov/id/23025275. (Accessed July 19, 2019.)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. 2/17/1973, (1981-04-12/2011-07-21) STS079-366-017 - STS-079 - STS-79 crewmembers in orange launch and entry suits on the flight deck. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://catalog.archives.gov/id/23025275
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. 2/17/1973. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://catalog.archives.gov/id/23025275>.
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Corey Stoll reflects on the beginning of House of Cards — and Peter Russo's 'beautiful' ending
By Derek Lawrence
Melinda Sue Gordon/Netflix
Over its deadly run, House of Cards has become synonymous with the abrupt killing off of major characters. But, like with everything, there has to be a first, and for Netflix’s original flagship series, it was Peter Russo, memorably played by Corey Stoll.
From the beginning, Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright were the clear leads of creator Beau Willimon’s series, but Russo and Kate Mara’s Zoe Barnes quickly emerged as two of the most interesting House of Cards characters. But Stoll’s memorable run didn’t even last a full season, considering his character learned the hard way to never get involved with the Underwoods. In the midst of a drunken spiral, Russo decides he needed to come clean, which was bad news for Frank (Spacey), so after driving a passed out Russo home, the ruthless politician left the car running and closed the garage behind him, leaving Russo to die in what would be deemed a suicide.
Now, with House of Cards set to return for one last season (without Spacey, who was fired due to multiple sexual misconduct accusations), EW talked with Stoll about why he initially was resistant to the Russo role, the character’s shocking death, and his skepticism about later returning for a cameo.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What appealed to you about Peter Russo and House of Cards when you were first introduced to the project?
COREY STOLL: It’s funny, I didn’t really get it at first. When I first auditioned for it, I thought it was sort of a fun, goofy guy, another stereotypical, arrogant grownup frat boy in a suit. But I auditioned and then didn’t hear anything about it for a few months and I just kept on going back to that role, I just kept on thinking about him. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but there was something about him that I really just felt like I had to play. And I almost never feel this, this sort of sense that I was the only person who could play this role, and I sort of hounded my agents to make sure I got back in the room with David Fincher. There was just something about the character’s combination of strength and weakness. It’s so rare to be able to play all of those colors, certainly in a supporting role.
Why do you think that Peter has stuck with so many fans? He lasted just 11 episodes, which basically equates to only one-sixth of the entire series. Do you think it’s for a lot of the same reasons that he stuck with you?
He’s somebody who has a really compelling arc. He starts off as shallow and entitled as you can get and is almost instantly brought down, and then builds himself back up. And I think his is death really, truly surprising. It comes at a point in the storytelling where you feel like he’s just sort of coming into his own. I’m only guessing what an audience feels, but the audience first feels like they sold him too short, because I think as soon as you see him, you go, “Oh, this guy’s a liar and shallow,” and then you see the spark of someone with some real integrity and hope, and you go on that journey and it’s cut short.
You lead me perfectly into the shocking end of Peter. How did you find out that his story was going to conclude like that? Having it take place in the first season, did you know going in that this would be one and done for you?
Yeah, I knew it was a one season deal. I can’t remember if I knew exactly how he died from the beginning, but I definitely knew that that was the plan.
So what were your thoughts when you found out how it was going to be executed?
I thought it was beautiful. I was definitely attached to Peter by the time that we had to film those scenes. But I also knew how lucky I was to have this self-contained story. Whether it’s conscious or not, I think when you’re doing a TV show, there is something that you hold back because you feel like, “I’ve got to keep the story of this character going for maybe years and years.” Knowing that the end was coming and coming soon, I really felt released from any sort of restraint in every scene, I’d say all the way from the beginning.
What was it like when it came to filming Peter’s death? Pretty emotional?
It was. I put a lot into the character and the episode or two that leads up to his death, where he really falls off the wagon and is suicidal, were very intense things to shoot. The actual shooting of the death was very technical, a lot of it was just figuring out how to work the electronics on the Chrysler 300 that I was sitting in and questioning if I’m found in the passenger seat won’t that make it obvious that it wasn’t suicide, and then someone did some quick Googling and we found out that it actually does happen. So it was technical, and also Peter was just so drunk and high at that point that the pain had gone and he was sort of in a haze. Definitely the most painful scene to shoot was when he calls his children.
Peter became the first big casualty on a show that would become synonymous with killing off characters. Do you take a little pride in being the one who started it all?
Sure [laughs]. I don’t know; I mean, it’s always good to be the first. And I do think the impact of mine and Kate Mara’s character’s deaths were so strong because we were set up as the two other lead protagonists. We were set up to be long-term characters… and not so much.
Speaking of Kate, you came back and did a cameo from beyond the grave in season 4, so what was it like to pick Peter back up after having felt like you put him to bed so beautifully?
I was very skeptical about it, because I had felt that the story was so well-told and completely told, and, exactly, I had put him to bed. I’ll be honest, I did it because [creator] Beau Willimon asked me to and I felt that I owed it to him because he had written such a beautiful role for me that had frankly done so much for my career. I felt if this is how he wants the character to come back then I’m willing to oblige. But I was definitely nervous about doing anything to lessen the impact of what was already filmed. And I’m happy with the way it went because it’s so abstractive and so unexpected that I felt like it succeeded in continuing the spirit in which we had filmed the first season.
Any final thoughts on Peter and the series as a whole?
Peter was an unique experience for me on film. I had been able to find characters onstage that served as sort of vessels for my psyche in the way that Peter was, but never on film and television. There’s something unique about him where I felt I was able to share my weakness and my strength. There was a completeness about that character that was very satisfying and cathartic to play. I think every actor is searching for roles that allow them to show a secret side of themselves — not that I share those particular addictions that Peter had, I don’t. He was a vessel that fit perfectly for me and so the fact that other people could react to that and react positively to that means a lot to me.
The final season of House of Cards begins streaming on Friday.
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Ballots, betrayal, and barbecue combine in Netflix’s original drama, which stars Kevin Spacey as cunning congressman Frank Underwood and Robin Wright as his equally ruthless Lady Macbeth. Based on a 1990 BBC serial of the same name.
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House of Cards series finale recap: The brutal legacy of Claire Hale
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ArmA 3 Releasing Date Announced
Bohemia Interactive Studio has finally decided on the release date for tactical military shooter game Arma 3 - the game will go on sale on 12th September 20313 as a digital services and in retail stores.
It shall be noted that a few days ago the game developers announced that at the time of release of the third part of Arma it will not be a full-fledged single-player campaign, yet it will be released later in the form of three free extras. The first of them will be known as Survive, and will be released a month after the game release.
At launch Arma 3 players will receive:
12 missions for a single pass;
Altis and Stratis Island of 270 and 20 km 2 , respectively;
Fraction 3;
9 scenarios for Multiplayer;
10 trials;
More than 40 types of weapons;
More than 20 types of equipment;
Script editor and support for mods.
Game Plot:
The game will unfold its stunning features in the near future on the two islands in the Aegean Sea. Events will take place against the background of the conflict between NATO and the Eastern bloc countries. The main character, Captain Scott Miller, leads the commando operation on one of the islands, but his team discover that leads to the death of all the partners. Miller has no choice but to survive and successfully complete the task. This will help him a large arsenal and a vast fleet of equipment.
Cost of Game:
The beta version of Arma 3 will cost around $45 USD for PC.
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The Future of Search: A Q&A with Grant Ingersoll
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Donald Trump raised the issue of the fairness of Google search. Citing a variety of specious sources, he asked, “Is the Google Search ranking algorithm biased in some way?” While I don’t think he really has much of a point, it is interesting to think about why search is the way it is, and does it have to be that way?
I spoke with Grant Ingersoll, a contributor to Solr, the cofounder of the Mahout Machine Learning Open Source Project, and cofounder and CTO of Lucidworks, to help sort this out. This Q&A is drawn from an edited transcript from our podcast.
Earlier in my career, I worked on a Money Magazine ‘Best Cities’ calculator. Money Magazine had for years done a ‘Best City in the United States’ ranking in which they took many different dimensions of a city, measured them, and then put them in a model that combined all the dimensions with various weights.
On Pathfinder we changed the ‘Best Cities’ ranking system so that you could put in your own weights. You could decide whether art or food or culture was most important to you. This allowed people to get their own ‘Best Cities’ ranking. I think that’s essentially what’s up for grabs when we talk about what could happen with search.
Dan Woods: First let’s talk search in general. What is really going on? What are the basic things that happen?
Grant Ingersoll: In most consumer-based search engines, there are at least three levels usually at work.
First, some core algorithms under the hood that take care of parsing text, acquiring content, getting it into the engine, doing all of all the pre-processing and building of data structures that make it easy to look up keywords at runtime.
When you search with Google, there’s a very basic level of matching that finds content with those exact words or words like those or at least the concepts.
On top of that is some notion of popularity. Some might be familiar with PageRank or Clickstreamr.
Google has a lot of really smart people, but the reality is that we as consumers do the majority of the work. We vote with our fingers. We tell Google what’s important. And not individually; all of us together say, “Hey, I like this site, not that site.”
How do we tell Google that? How do they learn from us?
In the search business, we talk about implicit and explicit signals. An explicit signal is clicking on something. But there are also implicit examples like how much time you spend on a page, how long you took to decide which document to click on. Did you scroll? Did you walk away from the machine or go to a different page, open a new tab? Did you rewrite your query because you weren’t happy with the results?
There are a lot of things that people have worked out over the years that are good indicators of whether somebody likes something or not. And then there’s this whole concept of negative space. I may say I really like Beethoven and I hate Tchaikovsky, but that means I like classical music, because I didn’t even bother to rate Metallica. So there’s this whole negative space of things you didn’t even bother with that comes into play.
But once you have this evidence, an algorithm determines which dimensions are most important. What are the choices you make in determining how to rank results?
It’s true that ultimately people working on search choose the algorithms to apply. And most search engines do have some notion of editorialization or at least nudging results, or at least providing feedback to the engine that says, “Hey, this is right,” or “No, that is right.”
Especially in the earlier days of search engines, a lot of the weights, like in your ‘Best Cities’ example, were picked by hand. It was up to me as a search engineer to say, “The title of an article is more important than the last paragraph” or “I care more about user reviewers than I do about purchase price,” or something along those lines.
You also mentioned dimensions like freshness or relevance. What other dimensions are involved? Let’s imagine that someday we might be able to choose. What would be on that menu?
There are a lot. You hit on a number of key things, especially when you’re talking news. Obviously, freshness is a huge factor there. There’s also the notion of the authority of that site, the popularity of that site. Is it a newspaper of record, if you will, from the old days? Some personal choices go into those things as Google learns your behavior over time. For me, as a techie, when I go into Google, it knows that I tend to want things that are more technically oriented than perhaps equivalent terms that aren’t technically oriented. So there’s a lot of biases and levers that we can build into a system to help essentially narrow down all of that data.
Another dimension is length of the content. Like most people, I think, all else being equal, I would rather read something that’s shorter than longer if I get the same information out of it. And then of course there’s the editorial goals of the company or the newspaper itself. There’s as much as to what you don’t show as there is to what you do.
When we go on Google or any public search engine, we get a much better experience than we get from our own company’s search engine. We usually find it much harder to find what we need internally. What makes public web search better? Several years ago I wrote an article about how people were disappointed in the Google Search appliance because when they plugged it into their corporate data, they found that they didn’t get nearly as good choices and rankings as they did in public. Why is that?
The biggest factor is that you have billions of people on Google and a lot of the content is public. And so you have this massive, every day, every hour, voting scheme going on, whereby people are clicking and voicing their opinion on what matters and what doesn’t. In the enterprise, you typically see two things. I often say that one of the main reasons why not just enterprise search, but enterprise applications fail, is because they fail to account for what users do. And what users do at work is in many ways different from what they do at home because work systems force them into certain paradigms. Clicks aren’t necessarily at the same volume, but we often express our opinions or interests in different forms, forms that are harder to capture, things like email or Slack or Microsoft Teams or any of these chat systems that we use at work. We share content there and older search systems, like Google Search Appliance, don’t necessarily have access to them, so they can’t register the votes in the same way that one does up on the internet.
The dimension of personalization is much more prevalent in public web search than it is in internal searches. What happens, and what is the effect of personalization on search?
Interestingly enough, we’re seeing more and more interest in the enterprise, namely because consumers are also employees. When they show up at work, they say, “Well why can’t I have what I have it in my home life, Google and Yelp and Facebook and Amazon?” And the real answer is they ought to be able to. It’s just that the way you personalize at work is different. It’s often based on what role you have, your function within the company. It takes a bit longer to learn what matters to you because there’s not as much evidence, and there’s probably not as many people who have similar roles. Only in really large corporations do you see the effect of the masses at that level. But there are other ways, and there’s a lot of movement around machine learning and AI to bring more personal capabilities into the enterprise. It’s something I work on quite a lot, in terms of how we capture those signals in the enterprise, and bring that into an application.
Earlier you mentioned the PageRank algorithm as one of the foundations of Google, but now it’s really a proxy. PageRank isn’t the dominant force inside Google’s search engine. There are dozens of AI and advanced machine learning techniques examining all the content and trying to discern the concerns. Would you agree that, compared to internal search, public search has a hundred or a thousand times more density in the kind of advanced AI, analytics, and machine learning that’s applied?
There are different approaches to how you do things on the web or for consumers than you do in the enterprise. In the enterprise, you often have to do things in more unsupervised ways because you don’t have as many examples to learn from. There are still often hundreds if not thousands of features that one could at least attempt to leverage and learn from. Oftentimes you don’t need all of that, but it’s at least something you can experiment with. One of the cool things with the state of AI and machine learning these days is that systems are getting so much better at taking in lots of features and distilling them into an algorithm that can adapt very quickly to new and changing capabilities.
Could you explain what you mean by features? That’s a technical AI term.
A feature is an attribute of the data, of the content. It’s for instance, the price of something or whether it’s in stock, its color, keywords in the description, the title. It might also be how many people bought that thing in the past, or read that article in the past. All of those are features that can then be learned by a machine.
It’s what we often do as humans, but a computer can do it so much faster and so much more reliably, repeatably, and of course, at scale. We as humans can usually track five, six, maybe ten different features at a time, and synthesize them and say, “Ah, I see a pattern there.” The machine, given enough examples of those features, can do that at massive scale. That’s really what’s transforming the search industry these days. And back to the original question around Trump, that’s it’s ripe for manipulation by third-party sources. We’ve all seen the questions about Russia. We are aware of the battle going on around bots and spam. There’s essentially a constant battle over what features are chosen and not chosen, and if you think about it, as soon as you make that choice of feature, it then becomes a target for somebody to manipulate it in an adversarial way.
Let’s get to the bigger picture. Does it really have to be this way? Does search really need to be a black box controlled by a company like Google? One of Google’s responses to Trump’s accusations was that they really work hard on making a great black box that works really well to provide relevant content. What they didn’t say is, maybe we should provide you explicit personalization, allowing you to make some choices about the kind of search results you want. How would things be different if that were possible? And is it possible?
Well yes; it’s software. Most people like to say, “Anything’s possible in software, given enough time and money.” Would consumers actually even want it or care about it? People who are in the know and understand the things that can go wrong with a system that doesn’t have those capabilities would cheer it on. Privacy and security experts would be interested. But would the average everyday consumer?
Would the everyday consumer who is swimming in a sea of information want it? Probably not. If you’re looking up a recipe for barbecued chicken, do you really need to know why the algorithm chose the recipe? You either like the recipes or not, and if you don’t like them, it’s just as easy for you to retarget your queries.
And we should mention that there are other search engines besides Google. Nobody’s forcing anybody to use Google. Microsoft has a perfectly viable search engine, Bing. For those who like privacy, DuckDuckGo has made its whole living these days around being the search engine that doesn’t put you in the bubble, that doesn’t personalize toward you, and that tries to be more clear about what’s going on. In fact, some chunk of DuckDuckGo’s code base is open source. I’m not an advocate for them. I do use them a lot. One of the things I do as a search user is I switch between search engines, just to see how and why they’re biasing results in different ways toward me.
We mentioned two things that could be different. You could have a white box that showed you how the algorithm is working. We get that on Netflix where it says, “Because you watched this, we’re now recommending these movies.” Sometimes in email you get explanations of why a recommendation was made. And the other thing that you mentioned is that we could set our own parameters and change the weights, as in the Money Magazine ‘Best Cities’ examples. Are there other things that could be different? What else could be different in terms of the way that search could work?
We spend a lot of time trying to understand users’ intent and unfortunately human language has a lot of ambiguity. You’re starting to see with tools like Siri and Google Home and Alexa is a movement towards natural language dialogue. I think we all see some part of the future where we can actually have a conversation with the bot, and the bot is then able to ask clarifying questions. By asking those clarifying questions, it’s able to suss out your meaning. If I say, “Hey Dan, where’s the bank?” I might be looking for cash or a place to land my canoe. So context and all of those kinds of things matter, and search engines and bots are always looking for ways to help users better express their information need, what they’re looking for.
And I think the sliders and features that you’re getting at will be context sensitive. When I’m doing research for an in-depth expose that I’m writing on some hard-hitting issue, I want to be able to go very deep on a topic, and I want my search engine to unearth all the stuff. Whereas if I want to find a good restaurant for tonight, it’s probably not going to matter.And so I constantly think about how do we slide that dial? And I think to your point then, is you want to be able to, at each position along that dial, be able to say, I care about what is going into this algorithm so that I can better judge whether I’m being manipulated.
Another dimension is specificity of search…
And time windows.
Or a range of answers—a narrow range or a wide range
Right. We do this all the time. If you go into a hotel with a good concierge and ask, “When does the shuttle leave for the airport?” the concierge responds “5:00 pm. Be here 20 minutes beforehand.” It’s a quick answer. When you say, “What are some good restaurants?” that person asks qualifying questions. Do you want steak? Vegan? Mexican?
A good concierge goes the extra mile and does some of the work for you. I think this is really where the future of search is going, making it more like a good concierge. For instance, it might say, “I see that you check in here every Friday. You should get your points. Do you want me to fill out the loyalty program for you? ” We want things to take away the drudgery, but we also don’t want to be fooled by them.
Why wouldn’t Google give us more controls? What are the implications of opening up the black box? I don’t think that Google is planning on doing this anytime soon. Why do you think that it’s in their interest not to open it up?
What does opening up mean? Do they give away all the code? Do they give away all of the data? Do they give away both? Do they give people access to all of the inputs that they have? Do they allow people to submit their own content directly and say it’s news? There are a lot of factors there, of course.
But let’s say they said, “Let’s open up the levers into the algorithm,” it’s still on Google to combine those into an engine that transforms those levers into results. I can see a lot of performance issues with that. Doing that across a billion users would be really hard to scale and customize because of limitations in the hardware that you have.
Putting that aside, Google is in large part an advertising company. Their job is to make money. They need to match ads to results. Their distinct differentiator as a business is the way that they are able to do those kinds of things. So by opening up all of that, they would obviously be inviting competition.
And manipulation, as well.
One of the simplest ways that you can “de-bias” Google is simply by opening up your search window in a private browser window using incognito mode, or use a VPN or a Tor client, or open up in safe mode or private browsing mode and turn off your cookies or delete your cookies. And you’ll notice distinctly different results from Google.
That’s an experiment that everybody can do: do the same search, one in an incognito tab and one in a normal tab, and see the differences.
I wrote an article about how the rise of the Amazon Alexa, Siri, and other bot-oriented search engines is going to kill SEO.
Now all of these things have a knowledge graph behind them. Siri and Alexa are querying a graph that allows them to pick one answer to give you. You don’t see that list of answers anymore, and this is a big change in the way people interact with search.
What are the other big issues at play that people in the search business are struggling with? Both in the public realm and in the internal and corporate realm?
Obviously knowledge graph and virtual assistants. We just talked a little bit about scaling answers from short, quick fact-based answers that Siri and Alexa are highly optimized to do. Knowing which sources are authoritative becomes even more challenging when you have lots of different versions of the truth, or at least versions of evidence, available to you. We’re constantly on the lookout for ways to distinguish the best way of answering.
In the enterprise, we often struggle with 27 different versions of a document, one’s in your SharePoint, one’s in your filesystem, and 10 of them are in your email. Which is the right one? They might all match, but which one matters at this point in time? Those are really challenging questions and I don’t know that there’s ever a single answer.
The notions of relevance and importance are a never-ending battle. I don’t think SEO or similar techniques ever go away. The landscape just changes. These days what’s really interesting is that a lot of new content types that are being unlocked.
The simplest one is images. Image search wasn’t even really doable in any practical way 5 or 10 years ago. These days you’re seeing real production systems where you can say, “Here’s an image. Go find me other images like this.” The same with audio and speech-to-text. I think we’re on the cusp of a lot of really interesting things coming together. Users are really going to like what they see coming out of the research field. And that’s going to help unlock a lot of productivity. And that’s frankly what gets me excited in the search space these days, along with machine learning.
Let’s talk a little bit about that, because your company, Lucidworks, has a platform, the Fusion Platform, that essentially reaches out to large corpuses of data and helps you organize them into smaller collections that might be relevant to a business process. And then, when you’re actually executing that process, you can use search or a knowledge graph or some other way to reach into them and get what’s relevant.
It seems to me that there’s an analogy between that sort of organizing of information into smaller collections that are relevant to a business process, and the kind of work we do in the business intelligence world, where you have ETL first to create an organized corpus of data, but then you have last mile ETL to create a purpose-built set of data for a dashboard. It seems to me that search is changing so that you’re creating these smaller collections that can be then delivered to a business process. Is that one of the things that Lucidworks is really all about?
That’s a pretty good description. There are a lot of worlds colliding right now in the data space. And obviously, I’m biased because I work for a search company, but I think the core capabilities of a search engine help you reframe how you think about data in really interesting ways.
If you’ve ever done SQL or worked with Excel, there’s traditionally been this model of rows and columns of data, and then you filter some amount of that data, and then you say, “I want to sort by time” or “by revenue,” or some column. It’s essentially a linear monolithic approach of “Sort by this column. No, sort by that column.”
Search engines turns that on its head and it says, Let me mash together all these features of the data. And let me rank them according to all of these different weights that I’ve learned over time, that I’ve factored in from the data itself, as well as user behavior and whatever editorial rules and business processes I have.
Once you start to reframe how you think about data that way, from a monolithic view to a view seeks to know what’s important in the data, you can transform the way you think about applications. It’s no longer about showing a user all the data that matches. It’s showing them the data at the top that matters to them, and empowering them to take action on it. From there you attach this into workflows and build out applications.
At Lucidworks, what we really try to do is bring together those two worlds of helping you better understand what’s in your data, but then enable you to take action with it, through your business process, your workflows, and your configuration management. The hygiene of running a business.
What’s a good before-and-after example of an application working according to the row-and-table sort paradigm, and an application working according to the ranking of features and what’s important paradigm?
What we often see is multiple applications working in concert together.
Let’s say we power Acme Company’s retail search such that when you go in and search for widgets, the application says “Buy Widget A, buy Widget B, buy Widget C.” We’ve done all that fancy ranking and machine learning that learns from what users have bought and purchased, so we have all of this click data and purchase behavior data. Well guess what? The data that makes for better search also what makes for better recommendations, personalization, query intent, and query understanding.
Most importantly, it’s also your analytics data, so then the second application that very naturally falls out of a smart ecommerce retail solution is Customer 360, which shows how your users are behaving and how they engage on your site.
Traditionally, in most companies, these are two separate things. Marketing keeps all the data in Omniture or Google Analytics, and then search is over here, and recommendations are over there. For us, that’s all the same, because it’s all the same data.
And so in the Customer 360 app, I can put a dashboard on top of it. But one of the things that we do, and that search really powers, is we can drill into the why behind the dashboards. It’s one thing to look at a dashboard and say, “Sales are up by 3% this quarter.” It’s another thing to then click through that dashboard, run a search and say, “Here are the dominating features and factors as to why sales are up.” And then recommend the logical follow up on that, perhaps to congratulate the people responsible.
I see. With a traditional dashboard you could see all the inputs and then decide which was most important. You’re saying that with this feature-based approach, you can see and sort which one is most important.
And not only that, but take the next logical step. Most traditional BI tools stop at the dashboard. And it’s up to the human to decide how to interpret it. There’s a jagged line on that line chart. What should I do about that? or I think that’s Dan’s responsibility or That’s Grant’s responsibility. Let me call him.
If you start to think about how to attach workflows and business processes to that, and show people what’s important, how to take that next best action and then follow through on it, you can build a much richer experience. And then that can feed back into the beginning of the cycle again and feed back into the search engine or into the buying patterns or the supply chain.
So it sounds like a lot more like that you’re creating a knowledge graph that then can be influenced by behavior, can be influenced by people’s reaction to it, and start optimizing, and optimizing both in the first answer it might give, but also optimizing in the transparency of the explanation and the causality involved in all of that.
Exactly. And that’s the beauty of search engine. And by putting all that traditional BI data that usually lives in a BI warehouse into a search engine, you also give all your users easy access to it. All your users already know how to search, so if you wanted to ask about sales for 2018, just go pop that into the search engine, as opposed to talking to the IT team to run a BI report or create a dashboard.
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Artillery observer
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Danish artillery observer using a thermal imaging camera and a laser rangefinder in a live fire exercise
A military artillery observer, spotter or FO (forward observer) is responsible for directing artillery and mortar fire onto a target and may be a Forward Air Controller (FAC) for close air support and spotter for naval gunfire support. Also known as Fire Support Specialist or FISTer, an artillery observer usually accompanies a tank or infantry manoeuvre unit. Spotters ensure that indirect fire hits targets which the troops at the fire support base cannot see.
Because artillery is an indirect fire weapon system, the guns are rarely in line-of-sight of their target, often located miles away.[1] The observer serves as the eyes of the guns, by sending target locations and if necessary corrections to the fall of shot, usually by radio.
More recently a mission controller for an Army Unmanned Air System (UAS) may also perform this function, and some armies use special artillery patrols behind the enemy's forward elements.
Broadly, there are two very different approaches to artillery observation. Either the observer has command authority and orders fire, including the type and amount of ammunition to be fired, to batteries. Or the observer requests fire from an artillery headquarters at some level, which decides if fire will be provided, by which batteries, and the type and amount of ammunition to be provided. The first is characterised by the British, the second by the United States. In World War II both Germany and the Soviet Union tended towards the British method.
In the US System the observer sends a request for fire, usually to his battalion or battery Fire Direction Center (FDC). The FDC then decides how much fire to permit and may request additional fire from a higher artillery headquarters. FDC(s) convert the observer's target information into firing data for the battery's weapons.
In the British system the observer sends a fire order to his own and any other batteries authorised to them, and may request fire from additional batteries. Each battery command post converts the fire orders into firing data for its own guns. Until post-World War II the observer would usually order actual firing data to the guns of his own troop, this was enabled by the use of calibrating sights on the guns.[citation needed]
Artillery observers are considered high-priority targets by enemy forces,[citation needed] as they control a great amount of firepower, are within visual range of the enemy, and may be located within enemy territory.
Calling in and Adjusting Artillery Fire on a Target
U.S. Army / U.S. Marine CorpsEdit
Main article: Forward observers in the U.S. military
A U.S. Marine artillery forward observer in a tree to get a better view of the battlefield in Guadalcanal, 1942.
In the U.S. Army, a Light, Heavy, or Stryker Infantry company Fire Support Team (FIST) consists of a Fire Support Officer (FSO), a Fire Support Sergeant, three Forward Observers (FO), two Fire Support Specialists and three Radio Telephone Operators (RTO)[citation needed]. Armored/Cavalry FIST teams usually consist of just one FSO and three enlisted personnel. Brigade COLT teams operate in groups of two individuals, a Fire support specialist in the grade of E-1 to E-4 and a Fire Support Sergeant in the grade of E-5. Currently in unit training is beginning to incorporate more close air support and close combat attack missions into the field artillery team's mission.
In the U.S. Marine Corps, scout observers also act as naval gunfire spotters and call for, observe and adjust artillery and naval gunfire support, and coordinate fire support assets to include mortars, rockets, artillery, NSFS and CAS/CIFS. A rifle company Fire Support Team typically consists of a Fire Support Officer (FSO), Forward Air Controller (FAC) or Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC), two scout observers (FO), and two radio operators (RO). In Weapons Company, the Fire Support Coordination Center (FSCC) determines fire support asset allocation to each rifle company FiST, and supervises the planning and execution of each FiST's fire support plan. Key players in the FSCC include the Fire Support Coordinator (FSC), Battalion Fire Support Officer (FSO), and Battalion Air Officer (Air-O).
British Forward Observation OfficerEdit
British and French artillery observers Battle of Langemarck, 1917
For centuries the Battery Commander had been responsible for controlling the fire of his battery. This continued with the introduction of indirect fire in the early years of the 20th Century. However, the First World War introduced 24 hour, seven days a week fighting. Furthermore indirect fire had increased the distance between the guns and their targets, and between the observers and their guns. This led to the use of observing officers to act on behalf of the battery commander. In the 1938 re-organisation of the Royal Artillery batteries were divided into troops, with the troop commanders (Captains) as observing officers at an (OP). These officers and their parties could operate as either as an Observation Post (OP) or accompany the supported arm (infantry or armour) as Forward Observation Officers (FOOs). During World War II it became the practice for close support battery commanders to become part of the tank regiment or infantry battalion headquarters they were supporting. They also started using 'quick fireplans' usually limited to their own regiment, to support fast moving limited battalion actions.
Artillery Observer in observation post
Generally FOOs were assigned to a company or squadron of a battalion or regiment that their battery was supporting. In the British artillery system FOOs were always[citation needed] authorised to order fire commands to their own troop or battery, based on their assessment of the tactical situation and if necessary liaison with the supported arm commander.
From mid World War II some artillery observers were authorised to order fire to all batteries of their regiment, it also became the practice for some observers to be designated 'Commander's Representative' able to order fire to a divisional or corps artillery. Unauthorised officers could request fire from more than their own battery. During that war it also became the practice that FOOs[citation needed] arranged quick fireplans comprising several coordinated targets engaged by guns and mortars to support short offensive actions by the squadron or company they were with.
In World War II OP/FOO parties were normally mounted in an armoured carrier, although those assigned to support armoured brigades usually had a tank - initially a Stuart but in NW Europe usually a Sherman[citation needed]. Tanks continued to be used by some observers until about 1975. In 2002[citation needed] the British Army adopted the term Fire Support Team (FST) for its observation parties, including FACs under control of the artillery officer commanding the FST.
Mortar Fire ControllerEdit
A functionally similar title is "MFC" (Mortar Fire Controller). An MFC is an infantry NCO who is part of his battalion's mortar platoon. He controls platoon's fire in the same way as an FOO. The introduction of FSTs places MFCs under tactical control of the FST commander.
Training, enabled by simulators, allows most soldiers to observe artillery fire, which has long been possible via a FOO.
Air Observation PostEdit
Main article: Air Observation Post
The Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force had been responsible reporting targets and observation of fire in World War I, this role was subsequently called 'Arty/R, but proved difficult from high performance aircraft over hostile territory in World War II. In 1940 it was agreed that RAF AOP squadrons equipped with light aircraft, operating at low altitude over friendly territory and flown by Royal Artillery officers would be formed. These squadrons existed until the formation of the Army Air Corps in 1957.[2]
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North Texas Mean Green (formerly North Texas Eagles) represents the University of North Texas (UNT) in intercollegiate athletics. The teams compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). North Texas competed in the Sun Belt Conference until joining Conference USA (C-USA) on July 1, 2013. UNT's official school colors are green, white and black. North Texas' mascot is an eagle named Scrappy.
Wren Baker
Apogee Stadium
Basketball arena
The Super Pit
Green and White[1]
www.meangreensports.com
NicknameEdit
The name "Mean Green" was adopted by fans and media in 1966 for a North Texas football defensive squad that finished the season second in the nation against the rush.[2] That school year, Joe Greene,[3] then a sophomore at North Texas, played left defensive tackle on the football team and competed in track and field (shot put). There are conflicting accounts for the origin of the nickname. Two possible origins are two separate cheers that supposedly developed during North Texas' 1966 game against UTEP. One cheer was by Sidney Sue Graham, wife of the North Texas sports information director. In response to a tackle by Greene, she blurted out, "That’s the way, Mean Greene!"[4] However, Bill Mercer, former North Texas play-by-play announcer, states Graham's thought behind the nickname was the Mean Green defense.[5] Her husband began including the nickname for the team in press releases and it caught on with the media. Meanwhile, in the student section, North Texas basketball players Willie Davis and Ira Daniels, unsatisfied with the unenthusiastic crowd, began to chant "Mean Green, you look so good to me."[6] The rest of the crowd soon followed. "After that we did it every game," Davis says. "A lot of people later on started associating it with Joe because his last name was Greene, but it actually started with that simple chant that Saturday night at Fouts Field. And that's the truth."[4] By 1968, "Mean Green" was on the back of shirts, buttons, bumper stickers, and the cover of the North Texas football brochure. Even the band became identified as the "Mean Green Marching Machine."[7]
Sports sponsoredEdit
Basketball Basketball
Cross country Cross country
Football Golf
Golf Soccer
Track and field† Softball
Track and field†
† – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor
Conference USA logo in North Texas’ colors
A member of Conference USA, North Texas sponsors teams in six men's and ten women's NCAA sanctioned sports.
BaseballEdit
In 1984, the university fielded a varsity baseball team until it was discontinued after the 1988 season.[8] The team competed as a member of the Southland Conference.[9] After starting the program's inaugural season with a 0–19 record, the Eagles won their first game against the Emporia State Hornets, 4–1.[10] The team played their home games at Mack Park in Denton.[10]
The university had planned to revive the program and build an on-campus ballpark. The ballpark would have been home field of both the Mean Green, and Denton Outlaws. The program's revival failed to happen and the Denton Outlaws disbanded after the 2007 season.[11]
The 2014 UNT fiscal budget included $600,000 in start up costs for reviving the Mean Green baseball program. The university plans to construct a new on campus ballpark within the Mean Green Village.[12] Decade long accounting errors by the UNT System have led to the baseball program to be placed on hold indefinitely. The earliest the program could be revived is in time for the 2016 season, dependent on the facilities' construction beginning in early 2015.[11]
Season-by-season resultsEdit
Southland Conference (1984–1988)
1984 Phil Price 6–48 2–15 7th
1985 Phil Price 14–53 3–15 7th
1986 Phil Price 99-1 2–13 7th
1987 Phil Price 12–48 2–14 3rd (West)
Phil Price: 54–234 17–70
Source:[9]
National champion Postseason invitational champion
Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion
Conference tournament champion
FootballEdit
Main article: North Texas Mean Green football
Founded in 1913, the Mean Green has won eight Lone Star Conference championships, five Gulf Coast Conference championships, five Missouri Valley Conference championships, two Southland Conference championships and most recently, four consecutive Sun Belt Conference championships.[13] The team has also appeared in eight bowl games, winning three, most recently the 2014 Heart of Dallas Bowl. From 1952 until the 2010 season, home football games were played at Fouts Field. A new 30,850-seat stadium, Apogee Stadium opened for the 2011 season.
BasketballEdit
Main articles: North Texas Mean Green men's basketball and North Texas Mean Green women's basketball
Since 1973, the school's teams for men's and women's basketball have played their home games in the Super Pit. From 2001 to 2012, the men's team experienced relative success under head coach Johnny Jones. During the 2006–2007 season, North Texas won its first Sun Belt Conference title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1988. North Texas won the Sun Belt Conference title again during the 2009–2010 season to advance to the NCAA Tournament for the second time in four years.[14] Jones left the team for his alma mater LSU in 2012, and his replacement Tony Benford has struggled to maintain Jones' success in Denton. In 2013, North Texas joined Conference USA.
Men's golfEdit
The men's golf team has won four NCAA Championships in 1949, 1950, 1951, and 1952.
School spiritEdit
The school's colors are green, white and black. The music for the alma mater, "Glory to the Green and White", (originally titled "Our College")[15] was composed by Julia Smith in 1919 and adopted by the school in 1922. The lyrics were written by Charles Langford, then a third-year letterman on the football team.[16] The school's fight song, Fight, North Texas, composed by Francis Stroup, was adopted in 1939. The school mascot is an eagle named Scrappy. The 400-member Green Brigade Marching Band performs at every home game, both pregame and halftime, for the crowd.
FacilitiesEdit
The school's football team plays its home games at Apogee Stadium. The men's and women's basketball programs play at the UNT Coliseum.
Many of the school's athletic facilities are located at the Mean Green Village, which opened for the 2006–07 athletic season.[17] The athletic village area includes:
Mean Green Soccer Complex
Warranch Tennis Pavilion
Lovelace Softball Stadium
Mean Green Volleyball Center
Ernie Kuehne Basketball Practice Facility
AlumniEdit
The era of collegiate prominence in Texas golf began with North Texas winning four consecutive NCAA Division I Championships from 1949 to 1952. Intercollegiate golf had until then been dominated by the Ivy League, which—since 1897 when intercollegiate golf began—had won 36 national titles. North Texas students Don January, who later won the PGA Championship, and 1951 U.S. Amateur champion Billy Maxwell, were members of the team. Fred Cobb (1899–1954), the coach, launched the team in 1945.[18] Sixty-seven years since winning its fourth consecutive Championship, only one other team in the nation—the Houston Cougars—has surpassed four consecutive titles. In the 122-year history of intercollegiate golf, North Texas is one of only nine with more than one national title.[19]
On September 1, 1956, Abner Haynes and his high school classmate Leon A. King (born 1938), became the first African American students to participate on the North Texas football team.[20] In the larger picture, Haynes and King were the first to break the color barrier for intercollegiate sports in Texas—seven years before anyone was authorized to break it at a Southwest Conference school.[21] Haynes quickly became an offensive and defensive star on the team. Despite his athletic leadership and fan popularity, Haynes experienced painful encounters with Jim Crow—including not being allowed to live on campus. Perhaps the worst was when Ole Miss, Mississippi State, and Chattanooga discontinued scheduling North Texas after 1956, citing state laws. Haynes went on to play with the Dallas Texans (1960–1963), earning the American Football League MVP in 1961, and continued playing when the team became the Kansas City Chiefs (1963–1964). Then he played for the Denver Broncos (1965–1966), the Miami Dolphins (1967), and the New York Jets. Haynes is in the Halls of Fame of North Texas (1986), Kansas City Chiefs (1991), and Texas Sports (2007). Haynes, who now lives in Denton, is one of a few athletes who was able to play high school, college, and professional football in North Texas.
Mean Joe Greene, in 1968, was selected as a College Football Consensus All American, the only alumnus in the 105-year history of football at North Texas to win the honor. He went on to the Pittsburgh Steelers where he anchored the Steel Curtain defense that led Pittsburgh to four Super Bowl titles. In 1976, North Texas inducted Greene as a Distinguished Alumnus, an honor bestowed only to twenty-nine others during the then ten-year history of the award. On August 1, 1983, Governor Mark White appointed Greene to the Board of Regents of North Texas, making him the first African American to serve as a regent of any Texas state university.[22] In 1987, Greene was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the only alumnus ever to become a member. In 1988, he was named to the North Texas Hall of Fame.
Championship historyEdit
National titlesEdit
NCAA Division I men's golf: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952
Conference titlesEdit
Lone Star Conference: 1932, 1935*, 1936, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1947
Gulf Coast Conference: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1956
Missouri Valley Conference: 1958, 1959*, 1966*, 1967, 1973*
Southland Conference: 1983*, 1994
Sun Belt Conference: 2001*, 2002, 2003, 2004
Men's basketballEdit
Southland Tournament: 1988
Sun Belt Tournament: 2007, 2010
Sun Belt West Division: 2009–10
College Basketball Invitational: 2018
Women's soccerEdit
Sun Belt: 2001, 2004, 2005, 2011, 2012
Sun Belt Tournament: 2004, 2005, 2012
C-USA: 2014, 2015, 2016
C-USA Tournament: 2015
OthersEdit
Men's outdoor track and field (18)
Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Lone Star Conference
Sun Belt Conference
Men's cross country (10)
Southland Conference
Men's golf (30)[23]
Gulf Coast Conference
1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975
Big West Conference
2003, 2012, 2013[24]
Women's indoor track and field (1)
Women's outdoor track and field (3)
Women's cross country (1)
Women's tennis (4)
Sun Belt Conference (West Division)
2010*, 2012
Football postseasonEdit
Optimist Bowl: 1946
Salad Bowl: 1948
Sun Bowl: 1959
New Orleans Bowl: 2001,2002,2003,2004,2017
Heart of Dallas Bowl: 2014, 2016
New Mexico Bowl: 2018
^ "UNT Colors". Retrieved March 24, 2016.
^ "Eagles are 19-Point Favorite", Denton Record-Chronicle, Sep 21, 1967, pg 10
^ ""Mean" Joe Greene".
^ a b Coleman, Rufus. "How Our Green Got Mean". The North Texan. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
^ Ehsan, Azad (September 5, 2013). "Looking back at a century of Mean Green". North Texas Daily. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
^ Myerberg, Paul (August 15, 2015). "Which nickname came first at North Texas? 'Mean Joe' Greene or Mean Green?". USA Today. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
^ Mike Cochran (AP), "Mean Green Same as Nickname", The Abilene Reporter-News, Sep. 1, 1968
^ Vito, Brett (2012-03-14). "Baseball: North Texas exploring addition of baseball program". Denton Record-Chronicle. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
^ a b "Southland Conference" (PDF). www.southland.org.
^ a b The Aerie. 3. North Texas State University. 1984. pp. 222–224.
^ a b http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/colleges/north-texas-headlines/20140419-baseball-unts-financial-issues-put-baseball-on-hold.ece
^ http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/colleges/north-texas-headlines/20130917-notebook-unt-budget-includes-600000-for-baseball.ece
^ "North Texas Championships". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2007-08-20.
^ http://www.meangreensports.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=1800&SPID=564&SPSID=9106. Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ "NTSU Honors International Composer", The Dallas Morning News, May 9, 1970
^ "Pianist Will Play Works of Copland", Denton Record-Chronicle, pg 2, Oct. 6, 1957
^ http://www.meangreenmap.com/home.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ Paul Maranto, Maxwell Leading Off as Eagle Golfers Shoot for Fourth NCAA Title, Denton Record-Chronicle, Section 5, pg. 5
^ J.C. King and Frances G. Trimble (married to John F. Trimble; née Dorothy Frances Guerra; born 1945), Golf, Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association, accessed October 15, 2012
^ Denton Record-Chronicle
^ Ronald E. Marcello, The Integration of Intercollegiate Athletics in Texas: North Texas State College as a Test Case, 1956, Journal of Sport History, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Winter, 1987)
^ Biographical Sketches, The North Texan, Volume 33, Number 4, Fall 1983
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^ http://www.meangreensports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=1800&ATCLID=207642361&SPID=572&SPSID=9307
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byBucky Gleason
Transcript: Bills Head Coach Sean McDermott Sept. 3
Q: So, you got a new punter. Can you tell us about this punter? A: He’s got a strong leg. Obviously, you know he came from New England. He had an interesting preseason, but we look forward to getting him out on the field, getting him to work today, and building that relationship that’s so important with [Stephen] Hauschka and Reid [Ferguson]. Credit to our scouting staff doing their work and finding Corey [Bojorquez]. Q: What was interesting about his preseason? A: [There was] just not a whole lot of work, so not a whole lot of work. Again, I give credit to our scouting staff doing their due diligence to be able to locate and target a guy that didn’t do a lot on film in the preseason, but we were aware of what he could do coming out of college and what not. Q: Could you tell us about Nate [Peterman] starting and what ultimately took [the quarterback competition] in his favor? A: Nate has earned the right. I thought his total body of work, all the way back from the spring and through the summer and fall camp up to this point [has shown that] he has certainly earned the right. Q: How close was the competition and at the end of the day, how hard of [a decision] was it to make? A: Well, it’s always a tough decision, and that’s a good thing because [it means that] those guys were competing at a high level. I would say that we’ve had a lot of tough decisions, which is a good thing for our roster. Again, credit our scouting staff, Brandon [Beane] and his staff for making, certainly, our roster better than it has been in terms of the competition level through camp, and you guys were out there. There was high levels of competition at many levels. Q: We’ve talked about this a lot, but a lot has been made about Nathan’s resiliency and how he’s bounced back from adversity. Here he is going from what happened last year as a rookie and becoming the opening day starter. What does that say about him? A: Well, just what you said. I believe he’s a resilient young man. He has certainly come through sometimes of adversity throughout his career. Look, he’s still a young player, so I’ve been impressed with his mental toughness, his command of the offense, the way he’s generated yards and points in the preseason as well and the way he’s developed to this point. Let’s keep in mind [that] he’s a young player. Overall, you go back to the question of [when] you watch him at Tennessee, you watch him at Pitt. Right now, he’s a Buffalo Bill in terms of his journey, like all of us, and that character trait is a great character trait to have in terms of being a resilient young man. Q: Sean, given the inexperience that both Nate and Josh [Allen] have coming into the season and trading AJ [McCarron], is it a concern to have two kids who haven’t spent a lot [of time] in the NFL and what went into the decision to trade AJ at this time? A: I’ll start with AJ: I really appreciate the effort he gave us all the way up to the last second of that fourth preseason game; you don’t find that often. I certainly appreciate that. [He’s a] great young man, great family and I know he’s going to do well in Oakland. With respect to our situation with the young quarterbacks, there’s no substitute for experience. That said, we’ve got two young quarterbacks that we believe in and they’re going to continue to grow. There’s going to be learning along the way and some good moments, hopefully, and there’s going to be growing pains as well, and we understand that. Q: Can you take us inside the room and how you explained it to these guys individually or together and what that was like? A: I get where you’re coming from and I explained it to Nate and then Josh and our football team. I’ve got a heck of a lot of respect for those guys and I just felt that that was the right way to do it in terms of announcing it to them before it became public and that’s because of the love and respect I have for those guys. Q: What was it like to be able to tell Nate that he won the job after what was alluded to before with him going through a lot of dark times, especially, I imagine, after that game in Los Angeles, and being able to say, “you won this job?” A: When you earn things, it makes it certainly gratifying as a coach to be able to reward a young man who has earned it. To your point, he went through some adversity, as mentioned, not only last season, but also in his college career. Look, we’ve all been through that and to me, it’s a sign of our football team to some extent in terms of [the fact that] usually when you go through adversity in life, you’re that much more prepared for it when it comes later in life. That to me becomes a personality character trait, and that’s good to have. Q: While they’re both young, Nathan obviously has been able to be in the system with the team for a year. Did the instability of changes in the [offensive] line and at wide receiver play into your factoring who’s maybe more ready to take over this team right now? A: I’m not going to get into why I made the decision I made, with respect to your question. I get where you’re coming from. Right now, we’re focused on the opponent, and that’s Baltimore this week. Q: Sean, with just the two guys on the roster at quarterback, last year you had Joe Webb just in case, and it turns out you needed him. Who this year, if something were to happen, who this year would be the third guy who would have to go in at this point? A: Well, you look across the roster, and Logan Thomas has played quarterback; he played it in college. After that, we’ve probably got a couple things that we would need to work through if it got that far. We’ll have another guy ready. Q: So at this point, there are no plans to sign a third guy? A: Brandon is always looking at different options, so I don’t want to rule anything out at this point. Q: When it comes to Josh’s development, how do you continue him on a track of developing while he’s the backup? Will he get time to continue to grow and continue maturing at that level? A: Well Josh is on schedule, let me just start there. He’s on schedule; I’ve been pleased with the way he’s developed to this point in time. Listen, you learn a lot from the first game of the regular season, whether you’re playing or not playing when it’s your first time. I can just go back to my first time and being a part of the first game in my career. You learn an awful lot. That being said, I expect that Josh will be ready to go when his number is called, whenever it’s called. That’s his focus right now. Q: Coach, can you tell us what allowed Robert Foster to make the final roster? A: [He’s] another one of our young players. [We’ve] got a number of young players that have showed up and made plays. Is he where he needs to be? No. Is our team where we need to be? No. We all have a lot of work to do, including Robert. [We’re just] taking it one day at a time, so right now we’re focused on our Monday practice and the Baltimore Ravens are a very good opponent and it’s going to be a hostile environment. We understand that, we respect them, respect our opponent. We certainly have a lot of respect for Coach Harbaugh and his staff as well. We’re going to have a big test this week. Q: Is there anyone who might be limited or held out of practice today? A: Ray-Ray [McCloud] will not practice, nor will Julian Stanford. Q: What about the decision on who’s going to start on the opposite side of Tre’Davious White? A: We’re still working through that. Q: Sean, as a coach, how do you guard Nathan kind of looking over his shoulder knowing that the number seven overall pick is sitting there behind him and you guys have a lot invested in him? Is there anything you can do as a coach to help Nathan know he has your full confidence? A: Nate and I have certainly spoken and I’ll keep that conversation between, for the most part, Nate and myself. That being said, we all have a big test this week, so there’s no time to look over one’s shoulder. Right now, we’ve got to put all of our effort into the Baltimore Ravens. Q: Sean, during the last several weeks, was there anytime that you noticed Nate take a step forward, not just to be the starting quarterback, but just in his development to where you could think about him being the starter? A: I’m not sure if there was one moment. There was a series of moments. When you go back and watch the journey to this point, you start in the spring. Like I mentioned, [you look at] the full body of work. You look in the spring and the way he handled himself. You go through the early part of summer camp and the preseason games and his full body of work and the way he handled himself. He’s a steady young man and a lot can be said for that. Q: Coach, have you made a decision on your starting center? A: Yes, Ryan Groy will start at center. Russell [Bodine] has had a good preseason as well, so [I] feel good about both of those young men. Q: Sean, as far as the tight ends, you went with [Jason] Croom, [Logan] Thomas over Nick [O’Leary]. What went into that decision and what tipped the scales that way? A: Well, let me first start out with Nick. Nick, what more could I say about Nick. His play stood out and spoke for himself. He’s very consistent and dependable. He’s a tough football player, which I have a lot of respect for Nick and his family. That being said, we’ve taken a step in a different direction here and we feel confident with the guys we have kept in Charles [Clay] and Jason and Khari [Lee] and Logan. They all bring a little bit of a different skillset to the team and the table. It’s been nice to watch a guy like Jason develop. [He’s a] young man that’s busted his tail being injured a little bit last year and then on our practice squad in a developmental role for the most part all of last season, or the better part of last season. To see him work over the course of the summer- I came in a few times over the summer and he’s in the indoor work environment by himself. That’s the great part of a lot of our guys- what happens behind closed doors in terms of their work ethic when nobody is watching, the cameras aren’t on, you guys aren’t there. These guys work, and a lot can be said for that. Q: So your new punter Corey will be your holder going forward? A: Yes. Q: In your experience, just getting that down and having six days to work [that out] here? Is there extra work required there or anything? A: Yeah, it’s certainly something I’m aware of. Look, it’s part of the relationship between the punter and the kicker that’s got to come along fairly fast at this point in time. Brandon and I are aware of that and we’ll just continue to monitor how that flows through this week, and we’ll go from there. Q: You said Josh is on schedule with his development for when his number is called. What are the next steps in his development that you’re looking to see at this point in the regular season? A: Yeah, I’m not going to get into what Josh has to do next, with all due respect to your question. Right now, again, we’re focused on the Buffalo Bills versus the Baltimore Ravens, a very good football team. That’s where our focus needs to be. Q: Coach, Siran Neal looks like he’s made a couple of nice jumps over the last few weeks. Can you kind of just walk us through his development and where his game is at and how he’s going to contribute on defense and special teams as well? A: Yeah, Siran’s made some jumps. In terms of his development, he’s certainly a talented young man. He’s gaining his feel for the defense and special teams and how an NFL game works. It’s been fun to watch Coach Babich and Siran work and he puts in a ton of work on and off the field. It’s been fun to watch him reap the benefits of that work. Q: With two quarterbacks on your roster, who will run the scout team offense? A: Josh will run the scout team offense. Q: What do you think the benefit of that will be for him in your experience? A: He’ll learn just from doing that because as you guys know, the pace, the tempo picks up during the regular season, including practice. He’ll get a bunch of reps in scout team and he’ll learn and grow. The reps he’ll get with the other part of practice. He’ll continue to develop. Q: So, he still will get some reps? A: We’ll see. We’ll see from time to time. We’ve got the development part at the end of practice where he’ll get some reps as well.
PODCAST: The Bucky & Sully Show_092618
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How hard did the Bills push for Mack??
Giving up two #1s isn’t that bad when you’re getting a 1 back…
THEREF25
Cut Benjamin. Sign dez Bryant
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Sully: Same Sad Story, a Fine Defensive Effort Wasted
byJerrySullivan
Oct 30, 2018 -edited
Offense has gone 22 quarters without a long touchdown drive
After awhile, Bills fans must become numb to it. They’ve watched this sad story unfold too many times since Jim Kelly retired, seen a proud and determined Buffalo defense play its heart out, only to be betrayed by a dysfunctional popgun offense.
If you thought you’d seen this one before, it was because you had. For the second year in a row, the Bills held the Patriots without a touchdown for a half. For the second year in a row, they couldn’t score, either. For the second year in a row, they trailed, 9-3, at halftime. And in the end, for the second straight year, they lost. It was 25-6. Last year, it was 23-3.
A year ago, they lost a game at Carolina, 9-3. Lorenzo Alexander and Kyle Williams said the defense needed to do more. They made the playoffs for the first time in 17 years and lost in Jacksonville, 10-3. Alexander said the defense hadn’t done enough. Two weeks ago, they dominated the Texans and lost on a pick six by Nathan Peterman at the end. Again, the defense felt it had failed them.
So yes, it’s a old grim refrain, going back a decade or more, to the Dick Jauron era and beyond. Another great defensive effort wasted. The New Era crowd was wired for the first home Monday night game in 10 years, on a night when the Bills retired Thurman Thomas’ No. 34 jersey. You wondered if Thurman, who loved prime time, could infuse some of that competitive passion into the Bills, who had seemed demoralized in a blowout loss at the Colts the week before.
Maybe a spirited pep talk from Thurman, a week after being accused of quitting, could inspire the defense to a huge upset, on the scale of their shocking win at Minnesota in Week 3. The defense rose to the moment, holding a Pats team that was looking to score 38 points for a NFL-record fifth straight game — one that had scored 21 in the first half of four straight games — without a touchdown into the fourth quarter.
But once again, the offense was sadly unequal to the task. One touchdown, one big offensive play, could have launched the Bills to one of the biggest upset wins in their history. But the most feeble offense in the NFL lived down to its record. Derek Anderson, starting his second game after coming out of semi-retirement, gave it his all, but the offense failed to score a TD for the second week in a row.
Anderson finished 22 of 39 for 290 yards before getting hurt late, much of it in garbage time. He got good pass protection and made some decent throws down the field. He got Zay Jones involved. But late in the game, with the Bills down 18-6, he showed his rust and his limitations by telegraphing an interception that Devin McCourty returned 85 yards for a touchdown that put the game out of reach once and for all.
Of course, it was hard to imagine the Bills scoring 12 points in the last 10 minutes. They came in averaging 11.6 points a game, dead last in the NFL and less than half the league average output. They’re bad, historically bad. When it was 18-6, it felt like 38-6, like you needed two weeks of offense to catch up.
The Bills desperately needed a running game to have a chance. But with the Pats stacking the box, they ran for only 46 yards on 19 carries. LeSean McCoy, supposedly so vital to the team’s future success they won’t trade him, came off concussion protocol and carried 12 times for 13 yards against a New England defense that had been allowing 4.6 yards a carry, 25th in the league.
Offensive coordinator Brian Daboll had some surprises ready for his former boss, Bill Belichick. He had the Bills in the Wildcat on their first running play and ran it several more times early. He tried a flea-flicker with Jones flipping the ball back to Anderson, who missed Charles Clay deep down the right side.
It was entertaining for the New Era crowd and the national audience. But Daboll’s bag of tricks betrayed the fact that they weren’t confident in their quarterback. Gimmicks only get you so far. At some point, Anderson would have to make some big plays in the passing game if the Bills wanted to keep up with Brady.
The defense, perhaps motivated by the idea that they quit a week earlier, played the kind of inspired and resilient game they had earlier in the month against the Titans and Texans. Young linebackers Matt Milano and Tremaine Edmunds, who had been carved up by Andrew Luck a week earlier, each made big plays early to put the Pats in long down-and-distance situations.
The Bills cut the deficit to 9-6 in the third. The Pats pushed it to 12-6 after the third. You kept waiting for that one big takeaway that would result in an improbable victory. But on a night when Brady and New England struggled for every yard, they didn’t flinch. They never turned the ball over, and that was the only way the Bills could have prevailed.
But the defense couldn’t hold Brady off forever — though they became the first team to hold the Pats without a TD through three quarters since the Bills shut them out two years ago (with Brady on Deflategate suspension). There’s a point — and we’ve seen it often through the years — where the Bills’ offensive futility wears down its own defense.
Brady finally marched the Pats 85 yards to a TD, getting a huge third-and-8 conversion to James White thanks to a whiffed tackle by Julian Stanford. That made it 18-6. It’s a pretty high standard when you ask your defense to hold Brady without a touchdown. The last time any team accomplished that was when the Bills beat the Pats in the 2014 finale — when Brady played a half in a meaningless game.
The offense extended an astonishing streak of incompetence. They have not scored a touchdown on a drive that began on their own half of the field since the second quarter of the Minnesota game. That’s 22 consecutive quarters, if you’re keeping score at home. That’s more than a third of a 16-game season, which has 64 quarters. Wow.
They gave the crowd one last thrill. Anderson made a nice throw to Jason Croom, who appeared to make a one-handed catch in the end zone that would have cut the lead to 18-12. But replays showed clearly that Croom hadn’t controlled the ball before it hit the ground in the end zone.
The streak of futility remains alive. You can’t say the same about the Bills. A couple of weeks ago, they were two minutes away from a win at Houston that would have lifted them to 3-3 and put them back in the AFC race. Now they’re 2-6 and ahead of only one team — the 1-6 Raiders — in the conference. They’re in position to get a top five pick or better in the draft, which might be the best thing for the franchise in the long run.
Oh, they haven’t won a home Monday night game in nearly a quarter century — since a 27-20 win over the Broncos in September of 1994, the first year after their four-year Super Bowl run. They haven’t won on Sunday night, now the elite prime-time spot, since September of 2000. Overall, they’ve lost their last 12 games in non-Thursday prime games. Bill Clinton was president when they beat Tennessee in the 2000 opener on Sunday night in Buffalo.
This game, while mildly entertaining, reminded me why the Bills don’t get more prime-time games. Unlike Sean McDermott, I don’t need to see the tape. I’ve seen it more times than I can count.
jp.
hey buddy. class of '04 qb class can still play. you know my number.
jimbok
Bills have to trade for a QB today, right?
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EditorJerrySullivan
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FLOYD BOLDRIDGE
May 12, 2019 by cjjslind
Floyd was born January 29, 1898 in Lexington, Missouri, the son of Tommy and Lula Boldridge. He was the grandson of Matt Boldridge, founder of the Gem Barber Shop on 11th street. He married Virginia “Virgie” Johnson.
From Lexington Advertiser News; July 5, 1979
“Some 200 friends and acquaintances of Floyd Boldridge, lifelong Lexingtonian and a barber here for more than half a century, gathered Friday night at the high school here for a Floyd Boldridge Appreciation Day dinner, sponsored by Dixon Lodge No. 11 F.&A.M.
Boldridge, who was born January 29, 1898, in Lexington and graduated from high school here in 1916, has been a barber here 53 years and has been secretary-treasurer of Barbers Local 669 for over 22 years.
As the eldest of five children, he followed the trade of his father and grandfather as a barber, a tradition in which the Boldridgese have served many generations of Lexingtonians.
He was married October 2, 1923, to the former Virgie Johnson and the Boldridges have three grown children: Emerson C. Boldridge, now a federal service employee; Elmer E. Boldridge, a welder and Mary Helen, the youngest, all reared here and educated in the Lexington public schools.
Several speakers paid tribute to the honor guest at Friday night’s dinner, representing various facets of his participation in community life. The speakers included:
C.W. Cleverdon, representing the Lexington InterChurch Organization, of which Boldridge is a member; Ike Entine, city councilman, and his son Ben Entine; C.F. Childress, administrator of Lexington Memorial Hospital; Mrs. Pat Stephenson, Sr. of Lexington Park Board, of which Boldridge is a charter member; Mrs. Leon Boldridge, Zion A.M.E. Church; H.T. Seaton, Sr. E.A. Slusher, Jr. and William Aull III representing the honor guest’s wide circle of friends and associates.
The invocation was by the Rev. Robert Dabney, and the Rev. Franc Guthrie gave the benediction.
The lodge expressed its gratitude to Rebecca Chapter No. 27, Order of the Eastern Star, Mrs. John W. Carter, WM to citizens of Lexington, Richmond, Excelsior Springs, Carrollton, and Slater, and all others who participated and contributed to the occasion.”
From Lexington Advertiser News; June 20, 1984
“GEM BARBERSHOP OFFERS MORE THAN HAIRCUTS
Most people around the age of 60 start to think about retiring from their line of work and begin to contemplate on how they will spend their free time. But for Floyd Boldridge, this just isn’t the case. Floyd decided to pass up retirement years ago and continues to labor, scissors in hand, as owner and employee of the GEM barbershop located at 111 South 11 St. At 86 years young, Floyd offers one of the best business propositions in town, a quality haircut at a low price, and good conversation.
For Floyd, becoming a barber was only natural. His grandfather, Matt Boldridge, started the family business with his two sons, Louie and Tom in 1910. The shop was opened on 10th street (now the law firm of Bradley-Langdon-Bradley) and remained there for 70 years. In 1918, Floyd cut his first head of hair for an expensive 35 cents. A shave was an additional 25 cents. Inflation has since hit Floyd’s business and he has been forced to raise his prices. He now charges $3.50 for a haircut and $2.50 for a shave.
For six years now Floyd has worked alone. In 1976 Floyd’s brother Manville retired from the three-generation-old business, the last of the five Boldridge brothers to work in the barbershop besides Floyd. Throughout the years, Floyd and his brothers cut the hair of many famous people, among them Ike Skelton, General Houge, and players from the old Kansas City Blues baseball team.
Competition has never bothered Floyd because he feels that his haircuts and shaves are of the highest quality. He never was much for the changing hair styles either. As for women, he said he used to cut their hair, but eventually they started coming in and asking for all the latest cuts, something that he just wasn’t much interested in or had the time for. Nowdays, things are starting to slow down but Floyd still manages to keep busy. “I’m busy a couple days during t week, but most of the time I just relax in the shop and enjoy talking with the people who stop by,” says Boldridge. “Most of my customers are older men who have been regulars for years, so I don’t really worry about stirring up new business,” added Boldridge.
When entering his shop, one can’t help but to be intrigued by the old-fashioned equipment he still uses. From his 60-year old brass Koken Congress model barber chair to his steel combs, Floyd insists on using the old tools of the trade which he feels more comfortable with. But the most interesting piece in his shop may be the first thing you notice when entering. A painting, taken from a 1919 photograph, looms largely over the lounge area of the shop. The painting is an oil, done by Austin Booth of Marshall. The painting depicts the original barbershop as it stood in the early 1900’s.
Floyd plans to continue cutting hair and solving the world’s political problems with his customers for a few more years. Physically he feels like he is capable. “Nothing hurts me and I am blessed almost perfect health. My daily routine seems to keep me in shape,” said Boldridge. Sports also seem to keep Floyd young. Although he hasn’t actively participated for some 60 years, he still enjoys a good ballgame along with some good fishing and a little gardening in his spare time.”
Floyd died November 19, 1985, and is buried next to Virgie at Forest Grove Cemetery.
TAYLOR SHIRLEY
SHIRLEY JEAN TAYLOR was born October 21, 1952, in Lexington, Missouri, the daughter of Matthew and Doris Jean Taylor. Her grandparents were Fred and Helen Taylor, and her siblings were Eddie Lee, Matthew and Jeffrey Taylor, and Brenda Taylor and Donna Taylor Jackson. Shirley was a member of the LHS class of 1970. She died May 15, 2009, and is buried near her mom and brother Eddie at Forest Grove.
CORDELIA KIDD
CORDELIA KIDD was born December 28, 1895, in Lexington, Missouri. Her parents were Edward and Eliza Colley Hayden. She was a cousin to Eva Saunders. On April 9, 1925, she married Reverend Thomas Kidd in Jackson, Missouri. Thomas was the pastor at Zion A.M.E. Church, and a clergyman for Methodist Radio. The couple had four children: Thomas, Bernice, John, and Elizabeth. Elizabeth died at the age of 2 in 1929. Reverend Thomas died in 1935.
Cordelia taught at Douglass School under the administration of George Green.
From Lexington Intelligencer; Friday May 26, 1922
Colored Schools Closing Exercises.
“The closing exercises of the colored schools began the night of May 22, and ended the night of May 23.
The first night the program rendered by Miss Nannie E. Walker of No. 2, was a pleasing Primary Motion Song. Miss Cordelia A. Hayden of Douglass had her room render a Fairy Play—Irene the Idle. . . .”
When the Lexington Schools were integrated in 1956, Miss Cordelia worked as a substitute teacher.
Miss Cordelia died November 12, 1966, and is buried beside her husband at Forest Grove Cemetery.
PERSONAL MEMORIES: [from Miss Cordelia’s grandson Dorian Anderson, who came from St. Louis to live with her around 1960] When I came to live with her, she ran the music ministry at her church [Zion A.M.E.]. She was married to the minister. My grandmother often substitute taught after her retirement, and she gave piano lessons. She was a very religious women, and always sang around the house. I know she saved my life. If I had stayed in St. Louis, I would have been in prison or dead. I was too much for my mother to handle. Miss Cordelia did a great job raising me.
ABRAHAM LAWSON
May 12, 2019 May 12, 2019 by cjjslind
ABRAHAM LAWSON was born July 26, 1888, in Lexington, Missouri. His parents were James and Dianah Lawson.
Abraham served in Company B of the 349th Machine Gun Battalion of the 92nd Division of the Army in World War I. The 92nd Infantry Division was a segregated infantry division of the United States Army, and was organized in October 1917 at Camp Funston, Kansas. African American soldiers from all states joined the unit. Before leaving for France in 1918, the American buffalo was selected as the divisional insignia. This nickname had been given to African American cavalrymen by Native Americans in the 19th century.
A special “negro zone” was built at Camp Funston, providing “separate amusement places and exchanges.” A.D. Jellison, a banker in Junction City, Kansas, gave a plot of land for a “community house” to be erected by the black men from the seven states which sent African American trainees.”
The 92nd Division saw combat in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive during November 1918.
After he returned to Lexington following the war, Abraham married Florence (Flossie) Lewis on May 11, 1920. They had no children, and Flossie died June 9, 1932, of heart trouble. Abraham married Rosetta E. Boldridge on April 17, 1955. He worked as a janitor at First Christian Church, and as a coal miner at Western Coal and Mining Company.
Abraham died February 5, 1957, in Lexington at the age of 68 of a stroke. He is buried at Forest Grove Cemetery.
BILL LINDSAY
William “Bill” (the “Kansas Cyclone” and “Lightning”) Lindsay was born in Lexington June 12, 1891, the son of Peter and Mona Mady Lindsay. He was one of nine brothers who all played baseball, and one of many outstanding African American ball players to come from Lexington in the era of the Negro Leagues. He began his career during the 1910 season with the Giants of Kansas City, Kansas. Manager Rube Foster of the Leland Giants was impressed with Bill’s performance against his team, and signed him to pitch with the Lelands.
The new acquisition traveled with the team to Cuba for the winter season and after returning to the States in the spring, Bill became a star pitcher with the American Giants in Chicago.
Lindsay was sometimes referred to as the best all-around pitcher in the team’s history.
Tragically, Bill died at Provident Hospital on September 1, 1914, at the age of 23, a result of uremia. His body was returned to Lexington and he was buried on September 4, 1914, at Forest Grove Cemetery. There are those who remember seeing his headstone there, but it has mysteriously disappeared.
From the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, The Evening News, Wed. Sep. 9, 1914:
FULLERTON’S DOPELETS Bill Lindsay is dead. Had he been white we would be mourning as we would the loss of Walter Johnson. He was one of the five really great pitchers of the world.
From The San Bernardino County Sun, Wed. Dec. 23, 1914:
Sid Foster, formerly a pitcher of the Chi Giants, and Bill Lindsay, pitcher of the same club, together with Homerun Johnson, are the three greatest colored players known to the country. Foster and Lindsay played here three winters ago when the Colored Giants gave an exhibition of the brand of ball dished out by colored players.
If you have information, photographs, or personal stories about someone buried at Forest Grove, please contact us. We are creating an anthology of people buried there.
The information for this biography comes from Carol Walton Hannon, the book “Educational Heritage of a Century – A History of the Lexington Public Schools,” and the Lexington sesquicentennial commemorative book.
“The Professor” George H. Green, Douglass School’s fourth and longest tenured principal (1886-1936) was born a slave before 1856, and rose to become one of the state’s most prominent Negro educators.
As a child, he was sold twice. Mr. Green told the story of being 8 when a man came to his master wanting to buy his mother. The men haggled over the value of the mother. So, the master finally gave in and threw George in to seal the deal. The second time he was sold was at the age of 12. He was sold for $400.00. His new master had compassion for him and sent him to tutors along with his own children, and thus he began his formal education.
Professor Green graduated from the segregated Lincoln Institute (now known as Lincoln University) in Jefferson City, Missouri. He began his teaching career in 1875 in Linn County, Missouri. He taught three years in Cooper County and then taught school in Fulton, Missouri from 1879-1880. He went on to teach in Pleasant Hill from 1880-1885. He came to Lexington in 1886, and became principal of the Douglass School, where he served for fifty years. After he retired from being principal, he continued another ten or eleven years as a teacher. Professor Green taught school without missing a day, or ever having been tardy 56 of the 71 years of his career! The record nearly came to an end in 1918 when he was ill for a few days during the school year with influenza. However, it so happened there was a “flu” epidemic in Lexington at that time and the schools had so many teacher and pupil absentees that they had been dismissed until the epidemic subsided. His school attendance record is featured in Robert Ripley’s “Believe it or Not.”
The professor was very active in civic affairs, as well as in his church. He was a member of Dixon Lodge No. 11 AF & AM. Members of the lodge say that he was undoubtedly the oldest member of the lodge in Missouri, if not in the United States.
The Professor was widowed twice, and never had any children. At the age of 95 (January 1952) he left Lexington to live at the Masonic Home in Hannibal, Missouri where he died that same year. He is buried at historic Forest Grove Cemetery.
On March 9, Professor Green will be inducted into the Lexington, Missouri Hall of Fame.
ISRAEL BURLES
Israel was born in Ohio in 1841 to parents Lewis and Charlotte (both born in Virginia). In 1863, he enlisted in Company C of the 5th Regiment U.S. Colored Infantry. This Regiment was formed as the 127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Camp Delaware, Ohio. They later were based out of Norfolk, Virginia, and were engaged in several battles from Sandy Swamp, North Carolina, to Cox’s Bridge (participating in William Tecumseh Sherman’s Carolinas Campaign). They were mustered out September 20, 1865. He married Annie some time after that. Their first child was born in 1868 in West Virginia. The couple then moved to Lexington (before 1871), where their three younger children were born. He worked as a janitor in a school. Annie died in 1908 and is buried at Forest Grove. Israel died February 12, 1911 from influenza, and we believe is buried at Forest Grove with Annie, infant daughter Maria, and son Luther (headstones below). Israel is one of many veterans (Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korean and Vietnamese Wars) buried at historic Forest Grove. Our goal is to refurbish and maintain this cemetery and to honor the people buried there.
ANNIE WILLIAMS
Among those believed to be buried at Forest Grove Cemetery is Miss Annie Williams (death certificate says “Lexington”). Miss Annie is a beloved character in Lexington’s history. She had a colorful personality, and was immortalized on a local postcard. Her favorite expression was “Ain’t it dish?”
Miss Annie was born into slavery at Dover, Missouri in about 1831. The names of her parents are unknown, but they were born in Kentucky. She was married to George Williams, and was widowed by 1910.
Her feistiness occasionally got her into trouble. An article in the Lexington Intelligencer from August 15, 1885, reports “Ann Davis and Ann Williams, two colored women, had a a fuss at the “colored” Baptist church last Sunday morning. The case was before Recorder Welborn last Thursday afternoon, and a jury assessed a fine of $10 against Ann Davis. There were about 18 witnesses in the case and the fine and costs amounted to $32.45.”
Miss Annie always dressed in the color red, and when she died, she lay in state at The Baptist Church in a specially made casket lined entirely in that color.
On December 14, 1924, Miss Annie was killed when she was struck by an automobile in the streets of Lexington.
(Some of the information for this bio is from the Lexington Sesquicentennial Commemorative book)
ELMER RADD
ELMER RADD was born April 3, 1909 to Sam and Sallie Radd. He was married twice, first to Vera Mae Johnson, and following her death he married Cordia Mady when he was 51. Elmer’s Cotton Club Band was famous throughout the Midwest, and they were in great demand. Here are a few articles about them:
From St. Louis Post Dispatch; Friday, August 5, 1983
In the years just after the war, Lexington’s many schools and seminaries earned it the nickname Athens of the West. Even up to the years before Prohibition, Lexington must have been rocking. Elmer Radd’s Cotton Club Orchestra held forth in the dance halls while the Goose Pond minstrels performed in the Grand Opera House. The speakeasies and saloons along the town’s notorious “Block 42” gave the men who worked in the town’s mines and factories places to spend their time and money.
From The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune; Tuesday, May 2,1 1935
TO WINDMOOR GARDENS
Elmer Radd and his Harlem Blue Birds from Lexington will be at the Windmoor Gardens Thursday night, May 23. Speaking from experience this is one of the best colored bands in the state of Missouri. This band has been a sell out at the great Lexington night club for the last two years. This will be the last chance to dance to this band for some time, so don’t miss it.
From Moberly Monitor-Index; Tuesday, January 25, 1938
ROUND DANCE
Winter Garden Hall
212 N. Clark St.
Moberly, Mo.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26
Music by Elmer Radd’s 10-piece Cotton Club Orchestra
Adm. 50 cents each
Elmer died December 6, 1976, and is buried at Forest Grove Cemetery.
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After several years of work, the Swedish thriller “Jimmy Jones” is ready for premiere. The main roles are Linus James Nilsson and Dragomir Mrsic’s “Snabba Cash” films. Today, MovieZine can exclusively present the first trailer.The good-hearted little brother Jimmy Jones from Malmö tries to make the big cut. He is an intermediary in a drugstore between a Dutch freak syndicate and a Serbian poker club owner in Stockholm, Dragan.
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Bohnanza
March 2, 2010 johnhornberger Leave a comment
What the heck kind of name is Bohnanza (Rio Grande Games, 1997)?? “Bohne” is german for “bean,” Bohnanza is a pun for “bean bonanza.” Glad we got that out of the way – on to the important stuff.
This is perhaps one of the most interesting, and well-disguised, rummy games I have ever come across. At its most basic, players are simply trying to create the largest sets of cards they can, in order to then cash them in for coins. Whoever ends the game with the most coins wins the game…BUT… it isn’t that straightforward. The creators of Bohnanza deserve a lot of credit for keeping with the “bean” theme while allowing for a very unique and interactive game.
There are 11 types of bean cards – as opposed to the four suits in an ordinary deck of playing cards – and each bean type has a different number of cards (each card is labeled with the total number of its type): for example, there are 6 “Garden Beans” and 24 “Coffee Beans,” and each Garden Bean card is labeled with a 6, and each Coffee Bean card is labeled with a 24. Each card also has an amusing depiction of that type of bean, and at the bottom there is a range of coin values.
As players earn cards, they “plant” them (i.e., they play the cards in front of them), but they are initially limited to planting two fields only – so they may play only two types of bean in front of them. At some point a player must “harvest” a crop of beans they have planted. The number of cards in the harvest then earns them the number of coins listed on that card; 4 coffee beans earns a player one coin, while 10 of them earn three coins, and so on.
Interestingly from a design perspective, the game does not come with separate coins for scorekeeping; rather, coins are depicted on the card backs of each bean. This is important to the game play because as bean cards are harvested, most of them go to a discard pile that is recycled for continued play. However, the first few cards of that stack are turned over and become coins, owned by the harvesting player, and are thereby eliminated from the game.
Once players have started earning coins, they have the option of purchasing a third bean field for three coins – allowing them to plant, then harvest, a third type of bean. A third field comes in handy because the rules force players to make some tough decisions when it is their turn…
Players start with five cards. The cards MUST remain in the order in which they were received. Wow, that’s different; it also affects everything else about the game. Players can see their hands, and hold them so that others cannot, but they may not rearrange the hand. On a player’s turn, he or she MUST plant the top card, and may also plant the second. Then they draw two more cards and turn them face up; they have the option of donating, or trading these cards, or they can keep them for planting. Finally, the player must draw three cards, adding them one at a time to the back of their hands.
The trick here is to plant bean fields that might earn the most coins, and that determination is made by seeing what else is in one’s hand, and also what other players have planted and have negotiated for. Often a player is forced to harvest one field in order to plant another, even though the harvest yields little or nothing. Thus, during the draw phase, it is important for a player to initiate shrewd trades and gain the beans they have already planted. One must also be active in trading during other player turns, for the same reason.
There are a lot of nuances in a game like Bohnanza that I won’t go into here, but there are a great many fans of the game all over the world. In fact, there are at least 17 editions of Bohnanza, some incorporating new rules, and some with new cards or new themes. The Fan-Edition uses art work from players everywhere (see pic above).
It’s not hard to recommend Bohnanza to any gaming family, or any group of people who like games in general and card games in particular. It comes in a reasonably small box, and is as easy to travel with as any large deck of cards. It encourages interaction, risk-taking, probability, and planning, and would be great for any players aged 10 and up. It’s officially recommended for 12 and up, but I think a bright youngster can figure it out.
Now, go play!
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January 22, 2010 johnhornberger 3 Comments
Railroad games are just plain fun. There have been a number of them published, and some have enjoyed a cult-like status for a number of years (see my review of Empire Builder, for example). But none have been as popular as Ticket to Ride (Days of Wonder, 2004), which has been on the short list of best games since it came out. It is considered one of a few “gateway” games – that is, a mildly complex game that is so very fun and addictive that “new” gamers will want to try other, more complex games.
The Ticket to Ride board is a map (the original version is the USA, but there are a number of other versions available) denoting major cities, interconnected with train routes of various colors. There are two stacks of cards: Destination cards depict two cities (which players would need to connect with a continuous train route) as well as a point value for connecting them (see below); Ticket cards depict a train car of a certain color, which corresponds to certain routes on the map board – or they might be multi-color “wild” cards (farther below!).
Players each have a stack of 45 trains in their own color,and they start the game with five ticket cards. They draw three destination cards and can keep either two or three of them – but the ones they keep are routes that they must complete with continuous tracks of their own color. If the routes are completed, the player gets the points; if they are not completed by the end of the game, the player loses those points.
The game consists of players taking turns drawing new tickets, drawing new destinations, or placing train routes. In order to place a train route, a player must have enough of the correctly colored tickets, and turn them in. A multi-color wild card is good for any color ticket. Each route is a certain color, or gray, and a certain number of train links long. For example, El Paso to Houston is six links long, and green, so a player would have to accumulate a combination of six green or wild cards and then turn them in – then he or she would be able to put six of their own color trains on those six links. Note that some routes are double wide, so two different players can occupy parallel tracks between the same destinations.
Points are scored throughout the game by placing routes – and the value of the routes increases non-linearly, so that one track piece earns you one point, but 6 track pieces earns you 20 points. Points are also awarded at the end of the game. Players who achieved their destination goals are awarded the corresponding number of points (more points for longer tracks), and those who failed to do so are penalized the same number of points.
During a game of Ticket to Ride, 5 cards available to be drawn are kept face up, and on a turn a player may draw two of the visible cards, unless it is a wild card, in which case it is the only card that can be drawn. If there are no colors the player wants, he or she can draw from a face-down pile once or twice (they can also draw one card here, and the next from the face up stack, again with the exception of the wild card. A player might also draw more Destination cards in an effort to bulk up their score. This mechanism of a constantly changing card availability makes the game more exciting than if they had been face down, plus it gives the alert player information about the plans of his or her opponents.
While it is “another train game,” this is one train game that has gotten a lot of people hooked. It’s complex enough to be rewarding, but simple enough to learn in 5 minutes. I recommend it for any map or train game enthusiast, of for any gamer who wants to expand their social gaming circle. It is good for families, groups, and just a bunch of friends. But be ready to accommodate more hungry zombies….
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November 10, 2009 johnhornberger Leave a comment
If you know someone who is a die-hard board game fan, ask them about Dominion (2008, Rio Grande Games). There is a good chance they’ll have it, and a great chance that if they don’t have it, they will want it. But don’t think that it is only for the hardcore gamer; once you’ve played you are likely to understand how much fun it is, and thirst for more.
Dominion is probably the hottest property on the American game market as I write this – it (along with its expansions, “Intrigue” and “Seaside”) has garnered one of the highest ratings on boardgamegeek.com, and there isn’t a board game fan that I know who doesn’t love it. It has made a huge splash since its release in 2008, and quickly earned some of the most coveted games awards out there (Spiel des Jahres, Origins, Mensa Select).
Despite its apparent novelty and the huge success Dominion is enjoying, it is not too far removed from another game that was revolutionary at the time: Magic, The Gathering. It’s similar in the sense that players build decks of cards that have different sorts of abilities, which then work together to achieve the final goal. It’s different in that players are largely not affecting one another, at least not directly, and the game itself is self-contained in its own box. Another very important difference is that in dominion, all players choose from the same pool of cards to build their decks, not a personal stockpile as in Magic. One very nice feature is the card storage system in the box – each card type has a clearly labeled slot, making it easy to browse and choose card types.
Players start with a small deck of cards, some representing income, and some representing victory points (see pic below) – the ultimate goal of the game is to obtain the most victory points via these cards. Players use the income cards (which vary in amount) to purchase “dominion” cards, and this is where the fun starts. There are nearly 30 types of dominion cards, each with multiple copies, but only 10 of these types are used in each game. Thus, consecutive games can be slightly different from one another, if just one or two card types are changed, or they can be very different from one another if many more card types are changed.
Players begin each turn with a hand of 5 cards drawn from their original 10. Each turn consists of three phases: Action, buying, and cleanup. On any turn a player can use one action, and then make one purchase – UNLESS they are able to play cards that modify the number of actions and/or purchases. Playing cards in way that maximizes one’s advantage is the key mechanic in the game. Dominion cards come in many variations, and may allow a player to pick up more cards, play more action cards, convert cards into other cards, or increase buying power.
During the buying phase, Income cards may be used to purchase other cards (card costs are on the lower left of each card); purchases may include more income, victory points, and other dominion cards from the common supply. The final phase of a turn is cleanup, in which a player discards all of the played cards as well as the cards remaining in his or her hand, and then draws the next five in their personal deck. All of the “discarded” cards are actually recycled, so cards are usually never lost (there is a “trash” card for those that are).
Game play is straightforward in the sense that all a player has to do is what is written on the cards, but it’s complicated by the range of options. A player’s strategy is truly dependent on his or her opponents and the choice of ten card types to choose from.
The game is over when either the highest value victory point cards (The Provinces) have all been claimed, or else when the limited supply of 3 separate dominion card types have been exhausted. The player at that point with the most victory points is the winner.
So many game players are so excited about this game and its expansions, and many include the excitement of their non-boardgaming friends and family members, that it is worth at least some investigation. If you aren’t sure, then find out who is playing it (someone you know, of course), and try it on for size. After playing with a set of 10 card types, you’ll find yourself curious about 10 other card types…and so on, and so on, and so on…
I recommend Dominion to any game lover; it is easy to learn, but not easy to pick up and play out of the box without a lot of patience. But game lovers can and will introduce it to others. The rules are easy, but the possibilities are endless.
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November 5, 2009 johnhornberger 2 Comments
The European invasion’s “shot heard ’round the world” – or at least the shot heard ‘cross the Atlantic – was in 1995, with the publication of Settlers of Catan (Mayfair Games, 1995). Strategy games in the US had been restricted to kid-friendly games, usually based on a licensed property, and games that only hardcore gamers knew about by companies like Avalon Hill and Wizards of the Coast. Most households owned a single strategy game – Risk. American game closets were filled with party games like Pictionary, Taboo, and Scattergories, and the big box stores had only Trivial Pursuit to satisfy consumers with more intellectual tastes.
But with Settlers of Catan, the game industry changed – and it is still changing. Companies like Mayfair Games, Rio Grande, and Ravensburger started importing adult games that were intellectually demanding, more complex, and of a higher production quality. Within a few years, entire families were hooked on Settlers of Catan, and asking for more. Since then, Settlers has spawned an entire family of games – 35 expansions and spin-offs (17 of them english only).
The not-so-secret success of “Settlers” is the tile layout that can change with every play of the game (see pic below).
There is a basic setup for beginning players that assures different tiles and numbered discs will be equally distributed; once players understand the game mechanics they are free to follow other suggested setups, or implement their own.
The goal of the game is to claim real estate (or the equivalent of real estate in the form of cards), which is accomplished by building, which is accomplished by harvesting resources, which is what the different tile represent. Players initially place two small “cities” on any 3-part hub on the board, and build out from there. A player rolls the two dice on his or her turn, and the correspondingly numbered tile “produces” for that turn. There are six tile types, one of which is a solitary desert tile, and the other five, which each produce a resource, also in the form of a card, as follows (as pictured below): Meadows produce wool, Mountains produce ore, Fields produce wheat, Hills produce brick, and Forests produce wood. A player gains that resource if they have a building on any hub of that particular tile.
After collecting resources players may trade with the player whose turn it is, or the turn-taker may trade in 4 of any one resource for 1 other, or if they have a city on one of the ports they may take advantage of that port’s trade ratio.
After trading, a player may build a structure or buy a “development card.” The building cost card dictates the price for various items. For example, it takes one brick, one wood, one wheat, and one wool to build a settlement. There are a few simple rules regarding the placement of settlements, cities, and roads. Development cards are purchased sight unseen, and can be cashed in at the end of the game for victory points (see below: examples are the University of Catan, Market, etc.), or used to modify game play (for example, Road Building allows a player to place extra roads for free). Soldier cards are accumulated in the hope of having the “Largest Army” at the end of the game, which is also good for 2 victory points.
The winner of the game is the first player to reveal, on their turn, that they have 10 victory points.
Some other elements make the game even more interesting. One further way to gain 2 victory points is to have the longest road by game’s end. The “Robber” piece, represented by a black pawn that initially occupies the desert (which does not receive a number throughout the game) moves to the tile of a player’s choice when that player rolls a 7 on the dice. Note that there is not a number 7 disc, so on a 7 there is no production. The player who moves the robber can choose a resource card from any player with property on the robber’s new location. During trading, any player may initiate a trade as long as the trade involves the person whose turn it is, and talk is open. If it’s obvious to one player that another player will overly benefit from a trade, it’s fair for them to point it out to the would be tradee. This introduces a very social and interactive element to the game that enhances the “fun” element.
Settlers of Catan expansions include 5 and 6 players, and can also involve city defense and further trade (Cities and Knights of Catan), seagoing exploration and trade (Seafarers of Catan), and more. There are numerous other spinoffs as well, the most popular being Starfarers of Catan.
What this game brought back in 1995 is exactly what was needed, and what is still relevant today: a board game that involves people on social and intellectual levels. After playing once or twice to learn the game, you’ll have a decent enough grasp to play with different strategies – but just like any really good game, there is no best strategy until you know your opponent. This game changes along with the people who play it, but it’s always fun and rewarding.
Buy Settlers of Catan for yourself or any body like you if you want to immerse yourself in a game experience. But prepare to make room for it in your schedule every so often, because if you don’t, you’ll miss it.
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October 30, 2009 johnhornberger 7 Comments
I once asked the President of Rio Grande games what his favorite game was, in terms of game play, and he said it was Carcassonne (Rio Grande Games, 2000). That was when the game was brand new, and I hadn’t gotten a chance to play it yet (I had heard good things about it, though). When I finally gave it a try, I understood why he liked it so much.
Carcassonne was the second big hit – after Settlers of Catan – to come to America from the prolific European board game market (referred to as “eurogames”), and it pretty much solidified the genre and ushered in a new era of board gaming in North America.
So what’s so special about Carcassonne? It appeals to young and old, male and female, and has become a household favorite practically everywhere. The rules are easy to understand, the game is attractive and durable, most players are in the game right up until the end, and there is a satisfying blend of strategy and luck. Players take turns laying tiles onto an increasingly complex, ever-expanding playing field, and then have the option of placing their game pieces, little wooden men known as “Meeples,” on the tile they just placed. Points are awarded throughout the game, including a large portion at the end of the game when the final tile has been placed (see pic below).
Points are awarded based on the size of the real estate parcel controlled by a player’s meeples. The various types of real estate that can be claimed are cities, roads, fields, and cloisters (certain isolated buildings). Once a meeple occupies a portion of real estate, it has been claimed and no other meeples may be placed on any contiguous part of that real estate. However – and this is a critical element of the game – two noncontiguous parcels that have already been claimed might be joined by a certain tile placement. Thus, a player might have successfully claimed a city and added to it, making it worth more and more points, only to eventually see it merge with a far smaller city owned by someone else who then shares the points. The same can happen with roads and fields as well.
Players have a limited number of meeples to use, so they can’t simply lay them out every turn. When cities and roads are completed, the player scores immediately and the meeples return to his or her hand. When a cloister is played, the player must claim it immediately, and it scores points only after it has been surrounded by 8 other tiles, at which point that meeple is returned as well. Meeples placed in fields, called farmers, are different – they remain until the end of the game, and score points according to how many cities are adjacent to (and thus “served” by) that farmer’s field. Since the board is ever expanding, a farmer placed early might get more and more points throughout the game, or else might end up being boxed in by roads and cities and contribute very little.
Carcassonne has quite a few expansions and spin-offs – the Rio Grande Games website lists 22 stand-alone and expansion packs available! The expansions allow extra players and more variations on real estate. For example, Inns and Cathedrals (Rio Grande Games, 2002; $17.50) provides an extra set of men to allow a 6th player, extra land tiles (including inns and Cathedrals, of course, for more means of gaining points), plus six ‘Mega-meeples,” who are larger than regular meeples and count as two instead of one. Mega-meeple come in handy when a player anticipates a conflict over property, and wins the property over a player with just a regular meeple.
I haven’t played all of the expansions or stand alones; the stand-alone games will be reviewed separately, but expansions will be treated along with the appropriate stand-alone. One spin-off that deserves mentioning is new from Rio Grande Games for 2009, The Kids of Carcassonne ($29.95), which is getting excellent reviews and is a less complex variation on the adult version, but still as nice and engaging.
I heartily recommend this to any person even remotely fond of games. If Monopoly, or Risk, or Pictionary, or Taboo, or Trivial Pursuit, or any of the other game night games were part of a family’s past and they have not yet discovered eurogames, Carcassonne is precisely what they need.
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Citadels (Fantasy Flight, 2007), like many other card games in the fantasy genre, takes some replay in order to understand strategy – but the investment is well worth it.
The game is played in rounds; during each round, each player takes on the role of one of nine characters (first picture, below). Different characters have very different roles, benefits, and effects. For example the Assassin simply prevents a character (not a player, but a character) of his or her choice from doing anything that round (since they have been assassinated); the player with the Bishop gets gold from “religious” districts they control and prevents the Warlord from destroying any; the Architect gets to draw two extra cards and build extra districts.
There is a set of 9 "basic" characters, and another set of 9 "advanced"
Players use these characters throughout the game to amass a set of district cards (second picture below), which is their “citadel”; the player with the most valuable citadel, as determined by the total number of gold coins on all cards, is the winner at the end of the game. During each round, players will claim gold, draw more district cards into their hands, play out their character’s ability, and pay gold to build districts.
4 of the 5 types of "districts," each with its own color dot
There are a few more, very important aspects that really make the game interesting:
A player has some control over the character they choose; whoever was King last turn chooses their new character first, and the remainder are chosen as the cards go around the table. Thus, each person has some idea of what their neighbors might have chosen, based on what they saw in the deck.
Each character card is numbered, and the number is the order of play each round. The Assassin goes first, so whichever character they choose to assassinate will not have a chance to play that round; The order of play has a definite impact on whether one might choose to take gold or cards (a mutually exclusive option), or to build, and, indeed, what to build.
Whoever plays the Thief in a round will have the 2nd turn; the Warlord 8th
Certain districts actually confer a bonus to the player who has built them. The Library, for instance, allows a player to keep two cards instead of just one when they draw.
The purple-dotted "domains" confer special advantages to their owners
There are enough rules and intricacies to make this game confusing at first, but the overall game is pretty straightforward, which becomes obvious after the first play. After about 3 plays, most people should be able to identify reasonable strategies and really enjoy the game.
A 6-player game, in progress
I recommend this game for any serious gamer – it is relatively affordable (or you can receive it as a gift, as I did!), it’s small enough to carry unobtrusively in a backpack or travel bag, and there is a large variety of pathways one can take to achieve victory. It is not for a typical first-time gamer, or even anyone who might simply have an interest in the theme, and I wouldn’t recommend trying to convince light-gamers to give it a chance. It isn’t fun to reluctantly try a new game that one can’t master a few rounds into it.
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10/10 A DAY OF SIGNIFICANCE AT CASA DE GAS
By Mike Gastineau|2014-10-10T11:53:39+00:00October 10th, 2014|Comments Off on 10/10 A DAY OF SIGNIFICANCE AT CASA DE GAS
My book SOUNDERS FC: AUTHENTIC MASTERPIECE was published one year ago today, almost exactly a year after I first decided to write it.
That sentence is a mouthful (much more for me than anyone else). The idea to do a book on the launch of the team hit me while I was walking back to my car on October 7th, 2012. The Sounders had just delivered a 3 nil thrashing of Portland in front of a packed house at Century Link Field. As I walked through Pioneer Square with thousands of happy fans my mind started swimming. I had always wanted to write a book and here was a great story sitting right in front of me. How in the world had the Sounders achieved so much success so quickly? I knew some of the answers and I knew the people who could help me with the things I didn’t know. I arrived home that night and told my wife that I was going to write a book on the launch of the Sounders. As I excitedly unwound for her the details that were flooding my mind I knew, I just knew, this was a good idea. I had decided to leave KJR about 3 weeks prior (a decision that was not public yet) and this would give me something on which to focus my attention.
I made some notes, a rough outline, and then set the project aside until I was finished at KJR. Shortly after the new year I began a series of what would become dozens of interviews encompassing hundreds of hours with people involved in the story. In February I traveled to Arizona and Florida for interviews with several key people. In Tucson I spoke with Adrian Hanauer for three hours while a snow storm raged outside our hotel. In Tampa, while waiting to interview former Sounders exec Tod Leiweke I watched a waterspout roar by my hotel. I chose to ignore these apocalyptic signs from the sky and pressed on.
Most of the book was finished by August although I still had two gigantic holes to fill with comments from owners Joe Roth and Drew Carey. Those were the final two interviews I did. I spoke with Roth for about 90 minutes the day the team announced the Clint Dempsey signing in August and finally got an hour with Carey in late August. By September 10th the book was done and one month later the book was officially published.
It’s been a full year and while I admit this entire missive is a bit self serving today feels pretty awesome. We’re inching closer to 10,000 copies sold. (You can do YOUR part to help us get there by going here or here.) My goal was a little higher than that but I’m heartened by the knowledge that something like 97% of all books written sell less than 1000 copies. I also recently learned that Hunter S. Thompson’s classic FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS sold less than 10,000 copies in its’ first year of publication.
Many people (fans and reviewers) have said many kind things about the book and I’ll admit that’s something that matters to me. I didn’t do this just to do it. I wanted people to buy the book and I wanted people to like the story. There’s only one negative review I’ve seen and that came from a Portland fan who felt the book (270 pages) was too long. Of course, for many denizens of Rip Village, anything over a half page pamphlet is going to test their concentration skills.
After numerous book store and bar appearances I’ve moved more into the corporate world in terms of promoting the book. Many successful things from the Sounders story can be applied to most businesses and I’ve got several events with companies set up for the fall and early winter to discuss it all. (If you’re interested in something like this by all means contact me- gas@gasman206.com.)
It’s been an amazing two years from the night I first decided to write the book, through the year of writing it, and now the year of marketing it. I’ve learned quite a bit and have great respect for any small business owner which is essentially what I became. After a few unsuccessful efforts to get someone in the publishing community interested in the book I opted to publish it myself through a terrific company called Create Space. I invested all the money necessary to get the book to market and then reaped any rewards that were there. I’ve told numerous people that I never, in all my life, worked harder to make money than I did in 2013. But I also never enjoyed anything more than I enjoyed writing and marketing this book. To all who have purchased the book and said kind things about it, unending pots of gold to your doorstep.
That seems quite enough for now. It’s almost time to work my way downtown and root for the Sounders to win back the Cascadia Cup. I held that trophy in my hands the night Seattle beat Portland in 2012, the night I decided to write the book. Tonight seems like an awesome night to bring it back home.
About the Author: Mike Gastineau
Mike Gastineau has been a fixture in the Seattle sports community since his arrival in June of 1991. In a business where loyalty and longevity are rarely used in the same sentence his 21-year career at KJR Radio screams out both. During his time at KJR Gas created the KJR Kares-a-thon, a yearly charity radio show that raised over $1.5 million for various Puget Sound-area charities.
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“Sounders FC: Authentic Masterpiece”Mike Gastineau2018-10-31T14:27:35+00:00
In November of 2007 Major League Soccer (MLS) announced that the city of Seattle would receive an expansion franchise in the league to begin play in 2009.
The announcement was the culmination of a long effort to bring the highest level of the sport available to Seattle. It also came after a series of fortuitously timed events, chance meetings, and a spirit of cooperation between four very different men who ultimately made up the ownership group.
During the earliest meetings concerning the team several interesting discussions occurred. There was a real push from within to not use the nickname “Sounders” for the team. There was an incredible effort to convince people who worked for the Seahawks and didn’t know much or didn’t care much about soccer to take on the challenge of running the team (without a bump in pay). Then there was this: acknowledgment from all involved that if the team could draw as many as 12 to 15,000 fans per game the entire thing would be deemed a success.
Sounders FC: Authentic Masterpiece tells the inside story of the amazing MLS launch of the Seattle Sounders which arguably is the most successful launch of a new sports franchise in North American history. The story begins with the near departure of the Seattle Seahawks to Southern California in 1996 and traces the events that took place over the next several years that led to the Sounders debut in March of 2009 in a thrilling win over New York in front of a (then) record crowd of over 32,000 fans.
The book also tells the back story of the key people involved in the Sounders. From Coach Sigi Schmid’s days as an accountant in Los Angeles to the accident that bonded team announcer Arlo White and Sir Alex Ferguson to team owner and GM Adrian Hanauer’s self assessment that when he began his Sounders career in 2002 he had “no idea what he was doing.”
There’s also the story of the on field players and their respective journeys to opening night. Kasey Keller, who would become the team’s star player and finish his sensational career as a goalkeeper in the place where he grew up, nearly didn’t join the team. Osvaldo Alonso joined the team after defecting from Cuba. And a group of players made the jump from Seattle’s successful USL minor league team to help give the MLS Sounders a ready-made heart, soul, and culture not usually available to expansion teams.
One of the team’s assistant coaches (Brian Schmetzer) was a direct tie to Seattle’s legendary NASL franchise and team sporting director and Everett, Washington native Chris Henderson came one day away from taking another job before finding out at the last minute that Seattle was getting a team which allowed him to fulfill a dream of being involved in bringing top level soccer to his home town.
Finally, the book tells the story of the most unique fan/team interaction in North American sports, an interaction that was fueled by ideas from team owner Drew Carey and a fan attitude put into place by the amazing Emerald City Supporters.
Sounders FC: Authentic Masterpiece is a story of smarts, luck, timing, perseverance, and ultimately success. It’s the intersection of many talented people who all brought a key ingredient to the table.
Excerpts from “Authentic Masterpiece”
When it hit with the force with which it hit it was one of the coolest things we’d all ever been through.
The whole thing was like a big cosmic boom. Every thing came together. Every single thing you would want just kind of happened.
I thought there could be something interesting going on in this city. This is different from the experiences I’ve heard from other guys coming back to MLS.
By the time they told me I’d made the team, I would have played for a bag of peanuts. I wanted it that bad.
On opening night the clock hit 90 and we’re ahead 3 nothing and I knew we were going to win. I thought about my father and my childhood and the original Sounders. It was such a moment.
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Dumas to the American Commissioners, 23 April 1778: résumé
Dumas to the American Commissioners7
ALS: American Philosophical Society; AL (draft): Algemeen Rijksarchief
<Amsterdam, April 23, 1778, in French: I received your letter of the 10th on the 21st and forwarded it with its enclosures to the Grand Facteur. He promises, once I present the letter, to back me with his influence. I came here and found our friend [van Berckel] ready to help; he agreed with the Facteur that the letter is perfect and the time is ripe, and advised me what I should add verbally. I return the letter; do not change a word, but sign and seal it and send it back. As for your letter to me, I will put it to good use.8 When Holland’s delegation left the Stadholder he was annoyed with them for not increasing the army; they will meet at The Hague on May 6, and it would be helpful if I had the letter to present as soon as possible in the session.>
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
7. Published in Taylor, Adams Papers, VI, 48–51.
8. I.e., the letter mentioned in the first sentence and summarized above, April 10, as I. All the other references to “the letter” are to that for van Bleiswijk, summarized there as III.
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“Dumas to the American Commissioners, 23 April 1778: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-26-02-0278. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 26, March 1 through June 30, 1778, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987, p. 328.]
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A Tribute to Mr. Hockey
Posted in: hockey, Sports. Tagged: detroit red wings, gordie howe, hartford whalers, hockey, houston aeros, mr. hockey, nhl, wha. Leave a comment
I am completely devastated beyond words. This string of celebrity deaths has been rattling, that goes without saying, and Muhammad Ali passing away the other week shook my world. But this one… Mr. Howe was someone really special to me. Not only did I have the honour and the privilege of meeting him once in my life, but he took the time to have an extended conversation with me, about life and hockey, and sign this book and a jersey I now have hanging up in my living room, personalized with my name and a message to me. His health was declining at the time and he was a year or so away from fighting a stroke, and I’ll never forget the genuine compassion and interest he showed towards a random 16 year old kid during one of the direst moments of his life. I’ll forever treasure those items and memories.
When my uncle introduced me to hockey in 1995, the first player I loved was Sergei Fedorov of the Detroit Red Wings. Although I was only 3 years old, I already yearned to learn more about the great game and the history behind it. Only three years later, while looking up Red Wings history during library time at school, I learned about the legend that is Gordie Howe.
I learned about his 1,850 career NHL points, his 508 points in the old WHA, a lot of them recorded while playing alongside his sons, Mark and Marty, which I thought was just the coolest thing ever. I learned how Wayne Gretzky idolized him, I learned about him growing up in Floral, Saskatchewan, and I learned about him getting himself a tryout with the New York Rangers and eventually signing with the Red Wings, paving his own path to one of the all-time great careers in sport. But I also learned about his wife, Colleen, who Mr. Howe absolutely adored from the day he married her in 1953 right up through her unfortunate passing from Pick’s Disease in 2009 and his own passing today. I learned about how he came out of retirement with the motive of playing pro hockey on the same line as his sons, and he was a grandfather at that point. I learned that when someone would mention his hockey playing kids, he was quick to mention that he was just as proud of another son, Murray, who’s a doctor. My favourite story about him involves one of his sons, don’t remember if it was Mark or Marty, being wrestled with on the ice by a player named Robbie Ftorek. Gordie Howe calmly skated over to Ftorek, removed his glove, stuck his fingers up his nose and hauled him to his feet, off of his son. I would’ve loved to see the look in Ftorek’s eyes at that moment.
Gordie Howe was a legend. What he has done for the game of hockey and for the cities of Detroit, Hartford, Houston, and Canada on the whole is indescribable. I know that hearing, reading, and when YouTube came out, watching the legends of Gordie Howe as a kid helped propel me into a life of hockey. Now, as I’m in year one of slowly realizing my dream of becoming a hockey writer, I look at my signed Gordie Howe book with tears in my eyes and I can’t help but think that this man helped change the course of my life and he never even knew it.
RIP Mr. Hockey, the world truly lost the greatest today.
Phaneuf to Sens: The Rebuild Continues
Posted by michaelrevell on February 9, 2016
Posted in: hockey, Sports, Uncategorized. Tagged: 2017 nhl entry draft, casey bailey, cody donaghey, colin greening, dion phaneuf, jared cowen, matt frattin, milan michalek, nhl, ottawa senators, ryan rupert, steven stamkos, tmltalk, tobias lindberg, Toronto Maple Leafs, trade. Leave a comment
Can’t say I saw this coming. Shout out to Dion for all the absolute nonsense he put up with in his time in Toronto, for being Captain of the only Leafs team of my adult life to make the playoffs, for not being as garbage as people claim he is, and for elevating his game enough under Mike Babcock to be a wanted asset by another NHL team that was willing to give a good haul of assets to Toronto in return for him.
Breaking down the trade:
To Ottawa:
Matt Frattin –
One of the few remaining remnants of the John Ferguson Jr era, Frattin was a 4th round draft pick back in 2007, was a Hobey Baker finalist and scouts once thought that he could be a “Diet Rick Nash” type of winger on a second line featuring Nazem Kadri. A personal Marlies favourite of mine, I’ll be sad to see him go. That being said, he’s a 28 year old declining AHLer whose shot at becoming a legitimate full time NHLer is now years in the past. His best year came in 2011/2012 when he had 15 points in 56 games. Expiring contract. I expect him to either be an AHL leader next year, or playing in Europe.
Casey Bailey –
An undrafted winger, Bailey signed a two year entry level contract with Toronto in March of last year after being a point per game player during his years at Penn State. Has a good shot, ideal size and a high compete level, but the jury is out on whether or not he can ever progress past middling-AHL player status. He scored a goal for the Leafs in 6 games at the end of last season during a short audition, but failed to make the big club out of this season’s training camp and has underwhelmed for the William Nylander powered Marlies this year. At 24 years old with just 18 points in 38 AHL games this year, I see this undrafted, ex-U.S. College player being more of a Brayden Irwin than a Tyler Bozak. With an expiring contract and an NHL cap hit of $912,500, I don’t expect him to see much time, if any, with the big club in Ottawa. Decent minor league option that is a restricted free agent at the end of this season.
Ryan Rupert –
The ex-6th round draft pick in 2012 has bounced between the AHL Marlies and the ECHL Orlando Solar Bears the past two seasons, after being a mainstay with his hometown London Knights for the entirety of his junior career, often playing with his twin brother Matt, who has also attended Leafs prospect camps. The 21 year old centre is a strong, rough and tumble player with decent puck skills, limited skating ability and a bad habit of delivering the odd dirty play. Unfortunately for him, his playing style seems to be more suited for 1996 than 2016. The prototypical slow power forward with a decent shot and a penchant for the net is a declining breed and Rupert seems to be a victim of circumstance. He was not high up in Toronto’s depth chart, was likely not going to make the Leafs full-time at any point, but remains a viable minor league option for Ottawa. He’s signed for next year too, so expect to see him as a regular on the Binghamton Senators.
Cody Donaghey –
This undrafted, 19 year old defenceman is currently in the QMJHL with the Moncton Wildcats and is considered to be a late blooming potential gem. He was undrafted, despite being the 150th ranked player of his year, but impressed the Toronto brass with a good showing at the Under 17’s and with the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies and Quebec Remparts in 2013-2014. The Leafs invited him to prospect camp as a free agent and he turned enough heads to parlay that into a three-year entry level deal. A right-handed shot with a high fitness level, Donaghey has the potential to be a very strong offensive defenseman, but like many defenders his age, his actual defensive game needs considerable work. He also recently fought through both an MCL and ACL tear, which has considerably hampered his development. Nonetheless, it would not surprise me at all to see him in the NHL at some point in the coming years. He’s signed until the end of 2017-2018, and I expect Ottawa to audition him on their blueline once he completes his junior career and spends some time in the AHL.
Dion Phaneuf –
It doesn’t seem like six years ago, but that’s how much time has gone by since Toronto acquired Phaneuf, Fredrik Sjostrom and Keith Aulie from Calgary in exchange for Matt Stajan, Niklas Hagman, Ian White and Jamal Mayers. It’s easy to look back in retrospect, and there’s no denying that Phaneuf did not turn out to be the player that Toronto envisioned, ending up as more of a Bryan McCabe than a Chris Pronger, but I firmly believe that Dion Phaneuf was a solid Maple Leaf, despite the popular opinion that says otherwise. He was a victim of circumstance, a player with a contract and letter on his jersey that said to fans that he would become the next Chris Pronger, when in reality, that is just not who Dion Phaneuf is. He is not a number one defenceman. Or even a number two at this stage of his career. He should not have been playing 30-odd minutes a game, like he was under the old Toronto regime. He was heavily misused and it showed in his play and the stats. That being said, he improved by leaps and bounds this year playing a reduced role under Mike Babcock, and appears to have found his game again. Phaneuf will never be the player that we thought he would be coming out of junior. However, he remains an incredibly serviceable second pairing defenceman that can be a physical game changer, a boon on the power play with his massive shot, and a good locker room presence that has dealt with adversity fairly well. He’s signed for five more years with a $7 million cap hit, which is already a steep price to pay for a player of his caliber, but could be disastrous a few years down the road if injuries or a steady decline takes place. I believe that he could be a great supporting piece for Ottawa, a player that can take a bit of the load off of younger guys like Cody Ceci, but I don’t envy that cap situation.
To Toronto:
Jared Cowen –
The 25 year old defenceman has severely underwhelmed at the NHL level since being drafted 9th overall in 2009, and looking back, it’s clear that rushing him to the NHL was not the right move. A massive (6”5, 240 pounds) stay at home defender, Cowen was perfect for the old, slower, crash and bang NHL of days past. It was envisioned that he would be a stabilizing presence on the blueline that would neutralize attackers with his physicality and sheer size. Instead, the game changed and a player with Cowen’s footspeed does not look like he can last in today’s league. He fell out of Ottawa’s top six and has been all over the rumour mill for the last couple of seasons. He’s signed for $4.5 million next year, but with a cap hit of $3.1 million, and would be a restricted free agent after that. If his play doesn’t drastically improve, he would be a prime candidate for a buyout next off season. The potential is still there, but time is running out for Jared Cowen. Fast.
Milan Michalek –
A good veteran presence, the skilled winger was a key piece in the trade that sent Dany Heatley to San Jose in 2009. Injuries have taken their toll, he’s currently out with a broken finger, and his prime is well in the past, but Michalek is without a doubt a decent top-nine forward option on most teams. He’s struggled with Ottawa this season, recording 10 points in 32 games, but when the inevitable roster shuffle continues and pieces like Shawn Matthias, P-A Parenteau, Michael Grabner and Co. get moved, I expect Michalek to pick up a lot of the slack. He’s signed through the next season at a $4 million cap hit, a lot for a player at this stage of his career, but Toronto has the cap space and could use a veteran presence on the ice next year with an expected influx of young players coming up to the bigs. Barring injury, Michalek could be a very serviceable short-term option for the Leafs.
Colin Greening –
The 29 year old winger had fallen out of the Ottawa roster over the past two seasons and has spent virtually all of this season in the AHL, recording underwhelming numbers of 13 points in 41 games, to go along with 52 PIMs. He’s on a $2.625 million per year contract that expires after next season, which is millions of dollars to much for a player of his age and caliber, hence why he was buried in the minors, but can conceivably take a fourth line role on the Leafs once the roster shuffle continues. He’s a stopgap option at best and I don’t see him being in the NHL much longer, if at all.
Tobias Lindberg –
Looking back in a few years, Lindberg could end up being the best player in this trade. The 20 year old winger was a 4th round pick by Ottawa in 2013 out of the famed Djurgardens program in Sweden and spent last season recording 97 points (including playoffs) as a star import on the Memorial Cup champ Oshawa Generals. The coach on that team? None other than new assistant Leafs coach DJ Smith. Lindberg has represented Sweden internationally a number of times, despite not ever playing in the World Juniors, and had 22 points in 34 games this season for the Binghamton Senators. He’s going to be joining the Marlies for what is expected to be an extended playoff run, slotting behind A-list prospects like William Nylander and Kasperi Kapanen. As it currently stands, Lindberg is a high-end middle level prospect with size and scoring ability that could potentially see some time in the big leagues this year and has the potential to eventually make an impact at the NHL level.
2nd round pick in 2017 – The stats say that a 2nd round pick turns into an NHL player 1/3 of the time, and could potentially end up being a mid to high 30’s draft pick. If the Leafs draft properly, this could (obviously) turn into a huge asset. For example, some 2nd round picks in 2011 include Boone Jenner, John Gibson, Brandon Saad and Nikita Kucherov.
There’s a lot of pieces in this trade. 10 piece trades rarely happen in today’s NHL and at first glance, this looks massive. But once contracts and potential get thrown into the equation, this trade ends up essentially being Dion Phaneuf for Tobias Lindberg and a 2nd round pick.
From an Ottawa standpoint, they dump an underachieving ex-top tier prospect in Jared Cowen, a buried minor league contract in Colin Greening and an aging, expensive, injury prone Milan Michalek. They lose a good draft choice and a very solid prospect in Tobias Lindberg. They gain a veteran minor league presence with significant NHL experience and an expiring contract in Matt Frattin, minor league filler with Casey Bailey and Ryan Rupert, a potential dark horse in Cody Donaghey, that at worst case scenario will be a minor league mainstay, and a seemingly rejuvenated Dion Phaneuf. Phaneuf is expected to be a good locker room guy that can help groom young guys like Cody Ceci, Mark Stone and Curtis Lazar while still logging significant minutes on the blueline and powerplay. Will he be a superstar? No. Is he worth $7 million a year for the next five seasons? No. But not many players are, and fans need to separate Phaneuf from his contract while analyzing his play. I am concerned about potential age-related regression from Phaneuf, and this contract could end up hurting Ottawa in the long run as he ages. But as of right now, he is a serviceable defenceman and leader that will help the current team.
From the Toronto point of view, this is a long-term move that is keeping in check with the current rebuilding mindset. They clear out some minor league filler in exchange for a couple of bad contracts that can be used as placeholders on the current rebuilding squad and lose the potential dark horse that is Cody Donaghey, but gain significant value in return. I don’t expect it to happen, but Jared Cowen could conceivably re-spark his development under the Babcock regime and if he does improve he could be someone that sticks around long term. The potential that had him drafted 9th overall is still there, but he has to prove he belongs immediately. Tobias Lindberg is a very good prospect that likely has a future with the Leafs and having another 2nd round pick is obviously always a good thing. However, the main key here is moving the $7 million cap hit of Phaneuf and freeing up the captaincy. You thought the Steven Stamkos to Toronto rumours were overwhelming before? That just increased tenfold.
Overall, this was a solid trade for both teams, with Ottawa moving out some expensive and middling bodies in exchange for an expensive 2nd pairing defenceman with leadership qualities and a couple of mediocre to middle prospects, while losing a couple of decent assets in the process. Although the haul for Ottawa was decent, I see Toronto being the winner here, if only for the freed up long term cap space and now vacant captaincy. Getting a good prospect and a 2nd rounder is bonus in my eyes and taking on a couple of bad contracts is a small price to pay. I’ll leave you all with this. Seen Stamkos?
Toronto Maple Leafs Game 1: A Brief Recap
Posted by michaelrevell on October 8, 2015
Posted in: hockey. Tagged: careyprice, habs, jonathanbernier, leafs, montrealcanadiens, nhl, nhlfaceoff, tmltalk, torontomapleleafs. Leave a comment
Final score: Montreal 3, Toronto 1
Honestly, this game went better than expected. Wasn’t great, not in the slightest. But it was better than expected. It’s no secret that the Leafs are in for a rough few seasons, while the Habs are a team that considers themselves to be a legitimate Cup contender. So a 3-1 loss with the 3rd goal being an empty netter really isn’t horrendous on the whole. But boy, did this game start in pretty much the worst way possible.
As anyone that regularly watches the Leafs play knows, Jonathan Bernier has a history of letting in weak goals. So when Max Pacioretty put the first Montreal shot on net and it handcuffed Bernier, bounced over his shoulder and trickled in, I was not surprised. I literally burst out laughing. 100% that was an early omen for the rest of Toronto’s season. However, aside from the standard weak Bernier goal, he played pretty well, coming up huge with a couple of massive saves during the typical Toronto defensive lapses. No question, Bernier kept the Leafs in this game.
Moving on to the defense, despite being a constant lighting rod for criticism, captain Dion Phaneuf had a relatively quiet, but decent game. He ate up minutes, wasn’t a total defensive liability, and played pretty well with his new d-partner, alternate captain Matt Hunwick. He even picked up a secondary assist on the lone Toronto goal. Hunwick, while I don’t believe he is capable of playing top-4 minutes on a consistent basis, had a solid game. He showed some decent chemistry with Phaneuf and was a stabilizer on the ice, logging 4 hits and playing over 20 minutes, along with Captain Dion. Morgan Rielly was Morgan Rielly. He played a touch over 20 minutes, had a few offensive bursts, and was mediocre in the defensive zone, finishing with a -2 rating. Likewise for Jake Gardiner, he played a classic Jake game. Flashes of the Gardiner we saw in the playoffs in 2013, rushing with the puck and being a potential game changer, but we also saw what put him in the doghouse since then. The amount of times I see Jake Gardiner screwing up a pinch and having to rush back, stick flailing and leaving his d-partner out to dry with a 3 on 1 break is enraging. There’s no question that he has immense offensive talent, but that doesn’t mean anything when you don’t record a point, have limited offensive chances, and barely play good defense. This may be a make or break year for Gardiner. Now, it gets ugly with these final 2 players. Martin Marincin and Scott Harrington are two young players that were making their Toronto debut. And they sucked. I’m not going easy on them. They were constantly a defensive liability on the ice and frankly, they looked outmatched by a pretty damn good Montreal squad. Harrington failed to properly cover Alex Galchenyuk on the 2nd Habs goal, and there were countless other instances where both young men were caught up ice, or coughed up the puck, or simply got outmatched. Neither of them are NHL ready, that’s what I got out of this game. I’d like to see either Roman Polak, who was scratched tonight, or Frank Corrado get a shot next game.
Regarding the forwards, James van Riemsdyk scored the lone goal for Toronto (a fluky double tip), but aside from that, the core Leafs players were mostly non-factors. Nazem Kadri looked undisciplined to start, taking a stupid interference penalty early in the game. Joffrey Lupul floated, looking like a shell of his former self. Tyler Bozak was a total non-factor. What I did like, was how well some of the new Leafs acquisitions played. He was a -2, but Brad Boyes may have been the hardest working player in this game, and was a constant buzz on the ice. The fourth line of Nick Spaling, Daniel Winnik, and Mark Arcobello/PA Parenteau was dynamic at times and was easily the best Toronto line. Spaling had a great scoring chance that would’ve tied the game, but was let down by a bouncing puck. Arcobello was on the power play and seemed to be rotating in and out of this line with Parenteau, who didn’t look as good as the rest of these guys. Winnik was a gem last year before the trade, and played like the guy that Leafs fans initially fell in love with. Toronto registered 37 shots on goal, outshooting Montreal by 7. That’s unheard of for recent Toronto teams, who are literally used to being outshot 45-20. Michael Grabner was a healthy scratch tonight, which I’m sure will change. His speed and offensive ability intrigues me, I’d like to see him on the top line at some point. Regardless, there were definite steps in the right direction, but not enough production and effort from Toronto’s top guns, which was disappointing to see.
Carey Price may have been the guy who won the game overall tonight, but Toronto definitely could’ve played worse on the whole. Get used to it, Toronto fans. It’s gonna be a rough year.
Draft Busts: A Team’s Biggest Fear – Part 1
Posted by michaelrevell on September 29, 2015
Posted in: hockey, Sports. Tagged: biggestdraftbusts, daigle, draftbusts, entrydraft, hockey, nhl, nhldraft, stefan. Leave a comment
*Author’s Note
I started this back in 2012, right when I was getting severely sick, and put this on hold. I discovered a saved draft of this while getting this blog up and running again, and decided to finish it, up to the 2012 draft. Here’s Part 1, from 1990-1999.
As I was watching last night’s Stanley Cup Finals game I noticed a Gionta on the ice and got a bit perplexed. While Brian Gionta certainly used to play for the Devils, he has since moved on to become the captain of the Montreal Canadiens. It was then that I remembered that Brian Gionta has a brother, Stephen, who seemingly came out of nowhere to become a key member of this years Stanley Cup Finalist New Jersey Devils squad. This particular Gionta went undrafted and has currently only played 13 NHL regular season games, amassing 1 goal and 6 PIMS. This certainly doesn’t look like a player to pay attention to, yet the Devils clearly saw something in him when they signed him after he graduated from Boston College. The Devils investment has payed off as the diminutive Gionta has played 23 playoff games this year, tallying 7 points and providing a much needed spark to a surprising Devils team. When I thought of Stephen Gionta I wondered how a player like this can go overlooked for so long and even get passed over repeatedly on draft day. You hear of it all the time, some of the greatest players in the history of the game have gone low in the draft or may have not even been drafted at all. Names like Curtis Joseph, Henrik Zetterberg, Doug Gilmour and Ed Belfour come to mind. These are clear examples of draft position not necessarily determining a players career. However, on the other end of the spectrum there are highly touted players up for draft every year that do not turn out as expected. Who knows, maybe Nail Yakupov, the highest ranked eligible player for draft this year, could be a complete draft bust. Which brings to mind, who are the biggest draft busts in NHL history? This thought came to me and I decided to compile a little list, giving in my opinion the worst 1st round pick from every year from 1990-2012. So, ladies and gentlemen, here are the worst of the best.
1990: Scott Scissons
The 1990 NHL Entry Draft was expected to be a fairly deep draft and it proved to be just that as superstars such as Owen Nolan, Keith Primeau, Jaromir Jagr and Martin Brodeur were all picked in the very 1st round. In fact, the draft order went like this. Nolan, Nedved, Primeau, Ricci, Jagr, Scissons. Now, you may be asking who in the world is Scott Scissons? That happens to be a very valid question since Scissons played a grand total of 2 games with no points or penalty minutes in the NHL after being drafted 6th overall by the New York Islanders. When the Isles drafted Scissons they were expecting a rough and tumble prairie boy with a penchant for the net, not the 2 game wonder that he ended up being. After scoring 87 points for his hometown Saskatoon Blades in his draft year, these were some fairly reasonable hopes the Islanders had. However, things were not meant to be as Scissons never caught on in the NHL, ended up playing more IHL games than anything else and was out of hockey by 1995. Players drafted after Scissons include Cup champions Darryl Sydor, Derian Hatcher, Martin Brodeur and Brad May. Needless to say, I’m sure the Islanders wish they could turn back the clock and draft any of these players, actually, pretty much any player other than Scott Scissons.
1991: Alek Stojanov
First and foremost, the 1991 draft is best known for being the year that the Quebec Nordiques drafted Eric Lindros 1st overall and were forced to trade him for a boatload of assets since he refused to play for the team. Things all worked out in the end for the Nordiques of course since Peter Forsberg was the main player they got back in the deal, they won the Stanley Cup shortly after, and Lindros was riddled by injuries and ended up being a bit of a disappointment. However, Lindros was not the draft bust of 1991, far from it. That “honour” belongs to Windsor, Ontario native Alek Stojanov, better known as being the player that the Vancouver Canucks traded to Pittsburgh for future captain Markus Naslund. Stojanov was a bit of a wild card when the Canucks drafted him 7th overall after scoring 45 points in 62 games for the OHL’s Hamilton Dukes in his draft year. His point totals were not that impressive although the ‘Nucks were clearly hoping for a power forward type when they drafted the 6 foot 4, 232 pound Stojanov. Power forwards typically develop their scoring side a little after their physical side so the Canucks were probably not too worried since Stojanov provided 45 points along with 179 PIMS. Unfortunately for Vancouver, that offensive side never really developed. Stojanov recorded a whopping 1 assist in 62 games for the Canucks before being shipped off to Pittsburgh. He spent a couple of seasons with the Penguins before being out of the NHL after the 96-97 season. He finished his NHL career with 107 games played, 2 goals, 5 assists and 222 PIMS. He was last seen in the hockey world playing for the New Mexico Scorpions of the Central Hockey League during the 01-02 season. Players chosen after Stojanov include Brian Rolston, Alexei Kovalev, Naslund, Ray Whitney and Mike Knuble. Yikes.
1992: Ryan Sittler
Poor, poor Ryan Sittler. Son of Leafs legend Darryl Sittler, Ryan didn’t exactly have the same illustrious career as his Hall of Famer father. Sittler was most likely a victim of being related to one of the greatest men to ever play the game and was overrated as a player. This particular draft features major busts like the Leafs Brandon Convery, Edmonton’s Joe Hulbig and Buffalo’s David Cooper, but Philadelphia’s choice of Sittler at 7th overall takes the cake. Ryan Sittler was a decent left winger for the University of Michigan before making the jump to the AHL’s Hershey Bears where it became clear that he was not capable of playing in the NHL. He recorded 2 goals and 7 assists in 42 games his first year in Hershey and soon found himself playing for various teams in the ECHL including the Mobile Mysticks and Raleigh Icecaps before reemerging in the AHL for a couple more seasons. Sittler last played for the ECHL’s Charlotte Checkers in the 98-99 season. He played a grand total of zero games in the NHL while players drafted after him include 1000 gamers Sergei Gonchar, Jason Smith, Kirk Maltby and Adrian Aucoin. If anything, Ryan Sittler’s hockey career shows that sometimes the apple falls REALLY far away from the tree.
1993: Alexandre Daigle
Arguably the biggest and most famous draft bust in NHL history, the Ottawa Senators decided to make Victoriaville Tigres sensation Alexandre Daigle the 1st overall pick of the 1992 NHL Entry Draft. While others in the 1st round played less games than Daigle’s 616 and had less points than his 327 there is little question that Daigle surpasses the likes of Jesper Mattsson and Nick Stajduhar as the years biggest bust. Alexandre Daigle exploded into the hockey world, tallying 137 points in 53 games during his draft year and was even compared to the great Rocket Richard. Yeah, uh, didn’t happen. Daigle had a solid NHL career if he was drafted in say the 5th round. However, he was drafted 1st overall and therefore was expected to play like a legend. Unfortunately for Daigle he was surpassed by the likes of Daniel Alfredsson and Alexei Yashin as Ottawa’s next great hope and was sent packing to the Flyers. From there he bounced around unsuccessfully from Philly to Tampa to New York to Pittsburgh to Minnesota. Throw in some minor league action and a 2 year stint where he decided to pursue and acting career and forgo hockey and you’ve got the gist of his career. He did win the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy after his first season with the Minnesota Wild, Daigle ultimately flopped again, winding up his career in the Swiss League. So much for the guy who proclaimed that he was glad to go first overall since “no one remembers who went second.” Say that to the guy drafted after Daigle, a Mr. Chris Pronger. Enough said. Among those drafted after Daigle include, Pronger, Paul Kariya, Jason Arnott, Saku Koivu, Bryan McCabe and Hal Gill.
1994: Jason Bonsignore
Oh boy, this was a tough one. While this draft did have its gems, Ed Jovanovski, Ryan Smyth and the like, it also had a shocking amount of draft busts. And I’m not talking about an Alexandre Daigle type bust where the player went on to have a decent NHL career. I’m talking about disgustingly bad draft picks. The kind of picks that cost GM’s and scouts their jobs. The likes of Jamie Storr, Brett Lindros, Nolan Baumgartner, Wade Belak, Alexander Kharlamov, Eric Fichaud, Brad Brown, Chris Dingman, Jason Botterill, Evgeni Ryabchikov, Jeff Kealty, Yan Golubovsky, Chris Wells and Vadim Sharijanov were all drafted in the 1st round. Needless to say, this was a beyond awful 1st round. But the dubious honour of worst of the worst belongs to Edmonton Oilers draft pick Jason Bonsignore. Drafted 4th overall, Bonsignore had a few successful years in the OHL which led to the Oilers taking an interest in him. He was considered a can’t miss prospect, someone to build your team around. Didn’t happen. Bonsignore played 79 games in the NHL scoring only 3 goals and 13 assists for the Oilers and Lightning. He did play in the AHL, IHL and ECHL for a number of years along with stints in Switzerland and Finland. He last played hockey for the Trenton Devils of the ECHL in 07-08. Personally, I would have picked Jeff O’Neill, Ryan Smyth, Mattias Ohlund, Patrik Elias, Sheldon Souray or Chris Drury over Bonsignore, but it’s obviously easy to look in retrospect. At the time, the Oilers picked a top prospect who unfortunately didn’t end up working out for them.
1995: Terry Ryan
Another tough choice with Steve Kelly, Jeff Ware, Teemu Riihijarvi and others in the mix, but the Montreal Canadiens choice of Terry Ryan at 8th overall is 1995’s biggest draft bust. Terry Ryan was a high scoring left winger from the WHL’s Tri-City Americans yet his career was unexpectedly derailed by inconsistency and an ankle issue that caused early retirement. Ryan played only 8 games in the NHL, all with the Canadiens, and spent the majority of his short career in the AHL and other minor leagues. Rubbing salt into the Canadiens wound was the fact that the likes of Jarome Iginla, Kyle McLaren, JS Giguere and Petr Sykora were all picked later on in the round. However, Ryan did have a relatively successful ball hockey career, even representing Team Canada on multiple occasions. Not quite the NHL, but hey, it’s something.
1996: Alexandre Volchkov
1996 was a very hit or miss year when it came to the draft. On one hand the draft launched the careers of Zdeno Chara, Chris Phillips, Derek Morris, Daniel Briere and Pavel Kubina, yet it also left you with duds such as Jonathan Aitken, Dan Focht, Josh Holden, Matthieu Descoteaux and the grand daddy of them all, Alexandre Volchkov. Drafted 4th overall by the Washington Capitals, it is easy to stereotype Volchkov as the stereotypical skilled, yet lazy Russian with a severe attitude problem (see: Yashin, Alexei). While it is somewhat unfair to make this assumption, if you did happen to guess Volchkov was a Nikita Filatov or Nikolai Zherdev, you were absolutely right. Volchkov actually came and played junior hockey for the Barrie Colts of the OHL, prompting scouts to believe that he was committed to playing hockey in North America. A skilled Russian with offensive flair, Volchkov parlayed decent numbers for the Colts into a playoff call up to the Portland Pirates of the AHL. Aside for 3 NHL games, that was as far as his hockey career would ever go. He left North America to play in Russia in 2000 and was essentially never heard from again. Good choice, Caps.
1997: Daniel Tkaczuk
Not to be mistaken with Keith Tkachuk, Daniel Tkaczuk was Calgary’s first choice, 6th overall. He was the second best player on his team in the OHL, the Barrie Colts, ironically under 1996’s biggest bust Alex Volchkov. Tallying 105 points in only 58 games in his last junior season, the Flames were expecting Tkaczuk to rip up the NHL. Well, that didn’t happen. Tkaczuk just couldn’t seen to catch a break, only playing 19 NHL games despite tallying 11 points in limited action. Traded to St. Louis in the deal that brought Roman Turek to Calgary, Tkaczuk never played a game for the Blues despite retaining status as a top prospect. Tkaczuk was the victim of bad luck, never getting a real shot at the NHL before he decided to ply his trade in various European leagues including a three year stint in Germany before returning to North America in 2009, hoping for one last shot at the NHL. Tkaczuk never got his wish as he only played 12 AHL games and 46 ECHL games before ending his career in 2011 as a member of the Nottingham Panthers of the EIHL. Smarter draft choices would have been Marian Hossa, Brenden Morrow, Daniel Cleary, Henrik Tallinder, Matt Cooke and Brian Campbell.
1998: Rico Fata
While not an overall great 1st round, this was still an easy choice. Another massive mistake by Calgary, Rico Fata went 6th overall in the same draft that saw Tampa Bay grab the one time face of their franchise, Vinny Lecavalier. Fata broke into the OHL as a 15(!) year old with his hometown Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds and the next year was selected 1st overall in the OHL draft by the London Knights. He was part of a very good London team that ended up in the Finals the year after Fata was drafted, with Rico helping lead the way. He had 76 points in 64 games to go along with 110 PIMS in his draft year, endearing himself to the Flames brass with his scoring abilities and his penchant for playing well above his 5″11 stature. Once drafted, a terrible Flames team tried to rush him to the NHL, playing him in 20 games before sending him back to Junior. He recorded 1 assist in his time with the Flames, an early omen regarding his future NHL career. He bounced between Calgary and the AHL for the next 2 years, ripping up the AHL, but unable to maintain a spot on the NHL roster. Over the next few years he was claimed on waivers 3 times and traded once, as a piece of what brought Alexei Kovalev to the Rangers. Fata was out of North American hockey by 2006, after failing to catch on with the Washington Capitals. He totaled 230 games played and 63 points for 5 different NHL teams before spending time in Germany, Switzerland and Finland, wrapping up what was once a beyond promising career in 2013-2014 with HIFK Helsinki. What’s funny is the fact that the guy that was drafted directly after Fata, Manny Malhotra, was considered to be a bust on par with Fata around the same time Fata was disappointing Calgary fans. Malhotra salvaged his career with the Columbus Blue Jackets, turned into a reliable two-way player with a scoring touch and immense skills in the face-off and penalty killing department, and played with Montreal last year, becoming a massive success story after nearly losing an eye as a member of the Vancouver Canucks. This draft’s 1st round is littered with players like Malhotra, decent to very good NHLers like Mike Rupp, Nik Antropov and Robyn Regehr, and even the occasional borderline star like Simon Gagne and Alex Tanguay. And every single one of them was picked after Rico Fata. Nice job, Calgary. Tkaczuk and Fata, two years in a row… Ugh!
1999: Patrik Stefan
Oh man. Oh man, oh man. Where do I start here? To start, there are worse players than Patrik Stefan that were 1st rounders in ’99 and quite a few total busts. This was the year that guys like Pavel Brendl, Brian Finley, Kris Beech, Jamie Lundmark, Scott Kelman and Denis Shvidki were picked. And I could go on and on about those players and a number of others from this draft. These guys make Taylor Pyatt, picked 8th overall that year, look like a living legend. Sedin’s aside (we’ll touch on that later), this 1st round is remembered for all the wrong reasons. Even though all of these players had far worse career numbers than Stefan, not one of them flamed out as spectacularly and as hard as him. Patrik Stefan was the 1st ever selection made by the expansion Atlanta Thrashers and was touted as the face and star of the franchise, right from the get go. It was hype that he had no chance of living up to. He came over to North America from the Czech Republic at only 17 to play pro hockey in the now defunct IHL for the Long Beach Ice Dogs, and averaged over a point per game in his draft year, playing against grown men in a league equivalent to the AHL. He was touted as a future star, compared to Mike Modano and Sergei Fedorov, and as his Ice Dogs coach, John Van Boxmeer said, “He is going to be a dominating, play-making center. He is a guy who looks to make the play rather than shoot himself. He’ll be a guy who can get 100 assists and 20-25 goals in the NHL.” Stefan’s best totals came in 2003-2004, when he recorded 40 points in 82 games. He was out of hockey altogether just 4 years later. So what happened? It starts with Brian Burke, then GM of the Vancouver Canucks. He famously orchestrated a deal with Thrashers GM Don Waddell that saw Vancouver trade the 1st overall pick to Atlanta for the 2nd overall pick and a 3rd rounder the next year. Why? Burke wanted the Sedin twins, and gave Waddell the 1st overall with the promise of Atlanta not taking either Sedin. Looking back, Don Waddell probably should have told him to shove it. Stefan actually put up decent numbers his first couple of years, considering he played for an awful expansion team, but consistently fought injury problems that would haunt him for the duration of his career. He looked like he was coming through after his “breakout” year of 03/04, but after the lockout and an injury plagued return year, Atlanta decided to cut their losses and sent him to Dallas. It was with Dallas that Stefan would solidify his place as an Alexandre Daigle caliber bust. Click this YouTube link at the end of the Stefan section. Just do it. Chances are you’ve seen it before, since it is probably the dumbest thing that anyone’s ever done on ice. For those that don’t know and didn’t click the link, it was January 2007 and Dallas was ahead of Edmonton by 1, late in the 3rd period. Stefan got sent on an open break after the Oilers had pulled their goalie. He missed. Actually, that’s the understatement of the year. He skated lazily toward the net, tripped over himself, missed and coughed the puck up to Edmonton, and Ales Hemsky ended up tying the game with 2 seconds left. Yeah. It looks as bad as it sounds. Unsurprisingly, this was the last year that Patrik Stefan would ever play in the NHL. He spent 3 games with SC Bern in Switzerland the next year before retiring due to injuries. Well, that and I assume the fact that literally no team wanted him. Statistically, he is the worst 1st overall pick of all time, below Brian Lawton, Doug Wickenheiser and Daigle. There’s a reason the Atlanta Thrashers don’t exist anymore and why Don Waddell is no longer an NHL GM. Better choices would’ve been the Sedin’s, Barret Jackman and Martin Havlat. Hell, I would’ve been happier with Pavel Brendl, at least that flame out was completely expected.
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Too tired to go on, Pope Benedict XVI to resign on February 28th
Posted 5:26 am, February 11, 2013, by Trisha Lavey and Cary Docter, Updated at 06:15AM, February 12, 2013
ROME (CNN) -- The spiritual leader of 1.2 billion Catholics, Pope Benedict XVI, surprised the world Monday by saying he will resign at the end of the month "because of advanced age."
It's the first time a pope has stepped down in nearly 600 years.
"Strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me," the pope said, according to the Vatican.
The news startled and shocked the Catholic world and led to frenzied speculation about who would replace him.
Analysts and experts immediately began debating the merits of naming a pontiff from the developing world, where the church continues to grow, versus one from Europe -- where it has deep historical roots.
Cardinals will meet to choose Benedict's successor sometime after his official resignation on February 28, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, said at a news conference.
"Before Easter, we will have the new pope," he said.
Benedict won't be involved in the decision, Lombardi said. But his influence will undoubtedly be felt. Benedict appointed 67 the 118 cardinals who will make the decision.
CNN Senior Vatican Analyst John Allen said that means the next pope, no matter where he is from, will likely continue in Benedict's conservative tradition -- which has seen the church take a firm line on issues such as abortion, birth control and divorce.
The pope, born Joseph Ratzinger, is likely to retire to a monastery and devote himself to a life of reflection and prayer, Lombardi said. He won't be involved in managing the church after his resignation.
In a sign of just how rare an event this is, church officials aren't sure what the pope will be called after he leaves the office.
One possibility, Allen said, is "bishop emeritus of Rome."
Benedict will become the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415. In that case, Gregory quit to end a civil war within the church in which more than one man claimed to be pope.
In this case, it wasn't external forces but the ravages of time that forced Benedict's hand. After months of consideration, he concluded he just wasn't up to the job anymore, Lombardi said.
"It's not a decision he has just improvised," Lombardi said. "It's a decision he has pondered over."
Benedict has been thinking about resigning for some time because of his age, a family friend in Regensburg, Germany, told CNN Monday. He has discussed the resignation with his older brother, the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, according to the friend, who asked not to be named because he does not speak for Georg Ratzinger.
Several years ago, Benedict had suggested he would be open to resigning should his health fail, Allen said. But no one expected him to do so this soon, he said.
According to Lombardi, Benedict will step down as pope at 8 p.m. February 28 in Rome, then head for the pope's summer residence. He will probably move to a monastery in the Vatican after that, Lombardi said.
After the resignation takes effect, cardinals will gather in Rome to select a successor. It takes at least two-thirds plus one of the 118 voting cardinals to elect a new leader for the church.
Benedict's legacy
Benedict took over as pope in 2005 as the church was facing a number of issues, including declining popularity in parts of the world and a growing crisis over the church's role in handling molestation accusations against priests around the world.
Given his age at the time -- 78 -- he was widely seen as a caretaker pope, a bridge to the next generation following the long reign of John Paul II, a popular, globe-trotting pontiff whose early youth and vigor gave way to such frailty in later years that he required assistance walking and was often hard to hear during public addresses.
As an aide to John Paul, Benedict served as a strict enforcer of his conservative social doctrine. To no one's surprise, he continued to espouse a conservative doctrine after taking the office himself. He frequently warned of a "dictatorship of relativism."
"In a world which he considered relativist and secular and so on, his main thrust was to re-establish a sense of Catholic identity for Catholics themselves," said Delia Gallagher, contributing editor for Inside the Vatican magazine.
Where John Paul wowed crowds around the world with his mastery of numerous languages, Benedict took his training as a college professor to the Vatican and will be seen at his most influential in years to come with his writings, Gallagher said.
Allen called Benedict a "great teaching pope."
Benedict also worked to advance religious freedom and reduce friction among adherents of various faiths, said Bill Donohue of the U.S. Catholic League.
"The pope made it clear that religious freedom was not only a God-given right, it was 'the path to peace,'" Donahue said.
Sex abuse scandal
Benedict became pope at the height of the molestation scandal involving Catholic priests, with complaints of sexual abuse and lawsuits over the issue tearing at the church.
Abusive priests had "disfigured their ministry" and brought "profound shame and regret" on the church, Benedict said in 2010, the same year he issued new rules aimed at stopping abuse.
The rules included allowing church prosecution of suspected molesters for 20 years after the incidents occurred, up from 10 years previously. The rules also made it a church crime to download child pornography and allowed the pope to remove a priest without a formal Vatican trial.
"No one did more to successfully address the problem of priestly sexual abuse than Joseph Ratzinger," Donohue said.
While he received praise for the changes, some also accused him of doing too little to stem the abuse, both while pope and before he took office.
In 2010, The New York Times reported that church officials, including Ratzinger, had failed to act in the case of a Wisconsin priest accused of molesting up to 200 boys. The Times reported that church officials stopped proceedings against the priest after he wrote Ratzinger, who was at the time the cardinal in charge of the group that oversees Catholic Church doctrine.
Ratzinger never answered the letter, according to the Times, and church officials have said he had no knowledge of the situation. But a lawyer who obtained internal church paperwork said at the time that it "shows a direct line from the victims through the bishops and directly to the man who is now pope."
Also in 2010, the Times reported that the future pope -- while serving as the archbishop in Munich -- had been copied on a memo informing him that a priest accused of molesting children was being returned to pastoral work. At the time, a spokesman for the archdiocese said Ratzinger received hundreds of memos a year and it was highly unlikely that he had read it.
Barbara Blaine, president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, issued a statement Monday saying the church should choose a new pope dedicated to preventing sexual abuse by priests.
"For the Church to truly embody the spiritual teachings of Jesus Christ, it must be led by a pontiff who demands transparency, exposes child-molesting clerics, punishes wrongdoers and enablers, cooperates with law enforcement, and makes true amends to those who were hurt so greatly by Catholic priests, employees and volunteers," Blaine wrote.
Victims' groups are pressing the International Criminal Court to prosecute Benedict in the sex abuse scandal, and say the resignation won't change that, according to Pam Spees, of the public policy law firm Center for Constitutional Rights, which is helping SNAP pursue the case.
World reaction
Benedict's decision was not expected by leaders and everyday Catholics around the world.
Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, said the decision "shocked and surprised everyone."
"Yet, on reflection, I am sure that many will recognise it to be a decision of great courage and characteristic clarity of mind and action," he said in a written statement.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Bishops, said he was startled, and sad, to see Benedict resign.
"The Holy Father brought the tender heart of a pastor, the incisive mind of a scholar and the confidence of a soul united with His God in all he did," he said in a written statement. "His resignation is but another sign of his great care for the Church."
British Prime Minister David Cameron said Benedict "will be missed as a spiritual leader to millions." Cameron's Irish counterpart, Enda Kenny, praised Benedict for decades of leadership and service, as well as his decision to resign.
"It reflects his profound sense of duty to the Church, and also his deep appreciation of the unique pressures of spiritual leadership in the modern world," Kenny said in a prepared statement.
Life before the papacy
Benedict was born Joseph Ratzinger on April 16, 1927, in Marktl Am Inn, Bavaria, a heavily Catholic region of Germany.
He spent his adolescent years in Traunstein, near the Austrian border, during the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.
Ratzinger wrote in his memoirs that school officials enrolled him in the Hitler Youth movement against his will in 1941, when he was 14.
He said he was allowed to leave the organization because he was studying for the priesthood, but was drafted into the army in 1943. He served with an anti-aircraft unit until he deserted in the waning days of WW II.
After the war, he resumed his theological studies and was ordained in 1951. He received his doctorate in theology two years later and taught dogma and theology at German universities for several years.
In 1962, he served as a consultant during the pivotal Vatican II council to Cardinal Frings, a reformer who was the archbishop of Cologne, Germany.
As a young priest, Ratzinger was on the progressive side of theological debates, but began to shift right after the student revolutions of 1968, CNN Vatican analyst Allen said.
In his book "Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vatican's Enforcer of the Faith," Allen says Ratzinger is a shy and gentle person whose former students spoke of him as a well-prepared and caring professor.
Pope Paul VI named him archbishop of Munich in 1977 and promoted him to cardinal the next month. Ratzinger served as archbishop of Munich until 1981, when he was nominated by John Paul II to be the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a position he held until his election as pope.
He became dean of the College of Cardinals in November 2002 and in that role called the cardinals to Rome for the conclave that elected him the 265th pope.
In his initial appearance as pope, he told the crowd in St. Peter's Square that he would serve as "a simple and humble worker in the vineyards of the Lord."
He was the sixth German to serve as pope, but the first since the 11th century.
Hada Messia reported from Rome; Michael Pearson reported and wrote from Atlanta. CNN's Stephanie Halasz, Deborah Feyerick, Chelsea J. Carter, Richard Allen Greene and Holly Yan also contributed to this report.
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Welcome to the Junior School!
You are warmly welcome to the Junior School.
The Junior School is an ever-evolving and improving force at G. I. S. The quality of teaching and learning that takes place is designed to position our students competently and confidently for the 21st century. Technology permeates many aspects of our work with interactive whiteboards in all teaching areas and IT as an integral part of subject teaching. Our mandate of excellence in all areas compels us to continue to seek ways to improve our existing practices.
The Junior School prides itself in the diversity of its students as well as its teaching body. Under the umbrella of our School motto ‘Understanding of Each other’ students are taught to respect and take pride in diversity.
Our caring and nurturing environment ensure that all our junior school students have the best possible opportunities to develop not only academically but socially and emotionally.
Our Special Needs Department headed by a Special Needs Coordinator (SENCo) is also an integral part of the Junior School. Aimed at identifying and supporting students both in- class and in one-to-one teaching spaces in order to access the curriculum. Our Co-curricular programme is booming with a range of meaningful activities to choose from. Our students are engaged and exposed to a variety of skills that many continue to develop beyond their time in the Junior School.
The Junior School is a place of wonder, caring and learning. Come and partner with us. You are welcome.
Ms. Nadia Bruce-Muller,
Vice-Principal
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The Junior School caters to students from year 3 to year 6 (7 to 11 year olds). While the core subjects of English, Mathematics and Science follow the UK Cambridge curriculum; other subjects such as History and Geography follow the English National Curriculum with complimentary infusions and components from Ghana , our host nation.
Our Year 6 students write the Cambridge Primary Checkpoint Examinations in English, Mathematics and Science in the month of April. The papers are marked externally in the UK and allow the School to benchmark its achievements against other Cambridge Schools around the world. All students receive diagnostic feedback on their individual performance.
Students are taught Mathematics, English, History, Geography and Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) by their class teachers. Subject specialists teach Science, French, Music, Art, Physical Education and Information Technology.
The Online Scholastic Reading Scheme has started and encompasses all students who are able to read at their own pace progressing through a variety of diverse texts. The scheme also levels the students and set targets for progression.
The Junior School aims to expose our students to the ‘reality outside the classroom’ . We do this by incorporating field trips and visiting speakers who are experts in their field into the curricular plans.
Last Day of Term 3 Wednesday, 26th June 2019
Cambridge Primary Checkpoint Exams
Coffee/Tea Rendez-vous
Informal meeting with Vice Principal and Assistant Vice Principal Venue: Library Time: 7:30 - 8:30 am
SRC Plain Clothes Day
Kumasi Trip Meeting with Class 6 Parents
Venue: Library Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Transition Meeting for Class 2 Parents
Venue: Junior School Library Time: 2:30 pm
Year 6 Residential Trip to Kumasi
Year 4 Trip to Meteorological Agency
Achievement Awards Assembly
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GM's Activities
Old GM Journals
China Labour Net
Chinese, Traditional
An unhappy affair: The changing fortunes of a China and Hong Kong funded Bahamian mega-resort project.
In April 2017, the first part of the Baha Mar, a 1,000 acre luxury mega-resort in the Bahamas that will eventually consist of several hotels, a 100,000 square foot casino, a golf course, spas, shops and restaurants, constructed by China Construction America, finally opened. The event was marked by a ribbon cutting ceremony attended by then Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Perry Christie, who labelled the opening, “the most significant economic development event ever to occur in a single phase within the Bahamas and the Caribbean”[1].
Plans for this $3.5 billion project had first been initiated after Christie had approached Sarkis Izmirlian, a Swiss-born businessman and billionaire heir to a peanut empire. In the mid-2000s, Izmirlian then bought land that Christie had persuaded the previous owner to sell, secured financing and contracted a construction company to work on the resort’s construction. After US company, Harrah’s Entertainment Inc., pulled out of the project in 2008 during the economic crisis, however, a search for new investment and financing had to commence. The search resulted in significant Chinese investment being made in the project that came with conditions that were to have important implications for its future direction.
A contract for the resort’s construction was subsequently awarded to China Construction America (CCA), a subsidiary of China State Construction Engineering Corp. Ltd. (CSCEC), a major Chinese state-owned company and the third largest construction company in the world. CSCEC invested $150 million and reportedly directed Izmirlian (who was providing $850 million) to the Export-Import Bank of China (Exim), which provided $2.45 billion in construction loans[2]. Exim is a Chinese state-owned bank subordinate to China’s State Council and aims to implement state policy in promotion of foreign trade and investment as well as development assistance. The loans by Exim were reportedly made under the provision that Izmirlian could not fire the construction company and that work would be carried out by Chinese labour.[3] Work on the project has since then involved more than 4,000 Chinese construction workers.
Under the new agreement, the resort was originally intended to open in December 2014. But complications soon arose and significant delays, which in turn led to legal disputes, kept on stalling the project. Soon this major investment project was being described by the media as having turned into “the world’s biggest white elephant”.[4] In June 2015, blaming CCA for the delays that were costing Baha Mar, which had already hired staff to work at the resort, around $4 million per month, Baha Mar Ltd. filed for bankruptcy protection in Delaware in the United States. CCA claimed that the delays were the fault of the developer and its mismanagement. After the bankruptcy filing was largely dismissed by the US court on the grounds that Baha Mar’s future should be decided in the Supreme Court in the Bahamas, the Bahamian court put liquidators in charge of the resort, and the China Export-Import Bank appointed Deloitte & Touche as a receiver. In a letter to the bank, Izmirlian is reported to have complained about the process, stating that, “Many have already commented that the sale process for Baha Mar launched by the receivers is opaque, fraught with obstacles and irregularities and is not designed to maximize value for all.”[5] As the contract between Baha Mar and CSCEC had been signed under English Law, Baha Mar also filed a $192 million claim for damages due to breach of contract against CSCEC at the UK High Court, however this was stalled when the liquidators were brought in[6].
Following the legal battle over its delay, Baha Mar Ltd. and Izmirlian lost control of the project, with the Bahamian government dependent on Chinese investment favouring the Chinese creditors and at one point reportedly threatening to revoke Izmirlian’s residency permit[7]. New investors were then sought. Eventually, after many negotiations between the Bahamian government and Exim and prospective buyers a deal was agreed, brokered by the Bahamian government, for Hong Kong conglomerate, Chow Tai Fook Enterprises (CTFE), to own and operate the resort. CTFE planned to invest an additional US$200 million in the project. Owned by the family of Cheng Yu-teng, who made his fortune through jewellery and property including through significant investment in mainland Chinese property shortly after the 1989 crackdown, CTFE has been described as being long-time friends of mainland authorities and also has investment in Macau’s gaming industry. The agreement that was signed by CTFE and the Bahamian government, and which was initially not disclosed to the public, was later revealed to have awarded highly favourable terms to CTFE, including exemptions from value-added tax and property taxes for designated time periods as well as an agreement that the government would spend $4 million per year on marketing the resort to international tourists for the next eight years.[8]
This deal with CTFE has subsequently led to some degree of criticism and controversy. On the one hand, Izmirlian has continued to criticise the deal, not only claiming that his company made a superior offer but also for its continued delays, staggered opening, and lack of use of Bahamian workers.[9] Moreover, prior to election as the governing party in May, CTFE’s ownership of the resort was also criticized by then opposition party the Free National Movement. In March 2017, Hubert Minnis, who following the elections replaced Christie as Prime Minister, pledged that if his party was elected it would find a, “a qualified and respectable purchaser who believes in Bahamians”, only engage Bahamian labour, and disclose details of Baha Mar deal (which at the time had not yet been disclosed) as well as other Chinese investments[10].
In fact the project appears to have been very politically and economically important to both the Bahamas and Chinese governments from early on. Chinese investment in Baha Mar has been accompanied by high profile visits to the Bahamas by Chinese officials. In September 2009 agreements between Izmirlian and Exim and CSCEC were signed during a visit by Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, Wu Bangguo, to the Bahamas, who was at the time the highest ranking Chinese official to have visited the Bahamas. In response to this visit, a US embassy cable that was subsequently leaked by WikiLeaks made the following comment:
“The Chinese appear committed to establishing a firm financial hold on projects, such as the Baha Mar, that will have a major impact on the Bahamian economy and leave the GCOB [Government of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas] indebted to Chinese interests for years to come.”[11]
Indeed, the project represents a very significant investment project involving Chinese capital. In 2011 when involvement by China State Construction was agreed, it was reported that the resort would be the largest property to be built and partially owned by a Chinese company outside of China[12]. Chinese investment in Baha Mar also coincides with a trend towards increased importance being attached to investment by Chinese state-owned enterprises more generally in the Caribbean, and some Chinese officials have more recently linked the Caribbean to the Maritime Silk Road and claimed that funds for China’s Belt and Road Initiative will also include Caribbean countries.[13]The way that such investments have been made has raised concerns about contributing to the risk of making Caribbean economies dependent on China. As is commonly the case in such treaties, the 2010 Bilateral Investment Treaty that China signed with the Bahamas, for instance, includes Investor State Dispute Settlement provisions that will potentially allow Chinese investors to sue the country for changes to government policies that affect the interests of the investment[14].
Meanwhile, for the Bahamas government, the resort has been seen as highly important for its economic impact, increasing tourism to such an extent that it was expected to boost the island’s GDP by 12%[15]. Despite being 97% complete, the potential impact on the economy after the project’s delay was such that it led to the Standard & Poor’s credit rating for the Bahamas being downgraded to one step above junk. With the project initially aimed to have a single opening, and with the partial opening ceremony in April having occurred so close to the elections, some critics in the Bahamas labelled it a “sham opening”[16]and it been subsequently alleged that only unpaid guests of the Progressive Liberal Party attended[17]. It might be worth asking whether the election of a new government that had been highly critical of the former government’s approach to the Chinese investment in Baha Mar will concretely lead to any future changes regarding the government’s handling of Baha Mar matters in the future. In this regard, it is interesting to note, that the original developer, Izmirlian, attended the swearing in of new Prime Minister Minnis. Nevertheless, by late June of this year the new government was already stating its intention to push the project’s completion ahead due to its economic impact on the Bahamas.
While the Baha Mar case is notable due to the way it highlights some of the potential high level stakes and political interests and conflicts involved with Chinese overseas investment, additional concerns also relate to the impacts that mismanagement and conflict between the different investors has on those involved in working on the project. According to reports, the management of the construction and delays of the project also negatively impacted on 2,000 workers who had been employed to work at the resort in advance of its original expected opening date were dismissed in October 2015. It was reported that while local workers from the Bahamas eventually received compensation for wages and severance, around 200 foreign employees (mostly in management and specialist skills positions) reportedly had not received anything as of April 2017 and the Supreme Court later ruled that sums owed to these foreign employees, which reportedly included wages, gratuities, benefits and living expenses, did not rank ahead of Exim in the creditors’ queue[18]
On a side additional note, recently in September 2017 the resort came under further criticism when it was forced to evacuate guests and told them they had to seek shelter elsewhere ahead of Hurricane Irma. Despite the resort’s location in a hurricane belt, it has been suggested that poor planning when the resort was being constructed meant that the resort was unable to deal with guest safety there
With the resort still incomplete (there are plans for additional hotels to open in stages later in 2017 and 2018), a change in government in the Bahamas to one which might be more critical of the Chinese investment, and a change in attitude by the Chinese government towards certain types of overseas investment, including a ban on investments in the gambling industry and restrictions on investments in the hotel industry, the future of this resort and other similar projects[19], the workers they employ and the impact of Chinese investment on the Bahamian economy are perhaps still uncertain.
[1]Mimi Whitefield. Long-delayed Bahamas resort Baha Mar will begin receiving paying guests soon. 28th April 2017. Miami Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/international-business/article…
[2]John Lippert and Dawn McCarty. The Ghosts of Baha Mar : How a $3.5 Billion Paradise Went Bust. 4th January 2016. Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-04/the-ghosts-of-baha-m…
[3] Ibid
[4]Michael Bow. Baha Mar: The hotel that threatens to bankrupt the Bahamas. 9th January 2016. Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/baha-m…
[5]Mimi Whitefield. When will stalled Bahamian mega-resort project Baha Mar be completed? 11th April 2016. Miami Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/international-business/article…
[6]Bow. Baha Mar: The hotel that threatens to bankrupt the Bahamas.
[7]The Economist. No dice: The bankruptcy of a big resort buffets the Bahamas 23rd January 2016. https://www.economist.com/news/americas/21688935-bankruptcy-big-resort-…
[8]Steven Stradbrooke. Baha Mar sale includes tax holiday, gov’t marketing spending. 1st May 2017. CalvinAyre.com https://calvinayre.com/2017/05/01/casino/bahamas-govt-baha-mar-sale-agr…
[9] BMD Holdings Ltd. Is Baha Mar a ‘Potemkin Hotel’? 5th March 2017. From: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/is-baha-mar-a-potemkin-hotel-3…
[10] Taneka Thompson. Fnm Pledge on Baha Mar Sale. 13th March 2017. http://www.tribune242.com/news/2017/mar/13/fnm-pledge-baha-mar-sale/
[11] US embassy cables: US fears Chinese investment in Bahamas: https://www.theguardian.com/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/225201
[12]Lingling Wei and Alexandra Berzon. Chinese Firms Get Their Day in the Sun. 16th February 2011. The Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703312904576146520512195278
[13] Jared Ward. Making sense of China’s Caribbean Policy. 21st July 2017. China Brief Volume 17: Issue 10. https://jamestown.org/program/making-sense-of-chinas-caribbean-policy/
[14] Marvin Coleby. Challenge or Opportunity? State-owned Chinese Investment in the Caribbean. 23rd September 2016. Curacao Chronicle. http://curacaochronicle.com/columns/challenge-or-opportunity-state-owne…
[15]Bow. Baha Mar: The hotel that threatens to bankrupt the Bahamas.
[16]Whitefield. Long-delayed Bahamas resort Baha Mar will begin receiving paying guests soon.
[17] The Free National Movement. Dr. Hubert Minnis on Disclosed Baha Mar Documents. 1st May 2017. From: http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish/bahamian-politics/Dr_Hubert_Min…
[18]Whitefield. Long-delayed Bahamas resort Baha Mar will begin receiving paying guests soon. Neil Hartnell. Baha Mar Expats Make ‘PR’ Warning. 14th June 2017. Tribune242. http://www.tribune242.com/news/2017/jun/14/baha-mar-expats-make-pr-nigh…
[19]CCA is currently constructing and is owner of THE POINTE, another major recreation and entertainment complex in the Bahamas.
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Doug Grossman
Living in Utah
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Cell Response and Regulation Cancer Center Program (Co-Leader)
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Doug was born in Dallas, Texas, and headed east to Duke University in Durham, North Carolina where he majored in chemistry. After college, feeling his roots, he returned to Texas. Interested in a career as a physician scientist, he enrolled in the NIH Medical Scientist Training Program at the Baylor College of Medicine. For his scientific training, he completed his PhD in 1992 in Immunology in the laboratory of Robert Rich, and then he completed his medical training and received his MD in 1994. For his specialty training in dermatology, Doug went to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut where he completed his internship and then a dermatology residency in 1998. He remained at Yale for a research fellowship in cancer biology, where he worked with Dario Altieri, a luminary in the field of apoptosis research. Following his work at Yale, he was recruited to the Huntsman Cancer Institute 2001, where he joined the University of Utah School of Medicine faculty in the Department of Dermatology.
Grossman's lab now studies the regulatory mechanisms of apoptosis, or programmed cell death, in melanocytes and keratinocytes, and dysregulation of apoptosis in both melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer. In addition, they study nevus (atypical mole) senescence and the role of ultra-violet (UV) light-induced oxidative stress/damage in the development of melanoma. In collaborative studies with other investigators at Huntsman Cancer Institute, they are developing novel antioxidants to be used as chemopreventive agents in patients at risk for melanoma. Doug is the principal investigator of a Phase II clinical trial that is currently running to test the protection afforded by the drug N-acetylcysteine against the harmful effects of UV skin exposure.
As a physician, Doug is now an expert in the early diagnosis and treatment of skin cancers. He sees patients at risk for melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer, with a special interest in patients who have a personal or family history of skin cancer or excessive sun exposure, and those at increased risk for melanoma who may have numerous or atypical moles or family members with melanoma. To provide continuous care to his patients, he directs the Mole Mapping Project at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. This involves total-body photography to allow monitoring of existing moles, and to enable detection of new moles over time, which is how melanomas usually develop.
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Hristos Thivaios (Χρήστος Θηβαίος) is one of the prominent artists of his generation, the ones that are now in their 50s. As our blog deals a lot with beginnings, we dedicate this post to his first years as a singer and songwriter, to 2002.
Hristos Thivaios was born in 1963 in Athens, in the neighborhood of Keramikos, to a family of actors and musicians; his mother, his grandparents, aunt and his uncle were actors. His father, who was born in 1905, was a tenor singer in the opera; he gave up this job as he had fallen in love with Hristos’ mother, married her and joined her in a travelling theatre.
On April 21, 1967, as Hristos was only 4 years old, he heard the sound of the Hunta’s tanks taking over the city. “My father pulled me to the balcony and told me: ‘My child, what you see happening, you cannot understand, but remember throughout your life that this is a very bad thing!”
As a teenager he asked his father for a guitar. “I was begging persistently for a guitar, stubbornly, and one day my father said: “You really want it?” I said, “Yes.” “Well, you go to work to get it.”
So he worked in various jobs to get the money, including in a bakery. “I remember that we drove a stroller carrying loaves of bread in the streets all along to the brothels…” He got the money and a guitar. “And this was the greatest gift that my father gave me!”
As his family was in a group of travelling actors, he became exposed to various places and people. “The most important thing was to be able to live together with many people of different choices…whatever it was that everyone had inside: people with different sexual preferences, with different thoughts and ideas … We lived together, 50 people in a commune and we had to respect communal laws. We spent our summers in Voula at the home of one actor. Nobody cooked a pasta pie for himself; they were always making it for everyone. And if we had no money for food? We took a yogurt and all shared it with one spoon and knew exactly how much to eat so that everyone gets their part”. “I was raised up there by a gay couple,” he confessed. “I realized only as a grown up that it is socially reprehensible to have a homosexual preference. To me it seemed very natural.”
In the 1980s he made his army duty and then joined the University of Bologna to study philosophy; one of his teachers was the famous Umberto Eco. During his studies he was making music, mostly traditional Italian and traditional Jewish. He studied Hebrew and, reading the Bible in its original language, “I found it to have a surprising wealth that is not reflected in the translation.”
Thivaios was writing his PhD thesis and had a guaranteed academic career in Bologna when he became fascinated by songwriting and singing. He decided to abandon the secure path and go into the unknown, following the Serbian Pavic’s words that “every man has in front of him thousands of roads, but the road that he really belongs to would be the one that as long as he decides to follow it, fear will grow.” And “so I would like that my children do what I did; to leave their security and continue to where they will be invulnerable… So I closed everything and returned to Athens.”
His parents, who had been happy with their son following the academic path and not the artistic one, were now upset because of this change, “but it was something very strong inside me now, I could not do otherwise!”
He was living in the neighborhood of Exarcheia, a place of students, bohemians and anarchists; a place of political tension and raucous demonstrations, a multicolored way of life, with passion to alcohol and free love. He was trying his luck in writing songs which was not an easy task. While singing in cellars of the quarter one of the first to hear him was the singer Arleta who defined his passion accurately by saying that one should take this path of music only if one can’t do something else.
In 1994 Thivaios formed with two other old friends (Alekos Vasilatos and Tasos Loli) a group which was called “The Usual Suspects” (Συνήθεις Ύποπτοι). Hristos Thivaios is the songwriter and the singer of the group. In 1996 they released their first album, “Stray days” (Μέρες αδέσποτες) .
The first song of the album is “Dairy”(Ημερολόγιο) which was written a few years before when he was around 28 years old.
“I wrote this song in a kitchen in Bologna with a huge window, which looked at a tree. And I liked to build from that tree a boat to travel with. That was my inspiration… I wanted to experience so many things … things I haven’t lived, but the biggest inspiration was to see sometime a better Hristos from the one I felt myself to be”… As if the imaginary boat that he builds will lead him to that place. The first version of the song had accordingly different opening lines. (He totally denies the rumor that this song is about a girl who died in a car crash while he was waiting for her).
Thivaios sings in a TV show “Stin ugeia mas” of the last month. Press on the YouTube logo for English caps in all videos.
Our second song of this album “My rain” (Βροχή μου), also written by Thivaios.
How much I loved you (Αγάπη, Πόσο πολύ σ’ αγάπησα -1998)
This is a poem by a somewhat forgotten poetess, Katina Paizi (1911-1996). She was born in Crete and served as a teacher in Heraklion. Her poems, which were mostly written between the Wars, have “innocence and authenticity” (N.Troullinou).
Her son said: “some day in the 1920’s in Alexandria, the little Katina had gone to a friend’s house with her family, as was customary, to hear chamber music. There she fell in love at first sight with the cellist of the group, as she confided that evening to her sister Aleka. This event inspired her to write this beautiful poem. The important certainty for her was that after a few years she would marry the man who was her inspiration.”
Music by Vasilis Dimitriou
“Hamlet of the moon” (Ο Άμλετ της Σελήνης-2002)
This is the title of Thivaios first personal album. The music is by Thanos Mikroutsikos.
We’ll have two songs from the album. The first, “I am no different” (Δεν Είμαι Άλλος) , Lyrics by Manos Elefteriou.
“On the day you leave I want” (Θέλω τη μέρα που θα φύγεις); the lyrics are by Odisseas Iwannou.
Some quotes from interviews
On Society and politics:
“I have said many times that the existing planetary capitalist system is none other than that capital privatizes profits and socializes losses.”
“Yes. I believe in utopia, inner utopia of heart and human dreams. I believe in ‘Dream Street’ people!”
On his popularity:
“I may not be part of the star system; so to speak…I’m in a smaller corner. I have got the publicity more from the acceptance and love of the people and by getting love and cooperation of people who have made history in Greek song; I was so close to them and became somewhat known…”
On writing songs and singing:
“(Q): You have been described as the greatest storyteller of the Greek music scene, because your songs recount true and imaginary events? Have you now accepted that title?
(Thivaios): I have always accepted it and I consider it an honor! The combination of truth and imagination in a song or a poem, is stronger, more powerful than the performing ability of the singer.”
“Sometime in making your chorale – your universe – after you paint it you see that was wrong. That was not really so. But you described it. The mistake of the poet is the poetic permission of his imagination.”
On family:
“I am not bohemian any more…I have been married three times and have three children… Thanoulis is small yet, but Nikos and Ariadni attend school here, in Exarcheia, and their best friends are friends of another culture, another religion and another color. They make a great company…”
We finish our post with two songs that Thivaios was not the first interpreter of. “The old soldier” (Ο παλιός στρατιώτης) or “Veteran at combat”, as Katerina prefers, was performed firstly by Giorgos Dalaras. The lyrics writer is Isaak Sousis, and the composer is Lavrentis Mahairitsas who is singing here with Thivaios.
“Little Homeland” (Μικρή πατρίδα – 1996), is a beautiful song that was performed first by Pandelis Theoharidis. The lyrics writer Paraskevas Karasoulis considers it as one of his most autobiographical songs, a song that defines his decision to live within the close, intimate things which have been creating his life, not the “big” homeland from which you travel far away. “The only mythology still having sovereignty and power in my life is my friends, my people with whom I shared values and visions, therefore, my inner homeland.” Hristos Thivaios mentioned that in contrast to the song, he did travel a lot! (Music by Giorgos Andreou).In this version Hristos Thivaios sings with Marios Frangoulis.
http://lefteria.blogspot.co.il/2014/04/blog-post_4146.html
http://www.musicpaper.gr/editorial/item/8111-synentefksi-xristos-thivaios-oi-iroes-einai-panta-omorfoi-kai-neoi
http://www.musiccorner.gr/synetneyxeis/thibaios.html
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http://www.patrasevents.gr/article/73597-xristos-thivaios
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http://www.tralala.gr/xrhstos-thhbaios-gennhthhke-san-shmera-to-1963/
http://www.mousikesebeeries.gr/?p=2393
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http://www.protothema.gr/life-style/Gossip/article/455248/hristos-thivaios-me-megalose-ena-gay-zeugari/
Many thanks to my friend Katerina Siapanda for your valuable help!
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Speed of a Whale
Bohr, Johnston, & Louise A. Bloomfield. Collier's Encyclopedia. New York: Newfileld, 1997. "It cruises at about 12 knots (14 mph; 22 km/h), but can double this speed if necessary." 6.2 m/s
(cruising)
(sprinting)
Blue Whale ACS Cetacean Fact Sheet. August 1996. "They are fast, strong swimmers, capable of reaching 30 mph (48.3 km/hr) when alarmed, but they usually cruise along at about 12 mph (19.3 km/hr)." 5.4 m/s
Gross, Grant. Oceanography, sixth edition. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill, 1980. "Baleen (whalebone) whales are filter feeders, have no teeth, and swim slowly, normally at 3.5 km/h (2-3 mph)." ~1 m/s
(feeding)
Conover, Adele. "The Object at Hand". Smithsonian. (October 1996): 28. "Even so, the great size and speed of blues (at up to 25 knots -- or 29 miles per hour -- they went faster than whaling ships follow." 13 m/s
Whales are aquatic mammals. Though the live in the water these animals come up every so often for air. The whale that I chose to research is the Blue Whale. The blue whale is the largest animal to ever live. The females are generally larger than the males and can grow to about thirty meters and weigh more than one hundred tons.
It has no teeth but instead feeds by filtering krill or small fish from the water through hundreds of baleen (these are made of material that is similar to the material in human finger nails) that hang from their upper jaw. The baleen may grow to about one meter in length. These huge animals may consume up to three tons of krill per day.
Though called blue, the animal is a blue gray color, with spots of silver. The whales under parts may be a yellowish color because of microscopic algae.
Before the invention of the exploding harpoon by Sven Foyn, when whalers harpooned a whale it would sink to the bottom of the ocean. For this reason and also because of the great speed of the blue whale, which could be anywhere from 1 to 13 m/s, whales were safe. Around the beginning of the Nineteenth Century hundreds in the whaling industry began to focus their attention on the blue whale. One whale that measured about ninety feet could provide for 120 barrels of oil. This led to the killing of thousands of blue whales. In 1931 more than twenty nine thousand blue whales were killed. Blue whales became very scarce, in 1966 the International Whaling Commission banned all hunting of Blue Whales.
Anansa Latiff -- 2001
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Trademark registration in Macedonia
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Federal Aviation Agency
Topic: Federal Aviation Agency
Scope: Safety
In deciding which regulated industry to research, we wanted to pick one with plenty of information and one that was reasonably interesting to us. So, we have chosen to research the air transportation industry and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). We will be reporting on the types of FAA regulations the air transportation industry must adhere to. In addition to this, we will be explaining how compliance with these regulations is measured. Along the way, we will discuss legal controversies the aviation industry has encountered in meeting, or failing to meet, FAA regulations and standards. Finally, from the perspective of both the agency and the industry, we will look at the purpose and success of the regulations put forth by the FAA on the airline industry.
Let us start with some background information about the Federal Aviation Administration.The FAA is part of an even bigger government agency called the Department of Transportation. The FAA can be found under the DOT, along with many other agencies such as The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), to name a few. The FAA was created in 1958 and was born out of the Civil Aeronautics Administration. Since then, the FAA has been responsible for regulating all types of air travel in the United States. From small, one-engine planes, to large passenger planes and everything in between, any type of air travel is under the jurisdiction of the FAA.
The duties of the FAA will be further discussed in section one. Section two deals with hijacking. Section three deals with pilot licensure. The fourth and final section deals with airport noise and noise abatement.
FAA Basic Outline
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which was formally known as the Federal Aviation Agency, was created in 1958 under the Federal Aviation Act. In 1967, the Department of Transportation Act was passed joining the aviation agency into the Department of Transportation.
The Federal Aviation Administration has many duties and responsibilities. Under the Federal Aviation Act, they are responsible for the following:
1.Regulate and promote air commerce and safety, as well protect the national defense;
2.Create and regulate air space safely and efficiently, for both civilian and military purposes;
3.Developing Aircrafts in the interest of science, to further innovation and safety;
4.Collect Research and development in regards to air navigation facilities and safety;
5.Installing and operating air navigation facilities;
6.Developing a common standard for air traffic control and navigation for civil and military purposes;
7.Developing and implementing programs to control aircraft noise, and other environment causes;
Safety regulation is one of the most important and primary jobs of the FAA. The FAA is responsible for suing, enforcing, and regulating safety standards. They are also responsible for setting minimum standards for aircraft operation and maintenance. All the minimum standards for flight operation, and maintenance are located in the Airworthiness Inspector’s Handbook. The FAA also creates rates and certifications for people that work, and use aircrafts.
Another job of the Federal Aviation Administration is to manage air traffic safety. This task is done by creating and operating a large network of traffic control towers, air route traffic control centers and flight service stations facilities. In order to create such a large network, the agency maintains voice and data communication equipment, radar facilities, computer systems and visual display equipment with all the towers, stations and control centers.
Research, Development and Engineering activities of the FAA provide for systems, procedures, facilities, that help for safe and efficient systems of air navigation and air traffic control for civilian and military aircrafts. The research provides for support and development for improved aircraft engines, propellers, and appliances. The research done however is not just limited to the aircraft, they also use help in aeromedical research. Aeromedical research provides knowledge for health and safety of agency employees and civilians.
The FAA’s major job is the development and incorporation of air traffic controls. Under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 the agency was required to promote “aviation safety and civil aviation” by exchanging aeronautical information with foreign authorities. The information exchanged varies from certifying foreign repair stations, aviators, and mechanics to FAA standards. They also negotiate bilateral agreements for airworthy aircraft and components.
The last activity that the FAA is responsible for is based on miscellaneous activities. Some of the most common miscellaneous activities deal primary with administering aviation insurance, and maintain aircraft loan programs. They also develop specific aeronautical charts, publish information dealing with airports and planes, and provide as the executive administration for the operation and maintenance of the Department of Transportation.
Growth of the FSIA ands its Incorporation into Hijacking Torts
Airline hijacking, also known as skyjacking, first occurred in the United States on May 1, 1961. This first episode dealt with a man who forced a commercial airliner in route to Miami to detour to Cuba. By the end of the year, four more planes had succumbed to this devastating new plague. While most of the earlier hijackings were non-violent and more profit driven, as the times changed, both economically and politically, so did the hijackers values for a more violent approach.
A more destructive and dangerous wave of hijackings started appearing in Europe and the Middle East from 1968 onward. The newer breed of hijackers were more politically motivated and wanted more the destruction of the plane rather than any sort of ransom claim. Approximately $50 million dollars in damages and destruction was caused just within a 2-year span. This breed of hijackers created a global scare, and led to the creation of the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States.
The FAA created mandatory safety requirements and procedures for airlines, airports, and employees. The FAA rules and procedures that deal directly with Hijacking are located in Chapter 7 section 1-5. These rules greatly helped decrease the amount of air traffic accidents and made airline transportation safer. The problem however was the inevitable fact that no matter how secure, or how many polices that were posted by the FAA, there was always to be a few cases of hijackers who manage to slip by the system. In order to fix this problem, or at least provide further remedy, the FAA helped amend new legislation making it possible for an individual to bring suit for money damages against a foreign state for personal injury or death caused by a state-sponsored terrorist act. This new amended legislation, Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), created a block against terrorists interested in purely economic and political gains through the seizing and re-distribution of international government land to the victims of the crime. This amended act, according to many experts, was one of the most controversial and most important laws created in the efforts to curb hijacking.
The Foreign Immunities Act, however, went through a radical change to finally accept the new amended rules. Primarily, the act was based upon the notion of par non habet in parem imperium, which means an equal has no authority over an equal. This doctrine forbid any sovereign country from exercising jurisdiction over another state. This approach was first created in 1812 with the Schooner Exchange v McFaddon case. In this case, Justice Marshall stated that absolute sovereignty would require there to be no “limitations imposed by the outside” with free quality and absolute independence. This view of total independence was shortly outlived with the United States markets opening to more international markets.
As the market started to become more global, the courts started moving away from totally sovereignty to more of an interpretive approach. In the cases of Ex parte Repulic of Peru and Republic of Mexico v Hoffman the Court created precedent to use a “deference policy.” This policy gave the State Department the ability to determine whether a foreign sovereign state was amendable to suit.However, this precedent created only more confusion as to when a state would receive immunity and when it would be denied. The confusion and inconsistency of the State Department’s decisions in the sovereign immunity matter led to the Tate Letter. Part of the reason why the State Department was so inconsistent was because of all the diplomatic influences given. One of the most influential cases used to show the unfair power of diplomatic pressure was Isbrandsten Tankers, Inc v President of India.
In this case, the government of India owned a large group of shipping vessels carrying grains to India as part of a massive food-shortage campaign. Through some misunderstanding or wrong doing, Isbrandsten Tankers filed suit against the Indian government in the United States District Court in New York.The Indian government claimed sovereignty and the District Court of appeals ended the case. The Isbrandsten Tanker did not have any possible financial way out. There was an outcry from the general public to create a fair standard to protect the people.
In 1971 Jack Tate, the legal advisor to the State Department, wrote the Tate letter to further clarifying the requirements by implementing a “restrictive theory” of sovereign immunity. The restrictive theory stated that even though foreign states are immune to United States jurisdiction, there are exemptions that allow legal action to take place. The initial restrictive theory created the following exemptions: 1) Commercial Activity; 2) waiver of immunity; 3) property claims; 4) noncommercial torts occurring in the United States; and 5) International agreements. The Tate Letter also believed that the executive branch was not qualified to make legal decisions regarding immunity, and therefore believed the courts should be responsible for this task. The ability to sue for torts created by public non-commercial parties, however, was very debatable and was always in “judicial limbo”. However, the country was taking its first epic judicial step to destroying the immortal defense of sovereignty used by other countries.
For roughly around 20 years, the infamous Tate letter and the recommendations given by it were welcomed open-handedly. However during the 1990’s two important cases, Saudi Arabia v Nelson and Smith v Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamhiriya, along with the increase in terrorism made it clear that the FAA needs to change and modify the FSIA to make it more open to the victims rights.
In 1983, Scott Nelson, an American, was hired into the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. After approximately one year of work, Nelson discovered safety defects in the hospital’s oxygen lines that created a very serious fire hazard. After advising the Hospital officials, the Saudi government arrested him and transported him to a Saudi Jail, where he was beaten and tortured for 39 days. It wasn’t until Senator Edward Kennedy made a personal request did the Saudi government free him.
In 1989 Nelson filed suit against the Saudi Government for damages against the Saudi Government, the Hospital in Riyadh, and Royspec, the hiring company for the Hospital. Nelson however was forced to file the lawsuit under the commercial activity exception of the FSIA because of the FSIA had very narrow exceptions. This angle greatly weakened the case for Nelson, and the court ultimately found in favor of the Saudi Government. Justice Souter stated that the abuse was not “based upon a commercial activity” within the meaning of the Act. The court also found that the conduct “boiled down to the abuse of power of its police by the government” which was monstrous and abusive, but still sovereign in nature. This case showed the clear problem that legal recourse was needed against official security forces of a foreign state.
The case of Smith v Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya further demonstrated the need for a revision by the FAA. In 1988 a bomb exploded on Pan Am Flight 103 shortly after take-off. The plane was destroyed, and all 259 passengers, along with eleven people on the ground, were killed. The blame of the explosion was finally linked to high-ranking officials in the Libyan government. The motive behind the bombing was to seek redemption for the United States bombing of Tripoli, Libya. In this case, the families of the victims sued the state of Libya to recover civil damages. Again the families had a very difficult time attempting to bring suit against Libya because limited exemptions to the FSIA. The families ultimately had to accept the court’s decision that even though acts are “horrific” it can not be the “basis for giving unwarranted interpretations” simply to “benefit the victims of the bombings”.
These cases gave need for the last and final amendment to the FSIA. The general public was furious with the increase in terrorism and the government’s inability to allow for financial compensation from the sovereign states. Congress, with the aid of the FAA, finally amended to the FSIA to allow victims the ability to seek damages from foreign states for personal injury, death, torture, aircraft sabotage, hostage taking, and or any other terrorist activities. This final addition to the FSIA was a “significant tool in the fight against terrorism”. These new added provisions created the ability for multi-million dollar judgments in favor of the victims. The three most recent cases using this provision are Alejandre v. Republic of Cuba, Flatow v. Islmaic Republic of Iran and Cicippio v. Islamic Republic of Iran.
The FAA has played a very critical role in stopping hijackers. They have not only passed safety standards and policies but they also have amended many rules and regulations. One of the most influential acts the FAA helped amend was the FSIA, which, according to one expert, was one of the most “effective weapons” against terrorism. With the threat sanctions, loss of trade, and loss of foreign investments, the sponsors of terrorism are beginning to realize that the benefits are outweighed by the cost. This has been the main reason why terrorism is slowly dwindling downward.
Pilot Concerns & FAA Regulations
Arguably, the most important person on an airplane is the pilot. Without him/her, the passengers would be helpless. Knowing this, the FAA has set forth many guidelines, provisions and restrictions for pilots of all aviation categories. From single-engine planes, to huge passenger planes, the FAA has rules concerning them all. For purposes of conciseness and brevity, we will be focusing on commercial airline pilots and smaller-plane pilots. We will look at the types of restrictions and regulations they are subjected to under the FAA guidelines.
Let us begin with the qualifications. Commercial airline pilots are subject to rigorous physical and mental standards. For example, a person wishing to become a pilot for American Airlines must meet the following requirements: “at least 21 years of age, be of a height to reach all necessary controls and have corrected 20/20 vision. Finally, all applicants must be legal U.S. citizens who can fully understand the English language and who have a valid FAA commercial license with an instrument rating, and all pilots must retire by the time they are 60 years of age.” Now, if you are not too tall, have good eyesight, fall within the age range and are licensed by the FAA, you can be considered for a job at American Airlines. So you can see that becoming a commercial pilot is not an easy process.
Once a pilot is in control of a plane, they take on an extreme amount of responsibility. That responsibility, however, is often times through the form of “good judgments” and not through the consulting of a black and white textbook or manual. What is good judgment? It is the ability to make an “instant” decision, which assures the safest possible continuation of the flight. But judgment may often be a series of evaluations, made over a period of minutes, hours, or even longer, that keeps you out of danger. A safe pilot consistently makes good judgments. Through education and experience, pilots can learn good judgment just as thoroughly as they learn the mechanical concepts and basic skills of flying. In fact, learning judgment is just as much an important part of flying as learning to make good takeoffs and landings.
A pilot’s main concern is getting from point A to point B as safely and easily as possible. Sometimes, however, that task is much harder than it seems because pilots are faced with many types of adversarial situations. One major enemy of any pilot, be it civilian or military, is the weather. Foul weather can come in the form of heavy wind, rain, snow and icy conditions. Not only do pilots need to be concerned with the weather in the air, they must also be thinking about their impending landing maneuvers. Will the runway be iced over or covered with an inch of rainwater? All these factors must be taken into account when pilots factor in weather conditions.
Foul weather can account for many in-flight problems. Planes that are forced to fly through intense storms often encounter severe turbulence. This was the case with an American Airlines flight that originated in New York and was bound for Puerto Rico on August 28, 1991. While airborne, the “First Officer noticed a weather system forming in the flight path. Upon this observation, the flight crew illuminated the fasten seat belts’ sign. At this time, the First Officer also warned the flight attendants that the aircraft would encounter some turbulence in approximately ten minutes. At no time did the flight crew warn the passengers of the turbulence ahead, nor did the pilot change the flight course to avoid the oncoming weather system. Some passengers were injured when the plane encountered the severe weather and turbulence”.
Among those injured were Khaled Abdullah, Audrey James, Eardley James, and Velma George. The plaintiffs filed lawsuits alleging that the “pilot and flight crew negligently failed to take precautions to avoid the turbulence and negligently failed to warn the passengers of the turbulent conditions to enable the passengers to take the necessary precautions to protect themselves”. A jury trial began in August of 1995 in the District Court of the Virgin Islands, Division of Saint Croix, where the court consolidated the cases together into one. Upon conclusion of the trial, a jury found “American Airlines liable, with no contributory negligence by the plaintiffs, and awarded the plaintiffs more than two million dollars”.
This case showed that even though the pilots turned on the “fasten seatbelts” sign, the fact that no one directly warned the passengers to do so, entitled them to their respective settlements. American Airlines tried to appeal this case saying that FAA regulations (simply turning on the seatbelt sign) already outlined the minimum standards of air travel. Why, then should the plaintiff’s be allowed to bring a case against American Airlines saying the pilot showed aviation negligence? “The Court, however, held that Congress intended to preempt the entire field of air safety, but allowed plaintiffs to recover damages under state or territorial remedies”. Foul weather does not only happen when the aircraft is in flight. It can create havoc for pilots on runways and can cause several hours of delay at airports nationwide. All types of aircraft are subject to bad weather, not just large commercial airplanes. On February 13, 1980, a twin-engine airplane crashed near Hot Springs, South Dakota. The plane was carrying a pilot and three passengers. The pilot, Charles M. Largent, was also the plane’s owner. He, along with business associate Louis Altringer, were on their way to California for business. The estates of Largent and Altringer brought action against the United States, alleging that the government negligently failed to warn Largent of adverse weather conditions that led to structural icing causing the plane to crash.
The government, however, claimed that it was Largent, not the Flight Service Station specialist, (an FSS is a Federal Aviation Administration air traffic facility that provides services to airmen such as weather briefings, receiving and processing flight plans, and communicating with airborne aircraft) who was negligent and ultimately responsible for the crash. The problem lay in the fact that when Largent phoned to speak to the FSS at approximately 4:16 a.m., he was not told of icy conditions reported because that warning was set to expire at 6:00 a.m.That was the same time Largent had planned to take off for California and the FSS specialist felt the ice warning would be irrelevant by then. However, approximately two minutes before Largent again called the FSS, one specialist replaced another and he too failed to mention the now expired ice warning to Largent. So, Largent and his three passengers took off, supposedly thinking that moderately fair weather lay ahead of them. However, shortly after takeoff, the plane crashed and it was determined by investigators that the reason was an ice buildup on the plane, which was not fitted with de-icing equipment. “FAA regulations mandate that the pilot in command of an aircraft is directly responsible for, and is the final authority as to, the operation of that aircraft”. So, keeping this in mind, the court decided that even though both FSS specialists were negligent in not telling Largent of the reported icy conditions which led to the crash, the ultimate responsibility still fell on Largent. Also, the court found that Altringer was negligent because he too could have seen the poor weather of the morning in question and therefore should have used better judgment when deciding whether or not to fly.
As mentioned earlier, pilots have an enormous amount of responsibility on them when they take the controls of a plane. Under FAA regulations, they are responsible for themselves, as well as all passengers in the plane. For this reason, groups like the Air Line Pilot’s Association (ALPA), which represents over 59,000 pilots at 49 airlines in the U.S. and Canada, are pushing for more laws governing things such as flight time for fatigued pilots. On November 20, 2000, the FAA interpreted a rule clarifying that “16 hours is the maximum time a pilot can remain on duty, regardless of delays caused by weather, air traffic control, or maintenance”. The FAA, in concert with the ALPA, has worked together to gain strides like this one to keep airlines from forcing their pilots to fly without adequate time for rest and relaxation. FAA Deputy Chief Counsel James Whitlow wrote, “If, when using the actual expected flight time for a segment, the carrier cannot find at least eight hours of look-back rest upon arrival, then the flight may not depart on that segment”. This ruling helped to close a loophole that has long been used by airlines to keep pilots on duty indefinitely.
Pilots are beginning to see organizations like the ALPA becoming very necessary. Especially with air travel being rated as poorly as it has been recently, pilots need all the help they can get when it comes to the public holding them in poor regards. According to the ALPA newsletter, airline management tends to push negative aspects of the labor problems off onto the pilots. Recently, some airline managements have “waged a campaign with the public to blame flight delays on labor problems’ when, in fact, mismanagement, bad weather, and the need for ATC modernization are the real culprits”. Labor problems do exist. When management declares “open season” on employees, labor problems will arise. Some airline officials, however, are trying to work with their employees. They recognize the advantages of offering fair wages and working conditions. They are offering early bargaining dates to correct compensation, retirement, and work rule inadequacies that have arisen as other airline workers successfully conclude bargaining.
In conclusion, we have looked at a few of the regulations the FAA puts on pilots. We have seen that noncompliance with these regulations often results in court cases showing the pilot was either negligent or partially at fault for the mishaps in question. Overall, however, the FAA does a good job of keeping both pilots and their passengers’ safe when in the air. Through the strict guidelines and high standards to which pilots are held, the FAA has indeed done its job of promoting safety in air travel. When combining all of these factors together, it is no wonder that air travel is still considered to be the safest form of travel in the world, beating out popular options such as automobile and train travel!
There is no doubt that aircrafts and airports cause a lot of noise. This noise indisputably has a detrimental effect on the people who reside near airports. These citizens who live near airports are often at the center, and many times the cause, of controversies that seem to have no correct solution. The citizen groups generally seek to lessen the amount of noise they are subjected to, while airports and airlines tend to fight these measures in an effort to ensure the greatest profit.
Aircraft noise has been found to cause serious problems to health in both physical and psychological areas. This noise not only affects the people who reside near airports during the day, but often this noise affects sleep and communication and other processes necessary to daily life. Excessive noise has been linked to serious health problems such as high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal problems, and the obvious hearing loss. It is quite clear that noise has serious affects beyond just being annoying, and it is very understandable that people who reside near airports would make an attempt to thwart the damaging effects of airport and aircraft noise as much as possible. This desire to avert damaging noise invariably leads citizens to various governmental bodies to seek conciliation.
The road to conciliation has taken many paths over the past half-century, though. Historically, noise regulations have been put in place by local governments through ordinances. These ordinances have evolved to create actual maximum decibel level standards. Other measures taken by local governments include limiting the hours that aircrafts can take off and land at certain airports, and limitations on certain types of aircrafts, runways or flight patterns. More recently, however, noise regulation is generally achieved through the federal government, either through Congressional statute or administrative regulation, with the most dominant agency being the FAA. The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 was amended in 1968 to authorize the FAA to consider engine design in an effort to decrease noise levels in the Control and Abatement of Aircraft Noise and Sonic Boom Amendment. Here, allowing the FAA to regulate noise levels at the source enhanced the FAA’s regulatory power.
In 1972, the Office of Noise Abatement and Control (ONAC) was created under the EPA to determine the adequacy of FAA regulations on noise levels. Here the EPA was to make suggestions to the FAA for improvement of the regulation of noise levels, but the FAA did not implement many of the EPA’s proposals.
Congress has taken further steps to authorize federal governmental agencies to aid the FAA in regulating noise levels, and in 1990 Congress passed the Airport Noise and Capacity Act, which integrated the many local noise restrictions into one national noise policy. Here, citizen groups argued, the FAA was given unrestricted discretion in their ability to render local noise abatement measures useless. No longer were local governmental entities free to enact noise reduction measures. The FAA created national standards that the local governmental entities were to follow, thus limiting the discretion previously allowed to local governments in dealing with noise reduction.
For the most part, airports or their proprietors must adhere to noise levels set forth by the FAA. Generally, the level of noise is averaged over a period of time, usually an entire day. The level is usually set at an average of 65 decibels over the twenty-four hour period. This average does not take into account the fact that many times the average may be low, but at various times during the twenty-four hour period the decibel levels rise well above the 65 decibels that is restricted by law.
The FAA is to set the national standards for noise levels, which the local governmental entities are responsible for complying with. Conformity to the rules set forth by the FAA can lead to increased federal funding for local entities that want to reduce noise in the way that the FAA sees fit. This creates a system that is quite confusing to citizens looking to reduce noise levels in the interest of their health. Should the citizens go to the local government and demand they reduce levels through ordinances? This is problematic because local governmental entities are operating on slight budgets, at least compared to the federal government, and they cannot risk losing the funding of the FAA which finances noise abatement programs. Well then, should the citizens seek pacification with the FAA? This is may also prove ineffective because the FAA allots relatively little funding to noise abatement programs in light of other priorities faced by the FAA including crashes and air traffic control equipment.
As is imaginable, many court actions have risen out of the desire of citizens to lower noise levels and businesses to maintain or increase profit. In City of Burbank v. Lockheed Air Terminal, INC. the City of Burbank issued a curfew on flights leaving from Hollywood-Burbank Airport.The curfew, which restricted flights from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m., affected only one flight per week. The District Court, the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court all found the ordinance unconstitutional based on the Supremacy Clause. The Court maintained that it was the sole responsibility of the federal government, in this case the FAA, to enact rules dealing with noise. The Court further found that, in the interest of alleviating noise, the curfew was ill conceived because many flights would now leave directly prior to that deadline, thus escalating the noise problem. The Court generally relies on past legislation, such as the Noise Control Act of 1972, which directed by the FAA and the EPA to design regulations to alleviate noise problems. The Court further explained that the control of noise is a state problem, however the FAA and EPA remain in control in these areas due to the 1972 legislation. The Court also made it clear that if they were to uphold the City of Burbank’s ordinance, many other municipalities would enact similar ordinances, and “severely limit the flexibility of FAA in controlling air traffic flow”. The Court stressed that changes must be made by Congress to change the control of governmental entities over noise control.
Legislation since that time has not aided municipalities in their efforts to curb the amount of noise at certain times of the day, as is seen by the 1990 legislation. Here municipalities were required to follow the standards set forth by the FAA. The Airport Noise and Capacity Act of 1990, although in an attempt to cater to the demands of citizen groups phased out older – usually noisier – aircrafts, the ability of local governments to set forth their own standards was drastically reduced. In order to truly address the problem of noise control, new measures must be taken.
Citizens who live near airports will always complain of noise levels because airports and airplanes are simply loud. Airlines and airports will probably always complain about reducing noise levels because reducing noise levels requires the spending of money, which in turn means less profit. This would lead the cynic to believe that there is no solution. That may be true, but a happy medium can be reached where both sides compromise a little, but each side can still achieve their goal. This happy medium will not be achieved without the help of the government, though. Due to the FAA’s broad responsibilities, such as crash investigations, and relatively little time and money spent on noise reduction, which is a very serious health problem to those who must endure it, the responsibility of devising a plan to reduce noise should be delegated outside of the FAA. The EPA seems a likely candidate, for they did take many steps to suggest the FAA change the rules regarding noise reduction, although the FAA followed few of those recommendations. In order for ONAC, under the EPA, to be effective, however, they must be given not only more funding but greater authority in rulemaking and enforcement. This solution would appease the citizen groups who believe the FAA caters to the airline industry, and the ONAC would have the power, for example, to limit the decibel levels in residential areas around airports. It is unlikely, however, that the airline industry will be pleased with any increased regulations regarding noise reduction.
Airlines should not fight these noise restrictions, however. With some creative spinning, airlines could easily convince people that they are ready and willing to lower the noise levels themselves. Airlines could effortlessly convey the idea that they are the driving force behind the reduction in noise levels, which will invariably lead to good publicity. Although some people will notice that the airlines are pursuing ulterior motives, the airlines will in fact be helping the people who reside near airports, and that it the ultimate goal. If the airlines can get some good press in aiding the people who live near airports, that is just an added bonus.
The air transportation industry is clearly affected by many regulations, most of which are set forth by the FAA. The issue of safety is the most stressed. Safety in regards to hijacking, pilot licensure, and noise abatement have been discussed here in this paper. These areas only scratch the surface of the FAA’s overall jurisdiction. The FAA’s original goal was to ensure the safety of all people who fly or come into contact with aircrafts; the growth of technology has created many new hurdles for the FAA to contend with. The FAA has evolved with technology, as well, and the original goal of providing safety is still achieved every day.
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July 2018 – News from the Profession
HSS Announces New Society Editors
Three Historians of Science Share the Dan David Prize of One Million Dollars for Their Contributions to Humanity
See You In Seattle
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2018-2019 Fellows for the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Ashley Inglehart, Indiana University
Seminal Ideas: The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and His Contemporaries
Dissertation Fellows
Ekaterina Babintseva, University of Pennsylvania
Computer-Based Education in the Cold War United States and Soviet Union: Cyberdreams of the Information Age
Ayah B. Nuriddin, Johns Hopkins University
Liberation Eugenics: African Americans and the Science of Black Freedom Struggles, 1890-1970
Elaine Ayers, Princeton University
Strange Beauty: Botanical Collection, Preservation, and Display in the 19th Century Tropics
Edward Barnet, Stanford University
Homo Musicus: The Early Modern Musical Science of the Human Being
Scottie Hale Buehler, University of California at Los Angeles
Being and Becoming a Midwife in 18th Century France: Pedagogical Practices and Objects
Jessica M. Dandona, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
The Transparent Woman: Medical Visualities in Fin-de-Siècle Europe and the United States, 1890–1914
Alexandra Fair, Miami University (Ohio)
Eugenic Expectations: How the Medical Economy Changed and Sustained Eugenic Ideology in Post-WWII America
Jordan Katz, Columbia University
Jewish Midwives, Medicine and the Boundaries of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, 1650-1800
Andrew Lea, University of Oxford
Computerizing Diagnosis: Minds, Medicine, and Machines in Twentieth-Century America
Paul Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania
Human Remainders: The Lost Century of the Samuel George Morton Collection
Sarah Naramore, University of Notre Dame
I Sing the Body Republic: How Benjamin Rush Created American Medicine
Paloma Rodrigo Gonzales, City University of New York
Elusive Evidence, Enduring Fluidity: Historical Trajectories of the “Mongolian Spot”as a Marker of Race
Alana Staiti, Cornell University
Model Bodies: The Art, Science, and Craft of Human Modeling for 3-D Computer Graphics and Animation, 1960-1995
Sean Smith, Rice University
Abolition and the Making of Scientific Racism in the Anglo-Atlantic
Laurel Waycott, Yale University
Patterns of Creation: Organic Form in the Science of Life, 1880-1930
Historical Collection of Thomas Cooper Given to the American Philosophical Society
Since retirement from his laboratory in 1984, Seymour S. Cohen has collected historical and biographical materials on Thomas Cooper, 1759-1839. Cooper had been the subject of the doctoral dissertation of Dumas Malone (ca. 1920) whose subsequent studies led to a major biographical study of Thomas Jefferson (1948-1981). Cooper, born in London, contributed to the development of textile bleaching while living and working in Manchester. An early vice president of the Literary and Philosophical Society, he published essays on early cultural and scientific developments in England, including an early interest in a transition from monarchical to republican government. As a friend of the family of Joseph Priestley he explored Pennsylvania as a home for that Unitarian chemist. He wrote books on the qualities of early America and also began to study English law and to explore the evolution of chemistry.
Cooper’s subsequent career in Pennsylvania after 1795 involved country and agricultural law, chemical instruction and publications at several colleges, as well as industrial developments before, during and after the War of 1812-15. In 1817 Cooper was appointed as Professor in Virginia, which failed to open until 1825, at which time he had become the President of the South Carolina College.
In his twenty years in the South, Cooper initiated the study of geology and the development of chemistry. In the 1820s he had begun to compose treatises of political economy, to assist the formation of the first medical college, and the first mental asylum in the South. In 1830 he disavowed the brevity theory of the age of the Earth and lost his position as President of the College. From 1834-1836 Cooper wrote a history of the laws of South Carolina. He died in 1839.
Cohen’s Historical Collection on Cooper has been given to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, which has undertaken to prepare the Collection for historical study.
Lone Star Historians of Science — 2018
Seated: Abena Osseo-Asare, Megan Raby, Rodolfo John Alaniz; Standing: Anthony Stranges, John Lisle, Don Olson, Karl Stephan, Pam Stephan, Bruce Hunt, Lydia Pyne, Steve Kirkpatrick, Durell Roth; not pictured: Steve Bratteng
The Lone Star History of Science Group held its thirty-first annual meeting on 6 April 2018 at the Texas State University in San Marcos. The gathering was hosted by Karl Stephan of Texas State.
The Lone Star speaker this year was Don Olson of the Texas State University Department of Physics. Don is known as “the Celestial Sleuth” for his use of astronomical evidence to shed light on mysteries in history, art, and literature. Over the years he and his students at Texas State have published numerous articles on “forensic astronomy” in Sky and Telescope and elsewhere, many of which have been collected in Celestial Sleuth (2013) and Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth (2018), both published by Springer. In his Lone Star talk, Don discussed astronomical and meteorological aspects of paintings by van Gogh, Monet, and Munch, and showed how attention to shadows enabled him and his students to pin down the exact timing of photographs Ansel Adams took of mountains in Alaska and California, and of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s celebrated photo of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day. Don also discussed who first observed the Ring Nebula and showed how unusual tides affected battles from Stirling Bridge (1297) to Tarawa (1943). It all made for a fascinating look at the intersection between history and astronomy. After lively discussion, the group then made its way to Palmer’s Restaurant for dinner and more conversation.
Each spring, the Lone Star Group draws together historians of science, technology, and medicine from around Texas to discuss their shared interests and enjoy a friendly dinner. Its constitution, adopted over drinks in an Austin restaurant in 1988, provides that there shall be “no officers, no by-laws, and no dues,” and the group remains resolutely informal. More information about the Lone Star group, including a list of past meetings and some photographs, can be found at http://lonestarhistoryofsciencegroup.blogspot.com/.
The next Lone Star meeting will be held in Austin in March or April 2019. Anyone interested in being added to the Lone Star e-mail list (and that is all it takes to become a member in good standing) should contact Bruce Hunt of the University of Texas History Department at bjhunt@austin.utexas.edu.
ISHPSSB Spring 2018 Newsletter
The ISHPSSB Spring 2018 newsletter is now available:
https://bit.ly/2siisJi (HTML)
https://bit.ly/2IWxizu (PDF)
CFP: Living Well: Histories of Emotions, Wellness & Human Flourishing
A special issue of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Submission deadline: 1 November 2018
Organized by the Forum for the History of the Human Sciences in honor of historian John C. Burnham (1929-2017), this special issue will bring together historical studies that analyze how the social and behavioral sciences have attended to the meanings and conditions of living well and human flourishing. We are interested in accounts that consider what these sciences, as well as popular works that draw on them, have said about living well, in its spiritual, psychological, cultural, social, economic, and/or political dimensions.
We welcome article-length submissions that explore the development, implementation, and critique of social and behavioral science research and theoretical frameworks in this area. In addition, we are interested in studies that consider the uptake of such work in the broader society, at the level of ideas, social practices, popular culture, and/or public policy. We welcome manuscripts that engage with the topics, geographical areas, and theoretical approaches that Burnham used himself. But we are equally interested in manuscripts that advance other lines of analysis.
Possible topics of historical investigation include:
self-help and other advice literature
humanistic psychology, positive psychology, and happiness studies
work on mindfulness and resilience
studies of the emotions
research from behavioral economics
social justice movements’ use of the behavioral sciences to challenge the conditions and inequalities impeding human flourishing at the levels of the individual, group, and/or society
social and behavioral scientific studies of “bad habits” and strategies for overcoming them
critiques of scholarly work and popular accounts of living well, happiness, and/or positive thinking
the biopolitics of living well
the relationship between popular and expert views of how to live well and flourish
the sponsorship of studies on well-being and the use of such work by communities, groups, private organizations, philanthropy, business, and government.
Send manuscript submissions of approximately 10,000 words, including notes and references, by 1 November 2018 to guest editors Mark Solovey (mark.solovey@utoronto.ca) and Debbie Weinstein (debbie_weinstein@brown.edu). The guest editors also welcome preliminary inquiries about the appropriateness of particular subject matters and lines of analysis. All submissions should follow the format outlined in the journal’s Author Guidelines. Submissions selected by the guest editors will be peer-reviewed per the standard procedures of the journal.
HPS&ST Note
The monthly HPS&ST Note is available online at https://www.hpsst.com/hpsst-note.html.
Here is a sampling from earlier issues:
European Society for the History of Science Biennial Conference and British Society for the History of Science Annual Meeting, University College, London, 14-17 September 2018
4th Latin American Conference of the International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Group (IHPST-LA), 3-5 September 2018, Federal University of ABC, UFABC, Santo André, Brazil
International Conference on History of Science and Science Education (ICHSSE), 29-31 August 2018, State University of Paraiba, Brazil
Opinion Page. Gerald Holton: Tracing Tom Kuhn’s Evolution: A Personal Perspective
Thomas Kuhn and Science Education
This HPS&ST monthly Note is sent to about 7,500 individuals who directly or indirectly have an interest in the connections of history and philosophy of science with theoretical, curricular and pedagogical issues in science teaching, and/or interests in the promotion of more engaging and effective teaching of the history and philosophy of science. The Note seeks to serve the diverse international community of HPS&ST scholars and teachers by disseminating information about events and publications that connect to HPS&ST concerns. Please do feel free to forward this information to any local, national or international lists whose members you think would appreciate knowing of the Note and its web location.
Contributions to the Note (publications, thematic issues, conferences, Opinion Page, etc.) are welcome and should be sent direct to the editor: Michael R. Matthews, UNSW, m.matthews@unsw.edu.au.
EASTM: New Issue #46 Published
The latest issue #46 of the Journal of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, featuring a Focus on “Displacing Jesuit Science in Qing China,” is available online at www.eastm.org.
Contents of this journal include the following:
Note from the Editor by Catherine Jami
Obituary: Tsun Ko (Ke Jun柯俊) (1917-2017) by Mei Jianjun and Thilo Rehren
Focus Introduction by Wu Huiyi, Alexander Statman and Mario Cams
Blurring the Boundaries: Integrating Techniques of Land Surveying on the Qing’s Mongolian Frontier by Mario Cams
‘The Observations We Made in the Indies and in China’: The Shaping of the Jesuits’ Knowledge of China by Other Parts of the Non-Western World by Wu Huiyi
A Forgotten Friendship: How a French missionary and a Manchu prince studied electricity and ballooning in late eighteenth century Beijing by Alexander Statman
The Substitution of Materia Medica in Tibetan Medicine: An Inquiry into Traditional Tibetan Treatises by Olaf Czaja
Roslyn Lee Hammers, Pictures of Tilling and Weaving: Art, Labor, and Technology in Song and Yuan China reviewed by Ina Asim
Liping Bu, Darwin H. Stapleton, and Ka-Che Yip, Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia reviewed by Ruth Rogaski
Roger Hart, Imagined Civilizations: China, the West, and Their First Encounter reviewed by H. Floris Cohen
Christopher Cullen, The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning: Three Ancient Chinese Astronomical Systems reviewed by Daniel Patrick Morgan
New Open Access Book: Histories of Technology, the Environment, and Modern Britain
UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that will be of interest to members: Histories of Technology, the Environment, and Modern Britain. Download it free: https://goo.gl/eUV5n6
Histories of Technology, the Environment, and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Technologies are modified environments, just as nature is to varying extents engineered. Furthermore, technologies and our living and non-living environment are both predominant material forms of organization—and self-organization—that surround and make us. Both have changed over time, in intersecting ways.
Technologies discussed in the collection include bulldozers, submarine cables, automobiles, flood barriers, medical devices, museum displays and biotechnologies. Environments investigated include bogs, cities, farms, places of natural beauty and pollution, land and sea. The book explores this diversity but also offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections.
Special Issue of Historia Scientiarum
The History of Science Society of Japan publishes three issues of Historia Scientiarum a year. The latest issue is a special issue: “The History of Geological Sciences in East Asia: Geosciences in Transition.”
Contents of this Special Issue include the following:
Introduction by Toshihiro Yamada and Michiko Yajima
How Modern Geology Was Published: A Case Study of Chinese Geological Journals, 1919 to 1949 by Jiuchen Zhang
Frontier of Professionals: The Vision of American Advisors That Supported Hokkaido Development in the Early Meiji Period by Tomomi Nakagawa
Japanese Geological Scientists and Their Activities with Respect to Science Communication: With Special Reference to Professor Seitaro Tsuboi and Chidanken by Fumihiko Tochinai
Christian Missionaries and Natural Things: The Italian-style Geological Collection of Cimatti’s Museum at Chofu, Tokyo, Japan by Stefano Marabini and Gian Battista Vai
On Eugenic Policy and the Movement of the National Temperance League in Prewar Japan by Takashi Yokoyama
The Program of the 64th Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society of Japan
For further information, see http://hssj.info/page/2.
Latest Dissertations as of May 2018
The latest batch of recent doctoral dissertations harvested from the issues 78-04 A and B of Dissertation Abstracts related to the history of science, medicine, and technology can be found in the links below. ProQuest has altered how they put out their individual issues. No longer do they correlate to one month, so the dating is more random. Thus titles will range from 2018—yes they have some 2018 dates—back into the early 1900s.
There is one additional aspect to point out about this latest batch of dissertations. ProQuest has begun adding numerous titles from many universities world-wide dating back into the early 1900s. Not all these earlier titles come with abstracts but should be available for downloading entire copies online.
If interested, please view the following: ISISdiss78-04-4444 and JHMdiss78-04-4444
National Humanities Alliance and NEH for All
The National Humanities Alliance, an advocacy group for the humanities in the United States and of which HSS is a member, has created a digital resource for humanities projects in the US. This digital clearinghouse highlights National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) projects across the US. NEH for All articulates how the Endowment benefits a wide range of communities. Profiles reflect grants that are diverse across three dimensions: geography, area of impact, and type of humanities activity (e.g. research, education, public programming, preservation, and digital).
For more information, go to https://www.nhalliance.org/neh_for_all.
Announcing the 2018 ACLS Fellows
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the 2018 ACLS Fellows. For this competition, ACLS increased the number of awards to 78—the greatest number in the history of the program, which has been supporting scholars across the humanities and humanistic social sciences for more than five decades. The expansion of the program allows ACLS to support fellows who are even more broadly representative of the variety of humanistic scholarship across all fields of study, and who reflect a diverse and inclusive ideal of academic excellence.
Peer reviewers selected the fellows from a pool of nearly 1,150 applicants. Awards range from $40,000 to $70,000, depending on the scholar’s career stage, and support scholars for six to twelve months of full-time research and writing.
“The 2018 ACLS Fellows hail from more than 50 colleges and universities, including several for which this is the first time a member of their faculty has received an ACLS Fellowship,” said Matthew Goldfeder, director of fellowship programs at ACLS. “Fellows were selected for their potential to make an original and significant contribution to knowledge, resulting from research on cultures, texts, and artifacts from antiquity to the present, in contexts around the world.”
The ACLS Fellowship program, the longest-running of our current fellowship and grant programs, is funded by ACLS’s endowment. Institutions and individuals contribute to this program, including The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Arcadia Charitable Trust, the Council’s Research University Consortium and college and university Associates, past fellows, and individual friends of ACLS.
To view the ACLS Fellows, including those with named fellowships, click here.
New National Air and Space Museum Director Announced
Ellen Stofan has been named as the John and Adrienne Mars Director of the National Air and Space Museum. Dr. Stofan began her tenure at the museum 30 April 2018.
From 2013 to 2016, she was the Chief Scientist at NASA, serving as the principal advisor to former Administrator Charles Bolden on NASA’s strategic planning and programs. She helped guide the development of a long-range plan to get humans to Mars and worked on strategies for NASA to support commercial activity in low Earth orbit as the agency transitions from the International Space Station to sending humans to the moon and Mars in the mid-2020s. She supported NASA’s overall science programs in heliophysics, Earth science, planetary science and astrophysics. She also worked with President Barack Obama’s science advisor and the National Science and Technology Council on science policy.
Before joining NASA, Dr. Stofan was Vice President and Senior Scientist at Proxemy Research (2000 to 2013), a consulting firm in the Washington area specializing in planetary research.
While finishing her doctoral degree, she joined the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) as a post-doctoral fellow and became the Deputy Project Scientist for the Magellan Mission to Venus. In 1994, she became JPL’s Chief Scientist for the New Millennium Program where she managed a team of about 100 scientists working on new technologies. The following year, she moved to London while continuing to work at JPL and was, and continues to be, an honorary professor at the University College London, where she conducted her own research and advised doctoral students. She returned to the U.S. in 2000.
Dr. Stofan currently serves as co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Space Technologies. She has published extensively and received many awards and honors, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. She was named one of “CNN’s Extraordinary People of 2014.” She is co-author of the books Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System and Next Earth: What Our World Can Teach Us About Other Planets, both published by National Geographic.
Throughout her career, she has advocated strongly for the inclusion of underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and math, speaking to groups around the world about the importance of diversity in solving the world’s problems. She has used the idea of citizen scientists as part of STEM outreach, provided guidance to young scientists about communications, and advocated for stronger roles for women and other underrepresented groups in scientific fields.
Dr. Stofan earned her bachelor’s degree in geology at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. The summer after her sophomore year, she did an internship at the Air and Space Museum in planetary science. She went on to earn her master’s and doctoral degrees at Brown University, both in geological sciences.
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
A new issue of the online journal Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science has just been published. It is a special issue on “Doing History of Science in a Digital, Global, Networked Community: Tools and Services Linking Scholars” guest edited by Stephen Weldon (HSS’s Bibliographer) and Gavan McCarthy. All of these papers were delivered at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology in July of 2017 in Rio de Janeiro as part of a symposium sponsored by the Commission on Bibliography and Documentation. Contributors include: Ana Alfonso-Goldfarb; Silvia Waisse; Marcia H.M. Ferraz; Ailie Smith; Stephen Weldon; Carla Bromberg; Nicholas Wyatt; Gavan McCarthy; Venkat Srinivasan; T. B. Dinesh; Bhanu Prakash; A. Shalini; Nataša Jermen; Zdenko Jecić; Erwin Neuenschwander; Jose Goldfarb; and Odécio Souza.
Newberry Fellows
The Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois, an independent research library that offers materials spanning six centuries, has announced its class of fellows for 2018-2019. Some topics that may be of interest to HSS members appear below.
Those who are interested in applying for a fellowship for next year, please visit the Newberry website for more details and opportunities.
Anne Koenig
Independent Scholar, History
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
Flesh and Blood: The Body and Popular Health in Late Medieval Germany
Benjamin Benus
Assistant Professor of Art History at Loyola University, New Orleans
Arthur and Janet Holzheimer Fellow in the History of Cartography
Mapping the Modern World: Atlas Design at Container Corporation of America
Margaret Flood
PhD Candidate in History at the University of Minnesota
Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Student Fellow
Plants, Health, and Power: Narratives of Medicine in Ojibwe Country, 1825-1930
Camden Burd
PhD Candidate in History at the University of Rochester
Newberry Library-American Society for Environmental History Fellow
The Ornament of Empire: Nurserymen and the Making of the American Landscape
AHA Career Diversity Grants
The American Historical Association, in partnership with the Mellon Foundation, has created fellowships that will begin to integrate broad-based, professional development into graduate programs’ culture. These diversity grants will encourage fellows and faculty members to rethink the structure and purpose of doctoral programs by developing workshops, lectures, and networking events. Further information can be found here.
A Corrective for All-Male Panels
The 8 June 2018 Chronicle of Higher Education included an article titled “Female Historians Try to End the I-Didn’t-Know-Any-Women Excuse for Men-Only Panels.” The article states that a group of female historians has launched a searchable online database that lists area of expertise, along with contact information for female historians. A search conducted on 5 July 2018, with the search term “science,” brought up 340 records. Although some of the hits were not for historians of science, most of the entries did capture our field.
ISHM Newsletters
The International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM) produces a regular newsletter, edited by Emanuela Appetiti. The Newsletters, which can be found here, contain news about members and the affiliated societies, the list of recent publications and dissertations, forthcoming conferences, and several calls for papers. The latest issue contains two special messages: one from the local organizers of the 46th ISHM Congress, who extend a welcome for the Lisbon conference, 3-7 Sept 2018, and the other from the organizers of the 47th ISHM Congress, which will be held at the end of August 2020.
New Publication in Edition Open Sources
Francesco Luzzini’s Theory, Practice, and Nature In-between: Antonio Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Specimen was published in March of 2018 by Edition Open Sources (EOS). EOS publishes peer-reviewed, open-access academic editions of primary sources, making them available to both specialists and general readers. In addition to html editions, EOS publications are also available in e-book, pdf, and print formats (all of which are accessible through the links above).
The heart of the work is a critical edition of Antonio Vallisneri’s Primi itineris per Montes Specimen Physiocomedicum (First Report of a Mountain Journey, 1729). Vallisneri was one of Italy’s preeminent physicians and natural philosophers. This text is a travel account of Vallisneri’s trip across the northern Apennines which illuminates many aspects of natural history at the time, including the development of methodologies in geology, anthropology, geography and other field sciences.
The book includes a facsimile of the sole surviving original manuscript, a transcription of the text, an English translation, and an introductory essay. Explanatory notes throughout address textual, historical, philological, and scientific aspects of the text.
Edition Open Sources was established by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. This is the second title to appear as a joint endeavor between the MPI and the University of Oklahoma, including the Department of the History of Science, History of Science Collections, and University Libraries (http://www.ou.edu/cas/hsci/digital-projects/edition-open-sources). This title is the fruition of an Edition Open Sources post-doctoral fellowship established by OU and MPI in 2014.
Open access represents a new paradigm for scholarly publishing and communication. The distinctive feature of Edition Open Sources is that peer-reviewed, scholarly publications appear in both digital and physical formats.
Link for EOS: http://www.edition-open-sources.org/eos/index.html
Link for EOS at OU: http://www.ou.edu/cas/hsci/digital-projects/edition-open-sources
Link for book: http://www.edition-open-sources.org/sources/9/index.html
Update on Michael Servetus
After 3 years of archival research, Miguel González Ancín and colleagues have published a book with the first documents of Michael Servetus’s past in Spain, (there were no documents of him before 1531, but he was already in Basel), including 13 new documents. They presented the book at the National Distance University of Spain in Tudela, on 9 Nov 2017 and also published an expanded edition, which includes a digital open-source version and identical copy of the physical book at the academic repository Social Science Research Network: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3093969
Or it can also be found in the recommended reading from the Sorbonne’s research team: http://www.clea.paris-sorbonne.fr/les-lectures-clea/lectures.
The most important new aspects of Michael Servetus’s past are that he was a student and then later one of the four professors in the Studium Generale of Arts in Zaragoza, the nascent University of Zaragoza, and that he had to leave Spain because he had a very serious brawl with his relative, maestre Gaspar Lax, the Rector-Vice Chancellor, and High Master of the University. Lax blocked all of Servetus’s academic possibilities in the Spanish Universities of Valencia, Alcala, Barcelona, Salamanca, Lérida, Zaragoza and Huesca, which accounted for Servetus having to leave Toulouse University.
The book includes photographs of every document, as well as a transcription of the text.
Atomic Bomb Research and The Beginnings of High Energy Physics
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National strategic plan for HIV and AIDS 2015-2020
This 2015-2020 National Strategic Plan (NSP) for HIV will focus on meeting the 90-90-90 targets through identifying critical program and system gaps and ensuring those gaps are closed within the next five years. The NSP cuts across multiple sectors including health, and creates a common understanding for all HIV and AIDS stakeholders: government, civil society, the private sector, and development partners to work together towards achieving the expected results. …
National HIV prevention strategy 2015-2020
The current National HIV Prevention Strategy (2015-2020) has adopted a results-based management approach with clear activities leading to outputs and outcomes. Eventually, these directly lead to the desired impacts as outlined in the revised 2015-2020 National Strategic Plan for HIV and AIDS (NSP). The primary objective of the current NSP is the achievement of the 90-90-90 targets by 2020. This National Prevention Strategy embraces a combination prevention approach for primary and secondary HIV prevention. …
Malawi national HIV and AIDS monitoring and evaluation framework 2015-2020
Following the adoption of the NSP (2015-2020), the Government of Malawi through the National AIDS Commission commissioned the revision of the M&E Plan to accompany the revised NSP. The new M&E Plan will primarily guide and enable the generation and availability of strategic information for effective management of the national response; the tracking and assessment of both the HIV epidemic as well as the performance towards the attainment of the ambitious 90-90-90 targets, the intermediate strategic outcomes as well as outputs. …
A comparative analysis of national HIV policies in six African countries with generalized epidemics
Objective: To compare national human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) policies influencing access to HIV testing and treatment services in six sub-Saharan African countries. Methods: We reviewed HIV policies as part of a multi-country study on adult mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. A policy extraction tool was developed and used to review national HIV policy documents and guidelines published in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe between 2003 and 2013. Key informant interviews helped to fill gaps in findings. …
Malawi national HIV and AIDS strategic plan 2011-2016
The National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan (NSP) provides: (a) an overview of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Malawi and its impact; (b) an analysis of the national response to the epidemic; (c) the NSP; (d) a cost estimate of the NSP strategic actions and an analysis of the expected funding gap; and (e) the governance and institutional framework for the national response. It provides the strategic direction for the five year period July 2011 to June 2016.
Local government responses to HIV/AIDS: a handbook. A Handbook to support local government authorities in addressing HIV/AIDS at the municipal level
This handbook has been written for local government authorities (LGA) mayors, councilors, advisors and officials that are interested in developing or strengthening local responses to HIV/AIDS. It provides information, examples, and illustrative tools (surveys, checklists, modules, etc.) that guide users through the steps of recognizing and publicly acknowledging the importance of addressing HIV/AIDS, assessing the impact of HIV/AIDS on the locality, and identifying key stakeholders to initiate and coordinate a Local Government (LG) HIV/AIDS Response Strategy. …
SADC regional assessment report of policies and programmes on child and adolescent HIV, TB and malaria
The SADC Protocol on Health stipulates that Member States should cooperate in dealing with health issues in a harmonised manner as an essential ingredient for the effective control of communicable diseases in the region notably, HIV, TB and Malaria. As part of the response, key strategic frameworks to guide action in the control of these three diseases have been developed by SADC but these mostly address the adult population. In this context, the SADC Secretariat is mandated to develop The SADC Minimum Standards for Child and Adolescent HIV, TB and Malaria Continuum of Care. …
Operation plan of the national HIV prevention strategy: phase one (October 2009 - June 2011)
The Government of Malawi, in collaboration with partners, developed the National HIV Prevention Strategy that will guide HIV prevention interventions for the period September 2009 to December 2013. The national strategy addresses key gaps in prevention programming in Malawi's national HIV response. It calls for a strategic focus on the main drivers of the HIV epidemic to reduce sexual transmission of the virus. This includes a concerted effort to reduce concurrent and multiple sexual partnerships and identifying discordant couples and reducing HIV transmission between them. …
Report on the Government and Faith Communities Consultation in HIV/AIDS
The overall objective of the consultation was to initiate dialogue between Government and the Faith Communities and lay a foundation for an ongoing forum which should strengthen collaborative efforts in addressing the HIV-AIDS epidemic. Specifically the Consultation intended to: (a) Identify key issues and concerns in the national response to the epidemic, which offer common ground for collaborative work between Government and the Faith Communities. …
Regional assessment on HIV-prevention needs of migrants and mobile populations in southern Africa
Southern Africa continues to bear a disproportionate share of the global burden of HIV: 35% of HIV infections and 38% of AIDS-related deaths in 2007 occurred in this sub-region. Southern Africa also experiences high levels of population movement, voluntary or forced, and comprises a diversity of people, including contract labor migrants, irregular migrants, families of migrants, refugees, trafficked persons and mobile workers such as truck drivers and mine workers. Furthermore, migrants have loved ones back home, who may face their own vulnerabilities, as the family breadwinner is away. …
UNDP/World Bank/UNAIDS Programme on Mainstreaming AIDS into National Development Plans and Processes: Rounds 1 and 2, a Review of Experiences (2007-2008)
The purpose of this report is to document the progress made by countries participating in the Mainstreaming Programme in the second and third years of the programme. It is intended as a knowledge-sharing document to facilitate the exchange of practical experiences in HIV mainstreaming, as well as a programming report to facilitate monitoring and future evaluations of the Mainstreaming Programme. …
Malawi National HIV/AIDS Action Framework (2005-2009)
The National HIV/AIDS Action Framework (NAF) for Malawi was developed to cover the period 2005-2009 and it is based on the findings of the End of Term (ETR) review of the National Strategic Framework (NSF) for HIV/AIDS that guided the response from 2000-2004. This NAF was carried out using a highly participatory and nationwide consultative approach under eight pillars. …
Malawi HIV and AIDS Extended National Action Framework (NAF), 2010-2012
The Malawi Extended National HIV and AIDS Action Framework (NAF) for the period 2010 to 2012 follows the NAF 2005 to 2009, and harmonises the national HIV and AIDS response with the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS). The goals of the Extended NAF are: to prevent the spread of HIV infection among Malawians; provide access to treatment to People Living with HIV; and mitigate the health, socio-economic and psychosocial impacts of HIV and AIDS on individuals, families, communities and the nation. The extended NAF has 7 priority areas as listed below: 1. …
A guide to mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into the public sector
There are four main chapters progressively presented from a contextual and conceptual background to a framework of guidelines to facilitate the process of mainstreaming. Chapter 1 is a discussion of the HIV/AIDS situation, the national response to the epidemic and the links between HIV/AIDS, sectoral and national productivity and household poverty. Chapter 2 presents a conceptual framework for what constitutes mainstreaming in the public sector. …
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COLLECTION Identifier: A-129; M-129
Papers of Amelia Earhart, 1835-1977
Digital Material (87)
Correspondence, photographs, baby books, etc., of Amelia Earhart, aviator.
Access. Originals are closed; use microfilm M-129. An appointment is necessary to use any audiovisual material.
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Amelia Earhart as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
3.04 linear feet ((4 file boxes, 1 folio+ box) plus 2 plaques, 2 folio folders, 4 folio+ folders, 26 photograph folders, 3 folio photograph folders, 1 folio+ photograph folder, 1 supersize photograph folder, 1 audiocassette)
The bulk of this collection consists of papers about Earhart saved by her sister, Muriel Earhart Morrissey. It is arranged in five series:
Series I, Family papers (#1-6), includes the 1835 passport of Earhart's great-grandfather, Gebhard Harres; genealogical papers relating to the Otis and Earhart families; a few letters and other items of Edwin Stanton Earhart; and miscellaneous correspondence and other items of Amy Otis Earhart.
Series II, Amelia Earhart, 1897-1937 (#7-18f), consists of papers generated during Earhart's lifetime, and include baby books; a few school-related papers; a small amount of correspondence; some writings, most of which concern women and aviation; and programs and awards. Of particular interest is a 1936 letter by Earhart to a young woman who had inquired about career opportunities for women in aviation (see #14).
Series III, Photographs and graphics (#19-46), is divided into two groups: #19-34, which were previously inventoried and cataloged as part of the Schlesinger Library's Microfilm of Photograph Collections (M-54), and #35-46, which were received as addenda and not previously cataloged. This artificial division is maintained in an effort to minimize the confusion which could ensue from the renumbering of the photographs in #19-34, which have been so frequently used and cited by researchers. The two groups together consist of numerous photographs of Earhart, her planes and associates, her family, George Palmer Putnam, and memorial sites. In addition, there is a painting of Earhart's great-grandmother, a drawing of Earhart, and a black-and-white etching of Earhart and Fred Noonan on their sinking plane.
Series IV, Muriel Earhart Morrissey (#47-68), documents some of Muriel Earhart Morrissey's extensive involvement with Earhart's history, memory, and admirers after her disappearance. It includes correspondence re: the disappearance; tributes, biographies, memorials, poems, and sheet music, etc. honoring Earhart; commemorative stamps; and a philatelic catalog.
Series V, Newsclippings, tearsheets, and memorabilia (#69-83), consists of printed material and a variety of artifacts, including a recording of Earhart's voice, medals, buttons, plaques, book inscriptions, leis, a leaf and a rose. Most of the newsclippings have been transferred to the Amy Otis Earhart Papers (MC 398) and integrated with the clippings in that collection for microfilming in one chronological sequence. Muriel Earhart Morrissey's scrapbook of clippings about Earhart and George Palmer Putnam's serialized biography of Earhart remain in this series.
Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, the first daughter of Amy (Otis) Earhart and Edwin Stanton Earhart. Her sister, Grace Muriel, was born three years later. The family moved several times (to Kansas City, Kansas; Des Moines; St. Paul; Chicago) during Earhart's childhood as her father tried unsuccessfully to establish a profitable legal career. Earhart graduated from Chicago's Hyde Park High School in 1916. Edwin Stanton Earhart's increasing reliance on alcohol and his inability to hold a job led eventually to a divorce, in 1924.
In addition to attending a variety of schools (Ogontz School in Greenfield, Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Harvard University), and experimenting with numerous areas of study (e.g., pre-med, French poetry, physics) and types of jobs (e.g., wartime nurses' aide in Toronto, telephone company worker, photographer), Earhart developed an interest in the relatively new field of aviation. While living in Los Angeles she took flying lessons from Neta Snook, pioneer woman pilot, and in 1921 made her first solo flight and bought her first airplane.
After her parents' divorce Earhart moved with her mother to Medford, Massachusetts, where Muriel was teaching. She taught English to immigrant factory workers and in 1926 became a social worker and resident at Denison House, a Boston settlement. During these years she continued to fly at local airfields and in 1927 was offered, and accepted, the opportunity to accompany Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon on their 1928 flight to England. She thereby became the first woman to make the transatlantic crossing by air, and an instant celebrity.
Intensely competitive, Earhart participated in numerous air races and held a variety of speed records and "firsts": she was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic solo (1932) and first person to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland, California (January 1935), and from Los Angeles to Mexico City (April 1935). Earhart was a mentor of other women pilots and worked to improve their acceptance in the heavily male field of aviation. In 1929 she helped organize the Ninety-Nines, an international organization of licensed women pilots (with 99 charter members) and served as its president until 1933. Married in 1931 to publisher and publicist George Palmer Putnam, Earhart still maintained her grueling nationwide lecture tours, which largely financed her flying, served as women's career counselor at Purdue University, and wrote books and articles on women and aviation. An outspoken advocate of women's equality, Earhart also designed sportswear for women, luggage suitable for air travel, and travel stationery.
Earhart made two attempts to fly around the world in 1937. The first, in March, ended when her airplane was badly damaged on take-off in California. On June 1 she took off from Miami with navigator Fred Noonan, intending to fly around the equator from west to east. On July 2, having completed 22,000 miles of the trip, Earhart and Fred Noonan took off from Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island. They never reached the island. Despite an intensive search by the United States Navy and others, following radio distress calls, no trace of the fliers or their plane has ever been found.
The numerous Earhart biographies include Mary S. Lovell's The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), Doris L. Rich's Amelia Earhart: A Biography (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), and two by her sister, Muriel Earhart Morrissey (Courage is the Price: The Biography of Amelia Earhart, Wichita, Kan.: McCormick-Armstrong Publishing Division, 1963; and, with Carol L. Osborne, Amelia, My Courageous Sister: Biography of Amelia Earhart, Santa Clara, Calif.: Osborne Publisher, 1987). Jean Backus has edited a collection of Earhart's letters, based on the Amy Otis Earhart Papers, also in the Schlesinger Library (Letters from Amelia: An Intimate Portrait of Amelia Earhart, Boston: Beacon Press, 1982). For other biographical sketches, see Notable American Women: 1607-1950 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971), and Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XXII, Supplement Two (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958).
The collection is arranged in number series:
Series II. Amelia Earhart, 1897-1937
Series III. Photographs and graphics
Series IV. Muriel Earhart Morrissey
Series V. Newsclippings, tearsheets, memorabilia
Accession numbers: 463, 519, 521, 545, 671, 700, 916, 1060, 78-M147, 80-M194, 82-M142, 89-M210
These papers of or about Amelia Earhart were given to the Schlesinger Library by Muriel (Earhart) Morrissey between August 1962 and November 1989, and by Alma Lutz in January 1963.
MICROFILM OF COLLECTION
The papers of Amelia Earhart and related collections were selected for microfilming in order to provide copies to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, and because they are frequently requested by researchers.
Dates and/or other information have been written on some items by a number of people. In organizing the material, the processor left undated material that was grouped with dated items where it was. All dates and other information added by the processor are in square brackets. Undated items are filed at the end of their respective folders.
The pages of some items were numbered to aid the filmer, the proofreaders, and researchers. These numbers are in square brackets.
The film was proofread by the processor and corrections made where necessary. These corrections may disrupt the sequence of frame numbers.
Some of the material in the collection was difficult to film due to such problems as flimsy paper with text showing through, faded or smudged writing, faint pencil notations, folded clippings, clippings discolored from glue or adhesive tape, or blurred photocopies from tightly bound volumes. The film was carefully produced to insure that these items are as legible as possible.
In some letters the text on the two inside pages was written in two different directions, and in some the final lines of text and the signature are on page one. In these cases letters were filmed as they appear; pages were not turned and first pages were not refilmed.
In some cases, enclosures referred to in letters are missing.
Letters of one or more pages with either the salutation or the signature missing, as well as portions of letters, articles, or clippings, have been marked as fragments [frag.].
Both sides of postcards were filmed.
The versos of envelopes were filmed only if they contained a return address or notes.
Some scrapbook pages had to be filmed more than once because of folded and/or multiple-paged items, such as Christmas cards, clippings, or programs.
Many loose clippings were mounted by the processor. Clippings from newspapers already on microfilm (according to Newspapers in Microform, United States, Library of Congress, 1973), were discarded after filming.
All photographs were microfilmed with the collection. They are also available on the microfilm of the Schlesinger Library photograph collection (M-54).
Some magazines, books, and other multiple-paged items were not filmed in their entirety, but only the pertinent page(s), with the title page where necessary to establish name and date of publication.
After filming, periodicals were removed to the Schlesinger Library periodical file.
Copies of this microfilm edition of the Amelia Earhart collections (M-129) may be borrowed on interlibrary loan from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
For a list of the contents of the Amelia Earhart Microfilm, see the inventory that follows. When requesting microfilmed material, please use the microfilm number (M-129) and the reel number.
REEL GUIDE
Folders #1f+-32: M-129, Reel 1
Folders #33-69: M-129, Reel 2
Folders #70f-83: M-129, Reel 3
There is related material at the Schlesinger Library; see Amelia Earhart videotapes, 1932-1977 (Vt-54), Amy Otis Earhart Papers, 1884-1987 (MC 398), Amy Otis Earhart Papers, 1944, Undated (A/E11), and Clarence Strong Williams Papers,1907-1971 (A/W722).
The Purdue University Library also has a large collection of Earhart papers. Additional Otis family papers are in the possession of the family and will eventually be given to the Minnesota Historical Society.
Box 1: folders 2-17
Box 2: folders 47-67
Box 3: folders 69-75, 83
Folio+ Box 4: folders 76m-82m
INDEX OF SELECTED CORRESPONDENTS This index contains names of letter writers represented in various correspondence folders but not specifically listed in the folder descriptions.
INDEX OF SELECTED CORRESPONDENTS
Cochran, Jacqueline 47
Connally, John B. 50
De Carie, Margot 48
de Schweinitz, Louise 48
Devine, Thomas E. 47
French, Edein 48
Gervais, Joseph 53
Goerner, Frederick 47, 50
Holley, Clyde E. 53
International Women's Air and Space Museum 48
Kleppner, Amy 53
Lynn, Evelyne 54
Mantz, Paul 47
May, Loma 54
Mowbray, Eva 54
National Portrait Gallery 48
Ninety-Nines 47
Noyes, Blanche 48
Palmer, Gordon H. 55
Pellegreno, Ann H. 47
Reischauer, Edwin O. 53
Roosevelt, Eleanor 47
Royer, Lloyd 48
Rueckert, Ruth 47
Safford, Laurance Frye 47
Saltonstall, Leverett 50
Stanton, Frank 50
Sylvester, Arthur 50
Theil College 47
Vaeth, J. Gordon 47, 48
Walker, Agnes 54
Women's Hall of Fame 48
Wright, Lucile M. 47, 48
Reprocessed: April 1990
By: Katherine Kraft
Air pilots
Reischauer, Edwin O. (Edwin Oldfather), 1910-1990
Women in aeronautics
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937. Papers of Amelia Earhart, 1835-1977: A Finding Aid
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Reprocessing and microfilming of this collection was made possible by funds provided by Joan R. Challinor.
Amelia Earhart Papers, 1835-1977; item description, dates. A-129, folder #. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00107/catalog Accessed July 19, 2019
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Author interview with Walter Marks of ‘Death Hampton’
Ellen | February 2, 2018
Tough, street-wise NYPD detective Neil Jericho, burnt out after years working violent homicide and drug cases in East Harlem, transfers to the police department of peaceful, posh East Hampton. “Death Hampton” is a murder mystery in which readers know, or think they know whodunit, while the detective does not. However, in the end, it turns out that nothing is as it seems.
Is the detective of ‘Death Hampton’ really in the dark about the murder mystery? Or does detective Jericho know more than he admits to? Walter Marks, the literary mind behind this murderous mystery has set aside a little time with me today to help me undercover whodunit. Walter, what inspired you to take a walk into the world of the NYPD in this book?
I have a house in East Hampton. I met a detective on the police force there who had formerly been with East Harlem (NY) homicide. I thought he’d be a good model for a detective story.
Meeting this detective in person would obviously give you a clear and strong starting point for your story. How did the rest of the cast of characters come to life around your detective?
By letting my imagination run wild.
It’s awesome when you can get your imagination running and throwing out lots of new suggestions for characters and plot. Did you find yourself visiting places or events from your own life to keep that imagination running?
Just my knowledge of the East Hampton area.
Even though your characters were visiting an area that you knew well, I’m sure you found yourself considering and exploring new thoughts and ideas. What do you feel was your biggest learning experience while writing this novel?
Go where your characters lead you.
And what did they lead you to? What message did they want you to share with your readers?
Nothing is as it seems.
Indeed nothing is as it seems, but I know that ‘Death Hampton’ is the first in a series, so I’m hoping that Neil Jericho has had some success uncovering the truth in his more recent adventures. What adventure is Neil currently embroiled in?
Book 5 of the Detective Jericho series. It’s called “Tumbling Down.” Others in the series are “The Battle of Jericho”, “The Hated, “A Man’s Partner”, “Amazing Detective” The new book deals with a murder in the LGBTQ community in the area.
For Neil’s sake, I hope that this new murder case is a little easier on him, but that’s no fun for either the readers or yourself as the author. When you consider writing in general, do you feel yourself energised by exploring these adventures, or exhausted by the volume of work that lies ahead?
It enlightens me.
What enlightening things circle around your mind as you write?
I love doing this. I hate doing this. Just do it!
It’s hard to just do it with those warring ideas in your head. What steps has your writing taken to work through and past these conflicting ideas?
I’ve tried to simplify.
Has this focus on simplification extended to your self-publishing strategy?
I’m much less interested in making money than I am in reaching readers.
How has your journey to reach readers unfolded so far?
Writing fiction is a late-in-life career move. Here’s my cv: Walter Marks’ most recent theatre project, “Langston in Harlem” had a sold out, critically acclaimed run off-Broadway at Urban Stages Theater, and won four 2010 Audelco Awards for Excellence in Black Theater including Best Musical. The show is a musical theater piece based on the life and poetry of Langston Hughes, in which Mr. Marks set the Hughes poems to music, and co-wrote the libretto. His best known his song “I’ve Gotta be Me”, recorded by Sammy Davis, Michael Jackson, Tony Bennett, and many others. He has also written songs recorded by Barbra Streisand, Ella Fitzgerald, The Temptations, Della Reese, Liza Minelli, Little Anthony and the Imperials, and other artists. He wrote the songs for the Broadway musicals “Bajour” and “Golden Rainbow”, the book, music and lyrics for the off-Broadway musical “Body Shop”, the screenplay and songs for the motion picture “The Wild Party” (Merchant-Ivory Films – directed by James Ivory). He also wrote the off-Broadway comedy-mystery “The Butler Did It”. He has also written the songs and script for “Jack Johnson at Hubert’s Dime Museum and Flea Circus”, a show inspired by the life of the first black heavyweight champion of the world. On television, he won an Emmy award for his music on the PBS Series “Getting `On”, and wrote songs for the ABC series “That’s Life”, and the NBC Hallmark Hall of Fame production of “Pinocchio”.
Wow, those are diverse and creative projects, it feels a shame to have asked only asked you such banal questions about writing and authorship. But not to worry, we can fix that by tossing a few fun-filled fact finders into the mix starting with the curly conundrum, if money doesn’t grow on trees then why do banks have branches?
That’s the root of the problem.
There’s always another problem root to find. And I wonder if we can put our problem seeking roots to good use and find out if you cry underwater. Do you think someone could do that?
Until you drown.
Drowning creates a whole new problem, so we need to stay away from that as much as possible! In our quest to stay away from the water-filled problem, let’s see if we can figure out why a square meal is served on round plates?
Alimentary, my dear Watson.
*Laughs* Of course it is! What’s your favourite word?
“favorite” without the “u”
I’m not really sure which spelling I personally prefer myself. The ‘u’ seems to give it a bit more mystique, but without is a bit more straight forward. It’s a tad too complex, so let’s go to an easier one with what is your zodiac sign?
Leo the MGM lion
He is a lovely lion. Lovely mane and roar, what else could you want from a lion? Maybe that’s something you can ponder when you could breed two animals together to defy the laws of nature. What new animal would you create?
A Kangerecko. Leapin’ Lizards!
Now that is an animal I want to see! But the one thing I think it is missing is the scary factor. We might need to create a monster to get a few more frights in flight. If you invented a monster what would it look like and what would you call it?
It would look like Donald Trump and I would call it %@xx&
That would definitely get your heart pumping! We’re almost at the end of our heart-pumping exploration into your book, but before we declare this expedition complete, can you share your favourite mysterious line to get our minds turned to murder once more?
You did a bad thing.
Well, someone did do a bad thing, but who? We’ll have to pick up a copy of your novel to find out! Walter, thanks for chatting, and I hope that we’ve set a few hearts pumping when telling tales about the mysterious ‘Death Hampton’ today!
Excited to read the book we discussed today? Find it here on Amazon: ‘Death Hampton ( ASIN: B00KMWICNI )‘.
Want to find out more about Walter Marks? Connect here!
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Basia Zaba (1949-2018)
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Basia Zaba, Professor of Medical Demography at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) on Thursday 12 July, 2018, aged 69. She leaves an enormous legacy to demography, through her work on demographic estimation and population-level HIV surveillance and through her mentorship and guidance of generations of demographers in the UK and abroad.
Basia first joined the IUSSP in 1980. She was an active contributor to its activities throughout her career, delivering scientific papers at conferences and seminars and doing much to enliven the social events that followed the formal sessions. In 1986, she wrote Measurement of Emigration using Indirect Techniques on behalf of two IUSSP Scientific Committees. Then, with John Clarke, she edited the 1994 volume on Environment and Population Change that arose from a 1992 conference that was co-sponsored by the British Society for Population Studies and IUSSP. From 1995-9, Basia chaired the IUSSP Committee on AIDS. In that role, she co-edited a 1997 supplement for Health Transition Review: Evidence of the Socio-Demographic Impact of AIDS in Africa based on a seminar held earlier that year in Durban, South Africa. She was also one of the lead organisers of the ‘Seminar for Senior Policy Makers on the Demographic Impact of AIDS’, which was held at the World Bank in Washington, DC in January 1998. This event was influential in galvanizing the development community outside the health sector into recognizing that AIDS was a threat to socioeconomic development. The papers were subsequently published in a supplement of the journal AIDS. During this period, she also co-authored a 1998 IUSSP paper on Family Planning in the Era of AIDS. More recently, Basia was one of the authors of the 2013 IUSSP manual on Tools for Demographic Estimation and contributed sessions to the open-access online course on Population Analysis for Policy and Planning.
Basia was British-born of Polish parentage. She took a first degree in mathematics at Imperial College, London. Shortly after graduating she spent a year working as a teacher in Papua New Guinea for VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas). This sealed her lifelong interest in the developing world. In 1975 she enrolled in the MSc in Medical Demography at LSHTM. She stayed on to work as a Research Fellow in the Centre for Population Studies that had recently been established under the leadership of Bill Brass. In 1980 she left for Trinidad, where she worked for the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the University of the West Indies – and also met her husband. On her return to LSHTM in 1988, Basia developed an interest in research on population and environment issues. This led to her being awarded an ESRC fellowship that enabled her to conduct fieldwork in Mwanza, Tanzania. She was to retain close links with the country, basing herself there for periods of up to two years. It was her visit in the mid-1990s, however, that convinced her that HIV/AIDS was the major health, demographic and development problem facing the region, and for the rest of her career, she worked mainly in this field.
Basia’s far-sighted, seminal work on the demography of AIDS – including the establishment of the ALPHA Network of population-based HIV surveillance sites – and prolific publication record led to increasing international recognition. She gathered a large and able research group around her at LSHTM, became a full professor in June 2008 and was later appointed to the new Brass/Blacker Chair in Medical Demography. She became Head of the Department of Population Health in August 2015. Basia was an active member of the UNAIDS reference group on estimates, modelling and projections from its inception in 1998 and of the UNAIDS reference group on monitoring and evaluation of NACP. She also served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the INDEPTH Network, on the Wellcome Trust’s Panel for Population Studies and on a series of other advisory and funding bodies. She was the lead supervisor of more than a dozen successful PhD students, many of whom now hold senior research posts in academia, international organisations, or independent research institutes.
Basia was diagnosed with cancer in early 2016. With her typical passion for science, she promptly enrolled in a clinical trial for a novel therapy and got on with her life, continuing to work with undimmed drive and enthusiasm. She simply took an occasional day off to undergo rounds of therapy. She stayed on as Head of Department until May 2017, and continued to come into the office regularly until June 2018, when her illness took a sudden and very serious turn for the worse.
Basia was a keen cyclist, a massive fan of Manchester United and great fun to be around. She has been, and will continue to be, a huge inspiration to many. She is survived by her husband, David and three children, Bruce, Angie and Zosia.
Milly Marston, Georges Reniers, Emma Slaymaker and Ian Timæus
Population Studies Group
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Members’ Testimonials and Tributes
I am deeply shocked to hear this great loss to Demography Community. Basia was a good friend of mine since 1992. She visited Nepal in the late 90s and trained our faculty members on Indirect Methods of Estimation at the Central Departent of Population Studies (CDPS). Many of our faculty members like Dr. Yogendra Gurung, Dr. Keshav Adhikari, Dr. Sunil Acharya, Dr. Devendra Shrestha, Dr. Pushp Kamal Subedi, Dr. Prabha Kumari Hamal, Dr. Dhruba Das Ulak and Dr. Laxmi Bilas Acharya were trained in demographic methods at the Population Centre. Some of them even have earned Masters (Sunil and Prabha) and PhD (Laxmi Bilas Acharya). Her contribution to strengthen CDPS is greatly appreciated. I owe a tremendous debt to her. Her publications and contributions in Medical Demography are immortal. I pray for her soul rest in peace.
Dr. Bal Kumar KC, Kathmandu, Nepal
Very sorry to learn about this sad demise. I was in LSH from 1992 to 1996 and met her everyday. She alighted from her bike riding all the way sometimes from her home. Always had a smile and was deep into her work most of the time. She spoke to me once when I gave my first presentation offering deep insights to the development of my initial proposal.
She was very charming and always maintained her cool during graduate seminars, her contribution to the field of Demography will be remembered with due honour.
Professor Nashid Kamal, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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My Karabakh – Part II: 1988 – The Karabakh protests begin
Armenian journalist and writer Mark Grigoryan on his experience of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Armenian journalist and writer Mark Grigoryan describes his experience of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in a series of essays written exclusively for JAMnews.
The first installment titled ‘Hadrut, a donkey, water and a fight’ can be found here.
1988: the Karabakh protests begin
Yerevan, 1988. Photo: Ruben Mangasaryan
began for me on 21 February, when I set off with Samvel Shakhmuradyan to the museum of composer Aleksandr Spendiarov.
At the museum, we wanted to find out about the fate of a manuscript written by the composer’s daughter Marina, who described how in 1940 she, a young and talented singer, was shipped off to the gulag, having been accused of making an attempt on Stalin’s life.
But we didn’t make it to the museum. Neither that day nor later. We didn’t get there, because when we met, Shakhmuradyan told me:
“Let’s go to the protests.”
“What protests?” I asked.
“In half an hour there’ll be a demonstration by the opera house, where they’ll speak about how Karabakh has asked to withdraw from Azerbaijan and become a part of Armenia.”
And so we ended up at Opera Square. This was the first in a long line of Karabakh protests, which changed our lives forever and played a decisive role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
all seemed so simple back then: if Karabakh had been given to Azerbaijan by the ill-will of Stalin, then Gorbachev, who had declared the period of perestroykaand glasnost [Rus. restructuring and transparency], had to right one of the biggest mistakes made in the history of the Soviet Union and return the autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, where in all fairness it should have been from the very beginning.
This overly-simplified logic simply had to make its way to the ears of Gorbachev, who needed to hear the historic truth and the problem would be solved.
It seemed that to deliver a fair resolution to the problem would take Gorbachev just several days, or maximum a week.
But pay attention to one important detail: in this logic, there was no place for Azerbaijan, nor for Azerbaijanis. The first Karabakh protests were for Moscow; they were aimed at eliciting a reaction from the centre. And the centre did not take time in reacting.
Vladimir Dolgikh, a member of the Politburo that came to Yerevan, took a look at the masses of several tens of thousands of people (some accounts claim as many as 200 000 people were present) and said that they were ‘a bunch of extremists’.
A few days later, while speaking at a demonstration, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia, Karen Demirchyan, responded to the demand to have Karabakh join Armenia and, not hiding his annoyance, said: “Do you think I have Karabakh tucked away here in my pocket?”
I wasn’t at that particular meeting; I heard Demiryan’s words from Voice of America, because the tumult and emotions of the first demonstrations were so high that my gastric ulcer worsened, and I ended up in hospital. It was there that I heard about the Sumgait pogroms.
This was an enormous shock for me, as it was for many others in Armenia. We were completely unprepared for the idea that our fair demands on the Kremlin could be reacted to in such a way, especially when the reaction did not come from Moscow or Baku, but from an industrial city not far from the Azerbaijani capital.
People talked about terrible events both in their kitchens in Yerevan and at the demonstrations which took place next to the opera almost every day: hundreds of murdered Armenians, thugs roaming the streets, raped girls who were then burnt and who had been stabbed in the stomach. It would seem that we had been sent back to 1915, when the Armenians in the Ottoman empire were targeted simply for being Armenian.
It was wild and disorienting to imagine that Soviet authority, which had seeped into every crack and crevice of everyday life, including into our thoughts, was unable to do anything in order to stop the thugs in Sumgait.
Was it unable or was it unwilling? Had it organised the pogroms itself?
Many were overcome by despair, not knowing what to think. We were in a situation where the only way to find out what was happening in the neighbouring republic was to go to the demonstrations taking place on Opera Square in Yerevan. Rumours were not a negligible source of information. The Soviet press was silent.
But the so-called ‘enemy voices’ of the Voice of America, Radio Liberty and the BBC reported what they could. But they too were rather powerless: the USSR was still capable of preventing foreign correspondents from gaining access to places and events that, if exposed, could cause cracks in the facade of the myth of the unity of the Soviet people, their friendship and brotherhood, and also about the happy life of national minorities.
In those days, I, like many others, all of a sudden felt cut off from the rest of the world: Soviet television was completely silent about the events, only once in a while showing party functionaries of varying levels reading lectures on ‘the brotherhood of nations’.
These lectures gave rise only to anger and frustration. Those who were not involved in the conflict didn’t react in any way. These lectures were not needed by anyone.
aving been released from the hospital, I went to Moscow, where I was doing my PhD. My dissertation was more or less ready, and I just had to complete several small details. I already had a number of articles, all that remained were a few formalities to finish off.
I didn’t pack light for Moscow: I had to deliver a series of pamphlets which explained the ‘only fair position’ on the Karabakh issue.
With time, the Armenian position changed: the cornerstone of the movement was first humanitarian, then political, and then the Karabakh movement became the movement for the independence of Armenia. A few years later, this took on new dimensions entirely, and the war broke out.
But I am purposefully not describing what happened after 1988, because my aim is not to describe the ‘Armenian position’ in the conflict, but to speak about how I, a thirty-year-old man, felt in 1988.
Then, in the spring of 1988, I was convinced: the Karabakh problem was first and foremost a humanitarian issue. The picture looked like this: Armenians had it very difficult in Karabakh. They had it so tough that the population was in rapid decline, many of them preferring to leave, flee and emigrate from their native lands where they had been born and where their ancestors were buried.
Yes, the population of Nagorno-Karabakh declined in the Soviet years (it was the only Soviet oblast in which, untouched by the war, the population had shrunk and not grown).
With time, the number of Armenians became less and less proportionally. In 1925, they had made up about 90 per cent of the oblast, but in 1988 they were down to about 75 per cent.
This caused fears that Karabakh would suffer the same fate as that of Nakhichevan, which had also been settled by Armenians in the beginning of the century, and in which less than 2 000 Armenians remained by 1988, settled in just two villages.
I might be wrong about some of these figures. It’s been more than 30 years after all. But I remember that at the demonstrations, which played an enormous role in the formation of public opinion, they said that the humanitarian situation in Karabakh was not simply ‘bad’, but it was worse for Armenians than it was for Azerbaijanis because this was Baku’s policy: make sure the Armenians disappeared from Karabakh.
But time went on, and I began to notice that my friends and acquaintances all thought something different about what was going on in Karabakh.
But about that next time.
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CapTel – Captioned Phones for the Hearing Impaired
To those who can hear with ease, the thought of what life would be like without access to a telephone would probably never cross their mind.
Spare then, a thought for those of us who struggle to hear on the phone and how it must now feel to have an option of using a captioned telephone.
Captioned Telephone technology engages a third party operator who uses voice recognition technology to transmit real-time captions on the phone while you listen to the call - much like watching captioned television – it is WONDERFUL. The spoken word appears as captions on a large, easy-to-read screen at virtually the same time as the caller speaks, allowing conversation to flow at near normal speed between the two call participants.
Without a doubt, text messaging has opened up a world of communications for the hearing impaired, as has emailing however, many of our more mature family members prefer to use their telephones and as their hearing has deteriorated with age they have become isolated and often sad and lonely.
Louise Carroll CEO of The National Foundation for the Deaf said this is one of the greatest telephone communication breakthroughs for the hearing impaired sector. She also commented that following the announcement earlier this week that the registration cost for the first 200 people has reduced from $323.00 to $99.00 shows government and industry are also keenly in support of this technology being available too.
For more information and to register for a CapTel Phone visit www.captel.co.nz or call 0800 CAPTEL (0800 227 835).
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Liquid Telecom connects South Sudan to "One Africa" broadband network and the world
Transformative infrastructure will create a foundation for digital innovation and prosperity, while supporting the South Sudan Government’s positive economic growth forecast over the next decade.
South Sudan, 1st July 2019
From left to right; Hans Haerdtle (Liquid Telecom), Hon. Rebecca Joshua Okwaci - Minister of Roads and Bridges in South Sudan, Hon. Kuol Manyang Juuk - Minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs in South Sudan, Sam Nkusi (Liquid Telecom), Hon. Michael Makuei Lueth - national Minister of ICT and Postal Services in South Sudan, Hon. Juma Stephen - Jubek State Minister of Information and Communication, Adil El Youssefi (Liquid Telecom), Hon. Justin Aleer De-Mayen - Undersecretary, Ministry of ICT and Postal Services
Leading pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom will implement and operate South Sudan’s first fibre broadband network, connecting the country to the “One Africa” broadband network, which is approaching 70,000km across 13 African countries and to the rest of the world. This breakthrough foreign direct investment by Liquid Telecom has been recognised by His Excellency Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of South Sudan. Ministers along with other national VIPs are joining senior executives from Liquid Telecom during a symbolic fibre digging inauguration on Monday 1 July.
With phase one due to be completed before the end of 2019, Liquid Telecom’s network will eventually make reliable and affordable internet connectivity available for nearly 13 million citizens of South Sudan, as well as thousands of businesses, government institutions and non-governmental organisations. South Sudan will link to Liquid Telecom’s network across the region which covers the East African Community, a regional intergovernmental organisation of six partner states, the Republics of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania, and Republic of Uganda. The Community connects up to 300 million people and stimulates cross-border investment and trade.
This transformative infrastructure will ultimately create a foundation for digital growth, innovation and prosperity in this young country, while supporting the Government of South Sudan’s positive economic growth forecast over the next ten years.
“Liquid Telecom is immensely proud to bring fibre connectivity to South Sudan for the first time,” says Strive Masiyiwa, Executive Chairman of Econet Global and Liquid Telecom. “This modern ICT infrastructure will help address the most pressing challenges within South Sudan, including the urgent need for peace and state building, job creation and improved livelihoods. South Sudan’s 13 million citizens will be connected to 300 million people across the East African Community. Connecting South Sudan to the ‘One Africa’ broadband network will also champion pan-Africa trade and help build Africa’s digital future.”
His Excellency Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of South Sudan, commenting on this new partnership, says, “The implementation of this critical fibre infrastructure is a landmark step in the delivery of affordable communications access to the people of South Sudan, the business community, government and civil society. By connecting South Sudan to the global internet, this important infrastructure development will help improve social mobility, enable economic diversification and drive inclusive private sector-led growth and productive employment. The agreement is also ideally timed, coinciding with the signing of the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan.”
The first phase of the agreement signed between the Government of South Sudan’s National Communication Authority and Liquid Telecom will include a 300km fibre backbone operating from the border of Uganda, through South Sudan, to Juba. Multiple metro clusters will also support the capital city. This first phase is scheduled to go live in the last quarter of 2019. The network will be expanded to other cities in subsequent phases, in time supporting the country’s 13 million citizens.
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Clark's soaring scoring a big reason Mustangs are back in title hunt
April Clark went to Calgary last summer to play for the U Sports hockey all-stars against the Canadian women’s development squad and the Japanese national team.
She returned to Western as a scoring machine.
The fourth-year Mustang is tied for the national lead with 18 goals and, with four games left on the schedule, has already established herself as one of the elite scorers in program history.
“That (August summer showcase) in Calgary really helped me out,” the former Devilette and St. Marys native said. “I learned a lot from the players around me and it boosted my confidence even more.
“When I play with confidence, I think I play my best.”
That self-assurance has propelled Western, who were shut out in last year’s national final on home ice to Manitoba, into title contention again. The No. 9 ranked club faces the only team ahead of them in the Ontario standings – Guelph – in a critical tilt Saturday at Thompson Arena.
The Gryphons will be wary of the five-foot-three sparkplug, who has been filling the net against the opposition’s top defenders.
“She’s a factor on the ice and you can tell teams are gunning for her,” Mustangs coach Candice Moxley said. “She can do it all, really. She’s quick and takes away a lot of pucks. She also scores goals with three players on her back.
“She’s doing something pretty awesome here and hopefully, it continues through the playoffs.”
The production isn’t entirely out of character for Clark. She scored a team-best 12 goals last year in Kelly Paton’s final year as coach.
But this is new-level stuff for a player who takes as much joy in setting up a goal as she does finishing them. She has nearly three times as many tallies as assists this year.
April Clark practices with her Western Mustang teammates at Thompson arena in London. Derek Ruttan/The London Free Press
“I always thought of myself as a pass-first player,” she said, “and I still think I am. I’m creating a lot more chances and I look to pass the puck first. This year, I feel I’ve been in situations where I have to shoot the puck more – and they’re going in for me.”
She started out on a line with speedy Shailyn Waites and fellow veteran Alyssa Chiarello, but has lately been linked with Chatham native Sydnee Baker. The former Devilette played a couple of years at the University of Prince Edward Island before enrolling at Western.
Transfers are supposed to sit out a full year, but the Mustangs appealed on Baker’s behalf and was granted permission to play in December. Moxley also has adjusted the power play, making it more dangerous by moving Clark closer to the net.
“When I came in, I knew it was a strong team that didn’t lose a ton from graduation,” Moxley said. “A lot of them have been there and done that in this league. There are two berths for Ontario teams at nationals and the playoffs are going to be a grind.
“They know what it takes and we’re preparing to make sure we’re in a position to get back.”
This isn’t the end of the road for Clark.
She’s in her first year of nursing after transferring from the kinesiology program, so she will be sticking around for a fifth season.
“I think we have a great group of girls,” she said. “It’s obviously easy to come to the rink every day when you have such a good support system. I love everyone on the team this year. My goal is to play (in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League) or go overseas later.
“I don’t want to be done playing hockey yet.”
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Happy Hanukkah from Latinos in Kid Lit!
by Zoraida Córdova
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Hanukkah is the eight-day festival of light celebrated during the beginning in the Jewish month of Kislev.
Let’s get serious for a minute. I wanted to do some research about the intersection between Latino and Jewish people.
Latinos and Jewish histories have been intertwined for a long time, and most of it is full of wrong-doing by part of the Spanish. There’s the horrific moment in Spanish history when in 1492 the king of Spain ordered Jewish people to convert or to leave or be put to death. (Why don’t we learn from history?) Because of this, many Jews did convert to Catholicism to stay in their homes. In 2008, a study showed that 20 percent of men in Spain have Sephardic ancestry. In the Latin Americas, those who did go over to the New World kept their faith hidden. More recently, there was the immigration, asylum, refuge, and forced displacement of Jewish people during and after World War II. Thousands of refugees and Nazi camp survivors were able to find homes in South American countries though others barred their entry due to anti-Semitism.
During a visit to Ecuador in my teens, I remember driving past a Jewish home. How could I possibly know that they are Jewish? They had a beautiful Star of David in a mosaic on the outside gate. I say gate, but I mean a wall. Homes are mostly made of cement in Ecuador because of the humidity. Anyway, the neighbors largely mysticized them because they mainly kept to themselves. We have this perception of Jewish people as being separate. But when we spend the entire history of the WORLD marginalizing and trying to convert a group of people, and taking away their lives and rights, how can we even begin to call ourselves neighbors and allies? Today there is still a lack of intersectionality between minority groups and Jewish people.
Meanwhile, I keep thinking about how Jewish culture has enriched Latin culture. As a kid, I listened to lots of salsa music because of my mom and grandma. They listened to the Fania All Stars religiously. There was this guy nicknamed “El Judio Maravilloso” which translates to “The Marvelous Jew.” His name was Larry Harlow and his love and study of Afro-Cuban music spawned some of the best salsa we have. If you love Celia Cruz, she sang a beautiful version of Hava Nagila. For more on the Latino-Jewish music connection, listen to this NPR podcast: Bagels and Bongos. Music has a way of bringing people together.
This brings me to books. As we mix cultures and religions, where is the representation of the growing Latino-Jewish community? I have Ecuadorian-Jewish cousins. My friend (Jewish) and his wife (Bolivian) are celebrating their daughter’s first Hanukkah. They need books that show her different identities. When we talk about representation and diversity, we have to mean it. Latino-Jewish history is steeped in a painful past, but our present has wrought some excellent music and literature. And we need more. Here are eight books, by or about Jewish-Latinos, to get your started.
“My name is Marisol McDonald, and I don’t match. At least, that’s what everyone tells me.”
Marisol McDonald has flaming red hair and nut-brown skin. Polka dots and stripes are her favorite combination. She prefers peanut butter and jelly burritos in her lunch box. And don’t even think of asking her to choose one or the other activity at recess–she’ll just be a soccer playing pirate princess, thank you very much. To Marisol McDonald, these seemingly mismatched things make perfect sense together.
Unfortunately, they don’t always make sense to everyone else. Other people wrinkle their nose in confusion at Marisol–can’t she just be one or the other? Try as she might, in a world where everyone tries to put this biracial, Peruvian-Scottish-American girl into a box, Marisol McDonald doesn’t match. And that’s just fine with her.
A mestiza Peruvian American of European, Jewish, and Amerindian heritage, renowned author Monica Brown wrote this lively story to bring her own experience of being mismatched to life.
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When Isobel is invited to Aunt Luisa’s for Hanukkah, she’s not sure what to expect. Aunt Luisa has recently arrived from Mexico. “At Aunt Luisa’s you’ll get to celebrate the Hanukkah Moon,” Isobel’s father promises. Isobel’s days at Aunt Luisa’s are filled with fun and surprises — a new camera, a dreidel pinata filled with sweets, and a mysterious late night visit to welcome the luna nueva, the new moon that appears on Hanukkah. An unusual Hanukkah story with a multi-cultural focus, this title celebrates a little-known custom of the Latin-Jewish community.
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Jalapeno bagels are the delicious coming together of two cultures as the son of a Jewish baker and his Mexican wife decides what to bring to school for International Day. This warm story, illustrated by rich watercolors, comes complete with recipes for all the items that Pablo helps his parents make. Full color.
“Nono’s Kisses for Sephardic Children” is Flori Senor Rosenthal’s first of the Legacy and Literacy Scholastics Series. The book contains beautiful illustrations representing Ladino phrases. It was written to teach and encourage the usage of the Ladino language to children between the ages of 4 and 9. However, all ages will enjoy it and find it useful. Ladino or Judeo-Spanish is the language of Sephardic Jews. According to the United Nations, it is an endangered language. With each Ladino phrase found in the book, there is a question relating to its picture. This question, engages the parent and child into conversation. Ladino vocabulary words, pronunciations and English translations are provided to be used in these and other conversations and games between parents and their children. To make the learning experience even more fun, there is a hidden butterfly, in every illustration, to be found by the child. Ms. Senor Rosenthal’s father inspired her to write “Nono’s Kisses for Sephardic Children”. She wrote it to honor a tradition known specifically to Sephardic Jews. The book is an extraordinary teaching and learning tool for Ladino, and the Sephardic culture. However, those interested in the Spanish language and its history will also find this book interesting. Ms. Senor Rosenthal believes that her series will spark renewed interest in the Ladino language with the goal of having it removed from the endangered language list.
Lola Levine likes writing in her diario, sipping her mom’s cafe con leche, eating her dad’s matzo ball soup, and playing soccer with her team, the Orange Smoothies. So what if she doesn’t always fit in?
Lola is fierce on the field, but when a soccer game during recess gets too competitive, she accidentally hurts her classmate Juan Gomez. Now everyone is calling her Mean Lola Levine! Lola feels terrible, but with the help of her family, her super best friend, Josh Blot, and a little “pencil power,” she just might be able to turn it all around.
An eleven-year-old’s world is upended by political turmoil in this “lyrically ambitious tale of exile and reunification” (Kirkus Reviews) from an award-winning poet, based on true events in Chile.
Celeste Marconi is a dreamer. She lives peacefully among friends and neighbors and family in the idyllic town of Valparaiso, Chile—until one day when warships are spotted in the harbor and schoolmates start disappearing from class without a word. Celeste doesn’t quite know what is happening, but one thing is clear: no one is safe, not anymore.
The country has been taken over by a government that declares artists, protestors, and anyone who helps the needy to be considered “subversive” and dangerous to Chile’s future. So Celeste’s parents—her educated, generous, kind parents—must go into hiding before they, too, “disappear.” Before they do, however, they send Celeste to America to protect her.
As Celeste adapts to her new life in Maine, she never stops dreaming of Chile. But even after democracy is restored to her home country, questions remain: Will her parents reemerge from hiding? Will she ever be truly safe again?
Accented with interior artwork, steeped in the history of Pinochet’s catastrophic takeover of Chile, and based on many true events, this multicultural ode to the power of revolution, words, and love is both indelibly brave and heartwrenchingly graceful.
Emily is a Jewish girl from the suburbs of New York. Her mother has family in Puerto Rico, but Emily has never had contact with them- ever. Then Emily’s grandmother dies and Emily is forced to go to the Caribbean for her funeral. Buttoned-up Emily wants nothing to do with her big, noisy Puerto Rican family, until a special person shows her that one dance can change the beat of your heart.
Shirin is an Iranian princess; Ingrid, a German-Canadian eccentric; and Vivien, a Cuban-Jewish New Yorker culinary phenom. The three are roommates at a Swiss boarding school, where they spend their summers learning more than French and European culture. As the girls’ paths cross and merge—summers together, school years separate—they navigate social and cultural differences and learn the confusing and conflicting legacies of their families’ pasts. In the spirit of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Shirin, Ingrid, and Vivien grow together even when they are apart, forming unbreakable bonds along the way.
Zoraida Córdova was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where she learned to speak English by watching Disney’s The Little Mermaid and Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker on repeat. Her favorite things are sparkly like merdudes, Christmas, and New York City at night. She is the author ofThe Vicious Deep, The Savage Blue, The Vast and Brutal Sea, Luck on the Line, Love on the Ledge, and Life on the Level.
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A Response to Jana Riess’s “The Next Mormons”: The Importance of Disentangling Data from Argument
By Jacob Z. Hess Ph.D
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A Smorgasbord of Fascinating Books
By Jennie Hansen · May 15, 2008
By Jenny Hansen
May’s selections all come from one publisher, but are widely varied in subject matter and style. Two are part of popular series (one is church history and one is World War II). The other two books consist of a contemporary romance between a rancher and an environmentalist and the other is a mixture of mystery and psychological drama.
Those with eclectic tastes will enjoy all of them, and those with more specific tastes are likely to find at least one that suits.
A number of excellent series set during World War II have set the bar high for this type of novel. With Home Again at Last, Jerry Borrowman concludes his ‘Til the Boys Come Home series with a compelling story of the waning days of the war. Most novels dealing with this subject matter have been written from the American perspective, but Borrowman’s characters come from both sides of the ocean and this volume and the previous one have highlighted the British view.
Michael Carlyle is a lieutenant in the British Navy, a commander of a small Motor Torpedo Boat charged with protecting Allied vessels in the English Channel. He’s also the son of Viscount Philip Carlyle, a minister in Winston Churchill’s War Cabinet. His mother is an American from Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Carlyle family is still dealing with the suicide of Michael’s brother when Michael is transferred to the Italian front and placed under the command of an autocrat who makes clear his dislike for the young lieutenant. When the commander orders Michael to retreat and leave a landing party behind, the young officer disobeys the order, leaving him subject to court martial.
As he attempts to rescue the stranded men, his superior officer assumes command of his boat and leaves Michael and one other sailor along with the men of the original landing party stranded and subject to capture. They suffer greatly at the hands of their German captors until an allied plane bombs a rail yard as they are being transferred to a northern prison. Instead of ending their ordeal, they are left to their own devices to cross Germany and make their way into France, evade Nazi soldiers, and make contact with rebels without being killed by their own or other allied forces.
I found an interesting message running through this volume concerning social biases and assumptions. It’s good to recall that the thirties and forties were years when much of the world, including England, was rethinking class distinctions. Michael is ridiculed and subject to insults by a commanding officer because of his aristocratic background, but receives almost the opposite treatment as a prisoner because his captors consider his connection to a prominent member of Churchill’s cabinet makes him of more value than the other captives even though one of those captives is of slightly higher military rank.
Class has an impact on how he is perceived by other officers and by the men under his own command. It even enters into his relationships with young women. His closest friend is a brash young officer who shows no regard for their different social stations, which leaves him with a greater sense of freedom to be himself. His father, Lord Carlyle, is also torn by the weight of his title, which automatically opens doors for him yet leaves him feeling helpless to do anything real.
Home Again at Last is a satisfying conclusion to an excellent series that began with the First World War and spans two generations that were impacted by the two World Wars. It chronicles the close links that unite the British and the Americans and shows the gradual breakdown of class distinctions on both sides of the ocean. It reveals shared grief and acceptance of differences.
Excellent research and editing have gone into this novel, and there are few technical errors. It will appeal to men, young and old, but I think a large number of women will find it satisfying and intriguing as well.
In Silhouette, Nancy L. Cratty introduces a family that is falling apart. Leah is obsessed with finding her son who was abducted seventeen years ago. The memory of an outing to select a Christmas tree all those years ago haunts her day and night. Pregnant and suffering from morning sickness, carrying a sleeping two-year-old, and trying to keep track of an active four-year-old are not acceptable excuses in her mind for having allowed her son to run into the fog to a shadowy man she and the child thought was her husband, Garrett.
Chloe, the older daughter, has become excessively responsible while Jazzy, the younger daughter, has become an expert liar and is rebellious and immature. Garrett carries his own share of guilt, but as a family therapist, he believes that if his wife will agree to therapy, the family can put the terrible happening in the past and move on.
Instead of taking an active role in his daughters’ lives, he tends to distance himself from his family, losing himself in his work, while expecting his wife to assume most of the parenting responsibilities even though he knows she has emotional problems that limit her ability to parent.
The situation comes to a dramatic head when one of Chloe’s friends begins dating a young man, the family suspects might be their son and brother. Leah’s obsessive, impulsive behavior alienates her family and the young man. Jazzy’s escapades heighten tension while Chloe and Garrett have their own problems to deal with that are magnified by the over-reactions of those around them. The young man is confused and defensive. Conflicting needs and personalities raise the tension level.
Cratty has written a well-paced story dealing with emotional issues, loss, and grief, with their ramifications that hold reader attention. She has avoided the maudlin overly sentimental sensationalism this story could have easily become. She has created characters the reader can both sympathize with and want to shake some sense into.
Even though elements of the story are predictable, there is enough surprise to keep the reader intrigued with the developments. There is a strong sense of reality to the story not – only in the emotional toll taken by such a loss and the enduring nature of family love, but a vivid picture is also painted of the difficulty faced by these people as time takes its toll on expectations, unrequited dreams, and the continuation of life after trauma.
Silhouette is a compelling story that will appeal to teens and adults. It’s well-edited and plotted, holds an audience well, and is timely. The cover of this book, however, is probably its greatest drawback. Other than a vague, shadowy shape to one side of the orange and green Egyptian style block wall and passage image, the cover has nothing to do with the story.
Glory from on High by Marcie Gallacher and Kerri Robinson is the third volume in A Banner is Unfurled. This church history series is painfully and spiritually realistic as it is based on the actual diaries of the two authors’ ancestors. This third volume details the trying events of the Kirtland years, 1834-1837, when the Church’s greatest enemies come from within and many dear friends and leaders lose their testimonies.
The Johnson family is split in their loyalties as the Saints make the final push to finish the temple. Great spiritual manifestations strengthen Julia and her children’s testimonies and drive Ezekiel farther away. When tragedy strikes and one of their dear children dies, their separation becomes physical as well as emotional. Ezekiel moves to the next town and Julia and the children are left to fend for themselves.
Weddings, births, missions, illness, and death encompass their lives while around them is the constant threat of harm from the Church’s enemies. With the completion of the temple and the miraculous events that transpire there, Julia’s and the older children’s testimonies are strengthened and they receive hope of one day being united with their family members who have passed away.
But with the formation of the Kirtland Safety Society, trouble stalks the faithful as they move rapidly from land rich, but coin poor, to just plain poor. Local merchants refuse their scrip and will not sell to them even if they have cash.
Joseph Smith is blamed by many for the failure of the Mormon bank. Multiple attempts are made to imprison and disgrace him and the various family members are tried as they’re confronted by this failure. The Saints are being forced out of Kirtland, but how can they leave their temple? And how can the Johnsons bear the separation that will occur when some of the family moves on with Julia, but Ezekiel and a daughter wed to a non-Mormon are left behind?
Many of the members of the Johnson family were schoolteachers, and most kept detailed journals. Several members of the family wrote poetry and composed music. Many of those original poems are used to introduce chapters or highlight high or low points in the individual family members’ lives.
This series is exceptional. It is not only well-written, but the authors also have access to research that enriches and authenticates the events of early Church history. It holds the reader, young or old, men and women, spellbound as it captures not only the events, but also the doubts, fears, and joys those early church members experienced. Not only is this a spiritually rewarding read, but from an historical point of view it is also a fascinating study of the day to day life of Americans of the early- to mid-nineteenth century.
Kristen McKendry lives in Canada, but has set her first novel, Promise of Spring, in the Texas Panhandle. Her heroine, Melinda Keith, is a young woman who has been hurt by a devastating brief marriage and divorce. She also suffers from too much advice from a micro-managing mother.
Needing to prove to herself that she can survive on her own and to avoid her mother’s domination and the possibility of chance meetings with her ex-husband, she decides to buy a small panhandle farm where she can put her fervid environmental theories into practice.
Two years on the farm have produced a strong sense of independence and she has managed to build a nearly self-sustaining way of life raising vegetables, pigs, chickens, rabbits, and a small apple orchard. She takes advantage of sun and wind for most of her energy needs and has started a small experimental forest project. She has also formed a comfortable friendship with a neighboring rancher, Jack, who is also divorced, and who lives almost across the rural country road from her. She’s comfortable with her life; then a young widower with a two-year-old son inherits the ranch that adjoins Jack’s property.
Ryan Delaney and his small son are forces Melinda hadn’t reckoned on. They cause her to rethink her self-isolation and to re-examine her needs and values. When what seem to be small acts of vandalism escalate into serious sinister acts, Ryan and Melinda join forces to discover what or who is behind the attacks on their animals and their way of life.
This is a charming romance with an interesting setting that will appeal to many female readers. The action is low key until the last few chapters. The greater portion of the story is given to exploring healing from death and divorce and the building of new relationships. There are several religious concepts utilized in the story, but they too are mostly low key and there is more attention given to environmental preaching than to religious preaching. New age and romance readers will particularly enjoy this one.
Home Again at Last by Jerry Borrowman, published by Covenant Communications, hardcover, 330 pages, $22.95
Silhouette by Nancy L. Cratty, published by Covenant Communications, softcover, 234 pages, $15.95
A Banner is Unfurled, Vol. 3, Glory from on High, by Marcie Gallacher and Kerri Robinson, published by Covenant Communications, hardcover, 309 pages, $21.95
Promise of Spring by Kristen McKendry, published by Covenant Communications, softcover, 197 pages, $14.95
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Henry M Sneath
Pittsburgh, PA Trademarks Attorney with 35 years experience
(412) 288-4013 401 Liberty Avenue
22nd Floor
Free ConsultationTrademarks, Business, IP and Products Liability
Mr. Sneath is a Shareholder and Director at Pittsburgh's Houston Harbaugh, P.C. law firm. He is a business litigation and tort trial lawyer who has tried over 95 cases to verdict and specializes in business and commercial litigation, products liability, industrial accidents, intellectual property, patent, trademark and copyright, pharmaceutical and medical products liability, toxic torts, energy oil and gas, and insurance coverage bad faith litigation. He received his J.D. degree in 1983 from Duquesne University School of Law where he now serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law teaching Trade Secret Law and the Law of Trademarks and Unfair Competition....
Albert J. Soler
Philadelphia, PA Trademarks Lawyer with 15 years experience
(215) 989-4411 30 South 15th Street
Trademarks, Business, Entertainment & Sports and IP
Albert is a an attorney, legal media analyst, and founding member of Soler Legal LLC. Albert represents a variety of clients, including businesses, entrepreneurs, and start-ups in commercial and business transactions, federal & state litigation, intellectual property, licensing, merchandising, marketing, internet, rights of celebrity and publicity, and more.
Representative matters include breach of contract and commercial disputes, federal and state unfair competition, defamation, product disparagement, prosecution and enforcement of intellectual property rights worldwide, licensing and merchandising collaborations between prominent fashion designers, pop-stars, and iconic brands; global enforcement of intellectual property rights, negotiation of music, publishing, and recording deals, and general...
Joel D. Rosen
Norristown, PA Trademarks Lawyer with 37 years experience
(610) 275-0700 40 East Airy Street
Trademarks, Business, Employment and Patents
High Swartz Managing Partner Joel Rosen’s areas of practice include franchise law, business and commercial law, employment law, trademark/copyright law and commercial leasing. Mr. Rosen has counseled numerous businesses with regard to general corporate and commercial transactions, including formation, mergers & acquisitions, licensing, sales, and financing projects. Mr. Rosen’s corporate client base spans a broad spectrum of industries, including biotechnology, franchise, weight-loss, food and restaurant, consumer products, media and entertainment, software and technology, and nonprofit organizations.
Mr. Rosen presently serves on the Board of Directors of several nonprofit organizations, including The Hepatitis B Foundation, The Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center, The Baruch S....
Carrie A. Ward
(856) 471-1004 1221 Locust Street
Rutgers School of Law-Camden
Carrie Ward has twenty years’ experience in business law with a particular focus on entertainment, communications and media law clients. Carrie’s clients range from media group owners, small broadcasters and podcasters, actors, filmmakers, musicians and start-up entrepreneurs. Ms. Ward also serves as outside general counsel to corporate clients. In addition to her private practice experience, Carrie worked in the legal departments of ABC, Inc. and Entercom Communications Corp. These experiences provide her a unique ability to analyze a client’s legal matter to create the most practical and economical solutions.
Ms. Ward also works with...
Ryan P Siney
Lemoyne, PA Trademarks Lawyer with 10 years experience
(717) 234-4121 2 Lemoyne Drive, Suite 200
Lemoyne, PA 17043
Trademarks, Business, Communications and IP
The Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law and University of London (University College London and Queen Mary)
I help businesses and entrepreneurs with intellectual property, technology, software, e-commerce, data protection, licensing, contracting, product development and distribution.
I advise large and small companies regarding contract negotiations, international transactions, real estate, risk management, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and securities offerings.
I also represent creators of digital and traditional media, including web developers, graphic designers, musicians, performers, writers, artists and songwriters.
My clients are focused in the fields of technology, health care, entertainment, e-commerce, media, financial services, manufacturing, transportation and real estate.
I advise clients on topics such as: negotiating and drafting of license agreements, joint venture...
Austin White
WILLIAMSPORT, PA Trademarks Attorney
(570) 326-5131 835 WEST 4TH ST
I represent corporate and individual clients before the trial, administrative, and appellate courts of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. I also provide general counsel services to small businesses, municipalities, sole proprietors, artists, writers and musicians. I am an active member of the Lycoming Law Association, and serve as an assistant County Solicitor for Lycoming County.
Josh Gerben
Philadelphia, PA Trademarks Lawyer
(267) 908-3338 1650 Market Street, Suite 3600
The George Washington University Law School and American University Washington College of Law
Joshua Gerben is a trademark lawyer that helps small and large businesses register and protect their names or assets. Josh Gerben is the principal of Gerben Law Firm, a trademark firm that specializes in providing one on one services for trademarking. Mr. Gerben has worked with a wide range of companies and has extensive experience in the business world which flows over into assisting clients with getting the most favorable deals possible.
Adam G. Garson
Media, PA Trademarks Lawyer with 33 years experience
(610) 565-7630 201 N. Jackson St
Free ConsultationTrademarks, Business, Cannabis Law and IP
For more than 25 years, I have represented individuals and business of all sizes in a wide spectrum of business, commercial litigation and intellectual property matters. I now concentrate my practice on copyright, trademark and computer/Internet law with a focus on assisting entrepreneurs and early-stage businesses, particularly in the technology sector. I also represent individuals in the entertainment and publishing industry. In addition to my legal practice, I operate a software company, Essentia Software Corporation, which publishes a popular payroll software application for household employers.
Scott Eugene Scioli
Villanova, PA Trademarks Attorney with 18 years experience
(920) 474-6622 795 E. Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085
Free ConsultationTrademarks, IP and Patents
I am passionate about working with clients who are excited about their intellectual property and who value their IP attorney as an integral part of their team. When you hire me, you will find that I am intelligent, candid, and creative in my approaches. I listen to what you need, and work hard to help you get the results you want. I work very well with small to mid-size clients who do not typically have full-time in house intellectual property counsel, but need high quality intellectual property advice. I can help you stay out of trouble, and maximize your...
Zaman Eid
Philadelphia, PA Trademarks Attorney with 1 year experience
Free ConsultationTrademarks, Business, Communications and Immigration
I protect people and businesses.
Almost like a fortune teller, I foresee the issues before they happen. I help create efficiencies by putting policies in place that allow your business to grow safely.
Solutions, not problems.
Startups, small businesses, and established businesses need actionable solutions to their problems. Most lawyers can spot the issues, it is what we are trained to do, but in business, you need solutions that you can live with in order to grow.
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Being a part of the Hispanic community, I use my ability to speak Spanish to bring families together.
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Hilary J. Sumner
Lebanon, PA Trademarks Lawyer with 9 years experience
(717) 202-5528 752 Willow Street
Free ConsultationTrademarks, Business, IP and Patents
Intellectual property and regulatory compliance have been central to my career, both as an engineer and an attorney. I am passionate about protecting the ideas, concepts and inventions of others and I am always looking to bring my skills, education and experience to unique situations.
Matthew J Landis
Lancaster, PA Trademarks Attorney with 8 years experience
(717) 293-9293 930 Red Rose Court
Trademarks, Business, IP and Real Estate
Matt is a creative and strategic thinker that works with clients to prevent and solve problems. Matt concentrates his practice in Business Law, Information Technology, Privacy and Data Security, Real Estate and Banking and Finance. Whether working with an individual, a business owner or executive, Matt is passionate about identifying and achieving the best result for each client based on their unique needs. He utilizes technology to increase productivity, research thoroughly and efficiently and communicate effectively. Matt joined Russell, Krafft & Gruber, LLP in 2014 after several years in private practice with a Harrisburg area firm where he...
Michael J. Duffy Esq.
Philadelphia, PA Trademarks Attorney
(888) 414-5773 1500 Market St.
12th Fl. East Tower
Free ConsultationTrademarks, Divorce, Foreclosure Defense and IP
Rutgers University - Newark
Situated at the heart of Center City Philadelphia, with offices in South Jersey as well, Duffy Law, LLC provides outstanding legal representation for clients throughout the region in a variety of practice areas. Founder and Lead Attorney Michael J. Duffy, Esq. is a former business owner, operating a multi-million dollar international distribution company for over five years, serving tens of thousands of customers in over a hundred countries on five continents. Michael also worked overseas for several years, serving as the Corporate Training Program Director of UNESCO Vietnam from 2008-2010. In that capacity Michael helped multinational corporations engage with and understand...
Mr. Gerry J. Elman
Swarthmore, PA Trademarks Attorney with 51 years experience
(610) 892-9942 PO Box 209
Trademarks, IP and Patents
Robert L Wagner
(412) 562-1570 One Oxford Centre
301 Grant St., 20th Floor
Trademarks, Energy, IP and Patents
I am counsel at the Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, where I focus my practice in the energy, intellectual property, and complex civil litigation areas. In particular, I have represented plaintiffs and defendants in dozens of lawsuits throughout the country. I also have experience representing clients at trial, having successfully represented plaintiffs in a case with in a multi-million dollar jury verdict, and on appeal, having successfully argued before the Federal Circuit. I am licensed to practice in the states of Pennsylvania and Illinois, as well as being a registered patent attorney before the US Patent and Trademark...
Robert E. Gordon
Doylestown, PA Trademarks Attorney with 10 years experience
(215) 345-8888 116 East Court Street
Trademarks, Business, IP and Patents
Robert E. Gordon is a civil litigation, Intellectual Property (IP) and Patent attorney in our Doylestown, Bucks County office. He possesses comprehensive experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants over a wide variety of complex commercial litigation matters. Admitted to practice in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Robert has appeared in both state and federal courts throughout Philadelphia, Southern New Jersey, and their surrounding counties. He has represented both individuals and large companies, and has helped to secure multiple six-digit judgments for his clients. Robert’s broad range of civil litigation experience has also involved him in personal injury and workers’ compensation...
James Michael Smedley
(215) 315-3582 1900 Market Street
I am the managing member of the Sigma law Group LLC. I have a wealth of industry experience in the computer software and hardware fields to bolster the legal experience I have developed over the years. Our firm has helped hundreds of clients in both corporate transactional and intellectual property matters.
Our firm's primary focus is on intellectual property matters in the technology sector, mainly involving patent prosecution. However, we also handle a whole host of other transactional corporate and intellectual property matters, including licensing and due diligence on IP and M&A transactions.
On a personal level, I am an avid video...
Gwendolyn Rene Acker Wood
(412) 486-1038 436 Seventh Avenue
Duquesne University School of Law
Gwen R. Acker Wood, PhD., Esq., is a registered patent attorney with over 18 years experience in all forms of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks and copyrights. Her practice includes preparation and prosecution of U.S. and foreign patent applications, patentability and infringement/freedom-to-operate opinions, due diligence analyses and U.S. and foreign patent portfolio strategy and management. Dr. Acker Wood has a doctorate in biology, and her areas of expertise include biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, biomechanical and mechanical devices, chemistry and life sciences. Dr. Acker Wood is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the State of Ohio, the Western District of Pennsylvania...
Larry Keller
Philadelphia, PA Trademarks Attorney with 41 years experience
Trademarks, Business, Employment and Personal Injury
Stanley Stein
Pittsburgh, PA Trademarks Attorney
(412) 904-4573 445 Fort Pitt Boulevard
Duquesne University School of Law and University of Pittsburgh School of Law
"I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to practice in areas of law that are fascinating and challenging. More than thirty-eight years of litigating cases involving technology and business innovation means that every case is different and interesting. I am continually learning about technological advancements that I might not otherwise learn about and meeting clients who are super intelligent, entrepreneurial and adventuresome." Spending his entire law career with Feldstein Grinberg Stein & McKee, Stanley Stein concentrates his practice in Business-Related and Commercial Litigation, including Trade Secret, Non-Compete, and Intellectual Property Litigation, including Patent and Trademark Litigation. In addition, he litigates...
(215) 482-0285 36th Floor
Trademarks, Business and IP
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
I spent six years defending personal injury cases as a litigator in Pennsylvania and New Jersey state and federal courts. My clients were large corporations, big box stores, and business owners who found themselves on the receiving end of a lawsuit.
While my job in a law firm provided an adrenaline rush, I always wanted to be a business owner. I started my first business in my kitchen seven years ago and within a year and a half my products were sold in close to 100 stores across the country. I managed to...
Christina Frangiosa
(215) 851-8432 Two Liberty Place
50 South 16th Street, 22nd Floor
Christina D. Frangiosa counsels clients across various industries about intellectual property and technology law. Her combined litigation and transactional practice concentrates on copyright and trademark advisory services (search, applications, and use), counterfeiting, infringement, unfair competition, false advertising, trade secrets, licensing, and policy development. Chris’s experience ranges from educating clients about protecting their copyright, trademark, and trade secret rights, to negotiating agreements to protect these rights, and finally, to litigating and resolving their enforcement claims or defending against claims filed by others. She has appeared in state and federal courts on behalf of her clients and represents them in trademark...
Brock A. Hankins
Pittsburgh, PA Trademarks Attorney with 5 years experience
50 33rd Street
Joshua Slavitt
One Commerce Square
Karen T.W. Sutton
Mars, PA Trademarks Lawyer with 23 years experience
(724) 625-8993 216 Horseshoe Dr.
Joseph Carnicella
Joseph R. Carnicella is an associate with Picadio Sneath Miller & Norton, P.C. and focuses his practice in the areas of intellectual property and commercial litigation. Joseph also works with clients to register, monitor and defend trademarks. Joseph received his J.D. degree in 2005 from Duquesne University School of Law and his B.S. degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from The Pennsylvania State University in 2002. While in law school, Joseph served as a judicial extern for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Joseph is admitted in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the...
Mr. Stephen Gregory Stanton
Paoli, PA Trademarks Attorney with 29 years experience
(610) 296-5194 428 Hilltop Road
Kelly Williams
Four Gateway Center
444 Liberty Ave., Suite 1105
Trademarks, Business, IP and Products Liability
Nicole J. O'Hara
Allentown, PA Trademarks Lawyer
(610) 820-5450 33 S. Seventh Street
Joseph M. Konieczny Sr.
Plymouth Meeting, PA Trademarks Attorney with 28 years experience
(610) 940-1962 531 Plymouth Meeting road
Suite 526, Door L
Dickinson School of Law
Kevin Jon Moody
HARRISBURG, PA Trademarks Attorney with 37 years experience
(717) 234-8525 212 Locust Street
Trademarks, Appeals, Energy and Environmental
Ian J. Musselman
Richboro, PA Trademarks Attorney with 9 years experience
Richboro, PA 18954
Trademarks, Criminal Defense, Family and IP
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Trade and Investment in Libya
In 2004, when the UN Security Council lifted more than a decade of sanctions, Libya embarked on a process of slow but fundamental economic change. It invited international companies to invest in the development and expansion of its oil and gas reserves (which represent 95% of its exports), and its growing oil revenues began to finance significant investment in infrastructure and other sectors such as transport, telecommunications, banking and financial services, education and healthcare.A start was made on economic reform and, while the State continued to dominate the economy, Libya’s private sector began a cautious revival.
However, despite reform, strong revenue flows, zero debt and a growing sovereign wealth fund, only a small proportion of the population – largely those associated with the Qadhafi regime – prospered. Thirty percent of the population was unemployed. Foreign investors and other firms doing business in Libya continued to experience significant challenges: slow and arbitrary decision-making, late or incomplete payments, and an absence of transparency and predictability. The most business-friendly legal reforms were not introduced until 2009 and 2010 and, even then, the IMF expressed doubts about their status.
Pent up political and economic frustration (and the example of movements in other Arab countries during what was known at the time as the Arab Spring) precipitated a popular uprising, in February 2011, which began in Benghazi but quickly spread to the rest of the country. The eight months of fighting that followed ended with the removal of the kleptocratic Qadhafi regime, which had held power and dominated the economy for 42 years.
Inevitably, the Libyan economy suffered during the revolution and the IMF reported that GDP fell 60% in 2011. National and foreign firms involved in business and trade with Libya also felt the impact of sanctions and the civil war. The export of UK goods fell nearly 80% compared with the previous year.
A rapid resumption of Libyan oil production and export revenues in 2012 raised hopes of early economic recovery. Instead, factional, religious, tribal and local rivalries led to the rise of unaccountable militias and, in 2014, the weak and ineffective central government folded. The country has since been divided, with competing centres of power claiming authority over disparate territories – and sometimes vying for control of the economic institutions of the State. Some areas of the country are effectively lawless and smuggling has become a major and profitable industry.
In these circumstances, without a government able to provide a macroeconomic framework across the country, the Libyan economy experienced several years of recession, with GDP falling to half its 2010 level. The World Bank reported in 2017 that, “inflation hit a record level of 28.5 per cent over 2017-H1 … mainly driven by acute shortages in the supply chains of basic commodities, speculation in the expanding black markets, the de facto removal of food subsidies, due to lack of funds, and the strong devaluation of the LYD in parallel markets”. With these factors adding to the insecurity arising from violent political conflict, foreign trade and investment severely contracted – but never completely stopped.
In 2017, UK visible exports to Libya amounted to £49.6 million, only £10 million less than to neighbouring Tunisia. Although not a patch on UK exports to the market in the years before 2011, the figure illustrates that Libya continues to offer significant business opportunities.
The year also saw further positive developments on the economic front – not least, the success of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), under the Chairmanship of Mustafa Sanalla, in restoring oil production to 1 million barrels per day (bpd). At current oil prices, this is sufficient to fund budget expenditure and to support the currency (the Central Bank’s recent injection of hard currency into the economy boosted the LYD).
Moreover, it can do so without eroding the Central Bank’s financial reserves, which reportedly stood at US$67.5 billion at the end of 2017.
Meanwhile, the Libyan Investment Authority’s (LIA) assets, also of about $67 billion, remain frozen under UN sanctions and are therefore largely intact.
Libya’s potential attraction as a market endures, and will return to full strength once a political solution restores stability and security to the country. At 6 million, the population is small, particularly when set against the value of its oil and gas resources, and its highly accessible position close to Europe. Libya will offer a strong demand for reconstruction and development that it will be well able to afford.
New market entrants and British companies with longstanding experience of the Libyan market alike will then face determined competition from other countries’ suppliers as they bid for new contracts or seek to re-establish themselves in Libya.
But when the time comes, active engagement with the market and partnership with Libyan enterprises, with the help of the LBBC and the British Embassy, will unlock the trade and investment potential of a prosperous new Libya. Membership of the LBBC now enables UK firms to monitor Libyan developments, prepare for the restoration of normal business relations, and to establish a record with potential Libyan partners of familiarity and loyalty during harder times.
The LBBC was established in 2004 to promote business relations and commercial activity between the British and Libyan business communities.
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