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Jim Sensenbrenner, GOP Voting Rights Act Champion, Fears Black Panthers Case Will Stop Reform
By Ryan J. Reilly
WASHINGTON -- The best hope for replacing a key provision of the Voting Rights Act is a white Republican lawyer from Wisconsin who supports voter ID laws, thinks the Justice Department went easy on the New Black Panther Party, played a key role in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and once said first lady Michelle Obama has a "big butt.”
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner is a key voice in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives for replacing Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, which determines which parts of the U.S. must have changes to their voting laws precleared by the Justice Department. Section 4 was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court last month.
Sensenbrenner, who helped pass reauthorizations of the Voting Rights Act in 1982 and 2006, is once again a key Republican figure now that Congress is trying to fix what the Supreme Court killed. He was on the phone with Attorney General Eric Holder soon after the ruling came down and appeared before at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week.
“He’s a civil rights icon in his own right,” Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said during the hearing.
In an interview with The Huffington Post, Sensenbrenner, 70, said he was a skeptic of the Voting Rights Act during the first reauthorization he was involved in back in 1982. But the “evidence was so strong about continuing discrimination,” he said, that he helped convince then-President Ronald Reagan to sign it. Ahead of the 2006 reauthorization, congressional staffers put together “probably the most extensive record ever compiled by Congress on anything in the history of the Republic,” Sensenbrenner said.
Unfortunately, Sensenbrenner said, the Supreme Court “ignored all of that,” leaving Congress to come up with a new formula determining which jurisdictions need to have changes to their voting laws precleared. He admitted it’s an uphill battle.
“It’s going to be much more difficult,” Sensenbrenner said. “Both figuring out how to make Section 4 compliant with the court’s decision in the Shelby County case, as well as figuring out what type of a formula would be able to pass both houses, is going to require an awful lot of political input and negotiations.
“This is a puzzle that is not going to be easy to solve,” he said. “You know, if you sit next to someone who is doing sudoku on the plane, you know you’ve got the easy ones and the hard ones. This is going to be the hard one squared.”
There’s a few ways Congress could replace Section 4. For one, it could draft new legislation, using recent data, that forces areas with low minority voter turnout to have their laws precleared. Alternatively, members of Congress could pick out certain jurisdictions that have passed discriminatory voting laws in recent years.
Sensenbrenner, who supports strict voter ID laws like the ones the Obama administration blocked under the Voting Rights Act in Texas and South Carolina ahead of the 2012 presidential election, said it was too early to say what type of fixes he would try to pass. But no matter which he chooses, Sensenbrenner said the Justice Department Civil Rights Division’s track record will make it more difficult to convince Republicans that Voting Rights Act reform is necessary.
“The Justice Department’s activity and lack of activity, particularly with the intimidation that I think was going on in north Philadelphia with the New Black Panther Party, is going to make it much more difficult to revive the Voting Rights Act,” Sensenbrenner said. “The Justice Department is going to have to be in on this and they’re going to have to be sensitive that they’re going to have to address some of these concerns if there is to be a revival of the Voting Rights Act.”
In the New Black Panther Party case, heavily covered in conservative media, a Republican activist hired into a career Justice Department position during the Bush administration brought a 2008 voter intimidation case against members of the fringe group after a member held a baton outside of polling place in Philadelphia. Once President Barack Obama took office, his administration decided there was insufficient evidence to justify a civil case against one defendant and the New Black Panther Party. An internal Justice Department review found that Obama administration officials acted properly.
Sensenbrenner said he still has to determine whether the Hastert rule in the House will affect a vote to fix the Voting Rights Act. If so, the rule would require a majority of Republicans to support the fix before it can be brought to a vote. Sensenbrenner said he has spoken with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), but declined to elaborate.
“The thing is that the Voting Rights Act should be party-blind and colorblind," Sensenbrenner said. "We’re talking about the sacred right to vote rather than who has been elected. When Sen. Leahy at the Senate hearing yesterday called me a civil rights icon, I said, 'No, I’m a mechanic. Sometimes when your car is not working properly and you take it to the mechanic, the mechanic always takes more time than you hope before it’s fixed and you get your car back. I’m the mechanic.'”
Politicians React To Voting Rights Act Ruling
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Senior Justice Reporter, HuffPost
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President Barack Obama issued the following statement following the ruling: "I am deeply disappointed with the Supreme Court’s decision today. For nearly 50 years, the Voting Rights Act -- enacted and repeatedly renewed by wide bipartisan majorities in Congress -- has helped secure the right to vote for millions of Americans. Today’s decision invalidating one of its core provisions upsets decades of well-established practices that help make sure voting is fair, especially in places where voting discrimination has been historically prevalent. "As a nation, we’ve made a great deal of progress towards guaranteeing every American the right to vote. But, as the Supreme Court recognized, voting discrimination still exists. And while today’s decision is a setback, it doesn’t represent the end of our efforts to end voting discrimination. I am calling on Congress to pass legislation to ensure every American has equal access to the polls. My Administration will continue to do everything in its power to ensure a fair and equal voting process."
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US Sponsored Economic Warfare against Russia: Who’s Going to be the Ultimate Loser?
By Phil Butler
Global Research, September 04, 2017
New Eastern Outlook 2 September 2017
Region: Russia and FSU, USA
Theme: Global Economy, Intelligence
Full scale economic war in between America and Russia is underway. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said so, and the US administration and the American congress voted it in with new sanctions. The only question that remains is “who will win?” Here’s a look at the future of US-Russia relations and the ultimate loser in this new type of Cold War.
A fact most people are not aware of is that the United States is at risk of repaying its debt if anything major happens. The $20 trillion that America owes is by far the largest of any single country, and about as much as the 28 members of the European Union owe altogether. The sum is greater than what America produces in one year, or twice the debt to DGP ration of 1988. But now let’s look at the makeup of this staggering debt.
“Merika” With Hair on Fire
This debt-to-GDP ratio tells investors that the country might have problems repaying the loans. And Baby Boomers are by far the biggest domestic investors via social security and other trust funds. In short, recent administrations have mortgaged the legacy of a generation. President Barack Obama holds the record for piling up the biggest US debt, just so the reader knows. The Bush administration comes in second where piling up debt is concerned, and tax cuts piled on top of the expensive “War on Terror” emptied American coffers at a staggering rate after 2001 and the 9/11 event. Social Security, which will have to pay Baby Boomer retirees their pensions soon, was gutted by Bush and Obama. If these funds are not propped up, 75 million Americans will be robbed of their hard-won retirement. But Social Security and the trusts are only used to cover other US government departments. But what about foreign debtors?
Countries like China, Japan, and Great Britain buy treasuries as investments and in order to guarantee American trade (especially in China’s case). Buying “treasuries” also helps China and other countries keep their currencies strong versus the US dollar. But in 2016 the pattern of purchasing huge US debts altered when China lowered its holdings of U.S. debt. Furthermore, as the debt-to-GDP ratio increases, the nations that hold US debt might demand higher interest payments to compensate for the increased risk. After this happens diminished demand will derive cause interest rates to rise further. This situation will create a downward spiral that puts pressure on the dollar, and that will eventually increase interest payments to unsustainable levels. Once the US government can no longer sustain social security and other programs, it’s fair to assume the whole house of cards will fall. Currently, Social Security costs more than $1 trillion per year, and payroll taxes no longer cover the fund. So, Congress can no longer “borrow” from the Social Security Trust Fund to pay for other federal programs.
For fiscal year 2018 the interest on the debt is $315 billion, and this will double by the year 2027. But there’s no need for an economics lesson here, so I’ll proceed to Russia’s situation by comparison.
Debt Free by Comparison – Russia
Russia’s national debt is by far the lowest in Europe and the lowest in the former G8 countries. In fact, before the Ukraine crisis took shape Russia’s growth was astounding compared to the US, Germany, France, Japan, and the other G8 nations. Reuters reported Russia’s growth rate of 2.5 times that of the US in quarter 4 of 2011. Russian President Vladmir Putin’s repaying almost all of the country’s foreign debt, high energy prices combined with Russia’s exports to Europe were creating a Russia powerhouse economy. If the truth is ever told of the new “Red Scare” it will reveal fear as the motivator for a new Cold War waged by western powers.
When US President Donald Trump was elected many of his supporters believed there would be a “reset” to normal in US-Russia relations. These hopes were quickly dashed when the technocracy and the globalist control mechanism attacked Trump with a vengeance over his Russia narrative. Allegations of some form of collusion in between the new American president and Putin’s Russia became the flavor of the day for corporate and government controlled media. When Trump and Putin met in Hamburg there was renewed hope, but this was quickly dashed when the US Congress hurriedly pushed through a new sanctions law that rolled Russia in with Iran and North Korea. The Israel lobby (AIPAC) put the squeeze on its constituency in congress and on Trump, and a new economic war was waged. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said
“the US had declared full-scale economic war”.
Putin’s Russia having already made the “shift” eastward to Asia, the only logical reaction to the Trump reversal was to head full steam in the direction of Beijing. For a couple of years both Russia and China have been hoarding gold and taking steps to separate from the dollar currency. Where Russia’s natural gas is concerned, the blockages thru Ukraine and Syria created to Europe by the NATO nations have been circumvented. The Turkish South Stream project is back in full swing and Russia’s armed forces have help signal the end of ISIL in Syria. Trump signing this new sanctions bill will end up costing Americans and Europeans the future if I am right.
Further evidence of America has big trouble come from Sputnik News and China inviting Guinea, Mexico, Tajikistan and Thailand to the upcoming BRICS summit. Meanwhile Putin is creating a Ministry of the Future headed by economic whiz kid Maxim Oreshkin, who was recruited from the ranks of VTB Capital. According to Bloomberg Oreshkin is creating an informal group known as the “office of changes” bent on improving the structure of the ministry. The ministry will be staffed by renowned gurus like; “Ekaterina Vlasova, poached from Citigroup Inc, Pricewaterhouse Coopers’ Zoya Viktorova and Yulia Urozhaeva from McKinsey & Co.”
The Real Bear Market
An interesting aspect of Oreshkin’s emergence is his role in bringing about a pet project of Putin, in ramping up Russia’s place in the so-called “digital economy”. To this end the Russian president already demanded a final version of this “digital economy development program” be set in place by October. According to the Kremlin the new initiative should create support mechanism for the development of key end-to-end digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing, development of information and telecommunications and computing infrastructure, and financial incentives.
In conclusion, it’s abundantly clear that Dmitry Medvedev was right in finally giving up the ghost of hope for US-Russia reconciliation. One reason for this is the clear desperation western leaders and business exhibit in their all-out war on Putin. In fact, the only logical reason for trashing west-east relations has to be fear the system of banking and business in the US and Europe will fail. As for Russia’s play I am reminded of a report I made some months back on Putin’s “Third Way” for society. It’s been obvious for some years now the Putin administration has been battling to change Russia’s business and government ecosystem. But economic and geo-strategy assault from western powers has interrupted this plan. I believe Putin had intended to meld Russia’s new initiative into the existing G20 economic structure. But Trump’s turnabout forced a new direction. In the long view we can only watch and see if the staggering giant of American globalist capitalism can overcome a new power structure in world economics. If the Eurasian Union separates from the dollar, the world will certainly enter a time of dire crisis. We may soon witness a real bear in the world marketplace, one unwelcomed by Wall Street.
Phil Butler is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
Featured image is from the author.
The original source of this article is New Eastern Outlook
Copyright © Phil Butler, New Eastern Outlook, 2017
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Maryland Public Television's 15th annual Chesapeake Bay Week® starts April 21
Programs spotlight commerce, culture, and current events affecting the bay region
April 09, 2019 13:44 ET | Source: Maryland Public Television
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This new, half-hour MPT production offers dramatic aerial photography while telling the little-known but fascinating story of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
This half-hour MPT film tells stories of Maryland's all-important crabbing industry: those who catch them, buy them, and serve them for the crab-eating public.
OWINGS MILLS, MD, April 09, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- For the 15th consecutive year, Maryland Public Television (MPT) will celebrate the Chesapeake Bay region with Chesapeake Bay Week®, a slate of programs highlighting the importance and fragility of the nation’s largest estuary. During the week of April 21-27, MPT will offer nearly 20 hours of content celebrating the bay’s history, people, natural resources, and efforts to protect its diverse ecosystem, including 10 programs viewers will see on MPT for the first time.
This year’s Chesapeake Bay Week schedule on MPT-HD includes premieres of original productions, co-productions, and special presentations, such as The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal: Gateway to the World, Maryland Crabs: Tradition & Taste, Anacostia Revealed, and Saving Ellicott City. MPT will also present partner productions including An Island Out of Time, The Wild Ponies of Chincoteague, Welcome to the Table, The Legacy of Gilbert Klingel: Man of Steel, and Ocean Cities: Exploring Our Connection to the Sea.
MPT’s annual Chesapeake Bay Week is a unique broadcasting initiative and part of the statewide public TV network’s ongoing commitment to celebrating the bay and examining critical issues faced by communities throughout the Chesapeake region.
In concert with this year’s Chesapeake Bay Week broadcast line-up, MPT Digital Studios will debut Smith Island – a conversation with Tom Horton. This digital-first production highlights social, cultural, and environmental changes affecting the dwindling Chesapeake Bay island through the testimony of longtime resident and environmental expert Tom Horton. The nine-minute segment is available to stream online at mpt.org/digitalstudios/thedig/ beginning Thurs., April 11.
New programs airing on MPT during Chesapeake Bay Week 2019 include:
The Wild Ponies of Chincoteague – Mon., April 22 at 8 p.m.
This hour-long film follows the annual Chincoteague wild pony swim and auction, as well as one teenager's journey to buy her first foal. The documentary begins with the legend of how the ponies came to inhabit the islands of the Chesapeake in the 17th century and illustrates how the wild animals are managed today, including the annual auction held by the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company.
The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal: Gateway to the World – Mon., April 22 at 9 p.m.
This half-hour MPT production offers dramatic aerial photography while telling the little-known but fascinating story of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, an important 14-mile trade route used extensively by international commercial mariners. The canal is called “Baltimore’s back door” because it’s a money-saving shortcut between the Port of Baltimore and points north via the Atlantic Ocean. Its construction in the early 1800s was a catalyst to the city’s growth as a major inland port. It continues as a nautical gateway to and from Baltimore and carries more than 40% of all trade traffic into the port.
Maryland Crabs: Tradition & Taste – Mon., April 22 at 9:30 p.m.
People love to eat crabs, and watermen are happy to catch and sell them. An entire industry grew out of this relationship between fisher and eater, one that’s an economic engine for locals who work the water, and for the others who earn a living from its crab bounty. But times are changing. Facing unexpected challenges, the blue crab industry is tentative as it looks to the future. While water-men and -women are working trotlines and pulling crab pots to processing houses dotting the banks of the bay, uncertainty is today’s watchword for an industry that works largely out of the public eye. From labor shortages to crab harvest declines, international competition, and water quality issues, this half-hour MPT film illustrates the challenges facing individuals who work on the water. Click here to view the trailer for Maryland Crabs: Tradition & Taste.
An Island Out of Time – Tues., April 23 at 8 p.m.
This half-hour documentary about Smith Island, Maryland, features island residents Mary Ada and Dwight Marshall. Their lives personify the Chesapeake Bay’s seafood-harvesting culture and history, but their four children chose to break with that tradition. The film, like Tom Horton's 1996 book, An Island Out of Time, is both a celebration and elegy for a place beset with increasing erosion, dwindling population, and vanishing economic opportunities. Click here to view the trailer for An Island Out of Time.
Welcome to the Table – Wed., April 24 at 8 p.m.
Long-time residents and new arrivals reveal how local foodways provide a powerful connection to the land and water, to family and community, to memory and tradition. The one-hour film is filled with great stories, told by diverse local characters, about their personal relationship to the land and the water that defines this region.
Saving Ellicott City – Thurs., April 25 at 8 p.m.
Ellicott City, Maryland, is a mill town that has lived with floods for 250 years and has always rebuilt after the waters recede. But its citizens are becoming fearful as the rains and flooding have worsened and development has increased. This half-hour documentary, produced by students at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill School of Journalism, tells the story of townspeople who have been traumatized after losing four lives, several local businesses, and their last bit of hope when they experienced two 1,000-year floods in less than two years.
Anacostia Revealed – Thurs., April 25 at 8:30 p.m.
Produced by students at the American University Center for Environmental Filmmaking, this half-hour film pulls back the curtain on the Anacostia River. The waters that run through the nation’s capital are beautiful, but they are troubled by centuries of abuse, neglect, and man-made pollution. Though some cleanup efforts by the city of Washington, D.C. have been implemented, a series of passionate local residents and river keepers – all experts in their fields – have generated public awareness of their watershed to shed light on its problems. Click here to view the trailer for Anacostia Revealed.
The Legacy of Gilbert Klingel: Man of Steel – Thur., April 25 at 9 p.m.
This one-hour film introduces viewers to Gilbert Klingel. The 20th-century naturalist and self-taught explorer spent his life studying the Chesapeake Bay. He also served as director of the Maryland Historical Society, reporter for The Baltimore Sun, chief metallurgist for ARMCO, and authored four books, including The Bay and Seeing Chesapeake Wilds.
Ocean Cities: Exploring Our Connection to the Sea – Thur., April 25 at 10 p.m.
In this era of climate change and sea level rise, how can coastal cities around the world innovate and connect to the oceans they border? During this half-hour documentary, Professor Timothy Beatley explores urban projects around the world representing the new green movement that hopes to move beyond our urban environments to a regenerative way of living.
About MPT
Launched in 1969 and headquartered in Owings Mills, MD, Maryland Public Television is a nonprofit, state-licensed public television network and member of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). MPT’s six transmitters cover Maryland plus portions of contiguous states and the District of Columbia. Frequent winner of regional Emmy® awards, MPT creates local, regional, and national television shows. Beyond broadcast, MPT’s commitment to professional educators, parents, caregivers, and learners of all ages is delivered through year-round instructional events and the super-website Thinkport, which garners in excess of five million page views annually. MPT’s community engagement connects viewers with local resources on significant health, education, and public interest topics through year-round outreach events, viewer forums, program screenings, and phone bank call-in opportunities. For more information visit mpt.org.
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Your Right To A Free And Open Internet Is In Danger
by Andre Grant
Net neutrality—the idea that all internet traffic should be available to everyone equally whether you’re streaming music, watching movies or reading the newspaper—once again finds itself in need of saving.
Internet Service Providers, or ISPs, have long argued that laws preventing them from slowing service and forcing companies and individuals to pay premiums to keep their data moving quickly—along with restrictions imposed by basic telecommunication rules—are unfair to the industry.
While the world at large understands forcing people to pay more for something others get for free is unfair, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, agrees instead with the ISPs.
Pai has already claimed that the policies allowing the FCC to punish ISPs for violating net neutrality rules have their “days numbered.” In remarks before the Free State Foundation, he described the rules of net neutrality, which classified the web as a public utility, as “a solution that wouldn’t work for a problem that didn’t exist.” Ouch.
Sadly for all of us who connect with friends, conduct our business, and stay informed using the web could find ourselves in trouble. With a Republican-controlled House and Senate, the reversal and repeal of the FCC’s net neutrality guidelines established in 2015 could easily be realized. Already, 25 senators have proposed a bill to kill internet privacy rules to allow companies to share your browser history so they can sell more ads.
To oppose any anti-net neutrality measures, more than 170 groups — including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation—have endorsed an open letter urging the FCC to reconsider its position on net neutrality rules.
“The continuation of net neutrality is essential to the continued growth of the country and to ensuring access to social, political, and economic empowerment for all,” said the letter. It continues, “Since the order went into effect, broadband infrastructure investment is up, ISP revenues are at record highs, and businesses continue developing innovative ideas and offerings.”
Recently, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed suit against Time Warner for doing the sorts of things that net neutrality protects against. Here’s a snippet of the complaint filed when Netflix refused to pay a levy to allow streams to remain unaffected:
“The quality of the Netflix video streams received by Spectrum-TWC subscribers dipped significantly during peak hours...This resulted in subscribers getting poorer quality streams during the very hours when they were most likely to access Netflix.”
But fear not, there may be hope just like there was with Thomas Wheeler, Barack Obama’s FCC chairman appointee.
At the time of his appointment, Wheeler had been a 20-year lobbyist in the private sector for cable companies including The Wireless Association (CTIA), a group that now happens to back Pai in hopes that he repeals net neutrality edicts.
Lobbying groups for the cable and internet industries lauded Wheeler’s nomination, believing he would slow net neutrality laws, saying at the time, “We applaud President Obama on his nomination of Tom Wheeler to be the next FCC Chairman.”
But in a surprise twist, Wheeler became cable and internet provider’s worst nightmare, turning net neutrality principles into law. His marquee policies led to hard-won legal victories that categorized providers as the public utility they are considered today.
Perhaps we can hope Pai will have the same change of heart that Wheeler did.
For now, as we’ve been doing for a number of measures, the best way to make your voice heard on net neutrality and continuing fairness for all are in the form of phone calls, letters, and pressure on your individual representatives. Here’s how to contact them.
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Intellipharmaceutics International Inc. Announces $10,000,000 Equity Financing Commitment
TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / July 8, 2019 / Intellipharmaceutics International Inc. (OTCQB: IPCIF and TSX: IPCI) ('Intellipharmaceutics' or the 'Company'), a pharmaceutical company specializing in the research, development and manufacture of novel and generic controlled-release and targeted-release oral solid dosage drugs, announced today that it has obtained an equity financing commitment of up to $10,000,000 from Silverback Capital Corporation, a private investment firm ('Silverback Capital').
During the 36-month term of the equity financing commitment, Intellipharmaceutics may sell shares of its common stock to Silverback Capital up to the $10,000,000 total commitment at a 25% discount to the volume weighted average price of the Company's common stock for the 5 trading days prior to the date the Company provides notice to Silverback Capital, or if the maximum discount rate allowed by the Company's principal exchange is less than 25%, then the maximum discount rate allowed. Intellipharmaceutics will determine, in its sole discretion, the timing and amount of any sales of its stock, subject to certain conditions. Upon notice by the Company, Silverback Capital is required to purchase the shares, subject to certain conditions, including, but not limited to, that there is an effective U.S. registration statement covering resale of the shares.
Under the equity financing commitment, the Company has agreed to use the funds for general corporate and working capital purposes.There can be no assurance that the equity financing commitment from Silverback Capital can be completed as planned, or at all.
About Intellipharmaceutics
Intellipharmaceutics International Inc. is a pharmaceutical company specializing in the research, development and manufacture of novel and generic controlled-release and targeted-release oral solid dosage drugs. The Company's patented Hypermatrix™ technology is a multidimensional controlled-release drug delivery platform that can be applied to a wide range of existing and new pharmaceuticals. Intellipharmaceutics has developed several drug delivery systems based on this technology platform, with a pipeline of products (some of which have received FDA approval) in various stages of development. The Company has ANDA and NDA 505(b)(2) drug product candidates in its development pipeline. These include the Company's abuse-deterrent oxycodone hydrochloride extended release formulation ('Oxycodone ER') based on its proprietary nPODDDS™ novel Point Of Divergence Drug Delivery System (for which an NDA has been filed with the FDA), and Regabatin™ XR (pregabalin extended-release capsules).
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How to Use the Negotiation Tactic That Landed This NFL Player $114 Million
Here's how Von Miller became the richest defensive player in NFL history.
By Kevin J. RyanStaff writer, Inc.@wheresKR
As NFL linebacker Von Miller and his agent demonstrated last year, taking big risks in a negotiation can sometimes go a long way.
Miller had a huge 2015-16 season, and his performance in the Super Bowl earned him the game's MVP and helped his Denver Broncos win their first championship in 17 years.
Yet after the season, Miller found himself in an unfavorable bargaining position: Broncos management was giving him an exclusive franchise tag. That meant that instead of becoming a free agent with the ability to negotiate a deal with any team, Miller would be automatically assigned a one-year, $14.7 million contract from the Broncos.
While certainly not a shabby number, that contract also meant Miller's ability to test the open market would be delayed by a year. What's more, a devastating injury in the upcoming season could mean that Miller, still only 26, might never earn the long-term deal his talent is worth.
Miller's agent, Joby Branion, knew his client--arguably the best linebacker in the league--could earn much more than that if he had any bargaining chips. The pair came up with their play: They would tell Broncos general manager John Elway that Miller would sit out the upcoming season if he didn't get a long-term deal.
"For it to be real leverage," Branion says, "Von had to be committed to the idea. He had to accept that he might have to walk away and not play that year. It couldn't be puffery." They went all in: Branion told the Broncos his client wouldn't play without long-term security, and Miller announced the same on social media.
That July, Miller slipped up. While on Chelsea Handler's talk show, Miller responded to a question about whether he would really sit out with a bit too much optimism. "No," he told the host. "I can't see myself with any other team." Branion's camp panicked briefly--and then strategized. The next morning, Miller posted on his Instagram account that there was "no chance" he would play with the franchise tag.
For the next few weeks, Miller and Branion held strong. The strategy worked. Hours before the league-imposed deadline, Miller and the Broncos agreed to a six-year, $114.5 million deal, the biggest contract for a defensive player in NFL history.
Telling the other side you're willing to walk away from a deal can be a powerful negotiating tool, but it's not for the weak of heart--and will only work if you execute it correctly. Here's how you can.
1. Have a deep understanding of the entire competitive landscape.
Cristina Cordova, who heads business development for fintech company Stripe, has secured partnerships with Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest, among others. "When we're thinking about working with a partner," she says, "and there could potentially be other partners we can work with in the same space, we make sure we really understand the landscape. Do we want company X, or company Y?" Answering that requires knowledge of your own situation as well. "You need to know what your asks are," she says, "and prioritize those asks."
2. Set your minimum ahead of time.
Know the least favorable terms that you'd be willing to accept, says Melissa Thomas-Hunt, a bargaining professor at the University of Virginia. But, of course, don't let the other side know what those minimum thresholds are. "You keep that information close," she says, "because if they know it, the rational thing for the other side to do is push you right to that limit."
3. Accept the consequences of walking away.
By coming to terms with the possibility of foregoing a year of salary and playing time, and convincing Elway and the Broncos of it, Miller and Branion took back the power, Thomas-Hunt says. Be prepared to live with the consequences of walking away, whether they entail losing capital or burning a bridge with a potential future partner. "If you truly can accept those things," she says, "it gives you a much stronger position in your negotiations."
4. Be convincing.
"The threat of walking away is only as good as the other side's belief that you will do it," says Alison Fragale, a negotiation professor at the University of North Carolina. That's why Miller's slip-up on the talk show could have been devastating for his leverage. "If the other side doesn't believe it," she says, "it becomes an empty threat, and then you've lost your power."
Kevin Mohan, a professor at Harvard Business School, summarizes game theorist Thomas Shelling: "The one who wins a game of chicken," he says, "is the one who takes his steering wheel and throws it out the window, and proves that I'm not going to turn--because I can't."
5. Mentally prepare yourself for the challenge.
Branion says that Elway and the Broncos have a uniquely hard-nosed style of negotiating, with curt communication and little willingness to go back and forth on terms. Whatever your opponent's style is, make sure you're ready for the fight. "John Elway is not going to just cave on anybody. If you're dealing with him, buckle up," Branion says. "But you can't be afraid to hold your position."
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The history of Ukraine
Both the European Community and President Putin are making plays for Ukraine’s favours. Chris Bowlby looks at the republic’s varied history to explore its present dilemma
Anti-government demonstrations in Kiev’s Independence Square have been persistent since last November, prompting violent responses from riot police armed with truncheons and tear gas. Demonstrators have denounced what they see as the corruption and incompetence of the regime led by president Viktor Yanukovych. But this is much more than an internal Ukrainian affair.
The contest on the streets of Kiev is also a battle for influence between Russia and the European Union, both promising Ukrainians new forms of economic assistance and political association. Ukraine – which only achieved independence as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 – is often portrayed as poised between Europe’s east and west.
Simple geography illustrates Ukraine’s pivotal position. As Europe’s second largest country, its territory reaches deep into that of modern Russia, but it shares borders too with several EU members, including Poland and Hungary. For historians, however, this tension is more subtle than simple ideas of east-west division, and concerns a lot more than, say, trade deals.
President Putin made headlines in December with his agreement to cut by a third what Russia charges Ukraine for gas. But Russia’s – and Putin’s – sense of linkage to its geographical neighbour runs far deeper. Geoffrey Hosking, one of the UK’s leading historians of Russia and its influence, points out that “the origins of both states lie in Kiev, and in the medieval state known as Kievan Rus”. This means that Russians “think of the two countries as being very closely related. It’s like England and Scotland.”
Putin sought to dramatise these deeper links last July when he visited Ukraine to join celebrations commemorating the conversion of Prince Vladimir of Kiev to Christianity in 988, a key moment in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. Putin spoke of the “spiritual unity” of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples: “in this sense,” he said, “we are, without a doubt, one people”. Dr Andrew Wilson, Reader in Ukrainian Studies at University College London, points out that this version of history is reinforced in Russian school textbooks and mass media.
But it’s important, argues Dr Wilson, to see Ukraine – both its territory and its identity – as more of a “shifting jigsaw” than a single coherent unit. While some parts retain genuinely close links with Russia, other parts still reflect in their voting patterns today that they were once under, say, Polish rule.
In the early modern period, Kiev and the lands around it were ruled as part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, making them open to influences such as the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation. And Galicia in western Ukraine was ruled for a long period as part of the Habsburg empire. “You get a very strong current of Habsburg nostalgia there,” notes Wilson, symbolised by the revival of coffee shops in cities like L’viv (formerly Lemberg). “You can make the argument that this is a lost part of central Europe.”
This western part of Ukraine, adds Professor Hosking, has “had a completely different history”. Many of its people are not Russian Orthodox but belong to the Uniate church – the Greek Catholic church as it is often known – that conducts its rite in Ukrainian and acknowledges the pope as its spiritual head. Another part of today’s Ukraine with a very different past is Crimea, with its Greek and Tartar links, plus periods under both Ottoman and Russian rule.
In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made its own re-ordering of the Ukrainian jigsaw. Western Ukraine was taken by Stalin from Poland at the end of the Second World War. Crimea was transferred by Moscow to the Ukrainian republic within the USSR in the 1950s, but retains strong links with Russia, symbolised by the Russian Black Sea fleet base in Sevastopol. And Soviet rule did bind Ukraine more tightly into Russian influence than ever, often at terrible cost. Millions of Ukrainians already part of the USSR in the 1930s died in famine engineered by Stalin.
However, Soviet Moscow never dominated Ukraine culturally. Economic, political and military decisions were imposed from the centre, says Hosking, but Ukraine “did have a certain autonomy” in culture and education. While Russian was the dominant language, primary school children learned Ukrainian, many books were published in the language and, in the second half of the 20th century, “a strong Ukrainian national movement grew up in the Soviet Union of people who had been through a Ukrainian education”.
Many of those nationalists now look towards western Europe for help. And the European response is also conditioned by deeper history. Poland has been especially active, says Andrew Wilson, reflecting its close links with Ukraine as well as its old strategic desire for buffer states between Poland and Russia.
Sweden too has also been prominent in EU diplomacy, an initiative that led Putin’s government to mischievously recall the defeat of Swedish forces by Russians at the battle of Poltava in 1709. Germany also takes a close interest; its involvement, though, is tempered by memories of the appalling suffering of Ukraine, above all its Jews, at the hands of Germans during the Second World War.
So all sides try to deploy history in the battle for influence in Ukraine. Protestors in Kiev argue that western links should shape Ukraine’s modern search for democracy and prosperity. President Putin combines the rhetoric of ancient spiritual bonds with warming winter offers of cheap gas and trade deals – a reminder to its citizens, especially those in the east of the country, that they have long been dependent on Soviet-style heavy industry.
But while Putin preaches profound Russian-Ukrainian kinship, there is one link he wants to discourage. The Ukrainian protestors’ criticism of corruption, powerful oligarchs and authoritarian politicians is something he is desperate to keep as far away from Russian streets as possible. And President Yanukovych, prevented from taking office after a disputed election in 2004 when Ukrainians staged their ‘Orange Revolution’, also fears people power. Older history, suitably massaged, is much more to these presidents’ liking.
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Your 60-second guide to the Crimean War
Molotov’s Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History
Russia against Napoleon
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IFLR / Magazine archive / Latest issue / The EAC Double Taxation Treaty explained
The EAC Double Taxation Treaty explained
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Birungyi Barata & Associates discuss what the East African Community Double Taxation Agreement means for raising capital and investment in the region
The East African Community Double Taxation Agreement (EAC DTA) is a multilateral treaty for the avoidance of double taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income. The parties to the treaty are the Republics of Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and the United Republic of Tanzania. The treaty seeks to eliminate double taxation among the states by imposing an obligation on the resident state to give credit for the source state tax against the resident state tax on income or exempt the income from tax. However, only the Republic of Rwanda has to date ratified the treaty despite the fact that the East Africa Community council of ministers approved the treaty in 2010. The main avenues of raising capital in East Africa are mortgaging, creating charges and issuing of bonds, on one hand, and rights issues listing and private placements, on the other. The cost of borrowing differs from country to country. Statistics from the respective central banks put the apparent commercial bank interest rates at 23% in Uganda and Tanzania; 17% in Rwanda; 16% in Kenya; and 16% in Burundi. The EAC DTA has an implication on the raising of capital and investment in East Africa. Here are its key financial aspects.
Business profits
The agreement provides that profits of an enterprise are only taxable in the country of residence and so are profits from permanent establishments. However while determining profits of a permanent establishment, amounts charged by the permanent establishment to the head office of the enterprise or any of its offices by way of royalties or fees are not taken into account save for banking enterprises.
The East African partner states have the same rates of corporation tax (30%) and as such the EAC DTA maintains the status quo in regard to the rates. This limits tax competition among the East African Community states while the decision to invest in any of the states would be based on other factors such as the return on capital employed (ROCE), residual income (RI), gross domestic product (GDP) and so on.
Dividends paid by a resident company to a resident of any other East African state may be taxed in that state or in the state in which the company paying dividends is resident. However, when such dividends are taxed in the state in which the company paying the dividends is resident, the rate is capped at five percent of the gross amount of the dividends provided that the recipient of the dividends is the beneficial owner of the same.
The DTA defines the term dividends to mean income from shares or other rights, not being debt claims, participating in profits, as well as income from other corporate rights which is subjected to the same taxation treatment as income from the shares by the laws of the contracting state of which the company making a distribution is a resident. The definition is therefore limited to distributions made in cash and is similar to the definition under the tax regime in Rwanda.
"The agreement puts in place anti-tax abuse measures which aim at avoiding the improper use of the treaty"
On the contrary, the definitions under the tax regimes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda include the issue of bonus shares to shareholders although, in Kenya, any other property distributed by a company to its shareholders with respect to their equity interest in the company is considered a distribution of a dividend. Unlike Kenya and Tanzania, in Uganda the payment of tax on a dividend in respect of bonus shares is deferred until the disposal of the shares. The disparities in the definition and treatment of dividends may breed disputes such as the applicability of the EAC DTA to distributions which are made in kind or whether the said distributions fall within the phrase 'participating in profits' as used in the agreement.
In Uganda dividends to non-resident individuals are charged at a rate of 15% of the gross amount payable and the same rate is applicable in Rwanda and Burundi while in Kenya and Tanzania the rate of tax stands at 10%. However, in Rwanda and Kenya a rate of five percent is applicable to dividends paid to residents of any of the partner states. In the tax perspective and all factors constant, Kenya and Tanzania would appear to be the better countries for foreign firms to hold equity while in regard to interstate investment, Rwanda and Kenya would appear to be the better states to hold equity.
Although the agreement impliedly covers dividends distributed by listed corporations, some states such as Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda treat such dividends separately. In these states dividend payments made by companies listed on their respective stock exchanges are taxed at a rate of five percent of the gross amount. This encourages the raising of capital from the public by encouraging the acquisition of shares of listed companies.
It is worth noting that gains from trading in venture capital enterprise shares are treated as dividends in Kenya, although no tax is payable against the said gains, while in Rwanda venture capital companies registered with the Capital Markets Authority of Rwanda are exempt from tax for the first five years of trading.
The tax administration systems in the East African partner states are in such a way that tax on dividends is withheld by the companies at the time of payment dividends. Consequently, dividends are more likely to be taxed in the state in which the company paying the dividends is resident and credit sought for the source state tax against the resident State tax.
Similar to dividends, interest paid by a resident company to a resident of any other East African state may be taxed in that state or in the state in which the company paying the interest is resident. When such interest is taxed in the state in which the company paying the interest is resident, the rate is fixed at 10% of the gross amount of the interest paid. However, interest derived and beneficially owned by the government, political subdivision or local authority of an East African state or institution, body/board which is wholly owned by the aforesaid is exempt from tax.
The term interest is defined to mean income from debt claims of every kind whether or not secured by mortgage and whether or not carrying a right to participate in the debtor's profit, and in particular, income from government securities and income from bonds or debentures including premiums and prizes attaching to such securities, bonds and debentures. This definition is in line with the domestic legislations of the states while the variations in the definition by the states are minor.
In states such as Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi interest payable to non-residents is taxed at a rate of 15% while in Kenya and Tanzania it is charged at a rate of 10%. In the context of taxation, the cost of capital is higher in Uganda and Burundi compared to Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda. However, it is intended by the EAC DTA that governments and government institutions borrow within the Community at no cost.
The tax regime in Rwanda encourages short term borrowing from capital markets by reducing interest arising from investments in listed bonds with a maturity of three years to five percent when the listed company is a resident taxpayer of Rwanda or of the East African Community. This hoped to encourage cross listing on the capital market in the respective East African partner states.
Tax on interest from government securities is often higher since the risk in such investments is low. In Uganda interest for payments on government securities to a non-resident person is 20% while in Kenya interest arising from a government bearer bond of at least two years is taxed at 15%. The implication of the ratification of the EAC DTA by Uganda and Kenya, is that residents of respective states would pay higher tax on interest from government securities compared to their counterparts in the Community.
The tax administration systems in the East African partner states are also in such a way that tax on interest is withheld by the payer at the time of payment (interest to financial institutions is exempted). Consequently, interest is more likely to be taxed in the state in which the company paying the dividends is resident and credit sought for the source state tax against the resident state tax.
Gains from the disposal of shares are taxable only in the contracting state which the person disposing of shares is resident. The tax regimes in the respective East African Community states do not have distinct capital gains tax systems. In Uganda capital gains tax is charged on the disposal of an asset where the gain is included in the gross income or the loss is deductible, including a gain on disposal of shares in a private limited liability company. The gain is included in the gross income and taxed as part of the gross income.
"Only the Republic of Rwanda has to date ratified the treaty"
Similarly, in Rwanda capital gains from business are taxable under the provisions of the Income Tax Act. However, capital gain on the secondary market transaction on listed securities is exempted from capital gains tax and in case of reorganisation of companies, the transferring company is exempt from tax in respect of capital gains and losses realised on reorganisation. Reorganisation is defined in the Rwanda Income Tax Act to include takeovers, mergers and acquisitions. The tax treatment of takeovers, mergers and acquisitions in Burundi is similar to that of Rwanda as capital gains tax is not charged on company restructuring. It follows that Rwanda and Burundi are favourable for equity financing by means of takeovers, mergers and acquisitions.
Tanzania does not seem to have a capital gains tax system while in Kenya capital gains tax was suspended with effect from June 14 1985. Tanzania and Kenya are equally favourable for equity financing by means of takeovers, mergers and acquisitions.
Pensions, annuities and social security payments
Pensions, annuities and social security payments arising in an East African Community state and paid in consideration of past employment to a resident of any other state within the East African Community is taxable only in the state which the payment arises. In circumstances where the payment is made by a resident of any of the other East African Community state or a permanent establishment situated therein, it may be taxed in any of the other states save for national/state contributions which are only taxable in the state which they are made. Consequently, the EAC DTA seeks to maintain the status quo in regard to distributions.
In Uganda amounts from a pension, lump sum payment made by a resident retirement fund to a member of the fund or dependent of a member of the fund and proceeds of a life insurance policy paid by a person carrying on a life insurance business are exempt from tax. The tax treatment of pensions in Burundi and Rwanda is similar to that in Uganda but (in Rwanda) in order for retirement contributions made by the employer on behalf of the employee and or contributions made by the employee to a qualified pension fund to be exempted, they must amount to a maximum of 10% of the employee's employment income or 1,200,000 Rwandan francs per year, whichever is the lowest. The exemption of pension income from tax encourages saving and accumulation of savings which are invested in various sectors of the economy.
On the contrary, in Kenya pensions or retirement annuity is taxed at the rate of five percent for residents and non-residents but the tax rates range from 10% to 30% in respect of a payment of a pension made after the expiry of 15 years from the date of joining the fund, or on the attainment of the age of 50 years, or upon earlier retirement on the grounds of ill health or infirmity of body and mind, from a registered pension fund, registered provident fund, the National Social Security Fund of Kenya or a registered individual retirement fund, in excess of the tax-free amounts. In Tanzania commuted pensions are taxed at a rate of 10% of the payments but pensions or gratuities granted in respect of wounds or disabilities caused in war and suffered by the recipients of such pensions or gratuities are exempted from tax.
The East Africa Community Double Taxation Agreement recognises the sovereignty of the partner states by leaving the taxation of business profits, pension and capital gains to the states where the amounts arise. The agreement puts in place anti-tax abuse measures which aim at avoiding the improper use of the treaty. For instance the beneficial ownership provisions regarding dividends and interest have the effect of limiting the reduction of tax on the said passive income to the beneficial owners of the said income. The coming into force of the EA DTA is premised on the ratification of the treaty by all the partner states. However this is being hindered by factors such as: fear of loss of revenue; red tape; and potential abuse of the treaty attributable to weaknesses in tax administration.
Since the failure to ratify the EAC DTA is seen as a non-tariff barrier to growing cross-border trade and investment, the partner states should develop their tax administration capacity, ratify the treaty, align their domestic legislations with the treaty and make use of their comparative advantages.
Enoch Barata
Senior partner, Birungyi Barata & Associates
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Enoch Barata is the head of the firm's banking, corporate and commercial and litigation departments. He has trained as a lawyer and advocate of the courts of judicature and has received specialised training in finance and financial law from the center for finance and management studies at the University of London. As a founding partner and with over ten years' experience, he has gained repute as an astute professional lawyer, corporate consultant and general commercial transactions lawyer. He has represented various clients in complex corporate transactions, finance and lending, due diligence, insurance and litigation. Barata advises top and reputable companies, banks, insurance companies, government ministries, public agencies and multinational corporations both in Uganda and sub-Saharan Africa.
He is a member of local and regional professional bodies, the IBA and the Institute of Corporate Governance of Uganda.
Cephas K Birungyi
Cephas K Birungyi is a highly qualified and distinguished tax expert, easily recognised as a leading tax advisor in Uganda, and in the East African Community. A highly experienced tax lawyer, Birungyi has previously worked for the Ugandan government in various capacities including as deputy commissioner of domestic direct taxes in the Uganda Revenue Authority. He has represented the country in the negotiations and drafting of several double taxation treaties with over five countries. He is the head of the tax department of the firm and regularly advises, consults for and represents major local and international corporations, governments, international agencies and financial institution in Uganda, Africa and all around the world.
He is thoroughly trained and holds various specialist qualifications from the UK and South Africa. He is a member of local and regional professional bodies, the IBA, the Institute of Taxation and the Institute of Corporate Governance of Uganda.
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Caleb Joshua 19 May 2015
I have just finished reading your brief but well-written article about the EAC's double taxation. I must admit that I, as both a tax practitioner and post graduate student have found it very informative. Keep up the good work.
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Attorney: Man who killed teen over rap music is mentally ill
By ANITA SNOW Associated Press |
Posted: Wed 4:44 AM, Jul 10, 2019 |
Updated: Wed 9:30 AM, Jul 10, 2019
PHOENIX (AP) — The attorney for a white man charged with fatally stabbing a black teenager at a convenience store because he felt threatened by his rap music says he is mentally ill and was released from jail on a prior assault conviction without medication.
Michael Adams, who had just been released from prison, slit a teen's throat for listening to rap music, according to police in Arizona. (Source: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office/CNN)
The killing has ignited a national outcry, including comments from a Democratic presidential candidate who is calling for a federal investigation.
"This is a failing on the part of the (Arizona) Department of Corrections," defense attorney Jacie Cotterell told a judge Tuesday, where Michael Adams was charged with first-degree murder.
Authorities say Adams stabbed 17-year-old Elijah Al-Amin last Thursday at a convenience store in a Phoenix suburb. First responders discovered Al-Amin collapsed outside the store's gas pumps and took him to a hospital, where he died. Police said several people inside the store had watched as Al-Amin was stabbed in the throat and the back before he ran outside.
Officers said they found Adams nearby with a pocket knife and blood on his body. Adams, 27, told them he had felt threatened by the rap music coming from Al-Amin's vehicle.
Adams is being held on $1 million bond. He had been freed July 2 after serving a 13-month sentence for aggravated assault.
Department of Corrections spokesman Bill Lamoreaux said in a statement that "the tragic death is terrible, and Mr. Adams will have to answer for his alleged actions."
The statement said that when Adams was released he "was not designated seriously mentally ill" and that once the department transported him from the state prison complex where he had served his sentence to the Phoenix area it "had no further legal authority over him."
Friends and family hugged Monday at the Islamic Community Center in suburban Tempe, where prayers were held for 17-year-old Elijah Al-Amin before his burial.
Al-Amin would have turned 18 in two weeks, family members said, and was looking forward to his senior year in high school. A modest makeshift memorial placed outside the convenience store included a pair of white porcelain angels, fresh flowers and burning calendars — including one dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe, the Catholic patron saint of Mexico.
The Twitter hashtag #JusticeForElijah began trending over the Independence Day holiday weekend.
"Another one of our children has been murdered in a heinous and unprovoked way_the DOJ must investigate this hate crime immediately," Democratic candidate Cory Booker wrote on his Twitter account Monday. "RIP Elijah. #JusticeForElijah."
Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian American civil rights activist from New York called the crime "outrageous" and said it recalled the 2012 killing of 17-year-old high school student Jordan Davis in Jacksonville, Florida. "Rest in power Elijah Al-Amin," she wrote.
Many of the people commenting on Twitter said claims about Adams' mental illness should not be used to explain away what they believe was a hate crime.
There is no hate crime statute in Arizona, but a judge's determination that a hate crime has occurred can toughen sentencing. Adams is next scheduled to appear in court July 15.
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AnatomyHead & NeckNeck
Larynx - want to learn more about it?
The larynx is an intricate anatomical complex in the neck comprised of many different soft and hard tissues (cartilages, muscles, bones) that allow a human to articulate using sound, and breathe through a well built filter.
Larynx is situated right above the trachea, and it functions like a filter that detains all the molecules larger than 6nm and prevents them to reach the lungs and cause a mechanical damage to them. It also houses the vocal folds, and adjusts the pitch and the volume, which is essential when it comes to phonation.
Function Air conduction, sound articulation
Cartilages Thyroid, cricoid, epiglottis (unpaired)
Arytenoid, corniculate, cuneiform (paired)
Muscles Intrinsic: cricothyroid, posterior cricoarytenoid, lateral cricoarytenoid, transverse arytenoid, oblique arytenoid, thyroarytenoid muscles
Extrinsic: sternothyroid, omohyoid, sternohyoid, inferior constrictor, thyrohyoid, digastric, stylohyoid, mylohyoid, geniohyoid, hyoglossus, genioglossus
Vascularization Superior and inferior laryngeal arteries
Innervation Internal laryngeal, recurrent laryngeal, external laryngeal nerves (branches of the vagus nerve - CN X)
In this article, an overview of the laryngeal components including the cartilages, membranes and ligaments, muscles, blood supply, innervation and clinical pathology of the larynx will be discussed.
Cartilages
Membranes and Ligaments
The larynx connects the pharynx to the trachea and can be found in the midline of the human body at the level of the third to the sixth cervical vertebrae.
Like the pharynx, the larynx is divided up into three regions:
the ventricle
the infraglottic area
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Cartilages, ligaments, membranes and muscles of the larynx.
The larynx is composed of six individual cartilages of which three are paired and three are unpaired. The hyaline cartilages consist of:
thyroid cartilage (unpaired)
cricoid cartilage (unpaired)
arytenoid cartilage (paired)
The elastic cartilages are the following:
epiglottis (unpaired)
corniculate cartilage (paired)
cuneiform cartilage (paired)
The thyroid cartilage is the largest of all the cartilages and it is linked to the hyoid bone via the thyrohyoid membrane, while the corniculate and the cuneiform cartilages are considered to be minor cartilages, due to their small size.
The membranes and ligaments of the larynx are categorized according to their function.
The major extrinsic ligaments include:
the two lateral thyrohyoid ligaments
the single median thyrohyoid ligament
the thyrohyoid membrane
the median cricothyroid ligament
the cricotracheal ligament
The major intrinsic ligaments of the larynx include the:
vocal ligament
the conus elasticus
the quadrangular membrane
the vestibular ligament
The cricothyroid muscle is the only laryngeal muscle that is supplied by the external laryngeal nerve, whereas all the others are supplied by the recurrent laryngeal nerve. It increases the tension on the vocal ligaments because it stems from the arch of the cricoid cartilage and inserts into the lamina and inferior conu of the thyroid cartilage.
The thyroarytenoid muscle decreases the tension of the vocal ligaments because it originates in the angle of the thyroid cartilage and stretches across to the vocal process of the arytenoid cartilage.
The posterior cricoarytenoid muscle opens the rima glottidis, while the lateral cricoarytenoid muscle, the transverse arytenoid muscle and the oblique arytenoid muscle close it. It originates in the lamina of the cricoid cartilage and inserts into the muscular process of the arytenoid cartilage.
The lateral cricoarytenoid inserts itself just as the posterior cricoarytenoid muscle does. It stems from the lateral portion of the arch of the cricoid cartilage.
The transverse arytenoid muscle originates from the muscular process of the arytenoid cartilage and fastens itself to the muscular process of the opposing arytenoid cartilage.
The oblique arytenoid muscle seemingly has no origin as it stretches itself between the two arytenoid cartilages from the muscular process of one arytenoid cartilage to the apex of the opposite one.
The aryepiglotticus and the thyroepiglotticus are two muscles that help close the laryngopharyngeal opening by inserting themselves into the epiglottis. The first arises from the muscular process of the arytenoid cartilage and the second from the lamina of the thyroid cartilage.
The arterial supply of the larynx is provided by the superior laryngeal artery and the inferior laryngeal artery. The venous drainage is managed by the superior laryngeal vein and the inferior laryngeal vein.
Superior laryngeal artery - dorsal view
The motor and sensory innervation of the larynx in its entirety comes from the vagus nerve (CN X). The three branches which are contributed include the internal laryngeal nerve, the recurrent laryngeal nerve and the external laryngeal nerve.
Recurrent laryngeal nerve - ventral view
Laryngitis is a very common ailment that occurs when the mucosa of the larynx and the vocal cords become inflamed. This results in the temporary partial or complete loss of the patients voice because the vocal cords become irritated. If the voice is still audible, it is usually hoarse.
It can be acute, lasting less than three weeks, or it can become chronic. Its origin can be both infectious and noninfectious. Noxious stimulants include viral, bacterial and fungal infections while noninfectious causes include acid reflux, excessive coughing, allergies and overuse of the vocal cords. Treatment depends on the type of cause, but primarily include resting the vocal cords so that no long term damage occurs.
Neil S. Norton, Ph.D. and Frank H. Netter, MD, Netter’s Head and Neck Anatomy for Dentistry, 2nd Edition, Elsevier Saunders, Chapter 16 The Larynx, Page 420 to 435.
Frank H. Netter, Atlas der Anatomie, 5th Edition (Bilingual Edition: English and German), Saunders, Kapitel 1, Tafel 77 to 80.
Laryngitis - Topics overview. WebMD. October 09, 2012.
First Illustration Gallery - Irina Munsterman, Yousun Koh
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Superior laryngeal artery - dorsal view - Yousun Koh
Recurrent laryngeal nerve - ventral view - Yousun Koh
7th cervical vertebra level
Vocal cords
Learn now at Kenhub, what is the epiglottis, where it is located and which is its function.
Cartilages of the Larynx
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Muscles of the Larynx
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Unarmed therapist shot by Miami police as he lay down with his hands up
by sianabigail
This shocking footage captures the moments before an unarmed therapist was shot by police in Miami, as he was trying to calm his autistic patient.
Video footage credit: The Independent.
Footage shows Charles Kinsey, a behavioural therapist, lying on the ground with his hands in the air. He tells police he is unarmed as his patient sits next to him on the street, playing with a toy truck.
The black care worker can be heard in the video trying to explain the situation to the police. He calls out: “All he has is a toy truck. A toy truck. I’m a behaviour therapist at a group home.”
Moments later, police shot him in the leg, wounding him.
I was thinking, ‘as long as I have my hands up…they’re not going to shoot me’. Wow, was I wrong.
The officers then handcuffed him briefly, before he was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Police were called to the scene in Miami, Florida on July 18th after receiving a 911 call, claiming a man with a gun was threatening to commit suicide.
The toy truck had been mistaken for a gun, Kinsey later said.
The footage was released by Kinsey’s lawyer late on Wednesday. It also shows officers hiding behind their vehicle, aiming their guns at him, but footage of the actual shooting hasn’t been released. We also see police stood around both men, who are on the ground.
After the incident, Kinsey was interviewed whilst recovering in hospital.
He told WSVN TV he was confused by the actions of the police. He said:
“I was really more worried about him than myself. I was thinking, ‘as long as I have my hands up…they’re not going to shoot me’. Wow, was I wrong.
“I said [to the officer], ‘Sir, why did you shoot me?’ And his words to me, he said, ‘I don’t know’.”
He tried to diffuse the situation, explaining there was no need for gunfire. He said: “I’m going to the ground, just like this with my hands up. And I’m laying down here just like this. And I’m telling him again, ‘Sir, there’s no need for firearms. I’m unarmed, this is an autistic guy. He has a toy truck in his hand.”
The officer who fired a bullet into Kinsey’s leg hasn’t been identified, and has been put on administrative leave whilst the situation is under investigation.
This video has been released after a long string of harrowing shootings in the US, and as immense tension between police and coloured communities reached breaking point.
Earlier this month, police shot Alton Sterling at close range, killing him. His death sparked protests and Black Lives Matter movements across the US.
In a separate incident around the same time, the girlfriend of Philando Castile livestreamed the moment he was shot dead by police, as their daughter sat in the back seat of their car.
Young black men, despite making up only 2% of the total US population, were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers in 2015, a Guardian study found.
A final tally, also conducted by the Guardian, found that 1,134 people died at the hands of law enforcement officers in 2015.
“Black Lives Matter” is a organization, created in 2012, which aims to fight back against anti-black racism and opression.
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A banner celebrating Trumps announcement on Jerusalem posted across the city by Christian Zionist leader Mike Evans.(Photo by: Courtesy)
For evangelical leader, Trump now like ‘Cyrus’
By HERB KEINON
Mike Evans launches massive campaign thanking US president for embassy decision
When Mike Evans, a prominent Christian Zionist and one of US President Donald Trump’s first high-profile backers in the evangelical community, meets the president Monday as a member of his evangelical advisory board, he will say three words to him: “You are Cyrus.”
Evans – who was responsible during Trump’s visit in May for covering Jerusalem in billboards calling on him to fulfill his promise to move the US Embassy – said on Wednesday that he will congratulate Trump for his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and relocate the embassy. “And I am going to tell him that he is Cyrus the Great,” he said, “just like Truman.”
Former US president Harry Truman was in office in 1948 and recognized the State of Israel just minutes after it was declared.
Evans also launched a new campaign following Trump’s announcement that he would move the embassy - with a massive “God Bless Trump” spread out on billboards as high as four stories from the bridge in front of the Knesset to downtown Jerusalem.
After leaving office in 1953, Truman was honored by The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. When his good friend and ex-business partner Eddie Jacobson introduced him as someone who “helped create the State of Israel,” Truman corrected him and said, “What do you mean ‘helped to create?’ I am Cyrus.” His reference was to Persian King Cyrus the Great who allowed the Jews – exiled to Babylonia after the destruction of the First Temple – to return to the city to rebuild it.
Trump is the first American president to publicly say Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and tell the State Department to make plans to move the embassy, Evans noted enthusiastically. As such, he said, Trump, too, is Cyrus.
Evans denied being surprised by the announcement. “No, we knew what his plan was,” he said. “I knew that he would give a speech and recognize Jerusalem – he is doing what Israel needs him to do.”
Among the reasons often cited for Trump’s decision to take these steps now is a desire to appeal to his voter base, which includes millions of evangelicals for whom this issue is important.
Evans said Trump did not take this step to “lobby our base,”’ because “he already has the evangelical base.” In fact, Evans said, 36% of Trump’s voters in the last elections were evangelicals, a community that came out to vote in 2016 in record numbers.
But, Evans was asked, if Trump had not fulfilled his pledge to recognize Jerusalem and move the embassy, would he lose those voters in the future?
“Yes, maybe not so much today, but a promise is a promise, and we believe him.”
The president, Evans said, “was elected because of the evangelical vote. Without the evangelical vote he would not have won the presidency – we gave him the presidency. He made a promise to us, and we knew he would keep that promise.”
Trump, he declared, “loves evangelicals, loves God, and loves Israel.”
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Timothy Eddy
TEddy [at] juilliard.edu
Cellist Timothy Eddy was born in Exeter, N.H., and has appeared as a soloist with orchestras and in duos (with Gilbert Kalish). He is a founding member of the Orion String Quartet which is in residence at Mannes College the New School for Music. He has also been a member of the Bach Aria Group since 1978 and was a former member of the Galimir String Quartet and New York Philomusica.
Eddy was a prizewinner in the Cassado International Violoncello Competition, Dealy Competition (Dallas), Denver Symphony Guild, and North Carolina Symphony Contest. He has spent summers at the Sarasota Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Steans Music Institute, and Aspen Festival. He has performed at the Marlboro Festival, Lockenhaus Festival, Mondsee Festival, Turku Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, and Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, and has toured with Music From Marlboro. His many recordings can be heard on the Columbia, Angel, Vanguard, Nonesuch, C.R.I., New World, Vox, Musical Heritage, Delos, Arabesque, and Sony Classical labels. He has been on the faculty at Juilliard since 2001 and was formerly on the faculty at the State University of New York-Stony Brook (emeritus) and the New England Conservatory. He holds BM and MM degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and studied with Bernard Greenhouse and Luigi Silva.
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Joel Krosnick
As cellist in the Juilliard String Quartet from 1974 to 2016, Joel Krosnick has performed the great quartet literature throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, and recorded it for the Sony Classical, Wergo, and CRI labels. He has also performed as a soloist and recitalist around the world. With his sonata partner of more than 40 years, pianist Gilbert Kalish, Krosnick has performed recitals throughout the U.S. and Europe. The duo has recorded the complete sonatas and variations of Beethoven and the sonatas of Brahms as well as works by Poulenc, Prokofiev, Carter, Hindemith, Debussy, Janáček, Ralph Shapey, and Henry Cowell for the Arabesque label. His recording on Arabesque, entitled Forgotten Americans, includes music by Hall Overton, Ben Weber, Ernst Bacon, and Otto Luening. Krosnick’s recording of the Sonata for Solo Cello by Arthur Schnabel appears on the CP2 label and his recording of Roger Sessions’ Six Pieces for Solo Cello is available on Koch Classics.
Krosnick is the recipient of the Chevalier du Violoncelle Award from the Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. In 2011, as a member of the Juilliard String Quartet, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
In 2015, Joel Krosnick received the Juilliard School President’s Medal for Service to the Arts.
Born in New Haven, Conn., Krosnick completed his bachelor of arts degree at Columbia University and holds honorary doctoral degrees from Michigan State University, Jacksonville University, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has been a member of the Juilliard faculty since 1974 and chair of the cello department since 1994. He is also on the faculty of the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival.
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The office of the tax collector is where you pay your property taxes, procure business licenses,
pay parking citations, and register your vehicle and boat.
Clay County Tax Collector
Main office: 477 Houston St., Green Cove Springs 32043
Phones: Motor vehicle tag division: 904-284-6320 & 269-6320;
Property taxes division: 904-284-6321 & 269-6321
Hours: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.
3245 Bear Run Blvd., Orange Park, 904-272-5700.
1518 Park Ave., Orange Park, 904-269-1400
275 Lawrence Blvd., Keystone Heights, 352-352-473-4899.
Hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday only.
Duval County Tax Collector
231 Forsyth St. Room 100, Jacksonville 32202 • 904-630-1916
Kernan:
12220-102 Atlantic Blvd. 32225 • 904-221-1523
Beaches:
31 Sailfish Drive 32233 • 904-246-7407
Downtown:
231 E. Forsyth St. 32202 • 904-630-1916
Mandarin:
10131-24 San Jose Blvd. 32257 • 904-262-4176
Norwood-Brentwood-Lake Forest:
5751-208, N. Main St. 32208 • 904-630-5457
Westconnett-Ortega-Lake Shore-Cedar Hills:
6011-11 103rd St. 32210 • 904-573-2480
Marietta-Murray Hill-Normandy:
6672 Commonwealth Ave. 32254 • 904-786-8391
Highlands-Riverview-San Mateo:
1440-16, Dunn Ave. 32218 • 904-751-1893
Sherwood Forest-Picketville:
5363 Soutel Drive 32208 • 904-765-0477
Englewood-Lakewood:
4335 University Blvd. S 32216 • 904-731-5470
Commonwealth Avenue and Soutel Drive locations are JEA bill payment stations.
You can also pay your JEA bill at the Sailfish Drive location on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Nassau County Tax Collector
Main office: 11 N. 14th St., Fernandina Beach 32034 • 904-261-5566
Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday.
416 Centre St., Fernandina Beach 32034 • 904-491-7415
Hours: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.Monday-Friday.
2832 E. State Road 200, Yulee 32097 • 904-225-2942
Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday.
1943 Mickler St., Callahan 32011 • 904-879-1930
Hours: 9 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m. Monday-Friday
St. Johns County Tax Collector
4030 Lewis Speedway, St.Augustine 32095 • 904-823-2270
Hours: Monday-Thursday; 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
Friday; 8:30 a.m.- 6 p.m. last Saturday of month, 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
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725 Flora Branch Blvd.,Jacksonville 32259 • 904-287-2478
Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.- 5 p.m.
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5430 Palm Valley Road, Ponte Vedra Beach 32082 • 904-285-5092
Hastings: 6195 S. Main St., Suite E, Hastings 32145 • 904-692-2483
Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Clay County Chamber of Commerce/Tourism Division
1734 Kingsley Ave.
888-322-CLAY or
904-264-2651, ext.4
www.claychamber.org
Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce
3 Independent Drive
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961687 Gateway Blvd., Suite 101G
800-226-3542 or 904-261-3248 or
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St. Augustine and St. Johns County Chamber of Commerce
1 Riberia St.
St. Augustine, FL 32084
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4 Sawgrass Village, Suite 140F
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Question - TAFE SA Tea Tree Gully
Qeustion - TAFE SA Tea Tree Gully
The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta—Minister for Education) (15:20): Thank you, sir, and I thank the member for Newland for his question. I know that he has nothing on his mind every day he does this job other than the best interests of his constituents. He is, of course, somebody who is supportive of South Australia's training sector going forward.
Let me start by saying that TAFE SA, as part of the budget measures that were introduced yesterday, will continue to support students at all the campuses that are being closed. Their respective communities will also continue to be supported through relevant training being delivered locally, in workplaces, on farms on a number of occasions, online and through blended delivery. There has been a review that has shown low numbers of students at these campuses who could be more effectively supported through the use of other facilities or blended or online delivery or through being consolidated onto other campuses.
Of course, it is worth noting that, for every single dollar we spend in the training system, its purpose must be to connect young people, students and aged jobseekers looking for a new career to those careers, to those skills that will get them new jobs and, indeed, to support business and industry in those jobs. If the resources are being spent to maintain a building that is not necessarily fit for purpose, is past its use-by date or is not being utilised in an effective or efficient way, then that is money that is potentially not going to support the training needs of South Australians.
We have a grand ambition. We are spending $200 million extra on traineeships and apprentices in South Australia. We are spending $100 million on rescuing the TAFE SA organisation, but we are confident, very confident, that, as part of our renewed focus on delivering for TAFE on the needs of the students who are seeking jobs, we can, in fact, deliver more for them. Particularly at the Tea Tree Gully campus, the move from face-to-face to blended learning delivery and the relocation of the creative industries program—graphic design, screen and media, printing and photography—to the expanded AC Arts campus has significantly reduced the need for classroom space at Tea Tree Gully.
This, of course, started more than a year and a half ago. In semester 1 of 2017, there were 727 students on site at Tea Tree Gully. That had dropped to 470 by semester 2. In semester 1 this year, still under the previous government, that had dropped to 300. This move away from Tea Tree Gully was not something that was dreamed up last night. This is something that TAFE had been heading towards for some time. In semester 2 of 2018, there were 226 students.
Members interjecting:
The SPEAKER: Order, members on my left!
The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER: I note the interjections of those opposite, and I note the words of the former minister, who has criticised the government again today in the media: 'immediately instituted efficiencies by closing campuses'. She said:
I'm not convinced—the way in which vocational training is run needs a strategic re-think…these reports are very useful contributors to that, and I'd like to see the Government lead that conversation, rather than immediately closing campuses…
The reason I am confident, amongst others, that this work can be done effectively is that there is a previous government that has done some work on delivering TAFE courses off campus sites. Indeed, a former government closed TAFE campuses at Bordertown—where very little training activity was occurring, so the impact was minimal—Millicent, Naracoorte, Waikerie, Renmark, Gawler, Morphettville, Kimba, Clare, Cleve and Kangaroo Island. In many of these cases, the training was able to be delivered in different ways.
I was looking into who this former government was that closed these 11 TAFE campuses. Members may be interested to know that it was the Labor government in the last two years when the shadow minister for education was the minister responsible for TAFE—11 TAFE campus closures. More training is capable of being delivered when this campus is closed. Where was the outrage then?
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23 November - 23 December 2017, Members and Associates Annual Exhibition, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, B3 1SA.
www.rbsa.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/members-and-associates-2017/
03 May - 19 May 2017, Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London, SW1.
www.mallgalleries.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/royal-society-portrait-painters-annual-exhibition-2017
23 January - 28 January 2017, Artists and Illustrators Magazine Artists of the Year 2017, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London, SW1.
Recipient of The Art Academy Award
www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/shortlist2017
14 November - 24th December 2016, Members and Associates Annual Exhibition, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, B3 1SA.
www.rbsa.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/members-and-associates-2016/
22 August - 03 September 2016, Drawn, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, B3 1SA.
http://www.rbsa.org.uk
14th July - September 8th, Portrait 16, Degree Art Gallery, London, E2 9DG
www.degreeart.com/portrait-16
11 April - 23 April 2016, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Candidates Exhibition, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, B3 1SA.
16th July - August 22nd 2015, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Portrait Prize Exhibition, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, B3 1SA.
Highly commended awarded
22 April - May 30th 2015, BP Portrait Award,
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales, SY23 3DE
http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/
10 April - May 1st 2015, Hyperrealist Group Show, Darren Baker Gallery, Charlotte Street, London
http://www.darrenbakergallery.co.uk/
29th January - March 21st 2015, Library Members Club, St Martins Lane, London
29th November 2014 - April 12th 2015, BP Portrait Award, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, EH2 1JD
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/on-now-coming-soon/bp-portrait-award-2014/
4th October - 17th November, 2014, BP Portrait Award, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, Sunderland, SR1 1PP
http://www.seeitdoitsunderland.co.uk/sunderland-museum-winter-gardens
26th June - 21 September 2014, BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, WC2H 0HE
Http://www.npg.org.uk
8th - 24 April 2014, Arts Depot Open Exhibition,
Apthorp Gallery, London, N12 0GA
http://www.artsdepot.co.uk
9th - 16 August 2013, Cork Street Open Exhibition,
The Gallery in Cork Street, London, W1S 3NG
http://www.corkstreetopenexhibition.co.uk
http://www.facebook.com/corkstreetopenexhibition
26th July - 8th of September 2013, Arts Depot Open,
Apthorp Gallery, London N12 0GA
17 July - 24th August 2013, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Portrait Prize Exhibition,
RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, B3 1SA
First prize awarded
May 9th - 24th 2013, Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5BD
http://www.therp.co.uk/society/exhibitions/
August 02 - 26 September 2012, 20:12 Olympic Portraits, DegreeArt Execution Room, Vyner Street, London, E2 9DG
http://www.degreeart.com/events/2012
August 23rd - 31st 2012, Cork Street Open Exhibition, Cork Street, London, W1S 3NG
July 25th - 10 August 2012, Outside The White Cube, Bermondsey Project, London, SE1 5SF.
http://www.facebook.com/outsidethewhitecube
4th - 12th August 2011, Cork Street Open Exhibition shortlist, Cork Street, London,
W1S 3 NG
27th - 29th September 2010, Real Broadgate, Broadgate Circle, London
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64WVAIVg-N0
http://www.gofigurative.com/realbroadgate
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Sailor killed in 1941 at Pearl Harbor to be buried in Dallas
Posted: 12:45 PM, Nov 15, 2018
<p>This undated photo provided by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency shows Navy Fireman 1st Class Albert U. Kane, of Fort Worth, Texas. Kane was killed during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and will be buried in Dallas on Dec. 7, 2018, on the 77th anniversary of the attack. Kane was assigned to the USS Oklahoma when the battleship was attacked. Kane's remains were accounted for Aug. 9, 2018. (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency via AP)</p>
DALLAS (AP) -- A 26-year-old Texas sailor killed during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor will be buried in Dallas on the 77th anniversary of the attack.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on Thursday announced services for Navy Fireman 1st Class Albert U. Kane of Fort Worth will be held Dec. 7. Burial is planned at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.
Kane, on Dec. 7, 1941, was assigned to the USS Oklahoma when the battleship was attacked. His unidentified remains were among those buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. A number of remains, associated with the USS Oklahoma, were ordered disinterred in 2015 for DNA testing.
Kane's remains were accounted for Aug. 9.
The federal agency says Kane's family has asked not to be contacted by the media.
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Three companies cited by OSHA in connection with deadly Quinton drilling rig explosion
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Three companies have been cited in connection with a deadly drilling rig explosion in Quinton in January.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Patterson-UTI Drilling, Crescent Consulting LLC and Skyline Directional Drilling LLC for exposing workers to fire and explosion hazards.
Five workers were killed in the explosion, which happened on a Patterson-UTI drilling rig.
OSHA cited Patterson-UTI and Crescent Consulting for failing to maintain proper controls while drilling a well, inspect slow descent devices and implement emergency response plans.
All three companies were cited for failing ensure that heat lamps in use were approved for hazardous locations.
The three companies face penalties totaling $118,643, the maximum-possible OSHA fine.
“These employers failed to properly control hazards involved in oil and gas extraction activities, and the result was tragic,” said OSHA Oklahoma City Area Office Director David Bates. “Employers are required to monitor their operations to ensure workplace health and safety procedures are adequate and effective.”
Patterson-UTI released the following statement:
“First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the families and others impacted by the accident. We appreciate the important work OSHA undertakes to help ensure safe and healthy working conditions, and we have fully cooperated in the investigation. We have carefully reviewed the citation, we disagree with its findings, and we have filed a notice of contest with OSHA. We remain committed to providing a safe working environment for our employees and others we work with in the field.”
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Forests Minister Doug Donaldson and Premier John Horgan speak after their first cabinet meeting in Victoria July 19. Donaldson is in Asia all next week to sell the benefits of B.C. lumber. (Tom Fletcher/Black Press)
BC to fight softwood duties, Donaldson in Asia selling BC lumber
About half of Canada’s softwood lumber exports to the U.S. originate from B.C.
Chris Gareau
Premier John Horgan said last week in a press conference that he will take on American “lumber barons” in the softwood lumber dispute.
The United States Department of Commerce has announced its final determination of duties of 20.83 per cent to be applied to the majority of Canadian softwood lumber shipments entering the U.S.
The final countervailing duty rate is 14.25 per cent (a decrease from the preliminary rate 19.88 per cent) and the final anti-dumping duty rate is 6.58 per cent (a decrease from the preliminary rate 6.87 per cent).
West Fraser, which owns Pacific Inland Resources (PIR) in Smithers, is charged more than other companies. Total duties for PIR are 23.76 per cent with a countervailing duty of 18.19 per cent and anti-dumping rate of 5.57 per cent. That is down from the preliminary duty threat from the U.S. of 30.88 per cent.
About half of Canada’s softwood lumber exports to the United States originate from British Columbia, and the United States is British Columbia’s largest market for softwood lumber products. Over the past year, high lumber prices have helped to mitigate the impact of the softwood lumber duties on B.C. companies.
“We will continue to fight for the 60,000 British Columbians who depend on forestry,” said Premier Horgan. “The forest sector is an integral part of B.C.’s sustainable economy, and we will make sure workers, families and communities have the support they need to mitigate the impact of these duties. The reduction in rates by the U.S. Department of Commerce further indicates the strength of our appeal case and strengthens our resolve to fight for B.C.”
Stikine MLA and Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development Minister Doug Donaldson headed to Asia for a week-long trade trip with over 35 senior forestry executives to lobby in China and Japan.
He said on Nov. 3 that he has not had a chance to speak with smaller producers like Kyahwood Forest Products in Moricetown. Donaldson said he planned to talk with smaller producers about cash flow issues from the retroactive demand from the U.S. that deposits be made in April effective back to January.
“With the high price of dimensional lumber that might have been alleviated a little bit by now. Certainly some of the bigger companies like West Fraser, like PIR, we haven’t gotten any indications of lay-offs because prices are at an all-time high,” said Donaldson.
“This trade action is being driven by the protectionist United States lumber lobby, whose sole purpose is to constrain imports of high-quality Canadian lumber and to drive up lumber prices for their own benefit,” said Susan Yurkovich, president of the BC Lumber Trade Council. “This trade action ultimately punishes American consumers who are now paying higher prices for Canadian lumber when they buy, build or renovate their homes.”
He added that a few things have happened that affects Moricetown’s mill.
“The federal government has come through with an $867-million softwood lumber action plan, that was [June 1],” explained Donaldson.
Diversification funds are also available, he added. Another $6.8 million is available for skill and training upgrades for workers affected by the softwood dispute. How that money is rolling out has yet to be determined, according to Donaldson.
“My focus is not simply on trying to assist people who are going to be laid off but try to make sure people don’t get laid off,” he said.
That is why the focus of Donaldson’s Asia trip will be to sell higher quality, value added lumber products like cross laminate interior beams. He said while this would immediately help Interior plants, there was an opportunity for the North as well.
“Energy pellet, wood pellets that are being used to create electricity in these countries,” listed Donaldson.
“I was just at Prince George a couple weeks ago at an announcement where a Japanese company has invested tens of millions of dollars to take a 47 per cent share of Pacific Bio Energy. And they’re interested in investing more [to reduce greenhouse emissions].”
He believes expansion in the Northwest is possible with more demand from Asia for wood pellets like those now being produced at Newpro in Smithers.
British Columbia will be supporting the federal government in appealing the U.S. Department of Commerce’s findings. The appeals cannot be filed until after the U.S. International Trade Commission issues its determination in December.
In 2016, the B.C. forest sector supported 60,000 direct jobs and one in four manufacturing jobs, according to the B.C. government.
B.C. Premier John Horgan speaks at the B.C. Legislature about duties on B.C.’s softwood Lumber. (Arnold Lim photo)
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Elizabeth May’s wedding dress a ‘walk through a garden’ on Earth Day
Green Party leader set to get married in Victoria
Sue Earle and her cat, Louie, pose for a photo in her sewing room on Salt Spring Island. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Sue Earle)
When Elizabeth May walks down the aisle, she’ll be dressed for her wedding along with Earth Day.
The Green party leader and B.C. entrepreneur John Kidder will exchange wedding vows Monday afternoon at Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, and May will be adorning more greenery than just a bouquet.
READ MORE: Elizabeth May’s wedding will be a ‘low-carbon affair’ in Victoria on Earth Day
“She had an idea for a dress and she sketched it out for me,” said May’s dress designer Sue Earle of Salt Spring Island. “She wanted it to feel like spring. She said she would like to have some greenery on the bottom of it so it looked like she just walked through a garden.”
Earle said she got to work on May’s dress over the winter. She said she used old bed sheets for a mock dress she used in a fitting with May that included the placement of handmade tulips, peonies and ferns on the dress.
The two-piece, ivory-coloured dress also comes with a jacket with three-quarter-length sleeves, Earle said.
Earle, a long-time Green party supporter, said May was pleased with her seasonally-themed wedding dress.
“She was very happy with it, which made me very happy with it,” said Earle. “You want the person to feel like a million bucks, and that it embodies everything she is in terms of a goddess in the spring, celebrating love. That’s what I was aiming for.”
She said the dress received a pre-wedding blessing on a recent ferry voyage from Salt Spring Island to Sidney as Earle delivered the dress to May.
Earle said she and a few others held a moment of silence to bless the dress and ensure May has a full day of happiness.
May announced her engagement to Kidder last November. She said she knew Kidder for about five years, but sparks flew at a Green Party convention last September.
Kidder, 71, who is from Ashcroft, B.C., popped the question about a month later, May has said.
He has deep roots in the Green party, having run federally for a seat in B.C., and is a founder of the provincial party. May said he is a retired technology entrepreneur who operates a hops farm in Ashcroft, but also spends time in Vancouver.
He is the brother of the late actress Margot Kidder and has three children and four grandchildren. May has a daughter, three stepchildren and seven grandchildren.
Wedding guests Monday are encouraged to arrive by bicycle, bus, train or ferry to minimize their carbon footprint. The newlyweds will then spend their honeymoon on the train from Vancouver to Ottawa.
Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press
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What Exactly Are Genetically Modified Foods? And Is Corn A Pesticide Factory?
February 25, 2014 mwald
Dr. Michael Wald, author of the upcoming book Frankenfoods - Controversy, Lies & Your Health available April 2014, offers a riveting perspective of the GMO predicament exploring governmental and industry cover-ups, health dangers, environmental threats, GMO-free food plans and recipes, nutritional supplements and other practical solutions. Dr. Wald declares, "The GMO dilemma is here to stay and anyone interested in protecting their health and that of their loved ones, friends and the planet, must educate themselves and take political and personal action right now!" Considering the importance of this information Dr. Wald asks that you re-tweet his GMO links and follow him on Twitter - @DrMichaelWald. Thank you.
(Dr. Michael Wald can be reached at Integrated Medicine of Mount Kisco in Westchester, NY by calling 914-242-8844 (Ext. 1) or by emailing him at: info@intmedny.com).
1. WHAT ARE GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS?
The term “genetically modified organism” (GMO) refers to an organism whose genetic material has been modified due to genetic engineering techniques. Genetic modification technologies are used to alter the makeup of organisms such as animals, plants and bacteria. GMOs are the source of many modified foods and are used widely in scientific research to produce other goods as well. In 2006, eight countries grew 97% of the global crops with artificially modified genes: the United States (53%), Argentina (17%), Brazil (11%), Canada (6%), India (4%), China (3%), Paraguay (2%) and South Africa (1%). Within the next decade researchers expect to see a dramatic increase in the use of GMOs and GM technologies in industrialized nations.
Corn Is a Pesticide Factory
Genetically modified organisms such as corn produce their own pesticides. Each ear of corn is literally a “drug manufacturing plant”! Proponents of GMOs frequently claim that current methods used to genetically modify foods are identical to, or not substantially different from, the method naturally occurring in the environment without human intervention. I will venture to say you will never find corn naturally farmed or grown in the wild that has the ability to produce a toxic pesticide all by itself!
Gene Gun
One of the most common methods used to insert genes into a target genetic material or DNA (e.g., corn or soy) is the biolistic method. This method involves using a gene gun to shoot into the target’s DNA source a gene or two that carry the desired trait. However, unexpected results from this method may occur including, but not limited to, disrupting the entire genetic sequence of the target, up-regulating genes, down-regulating genes, causing genes to be silent and other unpredictable or undesired effects. These effects are referred to by geneticists as “default effects.”
One theoretically possible default effect of this “transgenic gene manipulation” is cancer. Cancer, in part, results in the inappropriate up-regulation of genes known as oncogenes (cancer genes). The changes in the genetic sequence of the target (i.e., seeds) may theoretically result in allergies to new proteins, to gene products or to the original source of the gene or genes (e.g., peanuts) being blasted into the target foods. Those concerned with transgenic modification of foods recognize that new toxins could be produced by the target foods, making them unhealthy or outright toxic to humans. Additional concerns include the potential for nutritional deficiencies, adverse nutritional changes and antibiotic resistance. A myriad of health problems are possible, according to some studies – many of them have occurred in test animals and humans, including negative effects on the testicles and reproduction in men and women, the immune system, blood cells, kidney, liver, pancreas and intestinal tract.
STUDY SUMMARY
Chichosz, G. and Wiackowski, S., “Genetically modified food — great unknown,” Polski Merkuriusz Lekarski, August 2012.
The study states that genetically modified foods create a threat to the health of the consumer. Transgenic plants contain DNA that is unstable, which makes it possible for foreign proteins and proteins that could contribute to allergies to synthesize. GMOs are digested much more slowly than their conventional counterparts, which could lead to alimentary canal diseases, as toxins in the foods, such as Bt toxin, are in the body for long periods of time. Roundup pesticide is especially harmful when in the body, and can lead to cancer as it disturbs human hormonal metabolism.
categories Baby Boomer Magazine, Chappaqua/Mt-Kisco Patch, Examiner Newspaper, GMO, QA, The Journal News
tags GMO foods, GMO toxins
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Economy Economics
What Is the World Bank?
By Mary Hall
The World Bank Group (WBG) was established in 1944 to rebuild post-World War II Europe under the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). It is one of a variety of organizations seeking to shape the world economy.
Today, the World Bank functions as an international organization that fights poverty by offering developmental assistance to middle-income and low-income countries. By giving loans and offering advice and training in both the private and public sectors, the World Bank aims to eliminate poverty by helping people help themselves. Under the World Bank Group (WBG), there are complementary institutions that aid in its goals to provide assistance.
The World Bank is an international organization that offers developmental assistance to middle-income and low-income countries.
Founded in 1944, the World Back has 189 member nations and aims to reduce poverty in the developing world.
While WBG strives to create a poverty-free world, there are groups that are passionately opposed to the international patron as critics feel that its efforts actually make things worse.
Membership in the World Bank
There are 189 member countries that are shareholders in the IBRD, the primary arm of the WBG. To become a member, however, a country must first join the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The size of the World Bank's shareholders, like that of the IMF's shareholders, depends on the size of a country's economy. Thus, the cost of a subscription to the World Bank is a factor of the quota paid to the IMF.
Joining the IMF comes with a variety of responsibilities that help it carry out its functions. There is an obligatory subscription fee, which is equivalent to 88.29% of the quota that a country has to pay to the IMF. In addition, a country is obligated to buy 195 World Bank shares (US$120,635 per share, reflecting a capital increase made in 1988). Of these 195 shares, 0.60% must be paid in cash in U.S. dollars, while 5.40% can be paid in a country's local currency, in U.S. dollars, or in non-negotiable non-interest bearing notes. The balance of the 195 shares is left as "callable capital," meaning the World Bank reserves the right to ask for the monetary value of these shares when and if necessary. A country can subscribe a further 250 shares, which do not require payment at the time of membership but are left as "callable capital."
The president of the World Bank comes from the largest shareholder, which is the United States, and members are represented by a board of governors. Throughout the year, however, powers are delegated to a board of 24 executive directors (EDs). The five largest shareholders—the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, and Japan—each have an individual ED, and the additional 19 EDs represent the rest of the member states as groups of constituencies. Of these 19, however, China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia have opted to be single-country constituencies, which means that they each have one representative within the 19 EDs. This decision is based on the fact that these countries have large, influential economies, requiring that their interests be voiced individually rather than diluted within a group. The World Bank gets its funding from rich countries, as well as from the issuance of bonds on the world's capital markets.
The World Bank serves two mandates:
To end extreme poverty, by reducing the share of the global population that lives in extreme poverty to 3% by 2030.
To promote shared prosperity, by increasing the incomes of the poorest 40% of people in every country.
The Parts That Make Up the Whole
The IBRD offers assistance to middle-income and poor, but creditworthy, countries. It also works as an umbrella for more specialized bodies under the World Bank. The IBRD was the original arm of the World Bank that was responsible for the reconstruction of post-war Europe. Before gaining membership in the WBG's affiliates (the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes), a country must be a member of the IBRD.
The International Development Association offers loans to the world's poorest countries. These loans come in the form of "credits" and are essentially interest-free. They offer a 10-year grace period and hold a maturity of 35 years to 40 years.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) works to promote private sector investments by both foreign and local investors. It provides advice to investors and businesses, and it offers normalized financial market information through its publications, which can be used to compare across markets. The IFC also acts as an investor in capital markets and will help governments privatize inefficient public enterprises.
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) supports direct foreign investment into a country by offering security against the investment in the event of political turmoil. These guarantees come in the form of political risk insurance, meaning that MIGA offers insurance against the political risk that an investment in a developing country may bear.
Finally, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes facilitates and works toward a settlement in the event of a dispute between a foreign investor and a local country.
Adapting to the Times
As mentioned earlier, the main function of the WBG is to eliminate poverty and to provide assistance to the poor by offering loans, policy advice, and technical assistance. As such, the countries receiving aid are learning new ways to function. Over time, however, it has been realized that sometimes as a nation develops, it requires more aid to work its way through the development process. This has resulted in some countries accumulating so much debt and debt service that payments become impossible to meet. Many of the poorest countries can receive accelerated debt relief through the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries scheme, which reduces debt and debt-service payments while encouraging social expenditure.
Another issue on which the Bank has recently been focusing has presented itself as an endangerment to a country's livelihood: support programs for HIV/AIDS. The WBG has also been focusing on reducing the risk of projects by means of better appraisal and supervision mechanisms, as well as a multidimensional approach to overall development. (This includes not only lending but also support for legal reform, educational programs, environmental safety, anti-corruption measures, and other types of social development.)
The Bank encourages all its clients to implement policies that promote sustainable growth, health, education, social development programs focusing on governance and poverty reduction mechanisms, the environment, private business, and macroeconomic reform.
Opposition to the Bank
While WBG strives to create a poverty-free world, there are groups that are passionately opposed to the international patron. These opponents believe that the fundamental structure of the Bank only exacerbates the already existing imbalance between the world's rich and poor. The system allows the largest shareholders to dominate the vote, resulting in WBG policies being decided by the rich, but implemented by the poor.
This can result in policies that are not in the best interests of the developing country receiving assistance, whose political, social, and economic policies will often have to be molded around WBG resolutions. Moreover, even though the Bank provides training, assistance, information, and other means that may lead to sustainable development, opponents have observed that developing countries often have to put health, education, and other social programs on hold in order to pay back their loans.
Opposition groups have protested by boycotting World Bank bonds. These are the bonds that the WBG sells on global capital markets to raise money for some of its activities. These opposition groups also call for an end to all practices that require a country to implement structural adjustment programs (including privatization and government austerity measures), an end to the debt owed by the poorest of the poor, and an end to environmentally damaging projects such as mining or building dams.
It is not surprising that there is a clash of opinion over how aid is given. Indeed, those that offer assistance are going to want to have a say in how the loans are used and what kind of economic policies are fostered in a country's developmental process. Many developing and poor nations, however, are stuck in a quagmire of debt and impoverishment, no matter how much assistance they receive. Given this, we may need to remember that the process of aid is also a developing state, in which both the giver and the receiver should be helping each other reach a poverty-free world.
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The World Bank is an international organization dedicated to providing financing, advice, and research to developing nations to aid economic advancement.
The World Bank Group is the world's most prominent development bank.
International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
The International Bank of Reconstruction and Development is one half of the World Bank.
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency is an organization that encourages investment in developing countries by offering risk insurance.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) aims to promote global financial stability, encourage international trade, and reduce poverty.
Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is a multilateral financial institution dedicated to assisting Caribbean nations in economic growth and development.
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Ned Keogh (1896 – 1957)
Home Ned Keogh (1896 – 1957)
EDWARD PATRICK (NED) KEOGH (1896 – 1957)
IRISH CITIZEN ARMY 1914 – 1918
(ST STEPHENS GREEN, COLLEGE OF SURGEONS EASTER 1916)
F. CO. 4TH BATT. I.R.A. 1918 – 1921 WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
I CO. 4TH BATT. I.R.A. IRISH CIVIL WAR JUNE 1922 – MARCH 1923
This is a story written by Liam Keogh about his father, Edward (Ned) Keogh
Although I was born in the Ranch, a district in Inchicore, Dublin, my first awareness of life was in a thatched cottage in Kiltorcan in Ballyhale Parish, County Kilkenny.
I lived with my mother, (Ellen, nee Collins) her father, William Collins, also known as Colonel, her sister, Stasia and her brother, John. When I was three years of age, my sister was born. So far, I had never heard of my father. I was very happy there and started school in Ballyhale National School.
Some of my earliest recollections are, of men with rifles calling to the house. They would stack their rifles inside the door, have a rest and cups of tea and then leave again. It was the time of the Civil War and they were members of the Republican Flying Columns.
It was September 1923, that a stranger (to me) walked into the house and as my mother and her sister Stasia rushed out from another room to greet him, I will always remember Stasia’s first words, “well, look who’s here, the old prisoner”. This was my father who was just released from Internment in Hare Park Camp, Curragh. They had been expecting his release from internment but didn’t know exactly when it would happen.
A few weeks later, mother, father and sister, Maire and I left Ballyhale for Dublin. When we arrived at Kingsbridge Station (now Heuston), it was almost dark and we got a horse drawn cab to take us to our home in 10 Park Street, Inchicore.
My father was born in Dublin in the year 1896. He attended the Christian Brothers School in Golden Bridge in Inchicore and left school as soon as it was legal to do so.
He worked for the Oblate Fathers as a messenger and later entered the Great Southern Railway Works in Inchicore as a boy labourer. At the time, the Dublin workers suffered very harsh and badly paid conditions. They were completely unorganised and at the mercy of their employers. The Dublin Dockers were paid in Public Houses and were expected to “treat” the owners and many men went home with very little of their wages.
About 1908, a Labour Organiser named James Larkin came to Dublin and organised the workers into a Trade Union called the Irish Transport and General Workers Union. With James Larkin came another great labour organiser, named James Connolly.
The success and growth of the Transport Union alarmed the Dublin Employers and 402 of them led by William Martin Murphy (owner of the Irish Independent Newspaper and Controller of the Dublin United Tramway Company) banded together and ordered their employees to end their membership of their Union or face dismissal from their employment. When the Union members didn’t comply they were “locked out”, thus began a struggle, which lasted six months.
The authorities in Dublin Castle sided with the employers. They brought the R.I.C (an armed Police Force) to Dublin. They travelled in twos, on whatever trams were running and scabs from England were used against the workers.
The Dublin Metropolitan Police subjected workers’ meetings to baton chargers and several injuries were inflicted on the workers. On one occasion, two men were battened to death. One of the biggest baton charges took place in O’Connell Street at this time. Larkin decided it was time to form a force to protect their meetings and he formed an armed unit called the Irish Citizen Army. My father joined this force in 1914. He was a member of the Firing Party over the grave of O’Donovan Rossa in 1915 and was standing beside Padraig Pearse as he delivered the Oration at the graveside.
My father was employed in the Great Southern and Western Railway Works in Inchicore from May 1912 to Easter Week in April 1916. He obeyed the call to action on Easter Saturday and reported to his unit of Irish Citizen Army at Liberty Hall and on Easter Monday 1916 marched to St Stephen’s Green and fought there under the command of Michael Mallin (who was executed after the surrender on 8th May 1916), second in command of the garrison was Countess Markievicz,
After surrender, he and his comrades were brought to Kilmainham Gaol and then to Richmond Barracks. From Richmond Barracks, he was marched to the North Wall, Dublin and deported and imprisoned in Knutsford Jail – and after being a month there was removed and interned in Frongoch Concentration Camp in Wales. After about three weeks there, he was sent to Wandsworth Jail to appear before Justice Sankey’s Tribunal.
After being in Wandsworth for a couple of days, he was sent back to Frongoch where he remained until he was released at the end of August 1916.
When he came home, the Great Southern Railway refused to re-employ him, because of his activities in Easter Week. He was in receipt of 15 shillings per week from the National Aid Association from the time of his release until the 30th November 1916.
He undertook temporary employment in Ballyhale, Co. Kilkenny (procured for him by the National Aid Association). He returned at regular intervals to his unit of I.C.A taking part in parades, drills and was available for any military activities if the occasion arose.
It was during the period of his employment in Co. Kilkenny that he met my mother and they married in Callan, Co Kilkenny in 1918. (I was born in 1919). He and his wife came to Dublin on the 30th October 1918 and he resumed with his unit in I.C.A. unit 31st December 1918 when he transferred to “F” Co. 4th Batt, Dublin Brigade I.R.A.
He got temporary employment in T & C Martin’s Sawmills until November 1919 and my mother and 7 months old baby had to return to her father in Co. Kilkenny. We returned to Dublin in February 1920 when my father got employment in Richard Martins but we had to back to Kilkenny again in March 1921.
My father was unemployed until May 1922. After a long delay and with the help of Mr. Joseph McGrath (then Minister for Labour in Provisional Government) who acted as intermediary for the 1916 men who were victimised by the G.S.R. were re-instated in May 1922.
My father, mother and two children were preparing to settle into normal life again when the Civil War started. My father was in the Four Courts when the Free State Army attacked it.
My mother, baby sister and I had to return to Co. Kilkenny again, where we remained until the end of Civil War in November 1923. My father took the Republican Side during the Civil War and while on armed patrol exchanged shots with National Army Officers on Inchicore Road in October 1922. He was arrested the following morning, was imprisoned in Wellington Barracks and later transferred to Harepark Camp Curragh. While in Harepark, he assisted in tunnelling operations to enable high profile prisoners to escape. He was on police duty around the camp dining hall and ready to give the signal to the men in the dining hall (who were putting the clay between the floor and the ground) if any of the military were coming around the Camp. He took part in a hunger strike in Harepark. His internment lasted from October 1922 until November 1923.
IRISH CITIZEN ARMY (INCHICORE SECTION)
The Irish Citizen Army was formed after the 1913 Lock Out in Dublin. Its original intention was to safeguard the workers against the brutality of the armed Police. The Royal Irish Constabulary) the Headquarters of the Citizen Army was Liberty Hall. A section of the I.C.A was formed in Inchicore which numbered about 16 men and another section of 8 men was formed in Swords and Liberty Hall section had a couple of hundred volunteers.
My father became a member of the Inchicore Section and they drilled in Emmet Hall. The Emmet Hall was the meeting place of the Irish Transport Workers Union members employed in the G.S.R Railway Works Inchicore. About this time, Mr William Partridge formed a Fife and Drum Band and they also used the hall for their practice sessions. The Inchicore section of the I.C.A didn’t last long so my father joined the band. About two months after he joined the band, the Band Master left the band and Mr. Partridge secured the services of Michael Mallin (who was later executed after the 1916 Rising) who was an accomplished musician as well as a military man.
My father became friendly with Mr. Mallin and during a conversation with him, he told the about the collapse of the Inchicore Branch of the I.C.A. because they had no one capable of training them. Mr. Mallin decided to re-organise the Inchicore Section and they drilled with wooden poles and later wooden rifles until they got their share of the German Mausers which were landed in Howth, (they became know as the Howth Gun.)
My father transferred to “F” Company Dublin Brigade I.R.A. in January 1919. He took part in attempted burning of Chapelizod Police Barracks, the escape from Kilmainham Jail, the occupation of Inchicore Railway Works when armoured plating was removed, the attack on British forces at Red Cow, he stood to arms owing to threatened reprisals during 1920-21.
During the truce, he was Company Police Officer for Company Area. He was in charge of armed guard on Irish Transport Union Officials when they were bringing money from Hibernian Bank Inchicore to Emmet Hall and kept an armed guard in the Hall while strike money was being paid to the Transport Union Members who were on strike. He was also on armed guard on a hall in Chapelizod December 1921 when money was being paid out at Christmas.
After exchanging shots with National Army Officers (free staters) on Inchicore Road in October 1922, he was arrested the following morning and imprisoned in Wellington Barracks before being removed to Hare Park Camp in November 1922 and was a prisoner until his release in November 1923. His military activities ended on his release as the Civil War was over.
Ned Keogh was a lifelong member of the G.A.A. and played football with the Geraldine Club. He also acted as their secretary for a period. During his internment in Frongoch, he took part in matches that were organised between the Dublin prisoners and Kerry prisoners. When his playing days were over, he organised a Gaelic Football Club in the parish of Inchicore. It was called St. Michaels G.F.C. it started with under 16 and under 18 teams and those teams went on to become an adult team. All those teams had reasonable success winning South City leagues, minor leagues and Dublin Junior Leagues.
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Panel Discussion at Hampshire College on " "The Phenomenon of ISIS Through the Lens of Cognitive Science"
This is the end of the semester so we (the School of Cognitive Science) are ending our Wednesday lunch talks with an open-ended discussion (and a bang!). I'm guilty of organizing the panel, but there are others who will have interesting things to say. If you are in the area, join us at Hampshire College at Noon. Here are the details:
"The Phenomenon of ISIS Through the Lens of Cognitive Science: A Panel Discussion"
Wednesday, April 29 at Noon in the ASH Lobby
Panel Members: Neil Stillings, Professor of Psychology, Omar Dahi, Associate Professor of Economics, Salman Hameed, Associate Professor of Integrated Science and Humanities, and James Miller, Professor of Communications, Hampshire College
Abstract: The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) declared itself to be a worldwide Caliphate in 2014. Through brutal violence and a savvy media campaign, ISIS has been able to grab worldwide reaction. Perceptions about ISIS - some real and some imaginary - are now playing a crucial role in US domestic and foreign policy. But beyond politics, how do we understand the phenomenon of ISIS in the broader contexts of international terrorism and global conflict? Why do some individuals in different countries desire to joinISIS? What is the role of media in the creation of both the ISIS spectacle and some of its anti-Muslim backlash? Can the field of cognitive science offer some insights? Join us at this informal panel discussion on questions about ISIS that are relevant to cognitive science.
In The Adele Simmons Hall (ASH) Lobby
A light lunch will be available at noon
Posted by Salman Hameed at 11:49 PM 1 comment:
Labels: science religion and terrorism
Quick note about the killing of Sabeen Mahmud in Karachi
This is an incredibly sad day. Sabeen Mahmud, the director of an incredibly amazing place of culture and science, T2F, was shot dead today. I know that Sabeen Mahmud was behind all sorts of cultural activities in Karachi. I would just add that she was a phenomenal supporter of science as well. I first met her in the early 1992, when she helped us in organizing International Space Year Activities. She was still a teenager at the time. But more recently, our urdu astronomy series Science ka Adda (sciencekaadda.com) came out of conversations with her and Zakir Thaver (her organization PeaceNiche is listed as one of the sponsors of the videos). She was an astronomy enthusiast and got tremendous pleasure in knowing about the enormous scale of the universe. I'm sure the universe misses her enthusiasm and her lively indomitable spirit. I'm still gathering my thoughts - and will have more to say later. In the mean time here is a short clip where you can hear Sabeen talking about T2F and on fear in Karachi:
Since she was killed right after hosting a panel on Baluchistan, there is a justified speculation about the role of ISI in silencing her. Here is a short piece that looks at her killing and state terrorism:
Many liberals on social media have condemned the attack and placed the blame on state agencies. This was responded by others who protested that these are unfair accusations being cast with complete lack of evidence. While it is too soon to know for certain who was behind Sabeen’s murder, this cowardly act is the perfect time to talk about the role of state terrorism.
One of the most common responses to accusations against ISI responsibility is why would ISI kill Sabeen Mahmud when they could have killed Mama Qadeer? The answer to this is obvious: Killing Mama Qadeer would make a martyr for Baloch separatists. Killing Sabeen Mahmud sends a message to the rest of us not to ask questions about Balochistan. And why not? Why should we not ask questions?
The answer lies in the very subject of the talk that got Sabeen killed. Human rights organisations across the world have reported on kidnapping, torture, and murder of Baloch by Pakistan armed forces and intelligence agencies. Our own Supreme Court has been forced to threaten contempt proceedings against the government for failing to comply with orders on missing persons. When agencies think it will be good to kill Mama Qadeer, they will kill Mama Qadeer.
But I want to leave you with two things. One a post about T2F from 2 years ago that linked to an NPR story about this coffee shop. And two, a Bruce Springsteen song because Sabeen absolutely loved Springsteen! She lived a full life and enjoyed every second of it. I'm glad to have had the chance to meet with her on several occasions. Here is the post from January 2013:
I have been lucky to have given three talks at one of the coolest cafes in Pakistan: The Second Floor (T2F). I have always found the atmosphere electric and a very high level of questions and discussions. One of the persons behind T2F is Zaheer Kidvai - and I have known him since 1989-90. He helped and guided us in organizing AMASTROPAK - our nascent amateur astronomical society in Karachi. In fact, he provided us with some space in his office as well.
So it is an absolute pleasure to know that in the midst of all the negative news from Pakistan, NPR discovered T2F. Here is the story: Pakistani Cafe is Oasis in Desert of Civil Discourse. Congrats to Sabeen Mahmud, who is the backbone of T2F.
A little over a year ago, Sabeen went to a Bruce Springsteen concert and she wrote this on her Facebook page:
Apologies for all the hyperbole that shall follow but there is no way to describe a live Bruce Springsteen experience without excessive verbal indulgence. Bruce is a powerhouse of raw, unbridled energy. At 64, he has the tightest, sexiest ass I’ve ever seen and a lean, hungry body that brings to life the notion of strapping your hands 'cross his engines. He burst onto the stage at 7:15 pm and did not stop leaping, bounding, running, and being all kinds of awesome, until 10:30 pm. 3 hours and 15 minutes. Non-stop. Who does that anymore? In a world of synthesised, over-produced, stage-managed shit, a Bruce Springsteen concert is pure, unadulterated, old-fashioned (but not cheesy) rock and roll at its wondrous, glorious best. The way he enunciated that he is "a prisoner of the everlasting eternal ass-kicking power of rock and roll” … oh god, my heart stopped for a nanosecond. He makes every single moment count. Every single moment is special.
I was reminded starkly, of what really matters and what’s important. My politics were reinforced. I made leaps of faith in my head all over again. Bruce Springsteen’s music has defined my life - my hopes, dreams, aspirations and struggles. To be in the same space as him was nothing short of magical.
This just gives a small glimpse of the liveliness of Sabeen. Since she explicitly mentioned Springsteen's Hungry Heart at one point in her post, I will post a live version here. Here is Boss for you Sabeen:
Labels: Pakistan
A panel on "Islamic State" at Boston University tomorrow (Apr 23rd)
If you are interested in a serious and reasonable discussion on the Islamic State or ISIS, then there is an opportunity for you at Boston University. BU's Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations is hosting a panel, Interdisciplinary Approaches to the "Islamic State". It looks fantastic and I'm planning on attending it. Here are the details:
This panel seeks to transcend the focus on political and strategic concerns that has often dominated the treatment of the rise of IS/ISIS/ISIL in the media and bring some critical nuance and historical context to the way this phenomenon is generally discussed. Four scholars from Boston University will present (Kecia Ali, Michael Pregill, Tom Barfield, and Noora Lori) and four scholars from other institutions in the Boston area will respond (Jessica Stern, Franck Salameh, Mia Bloom, and Ken Garden).
This is the inaugural event associated with Mizan, the new digital scholarship initiative headed by Michael Pregill, Interlocutor of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations. We hope that those of you in the Boston area will be able to join us for what is sure to be an informative and stimulating conversation!
When: Thursday, April 23, 2015 @ 4:00 to 6:30 PM
Where: Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road, First Floor
This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to smscinst@bu.edu
If you live in the Boston area, come to the panel.
One of the panelists is Kecia Ali. She has a nuanced and interesting take on both ISIS and its critics. Here is a short piece by her, ISIS and Authority, where she addresses Graeme Wood's now (in)famous Atlantic article What ISIS really wants:
Though Wood grants that most Muslims do not support ISIS, and acknowledges in passing the role of interpretation in formulating its doctrines, the overall impression conveyed by the article was that Muslims who deny that ISIS is a fair representation of Islam are either apologists or simply do not really know anything about Islam. Others have offered rebuttals of many of the points in the article, and Bernard Haykel, the scholar quoted, has offered a more nuanced articulation of his views. More than one commentator has pointed out that by treating ISIS as a legitimate representative of the Islamic tradition, seriously religious and dedicated to the texts “shared by all Sunni Muslims,” it fosters an unholy convergence of interests between extremist Muslims and Islamophobes.
Wood is right about some things and wrong about others. ISIS is laying claim to the tradition and the texts they cite are in what we may call the canon. Still, to quote approvingly and without clarification Haykel’s contention that “these guys have just as much legitimacy as anyone else,” seems quite a stretch. To be sure, it is not the job of religious studies scholars (or U. S. presidents) to judge which groups are “Islamic” or “un-Islamic.” Rather, we must understand how various actors make claims to represent, understand, or further their tradition. That does not mean there are no distinctions that can be made, no criteria by which to situate those religious claims in a historical and social framework.
Some attempts to assess ISIS’s legitimacy have focused on the fact that reputable Muslim authorities – clerics, scholars, ‘ulama – uniformly distance themselves from ISIS and condemn its brutal tactics. Though unwilling (for sound theological reasons) to declare leaders or followers of the Islamic State apostates, some have been willing to describe its actions as sinful, evil, or even “un-Islamic.”
But these arguments from authority worry me too. When women do something “impermissible” – lead Friday prayer, open a Women’s Mosque, interpret the Qur’an in feminist ways – self-described “traditional” Muslims offer similar condemnations: these acts, and these actors, are outside the pale of tradition. Regardless of the sophistication of the arguments presented, the response is that those who make them are not properly trained. What authority do they have? In sum: how dare they?
These specious criticisms are nearly impossible to counter, even when those spouting them do not necessarily offer more nuanced or methodologically sophisticated answers. The simple appeal to widespread scholarly agreement leaves me unconvinced.
And here is her central point on tradition and authority:
The most troubling thing about the Atlantic article is the static definition of tradition that Wood uses. In his view, tradition is a body of texts. Legitimacy emerges from texts. Practices consonant with the texts – or that are interpreted as being so – are therefore “Islamic.” Muslims who say otherwise – as he admits the overwhelming majority do when confronted with ISIS – do not have much ground to stand on. But the rejection of ISIS on the basis of its distance from the classical tradition and its unacceptability to contemporary scholars who claim to constitute the legitimate inheritors of that tradition is not a panacea either. Too frequently, the weapon of “scholarly consensus” has been wielded against Muslim women who overstep its bounds—not, as ISIS has done, in a quest for domination, but in a quest for dignity.
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Labels: politics of science and religion, science religion and terrorism
Saturday Video: The truth about Abdus Salam (Part Two)
Here is the second part of Pervez Hoodbhoy's video on Abdus Salam (see the first part here). This directly deals with science and religion. In particular it focuses on the belief and unbelief of Salam and Weinberg, respectively, and on how they both still reached the same conclusions about the electroweak unification theory that got them the Nobel prize. The sentiment here is on the separation of science and religion - something that I also happen to agree with (though inspiration for science can indeed come from religion).
Here is the second part:
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Labels: atheism, beliefs of scientists, Pakistan, Saturday Video
Mauna Kea TMT Update: More protests, walkouts and a counter-campaign by the TMT
It seems that the movement against the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, is growing (see this post from last Thursday). The governor of Hawaii has now postponed the construction until April 20th. On Sunday, there were more protests against the construction on both the Big Island and Oahu. Even Drogo from the Game of Thrones, Jason Momoa, is part of the protests:
On Monday, a few hundred students and faculty staged a walkout at University of Hawaii against the telescope.
The walkout happened at noon with students and professors, many from the Hawaiian Studies program. After leaving their classes the protestors met at the Campus Center to stage a rally. Protestors battled passing rain showers during the rally which lasted approximately 60 minutes. Both students and professors were unhappy with the university’s lack of responsiveness to their concerns over the construction of the state of the art telescope.
There was also a walkout on Monday by the Native Hawaiian Council (Pūko'a Council):
At noon, hundreds gathered for a system-wide walk-out in front of UH Manoa’s campus center, saying the telescope is unnecessary and offensive to Native Hawaiians.
It was organized by the Pūkoʻa Council, the university’s Native Hawaiian council, which features representatives from all 10 system campuses.
“The Board of Regents or the Office of Mauna Kea Management can no longer speak on behalf of the entire University for this issue. As we’ve seen in the past week, opposition to this issue is widespread and this includes opposition within the University itself. The Board of Regents needs to know this as do the TMT investors,” said UH Manoa representative for the Pūkoʻa Council, Dr. Lilikala Kameʻeleihiwa.
The Pūkoʻa Council said it expressed opposition to the TMT project when representatives met with UH president David Lassner at Kapiolani Community College on April 6 and asked that construction be halted.
“The combination of, how do you bridge western science with tradition and Hawaiian knowledge, is to really listen to native people who really understand Hawaii, who really understands the geography of this land and the stories of this land,” said Kaneohe resident Keali’i’olu’olu Gora.
The Thirty Meter Telescope consortium has launched an online campaign to counter these protests with a hashtag #WeSupportTMT. I think for the past seven years, the TMT folks had managed PR well, but they certainly have been caught off-guard with the current protests and are now playing catch-up. Here is the TMT website that provides clarification to many of the objections. The website has some issues as well. For example, the TMT site highlights an 1874 quote from King Kalākaua in support of astronomy on the island. I remember seeing that quote at the Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo, Hawaii. I visited there a few years ago with my friend and historian of native religions, Tracy Leavelle. Tracy was furious because a quote from an Hawaiian authority was being appropriated selectively while ignoring other Hawaiian authorities who may have been more critical of US presence on the island. The TMT issue is not just about science. It is seeped in political and cultural history of Hawaii and astronomers have to be sensitive to those issues beyond simply a "check-box" approach.
I will leave you here first with a video of protest on the Big Island, and then below of protests in Honolulu:
Labels: Astronomy, politics of science and religion, science and Native religions
An asteroid named Malala
If you discover an asteroid, you get a chance to name it. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) gives it the official recognition. It is fantastic that Dr. Amy Mainzer decided to name Asteroid 316201 after Malala. Now we can say that Malala also lives in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter (far far away from the Taliban) and orbits the Sun every 5 and a half years (and will probably keep on orbiting the Sun for a few billion years).
From Malala Fund Blog:
It is a great honor to be able to name an asteroid after Malala. My postdoctoral fellow Dr. Carrie Nugent brought to my attention the fact that although many asteroids have been named, very few have been named to honor the contributions of women (and particularly women of color.
I've been an astronomer at JPL for about 10 years now, and it was my life's dream to be a scientist.
My advice to young girls is that science and engineering are for everyone! We desperately need the brainpower of all smart people to solve some of humanity's most difficult problems, and we can't afford to reject half the population's. Plus, it is a wonderful feeling to learn about the world around you – it's a job you will fall in love with each day.
Carrie and I read about Malala's amazing story and thought that if anyone deserves to have an asteroid named after them, she does!
Thank you very much for your work at the Malala Fund – it is inspiring to see all the great things that you all have done.
(Bold emphasis in original).
And what does the asteroid look like? It is about 4 km in diameter and it has a dark surface. Here is an image of the asteroid along with the description provided by Dr. Mainzer:
The formal designation of the asteroid is 316201 Malala, or 2010 ML48. The asteroid is the red dot in the upper right of the image. This is an infrared image of the asteroid, which means we are sensing the heat it emits rather than the sunlight it reflects off its surface.
The stars appear blue in this image because they are extremely hot, thousands of degrees, whereas the asteroid is much cooler, so it appears red. Just as the hottest flames are blue, hotter temperatures appear as blue in this image, and cooler ones are red.
From the heat emitted, we can also determine the size and reflectivity of the asteroid. It is about 4 kilometers in diameter, and its surface is very dark, the color of printer toner.
This particular asteroid was discovered by our team using a space telescope that orbits the Earth; it is called NEOWISE. I am the principal investigator of the mission.
And here is Malala's rough orbit and you can find more technical details about it here.
But overall, this is a nice and thoughtful gesture. Thanks to Amy and Carrie!
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Labels: Astronomy, Pakistan
Some details on the protests that have halted the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)
Over the past few years, I have posted about the controversy over telescopes on top of Mauna Kea. For example, see the following posts:
Groundbreaking ceremony for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) disrupted by protestors
Thirty Meter Telescope Inching Towards Final Approval
Thirty Meter Telescope Approved on top of Mauna Kea
Update on Mauna Kea: Telescope project given green light
University of Hawaii Regents Approve Plans for TMT on Mauna Kea
Management Plan Approved for Telescopes on Sacred Mauna Kea
Hawaii-Tribune Herald on the recent Mauna Kea lawsuit decision
Mauna Kea Observatories Update Is it good news that Maui is picked as the site for a new Solar telescope?
The telescope construction was supposed to start last week, but the protestors blocked the path to the site. Thirty of the protestors were arrested. Here is the news story about it and the footage of the actual arrests. While the arrests are terrible, it is touching to see cops first embracing the protestors before handcuffing them:
After these arrests, the protest gained even more momentum. And now the governor of Hawaii has asked everyone to take a "timeout" and has halted construction of TMT for a week:
Gov. David Ige announced Tuesday that construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope atop one of the most sacred sites for native Hawaiians would come to a halt, at least temporarily. Ige characterized the one-week pause in construction as a “timeout.”
“There will be no construction activities this week,” the governor told reporters. “This will give us some time to engage in further conversations with the various stakeholders that have an interest in Mauna Kea and its sacredness and its importance in scientific research and discovery going forward.”
Reaction from native Hawaiians to Ige’s announcement was unmistakingly skeptical. Kahookahi Kanuha of Kailua-Kona believes the pause in construction of the telescope is a delay tactic.
"They are looking for us to leave,” he said Tuesday in an interview with Oiwi TV. “The more down time they have, the more they think that we'll have to go back to work and go back to our kuleana (responsibilities). And the truth of the matter is we do. However, many of us are willing to drop that kuleana because those are jobs and this is our responsibility."
TMT project manager Gary Sanders issued a statement shortly after the governor’s announcement to clear up what he says are misconceptions about the project.
"The TMT site was selected with great care and respect," Sanders wrote. “There are no archaeological shrines or burial sites within TMT's project site. Comprehensive research by expert hydrologists confirm there is no threat to the aquifer. TMT agrees with Governor Ige's request for a timeout this week and an ongoing dialogue on issues."
A group calling itself the Sacred Mauna Kea Hui released a statement of its own, saying the governor’s timeout should be made permanent, and that Ige should use the pause in construction to examine possible breeches of public trust.
"Although the Sacred Mauna Kea Hui appreciates a welcome reprieve from the desecration of our sacred mountain summit and endangerment of our fresh water aquifer and endangered species environment, we know that these are still in danger unless a permanent moratorium is obtained,” the statement read. “This reprieve will also give the multi-billion dollar international TMT corporation, which has been allowed to circumvent the law, time to begin its process of identifying a new location outside of Hawaii for their TMT project.”
I was trained as an astronomer and have used a telescope on Mauna Kea. But my sympathies here are largely with the Hawaiians. There is too much injustice and toxic history linked to American actions in Hawai'i. Yes, astronomers had nothing to do with what happened in the late 19th or in the first half of the 20th century. But the large visible observatory domes (they were never supposed to be so prominent on the mountain), for some Hawaiians, did become a reminder of earlier US actions. I think most astronomers have failed to appreciate these historical injustices. Nor have astronomers fully realized the enormous power differential between the marginalized Native Hawaiian groups and state backed universities as well as state agencies like NASA. The TMT, after all, is a $1.4 billion project! To add to all this complexity, the project will and does bring a lot of money to this poor state.
But money is not the issue. The TMT folks did have a sophisticated team that spent seven years clearing all sorts of hurdles and court cases. But the process is not really the issue - even though that is what the protestors are focusing on. The battle over TMT is really about cultural identity and historical injustices. Money cannot erase those concerns and a compromise will be hard to find.
All said, I don't think TMT will be stopped - there is just too much state power behind them. But I just hope that when astronomers use any of the telescopes on top of Mauna Kea, they realize and appreciate that their presence on the mountain and their use of the telescopes is rightfully hurting at least some Hawaiians.
In the mean time, lets see how the drama over TMT construction unfolds.
If interested, here is the letter sent to the governor of Hawaii by the opponents of the telescope:
Mk Letter to Governor 4-1-15
And here is the TMT response to some of the claims made by the protestors:
There have been inaccurate claims made about the project recently. The most common is that TMT is a danger to the Maunakea aquifer and drinking water on Hawaii Island. Comprehensive research by expert hydrologists confirms that TMT and the existing 13 telescopes pose no such danger. Furthermore, TMT is designed to be a zero waste discharge facility with all waste securely transported off the summit. There is also very little precipitation above 8,000 feet and the observatories are located well above that at the top of Maunakea at 14,000 feet.
Download the TMT Environmental Impact Statement (pages 3–115)
Another claim is that TMT did not meet the eight criteria for a conservation district use permit issued by the Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources in 2011. The Third Circuit Court ruled that TMT did meet the criteria by being consistent with state laws governing the districts, not causing substantial adverse impact to existing natural resources, being compatible with the surrounding area, preserving the existing physical and environmental aspects, not subdividing or increasing the intensity of the land use and not being materially detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare. State regulations specifically identify astronomy as a permitted use in the Maunakea Science Reserve.
Labels: science and Native religions
Fifth episode of SkA: The Arabian Nights and Water Geysers on Saturn's Moon Enceladus
[in Urdu] Here is the continuation of our Urdu series, Science ka Adda (Cafe Scientifique).
Why is there a crater named Sinbad on Saturn's moon Enceladus? Is there an underwater ocean on Enceladus and what are the chances of life existing on such a moon? In this episode of Science ka Adda (SkA), we talk about the connection between The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights and one of the most mysterious, interesting, and puzzling objects in our solar system. Here is the episode:
SkA: The Arabian Nights and Water Geysers on Saturn's Moon Enceladus (Urdu) from Science ka Adda on Vimeo.
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Another blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh
27-year old blogger Washiqur Rahman
Things are turning darker still in Bangladesh. Just this past month, an American-Bangladeshi atheist blogger, Avijit Roy, was killed in Dhaka (see The killing in Bangladesh for unbelief and in the US for a particular belief). Now we have Washiqur Rahman who was killed couple of days ago after an attack with knives and meat-cleavers. I don't know if the similar manner of the two killings (machete and meat cleavers/knife) is meant to send an extra message about the brutality of the killers or may be it is just a matter of convenience. But the heartlessness and brutality, nevertheless, comes through. From BBC:
Mr Rahman was killed on a busy street in Dhaka. Two of the suspected attackers, armed with meat cleavers, were caught near the scene.
The suspects told police they had targeted Mr Rahman because of his anti-Islamic writing, a police official told the Associated Press news agency.
Mr Rahman blogged under a pen-name, Kucchit Hasher Channa, or Ugly Duckling. According to the Dhaka Tribune newspaper, he had criticised irrational religious beliefs.
Imran Sarker, the head of a network of activists and bloggers in Bangladesh, told AFP news agency that Mr Rahman was "a progressive free thinker".
Asif Mohiuddin, a Bangladeshi blogger who survived an attack in 2013, said he had often talked to Mr Rahman about "criticising fundamentalist groups".
"I liked him for his satire, his sense of humour. He was a wonderful blogger and I'm very... upset right now," he said.
Last month's attack on Mr Roy prompted massive protests from students and social activists, who accused the authorities of failing to protect critics of religious bigotry.
Lets hope the government steps in to curb these killings and that it doesn't turn into a systematic purge of secularists in Bangladesh.
Here is an CNN article that talks about Rahman's posts:
As shocking as Rahman's death was, the reaction from some quarters was equally disturbing.
On his Facebook page (for which he picked a custom URL that translates to "unbeliever"), Rahman had posted a picture with the hashtag #IamAvijit.
After his death, someone left a comment, "Now you are."
Another wrote, "I felt sorry when I first learned of your death. But then I saw what you wrote and I am not."
On his page, Rahman reposted a cartoon depicting Prophet Mohammed from the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo. He wished a happy birthday to author Taslima Nasreen, who was forced to flee Bangladesh due to death threats from fundamentalists. And he "liked" a picture of sausages wrapped in crescent rolls that someone had captioned, "Pigs in burqas."
Posts threatening him were numerous.
"Get ready for the afterlife," one person commented on one of his posts.
"See you in hell," said another.
Absolutely shameful. But then it is often not about the content but broader political/cultural animosity:
The irony is that the people who killed Rahman weren't even familiar with his writings; they were simply following orders, police said.
Of the three involved in the Monday morning attack, two were quickly caught by bystanders.
In confessions to police, the pair -- both students at Islamic schools -- said they didn't know what a blog was, nor had they seen Rahman's writing.
They said they were acting on orders from another person who told them killing Rahman was a religious duty, Police Commissioner Biplob Kumar Sarkar told reporters.
The third person is still to be apprehended.
That appears to be par for the course in the killings of bloggers in Bangladesh.
The only person arrested in the killing of Roy, the U.S. blogger, is Farabi Shafiur Rahman, who had called for his death in Facebook posts.
There has been no conviction in the January 2013 attack on Mohiuddin.
And no convictions in yet another case -- the hacking death of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider, also in 2013.
"The Bangladeshi government must urgently establish accountability in this murder case and others," the Committee to Project Journalists said after Rahman's death. "Otherwise the rest of the country's bloggers, commentators and journalists covering sensitive topics remain at grave risk of being attacked as well."
And these bloggers are in many ways vulnerable to this kind of violence:
Bloggers, unlike political parties, aren't an organized force -- and that makes them an easy target for radicals, said Imran Sarker, who heads the Blogger and Online Activists Network in Bangladesh.
"They want peace, they talk of humanity. If you strike them with stones, they don't strike back. They try to reach you with flowers," he said. "So, if you want to sow fear and stifle progressive thought, they are easy to pick on."
But the deaths -- of Rahman, of Roy, of Haider -- have emboldened the movement, rather than chill them into silence.
"No one is cowering in their homes because this is happening. Because this has been happening regularly for a long time," he said. "We want to take the society forward. We know we have a lot left to accomplish."
Also see these earlier posts:
The killing in Bangladesh for unbelief and in the US for a particular belief
Standing with Bangladesh's secular bloggers!
Increasing number of cases of "insults to Islam" in Bangladesh and Egypt
Labels: atheism, politics of science and religion, science religion and terrorism
A new book out on science and religion in Victorian Britain
Last week's Science has a review of Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon: From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science by Matthew Stanley. It looks quite good and you will see many parallels in contemporary debates over Islam and science in the Muslim world as well. For example, the review starts with two quotes from Maxwell and you can replace Bible with Quran and you will hear those arguments made today as well:
“But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific
hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis,” wrote the devout Christian physicist James Clerk Maxwell to a friend in 1876. “The rate of change of scientific hypothesis is naturally much more rapid than that of Biblical interpretations, so that if an interpretation is founded on such a hypothesis, it may help to keep the hypothesis above ground long after it ought to be buried and forgotten.” Maxwell's words were characteristically subtle. His first sentence suggests that his major concern was in protecting the integrity of Biblical scriptures, implying that serious damage could occur should these texts be linked to speculative scientific hypotheses that subsequently proved untenable. His second sentence, however, strongly suggests that any such bonding of conjectural scientific hypothesis to scriptural text would actually damage the progress of science.
But then the book deals with the shift from a theistic science to a naturalistic one - and it is here that Huxley - and the new professional class of "scientists" becomes important. But I also appreciate the explicit mention of the disconnect of theistic science of 19th century with the contemporary Intelligent Design (ID) movement:
With a long line of mainstream scientific practitioners, including Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle, theistic science, in recent decades, has been much investigated by historians. Natural philosophers regarded the laws of nature as divinely established for the orderly governance of the world, sustained as uniform and unchangeable, except by God's will. Rightly undertaken in a spirit of humility, scientific investigation was believed to reveal these laws to humankind, along with the manifold benefits that such knowledge of the natural order could provide. Thus, the uniformity of nature, resting upon faith in a divine being who never acted arbitrarily, made possible the advance of human science. Stanley argues that traditional theistic science is radically different from the present-day theory of “Intelligent Design,” which, he emphasizes, lies outside mainstream science and refuses to acknowledge methodological principles such as the uniformity of nature and the provisional character of scientific knowledge.
Challenging the values of theistic science, Thomas Huxley represented a new and ambitious generation of scientists who interpreted uniformity as naturalistic rather than theistic. According to Stanley, Huxley believed that “one could only assume uniformity if there was no active deity able to disrupt natural processes.” Huxley had rich cultural resources on which to draw to challenge the established views. For example, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology offered a compelling model that explained Earth's history using only observable agents such as water and heat.
Stanley's book draws upon a wealth of recent scholarship on Victorian science and religion. It is also extremely well grounded in a variety of primary texts, including private correspondence, public lectures, and published scientific papers. Its primary goal—to demonstrate how the scientific enterprise gradually shifted from a theistic to a naturalistic approach—is impressively pursued.
You can read the full review here (though you may need subscription to access it).
Labels: beliefs of scientists, general, history
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Japan crypto exchange loses $32 million of virtual money
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese cryptocurrency exchange has reported a hack causing the loss of 3.5 billion yen, or $32 million, worth of virtual money.
Tokyo-based Remixpoint, which runs the BITPoint exchange as well as travel, used car and energy businesses, apologized Friday, saying the losses were confirmed starting Thursday.
The reason for the losses, which include bitcoins as well as Ethereum, Ripple and other kinds of cryptocurrencies, is under investigation.
About two-thirds of the losses affected customers while the rest of the missing assets belonged to Remixpoint, the company said in a statement. All transactions have been halted.
Japan has been relatively open to cryptocurrencies, which use a technology called blockchain, despite some high-profile heists.
It has set up a licensing system to oversee their use. Bitcoin has been a legal form of payment in Japan since April 2017.
Remixpoint said the lost money was in what is called the "hot wallet." Money in the "cold wallet," which has tighter security, was safe.
The investigation's findings will be disclosed as soon as possible, the company said.
Major cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox was hacked and collapsed in Japan in 2014.
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Universidad Agraria (Peru)
Rigney, J. A. (Jackson Ashcraft), 1913-1998
International Potato Center
Cummings, Ralph W., 1911-2001
1 collection related to North Carolina State College
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North Carolina State University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Peru Program Records, 1951-1995
Size: 23.25 linear feet (43 archival boxes, 1 archival legal box, 1 archival halfbox, and 1 archival flat box) Collection ID: UA 100.053
The North Carolina State University Peru Project was a foreign assistance program in the South American country of Peru. It was North Carolina State College’s first major international activity. In 1953, the U.S. State Department invited the college’s School of Agriculture to explore the development of a program to provide technical ... More
The North Carolina State University Peru Project was a foreign assistance program in the South American country of Peru. It was North Carolina State College’s first major international activity. In 1953, the U.S. State Department invited the college’s School of Agriculture to explore the development of a program to provide technical assistance to the Peruvian Ministry of Agriculture and one of the Peruvian colleges. The program officially began in January 1955, when R. W. Cummings headed a six-member team to the country. Cummings was succeeded by Jack Rigney. The project was renewed after the initial three-year period, and it was greatly expanded during the 1960s. By the time the project’s mission ended in 1973, 81 faculty members had worked in the country and 200 Peruvians had been trained in the United States. In 1982, the School (College) of Agriculture and Life Sciences was invited back to Peru to assist with agricultural research and extension. The North Carolina State Univeristy Peru Project records are comprised of correspondence, reports, manuals, newspaper clippings, photographs, newsletters, and other documents created and collected during the course of the project. Materials range in date from 1953 to 1995. Less
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Wells, B. W., Mrs. (Bertram Whittier)
State College Woman's Club (North Carolina State College)
Riddick, W. C., Mrs.
Metcalf, Luella
North Carolina State University. Woman's Club
North Carolina State College -- History
Filters: 1960-1969North Carolina State College -- History
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, State College Woman's Club Records, 1919-2012
Size: 19.3 linear feet (12 boxes, 4 legal boxes, 14 flat boxes, 6 flat folders, 1 oversize box) Collection ID: UA 021.509
The records of the State College Woman's Club (later the North Carolina State University Woman's Club) document the club's history and activities from 1919 to 2012 and include the club constitution and by-laws, annual reports, yearbooks, historical scrapbooks, photographs, membership lists, committee reports, newsletters, ... More
The records of the State College Woman's Club (later the North Carolina State University Woman's Club) document the club's history and activities from 1919 to 2012 and include the club constitution and by-laws, annual reports, yearbooks, historical scrapbooks, photographs, membership lists, committee reports, newsletters, correspondence, agendas, minutes, expense and accounting information, and newspaper clippings documenting club, member, and university activities. Cookbooks produced by the group, Favorite Foods From Faculty Kitchens (1974) and Foods That Rate at NC State (1983), are also included. Spouses of many notable NC State professors and administrators were involved in shaping and leading the State College Woman's Club, including Mrs. Zeno Metcalf, Mrs. W. C. Riddick, and Mrs. B. W. Wells. The North Carolina State College Woman's Club (later the North Carolina State University Woman's Club) was formed in 1919 to "unite the women connected with the college in a common interest for the promotion of welfare and advancement of State College" (later N.C. State University). The club also sought to provide opportunities for faculty members and their families to become better acquainted with each other, striving to promote a sense of community for those involved in the university. Originally membership was open to all women connected with the university, though, especially in the early years, the membership focus was on faculty wives. Club activities were primarily social, especially in the early years. Less
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CAMPIONATI INTERNAZIONALI DI GIOCHI MATEMATICI
Liceo Classico–Scientifico Ariosto–Spallanzani
Liceo Classico–Scientifico Ariosto–Spallanzani is a high school located in Reggio Emilia, whose main focus is academic preparation for students aiming at university studies.
The long name accounts for the school history: The Liceo Classico–Scientifico Ariosto–Spallanzani merged the two oldest grammar schools in the city: Liceo Classico Ariosto and Liceo Scientifico Spallanzani, in school year 1997/98. The present Liceo, with its common management and good endowment of premises and equipment, is in a position to offer excellent educational opportunities open to innovation, both highlighting the cultural peculiarities of the two sections in which it is articulated, and sharing knowledge and tools.The school is equipped with modern laboratories for science, art and computer studies, and a well-stocked library open to students for individual study and group activities.
The Liceo Classico–Scientifico Ariosto–Spallanzani aims at a global education: by approaching subjects related to humanities and sciences, students learn about Nature, Man, the history and culture of mankind.
We intend to offer equal opportunities to all learners and the possibility to develop a cultural preparation that matches both the individual and the social requirements.
The following educational objectives are to be pursued in all school activities:
-awareness of the values of respect, self-control and lawfulness
-education to critical thinking, freedom, creativity
-willingness for dialogue between different opinions, models, contexts to promote cooperation, tolerance and human rights
-attitude towards enhancing the Italian cultural tradition in view of an intercultural and European dimension.
The teaching staff is composed of 92 teachers, and we have 1115 students at present. The socio-economic context of the students’ background has recently widened and become more adherent to the variety and complexity of modern Italian society. They may reside in the city centre, but also in the neighbouring towns and even in the small towns of the mountain area.
Students are generally highly motivated and very keen on taking advantage of the learning experience offered by the school. The starting level in their background is generally quite good and remains such along the five curricular years until the final exam (esame di stato), the average mark being 87/100. The favourite university choices for our students are Medicine, Engineering, Business, Law, Chemistry, Biology.
There are two main curricula in the Liceo:
Classical studies, which involve subjects like Latin, Ancient Greek, History, Philosophy, emphasizing literary analysis both in Italian and foreign language texts.
Scientific studies, markedly in Mathematics and Physics with a thorough competence in Natural Sciences, also including subjects like Philosophy, Art, Latin and Italian Literature.
English as foreign language is mandatory for all students; however they can also choose to include a second foreign language, German or French, in their curriculum. Other options for flexible studies feature ICT, and advanced Art History or Maths.
Classes normally run in the morning from 07.50 to 12.50, but the school premises are open in the afternoon for extra-curricular activities, students support and special projects offered by the teaching staff. Such projects contribute to the learners’ cultural growth by means of informal education and learning about the territory. They include:
drama and acting
general health and first aid
competitions in classical languages
Olympics for Math, Physics, IT
language certifications with Cambridge Exams, Goethe Institute, Alliance Francaise
Science and Chemistry labs in view of the standardised tests for access to university
training as art mentors and public speaking
ECDL and ICT
TED.ED club
Other educational activities for all students include:
school trips and field trips related to specific subjects
orienteering to higher education
working internship
school exchanges
Though being founded on academic studies, in the past few years our school has opened up to an international context, in harmony with the European vocation of the Regione Emilia Romagna and in particular of the city of Reggio Emilia, whose economy is strictly bound to foreign relations and where the local administration has always been outstanding for its close connections and twinning with some other European and non-European cities. We then deem it a priority to give a positive European turn to our educational offer.
Among our remarkable experiences in this field there have been exchanges with Austrian and Australian schools, Student exchanges through international agencies, Erasmus projects for intern students like MOVET.
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Design Center leads conversations on holistic health, equal opportunity
Design Center set up an institutional booth at the Henry Sy Hall in De La Salle University that featured its key services of the agency
The Design Center of the Philippines celebrated recently World Industrial Design Day 2018 with the one-day event Designing Wellness at Robins Design Center on Meralco Avenue, Pasig City.
The annual World Industrial Design Day (WIDD) is an initiative of the World Design Organization, of which the Design Center. It spotlights a United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) and underscores the role of design in achieving the objective. For 2018, with the focus on UN SDG Number 3, holistic health and well-being were highlighted.
In partnership with Robins Design Center, Designing Wellness featured talks, workshops and exhibitions at the Schema, Perchand La Europa showrooms.
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Leo Lallana of On-Off Group facilitated a Design Thinking workshop that taught participants to “fail forward” and to come up with solutions tailor-fit for pain-points of businesses.
Participants were presented different challenges during the workshop. One challenge asked them to come up with designs that took into account the insights of their chosen partners. Activities emphasized empathy and the active seeking of innovative solutions to problems at hand.
Reimon Gutierrez talked about his philosophy of art as a tool for self-discovery in his Life by Design workshop. He encouraged participants to “visualize wellness”, helping them with the process by instructing them to describe various objects given to them.
The second part of the event, Design Talks, featured talks by homegrown design champions.
Kicking off the series of talks, Melanie Go explained that building biology “addresses the ecological nature of the building – a step forward in harmony and balance with nature” and made the home “our third skin.”
“These homes are meant to protect what’s going on inside and what’s going on outside. We should think about the home as a living organism,” Go said.
A co-founder of Holy Carabao Farms, Go said the well-being of the soil, the animals and the people involved were top priorities in the practice of holistic farming.
Waves for Water Philippines director for operations Jenica Dizon emphasized the importance of immersing one’s self in the source of the problem he/she wanted to solve. She encouraged her audience to help effect change while doing what they were passionate about.
“It’s really hard to advocate for health, for wellness, when people don’t have basic needs,” Dizon noted as she talked about how her passion for aquatic activities evolved into her advocacy to provide clean water for everyone after she saw the plight of indigent communities. She showed the audience the water filter that Waves for Water provided communities to make water clean.
Arooga Health founder Dominique de Leon and Innovable, Inc. chief design officer Christina Guanzon stressed the need for accessibility of design, particularly in relation to their respective advocacies, mental health and a safer world for everyone, able-bodied or not.
“We don’t have convenient access to mental healthcare,” De Leon lamented as he discussed the impetus for Arooga Health, an online application that champions improved mental health policies in the workplace. “Hopefully, together, we could design a future that we’re all excited to see,” he said.
“In designing products, you have to design for any possibility,” Guanzon said. She said, as a hearing-impaired person herself, the difficulties she faced in a world that was mainly accessible to differently abled individuals served as the inspiration for Early Action Response System (EARS), a device that would enable deaf wearers to detect threats in their environment.
“To all the designers here, we encourage you to make design inclusive even on the basic level,” Chief Fireball and co-founder of Kick Fire Kitchen Niña Terol said during the fireside chat she moderated.
“We are proud to be at the forefront of sparking the much-needed conversation in ensuring that the physical, mental, social and psychological dimensions of an individual and the community are top priorities in designing wellness,” Design Center of the Philippines Executive Director Rhea Matute said.
The Design Center also partnered with the Saint Brother Jaime Hilario Institute and the School of Deaf Education and Applied Studies of the De La Salle-College of St. Benilde in therecent PWD Entre-ployment Expo 2018.
With a grant from the Embassy of the United States in Manila, the expo promoted equality in employment opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs).
Design Center set up an institutional booth at the Henry Sy Hall in De La Salle University that featured its key services of the agency. It also facilitated a workshop, Do the Dough, that taught the 27 participants techniques they could apply to homemade air-dried dough to create various products that they could sell for a profit.
“The Design Center believes in accessibility as embodied by our accessible design services,” Matute explained. “We hope to continue playing an active role in the advancement of employability of Filipinos, regardless of their conditions.”
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Trump Slaps Administration's Back for Drug Pricing Actions
Prescription drug prices fell in 2018 "for first time in over 50 years," president says
by Joyce Frieden Joyce Frieden, News Editor, MedPage Today January 23, 2019
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration began Wednesday's White House roundtable on lowering prescription drug prices by rehashing actions the administration has already taken to lower healthcare costs and increase price transparency.
"We're here today to hear about how the healthcare system too often harms people with unfair surprises -- they have some surprises in a very negative sense, medical bills and the like," said President Trump. "The pricing is hurting patients. We've stopped a lot of it, and we're going to stop all of it ... it's very important to me."
"My administration is committed to delivering a healthcare system that takes care of the American people like they haven't been taken care of before, and we can do that," he added. "It's a very complex subject, but we've all got to understand it very well."
The president expressed surprise that anyone would buy a more expensive brand-name drug if they could pay much less for a generic. "One thing that amazed me -- I was asking a few of the people including [FDA Commissioner] Scott [Gottlieb], what's the difference between a generic and a big-name drug where you pay much more money? And they said, 'Absolutely no difference,'" he said. "Will somebody explain [why people would buy the brand-name version]? You'll pay four, five, six times more for something that comes in a container you're more familiar with."
Trump also lauded the administration's progress on implementing association health plans (AHPs), under which associations and small businesses can purchase coverage that is exempt from some Affordable Care Act requirements on minimum coverage as well as other rules.
"Through association health plans, we've expanded access to affordable high-quality healthcare, particularly for employees of small businesses and self-employed individuals, and we reduced premiums on the federal Obamacare exchanges for the first time in the history of horrible Obamacare. It's the first time it's ever happened," he said.
He also said that as a result of the administration's efforts on lowering drug prices, "prescription drug prices declined in 2018 for the first time in over 50 years."
At Trump's request, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta provided an update on association health plans. "So far we have 30 AHPs and two have gone across multiple states," he said. Acosta cited the Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce AHP as one example; the chamber has had 500 employers and 100 sole proprietors sign up for its plan, he said.
"It's providing substantial cost savings," said Acosta, adding that business employees had been paying $400 to $450 per month for health insurance, but with the new AHP are now paying an average of $230 per month. He noted that the plan included a 2-year rate lock, coverage of preexisting conditions, and optional dental and vision benefits as well as a health savings account. "These are the kind of savings you're seeing across the nation."
Acosta said his department was also working with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on regulations that would allow small employers to offer health reimbursement accounts (HRAs) "where employers can give employees cash to go out and buy their own healthcare ... I'm very excited about that." A proposed rule on HRAs is expected to be put out for notice and comment by spring, he added.
HHS Secretary Alex Azar also attended the briefing and praised steps his department has taken, including a requirement -- which went into effect on Jan. 1, 2019 -- that all hospitals post their sticker prices online. "It's a historic first step in bigger efforts around transparency," he said. "Ultimately patients should know a service's price and the price they're going to really pay."
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20 Diversity and Inclusion Leaders to Follow in 2018
People of color are underrepresented in the tech industry.
A study by Fortune reveals that women held one third of the jobs in companies like LinkedIn, Microsoft, and HP. Within these companies, less than 1 percent are Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and Native Americans, 5 percent are blacks, and 7 percent are Hispanics.
The numbers are even worse on top. Native Americans and Native Hawaiians hold 0.1 percent of leadership within large tech companies and 23.58 percent belonged to people in other ethnicities. Not surprisingly, 76.42 percent of top positions were held by whites.
Why do you need diversity?
When you're working on a tech product for a business that provides solutions to people around the world, diversity is extremely important. You want to get perspectives from different cultures and races. You want to make all your employees feel confident to be their authentic selves. And diversity leads to better retention and equity.
Plus, diversity helps businesses.
Research by McKinsey & Company found that companies in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity were 35% more likely to have above-median financial returns.
And research published on Forbes indicates that inclusive teams make better business decisions up to 87% of the time.
The tech industry is predominantly male. Women Who Tech found that 40 percent of women still believed that companies aren't doing enough to address the gender gap.
The good news is there have been more diversity and inclusion leaders over the past year. Check out our list to learn about the leaders you should follow in 2018.
1. Emma Mayerson
(Source: Alliance for Girls)
Emma is the founding director of Alliance for Girls (AFG).
She manages an association with more than 150 organizations that serve more than 300,000 girls in San Francisco. Her organization aspires to give young girls opportunities to achieve their dreams and become champions. Thanks to Emma's leadership, AFG is now the largest alliance of girls organization in the US.
You can check it out at www.alliance4girls.org.
2. Kimberly Bryant
(Source: Black Girls Code)
Some say it's hard to find women leaders in the STEM industry, but it may be even harder to find African American women in science, technology, engineering, and math. Kimberly Bryant was familiar with this trend. She felt culturally isolated because while she pursued her studies she rarely met people with the same cultural background.
As founder of Black Girls Code, Kimberly hopes to change this trend. Her organization aims to provide opportunities in IT and computer programming to young and pre-teen girls of color.
If you want to check out her organization, visit their website.
3. Leanne Pittsford
(Source: Twitter)
Leanne Pittsford is an entrepreneur, investor, and queer and women's rights activist.
She used her experience as senior director at Equality California, the largest statewide LGBTQ organization in the US, to create Lesbians Who Tech. As CEO and founder, she launched the project Social Good Tech Week, which helped connect technology to social good organizations.
Leanne founded Lean Impact, which helps social good communities use Lean Startup principles. She also founded Start Somewhere, a design and technology consulting firm and served as a co-creator of When You Work, a nonprofit Tumblr blog.
You can get in touch with her on Twitter @lepitts.
4. Tariq Meyers
(Source: Forbes)
Tariq Meyers is the first head of inclusion and diversity at Lyft.
Under his leadership, the company has held unconscious bias trainings and conscious action trainings so that employees could recognize and take action against their biases. He was integral in the company's implementation of their Gender Inclusion & Affirmation policy, which ensures transgender people enjoy an inclusive workplace. He was involved in fundraising campaigns for nonprofit organizations like Lyft's Round Up & Donate program, wherein 75,000 passengers donated $380,000 to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
In the hiring process, Tariq implemented the Rooney Rule, which requires at least one minority and one woman to take part in the final interview process for positions that are director level or above.
5. Allison Esposito
(Source: LinkedIn)
As the founder of Tech Ladies, Allison has become one of the most influential women in the tech industry.
The vision of Tech Ladies is to help women land their dream roles in all technology fields. The organization connects women online by creating a space where they can ask and offer career advice and offline through meetups in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, DC, and Vancouver. In 2016, Tech Ladies boasted a network of 5,000+ women in technology worldwide.
Their job board, www.hiretechladies.com, includes positions for prominent tech companies like Kickstarter, Evernote, Warby Parker, Buffer, Etsy, GIPHY, Yahoo!, and more.
Allison's organization was accepted into Women@Forbes and the Impact Hub Female Founder Entrepreneur Program.
6. Cadran Cowansage
Cadran is a Y Combinator (YC) software engineer and founder of Leap, an online community for women. Its mission is to create an online space where women can talk openly.
Leap's objective is to create an online community where the core culture, software, and product decisions are defined by women. This initiative is significant given that social media giants like Facebook, Snapchat, and LinkedIn---among many others---were all founded by men.
Leap has amassed 1,500 members in its beta stage. The platform is for women designers, marketers, VCs, and engineers in the tech industry who want to discuss job and network opportunities, sexual harassment issues, parenting issues, tech articles, and startup questions.
You can sign up here to join Leap.
7. Maxine Williams
(Source: Atlanta Black Star)
Maxine earned her law degree and graduated with first-class honors from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. She went to work as an attorney in the UK and has worked in multiple international organizations on development and human rights issues.
She is currently Facebook's Global Chief Diversity Officer, where she develops strategies to attract and support underrepresented people in all teams on Facebook. Under Maxine's leadership, the number of women in the social media giant increased up to 35 percent, as well as Hispanics (5 percent), and African Americans (3 percent).
She also spearheaded three programs on Facebook---Diverse Slate Approach, Managing Unconscious Bias, and Facebook University---which aims to increase diversity and opportunities for underrepresented backgrounds.
You can follow or reach out to Maxine via her Facebook account.
8. Ciara Trinidad
Ciara is a self-proclaimed "triple threat" since she is a black and queer woman. She serves as the head of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Blend. Previously, she was the head of Inclusion and Diversity at Lever, where she helped created a 50/50 gender split.
Ciara says her focus is to build a culture where people can be their authentic selves, bring their best ideas to work, and get the best people at their company. She also serves as a D&I advisor for companies like HotelTonight and lob.com.
You can get in touch with her on LinkedIn and Twitter---@ciaratrinidad.
9. David King
(Source: New York Times)
David King has more than 10 years of experience as a leader, visionary, and promoter of diversity and inclusion at top global organizations. He served as the chief of diversity management and outreach at the US Department of State. He advised Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on issues such as same-sex domestic partner benefits and the recruitment and retention of diverse Foreign Service Officers. He also served as the director of the Office of Civil Rights and Diversity for the Peace Corps.
At present, David King is the head of Diversity and Belonging at Airbnb. Under his leadership, Airbnb has 41 percent women and 59 percent men. While ethnicity of employees isn't as diverse, Airbnb has managed to gain 41 percent whites, 36 percent Asians, 7.5 percent Hispanics and 3 percent blacks.
You may get in touch with David via his LinkedIn profile.
10. Laura Weidman Powers
(Source: Code2040)
Laura Weidman Powers is co-founder and former CEO of Code2040, which is a nonprofit organization that creates opportunities in technology for underrepresented backgrounds, especially for blacks and Latinas. The organization envisions that by the year 2040, people of color will be equally represented in America's economy as tech leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs.
Previously, Laura was the senior advisor to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith. There, she worked on diversity and inclusion issues related to hiring practices, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and tech platforms. She also co-founded two nonprofit arts education organizations in West Philadelphia.
Fortune named Laura as one of the top ten women executives on the rise in 2016. Goldman Sachs recognized her as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs in 2013.
Follow her on Twitter---@laurawp.
11. Reshma Saujani
(Source: Reshma Saujani)
Reshma Saujani is the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code. The organization hopes to close the gender gap in technology. It has currently taught 50,000 girls, and 88 percent of its alumni have studied computer science in college.
Saujani is also the author of a fun guide for coding titled, Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World, and a book for women leaders titled, Women Who Don't Wait in Line.
Her goal is to teach 1 million girls by 2020.
You can follow Reshma at @reshmasaujani or visit her website at reshmasaujani.com.
12. Sandy Hoffman
(Source: Cisco)
Sandy Hoffman is the director of global inclusion at LinkedIn. She joined the company to help fulfill LinkedIn's vision of equal economic opportunity for every employee in the world.
Prior to her role at LinkedIn, she was the chief diversity officer at Cisco. She has also published many articles on inclusion and diversity. Her passion is to increase engagement and inclusion outcomes in order to fuel innovation and leadership.
Get in touch with Sandy Hoffman on Twitter @sahoffma.
13. Freada Kapor Klein
(Source: Kapor Capital)
As the founder of Level Playing Field Institute, Freada knows a lot about the discrimination and lack of diversity in STEM fields.
Level Playing Field recognizes the plight of underserved and underrepresented students of color, so the institute explores initiatives to help address why diversity efforts have failed and to implement programs to help it succeed. The organization offers mentorship, scholarships, educational experiences, and programs to students of color. These initiatives include Level the Coding Field hackathons, SMASH: Connect (an alumni mentoring program), Summer Math and Science Honors (SMASH) Academy, and a lot more!
Follow Freada on Twitter @TheRealFreada.
14. Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor has a diverse portfolio at Kapor Capital. He has invested in startups and teams from underrepresented backgrounds and low-income communities. He also takes part in initiatives to break barriers in education and to address urgent social needs in the fields of education, justice, and health.
In his current portfolio, 56 percent of investments show a woman or a person of color as a founder. Forty-two percent of their first-time investments had a woman founder, and 28 percent of his first-time investments had a founder from a racially underrepresented background.
You can follow Mitchell @mkapor.
15. David Molina
(Source: GeekWire)
How can veterans get opportunities in tech? After twelve years of service, David wanted a new career. However, he couldn't use his GI bill to enroll in code school because the military did not recognize it.
The solution? David created Operation Code to modernize the outdated GI bill so veterans could get tech jobs. His cause gained momentum, and House Republican Majority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, introduced a bill that enabled the US Department of Veterans Affairs to begin pilot programs with various tech courses, especially programming.
At present, Operation Code provides one-on-one mentorship for veterans from software engineers, product managers, system architects, and security engineers. They have established a loan program to provide laptops to veterans in need. They also have a Slack group that boasts 1,200 members and more than 60 channels with different subjects.
Follow David @davidcmolina.
16. Candice Morgan
Candice is the first-ever head of diversity at Pinterest. She is responsible for transforming Pinterest's talent pool to increase the number of women and people of color in the company. In 2017, she managed to increase Pinterest's hiring rate for women by 26 percent, which surpassed the company's goal of 25 percent. The company currently has 45 percent women and 55 percent men.
Follow Candice Morgan on Twitter @Candice_MMorgan or get in touch with her on LinkedIn.
17. Caroline Wanga
(Source: Human Capital Institute)
Caroline is the chief diversity and inclusion officer and vice president of human resources at Target. She created Target's first-ever performance-based diversity and inclusion goals to generate insights on the best ways to reach employees from underrepresented backgrounds. She is passionate about creating an environment where employees, especially people of color, are respected.
With her efforts, Target landed the 22nd spot on DiversityInc's list of the top 50 most diverse firms and had more willingness to promote and designate Latinos at higher positions than those in the top ten.
Connect with Caroline on LinkedIn.
18. Sue Henley
(Source: Vercida)
Sue Henley is the head of Talent Development, Education & Diversity for EMEA.
The company was awarded the Champion of Equality & Inclusion at the enei (Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion) awards. The recognition was a result of the company's various diversity and inclusion programs. One example is THRIVE, a program wherein CA Technologies employees are involved in volunteer work groups like The Generational Employee Network in order to address intergenerational issues.
The company also created reverse mentoring initiatives to encourage interactions across various generations.
You can follow and contact Sue via LinkedIn.
19. Chike Aguh
(Source: EveryoneOn)
Thousands of US citizens are still not connected to the Internet. As CEO of EveryoneOn, this is a problem Chike wants to solve. He aims to break the digital divide by making affordable internet, low-cost computers, and free digital literacy courses accessible to underprivileged citizens.
Chika is also a member at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government's Alumni Board of Directors, a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations, and board president at Code in the Schools.
Connect with Chike on LinkedIn.
20. Shelley Henderson
(Source: Nsee)
Shelley has done many things. She spent the past 25 years in various positions, which include certified teacher, youth development specialist, nonprofit executive, university program coordinator, and professor among many others.
At present, she serves as the national diversity and inclusion manager at For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST). Her job is to seek entrepreneurial opportunities and well-paying jobs for the underprivileged and people of color. She is also responsible for planning and implementing strategies that will increase inclusivity and diversity in the FIRST community.
Follow Shelley on Twitter @shellmhenderson.
Got any diversity and inclusion leaders you'd like to add to the list? Send us an email with your suggestions, and we may include your thoughts in a future post!
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Has London 2012's legacy lived up to expectations?
SPONSORED: Five years on, we look at how Stratford has changed.
by MT Staff
It’s five years since London hosted the Olympic and Paralympic Games. It was acclaimed as a great success, but it nearly didn’t happen. The UK capital pipped Paris at the pitching stage by the slimmest of margins. At the heart of the London 2012 bid was its legacy, to the city and the local community. Sporting facilities would continue to be used rather than sitting idle, transport would be improved and, above all, the Stratford area would be revitalised.
It's easy to make promises. But has London 2012 lived up to those expectations? We sat down with Ben O’Rourke, Managing Director at International Quarter London, one of the key developments in post-Olympic Stratford, to find out.
How has the area changed since the closing ceremony?
I recently heard the Mayor of Newham describe looking at post-Olympic Stratford as a toy train track – and after all the temporary venues had been removed, it really was just that (see below). A huge parcel of flat land, with trains passing and crossing around it.
Now five years on, you have people actually living here on the park in Glasshouse Gardens, the stadium is a major events venue welcoming millions of visitors and later this year we will have our first influx of employees arriving from TfL.
What were the biggest challenges from a developer’s perspective?
Before the Olympics, people just didn’t go to Stratford. It didn’t have a sense of identity that Londoners, or the wider world associated with. The Olympics played a huge part in changing that and putting Stratford firmly on the map. But even so, five years ago asking a business to pack up and move their staff to Stratford was definitely a leap of faith.
Thankfully TfL and the FCA could envision what we had planned. They had faith in the long-term picture – which allowed us to get the first two buildings out of the ground. Of course, right now there is still a lot of construction to deliver, but with paving being laid down, trees being planted and retail units about to open realising what this could be isn’t so unimaginable. Next year when the first phase fully opens and the restaurants and bars are full I think people will start to fully realise what is going on here.
The developments in Stratford are part of a broader movement of London’s centre of gravity eastwards. What opportunities do you think this brings to the capital as a whole?
Over half of London’s population now lives east of Tower Bridge is a stat we pull out all the time – and that’s something that five years ago may have been a bit more shocking, but there’s no denying London is moving east.
At the end of the day – space is finite. The city is at capacity, rates on office space are unattainable for many businesses so it simply makes sense to look at new areas for London to grow. Stratford offers the chance for companies looking for affordable space to come here and have a blank canvas to reinvent themselves.
But it’s not just businesses that are benefiting, major academic and cultural institutions including UCL East, the V&A, Sadler’s Wells Theatre and The University of the Arts London are coming together to create London’s newest cultural and education district – further shaping London’s future in the east.
The challenge of course for any large-scale regeneration project is keeping things authentic. And that’s something we’re working with the London Borough of Newham and other local community organisations to ensure that the new developments on the Park are used and seamlessly integrated with the wider vision for East London.
and now.
The pitch for London 2012 relied heavily on the legacy the games would have on the city. Do you think it’s living up to that expectation?
The legacy of the Olympics was built on the promise to transform this part of East London. You only have to take a walk around the area to appreciate the speed in which progress has been made to achieve this vision.
But the success of Stratford has really been made possible by a collective of both the public and private sectors working together. From conception to construction, we have worked hand in hand with our partners and the local community to ensure we are reflecting the fundamental values that shaped the success of the Olympic Games.
Thankfully this is something that both the Financial Conduct Authority and Transport for London as well as our very latest tenants Cancer Research UK and the British Council also believe in. And they are undeniably passionate about being a part of. The Stratford story is far from over, and we as a business are proud to play a small part in its creation.
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Our New York GMAT math instructor has tutored mathematics at all levels, from algebra to calculus. He was a teaching assistant in statistics while getting his MBA at Columbia University. He has worked as an actuary in various industries. The examinations needed to become an actuary are math-intensive and notoriously difficult. Our New York math instructor passed all the necessary exams by the age of 24. He holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and a BA in Mathematics with a minor in English from Hofstra University. In 2009, he scored a perfect 800 on the quantitative portion of the GRE. A GMAT expert with a top score, his students praise him as patient, interactive, and willing to help students through any problem.
NYC GMAT Prep Teacher & Tutor
Our New York GMAT verbal instructor has worked for over 5 years as a professional GMAT tutor and instructor. Her clients have graduated from prestigious schools such as Columbia, Oxford, Harvard, and Georgetown, have worked at prestigious firms such as McKinsey, Citibank Wealth Management, Credit Suisse, and Lehman Brothers, and have gone on to MBA programs at Columbia, NYU, Harvard, University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, Duke and Wharton. She graduated with Honors in Economics from Skidmore College. When not with GMAT clients, she works as a writer and choreographer.
Ann Arbor GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Ann Arbor GMAT instructor has coached and tutored over 100 GMAT students, many of whom have been accepted into competitive MBA programs like TUCK, IE, IMD, SAID, INSEAD, and BOOTH. His tutoring experience gets his students the results they desire and due to his extensive MBA network he can offer valuable insights and advice for the entire application process. Our Ann Arbor GMAT instructor holds a B.A. in Social Studies and Education from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, USA and a post-graduate degree in Theological Studies. He is also a certified ESL tutor.
Ann Arbor GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Ann Arbor GMAT instructor has over 6 years of GMAT teaching and tutoring experience. He holds a dual Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Psychology from the University of Michigan and he has held Researcher positions at the University of Michigan, Tsinghua University in China, and the University of Pennsylvania (the Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School). His extensive experience and his strong academic background have equipped him to be a highly effective GMAT test prep instructor who is sure to help you reach a top score on your upcoming exam.
Atlanta GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Atlanta GMAT instructor has 3 years of tutoring experience specializing in standardized tests including ACT, SAT, TOEFL, GRE and GMAT. He has a GMAT score of 750. He believes in tutoring students in a fun atmosphere. He has also taught high school classes in English, Math, and Physics and is skilled in teaching classes of up to 20 students, as well as private one-on-one sessions. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Science from Georgia State University.
Atlanta GMAT Prep Teacher & Tutor
Our Atlanta GMAT instructor's professional history firmly roots him inside the classroom, where he has received his Master’s in Education and his Bachelor’s in Applied Mathematics and has been dedicated to helping students learn difficult mathematical concepts for the past 20 years. Our Atlanta GMAT instructor has taught some of Atlanta’s highest profile clients. He also worked as Academic Dean and professor at the DeVry Institute of Technology for 10 years. Our Atlanta GMAT instructor specializes in standardized test math preparation (GMAT, GRE, SAT, ACT) and we are proud to have him as part of our team.
Austin GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Austin GMAT Instructor is a highly effective GMAT instructor with Manhattan Elite Prep in Austin. He has many years of teaching experience, and he has held teaching positions at schools in Austin and New York, as well as at international schools in Hong Kong and Costa Rica. Our Austin GMAT instructor holds a Master of Education degree from Texas State University and a Bachelor’s Degree from Cornell University, New York. He caters each session to each student’s personal learning style and needs, and he believes that one-to-one instruction is the learning method proven time and again to sharply improve a student’s measured performance, and that a good tutor can deliver a “home run,” both educationally and statistically.
Austin GMAT Prep Teacher & Tutor
Our Austin GMAT Math instructor has been tutoring students of all ages since 1988. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Bogazici University in Turkey, the first American college founded outside of the US in 1863, where he was accepted after scoring among the top 0.1% students in the nationwide University Entrance Exam in his native country. His top score among 1.2 million students made him the recipient of many scholarship awards including Prime Minister of Turkey Scholarship, Bogazici University Tuition Fellowhip and the Top 1000 High School Students of Turkey. Due to his ongoing academic accomplishments, University of Houston awarded him “University of Houston GA Tuition Fellowship”. Our Austin GMAT instructor obtained a Master's degree in Education, and is currently pursuing his Doctorate in Gifted and Talented Education.
Baltimore GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Baltimore GMAT Instructor holds a Master's degree in Finance from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and she received her BS in Accounting from the University of Delhi in India. She has been tutoring students since 2009 for the GMAT and TOEFL exams in addition to subjects like Math, English and Accounting. She has a true passion for teaching and is sure to help you reach a top score on your exam. We are excited to offer you the chance to experience for yourself just how thrilling it is to study in her classroom.
Baltimore GMAT Prep Teacher & Tutor
Our Baltimore GMAT instructor is a superb GMAT instructor with a wealth of experience in both education and business. After scoring in the 99th percentile on her GMAT and graduating with her MBA from Rutgers University, she has worked an Adjunct Math Professor for Baltimore City College. Her experience teaching has been invaluable in past tutoring sessions, and she has helped many students raise their scores dramatically.
Boston GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Boston GMAT Instructor holds the distinction of serving as one of Manhattan Elite Prep's most capable and trusted GMAT tutors. Scoring an astonishing score on his GMAT, our Boston GMAT instructor is happy to share the tools he used to succeed on the GMAT with his students, who always leave his classroom profiting from his special insight.
Boston GMAT Prep Teacher & Tutor
Our Boston GMAT Instructor is a GMAT teacher and tutor with Manhattan Elite Prep with several years of experience and over 190 students. He often works with students whose initial scores are lower, and who wish to close that last 100-point gap to a perfect score. Our Boston GMAT instructor always tries to develop an individual relationship with each student in order to diagnose their needs. He holds a Masters degree in Education from Harvard and a B.A in Philosophy.
Charlotte GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Charlotte GMAT instructor has been helping students to achieve their goals for many years as a GMAT instructor for some of the leading test-prep firms. She holds an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where she concentrated on Corporate Strategy and Finance. During the application process, she received a 740 on her GMAT, and a significant portion of her courses are devoted to imparting the strategies that she used to excel in the test. She also holds a Masters in Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Her extensive academic career, combined with her accumulated experiences as a test-prep instructor in a variety of situations have given her a foundation to help all students at all stages of preparation succeed in achieving their objective of a high GMAT score.
Charlotte GMAT Prep Teacher & Tutor
Our Charlotte GMAT Verbal instructor has over 8 years of experience. She earned her MA in Teaching (Teaching English as a Second Language) from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s College of Education in December of 2013. She also earned her TEFL certification from TEFL International in Florence, Italy in June of 2007. She has experience tutoring students in many countries throughout the world including India, Palestine, Italy and Yemen. When she is preparing a student for an exam, she combines her passion for teaching with her expertise as a consultant. Our Charlotte GMAT instructor identifies strategies that will benefit the student and is pragmatic in her approach to the learning styles of individuals.
Chicago GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Chicago GMAT Instructor is an exceptional tutor who wields an unparalleled level of expertise with teaching the GMAT and GRE. Receiving his MBA from the University of Chicago, he is ready to make good use of his invaluable experience and share the skills he used to achieve a fantastic score with the students in his classroom.
Chicago GMAT Prep Teacher & Tutor
Our Chicago GMAT Instructor is one of our GMAT tutors in Chicago with a great deal of business experience. After graduating from McMaster University, he went onto enter the prestigious Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He scored an impressive 750 on the GMAT that put him in the 98% percentile.
Cincinnati GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Cincinnati GMAT Instructor has been a solo practice attorney since 2008. Impressively, he pursued his MBA and his JD simultaneously, receiving both within six months of one another from Ohio State University in 2006. His majors for MBA were Corporate Finance and Investments Management. His GMAT Score is 750. What makes his tutoring and courses stand out is that he describes in detail the strategies he used to be so successful at the exam, while also giving advice about being as disciplined as possible in the preparation process.
Cincinnati GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Cincinnati GMAT Instructor is a very talented instructor who combines his skills at standardized test-taking with his passion for education. He has had a very strong history in education, having earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame with a GPA of 3.69. As a student he worked as a math and science tutor, teaching many valuable skills that help students learn strategies and processes that make the GMAT more approachable. When our Cincinnati GMAT instructor took the exam, he earned a 740 score.
College Park GMAT Prep Instructor
Our College Park GMAT instructor received her PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Central Florida. She has taught for many years as an Economics Professor at Northern Illinois University and the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College. As an economics tutor at the University of Pennsylvania, she was awarded the Distinguished Tutor Award for her work from 1990 to 1993. She is a great asset to students aspiring to take the GMAT or enroll in an MBA, considering that she has been working in these very same environments for almost twenty years.
College Park GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our College Park GMAT instructor is one of the most dazzlingly talented tutors working at Manhattan Elite Prep. With fifteen years experience teaching the GMAT, GRE, SAT, and ACT to students from all over the world, he enters his classroom a seasoned expert with charisma and patience to match his well-honed expertise. We are excited to offer you the chance to experience for yourself just how thrilling it is to study in his classroom.
Columbus GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Columbus GMAT instructor is an expert GMAT Math instructor with Manhattan Elite Prep. She has extensive teaching and curriculum development experience, allowing her to explain the strategies that she used that helped her earn her own high test score. She holds a Masters degree in Statistics from the Ohio State University and a Bachelors degree in Math Education from Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA.
Columbus GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Columbus GMAT instructor is not new to the world of teaching. After graduating from The Ohio State University Fisher School of Business' Full-Time MBA Program in 2014, he began working for Nationwide Insurance. While at Nationwide, he has been coaching and training business partners on implementation of a Lean Management System, helping them eliminate waste and reduce variation in processes. As an MBA Graduate with a GMAT score above the 90th percentile, he is in a unique position to help you reach your GMAT goals and share insights into the MBA experience.
Dallas GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Dallas GMAT instructor is a passionate and highly experienced GMAT Verbal instructor who truly loves creative teaching. He has taught at universities and graduate and middle schools, designed curricula for TOEFL and IELTS, ESL, Academic Writing, English Literature, Composition, Cultural Studies (World History), Essay Writing, Critical Thinking, Language Arts, History of Western Civilization and USA History for AP and SAT II. Our Dallas GMAT instructor is currently pursuing his PhD in Education, and holds a Master's degree in Education (Applied Linguistics) and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration.
Dallas GMAT Prep Teacher & Tutor
Our Dallas GMAT instructor has a great deal of experience as a standardized GMAT instructor, working for a number of years as a teacher for some leading test-preparation companies. He received a Bachelors from Florida State University and a Masters degree from the University of Michigan. Our Dallas GMAT instructor has helped his students elevate their scores to the top percentiles.
Denver GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Denver GMAT Instructor received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado, where he majored in Biochemistry and minored in Economics. Following this accomplishment, he entered the Marriott School of Management, where he received his MBA concentrating in Finance and Global Management. He received a 710 on his GMAT, scoring in the 95% percentile. Presently, he works for Sun Microsystems as a Finance and Pricing Manager. This combination of experiences has prepared Galen well to serve others by sharing the strategies he used to excel at the GMAT.
Denver GMAT Prep Teacher & Tutor
Our Denver GMAT instructor is an experienced tutor for the Verbal section of the GMAT and GRE exams. Our Denver GMAT instructor has a rich background in education, both in teaching and in her degrees. She has a Masters in Education from Harvard University, and a PHD in Business Administration as well. She scored perfectly on her GRE exam before she was invited to her master program at Harvard. Besides all of this, she has been a teacher for nearly two decades, is fluent in Spanish, and has won multiple awards as a teacher. This background makes her an ideal instructor on the GMAT and GRE verbal sections, more than capable of helping improve a student’s scores.
Hartford GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Hartford GMAT instructor is a top rated GMAT, GRE, SAT and LSAT instructor with Manhattan Elite Prep in Hartford. He has extensive experience teaching and tutoring students for various standardized tests. He scored a 760 on the GMAT, a 640 on the LSAT and he holds a JD-MBA from Northwestern University in Chicago, which he obtained after getting his Master's Degreee in Political Science from Stanford. In addition, Our Hartford GMAT instructor also scored in the 99th percentile on both the GRE and SAT exams.
Houston GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Houston GMAT instructor is a tutor well-versed in all of the standardized exams used by universities and graduate programs. Whether it is GMAT or GRE, Our Houston GMAT instructor has a great deal of experience explaining the strategies she used that helped her earn a high score on these tests. She has a BS from UCLA in Computer Science and Engineering, and has worked as a calculus tutor for a number of years. When she took the GMAT exam, she scored a 770 with a 50 in Quantitative and 49 in Verbal, putting her into the 99th percentile.
Houston GMAT Prep Teacher & Tutor
Our Houston GMAT instructor is a native Houstonian with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Foreign Languages and a Master of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia, home to the world's oldest journalism school. She studied two foreign languages and lived abroad - in four cities in three countries - for three years. She began tutoring more than 20 years ago and has tutored throughout the Houston area for over a decade. She has tutored pupils of all ages and grade levels from dozens of countries. She tutors English for internationals, TOEFL, and the verbal parts of the GMAT, GRE, and SAT.
Indianapolis GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Indianapolis GMAT instructor is a top rated GMAT, GRE, SAT and LSAT instructor with Manhattan Elite Prep in Indianapolis. He holds a doctor’s degree and he has been providing tailor-made, one-on-one preparation and coaching for years. The invaluable tricks and strategies he has developed over the years continue to enable his students to get outstanding test scores, and gain admission to the programs of their choice.
Indianapolis GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Indianapolis GMAT instructor holds a dual degree in English and Classical Studies from Butler University in Indianapolis, IN, where he also taught a Freshman Year Seminar class of 18 undergraduate students. In addition to his work as GMAT tutor with Manhattan Elite Prep, Our Indianapolis GMAT instructor is also fluent in Latin and also works as a Latin tutor. His outgoing, energetic, and friendly personality makes him an extremely popular GMAT instructor at Manhattan Elite Prep.
Irvine GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Irvine GMAT instructor has over 10 years of educational experience, working in test preparation centers as well as schools in Irvine, California, and abroad. On his GMAT exam, he scored in the 99th percentile. He completed law school in 1997 after receiving his Juris Doctor from Tulane Law School. He holds a Bachelor of Art from the University of California at Berkeley, where he double-majored in Economics and Psychology.
Irvine GMAT Prep Teacher & Tutor
Our Irvine GMAT Instructor has been a professor, teacher, and tutor for years and helped students to achieve their academic goals whether that was admission to their desired University, improved GMAT, GRE, SAT, ACT, or TOEFL scores, or just improving spoken and written communication. He has Masters in Theatre Arts from San Diego State University and is currently working on his PhD at UC Irvine. He has a particular ability to assess and assist students with targeted help that improves their most-needed skills as quickly as possible. He is a passionate and patient educator and looks forward to helping you reach whatever goal you have set for yourself.
Jacksonville GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Jacksonville GMAT instructor has an impressive academic record, spanning two MBAs, a Bachelor of Business Administration with a double major in Economics and Finance. She is an inductee at Omicron Delta Epsilon (Economics Honors Society) and a member of the Golden Key Honor Society. Because she has so much experience in this part of academia, she knows especially well the information that is truly necessary to succeed in an MBA program. So not only does she teach the strategies that she used to score a 710 on the GMAT, she also gives great advice on how to take advantage of these skills to truly excel in an MBA program environment.
Jacksonville GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Jacksonville GMAT instructor has many years of experience teaching the GMAT as well as many other tests he is qualified for and scored highly on. He spent time in South Korea teaching English to business executives after graduating from the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida, where he received a Master in International Business and a Bachelor of Arts in History. His teaching style combined with his expertise is a great asset for students aspiring to high scores on the graduate-level entrance exams.
Kansas City GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Kansas City instructor is trained and certified in teaching and classroom management at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has seven years of teaching experience and he has taught in the US, Asia, Europe and Africa, with ages ranging from middle school to working professionals. Our Kansas City instructor scored a 770 on the GMAT and earned an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD, and a BA magna cum laude from Harvard University. In his free time, he enjoys coaching students through their college and MBA applications, helping them to identify and market their strengths and passions
Kansas City GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Kansas City GMAT instructor is a popular tutor and instructor with Manhattan Elite Prep with over 12 years of teaching/tutoring experience. He has been teaching various test prep classes for more than 6 years from a curriculum that he created, and he has tutored math, science, reading, writing, and history as well. Our Kansas City GMAT instructor holds a Master’s degree in Education from the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, and a Bachelor’s degree from the College of the Ozarks.
Las Vegas GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Las Vegas GMAT instructor has been tutoring for the GMAT and other exams for almost a decade. Throughout this time, he has helped over one thousand students raise their scores in their respective tests, teaching them the strategies that he used to get a 750 on the GMAT. He holds a law degree in Intellectual Property from Franklin Pierce Law Center, an MS in Science from Washington State University and a Bachelors of Science from Bowling Green State University, where he double-majored in Finance and Biochemistry.
Las Vegas GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Las Vegas GMAT instructor has tutored math and engineering courses over the last 20 years. He holds an MBA degree from the University of Nevada - Las Vegas and a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering. He started tutoring for the college of engineering at the University of Missouri while he was obtaining his undergraduate degree. He also has extensive tutoring experience with high school students in subjects ranging from Algebra to College Calculus 1. Our Last Vegas GMAT instructor is an excellent test taker and has excelled at various standardized exams scoring in the 99 percentile. Not only is he able to explain how to solve math problems of any level of difficulty, but he is also able to share his test taking strategies and identify areas that his students need to work on outside of their tutoring sessions.
Los Angeles GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Los Angeles GMAT instructor has found immense success in the GMAT scoring at 760. In addition to her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington, she holds a Master of Fine Arts from UCLA’s School of Film and Television and a JD from the School of Law at the University of Washington. She has taught university courses in the past and was the Program Director of a leading LSAT test-prep company for many years.
Los Angeles GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Los Angeles GMAT instructor is a GMAT tutor with a great deal of experience teaching and tutoring multiple subjects that correlate closely with the material of the exam. He attended UCLA and double-majored in Political Science and Philosophy. His combination of experiences teaching both Quantitative and Verbal-oriented materials makes him a great asset for students looking to excel at the GMAT exam.
Louisville GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Louisville GMAT instructor is one of our brightest and most promising GMAT tutors working at Manhattan Elite Prep. An American native of Turkey, he has been located in the Louisville and Lexington area for the past ten years and has been teaching and tutoring since he arrived in America over a decade ago. He has held classes on both the collegiate and the personal level, and his approach speaks directly to students' specific needs, wherever he finds them. Our Lousiville GMAT instructor makes all of his students feel like GMAT experts after just a few short minutes in his class. We are very excited to offer you the chance to study with this tremendous instructor.
Louisville GMAT Prep Teacher & Tutor
Our Louisville GMAT instructor is a popular GMAT tutor with Manhattan Elite Prep. She has over 5 years of experience as a tutor and classroom teacher. She has experience working with students of all ages. Erin is currently working as a high school chemistry teacher. Her extensive experience in the classroom has enhanced and proven her teaching ability and attention to detail. Our Louisville GMAT instructor holds a BA in French from the University of Louisville, a BA in History concentrated in Humanities from the University of Louisville, a MA in French from the University of Louisville a MAT in secondary Education from the University of Louisville, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Louisville.
Miami GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Miami GMAT instructor is the type of GMAT tutor who uses her own experiences to help others achieve their goal to get the highest GMAT score possible. She boasts an impressive education and work history, and has scored highly in many different entrance exams. After earning her BS at Cornell University, she went onto earn her MBA and JD from Columbia University, scoring an impressive 760 on her GMAT, with a 47 and 29 in Verbal and Quantitative, respectively. Since graduating, she has worked for multiple exemplary law firms that focus on the legal facets of international commerce, including tax, intellectual property and regulatory considerations.
Miami GMAT Prep Teacher & Tutor
Our Miami GMAT instructor's score of 760 on the GMAT is not the only reason why she is a great tutor for the exam. Her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Georgia makes her very able to explain concepts clearly, and her MBA from Georgia State University in Marketing and Management gives her the ability to recognize the information necessary to excel in an academic atmosphere consistent with an MBA. She has worked with some of the best financial services companies and is a financial advisor registered in multiple states. This combination of her professional experiences and her academic career is a great asset to a student aspiring to be successful at the GMAT exam.
Minneapolis GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Minneapolis GMAT instructor has a good deal of experience with the exam. After finishing his Bachelors at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh, he achieved a 710 on his GMAT and entered the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota to earn his MBA. Since then he has worked in finance and marketing, but also has a great deal of teaching experience when he worked as a lecturer at the Eastern Univeristy in Dhaka.
Minneapolis GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Minneapolis GMAT instructor has taught a wide array of subjects and is a very talented GMAT instructor at Manhattan Elite Prep. He scored 700 on the GMAT in 2011. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Carleton College with BA in Economics and concentrations in Political Economy and Spanish. He was a high school teacher for 2 years teaching geometry, calculus and Intensive Mathematics classes. He has mastered the ability to clearly present content to individuals with very different learning styles. Our Minneapolis GMAT instructor also chartered an after school math tutoring program and in addition to providing one-on-one instruction he also managed a staff of tutors and mentored a group of upper level Junior and Senior students to work as peer tutors. Even after his departure the program is still active and expanding.
New Brunswick GMAT Prep Instructor
Our New Brunswick GMAT instructor is a GMAT tutor working with a great deal of business experience as well. After earning a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from the Bengal Engineering College in India, he was admitted to the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in New York where he received his MBA. Assisting his entry was his GMAT score of 740, with a 39 Verbal and 50 Quantitative that put him into the 98th percentile, and after he graduated he has worked in many business fields. He has worked for Credit Suisse and Citigroup in various capacities, but is also an exceptional tutor capable of helping students elevate their scores.
New Brunswick GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our New Brunswick GMAT instructor is a GMAT tutor working for Manhattan Elite Prep who also has a great deal of business experience under his belt. After earning a Bachelors Degree in Economics from UC Berkeley, our New Brunswick GMAT instructor was admitted to the Stern School of Business at NYU where he received his MBA. Assisting his entry was his GMAT score of 700, with a 44 Verbal and 42 Quantitative that put him into the 98th percentile, and after he graduated he worked in many business fields. He has worked in securities and as an analyst, but has a great deal of tutoring expertise as well.
New Haven GMAT Prep Instructor
Our New Haven GMAT instructor is a popular GMAT, GRE and SAT instructor with Manhattan Elite Prep. He earned his BA from Williams College and is currently finishing his Master's degree at Yale University. He achieved a perfect score on the Quantitative Reasoning section of the GRE exam. Our New Haven GMAT instructor has experience as a Teaching Assistant for numerous English and Literature classes at Yale University and has also taught a number of high school classes including Precalculus, Literature, and Reading and Writing.
New Haven GMAT Teacher & Tutor
In his classroom, our New Haven GMAT instructor sets high expectations for all of his students and finds creative and innovative methods to help them succeed. Our New Haven GMAT instructor holds a B.S. in Biological Sciences and Physics from the University of Connecticut and an M.Ed. in Science Education from Arcadia University. He enjoys the challenge of teaching GMAT, GRE and SAT test prep skills and helping his students feel confident with the various test formats. Our New Haven GMAT instructor is also a certified teacher in secondary general science, mathematics, biology and physics.
New Orleans GMAT Prep Instructor
Our New Orleans GMAT instructor specializes in teaching GMAT and GRE Quant at Manhattan Elite Prep in New Orleans. He has over 10 years of experience teaching graduate, undergraduate and high school students. Our New Orleans GMAT instructor received his Bachlor's and Master's in Mechanical Engineering from Zagazig University in Egypt. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Orleans, Louisiana.
New Orleans GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our New Orleans GMAT instructor is a very talented tutor who specializes in the Verbal portion of the exam. After studying Hispanic and African Studies at Oberlin College, she entered into Duke University. From there she has received a Masters in Cultural Anthropology and is currently a PhD candidate in the same field at Duke. She has worked as a tutor for the Verbal portion of the GMAT and GRE to great success, helping students raise their scores by demonstrating the strategies she used that helped her excel at the exam.
Oklahoma City GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Oklahoma City instructor is one of the most qualified GMAT instructors working at this or any top test preparation firm today! He received his undergraduate and master's degree at the University of Oklahoma, as well as his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His professional qualifications include over two decades of full-time teaching experience in the MBA and M.S. in Management Programs at SUNY Stony Brook, the most selective of all the SUNY universities. Additionally, he also served for nine years as the full-time Director of the MBA program. We are very excited offer you the chance to work with our Oklahoma City instructor.
Oklahoma City GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Oklahoma City instructor holds a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School. She is an accredited and certifies teacher in Texas, California and Oklahoma. In addition to her classroom teaching experience, she has worked as a private GMAT tutor, a leader of after-school tutoring programs, and an organizer of standardized test preparation workshops. She is fluent in Spanish and French. She has extensive experience improving the reading, writing, and math skills of students of all ages.
Orlando GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Orlando GMAT instructor is one of our top rated GMAT, GRE, SAT and ACT math tutors in Orlando. For many years, she worked as the Curriculum Manager of Mathematics for the Cincinnati Public Schools, and has over 15 years of teaching experience in mathematics. She holds a Master's degree in Educational Leadership and is able to clearly articulate the problem-solving processes and strategies necessary to succeed in the Quantitative sections of the GMAT, GRE, SAT and ACT exams.
Orlando GMAT Prep Teacher & Tutor
Our Orlando GMAT instructor is highly experienced in teaching various standardized test subjects to adult learners. His teaching effectiveness is also evidenced by his current post as a faculty member with the University of Phoenix in Orlando. In addition, for more than 15 years, our Orlando GMAT instructor has worked as a marketing, management and communications professional around Central Florida, bringing his real-life business experience to enrich students' learning process while preparing for the GMAT exam.
Philadelphia GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Philadelphia GMAT instructor holds a Master's degree in Mathematics from DePauw University, Indiana. Since his graduation in 1986 he has remained an active tutor and instructor. He is also a freelance standardized-test item writer for Pearson Education and other publishers. He has taught math at three institutions in the USA including the rigorous Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS) in Newport, Rhode Island and the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston. He has also taught IT and Math at preparatory schools in Argentina and USA. Despite his extensive math background Pablo is also a great verbal tutor and has a passion for literature. Our Philadelphia GMAT instructor was also CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina for 4 years.
Philadelphia GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Philadelphia GMAT instructor graduated with a B.A in Philosophy from Princeton University. He scored scored a 740 on the GMAT exam achieving the 97th Percentile. For the GRE test, he scored a near perfect 333 on the GRE scoring in the 97th percentile on the Verbal and a 92nd percentile on the Math portion. He also earned his Graduate Certificate in Applied Statistics and his Certificate in Corporate Finance from Penn State University.
Phoenix GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Phoenix GMAT instructor is a lifelong educator, having spent her academic career receiving her Masters and Bachelor's degree in K-8 education. She has been an assistant principal, a university professor and a tutor specializing in GMAT preparation. Her experience in teaching across all levels has prepared her well to be flexible and tailor her course structure according to the preferences of the student.
Phoenix GMAT Prep Teacher & Tutor
Our Phoenix GMAT instructor has spent many years teaching materials immediately relevant to preparing for the GMAT. Since 2006, she has been teaching courses on business statistics, quantitative methods in business, and introductory business course. When she herself took the GMAT, she scored in the 97%, which, combined with her teaching experience, suits her well to preparing students for the GMAT exam.
Pittsburgh GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Pittsburgh GMAT instructor is a very experienced GMAT instructor for the Manhattan Elite Prep. He brings that special combination of great test taking skills and a great teaching ability together for the success of his students. After he graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in electrical engineering, he earned his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. Since then he has held many teaching posts, from high school to university levels. His wealth of teaching experience has helped him push students to achieve great scores.
Pittsburgh GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Pittsburgh GMAT instructor's academic career makes her a great asset for any student preparing for the GMAT exam. She received a Master of Arts in 2008 from West Virginia in Secondary English Education after completing her Bachelor of Arts in English from the same school in 2006. Presently, she is an educational consultant and the Director of Marketing and Sales at a leading test preparation company in Pittsburgh. She has made it her career to ensure that her students do as well as possible on their entrance exams, and is full of strategies any student can utilize to better his or her score.
Portland GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Portland GMAT instructor is a top rated GMAT instructor and an admissions consultant. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and has a GMAT score in the 96th percentile. He also holds a BA degree in Psychology from Georgetown University. In addition, our Portland GMAT instructor has tutored a large number of foreign students learning English during his 20 years as a tutor. He also has nine years of work experience in corporate marketing with companies such as Intuit.com. Perhaps more important than the above is our GMAT instructor’s talent to teach and coach all students to success, from whatever culture or country they may come.
Portland GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Portland Verbal GMAT instructor received her MBA from the Anderson School of Business at the University of California at Los Angeles, specializing in Marketing. In addition to tutoring, she has also spent extensive time working on branding strategies. She is received her Bachelor of Arts with honors in English Literature and Sociology from Tufts University. She earned a 710 when she took the GMAT and knows the strategies necessary to reach scores necessary for entering the best possible MBA program.
Providence GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Providence GMAT and GRE instructor graduated from MIT with Bachelor's Degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. He is currently working on getting his Masters of Science from MIT. He achieved a perfect score on the Quantitative Reasoning section of the GRE exam and has over 1,000 hours of tutoring experience. He is sure to help you achieve a top score on your upcoming exam! <b< p=""></b<>
Providence GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Providence GMAT instructor has been tutoring GMAT students and teaching classes since 2000. He is a highly experienced instructor with a passion for education and the ability to motivate and prepare students for elite graduate programs. Our Providence GMAT instructor holds an MBA in Finance from Boston College, Carroll School of Management, a Bachelor of Science degree from Long Island University, as well as a Massachusetts Teaching License for Middle School and High School Mathematics. He scored 750 on the GMAT
Raleigh GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Raleigh GMAT instructor is one of our friendliest, most capable GMAT instructors in the Raleigh-Durham area. As the former Dean of Freshman Studies at Shaw University, he administrated the entire studies program including recruiting and managing eight faculty positions to serve over eight-hundred students. He currently serves as a frequent guest lecturer for the Fuquay Business School at Duke who specializes in Fundraising for Non-Profit Organizations. It is our special privilege to welcome you into Derrick's classrooms.
Raleigh GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Raleigh GMAT instructor has been helping students to achieve their goals for many years as a GMAT instructor for some of the leading test-prep firms. She holds an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where she concentrated on Corporate Strategy and Finance. During the application process, she received a 740 on her GMAT. Her extensive academic career, combined with her accumulated experiences as a test-prep instructor in a variety of situations have given her a foundation to help all students at all stages of preparation succeed in achieving their objective of a high GMAT score.
Salt Lake City GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Salt Lake City GMAT instructor attended Duke University's prestigious Theater program, where she honed her ability to captivate an audience under the rigorous academic and artistic requirements of the department. For her graduate program, she attended the Yale School of Business, where she concentrated in Business Administration. Her professional resume boasts business experience running some of the top theaters in the country, as well as time spent as a Business Professor at Long Island University. She is one of our most popular GMAT tutors in Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Salt Lake City GMAT instructor is a talented GMAT instructor with Manhattan Elite Prep. He has tutored for ten years and has worked with students of all ages, from Junior High and High School to College and Professionals. He has achieved high test scores on the ACT, MCAT, LSAT, GRE, and GMAT and can tutor all. He loves to teach and help students gain the confidence they need to be successful in their endeavors. When he is not teaching our Salt Lake City GMAT instructor enjoys reading about history and learning languages.
San Antonio GMAT Prep Instructor
Our San Antonio GMAT instructor is not new to the world of teaching. After graduating from The Ohio State University Fisher School of Business' Full-Time MBA Program in 2014, he began working for Nationwide Insurance. While at Nationwide, Brad has been coaching and training business partners on implementation of a Lean Management System, helping them eliminate waste and reduce variation in processes. As an MBA Graduate with a GMAT score above the 90th percentile, he is in a unique position to help you reach your GMAT goals and share insights into the MBA experience.
San Diego GMAT Prep Instructor
Our San Diego GMAT instructor is a talented GMAT instructor who works with Manhattan Elite Prep. Our San Diego GMAT instructor attended Boston College and since graduating, he has worked for education companies, tutoring various subjects. He has also taken the GMAT, scoring a 790. The combination of his experience with education as a senior instructor for some of leading test-preparation firms has made him an invaluable tutor for Manhattan Elite Prep.
San Diego GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our San Diego GMAT instructor has over thirteen years of experience as a test prep instructor in GMAT, GRE, LSAT and SAT. Many of his students have gone on to Ivy league graduate and law schools all over the country. He was an adjunct professor at two local universities in San Diego. He earned his Juris Doctor from University of San Diego and his Bachelor of Arts at University of California, Irvine. While in school, he was awarded the Dean's Award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Criminology. Currently, he practices law full-time while teaching Manhattan Elite Prep students to help graduate school aspirants and college applicants to fulfill their dreams.
San Francisco GMAT Prep Instructor
Our San Francisco GMAT instructor has over 50 years of experience in a variety of educational positions, such as teaching at all levels from middle-school to university, to being a principal at three different high schools. He has received numerous awards for his instructional practices, including the Joseph B. Whitehead Educator of Distinction Award. He received both his Bachelors and his Masters from Yale University. Because of his extensive experience, our San Francisco GMAT instructor is able to tailor any instructions to the needs and learning styles of his GMAT students.
San Francisco GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our San Francisco GMAT instructor holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India. In 2006, she graduated from the MBA program at University of California, Berkeley and started teaching GMAT and GRE preparation courses soon after. Because she comes from a family of educators, teaching comes naturally to her. It gives her great pleasure and delight to share her wealth of education with others. She currently manages social media and mobile strategies at Cisco Systems, and teaches for Manhattan Elite Prep on evenings and weekends.
San Jose GMAT Prep Instructor
Our San Jose GMAT instructor received a Bachelors of Arts from Harvard in 1991, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with highest honors majoring in Sociology. Next, he received a PhD from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 1998, where he wrote his thesis on Organizational Behavior. Not satisfied with this, our San Jose GMAT instructor next entered the University of Michigan Law School, where he received JD in 2004. Presently, he works at DYP Advisors, a strategic law firm that he co-founded. These accomplishments, combined with the strategies he used to score in the 99th percentile on the GMAT, make our San Jose GMAT instructor a great resource for any aspiring professional.
San Jose GMAT Tutor
Our San Jose GMAT instructor, besides being an accomplished businessman and entrepreneur, is also a very qualified GMAT instructor. Matthew scored in the 99th percentile of the GMAT before he went to UCLA’s Anderson School of Management to receive his MBA. In the past he worked as a Managing Director at Quest Search Associates, but has since helped in the founding of a successful company, Celerity Staffing, a staffing-agency based in Madison, Wisconsin.
Santa Cruz GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Santa Cruz GMAT instructor holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India. In 2006, she graduated from the MBA program at University of California, Berkeley and started teaching GMAT preparation courses soon after. Because she comes from a family of educators, teaching comes naturally to her. It gives her great pleasure and delight to share her wealth of education with others. She currently manages social media and mobile strategies at Cisco Systems, and teaches for Manhattan Elite Prep on evenings and weekends.
Santa Cruz GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Santa Cruz GMAT instructor is a top GMAT Verbal Instructor with vast educational experience. She received her B.A. with honors in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz. While she was there, she worked at UCSC as a writing tutor guiding students in thesis development, research and essay composition. After this, she began tutoring and instruction for individuals and groups focusing on various standardized exams, English concepts and social science. With our Santa Cruz GMAT instructor's education background and knowledge, she is sure to help you reach a top verbal score on the GMAT.
Santa Monica GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Santa Monica GMAT instructor has found immense success in the GMAT scoring at 760. In addition to her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington, she holds a Master of Fine Arts from UCLA’s School of Film and Television and a JD from the School of Law at the University of Washington. She has taught university courses in the past and was the Program Director of a leading LSAT test-prep company for many years.
Santa Monica GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Santa Monica GMAT instructor is a GMAT tutor with a great deal of experience teaching and tutoring multiple subjects that correlate closely with the material of the exam. He attended UCLA and double-majored in Political Science and Philosophy. His combination of experiences teaching both Quantitative and Verbal-oriented materials makes him a great asset for students looking to excel at the GMAT exam.
Seattle GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Seattle GMAT instructor is a graduate of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. After receiving his MBA, he became a Senior Project Manager of Corporate Finance at Wells Fargo. He later moved on to become the Director of Operations at Aero Logistics, a second-in-command position. He has spent years in individually instructing students that would go on to top MBA programs. Prior to receiving his own MBA, our Seattle GMAT instructor had over 10 years of work experience at companies like KPMG and Deloitte Consulting. He's one of our most popular GMAT instructors in Seattle.
Seattle GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Seattle GMAT instructor is an accomplished GMAT instructor working for Manhattan Elite Prep. He combines a wealth of teaching experience and test-taking skills accumulated from his professional and academic careers. Our Seattle GMAT instructor earned a BA in Greek from Swarthmore College, and then completed a Masters in Latin and Greek at the University of Maryland. His great teaching skills come from the years of teaching as a high school language instructor and his passion for teaching helps him tailor each course according to the studying preferences of the student.
Stamford GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Stamford GMAT instructor holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economic Theory with minors in Mathematics and French from New York University and a Master's Degree in Economics and Management of Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. While at NYU he tutored fellow students in Calculus, French, Italian, and Economics. Mark scored a 770 on the GMAT and has helped many students score over 700 with his unique and effective teaching approach.
Stamford GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Stamford GMAT instructor’s impressive education (a graduate degree from Yale and undergraduate degree from Harvard) and his extensive teaching experience at Yale (Teaching Fellow for numerous biology and statistics courses) make him a highly regarded GMAT and GRE instructor at Manhattan Elite Prep. Jura is currently finishing his PhD in Evolutionary Biology at Yale. Our Stamford GMAT instructor has conducted vast mathematical research at Yale, and he is strongly committed to making mathematics not only more enjoyable to students, but more intuitive and useful to them in confronting a wide variety of topics. Furthermore, having himself come to the United States 12 years ago as an international high-school student, our Stamford GMAT instructor takes pleasure in working with students of diverse backgrounds and interests, both in classroom situations and one-on-one.
St. Louis GMAT Prep Instructor
Our St. Louis GMAT instructor understands that exam scores are vital for gaining admission to the program of choice of each student. He tutors students on each section of the test and shows them the tactics necessary to score well in each section, as well as the strategies necessary to use on the test as a whole. Our St. Louis GMAT instructor diagnoses students' weaknesses and focuses on those areas for the greatest results in terms of points. He holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Buffalo where he also worked as an Instructor of Economics. He also taught at Genesee Community College in Batavia, New York for many years. He is also a tutor for the Veterans Administration and he tutors veterans in math, economics, finance and accounting courses.
St. Louis GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our St. Louis GMAT instructor is specialized in Quantitative Analysis. She is a high school math instructor, teaching everything from Algebra to Calculus, including at some of the top high schools in the country. Michele graduated cum laude from Miami University (Ohio), and holds a Masters Degree in Mathematics Education. She consistently scores in the 95th percentile or better on graduate-level exams. Our St. Louis GMAT instructor's combination of knowledge and pedagogy skills makes her an ideal tutor. In addition to teaching GMAT math, she is a competitive tennis player and semi-professional actress.
Tampa GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Tampa GMAT instructor is a talented GMAT tutor working for Manhattan Elite Prep. His hard work and excellent test taking skills helped him achieve a 760 GMAT score (with a 46 Verbal and 49 Quantitative). He attended Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. There, our Tampa GMAT instructor graduated with a 3.9 GPA with the distinction of being on the Dean’s List and Fuqua Scholar, only given to 10% of the class. His skills in education have proven very effective in helping student improve their GMAT test scores, raising them to a level where they can get into their preferred schools.
Tampa GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Tampa GMAT instructor is a top rated GMAT tutor and instructor with Manhattan Elite Prep. She received her BA from St. Peters College and earned her JD from Seton Hall University Law School. Our Tampa GMAT instructor has over 30 years of teaching experience. Her years of education and hands-on experience are sure to help you achieve a top score on your exam.
Washington DC GMAT Prep Instructor
Our Washington DC GMAT instructor is a top rated GMAT Verbal instructor with Manhattan Elite Prep. She holds a BA degree in Economics from Columbia University. Our Washington DC GMAT instructor scored in the 99th percentile on the Verbal section of the GMAT exam. She also works as an Admissions Consultant offering assistance with essay writing and application strategy and she has helped students gain admission to Yale University and Harvard Business School, among others.
Washington DC GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our Washington DC GMAT instructor is a GMAT and GRE instructor with a great deal of professional and academic experiences. After earning his BA in Economics from John Hopkins University, he scored a 760 on his GMAT and went on to graduate from the Wharton School out of the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked in many fields, including a Political Officer in various US Embassies and the Department of State as an Investment Policy Officer. He speaks 5 languages that helped him earn the international positions. Our Washington DC GMAT instructor has taught with Manhattan Elite Prep for a number of years and is an exceptionally qualified instructor, and has helped students raise their scores dramatically.
West Palm Beach GMAT Instructor
Our West Palm Beach GMAT instructor is a skilled Electro-magnetics Engineer with strong mathematical background and more than 5 years of teaching experience as an Engineering faculty for Graduate students. She is an energetic self-starter with many awards and a proven track record training students for the GMAT and GRE and seeing results. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Technology and well as Master Degree in Science and Technology from prestigious Indian Universities. She is currently doing extensive research in the Electrical Engineering Department of UCF.
West Palm Beach GMAT Teacher & Tutor
Our West Palm Beach GMAT instructor has been tutoring students for over 6 years for the SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, as well as K-12 subjects. She attended Knox College where she double-majored in Spanish & Psychology and graduated Magna Cum Laude. She also worked for the Psychology department at her college teaching students study skills and test taking tips. Our West Palm Beach GMAT instructor's extensive tutoring experience combined with her ability to help students improve their study skills and test taking methods makes her a popular instructor at Manhattan Elite Prep.
Worcester GMAT Prep Teacher & Tutor
Our Worcester GMAT instructor has many years of experience working with GMAT students. She is also a college adjunct instructor. She received her PhD from Hamilton University, M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Anna Maria College and her M.S. in Applied Management from Lesley University. She also developed a unique perspective by working with students with learning disabilities and developmental and behavioral issues. She has dedicated her life to working in education and we are excited to have her on the team!
Selected California GMAT Instructor
Our California GMAT instructor has worked for many years as a consultant and operations strategist, helping businesses develop profit models that take advantage of technological inputs. His score for the GMAT was an impressive 780 (99th percentile), qualifying him to receive his MBA from the Anderson School at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he majored in Entrepreneurship. Students benefit from his high degree of professionalism and his sharing of the strategies that he used to excel so markedly in the exam.
Selected California GMAT Teacher
Our California local city GMAT instructor is a GMAT tutor with a great deal of experience teaching and tutoring multiple subjects that correlate closely with the material of the exam. He attended UCLA and double-majored in Political Science and Philosophy, and will start attending Oxford University in the fall of 2011 to study law. He has worked as an instructor at various institutions throughout Los Angeles, including the summer program at UCLA for the past 4 summers where he taught a course on Parliamentary Debate. The combination of experiences teaching both Quantitative and Verbal-oriented materials makes him a great asset for students looking to excel at the GMAT exam.
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The Cake (Paperback)
By Bekah Brunstetter
In stock at publisher. Usually arrives in our store within 1-5 business days.
Della makes cakes, not judgment calls - those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fianc is actually a fianc e, Della's life gets turned upside down. She can't really make a cake for such a wedding, can she? For the first time in her life, Della has to think for herself.
Bekah hails from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and currently lives in Los Angeles. Plays include The Cake (Ojai Playwrights Conference), Going to a Place where you already are (South Coast Repertory), The Oregon Trail (Portland Center Stage Fall 2016, O’Neill Playwrights Conference; Flying V) Cutie and Bear ( Roundabout commission) A Long and Happy life (Naked Angels Commission), Be A Good Little Widow (Ars Nova, Collaboraction, The Old Globe), Oohrah! (The Atlantic Theater, Steppenwolf Garage, the Finborough Theater / London), Nothing is the end of the World (except for the end of the world) (Waterwell productions), House of Home (Williamstown Theater festival) and Miss Lilly Gets Boned (Ice Factory Festival.) She is an alumni of the CTG Writers Group, Primary Stages writes group, Ars Nova Play Group, The Playwright’s Realm, and the Women’s Project Lab. She is currently a member of the Echo Theater’s Playwright’s group. She has previously written for MTV (Underemployed; I Just want my Pants Back) ABC Family’s Switched at Birth, Starz’s upcoming series American Gods. She is currently a Co-Producer on NBC’s upcoming show, This is Us. BA UNC Chapel Hill; MFA in Dramatic Writing from the New School for Drama.
"The play's tight narrative construction is apparent from the opening scene, which immediately seduces us with Della's bubbly charm...What's refreshing and heartening about THE CAKE is its characters' willingness to face their differences and limitations head on...This is us as we could be, if we'd all just try a little harder." — The Los Angeles Times
“RECOMMENDED… STAGE RAW TOP 10… a singularly savory dramedy that crystallizes a contentious issue and, with empathy for both sides, portrays it in an edifying and insightful way… I left the theater feeling moved and enlightened.” — Stage Raw
“BRILLIANT… POWERFUL AND MEANINGFUL… great writing… great direction… abundant wit and humor.” — LA Post-Examiner
“WOW!… puts a deeply personal, delightfully down-home face on the Gay-Wedding-Cake Wars… I cried, I learned, I loved” — Stage Scene LA
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
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A new era for 'The Presidents Club'
MPR News Staff
Then-President Barack Obama, left, and former presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter arrive on stage for the George W. Bush Presidential Center dedication ceremony in Dallas, Texas, on April 25, 2013.
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images 2013
Ex-presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush gave separate speeches recently criticizing President Trump, without naming him. In this program, experts on the presidency reflect on 70 years of competition, cooperation and compassion among the American presidents and their predecessors.
Oct.:5 living ex-presidents appear on stage for hurricane relief concert
Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy are co-authors of "The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity." They spoke with former NPR host Neal Conan, for his "Truth, Politics and Power" series.
To listen to the program, click the audio player above.
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Friday's Local Schedule
Jun 9, 2016 at 9:53 PM Jun 9, 2016 at 9:53 PM
A list of games Friday in the Daily News area.
Division 1 South Semifinals
Hopkinton vs. King Philip (Taunton, 6:15 p.m.)
Division 3 Central/East Final
Weston at Dover-Sherborn (5 p.m.)
Division 2 East Final
Wayland at Walpole (5 p.m.)
Division 3 South Final
Dover-Sherborn vs. Old Rochester (Gates Middle School, Scituate, 3:30 p.m.)
Wellesley vs. Sharon (Rockland, 3 p.m.)
Hopkinton vs. Apponequet/Foxboro (Medway, 3 p.m.,)
Division 2 North Final
Wayland vs. Concord-Carlisle (Rahanis Park, Burlington, 3:30 p.m.)
Division 3 Central Final
Hopedale vs. Grafton (St. John’s, Shrewsbury, 3 p.m.)
State Semifinals
Framingham vs. Westford (Wellesley, 4:30 p.m.)
Walpole at Franklin (5:45 p.m.)
Senior Babe Ruth
Westborough at Medway (5:45 p.m.)
Natick at Hopkinton (5:45 p.m.)
Maynard at Milford (7 p.m.)
Franklin at Framingham (7 p.m.)
Bellingham at Sudbury (7 p.m.)
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Celtics 100, Bobcats 89: Streak hits six
Scott Souza/Daily News staff
The Celtics' winning streak is still intact because of their ability to fight out of a trap in the fourth quarter. Boston let an 18-point lead slip away, and allowed the outclassed Charlotte Bobcats to hang within two possessions into the final three minutes of the game, before it finally pulled away for a 100-89 victory Monday night at TD Garden.
The Celtics got caught in the very trap they came into the night trying to avoid.
Their winning streak is still intact because of their ability to fight out of it in the fourth quarter.
Boston let an 18-point lead slip away, and allowed the outclassed Charlotte Bobcats to hang within two possessions into the final three minutes of the game, before it finally pulled away for a 100-89 victory Monday night at TD Garden.
It was Boston’s sixth straight win as the Celtics moved back within 4 games of the New York Knicks for first place in the Atlantic Division, and 4.5 games back of the Eastern Conference-leading Miami Heat.
“It was big for us,” said guard Courtney Lee, whose defense off the bench helped spark the Celtics on a night when the offense was largely stagnant after the second quarter. “It’s keeping our streak going in our homestand. We had a big lead, but we let them come back. That’s something we’ve got to continue to work on. We can’t continue to let that happen. But we were able to able execute down the stretch, get stops, and score.”
Rajon Rondo led the Celtics on Monday with 17 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds in 37 minutes. He hit 8-of-11 shots and took control of the game at the times when his team most needed a lift.
"That guy’s a waking triple-double,” said forward Jeff Green, who scored 11 points off the bench. “He was doing what we needed him to do. Some nights we need him to rebound. Some nights we need him to get assists. Some nights we need him to score. He can do it all.”
The Celtics struggled to shake the young and emboldened Bobcats most of the night. The lead was only four early in the fourth quarter when Rondo ignited a 6-0 run with an assist to Jared Sullinger, a long jumper and a nifty inside feed to Lee for an 84-74 game with 6:14 on the clock.
Rondo’s 11th assist of the game on a corner Lee 3-pointer made it a 9-0 run and 13-point lead with 5:28 left.
"(When) we lost a couple of games, we never got down," Rondo said. "We just tightened up the locker room. I wanted to be the guy to just try to get us back to the way we play. When we play loose, we might smile out there on the floor. Well, I don't, but some of my teammates do. Guys like Courtney - he loves to smile - and Jeff as well. So just get that swag back, and I think we've done that the last couple of games."
The Bobcats fought back one last time within 89-83 on a Bismark Biyombo put-back dunk with 3:04, but Charlotte’s Ben Gordon was hit with a technical foul on the play and Paul Pierce (team-high 19 points) hit both the free throw and a driving layup on the ensuing possession for a nine-point lead with 2:46 to go.
The teams traded baskets for the next minute before a friendly bounce on a long Kevin Garnett (7 points on 2-of-11 shooting) jumper finished off the Bobcats at 94-85 with 1:25 on the clock.
“Tonight there was definitely a letup,” Celtics coach Doc Rivers said. “There was one in the Houston game (a 17-0 Rockets run) too. But these are NBA teams. They’re going to keep coming at you.”
A 13-2 Charlotte run to start the third quarter erased what was left of the 18-point Boston lead. The Celtics responded with the next seven in a row with Avery Bradley’s fourth 3-pointer of the night putting Boston up 65-58 with 6:10 left in the third.
"They still, in the league, don’t think he can shoot because the shots he's getting are unbelievable,” Rivera said of Bradley (16 points). “They’re leaving him wide open and it's every night. We want him to just keep shooting. And now they're going in.”
A Pierce third-chance 3-pointer pushed the edge to 72-64 with 2:24 to go in the quarter. Charlotte got back within four in the final minute before Garnett’s first made basket of the night sent Boston to the fourth up 76-70.
The Celtics jumped on the Bobcats early, going up as many as 13 in the first quarter, in outshooting the visitors 63 percent to 28 percent in the opening 12 minutes. Boston stretched the lead to as many as 18 in the second quarter on a Bradley 3-pointer before a ragged end to the half allowed Charlotte to close within 56-45 at the break.
Scott Souza can be reached at 781-398-8006 or ssouza@wickedlocal.com. Follow him on Twitter @scott_souza.
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2015 saw more arrests for marijuana possession than for all violent crimes combined in US
A Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday revealed an alarming fact: In 2015, there were more arrests in the United States for marijuana possession than for all violent crimes put together.
The report found that, in 2015, there were more than 574,000 arrests for marijuana possession — at least 68,319 more than there were for murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault combined.
Presently, at least 137,000 men and women are incarcerated for drug possession — a number that ebbs and flows as thousands more people are arrested daily, literally at a rate of one drug arrest every 25 seconds.
"It's been 45 years since the war on drugs was declared and it hasn't been a success," Tess Borden, lead study author, told the Washington Post. "Rates of drug use are not down. Drug dependency has not stopped. Every 25 seconds we're arresting someone for drug use."
Demonstrators marching for marijuana deschedulingSource: Jose Luis Magana/AP
What's more troubling is the disparity between drug arrests of black versus white Americans. Data in the past year suggests that both groups "use illicit drugs other than marijuana at the same rates and that they use marijuana at similar rates," the report said. "Yet around the country, black adults are more than two-and-a-half times as likely as white adults to be arrested for drug possession."
In 2014, though black adults only accounted for 14% of actual drug users, they made up roughly a third of those arrested.
"We can't talk about race and policing in this country without talking about the No. 1 arrest offense," Borden told the Post.
The study found that in some states like Texas and Louisiana, prosecutors working on drug possession cases often sought the highest charges possible against the defendant. Last year, more than 78% of people thrown in jail for felony drug possession had less than a gram of a controlled substance.
For reference, each of these cans is holding 3.5 grams of marijuana. Source: Elaine Thompson/AP
What's more, in cases where the offender has previous drug charges, some states have a "habitual offender" law that allows prosecutors to pursue harsher sentencing. In Louisiana, Corey Ladd was given a 17-year sentence for possessing a half ounce of marijuana, a sentence exacerbated by his two previous drug charges.
"Corey's story is about the real waste of human lives, let alone taxpayer money, of arrest and incarceration for personal drug use," Borden told the Post. "He could be making money and providing for his family."
Currently, there are 116 people in Texas prisons serving life sentences for drug possession — and at least seven of those sentences are for possession of less than four grams.
During a series of interviews HRW conducted with incarcerated men and women around the country, the group spoke with Jerry Bennett of New Orleans, who took a plea deal of two and a half years in jail, down from what could have been a couple decades. His crime: possession of half a gram of marijuana.
"They spooked me out by saying, 'You gotta take this or you'll get that'," he HRW team. "I'm just worried about the time. Imagine me in here for 20 years. They got people that kill people. And they put you up here for half a gram of weed."
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'The Flash' season 3, episode 11 spoilers: What will happen in "Dead or Alive"?
By Jason Berman
The Flash returned from its winter hiatus Tuesday night, with Barry Allen immediately working to prevent a future where Iris West is murdered by Savitar. When a new robber — nicknamed Plunder — starts operating in Central City, Barry recognizes him from the future's headlines and decides that if he does not capture him, perhaps Iris will never be murdered.
Of course, Barry's odd behavior attracts the attention of the rest of the team, and he eventually tells them what he saw in the future. Now, Team Flash is working to change as many of the news headlines from the future as they can, in hopes that doing so will alter time and prevent Iris' murder.
While Barry Allen and the rest of the team will likely continue their efforts in the coming weeks, they will have to deal with an unrelated issue in season three, episode 11.
Season 3, episode 11 preview
H.R. is being hunted for illegal interdimensional travel.Source: Katie Yu/The CW
In the latter moments of Tuesday's episode, a mysterious woman emerges from a breach, presumably in Earth-1. Her name is Gypsy, and she has been sent to capture H.R. As it turns out, interdimensional travel is strictly not allowed on Earth-19 (H.R.'s earth).
Check out the synopsis via Comic Book for season three, episode 11 of The Flash:
H.R.'s (Tom Cavanagh) past catches up with him when a bounty hunter with vibe powers named Gypsy (guest star Jessica Camacho) arrives in Central City to bring him back to Earth-19 to stand trial for his crime. It turns out interdimensional travel is illegal on their Earth. H.R. surrenders, but when Barry (Grant Gustin) and Cisco (Carlos Valdes) find out that H.R.'s only hope would be to challenge Gypsy to a fight to the death, they intercede and Cisco offers to fight Gypsy instead.
While Gypsy will initially assume an adversarial role, do not be shocked if she quickly aligns with Team Flash. In the comics, Gypsy is a sometimes-member of the Justice League and the Birds of Prey, both of which are heroic teams.
Carlos Valdes, the actor who plays Cisco Ramon, teased Gypsy's role during the CW's Fan Feast: "DC Comics fans will be familiar with Gypsy. She is going to be coming into our world, and Vibe will definitely get to learn some new skills as part of getting to know her. So, I'm excited to see how that plays out." It certainly does not sound like Vibe and Gypsy's feud will last very long.
You can check out the promo for "Dead or Alive" below:
The Flash airs on The CW at 8 p.m. Eastern on Tuesdays.
Mic has ongoing coverage of The Flash. Please follow our main The Flash hub here.
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Frigate USS Constellation
The USS Constellation was the first warship manufactured for the young US Navy of the United States of America. In this context, she was also the first ship to participate in combat and win a victory.
Launching and design:
The US Congress adopted on March 27, 1794 a law to build their own fleet mainly to fight against pirates and thus to equip the US Navy. This program included the construction of 6 frigates, in addition to the Constellation still the:
- USS Congress
- USS Chesapeake
- US Constitution
- USS President
- USS United States
The launching of the Constellation was on 7 September 1797, she was the first ship in the fleet construction program.
USS Constellation
The stakes of the USS Constellation:
Although France actively participated in supporting the American independence movement, when it did succeed, the United States declared its military and political neutrality. This attitude also related to the war between France and England, so that France was not granted support. Detested by this circumstance, French ships began to attack and capture US merchant ships at the end of the 18th century. To counteract these attacks, the Constellation's first military mission was to protect US merchant ships and attack French ships.
The command was given to the captain Thomas Truxtun, who on February 9, 1799 for the first time participated in combat operations against the French frigate L'Insurgente and won.
The Constellation in action with L'Insurgente
In February 1800, the next victory against the French frigate La Vengeance was after a 5-hour night battles.
The other operations of the Constellation related to the fight against pirates who operated from the North African countries and in the war against Britain in 1812.
In 1840 the ship was circumnavigated, sailing as the first American ship in Chinese waters.
The whereabouts and succession:
In 1853, the Constellation was brought to the Gosport Naval Yard in Norfolk, Virginia, to be demolished. The ship was also officially canceled from the fleet.
1854 was the launch of a corvette, which was also christened the name USS Constellation, with the frigate but had nothing in common to the name.
Ship data:
Ship type Frigate
Launching September 7, 1797
Whereabouts 1853 by scrapping
Number of masts 3
Sails Frigate
Width 12,5 meters
Displacement 1278 metric tons
Speed Maximum 14 knots
Crew 340 Man
Arming 36 cannons
Seaplane carrier Foudre 16. July 2019
Armored cruiser Waldeck-Rousseau 12. July 2019
Armored cruiser Edgar Quinet 11. July 2019
Armored cruiser Ernest Renan 10. July 2019
Armored cruiser Jules Michelet 9. July 2019
Chronology of the wars
1. War in Antiquity (3000 bc – 500)
2. War in the Middle Ages (500 – 1500)
3. War in the Early Modern Era (1500 – 1750)
4. War in the revolutionary period (1750 – 1830)
5. War of Technology (1830 – 1914)
6. War of the Worlds (1914 – 1945)
early modern times
Revolution time
Technique age
Special-purpose forces and tactics
Type compass
Artillery and cannons
Combat car, armored vehicles
Tank, tank combat car
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Blending profit and ethics
Victoria businesses find a sustainable sweet spot
Bill Finley found success with Hemp and Co.
For some local retailers, business is becoming more than just a matter of black and red. Many are starting to see going green as an alternative strategy that offers an equitable and often equally profitable business solution to the mainstream.
Angele Miller is the owner of Colourful Grass Eco Shoes, an environmentally sustainable shoe company she started with her husband Dan at their home in Ladysmith. Her simple but elegant designs are the kind you might see walking along the trendier stretches of lower Johnson St. and she makes them all from environmentally sustainable materials: organic cotton, hemp, recycled rubber and plastics, with polished coconut shells for buttons and fastenings. Her shoes, which use no animal-derived products, are even certified vegan, for those who thought that was simply a dietary choice.
“We are all about the next generation,” says Miller. “We wanted to create a sustainable future for life on the planet and we were looking for how to meet that standard and still stick to our passion.”
Businesses like Colourful Grass are built on the premise that environmental ethics need not oppose a successful business strategy. In fact, aside from her philosophy of environmental sustainability, Miller’s is a fairly typical model for a growing business. She employs eight people at her production facility, which includes a design studio and warehouses. She has even outsourced her manufacturing to facilities in China, though she personally visits the factories to assure they meet her own ethical standard. In less than 10 years, her market has expanded from Vancouver Island to the world, a move she has made by marketing her products online on sites like ethicalocean.com, amazon.com and her own company website.
Her success has been shared by other local businesses. Bill Finley is one of the originators of the movement to sell sustainably in Victoria. His company Hemp and Co. has been a hallmark of the Government Street tourist shopping trade for the last twelve years. The company has established itself as one of downtown’s higher-end retailers, selling only products made from hemp, one of the most ecologically sustainable fibers on earth. They credit their success to their environmental ethic and a desire to do business better.
“Basically, we are all consumers,” says Finley. “We can’t not consume things like oxygen and water, but it’s how we consume that’s important. We’re all going to wear clothing, so I ask how can I provide clothing that is somewhat more sustainable from an environmental perspective? We are not perfect but this is how we deal with our lives and this is how we deal with our business.”
His message: it may be an environmentally sustainable business, but it’s still just business. Their method is the same as anywhere else; sell a quality product at a profit and try to expand. Hemp and Co. now have two subsidiaries in addition to their main location downtown, one in Victoria West and another being developed in Sidney. It’s a model Finley says is being carried on by new businesses like Colourful Grass.
“These are folks who want to do business,” he says. “They might think, well I want to make my living designing clothes or jewelry but I don’t want to fall into using plastics or creating more waste in the world, I want to do it as ethically as I can. That was not happening when we opened twelve years ago. I recall three people who approached me in the first year with various products that they had. Now we are approached on a weekly basis.”
Marielle Duranteau was one of them. Her store, Shift, on Johnson St. is a franchise of Hemp and Co., which caters to a younger crowd that is both fashion conscious and environmentally aware. They sell everything from locally made shoes to clothing and jewelry made from sustainable fibers like organic cotton, bamboo and even recycled wool. Duranteau believes the reason environmentally sustainable businesses like hers are able to succeed is a simple matter of supply and demand.
“The market itself is expanding,” she says. “There is more variety, which means more competition, which means lower prices. The world is changing and people are thinking and buying differently. As retailers, we now have a lot more selection so we can appeal to a wider audience,” she says.
As with any growing market, product development is expanding, outward and upward, creating more product diversity than ever before. Alain St. Onge is the owner of The Good Planet, an eco-lifestyle store on Fort St. The Good Planet sells everything from fair trade, handmade African baskets to housewares and even organic mattresses. A major focus for The Good Planet is on products for babies and infants. They sell 100 per cent organic cotton baby clothes and children’s toys from recycled plastic and natural materials, including one Tonka-style dump truck made entirely from pressed sawdust.
According to St. Onge, the consumer trend that drives environmentally focused businesses like his is tied to the movement to buy locally. “People want to know who they are dealing with. I think change can come from a consumer level because people want to spend and they have to seek it out to buy things that are as local as possible,” he says. “There’s definitely a groundswell of that happening right now. It’s a niche, but … niches have a way of becoming mainstream.” M
The Week — April 14
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The 55-year-old is said to have lost the support of his players and fans, while the team were booed off following their Champions League goalless draw with Valencia on Tuesday.
Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho has said that his side have secured more points in the Champions League, therefore claiming that his team was better than Liverpool, Manchester City and Tottenham.
Reports have suggested that Mourinho will be sacked regardless of United’s result against Newcastle United on Saturday evening.
However, Mourinho insisted that his team have yet to lose in the Champions League this season, while Liverpool, City and Spurs have all been beaten in one of their two group games.
“After today’s game we have two weeks, then we go straight into games against Chelsea, in the Premier League, and Juventus, in the Champions League, with two recovery days in between,” Metro UK quoted Mourinho as saying.
“For the moment, we have the most points of any English team in the Champions League, and it is a big responsibility for us to maintain that in our next group match against the super team, Juventus.
“With such huge games coming up later in the month, it would obviously be good for our confidence to end this current run of fixtures with an important victory this afternoon at home.
“Thank you for your support and I hope you enjoy the game.”
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MARIC to design 80kt semisubmersible salvage vessel
MARIC previously designed COSCO Heavy Transport’s 100,000 dwt 'Xin Guang Hua', pictured. (Credit: COSCO Heavy Transport)
Chinese ship designer MARIC, a subsidiary of CSSC, announced that it had won the tender to design an 80,000 dwt semisubmersible vessel specialised for salvage recovery on 30 April.
The tender was held by the Guangzhou Salvage Bureau branch of China’s Ministry of Transport. The tender criteria specified that the vessel should be capable of raising and transporting vessels of up to 100,000 dwt. The vessel is also intended to expand the Ministry of Transport’s capacities to undertake emergency rescues and assist ships in distress on the water.
The semi-submersible vessel will be the most technologically advanced vessel in the salvage arm of China’s Ministry of Transport when completed. It is expected to operate mainly in China's offshore waters, as well as the South China Sea.
MARIC has previous experience of designing semisubmersible vessels. MARIC designed COSCO Heavy Transport’s 100,000 dwt Xin Guang Hua, the largest semisubmersible vessel in Asia, and the second largest vessel in the world. The vessel was built at CSSC Offshore & Marine Engineering’s Guangzhou shipyard, and features 2 x 10,500kw main propulsion system, as well as 2 x 2,2650kW bow thrusters and 2 x 2,650kW stern thrusters.
MARIC also has substantial previous experience designing salvage vessels. The agency previously designed a 50,000 dwt semisubmersible vessel Huayanglong for the Guangzhou Salvage Bureau, which was delivered in 2016.
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Hyundai Motor Company was in 1967 and releasing its first model, the Cortina in cooperation with Ford Motor Company in 1968. Hyundai released the Korean car in 1975 with styling by Giorgio Giugiaro of ItalDesign and with powertrain technology provided by Mitsubishi Motors.
In 1984, Hyundai exported the Pony to Canada, but not to the United States, because the Pony didn't pass emissions standards there. Canadian sales greatly exceeded expectations, and it was at one point the top-selling car on the Canadian market and hitting their first millionth car in 1985. In 1991, the company succeeded in developing its first proprietary gasoline engine, the four-cylinder Alpha, and also its own transmission, thus paving the way for technological independence.
Hyundai has invested in manufacturing plants in North America, India, the Czech Republic, Russia, China and Turkey as well as research and development centres in Europe, Asia, North America and the Pacific Rim. In 2004, Hyundai Motor Company had $57.2 billion in sales in South Korea making it the country's second largest corporation.
Worldwide sales in 2005 reached 2,533,695 units, an 11 percent increase over the previous year. In 2011, Hyundai sold 4.05 million cars worldwide and the Hyundai Motor Group was the world's fourth largest automaker behind GM, Volkswagen and Toyota. Hyundai vehicles are sold in 193 countries through some 5,000 dealerships offering models like the Accent, Elantra, i10, i20, i30, i40, Santa Fe, Sonata, Starex, Tucson and Veloster.
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HU Health Disparities Summit
Howard University Health Disparities Summit
NIMHD Presents at the Inaugural Howard University Health Disparities Research Summit
Dr. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, gives his Howard University Health Disparities Research Summit presentation on tobacco-related health disparities by race and ethnicity.
“There are a host of health disparities that affect people in this country, and if we are not intent on finding solutions, then who will?” began Dr. Anthony K. Wutoh, provost and chief academic officer of Howard University, as the inaugural Health Disparities Research Summit opened on Friday, April 7, 2017.
Dr. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), gave the keynote address, “Tobacco-Related Disparities in Racial and Ethnic Minorities.” His presentation highlighted the fact that although minorities smoke at lower rates and less intensely, some groups are more likley to develop smoking-related disease, such as lung cancer, than non-Latino Whites.1
“African Americans have a higher rate of lung cancer for the same amount of daily smoking,” said Dr. Pérez-Stable. “One hypothesis is because 80 percent of African Americans smoke menthol cigarettes, compared to 30 percent of Whites, but the data are not convincing. Our own research implied metabolism differences leading to greater intake of nicotine per cigarette among African Americans compared to Whites, Latinos or Chinese smokers.” 2
He explained that studies show smoking mentholated cigarettes may be associated with promoting smoking initiation behaviors among adolescents and young adults and there are indicators of greater level of dependence among people who smoke mentholated.3
Dr. Pérez-Stable also discussed how health disparities research now looks beyond behavior to include other determinants of health. “Thirty-five years ago, when I started on this journey, the sciences were completely parallel and did not intertwine with each other. Now such areas as environmental conditions, place, adverse childhood experiences, and food insecurity—they all influence a person’s health.”
According to Dr. Pérez-Stable, lung cancer remains one of the most under supported cancers in terms of research and funding, although the disparities remain.
“We’re not done, but we’ve certainly made huge improvements over the last 30 years in tobacco studies. Now we are really looking forward to advancing this field with your help as scientists,” Dr. Pérez-Stable said in closing.
From Dr. Pérez-Stable’s call urging more minority scientists into the field of tobacco studies, to resources provided to support minority health investigators, Summit participants heard a presentation focused on NIMHD funding and training opportunities given by NIMHD program director Dr. Derrick Tabor.
Dr. Tabor offered an informative session on funding and resources for minority health and health disparities researchers. Summit evaluators described his session as being “undoubtedly one of the best resource sessions of the Summit.”
“The point of my presentation was to bring attention to some of the new and underutilized resources NIMHD has for researchers, with an emphasis on NIMHD program officials being the best possible human resources for those looking to attain a grant,” said Dr. Tabor.
Dr. Tabor stated that outreach such as this, at the university level, allows NIMHD to engage with the research community as well as learn about researchers’ interests and needs.
Dr. Derrick Tabor, program director at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, and Howard University Hospital’s Dr. Renee Jenkins during the Howard University Health Disparities Research Summit, where NIMHD presented funding opportunities and research on tobacco-related health disparities.
Trinidad, D. R., Pérez-Stable, E. J., Messer, K., White, M. M., & Pierce, J. P. (2010). Menthol cigarettes and smoking cessation among racial/ethnic groups in the United States. Addiction, 105: 84–94. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010. 03187.x.
Pérez-Stable EJ, Benowitz NL, Herrera B, Jacob P. Nicotine metabolism and intake in black and white smokers. JAMA 1998; 280:152-156.
Soulakova, J. N., & Danczak, R. R. (2017). Impact of menthol smoking on nicotine dependence for diverse racial/ethnic groups of daily smokers. Healthcare, 5(1): 2. doi: 10.3390/healthcare5010002.
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WETLAB in Sparks makes investment in equipment
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A photo of the gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) that being installed at WETLAB's facility in Sparks.
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Western Environmental Testing Laboratory (WETLAB) has made a significant investment in equipment at its Sparks facility.
The company is installing two gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) systems at the facility.
Nick Ross, operations manager for WETLAB, said the capital expense was justified in the increased volume of work it has been receiving. The system should provide improved turnaround times for its myriad of clients.
“If we didn’t look into expanding or updating our equipment, we would fail at servicing our clients,” Ross said. “With this new equipment really allows us to take care of our clients.”
For WETLAB purposes, the GC-MS units will be used to analyze volatile organic compound in water, soil and hazardous waste samples.
GC-MS units have been used for a variety of other applications. Those include but are not limited to environmental monitoring, forensic and criminal cases, food and beverage analysis, petrochemical and hydrocarbon analysis and pharmaceutical applications.
Although it has several applications, WETLAB’s GC-MS system would only be used for its three areas of expertise.
Ross explained that GC-MS units have a reputation of being concise, efficient, automated systems that yield fast and reproducible results serving a variety of industries.
Installation of the new equipment should take around 90 days to complete.
WETLAB has clients in both private and government sectors, although Ross declined to identify specific clients.
“A small percentage of our clients are private homeowners,” Ross said. “But mostly we service businesses and government entities in all levels.”
The company began in 2002 and in 2006 moved into its state-of-the-art, 18,000-square-foot location on Spice Islands Drive in Sparks. It currently employs 40 people at the Sparks facility.
Even when the new equipment is operational, WETLAB probably will not need to add staff at the moment. Generally, one person can operate a GC-MS machine.
Ross added that the company has plenty of room at its business park for future growth if needed.
In addition to its Sparks location, WETLAB has other statewide locations in Elko, Las Vegas and services clients in California, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. WETLAB’s Elko and Las Vegas office also has a microbiology lab, while its Las Vegas facilities also sports a wet-chemistry laboratory.
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The Nembutal shortage - the end of choice?
Death-with-dignity [assisted suicide] patients are victims of a global political battle over capital punishment in the U.S., according to the federal Food and Drug Administration, which regulates pharmaceuticals, and the Oregon Health Authority, which oversees application of the state's Death With Dignity Act.
Access to pentobarbital, also known as Nembutal, has all but ended in the United States because U.S. prison officials use it in lethal injections for executions.
This comes shortly after two botched executions in the USA as reported on by Nic Steenhout:
Smith quotes from Portland's Willamette Week:
Let's take the recent cases of two death-row inmates, Clayton Lockett and Dennis McGuire, where the execution by lethal injection went extremely badly. Lockett took 26 minutes to die. Witnesses say that he was gasping for breath the whole time. McGuire died more than an hour after the injection, from a heart attack, after the injection ruptured a vein, botching the execution.
The Danish pharmaceutical company that makes Nembutal has taken a political stance against US executions and is refusing supply. While various states may turn to other methods of killing prisoners on death row, the Nembutal shortage has pro-assisted suicide organisation, Compassion and Choices up in arms.
Two senior C & C people recently met with Oregon officials suggesting that 'a compounding pharmacy in Oregon be allowed to obtain the raw materials needed to make pentobarbital and manufacture a generic form of the drug. "The compounding pharmacy would buy the raw material, and Compassion and Choices would just facilitate distribution."
So, not only would C & C maintain a list of pro-assisted suicide doctors in Oregon - should you ever need one; not only would they collect and correlate the statistics on assisted suicide deaths for the Oregon Health Board, they would also help manufacture and distribute the lethal doses.
How all of this could be seen as a transparent and ethical process is beyond me. The pyromaniac is in charge at the Fire Department.
Smith bells the ironic cat: "Now, it seems to me that if the drugs are wrong to use in lawful executions, they are also wrong to prescribe to people who want to kill themselves. Death-causing is death-causing, and that ain't medicine."
But the US is not the only country experiencing a shortage of Nembutal. Following police raids in Australia on members of Exit International and charges listed against two persons for illegally importing Nembutal, Exit Director, Philip Nitschke recently admitted that the clandestine Chinese suppliers are now also steering clear of Australia.
Dr Nitschke told the Sydney Morning Herald that the police action is jeopardising supply of the drug: 'Since the raids, Dr Nitschke said, the Chinese company had stopped supplying to Australia because it's "not worth it".'
Having said all that, I do admit to holding some sympathy for those people who have been subjected to a police raid. No matter how well handled by the authorities, a knock on the door from the Police, the questioning and the attendant house search would not be a pleasant experience. However, these people would surely have been under no illusions about the fact that importing Nembutal was illegal.
It seems to me to be rather a strange sort of indignation that seeks to shift the blame here to the Police who, after all, are simply upholding the law.
But what's the harm in a person harbouring a vial of Nembutal? Plenty. The potential for the use of this drug in an abusive relationship to kill a third party should be a concern to everyone. The risk of the ultimate in Elder Abuse cannot be dismissed as the recent death of a New South Wales man at the hands of his carer makes distressingly clear. And what of the relative who knows about his Gran's stored Nembutal and uses it to suicide in the depths of a depression?
These same risks also apply to the assisted suicide laws in Oregon, Washington and Vermont. The prescription is filled and left with the patient for use at a time of their choosing and often without the doctor being present.
Former Northern Territory Chief Minister and architect of the original Rights of the Terminally Ill Act, Marshall Perron, in a recent Press Release said:
"More than 4 Australians over 70 commit suicide every week, yet their pleas for access to appropriate drugs to do the job peacefully, with dignity, are met with police raids to deny them that opportunity."
Four people suiciding each week is a problem that screeches out to be addressed, but what about suicide prevention? And how does Perron know that these people would have accessed Nembutal if they could have done so? This is guess work and supposition. But can he really say that the best outcome for these people is still to suicide but by a different method?
Perron also observed:
"We have entered a new age of DIY death, born of frustration at the lack of political progress on adopting responsible voluntary euthanasia laws. Unpalatable as some may find this, it is a fact, and the sooner it is acknowledged the more compassionate our society will be".
I'm not sure that the connection between 'DIY death' and the law can be made so directly. But, of course, it suits those who want to change the law to assert as much. Just as it does to suggest that a law change would create a more compassionate society. There is no proof anywhere that changing the law increases compassion.
Moreover, there's a category distinction here that grates somewhat. There's a difference between suicide (and its categories) and euthanasia. Mr Perron and Dr Nitschke tend to use the terms interchangeably; as do many journalists. Journalists, perhaps, have an excuse.
The obvious question from this Nembutal shortage is what will now happen globally? How will people respond? Sadly, all we're likely to see is a change of tactics and death methods advocated for by pro-euthanasia groups and individuals. Those who really want Nembutal will change suppliers and probably source the drug in South America.
We should perhaps take a moment to think about what would happen if Nembutal was the only 'DIY death' method and if supplies dried up totally. Some people might seek other ways to suicide, that's possible. But if we're talking about 'choice' as the pro-euthanasia brigade seem wont to do, then surely such a drought would open up other choices in the realm of exploring good care options. Euthanasia & assisted suicide, in that context, is really the end of choice.
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Gonzalo: ‘I Could Not Turn Forest Down’
Fraser Nicholson
Gonzalo Jara Reyes today revealed his excitement at the latest instalment of his English adventure.
The Chilean international has joined Nottingham Forest on loan from West Brom for the remainder of the season.
The 27 year old right back has made more than 50 appearances for West Brom and also had two loan spells in the Championship with Brighton last season.
He’s poised to make his debut for The Reds in Saturday’s Kids for a Quid game against Peterborough at The City Ground (kick-off 3pm).
And he told Forest Player: “I was very keen to talk to Forest when I heard they were interested in signing me. They are a big club and everyone in my country knows about their history.
“I have enjoyed my time with West Brom but I came to England to play football and this is an opportunity that I could not afford to turn down.
“There is a big challenge for Forest to get into the Premier League and I would love to play a part in that.”
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Sun, 25 Sept 2016
Party-time for 101-year-old Kath
'Normal living and plenty of company' the secret to longevity
A NEWBURY woman celebrated her 101st birthday last month.
Kath Gibbs was born in Newbury on August 23, 1915, and has lived in the town throughout her long life.
Mrs Gibbs celebrated reaching the impressive milestone with family members, friends and residents at Care UK’s Winchcombe Place care home.
When asked about her secret, Mrs Gibbs said: ‘There is no secret really, just living a normal life and being interested in everything going on around you.
“Drinking milk, eating fruit and vegetables from the garden and plenty of company helps too.”
Mrs Gibbs attended the Council Modern School before leaving at the age of 15 to take up a job in the ladies department at Beynons of Newbury, where she worked for 12 years. She met her future husband Robert during the Second World War, and they tied the knot on New Year’s Eve 1941 when Mr Gibbs had a 72-hour pass from the army.
When the war ended, the couple both worked for Southern Electric, using their savings to build their own house.
Mrs Gibbs supported her local church, St John’s, helping with activities and services, and church members often drop in to Winchcombe Place to pay her a visit.
Mr Gibbs was a church -warden and the couple helped raised money to rebuild St John’s after it was damaged in a German air raid.
She lived in her own home until she was 99 years old but after a number of falls decided she did not want to live alone and made the move to Winchcombe Place.
At the home, Mrs Gibbs enjoys knitting, sewing and helping in the garden and takes an interest in all the activity within the home.
Home manager at Winchcombe Place, Stephanie Jones, said: “We always like to make an occasion of birthdays and Kath’s 101st birthday is no exception.
“We made sure that she had a great day and our head chef, Gary Shaw, prepared a special birthday cake to mark the milestone.
“It was lovely to see all of her family and friends around her to celebrate the occasion.”
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‘Mouth Painting’ for UCI
May 14, 2007 Stella Cho
Forty-five-year-old Suzanne Short, or ‘Shorty,’ is a quadriplegic ‘mouth painter’ who recently made a portrait of neurobiologist Hans Keirstead, associate professor of UC Irvine’s Reeve-Irvine Spinal Cord Injury Research Center.
Short’s portrait of Keirstead emulated a photo of him that was published by the OC Register last year, when an article was written about Keirstead’s efforts to use human embryonic stem cells to treat those with spinal cord injuries.
In an interview with the OC Register, Short said that she admired the photo of Keirstead that the newspaper published last year because ‘he looks so hopeful in it.’
In 1982, while she was a junior studying architectural technology at Indiana University, Short was involved in a car accident caused by a drunk driver.
After her accident, Short, whose level of disability is C4 quadriplegia, was forever paralyzed from the shoulders down. She learned to write using her mouth and a felt tip pen at the Craig Rehabilitation Hospital and decided to ‘reinvent herself through art,’ according to her Web site which can be found at: http://www.erikasfriends.com.
Although she has minimal mobility of her shoulders and left hand
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‘Community’ Bond Breaks
February 26, 2013 Tyler Christian
Courtesy of NBC
Over its course of three great seasons, “Community” had been my favorite comedy series on television. Thriving off of its extremely clever pop culture references, parodies and meta-humor galore, the show was unlike any of its kind. While the show’s unique style never clicked with a wide audience, it has developed one of the most devoted fan bases in television history. Interestingly enough, the fans (me included) are the main reason why a fourth season became official.
The news of a fourth season was initially a breath of fresh air, but then turned into turmoil when NBC announced that they had fired Dan Harmon, the show’s creator, show runner and executive producer of the show’s first three seasons. Worse enough, Harmon’s firing eventually led to the departure of several key writers and executive producers that had been with the show since its inception.
Hired in the vacant show runner position were sitcom veterans David Guarascio and Moses Port. Last year at San Diego Comic-Con International, they announced, “It’s all gonna be okay” for the show’s structure and characters.
Now, when I reflect on that quote, I seriously have never felt cheated this much by television since the series finale of “The Sopranos.”
The first episode of the new season opens with the group trying to enroll in an overcrowded history class. This leads to Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) creating “The Hunger Deans,” a competition that will decide who gets a spot in the class. While the competition occurs, the group contemplates on their future together, since graduation is imminent.
The second and third episodes then involve the group getting lost in Pierce’s (Chevy Chase’s) “haunted house” and then attending a fan convention that’s somewhat in the vein of Comic-Con.
While those aforementioned synopses all share stories that fall into the show’s approach for parodying pop culture and television/film clichés, the show’s new creative team has unfortunately put it in the direction that I and many others feared it would become: one big cliché. The characters and stories that were featured in the Dan Harmon era of the show have taken a turn for the worst, and are now stuck in a hole that they’ll most likely never dig their way out of.
The season premiere, “History 101,” is without a doubt the worst episode of the series for several reasons. Though the main event of the episode is called “The Hunger Deans,” the only nod it makes to the “The Hunger Games” franchise is the Dean dressing up as Katniss. Past episodes of the show have parodied pop culture that many people love, but this approach goes nowhere else in its attempt to satirize the franchise.
Oddly enough, the subplot of the episode involving the character Abed (Danny Pudi) seeing the group as a generic sitcom in his head had the potential to be the most interesting part. I understand that the writers intended for this to be a parody of all the clichéd sitcoms that air on television today, but the lack of clever meta commentary on that trope is essentially nonexistent. Instead I found myself watching “Community” as a generic sitcom, something I never wanted to see.
In addition to the stories being weaker in both the season premiere and follow-up episodes, the show’s beloved character ensemble has been broken down. Aside from Jeff (Joel McHale), Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed remaining the same to a credible extent, Annie (Alison Brie) isn’t the same innocent overachiever, Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) has lost her role as the passive-aggressive “mother” of the group, Britta’s (Gillian Jacob’s) no longer “the worst,” and the Dean and Pierce are reduced to uttering derivative jokes that are no longer clever compared to previous seasons.
With writing that feels like rushed fan fiction and the subtraction of certain key character traits, I have little faith in “Community” being good in this new direction. In an episode from the show’s first three seasons, I can remember laughing about 15 to 20 times, which contrasts vastly to me barely chuckling during this new season’s episodes. NBC, take a good look at what you’ve done, because you have Britta’d one of your best shows.
Not recommended: Thanks to NBC, I can’t believe in #SixSeasonsAndAMovie anymore.
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2013 Disney Movie Previews
March 5, 2013 Zachary Risinger
With each passing year, the precedents set by the motion picture industry are constantly evolving and being redefined with the times. A new year means new franchises, old favorites, new laughs, cries and the entire number of things that are associated with films.
That being said, here is a preview of what Disney (which, as we all know, is hugely popular at UC Irvine with Disneyland nearby) has in store for us in 2013:
Oz the Great and Powerful (March 8): James Franco, who plays magician Oscar Diggs, finds himself flung into the land of Oz, much like Dorothy, and must turn himself into the wizard of the land — and, perhaps, into a better man as well.
Iron Man 3 (May 3): Everyone’s favorite snarky billionaire is back, but his personal world has been destroyed by his enemies, and he’s on a mission to find those responsible. With Robert Downey Jr., it’s hard not to anticipate the next installment in the series.
Monsters University (June 21): Learn the story of how “Monsters Inc.” dynamic duo Mike and Sully met each other. Turns out, they weren’t always the best of friends like they turned out to be.
The Lone Ranger (July 3): With Johnny Depp playing the role of a Native American spirit warrior named Tonto and Armie Hammer playing man of the law, John Reid, they have to work together in order to fight the forces of greed and corruption in the wild American frontier.
The Little Mermaid (Sept. 13): A Disney classic that garnered two Academy Awards returns to the big screen, this time in 3-D. It will only be playing in select theaters.
Thor: The Dark World (Nov. 8): The Norse god of thunder must battle to save the Earth and the Nine Realms by combating a shadowy force that predates the universe itself.
Frozen (Nov. 27): The same studio that produced “Wreck-It Ralph” and “Tangled” are behind “Frozen,” their latest project where a kingdom is trapped in eternal winter. Anna, a fearless optimist, enlists the help of mountain-man Kristoff and his reindeer sidekick Sven in order to cleanse the kingdom of the Snow Queen’s icy spell.
Saving Mr. Banks (Dec. 20): Academy Award-winning performers Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson tell the extraordinary, untold backstory of how Disney’s “Mary Poppins” made it to the big screen, due to the difficult time Walt Disney had trying to acquire the rights.
While this list is a relatively short one, the films lined up for this coming year are both diverse in nature and could possibly introduce new and endearing characters to us. With leads like Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell) in “Frozen” and the continuation of the stories of Marvel favorites Iron Man and Thor being told in the newest films coming out this year, there will indeed be a bit of everything for the movie-goer this year from Disney and Pixar. Live-action films like “Oz” and “The Lone Ranger” also have the potential to turn some heads with their star power, and are worth keeping an eye on as the year progresses.
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Fall of Aleppo, the day after
The fall of Aleppo should not restore faith in a war criminal like Assad, whose forces committed crimes against humanity and wrecked the nation to create a vacuum, allowing groups like ISIS to emerge.
Umar Lateef Misgar
Syrian boys, evacuated from Aleppo, sit in a field hospital bed near Idlib, Syria, Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. Picture by AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.As I write these lines, residents of Eastern Aleppo are being evacuated or forcibly displaced after years of siege by the Assad regime, and all-out bombardment of the erstwhile rebel-held part of Syria’s largest city by Russian and Syrian aircrafts. The convoys carrying hundreds of injured are being dropped off in either rebel-held countryside of Western-Aleppo or the Idlib province dominated by Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (formerly al-Nusra Front) the Syrian affiliate of al-Qaeda. The evacuation comes days after at least 82 civilians, including 13 children, were executed point-blank by regime forces and allied Iraqi militias. “Numerous bodies are lying on the streets,” said the UN Human Rights Commission, in one of its recent reports
While people from Eastern Aleppo are mourning the loss of their homes, or whatever was left of them, and the lives of their loved ones, images from regime-held Western Aleppo show people celebrating. This might be explained by the fact that, throughout the past years, regular rebel shelling from the Eastern parts of the city has killed hundreds of civilians in the Western one and injured thousands others.
While emphasizing upon the fact that the people who lost their lives are not mere numbers, it must be noted that of the nearly half a million who have been killed, the actions of the Assad regime have killed most of them (more than 90%), followed by armed opposition factions, (1.81%) and then Russian forces (1.71%). This goes to show the scale of regime- atrocities against ordinary civilians, while also underlining the impossibility of a meaningful reconciliation under Assad’s reign.
Assad and his foreign backers, mainly Russia, Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah, call this the “liberation” of Aleppo.This indeed marks a significant development in the 6-year long brutal war, tilting the balance in Assad’s favor, but Syria is still far from any semblance of stability.
Armed rebels are still in control of parts of southern, central and northern Syria, including enclaves around the capital Damascus. Kurds hold a significant territory in the North, and ISIS still occupies large swathes of land in the east of the country. Furthermore, with Iraqi/Iranian militias, Hezbollah, and Iran’s IRGC operating all over the country, restoring any credibility in Assad’s tyranny is a remote possibility.
The fall of the Eastern Aleppo enclave could lead to two major developments in the future, both disastrous for the resolution of this intractable conflict.
First, the Assad regime and its foreign backers are now emboldened to employ their tactics of brutal siege, starvation, and bombardments to force surrender in other areas still in the hands of the opposition or under the control of groups like Jabhat Fatah al-Sham and ISIS.
A city like Idlib, which is primarily controlled by Fatah al-Sham and its allies, has almost half a million residents. An Aleppo-like situation in Idlib will be undoubtedly more catastrophic in terms of civilian casualties. Moreover, unlike Aleppo, few states will come to the rescue of Idlib with al-Sham’s now rescinded affiliations with al-Qaeda. The fall of Aleppo also serves the regime discourse of conflating legitimate opposition with terrorism.
The regime will focus on regaining full control of the country at any cost, while the foreign backers of the opposition are too busy elsewhere to present any significant hurdle: Turkey is stuck in its war with the PKK and its persecution of ordinary Kurds, the Gulf states are busy killing and starving Yemenis, and the US is focused on Mosul and the transition. If the past is any indication, this ultimately means loss of more innocent lives.
Second, after the fall, foreign-dominated groups will have increased credibility and large scale defections to groups like al-Sham and ISIS might ensue in the near future. This, again, allows the pro-regime elements to justify the use of disproportionate, if not preposterous, lethal force and to murder countless innocents in the process.
The street revolution in Syria that turned into an ugly war, primarily due to the scorched-earth response of the Assad regime and the opportunistic foreign meddling, is far from over. So is the immense suffering of the Syrian people who face daily ordeals in the form of death, injury, torture, rape, hunger, imprisonment and expulsion.
The fall of Aleppo should not restore faith in a war criminal like Assad, whose forces committed crimes against humanity and wrecked the nation to create a vacuum, allowing groups like ISIS to emerge. Also, the vulgarity of Russian claims that it is in Syria to mainly fight ISIS is confirmed by the fact that while Eastern Aleppo, where there was no ISIS presence, was being decimated by its aircraft, ISIS took over the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra in a lightning advance.
It is way too late to look for stability under the Assad regime. The political process that ultimately leads to a transition from tyranny to meaningful democracy in Syria must start not on sectarian terms, nor on the terms of myriad foreign interests, but on the terms of the Syrian people, who have lost so much blood, sweat, and tears in these past six years.
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Welcome Santa Parade, Lock 3 tree lighting to kick off downtown's wintry festivities this weekend
Beacon Journal/Ohio.com
Nov 20, 2018 at 9:37 PM Nov 20, 2018 at 9:37 PM
There's a big twist for this year's Welcome Santa Parade route, but all roads still lead to Lock 3 as the center of downtown Akron's holiday kickoff weekend.
Saturday's parade, which steps off at 10 a.m., will follow a new course because of ongoing road construction.
More than 75 units including floats, costumed characters, marching bands, dance groups and area organizations will travel along West Bowery Street starting at West Exchange Street. The parade will make a right turn onto South Main Street, where the judges' stage awaits before winding down at University Avenue in front of Lock 3.
Afterward, the park will host holiday activities including visits with Santa and a short show "starring some classic princes and princesses," according to a city news release.
Parade spectators can line up along Bowery Street (between Exchange Street and Main Street) or Main Street (between Bowery and University Avenue) and are encouraged to bring chairs or blankets for the event, which will take place rain, snow or shine.
Access to West Bowery from Water Street to West Exchange will be closed during lineup Saturday from 8 a.m. until about 10:45 a.m., and the parade route will be closed to traffic from 9:45 a.m. to approximately 11 a.m.
Organizers are set to announce "a special new surprise event" during Friday's night's opening celebration and lighting of the city's official tree at Lock 3.
Ceremonies begin at 6:30 p.m., with free hot chocolate and cookie decorating, carol singers, fireworks, make-and-take ornaments, demos by the Center of Science and Industry (COSI), letter-writing to Santa and visits with Rudolph and friends.
Also Friday evening, the University of Akron will throw the switch on its new colored lights on the downtown Polsky Building — setting the night aglow for visitors enjoying the holiday window displays along Main Street.
On Sunday, Lock 3 visitors can enjoy Lunch with Santa from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Event admission ($15 per child, $10 per adult) includes lunch, entrance to the Akron Children's Museum, ice skating and skate rental, indoor Polar Putt-Putt, and photo opportunities with Santa and costumed characters. Tickets can be purchased at https://tinyurl.com/akrsantalunch18.
New attractions this year include a cube maze and arcade games. And Lock 3 has a lineup of winter fun planned through Groundhog Day and beyond, including:
• Dec. 1: Disco Down. A whole day of disco tunes, with a DJ spinning starting at 6 p.m.
• Dec. 8: Blues, Brew and Bad Sweaters, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Music, ugly holiday sweaters, craft brew samples, food and silent auction. Tickets are $20.
• Dec. 15 and 22: Breakfast with Santa, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tickets $15 per child, $10 per adult.
• Dec. 15: Third annual Elfcon, 5 to 9 p.m. Free screening of "Elf" with drinks, candy, candy corn, candy canes and maple syrup. (It's an "Elf" thing.) Spaghetti eating contest and prize giveaway for best costume.
• Dec. 21: "Nightmare Before Christmas," 6 to 10 p.m. Free screening of film, drink specials, pumpkins and Christmas lights.
• Jan. 5: Skating to the ’80s, 6 p.m.
• Jan. 12: 4th Annual Cottage Crawl beer festival, 1 to 6 p.m.
• Jan. 26-27: Superhero & Princess Weekend, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tickets $15 per child, $10 per adult.
• Feb. 2: Totally ’90s skating, 6 p.m.
• Feb. 9-10: Gone to the Dogs Weekend, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tickets $15 per child, $10 per adult.
For more information about events, go to lock3live.com.
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BDO Columbus’ emphasis on company culture earns top workplace award
Written on May 16, 2019
By Abigail Draper, OSCPA communication and engagement manager
Leaders at BDO Columbus stress that it takes time and focus to create a great work culture, but that doing so increases inclusivity, appreciation and productivity.
“It takes focus. It takes time. It takes energy. It takes a long-term commitment,” said Rachel Caviness, director of business development, “It’s not something that will happen naturally. You must foster this type of culture... You can’t just take it for granted that it’s a natural phenomenon. It takes a lot of effort, but it’s possible.”
BDO’s dedication to providing a comfortable and exciting workplace environment helped it earn recognition in May as the #21 midsize organization by Columbus CEO magazine.
“We're really excited about it,” said Mike Voinovich, office managing partner. “It’s not something that’s necessarily easy to obtain. It’s not that we write an essay and hope that we get selected, it’s based on what our folks have to say about what we do here at BDO and their satisfaction, motivation and enjoyment in the workplace.”
The Top Workplace award recognizes companies based solely on anonymous surveys completed by employees. Companies also must be nominated by employees to be considered for the surveys.
Caviness said she thinks a major factor that led to the award is the emphasis the office places on diversity and inclusion. “They really make sure that everybody feels like they have a voice,” she said. BDO also offers webinars for continuous learning and a flexible work schedule.
Ann Baucum, office administrator and chief culture champion, said it doesn’t take a lot of money for small firms to follow in BDO’s footsteps. For example, she facilitates office “brain breaks,” where team members get up from their desks and participate in activities. Most recently, that was a “shamrock hunt” where finding paper shamrocks garnered lucky winners a $10 gift card. Baucum also booked a busy season visit from an ice cream truck to boost morale.
“Ann does a particularly amazing job of learning and understanding what motivates [employees] and what would be helpful and a benefit to them,” said Voinovich.
The firm also does a “pulse” survey every year, and that gives them a chance to evaluate what they’re doing right and where they can improve.
Voinovich said the leadership at BDO takes pride in its transparency and in being sure to share suggestions for improvement as well as positive results.
“I’ll never be satisfied with where we’re at,” he said, “I have pride and I’m excited about where we’re at, but we can always do better and that’s what we love to do.”
BDO Columbus has now been named a Top Workplace by Columbus CEO for two years in a row.
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Teacher banned from teaching
A female teacher has recently been banned from teaching for at least three years for having a relationship with a sex offender and not telling her school.
By Rachel Foster on 21 Jul 2017
TEACHER BANNED FROM TEACHING DUE TO INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIP
A female teacher has recently been banned from teaching for at least three years for having a relationship with a sex offender and not telling her school. The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) has Teacher Misconduct Panel banned Mrs Francesca Rogers from teaching until at least 2020.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/628556/Mrs_Francesca_Rogers_15409-_Secretary_of_State_Decision_Unrestricted.pdf
WHO ARE THE NCTL?
The NCTL regulates teachers in schools, including academies, independent schools, sixth form colleges, youth custody settings and children’s homes. The role of the NCTL’s Professional Conduct Panel is to decide whether it is necessary to recommend to the Secretary of State that a teacher is made the subject of a prohibition order, preventing them from teaching.
When considering allegations of serious misconduct against a teacher, the NCTL will decide if a teacher’s behaviour is fundamentally incompatible with being a teacher. If so, they will decide if it is necessary to recommend a prohibition order.
FACTS OF THE CASE
Mrs Rogers qualified as a teacher in 2000 and started working at Larkhill Primary School, Salisbury, in September 2010. She was separated from her husband and lived alone with her two children.
In early 2015, Mrs Rogers entered into a personal relationship with a man being investigated for child sexual offences. Prior to the relationship, the man had been arrested and was on bail. Mrs Rogers stated she was informed by his mother that he had been arrested for chatting online with a girl who turned out to be 16 years old. The mother informed Mrs Rogers that his actions had been an innocent mistake and he had not known the girl's age. Mrs Rogers stated she was given the same explanation by the man himself.
In October 2015, the police investigation relating to the online chat with the 16 year old girl was dropped, but the man was charged with offences of making indecent images of children. Mrs Rogers' position was that she did not know about these charges.
The Allegations The allegations were that the teacher entered into a personal relationship with a person who she knew was being investigated for viewing indecent images of children; failed to inform her school of the personal relationship; denied to authorities on one or more occasions that she was in the relationship; and was dishonest in trying to conceal the relationship.
KEY REGULATIONS AND GUIDANCE
The Panel considered the guidance for safer working practicefor those working with children and young people in educational settings. Under the heading, 'Standards of behaviour' it states:
“There may be times where an individual's actions in their personal life come under scrutiny from the community, the media or public authorities, including with regard to their own children, or children or adults in the community. Staff should be aware that their behaviour, in or out of the workplace, could compromise their position within the work setting in relation to the protection of children, loss of trust and confidence, or bringing the employer into disrepute.”
The same guidance also states:
“This means that staff should…be aware that behaviour by themselves, those with whom they share a household, or others in their personal lives, may impact on their work with children.”
Although Mrs Rogers did not co-habit with the man in question the Panel accepted that the he was involved in her personal life.
The Teachers’ Standards also played a key part in the findings. The Panel was satisfied that Mrs Rogers' conduct, which included dishonesty, was misconduct of a serious nature which fell significantly short of the standards expected of the profession.
The National Union of Teachers said it was disappointed with the sanction imposed and was considering an appeal.
DISQUALIFICATION BY ASSOCIATION
In October 2014, the government issued supplementary guidance to ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education (2014)’. This guidance said that school staff are disqualified from working in a school, when they ‘live or work in the same household’ as someone who is barred from working with children or young people, even if they would not otherwise be disqualified themselves.
You may remember or have been involved in the operational impact this had on schools which resulted in people being suspended from their work and, in some cases, they were dismissed. In many schools, staff were asked to sign a declaration that they did not meet the ‘disqualification by association’ criteria. However, in February 2015, the government issued new guidance which replaces the October 2014 document and clarifies the position with regard to schools called Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006. It is now not necessary for schools to ask staff to complete a self-declaration form to obtain information about whether a staff member is ‘disqualified by association’, but they do need to ‘take steps to gather sufficient and accurate information’ about staff.
Schools must record the date on which disqualification checks were made, either on the single central record or separately.
If you wish for further advice on the single central record or advice on safeguarding cases then please contact our HR team who are specialists in this field and even offer a Single Central Record Audit and are accredited Safer Recruitment trainers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rachel is the HR Director at One Education, and is a qualified employment solicitor and CIPD HR professional. She has worked for many years in the education sector both as a lawyer and as a senior HR advisor.
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Art with heart: Supporting artists from Oxford’s homeless population
Art Interviews Student Life
21st May 2017 Audrey Tan and Freya Turner
Nationwide, rough sleeping in England has increased by 134% between 2010 and 2015. Oxford has historically had high levels of homelessness with around 55 people counted as rough sleeping in the city at the last official count.
Oxford’s homelessness problem partly stems from housing issues: it is the most unaffordable place to live in the (even more than London!), making people vulnerable to homelessness if their tenancy comes to an end and the rent is increased. It is also very difficult for people to move out of homelessness. ‘Right to buy’ policies encourage councils to sell off existing social housing stock; the subsequent decline of social housing means that councils increasingly have to discharge their duty to help homeless households find accommodation, by finding them a tenancy in the limited and increasingly unaffordable private rented sector, meaning many are left on the waiting list. House building is at an all-time low: from 2013 to 2014, no affordable homes were built in Oxford.
These structural issues are compounded by the fact that central government cuts mean that Oxfordshire County Council has had to make some very difficult decisions about how to spend its budget. Last year, r a 65% cut in vital services that keep people in their homes and . On top of a 38% cut to the same funding in 2014, this means that there are not the funds for services supporting the homeless and those at risk of homelessness to remain open. Lucy Faithfull house (a 61-bed hostel) has already shut its doors, and Simon House and Julian Housing (together providing over 200 beds)
Nationwide, rough sleeping in England has increased by 134% between 2010 and 2015
The services are a lifeline for thousands each year. In stark terms, this will mean more vulnerable people on the streets, in prisons and in hospitals. It will also cost more than it saves: Crisis research shows that helping people when they first become homeless saves the public purse between £3,000 and £18,000 per person. Under current legislation, councils only have to help those in ‘priority need’ – mainly those who are pregnant, with dependent children, vulnerable as a result of old age, mental illness or physical disability. The Homelessness Reduction Bill, recently passed in Parliament, will impose a duty on councils to help more people who become homeless. In practice the cuts to local government funding will mean Oxford City Council will find it very difficult to carry out the new duties imposed on them by the Bill.
Though arguably a bit windier and wetter than the galleries of the Tate Modern or National Gallery in London, the streets of Oxford are home to talented artists of their own. On any given day, one is likely to come across artists from Oxford’s homeless community selling their art along popular arteries, such as Woodstock Road and Cornmarket Street. Cognisant of the precarious housing situations in which many people in Oxford find themselves and motivated to support artists from every economic background, students at Green Templeton College (GTC) are introducing a new element to the College’s second annual GTC Art Exhibition. At the opening reception on the 1st of June, artists from the homeless community will be displaying and selling their art alongside artists from GTC, including students, family, staff, and fellows. The goal is to provide the special guest artists with a dignified and welcoming platform through which they might sell their art, as well as to shine a spotlight on the diverse artistic talents in the community.
Three artists who have or who currently are rough sleeping will be showcasing their art at the Exhibition.
Ash, who can often be found selling his work on Cornmarket, is excited to have the opportunity to sell his art at the College. His art comes in the form of colourful images drawn in marker on wood blocks. Ranging in size from 15cmx15cm to larger, A4-sized ones, Ash’s art provide a pop of colour in contrast to the grey bricks along Cornmarket. Reminiscent of the long spider-like characters from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ash’s quirky figures dance across backgrounds of swirls and sprays of colour.
Vikki sets up shop outside St. Cross College on St. Giles. Vikki is a poet who illuminates her works with beautiful calligraphy. With penmanship that could rival some of the finest works held in Duke Humphrey’s Library, Vikki brings a visual flair to the page that reflects the intricacies of her poems and quotes.
Henry likes displaying his art along Woodstock as opposed to having it in a shop as it enables him to meet the people who become the owners of his art
Previously occupying the bus shelter down the road from the Royal Oak on Woodstock Road, Henry now displays his art outside Brown’s Café and the Royal Oak. A frequently seen figure along this stretch of road, many people who work and live in Jericho are familiar with “Henry the Painter.” Ten years ago, Henry “decided to be creative” and picked up some brushes, oil paints, and rough canvases, to begin exploring the images of life he sees around him everyday. Inspired by the environment, nature, daily life, and different colours, Henry explores how humanity interacts with nature. His style ranges from abstract lines to landscapes of scenes from around Oxford. “People have different ideas of art and what it represents, whether that be something abstract, mechanical, anatomical, or natural,” Henry explains. He enjoys speaking with people passing by and seeing how some may find a painting disjointed while others find it marvellous. Henry likes displaying his art along Woodstock as opposed to having it in a shop as it enables him to meet the people who become the owners of his art. As generous as he is with the paint on his canvas, Henry has been known to give away paintings to cash-strapped students and others, as he sees the value in individuals becoming the sole owners of a piece of art. When asked if he has a specific goal for his art, Henry replied, “I have no goal in art; I feel satisfied by the work I make for others to enjoy.”
Everyone is welcome to attend the reception of the GTC Art Exhibition on 1st June from 7pm-10pm at Green Templeton College. Wine and jazz music will accompany a lively evening celebrating the lively art scene in Oxford.
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Ed Kashi
Photographer, Filmmaker
Ed Kashi is an award-winning photojournalist and filmmaker who has produced 17 stories for National Geographic magazine and worked in over 90 countries. Dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times, a sensitive eye and an intimate relationship to his subjects are signatures of his work. One of his innovative approaches to photography and filmmaking is his acclaimed Iraqi Kurdistan flipbook that uses still images in a moving-image format. As a member of the prestigious VII Photo Agency, Ed has been recognized for his complex imagery and its compelling rendering of the human condition. His images have been published and exhibited worldwide, and his editorial assignments and personal projects have generated nine monographs of his photographic work. Ed is a pioneer in multimedia, having worked in video and film for nearly two decades. He has also been on the forefront of using mobile photography and the Instagram platform, both as a photojournalist on assignments and for personal projects. In 2011, he produced a multimedia piece on the effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam that won the UNICEF Photo of the Year and a World Press award. Ed’s work has earned numerous other honors, including from Pictures of the Year International (named Multimedia Photographer of the Year for 2014), Communication Arts, and American Photo Magazine. Ed is also an accomplished educator who instructs and mentors students of photography, participates in forums, and lectures on photojournalism, documentary photography, and multimedia storytelling. With his wife, filmmaker Julie Winokur, they founded Talking Eyes Media—a non-profit production company dedicated to social and geo political issues. In 2014, they began an innovative project with Rutgers University-Newark called Newest Americans, a storytelling project focused on the issue of immigration, and in 2017, they received a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities grant to continue the project.
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Home slideshow SLIDESHOW: Six Women We Love: In Commemoration of International Day of Rural Women - October 15th
SLIDESHOW: Six Women We Love: In Commemoration of International Day of Rural Women - October 15th
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The United Nations General Assembly designated October 15th as International Day of Rural Women, recognizing the critical role indigenous women play in rural development.
"Rural women are key agents for achieving the transformational economic, environmental and social changes required for sustainable development. But limited access to credit, health care and education are among the many challenges they face, which are further aggravated by the global food and economic crises and climate change. Empowering them is key not only to the well-being of individuals, families and rural communities, but also to overall economic productivity, given women’s large presence in the agricultural workforce worldwide"- United Nations
Here are six women we love in honor of this day...
Margaret Tucker was was one of Australia's earliest and most notable Aboriginal activists
Photo via: (William Cooper (left), his second cousin, Margaret Tucker (second from left), and other family members, in 1936)
She campaigned for indigenous rights and was one of the founding members of the Australian Aborigines' League. In the 1960s she founded the United Council of Aboriginal and Islander Women and in 1964 was the first Indigenous appointee to the Victorian Aborigines Welfare Board.
Anna Mae Aquash- women's rights, human rights and native rights advocate
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At age 30, the Canadian native became the highest ranking woman in the American Indian Movement. She fought for women’s rights, human rights and native rights. Her death was left suspicious.
Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Activist and Indigenous Leader
She is a Guatemalan activist for native rights and winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. She rose to fame in 1982 after publishing her autobiography, I, Rigoberta Menchú which was ghost-written. At the time, she was an activist living in France because Guatemala was very dangerous for outspoken critics of the government. The book propelled her to international fame, in spite of later allegations that much of it was exaggerated, inaccurate or even fabricated. She has kept a very high profile, continuing to work for native rights around the globe.
Joenia Batista de Carvalho- Thought to be a man’s job, Brazil's first indigenous woman lawyer beats prejudice to battle for land rights
She took on powerful interests encroaching on her ancestral land. Over twenty Indians were killed and hundreds injured. She is also working to reduce the impacts of climate change in Brazil and trains indigenous women so that more can take on leadership positions.
Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabe activist, environmentalist, economist and writer
She is a Native American land rights activist, environmentalist, economist, politician, and author and spent her career working on a national level to advocate, raise public support and create funding for environmental groups. She is also a graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities. In addition, she has become known as a voice for Native American economic and environmental concerns around the globe.
Guatemalan feminist and political activist Lolita Chávez
She fought Monsanto—and won. The Monsanto Law would have granted exclusive ownership rights of a few genetically modified seeds to a handful of transnational companies. Social organizations in Guatemala claimed that the new law violated the Constitution and the Mayan peoples’ right to traditional cultivation of their land in their ancestral territories. Corn is integral to the history and culture of indigenous people in Guatemala.
Crossposted from www.womenforaction.org
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Obamacare was "designed" as a "Reichstag fire" to nationalize healthcare
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 by: J. D. Heyes
Tags: Obamacare, Nazis, national healthcare
https://www.naturalnews.com/049347_Obamacare_Nazis_national_healthcare.html
(NaturalNews) An orthopedic surgeon and author of a recently released book detailing the pitfalls of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) says the law was designed to essentially crash the U.S. healthcare system, paving the way for complete nationalization.
Already the law has caused scores of rural hospitals to close, and hundreds more are in danger of closing, says Dr. Lee Hieb, M.D., in an interview with WorldNetDaily.
And that's exactly what the law was intended to do, he adds.
"I think that's what the ACA was really designed to bring about," he said. "You can say it's an unintended consequence. I'm not sure; I think it's an intended consequence."
Since the law passed in 2010, 48 rural hospitals have shuttered. Another 283 are on the cusp, The Washington Post reported March 15. Most of the closures have occurred in the south; 10 of them in Texas alone.
Hieb, who authored, "Surviving the Medical Meltdown: Your Guide to Living Through the Disaster of Obamacare," says he believes left-wing politicians and policymakers are pushing to have U.S. healthcare become as centralized as possible -- to make all hospitals like the VA hospital system, which, of course, is completely operated by the federal government and is beset with chronic problems of poor patient care and gross ineffiency.
"Reichstag fire"
What the declining number of hospitals will mean is that there will be fewer treatment centers and specialists, at a time when the population is aging and Baby Boomers are retiring at an unprecedented rate.
As reported by WND:
Rural hospitals are ripe for closures because they tend to serve more elderly and poor patients, which translates to more Medicare and Medicaid patients. Many of these hospitals have been losing money lately because the federal government, under the Affordable Care Act, has cut back on Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to doctors and hospitals.
"Up until now, hospitals have failed and succeeded, they've come and gone just like businesses," Hieb said. "Some are better-run than others, but the economic deck was not totally stacked against them. Now, unfortunately, the economic deck is stacked against them in such a way that, universally, smaller hospitals are disenfranchised."
The orthopedic surgeon also charged that the closing of rural hospitals is similar to the infamous Reichstag Building fire, the seat of the German Parliament, in February 1933, an early example of a false flag attack by Nazis, with Chancellor Adolf Hitler waiting in the wings.
"This is going to be like the Reichstag fire," she said. "It's going to be an excuse to say, 'Look, the free market failed, and now we can go in and institute universal health care, because you see, these people in these rural areas need healthcare, and you're not getting it to them.'"
"We may not get there immediately"
In her book, Hieb predicted the widespread closure of rural hospitals. She warned, "In the near future, there will be many underserved areas. Finding a doctor will be harder and harder, especially for the poor, the rural, and the elderly."
She went onto say that already, government- (i.e. taxpayer-) funded health care programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, the VA and others routinely deem procedures "unnecessary" so the various bureaucracies, operating with finite resources, don't have to pay for them.
"The result is predictable: Economic failure of hospitals and physician practices that have become dependent on government payment for large segments of their population," Hieb notes. "The hospitals and offices that will close are those with the least private insurance."
In some cases, for instance, she said where private health insurance would pay $4,500 for a spinal surgery (her specialty), Medicare will only reimburse $1,200.
Six years ago, during his first campaign for the White House, then-Sen. Barack Obama, during a speech before a meeting of the AFL-CIO, expressed his desire for a single-payer, universal health care program in the U.S. -- as in, putting all Americans into a government-run program like Medicare.
"But, as all of you know, we may not get there immediately," he said.
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Carriage Horse Foes Picket Liam Neeson's Manhattan Building
Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged to ban the horse-drawn carriages
Published Apr 19, 2014 at 3:08 PM | Updated at 10:18 AM EDT on Apr 21, 2014
Animal rights activists protesting outside Liam Neeson's home say they don't agree with him that New York's carriage horses should keep working.
Neeson didn't appear Saturday as about 50 demonstrators filled the sidewalk in front of his Manhattan apartment building. They held signs with such slogans as: "Liam Neeson: Stop Supporting Cruelty!"
The 61-year-old actor is a vocal supporter of the city's carriage horse industry. His publicist hasn't immediately responded to a request for comment.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged to ban the horse-drawn carriages and replace them with electric vintage-style cars, commissioned by a group called NYCLASS.
Its members joined protesters from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on Saturday.
They say it's inhumane for the horses to be subjected to traffic, pollution and possible accidents.
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Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2017 Jul;102(1):37-44. doi: 10.1002/cpt.597. Epub 2017 Feb 13.
Clinical pharmacogenetics implementation consortium guideline (CPIC) for CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 genotypes and dosing of tricyclic antidepressants: 2016 update.
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Indian Couple In US Arrested For Not Allowing Tests On Baby Daughter
Authorities booked them for child neglect and abuse after the couple from Tamil Nadu allegedly questioned why the girl had to undergo expensive tests.
Indians Abroad | Reported by J Sam Daniel Stalin, Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Updated: September 14, 2018 13:08 IST
The couple, Prakash Settu and Mala Paneerselvam, was earlier sent to a prison in Fort Lauderdale
Chennai:
Tamil Nadu couple refused "expensive tests" for their baby
Friends of the couple organised online fundraiser to help them
Ministry of External Affairs in touch with US authorities on the matter
An Indian-origin couple in the US was granted bail on Thursday after being arrested for allegedly neglecting and abusing their six-month-old daughter. They were arrested last Friday, weeks after they took her to a hospital at Broward County in Florida with a swollen left arm. However, Child Protective Services will continue to have custody of their six-month-old babies, with no parental access.
Authorities booked them for child neglect and abuse after the couple from Tamil Nadu allegedly questioned why the girl had to undergo expensive tests at the medical establishment and attempted to take the child from the hospital against doctors' advice.
The couple, Prakash Settu and Mala Paneerselvam, was earlier sent to a prison in Fort Lauderdale with the bail amount set at $200,000. A person familiar with the matter told NDTV on Thursday that "the bail amount was ultimately reduced to $30,000, and the couple released just a few hours ago".
The baby, Himisha, and her twin brother were taken away from them by Child Protective Services a few weeks ago.
Friends of the family, who deny the allegations levelled against the couple, have organised an online fundraiser to help them wage a legal battle against the US authorities. "Separating newborn twins from biological parents is a sin. Let them hand over them to me, as a grandmother. I'd take care of them," Ms Paneerselvam's mother, Malika, told NDTV.
A close friend of the couple claimed that they had enquired about the need for expensive medical tests at each stage of the treatment only because they could not afford them. "Their insurance did not cover all of them. This was misconstrued as neglect," the friend said.
The Ministry of External Affairs is also in touch with US authorities in this regard.
However, a report from Florida Health Children's Medical Services, Broward County, in NDTV's possession alleges that Mr Settu and his wife refused to let hospital staffers conduct a "skeletal survey" and even tried to take their daughter away. The hospital viewed this as a case of possible child neglect and summoned Child Protective Services agents to the scene.
The US consulate, when contacted, stated that they will not be able to comment on "individual cases of investigation".
The US has very stringent laws on child protection, and several cases of parents being booked for child neglect and abuse have cropped up over the years. In one such instance, an 18-month-old boy from Bengal was taken away from his parents in 2012 after he suffered a head injury. He was brought back to Kolkata a year later.
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NECC Receives Grant to Accelerate Education of English Language Learners
Submitted by on July 8, 2013 2:22 pm
Thanks to a three-year, $300,000 Smith Family Foundation grant, Northern Essex Community College will be able to provide a Career Pathways Bridge Program that will place, per year, some 40 advanced English language learners with aspirations of a career in health or information technology on the fast track to reaching their goal.
This new, two-semester program, which begins in September at NECC’s Riverwalk campus on Merrimack Street in Lawrence, integrates intensive English reading and writing, math, career, and college readiness skills. Northern Essex will receive $100,000 a year for the next three years.
This program was designed specifically to accelerate the education of advanced English language learners from the Merrimack Valley who are not quite ready to enter a college degree or certificate program.
“All too frequently we see students who are advanced in their English speaking skills and want to pursue a degree, but have no awareness of what a health or IT career might entail,” says Irene Chalek, executive director, Center for Adult Education Programs and Practitioners. “After completing this program they should have the career awareness and English skills to choose and enter a college Certificate program.” The Career Pathways Bridge Program will fast track these individuals.
“Many adults don’t have the time or the money to persist,” says Amanda Kelly, coordinator of the Career Pathways Bridge Program. “This program will accelerate their English skills and bridge them to Certificate programs and eventual gainful employment.”
“This is an intensive program,” says Chalek “designed for motivated students.” All students will be required to complete additional hours of work outside of class.
Classes will be held nights and Saturdays. Participants must be assessed before entering the program. For additional information contact Amanda Kelly at 978-659-1283 or akelly@necc.mass.edu
The Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation is committed to effecting permanent positive change in the lives of the residents of Greater Boston, particularly individuals and families in economically disadvantaged communities. Today, three generations of the Smith family oversee the Foundation, stewarding approximately $10 million annually in grants aimed at promoting greater health, educational attainment, and economic mobility.
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AirAsia Preliminary Operating Statistics For The 1st Quarter 2017
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Enact term limits
"If I'm elected president, I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress."
A campaign rally in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Subjects: Congress, Congressional Rules
By Allison Graves on Monday, January 16th, 2017 at 10:44 a.m.
PolitiFact is tracking the promises of President Donald Trump. See them all at PolitiFact.com.
As the political outsider turned president of the United States, Donald Trump has proposed a five-point plan to crack down on corruption in Washington in his first 100 days in office. Included in that crack down: establishing congressional term limits.
"If I’m elected president, I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress,” Trump said at a rally in Colorado Springs, Colo. “Right? They’ve been talking about that for years.”
Under Trump’s proposal, U.S. House members would be limited to six years and senators would be limited to 12 years. This promise will be a challenge because the only one way to enact congressional term limits is through a constitutional amendment, which has only happened 27 times in the history of the United States.
WHY HE'S PROMISING IT
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives can serve unlimited two-year terms. Senators can serve unlimited six-year terms.
Supporters of Trump’s initiatives believe unlimited terms motivate representatives to focus on getting re-elected, thus causing a disconnect between the voter and politician. Those who favor unlimited congressional term limits believe the time allows the officeholder to fully understand the issues facing the constituency.
There’s only one way to enact congressional term limits — a constitutional amendment.
An amendments can be proposed in two ways. The first way is approval by two-thirds of the Senate and the House on the proposal. Amendments can also be proposed at a convention called by two-thirds of state legislatures.
From there, there are two ways to ratify an amendment. The first is if three-fourths of state legislatures vote in favor of the amendment. The second is if Congress directs states to establish ratifying conventions where three-fourths of all states must approve of the amendment.
On January 3, 2017, former presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) introduced an amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress. It would limit U.S. senators to two six-year terms and members of the U.S. House of Representatives to three two-year terms.
WHAT’S STANDING IN HIS WAY
Past proposals to establish term limits have never been successful, sometimes facing opposition from both parties.
Two decades ago, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich unveiled the “Contract with America,” which included a proposal to establish term limits. The proposal for term limits was brought to Congress as a constitutional amendment and failed in the House.
“This frankly feels like one of those zombie policy ideas that just doesn't die, and pops up in response to frustration with Congress,” said Laura Blessing, a professor at the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University.
No immediate path seen for congressional term-limits
By Louis Jacobson on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019 at 4:33 p.m.
Despite taking some steps to push for congressional term limits, President Donald Trump has run into almost insurmountable obstacles with congressional leaders -- much less enacting the required constitutional amendment.
Here's what Trump has tried: In April 2018, Trump cheered on a bipartisan group of lawmakers who met with him and discussed their support term limits for members of Congress. The lawmakers included Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis.; Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas; Jodey Arrington, R-Texas; Ro Khanna, D-Calif.; and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., CNN reported.
"I recently had a terrific meeting with a bipartisan group of freshman lawmakers who feel very strongly in favor of Congressional term limits," he tweeted. "I gave them my full support and endorsement for their efforts. #DrainTheSwamp."
The following month, some of the lawmakers who met with Trump released a proposal to limit senators to two terms and House members to six terms.
Several pieces of legislation were introduced in the Congress that just ended, but those would have to be reintroduced in the new Congress to be pursued further.
And as a constitutional amendment, the bar for enactment is especially high: two-thirds of the House and Senate and ratification by two-thirds of the states.
And congressional leaders are likely to remain an obstacle.
In a November 2016 press conference, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was asked if the Senate would consider legislation to limit terms. McConnell responded, "I would say we have term limits now. They're called elections. And it will not be on the agenda in the Senate."
We checked with his office, and a spokesman said that McConnell's position remains the same two years on. McConnell's opposition alone makes it nearly impossible for the idea to be considered in the Senate while he's leader, which essentially puts the kibosh on the idea.
We also checked with the office of expected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. A spokesman said he was unaware of any push from Pelosi's office to seek term limits. (In negotiations with fellow Democrats, Pelosi did agree to a two-term limit on her own speakership, but that's different from term limits for all members of Congress.)
If the movement for term limits gathers steam, we'll reconsider. But right now, strong opposition from the Senate leadership means congressional term limits rate as a Promise Broken.
Donald Trump, tweet, April 30, 2018
CNN, "Trump brings back call for term limits," April 30, 2018
The Hill, "Freshman lawmakers introduce congressional term limits proposal," May 10, 2018
Email interview with Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., Dec. 4, 2018
McConnell poses big obstacle to enacting congressional term limits
By Louis Jacobson on Monday, March 27th, 2017 at 1:14 p.m.
Now that he's president, Donald Trump's promise to enact congressional term limits is getting a modicum of support in the House, but it faces a firm roadblock in the Senate -- not to mention an arduous path through the nation's state legislatures if it somehow clears both hurdles on Capitol Hill.
As we have noted, enacting term limits can only be done through a constitutional amendment. That's an arduous process that has only been achieved 27 times in the nation's history.
There's a sliver of good news for Trump in the House, where eight bills to impose term limits have been introduced by a variety of Republican lawmakers.
In addition, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has introduced a similar bill in the Senate, where it has secured co-sponsorship by 10 of his colleagues.
However, in his post-election press conference in November, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was asked if the Senate would consider legislation to limit terms.
McConnell responded, "I would say we have term limits now. They're called elections. And it will not be on the agenda in the Senate."
Since McConnell essentially has the authority to determine what business the Senate takes up, his opposition is an almost insurmountable obstacle. We rate this promise Stalled.
Congress.gov, bill pages for H.J.Res.85, H.J.Res.50, H.J.Res.23, H.J.Res.20, H.J.Res.6, H.J.Res.4, H.J.Res.17, and H.J.Res.13.
NBC News, "McConnell Differs From Trump on Term Limits, NATO," Nov. 9, 2017
Email interview with Don Stewart, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., March 27, 2017
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The Old Engine Shed
The Old Engine Shed is a former locomotive shed of mid-19th century origin, built to house the locomotives used in the adjacent Admiralty Quarries. The shed is located near Grove village and overlooks East Weares. It has been Grade II Listed since January 2001 and is owned by Portland Port Ltd.
The Old Engine Shed dates from the mid-19th century, at a time when Portland Roads was transformed into a harbour of refuge with the construction of two breakwater arms. In 1848, the Portland Convict Establishment was established at the Grove to provide convict labour in the Admiralty Quarries, which opened in 1849 to provide the stone needed for the breakwaters and the fortifications of Portland Harbour. One of the convicts' early tasks was to lay down temporary railway tracks throughout the quarries, linking the working areas to the top of the Admiralty Incline Railway, which was a cable-worked railway used to transport the stone down to the harbour.
The Old Engine Shed was built to house the locomotives running on the quarry lines. Initially, horse power was used to transport the wagons from the quarries to the incline until locomotives started to be used from the early-to-mid-1850s. By 1853, work had begun on adapting the existing railway lines for their use, and the Old Engine Shed was then constructed to house them. The original breakwater arms were completed in 1872, but the construction of a new coaling jetty between 1890-96 and the harbour's two northern breakwater arms in 1896-1905 saw the Admiralty Quarries again supplying stone for transporting down the Incline Railway. For a period, the shed also provided stabling for the horses used in the quarries.
Convict labour ceased in the quarries in 1921, when the prison was converted into a Borstal Institution. The last working sections within the Admiralty Quarries were worked by contracted workmen on behalf of the Admiralty until 1936. With its closure, the tracks in the quarries and of the Incline Railway were removed, along with the last locomotive from the shed. Afterwards, the shed was used for a period by the Royal Navy for storage purposes.
In late 2007, plans were announced by Portland Gas Storage Ltd to convert the derelict engine shed into an interpretation centre. The £1.5 million project was part of a £350 million gas storage facility on the island. It was to provide information on Portland's geology and history, including the area's natural environment, social history, the history of the prison and the construction of the breakwaters. Using local visitor figures as a guide, it was believed that 15,000-20,000 visitors would visit the centre in its first year, with hope of raising numbers to 30-35,000 in the future.
Planning permission was sought in December 2007 with the planned opening of the centre in 2009. Meanwhile, volunteers for the trust began to maintain the shed and keep the surrounding area tidy. In September 2009, the trust successfully received funding to make some external improvements to the site. The work, carried out in 2010-11, included foliage clearance and the rebuilding of the surrounding dry stone walls. Also during the time, information panels were put in place, providing details about the area and the history of the shed. However, when the gas project came to a halt, plans for the visitor centre were scrapped.
The single-storey shed is built using coursed Portland stone with ashlar dressings. The corrugated roof is non-original. The shed is made up of three sections, which are believed to have been built at different times, but all in place by 1864. According to Historic England, it is unusual for locomotive sheds from this period to survive in such an unaltered state. However, in recent years, it has suffered badly from vandalism and neglect. According to the Portland Gas brochure, the shed is in danger of being damaged beyond repair without investment.
In a 2018 assessment, Historic England described the shed as being of "pleasing design", a "relatively rare survival of a mid-C19 example of this building type", with a "good degree of survival of historic fabric".
1) Dorset Echo - Derelict building for £1.5m centre - Ian McDonald - December 2007 - website page
2) Exploring Portland - Area North of Grove Road - Geoff Kirby - website page
3) Historic England - The National Heritage List for England - Locomotive Shed - website page
4) Portland Gas Trust News - Newsletter - March 2009 - PDF document
5) The Portland Gas Trust - Home - website page
6) The Portland Gas Trust - The Old Engine Shed - website page
7) Watershed PR - Brochure Outlining Project for the Old Engine Shed - PDF document
The Old Engine Shed.
A closer look at the building.
The shed from the north.
The shed from the east.
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Creating a splash for charity
Northumbrian Water is calling on superheroes across the North East to help save lives at its WaterAid Ball.
Taking place on Friday, July 14, 2017 at Newcastle Racecourse, Gosforth Park from 7.00pm, the Comic Book-themed bash, will raise money for Northumbrian Water’s international charity partner, WaterAid.
WaterAid works in 37 countries worldwide, transforming millions of lives every year in some of the world’s poorest communities with clean water, safe toilets and hygiene education.
Businesses in the region can enjoy a champagne reception and three-course dinner at the ball, followed by a night of pow-tastic entertainment and fiendishly good prizes to be won. A table seating ten people costs £995.
All proceeds from the evening will contribute towards Northumbrian Water’s goal of raising £1 million for WaterAid projects in Madagascar. The funds will help the country’s families and communities gain long-lasting access to safe water and sanitation.
Northumbrian WaterAid Chairman, Andrew Blakemore, said: “I’m very excited about this year’s ball. It’s always a great evening which is enjoyed by everyone, all while raising vital funds for WaterAid.
“Water, sanitation and hygiene is something we all take for granted and yet in Madagascar, 2,100 children die every year from diarrhoea caused by unsafe water and sanitation. This is totally unacceptable in this day and age and we’re determined to do something about it.
“I would encourage caped crusaders to come along to our Comic Book Ball where they can become a true superhero and help save lives.”
More than £30,000 was raised at the Bugsy Malone-themed WaterAid Ball last year, helping to save around 2,000 lives.
Although traditionally a black tie event, there is the option to wear fancy dress with a prize for the best dressed.
To make a donation or book a table at this year’s Northumbrian WaterAid Ball, email wateraid@nwl.co.uk, or to find out more about WaterAid please go to www.wateraid.org.
For further media information, call 0191 3015678.
Northumbrian Water
Northumbrian Water Limited supplies 2.7 million customer in the North East with both water and sewerage services, trading as Northumbrian Water, and 1.8 million customers in the South East with water services, trading as Essex& Suffolk Water.
In the most recent survey by the Consumer Council for Water, Northumbrian Water was named the UK’s most trusted water company by its customers, while 2017/2018 customer satisfaction scores placed the company in joint first place. 2017 also saw Northumbrian Water named the world’s most ethical water company for the seventh successive year.
Abbey Road, Pity Me, Durham DH1 5FJ. Telephone 0345 6047468. Website: www.nwl.co.uk
WaterAid’s vision is of a world where everyone has access to clean water and sanitation. The international organisation works in 37 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific Region to transform lives by improving access to clean water, hygiene and sanitation in some of the world’s poorest communities. Since 1981, WaterAid has reached 25 million people with clean water and, since 2004, 24 million people with sanitation. For more information, visit www.wateraid.org, follow @WaterAidUK on Twitter, or visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/wateraid.
• Around 315,000 children die each year from diarrhoeal diseases caused by dirty water and poor sanitation. That’s almost 900 children each day, or one child every two minutes.
• An estimated 663 million people (around one in ten) are without clean water
• Nearly 2.4 billion people (around one in three) live without improved sanitation
• For every £1 invested in water and sanitation, an average of £4 is returned in increased productivity.
• Just £15 can help provide one person with access to clean water.
• For details on how individual countries are keeping their promises on water and sanitation, please see our online database, WASHWatch.org.
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Twenty years ago — 1999
DeGolier Florist and Greenhouses is marking its 40th anniversary with sales and expansion plans, according to owner Jamie Warrick. It added a fourth greenhouse in 1997 and plans a fifth greenhouse next year. The business is all family-owned and operated with Mr. Warrick being the fourth generation. It was founded in 1959 by Mr. Warrick’s grandmother and great-grandfather. A flower shop was added in 1969 and the business has continued to grow. DeGolier has since developed into a major producer of plants and local flowers. Mr. Warrick is the only state-licensed horticulturist in Dunkirk.
Thirty years ago — 1989
Rochester Developer Karen Hanson of Wilmorite Inc. told city of Dunkirk officials that ground may be broken later this year for a 14-story building near the lake that will contain 60 condominium and rental apartments and a ground floor restaurant. A separate building closer to Lake Shore Drive East will be built for commercial and rental businesses. The 1,900-square-foot condo units are expected to sell for between $140,000 and $160,000 each. The two buildings will be located east of the hotel project area and west of the county office building being planned for the east end of the harborfront project area near Main Street.
Forty years ago — 1979
Alice “Ann” Cook, a 41-year-old mother of six, began work at the new office building construction site on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation as the Seneca Nation’s first female electrician. Ann received her training through Every Woman’s Opportunity Center in Buffalo for non-traditional trades. Her certification in basic electricity was received from the BOCES Harkness Center in Buffalo.
Fifty years ago — 1969
The city of Dunkirk received a traffic summons in the mail the other day for allowing its 1960 Oliver Crawler tractor to be parked illegally in New York City. However, the tractor has never been outside the city limits. The violation allegedly occurred Nov. 6, 1968. The city has not even used said tractor since its replacement arrived before that November date. City officials are regarding it as yet another computer foul-up. The village of Fredonia also has received a summons for payment of a $15 fine for a village dump truck allegedly parked illegally on a New York City street.
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The Mystery Of The Cecil Hotel
There many famous hotels in the world, but the Cecil Hotel is famous for all the wrong reasons.
The Cecil was constructed in 1927 at the cost of $1 million by hotelier William Banks Hanner. it was designed by Loy Lester Smith in the Beaux Arts style, it boasted a luxurious marble lobby with stained-glass windows, potted palms and alabaster statuary.
Unfortunately within five years of its opening, the United States sank into the Great Depression. This turned Main Street (where the hotel is built) into something of a skid row area and forcing The Cecil to become a budget hotel.
In November 1931, a 46-year-old man from Manhattan Beach, W.K. Norton, was reported missing, but not long after he disappeared from his home, he was found dead in a room at the Cecil by a maid. Apparently, Norton had checked into the hotel under an alias and committed suicide by ingesting capsules filled with poison. More poison capsules were found in his vest pocket. He had checked into the hotel as James Willys of Chicago. While North was the first person to kill himself while staying at the Cecil, he certainly wasn't the last.
In 1932, another maid named Carrie Brown found the body of 25-year-old Benjamin Dodich. He had shot himself in the head the previous evening. In July 1934, 53-year-old former Army Medical Corps sergeant Louis D. Borden slit his own throat with a razor in his room at the Cecil Hotel. He had left several suicide notes behind for loved ones; In them, he said he took his own life due to poor health.
In March 1937, 25-year old Grace E. Magro jumped, fell or was pushed from a window in the hotel from the ninth floor. Instead of hitting the sidewalk below, the young woman landed on the the wires connecting the telephone poles next to the hotel, and her body became entangled. She later died in the hospital from her injuries.
News reports stated, “telephone wires, ripped from poles in her decent, were entangled about her body.”. Her companion, M.W. Madison, a 26-year-old sailor of the U.S.S. Virginia was in the room at the time of the incident. He told investigators he was sleeping when it occurred and knew of no reason why she would commit suicide. The police were unable to determine if the young woman's death was an accident or a suicide.
The January of the following year, a marine fireman named Roy Thompson, who had been residing at the Cecil for several weeks, was found dead in the skylight of the building next door having apparently jumped from his room. In May of 1939, 39-year-old sailor, Erwin C. Neblett of the U.S.S. Wright committed suicide in his room by ingesting poison. The following year in January, 45-year-old teacher Dorothy Sceiger attempted suicide in the same way at the hotel and was found barely clinging to life; The papers never reported on whether she had lived or died.
In September 1944, 19-year-old mother Dorthy Jean Purcell threw her newborn son out a window at the Cecil Hotel. The body was found on top of the building next door. Allegedly, Ms. Prucell was unaware she was pregnant. The young mother claimed she and her 38-year-old boyfriend, shoe salesman Ben Levine, were sleeping.
She awoke with stomach pains and went to the restroom where she delivered the child herself. Dorothy stated she had believed the child was dead and threw it out the window to dispose of the body. She was charged with homicide but was found to be not guilty by reason of insanity, she was sent to a hospital for psychiatric treatment.
In November of 1947, 35-year-old Robert Smith of Long Beach jumped or fell from a window on the 7th floor of the hotel. On October 22, 1954, 55-year-old Helen C. Gurnee jumped from her window in room 704 of the Cecil Hotel. Pedestrians witnessed her body land on the hotel’s marquis. Hundreds of spectators gathered as firefighters used a ladder to retrieve her body. Later, the police were called to the Philharmonic Auditorium where a man who had witnessed the suicide had become hysterical due to the event. Ms. Gurnee had checked into the hotel one week before as Margaret Brown of Denver.
On February 11, 1962, 50-year-old Julia Frances Moore leaped from her room on the 8th floor and landed in an interior light well on the 2nd floor of the Cecil. In her room, she left a bus ticket from St. Louis, fifty-nine cents and a bank book from Illinois with a balance of $1,800. On October 12, 1962, 27-year old Pauline Otton was arguing with her estranged husband, Dewey, in their room on the 9th floor of the Cecil Hotel.
Dewey went out for dinner, leaving Pauline alone. She jumped from the window, landing on George Gianinni (aged 65). Initially, police believed the two had formed a suicide pact and leaped together. However, Mr. Gianinni’s hands were still in his pockets and his shoes were on his feet; If he had fallen nine stories, the fall would have ripped his shoes off.
On June 4, 1964, Goldie Osgood, long-time resident of the Cecil and retired telephone operator was found viciously murdered in her ransacked room by a hotel employee who was distributing telephone books. She had been stabbed, strangled and sexually assaulted. She was well-known in the area for feeding the birds in Pershing Square and was nicknamed “The Pidgeon Woman”.
Soon after the retiree's brutalized corpse was discovered, officers arrested 29-year-old Jacques B. Ehlinger, a young man who had been seen walking through Pershing Square covered in blood, was an acquaintance of Osgood, and admitted to being near the hotel at the time of the murder. While he seemed like an excellent suspect for the killing, he was cleared of the crime and released. Sadly, the person responsible for Osgood's murder has never been caught.
26-year-old Jeffrey Thomas Paley terrified guests at the Cecil and people passing by the hotel when he went up to the roof and fired several shots from a rifle on December 1, 1976. Thankfully, Paley failed to shoot anyone, and he was arrested by police shortly after the rampage began.
After he was taken into custody, Paley told the officers he hadn't actually intended to harm anyone. According to Paley, who had spent time in a mental hospital, he purchased the gun and fired the shots to demonstrate how easy it is for someone with psychiatric issues to get their hands on a dangerous weapon and kill a large number of people.
Richard Ramirez, a serial killer and rapist known as the 'Night Stalker', terrorized Los Angeles and San Francisco from June 1984 to August 1985, murdering at least 13 victims in little over a year. A practicing Satanist, Ramirez brutally killed both men and women, using a variety of weapons to take the lives of his victims, including a hammer, a tire iron, handguns, knives, and a machete.
During the time Ramirez was breaking into homes in and around L.A. and assaulting, murdering, raping, and robbing the occupants, he was a guest at the Cecil Hotel. Ramirez stayed in a room on the top floor, and he paid just $14 a night for a place to return to after committing unspeakable acts of violence, often throwing his bloody clothing into the Cecil's dumpster.
Johann “Jack” Unterweger, an Austrian journalist and author who had been released from prison after murdering a teenage girl when he was a young man, stayed at the Cecil Hotel in 1991 while he was researching a story about crime in Los Angeles. Unbeknownst to authorities in Austria or the United States, following his parole from prison, Unterweger killed a number of women in Europe, and during his visit to California, he murdered three sex workers while he was a guest at the Cecil.
Unterweger, who had once served as a shining example of the power of rehabilitation, was eventually arrested and convicted of killing several victims, including the three women he murdered while visiting Los Angeles. Unterweger was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, but he hanged himself in his cell the night he received his sentence.
On the afternoon of July 6, 1988, the body of 32-year-old nurse Teri Francis Craig was discovered by her brother in the Huntington Beach house the young woman had shared with her boyfriend, 28-year-old salesman Robert Sullivan. Craig had been brutally stabbed multiple times, and police began to suspect Sullivan was responsible for the murder when he failed to return home to the house he and the deceased woman had lived in together for seven years.
More than two months later on September 6, 1988, Sullivan was arrested at the Cecil and charged with murdering Craig, making him yet another person who sought refuge in this notoriously dark hotel.
In January 2013, Elisa Lam, a 21-year-old Canadian tourist who was staying at the Cecil Hotel, went missing. Nearly three weeks passed before the young woman’s nude body was found floating in a water tank on the building’s roof. Disturbingly, a maintenance worker discovered Lam’s corpse because he was investigating complaints from guests at the hotel who had reported poor water pressure; others stated the water had a strange smell, colour, and taste.
Following the recovery of the young woman’s remains, the LAPD released video footage from the hotel that showed Lam behaving strangely prior to her disappearance, leading some people to believe she may have met with foul play. However, officials determined the 21-year-old died of drowning, and they think Lam, who was being treated for depression and bipolar disorder prior to her death, may have experienced mental health issues that caused her to crawl inside the tank and accidentally drown.
Most recently, on June 13, 2015, the body of a 28-year-old man was found outside the hotel; It is believed he was staying at the Cecil and jumped or fell from a window but no additional details were ever released. Perhaps one the most bizarre death involving the infamous hotel as that of a young truck driver who had an accident outside the hotel; He was ejected in the crash and fatally pinned between his own truck and the Cecil Hotel.
Another note to make is that In 1947 Elizabeth Short, dubbed by the media as the Black Dahlia, was rumoured to have been spotted drinking at the Cecil's bar in the days before her notorious and, to date, unsolved murder.
In 2011 The Cecil Hotel was rebranded as Stay on Main. In 2014 the hotel was sold to New York City hotelier Richard Born for $30 million, and another New York-based firm, Simon Baron Development, acquired a 99-year ground lease on the property. Matt Baron, president of Simon Baron, said he was committed to the preservation of architecturally or historically significant components such as the hotel's grand lobby, but that his company planned to completely redevelop the interior and fix the "hodgepodge" work that had been done in more recent years. Beyond renovating rooms, the developer also plans a rooftop pool, gym and lounge. Construction is projected to be complete by 2019.
In February 2017 the Los Angeles City Council voted to deem the Cecil a historic-cultural monument, because it is representative of an early 20th century American hotel, and because of the historic significance of its architect's body of work.
Is The Cecil Hotel cursed or just had a run of some serious bad luck? Either way it'll be interesting to see if things will truly change under it's new owners, it's certainly had a big influence on how film and television view these places (American Horror Story: Hotel for one).
This place is on my bucket list of places to visit, one day who knows. Have you ever stayed there? Let us know in the comments below.
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Schumer: "We're Worried" Trump "May Bumble Into A War" With Iran
On Date June 20, 2019
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Thursday he was worried that President Donald Trump may ''bumble'' into a war with Iran and he said there needed to be an open debate and a congressional decision on funding before any military operation was launched.
"I told the president that these conflicts have a way of escalating. The president may not intend to go to war here, but we are worried that he and the administration may bumble into a war," Schumer said Thursday at the Capitol Building.
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What is the difference between being on key and on pitch?
Pitch / Singing Basics
What is the difference between being on key and on pitch?
Today I’m doing this video from Brooklyn, NY. I’m visiting family here for the holiday season, approaching the New Year in a few days, and this afternoon I’m in my daughter’s apartment in Brooklyn.
So the backgound’s a little bit different. The video’s a little bit darker. I’ve got a candle for light and another lamp in front of me. So that does change things a little bit.
I hope you enjoy this video on singing on pitch and singing in key.
What’s the difference between being on key and on pitch?
I recently received this question.
Question: “Can you please do a video on singing on key? I’m a beginner and don’t even know what this means. I understand what pitch matching on a piano is but not what singing in key is. So could you do a …video on this? What is the difference between being on key and on pitch?”
Answer: People often use ” on key” and “on pitch” interchangeably. Technically there’s probably a difference.
Western music is written and performed in different keys. For example, “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” might be written in the Key of C Major. If, while you are singing, it was too low or too high, you can raise or lower the key. Up a whole step would be the key of D Major. Down a 1/2 step would be the key of B major.
The tune you hear would be the same, except the key is raised or lowered. In any of these Keys, B major, C Major or D Major, if you sing one wrong note, you would be singing in the correct key, but singing an incorrect pitch. If you miss several notes, you incorrectly sing several pitches. This creates a dissonance.
For example the key of C. [Demo] Key of C. Now if I sing the incorrect pitch in the Key of C it might sound like this. [Demo] So I got back to the key, but within that I missed several of the pitches.
Now I could sing, [Demo] So I sang again in the key of D but I missed a pitch or two there. Or I could sing it in the key of B. [Demo]. So I missed a pitch but I was singing in the key of B.
The pitch that is being played and the incorrect pitch you are singing fight against each other and it sounds wrong to the listener. If you only missed a few of the pitches, it could be said you were singing in the right key, but sang several of the pitches incorrectly.
If you sang all of the notes incorrectly so the listener couldn’t recognize the tune at all, it might be said: “the singer sang so off pitch I couldn’t recognize the tune or the melody, nor was there a recognizable key.”
For example if I said: [Demo] I wouldn’t recognize that as “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”.
In other words, there were so many wrong pitches the key couldn’t be determined either.
On the other hand, if you missed several pitches but sang most of them right, it could be said, ” I could tell you were in the Key of C, but you were off pitch on several notes.”
Key of C [Demo] So we might recognize the key, but there were several pitches off.
You can be off pitch on several notes in any key.
Singing on the right pitch is important. Even marginal singers, if they can sing on pitch, can have a great career and huge numbers of fans.
But singers who miss the pitches don’t succeed.
Knowing your vocal type and singing on pitch is vitally important. Go to PowerToSing.com and take the vocal test which I call the PowerTest. Take the quiz and discover your vocal type. This reveals what you tend to do when you sing through the first bridge of your voice. For example if you tend to pull chest voice, your vocal type is Pulled Chest-High Larynx.
Go to the Knowledge Center and watch the videos about your vocal type. Download the free exercises and start practicing them.
If you do not sing them on pitch, you will not maximize the benefit from the exercises. You must be careful to match the pitches of the exercises with your voice gain the most benefit.
I’m Chuck Gilmore with PowerToSing.com. You can sing higher with beauty, confidence and power.
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This is a very helpful comment Bill. Thanks for taking so much time to provide a great deal of insight!
Bill Wolf
I think perhaps you should have also included a third term, the term “note.” Accordingly, and explained by me in different words, pitch is simply the fundamental frequency of a sound. Regarding notes, notes have assigned frequencies or pitches that correspond to their assigned names, like the name A4 or A above middle C, which is normally set equal to 440 vibrations per second. The frequency or pitch of a sound may be higher or lower than a pitch assigned to a note. In this case, it can be said that the note or sound is off pitch, and more precisely that is either sharp or flat. Regarding the term key, a song or a series of notes typically has a key that corresponds to a musical scale that best contains the collection of notes. Keys are named after the first note of the scale that contains the collection of subject notes. Selecting a series of notes that start on another note but retain the same intervals between each of them changes the key.
Accordingly, if someone sings an incorrect pitch for a note and they actually sing the pitch for another note, it could be said that they sang the wrong note. However, if the pitch they sang did not match another note, then it can be said that they sang the note off pitch. In singing, one can sing the correct note on pitch, the correct note off pitch, the incorrect note on pitch, or the incorrect note off pitch. If the incorrect pitch is so far off pitch from any note, it would more likely be considered a pitch error rather than a note error.
In singing, being precisely on pitch for every note is difficult even if all of notes are correct. That is why singing on pitch is a common topic of discussion. In contrast, on an instrument like a piano, the pitch of every note is pre-set by the proper tuning of the piano. Therefore, in playing an incorrect note on the piano, it would not be called a pitch error, but more appropriately a note error.
The term singing off key is often used incorrectly for meaning that the singer is off pitch on one or more notes. However, the correct meaning of being off key means that the singer chose a different key than intended or used by accompaniment. Accordingly, a singer may be on key and on pitch, on key and off pitch, off key and on pitch, or off key and off pitch depending on whether the singer sang in the correct key and whether the singer sang all of the correct notes on pitch for the key in which they sang. However, singing in different key than the accompaniment and still singing all of the notes in that key on pitch would likely be highly improbable. More probable that a singer would be off pitch or off key and off pitch.
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What Do Muslims Really Want Anyway?! 17 Books on Muslim World for Kids
Posted on February 23, 2015 November 26, 2018 by Pragmatic Mom
Please welcome my guest poster today, author Elsa Marston who is my resident Middle Eastern Children’s literature go to! She has a list of recommended books for kids and teens at the bottom of the post.
Lately we’ve been reading about terrorist actions by Muslims in Europe and other places, events that have again raised anger and confusion. Are Muslims really committed to hostility toward other religions? Or do most Muslims want to find common ground and live together with non-Muslims, without fear or threats?
The “common ground” answer is what I personally believe in, and what I try to convey in my books and stories. My two most recently published books, both by Wisdom Tales Press, are completely different in genre—one a YA historical biography, the other a picture book for much younger children. Yet they’re both, at heart, about the same thing: bridging the gap, finding ways to walk together.
THE COMPASSIONATE WARRIOR: ABD EL-KADER OF ALGERIA is about a man whom the New York Times, in his day, described as “one of the few great men of the century.” A young scholar, a Muslim mystic from a prominent Arab family known for their piety, he was quiet and studious. But when the French army invaded Algeria in the 1830s, he soon found himself leading the resistance—and proved a remarkable military leader and political strategist.
For 15 years, Abd el-Kader and his tribal warriors fought the French, carrying on dramatic guerilla-type campaigns that earned the admiration of his enemies—and fascinated the public in Britain and even the U.S. Finally, overwhelmed, Abd el-Kader had to give up. The French broke their promises and kept him imprisoned for five years. During this time he became even more of an international celebrity. All sorts of people, high and low, military generals and society ladies, came to meet him, charmed by his intelligence, graciousness, and dignity.
But—wasn’t he a Muslim? He’d been fighting a Christian nation, after all; he’d been defeated, betrayed, and imprisoned by Christians. Didn’t he hate them?
No, Abd el-Kader didn’t put his energy into hatred: that wasn’t the Islamic way, he believed. Instead, he actively sought to learn as much as he could about Christianity—plus modern thought and technology. Several of his closest friends were devout Christians. For the rest of his life, he sought common ground, mutual respect, and understanding among all religions, especially Islam and Christianity.
And Abd el-Kader put his convictions into action. Eventually, he was released from imprisonment and ended up exiled in Damascus. But in 1860, a plot against the Christians of Damascus was contrived by some of the Muslims, aiming to seize Christian property and massacre the population. When trouble broke out, Abd el-Kader, his sons, and others who had followed him into exile managed to save the lives of thousands—possibly as many as 12,000—of the Christians. (Just think of the logistics!) It was, he explained, the humane thing—and the Islamic thing—to do. And it made him even more of an international celebrity. Little wonder that Abd el-Kader’s story—from scholar to resistance fighter, statesman, interfaith bridge-builder and “saint”—is being seriously considered for a major motion picture.
THE OLIVE TREE, in contrast, is a very simple story about very ordinary people—a boy and a girl in a Lebanese village. Their families are neighbors, with a large old olive tree growing between their properties and dropping its olives into both yards. During “the troubles” (the Lebanese civil war of 1975-1991, a brutal sectarian struggle), Muna’s family left the village because they did not feel safe. The implication is that they were of a different religion from the majority of the village people—most likely Christian vis-à-vis Muslim, although neither the illustrations nor the text is explicit.
Now the war is over and Muna’s family has come back. But they still seem uneasy. Moreover, Muna insists that the olive tree’s fruit all belongs to her family because the tree actually grows in her yard. Suddenly the tree is destroyed by lightning, and both families grieve. But when Sameer, although still grudgingly, makes a positive gesture, he finds that Muna responds with unexpected generosity. By quietly working together, they start to break down the barriers.
This story, which I wrote soon after the end of the Lebanese civil war, has won two national awards and several reprintings, and now it’s a book, beautifully illustrated by Claire Ewart. I like to think it says something about what may be the best way to overcome barriers. Not talking, dancing, singing, or eating and drinking together (although of course, they can help!), but hard, sweaty work. Work that both sides realize needs to be done, work that both sides can do together and benefit from equally. In short, the “common good.”
My story “The Olive Grove” (I seem to have a thing about olive trees!) involves no hard, sweaty work; but a few words and looks that lead to recognition. During one of the outbreaks of violence between the Palestinians and the military forces occupying their land, Mujahhid and his friends go out to throw stones at the Israeli soldiers and vehicles. This is his jihad, he feels: fighting the good fight against oppression. His parents, who have already lost one son, feel otherwise and pack him off to stay with relatives in a village. Mujahhid is furious.
Soon, however, he finds that a road, exclusively for Israelis to use, is being built on Palestinian land and will destroy an olive grove on which the villagers depend. He confronts an Israeli soldier. Gradually he realizes that this soldier, while forced to obey orders, also deplores the destruction of the trees. Nothing will save the trees, of course, but this revelation of the Israeli’s emotions and values gives Mujahhid a glimpse of “common ground.” Maybe someday—inshallah, God willing!—he can walk there together with his enemy. (This story is in my collection, Santa Claus in Baghdad and Other Stories about Teens in the Arab World.)
Some other books for children and teens also effectively reveal interaction between Muslims and non-Muslims on the “human” level. Most of the following titles are about Arabs, particularly Palestinians, since I focus on the Arab world.
17 Great Books for Kids and Teens on the Arab World
Picture Books for Kids on the Arab World
One Green Apple by Eve Bunting
Farah, with no English, is suddenly in a strange school environment where she has to feel her way very slowly; but on a trip to an apple orchard with a sympathetic teacher and friendly schoolmates, she begins to feel at ease. A simple story of newness, courage, and kindness; my one criticism is that although the unusual word for her head-covering is used, her home country is not mentioned—as though Farah is a semi-generic Muslim. [picture book, ages 4 and up]
My Name is Bilal by Asma Mobin-Uddin
Two Muslim-American kids, new to a small-town community after living in a city, deal with harassment at school by reflecting on the importance of the brother’s name, Bilal—the black slave who became one of the Prophet Muhammad’s first followers, suffered persecution, and became the first muezzin (person who calls the faithful to prayer). A meaningful connection between religious background and present-day life, and a demonstration that courage and generosity can overcome ridicule. [picture book, ages 6 and up]
Snow in Jerusalem by Deborah DaCosta
Two boys, one Israeli and the other Palestinian Muslim, discover that they have each, independently, been taking care of a beautiful, and opportunistic, white cat—who eventually presents them with enough kittens to share equally. Pretty improbable but so charming, and told and illustrated (by Cornlius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu) with such scrupulous fairness, that it’s well worth reading and discussion in class. [picture book, ages 6 and up]
Chapter Books for Kids on the Arab World
A Party in Ramadan by Asma Mobin-Uddin
Leena, a Muslim-American, is proud to be old enough to start fasting for Ramadan; but when she’s invited to a birthday party, she finds it awfully hard to go without a crumb to eat or a drop to drink when all the other girls are enjoying birthday fare. An introduction to the severe challenges—and the spiritual and emotional rewards—that many Muslims find during the Ramadan fast, and also the importance of providing food and fellowship with others, even strangers, as part of the Ramadan feast. [picture book, ages 7 and up]
The Secret Grove by Barbara Cohen
By chance two young boys, Israeli and Arab, meet each other in a semi-rural setting and gradually gain enough confidence to admit that each side’s schools try to teach their children to denigrate and despise the other. The only book I know of that faces this question of “teaching children to hate” and admits that Israel is guilty; and does it with sensitivity. [chapter book, ages 8 and up]
Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah
On a mission of mercy—to bring back soil from Jerusalem to please her dying grandmother—Hayat defies and evades the Israelis’ strictly enforced regulations that prevent most Palestinians from visiting Jerusalem. A contrast between Palestinians’ usual experience of military occupation and their encounters—in some circumstances—with Israelis who oppose the occupation and seek justice for the Palestinians. [chapter book, ages 8 and up]
The Garden of My Imaan by Farhana Zia
Aliya feels she’s doing all right, fitting in at school as a Muslim-American; but when a new girl comes to town, with a much deeper devotion to her faith, Aliya starts to explore her own spiritual life more consciously. A lively, likable picture of a Muslim-American family and a girl at the age when best friends are critical, and the community they belong to doesn’t much matter, so long as they’re nice. [chapter book, ages 9 and up]
Saving Kabul Corner by N. H. Senzai
Ariana finds it hard enough to put up with her cousin, newly arrived from Afghanistan and quite “perfect,” and now the rivalry between her family’s grocery and another Afghan shop has turned violent—which gives the girls a reason to close ranks and solve a mystery. A good picture of Afghan immigrants, still carrying feuds from the old country as they try to fit into a diverse Californian community. [chapter book, ages 9 and up]
Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye
Liyana, American, visits her Palestinian father’s natal village in the West Bank, is fascinated by customs and behavior, adores her grandmother, falls in love with a Jewish boy, and observes (for the first time in any mainstream American-published book for young people, I believe) the brutal treatment of the Palestinians under military occupation. The book—a “must”—whose success opened the door to further writing and publishing of literature from a point of view favorable to the Palestinians. [chapter book, ages 10 and up]
Running on Eggs by Anna Levine
In Israel, a Palestinian girl and an Israeli girl run on the same school track team and train together—but secretly, because their respective families and communities would disapprove. A glimpse of Muslim-Jewish relations within Israel (where at least a fifth of the Israeli population are not Jewish), shown as somewhat tense—but in this story resolved by the communities finding a way to work together (hard, sweaty work). [chapter book, ages 10 and up]
The Shepherd’s Granddaughter by Anne Laurel Carter
In a rural Palestinian village, where Amani longs to take over her family’s sheepherding, she soon finds that an Israeli settlement is being built nearby and threatens their very existence. An example of Muslim Palestinians’ interaction with both Israeli soldiers and settlers determined to drive the Palestinians from their land, and with Israelis opposed to the occupation and injustice. [chapter book, ages 11 and up]
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
When a cruel act of terrorism in London kills Laura’s younger brother, she suspects an Arab student at her international school; but he turns out to be one of her most loyal supporters. A well-plotted thriller in which, despite earlier doubts, a Muslim and a non-Muslim work together as friends. [chapter book, ages 11 and up]
The Enemy Has a Face by Gloria Miklowitz
When Netta’s older brother suddenly disappears, while the Israeli girl is living with her family in Los Angeles, she immediately suspects Laith, a Palestinian exchange student: after all, she argues, all Palestinians hate all Israelis, don’t they? A complex and surprising mystery, with a character set-up that seems part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Palestinian young man almost automatically suspected of wrong-doing). But note: although Laith proves trustworthy, the other Palestinian teenagers who appear briefly in the story are thoroughly nasty, and reinforce stereotype. [chapter book, ages 11 and up]
Young Adult Books for Tweens and Teens on the Arab World
Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Amal, Palestinian-Australian, dithers about her decision to wear a head scarf (hijab, “cover”) as a mark of her Muslim faith; but she goes ahead in spite of fears of social calamity and not knowing how to act with that heart-throb guy at school. A peppy, funny, but down-to-earth and sensitive story about reaching out to others while finding one’s own values, written in a great “teen” voice. [young adult, ages 12 and up]
Samir and Yonatan by Daniella Carmi
Samir, a Palestinian boy, has been injured and finds himself in an Israeli hospital, where he must adapt to his situation and learn how to overcome differences with the Jewish kids in his ward. An early (originally published in Hebrew, 1994) presentation of a Palestinian Muslim child’s viewpoint, fair and thoughtful. [young adult, ages 12 and up]
Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah
They live in Australia, but Jamilah’s Lebanese father has such unfair ideas about what she can do and can’t do, she has to lead a double life to keep up with her high school friends—and especially to play in a band with boys. A lively view of a highly diverse society, with its cultural riches—and vulnerability to bigotry and racist discrimination. [young adult, ages 12 and up]
Borderline by Allan Stratton
When the FBI closes in on Sami’s Iranian-American family in upstate New York, and Sami’s own suspicions about his scientist father begin to mount, his problems of fitting in at school seem minor. A first-rate thriller that faces question of discrimination against “the Other” as effectively as it tells a surprising story. [young adult, ages 12 and up]
Sisterland by Linda Newbery
As her own comfortably-British family’s long-guarded secrets start to emerge from the mists of suppressed memory, Hilly finds herself falling in love with a Palestinian medical student, who tells her about life under Israeli military occupation. A realistic coming-of-age story, interwoven with discovery of identity and the pains of violent prejudice. [young adult, ages 13 and up]
Dahling If You Luv Me Would You Please, Please Smile? by Rukhsana Khan
Zainab, a Pakistani-Canadian girl has to deal with a bossy older sister (who uses the Koran to justify her authority), while finding her own way to assert her identity at school, and helping a local girl in a bad home situation. Funny and serious, a rare look at a Muslim family at home, with the tensions and satisfactions to be expected in most families—as well as a creative fitting-in-at-school resolution. [young adult, ages 13 and up]
More books like these are badly needed—along with attention to books about Arab/Muslim societies in any discussion of multicultural literature. Ignoring the enormous part of the world where most of these societies are found, simply because they don’t fit the usual definition of “people of color,” makes no sense at all. The U.S. is intricately bound up in the Middle East, and for our own good, we should get to know the people who live there. Compared, however, to the lack of high-quality books about Arabs and Muslims as recently at ten or fifteen years ago, today we’re on the right track. I hope my comments will help teachers, librarians, and others looking for books that reveal relations between Muslims and non-Muslims in a way that’s accurate and positive, fair and well-balanced.
14 thoughts on “What Do Muslims Really Want Anyway?! 17 Books on Muslim World for Kids”
I love “The Olive Tree”. I need to read some of the other books on this list.
The Olive Tree is great! I’m so grateful for Elsa’s list today! It’s so hard to find great books on the Muslim world for kids and she’s an expert on this!
Yes, I’ve wanted to review THE OLIVE TREE. Elsa’s books look wonderful. And, I want to feature more middle eastern books. Wow, she certainly share a long list of other books that look wonderful. Very important post. Thank you!
I think it’s so hard to find great books about the Middle East for kids and they are more needed than ever! I’ll let Elsa know that you want to review her book!
Thank you for sharing this list with us at Mommy Monday! I will have to look into some of these books.
My daughter is currently reading “Just a Drop of Water” have you read it? The book takes place during and after 9/11. The main character of the book has a best friend who is Muslim, but having a best friend who is Muslim following the aftermath of 9/11 brings new struggles.
I cannot wait to read it after she is done 🙂
Thanks for your great book suggestion, JUST A DROP OF WATER. I haven’t heard of it and I will add it to my list! Sounds great and perfect for this list.
Great Article, great start! More books are coming as Muslims are writing more for Muslim and non-Muslim readers. Mac McGooshie writes children’s books with her own take on Muslims in America from the viewpoint of a 9YO girl and (new series coming soon) a 7YO boy. (Disclosure, Mac McGooshie is my pen name and alter ego.)
The Lulubug series (Lulu and the Very Big Meanies and Lulu and the Monkey Marriage) features an Egyptian American Muslim family who is finally coming to a decision to leave Small Town, Southern USA, not because of the animosity of the town (to the town’s and the US’s credit) or because the family was unable to assimilate into the society, but because the values held by the townspeople and the Muslim family don’t align well enough anymore, and the relationship can’t last as the kids reach adolescence.
That said, the parents do believe that there is at least one town in the US where the family will continue to thrive, if they pull up their roots. I don’t think this is too different from any American parents who choose to move in order to make a better life for their kids. It’s kinda the American way.
Hi Debora,
I’d love to review your ew book! And I’ll track down the Lulubug books. Thanks for your great recommendations! I’m glad there are more books for kids on Muslims. We all could benefit from more understanding of Muslim culture and religion!
Lauren White says:
Thanks for this list- I am excited to expand our home library and share some good literature from a different part of the globe. Ordering The Olive Tree to start…
Hi Lauren,
I’m so glad you like the list from Elsa!
Brit Stanford says:
This is exactly what we need right now. So many terrible things could be avoided, if we just found common ground with others. I read the Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns when I was a teen, and it gave me something to begin to understand a culture I didn’t understand at all. That’s the power of books! I’ve looking for some on Islam for younger kids for a while. Thank you!
Hi Brit,
Thanks so much for your kind words. I’m so glad that this list is helpful. I’m trying to post on Muslim and Arab world as much as I can though I am by no means an expert. I feel the same way; we can all benefit by learning and that helps to dispel the racism that our U.S. media is feeding us.
Gayle H Swift says:
There’s a great need for good books on this topic. ignorance breeds fear; reading and educating oneself on Arab and Muslim life helps us understand others better. Thanks for this list
Hi Gayle,
Valarie and I are pushing this because you are exactly right. The media portrays only extremists and encourages fear and misunderstanding of ordinary Muslims but that’s not accurate at all. I think educating at a young level through picture books is one way to combat that.
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Netanyahu puts on new anti-Iran show at UN, repeats baseless nuclear claims
Thu Sep 27, 2018 07:14PM [Updated: Thu Sep 27, 2018 07:17PM ]
Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by AFP)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again taken the stage at the United Nations to bring out fresh theatrics against Iran, repeating his threadbare allegation that the country is working to develop nuclear weapons at "secret" sites.
As already expected, Netanyahu used a map and photographs of a building that he claimed was a "secret atomic weapons warehouse" in the Iranian capital, Tehran, to justify his false accusations during his speech on Thursday at the 73rd annual session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
"In May we exposed the site of Iran's secret atomic archive. Today, I'm revealing the site of a second facility; Iran's secret atomic warehouse," claimed the Israeli PM, who added, "Iran has not abandoned its goal to develop nuclear weapons."
Netanyahu was referring to his earlier dubious show against Iran, during which he went live on television and put on display what he called records from a secret warehouse in Tehran.
PressTV-Iran: Israel claim of stealing nuclear data 'absurd'
Iran rejects as “laughably absurd” an Israel-fabricated scenario, in which Mossad agents are claimed to have stolen "secret documents" on Iran's nuclear work from a site in southern Tehran.
The claims came while Iran has drawn the praise of the world community for remaining fully committed to its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers despite Washington's much-criticized withdrawal from the international document.
Iran's compliance with the deal has been verified in numerous reports by the International Atomic Energy Agency -- the UN's nuclear watchdog, which uses strict mechanisms to monitor the technical aspect of the agreement's implementation.
During his anti-Iran rant, Netanyahu further slammed the European Union for firmly supporting the nuclear accord after Washington -- influenced by intense Israeli lobbying -- scrapped the international document.
"While the United States is confronting Iran with new sanctions, Europe and others are appeasing Iran by trying to help it bypass those new sanctions," Netanyahu said, referring to EU efforts to compensate for Washington's absence and keep Iran in the deal.
PressTV-EU: Iran payment channel likely to start by Nov.
The EU says it could start facilitating trade with Iran through its ‘special purpose vehicle’ before November.
Netanyahu's new vaudeville at the UN was nothing new. Observers say the Israeli premier indulges in theatrics as a method to influence public opinion, without providing any proof to support his claims.
During his dramatic performance in early May -- which was widely ridiculed inside Iran and abroad -- Netanyahu claimed agents with Israel's Mossad spy agency had managed to break into the warehouse in an overnight operation and bring back “half a ton of the material” consisting of 55,000 pages and another 55,000 files on 183 CDs.
PressTV-'Netanyahu is the boy who can't stop crying wolf'
The Iranian foreign minister has likened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "the boy who cried wolf," saying he "can only fool some of the people so many times."
Back then, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called the Israeli premier "the boy who can't stop crying wolf is at it again," recalling a similar anti-Iran speech by Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly in 2012, during which he used a cartoon bomb in an attempt to portray the Islamic Republic as a threat.
Except in the US, Netanyahu's claims, however, have fallen on deaf ears, with the European Union's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, saying the presentation failed to question Iran's compliance with the nuclear agreement.
Emboldened the by the uncritical support of the US under President Donald Trump, Netanyahu even threatened Iran with a nuclear attack during a speech at the regime's secretive Dimona nuclear weapons facility.
In response, Tehran wrote to the United Nations, calling on the world body to condemn Israel for the nuclear attack threat and bring the regime’s atomic weapons program under its supervision.
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Streetsboro schools send 9-mill levy to voters
By BOB GAETJENS Reporter
Voters in Streetsboro will see a 9-mill operating levy on the May 7 ballot to help fund school operations.
Even if the levy is approved by voters, the district will need to cut about $600,000 from its annual budget, according to Superintendent Michael Daulbaugh. To avoid any budget cuts in addition to the measures that took effect this month, the school board would have had to place a 10-mill levy on the ballot.
The district has enacted cuts that will save $192,000 between Jan. 4 and June 30.
As it is, the 9-mill levy, if approved by voters, would cost taxpayers $315 per year for each $100,000 of appraised property value, according to Daulbaugh.
School board members, discussing what size to seek at the Jan. 10 meeting, vacillated back and forth between their own desires not to have to make cuts to the likelihood that levies of various sizes less than 10 mills would be approved by voters. Those cuts include:
• Discontinuing field trips and extracurricular trips other than for sporting events. Daulbaugh said that should save about $9,000.
• Leaving open the transportation supervisor position, a mechanic position and tutor position, realizing a savings of about $108,000.
• Eliminating all professional development during the school day that’s not grant funded. This would create a savings of $53,610 for the training of certified staff and about $2,235 for classified staff.
• Establishing a quota on paper usage, which is budgeted at about $200,000 a year. The quota system should realize a savings of about $20,000, according to Daulbaugh.
"After the last meeting, I kind of threw out the high and low millages," said board member Denise Baba on Jan. 10. "I would like to see things stay exactly as they are, but I’m cautious about a 10-mill levy. I was landing in the middle of those levy amounts."
The proposed 9-mill school operating levy would generate $4.4 million a year for five years.
Although the votes for both resolutions was unanimous in favor of the 9-mill levy, board member John Kelly was skeptical of it.
"I don't want any of the teachers or programs to get cut," he said, arguing for a 10-mill levy to be placed on the ballot. "I think as long as we do a great job communicating this, the community will back us up."
He said the 10-mill levy would have cost taxpayers an additional $60 per $100,000 of property valuation than the 9-mill levy and would have been a worthwhile additional investment in the schools because it would have avoided any budget cuts.
Following the passage of the first of the two resolutions, the administration posted a list of potential cuts. If the levy fails in May, Daulbaugh said those cuts — totaling $3 million in budget cuts — would need to be enacted. From that list, the school board will select items to cut in case the 9-mill levy passes.
Reporter Bob Gaetjens can be reached at 330-541-9440, bgaetjens@recordpub.com or @bobgaetjens_rpc.
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Rediff.com » Sports » 'Cricket needs shorter format, hockey doesn't'
'Cricket needs shorter format, hockey doesn't'
December 03, 2018 12:00 IST
'Some of the decisions that are now made are not for sports but for the sponsors and I think that's a great danger'
'Some sport needed a shorter product, cricket needed a three-hour product but hockey doesn't need that'
IMAGE: Charlesworth felt the too much emphasis on commerce could end up alienating fans. Photograph: Hockey India/Twitter
Buoyed by the success of five-a-side hockey in the Youth Olympics, the international federation (FIH) is set to go big with promotion of the format next year, but seasoned coaches like Ric Charlesworth feel the game doesn't need a shorter version like cricket.
The FIH is planning an exhibition tournament of Hockey 5s next year but has ruled out the possibility of the format replacing the traditional 11-a-side contest in the Olympics.
The format is part of FIH's efforts to market the sport.
But Charlesworth is against too much emphasis on the corporatisation of the game.
"Lot of decisions are made because of money and it's pretty unfortunate. I am worried that there are gladiators in the arena now," the Australian said on the sidelines of the ongoing men's hockey World Cup in Bhubaneswar.
"Some of the decisions that are now made are not for sports but for the sponsors and I think that's a great danger," he added.
Charlesworth felt the too much emphasis on commerce could end up alienating fans.
"You do need money but you also want people to play sport and not just watch it. That's not ideal. The proliferation of some of the money involved is silly."
"There is pressure to change the way the game is being played. I don't like that. Some sport needed a shorter product, cricket needed a three-hour product but hockey doesn't need that."
"It just goes for hour and a half. There is plenty of action. I don't want to see five-a-side hockey," said Charlesworth, who has also played first-class cricket for Australia besides being the High Performance Manager of New Zealand Cricket.
Not just Charlesworth but other coaches at the ongoing event have also expressed their reservations.
New Zealand coach Shane McLoed said while innovation is the need of the hour for the game, he too doesn't want to see Hockey 5s taking the limelight away from the traditional game.
"The one thing that works for our sport is that we are innovative. We probably haven't seen massive effect with the quarter system. I just think it is a little bit of leveller," McLoed said on the 15-minute four-quarter system that has replaced the 35-minute a side half.
"Hockey 5s really good addition but I would hate for our sport to go in that direction fully," he added.
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RICHARD SHINDELL BIOGRAPHY
Originally from New York, now dividing his time between Buenos Aires, Argentina and New York's Hudson Valley, Richard Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, juxtapose ideas and images, inhabit characters, vividly evoking entire worlds along the way and expanding our sense of just what it is a song may be. From his first record, Sparrow's Point (1992) to his current release, Careless (September 2016), Shindell has explored the possibilities offered by this most elastic and variable of cultural confections: the song.
The path that led him to songwriting was both circuitous and direct. Taking up the guitar at the age of eight, he spent his formative years learning the instrument - first acoustic, then electric. And he listened: Beatles, Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Motown, Bowie, Hunter-Garcia, King-Goffin, Paul Simon, Bill Monroe, Rogers & Hammerstein. Their songs gave the impression of having always been there, so solid and self-evident were their melodies, hooks, grooves, and lyrics. Listening to WNEW or WLIR in 1970s NY felt like a kind of anamnesis. So it seemed completely out of the question to imagine that a song could be written - by anyone, anywhere, anytime, about absolutely anything. If he sang, it was just to sing along, or harmonise to the hymns in church.
On the other hand, a good song seemed like such a simple little thing. A voice in the back of his head kept whispering that surely it must be possible to write one. He would make his first attempts at it during college, where he studied Philosophy. According to him, these early songs were "abysmal: pointless, self-indulgent drivel. It's a wonder I ever allowed myself to try again."
After college and a nine month stint in a Zen Buddhist community in Upstate New York, he headed to Europe with his guitar, finding something not approaching a livelihood performing in the Paris Metro, where his repertoire consisted of Fahey-tinged fingerpicking, Blakian flatpicking and "endless droning along in open tunings." Evincing an early inclination toward self-imposed commercial exile, he sought out the less-travelled corners of the Metro. "I loved the acoustics in those tunnels, but only when they were empty."
Upon running out of money, and despite being an atheist, he applied to and was accepted by Union Theological Seminary (NY), beginning his studies in 1986. Three years in an M.Div. program did nothing to cure him of his atheism, however it did provide him (thanks to a friendly sexton) with late-night access to the neo-gothic expanses of Union's St. James Chapel, whose celestial acoustics inspired his first "keeper": On a Sea of Fleur de Lis. Ostensibly a paean to the Virgin Mary, the song marked his rupture from the church and the beginning of his creative life. Its underlying themes - immanence and transcendence, human love and divine love, the particular and the general - have continued to resonate through subsequent work, right up to the present. In many ways, his new album Careless, though in no way a concept record, represents a further exploration of those ideas.
More songs followed. He began frequenting a well-known songwriters circle on Houston Street in New York City. Hosted by the late Jack Hardy, every Thursday night writers would gather to debut new songs, give and receive constructive criticism, take the songs back to the drawing board to try again the next week. It was a tough crowd, but also a supportive one. And beyond the concrete benefit to one's craft, those gatherings offered the fledgling writer a sense of community, and thus identity. He began to think of himself as a songwriter, abandoning his theological studies.
It was right about then that Shanachie Records called with an offer for a three record deal.
That deal resulted in Sparrows Point (1992), Blue Divide (1994), and Reunion Hill (1997). The latter, produced by multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell (credits too numerous to mention here), won the AFIM (NAIRD) award for "Best Contemporary Folk Album" in 1998. Its title track was covered (along with two other of Shindell's songs) by Joan Baez on her 1997 release, Gone From Danger. In 1998, Shindell joined forces with his friends Dar Williams and Lucy Kaplansky to make CryCryCry (Razor and Tie), a collection of covers by writers such as Robert Earl Keen, Michael Stipe, Ron Sexsmith, Greg Brown, Julie Miller, and James Keelaghan. Over the course of two years, the group toured in support of this highly acclaimed (and eponymously titled) album, leaving audiences spellbound by their gorgeous three-part harmonies.
By then Shindell was beginning to stretch out as a harmony singer, guitarist and performer. With each successive record he toured relentlessly, building a solid following of loyal fans. He also became an adept bandleader, as reflected in his 1999 release, Courier (Signature Sounds), a live album, recorded and mixed by Ben Wisch, and featuring long-time cohorts Lincoln Schleifer, John Putnam, Dennis McDermott, as well as Lucy Kaplansky and Larry Campbell.
The year 2000 brought the release of a new collection of originals, one of Shindell’s most popular albums, Somewhere Near Paterson (Signature Sounds), produced by Campbell. That year also saw a major life-change: with his Argentine wife and their two small children, Shindell moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Taking a few years to get acclimated and learn the language, in 2004 he followed up with Vuelta (Koch Records), joining with Puente Celeste, an eclectic and much beloved group of virtuoso Argentine musicians. The decade's next was release was a collection of covers, South of Delia (2007), Shindell's first foray into production. More than simply a cover record, the song-selections and performances of South of Delia were that of an expatriate looking back at the country and culture he moved away from, and featured guest appearances by artists such as Viktor Krauss, Richard Thompson, Tony Trischka, and Eliza Gilkyson. His next collection of original songs, Not Far Now, was released by Signature Sounds in 2009. For 13 Songs You May or May Not Have Heard Before, which The Telegraph (UK) called “a stunningly good record”, Shindell revisited some of his earlier material, giving fresh interpretations to old favourites.
In 2015 he joined forces again with Lucy Kaplansky to record another collection of covers, Tomorrow You’re Going (Signature Sounds), also produced by Larry Campbell. Consisting mostly of love songs, or love lost songs, it provided Shindell and Kaplansky an occasion to revel in their distinctive, two-part harmony with the backing of a top-notch band (Byron Isaacs, Dennis McDermott, Bill Payne, and Campbell) - all thanks to the participation of a committed community of fans who financed the project via the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. The campaign more than doubled its funding goal in less than 48 hours.
Shindell continues to tour nationally in the United States, with the occasional forays into Canada, the UK, and Europe. Although known primarily as songwriter, Shindell takes a more holistic view of his career. Producer, writer, singer, guitarist, interpreter: it all adds up to a life in music.
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‘Drone strikes killed more civilians than publicly acknowledged’ – UN investigator
Published time: 18 Oct, 2013 12:50 Edited time: 20 Oct, 2013 19:35
Pakistani protesters belonging to United Citizen Action march behind a burning US flag during a protest in Multan on September 30, 2013, against the US drone attacks in Pakistani tribal areas (AFP Photo / S.S Mirza) © AFP
A UN report accuses the United States of downplaying the number of civilians killed in anti-terrorist drone operations, while failing to assist in the investigation by releasing its own figures.
With the increased use of remotely piloted aircraft in military operations in a number of countries, the nagging question of civilian “collateral damage” as a consequence of these deadly technologies is a growing concern for the United Nations and human right groups.
In Afghanistan, for example, the number of aerial drone strikes surged from 294 in 2011 to 447 during the first 11 months of 2012, according to data released by the US Air Force in November 2012, UN Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson noted in his interim report.
Pakistan officials confirmed that out of 2,200 deaths “at least 400 civilians had been killed as a result of remotely piloted aircraft strikes and a further 200 individuals were regarded as probable non-combatants.”
Although the first missile test-fired from a drone occurred in February 2001, it wasn’t until the end of 2012 that the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released data showing that 16 civilians had been killed and 5 injured due to drone strikes during the course of the year.
In its latest published figures, covering the first six months of 2013, UNAMA documented 15 civilian deaths and 7 injuries in seven separate attacks by drone aircraft.
Emmerson’s 24-page document, which is due to be presented to the UN General Assembly next Friday, mentions a report by a US military advisor that contradicted official US claims that drone attacks were responsible for fewer civilian deaths compared with other aerial platforms, for example, fighter jets.
He pointed to research by Larry Lewis, a research scientist at the Center for Naval Analyses, who examined aerial strikes in Afghanistan from mid-2010 to mid-2011. With the help of classified military data, Lewis found that the missile strikes conducted by drones were “10 times more deadly to Afghan civilians” than those performed by fighter jets, according to a report by The Guardian newspaper.
Lots of targets, little transparency
The United States and the United Kingdom have been reluctant to hand over information regarding drone strikes of any sort, including those that result in civilian deaths. For example, on February 21, 2010, 23 civilians were killed and 12 wounded in a Predator strike in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan province.
The US military released partially declassified information on the incident, suggesting “administrative and disciplinary sanctions” against the crew for providing misleading “situational information” as well as “a predisposition to engage in kinetic activity (the release of a missile).”
Emmerson said the US, which has attracted a lot of scorn in Afghanistan over the drone attacks, had created "an almost insurmountable obstacle to transparency."
"The Special Rapporteur does not accept that considerations of national security justify withholding statistical and basic methodological data of this kind," Emmerson wrote in the report.
The United Kingdom, which also figured into the report, has officially admitted to one civilian casualty incident, in which four civilians were killed and two civilians injured in a remotely piloted aircraft strike by the Royal Air Force in Afghanistan on March 25, 2011.
However, that figure remains open to speculation given that the United Kingdom’s ‘Reaper’ drone has flown more than 46,000 hours in Afghanistan, averaging three sorties per day, with a total of 405 weapons discharged.
Pakistan hunting ground
Emmerson also reported that Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided him with statistics on drone strikes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, where the US military has targeted members of Al-Qaeda since 2004.
The government noted the difficulties in determining the exact number of civilian deaths due to particular “topographical and institutional obstacles” of the Tribal Areas, including the tradition of immediately burying the bodies of the dead. So the figures are likely to be an underestimate.
The highest amount of civilian casualties, Emmerson noted, came when the CIA dramatically increased drone attacks in Pakistan between 2008 and 2010. Following intense criticism from Islamabad, however, drone strikes in Pakistan have steadily declined and "the number of civilian deaths has dropped dramatically."
In September, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), a non-profit organization launched a project, “Naming the Dead,” to record properly the names and numbers of people who are killed by US drone airstrikes in Pakistan.
Civilian fatalities attributed to US drone strikes have occurred beyond the borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan, including in Yemen, where the figure is 12-58, according to Emmerson. Statistics are not yet available from Iraq or the Nato operation in Libya in 2011.
Who's a target?
Meanwhile, with America’s arch-enemy Al-Qaeda looking increasingly fractured, especially with the death of its terror mastermind, Osama bin Laden, the question as to who now qualifies as a legitimate target of US strikes is becoming more pertinent. More importantly, perhaps, are the limitations that the United States and other countries must recognize as the battle against ‘terrorism’ goes global.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has noted the absence of a clear international consensus on the issue, Emmerson noted. But one thing that is generally accepted, however, is that “international humanitarian law does not permit the targeting of persons directly participating in hostilities who are located in non-belligerent States, given that, otherwise, the whole world is potentially a battlefield,” the report emphasized.
In Washington, the report got a lukewarm reception with White House spokesperson Laura Magnuson saying, “We are aware that this report has been released and are reviewing it carefully.”
She noted that at the National Defense University on May 23, “[T]he President spoke at length about the policy and legal rationale for how the United States takes action against Al-Qaeda and its associated forces. As the President emphasized, the use of lethal force, including from remotely piloted aircraft, commands the highest level of attention and care.”
The Special Rapporteur intends to submit a final report on the subject of robotic aircraft in counter-terrorism operations to the Human Rights Council in 2014.
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Konstantinos Zachariadis
Email: k.e.zachariadis@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: GC405
Website: http://www.konstantinosezachariadis.com
Office Hours: Monday: 11:30am - 12:30pm
Dr Konstantinos (Kostas) E. Zachariadis is an Associate Professor (UK Reader) in the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London. Previously to that he was an Assistant Professor (UK Lecturer) in the Department of Finance at the London School of Economics, where he was also affiliated with the Financial Markets Group and the Paul Woolley Centre. His research interests lie in the areas of Market Design, Corporate Governance, and Institutional Investors. His research has appeared in the Journal of Finance, Review of Finance, and Games and Economic Behavior. He has taught extensively in Investments, Corporate Finance and Strategy, and Hedge Funds in the undergraduate, postgraduate, professional, and executive levels. He received his PhD in Managerial Economics and Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. Furthermore, he holds an MSc from Northwestern University and a Diploma (5 year degree) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also a Fulbright Scholar, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
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Gatwick Airport set to launch daily flights to Moscow
Gatwick Airport is set to launch new daily flights to the picturesque city of Moscow following a deal with Russia’s national airline.
The direct route to Moscow – which will land at Sheremetyevo International Airport, under 20 miles from the capital – will be operated by Russia’s flag carrier airline, Aeroflot.
The new route adds to Gatwick’s growing network, which includes the likes of China, the United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Costa Rica, Canada and Peru.
Gatwick Airport's chief commercial officer Guy Stephenson believes that Moscow is a fantastic new addition to the airports growing network and expects it to be hugely popular for both business and leisure passengers.
Just a few of the city’s famous tourist attractions include St Basil’s Cathedral, and Federation Tower, the highest skyscraper in Europe, which was just completed this year in the city’s International Business Centre.
Aeroflot, which currently flies to 131 destinations in 50 countries and in 2015 carried 26.1 million passengers, was recently awarded the title of Europe’s best airline by Business Traveller.
Another accolade for the airline came in Rome2Rio’s 2016 Global Flight Price Ranking, where it was voted as the second cheapest airline in the world behind Singapore-based carrier, Scoot.
Gatwick Airport has had a hugely successful summer, recording its busiest-ever August with 4.8 million passengers travelling through its gates.
The airport serves more than 220 destinations in 80 countries for 42 million passengers a year on short and long haul point-to-point services.
Konstantin Goryainov, deputy head of the Department for National Politics, Interregional Relations and Tourism of Moscow, has spoken about the city’s need to maintain and improve transport infrastructure if they are going to attract tourists.
If you’re thinking of travelling abroad this year, be sure to organise your European travel insurance in advance.
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» Alessandra Luati
Alessandra Luati
Adjunct Professor of Statistics
alessandra.luati@unibo.it
Professor of Statistics, University of Bologna; Director of the PhD program in Statistics, University of Bologna. Professor Luati is Associate Editor of Statistical Methods and Applications, since 2014. She was Visiting professor at: University of Aarhus (DK), University of Cambridge (UK), Imperial College Business school (UK), Waseda University (Japan), Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (Ispra, Italy), University of Glasgow (UK), University of St Andrews (UK). Professor Luati was Visiting Erskine fellow at the University of Canterbury (NZ) 2014; Principal Investigator for the unit of Bologna for the project "Forecasting economic and financial time series: understanding the complexity and modelling structural change," PRIN 2011; Co-chair of the Ercim working group in Statistical signal extraction and filtering, from 2012.
Professors Luati's publications include: "Robust time series models with trend and seasonal components," in SERIEs, with M. Caivano and A. Harvey (2016); "The Generalised Autocovariance Function," in Journal of Econometrics, with T. Proietti (2015); "Spectral filtering for trend estimation," in Linear Algebra and its Applications, with M. Donatelli and A. Martinelli (2015); "Filtering with Heavy Tails," in Journal of the American Statistical Association, with A. Harvey (2014); "The Variance Profile," in Journal of the American Statistical Association, with T. Proietti and M. Reale (2012); "An Approximate Quantum Cramér-Rao Bound Based on Skew Information," in Bernoulli (2011); "Hyper-spherical and Elliptical Stochastic Cycles," in Journal of Time Series Analysis, with T. Proietti (2010); "On the spectral properties of matrices associated with trend filters," in Econometric Theory, with T. Proietti (2010); "A cascade linear filter to reduce revisions and turning points for real time trend-cycle estimation," in Econometric Reviews, with E.B. Dagum (2009); "Real Time Estimation in Local Polynomial Regression with an Application to Trend-Cycle Analysis," in Annals of Applied Statistics, with T. Proietti (2008); "Maximum Fisher information in mixed state quantum systems," in Annals of Statistics (2004). For more publications, see personal webpage.
Statistical Methods for Business & Economics (SA.340.709)
Aim of the cour...
Aim of the course is to introduce the basic statistical tools required to conduct and evaluate empirical research in economics and the social sciences. The topics that will be covered include elementary probability theory, sampling, estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression. Special attention will be given to the application of these statistical tools to the analysis of real phenomena. In particular, in order to obtain a better understanding of the concept taught in lectures, an emphasis is placed on using software such as Excel and STATA. This course is a prerequisite for more advanced courses in econometrics. (Cross listed International Economics/International Development.)
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Desert in the Promised Land: The Politics and Semiotics of Space in Israeli Culture
Yael Zerubavel (Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and History, Rutgers University)
Joint event with The Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) About the seminar: At once an ecological phenomenon and a cultural construction, the desert has varied associations in Zionist and... Read more
Reflections on Recent Events in the Republic of Sudan
Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (Research Fellow, St Antony's College, Trustee of the Sudanese Programme), Dr Sara Abdelgalil (Paediatric Consultant, President of Sudan Doctors' Union U.K.), Dr Richard Barltrop (Consultant and researcher on the two Sudans, Trustee of the Sudanese Programme)
Joint event with The Sudanese Programme About the speakers: Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi is a Research Fellow and, since 2002 co-Founder of The Sudanese Programme . He is a social anthropologist whose research... Read more
Inside Tunisia’s al-Nahda: Between Politics and Preaching
Rory McCarthy (Magdalen College, Oxford)
About the seminar: In the wake of the Arab uprisings, the Tunisian Islamist movement al-Nahda voted to transform itself into a political party that would for the first time withdraw from a preaching... Read more
Lebanon and the twenty-first century: populism, neoliberalism, and their discontents
Andrew Arsan (University of Cambridge)
Abstract: Much ink has been spilled in recent years on the phenomena of populism and neoliberalism - increasingly, it seems to many, the defining traits of our late modern world. Scholars and... Read more
Struggles for Justice during the Arab Uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia
Heba Morayef (Amnesty International)
About the speaker: Heba Morayef is Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Director. Prior to that she was Associate Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights in... Read more
In Search of Institutional Order: Can the Shi'a Marja'iyya Depart from Traditional Limits and Unlock the Future Potential?
Abbas Kadhim (Atlantic Council)
About the speaker: Dr. Abbas Kadhim leads the Atlantic Council Iraq Initiative. He is an Iraq expert and author of Reclaiming Iraq: The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State . He... Read more
The Iraq War Inquiry - a study in contemporary political, diplomatic, military and reconstruction history
Sir John Chilcot
About the seminar: The seminar will consider the Iraq Inquiry’s origins, terms of reference, mode of operation, and issues which arose in the course of its work, in framing its conclusions, and on... Read more
European policy on the Middle East: Making a difference?
Nick Westcott (Director Royal African Society and Associate at SOAS)
Jointly organised with the European Studies Centre (ESC) About the seminar: Since the Lisbon Treaty came into force in 2011 and the European Union pledged to reinforce its foreign policy cooperation... Read more
The Middle East: Should We Give Up?
Joost Hiltermann (International Crisis Group)
25 January 2019 - 5:00pm
About the seminar: In many places in the Middle East, and in various ways, the region’s people continue to thrive: in business, art, music and other fields. Yet Middle Eastern states are undergoing a... Read more
Applying shari'a in modern times: Some reflections from 19th century Egypt
Khaled Fahmy (Cambridge University)
About the seminar: For the past half century, implementing sharia has been a rallying cry for Islamist groups throughout the Muslim world. Judging the legal systems of various Muslim-majority... Read more
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What Does a Marine Biologist Get Paid for an Hour of a Day?
By: Mike Parker
Marine biologists are biological scientists who specialize in the study of salt water aquatic life. Most scientists who work in the field of marine biology are not referred to as marine biologists, according to the Southwest Fisheries Science Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They may work as oceanographers, biological technicians, marine mammalogists, microbiologists, ichthyologist, fishery biologists, systems analysts, physicists, hydrologists, and others. A marine biologist's hourly pay rate may depend on her specialty and experience.
Marine biologists study the biological processes of sealife.
Biological Scientists
Marine biologists who worked as biological scientists earned a mean hourly wage of $33.38 as of May 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The top 10 percent of these marine biologists earned more than $48.36 per hour, while the bottom 10 percent earned hourly wages of less than $17.67. The middle 50 percent of marine biologists who worked as biological scientists earned hourly pay rates of between $24.24 and $39.26.
The mean hourly wage for marine biologists who worked as hydrologists was $36.91 as of May 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The top 10 percent of these marine biologists earned more than $52.94 per hour, while the bottom 10 percent earned hourly wages of less than $22.26. The middle 50 percent of marine biologists who worked as hydrologists earned hourly pay rates of between $27.13 and $44.67.
The mean hourly wage for marine biologists who worked as biological technicians was $19.78 as of May 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The top 10 percent of these marine biologists earned more than $29.51 per hour, while the bottom 10 percent earned hourly wages of less than $11.80. The middle 50 percent of marine biologists who worked as biological technicians earned hourly pay rates of between $14.74 and $23.72.
Hourly wages for marine biologists, as with many professions, can be significantly impacted by their level of experience. The average starting wage for marine biologists who hold a four-year college degree was $19.90 per hour, according to the Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence. Those with moderate experience earned mean hourly wages of $25.63. Experienced marine biologists earned an average of $32.31 per hour.
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Maxine Martin
May 13, 1926 ~ December 12, 2018 (age 92)
Click here to view Maxine's Liturgical Wake Service.
Maxine Martin, 92, of Aberdeen, SD, passed away Wednesday, December 12, 2018, at Bethesda Home of Aberdeen.
Mass of Christian burial is 11:00 a.m., Saturday, December 15, 2018 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Aberdeen, with Fr. Andy Thuringer officiating.
Burial will be 11:30 a.m., Monday, December 17, 2018, at Riverview Cemetery, Chamberlain, SD.
Schriver’s Memorial Mortuary and Crematory, 414 5thAvenue NW, Aberdeen, is in charge of arrangements. Family and friends may sign her online guestbook and also view her services via the live stream service link at www.schriversmemorial.com.
Visitation is 5:00-7:00 p.m., Friday, at the mortuary with a liturgical wake at 7:00 p.m. Visitation continues one hour before Mass at the church.
Maxine Miller was born May 13, 1926, to Grover C. and Eva Audrey (Colvin) Miller on the family farm in Aurora County. She attended Patten Consolidated School and graduated from White Lake High School in 1944. While in high school, Maxine worked for Jimmy and Dorothy Warrell at the Warrell Drug Store in White Lake.
Maxine married the love of her life, Clarence John Martin, on November 19, 1945 at Mitchell, SD. They farmed southeast of White Lake for 16 years. In 1962, the family moved to Chamberlain, where they made their home until Clarence’s death in 1998. Maxine moved to Aberdeen in 2000 to be closer to her children and grandchildren.
Maxine was a member of St. James Catholic Church in Chamberlain and a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Aberdeen. She was a life-time member of the VFW Auxiliary. Maxine was an avid Bridge player, enjoyed sewing and was an excellent seamstress. She was a strong woman of faith and instilled a love for the Lord, family, and music in her children. Maxine and Clarence were exceptional dancers and enjoyed dancing throughout their 52 years of marriage. Maxine loved her family and took pride in caring for her husband, children, and home. She was very witty and had a sense of humor that impacted all who knew her. Maxine’s children will forever hold close the love, strength, wisdom and joy she brought to their lives.
Surviving Maxine are three daughters: Linda (John) Erickson of Hemet, CA, Melanie (Brian) Lundquist of Aberdeen and Jennifer (Jeff) Deiss of Aberdeen; one son, Jim (Nancy) Martin of Spearfish, SD; one sister; Georgia “Snook” Fite of Clark, SD; one brother, Jerry (Brenda) Miller of Sioux Falls, SD; six grandchildren: Ursula Erickson, Joshua (Raenae) Martin, Matt (Sophie) Martin, Morghan Deiss, Allie (Ryan Gunderson) Lundquist and Zach Lundquist; five great-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter.
Maxine was preceded in death by her parents; husband; one brother, Luther Ward “Barney” Miller; brother in-law, Frank Fite; sister-in-law, Maxine (Mohling) Miller; one niece, Sue Lynn (Miller) Horstmeyer; and numerous members of Clarence’s family whom she loved dearly.
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Home > NHRA: Long-Term Partnership With Fox Sports Announced
NHRA: Long-Term Partnership With Fox Sports Announced
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NHRA ENTERS LONG-TERM PARTNERSHIP WITH FOX SPORTS: NHRA and FOX Sports officials have jointly announced that starting in 2016 the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series will be televised by FOX Sports 1 (FS1) with four events airing on the FOX national broadcast network during each season of the long-term agreement, providing the motorsport with live coverage of a majority of its events. FOX Sports, which is already the home to high-profile races in NASCAR, Monster Energy Supercross, the FIM MotoGP World Championship, the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, the FIA World Endurance Championship, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the fully electric FIA Formula E Championship, among others, will significantly expand on its annual motorsports coverage when it adds NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series programming to the lineup next season.
SCHUMACHER, JOHNSONS, ARANA JR. TAKE CHICAGO WINS: Tony Schumacher raced to a milestone 80th career victory in Top Fuel last Sunday at the Lucas Oil Route 66 NHRA Nationals presented by General Tire at Route 66 Raceway. Tommy Johnson Jr. (Funny Car), Allen Johnson (Pro Stock) and Hector Arana Jr. (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also were victorious in their respective categories at the 13th of 24 events in the 2015 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. Schumacher pushed his U.S Army dragster to the winner’s circle with a 3.844-second pass at 320.20 mph, beating Larry Dixon’s 3.932 at 298.93 in the final round. The win was Schumacher’s third victory of the season and a category-high fifth in Chicago. Schumacher, the eight-time and defending world champ, now sits five victories from tying Pro Stock’s Bob Glidden for third on the all-time wins list in any NHRA Professional category.
"That was a fun race," said Schumacher, who moves into the Top Fuel points lead with the win. "Our crews are so good and win so many races. There are no easy races. Just proud to be in the position we’re in. When we’ve had to win and it positively had to be done, we’ve been great at that. You have to be great every day and you have to be better than that some days."
NHRA MELLO YELLO SERIES BEGINS FAMED WESTERN SWING IN THE MILE-HIGH CITY: The NHRA Western Swing, one of the toughest stretches for competitors on the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series tour, begins its 2015 edition in the mountains of Colorado with the 35th annual Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals, July 24–26, at Bandimere Speedway. The event is the 14th of 24 events during the 2015 season. A fan favorite on the Mello Yello Series circuit, they will flock to Bandimere Speedway to cheer on their favorite drivers in Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle. J.R. Todd (Top Fuel), Robert Hight (Funny Car), Allen Johnson (Pro Stock) and Andrew Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle) are the defending event winners. ESPN2 will provide television coverage of qualifying and eliminations at the event.
"I'm excited and honored that Richard [Freeman] and his guys thought of me. This program needs no introduction. Erica [Enders] showed everyone in the class what that car and team are capable of last year and to follow in her footsteps will be a tough chore, but it's a challenge I accept with a big smile. It's going to be a unique situation for me where I'm sort of just a hired driver with no stake in the operation other than my passion and will to win. I'm certainly cognizant of my supporting role to what the team is trying to accomplish again this year and I'll do all I can to help them reach their goals. Richard and I have been buddies forever and it was fun to drive his car back in ’06. Ever since then we always joke around about racing together again and when this deal came along I guess all the pieces just fell into place for us to go ahead and do it again."
—Jeg Coughlin Jr., a five time Pro Stock world champion, on his return to the factory hot-rod category for three races in 2015 with Elite Motorsports. Coughlin will drive for team owner Richard Freeman and team with 2014 Pro Stock world champion Erica Enders at the NHRA Sonoma Nationals in Sonoma, California, the NHRA Northwest Nationals in Seattle and the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals at Indianapolis. Coughlin drove for Freeman in 2006 at the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals in in Competition Eliminator.
Inside the Numbers
6: Number of Funny Car racers that have secured a spot in the NHRA Traxxas Nitro Shootout for Funny Car after Tommy Johnson Jr. won the Lucas Oil Route 66 Nationals last Sunday. Johnson joins Matt Hagan, Ron Capps, Jack Beckman, John Force and Tim Wilkerson as drivers who will compete in the event. There are two positions open for Funny Car competitors before the event takes place at the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis. Johnson raced in the specialty event in 2014 and was defeated in the first round by Alexis DeJoria.
NHRA DRIVERS AT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS: Indianapolis-based NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series drivers will be featured at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, July 17, as part of the Hot Wheels: Race to Win exhibit. Those drivers include Richie Crampton (Top Fuel), Tommy Johnson Jr. (FunnyCar), Andrew Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle), Eddie Krawiec (Pro Stock Motorcycle), Cruz and Tony Pedregon (FunnyCar) and Drew Skillman (Pro Stock). The Hot Wheels: Race to Win exhibit uses Hot Wheels cars and tracks to demonstrate racing concepts and what it takes to stand in the winner’s circle. Those in attendance will be afforded all-access with these drivers from 11:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m. for Q&A sessions, autographs and photos.
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SFC Lecturer Named Finalist for 2018 National Book Awards in Fiction
By Chandra Persaud
Oct 26 2018 11:27 AM
Jamel Brinkley Reads from A Lucky Man on Nov. 1st
Acclaimed writer and adjunct lecturer at St. Francis College, Jamel Brinkley, has been named a 2018 National Book Awards finalist in fiction for his debut collection of short stories titled A Lucky Man.
Brinkley joins four other authors in the race for one of the country's most highly coveted literary prizes. The Chicago Review of Books calls his work "a standout debut for the year" and Booklist hails him "a gifted and empathetic new writer." This year's winner will be announced on Nov. 14th at the 69th National Book Awards Ceremony in New York City.
"Brinkley is a New Yorker that writes with a real love of his community," said Theo Gangi, co-director of the Walt Whitman Writers Series and director of SFC's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. "He doesn't shy away from tragedy and human frailty, but there's also joy, strength and striving on every page of this remarkable collection."
Brinkley will read from A Lucky Man at the Walt Whitman Writers Series event on November 1 at 4:30 p.m. in the Maroney Theater. The event is free and open to the public. Following the reading, Gangi will sit down with Brinkley for a thought-provoking discussion about his work and writing experiences.
The event is hosted by the MFA in Creative Writing program, which is dedicated to showcasing the work of talented authors with students, faculty, and the Brooklyn community at large. Brinkley will join the list of outstanding writers featured in the past, including George Saunders, Marlon James, and Junot Díaz.
Amidst the current discourse about toxic masculinity and misogyny, A Lucky Man gives voice to the black male experience. The Brooklyn-raised writer takes us into the inner worlds of fully-fledged protagonists, all black males, as they wrestle with their masculinity—who they think they must be—and their private, vulnerable selves.
Plastered across the nine short stories in Brinkley's collection are characters that are deeply human—boys and men coming to terms with their identity, seeking connection and love, reflecting on an ever-pervading past, grappling with strained familial ties, and suppressing emotional turmoil, in part caused by oppression, police brutality, and incarceration.
"As an artist, I personally was interested in these characters and their stories," said Brinkley. "I wasn't sure anyone else would be. But I think art-making, storytelling, poetry—all the various forms of creation that strive to tell some kind of truth—are always important, and especially so in our current moment, when so much of public and political discourse is made up of lies."
Brinkley brilliantly uses the short story form to explore, with tenderness and profound insight, the complexity and nuances of what it means to be a black man in today's America.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Brinkley's work has been featured in The Best American Short Stories 2018, A Public Space, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, The Threepenny Review, Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, Epiphany, and LitMag. He is currently the 2018-2020 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University.
For more information about Jamel Brinkley or the Walt Whitman Writers Series, visit https://www.sfc.edu/news/waltwhitman or contact Theo Gangi at tgangi@sfc.edu.
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Subject-based banding will allow more students to pursue higher education
From 2015 to 2017, of the graduates from the six local universities, about 1 per cent had come from the Normal (Technical) route and 5 per cent from the Normal (Academic) stream.
Of those who graduate yearly from Singapore’s five polytechnics, 5 per cent are from the N(T) stream, and 35 per cent from the N(A) stream.
When subject-based banding is implemented, more students can be expected to have access to higher education opportunities than would otherwise be the case.
Ms Denise Phua, MP for Jalan Besar GRC, who for years has argued against streaming, says that while in the past, a student could have been limited in his choice of subjects due to the stream he was placed in, there is now more flexibility to take subjects based on his strengths.
Ms Phua says that there will be “knee-jerk reactions” from some parents who define success as doing well academically, or want to have their children mix only with others of the same socio-economic status or academic ability. But she notes that it is significant that for now, MOE has decided to replace streaming with full subject-based banding.
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Shane's 8th Annual Holiday 'Wait & Win" Promotion
SHANE’S RIB SHACK TO GIVE AWAY A BRAND NEW JEEP WRANGLER AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN PRIZES. CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY FOR LOYAL SHANE'S RIB SHACK CUSTOMERS WITH ANNUAL WAIT & WIN CAMPAIGN.
ATLANTA, GA (November 28, 2017) – Everyone’s a winner at Shane’s Rib Shack! During the month of December, to honor customers for their loyalty throughout the year, those who dine at Shane’s Rib Shack will receive a sealed, Wait & Win Mystery Gift Envelope.
To redeem their mystery prize, customers are then invited to return to Shane’s Rib Shack with their unopened, Gift Envelopes during January or February 2018. Mystery Gift Envelopes contain exciting prizes, such as, Shane’s Rib Shack gift cards, as well as, delicious, FREE menu items. Every envelope contains a winning prize.
Upon redeeming their Mystery Gift Envelopes, customers will have the opportunity to enter into the Shane’s Grand Prize Drawing. This year, one lucky customer will be driving home with a snow-white, 2017 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited: Sahara 4x4, valued at $58,000.00! In addition to the 2017 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, ten loyal customers will be awarded a Grand Prize of $5,000.00 each, totaling $50,000.00 in Cash Prizes. Cash Grand Prize winners will be randomly generated by a computer, per region. Regions are denoted in the official rules.
Shane Thompson, founder of Shane’s Rib Shack, believes the gift is in the giving, as he states, “We attempt to out-do ourselves every year with our Annual Holiday Wait & Win Campaign, to honor and recognize those who continue to be devoted to our brand year after year.” During this year’s 8th Annual Holiday Wait & Win Campaign, Shane’s Rib Shack will gift over $900,000.00 in prizes combined!
For more information, a list of participating locations, and a copy of the Official 8th Annual Holiday Wait & Win Campaign Rules, click here.
About Shane’s Rib Shack
Shane's Rib Shack is a true American rib shack, known for its slow-smoked ribs, hand-chopped pork, chicken, and many southern sides to complement each plate. The Original Shack was founded in 2002, in McDonough, GA. by Shane Thompson, who started the restaurant with his grandfather's secret BBQ sauce. With the support of his wife, Stacey, Shane’s Rib Shack was born and became a franchised restaurant in 2004. Shane’s Rib Shack has grown to become the country’s model concept for fast-casual barbecue. In 2015, Shane’s Rib Shack was named one of the Daily Meal’s Best BBQ Chains and was featured in the Wall Street Journal. Shane’s Rib Shack was recognized in the Top 100 Movers and Shakers by FastCasual.com. Shane’s Rib Shack currently operates 75 locations. For more information, visit www.shanesribshack.com.
Connect with Shane’s Rib Shack on Facebook or Instagram to learn about Shane’s community involvement, photo contests, and exclusive offers for our loyal guests!
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The Shipowners’ Club > News > IG Circular – Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – Enforcement of UN, U.S. and EU Sanctions
IG Circular – Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – Enforcement of UN, U.S. and EU Sanctions
This circular informs Members of the significant risk of evading the comprehensive international sanctions regime against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) which the United Nations Security Council introduced in 2017.
Enforcement of sanctions generally, and against the maritime industry specifically, has intensified since 2017. This circular draws attention to some of the measures that Governments are taking to enforce sanctions and warns of the serious consequences of trading with DPRK and DPRK-related interests.
Since 2017, the United Nations Security Council has combined with some of its prominent members to step up surveillance of any maritime activity that arouses a suspicion of sanctions evasion and there are now even more restrictive measures on DPRK and related activities. As a result of the heightened surveillance of shipping activities in the Yellow Sea, East China Sea and Sea of Japan, surveillance agencies will continue to detect and identify ships which engage in trading activities with the DPRK and foreign flagged vessels and their owners linked to the DPRK that have been sanctioned for a global port entry ban and assets freeze. Surveillance photographs of foreign-flagged ships and the people connected with them have resulted in their listing by the United Nations Security Council 1718 Committee as designated entities and individuals, subject to a UN assets freeze and travel ban.
Photographs reveal the extent to which some shipowners involved in both North Korean sanctions evasions and related transnational organised crime syndicates are prepared to go, including attempts to conceal the ship’s identity by covering or overwriting its legitimate IMO number and name while also turning off the AIS transmitter to hide its track from view on AIS system trackers. Such ships invariably conceal their identity to hide the unlawful transfer of coal and liquid cargoes in STS operations with North Korean vessels and foreign flagged or stateless vessels that have been designated by the UN for earlier violations.The UN Panel of Experts on DPRK sanctions has documented these ships’ activities and the people associated with them. The UN reports are publicly accessible, and they have been disclosed to or read by maritime authorities. In some cases, this has resulted in the withdrawal of registration services to ships engaging in such activities and some of these ships were detained at their next port of call under the auspices of a global port entry ban on such ships.
The United States Department of Treasury has so far designated individuals and entities along with 28 ships involved in DPRK sanctions evasion. Any shipowner, charterer or manager involved in these activities will find it very difficult to trade such ships or to raise finance because of the US designation resulting in asset freeze and exclusion from trading in US Dollars. A ship which is linked to such activities by the UN or State agencies inevitably attracts further scrutiny from the banking sector which may freeze or cancel accounts or freeze transactions.
Actions taken by Governments
Many States individually, or under the umbrella of supranational bodies such as the European Union, have introduced measures to implement the United Nations Security Council Resolutions in their domestic law.
These measures include, but are not limited to:
Ban on the sale and supply of aviation and rocket fuels
Extensive list of banned luxury goods which cannot be supplied to North Korea
Ban on all leasing and chartering of vessels and the provision of crew services
Ban on owning and operating of or providing classification or similar services to
North Korean- flagged vessels
Extensive arms embargo
Ban on vessels entering EU ports which are owned, operated or crewed by North Korea
Ban on investing on North Korean mining, refining and chemical industries
UN Security Council Resolutions in 2017
Members should be aware that the scope of UN sanctions against DPRK was intensified during 2017 pursuant to the Resolutions highlighted below.
UN Security Council Resolution No. 2371 of 5 August 2017:
Bans all exportation of coal, iron, iron ore, lead and lead ore from North Korea and prohibits the transport of said North Korean origin commodities by the vessels of any Member State of the United Nations;
Bans all exportation of seafood from North Korea, and prohibits the transport of North Korean origin seafood by the vessels of any Member State of the United Nations;
Authorises the UN Committee monitoring the sanctions against North Korea to designate any vessels engaged in activities prohibited by various UN Resolutions relating to North Korea, and calls upon UN Member States to ban said vessels from entry to their ports;
Prohibits new joint ventures or cooperative entities with North Korean entities or individuals.
UN Security Council Resolution No. 2375 of 11 September 2017:
Bans the supply, sale or transfer of all condensates or natural gas liquids to North Korea;
Imposes a cap of 2 million barrels per year of all refined petroleum products imported to North Korea (since reduced to 500,000 barrels) and imposes strict controls on such trade, requiring the Member State to advise the Security Council every thirty days of the amounts supplied and the parties to the transaction);
Restricts the supply, sale or transfer of crude oil to North Korea in any 2-month period after the Resolution was passed to the amount which any UN Member State supplied, sold or transferred to North Korea in the 12 months before the Resolution was passed;
Bans the exports of textiles from North Korea;
Bans UN Member States from providing work authorisations for North Korean nationals, after the date of the Resolution;
Prohibits all joint ventures or the expansion of current joint ventures with North Korean entities or individuals;
Calls upon Member States to inspect vessels, with the consent of the flag State, if there are reasonable grounds to believe that such vessels are carrying cargoes whose supply, sale or export is prohibited under various UN Security Council Resolutions;
UN Security Council Resolution No. 2397 of 22 December 2017:
Prohibits, nationals and persons of a UN Member State, and entities incorporated in its territory or subject to its jurisdiction, from providing insurance or re-insurance services to ships it has reasonable grounds to believe were involved in activities, or the transport of items, prohibited by various UN Security Council Resolutions
Requires that Flag States shall deregister any ship it has reasonable grounds to believe was involved in activities, or the transport of items, prohibited by UN Security Council Resolutions and prohibits re-registration without UN Committee approval.
Prohibits the provision of classification services to such ships unless it is approved by a UN committee in advance on a case-by-case basis
These Resolutions have been implemented by individual states and supranational bodies in their own laws or sanctions programmes, including provisions to apply administrative or criminal penalties for breach of the relevant law.
Automatic Identification Systems
An indicator of potential evasion activity of ships arises when a ship inexplicably diverts course or ceases to transmit its AIS signal. The interest of surveillance agencies will be heightened where it is judged that loss of the AIS signal is the result of a Master or other crew member deliberately turning off the transmitter signal in order to conceal the ship’s voyage pattern and navigational activities.
Such action, save where necessary to preserve the safety or security of the ship, constitutes a serious breach of the Safety of Life at Sea Convention, putting the ship in breach of Flag State requirements, and heightening the risk of collision, damage to other ships, pollution damage and loss of seafarers’ lives at sea.
Where a ship is not in compliance with Flag State requirements the owner risks prejudicing cover under his P&I club rules. There will also be grounds to deny P&I cover on the basis of imprudent or unlawful trading where an owner trades his vessel in breach of sanctions, disguising its location by manipulating or withholding the transmission of AIS data.
Great caution is required
The sanctions agreed by the United Nations Security Council form one of the most comprehensive sanctions regimes ever targeted against a country and there is a well-resourced and determined effort at the international level, focused on the shipping industry, to prevent sanctioned trade with North Korea.
Members should therefore be in no doubt that any trade with North Korea will be subject to surveillance and scrutiny. The relevant authorities are monitoring vessel movements with satellites and other resources, and vessels may be subject to search and detained at ports whilst suspicious activity is investigated. Any activity established to be in breach of sanctions will result in insurance coverage being withdrawn and risks possible vessel confiscation and other severe penalties imposed on companies and individuals concerned – which at best may affect the future trading of a vessel and at worst could prove fatal to the future viability of a Member’s whole enterprise.
Even if it were possible to undertake legitimate trade with North Korea, Members should bear in mind that the Club is very unlikely to be able to support vessels trading to North Korean ports, with payment of claims and fees and the provision of security liable to be very delayed and perhaps completely prohibited. Any vessel doing so will also be automatically banned from US waters for the following 180 days.
All Members are therefore strongly urged to re-assess the risks of undertaking any business with North Korea including STS operations and should also exercise the fullest possible due diligence to ensure that they are not unwittingly entering into prohibited activities with North Korean entities.
All clubs in the International Group have issued a similarly worded circular.
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About Shuman’s
Remembering Shuman’s
Photos of Alexandria
How to cut a Jelly Cake
An Alexandria, Virginia Tradition
In 1876, our great-great grandfather, Louis P. Shuman, established an institution in our hometown of Alexandria, Virginia: Shuman’s Bakery. The storefront bakery closed in 2004, but after a six-year hiatus, we reopened the bakery in November 2010, featuring one product—the renowned Shuman’s Jelly Cake, by advance order only.
Shuman’s Jelly Cake is made using the original family recipe–three thin layers of pound cake, separated by layers of homemade red currant jelly. About 12 inches in diameter, jelly cake can be cut into about 50 bite-size diamonds for a finger-food dessert, or into 16 wedges if one wishes to eat with a plate and fork. Powdered sugar is included and can be sifted or sprinkled on top. Shuman’s Jelly Cake can be frozen for later use.
While it’s possible that Shuman’s will once again have a storefront presence, for now, at least, the sense of community that Shuman’s Bakery has always provided to Alexandria will be on-line. We ho pe you will be an active part of this community by visiting our Facebook page.
Louis, like each of us an Alexandria native, was the son of German immigrant Ernest Shuman, who arrived in America in 1825 and settled in the seaport town of Alexandria. In his twenties, Louis established L. Shuman, Confectioner, which for many years was located in the historic Marshall House at 430 King Street. After moving to the 500 block of King Street, the family, including his son and eventual partner, Louis E. Shuman, lived above the bakery. Louis E. Shuman’s children, including our respective grandparents, Marshall Shuman and Frances Shuman Kilroy, were born there.
L. Shuman and Son became Shuman’s Bakery and continued as a family-owned independent business in Alexandria for 128 years.
Its signature product, Shuman’s Jelly Cake, became a necessity at Alexandria family gatherings, and it developed a national and international following: according to an old newspaper clipping, it was served to Princess Elizabeth before she became Queen of England.
Alexandria native Willard Scott once said in Country Living magazine, “I don’t care what kind of diet I’m on, if I can’t eat Shuman’s Jelly Cake, I don’t deserve to live.”
When our cousins Lonny and Teddy Marchant – the fourth generation of Shumans to own the bakery – retired in 2004, Shuman’s retail bakery on South Washington Street closed. But family members continued to discuss the possibility of carrying on Shuman’s as a family-owned bakery.
In 2009 we created a Facebook page, which consisted simply of a brief description of when and where Shuman’s Bakery was founded, along with some historical Shuman’s photographs. Without any promotion, we soon found that we had more than 100 fans, many of whom reminisced fondly about Shuman’s Bakery, especially Shuman’s Jelly Cake. Inspired by their comments, we formed L. Shuman and Sons LLC (d.b.a. Shuman’s Bakery) to bring the bakery back on-line.
We have re-established Shuman’s to renew and carry on this family tradition. We continue to make Shuman’s Jelly Cake from the original family recipe, using only the finest ingredients.
We turned again and again to our cousins Lonny and Teddy Marchant for advice and support, and have been grateful for their assistance as we endeavor to continue this family bakery tradition.
It’s not just a family tradition. It’s an Alexandria tradition.
– Patrick Hagan, John Leary, & Marshall Shuman Hagan
From left: John Leary, Lonny Marchant, Teddy Marchant, Patrick Hagan. Not pictured: Marshall Shuman Hagan.
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Shuman’s Bakery will be closed for summer vacation between August 16th and August 31st. No orders will be taken and no deliveries will be made during this period. We apologize for any inconvenience. We look forward to taking your order when we return.
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(Courtesy of Maximilian Teodorescu)
These May Be The Last Photos of The Chinese Space Station Before It Plummets to Earth
DAVE MOSHER & KEVIN LORIA, BUSINESS INSIDER
The bus-sized Chinese space station Tiangong-1, known as "Heavenly Palace," is whipping around our planet in the final hours before it burns into Earth's atmosphere.
In the very near future, it will break up, with some of its debris likely falling to Earth.
In these final hours, Maximilian Teodorescu, a scientific researcher with the National Institute for Lasers and Plasma in Bucharest, Romania, was able to photograph Tiangong-1 as it made a transit passing in front of the Sun.
In Teodorescu's photo above, you can see the space station's transit.
This photo is likely one of the last times Tiangong-1 will be seen before its journey, which began when it was launched in 2011, comes to an end on or around Easter Sunday (April 1).
(Aerospace Corporation)
Teodorescu told Business Insider that he's been interested in astronomy for about two decades now. His interest starting with science fiction before he moved on to real-life space programs.
"It is fascinating still for me to know that humans are trying to get out of their perfect habitat down here on Earth and try to find other habitable worlds in our Solar System and beyond. It's perhaps the most important era of the Human Civilisation," Teodorescu said in an email.
"And the still small steps we take, like the ISS and other space stations, are proof that this part of our evolution is occurring right now. And I must take advantage of this moment, and at least image these technical marvels, if not be a part of the programs. This is why I try to catch any close transit in front of the Moon or Sun whenever I can."
Follow the station's pass-by in the GIF below.
A space station's end
The Tiangong-1 modular space station is expected to fall to Earth in a fiery blaze.
But at the moment, it's just one of about 23,000 other human-made objects larger than a softball zooming around the planet.
China stopped using the two-room, 9.4-ton vessel, in June of 2013.
The Chinese program lost touch with Tiangong-1 – its first space station – in March of 2016. The station is now losing forward speed, which means that gravity is pulling it towards Earth faster and faster, with the air around it too thin to slow it down.
But as it enters the atmosphere, the situation will change.
When the spacecraft falls into thicker air, the drag will begin to rip off solar panels, antennas, and other loosely attached pieces. Superheated plasma will heat the vessel to thousands of degrees, melting and disintegrating it.
Little will survive. Even though there are layers of protective material and substances like titanium on board, some parts, including potentially re-usable gear and hardware, are likely to survive re-entry.
It's possible there will be a 1,000 mile-footprint of debris, Bill Ailor, an aerospace engineer who specialises in atmospheric reentry, told Business Insider.
It's more likely than anything else that most debris will fall into the ocean, which covers 71 percent of Earth's surface. The chances of a piece hitting a person "is about 1 million times smaller than the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot," according to The Aerospace Corp., where Ailor works.
"It's not impossible, but since the beginning of the space age… a woman who was brushed on the shoulder in Oklahoma is the only one we're aware of who's been touched by a piece of space debris," Ailor said.
This article was originally published by Business Insider.
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NEW SCIENTOLOGY PUBLICATION DEFINES AND CLARIFIES SCOPE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RIGHTS FOR ALL
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA • SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2016
A monograph published by the Church of Scientology International clarifies religious freedom and its ramifications in today’s troubled world.
FREEDOM OF RELIGION DEFINED IN LANDMARK NEW WEBSITE FROM THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA • MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2016
The Church of Scientology has launched a comprehensive repository of information on religious freedom for students of religion, public officials and anyone seeking to further their understanding of this cherished right.
ANONYMOUS HATE GROUP MEMBER SENTENCED FOR ATTACK ON SCIENTOLOGY WEBSITES
LOS ANGELES • MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010
On Monday, May 24, 2010, Los Angeles Federal District Judge Gary Allen Feess sentenced Brian Thomas Mettenbrink of Grand Island, Nebraska, to 12 months in federal prison and a $20,000 restitution fine for engaging in a cyberattack in January 2008 on Church of Scientology websites (CR No. 09-1149-GAF). Mettenbrink is a member of the hate group “Anonymous,” many members of which have been investigated or convicted of federal and state crimes over the past three years.
FINAL JUDGMENT OF EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
STRASBOURG, FRANCE • MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010
The judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of religious associations of the Church of Scientology in Surgut and Nizhnekamsk is final. On October 1, 2009, the European Court of Human Rights delivered the judgment in the cases NN 76836/01 and 32782/03 in favor of the Churches of Scientology of Surgut and Nizhnekamsk.
THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY RECOGNIZED AS PUBLIC BENEFIT CHARITY IN SPAIN
MADRID, SPAIN • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2009
The Spanish Tax Agency has recognized the Church of Scientology of Spain as a social non-profit organization, granting a certificate of recognition in Madrid on November 30, 2009.
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF MOSCOW: DECISION IN EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS NOW LAW
MOSCOW, RUSSIA • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2007
The landmark European Court of Human Rights decision affirming the religious rights of Scientologists throughout Europe has now become law. The court denied the Russian government’s application for review of its April 5 decision in favor of the Church of Scientology of Moscow. That decision overturned the Moscow City government’s refusal to register the Church of Scientology of Moscow as a religious organization.
LANDMARK CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF MOSCOW DECISION IN EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS NOW FINAL
STRASBOURG, FRANCE • FRIDAY, JULY 13, 2007
Confirmation of Scientology’s Religious Bona Fides by the Highest Court in Europe. The unanimous decision by the European Court of Human Rights in favor of the Church of Scientology of Moscow issued on April 5, has now become final. That decision overturned the Moscow City government’s refusal to register the Church of Scientology of Moscow as a religious organization.
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The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously in favor of two Scientology religious groups in Russia, finding that they have the right to be registered as religious organizations under Russian law. This decision determines that members of the Church of Scientology of Surgut and the Church of Scientology of Nizhnekamsk have the right to religious freedom and freedom of association pursuant to Articles 9 and 11 of the European Human Rights Convention Kimlya and Others v. Russia (application nos.
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French immersion at Vancouver West Side school may move to Downtown Eastside
by Carlito Pablo on January 23rd, 2019 at 11:03 AM
Next year could be adieu for French instruction at a Kitsilano school.
The Vancouver education district is proposing the transfer of the Early French Immersion program from the Henry Hudson Elementary School in the city’s West Side.
The program is recommended to be relocated to the Lord Strathcona Elementary School, which is located in the Downtown Eastside.
The transfer may happen in 2020.
A staff report to the Vancouver school board notes that Henry Hudson is a dual track school that offers both an English program to catchment students, and early French immersion for students in Vancouver.
With a total of 402 students, the school is currently operating over capacity or at 118 percent.
“Hudson does not have sufficient classroom space to adequately accommodate enrolment forecasts,” the staff report states.
At present, there are 152 early French students at Hudson.
According to the staff report, 53 percent of students attending early French immersion at Hudson live in the Downtown Peninsula or Yaletown, while 42 percent reside in Kitsilano.
“The English program enrolment at Hudson has been increasing for several years,” it notes.
The report points out that Strathcona is the nearest school with an early French immersion program.
In addition, Strathcona has sufficient space to accommodate French students from Henry Hudson.
One option suggested by staff is to relocate the early French program over seven years starting in September 2020.
Another possibility is to fully relocate the program to Strathcona next year.
District staff will engage stakeholders regarding the proposed transfer. A new report is expected to be submitted to the school board in spring.
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Medhak is a project designed with the hope to achieve an increase of the social cohesion in Palermo, a city permeated by the current humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean. read more...
The Maldives Matter is designing a high-tech greenhouse in the Maldives, which will provide the locals with fresh vegetables, renewable energy and water. read more...
Nosquito is a design team of four master students from Delft University of Technology at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. Together with MSF it is our mission to significantly reduce malaria infection by mosquitoes in Kenya. read more...
Medhak is a project designed with the hope to achieve an increase of the social cohesion in Palermo, a city permeated by the current humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean.
The team is created with an immediate goal to engage two young migrants into a participatory research and curation of an exhibition that will explore the meaning of hospitality in the city of Palermo. The migrants will take on the role of researchers and curators, and take part in a training programme with a “learning by doing” approach for the exhibition. They will design their own research toolkit, taking it to the field and iterating on it; collecting insights and communicating them.
However, Medhak also has the longer-term goal of exploring the interactions between the native and the migrant community of Palermo, and show them in such a way to improve them. The trained migrants will act as “translators” between two groups and be embedded in the context of a local eco-museum, “Mare Memoria Viva”. The museum which will acquire the know-how on how to design the research for future actions and exhibitions.
Therefore, we will further the objective of closing the gap between these two communities, making both of them feel more welcomed in the city that has become their living place, either through birth or through sea.
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Betting ads banned during live sport broadcasts
Gaming & wagering
By Nick Toscano & Jennifer Duke
March 16, 2018 — 6.36pm
Several pay-TV channels will be exempt from the Turnbull government's siren-to-siren ban on gambling advertisements during daytime live sports broadcasts to take effect in two weeks' time.
On Friday, the federal government announced the prohibition on gambling ads during all live sports broadcasts between 5am and 8.30pm will begin on March 30, coinciding with the second round of the AFL season and the fourth round of the NRL.
Broadcasters wanted long sports like cricket, tennis and golf to be exempt from a federal betting ad ban Credit:AP
The ban is aimed at reducing children's exposure to betting ads and will apply from five minutes before the start of play to five minutes after the final siren.
But the new industry code of practice, released by the Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA), includes a controversial exemption for so-called "low-audience" sports TV channels, including ESPN, ESPN2 and Eurosports.
ASTRA has argued these channels provided "niche coverage of overseas events to a small number of highly devoted fans", and they would become unviable if advertising revenue dropped off.
"The principle is that the small channels would be disproportionately affected," said Bruce Meagher, Foxtel's head of corporate affairs and ASTRA board member.
"Very few children watch these channels."
TV stations and the nation's major sporting codes had been attempting to secure permission to be able to broadcast gambling ads every two hours during so-called "long-form" sports events, such as the tennis or Test cricket, and multi-sports events like the Olympic and Commonwealth Games.
But the codes of practice released on Friday show they have failed in this bid, with gambling advertising prohibited from 5am to 8.30pm during all sporting event broadcasts.
Federal Communications Minister Mitch Fifield said he was pleased to see a close collaboration between industry and the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), which will make a real difference to the community.
"The Turnbull government has listened to the community's concerns about the amount of gambling promotions shown during live sporting events and we have acted," he said.
Gambling reform campaigners have been calling for an outright ad ban during live sports broadcasts that went beyond 8.30pm.
It falls well-short of the government's promise that kids and families are going to be able to watch sporting events free from gambling advertising being rammed down their throats.
Mark Zirnsak, Victorian Inter-Church Gambling Taskforce
They welcomed many of the changes announced on Friday, but remained concerned about the "carve-outs" for certain pay-TV sports channels, and were unhappy that advertising bans would not apply to sports broadcasts that were delayed by 90 minutes or more.
"It certainly falls well-short of the government's promise that kids and families are going to be able to watch sporting events free from gambling advertising being rammed down their throats," said Mark Zirnsak, of the Victorian Inter-church Gambling Taskforce.
"But hopefully the pressure will continue."
Alliance for Gambling Reform spokesman Stephen Mayne said some components of the codes appeared open to interpretation.
“The code is complex and some of the provisions are open to interpretation, such as whether Western Australian and South Australian viewers will face advertising earlier than the east coast," he said, "so the Alliance will wait and see how it operates after April 1."
The ban will coincide with the second round of the AFL season and the fourth round of the NRL. Credit:AAP
The ban does not apply to horse, harness and dog racing.
And the ban does not yet extend to online advertising, which will be tackled in a similar bill in federal parliament.
This has aggravated Commercial Radio Australia chief Joan Warner, as she said it could see gambling advertising driven online and away from broadcasters "possibly for months" before the same rules are applied to digital platforms.
Commercial free-to-air representative group Free TV chief executive Bridget Fair said it was "very important" that similar restrictions were put in place quickly for online players.
The live-sports gambling ad ban has been backed by the country's online corporate bookmakers, which said in a submission through lobby group Responsible Wagering Australia they recognised the public's concern about levels of gambling advertising, "particularly the volume of gambling advertising that is viewed by minors", and believed the reform was appropriate.
With the rapid take-up of online sports betting in Australia, corporate wagering companies in recent years have become large contributors to sports revenue, which the ad ban could jeopardise. Sporting codes have also raised concerns that restricting gambling advertising during live broadcasts would diminish the value of media rights.
Nick Toscano
Business reporter for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.
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By Melissa Dahl
Loneliness is an emotion that doesn’t always make a lot of sense. Two people may have very similar social lives, and yet one might feel isolated more often than the other — even when surrounded by people they know and love, who know and love them back.
These are the contradictions at the heart of a large new study published online last week in the Nature journal Neuropsychopharmacology, which finds that loneliness appears to be a “modestly heritable” trait. A predisposition to feeling lonely may run in the family, in other words. But there’s a caveat here, in that the authors of this study contend the link between genetics and a predisposition toward feeling isolated isn’t as strong as others have claimed.
A quick rundown of these new findings: The researchers drew from the Health and Retirement Study, from which they gathered genetic information for 10,760 Americans aged 50 or older. Their results suggest that a tendency to feel lonely may be 14 to 27 percent genetic, considerably lower than the 37 to 55 percent suggested by other studies.
Here, by the way, are the three questions they used to measure people’s tendencies to feel lonely. There’s something about the starkness of the language that broke my heart a tiny bit upon discovering them buried within the academic-ese of the Nature paper: How often do you feel that you lack companionship? How often do you feel left out? How often do you feel isolated from others?
Loneliness is an emotion most people feel from time to time. But these questions help researchers separate those whose perception of isolation is dictated by circumstance, and those who are more likely to feel alone no matter the context. The fact that loneliness may be an inherited trait makes a certain amount of sense, because, as unpleasant as the feeling is, it’s a pragmatic emotion, evolutionarily speaking. Like physical pain, the social pain that loneliness brings may be “part of a biological warning system that has evolved to alert us of threats or damage to our social body,” the study authors write. If you heed its warning, loneliness can be a useful feeling, nudging you to call or text a friend before the emotion overwhelms you. Research has suggested, for instance, that the health risks of loneliness are similar to the health risks of obesity.
And so, much like physical health markers, you can inherit loneliness, but that might not be the whole story. The researchers argue that others should follow their lead, and investigate the potential genetic causes of psychological and psychiatric phenomena, which remain largely unexplored. For now, at least, it adds another layer to the explanation as to why lonely people tend to stay lonely.
WEBMASTER NOTE: The Bible terms inherited traits like loneliness as INIQUITY. It is the bending towards or perversion from the healthiest form of human nature. If this is something you struggle with,consider how Rejection/Abandonment fits in or even the "Bastards curse" as mentioned in the Bible.
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Alleged Plotters Face Trial
Three militiamen from Michigan face federal trial for a wide-ranging antigovernment conspiracy.
Three militia men face a federal trial in Michigan after being indicted for allegedly plotting to murder federal officials and judges; blow up federal buildings, power facilities, fuel depots, gas stations and a bridge; raid National Guard armories; and take over radio and television stations to broadcast revolutionary propaganda.
Prosecutors said Ken Carter, a 47-year-old self-described member of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, Bradford Metcalf, 46, and Randy Graham, 41, carried beepers so that they could be alerted by secret codes when and where to strike. Prosecutors say Metcalf had a videotape detailing how to made ricin, a deadly protein.
Carter, the leader, allegedly told an undercover agent that the group planned to create three or four days of chaos, "at which time the entire country would rise up against the government."
The men belonged to the North American Militia, a splinter group formed after leaders of the state's largest militia, the Michigan Militia Corps, booted them out for allegedly advocating violence. Graham and Carter also face drug charges.
Prosecutors say the group, like an increasing number of American terrorist cells, planned to sell narcotics and rob drug dealers to finance the white supremacist revolution they planned.
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